I'll probably get a flamebait rating for this, but hey. I am over the karmacap anyways. What you're describing is a bit more the american way of doing things. In Europe and Asia cooperation is often valued more. The adoption of GSM has made that Europe and Asia now dominate the wireless market and the USA is a laggard.
In consumer electronics, which is dominated by European and Asian companies a couple of expensive fuck-ups; video2000, betamax, laserdisc, dcc, mini-disc to name a few,have made that these companies are even more willing to cooperate. Furthermore these companies don't live from the technology, but from shipping boxes with this technology. The sooner they stop arguing, the sooner they can ship boxes.
Sorry, I will have to disagree with you there. The one that will win the market is neither the one who is first, nor the one with the best specs. It will be the one with the standard that is adopted, supported and implemented in the most units on sale. If you look at the companies supporting this standard, it are all the usual suspects: Royal Philips, LG, Sony, Hitachi, Pioneer, Matsushita, Samsung etc. These companies matter, they have got clout, marketing, production and sales-channels.
Alot of companies forget when they introduce a new technology, that it is better to agree on the standard that is going to be used and to compete on the final hardware. Good examples here are the GSM-standard and VHS-standard. There are competitors of these standards, and sometimes they are even technically better, but companies or countries investing in these rival technologies have found they lost money. This was only because the winning technology was backed broader and offered more services. (yes VHS offered a premium service that some other didn't, Pr0n).
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Imagine you are living next to a river, enjoying the fishing, the transportation, the community that has grown up around life on the river.
Then some @sshole finds a nugget of gold. Suddenly there's a town upstream, polluting the river, 1000s of stinky (and paranoid) prospectors pointing shotguns ("git awfa mah propertah!"), and the river is clogged with boats.
We can only hope that the gold runs dry quickly, the prospectors drown trying to run the rapids on their way to sell their sacks of gold (which they tend to tie to their bodies, thankfully), and things will get back to normal sooner or later.
Well, we all know how that story ended. It became the United States of America that we all know today. Draw your own conclusions;-)
Sorry, I'm not a native English or American speaker. English is only my third language, so sometimes I make mistakes. But I'm glad that there is always a member of the spelling police, willing to correct me./sarcasm
Yup, what it sais in the subject. I read all four of them as e-books. Not because I wanted pirated versions, my bookshelf prooves I don't pirate books (in general, except for a couple of books in college). But because I wanted to know if the concept would work and I had just bought a Visor. So while looking for a text, any text (could have been rfc's or the bible) I stumbled across those books and I loved them.Even though I am an adult.
The first one I read partially as a microsoft e-book in their clear type font. I must say the font really rocks and on my 6 year old 15" screen I could easily read at a meters distance in my lazy chair. The rest of that book and the others I read on Visor. It was very well doable.. Now I just feel guilty that I don't own the books. So I'll probably get them soon. But it reads very well, if the formatting is right. The concept works... but unless it is really cheaper, I want the cover to show that I have it...
Maybe you should look at the statistics of the Londen Internet Exchange. They still seem to exhibit growth:-) FYI LINX is the larges Internet Exchange Point of Europe and carries more then 13Gb per second on a daily basis at the moment. This was 4Gbit at the start of the year. You can find their traffic stats here
The only thing that make me dubious about her claim of widespread adoption, would be that if their products are so much "better" (for the lack of a better word) than the competitions, then why is abilene [internet2.edu] using cisco products? Unfortunately I don't have that kind of time on my hands.
The reason for this is that Cisco has long-standing excellent relations with the academic community, even though sometimes their technology is crap. (Cisco 12000 with 3 (or was it 4) GigE ports come to mind) These relationships, together with the sheer mass and therefore possibilities to finance research is the reason they own the Research and Education market and a more technologically sound company like Juniper doesn't.
The coins will be shipped between te various countries, back to their homeland. I don't really know why, but you might be able to look the reasoning somewhere.
Nobody in their right mind declares software to be unbreakable. It is just like in science, even after the closest scrutiny all you can say about a theory is: "Not YET disproven". Even after the closest scrutiny you'll say about the program: "not yet broken". Because no matter how much review you did, there could be someone smarter then you.
I didn't look at the technical part of the review, but went straight to the part where the usability of the webpad was explained and there was the biggest error of the machine. It doesn't have an adequate user interface to input text. Neither the handwriting recognition, nor the onscreen keyboard seem to suffice. For this to become a success it needs applications that support its presence in the marketplace. One of the great things of a palm is that the user interface for inputting text is good enough for most people. (go ahead flame away) This has made that people are willing to buy it and other people to develop aps for it.
My prediction: The first webpad to be commercially succesful will be made my Microsoft and have adequate text input, like a Pocket PC a version of Office, Internet Explorer and a possibility to port your own aps to it easily. Why? A Dutch journalist spoke to Bill Gates recently in The Hague, Bill was carrying some kind of pad computer. We all know he wants to dominate and we all know he knows what is nescessary to get the product to succeed in the market.
Yup. A thing that is even worse is that you see networks being misconfigured, so that even when you know that two companies are at a certain Internet Exchange in Europe and could therefore peer there, that data still gets exchanged on the other side of the Ocean and then gets send back.
Unless of course, they were intending using Oracle anyway. Something that doesn't seem unlikely given the size of the project.
Maybe, though on this side of the ocean, IBM with OS/390 and DB2 seem to be most popular for massive databases. But since they're getting it for free.... I am willing to bet they haven't payed yet. Larry Ellison is still a long way from being as rich as Bill Gates, so he won't pass on any nickel he finds on the streets.:-)
If the US governement really falls for this obvious marketing technique, they are dumber then I allready thought they were. Having worked within the Dutch government I know that once a database has been addopted, it hardly ever gets replaced for another dbms. They might build another front end, upgrade the dbms, but switching from vendor is just not an option. It is too scary to make such a big step. Oracle knows this and supplying the database for a national ID-card will mean business for life.
Also don't forget, that there will be many government agencies that want to tie in their database with the national ID-database or base their database on it. Oracle will have a foot and a leg in the door there as well.
Oh no, certainly not. Haven't you heard yet? American law nowadays applies globally. Since the United States is the most enlightened country in the world with the most enlightened leadership in the world, whatever they think up must be good for the whole rest of the world. Therefore a United States judge can actually overrule any anti-american corporation ruling anywhere in the world. [/Sarcasm]
Putting a couple of Gigs data on the net and then having the bad luck to be posted on Slashdot is going to mean that their link will be unreachable for most of the day.:-) But hey it will probably make for neat graphs.
You could ofcourse have checked the Media Lab website to see where Nicholas Negroponte is. He is still there on the webpage. http://www.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/
He is working there as a director in a foreign minister role. Not strange after having been its director for about 15 years.
At the risk of being considered chauvenistic, there is a sense of pride for me as a Dutchman, that this job is being done by the Dutch. As a kid I would often get photobooks from the public library which had the work of these companies in there.
You should also have a look at Mammoet's new building. It is made from metal, looks like a 43 meter high bollard and is built indoors, up to the cabling, the sockets etc. etc. Then it needs to be transported whole over water for about 30km and lifted to its location.
The Van Seumeren family, that owns and runs the company is pretty down to earth and unconventional. When a journalist asked the Director Jan van Seumeren Sr. what he would do when they had lifted the Kursk, he replied: "Ooh man, that is going to be some party, we are going to be drunk for a week." (BTW the family also owns a small bar, that they bought when they thought too many yuppies came in.)
For crying out loud, why do US politicians always have the idea that whatever they think up somehow needs to affect the whole world. Who are they to decide what top-level domains should be and moreover, who are they to decide what should be in such a domain. If ever such a domain comes into existence, surely I will make sure I get my hands on the domain: your.kids, these.kids, american.kids etc. Espescially to make sure those are not child friendly sites. Not because I hate kids or oppose the fact that there should be places where they can walk around freely, but just because of the fact that the US Congress in its incompetence wants to decide what is going on on an international network and wants to control what is on that network.
First off American consumers don't want to pay for 2.5G or 3G celluar. That's the biggest reason the US is behind. The technology is there, but consumers are used to getting free phones or cheap phones with their service and aren't willing to pay more.
Here people get mobiles for free when they change their tires. You can pick up a mobile phone at the supermarket for about US 50 and then you have a Nokia 3210. The phone is equipped with a pre-paid card, so no subscription nescessary. Everytime your card is empty, you buy a new one, call a number and you go. Ease of use and cheapness. Here at the University we got phones for free from the University, with a subscription plan that is the cheapest I know. Sorry, you're argument is faulty.
Another point to be made is that in Europe, lane phone lines are hideously expensive. It makes more sense to use a cell phone there since it is cheaper (or close to it), but in the US this isn't true.
Sorry not true. We pay for local calls contrary to the US, but it is not too expensive and certainly cheaper then a mobile. On a side note, nobody gives up the land line they have, they just get the mobile as an extra. So they pay for two phones. Yet again you're arguing is flawed.
Sorry to say, but it seems that even though you're working in the industry, you don't know about the way it works here in Europe.
On a related note, somebody else mentioned that 4Europe was less densily populated and therefore there were more mobiles. Not true either, mobiles are used mostly in city areas and the London City or the business Center of Paris are great places to spot the latest Nokia. Fact of the matter is that the most densily populated countries like the Netherlands, but also the least densily populated countries, like the Scandinavian countries all have national coverage and a high usage rate. There is basically no excuse for American mobile phone companies other then that they made major errors in the pricing, the technology, the marketing, the regulations etc. They still haven't entered an incredibly large market.
It is not like the US will be having a problem with this for a long time. They first need to come out of the dark ages when it comes to mobile phones. Here in Europe market penetration for mobile phones is so large that people start to have multiple phones, personal and business. It has caught on faster then e-mail. We're still lagging to Japan when it comes to 3G services. But at least here you can go all over Europe call and be called.
I really don't understand what the problem is in the US . Upgrading to systems that are on par with the rest of the world can't be that hard.
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I'll probably get a flamebait rating for this, but hey. I am over the karmacap anyways. What you're describing is a bit more the american way of doing things. In Europe and Asia cooperation is often valued more. The adoption of GSM has made that Europe and Asia now dominate the wireless market and the USA is a laggard.
,have made that these companies are even more willing to cooperate. Furthermore these companies don't live from the technology, but from shipping boxes with this technology. The sooner they stop arguing, the sooner they can ship boxes.
In consumer electronics, which is dominated by European and Asian companies a couple of expensive fuck-ups; video2000, betamax, laserdisc, dcc, mini-disc to name a few
Alot of companies forget when they introduce a new technology, that it is better to agree on the standard that is going to be used and to compete on the final hardware. Good examples here are the GSM-standard and VHS-standard. There are competitors of these standards, and sometimes they are even technically better, but companies or countries investing in these rival technologies have found they lost money. This was only because the winning technology was backed broader and offered more services. (yes VHS offered a premium service that some other didn't, Pr0n).
Then some @sshole finds a nugget of gold. Suddenly there's a town upstream, polluting the river, 1000s of stinky (and paranoid) prospectors pointing shotguns ("git awfa mah propertah!"), and the river is clogged with boats.
We can only hope that the gold runs dry quickly, the prospectors drown trying to run the rapids on their way to sell their sacks of gold (which they tend to tie to their bodies, thankfully), and things will get back to normal sooner or later.
Well, we all know how that story ended. It became the United States of America that we all know today. Draw your own conclusions ;-)
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Sorry, I'm not a native English or American speaker. English is only my third language, so sometimes I make mistakes. But I'm glad that there is always a member of the spelling police, willing to correct me. /sarcasm
Yup, what it sais in the subject. I read all four of them as e-books. Not because I wanted pirated versions, my bookshelf prooves I don't pirate books (in general, except for a couple of books in college). But because I wanted to know if the concept would work and I had just bought a Visor. So while looking for a text, any text (could have been rfc's or the bible) I stumbled across those books and I loved them.Even though I am an adult.
The first one I read partially as a microsoft e-book in their clear type font. I must say the font really rocks and on my 6 year old 15" screen I could easily read at a meters distance in my lazy chair. The rest of that book and the others I read on Visor. It was very well doable.. Now I just feel guilty that I don't own the books. So I'll probably get them soon. But it reads very well, if the formatting is right. The concept works... but unless it is really cheaper, I want the cover to show that I have it...
And the size of the hole in a CD is exactly the same as the size of the Dutch 10 cent coin, which has now been replaced by the Euro.
greetings,
The reason for this is that Cisco has long-standing excellent relations with the academic community, even though sometimes their technology is crap. (Cisco 12000 with 3 (or was it 4) GigE ports come to mind) These relationships, together with the sheer mass and therefore possibilities to finance research is the reason they own the Research and Education market and a more technologically sound company like Juniper doesn't.
A bit late, since I spent New Years in Vienna. :-)
The coins will be shipped between te various countries, back to their homeland. I don't really know why, but you might be able to look the reasoning somewhere.
Nobody in their right mind declares software to be unbreakable. It is just like in science, even after the closest scrutiny all you can say about a theory is: "Not YET disproven". Even after the closest scrutiny you'll say about the program: "not yet broken". Because no matter how much review you did, there could be someone smarter then you.
I didn't look at the technical part of the review, but went straight to the part where the usability of the webpad was explained and there was the biggest error of the machine. It doesn't have an adequate user interface to input text. Neither the handwriting recognition, nor the onscreen keyboard seem to suffice. For this to become a success it needs applications that support its presence in the marketplace. One of the great things of a palm is that the user interface for inputting text is good enough for most people. (go ahead flame away) This has made that people are willing to buy it and other people to develop aps for it.
My prediction: The first webpad to be commercially succesful will be made my Microsoft and have adequate text input, like a Pocket PC a version of Office, Internet Explorer and a possibility to port your own aps to it easily. Why? A Dutch journalist spoke to Bill Gates recently in The Hague, Bill was carrying some kind of pad computer. We all know he wants to dominate and we all know he knows what is nescessary to get the product to succeed in the market.
Yup. A thing that is even worse is that you see networks being misconfigured, so that even when you know that two companies are at a certain Internet Exchange in Europe and could therefore peer there, that data still gets exchanged on the other side of the Ocean and then gets send back.
Maybe, though on this side of the ocean, IBM with OS/390 and DB2 seem to be most popular for massive databases. But since they're getting it for free.... I am willing to bet they haven't payed yet. Larry Ellison is still a long way from being as rich as Bill Gates, so he won't pass on any nickel he finds on the streets. :-)
If the US governement really falls for this obvious marketing technique, they are dumber then I allready thought they were. Having worked within the Dutch government I know that once a database has been addopted, it hardly ever gets replaced for another dbms. They might build another front end, upgrade the dbms, but switching from vendor is just not an option. It is too scary to make such a big step. Oracle knows this and supplying the database for a national ID-card will mean business for life.
Also don't forget, that there will be many government agencies that want to tie in their database with the national ID-database or base their database on it. Oracle will have a foot and a leg in the door there as well.
Oh no, certainly not. Haven't you heard yet? American law nowadays applies globally. Since the United States is the most enlightened country in the world with the most enlightened leadership in the world, whatever they think up must be good for the whole rest of the world. Therefore a United States judge can actually overrule any anti-american corporation ruling anywhere in the world. [/Sarcasm]
Putting a couple of Gigs data on the net and then having the bad luck to be posted on Slashdot is going to mean that their link will be unreachable for most of the day. :-) But hey it will probably make for neat graphs.
You could ofcourse have checked the Media Lab website to see where Nicholas Negroponte is. He is still there on the webpage. http://www.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/
He is working there as a director in a foreign minister role. Not strange after having been its director for about 15 years.
At the risk of being considered chauvenistic, there is a sense of pride for me as a Dutchman, that this job is being done by the Dutch. As a kid I would often get photobooks from the public library which had the work of these companies in there.
The things these companies have towed, lifted, salvaged and transported is amazing. If you want to have a look at some of their projects, go to the Mammoet projects site and go to the salvage website of Smit International
You should also have a look at Mammoet's new building. It is made from metal, looks like a 43 meter high bollard and is built indoors, up to the cabling, the sockets etc. etc. Then it needs to be transported whole over water for about 30km and lifted to its location.
The Van Seumeren family, that owns and runs the company is pretty down to earth and unconventional. When a journalist asked the Director Jan van Seumeren Sr. what he would do when they had lifted the Kursk, he replied: "Ooh man, that is going to be some party, we are going to be drunk for a week." (BTW the family also owns a small bar, that they bought when they thought too many yuppies came in.)
As in the subject. One of the books I always have handy, not because it goes into the most depth, but it tells me the basics quick, when I need them.
Look at the website of HIP 97 and you know that Hackers like to be in tents. www.hip.nl
130.89.x.x I dunno if this is the ip-space used for HAL, but ofcourse you can block it.
Here people get mobiles for free when they change their tires. You can pick up a mobile phone at the supermarket for about US 50 and then you have a Nokia 3210. The phone is equipped with a pre-paid card, so no subscription nescessary. Everytime your card is empty, you buy a new one, call a number and you go. Ease of use and cheapness. Here at the University we got phones for free from the University, with a subscription plan that is the cheapest I know. Sorry, you're argument is faulty.
Another point to be made is that in Europe, lane phone lines are hideously expensive. It makes more sense to use a cell phone there since it is cheaper (or close to it), but in the US this isn't true.
Sorry not true. We pay for local calls contrary to the US, but it is not too expensive and certainly cheaper then a mobile. On a side note, nobody gives up the land line they have, they just get the mobile as an extra. So they pay for two phones. Yet again you're arguing is flawed.
Sorry to say, but it seems that even though you're working in the industry, you don't know about the way it works here in Europe.
On a related note, somebody else mentioned that 4Europe was less densily populated and therefore there were more mobiles. Not true either, mobiles are used mostly in city areas and the London City or the business Center of Paris are great places to spot the latest Nokia. Fact of the matter is that the most densily populated countries like the Netherlands, but also the least densily populated countries, like the Scandinavian countries all have national coverage and a high usage rate. There is basically no excuse for American mobile phone companies other then that they made major errors in the pricing, the technology, the marketing, the regulations etc. They still haven't entered an incredibly large market.
I really don't understand what the problem is in the US . Upgrading to systems that are on par with the rest of the world can't be that hard.