It'll be something that's open and free and plays well with others.
Maybe a HURD kernel? Maybe BSD? Maybe a Windows Kernel that leverages on others work instead of trying to destroy it.
This isn't about linux per se, its about software freedom.
Thats freedom for little guys and freedom for behemoths like Telstra.
If not for MS's licensing 6.0 this would have happened several years later, that decision dramatically reduced complacency and intertia in corporate IS departments.
depends on a lot of factors within the organisation
but once they get to the point it requires serious iron to handle all their email needs then it begins to depend on the priority they place on speedy email communications.
Why spend all that money just to let employees tell jokes faster?
(not my thinking but certainly some corporate/departmental thinking out there)
I'm guessing I'm not the only/.'er who finds this idea of cleaning the house *EVERY NIGHT* a teensy bit, shall we say, excessive? or perhaps disturbing?
I *think* the floors of my place were cleaned some time in 2002 when a flatmate's mother stayed for a week (it felt like a month).
what i'm after is a dev ice i can set free once every week and will do a better job than no cleaning at all.
I'm pretty sure the entymology is going back to a common root, in artillery, which was the first time since the fall of Rome that our social history started applying complex math to the real world.
But i don't have a source i can access here so i'll bow to yours if you've got one.
the first "computers" were people who computed the trajectory of artillery (renaissance mathematics was driven by artillerists in a major way).
In french those people were called (IIRC) ordinateurs (from ordinance)
so the french name for the same role reflected the general field of endeavour, whereas the english name reflected what they were doing within that endeavour.
as early mechanical calculators took over the role of trajectory prediction the english called them computers, and the french called those machines ordinateurs.
ok, the network I'm involved in admining is only about 40 boxes.
we allow home users to FTP the file servers which seems to keep everyone happy and don't bother with VPN.
physically segmented, firewalled (retired desktop boxen with an extra NIC and a bridging kernel), subnets and zonealarm (software firewall) on ALL the windows boxes, Linux Samba boxes for file and print sharing.
I would have thought that bigger networks would have been more secure not less given the budgets.
It works well when there are separations between the markets, either geographical or informational.
It worked best in the pre-telegraph days when, for example, you could buy spices in the the East Indies for a bag of nails and sell them for their weight in gold in Amsterdan
On the internet arbitrage is at best a short term play, because information moves so fast.
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Mega corps do run pilot programs to find these gotcha's, precidely because they know how hard it is to change direction if they screw it up.
This doesn't seem to be any different from the existing copy protection and security features in PDF, and no-one compalins about that.
Someone sends me a pdf with silly security restrictions on it I send it back.
there's enough office 97 installations out there to stop the use of these features becoming widespread.
can you shoehorn that into a GNU framework?
plus it's proprietary and kinda closed.
It'll be something that's open and free and plays well with others.
Maybe a HURD kernel? Maybe BSD? Maybe a Windows Kernel that leverages on others work instead of trying to destroy it.
This isn't about linux per se, its about software freedom.
Thats freedom for little guys and freedom for behemoths like Telstra.
If not for MS's licensing 6.0 this would have happened several years later, that decision dramatically reduced complacency and intertia in corporate IS departments.
depends on a lot of factors within the organisation
but once they get to the point it requires serious iron to handle all their email needs then it begins to depend on the priority they place on speedy email communications.
Why spend all that money just to let employees tell jokes faster?
(not my thinking but certainly some corporate/departmental thinking out there)
many corporate gateways can take a few hours to push email through, port 80 requests go in realtime.
both have their uses, but RSS is for real in corporate communication.
eh??
you have to set your RSS reader to go to the rdf file. It doesn't arrive unsolicited unless you're looking at an aggregated feed.
I'm guessing I'm not the only /.'er who finds this idea of cleaning the house *EVERY NIGHT* a teensy bit, shall we say, excessive? or perhaps disturbing?
I *think* the floors of my place were cleaned some time in 2002 when a flatmate's mother stayed for a week (it felt like a month).
what i'm after is a dev ice i can set free once every week and will do a better job than no cleaning at all.
Yes but if we're going to go about replicating Heinlien then why not make me a "Friday" and she can tidy up around the house when she's not busy?
"I don't see why slashdotters support the roomba so greatly when this product is clearly superior.
PRICE
I can buy a Roomba with weekly mad money and its a choice between that or taking my girlfriend on a nice date.
(she doesn't mind staying home and would probably appreciate the gadget)
A Karcher would cost so much that i'd have to be *certain* it would work.
And i might get better service buy paying a nice phillipino woman (mexican to most of you i guess) to come clean the house for $40/week instead.
The Karcher probly won't do my dishes and iron my shirts.
depends which rug you ask it to sweep no?
dude, in my place we vacuum twice a year tops.
not because we're poor, just because we're lazy and busy.
this could be a big help.
As a 30 yr old guy who's been spending some time with a 19 yr old girl (for reasons best not gone into here) I can tell you she's really into the PS2.
She cheats in ways that if she was a guy there'd be punches thrown, but she plays and plays to win.
very strange, i've never met a chick my age interested in the slightest.
are these multi state transistors available at the basic level?
I thought computings binary nature came form the on/off nature of the transistors.
anything else requires abstraction, overhead, waste thats best done higher up in the stack right?
the metal dictates the computing as i understand it.
if someone makes really good chips with 3 state transistors then I imagine the 3 state computer logic will quickly follow.
your quantum computers, for example will use something mind bogglingly more complicated I'm sure.
I'm pretty sure the entymology is going back to a common root, in artillery, which was the first time since the fall of Rome that our social history started applying complex math to the real world.
But i don't have a source i can access here so i'll bow to yours if you've got one.
Friends don't let friends use MSN.
the first "computers" were people who computed the trajectory of artillery (renaissance mathematics was driven by artillerists in a major way).
In french those people were called (IIRC) ordinateurs (from ordinance)
so the french name for the same role reflected the general field of endeavour, whereas the english name reflected what they were doing within that endeavour.
as early mechanical calculators took over the role of trajectory prediction the english called them computers, and the french called those machines ordinateurs.
It could be bollocks but thats how i heard it.
hmm, trying to think of any point in history where the most populous nation has been the most successful.
Rome I guess depending on how you classify "nation", but the numbers of "Romans" was pretty small.
" It probably still works, doesn't have capacitors that blew out"
Umm, remember this story from the start of the year?.
We had a number of IBM boards fritz with deformed, malfunctioning capacitors.
Having said that IBM were very professional in coming out quickly and changing the boards free of charge.
Your point is valid but your example spectacularly poor.
"Chinese software which may be x100 better than the American software"
Do you say that because the American software is badly translated? or a sense of chinese superiority?
I'm not attacking you, just curious as to what prompted that bold assertion.
no, if everyone else is using creaking ships, but only you know where to sail them to get the spices, then that is arbitrage in another age.
Times have changed.
its the need for the transport that creates the fragmentation, which in turn makes arbitrage possible. (in that case)
no it is not capitalism,
although it can happily occur in capitalist systems.
due to illegality drugs do remain a fragmented market where arbitrage is possible.
Don't confuse cause and effect.
ok, the network I'm involved in admining is only about 40 boxes.
we allow home users to FTP the file servers which seems to keep everyone happy and don't bother with VPN.
physically segmented, firewalled (retired desktop boxen with an extra NIC and a bridging kernel), subnets and zonealarm (software firewall) on ALL the windows boxes, Linux Samba boxes for file and print sharing.
I would have thought that bigger networks would have been more secure not less given the budgets.
But I guess not.
It works well when there are separations between the markets, either geographical or informational.
It worked best in the pre-telegraph days when, for example, you could buy spices in the the East Indies for a bag of nails and sell them for their weight in gold in Amsterdan
On the internet arbitrage is at best a short term play, because information moves so fast.