I am not that sure actually. It's not very well defined and different people use it differently, sometimes with a marketing agenda. But it also conveys some property quite clearly:
- cloud computing is not precisely located and you don't really care
- it's not happening in your home
- it's everywhere or almost
- it's out of your control (others may access it without your knowledge etc.)
- it can disappear and be unavailable anytime (just like real clouds;-)
The previous terms were not bad either, but the market made them more precise. For instance, there was Grid computing: it's always a cluster inside a company that provides centralized computing power for embarassingly parallel problems. The original idea was that it would be like the electrical grid and you would just send your problems to the computing grid and they would go wherever there was an excess supply of computing power. Very cloud-like actually...
I don't think the term is useless and I actually think it's nice to change the buzzwords every so often...
It looks like there are Ruby books on scribd.com actually. It's probably one way to do what you just said. And now I am waiting for other people to comment and list all the other ways that I did not know about;-)
No need to have a working network connection either. Here in New York City, cell phones seldom work in the subway, access is spotty on trains etc. So this is a definite plus.
It is also supposed to work 12 months with the AAA batteries. That certainly beats any of my gadgets...
As a side note, I was reading the SkyMall catalog 2 days ago and they had dictionary-type devices for about 100$ to 300$. So this device is not badly priced either.
Finally, since it's from OpenMoko, it's probably quite hackable...
There are people running and developing Hurd: 'The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable version' It's only the FSF that said that Linux temporary. Also, temporary solutions tend to last...
how can it be a 1000$ cheaper? The Iphone's ATT plan is about 1000$ a year I believe (I don't have one so I never saw the bill...). Could you elaborate?
Engadget has a comparison of all the Android devices to date and they all are very similar at the moment. I guess it's good news to some extent as it means the apps don't have to cope with different screen sizes or even different CPUs. But at the same time, why bother with Dalvik if they were going to all target the same Qualcomm/ARM chip at the same frequency? They could have just used gcj and compiled to ARM...
Hopefully this is going to change and the manufacturers are going to come up with exciting Android handsets. I mean, good enough to get Nokia to lower the price of the N900 would be great!
This duplicates the iTunes syncing functionality. Sorry. Just removing a wire does not justify duplicating functionality in the Experience(TM). Oh well, yes I have karma to burn.
Actually, you should have stuck with hire a lawyer. Apparently knowing about the patents you infringe upon makes your situation worse. So apparently you are better off not looking at existing patents. I think this should really not exist as the main argument for patents is that they are a way to share knowledge, so anything that discourages reading them is counterproductive.
Well, there is always a good Emacs vs. Vi conversation. That somehow always seems fresh, lively and important. Of course, you need the right kind of friends;-)
Surely you are jesting. The ruling is really about data and I don't think that a baseball story needs to attract a few tech geeks and lawyers to increase banner ad revenue. Personally, I am a bit reassured that there is such a ruling, because it gives some protection against a cop obtaining a warrant to get some data and issuing the wrong sql query that brings too much data including mine (or the tech guy asked to do it that does not refine the query enough, or just give a report that has the relevant data in it and then some not relevant etc.).
Well, the best part for the spammers is when they don't pay the 10$ because the owners of the zombie PCs do... This objection was raised years ago already for other "payment" schemes like for instance the computation payment (you do a computation that takes a lot of CPU to sign the message. So you "paid" for your stamp). It does not sound like a very well thought plan. Maybe the idea is that people will be more careful not to get pwned?
The wording quoted in the article is not about fraudulent concealment (which only appears in a quote of a lawyer defending the project). It's about shipping with known bugs. This is normal. There is always a KNOWN ISSUES section in the readme of any piece of software and it's a good thing. I don't want to wait for the software to be bug free, I want to use it now and if there are known issues, I just want to be warned. Now, if the company keeps the bug hidden, does not fix it, does not issue warnings or at least update its public bug tracking, that's another matter but the quote in the article is not sufficient to say that it's about it. Disclosing all bugs would be costly for non-free software and almost free for FLOSS (bugzilla+mailing lists+rss feed for important news). But it could be done with some work and generating appropriate reports for customers from the bug tracking. Anyway, I think that EULAs should be enforceable regarding use restrictions (i.e. don't use the software in life-critical situations, don't use it to handle money, obligation to check the results) and liability restrictions (e.g. if you lose money because of a bug you can get a refund, or no more that X amount of money).
Anyway the yahoo article does not really address the issue... I guess we would need to read the text of the ALI to know but maybe they charge for their rewriting of the Law...
Did you read the summary? They lied and got fined. That sounds like news to me. I had always known that people were planting fake reviews on forums and thought the only defense be cautious. So hearing that this is actually illegal is big news in my opinion.
Why don't I have mod points today? The parent is so right. The video tag means that youtube and all the web streaming websites can work without Flash. And since Firefox users update quickly, this means 20% of Internet users will be able to do that within 6 months. That's pretty big when you think some people try to make us believe that HTML5 is 10 years away...
Well, I don't know why you need to be so condescending but I can tell you that the railways in the US are pretty ridiculous in terms of speed and improving them could bring big benefits. For instance, the ACELA between Boston and NY is very slow (more than 3 hours to cover half the distance that the TGV covers in less than 3 hours). Such a train uses half the energy of a plane, can arrive in the center of the city etc.
The Japanese Shinkansen is even better in some respect as it runs on schedules that are very intense.
Also, you don't need to change everything to achieve that, just some money and political will. The ACELA express is inherently slower (150MPH max instead of 200MPH and more) but that's not the biggest problem. They need to adapt enough tracks along the road to improve the average speed.
This is clearly a very political and complex subject. And bringing it up in the US is really quite innovative and politically risky as your post amply shows.
About the Roku: Yes the cable operators have that in mind. They probably are concerned that you are going to stop buying on demand movies from them. And they are probably scared that you might even cancel TV service if TV companies start teaming with Netflix or Amazon or Google to broadcast on the Net...
Well, actually the netbook makers such as Asus are trying to move towards ARM-based machines with Linux so that they can reach much lower price points. In some way it makes more sense than the x86 Linux offering they had: why pay for x86 compatibility if the users aren't going to be able to install Word or the windows drivers for the printer they just bought? You might as well go fully incompatible and buy cheaper chips that use less power etc. As nobody had predicted the success of netbooks and the reasons of that success are not completely clear, it makes sense to try the ARM approach just in case it's going to be very successful. I believe that some people run AmigaOS on their netbook by the way;-)
Funny but it is less than 5 ounces and did not seem to bulky on pictures where it sat beside an Iphone. I really like the idea of cards for the GUI. It seems very much like the original (i.e. simple idea that keeps things simple, fast, efficient). The javascript/HTML GUI seems really Palm-like too (i.e. simple to do what most apps want to do). It is multi tasking too. And below lies Linux with a powerful CPU, OpenGL capabilities etc. Also, I heard the Centro was selling pretty well (not like the Iphone but well). I guess they could have some success.
To me, this looks more tempting that the Android phone actually... Too bad it's only EVDO...
I thought there could be an opt-in for ads. People who want to support wikipedia could choose to view it with a couple ads. Then they could show ads to the people who opted in. They could even stop showing ads when they have enough money to pay for bandwidth, servers and whatever. As a result, nobody would be pissed off and since the money stops pouring in when there is too much of it, we reduce the pressure to pay contributors back as the money was only to pay for the operating costs.
Maybe they could display a warning for that CA. Or just go to the CA, tell them they need to do a better job or 20% of the web users will see a message saying : "this website has obtained a certificate from CA XXX which has very poor security checks". Of course, such an update would make good headlines for the New York Times and others, so the CA could not take the risk of ignoring the threat. They would need to address the issue to avoid the bad press.
Open Office contains Impress which is comparable to Powerpoint. Animated slides/drawings are much easier to do on Impress than on Powerpoint at the time I used both.
Bernstein says that RSA-1024 bit is not secure as big botnets (or big companies) can break such keys. That would defeat the purpose of DNSSEC. I wonder what this means for SSL certificates... RSA has a wrapup here: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2007 Apparently they disagree...
Can't you just log in as root and create a couple symlinks to go around that. Of course, after that you have to leave the card in at all times to avoid weird errors. But that seems a nice trade off.
Yeah right! Microsoft can't wait till everybody can buy MacOS X for their PC! And what joy it would be to them if Psystar could invalidate the EULA so that Dell could then ship their PCs with MacOS X!
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I am not that sure actually. It's not very well defined and different people use it differently, sometimes with a marketing agenda. ;-)
But it also conveys some property quite clearly:
- cloud computing is not precisely located and you don't really care
- it's not happening in your home
- it's everywhere or almost
- it's out of your control (others may access it without your knowledge etc.)
- it can disappear and be unavailable anytime (just like real clouds
The previous terms were not bad either, but the market made them more precise. For instance, there was Grid computing: it's always a cluster inside a company that provides centralized computing power for embarassingly parallel problems. The original idea was that it would be like the electrical grid and you would just send your problems to the computing grid and they would go wherever there was an excess supply of computing power. Very cloud-like actually...
I don't think the term is useless and I actually think it's nice to change the buzzwords every so often...
It looks like there are Ruby books on scribd.com actually. It's probably one way to do what you just said. ;-)
And now I am waiting for other people to comment and list all the other ways that I did not know about
No need to have a working network connection either.
Here in New York City, cell phones seldom work in the subway, access is spotty on trains etc.
So this is a definite plus.
It is also supposed to work 12 months with the AAA batteries. That certainly beats any of my gadgets...
As a side note, I was reading the SkyMall catalog 2 days ago and they had dictionary-type devices for about 100$ to 300$. So this device is not badly priced either.
Finally, since it's from OpenMoko, it's probably quite hackable...
There are people running and developing Hurd:
'The GNU Hurd is under active development. Because of that, there is no stable version'
It's only the FSF that said that Linux temporary. Also, temporary solutions tend to last...
Hi,
how can it be a 1000$ cheaper? The Iphone's ATT plan is about 1000$ a year I believe (I don't have one so I never saw the bill...).
Could you elaborate?
Thanks
Engadget has a comparison of all the Android devices to date and they all are very similar at the moment. I guess it's good news to some extent as it means the apps don't have to cope with different screen sizes or even different CPUs.
But at the same time, why bother with Dalvik if they were going to all target the same Qualcomm/ARM chip at the same frequency? They could have just used gcj and compiled to ARM...
Hopefully this is going to change and the manufacturers are going to come up with exciting Android handsets. I mean, good enough to get Nokia to lower the price of the N900 would be great!
This duplicates the iTunes syncing functionality. Sorry. Just removing a wire does not justify duplicating functionality in the Experience(TM).
Oh well, yes I have karma to burn.
Actually, you should have stuck with hire a lawyer. Apparently knowing about the patents you infringe upon makes your situation worse. So apparently you are better off not looking at existing patents.
I think this should really not exist as the main argument for patents is that they are a way to share knowledge, so anything that discourages reading them is counterproductive.
Maybe the older ones are "dead"
Well, there is always a good Emacs vs. Vi conversation. That somehow always seems fresh, lively and important. Of course, you need the right kind of friends ;-)
Surely you are jesting.
The ruling is really about data and I don't think that a baseball story needs to attract a few tech geeks and lawyers to increase banner ad revenue.
Personally, I am a bit reassured that there is such a ruling, because it gives some protection against a cop obtaining a warrant to get some data and issuing the wrong sql query that brings too much data including mine (or the tech guy asked to do it that does not refine the query enough, or just give a report that has the relevant data in it and then some not relevant etc.).
Well, the best part for the spammers is when they don't pay the 10$ because the owners of the zombie PCs do... This objection was raised years ago already for other "payment" schemes like for instance the computation payment (you do a computation that takes a lot of CPU to sign the message. So you "paid" for your stamp).
It does not sound like a very well thought plan. Maybe the idea is that people will be more careful not to get pwned?
The wording quoted in the article is not about fraudulent concealment (which only appears in a quote of a lawyer defending the project). It's about shipping with known bugs. This is normal. There is always a KNOWN ISSUES section in the readme of any piece of software and it's a good thing. I don't want to wait for the software to be bug free, I want to use it now and if there are known issues, I just want to be warned.
Now, if the company keeps the bug hidden, does not fix it, does not issue warnings or at least update its public bug tracking, that's another matter but the quote in the article is not sufficient to say that it's about it. Disclosing all bugs would be costly for non-free software and almost free for FLOSS (bugzilla+mailing lists+rss feed for important news). But it could be done with some work and generating appropriate reports for customers from the bug tracking.
Anyway, I think that EULAs should be enforceable regarding use restrictions (i.e. don't use the software in life-critical situations, don't use it to handle money, obligation to check the results) and liability restrictions (e.g. if you lose money because of a bug you can get a refund, or no more that X amount of money).
Anyway the yahoo article does not really address the issue... I guess we would need to read the text of the ALI to know but maybe they charge for their rewriting of the Law...
Did you read the summary?
They lied and got fined.
That sounds like news to me.
I had always known that people were planting fake reviews on forums and thought the only defense be cautious. So hearing that this is actually illegal is big news in my opinion.
Why don't I have mod points today?
The parent is so right. The video tag means that youtube and all the web streaming websites can work without Flash. And since Firefox users update quickly, this means 20% of Internet users will be able to do that within 6 months. That's pretty big when you think some people try to make us believe that HTML5 is 10 years away...
Well,
I don't know why you need to be so condescending but I can tell you that the railways in the US are pretty ridiculous in terms of speed and improving them could bring big benefits.
For instance, the ACELA between Boston and NY is very slow (more than 3 hours to cover half the distance that the TGV covers in less than 3 hours).
Such a train uses half the energy of a plane, can arrive in the center of the city etc.
The Japanese Shinkansen is even better in some respect as it runs on schedules that are very intense.
Also, you don't need to change everything to achieve that, just some money and political will. The ACELA express is inherently slower (150MPH max instead of 200MPH and more) but that's not the biggest problem. They need to adapt enough tracks along the road to improve the average speed.
This is clearly a very political and complex subject. And bringing it up in the US is really quite innovative and politically risky as your post amply shows.
About the Roku:
Yes the cable operators have that in mind. They probably are concerned that you are going to stop buying on demand movies from them. And they are probably scared that you might even cancel TV service if TV companies start teaming with Netflix or Amazon or Google to broadcast on the Net...
Well, actually the netbook makers such as Asus are trying to move towards ARM-based machines with Linux so that they can reach much lower price points. ;-)
In some way it makes more sense than the x86 Linux offering they had: why pay for x86 compatibility if the users aren't going to be able to install Word or the windows drivers for the printer they just bought? You might as well go fully incompatible and buy cheaper chips that use less power etc.
As nobody had predicted the success of netbooks and the reasons of that success are not completely clear, it makes sense to try the ARM approach just in case it's going to be very successful.
I believe that some people run AmigaOS on their netbook by the way
Funny but it is less than 5 ounces and did not seem to bulky on pictures where it sat beside an Iphone.
I really like the idea of cards for the GUI. It seems very much like the original (i.e. simple idea that keeps things simple, fast, efficient).
The javascript/HTML GUI seems really Palm-like too (i.e. simple to do what most apps want to do).
It is multi tasking too.
And below lies Linux with a powerful CPU, OpenGL capabilities etc.
Also, I heard the Centro was selling pretty well (not like the Iphone but well).
I guess they could have some success.
To me, this looks more tempting that the Android phone actually... Too bad it's only EVDO...
I thought there could be an opt-in for ads.
People who want to support wikipedia could choose to view it with a couple ads.
Then they could show ads to the people who opted in.
They could even stop showing ads when they have enough money to pay for bandwidth, servers and whatever.
As a result, nobody would be pissed off and since the money stops pouring in when there is too much of it, we reduce the pressure to pay contributors back as the money was only to pay for the operating costs.
Maybe they could display a warning for that CA.
Or just go to the CA, tell them they need to do a better job or 20% of the web users will see a message saying : "this website has obtained a certificate from CA XXX which has very poor security checks".
Of course, such an update would make good headlines for the New York Times and others, so the CA could not take the risk of ignoring the threat. They would need to address the issue to avoid the bad press.
Open Office contains Impress which is comparable to Powerpoint. Animated slides/drawings are much easier to do on Impress than on Powerpoint at the time I used both.
Bernstein says that RSA-1024 bit is not secure as big botnets (or big companies) can break such keys.
That would defeat the purpose of DNSSEC.
I wonder what this means for SSL certificates...
RSA has a wrapup here:
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2007
Apparently they disagree...
Can't you just log in as root and create a couple symlinks to go around that.
Of course, after that you have to leave the card in at all times to avoid weird errors. But that seems a nice trade off.
Yeah right! Microsoft can't wait till everybody can buy MacOS X for their PC!
And what joy it would be to them if Psystar could invalidate the EULA so that Dell could then ship their PCs with MacOS X!