1. The microsoft material posted in the kerberos spec discussion IS copyrighted. So they appear to have a strong claim. But...
2. Let me see: Microsoft "embraces" Kerberos. It adds proprietary extensions to Kerberos that "breaks" the protocol for inter-connectivity purposes. Developers and pundits complain (even in mainstream conservative IT publications like Interactive Week).
A lot of people are eager to know the content of this "extension" to kerberos to maintain their software. So Microsoft makes the specs freely available on their site but with a funny NDA that make this extension to an open-source authentification scheme a "confidential trade secret".
Is it me or was that a "bait" tactic used by Microsoft? To use an analogy, it's a bit like if a bank leaves his door open in a needy neighbourghood and tacks a funny EULA on the open door of the vault...
It Microsoft again using its lawyers to dominate a market: in that case directory services and file-sharing services (Samba)?
Go intel's site about the 810 chipset. It has a built-in graphics adapter with decent 3d capabilities. Performance is like a TNT. Nothing to rave about, but still able to play most of todays 3d games.
How the release of a utility by someone can be News for Nerds: Stuff that matters
It's not the utility per se that matters here. (I personally couldn't care less about another streaming audio scheme.) It's the implications of this utility that are interesting.
The maximum is 18 Gb, though you'd be pressed to find a DVD-ROM that actually used it. Stephen King's The Stand miniserie DVD is the first double-layer double-sided disc. But manufacturing resources are still rare for DVD18. Heck, production capacity is already streched for RDSL...
This really looks like a studid move by the french gov (who are all members of the College of Pataphysics, so that figures). But right now, in this world, what we NEED is chaotic thinking. I picture the New Economics-Wired-power-branded cum web site and screen saver IPOed future world, and anybody who says "Merde" to that is welcome. Or to make it clear to you, as much as I like Linux, I cherish the idea that freebsd, openbsd,.*bsd, aix, vms, NT, os/9, etc. are around. And yes, I write this on a Mac. Think like geneticians. We need diversity. And we need the French to go on doing their thing. They're a pain in the neck, but what would we do without them? Foucault, Sartre, l'École des Annales, Deconstructivism, Camus, Surrealism, etc. may seem like fringe to you. But THEY are the mortar of our bits and bytes universe. On our side of the ocean, isolationism is still rampant. We need to get over it. And we need to get over the idea that we have of the french ("Don't shoot me, I'm a collaborator"). What happened in the 30's and 40's there is not unlike what happened in the 1860's in America: a nation willing to self-amputate rather than allow practices against their ideals (communism and front populaire vs slavery). So, since the 4th and the 14th of july are coming, I'll raise my glase of californian pinot noir and say "Merde" to all of you. From Canada.
This is not exclusive to science... seems to me every human endeavour is somewhat fueled by our deep rooted craving for myth ("espace mythique"). We just can't live without experiencing suspension of reality and religious space (cf. Mircea Eliade among others). The irony here is that science's discourse is wrapped in 18th century rationalism.
Coolest features is the programmed rotation. The "station" will rotate during the day up to 120deg. No more sun glare on the screens. Wonder if they are looking for beta testers?
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2. Let me see: Microsoft "embraces" Kerberos. It adds proprietary extensions to Kerberos that "breaks" the protocol for inter-connectivity purposes. Developers and pundits complain (even in mainstream conservative IT publications like Interactive Week).
A lot of people are eager to know the content of this "extension" to kerberos to maintain their software. So Microsoft makes the specs freely available on their site but with a funny NDA that make this extension to an open-source authentification scheme a "confidential trade secret".
Is it me or was that a "bait" tactic used by Microsoft? To use an analogy, it's a bit like if a bank leaves his door open in a needy neighbourghood and tacks a funny EULA on the open door of the vault...
It Microsoft again using its lawyers to dominate a market: in that case directory services and file-sharing services (Samba)?
Go intel's site about the 810 chipset. It has a built-in graphics adapter with decent 3d capabilities. Performance is like a TNT. Nothing to rave about, but still able to play most of todays 3d games.
It's not the utility per se that matters here. (I personally couldn't care less about another streaming audio scheme.)
It's the implications of this utility that are interesting.
The maximum is 18 Gb, though you'd be pressed to find a DVD-ROM that actually used it.
Stephen King's The Stand miniserie DVD is the first double-layer double-sided disc.
But manufacturing resources are still rare for DVD18. Heck, production capacity is already streched for RDSL...
This really looks like a studid move by the french gov (who are all members of the College of Pataphysics, so that figures). .*bsd, aix, vms, NT, os/9, etc. are around. And yes, I write this on a Mac.
But right now, in this world, what we NEED is chaotic thinking. I picture the New Economics-Wired-power-branded cum web site and screen saver IPOed future world, and anybody who says "Merde" to that is welcome.
Or to make it clear to you, as much as I like Linux, I cherish the idea that freebsd, openbsd,
Think like geneticians. We need diversity.
And we need the French to go on doing their thing. They're a pain in the neck, but what would we do without them?
Foucault, Sartre, l'École des Annales, Deconstructivism, Camus, Surrealism, etc. may seem like fringe to you. But THEY are the mortar of our bits and bytes universe.
On our side of the ocean, isolationism is still rampant. We need to get over it. And we need to get over the idea that we have of the french ("Don't shoot me, I'm a collaborator"). What happened in the 30's and 40's there is not unlike what happened in the 1860's in America: a nation willing to self-amputate rather than allow practices against their ideals (communism and front populaire vs slavery). So, since the 4th and the 14th of july are coming, I'll raise my glase of californian pinot noir and say "Merde" to all of you. From Canada.
This is not exclusive to science... seems to me every human endeavour is somewhat fueled by our deep rooted craving for myth ("espace mythique"). We just can't live without experiencing suspension of reality and religious space (cf. Mircea Eliade among others). The irony here is that science's discourse is wrapped in 18th century rationalism.
Coolest features is the programmed rotation. The "station" will rotate during the day up to 120deg. No more sun glare on the screens. Wonder if they are looking for beta testers?
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