"Build your own addressing, implement it, and enough with the complaining about how the USA chooses to do its business!"
If you read the article it says that China hasn't got enough IPs for their regular computer users, cell phones or not, and that the Asian countries are building their own adressing infrastructure based on IPv6 to solve their IP problems, hoping the US and Europe will catch up with the superior technology by time. No one seems to care how the US chooses to do its business here, just hopes you will catch up.
And to learn from history, the internet went international way before the domain name system with your.mils and your.coms. About 15 years before with strategic military connections to Europe.
The Norwegian government resigned last year from their deal with Microsoft for delivering software to the whole administration to look at alternatives. Linux was mentioned as one of the possible ways to go.
Last week Steve Ballmer visited to have a meeting with the Minister of Administration. The most published result from the talk was that the government get disclosure of the source code. And probably, according to this, got an opportunity to renegotiate for a better deal.
Just an example. But what it means is that Linux and Open Source gives (large) organizations a hand in negotiating price and conditions with Microsoft. I'm not sure if that means anything to the Open Source Movement at all.
I'm not even sure if that's good for Open Source. Expensive and closed Microsoft is good for OSS, because that means Linux et al is where to go for open systems. If large corporations (in Norway, the government, military and one large corporation now has access to Microsofts source code) can get to the insides, that means a lot of resources that could go to the public good is kept locked up by MS anyway.
It's probably has nothing to do with Akamai, for one previews are available and working.
The reason this isn't available in, say, Norway, is that a CD costs $27 here, and the record companies branches here are separate entities from their owners. They won't let the US branch sell CDs to Norwegian customers for $10 and start competing with themselves on price. In the US the difference in price between iTunes and CDs doesn't seem to be of the same order of magnitude, rather quite reasonable.
Its the same thing that has given us regional coding on DVDs. In the long run, though, theory goes that a internationally traded commodity will equalize in price over the borders.
Actually, that's just confusing theft and copyright infringement, which are different. Blurring the difference between the two is just newspeak aiming at giving copyright holders a rhetorical upper hand. It may help making copyright infringement sound bad, but at the same time it's lessening the impact of real theft.
The looting of the national museum in Baghdad should really illustrate the difference. The actual theft means the world has instantly lost access to artifacts worth billions of dollar and of immense value to the common knowledge of the start of human civilization.
A equally grand copyright infringement may in actual cost have happened on Napster. Still doesn't have the same effect as theft.
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Don't forget:
11. ????
12. Profit!
Mats
Someone paid for it again? They're speculating in it, those cheap Microsoft bastards!
Mats
Is more like
1. Take an existing product
2. Slap an Apple logo on it
4. Wait for the Apple fanclub to cream their pants over it
5. Profit!
"Build your own addressing, implement it, and enough with the complaining about how the USA chooses to do its business!"
.mils and your .coms. About 15 years before with strategic military connections to Europe.
If you read the article it says that China hasn't got enough IPs for their regular computer users, cell phones or not, and that the Asian countries are building their own adressing infrastructure based on IPv6 to solve their IP problems, hoping the US and Europe will catch up with the superior technology by time. No one seems to care how the US chooses to do its business here, just hopes you will catch up.
And to learn from history, the internet went international way before the domain name system with your
Probably because it was fair to give you access.
But, but. 10 gives you three possible states! Understand binary false: 0, true: 1 and some other state: 10.
This might rather be "There is 1 type of people out there, those that can apply binary and those that can't".
I could be way off here. But I sure wouldn't assign a byte to my person.understands_binary field
The Norwegian government resigned last year from their deal with Microsoft for delivering software to the whole administration to look at alternatives. Linux was mentioned as one of the possible ways to go.
Last week Steve Ballmer visited to have a meeting with the Minister of Administration. The most published result from the talk was that the government get disclosure of the source code. And probably, according to this, got an opportunity to renegotiate for a better deal.
Just an example. But what it means is that Linux and Open Source gives (large) organizations a hand in negotiating price and conditions with Microsoft. I'm not sure if that means anything to the Open Source Movement at all.
I'm not even sure if that's good for Open Source. Expensive and closed Microsoft is good for OSS, because that means Linux et al is where to go for open systems. If large corporations (in Norway, the government, military and one large corporation now has access to Microsofts source code) can get to the insides, that means a lot of resources that could go to the public good is kept locked up by MS anyway.
It's probably has nothing to do with Akamai, for one previews are available and working.
The reason this isn't available in, say, Norway, is that a CD costs $27 here, and the record companies branches here are separate entities from their owners. They won't let the US branch sell CDs to Norwegian customers for $10 and start competing with themselves on price. In the US the difference in price between iTunes and CDs doesn't seem to be of the same order of magnitude, rather quite reasonable.
Its the same thing that has given us regional coding on DVDs. In the long run, though, theory goes that a internationally traded commodity will equalize in price over the borders.
Actually, that's just confusing theft and copyright infringement, which are different. Blurring the difference between the two is just newspeak aiming at giving copyright holders a rhetorical upper hand. It may help making copyright infringement sound bad, but at the same time it's lessening the impact of real theft.
The looting of the national museum in Baghdad should really illustrate the difference. The actual theft means the world has instantly lost access to artifacts worth billions of dollar and of immense value to the common knowledge of the start of human civilization.
A equally grand copyright infringement may in actual cost have happened on Napster. Still doesn't have the same effect as theft.