US carriers will welcome UMA, because they designed it and they control it. They can implement it so that IP calls still use your minutes -- it's cheaper for them, not for you.
If a company rents discs with digital data on them, many Slashdotters will claim the right to rip them before returning. If a company rents DRM'ed files, tools will be created to strip the DRM. Is rental an unenforceable, and thus obsolete, business model? Or will companies simply accept the "shrinkage"?
Let's not forget that the OLPC was to be sold at a loss (initially). So for all we know the new features increased the cost $100.
It's sold at cost; I doubt MIT or Quanta can afford to lose over $60M on this project. So when they say the price is $140, my understanding is that the parts+manufacturing cost is $140.
You can record HDTV shows with a DVR. Although, it looks like if you want to use Vista Media Center Edition as your DVR, you may need to use the 64-bit version. But a Tivo Series 3 is probably cheaper and easier to use anyway.
That is true; the registries set the prices. But ICANN seems to award all the registry contracts to the same cartel of companies and has now even added presumptive renewal of those contracts, making them effectively perpetual (sort of like copyrights).
The US government could have admitted that ICANN is broken, renewed the contract for one year, and started building a replacement during that year. But instead we get ICANN forever.
How is Real going to legally give away an open-source decoder for a format that is patented by Microsoft? Is MS giving away free patent licenses to Linux users, while charging others per copy? This doesn't make a lot of sense.
No, the masses have been calling for an open-source, certified JRE. Nobody cares whether IBM or Sun or Harmony or GCJ or Kaffe got there first. A while ago there was speculation that the Harmony project was set up specifically to "launder" IBM's J9 source code into the "community", but that didn't happen. Now that Sun has committed to open-source HotSpot and their class libraries, there's little need for a second open-source VM.
Also keep in mind that most of IBM's class libraries are still owned by Sun, so probably only Sun can open-source them anyway.
If PatchGuard was optional, the first thing malware would do after getting into your computer is turn it off. (Of course, this is only a problem for people who want it turned on.) The only solution is to make security that can't be turned off.
OGP was dead before it started. Intel's drivers have been open-source for a few years, and open hardware is not useful to enough people to be self-sustaining.
A locality-aware swarming protocol can only discover other peers at the same ISP that are running at the same time, but a cache hosted by the ISP is always running and can serve content that was downloaded by another client earlier (sort of cooperative prefetching). Also, the bandwidth between the cache and a customer is usually going to be much higher than the bandwidth between two customers because of asymmetric connections.
If a customer saturates their own last mile connection it's their own problem. If the last mile is shared (cable modems or wireless), why not just enable fair queueing and let them fight it out amongst each other?
IP multicast creates a routing table entry for each group in every router that the group's packets flow through. If Internet users were allowed to create multicast groups, routers everywhere would run out of memory immediately.
Also, ISPs claim that they don't know how to bill for multicast.
Now Apple is borrowing good features from Solaris as well as FreeBSD. And the Xray GUI for DTrace looks pretty cool; I've been wondering why nobody has written such a GUI before.
All these EVDO modems use Qualcomm cell phone chipsets, which have a USB device port built-in. The CardBus versions add a PCI-USB bridge. Putting an Ethernet port on that chipset would require adding an SOC that has USB host and Ethernet ports and a bunch of software like a PPP stack, probably IP routing, etc.
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The difference is that UMA allows IP and GSM calls to use the same phone number.
Guess who's going to run most of the WiMax networks.
US carriers will welcome UMA, because they designed it and they control it. They can implement it so that IP calls still use your minutes -- it's cheaper for them, not for you.
If a company rents discs with digital data on them, many Slashdotters will claim the right to rip them before returning. If a company rents DRM'ed files, tools will be created to strip the DRM. Is rental an unenforceable, and thus obsolete, business model? Or will companies simply accept the "shrinkage"?
Let's not forget that the OLPC was to be sold at a loss (initially). So for all we know the new features increased the cost $100.
It's sold at cost; I doubt MIT or Quanta can afford to lose over $60M on this project. So when they say the price is $140, my understanding is that the parts+manufacturing cost is $140.
if the 32 bit OS is so open to kernel hacks that their precious DRM isn't safe, what's to make the 64 bit OS any more secure?
The 64-bit version of Vista only loads signed drivers.
You can record HDTV shows with a DVR. Although, it looks like if you want to use Vista Media Center Edition as your DVR, you may need to use the 64-bit version. But a Tivo Series 3 is probably cheaper and easier to use anyway.
That is true; the registries set the prices. But ICANN seems to award all the registry contracts to the same cartel of companies and has now even added presumptive renewal of those contracts, making them effectively perpetual (sort of like copyrights).
The US government could have admitted that ICANN is broken, renewed the contract for one year, and started building a replacement during that year. But instead we get ICANN forever.
Yes, I especially like the way that ICANN helps keep domain prices the same, even though the cost to provide them drops every year.
The Windows Media specs have been available for anyone to implement (Flip4Mac implements WMV for Macs).
I have a feeling that Flip4Mac is based on MS's reference source code, but that's beside your point.
The sad thing is that while the WM specs have been available, the OSS community didn't bother to create open source codecs on their own
But they did. MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, and recently WMV/VC1 have all been implemented from specs by the community.
How is Real going to legally give away an open-source decoder for a format that is patented by Microsoft? Is MS giving away free patent licenses to Linux users, while charging others per copy? This doesn't make a lot of sense.
No, the masses have been calling for an open-source, certified JRE. Nobody cares whether IBM or Sun or Harmony or GCJ or Kaffe got there first. A while ago there was speculation that the Harmony project was set up specifically to "launder" IBM's J9 source code into the "community", but that didn't happen. Now that Sun has committed to open-source HotSpot and their class libraries, there's little need for a second open-source VM.
Also keep in mind that most of IBM's class libraries are still owned by Sun, so probably only Sun can open-source them anyway.
Solaris is under the CDDL, not SPL. But other than that I agree. The CDDL is basically the MPL; I don't see what's so bad about it.
Is this article talking about the paravirt_ops API that is being discussed on linux-kernel lately, or something else?
If PatchGuard was optional, the first thing malware would do after getting into your computer is turn it off. (Of course, this is only a problem for people who want it turned on.) The only solution is to make security that can't be turned off.
OGP was dead before it started. Intel's drivers have been open-source for a few years, and open hardware is not useful to enough people to be self-sustaining.
XNU/PowerPC has been open source for years. That's why people were surprised when the source for the x86 version was not released.
A locality-aware swarming protocol can only discover other peers at the same ISP that are running at the same time, but a cache hosted by the ISP is always running and can serve content that was downloaded by another client earlier (sort of cooperative prefetching). Also, the bandwidth between the cache and a customer is usually going to be much higher than the bandwidth between two customers because of asymmetric connections.
If a customer saturates their own last mile connection it's their own problem. If the last mile is shared (cable modems or wireless), why not just enable fair queueing and let them fight it out amongst each other?
IP multicast creates a routing table entry for each group in every router that the group's packets flow through. If Internet users were allowed to create multicast groups, routers everywhere would run out of memory immediately.
Also, ISPs claim that they don't know how to bill for multicast.
Now Apple is borrowing good features from Solaris as well as FreeBSD. And the Xray GUI for DTrace looks pretty cool; I've been wondering why nobody has written such a GUI before.
All these EVDO modems use Qualcomm cell phone chipsets, which have a USB device port built-in. The CardBus versions add a PCI-USB bridge. Putting an Ethernet port on that chipset would require adding an SOC that has USB host and Ethernet ports and a bunch of software like a PPP stack, probably IP routing, etc.
Stop posting this crap in every PS3 thread. 1080p over component does not exist, and several of your other points may not exist either.
If Sony allows you to run Linux on PS3, then it becomes the Cell dev kit. Anything other than PS3 will not be sold at a loss and thus will cost more.