"CNN.com reports that the Inernet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)"
And they say that ICANN is impartial. They talk like George Bush!
Give it to the damn yurp-eens, that's what I say;-)
It's only like moderation on an internet forum. The material has to be peer-reviewed, and the peers will not change if the information is made public. You can't just become a professor without going through the academic process anyway, so the peer structure is safe.
On the contrary to what these people say, if more good-quality information is made available to the masses, then some of the ideas are more likely to rub off, get bounced around, and better things come of them.
The point is, it shouldn't. The only people that should fear from this are OS vendors -- because that's the only fundamental difference. So what I use Linux on my webserver -- if you want me to run IIS, because you think it's right for my situation, and I'm familiar with IIS, then port it to the operating system I'm using, please!
The problem is the os-tiein you get with a lot of software. That's bullcrap. If you're marketing software, and you want everyone to use it, you should have builds for the OS your customer is using. After all, theyre YOUR customer and YOU should be jumping through hoops for THEM.
methinks. more to the point, the celerons are aimed at the budget market. who in their right mind will buy a celeron when a faster chip by AMD is the same price?
intel need to change their marketing strategy, its not rocket science, they just need to price their products realistically compared to AMD.
I don't care; up until now I have hated Netscape. The new incarnation, be it Mozilla or whatever, is nice to look at, renders pages beautifully, and is fast. I don't have the problems others are getting?
I'm running a Celeron 400, 96MB RAM, Win98SE, nothing special, and this has just replaced IE5.5 as my default browser.
I'm sorry to stand up and be counted by the zealots, but this rocks. If it works well, I use it. And it does.
Mike
I was thinking along those lines. What they really need is a Computer Scrapheap Challenge where they get thrown into a place full of old computer parts, and get asked to make a computer that can do a certain task, that would be pretty sweet and educational to boot!
As far as I'm aware digital mobile phone communications are encrypted with something like RSA-64 anyway. It's possible to intercept analogue communications, but in the UK these are not really used anymore (at least in cellular comms.)
And with the way dist.net is going, I dont think the RC5-64's going to be broken in the time a normal phone call lasts. Sure, your governing body of choice may have access to the exchanges (court-order wiretaps etc) but that's the law when it comes to most personal communications.
Although I think the Nokia unit in the spotlight here is just eyecandy, or at least proof-of-concept. Like someone mentioned before, I'd much rather take out a Palm Vx and a Nokia 8850 than one of these anyday.
I just saw him at Sheffield University, I go to Sheffield Hallam University. He went as a guest speaker / lecturer for ShefLUG if I remember correctly.
Now I really enjoyed it, I'm not a GNU/Linux (as he would say) guru. but I am getting into it and I was honoured to hear him tell his tale of how GNU started up, etc. Top notch stuff.
The relevant bit is, he said in the lecture that sometimes he charges to go speak at places, but a lot of the time (for example the time I saw him) he only charges what expenses he would incur by being there etc, and as he says, he lives cheaply! It was £3 to get in, and there were only about 100 people in the lecture.
So what I'm saying is don't give up on RMS! He really is an intense, inspired guy, and he might not say no. You don't ask if you don't get!
It may be obvious, but companies like the RIAA are in effect huge megalithic middle men. They know this. They have a monopoly to blackmail the artist into accepting their manufacturing / pressing / advertising contracts. They realise that artists can now record their music at CD quality, make their own CDs at budget prices. They can advertise for free on the internet. They can give away samples of their albums to a fan base. They can give chatroom interviews, all of this sickens the RIAA, it's cutting out the middle man, ie, them. Even though they are gaining sales, they are trying to stamp this fledgling threat to their entire existance before it really catches on. Just imagine it, they'd be out of a job if everyone did it that way.
And, no, I rarely pirate mp3s, I have a lot, but they're almost all mine. I buy the CD of the ones I listen to the most. That's the way it should be.
Does anyone else here think the guy who made these patents is a bit like Dr. Evil of Austin Powers fame? You can just imagine him now, putting his finger to his mouth and saying...
I'm going to bring the internet to it's knees with my new marketing plan I'm going to call an "affiliate scheme"
Maybe he was frozen in time too like the most evil of doctors...:o)
"Why steal a trillion dollars... ...when you can steal a billion?"
As far as I remember in my Chemistry degree, the only material other than Iron that exhibited ferromagentic properties were derivatives of that enigmatic C60 molecule, buckminsterfullerine. This research isn't the true way forward, while we are gaining magnet hybrids, the magnetic element is still metallic. The most exciting research comes from these organic magnets, which can be used for infinate different things.
Unfortunately, as far as I remember, the only decent non-metallic ferromagnet only kicks in at about 35 Kelvin. But research is underway to make an organic magnet that exhibits ferromagnetic properties at the temperature of liquid nitrogen, a much more industrially workable temperature. But, I can't see a 3 metre squared cooling unit just so I can have a 300 TB hard drive:o)
Boring yes, but I'm sure someone out there finds it interesting...:o)
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"CNN.com reports that the Inernet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)" And they say that ICANN is impartial. They talk like George Bush! Give it to the damn yurp-eens, that's what I say ;-)
It's only like moderation on an internet forum. The material has to be peer-reviewed, and the peers will not change if the information is made public. You can't just become a professor without going through the academic process anyway, so the peer structure is safe.
On the contrary to what these people say, if more good-quality information is made available to the masses, then some of the ideas are more likely to rub off, get bounced around, and better things come of them.
The point is, it shouldn't. The only people that should fear from this are OS vendors -- because that's the only fundamental difference. So what I use Linux on my webserver -- if you want me to run IIS, because you think it's right for my situation, and I'm familiar with IIS, then port it to the operating system I'm using, please!
The problem is the os-tiein you get with a lot of software. That's bullcrap. If you're marketing software, and you want everyone to use it, you should have builds for the OS your customer is using. After all, theyre YOUR customer and YOU should be jumping through hoops for THEM.
-- incubus
Rat-a-tat-tat, yo!
methinks. more to the point, the celerons are aimed at the budget market. who in their right mind will buy a celeron when a faster chip by AMD is the same price?
intel need to change their marketing strategy, its not rocket science, they just need to price their products realistically compared to AMD.
IANACM (I am not a chipset manufacturer)
I don't care; up until now I have hated Netscape. The new incarnation, be it Mozilla or whatever, is nice to look at, renders pages beautifully, and is fast. I don't have the problems others are getting? I'm running a Celeron 400, 96MB RAM, Win98SE, nothing special, and this has just replaced IE5.5 as my default browser. I'm sorry to stand up and be counted by the zealots, but this rocks. If it works well, I use it. And it does. Mike
I was thinking along those lines. What they really need is a Computer Scrapheap Challenge where they get thrown into a place full of old computer parts, and get asked to make a computer that can do a certain task, that would be pretty sweet and educational to boot!
:-)
Mike
Why bother?
... mmmmmm :)
As far as I'm aware digital mobile phone communications are encrypted with something like RSA-64 anyway. It's possible to intercept analogue communications, but in the UK these are not really used anymore (at least in cellular comms.)
And with the way dist.net is going, I dont think the RC5-64's going to be broken in the time a normal phone call lasts. Sure, your governing body of choice may have access to the exchanges (court-order wiretaps etc) but that's the law when it comes to most personal communications.
Although I think the Nokia unit in the spotlight here is just eyecandy, or at least proof-of-concept. Like someone mentioned before, I'd much rather take out a Palm Vx and a Nokia 8850 than one of these anyday.
Or the Palm Vc when it comes out
does it have to sign each of it's 65553 bugs?
I just saw him at Sheffield University, I go to Sheffield Hallam University. He went as a guest speaker / lecturer for ShefLUG if I remember correctly.
Now I really enjoyed it, I'm not a GNU/Linux (as he would say) guru. but I am getting into it and I was honoured to hear him tell his tale of how GNU started up, etc. Top notch stuff.
The relevant bit is, he said in the lecture that sometimes he charges to go speak at places, but a lot of the time (for example the time I saw him) he only charges what expenses he would incur by being there etc, and as he says, he lives cheaply! It was £3 to get in, and there were only about 100 people in the lecture.
So what I'm saying is don't give up on RMS! He really is an intense, inspired guy, and he might not say no. You don't ask if you don't get!
:)
"Whoa".
It may be obvious, but companies like the RIAA are in effect huge megalithic middle men. They know this. They have a monopoly to blackmail the artist into accepting their manufacturing / pressing / advertising contracts. They realise that artists can now record their music at CD quality, make their own CDs at budget prices. They can advertise for free on the internet. They can give away samples of their albums to a fan base. They can give chatroom interviews, all of this sickens the RIAA, it's cutting out the middle man, ie, them. Even though they are gaining sales, they are trying to stamp this fledgling threat to their entire existance before it really catches on. Just imagine it, they'd be out of a job if everyone did it that way.
:o)
And, no, I rarely pirate mp3s, I have a lot, but they're almost all mine. I buy the CD of the ones I listen to the most. That's the way it should be.
IMHO, anyway.
Mike.
Does anyone else here think the guy who made these patents is a bit like Dr. Evil of Austin Powers fame? You can just imagine him now, putting his finger to his mouth and saying ...
:o)
...
I'm going to bring the internet to it's knees with my new marketing plan I'm going to call an "affiliate scheme"
Maybe he was frozen in time too like the most evil of doctors...
"Why steal a trillion dollars
...when you can steal a billion?"
I meant to say the only nonmetallic component, whoops. :o) But hey, I only said "as far as I remember". Doesn't make me an idiot!
As far as I remember in my Chemistry degree, the only material other than Iron that exhibited ferromagentic properties were derivatives of that enigmatic C60 molecule, buckminsterfullerine. This research isn't the true way forward, while we are gaining magnet hybrids, the magnetic element is still metallic. The most exciting research comes from these organic magnets, which can be used for infinate different things.
:o)
... :o)
Unfortunately, as far as I remember, the only decent non-metallic ferromagnet only kicks in at about 35 Kelvin. But research is underway to make an organic magnet that exhibits ferromagnetic properties at the temperature of liquid nitrogen, a much more industrially workable temperature. But, I can't see a 3 metre squared cooling unit just so I can have a 300 TB hard drive
Boring yes, but I'm sure someone out there finds it interesting