I globally agree, but as, in the land of the free, contrary to socialist Europe, corporations earn money providing a public service (broadcasting news and entertainement) in place of state TV (BBC, France Televisions...).
If they are no longer profitable, the service disappear. So, without national broadcasting, you have to protect them, in the interest of the public.
Note: I don't believe half what I just wrote, but it could be an explanation.
some cop is "killed" and become a secret martial art expert helping a secret organisation fight evil, notably some mega corp that destroy some star war satelite they where supposed to build. But they just build some wood fake, and hope to cash governement funds and insurance money to help them rebuild their super high tech laboratory that was desroyed with the satelite (or so I remember)
The world explained to geeks, inspired by the famous "for dummies" serie, is a work in progress. The objective is to explain to highly rational persons how the world really work.
Usually, big corporation does not have voluntarily an illegal comportement. Well, not really anyway.
"So, in fact, we should negociate.
Yeah, I know, but I didn't have time to bother, I was trying to be first in the market, now we can clean up the situation. "
"And I know the trademark is registered, but as long as they don't sue... and when they sue, we just change it, using the opportunity to communicate with customer how we are different and best."
All that is business as usual. It is not (for non-geeks) dishonest. After the fact, if there is a problem, we can negociate. And you can slap my wrist.
Now, with the GPL, there is no possible negociation. So it is very difficult for PHB to manage business with GPL products. They lack habits. Managing is often knowing how too far you can go. With GPL, they cannot negociate, and they are lost.
So the article does not make sense for rationnal geeks, but the GPL and the reactions does not make sense either for PHB.
no, the camera is only to check that only registered paying users of the system watch the movie. In the following case (among others) you will receive an additionnal invoice: * your parents are visiting, and watch the movie: add 5$ per viewer * you babysit children of the neighborhood : add 2.5 $ per child * your pet is watching tv : add 1$, except in case of mainly animal movie, in which case add 5$
RACF doesn't run on NT, it need some support from a true OS. Going COTS give you COTS quality, and even less, because integration of components can be a lot weaker than all components independently tested. But if MicroSoft was able to get 90% of the market despite it's insecurity, perhaps it means that 90% of human beings does not consider security important. So a corruptable voting system is perhaps the most democratic one...
short term : chinese jobs are protected middle term : West is implementing trusted,drm compliant, whatever systems. China cannot sell (unlawful material, because open) long term : illegality considered illegal barrier to trade by wto. West can use free chinese programs/systems. Intel & Microsoft become irrelevants
You can launch perfectly RFC-compliant DoS attacks...
Not sure about this one. Of course, you can mount a DoS compliant with a RFC, but with all of them? (even restricting all to current standards ? even restricting all to current BCP?)
But the surface of this billboard is not a liquid crystal diode screen...
Of course, it seems serious when one explain acronyms like LCD. But mixing display and diode, even if errors does happen, is not good presage for the quality of the research in the article. Smell like corporate announcement camouflaged as news.
a New York-based display technology company whose name, Magink, is a combination of the words magic and ink
What is the level of the NYT reader? Even me, not native english speaker, had comprehended the play on words. Smell badder by the minute.
Magink prototype screens are capable of displaying video images at more than 70 frames a second, twice the speed needed to produce smooth, cinematic motion.
If movies can go at 24 pps, 70 is quite 3 time what is needed, not 2. Is this really the technology section?
of course, in a foreign language and in english also. Accorn, Apple, Atari,... to speak only about computer companies begining with the letter A and of which I can think at the moment.
How can you trust a market where the exchange manager is itself a player. What if Nasdaq (the company running the exchange) is playing on high tech stocks ? Speak about conflict of interest. It is much worse than insider trading.
One such system, compliant at Unix95 level is OS/390 by Ibm with compatability extensions..., but after practicing it a few months, I'm very happy the project I work for is back on Sun. Saying this is Unix prove beyond all doubt that unix doesn't means anything anymore. it is not hp/ux, it is not bsd, it is not att unix, it is not xenix, it is not sunos nor solaris, it is not linux, it is not os X(I think that resume all those *nix systems I've practiced in the past 15 years), it is a travestite of os390 There are fundamental differences in philosophy that make you feel on a mainframe, even if you have a (very small) subset of the usual commands.
On first may 1899, a french car named "Jamais Contente" (never satisfied), driven by a belgian driver called JENATZY, was the first car to pass the 100 km/h mark. It was an electric car.
Of course, 130mph is quite 2 times 100 km/h, but, in 104 year, we could have hoped more progress.
For more infos on this strange vehicule, use your favorite search engine.
1. "What we've filed a patent for is the whole method of combining.zip and strong encryption to create a secure.zip file," said Steve Crawford, the chief marketing officer at PKWare. The patent was filed with the Patent Office on July 16, he said. 2.In May of this year, WinZip developed its own method of strong encryption, which incompatible with the PKWare product. 3.Crawford believes that WinZip will be a potential licensee. "The basic approach of combining encryption of.zip is covered by the patent, so what WinZip has done, I believe, would be covered by the patent."
If 3 is true, 2 is clearly prior art. So why patent?
5% of windows installations that report to redmond crashes 2 or more times a day. How many of you press cancel when the error report is to be send ? If user are not completely stupids(did you already read a report and understood all what to be send to MS), 90% of crashes are not reported. And 5% are so crashed they are not in a state to do any reporting. so we now have 100% of all windows installations.
as multiple birth are a lot more frequent with IVF, doesn't that skew the statistics? Was it the number of births (including multiple) or the number of born children ?(considering that twins are 2 childrens, but 1 birth)
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I globally agree, but as, in the land of the free, contrary to socialist Europe, corporations earn money providing a public service (broadcasting news and entertainement) in place of state TV (BBC, France Televisions...).
If they are no longer profitable, the service disappear. So, without national broadcasting, you have to protect them, in the interest of the public.
Note: I don't believe half what I just wrote, but it could be an explanation.
as long as patches are trustworthy...
not always the case
(without speaking of versions the provider decided to discontinue)
some cop is "killed" and become a secret martial art expert helping a secret organisation fight evil, notably some mega corp that destroy some star war satelite they where supposed to build. But they just build some wood fake, and hope to cash governement funds and insurance money to help them rebuild their super high tech laboratory that was desroyed with the satelite (or so I remember)
did it occur to you, or where you remembering
"Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins", a 1985 movie.
...folowing by USSR was bad new for US space science.
Send a chinese in space, and all of a sudden, space is interesting.
Can americans be rulled without an official enemy ?
Usually, big corporation does not have voluntarily an illegal comportement. Well, not really anyway.
"So, in fact, we should negociate. Yeah, I know, but I didn't have time to bother, I was trying to be first in the market, now we can clean up the situation. "
"And I know the trademark is registered, but as long as they don't sue... and when they sue, we just change it, using the opportunity to communicate with customer how we are different and best."
All that is business as usual. It is not (for non-geeks) dishonest. After the fact, if there is a problem, we can negociate. And you can slap my wrist.
Now, with the GPL, there is no possible negociation. So it is very difficult for PHB to manage business with GPL products. They lack habits. Managing is often knowing how too far you can go. With GPL, they cannot negociate, and they are lost.
So the article does not make sense for rationnal geeks, but the GPL and the reactions does not make sense either for PHB.
just use darwin, you get the OS, just lacking the GUI and all those cool apps
no, the camera is only to check that only registered paying users of the system watch the movie. :
In the following case (among others) you will receive an additionnal invoice
* your parents are visiting, and watch the movie: add 5$ per viewer
* you babysit children of the neighborhood : add 2.5 $ per child
* your pet is watching tv : add 1$, except in case of mainly animal movie, in which case add 5$
Fortune is for PHB. Did you see requirements written by PHB?
RACF doesn't run on NT, it need some support from a true OS.
Going COTS give you COTS quality, and even less, because integration of components can be a lot weaker than all components independently tested.
But if MicroSoft was able to get 90% of the market despite it's insecurity, perhaps it means that 90% of human beings does not consider security important. So a corruptable voting system is perhaps the most democratic one...
short term : chinese jobs are protected
middle term : West is implementing trusted,drm compliant, whatever systems. China cannot sell (unlawful material, because open)
long term : illegality considered illegal barrier to trade by wto. West can use free chinese programs/systems. Intel & Microsoft become irrelevants
One can always dream...
You can launch perfectly RFC-compliant DoS attacks...
Not sure about this one. Of course, you can mount a DoS compliant with a RFC, but with all of them? (even restricting all to current standards ? even restricting all to current BCP?)
But the surface of this billboard is not a liquid crystal diode screen...
Of course, it seems serious when one explain acronyms like LCD. But mixing display and diode, even if errors does happen, is not good presage for the quality of the research in the article. Smell like corporate announcement camouflaged as news.
a New York-based display technology company whose name, Magink, is a combination of the words magic and ink
What is the level of the NYT reader? Even me, not native english speaker, had comprehended the play on words. Smell badder by the minute.
Magink prototype screens are capable of displaying video images at more than 70 frames a second, twice the speed needed to produce smooth, cinematic motion.
If movies can go at 24 pps, 70 is quite 3 time what is needed, not 2. Is this really the technology section?
not from quake, from doom.
There was an interresting article on the subject in DDJ a couple of year ago, from one of those people at Id.
doas they pay a licence to have the right to perform Star Spangled Banner ?
in many countries, GSM operators are required to turn encryption off.
of course, in a foreign language and in english also. Accorn, Apple, Atari, ... to speak only about computer companies begining with the letter A and of which I can think at the moment.
being traded and being an active player are not the same thing.
How can you trust a market where the exchange manager is itself a player. What if Nasdaq (the company running the exchange) is playing on high tech stocks ? Speak about conflict of interest. It is much worse than insider trading.
you suppose that implementations respect requirements?
One such system, compliant at Unix95 level is OS/390 by Ibm with compatability extensions..., but after practicing it a few months, I'm very happy the project I work for is back on Sun.
Saying this is Unix prove beyond all doubt that unix doesn't means anything anymore.
it is not hp/ux, it is not bsd, it is not att unix, it is not xenix, it is not sunos nor solaris, it is not linux, it is not os X(I think that resume all those *nix systems I've practiced in the past 15 years), it is a travestite of os390
There are fundamental differences in philosophy that make you feel on a mainframe, even if you have a (very small) subset of the usual commands.
On first may 1899, a french car named "Jamais Contente" (never satisfied), driven by a belgian driver called JENATZY, was the first car to pass the 100 km/h mark. It was an electric car.
Of course, 130mph is quite 2 times 100 km/h, but, in 104 year, we could have hoped more progress.
For more infos on this strange vehicule, use your favorite search engine.
1. "What we've filed a patent for is the whole method of combining.zip and strong encryption to create a secure.zip file," said Steve Crawford, the chief marketing officer at PKWare. The patent was filed with the Patent Office on July 16, he said.
2.In May of this year, WinZip developed its own method of strong encryption, which incompatible with the PKWare product.
3.Crawford believes that WinZip will be a potential licensee. "The basic approach of combining encryption of.zip is covered by the patent, so what WinZip has done, I believe, would be covered by the patent."
If 3 is true, 2 is clearly prior art. So why patent?
There is something rotten in IP kingdom.
5% of windows installations that report to redmond crashes 2 or more times a day.
How many of you press cancel when the error report is to be send ?
If user are not completely stupids(did you already read a report and understood all what to be send to MS), 90% of crashes are not reported. And 5% are so crashed they are not in a state to do any reporting. so we now have 100% of all windows installations.
as multiple birth are a lot more frequent with IVF, doesn't that skew the statistics?
Was it the number of births (including multiple) or the number of born children ?(considering that twins are 2 childrens, but 1 birth)