I am from Germany, and as many Europeans we love to laugh at stupid (or obese, or warmongering, or undemocratic,...) Americans. But when you look at us, we are not far behind in all of those fields. And the EU itself could actually be called less democratic than Washington (I don't know of any studies for comparison, but trust me, Brussels is VERY undemocratic). Stupid people is an international problem!
Notice the absence of network providers. They will only give out subscriber phones (usually in Germany when you make a 24 month contract to pay 10 Euros each month you get a 250 to 350 Euro reduced price tag on your phone that you purchase with the contract that leads to all the phones coming from the network providers, which ususally also give you another 200 to 350 Euro off each time you renew your contract depending on how much money they earned) that don't have that feature. Since almost all the phones are sold through them you can take a guess at the market impact of this deal. Also they will just jack up the price for data packages sent through their networks if they want to.
Pretty much only early adopters will use this at best. The big thing is wireless lan coverage and useage over wireless lan. If Skype would mange some kind of smooth handover between two hotspots. Now that would be headline news!
In 5 years the media (any digital media) is usually not common enough anymore. In 10 years there is no device that can read the media that the digital information was written to. How long will we still have IDE for harddrives?
Otherwise they will never take that system down and small developers will never have a chance (and oss will have a hard time). Patents must be abused against large companies. The bigger, the better. It shouldn't read 8 million but rather 800 million. That will be the day I will be smiling.
The overwhelming majority of Windows XP users never change the default. I am not sure when, but I think the automatic download of patches set as default already came with Windows XP in 2001. But it might have been SP1 or SP2.
So it should be pretty easy to calculate the approximate marketshare for IE7 in december. Take the number of computers running the configuration mentioned above (all computers sold with XP preinstalled and all Windows XP sold since they made automatic download of patches default) then deduct the number of installations that have their defaults changed (that is the tricky part, since large companies most likely will have such a setting), then add the installations that will likely IE upgraded by hand (much smaller number, because people using IE6 most likely do it for a reason. If they wanted to switch they could have already done so to Opera or Firefox) and then you got the magic number.
Either way, I am pretty sure that the number will be huge. IE7 will have a much bigger marketshare than Firefox within the first couple days. If you have not checked if your webpage works with IE7 and it is important to you that people can use your webpage than it is about time to do so.
It's been past time to start worrying a long time ago. There used to be a slim chance to fight spam by closing open relays (or blacklisting them) and using legal methods. But going through the legal system to fight spam is not easy in countries such as China and Russia (let alone Vietnam or Nigeria). The German computer magazine c't had an article on bot nets sending spam in april 2005:
When I read that Microsoft or some other large company celebrate a legal victory against a known spammer (mostly people using their own mail servers) I really have to wonder why so many publications take part in those public relations stunts. In spam sending the supply is much greater than the demand. I get spam mail without content, or without any monetary compensation to be gained (no fraud attempt or product offer) very frequently. So by closing down the spam houses that actually have an address (those are pricks as well and should be thrown in jail nevertheless) does not make a difference in the total amount of spam. It just moves the market to bet nets, which has some added drawbacks.
I am very interested in culture things. I am German and went to the US (Northern California, halfway between Sacramento and Frisco) for a high school year.
I also saw most of Europe through extensive traveling, but have not lived anywhere except the US and Germany. I would say that you really need to see for yourself. Personally I have some very good friends that I met during my stay in the US and I really liked my hostparents. At first I thought everything was different and after a week I discovered that everything is pretty much the same (people eat, talk, love, sleep...). It took me about a year to work out some of things that actually are different.
First of all I really like the "can do" attitude. If you want to achieve something the general feeling is that you can do it if you just work hard enough. While this actually is very untrue (for many things it might even be easier to achieve them in Germany than in the US for example, other things might be easier to achieve in the US) the attitude towards it is very positive I think. It makes you try, while in Germany people might not even try, because of the different attitude. I can think I can summon this up in one word: Entrepreneurship
There were also many things I did not like. After a year I decided I am a European and would rather live somewhere in Europe than in the US (or Asia or Africa) if I had to choose where to settle and have children. But I would always go anyplace for a year or two. I really like different places. But Europe is my home.
Maybe you should try it out. You might even like it. And there are many places where I think the culture is much closer to the US. Australia and Canada come to mind.
I was going to build a very large database and don't need to many features. MySQL seems fine in that respect. I was wondering if the cluster version of MySQL scales as good as Oracle. I know your answers should be biased, but MySQL seems to target the middle market. Should I go with a different product for a very large database?
Wake up! Don't live in a dream world. There are hugh gaps in my education btw, but at least I understand some basic principles. I looked at all the arguments why the war in Iraq was fought and found them all to be bogus. Including the "blook for oil" crap. Money is the only one left. There is your independent research.
"Some call you the elite, I call you my base." GW Bush
I shouldn't have mentioned Iraq I suppose. But seeing your mentioning of MSM I suppose it wouldn't have made a difference. Do you know what the defenition of mainstream is?
Oh and the only thing that actually had changed in the day to day life of 25 million human beings in Iraq is that violence is up and the power is often down. Or do you think the regional warlords permit stuff like freedom of press? And for women it will go downhill from here. In these uncertain times religion is on the rise (I suppose you are very religios too, but not a woman, so you are in favour of this) and that means more cloths and less freedom.
For some reason that I do not know (please comment) there is a fairly large number of internet blogs that spin certain things the way the GOP leaderhip would like them. (By Spin I mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations#Spin )
This is not some conspiracy. Those people are all individuals acting by themselves (and setting up networks, but decentralized networks that nobody stears).
And those people are not even the super wealthy that actually benefit. They are mostly ordinary citizen. Why would they do this? Many of them also claim that the "main stream media" (they use the term MSM) conspire against conservative America. I know that there are also liberal webpages that spin a lot of things. And when you watch Fahrenheit 9/11 you get dizzy from all the spin (and then I read "counterspin" the next day in some of those conservative blogs, what the hell?). But Michael Moore gets a lot of money. Those conservative bloggers don't. And they put a huge amount of work into it. What motivates those people? After all the only people that benefit from the war in Iraq are the large stockholders that own Boeing, Haliburton and the likes. The rest pays for it in taxes.
If you want to look up the pages I am talking about just click yourself through the links WorldNetDaily provides on their page.
Someone (I think on Slashdot) commented that Oracle will someday switch to ProstgreSQL, because their codebase has become too bloated and unmanageble.
Will there be a switch not by the user, but by the software makers themselves towards OSS? It would be interesting to see what real software developers of larger projects (Windows, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Filemaker) would comment here. Did some of you look into throwing out your codebase and starting with an OSS project, preferably BSD-licsence?
I always thought that markets consist of supply and demand instead of just supply.
I think the USA is still the largest producer of oil. They just don't export any. But US reserves are a lot lower than other countries. So the US will have to compensate by importing more soon. The Soviet Union used to produce more oil, but they also consumed a lot more. Russia these days is a lot different. How about demand. Where is the oil going at the moment and how will it shift. China is growing very fast at the moment.
So just showing the exporting (and not even the oil drilling) countries and not the other side is incomplete.
What's the big deal with the name? Anyone that needs to recognize it mostly just clicks on the internet icon (thingy). Anyone else can just look and will find it. Besides, I never liked the sound of the Firefox name anyways. Iceweasel sounds so much cooler (literally, as a matter of fact).
I like Ubuntu and all and have it installed, but Flash is unfortunately universally needed. Mplayer with proprietary codecs maybe not. And PDF support works somewhat. And Java... But so many webpages use Flash now.
There is no Flash in the apt sources that come with Ubuntu. So to add Flash you have to change/etc/apt/sources.list (you can install it by hand, but then you won't have security updates).
So Ubuntu is NOT for Non-Geeks. I can install it for Non-Geeks, but they won't be able to do that by themselves. Period. (and this sucks, because otherwise Ubuntu is pretty cool)
And I don't like Flash either. And I don't like taxes...
A proprietary from of the Linux kernel? That can only come from someone who has just maybe Slashdot a bit and doesn't know a thing about Linux, free software or mabye software at all.
Any Linux kernel is per definition (of the GPL) free. That is the whole point of the GPL. There can't be a proptietary version. If they include the Linux kernel, they will have to include the source to it and to all the components that directly link to it, like drivers (proprietary drivers exist, but there is a discussion, sometimes on Slashdot as well, if that is legal). If they ship userland stuff along they can keep the source, for example for a gui.
What they can do is lock it all up so you can't mod it. Then the device will only accept signed modifications (like upgrades) from CDs or their server. Wether you do this with open or closed source doesn't matter. It might be easier to find security holes to smuggle in your mod this way. But OTOH they already mod the PSP this way even though it is closed source. That is the big discussion about the GPLv3 btw. I guess what the FSF wants to achieve is that if you use GPLv3 code you may not lock down your device this way.
Go see a soccer/football game. You will understand why your points don't matter. See what your country (Bush is not the only whacko democratic leader) has voted for. Berlusconi anyone?
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I am from Germany, and as many Europeans we love to laugh at stupid (or obese, or warmongering, or undemocratic, ...) Americans. But when you look at us, we are not far behind in all of those fields. And the EU itself could actually be called less democratic than Washington (I don't know of any studies for comparison, but trust me, Brussels is VERY undemocratic). Stupid people is an international problem!
Notice the absence of network providers. They will only give out subscriber phones (usually in Germany when you make a 24 month contract to pay 10 Euros each month you get a 250 to 350 Euro reduced price tag on your phone that you purchase with the contract that leads to all the phones coming from the network providers, which ususally also give you another 200 to 350 Euro off each time you renew your contract depending on how much money they earned) that don't have that feature. Since almost all the phones are sold through them you can take a guess at the market impact of this deal. Also they will just jack up the price for data packages sent through their networks if they want to.
Pretty much only early adopters will use this at best. The big thing is wireless lan coverage and useage over wireless lan. If Skype would mange some kind of smooth handover between two hotspots. Now that would be headline news!
Is it, like ...
pr0n?
digital data will survive longer than paper?
In 5 years the media (any digital media) is usually not common enough anymore. In 10 years there is no device that can read the media that the digital information was written to. How long will we still have IDE for harddrives?
Otherwise they will never take that system down and small developers will never have a chance (and oss will have a hard time). Patents must be abused against large companies. The bigger, the better. It shouldn't read 8 million but rather 800 million. That will be the day I will be smiling.
They made it and they better eat up.
The overwhelming majority of Windows XP users never change the default. I am not sure when, but I think the automatic download of patches set as default already came with Windows XP in 2001. But it might have been SP1 or SP2.
So it should be pretty easy to calculate the approximate marketshare for IE7 in december. Take the number of computers running the configuration mentioned above (all computers sold with XP preinstalled and all Windows XP sold since they made automatic download of patches default) then deduct the number of installations that have their defaults changed (that is the tricky part, since large companies most likely will have such a setting), then add the installations that will likely IE upgraded by hand (much smaller number, because people using IE6 most likely do it for a reason. If they wanted to switch they could have already done so to Opera or Firefox) and then you got the magic number.
Either way, I am pretty sure that the number will be huge. IE7 will have a much bigger marketshare than Firefox within the first couple days. If you have not checked if your webpage works with IE7 and it is important to you that people can use your webpage than it is about time to do so.
It's been past time to start worrying a long time ago. There used to be a slim chance to fight spam by closing open relays (or blacklisting them) and using legal methods. But going through the legal system to fight spam is not easy in countries such as China and Russia (let alone Vietnam or Nigeria). The German computer magazine c't had an article on bot nets sending spam in april 2005:
http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/04/05/018/
That was pretty much the time I started worrying.
When I read that Microsoft or some other large company celebrate a legal victory against a known spammer (mostly people using their own mail servers) I really have to wonder why so many publications take part in those public relations stunts. In spam sending the supply is much greater than the demand. I get spam mail without content, or without any monetary compensation to be gained (no fraud attempt or product offer) very frequently. So by closing down the spam houses that actually have an address (those are pricks as well and should be thrown in jail nevertheless) does not make a difference in the total amount of spam. It just moves the market to bet nets, which has some added drawbacks.
I am very interested in culture things. I am German and went to the US (Northern California, halfway between Sacramento and Frisco) for a high school year.
I also saw most of Europe through extensive traveling, but have not lived anywhere except the US and Germany. I would say that you really need to see for yourself. Personally I have some very good friends that I met during my stay in the US and I really liked my hostparents. At first I thought everything was different and after a week I discovered that everything is pretty much the same (people eat, talk, love, sleep...). It took me about a year to work out some of things that actually are different.
First of all I really like the "can do" attitude. If you want to achieve something the general feeling is that you can do it if you just work hard enough. While this actually is very untrue (for many things it might even be easier to achieve them in Germany than in the US for example, other things might be easier to achieve in the US) the attitude towards it is very positive I think. It makes you try, while in Germany people might not even try, because of the different attitude. I can think I can summon this up in one word: Entrepreneurship
There were also many things I did not like. After a year I decided I am a European and would rather live somewhere in Europe than in the US (or Asia or Africa) if I had to choose where to settle and have children. But I would always go anyplace for a year or two. I really like different places. But Europe is my home.
Maybe you should try it out. You might even like it. And there are many places where I think the culture is much closer to the US. Australia and Canada come to mind.
There is more for Linux. Ever heard of Gizmo?
http://www.gizmoproject.com/download.php
When the mob kills people it is usually a rival gang. They want to be the only people milking their territory for good reasons.
"Investors poured billions of dollars in this company. Now we have to think up cool stuff to do with it."
I was going to build a very large database and don't need to many features. MySQL seems fine in that respect. I was wondering if the cluster version of MySQL scales as good as Oracle. I know your answers should be biased, but MySQL seems to target the middle market. Should I go with a different product for a very large database?
Wake up! Don't live in a dream world. There are hugh gaps in my education btw, but at least I understand some basic principles. I looked at all the arguments why the war in Iraq was fought and found them all to be bogus. Including the "blook for oil" crap. Money is the only one left. There is your independent research.
"Some call you the elite, I call you my base."
GW Bush
I shouldn't have mentioned Iraq I suppose. But seeing your mentioning of MSM I suppose it wouldn't have made a difference. Do you know what the defenition of mainstream is?
Oh and the only thing that actually had changed in the day to day life of 25 million human beings in Iraq is that violence is up and the power is often down. Or do you think the regional warlords permit stuff like freedom of press? And for women it will go downhill from here. In these uncertain times religion is on the rise (I suppose you are very religios too, but not a woman, so you are in favour of this) and that means more cloths and less freedom.
For some reason that I do not know (please comment) there is a fairly large number of internet blogs that spin certain things the way the GOP leaderhip would like them. (By Spin I mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations#Spin )
This is not some conspiracy. Those people are all individuals acting by themselves (and setting up networks, but decentralized networks that nobody stears).
And those people are not even the super wealthy that actually benefit. They are mostly ordinary citizen. Why would they do this? Many of them also claim that the "main stream media" (they use the term MSM) conspire against conservative America. I know that there are also liberal webpages that spin a lot of things. And when you watch Fahrenheit 9/11 you get dizzy from all the spin (and then I read "counterspin" the next day in some of those conservative blogs, what the hell?). But Michael Moore gets a lot of money. Those conservative bloggers don't. And they put a huge amount of work into it. What motivates those people? After all the only people that benefit from the war in Iraq are the large stockholders that own Boeing, Haliburton and the likes. The rest pays for it in taxes.
If you want to look up the pages I am talking about just click yourself through the links WorldNetDaily provides on their page.
Someone (I think on Slashdot) commented that Oracle will someday switch to ProstgreSQL, because their codebase has become too bloated and unmanageble.
Will there be a switch not by the user, but by the software makers themselves towards OSS? It would be interesting to see what real software developers of larger projects (Windows, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Filemaker) would comment here. Did some of you look into throwing out your codebase and starting with an OSS project, preferably BSD-licsence?
I always thought that markets consist of supply and demand instead of just supply.
I think the USA is still the largest producer of oil. They just don't export any. But US reserves are a lot lower than other countries. So the US will have to compensate by importing more soon. The Soviet Union used to produce more oil, but they also consumed a lot more. Russia these days is a lot different. How about demand. Where is the oil going at the moment and how will it shift. China is growing very fast at the moment.
So just showing the exporting (and not even the oil drilling) countries and not the other side is incomplete.
Parent is a troll.
But what the heck: BSD vs. GPL, let me just get my flameproof stuff.
welcome our new Iceweasel overlords!
What's the big deal with the name? Anyone that needs to recognize it mostly just clicks on the internet icon (thingy). Anyone else can just look and will find it. Besides, I never liked the sound of the Firefox name anyways. Iceweasel sounds so much cooler (literally, as a matter of fact).
I like Ubuntu and all and have it installed, but Flash is unfortunately universally needed. Mplayer with proprietary codecs maybe not. And PDF support works somewhat. And Java... But so many webpages use Flash now.
/etc/apt/sources.list (you can install it by hand, but then you won't have security updates).
There is no Flash in the apt sources that come with Ubuntu. So to add Flash you have to change
So Ubuntu is NOT for Non-Geeks. I can install it for Non-Geeks, but they won't be able to do that by themselves. Period. (and this sucks, because otherwise Ubuntu is pretty cool)
And I don't like Flash either. And I don't like taxes...
A proprietary from of the Linux kernel? That can only come from someone who has just maybe Slashdot a bit and doesn't know a thing about Linux, free software or mabye software at all.
Any Linux kernel is per definition (of the GPL) free. That is the whole point of the GPL. There can't be a proptietary version. If they include the Linux kernel, they will have to include the source to it and to all the components that directly link to it, like drivers (proprietary drivers exist, but there is a discussion, sometimes on Slashdot as well, if that is legal). If they ship userland stuff along they can keep the source, for example for a gui.
What they can do is lock it all up so you can't mod it. Then the device will only accept signed modifications (like upgrades) from CDs or their server. Wether you do this with open or closed source doesn't matter. It might be easier to find security holes to smuggle in your mod this way. But OTOH they already mod the PSP this way even though it is closed source.
That is the big discussion about the GPLv3 btw. I guess what the FSF wants to achieve is that if you use GPLv3 code you may not lock down your device this way.
Go see a soccer/football game. You will understand why your points don't matter. See what your country (Bush is not the only whacko democratic leader) has voted for. Berlusconi anyone?
The biggest threat to Vista is XP. Fortunately, Microsoft can fix that.
Fight to export the great American Way Of Life! So that all the poor people in the world can join in.
Hot dog stands on the moon anyone?