Why the fuss over low power FM? Because it allows anyone to become a broadcaster or content creator. By raising the specter of 'interference', broadcasters and others can FUD the legislatures into banning enabling technologies like this.
Is it me (insert tinfoil hat joke), or is anyone else disturbed by the increasing tendency of ISPs and vendors to say 'just block port xxx' on your network connection, as a response to problems? Is this one more step on the road of converting the Internet to simply an MSN-ified WWW? Where does the small, independent content creator turn as more and more barriers to market entry are enacted, either by FUDding ISPs, lobbying Congress, and blatant stupidity?
Or use a Zaurus, which does not honor the SD DRM components, and sees SD as regular MMC. SD also has the benefit of being faster than MMC, having a 7bit transfer mode instead of 4.
_I_ put decent software on it. If 'decent' means "something other than the Sharp-supplied applets", then just put OpenZaurus on it. OpenZaurus has superior management and (arguably) better wireless and networking support. The stock Sharp ROM apps seem to run better - the builtin Opera browser stomps the tough-to-install-and-fiddly Konqueror. Oh wait, this was a Psion troll, and I bit. Oh well, it doesn't make what I say less true.
GPG or similar, or using large, one-time pads will always work. Of course, then they just make encryption illegal. What are you trying to hide, eh? Only dishonest people need privacy! Eh!
It should be a law that people do not yield all of their rights to the government at the drop of a hat , demanding that laws be enacted to cover everything.
But you have 'free' medicine that looks and operates like a 3rd world country (6 month wait for ingrown toenail, heroin is given to birthing mothers, etc.) and 'free' education that doesn't hold a candle to that in a decent private school elsewhere (and I've been there, I know, this isn't a random troll). But hey, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need'. When does Mr. Mouch become PM?
If you configure your browser to accept no cookies, some cookies, or all cookies, isn't that consent for websites to SET the cookies? Seems to me that this is an attempt to legislate a human problem - people want 'privacy' but are too bothered to keep clicking the button to acknowledge the "this site wants to set another cookie - you already have 12345 cookies from this site. Continue?" button. So the State 'makes' things 'secure' and 'private' by passing a law that says that only 'bad' people will use hidden cookies. Wake up folks, know how to operate your browser. You can work an answering machine, a VCR, and an automobile, why not a web browser?
Does Gartner have any real credibility? I mean, they bought the spin-story that Guardent told them. What's next, Technology According to Jon Katz? Move along, nothing to see here - Gartner has ridden the FUD wave all along, this was inevitable.
I set my mind in motion. It is by the Beans of Java that the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Yes, Mr. PHB, if you hire me as your Yoga Expert, I will provide "increased brain-wave activity, enhanced intuition, better concentration, and the alleviation of the kinds of aches and pains that plague employees most". Trust me.
These are cultural institutions. Stop complaining that the UN must stop wars in your countries, feed your people, drill for your oil, provide grain for your crops.
Lastly, a quote from Lawrence of Arabia
"Sherif Ali. So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people; a silly people; greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."
You don't "take out" a copyright. Anything you produce, by definition, has a copyright attached. Whether or not that is compatible with other licensing schemes is a different ball game.
Yet Mr. Annan claims the right to mandate (yes, mandate) that 'all these countries' get 'wireless laptops', without any concern for the causality involved - someone has to engineer, build and then donate them to the UN. Why not just recommend that the 3rd world countries get 'AIDS medicine' or 'enough food to live on' or 'a decent wage'? It's all groundless pie-in-the-sky, unattached wishing anyway. Here's a suggestion for the Third World: Stop overbreeding. Stop killing each other. Stop stealing from the people who honestly want to help you. Stop torturing people from the wrong village. Stop maiming your women. Maybe then you'll get a little respect, instead of the sneers and half-assed offers of help that you keep begging for.
Look at how MS does business: Get the mindshare. The adage "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft" is a reality. People are going to watch the commercials, drink the Koolaid, and belly up to the bar and buy it. And it's going to suck. Of course it will sick, it's a 1.0 release. But after pouring vast quantities of cash into Project X, based largely on past successes and current license-lockins, nobody can make the call to yank the plug. It's tantamount to saying "All along, it was bad". Look at Legato - this product hasn't worked properly in Enterprise environments... ever, but people still buy it. Nobody can afford the intra-company political suicide it would be to say "this MS product sucks, we bought it - hook, line and sinker, and it was a waste". Meanwhile, the extensive field testing will give MS a chance to bob, weave, re-engineer the product, so that it sucks less in version 2. (Windows for Workgroups 3.11 anyone?).
Slashdot Mirror
We're all IANALs. So it actually took a REAL lawyer to sort this out.
Why the fuss over low power FM? Because it allows anyone to become a broadcaster or content creator. By raising the specter of 'interference', broadcasters and others can FUD the legislatures into banning enabling technologies like this.
Is it me (insert tinfoil hat joke), or is anyone else disturbed by the increasing tendency of ISPs and vendors to say 'just block port xxx' on your network connection, as a response to problems? Is this one more step on the road of converting the Internet to simply an MSN-ified WWW? Where does the small, independent content creator turn as more and more barriers to market entry are enacted, either by FUDding ISPs, lobbying Congress, and blatant stupidity?
Or use a Zaurus, which does not honor the SD DRM components, and sees SD as regular MMC. SD also has the benefit of being faster than MMC, having a 7bit transfer mode instead of 4.
_I_ put decent software on it. If 'decent' means "something other than the Sharp-supplied applets", then just put OpenZaurus on it. OpenZaurus has superior management and (arguably) better wireless and networking support. The stock Sharp ROM apps seem to run better - the builtin Opera browser stomps the tough-to-install-and-fiddly Konqueror.
Oh wait, this was a Psion troll, and I bit. Oh well, it doesn't make what I say less true.
GPG or similar, or using large, one-time pads will always work. Of course, then they just make encryption illegal. What are you trying to hide, eh? Only dishonest people need privacy! Eh!
It should be a law that people do not yield all of their rights to the government at the drop of a hat , demanding that laws be enacted to cover everything.
He's probably busy surfing here
But you have 'free' medicine that looks and operates like a 3rd world country (6 month wait for ingrown toenail, heroin is given to birthing mothers, etc.) and 'free' education that doesn't hold a candle to that in a decent private school elsewhere (and I've been there, I know, this isn't a random troll).
But hey, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need'. When does Mr. Mouch become PM?
If you configure your browser to accept no cookies, some cookies, or all cookies, isn't that consent for websites to SET the cookies? Seems to me that this is an attempt to legislate a human problem - people want 'privacy' but are too bothered to keep clicking the button to acknowledge the "this site wants to set another cookie - you already have 12345 cookies from this site. Continue?" button. So the State 'makes' things 'secure' and 'private' by passing a law that says that only 'bad' people will use hidden cookies.
Wake up folks, know how to operate your browser. You can work an answering machine, a VCR, and an automobile, why not a web browser?
Does Gartner have any real credibility? I mean, they bought the spin-story that Guardent told them. What's next, Technology According to Jon Katz? Move along, nothing to see here - Gartner has ridden the FUD wave all along, this was inevitable.
To the non-reg NYT page, thanks.
I set my mind in motion.
It is by the Beans of Java that the thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Yes, Mr. PHB, if you hire me as your Yoga Expert, I will provide "increased brain-wave activity, enhanced intuition, better concentration, and the alleviation of the kinds of aches and pains that plague employees most". Trust me.
Dogbert
So its almost as cool as a Zaurus 5500? Wow, keep going Palm, you'll get there.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jul2000/nig-j14. shtmle 1006200 3/africa/afnews10062003003.htmr g/pub_fac_fgmicpd.html/ Africa/response.html
http://www.eastandard.net/archives/june/tu
http://www.crlp.o
http://www.duke.edu/~ac23
These are cultural institutions.
Stop complaining that the UN must stop wars in your countries, feed your people, drill for your oil, provide grain for your crops.
Lastly, a quote from Lawrence of Arabia
"Sherif Ali. So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people; a silly people; greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."
IP-X
It was a joke, get it? IP-10 ?
When Novell introduced IPX, they clearly must have been thinking to way beyong IP6. IPX should give something like 4 googles worth of addresses?
Or a toilet buffer overflow.
You don't "take out" a copyright. Anything you produce, by definition, has a copyright attached. Whether or not that is compatible with other licensing schemes is a different ball game.
Good to see that they lost their shirts on their Corel stock. Maybe that's why they never handed out dividends. Pricks.
Yet Mr. Annan claims the right to mandate (yes, mandate) that 'all these countries' get 'wireless laptops', without any concern for the causality involved - someone has to engineer, build and then donate them to the UN. Why not just recommend that the 3rd world countries get 'AIDS medicine' or 'enough food to live on' or 'a decent wage'? It's all groundless pie-in-the-sky, unattached wishing anyway. Here's a suggestion for the Third World:
Stop overbreeding.
Stop killing each other.
Stop stealing from the people who honestly want to help you.
Stop torturing people from the wrong village.
Stop maiming your women.
Maybe then you'll get a little respect, instead of the sneers and half-assed offers of help that you keep begging for.
Look at how MS does business: Get the mindshare. The adage "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft" is a reality. People are going to watch the commercials, drink the Koolaid, and belly up to the bar and buy it. And it's going to suck. Of course it will sick, it's a 1.0 release. But after pouring vast quantities of cash into Project X, based largely on past successes and current license-lockins, nobody can make the call to yank the plug. It's tantamount to saying "All along, it was bad". Look at Legato - this product hasn't worked properly in Enterprise environments... ever, but people still buy it. Nobody can afford the intra-company political suicide it would be to say "this MS product sucks, we bought it - hook, line and sinker, and it was a waste".
Meanwhile, the extensive field testing will give MS a chance to bob, weave, re-engineer the product, so that it sucks less in version 2. (Windows for Workgroups 3.11 anyone?).
Will list your product, and even help you organize the support for it with mailing lists.
And now someone else wasted a mod point! W00t! The 4g3n75 0f cH405 r0x0r5 u!