But when the United States broke up AT&T in 1984, the resulting companies no longer had the freedom to discriminate against other uses of their lines. And when ISPs sought access to the local Bell lines to enable customers to connect to the Internet, the local Bells were required to grant access equally. This enabled a vigorous competition in Internet access, and this competition meant that the network could not behave strategically against this new technology. In effect, through a competitive market, an end-to-end design was created at the physical layer of the telephone network, which meant that an end-to-end design could be layered on top of that.
Wonder what the effect of a Microsoft breakup would've been ? Thanks to the Bush administration, we'll never know.
some contries will ally with "non-US" side. And those may include france, russia, china, japan,
germany, etc.
Uh, get real. France and Germany are in NATO, which just invoked the fifth article. Russia is far from being an enemy -- in fact, they are close to becoming the biggest ally of the US outside NATO. If US is to attack to Afghanistan, they will launch bomber planes from Russian air fields, while Russia will provide logistical and other kind of aid. China may allow
the US to use their air space.
More likely enemies include Iraq and Saudi Arabia (if their government is overthrown).
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It might not be very successful, but it is clear that Nokia's battles with Microsoft and Sony are not going to end here. It has been extremely obvious for a long time that the cellphone industry will get too small for Nokia; they have no worthy competitors in that arena, so expansion to areas that grow faster has been necessary.
The direction is increasingly the media and content business.. in the future, Nokia, Microsoft and Sony will compete for the same customers even more than today. The winner is not determined -- but keep this in mind: Nokia is one of the very few companies that has a realistic chance of competing successfully with Microsoft - and vice versa.
Also, XML is somewhat self-documenting because the tag names hint at the purpose of each field. Which of these file formats would you rather try to figure out?
CSV:
"Bob", "756838", "124437"
XML:
<name>Bob</name>
<phone>756838</phone>
<fax>124437</fax>
In the above case, one could use a "header" line
in the CSV file:
It's easier to view a lot of CSV data in a glance
than it is to view XML data (maybe not a biggie, but still). It also helps than you can load the file into a spreadsheet program (aka Excel) for editing.
Structured data - now that is
a pain in CSV. You have to carefully maintain relations between objects, so it is possible.. but
hardly convenient.
Just run win98 on top of Linux - with Win4Linux.
I can run Office applications - and what's really relevant, use a browser that doesn't crash
all the (as Linux netscape does when I do work-related stuff). It's extremely fast, you have access to printers, all files on your Linux partitions, sounds.. game support is a little nigh with no DirectX, but you need it for productivity, yeah ?:)
Remember, these guys are in France, so not subject to the DMCA. Of course, I thought the same was true of Norway.
Uh, yeah. The French would rather be trampled to death by crazed cows than let themselved be governed by American laws. Quite the contrary - it's more likely the hackers would receive a Charles de Gaulle medal (or whatever they have there) for their accomplishment.
It sounds like you are more of a therapist than a manager
My view is that a good manager
should do everything he can to make the projects
successful. This includes taking care of the
team members, the people. This guy has
found a way to get the best out of his people,
to make sure they can concentrate on their jobs;
to be better on their jobs. Is that wrong ?
Cern is not Swiss. It is 50% in Geneva, 50% in France. It is funded by many European countries
Technically, CERN consists of about two dozen
member countries; others may
also participate. CERN just happens to reside on Swiss-French soil so it is governed by their laws.
(As far as the number of Swiss people working
at CERN is concerned, CERN is definitely not
Swiss).
Prior investment ? The fact is that the LEP
accelerator is being used for more that it was
intended for. The maximum energy for the
collisions was planned to be around 100 GeV,
and the collider was supposed to be dismantled
_last year_ (or maybe even before that). But,
alas, they wanted to squeeze every useful
bit out of LEP - hit the metal, use it to the
max - the energies have been around 200 GeV
this summer. After this the collider goes to
the trash can.
The reason for all this is, of course, the
desperate search for the Higgs particle. Now
they *might* have evidence for it - thats
great. Whether or not they have found it,
the LEP has proved to be worth of the investment.
The reason for the dismantling of LEP is that
they want to start installing the parts for
the forthcoming LHC accelerator (that will
collide protons and anti-protons) - which is due
to start operation in 2005, so its not like
they are retiring LEP for no reason at all.
There are a number of arguments that can be
made against advising anyone wanting to buy
this or any other Linux PDA - especially
when comparing it to Palm. These include:
Lack of software that is specifically
written for PDA use (both free and commercial)
Lack of accessories (keyboards, modems,
etc). I wouldn't want to use the command line without a _real_ keyboard.
These sound very much like the arguments
for Linux vs. Windows a few years back. Based
on previous experience, I predict that Linux-based PDA's
will be a Palm killer (I don't feel that PocketPC
really has a chance). Linux is going to get
there, but it will take some time.
A really successful Linux PDA will have,
in addition to the obvious advantages:
Copied much of the really useful parts of the Palm user interface
Compatibility with Palm accessories
(you can use the same modems etc)
Ability to run Palm software
Once you have these, you have a killer - a
perfect migration path from Palm to your PDA.
I wouldn't buy a Linux PDA now, but if I was
in a need of a new PDA in a year, I might do
that. At that time, the state of Linux PDAs
won't equal that of Palm (software & hardware
included). In two years, it might.
PPS. Re-reading, this is disturbingly reminiscent of making NT secure -
you have to create loads of magic registry settings to make NT even
remotely secure.
IBM's strategy is very smart--help APP developers start using Linux and there will be more apps--which means more users, which means more of everything for everybody.
Yes, it's very true.
throwing money at the kernel people gets you nothing... all your money has bought is the feature--not apps that exploit the feature
Well, it really depends. There are a number of Linux companies that are paying people to write kernel code. While it makes sense for them, it might not make sense for IBM - they might not have an itch to scratch as far the kernel is concerned.
Take RedHat and Alan Cox, for example. And look at TUX - RedHat wanted Linux to beat Windows (and everyone else) at web benchmarks. Take SuSE and MP3.com, who are funding the development of ReiserFS.
Throwing money in the development to get a specific feature is a good idea, if you have an application that needs that feature. IBM is a big software house - and they have a lot of cross-platform stuff. I can certainly understand why kernel development might not be an attractive course of action for them.
Anyone know if you get a similar benefit in low draw devices like the Palm?
Sure, I've been using rechargables for a long time - they are definitely worth it. I have a total of four rechargable ones (+ some normal ones for backup, which I've never needed to use). The batteries might not last as long as normal ones, but with Palm III it's a non-issue. The lifetime varies from a week (CPU-intensive/backlight) to about a month.
So, it is beneficial to use rechargables in a Palm, although not as much as with high-draw devices.
While I like this from a crypto standpoint, I can't help but wonder why the sudden change in policy
Most of the EU countries have previously supported encryption (UK and France being notable exceptions). The change in policy is "sudden" only if you consider that previous policy to be the one specified in the Wassenaar agreement, which was pushed down the throats of other countries by US bullies.
I'm guessing that corporations have been pushing for this and exerting power to make this happen. While I'm glad they did, it is another example of money buying policy (and for once, not in the US).
While there certainly are economic incentives to protect the interests of the european cryptography industry, the conspiracy theory is needless in this case. The idea for the change probably came from the Directorate-General for the Information Society, which is spear-headed by Erkki Liikanen (who was also quoted in the article). See these links for more information:
What on Earth makes people think that the opinions of a bunch of open source "gurus" has any more validity than the IANAL post of the average/.er?
The opinion of Linus counts because he has actually had to think about copyright issues, starting from the point when he released the first version of the kernel to the net. That is something you can't say about the average Napster pirate, whose only idea is to get "MP3's FREE!!!" - that is, it's "free beer" instead of "free speech" for them.
true to form we are bound see/.ers rush in to fill this story with plenty of "I agree with Linus!" posts
Well, I am sure that you will classify me as a zealot now, but I do agree with Linus. It's not actually that hard - what he says is just common sense. You don't have to agree with him, but at least you could show some respect and listen to what he has to say.
I've been against Napster and for Metallica ever since the they filed the suit. A lot of people have criticized Metallica for not having guts. I claim exactly the opposite - they are doing this because they are Metallica; they have the balls to do this. Other artists fear the negative publicity that they might get by going after Napster; Metallica knowingly puts themselves to the front, knowing they risk alienating their fans. There are issues that need to be brought forward, and now they are actively being discussed.
There are two things that Microsoft claims that the Kerberos interoperability specification is:
Trade secret
Copyrighted material
The first one is the reason why Jeremy Allison made a big fuss over the issue, and the second is why Microsoft is pressing on Slashdot. The document is clearly still copyrighted material - it could never lose that status. What happens to Andover/Slashdot is still very much in the open.
According to this article by C|Net, the document no longer enjoys the status of a trade secret:
Regardless of whether Microsoft is successful in getting the information removed from Slashdot, legal analysts say material that found its way on to the Internet may no longer be entitled to trade secret protections. It likely would be protected by less restrictive copyright protections, however.
"Most likely it's going to lose its trade secret status," said Ron Lemieux, a partner at Graham & James in Palo Alto, Calif. "It doesn't mean that Microsoft should try to do what its doing and get it pulled off."
So, if this logic was to be followed, the Samba team would be free to implement an open source SMB server that interoperates with Microsoft's Kerberos, without getting permission from Microsoft.
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No, it isn't.
If they would shut up, we would be just fine.
Extreme democracy at its finest.
Wonder what the effect of a Microsoft breakup would've been ? Thanks to the Bush administration, we'll never know.
Big hand have you.
Uh, get real. France and Germany are in NATO, which just invoked the fifth article. Russia is far from being an enemy -- in fact, they are close to becoming the biggest ally of the US outside NATO. If US is to attack to Afghanistan, they will launch bomber planes from Russian air fields, while Russia will provide logistical and other kind of aid. China may allow
the US to use their air space.
More likely enemies include Iraq and Saudi Arabia (if their government is overthrown).
No-one except Tom Clancy, that is.
(FYI - I'm not a citizen of the US either).
The direction is increasingly the media and content business.. in the future, Nokia, Microsoft and Sony will compete for the same customers even more than today. The winner is not determined -- but keep this in mind: Nokia is one of the very few companies that has a realistic chance of competing successfully with Microsoft - and vice versa.
In the above case, one could use a "header" line in the CSV file:
Name, Phone, Fax
...
Bob, 756838, 124437
Jerry, 34543, 5554
It's easier to view a lot of CSV data in a glance than it is to view XML data (maybe not a biggie, but still). It also helps than you can load the file into a spreadsheet program (aka Excel) for editing.
Structured data - now that is a pain in CSV. You have to carefully maintain relations between objects, so it is possible.. but hardly convenient.
(Praises from a satisfied user).
Uh, yeah. The French would rather be trampled to death by crazed cows than let themselved be governed by American laws. Quite the contrary - it's more likely the hackers would receive a Charles de Gaulle medal (or whatever they have there) for their accomplishment.
My view is that a good manager should do everything he can to make the projects successful. This includes taking care of the team members, the people. This guy has found a way to get the best out of his people, to make sure they can concentrate on their jobs; to be better on their jobs. Is that wrong ?
Technically, CERN consists of about two dozen member countries; others may also participate. CERN just happens to reside on Swiss-French soil so it is governed by their laws. (As far as the number of Swiss people working at CERN is concerned, CERN is definitely not Swiss).
The reason for all this is, of course, the desperate search for the Higgs particle. Now they *might* have evidence for it - thats great. Whether or not they have found it, the LEP has proved to be worth of the investment.
The reason for the dismantling of LEP is that they want to start installing the parts for the forthcoming LHC accelerator (that will collide protons and anti-protons) - which is due to start operation in 2005, so its not like they are retiring LEP for no reason at all.
These sound very much like the arguments for Linux vs. Windows a few years back. Based on previous experience, I predict that Linux-based PDA's will be a Palm killer (I don't feel that PocketPC really has a chance). Linux is going to get there, but it will take some time.
A really successful Linux PDA will have, in addition to the obvious advantages:
Once you have these, you have a killer - a perfect migration path from Palm to your PDA.
I wouldn't buy a Linux PDA now, but if I was in a need of a new PDA in a year, I might do that. At that time, the state of Linux PDAs won't equal that of Palm (software & hardware included). In two years, it might.
But not yet.
'Nuff said.
Yes, it's very true.
Well, it really depends. There are a number of Linux companies that are paying people to write kernel code. While it makes sense for them, it might not make sense for IBM - they might not have an itch to scratch as far the kernel is concerned.
Take RedHat and Alan Cox, for example. And look at TUX - RedHat wanted Linux to beat Windows (and everyone else) at web benchmarks. Take SuSE and MP3.com, who are funding the development of ReiserFS.
Throwing money in the development to get a specific feature is a good idea, if you have an application that needs that feature. IBM is a big software house - and they have a lot of cross-platform stuff. I can certainly understand why kernel development might not be an attractive course of action for them.
Sure, I've been using rechargables for a long time - they are definitely worth it. I have a total of four rechargable ones (+ some normal ones for backup, which I've never needed to use). The batteries might not last as long as normal ones, but with Palm III it's a non-issue. The lifetime varies from a week (CPU-intensive/backlight) to about a month.
So, it is beneficial to use rechargables in a Palm, although not as much as with high-draw devices.
Who needs Microsoft anyway ?
Most of the EU countries have previously supported encryption (UK and France being notable exceptions). The change in policy is "sudden" only if you consider that previous policy to be the one specified in the Wassenaar agreement, which was pushed down the throats of other countries by US bullies.
While there certainly are economic incentives to protect the interests of the european cryptography industry, the conspiracy theory is needless in this case. The idea for the change probably came from the Directorate-General for the Information Society, which is spear-headed by Erkki Liikanen (who was also quoted in the article). See these links for more information:
The opinion of Linus counts because he has actually had to think about copyright issues, starting from the point when he released the first version of the kernel to the net. That is something you can't say about the average Napster pirate, whose only idea is to get "MP3's FREE!!!" - that is, it's "free beer" instead of "free speech" for them.
Well, I am sure that you will classify me as a zealot now, but I do agree with Linus. It's not actually that hard - what he says is just common sense. You don't have to agree with him, but at least you could show some respect and listen to what he has to say.
I've been against Napster and for Metallica ever since the they filed the suit. A lot of people have criticized Metallica for not having guts. I claim exactly the opposite - they are doing this because they are Metallica; they have the balls to do this. Other artists fear the negative publicity that they might get by going after Napster; Metallica knowingly puts themselves to the front, knowing they risk alienating their fans. There are issues that need to be brought forward, and now they are actively being discussed.
They released the specification only one day before a court brief that slammed them for their proprietary extensions to Kerberos was published.
They absolutely had to get the spec out, they did so in time, but were too careless about it.
The first one is the reason why Jeremy Allison made a big fuss over the issue, and the second is why Microsoft is pressing on Slashdot. The document is clearly still copyrighted material - it could never lose that status. What happens to Andover/Slashdot is still very much in the open.
According to this article by C|Net, the document no longer enjoys the status of a trade secret:
So, if this logic was to be followed, the Samba team would be free to implement an open source SMB server that interoperates with Microsoft's Kerberos, without getting permission from Microsoft.
"If I were a Microsoft public relations person, I would probably be sobbing on a desk right now," says Miller.
"Microsoft has no comment at this time," said a Microsoft public relations spokesperson.