Websphere is NOT Domino. It is based on Apache (it includes Apache) and is marketed under IBM's brand, while Domino was developed and sold under the Lotus brand. IBM's decision to scrap their own product and base their whole Web strategy on a competing open source project says a lot about open source/free software quality and readiness for Big Business. Of course the Apache project also benefited.
You have a point regarding media and manufacturing but as for distribution it would be more fair to say that you share costs.
Regarding lyrics, it should be quite easy to include them (and other information) on the download. Even many MP3s on Kazaa have lyrics now.
I think you are wrong. Helios was never Apollo. Helios was the god that drove the Sun around the Earth. (Helios means sun in ancient and modern Greek). Apollo was the god of sun like he was the god of music etc. In a sort of way he was Helios' master, although Helios was an older god than Apollo.
Kronos is Saturn. Chronos (which means Time in Greek) was the god of time but in many cases Kronos was also Chronos i.e. the god of time.
The name Vulcan has been used before to name an undiscovered planet that was supposed to be in orbit around the sun closer than Mercury. Astronomers thought that the planet existed because they had noticed irregularities in Mercury's orbit that could only be explained by another planet. (Much in the same way that irregularities in Uranus orbit led to the discovery of Neptune and Pluto). Later, the irregularities in Mercury's orbit were explained by the relativity theory and so we have Vulcan no more. Actually this was one of the most notable succesful test of Einstein's theories.
It is your fault. Businesses are responsible for their suppliers, partners and services providers. If your card processor crashes then it is your problem because the customer does not have contracts with EDS he/she has with you. If the EDS cannot do the job then this is your responsibility as well. If a service provider fails then you should have contigency plans. Especially "serious" institutions like banks that keep people's money.
The situation is even worse than Slashdot reports. The new law states that electronic games are illegal in every public or private place, i.e. everywhere. The definition of electronic games is every game that requires software. This means that except for public arcades the following are illegal:
PC Games
Consoles like Playstation, X-Box etc
Modern Mobile phones
Windows and most Linux distributions
Furthermore, even the installation of said games is illegal so this means that more than 95% of PCs in Greece are illegal. Including all the Windows machines the government is using since Windows installs at least Minesweeper and Solitaire. The Internet cafe association is planing to sue the government for hosting illegal games! (as means of showing the absurdity of the law)
Well, with VNC you can send CTRL-ALT-DEL from a remote machine and use it to bring up login screens so in theory it should be possible.
I've tested it only in Windows NT 4.0 Server but in theory it should work in Win2K.
Gerd Mueller is the top combined goalscorer since his 14 goals are from three competitions. The best goalscorer from one competition is still Jyst(sp?), France with 13 goals in 1958. Ronaldo is also the first topscorer to score more than 6 goals since 1974 (that's 28 years). In all the worl cups fronm 1978 to 1998 the topscorer scored 6 goals.
Yes but through WAP/iMode the devices will be online all the time so the transaction will be like using a browser. So what the previous posters wrote about security and the time transaction is made will be valid.
Last year I was in a seminar in London, about e-commerce. When we discussed about CC processing and protocols there was this guy from a leading -worldwide- CC processing company (one that provides services in many e-commerce sites all over the world). This guy told us that it was his company's belief than even though SET was much more advanced than SLL -because it provides authentication for both merchant and consumer- it is not widely used and will not be succesful.
The reason is first that it is more difficult to set up for the user but most important is that the credit companies and big banks do not really want it to work. With the current CC system when there is fraud, the merchant has to pay (and the consumer up to a small amount). Banks will always get their money no matter what, so they really don't have an incentive to push for the adaptation of more advanced protocol
Actually you are both right and wrong. You are
right in that Latin was not a pleb language for the rest of the Empire. (remember it was rather huge). In Rome however, Latin was of course the common language but the 'higher' society, the generals, the senate etc. also spoke Greek which was considered as a necessity for certain circles, especially artists etc.
In the rest of the Empire, and especially the Eastern part (and also other regions outside the Empire) it was a different story : Greek was the language that was spoken. From south Italy to everywhere up to Persia Greek was the lingua franca of the time. The reason was the great number of Greek colonies but most important was Alexander's conquests which had spread the Greek language and culture up to India. The gospels were originally written in Greek for that reason (ie to reach the widest population possible).
You are also wrong concerning Plutarch. Plutarch was Greek not Roman. He lived in Roman times but was Greek and wrote in Greek. His greatest work is 'Vii Paralili' which means 'Parallel Lifes' which are biographies of great personalities of the past. He always paired a Greek with a Roman of similar fame (i.e. Alexander with Julius Caesar) and he always came up that the Greek was the better.
How about making it impossible to sell/buy domains ? If someone registers a domain and wants to use it fine. If he/she plans to transfer it to someone else then it's not possible anymore (i.e. the registrars does not let you change the name of the owner, you can only stop using it). Something like this could kill all the squating business at once
(Actually some European countries are using such a scheme)
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WAP is a Wireless protocol, as is, for example, GSM.
Not exactly. WAP is a wireless protocol but it is designed to run on top of another, "carrier" protocol (like HTTP, that runs on top of TCP/IP, another, lower level, protocol). The good think about WAP is that it is designed to be able to use different other protocols as carriers. It can be used over GSM, SMS, GPRS and in the future UMTS or -presumambly- other carrier protocols. I have to say that I was impressed with the article mentioned in the story text as the writer believes WAP is competing with GPRS. Clearly that's not the case as WAP can run over GPRS. GSM is competing with GPRS.
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Sometimes this is correct, sometimes it is not. In this case (keep in mind that there is a trade rivalry between US and EU now):
The booming economy is the US economy not the European so the greater income/other taxes go to the US government pockets
By imposing a sales tax (and actually it is not a new sales tax, it's the same tax as the one allready imposed for traditional sales) they do get revenues. They mostly hurt US companies, which,naturally, is of little concern to the EU governments.
A 'nice' side effect is that this tax makes it harder for US e-companies (especially for smaller ones) to compete, at least in the European market. If this is in line with WTO regulations then the I can see how European governments could justify taking such a measure
Remember that right now ecommerce transactions between parties in the EU are subject to VAT taxation. So this measure actually puts EU and US companies in the same league
What do you mean ? Under this law, European citizens are taxed by their own governments.
Why should I, a US citizen, have to play tax collector for a government which I have no voice in and whose territory I don't even live in.
You, as a US citizen don't have to do anything of the sort. US ecommerce companies have to play tax-collector just like (for example) US car companies that sell cars in Europe. I reckon though that it would be more difficult for ecommerce startups than for established names with offices in Europe
Anyway, I hope that US ecommerce companies boycott the EU should this happen.
Boy, that would really hurt Europe, European businesses and European consumers. I mean, imagine the US ecommerce companies deciding not to sell to the European market. Wow, what a disaster:-).
You have to see this as another strike in the undeclared trade war between the US and Europe. The European rationale is : we are lagging behind the US in ecommerce companies and American companies are getting a large piece of the pie in the European market. So what do we do: impose a tax in ecommerce transactions (which actually is the same VAT tax for normal transactions and for Europe 2 Europe ecommerce transactions that is in effect now). This will level the field with american e-tailers (actually it will be more difficult for smaller ones as the big guys like amazon.com allready have European subsidiaries) and maybe give European companies a small advantage over Americans, since in the US it is unlikely that the administration/congress will pass taxation in ecommerce anytime soon
However still it's not that bad for American companies. They can choose to be taxed, say in Ireland or Luxembourg where the VAT rate is significantly lower than in Germany. European countries don't have that option (I repeat that European ecommerce companies are already subect to this law for Europe2Europe transactions).
If a US company does not become a member of this 'Safe Harbor' then it is vulnerable to litigation in Europe by almost anyone - the govenrment, consumer unions, even simple citizens. And since the US company would most certainly loose on court that could mean anything - from steep fines to prohibiting the US company's business in Europe. Certainly I expect all medium to large companies that do business with the EU (or with possible future EU members - remember the EU is scheduled to grow to Easter Europe, Cyprus etc) to at least try to comply with this 'Safe Harbor'. Smaller companies may choose not to deal with Europe at all.
Remember this does not change the standing of European companies at all. European companies still have to comply to strict European privacy laws. This, if played correctly, could actually became a bonus for European.coms (if and whenever they appear), especially if privacy concerns become important for more American consumers.
Regarding the FCC I do believe that the US shoud have a 'watchdog' agency for privacy however I doubt that a communications or trade committee would be enough. Privacy is different than communications and trade because it involves legal and even human rights aspects. But that is something you Americans should decide on.
Personally I believe that this 'Safe Harbor' will not last long (there is a possibility that it will be voted down on the European Parliament). But for that to happen, American citizens (citizens, not consumers) should push for more privacy
You forgot to mention the establishment (in each country) of an independent "Personal Data Protection" Authority which acts as a watchdog and also has the power to prosecute on their own or after a complaint. It seems personal privacy issues are important enough in the EU to be granted a separate agency instead of being handled by a trade comission
Another provision that is very important is that the law defines several kinds of data as 'sensitive data' (i.e. religion, ethnic origin, health problems). For those data protective measures are even stricter
The fourth point you made actually is very important as one of the countries that does guarantee the same amount of privacy is the US. This has become a matter of confrontation between the EU and the US (the EU claims that in America thera are no laws regarding personal data privacy while the US claims that self regulation should be enough.) The matter may end in the WTO (although I believe the EU shouldn't recognize WTO jurisdiction; personal data and privacy is not about commerce only). Of course the FTC report is bound to at least weaken the position of the US government
But if the patch does not make it to the CDs of Office in the stores it might as well not exist. Do you seriously expect stock brokers to download all the latest (and even earlier) patches for IE, Outlook, Office, Windows 98 etc? Even for system administrators it would be a huge task if they had to do it for every workstation. Remember it's not as simple as patching up a server since in a typical installation there are much more workstations than servers, often with alltogether different configurations
If Microsoft was serious about providing this and other similar patches to their customers they should have incorprorated it in the product CDs and maybe issue a minor release (imagine Outlook 2000.01). Anything less is simply not enough.
Cerberus (Kerberos?) did not have 50 heads. Hydra, another mythical beast (actually Cerberus' "sister") had 50 snake-heads and even if you managed to cut one, it would grow back again soon. In the end Hercules killed the bitch
A note about the B. The Greek Beta which is written like the English/Latin 'B' is not pronounced like 'B' but like 'V' (as in venus or venture). So the correct pronounciation is more like 'kerveros'
Regarding the Greek chi: As you correctly state it is an 'X' shaped letter, however chi is pronnounced like h (in happy). There is another letter, kappa which is more or less similar to the Lating/English 'K'. It is pronnounced the same way, the capital form is the same and only the lower form is a little different
Exactly. Likewise Netscape would not be able to bundle, for example, the Flash player (unless it was open sourced) in Netscape 6. Another problem would be with certain proprietary code which Netscape includes in NS4 but which is licensed from others. Additionally, in 1998 there was a much greater issue than today concerning open source cryptographic modules
The licenses are more or less the same with the exception that the NPL gives Netscape special rights with respect to modifications of the initial Netscape code (MozillaClasic that is). If you change the code in a existing file then Netscape had additional rights (under the NPL). However if you attribute new code then it falls under the MPL and Netscape does not have special rights
I believe the initial reasoning was that they wanted to be able to shared code between the client (Navigator/Communicator) and their server products without having to open source their server software as well. However taking into consideration that in the end the client was *almost* completely rewritten I think there should be little or no consequence of the NPL. I maybe wrong of course as there is still 5% of the old NS4/5 code in Mozilla.
From the same FAQ: The main reason they did not choose the GPL is because Netscape (and others) will want to include proprietary code with a finished product (Flash/AIM/cryptographic modules) and under the GPL this was not possible. So the MPL/NPL combines terms from the GPL and the LGPL.
Incorrect. France were always a member of NATO. They had withdrawn from the military part for some time but now they are back in. (Unless those French planes bombing Yugoslavia last year or those French peacekeepers in Kosovo are not really French:-)).
When they had withdrawn from the military part they did not participate in exercises/planning/ operations etc. They did not send their officers in NATO bases, staff meetings etc. However they did participate in political meetings (remember NATO was/is also a political organization)
Of course this does not mean they always aggree with what the Anglo-Americans propose
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Websphere is NOT Domino. It is based on Apache (it includes Apache) and is marketed under IBM's brand, while Domino was developed and sold under the Lotus brand. IBM's decision to scrap their own product and base their whole Web strategy on a competing open source project says a lot about open source/free software quality and readiness for Big Business. Of course the Apache project also benefited.
You have a point regarding media and manufacturing but as for distribution it would be more fair to say that you share costs. Regarding lyrics, it should be quite easy to include them (and other information) on the download. Even many MP3s on Kazaa have lyrics now.
I think you are wrong. Helios was never Apollo. Helios was the god that drove the Sun around the Earth. (Helios means sun in ancient and modern Greek). Apollo was the god of sun like he was the god of music etc. In a sort of way he was Helios' master, although Helios was an older god than Apollo.
Kronos is Saturn. Chronos (which means Time in Greek) was the god of time but in many cases Kronos was also Chronos i.e. the god of time.
The name Vulcan has been used before to name an undiscovered planet that was supposed to be in orbit around the sun closer than Mercury. Astronomers thought that the planet existed because they had noticed irregularities in Mercury's orbit that could only be explained by another planet. (Much in the same way that irregularities in Uranus orbit led to the discovery of Neptune and Pluto). Later, the irregularities in Mercury's orbit were explained by the relativity theory and so we have Vulcan no more. Actually this was one of the most notable succesful test of Einstein's theories.
It is your fault. Businesses are responsible for their suppliers, partners and services providers. If your card processor crashes then it is your problem because the customer does not have contracts with EDS he/she has with you. If the EDS cannot do the job then this is your responsibility as well. If a service provider fails then you should have contigency plans. Especially "serious" institutions like banks that keep people's money.
The situation is even worse than Slashdot reports. The new law states that electronic games are illegal in every public or private place, i.e. everywhere. The definition of electronic games is every game that requires software. This means that except for public arcades the following are illegal:
Furthermore, even the installation of said games is illegal so this means that more than 95% of PCs in Greece are illegal. Including all the Windows machines the government is using since Windows installs at least Minesweeper and Solitaire. The Internet cafe association is planing to sue the government for hosting illegal games! (as means of showing the absurdity of the law)
Well, with VNC you can send CTRL-ALT-DEL from a remote machine and use it to bring up login screens so in theory it should be possible. I've tested it only in Windows NT 4.0 Server but in theory it should work in Win2K.
Gerd Mueller is the top combined goalscorer since his 14 goals are from three competitions.
The best goalscorer from one competition is still Jyst(sp?), France with 13 goals in 1958.
Ronaldo is also the first topscorer to score more than 6 goals since 1974 (that's 28 years). In all the worl cups fronm 1978 to 1998 the topscorer scored 6 goals.
Well of course it is cheaper for them since banks and cc companies do not pay for fraud. Consumers and merchants are. Why should the bank care ?
Yes but through WAP/iMode the devices will be online all the time so the transaction will be like using a browser. So what the previous posters wrote about security and the time transaction is made will be valid.
Last year I was in a seminar in London, about e-commerce. When we discussed about CC processing and protocols there was this guy from a leading -worldwide- CC processing company (one that provides services in many e-commerce sites all over the world). This guy told us that it was his company's belief than even though SET was much more advanced than SLL -because it provides authentication for both merchant and consumer- it is not widely used and will not be succesful.
The reason is first that it is more difficult to set up for the user but most important is that the credit companies and big banks do not really want it to work. With the current CC system when there is fraud, the merchant has to pay (and the consumer up to a small amount). Banks will always get their money no matter what, so they really don't have an incentive to push for the adaptation of more advanced protocol
Actually you are both right and wrong. You are right in that Latin was not a pleb language for the rest of the Empire. (remember it was rather huge). In Rome however, Latin was of course the common language but the 'higher' society, the generals, the senate etc. also spoke Greek which was considered as a necessity for certain circles, especially artists etc.
In the rest of the Empire, and especially the Eastern part (and also other regions outside the Empire) it was a different story : Greek was the language that was spoken. From south Italy to everywhere up to Persia Greek was the lingua franca of the time. The reason was the great number of Greek colonies but most important was Alexander's conquests which had spread the Greek language and culture up to India. The gospels were originally written in Greek for that reason (ie to reach the widest population possible).
You are also wrong concerning Plutarch. Plutarch was Greek not Roman. He lived in Roman times but was Greek and wrote in Greek. His greatest work is 'Vii Paralili' which means 'Parallel Lifes' which are biographies of great personalities of the past. He always paired a Greek with a Roman of similar fame (i.e. Alexander with Julius Caesar) and he always came up that the Greek was the better.
How about making it impossible to sell/buy domains ? If someone registers a domain and wants to use it fine. If he/she plans to transfer it to someone else then it's not possible anymore (i.e. the registrars does not let you change the name of the owner, you can only stop using it). Something like this could kill all the squating business at once
(Actually some European countries are using such a scheme)
Not exactly. WAP is a wireless protocol but it is designed to run on top of another, "carrier" protocol (like HTTP, that runs on top of TCP/IP, another, lower level, protocol). The good think about WAP is that it is designed to be able to use different other protocols as carriers. It can be used over GSM, SMS, GPRS and in the future UMTS or -presumambly- other carrier protocols. I have to say that I was impressed with the article mentioned in the story text as the writer believes WAP is competing with GPRS. Clearly that's not the case as WAP can run over GPRS. GSM is competing with GPRS.
Sometimes this is correct, sometimes it is not. In this case (keep in mind that there is a trade rivalry between US and EU now):
The booming economy is the US economy not the European so the greater income/other taxes go to the US government pockets
By imposing a sales tax (and actually it is not a new sales tax, it's the same tax as the one allready imposed for traditional sales) they do get revenues. They mostly hurt US companies, which ,naturally, is of little concern to the EU governments.
A 'nice' side effect is that this tax makes it harder for US e-companies (especially for smaller ones) to compete, at least in the European market. If this is in line with WTO regulations then the I can see how European governments could justify taking such a measure
Remember that right now ecommerce transactions between parties in the EU are subject to VAT taxation. So this measure actually puts EU and US companies in the same league
it is also taxation without representation.
What do you mean ? Under this law, European citizens are taxed by their own governments.
Why should I, a US citizen, have to play tax collector for a government which I have no voice in and whose territory I don't even live in.
You, as a US citizen don't have to do anything of the sort. US ecommerce companies have to play tax-collector just like (for example) US car companies that sell cars in Europe. I reckon though that it would be more difficult for ecommerce startups than for established names with offices in Europe
Anyway, I hope that US ecommerce companies boycott the EU should this happen.
Boy, that would really hurt Europe, European businesses and European consumers. I mean, imagine the US ecommerce companies deciding not to sell to the European market. Wow, what a disaster :-).
You have to see this as another strike in the undeclared trade war between the US and Europe. The European rationale is : we are lagging behind the US in ecommerce companies and American companies are getting a large piece of the pie in the European market. So what do we do: impose a tax in ecommerce transactions (which actually is the same VAT tax for normal transactions and for Europe 2 Europe ecommerce transactions that is in effect now). This will level the field with american e-tailers (actually it will be more difficult for smaller ones as the big guys like amazon.com allready have European subsidiaries) and maybe give European companies a small advantage over Americans, since in the US it is unlikely that the administration/congress will pass taxation in ecommerce anytime soon
However still it's not that bad for American companies. They can choose to be taxed, say in Ireland or Luxembourg where the VAT rate is significantly lower than in Germany. European countries don't have that option (I repeat that European ecommerce companies are already subect to this law for Europe2Europe transactions).
If a US company does not become a member of this 'Safe Harbor' then it is vulnerable to litigation in Europe by almost anyone - the govenrment, consumer unions, even simple citizens. And since the US company would most certainly loose on court that could mean anything - from steep fines to prohibiting the US company's business in Europe. Certainly I expect all medium to large companies that do business with the EU (or with possible future EU members - remember the EU is scheduled to grow to Easter Europe, Cyprus etc) to at least try to comply with this 'Safe Harbor'. Smaller companies may choose not to deal with Europe at all.
Remember this does not change the standing of European companies at all. European companies still have to comply to strict European privacy laws. This, if played correctly, could actually became a bonus for European .coms (if and whenever they appear), especially if privacy concerns become important for more American consumers.
Regarding the FCC I do believe that the US shoud have a 'watchdog' agency for privacy however I doubt that a communications or trade committee would be enough. Privacy is different than communications and trade because it involves legal and even human rights aspects. But that is something you Americans should decide on.
Personally I believe that this 'Safe Harbor' will not last long (there is a possibility that it will be voted down on the European Parliament). But for that to happen, American citizens (citizens, not consumers) should push for more privacy
You forgot to mention the establishment (in each country) of an independent "Personal Data Protection" Authority which acts as a watchdog and also has the power to prosecute on their own or after a complaint. It seems personal privacy issues are important enough in the EU to be granted a separate agency instead of being handled by a trade comission
Another provision that is very important is that the law defines several kinds of data as 'sensitive data' (i.e. religion, ethnic origin, health problems). For those data protective measures are even stricter
The fourth point you made actually is very important as one of the countries that does guarantee the same amount of privacy is the US. This has become a matter of confrontation between the EU and the US (the EU claims that in America thera are no laws regarding personal data privacy while the US claims that self regulation should be enough.) The matter may end in the WTO (although I believe the EU shouldn't recognize WTO jurisdiction; personal data and privacy is not about commerce only). Of course the FTC report is bound to at least weaken the position of the US government
But if the patch does not make it to the CDs of Office in the stores it might as well not exist. Do you seriously expect stock brokers to download all the latest (and even earlier) patches for IE, Outlook, Office, Windows 98 etc? Even for system administrators it would be a huge task if they had to do it for every workstation. Remember it's not as simple as patching up a server since in a typical installation there are much more workstations than servers, often with alltogether different configurations
If Microsoft was serious about providing this and other similar patches to their customers they should have incorprorated it in the product CDs and maybe issue a minor release (imagine Outlook 2000.01). Anything less is simply not enough.
Cerberus (Kerberos?) did not have 50 heads. Hydra, another mythical beast (actually Cerberus' "sister") had 50 snake-heads and even if you managed to cut one, it would grow back again soon. In the end Hercules killed the bitch
A note about the B. The Greek Beta which is written like the English/Latin 'B' is not pronounced like 'B' but like 'V' (as in venus or venture). So the correct pronounciation is more like 'kerveros'
Regarding the Greek chi: As you correctly state it is an 'X' shaped letter, however chi is pronnounced like h (in happy). There is another letter, kappa which is more or less similar to the Lating/English 'K'. It is pronnounced the same way, the capital form is the same and only the lower form is a little different
Well,actually no. The 'c' is pronounced exactly like 'k' not like 's' nor like 'ch'. And in Greek it is written with kappa which is equivalent to 'k'
Exactly. Likewise Netscape would not be able to bundle, for example, the Flash player (unless it was open sourced) in Netscape 6. Another problem would be with certain proprietary code which Netscape includes in NS4 but which is licensed from others. Additionally, in 1998 there was a much greater issue than today concerning open source cryptographic modules
The licenses are more or less the same with the exception that the NPL gives Netscape special rights with respect to modifications of the initial Netscape code (MozillaClasic that is). If you change the code in a existing file then Netscape had additional rights (under the NPL). However if you attribute new code then it falls under the MPL and Netscape does not have special rights
I believe the initial reasoning was that they wanted to be able to shared code between the client (Navigator/Communicator) and their server products without having to open source their server software as well. However taking into consideration that in the end the client was *almost* completely rewritten I think there should be little or no consequence of the NPL. I maybe wrong of course as there is still 5% of the old NS4/5 code in Mozilla.
All of these are much better documented in the NPL FAQ at mozilla.org : http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/FAQ.html
From the same FAQ: The main reason they did not choose the GPL is because Netscape (and others) will want to include proprietary code with a finished product (Flash/AIM/cryptographic modules) and under the GPL this was not possible. So the MPL/NPL combines terms from the GPL and the LGPL.
Incorrect. France were always a member of NATO. They had withdrawn from the military part for some time but now they are back in. (Unless those French planes bombing Yugoslavia last year or those French peacekeepers in Kosovo are not really French :-)).
When they had withdrawn from the military part they did not participate in exercises/planning/ operations etc. They did not send their officers in NATO bases, staff meetings etc. However they did participate in political meetings (remember NATO was/is also a political organization)
Of course this does not mean they always aggree with what the Anglo-Americans propose