correct me please if i am wrong but I thought Android was a Linux based OS, and when you develop for android you are told to use the J2SE JDK, not ME JDK. I'm having trouble understanding how Oracle even has a case.
Also for all the people who simply must hate on Android. WE HATE the iPhone because its a closed platform with no freedom limited devices and controlled by a single corporate entity. It's like M$ times a billion. Its symbolizes everything we hate about the technology world.
Instead of letting usage drive innovation we should just use less? that is the stupidest thing I have heard in a while, sorry.
Let's stop and think what people are downloading via TPB... music, movies, media in general. if your gripe is that the legality of these file transfers is in question let's assume that in the near future everyone is downloading content legitimately. What then?
You dumb asses are taking an interesting article about cutting edge network technology and ruining it with your stupid opinions about things that don't matter. The music and video is going to keep coming, legal or not.
GOOG-411 is a terrific service I'm actually having a micro panic attack because even though I've been rocking android phones for a couple years I still find myself using it once in a while if I don't have a good data signal or if I'm using some kind of ancient phone like a Blackberry for work.
I never understood why some people are determined to get as much mileage out of IPv4 as possible before going to IPv6. An aggressive move towards IPv6 would probably revive a decent part of the IT industry. Now is as good a time as ever.
The only thing holding us back is carriers are all looking at each other waiting for someone to go first as it will definatly be an expensive transition and will introduce a few unknowns into their network cores which they pride on being extremely reliable. Although I know some carriers are running dual stack on their cores to test it all out as we speak.
The gist of the story is that an ISP has been "caught" doing something. The reality is that all they have been caught doing is something that is normal day to day activity of a large ISP.
Deep packet inspection is used by an ISP to see how their customers are using their services. What sites are people visiting, are they uploading, downloading content. What kind of content? audio/video/text? How can we improve our services to meet these needs. How can we market ourselves better to our customers.WHO DO WE NEED TO PEER WITH to satisfy our customers needs?
When you've got millions of dollars invested in a business you need to be able to collect more data that simply having a bandwidth graph. and the data is reasonably anonymous. If you are that worried about the security of your data then use a VPN for sensitive material. Checking your Facebook page is not a classified national security issue get over yourself.
Of coarse there is a dark side, for example when Comcast uses DPI to interfere with BT traffic. But guns don't kill people, people kill people right?
More drama over deep packet inspection... All major ISP are using some form of deep packet inspection for many different reasons and they have been doing it for a while now. This isn't new.
unless your life / property is in danger the legal system isn't going to react to you unless you have a lawyer. since your laptop has already been stolen, think of it as dead. the police aren't going to rush to the scene.
The reason hotels and hospitals don't need the converter boxes is because they have their own head end on site ( a mini-cable company ) which sends the legacy analog signals through the facility.
The cost of setting one of these up, and having someone maintain it would be too much. The companies that do this for hotels wouldn't be interested because they make their money off pay per view movies and stuff. Hospitals probably do it because it saves them a ton of money to be their own cable company, they have so many rooms.
If you want simple cable service that the firemen and police aren't going to complain about all the time... just get the converters.
You said you would love to have FIOS, DOCSIS 3 should be rolling out for most systems this year, that will have the same speeds as FIOS.
Mobile Broadband should be used for mobile devices, I hate the idea of people using mobile service as a home service it just makes the mobile experience suck for the rest of us.
The DRM issue is sort of interesting but the bottom line is that if a situation ever occurred where a DRM game you just bought was unplayable because someone else had already activated it you could easily get the issue taken care of through the store or through the game developer.Sure it isn't right, but has it ever happened to you? Besides, soon enough all video games will most likely be sold/subscribed exclusively online.
So what's gonna be on Slashdot tomorrow, McDonald's employees swapping toys in happy meals? I try not to give people who make approximately minimum wage a hard time about their jobs.
So what your saying is that since your hardware vendor didn't support your particular flavor of Linux that Linux is not ready? You sir are pissing me off, but I will remain civil.
If anything you have pointed out that we do need 1 flavor of linux to take the lead and become the commercial standard. The entire nerd community must pull together and back One Linux.
Even if it's not what they like for themselves, they need to back one for the world for it to really take off.
Linux needs a platform like DirectX that makes it very easy for people to make games!!!
Don't say OpenGL because I'm no game dev but from what I've read it is much harder to develop for OpenGL. And from what I've seen there are no games on Linux.
It is the only thing stopping me from using Linux exclusively. I absolutely love it. I have had my mother and sister using Ubuntu 8.10 for the last 5 months, as well as a few of my friends. I love not having to clean out the viruses and spyware every other week.
People who say Linux isn't ready haven't really tried it. Ask my mother if it's ready she will say " what is linux? ", she doesn't even know she uses it every day it's just the computer to her.
First of all, don't worry about people getting upset with you. All you have to do is locate all the licenses you do have. If your servers pass a WGA check then they are probably ok, but make sure you have a backup system in place in case WGA kills that server.
Next you need to start transitioning people off the illegal software. OSS is a very good choice to implement in office environments.
Don't make a federal case out of it. But don't contribute to the problem either. If you start getting allot of negative feedback you need to simply explain, sans-drama, that the previous IT Admin wasn't keeping track of licensing and even if the software they installed is legit you can't prove it. You can however provide them with software that will meet their needs without costing the company any more money, but they will need to give a tiny bit of cooperation in order to make it happen.
If your superiors give you any trouble about licensing explain to them, again sans-drama, that they can't expect you to break the law on a daily basis as part of your job requirements. DO NOT in any way make any statements like "I have to report this" or "you guys are running illegal software". You don't work for the BSA or anything like that it isn't your responsibility to report anyone.
there is no need to use pirated software GO OPEN SOURCE. I have 3 small businesses all owned by friends that operate entirely on Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org. My mother doesn't get computers at all, she has been using Ubuntu now for about 5 months. I never even showed her how to use it, I keep a PC in my living room for her to use, she just started using it without any help from me at all! Open source software is easier to use than ever before just run with it, it won't let you down.
It wasn't Beverly's ship it was the "future" Enterprise under Captain Riker. It was a stupid bit of dialogue that should have been cut from the episode.
I think i remember reading something where they were trying to explain a new warp scale where warp values higher than 10 were just nick names for speeds like warp 9.9993
I think the definition of Star Trek is an imagination of science and social interaction. TOS and TNG are perfect examples of using modern science to imagine a world far into the future on which to play out imaginative dramas. You can clearly see the progress made between these 2 series and it continues on through the films and DS9 and VOY.
I had no interest in going backward, I never watched Enterprise until it was already canceled. I got hooked on it, but it wasn't really Star Trek to me.
The only REAL way to make progress in Star Trek is to keep the imagination flowing, inspired by recent advances in science while making an effort to explain away the holes in the story and the stuff that looks stupid in retrospect from the previous series.
Anything else is just mental masturbation for all those Treky bastards who make the rest of us look like dorks for liking the TV show.
hosting the educational software in a cloud... is this a licensing thing? or HDD space issue?
knowing microsoft it's a licensing thing, and its pretty funny they are going to give the software to every fraking kid in Australia BUT to complicate things with licensing scheme crap. Just put the damn software on the laptop so these kids can focus on learning instead of licensing!
I really hope this wasn't a computer teacher. When I was in school our computer teachers were pretty useless. I had assumed that things were different these days... Someone teaching computer skills should know about free software.
MetroPCS, Cricket... If you don't mind the limited coverage area. They make you buy the flimsy phones at full price, but their rates are very low. Best thing is NO CONTRACT!
I hope that these types of providers will grow quickly and make AT&T/Verizon change their practices.
Android is an open platform in so many ways and that is what attracts us to it. I think that the target audience of the "G" Phone are the same people who are sick of signing 2 year contracts for bad service. If there was a Android phone that was true carrier independent and was supported by one of the unlimited services like MetroPCS or Cricket as well as the more robust providers... I'd buy 3
I think it is a step in the right direction. With more and more displays coming in widescreen it is a smarter use of screen area. horizontal menus take up precious real estate on your screen. vertical menus make more sense in the widescreen world.
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Ya i think i'm going to start ignoring Infoworld/PCworld the last few articles i've read from them have been veeery streeaachy.
correct me please if i am wrong but I thought Android was a Linux based OS, and when you develop for android you are told to use the J2SE JDK, not ME JDK. I'm having trouble understanding how Oracle even has a case.
Also for all the people who simply must hate on Android. WE HATE the iPhone because its a closed platform with no freedom limited devices and controlled by a single corporate entity. It's like M$ times a billion. Its symbolizes everything we hate about the technology world.
Ciena's 100Gb/s per 88 channel DWDM doesn't work on long haul, only MAN last time I checked
Instead of letting usage drive innovation we should just use less? that is the stupidest thing I have heard in a while, sorry.
Let's stop and think what people are downloading via TPB... music, movies, media in general. if your gripe is that the legality of these file transfers is in question let's assume that in the near future everyone is downloading content legitimately. What then?
You dumb asses are taking an interesting article about cutting edge network technology and ruining it with your stupid opinions about things that don't matter. The music and video is going to keep coming, legal or not.
GOOG-411 is a terrific service I'm actually having a micro panic attack because even though I've been rocking android phones for a couple years I still find myself using it once in a while if I don't have a good data signal or if I'm using some kind of ancient phone like a Blackberry for work.
I never understood why some people are determined to get as much mileage out of IPv4 as possible before going to IPv6. An aggressive move towards IPv6 would probably revive a decent part of the IT industry. Now is as good a time as ever.
The only thing holding us back is carriers are all looking at each other waiting for someone to go first as it will definatly be an expensive transition and will introduce a few unknowns into their network cores which they pride on being extremely reliable. Although I know some carriers are running dual stack on their cores to test it all out as we speak.
Would a model rocket engine even work properly in the upper atmosphere? Don't they need oxygen?
The gist of the story is that an ISP has been "caught" doing something. The reality is that all they have been caught doing is something that is normal day to day activity of a large ISP.
Deep packet inspection is used by an ISP to see how their customers are using their services. What sites are people visiting, are they uploading, downloading content. What kind of content? audio/video/text? How can we improve our services to meet these needs. How can we market ourselves better to our customers.WHO DO WE NEED TO PEER WITH to satisfy our customers needs?
When you've got millions of dollars invested in a business you need to be able to collect more data that simply having a bandwidth graph. and the data is reasonably anonymous. If you are that worried about the security of your data then use a VPN for sensitive material. Checking your Facebook page is not a classified national security issue get over yourself. Of coarse there is a dark side, for example when Comcast uses DPI to interfere with BT traffic. But guns don't kill people, people kill people right?
More drama over deep packet inspection... All major ISP are using some form of deep packet inspection for many different reasons and they have been doing it for a while now. This isn't new.
unless your life / property is in danger the legal system isn't going to react to you unless you have a lawyer. since your laptop has already been stolen, think of it as dead. the police aren't going to rush to the scene.
The reason hotels and hospitals don't need the converter boxes is because they have their own head end on site ( a mini-cable company ) which sends the legacy analog signals through the facility.
The cost of setting one of these up, and having someone maintain it would be too much. The companies that do this for hotels wouldn't be interested because they make their money off pay per view movies and stuff. Hospitals probably do it because it saves them a ton of money to be their own cable company, they have so many rooms.
If you want simple cable service that the firemen and police aren't going to complain about all the time... just get the converters.
You said you would love to have FIOS, DOCSIS 3 should be rolling out for most systems this year, that will have the same speeds as FIOS.
Mobile Broadband should be used for mobile devices, I hate the idea of people using mobile service as a home service it just makes the mobile experience suck for the rest of us.
Who cares...
The DRM issue is sort of interesting but the bottom line is that if a situation ever occurred where a DRM game you just bought was unplayable because someone else had already activated it you could easily get the issue taken care of through the store or through the game developer.Sure it isn't right, but has it ever happened to you? Besides, soon enough all video games will most likely be sold/subscribed exclusively online.
So what's gonna be on Slashdot tomorrow, McDonald's employees swapping toys in happy meals? I try not to give people who make approximately minimum wage a hard time about their jobs.
So what your saying is that since your hardware vendor didn't support your particular flavor of Linux that Linux is not ready? You sir are pissing me off, but I will remain civil.
If anything you have pointed out that we do need 1 flavor of linux to take the lead and become the commercial standard. The entire nerd community must pull together and back One Linux.
Even if it's not what they like for themselves, they need to back one for the world for it to really take off.
Linux needs a platform like DirectX that makes it very easy for people to make games!!!
Don't say OpenGL because I'm no game dev but from what I've read it is much harder to develop for OpenGL. And from what I've seen there are no games on Linux.
It is the only thing stopping me from using Linux exclusively. I absolutely love it. I have had my mother and sister using Ubuntu 8.10 for the last 5 months, as well as a few of my friends. I love not having to clean out the viruses and spyware every other week.
People who say Linux isn't ready haven't really tried it. Ask my mother if it's ready she will say " what is linux? ", she doesn't even know she uses it every day it's just the computer to her.
First of all, don't worry about people getting upset with you. All you have to do is locate all the licenses you do have. If your servers pass a WGA check then they are probably ok, but make sure you have a backup system in place in case WGA kills that server.
Next you need to start transitioning people off the illegal software. OSS is a very good choice to implement in office environments.
Don't make a federal case out of it. But don't contribute to the problem either. If you start getting allot of negative feedback you need to simply explain, sans-drama, that the previous IT Admin wasn't keeping track of licensing and even if the software they installed is legit you can't prove it. You can however provide them with software that will meet their needs without costing the company any more money, but they will need to give a tiny bit of cooperation in order to make it happen.
If your superiors give you any trouble about licensing explain to them, again sans-drama, that they can't expect you to break the law on a daily basis as part of your job requirements. DO NOT in any way make any statements like "I have to report this" or "you guys are running illegal software". You don't work for the BSA or anything like that it isn't your responsibility to report anyone.
there is no need to use pirated software GO OPEN SOURCE. I have 3 small businesses all owned by friends that operate entirely on Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org. My mother doesn't get computers at all, she has been using Ubuntu now for about 5 months. I never even showed her how to use it, I keep a PC in my living room for her to use, she just started using it without any help from me at all! Open source software is easier to use than ever before just run with it, it won't let you down.
It wasn't Beverly's ship it was the "future" Enterprise under Captain Riker. It was a stupid bit of dialogue that should have been cut from the episode.
I think i remember reading something where they were trying to explain a new warp scale where warp values higher than 10 were just nick names for speeds like warp 9.9993
I think the definition of Star Trek is an imagination of science and social interaction. TOS and TNG are perfect examples of using modern science to imagine a world far into the future on which to play out imaginative dramas. You can clearly see the progress made between these 2 series and it continues on through the films and DS9 and VOY.
I had no interest in going backward, I never watched Enterprise until it was already canceled. I got hooked on it, but it wasn't really Star Trek to me.
The only REAL way to make progress in Star Trek is to keep the imagination flowing, inspired by recent advances in science while making an effort to explain away the holes in the story and the stuff that looks stupid in retrospect from the previous series.
Anything else is just mental masturbation for all those Treky bastards who make the rest of us look like dorks for liking the TV show.
I don't think it is a good idea to have Homeland Security directly involved in the inner workings of a telecom network.
It sounds to me like one of the backbone links at AT&T went down and for some reason did not converge to another backbone link.
Let's point our fingers in the right direction, and stop summoning the Government.
hosting the educational software in a cloud... is this a licensing thing? or HDD space issue?
knowing microsoft it's a licensing thing, and its pretty funny they are going to give the software to every fraking kid in Australia BUT to complicate things with licensing scheme crap. Just put the damn software on the laptop so these kids can focus on learning instead of licensing!
I really hope this wasn't a computer teacher. When I was in school our computer teachers were pretty useless. I had assumed that things were different these days... Someone teaching computer skills should know about free software.
MetroPCS, Cricket... If you don't mind the limited coverage area. They make you buy the flimsy phones at full price, but their rates are very low. Best thing is NO CONTRACT! I hope that these types of providers will grow quickly and make AT&T/Verizon change their practices.
I'm 98% sure AES is the stronger and better performing cipher. And I'm also 98% sure that is what the U.S. Government uses to encrypt classified data.
Android is an open platform in so many ways and that is what attracts us to it. I think that the target audience of the "G" Phone are the same people who are sick of signing 2 year contracts for bad service. If there was a Android phone that was true carrier independent and was supported by one of the unlimited services like MetroPCS or Cricket as well as the more robust providers... I'd buy 3
I think it is a step in the right direction. With more and more displays coming in widescreen it is a smarter use of screen area. horizontal menus take up precious real estate on your screen. vertical menus make more sense in the widescreen world.