The only reason higher levels of government are involved (you mean the courts in Britain, right?) is for the same reason they always get involved in contested extradtion matters... because that's the part of the government that gets involved in exactly such matters
Higher levels of government don't involved in routine extraditions. Normally for something like this there wouldn't even be an extradition request.
The reason the congress was involved was because Clinton was president. If Monica Lewinsky game me a blow job, there wouldn't be congressional hearings on the matter.
We don't know yet. We haven't seen hardware designed to work around Metro and we haven't seen Metro style applications. All we know now is that Metro is a bad Windows 7.
Mate is a rather mature product. That's about as polished as the Open Source world gets without a single corporation firmly in control (like MeeGo/Swipe). Gnome 2 looks ancient but excluding age issues that's the most that can be hoped for in the near term future.
As an aside, Open Office / Libre Office both look terrible and they are rapidly gaining marketshare.
The issue of Julian Assange is not now nor has it ever been about possibly borderline date rape. Borderline date rape doesn't have multiple governments involved at the 2nd highest levels in a blow by blow.
I don't see the conflict. The United States and China both support the Vienna convention which holds that the US embassy in China is under US law. If we shelter a dissident China is free to file an extradition request under the extradition treaty. Our ambassador to China has no authority to grant immunity from Chinese persecution but does have the authority to require paperwork.
Why not just use thunderbolt? And for wires you just use a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter. Those can be made cheap. Thunderbolt is good for up to 10GB / sec (possibly more). It allows you to chain more than one device so you could have one port on the laptop server: mouse, keyboard, screen, ethernet... with a docking station.
In 2000 I bought a $4000 laptop with a 50g drive. It was a couple years after that you could get 128g.
But more importantly my hard drive is 450MB/sec in my laptop. In 2000 you would have been hard pressed to get a ram drive that fast. And 256g would have cost millions. The laptop hard drives coming out a speedwise comparable to the fastest raids from just a few years ago. That's huge improvement.
Now don't get me wrong I'd love to see hybrid drives really catch on, where you get almost the performance of SSD with the capacity of HDD. A 3TB drive with 180GB SSD cache makes much more sense than either in isolation.
The problem with BlackberryOS is that it lost to iPhone so a case can be made it was more primitive and the evolution from BBOS to iOS was inevitable. I don't agree, I think it had a lot more to do with BlackBerry's failure to help create value adds for their corporate customer base; but that is a reasonable case to be made.
As for where we were going. Remember the first 6 years just take us back to 2006 when the iPhone was being designed. Were their other paths before iPhone 1 is the argument.
As far as MeeGo proving nothing. I don't follow. The phone and the UI are excellent. It just didn't make it out in time.
No I haven't seen video of people in the control center when they lost control of the situation. I'm not surprised they were panicked. The claim was that the government and TEPCO were paralyzed with fear not that the guys on-sight were a little freaked out. Freaked out or not they worked their post, stayed and most importantly they called up the chain and new stuff was tried. I'm not saying they were robots but that's what people look like in a crisis who are handling the crisis.
Again remember this was people responding to something that had never happened before and was incredibly dangerous.
I'm not saying the opposite. I'm saying his standards and expectations were too high. I'm also saying that part of the problem is countries tend to self flagellate and overcorrect after a disaster. Look at what happened to the USA after 9/11.
The most dangerous radioactive isotopes decay very quickly. But what radiation levels measure is how much you are absorbing. As for bioaccumulation that requires a higher level of radiation in the background, and while biological substances can absorb radiation they also excrete matter as well.
Japan radiation is just any other kind of radiation. While how it got there may have been unique dealing with radiation isn't.
Right but the Ericsson was not a huge success it didn't change the direction of phones. It certainly sounds like an interesting predecessor. But the point was that at 2006 the ideas that most companies had were not not, "lets continue to advance on the P800's design". If it had been then a web based system would have been inevitable.
Patents weren't awarded for that. They were awarded for things that like over-scroll bounce or swipe to unlock. Those are the things this suit is about.
Certainly. But as resolution increased so did CPU.. Things like voice dictation which are just emerging now could have been the focus. Things like Evernote but more advanced instead of being side features could have been principle systems. Its not clear to me that it was obvious that people wanted to use the browser on their phone rather than organize their life. Think about the information / channel apps on iPhone imagine if this break out a year or two before the browser rather than a year or two after.
natural and obvious path given the technology that became possible?
I'll agree partially. The path we choose was one natural and obvious path. I'm not sure it was the only one. N9 / MeeGo proves there was an alternative path. As IMHO do devices like Samsung's own F700 prove the path they were on with a focus on PIM type functionality rather than web type functionality.
I don't think Oracle really understood they didn't own anything meaningful when it came to buying Java. Oracle's takeover of Sun's assets was a disaster for almost all Sun products.
There is a change in tone at Gnome. Go back and read the contempt they treated Canonical with in March 2011. They were laughing at Canonical at the time. Comparing the situation to the Ximian situation with Novell. I honestly don't think it ever occurred to them they could lose like this.
As one of the people who was invested early on, I'd say you are the one who is changing the definition. The goal was always to create a full features Unix like operating system that offered most of the features of the commercial Unixes but was not licensed encumbered. That was the goal. Given where the traditional Unixes are today and where Linux is today I'd say that goal was achieved. Moreover:
95+% of supercomputing Either the first or second biggest player in server. While the market is still fragmented the most common embedded OS Popular development environment for mainframe 2nd place in desktop / workstation Unixes 1st place in smartphones 2nd place in tablets
I'd say mission accomplished. Yeah there was talk in the late 1990s about displacing Windows when Microsoft was having trouble unifying their consumer line and enterprise line and that failed. Oh well.
Sorry about those down votes, I don't think it was a troll. Some of what you said could have been taken that way but I suspect that's lack of experience. You should get an account you will get treated fairer.
I agree the Linux desktop user base isn't growing. Gnome 2 when Gnome 3 started was the dominant Linux GUI. They were the ones pushing to broaden most aggressively. Its also important to realize they had just lost a broadening opportunity with Nokia.
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The only reason higher levels of government are involved (you mean the courts in Britain, right?) is for the same reason they always get involved in contested extradtion matters ... because that's the part of the government that gets involved in exactly such matters
Higher levels of government don't involved in routine extraditions. Normally for something like this there wouldn't even be an extradition request.
The reason the congress was involved was because Clinton was president. If Monica Lewinsky game me a blow job, there wouldn't be congressional hearings on the matter.
We don't know yet. We haven't seen hardware designed to work around Metro and we haven't seen Metro style applications. All we know now is that Metro is a bad Windows 7.
Mate is a rather mature product. That's about as polished as the Open Source world gets without a single corporation firmly in control (like MeeGo/Swipe). Gnome 2 looks ancient but excluding age issues that's the most that can be hoped for in the near term future.
As an aside, Open Office / Libre Office both look terrible and they are rapidly gaining marketshare.
Back when Unity was being discussed Gnome considered Unity, a fork of Gnome 3. I'm not sure how this is different.
The issue of Julian Assange is not now nor has it ever been about possibly borderline date rape. Borderline date rape doesn't have multiple governments involved at the 2nd highest levels in a blow by blow.
I don't see the conflict. The United States and China both support the Vienna convention which holds that the US embassy in China is under US law. If we shelter a dissident China is free to file an extradition request under the extradition treaty. Our ambassador to China has no authority to grant immunity from Chinese persecution but does have the authority to require paperwork.
Why not just use thunderbolt? And for wires you just use a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter. Those can be made cheap. Thunderbolt is good for up to 10GB / sec (possibly more). It allows you to chain more than one device so you could have one port on the laptop server: mouse, keyboard, screen, ethernet... with a docking station.
That is essentially Apple's proposal.
In 2000 I bought a $4000 laptop with a 50g drive. It was a couple years after that you could get 128g.
But more importantly my hard drive is 450MB/sec in my laptop. In 2000 you would have been hard pressed to get a ram drive that fast. And 256g would have cost millions. The laptop hard drives coming out a speedwise comparable to the fastest raids from just a few years ago. That's huge improvement.
Now don't get me wrong I'd love to see hybrid drives really catch on, where you get almost the performance of SSD with the capacity of HDD. A 3TB drive with 180GB SSD cache makes much more sense than either in isolation.
The problem with BlackberryOS is that it lost to iPhone so a case can be made it was more primitive and the evolution from BBOS to iOS was inevitable. I don't agree, I think it had a lot more to do with BlackBerry's failure to help create value adds for their corporate customer base; but that is a reasonable case to be made.
As for where we were going. Remember the first 6 years just take us back to 2006 when the iPhone was being designed. Were their other paths before iPhone 1 is the argument.
As far as MeeGo proving nothing. I don't follow. The phone and the UI are excellent. It just didn't make it out in time.
The only data I've seen is radiation levels 10x above normal for Japan which is way under a danger level. Is that what you are talking about?
Lets break this down.
No I haven't seen video of people in the control center when they lost control of the situation. I'm not surprised they were panicked. The claim was that the government and TEPCO were paralyzed with fear not that the guys on-sight were a little freaked out. Freaked out or not they worked their post, stayed and most importantly they called up the chain and new stuff was tried. I'm not saying they were robots but that's what people look like in a crisis who are handling the crisis.
Again remember this was people responding to something that had never happened before and was incredibly dangerous.
Unfortunately it is scattered. But a good place to start is:
http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/03/11/lessons-learned/
I'm not saying the opposite. I'm saying his standards and expectations were too high. I'm also saying that part of the problem is countries tend to self flagellate and overcorrect after a disaster. Look at what happened to the USA after 9/11.
The most dangerous radioactive isotopes decay very quickly. But what radiation levels measure is how much you are absorbing. As for bioaccumulation that requires a higher level of radiation in the background, and while biological substances can absorb radiation they also excrete matter as well.
Japan radiation is just any other kind of radiation. While how it got there may have been unique dealing with radiation isn't.
Right but the Ericsson was not a huge success it didn't change the direction of phones. It certainly sounds like an interesting predecessor. But the point was that at 2006 the ideas that most companies had were not not, "lets continue to advance on the P800's design". If it had been then a web based system would have been inevitable.
Patents weren't awarded for that. They were awarded for things that like over-scroll bounce or swipe to unlock. Those are the things this suit is about.
Certainly. But as resolution increased so did CPU.. Things like voice dictation which are just emerging now could have been the focus. Things like Evernote but more advanced instead of being side features could have been principle systems. Its not clear to me that it was obvious that people wanted to use the browser on their phone rather than organize their life. Think about the information / channel apps on iPhone imagine if this break out a year or two before the browser rather than a year or two after.
natural and obvious path given the technology that became possible?
I'll agree partially. The path we choose was one natural and obvious path. I'm not sure it was the only one. N9 / MeeGo proves there was an alternative path. As IMHO do devices like Samsung's own F700 prove the path they were on with a focus on PIM type functionality rather than web type functionality.
I don't think Oracle really understood they didn't own anything meaningful when it came to buying Java. Oracle's takeover of Sun's assets was a disaster for almost all Sun products.
There is a change in tone at Gnome. Go back and read the contempt they treated Canonical with in March 2011. They were laughing at Canonical at the time. Comparing the situation to the Ximian situation with Novell. I honestly don't think it ever occurred to them they could lose like this.
Sure they are. Google is engaging in an SSH session which creates an expectation of privacy. Same with the bank, communicating via. SSH.
As one of the people who was invested early on, I'd say you are the one who is changing the definition. The goal was always to create a full features Unix like operating system that offered most of the features of the commercial Unixes but was not licensed encumbered. That was the goal. Given where the traditional Unixes are today and where Linux is today I'd say that goal was achieved. Moreover:
95+% of supercomputing
Either the first or second biggest player in server.
While the market is still fragmented the most common embedded OS
Popular development environment for mainframe
2nd place in desktop / workstation Unixes
1st place in smartphones
2nd place in tablets
I'd say mission accomplished. Yeah there was talk in the late 1990s about displacing Windows when Microsoft was having trouble unifying their consumer line and enterprise line and that failed. Oh well.
When Microsoft started with pushing software they were aiming to be a leading languages developer for CP/M.
Sorry about those down votes, I don't think it was a troll. Some of what you said could have been taken that way but I suspect that's lack of experience. You should get an account you will get treated fairer.
I agree the Linux desktop user base isn't growing. Gnome 2 when Gnome 3 started was the dominant Linux GUI. They were the ones pushing to broaden most aggressively. Its also important to realize they had just lost a broadening opportunity with Nokia.