Good points! I have heard that some astrophysists are promoting the "Rare Earth" Hypothesis. They say that there are many factors required to create an earth-like planet and that conditions have to be just right with the right elements being formed by the right stars in the vinicity of a planet to form that is capable of life.
One major obstacle is that current broadband technology is not fast enough to enable the kinds
of whiz-bang, video-intensive applications that will help drive consumer use....
Even if the speed were there, the major studios are not making their video entertainment
available online until they are certain it cannot be pirated.
I just want a fast connection, so I don't wait 30 seconds for a page to download. I don't care about video. Is there a misconception that Joe Sixpack will want broadband only if movies are available? I think once people have tasted the speed of broadband, they want it and will pay a little more for it.
Both ideas have the scary potential to be aimed at earth for mass destruction. You can build in safe guards but people always find a way around such safe guards. In the wrong hands it could spell disaster. Human nature as it is, someone will find a creative way to do it.
These Hybrid Cars are cool. I own a 1992 Honda Civic VX. It was rated at 48 City and 52 Highway. I have gotten as high as 60 MPG. And it is a roomy car for a subcompact. Now days except for the hybrids you can not get a car with that good of gas mileage. Is that due to low gas prices? There are a lot of things one can do to improve gas mileage in cars, and the technology is not new.
People look after their own self interests. People will not reach out and help others until they are certain they have "enough", and that is a little more than they feel is necessary for others to have. Capitalism works because it is based on the idea that people will look after themselves. This is also why Capitalism needs to be restrained to prevent people's selfishness from oppressing others. This so called "GPL Society" assumes that people are naturally good and will share equally. Not true! It is a society that will not work.
If the government would require on all their networks IPv6 and IPSEC, that would go along way toward IPv6 and IPSEC being accepted and would improve network security. Nothing else needs to be done.
i never liked the big bang theory. it stinks of creationism.
Yes, the big bang theory can imply a creator, but since you appear to be against the idea of a "god" you are willing to reject the best theory out there. You are philosophically locked in to a certain view of the world, and it appears you refuse to accept evidence that might cause you to reconsider your world view.
Routers will not be upgraded to IPv6 until people are forced to. We want more IP addresses and the US government wants a secure (private) internet. To me the answer is for the US government to switch over to IPv6 because it is more secure. It would force the upgrades, and perhaps the US government would save some money and drop the idea of building their own private network for all their computers. This would get the process of the switchover started.
It is all about market share. The plan as now stands means Microsoft will increase its market share. Red Hat does not want to see that and it wants to get a foothold on the desktop, so the proposal. The lack of educational software is the big negative with Red Hat's proposal though by putting this proposal out there is shows those involved that Microsoft actually benefits in the long run from the current proposal. Microsoft likes this current proposal because it increases its market share.
Microsoft prides itself on providing boundless upward value to stockholders
This is what Microsoft is all about: profit. It is more focused on making money than any other company I know. It is Microsoft's laser beam focus. Nothing else matters to Microsoft so it acts accordingly. That is the Microsoft mentality.
There are good things about Globalism as well as bad. I welcome the free exchange of ideas and the ability to make the world a smaller place. I am concerned about the strong over powering the weak, and the greed that is involved. But as with everything human, there is a bad self-centered side to human nature that wants to dominate. We need checks and balances to keep that in check so that the good things about Globalism will shine.
if MusicCity had a different name like FileShareCountry. Their name says that they are in the business of sharing music and thus making illegal file sharing a likely part of their software business. It would be better if they were about the general business of sharing files.
I am glad to see the 2.4 VMs doing so well. I assume that Linus is not at all satisfied with the VM code and that is the reason the 2.5 branch is not started. Hopefully it will start soon when the VM trouble is solved!
History tells us that we should wait for version 3.0 before buying a Microsoft product. Consider this their "alpha" release (1.0). Wait several years for their "beta" release (2.0), and a few more for their 3.0 release. Then consider buying.
Government research has always been *nix oriented. I am in radar meteorology and most of our specialized software runs only on *nix machines. Linux clusters are becoming very popular, and are appearing everywhere in the atmospheric science community. Check out one of the bigger
clusters.
Standards that are true standards are decided by the majority that use the standards. If standards with RAND licensing come into being, will web sites adopt the new standard if a free alternative is available? I think that where there are standards with RAND licensing a second free unoffical standard will be developed. How will you avoid that from happening?
Linux was one of those "Toy" systems that broke out of the niche mode. What will be the next OS to do that?
So, is this the mighty Palm-killer?
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Microsoft lost the battle before they began to fight. If you are first to market and sell a large number to have a solid base, then you become the expected standard. Palm did that. It is up to Palm to lose that position. Microsoft has alot of resources but they came to the market after Palm had established themselves. Microsoft has to wait for Palm to fall far behind the PocketPC performance/price ratio before it can make any major headway into the market.
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One month is a good start, but I am afraid to do the job right will require more than a month to go through all that code carefully.
Good points! I have heard that some astrophysists are promoting the "Rare Earth" Hypothesis. They say that there are many factors required to create an earth-like planet and that conditions have to be just right with the right elements being formed by the right stars in the vinicity of a planet to form that is capable of life.
It makes one wonder if SETI will be sucessful.
I just want a fast connection, so I don't wait 30 seconds for a page to download. I don't care about video. Is there a misconception that Joe Sixpack will want broadband only if movies are available? I think once people have tasted the speed of broadband, they want it and will pay a little more for it.
I am now confused. Should I be excited?
Both ideas have the scary potential to be aimed at earth for mass destruction. You can build in safe guards but people always find a way around such safe guards. In the wrong hands it could spell disaster. Human nature as it is, someone will find a creative way to do it.
These Hybrid Cars are cool. I own a 1992 Honda Civic VX. It was rated at 48 City and 52 Highway. I have gotten as high as 60 MPG. And it is a roomy car for a subcompact. Now days except for the hybrids you can not get a car with that good of gas mileage. Is that due to low gas prices? There are a lot of things one can do to improve gas mileage in cars, and the technology is not new.
People look after their own self interests. People will not reach out and help others until they are certain they have "enough", and that is a little more than they feel is necessary for others to have. Capitalism works because it is based on the idea that people will look after themselves. This is also why Capitalism needs to be restrained to prevent people's selfishness from oppressing others. This so called "GPL Society" assumes that people are naturally good and will share equally. Not true! It is a society that will not work.
If the government would require on all their networks IPv6 and IPSEC, that would go along way toward IPv6 and IPSEC being accepted and would improve network security. Nothing else needs to be done.
Yes, the big bang theory can imply a creator, but since you appear to be against the idea of a "god" you are willing to reject the best theory out there. You are philosophically locked in to a certain view of the world, and it appears you refuse to accept evidence that might cause you to reconsider your world view.
Routers will not be upgraded to IPv6 until people are forced to. We want more IP addresses and the US government wants a secure (private) internet. To me the answer is for the US government to switch over to IPv6 because it is more secure. It would force the upgrades, and perhaps the US government would save some money and drop the idea of building their own private network for all their computers. This would get the process of the switchover started.
It is all about market share. The plan as now stands means Microsoft will increase its market share. Red Hat does not want to see that and it wants to get a foothold on the desktop, so the proposal. The lack of educational software is the big negative with Red Hat's proposal though by putting this proposal out there is shows those involved that Microsoft actually benefits in the long run from the current proposal. Microsoft likes this current proposal because it increases its market share.
I am always amazed at the amount of information is contained in DNA. I think they are just making use of that information to compute.
This is what Microsoft is all about: profit. It is more focused on making money than any other company I know. It is Microsoft's laser beam focus. Nothing else matters to Microsoft so it acts accordingly. That is the Microsoft mentality.
Watch "It's a Wonderful Life" and you would know that it is everytime a *bell* rings an angel gets its wings.
There are good things about Globalism as well as bad. I welcome the free exchange of ideas and the ability to make the world a smaller place. I am concerned about the strong over powering the weak, and the greed that is involved. But as with everything human, there is a bad self-centered side to human nature that wants to dominate. We need checks and balances to keep that in check so that the good things about Globalism will shine.
if MusicCity had a different name like FileShareCountry. Their name says that they are in the business of sharing music and thus making illegal file sharing a likely part of their software business. It would be better if they were about the general business of sharing files.
I wish they were more proactive!
I am glad to see the 2.4 VMs doing so well. I assume that Linus is not at all satisfied with the VM code and that is the reason the 2.5 branch is not started. Hopefully it will start soon when the VM trouble is solved!
History tells us that we should wait for version 3.0 before buying a Microsoft product. Consider this their "alpha" release (1.0). Wait several years for their "beta" release (2.0), and a few more for their 3.0 release. Then consider buying.
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Government research has always been *nix oriented. I am in radar meteorology and most of our specialized software runs only on *nix machines. Linux clusters are becoming very popular, and are appearing everywhere in the atmospheric science community. Check out one of the bigger clusters.
Standards that are true standards are decided by the majority that use the standards. If standards with RAND licensing come into being, will web sites adopt the new standard if a free alternative is available? I think that where there are standards with RAND licensing a second free unoffical standard will be developed. How will you avoid that from happening?
I am interested if they will pay shipping.
Linux was one of those "Toy" systems that broke out of the niche mode. What will be the next OS to do that?
Microsoft lost the battle before they began to fight. If you are first to market and sell a large number to have a solid base, then you become the expected standard. Palm did that. It is up to Palm to lose that position. Microsoft has alot of resources but they came to the market after Palm had established themselves. Microsoft has to wait for Palm to fall far behind the PocketPC performance/price ratio before it can make any major headway into the market.