Most of the secretaries I have seen in our office cant tell the difference between linux and windows when they look at linux the first time. The only problem is that they dont know when to click and when to double-click. They usually double-click on the desktop icons and open a zillion copies of netscape simultanously.
We crashed several 75GXP deskstar drives on ASUS A7V motherboards running on the promise controller - this configurations seems to be similar to what you are suggesting. IBM suggests not to run these drives with the promise controllers on these ASUS boards since they seem to get heaps of the drives back.
The laws are only useful if they serve the interests of the majority of society.
Clearly the tide is shifting against intellectual property rights for a variety of reasons. The big point about Napster/Gnutella etc is that they have a superior distribution model as opposed to traditional stores.
With drugs we see that some countries are ignoring patents and produce AIDS drugs at rock-bottom prices. Countries like Russia and China are ignoring software piracy because the benefit of piracy is large for society if you don't happen to host MS in your country.
Some companies need to think about their role in society and see whether there is no other viable business modell - e.g. being a provider of trust or intelligence rather than rely on unenforcable laws.
Third/second world countries can't catch up anyway in one step with the industrialised world and replicate their infrastructure.
However in IT (especially programming) they can leapfrog the industrial development since the costs are very low per working place. Most commodity programming is already a second/third world job and will be even more so in the future.
I saw recently an interesting interview with a Senegal government minister who is promoting to wire each village with the internet (hard job since many villages dont have telephones). In those villages were internet is available the email has already replaced traditional mail - even though an email costs more than a dollar and has to be typed in by someone since many of the users are illiterate.
http://www.mirstation.com/news_feature.html
Looks to me as if the Russians want to keep the pressure on Mircorp with this announcement - encouraging them to pay on time. Not sure either though whether one scheduled customer is a viable project.
forgot to add - Hamburg is good if you are into nightlife - during daytime people are more reserved than in Munich. Munich is more flashy and people show off money which they wouldnt do in Hamburg. Hamburg prides itself to be anglophile - you draw your own conclusions. I guess an American would be happier in Munich.
I forget to add. Content providers like yahoo will laugh at this. Excite@home is pissing against the wind if they want to get someone like yahoo who has 60% internet reach to pay for speed.
BTW: The Akamai etc. examples are inappropriate. These companies are employed by the content provides. ALL ISPs profit from this speed increase. Content providers would be badly advised if they played into @home's hand by doing such deals.
Again: Cut off @home from your content when the slowdown gets noticeable to make sure @home users are aware of their provider's misdeeds.
Very simple solution: Whenever someone from @home gets on your server show them a message that their provider slows down your traffic and you are therefore not able to serve any content.
There idea is surely a joke. Internet economics are as such that users pay for delivery and content providers for content. Excite is looking for a free ride - luckily they are not strong enough for this.
They better wise up soon. Cable TV operators need to pay for the privilege to carry certain content. Time for @home to pay up for sucking on other people's servers.
I think its pretty obvious already that WAP is not flying. Roll-out has happened all over Europe and hardly anyone is using it.
The main problems are high costs combined with unattractive design. Who wants to pay 20-50cts per minute for surfing in b/w text mode ?
The consumer magazines tested WAP extensively and most concluded that it is a mad proposition as it stands.
The operators have been extremely greedy when deciding on the pricing. After all the bandwidth which WAP uses is minimal compared to speech. A flat pricing like DoCoMos imode charges would have been appropriate.
The WAP setup is designed to give operators a leverage over the content. In theory most phones can change the operators default URL and point to some site which could provide you with a field which allows you to enter your real destination URL freely. But how many users are going to do that ? This leaves WAP content providers at the mercy of the operators portal. Not suprisingly the WAP content is extremely small.
Another drawback is that the display is too small to carry attractive adverts. 99% of the web's business models fall flat on the face because of this. Operators have not shown much ambition either to pass on some of their outragous charges to content providers.
I guess that WAP will eventually fly when i-mode arrives and the operators are forced to offer free WAP access.
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Nothing wrong with that. No one forces Mandrake to supply ISOs - they are just "kind".
SuSE for example doesnt provide ISO downloads on their site.
Since Mandrake doesnt have the muscle of SuSE they have to ask kindly for money while trying to increase their market share.
Most of the secretaries I have seen in our office cant tell the difference between linux and windows when they look at linux the first time. The only problem is that they dont know when to click and when to double-click. They usually double-click on the desktop icons and open a zillion copies of netscape simultanously.
"In some cases, it is raising prices or eliminating unprofitable products"
This is scary - they might end up selling only porn videos.
Actually a uncle of mine owns a lake. The lake lost water recently and the surrounding properties got larger because of this.
He asked the property owners to compensate him. Since they refused he took them to court and - won.
The point is that they do have a benefit from the shrinking lake - even if they didnt ask for it.
Whether or not genetically modified crops are actually a benefit remains to be seen.
We crashed several 75GXP deskstar drives on ASUS A7V motherboards running on the promise controller - this configurations seems to be similar to what you are suggesting. IBM suggests not to run these drives with the promise controllers on these ASUS boards since they seem to get heaps of the drives back.
SuSE does make money - the support is included in the price of the distro.
The laws are only useful if they serve the interests of the majority of society.
Clearly the tide is shifting against intellectual property rights for a variety of reasons. The big point about Napster/Gnutella etc is that they have a superior distribution model as opposed to traditional stores.
With drugs we see that some countries are ignoring patents and produce AIDS drugs at rock-bottom prices. Countries like Russia and China are ignoring software piracy because the benefit of piracy is large for society if you don't happen to host MS in your country.
Some companies need to think about their role in society and see whether there is no other viable business modell - e.g. being a provider of trust or intelligence rather than rely on unenforcable laws.
I would rather like to know whether I can apply my own tax laws if I dock a personal module to the ISS.
Third/second world countries can't catch up anyway in one step with the industrialised world and replicate their infrastructure.
However in IT (especially programming) they can leapfrog the industrial development since the costs are very low per working place. Most commodity programming is already a second/third world job and will be even more so in the future.
I saw recently an interesting interview with a Senegal government minister who is promoting to wire each village with the internet (hard job since many villages dont have telephones). In those villages were internet is available the email has already replaced traditional mail - even though an email costs more than a dollar and has to be typed in by someone since many of the users are illiterate.
http://www.mirstation.com/news_feature.html Looks to me as if the Russians want to keep the pressure on Mircorp with this announcement - encouraging them to pay on time. Not sure either though whether one scheduled customer is a viable project.
forgot to add - Hamburg is good if you are into nightlife - during daytime people are more reserved than in Munich. Munich is more flashy and people show off money which they wouldnt do in Hamburg. Hamburg prides itself to be anglophile - you draw your own conclusions. I guess an American would be happier in Munich.
try www.jobpilot.de
I forget to add. Content providers like yahoo will laugh at this. Excite@home is pissing against the wind if they want to get someone like yahoo who has 60% internet reach to pay for speed.
BTW: The Akamai etc. examples are inappropriate. These companies are employed by the content provides. ALL ISPs profit from this speed increase. Content providers would be badly advised if they played into @home's hand by doing such deals.
Again: Cut off @home from your content when the slowdown gets noticeable to make sure @home users are aware of their provider's misdeeds.
Very simple solution: Whenever someone from @home gets on your server show them a message that their provider slows down your traffic and you are therefore not able to serve any content.
There idea is surely a joke. Internet economics are as such that users pay for delivery and content providers for content. Excite is looking for a free ride - luckily they are not strong enough for this.
They better wise up soon. Cable TV operators need to pay for the privilege to carry certain content. Time for @home to pay up for sucking on other people's servers.
I think its pretty obvious already that WAP is not flying. Roll-out has happened all over Europe and hardly anyone is using it.
The main problems are high costs combined with unattractive design. Who wants to pay 20-50cts per minute for surfing in b/w text mode ?
The consumer magazines tested WAP extensively and most concluded that it is a mad proposition as it stands.
The operators have been extremely greedy when deciding on the pricing. After all the bandwidth which WAP uses is minimal compared to speech. A flat pricing like DoCoMos imode charges would have been appropriate.
The WAP setup is designed to give operators a leverage over the content. In theory most phones can change the operators default URL and point to some site which could provide you with a field which allows you to enter your real destination URL freely. But how many users are going to do that ? This leaves WAP content providers at the mercy of the operators portal. Not suprisingly the WAP content is extremely small.
Another drawback is that the display is too small to carry attractive adverts. 99% of the web's business models fall flat on the face because of this. Operators have not shown much ambition either to pass on some of their outragous charges to content providers.
I guess that WAP will eventually fly when i-mode arrives and the operators are forced to offer free WAP access.