When the government sold off the company years ago, BT were allowed to keep their monopoly in certain areas, provided that after a certain time period elapsed, they open up all of their exchanges to co-locs, and unbundle the local loop.
Unfortunately for the consumer, BT dragged their heels so much on the unbundling, that all the other companies pretty much lost interest, and at the same time, BT started aggresively(ish) rolling out their own ADSL service, while trying every trick in the book to stop other companies from doing the same thing.
Thus in the UK, the situation is that BT *still* has a monopoly, only now it is a monopoly on ADSL.
I was one of the lucky ones, as I lived in an area with pretty good cable coverage, so I used that instead.
given that a quantum computer could factorise a number N into factors a1, a2, a3,...etc in a defined time, we can therefore tell whether N is prime by seeing if it returns a1=1, a2=N.
Would it be possible to build a 'super' quantum computer which checks simultaneously all numbers from 0 -> 2^n (where n is the number of qbits) and returns only those which are prime.
In other words, you would be carrying out 2^n computations simultaneously, each of which is comprised of 2^n computations ?
Were all the world mine
from the sea to the Rhine,
I would starve myself of it
so that the queen of England
might lie in my arms.
Though obviously he was referring to a different Queen than our present monarch...!!
You know what comes to mind...
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The Woody Allen film "Sleeper". I can just picture Woody dressed as a robot being chased around on one of these by security guards riding more of them.
This situation reminds me of the film 'Farenheit 451'.
Everbody who reads Slashdot should memorise one line of deCSS, so that we can reconstruct it when they come round to burn the books, CD's and hard drives.
Linux is open source. There are over 1 billion Chinese in the world. You would think somebody would have hacked Linux by now to give it superb Chinese language support.
Are the Chinese so lazy that none of them can be bothered to do it ?
(c) shipping a computer without a Microsoft OS at all.
Yes, that's right, Microsoft can still retaliate if they find an OEM is shipping even a single computer with a non-M$ OS, and it is apparently allowed to do so, even under the terms of this agreement.
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AOL Exec: we need some evidence against Microsoft for our court case
AOL Employee: I know, why don't we try Red Hat ?
Two days later...
AOL Exec: oh, I thought you said *buy* Red Hat...
Aren't there laws against things like that...? :-)
Hehe, just what I was going to post ;-)
40 bit
128 bit
Cowboy Neal with a pen
Win 95 is no longer supported by them, and NT will be unsupported soon as well.
When the government sold off the company years ago, BT were allowed to keep their monopoly in certain areas, provided that after a certain time period elapsed, they open up all of their exchanges to co-locs, and unbundle the local loop.
Unfortunately for the consumer, BT dragged their heels so much on the unbundling, that all the other companies pretty much lost interest, and at the same time, BT started aggresively(ish) rolling out their own ADSL service, while trying every trick in the book to stop other companies from doing the same thing.
Thus in the UK, the situation is that BT *still* has a monopoly, only now it is a monopoly on ADSL.
I was one of the lucky ones, as I lived in an area with pretty good cable coverage, so I used that instead.
given that a quantum computer could factorise a number N into factors a1, a2, a3,...etc in a defined time, we can therefore tell whether N is prime by seeing if it returns a1=1, a2=N.
Would it be possible to build a 'super' quantum computer which checks simultaneously all numbers from 0 -> 2^n (where n is the number of qbits) and returns only those which are prime.
In other words, you would be carrying out 2^n computations simultaneously, each of which is comprised of 2^n computations ?
Was that a deliberate pun ?
;-)
AFAIK, the only country it is showing in so far is the UK.
Were diu werlt alle min (Were all the world mine)
Were all the world mine
from the sea to the Rhine,
I would starve myself of it
so that the queen of England
might lie in my arms.
Though obviously he was referring to a different Queen than our present monarch...!!
ooops ;-)
Everbody who reads Slashdot should memorise one line of deCSS, so that we can reconstruct it when they come round to burn the books, CD's and hard drives.
Are the Chinese so lazy that none of them can be bothered to do it ?
Or are there no good programmers in China ?
Maybe in the middle of the film, when Anakin is just turning to the dark side, it is purple ?
If you assume that MS makes only enough Xboxen to meet demand then the logic is correct.
Unfortunately, they forgot:
(c) shipping a computer without a Microsoft OS at all.
Yes, that's right, Microsoft can still retaliate if they find an OEM is shipping even a single computer with a non-M$ OS, and it is apparently allowed to do so, even under the terms of this agreement.
Nice work, DOJ.
Why would they want to do that when they can be "setter of standard" *AND* "provider of software" ?
So what happens if Eric Corley co-locates a server in CA, and then publishes links to deCSS on that server ?
So did it go something like this:
Scramjet eh ?
Well, I can do it, but it'll cost ya...tell you what, I'll give you the parts for $2,500 but the labour'll cost you $1,000,000...
a) none of the Linux companies have a monopoly. The law is different if you have a monopoly.
b) You have the option of not installing or removing any of the stuff which is bundled with Linux distributions, and it will still work.
c) You can also download Linux without any of the other apps which distributions bundle with it (and for free).
I don't know about embedded systems, but "J2EE" seems to ba magic keyword for interesting looking jobs these days.