Besides, what possible monatery damages could there be to the GPLed project?
Some software uses a dual GPL/proprietary license. Someone who steals the GPLed version to avoid paying the license fee on the proprietary version could easily be causing financial harm. This doesn't apply to most GPLed software, though.
I understand why phone companies see a threat in VoIP providers, but they shouldn't. Maybe they'll experiment some looses during the time the hype is high, but later on things should be roughly back to normal...
Things may get back to normal for the industry as a whole, but the telcos will not survive the transition to VoIP due to their massive amount of capital assets which are becoming increasingly worthless.
If a baby bell gets together with local broadcast stations to distribute free over-air digital tuners, cable operators will lose their core business.
Why? Digital TV just gets you the same channels that are already available in analog broadcasts. The fact that so few people watch analog broadcast TV should tell you that people aren't satisfied with those channels. And why would Baby Bells give away TV tuners?
Take the number of stations within sixty miles of you and double it.
Are you saying that digital TV will have more range or will cause new channels to magically appear? I don't see any evidence of either.
Unless I'm really missing something, that's called a cellular phone. Of course you can also run VoIP over wireless broadband, but I don't expect that to catch on until WiMax comes out.
Your questions are all perfectly logical in the context of the traditional semiconductor design process, but reading them gave me an insight: open source IP cores have all the markings of a disruptive technology. They are too slow/low-quality/unsupported to be usable in traditional markets, but they are much cheaper and could enable new applications that don't exist today. And eventually they may start to eat away at the low end of the existing market...
RHEL is getting certified at EAL2, which is really weak.
Even the Windows 2000 EAL4 certification only protects against "inadvertent or casual attempts to breach the system security." No real security here. For more info, read Jonathan Shapiro's article.
I would guess that serving.torrent files is not a problem compared to the bandwidth and CPU used by the tracker. When downloading a file via BitTorrent, you only download the.torrent once but you check in with the tracker every few minutes.
For a standard to be usable, every player has to play every disc. If the DVD Forum had defined a standard back in the early 90s that included HD resolution, then every player would have to support HD, and thus every player would cost 4X as much. That's not good.
Not to mention that the technology to put 2 hours of HD video on a disc simply didn't exist until recently.
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Too bad VP6 is owned by one company, has no published specification, and has no published royalty fee schedule.
Doesn't DVD region coding invalidate this argument? The US already gets different DVDs from the rest of the world.
Wrong; both Blu-Ray and HD DVD use blue lasers. The battle is over cartridge or no cartridge.
Current DVD players are 480i or 480p; an HD signal (even downsampled to 720p or 1024x1024) will look better.
When your ISP cancels your account for excessive usage you might change your mind.
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A song from iTunes: 99 cents.
Keeping your Net connection: priceless.
Those RPMs have been pretty much obsoleted since 2.6 is in rawhide.
Pixlet is for editing, not distribution.
Besides, what possible monatery damages could there be to the GPLed project?
Some software uses a dual GPL/proprietary license. Someone who steals the GPLed version to avoid paying the license fee on the proprietary version could easily be causing financial harm. This doesn't apply to most GPLed software, though.
Nobody ever publicized the remote root holes in Mac OS 9, but no doubt there were plenty.
The actual content is DRMed, of course.
It's just an XML file that says where you can download the content, what software/hardware you need to view it, and how much it costs.
I understand why phone companies see a threat in VoIP providers, but they shouldn't. Maybe they'll experiment some looses during the time the hype is high, but later on things should be roughly back to normal...
Things may get back to normal for the industry as a whole, but the telcos will not survive the transition to VoIP due to their massive amount of capital assets which are becoming increasingly worthless.
If a baby bell gets together with local broadcast stations to distribute free over-air digital tuners, cable operators will lose their core business.
Why? Digital TV just gets you the same channels that are already available in analog broadcasts. The fact that so few people watch analog broadcast TV should tell you that people aren't satisfied with those channels. And why would Baby Bells give away TV tuners?
Take the number of stations within sixty miles of you and double it.
Are you saying that digital TV will have more range or will cause new channels to magically appear? I don't see any evidence of either.
I can't escape the feeling that IHBT...
Unless I'm really missing something, that's called a cellular phone. Of course you can also run VoIP over wireless broadband, but I don't expect that to catch on until WiMax comes out.
Your questions are all perfectly logical in the context of the traditional semiconductor design process, but reading them gave me an insight: open source IP cores have all the markings of a disruptive technology. They are too slow/low-quality/unsupported to be usable in traditional markets, but they are much cheaper and could enable new applications that don't exist today. And eventually they may start to eat away at the low end of the existing market...
RHEL is getting certified at EAL2, which is really weak.
Even the Windows 2000 EAL4 certification only protects against "inadvertent or casual attempts to breach the system security." No real security here. For more info, read Jonathan Shapiro's article.
Great, so whenever someone in the US wants to call your VoIP line they have to make an international call into Canada?
The idea is that you run your own DNS server.
You still need a tracker to tell you what other peers to connect to; that's the bottleneck.
Yeah, the tracker could do that, although it might be too easy for peers to cheat by claiming that they uploaded more than they did.
I would guess that serving .torrent files is not a problem compared to the bandwidth and CPU used by the tracker. When downloading a file via BitTorrent, you only download the .torrent once but you check in with the tracker every few minutes.
The tracker does not allocate bandwidth, it just introduces peers to each other.
For a standard to be usable, every player has to play every disc. If the DVD Forum had defined a standard back in the early 90s that included HD resolution, then every player would have to support HD, and thus every player would cost 4X as much. That's not good.
Not to mention that the technology to put 2 hours of HD video on a disc simply didn't exist until recently.
You probably have to join the DVD Forum and then sign a 100-page NDA (in Japanese, natch) to see any details.
Ethernet does not use ACKs; what are you talking about?