Could also to be technical feasibility of blocking all the porn sites - there are many more of these than 'policitically wrong' sites.
Interestindly from a previous post they aren;t blocking the BBC which ain't exacly pro-China.
Perhaps the blocking the will occur on a more varying nature, depending on the 'wind' of thought agianst/for China's policies and actions.
Also whilst doing admim for various site I've noticed that other countries have a similar policy of central censorship of the 'net; Iran and Vietnam spring to mind.
Well I guess the port could be done, but as previous poster have mentioned Office is tighly alligned with Windows. Uncoupling this will take time, IE5 has Solaris/HPUX versions, but they had to start from scratch basing the code on O/S neutral techniques and it STILL doesn't cope with multiprocessor Unix boxes (you have to bind IE5 to a particular CPU to get it working).
Given the functional complexity of Office 2000 (hey even 95 and 97 for that matter) this will be no mean feet.
Also with added competition from the like of StarOffice/ Abiword/K-office and the Linux/Unix desktop environments like gnome/KDE I think that M$ will have some really good competition in the corporate market place (which is where it gets most of its revenues from).
basically these are "Interesting Times" for M$ (thanks to Terry Pratchett for this one:-)
The point of the current form of bill is more like
using encryption is treated as going to commit a crime.
Therefore its seem as bad idea. The current 'going equipped' law means you can be arrested for carrying 'tools' in the wrong place at the wrong time (ie lurking on a street corner at 3am looking for a house). Now doing this at 3pm in a van marked "General builder" is OK as its suspicious behaviour.
So if you are using encryption you must be able to prove
1) you can decrypt it and
2) do so on less controls than currently exist for phone tapping (Home secretoary must sign the order) or even search warrants (judge),
ie using encryption is suspicious behaviour and is likely to get you arrested!
We've had DTV for over a year now. The set top boxes are 'free' (if you take a subscription to the pay channels) and the integrated sets are now down to £500 (about $750) for a 28" set.
THe EU/UK govmt decided to stop messing around waiting for the world to agree on a standard and went with the UK system - a little like they've done with GSM phones already mentioned.
Switch-off for the analogue transmitters has been set to around 2010 (based on 90% of the population having got DTV recievers and 99% of the population being capable of recieving it then a hard will be set 2 years in the furture)
For somethings the govnmt HAS to set the goals, thats what they are there for - a central body to HELP co-ordinate things and if neseccary force change.
hmm maybe this explains why Liecester Uni in UK is roolimng out w2k right now (basing the initail on RC1). Personnally I think there off their rocker, but it will be 'interesting' to see how they go. Seems they want to reduce the number of servers running each function (email, SMS etc) down to the bare minimum, but in order to do this they need huge great machines that only w2k can cope with (16 processors etc).
Personnally I've have gone donw the *nix route, but the head of IT seems to have sold the Uni on the idea - so watch with care. It's the first big rollout of any size and lessons will be learned from this.
Slashdot Mirror
You think I'm kidding...:-)
Do what my mum (mom) did when she saw things 'wrong' with my school.
Got herself on the school Governers board (it wasn't that difficult as they are usually short on volunteers) and argued for the changes to be made.
It worked quite nicely and our school was a better place for it.
This is what the 'pro' WAVE-ers have done, so why not do the same if you are anti-WAVE.
palstic - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_7 04000/704324.stm
for the laypersons guide.
palstic - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_7 04000/704324.stm
for the laypersons guide.
finally something that will keep up with the need.
I wonder if this will make it into the race for the new internet backbones?
at the same time
d _703000/703937.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsi
spooky - could this be sign of something big about to happen?
the article states that samples will be available this year - no mention of volume production.
:-(
Gee vapourware again
here's the TV movie..
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083316
Apparently based on a true story...
here's the info...
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083316
Apparently based a true story...
just seen this announcement....
4 80111.html
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19117.html
May help..in October:-)
Applixware also seem to have one..http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/05/11/926
Martin
If you read the story in the Uk press you'll find that it was encrypted using the top-secret stuff that these guys use.
Could also to be technical feasibility of blocking all the porn sites - there are many more of these than 'policitically wrong' sites.
Interestindly from a previous post they aren;t blocking the BBC which ain't exacly pro-China.
Perhaps the blocking the will occur on a more varying nature, depending on the 'wind' of thought agianst/for China's policies and actions.
Also whilst doing admim for various site I've noticed that other countries have a similar policy of central censorship of the 'net; Iran and Vietnam spring to mind.
hmm
I seem to remember similar problems with the CD-ROM drive on the PSX that took Sony months to sort out.
Well I guess the port could be done, but as previous poster have mentioned Office is tighly alligned with Windows. Uncoupling this will take time, IE5 has Solaris/HPUX versions, but they had to start from scratch basing the code on O/S neutral techniques and it STILL doesn't cope with multiprocessor Unix boxes (you have to bind IE5 to a particular CPU to get it working).
Given the functional complexity of Office 2000 (hey even 95 and 97 for that matter) this will be no mean feet.
Also with added competition from the like of StarOffice/ Abiword/K-office and the Linux/Unix desktop environments like gnome/KDE I think that M$ will have some really good competition in the corporate market place (which is where it gets most of its revenues from).
basically these are "Interesting Times" for M$ (thanks to Terry Pratchett for this one:-)
using encryption is treated as going to commit a crime.
Therefore its seem as bad idea. The current 'going equipped' law means you can be arrested for carrying 'tools' in the wrong place at the wrong time (ie lurking on a street corner at 3am looking for a house). Now doing this at 3pm in a van marked "General builder" is OK as its suspicious behaviour.
So if you are using encryption you must be able to prove
1) you can decrypt it and
2) do so on less controls than currently exist for phone tapping (Home secretoary must sign the order) or even search warrants (judge),
ie using encryption is suspicious behaviour and is likely to get you arrested!
Someones been watching too much TV
And the scripture you get this from???
Off topic I know, but hey Chris where are you now???
Martin
Check out http://www.eye-trek.com
Similar spec, but a nice low price - and you can see the outside world at the same time, need one.
(Still only TV in, no computer input, but its portable and some of the airlines are starting to take it for business class!)
We've had DTV for over a year now. The set top boxes are 'free' (if you take a subscription to the pay channels) and the integrated sets are now down to £500 (about $750) for a 28" set.
THe EU/UK govmt decided to stop messing around waiting for the world to agree on a standard and went with the UK system - a little like they've done with GSM phones already mentioned.
Switch-off for the analogue transmitters has been set to around 2010 (based on 90% of the population having got DTV recievers and 99% of the population being capable of recieving it then a hard will be set 2 years in the furture)
For somethings the govnmt HAS to set the goals, thats what they are there for - a central body to HELP co-ordinate things and if neseccary force change.
Saw a news article about it a couple of days ago, but can't find the article anymore. (anyone?)
Anyway could be using this technology - works a bit like RAID only for whole computers rather than just disks.
Yes I know its been done before, but theres a twist -if only I can find the damn article.
Martin
well its not as bad as Sweden - there you get hit badly by taxes and the Beers mega-expensive too :-(
well its not as bad as Sweden - there you get badly by taxes and the Beers mega-expensive too :-(
hmm maybe this explains why Liecester Uni in UK is roolimng out w2k right now (basing the initail on RC1). Personnally I think there off their rocker, but it will be 'interesting' to see how they go. Seems they want to reduce the number of servers running each function (email, SMS etc) down to the bare minimum, but in order to do this they need huge great machines that only w2k can cope with (16 processors etc).
Personnally I've have gone donw the *nix route, but the head of IT seems to have sold the Uni on the idea - so watch with care. It's the first big rollout of any size and lessons will be learned from this.
No to mention fighting Santa - what a totally excellent show that was :-)