Since it has become clear that SCO is unwilling to ratify its claims in a court of law (if it were so willing it would be in court already, not seekign further delays), I don't think anyone really believes the threats have teeth anymore.
In any case the ploy was a success - the goal was never to increase SCO revenue, but to bolster the stock price so execs could sell. The issue now is whether this will be investigated as a pump-and-dump scam that Darl and co knew from the outset had no basis in law. Don't scoff Darl - you still may end up in the cell block with Worldcom and Enron execs.
If I were Google, the last place I would be putting more funding into is web search. Any algorithm will be spoofed, so the search nerds will never be satisifed long term. Average users though seem quite enambored with it, so the ROI for a new algorithm isn't clear.
Compare this to the ROI for music search, non-web search etc and its pretty clear Google's R and D is better directed to new products. Get used to it folks, when they go public there will be a huge expectation of new products on a regular basis. Web search will get tuned when ad keyword revenue dictates it.
Apple is not known for choices - its known for making one approach very easy to use.
That said, if they build the engine, we will hack it. I look forward to the linux-on-ipod folks dissecting the next gen player and making it play nice with linux as a desktop OS.
Hawkins says we will own phones but not computers. But the Treo can also be seen as a small-form-factor computer with built-in telephony. Its just a matter of whose stock you own.
In any case, until hands shrink or eyes focus more tightly or web sites start publishing for 100x100 displays, there are going to be big monitors and keyboards that will likely be connected to big boxes of some kind for the forseeable future.
Spinning off strengths was once in vogue
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During the.com bubble their was a prevailing trend of spinning of strong divisions through IPOs to generate huge cash hordes. Consistent with this was the.com mentality that the big firm was becoming a publically held VC firm that was obligated to spin out successes on their own.
Of course that idea died and few companies are splitting off their best tech at this point.
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I remember reading that the average lifespan for an S&P company is 25 years, and the S&P is an index of our most valued firms. 3Com is burning out slightly ahead of schedule but their demise is nothing extraordinary. They failed to have the right products for the right market at the right price at the right time, like countless other firms.
The differentiating aspect of tech firms is that many have huge cash hordes from the.com bubble that will sustain long past their expected expiration date. Sun for example will take at least a decade to die given their cash horde, notwithstanding their inability to generate profits.
The pieces are already there. It should be obvious by now that the major web players (Yahoo,MSN,Google) will move to "unlimited" storage or some metered model. They will back up your data (yes Yahoo Briefcase etc are backed up, if primitively), and index it algorithmically. Your PC will just be the docking station/local cache (to prevent you from having to transfer *all* your data).
No, 99% of our laws are to protect people/society from malicious intent.
NO, 99% of the legal statutes and precedents are TORT LAW. I am not going to debate this with you, ask a lawyer. The tort laws regarding home insulation are probably more voluminous than all of the criminal code.
First, those who voted for that bill most probably can't even turn on a damn computer. Let alone use an email service. The story should end right here. But these technophobic fuckers actualy have some power over what Google can do.
Maybe because they were ELECTED????
Now can anyone tell me why should the govt even consider thinking about voting anything concerning Gmail!?
Maybe because they were ELECTED????
Nothing justifies the intervention of the government in a free, web-based service. Nothing at all.
Other than they were ELECTED????????
If you don't live in California, shut up this does not affect you. If you do live in California, vote these people out or shut up.
If you don't want google to read your mail, don't sign up, and don't send messages to @gmail.com, or to anyone you don't trust not to forward it there.
Getting real flimsy there at the end. You have no idea where your emails go when they are sent. Does your best friend secretly print them out and laminate them? If we can protect ourselves against third party disclosure of our private data, we should.
It *is* wrong, however, to force a company to abide by certain terms in regards to totally legal activities.
That is the entire point of the legislature, they can simply make actions illegal where they deem necessary. At that point you can appeal to get the law overturned at a higher court but until then its academic.
mean, I'm an adult. WTF does the government get off making these decisions for me
See "American Revolution", "US Constitution", etc etc. At the end of the day they get to make decisions because your forefathers told them they could run the army. Your best bet for disagreeing with their right to pass laws is to build a bigger one.
It doesn't matter if you want your email searched or not! Google is supreme because they use Linux!! Your privacy is not important, unless of course Microsoft is involved then it is paramount.
How many fields can I pick where your own stupidity would kill you? Chemicals? Insulation in your home? Guess what, you aren't so smart. If not for legislation, think-they're-smarts like you would probably be dead due to misuse of a consumer product that "any idiot" should know how to manipulate.
In thirty years there will be fewer people making a living from programming computers, but there will be far more programmers. My prediction is that everyday folks will provide general statements to a deductive build system of sorts that will generate the software they need (within reason). Example - "hey, make me some code for figuring out the future payments on the mortgage we just downloaded"..."lets build a new level for this game with more dragons".
Consistent with this prediction - the only major piece of code people will buy will be their deductive build system (their "code builder").
Not only do I have to do an extra DNS lookup on every mail message to get a key
Yes, because DNS requests are so expensive.
How many DNS lookups alone occur when you load the/. page?
I think you know enough to understand that DomainKeys uses DNS but not enough to understood that these lookups are inexpensive. A little knowledge is a dnagerous thing indeed.
Algorithmic web search will ultimately suss out most of the intersting semantic details and do so in a more unified way (i.e. one algorithm will apply rules uniformly). In fact the next wave of innovation may lie in the competition between algorithms to infer semantics.
Otherwise Doctrow is right - semantic web metadata will just be a more refined version of the META tag.
My impression was that thousands of lines of enhancements were *added* to the codebase of the base mozilla.
As for the plugin/built-in model, this is a silly debate. Any plugins deemed "essential" over time will likely be wrapped into the release. This is good - moderate code bloat basedon features people already demonstrate a demand for.
For FC1 -> FC2 upgrading is NOT recommended using apt, yum or any other
depsolver. Anaconda has a fair bit of magic to fix things for you. Most
things are manually solvable but if you're using LVM "it has a high chance
of blowing up spectacularly" according to the anaconda developers - don't
bother unless you like blowing up systems:)
In any case upgrading with anaconda is the recommended way.
So it looks like they recommend getting the install disks and upgrading through the installer.
Sony has a bizarre adherence to DRM orthodoxy even though they could be one of the few companies to break it....also they continue to cling to dead tech (miniDisc) while lagging far behind viable leaders.
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Some big fish have escaped so far, but some of the other players have already started jail time.
In any case the ploy was a success - the goal was never to increase SCO revenue, but to bolster the stock price so execs could sell. The issue now is whether this will be investigated as a pump-and-dump scam that Darl and co knew from the outset had no basis in law. Don't scoff Darl - you still may end up in the cell block with Worldcom and Enron execs.
Compare this to the ROI for music search, non-web search etc and its pretty clear Google's R and D is better directed to new products. Get used to it folks, when they go public there will be a huge expectation of new products on a regular basis. Web search will get tuned when ad keyword revenue dictates it.
That said, if they build the engine, we will hack it. I look forward to the linux-on-ipod folks dissecting the next gen player and making it play nice with linux as a desktop OS.
In any case, until hands shrink or eyes focus more tightly or web sites start publishing for 100x100 displays, there are going to be big monitors and keyboards that will likely be connected to big boxes of some kind for the forseeable future.
Of course that idea died and few companies are splitting off their best tech at this point.
The differentiating aspect of tech firms is that many have huge cash hordes from the .com bubble that will sustain long past their expected expiration date. Sun for example will take at least a decade to die given their cash horde, notwithstanding their inability to generate profits.
The pieces are already there. It should be obvious by now that the major web players (Yahoo,MSN,Google) will move to "unlimited" storage or some metered model. They will back up your data (yes Yahoo Briefcase etc are backed up, if primitively), and index it algorithmically. Your PC will just be the docking station/local cache (to prevent you from having to transfer *all* your data).
Actually it does, as long as the Constitution is not being violated, or even if it is, as long as you can get it by the Supreme Court.
Yes murder can be made legal. You are confusing "moral" with "legal".
NO, 99% of the legal statutes and precedents are TORT LAW. I am not going to debate this with you, ask a lawyer. The tort laws regarding home insulation are probably more voluminous than all of the criminal code.
Maybe because they were ELECTED????
Now can anyone tell me why should the govt even consider thinking about voting anything concerning Gmail!?
Maybe because they were ELECTED????
Nothing justifies the intervention of the government in a free, web-based service. Nothing at all.
Other than they were ELECTED????????
If you don't live in California, shut up this does not affect you. If you do live in California, vote these people out or shut up.
Getting real flimsy there at the end. You have no idea where your emails go when they are sent. Does your best friend secretly print them out and laminate them? If we can protect ourselves against third party disclosure of our private data, we should.
That is the entire point of the legislature, they can simply make actions illegal where they deem necessary. At that point you can appeal to get the law overturned at a higher court but until then its academic.
mean, I'm an adult. WTF does the government get off making these decisions for me
See "American Revolution", "US Constitution", etc etc. At the end of the day they get to make decisions because your forefathers told them they could run the army. Your best bet for disagreeing with their right to pass laws is to build a bigger one.
Clearly stated that provisions will be made for spam filters. Sorry, the legislature did its homework on this one.
It doesn't matter if you want your email searched or not! Google is supreme because they use Linux!! Your privacy is not important, unless of course Microsoft is involved then it is paramount.
How many fields can I pick where your own stupidity would kill you? Chemicals? Insulation in your home? Guess what, you aren't so smart. If not for legislation, think-they're-smarts like you would probably be dead due to misuse of a consumer product that "any idiot" should know how to manipulate.
Smoking, drinking, eating too much fat. Most of our laws are set up to protect the unaware from their own actions.
Consistent with this prediction - the only major piece of code people will buy will be their deductive build system (their "code builder").
Yes, because DNS requests are so expensive.
How many DNS lookups alone occur when you load the /. page?
I think you know enough to understand that DomainKeys uses DNS but not enough to understood that these lookups are inexpensive. A little knowledge is a dnagerous thing indeed.
Otherwise Doctrow is right - semantic web metadata will just be a more refined version of the META tag.
As for the plugin/built-in model, this is a silly debate. Any plugins deemed "essential" over time will likely be wrapped into the release. This is good - moderate code bloat basedon features people already demonstrate a demand for.
For FC1 -> FC2 upgrading is NOT recommended using apt, yum or any other depsolver. Anaconda has a fair bit of magic to fix things for you. Most things are manually solvable but if you're using LVM "it has a high chance of blowing up spectacularly" according to the anaconda developers - don't bother unless you like blowing up systems :)
In any case upgrading with anaconda is the recommended way.
So it looks like they recommend getting the install disks and upgrading through the installer.
..who is going to bother with this drivel after the insufferable first volume?
Goggle is finding out what Yahoo found out with Geocities - don't invest too much in last year's fad.
Without PS2 they might be dead already.