Bush has computers and telecommunication monitoring systems, but Hitler did not.
Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich's equivalent to Karl Rove, was a pioneer of the "wired office".
He used radio, phone, and teletype links extensively. German had a very good switched teletype network in that period, and the Reich used it to control much of the country from Berlin, rather than delegate to local authorities.
Paris has a few automated parking garages. Because Paris is built on easily-tunneled limestone, it's a good place for underground garages.
Trevipark, a British firm, has a nice, rather simple technology
for modest size parking garages, with several installations in Italy. Trevipark is a silo with a turntable/elevator at the center. This technology is best suited for underground storage.
It's elegant in that there's very little visible on the surface.
Parksysteme, in Germany, has been building such systems for forty years. But they haven't had many installations.
An automated garage operated in Manhattan in the 1960s.
None of these systems has reached ten installations.
We may be seeing SCO's announced "stock buyback" program in action. Each day, for the last week or so, there's been a big buy in the hour before the close, which tended to stem the day's decline. (Except for Tuesday, when the stock finished about where it started.) Look at the stock volume charts, and notice the late-day peak. Yesterday, there was a really big transaction just before the close, which pushed the stock up to about where it was at the beginning of the week.
Today, trading volume was way up. Unclear how much of this is the buyback. But until the buyback program was announced, the stock had been sliding down steadily, almost linearly, for weeks.
The summary focuses on the development process. There's no call for independent security testing of products. Or for penalties for selling insecure ones. So it's meaningless.
I almost went back into that world after September 11th. Not for the money, but because I thought it was my civic duty. I was recruited for a big data-mining application. But it turned out to be empire-building by the Homeland Security types.
The Economist says that developing "Big Brother" technology will save Silicon Valley and even California. That's scary.
Every sentence in the previous message contains at least one grammar or spelling error.
If he wrote with Microsoft Word, which has a rather good GUI, he would have known that. A red squiggle would have appeared under each misspelled word, and a green squiggle would have identified each grammatically incorrect sentence.
That's a really funny article. The concept that the Linux nuts could ever build a usable interface is laughable. This is the crowd that duplicated UNIX, two decades later, with all the dumb mistakes intact.. We still have "/etc". We still don't have decent interprogram communication. We still have X-Windows. We still have EMACS.
(EMACS nuts think usability is being able to redefine key bindings.) Stallman is a great lawyer, but as a programmer, he's decades behind.
The "I'm l33t because I can type command line commands" attitude keeps the Linux kiddies from ever getting a GUI right. The attitude that a GUI is a "front end" will never work well. Everybody competent knows this. But the Linux kiddies don't know any better.
Red Hat is making some progress. But they're doing it by taking Linux away from the kiddies and making it their own. You can't even copy a Red Hat distro for free any more. That's not free software.
No TV. Ad blockers on the web. (Does Slashdot still have advertising? I wouldn't know.) On do-not-call and no-junk-mail lists. Mixed-paper recycling bin next to mailbox. I avoid shopping malls. If I want canned entertainment, I'll rent a DVD, go to a movie, or go out to a club.
"Pull" information is fine. If I want something, I'll use Google to find it. But I don't want people pushing stuff in my face. Is that too much to ask?
For about a month last year, WalMart featured the Linux PCs more prominently than Windows PCs.
They aren't doing that now. They were heavily pressuring Microsoft for price cuts, and they may have obtained some.
More interesting is that WalMart is preloading OpenOffice on their low-end Windows PCs. That's will accelerate OpenOffice deployment. Lots of kids are going to be doing their book reports on OpenOffice.
The number of kids who can open up a game console and replace a part without breaking the thing is tiny. Soldering surface mount devices is not for beginners.
I'll bet that at least half of modchip installers break their machine and have to buy a new one.
It's going to cost him, but this guy needs to file false-advertising and libel claims in France. France has stricter laws against both than the US does. Then he needs to get a few good articles published in some French papers. Libe, for starters.
He may be in Le Figaro today. Look for "Quand les createurs de virus se font la guerre" in Le Figaro's archive. You have to pay to read the article, though.
IBM already made SCO's trade secret claim go away.
If they make the copyright claim go away, it's strictly a contract case.
If it's a pure contract case, it only affects IBM and SCO. Third parties aren't involved. The general Linux community issue goes away.
And if it's a pure contract case, it can't cost IBM more than any actual damages SCO suffered. SCO's sales are tiny and have been for years. That puts a lid on potential damages.
So if IBM wins on the copyright issue, it's effectively over.
Ah, yes, the infamous "CDAC11BA.EXE". Tha's Macrovision's C-Dilla, also known as SafeCast.
Actually, this is an improvement. Mathsoft's first try at copy protection complained if you had a debugger installed on the machine. If you had Visual C++ installed, Mathcad wouldn't run. I screamed at them about that, and they "fixed" it.
People who do number-crunching work are quite likely to use both.
AdAware considers C-Dilla OK. It does some annoying things, hiding data on your hard drive, though. But it seems to be well enough constructed not to mess stuff up.
While that's what they are publicly doing, I doubt the masterminds behind the member companies are that perversely blind.
Well, actually, they are. Music industry execs really aren't all that smart.
The industry attracts bullies. The music industry innovates only when it absolutely has to.
The industry hasn't been able to solve its two fundamental problems - their best genres are mined out, and everybody has now converted from vinyl to CD. Of course sales are down.
Movie execs, by comparison, are more competent. Making a movie is a tough, complex job, requiring the coordination of hundreds of people with dozens of different skills. The creative side is brutally competitive. It matters more, too. You can't really promote a dud movie into a hit. It's been tried. The people who work their way up in the industry have a certain basic level of competence.
The film industry has been far more successful dealing with technology than the music industry.
Most major movies have good websites. Trailers have been downloadable for years. Online movie ticket ordering works well, after early deployment problems. The piracy problem is being adequately managed. On the creative side, the industry has been able to use CGI with incredible success.
The movie industry is not afraid of technological change. Not that it isn't stressful on the people in the industry. But they adapt, or disappear.
The music industry basically works by selecting one of a number of promotable artists and promoting them heavily. The creation and production process isn't very complicated. For that matter, it's all outsourced. Record companies don't operate recording studios, production plants, record stores, fulfilment centers, or concert venues. All they really do is market.
This makes them terribly vulnerable. All they own is mindshare. They don't even have brand value. Nobody buys a CD because it comes from MCA.
widespread computing with speech and handwriting won't be limited by expensive technology
Huh? Where are the speech and handwriting recognition systems that work really well but require more CPU power than typically available?
The current hardware requirement for Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 is a 500MHz Pentium III. ViaVoice only requires a Pentium II. If more CPU power would help, those products would be using it.
Yeah, right. Try to sell a diamond. See what offers you get.
For a good laugh, search eBay for "diamonds".
Or worse, Google, for "we buy diamonds". You'll see some of the slimiest ads around. "Diamond buyers" with Hotmail addresses. Cubic zircons advertised as diamonds. The same photo appearing in multiple eBay ads for different items.
For my wife and I, high-speed Internet access is half the price of cable TV.
That's enough to explain it. Simple price competition.
High-speed Internet penetration is growing rapidly and is expected to pass cable TV in about two years.
Cable has been stuck at 66% for years, while broadband is already somewhere in the 45% range.
Not having cable TV, I had no idea people were paying $79 a month for a basic tier of channels. I thought it was still around $18.
What 6,687,746 seems to cover is virtual subdomain hosting. This only applies when the subdomain doesn't have its own IP address in DNS. Instead, a wildcard entry in DNS routes traffic to the next higher level domain, where there is, presumably, a web server. The web server then parses the URL, including the subdomain name, and returns the appropriate page. Note the line in the claim that reads "domain name including a user-selected subdomain label that is not associated with an IP address in a zone file of any higher-level domain".
So if your subdomain is actually in DNS, you should be OK.
This doesn't seem to apply to ordinary virtual web hosting, where multiple domains map to the same IP address. Those domains are all in DNS; they just map to the same IP address.
What we're really seeing here is a patent on one of the lesser hacks used to get around the IPv4 address space shortage.
Each page will have a different style sheet
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CSS for the LDP?
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There are a number of good reasons not to use style sheets. First, they introduce a dependence on directory structure. If we start seeing links like
"../../../x11/styles" in documentation, something has gone wrong.
Second, getting different people to use the same style sheet on an open source project is tough. And if everybody has different style sheets, there's no point.
Third, unless everybody edits HTML with the same WYSIWYG editor, nobody will be able to use a WYSIWYG editor on the HTML.
(Has anyone written an open-source Dreamweaver replacement yet?)
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Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich's equivalent to Karl Rove, was a pioneer of the "wired office". He used radio, phone, and teletype links extensively. German had a very good switched teletype network in that period, and the Reich used it to control much of the country from Berlin, rather than delegate to local authorities.
Which can be seen in the recent movie "Torque", if anybody cares.
Trevipark, a British firm, has a nice, rather simple technology for modest size parking garages, with several installations in Italy. Trevipark is a silo with a turntable/elevator at the center. This technology is best suited for underground storage. It's elegant in that there's very little visible on the surface.
Parksysteme, in Germany, has been building such systems for forty years. But they haven't had many installations.
An automated garage operated in Manhattan in the 1960s.
None of these systems has reached ten installations.
We may be seeing SCO's announced "stock buyback" program in action. Each day, for the last week or so, there's been a big buy in the hour before the close, which tended to stem the day's decline. (Except for Tuesday, when the stock finished about where it started.) Look at the stock volume charts, and notice the late-day peak. Yesterday, there was a really big transaction just before the close, which pushed the stock up to about where it was at the beginning of the week.
Today, trading volume was way up. Unclear how much of this is the buyback. But until the buyback program was announced, the stock had been sliding down steadily, almost linearly, for weeks.
This is underwhelming, and best ignored.
The Economist says that developing "Big Brother" technology will save Silicon Valley and even California. That's scary.
If he wrote with Microsoft Word, which has a rather good GUI, he would have known that. A red squiggle would have appeared under each misspelled word, and a green squiggle would have identified each grammatically incorrect sentence.
The "I'm l33t because I can type command line commands" attitude keeps the Linux kiddies from ever getting a GUI right. The attitude that a GUI is a "front end" will never work well. Everybody competent knows this. But the Linux kiddies don't know any better.
Red Hat is making some progress. But they're doing it by taking Linux away from the kiddies and making it their own. You can't even copy a Red Hat distro for free any more. That's not free software.
It's disappointing how little progress there has been since the 1960s. Most of these make Eliza look good.
"Pull" information is fine. If I want something, I'll use Google to find it. But I don't want people pushing stuff in my face. Is that too much to ask?
More interesting is that WalMart is preloading OpenOffice on their low-end Windows PCs. That's will accelerate OpenOffice deployment. Lots of kids are going to be doing their book reports on OpenOffice.
Just post a little disclaimer in tiny print at the entrance.
I'll bet that at least half of modchip installers break their machine and have to buy a new one.
He may be in Le Figaro today. Look for "Quand les createurs de virus se font la guerre" in Le Figaro's archive. You have to pay to read the article, though.
If it's a pure contract case, it only affects IBM and SCO. Third parties aren't involved. The general Linux community issue goes away.
And if it's a pure contract case, it can't cost IBM more than any actual damages SCO suffered. SCO's sales are tiny and have been for years. That puts a lid on potential damages.
So if IBM wins on the copyright issue, it's effectively over.
Actually, this is an improvement. Mathsoft's first try at copy protection complained if you had a debugger installed on the machine. If you had Visual C++ installed, Mathcad wouldn't run. I screamed at them about that, and they "fixed" it. People who do number-crunching work are quite likely to use both.
AdAware considers C-Dilla OK. It does some annoying things, hiding data on your hard drive, though. But it seems to be well enough constructed not to mess stuff up.
Well, actually, they are. Music industry execs really aren't all that smart. The industry attracts bullies. The music industry innovates only when it absolutely has to. The industry hasn't been able to solve its two fundamental problems - their best genres are mined out, and everybody has now converted from vinyl to CD. Of course sales are down.
Movie execs, by comparison, are more competent. Making a movie is a tough, complex job, requiring the coordination of hundreds of people with dozens of different skills. The creative side is brutally competitive. It matters more, too. You can't really promote a dud movie into a hit. It's been tried. The people who work their way up in the industry have a certain basic level of competence.
The film industry has been far more successful dealing with technology than the music industry. Most major movies have good websites. Trailers have been downloadable for years. Online movie ticket ordering works well, after early deployment problems. The piracy problem is being adequately managed. On the creative side, the industry has been able to use CGI with incredible success. The movie industry is not afraid of technological change. Not that it isn't stressful on the people in the industry. But they adapt, or disappear.
The music industry basically works by selecting one of a number of promotable artists and promoting them heavily. The creation and production process isn't very complicated. For that matter, it's all outsourced. Record companies don't operate recording studios, production plants, record stores, fulfilment centers, or concert venues. All they really do is market.
This makes them terribly vulnerable. All they own is mindshare. They don't even have brand value. Nobody buys a CD because it comes from MCA.
No wonder they're afraid.
Huh? Where are the speech and handwriting recognition systems that work really well but require more CPU power than typically available? The current hardware requirement for Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 is a 500MHz Pentium III. ViaVoice only requires a Pentium II. If more CPU power would help, those products would be using it.
For a good laugh, search eBay for "diamonds". Or worse, Google, for "we buy diamonds". You'll see some of the slimiest ads around. "Diamond buyers" with Hotmail addresses. Cubic zircons advertised as diamonds. The same photo appearing in multiple eBay ads for different items.
That's enough to explain it. Simple price competition. High-speed Internet penetration is growing rapidly and is expected to pass cable TV in about two years. Cable has been stuck at 66% for years, while broadband is already somewhere in the 45% range.
Not having cable TV, I had no idea people were paying $79 a month for a basic tier of channels. I thought it was still around $18.
So if your subdomain is actually in DNS, you should be OK.
This doesn't seem to apply to ordinary virtual web hosting, where multiple domains map to the same IP address. Those domains are all in DNS; they just map to the same IP address.
What we're really seeing here is a patent on one of the lesser hacks used to get around the IPv4 address space shortage.
Second, getting different people to use the same style sheet on an open source project is tough. And if everybody has different style sheets, there's no point.
Third, unless everybody edits HTML with the same WYSIWYG editor, nobody will be able to use a WYSIWYG editor on the HTML. (Has anyone written an open-source Dreamweaver replacement yet?)
Don't use DocBook. That's a dead end. It continues the pernicious tradition that UNIX documentation doesn't have pictures.
Actually, that would be a neat little business - putting artwork on computer cases. Maybe Cafe Press could add it to their product line.
The US is not going to the moon again. Or Mars. We can barely afford to supply the space station we've got.
The ISS will be abandoned within a decade, after the next Shuttle accident.