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And what would stop the spammers from using this as a validation list for real email addresses? They could use their normal combination of mined / purchased / "brute-forced" addresses, hash'em and do a match against this list.
In XP it only appears Microsoft borrowed UCLA code for network related stuff (or they only choose to acknowledged the copyright holder for these). Licensed code from UCLA is also found in nslookup, finger, rcp and rsh. Perhaps Microsoft is using the university's inet_addr.c file? That would explain the same type of programs (network apps).
Interestingly enough, the number one acknowledged IP holder of MS seem to be Mark Russinovich (The guy at SysInternals). I really wonder what it is he has produced which is so essential that Microsoft includes his code in almost every single executable and library (on my system, he has copyrighted stuff in 99,8% of all ocx, dll and exe files)! Any takers on this one?
The 'cost' of Windows is not as straight forward as 'buying' a Windows 2K server license or downloading Red Hat. I know in my area that someone who is a real expert in W2K will cost around £30k/year and I'd have a choice of them, yet the cost for a Red Hat specialist is -far- more expensive. It's more in the £40k region at least, and I'd not have many to choose from. Therefore, the cost of the software is beset by the personnel costs.
Is the cost really beset? How many "help-runner monkeys" are there in an average corp. compared to "user monkeys"? At my current customer (a government branch) I'd say in their IT department there's about 50 tech. people (i.e. people who know more about comp.sci. than just writing PowerPoint pictures) out of a 150 people staff serving the entire branch which is about 10000 people. In your comparison, you mention a 25% diff in salary between Linux and MS techies. In this particular case that would mean a 1.25% difference in per capita price for support (provided that a Linux user and MS user has the same amount of problems taking similar time to solve, which in reality would probably not happen).
This 1.25% is IMO as small as makes no odds. It's negligible, as any other financial (or other) parameter between the two OSes will probably have a much larger impact.
Using Linux would incur an initial cost, where the company had to create a custom image, with suitable applications and set up a support scheme which work. However, I don't see this as being any different from whenever MS rolls out a new OS.
As for Linux being the savior of the corporate monkeys, it's not my belief at all. The real savior is centralized computing (yeah, we're back to the Mainframe kind of thought), preferably a web portal designed for business processes and letting each user simply use a thin client (in this regard, Linux would suit well here, as most monkeys would get by using just a browser and a JVM).
Thanks for the mod. Clearly you didn't read the comment at all, or you would have seen that it contains some valid observations presented with much irony. This vendor lock-in syndrome isn't something new and didn't start with Microsoft, but they're simply the ones which are able to pull this kind of crap the farthest.
If you still don't get it, the stuff within the parentheses are supposed to be valued opinions which represent both end-users' and Microsoft's.
A big change in Longhorn will be the new Windows Future Storage (WinFS) file system, based on SQL Server database technology and designed to give users a direct route to data, making the physical location of a file irrelevant. WinFS replaces the NTFS and FAT32 file systems used in current Windows versions.
And... Why not make it encrypted and require that every application which is loaded into memory is signed with a (MS)key and uses encrypted argument passing like the lovely "blackbox" dll (used in their DRM solution), so that only good and secure(MS certified) applications can access the file system or run at all? This ought to protect (stop) the average user (pirate) from accidentally (intentionally) running Hacker (ordinary and popular) tools, like non-MS development environments, debuggers or those pesky (great) hacker (command line) GNU utilities from the FSF hacker (support) organization.
Not trying to say that this thing will go anywhere, but... Shrink-wrap agreements which you have the ability to read only AFTER a purchase holds no water in most counties. AFAIK, these kinds of agreements haven't been proven to bear any legal value in the US either.
Point is, hiding some whishful text, which the consumer can not see, inside a purchased product can not dictate any kind of restriction or other whishful commitment on the customer's part.
- Give me all you money! - Why? - You're wearing a shirt which on the inside, just beside the laudry tag states "Any wearer of this shirt agrees to give all their money to whom ever asks for it".
Probably no signed artists, as the record labels 00wns th3m, so to speak. IIRC, an artist is often "forced" to give up quite a lot of things in order to even be signed (small things like their artist's name and such..)
Seen in that light, this probably won't make a difference to these artists. For unsigned though, it might be the chance they've always been waiting for!
The thing is that right now, all that has been announced over and over again are stated plans. Don't be suprised if nothing comes out of this when the price money has been distributed.
Also, it makes even more sense not to "join efforts", since each winning billionarie will get more $$$ for himself without losing out on anything (if the plan is indeed as hinted above).
He could simply watch an episode of Red Dwarf. IIRC, private Lister, the janitor had the lowest rank on the ship (if you're not counting the lab-rats).
a big FYI for people not used to HTML or/./. does allow a HTML feature called a hyperlink.
The purpose of a hyperlink is to make it easy for people to navigate to pages / resources of interest, without doing a "copy-paste" of a page's content onto the URL bar of their browser.
This is unfortunately yet another step in the trend which started a few years back. Every other month, reading/. makes me think that someone's agenda is to create a version of George Orwell's version of the future in which most people ( those not exempt from the laws, like politicians / party members) are fed FUD and punished for even the slightest of actions natural to a human society.
How many years until the US of A corp. is "re branded" Oceania? A chip on the shoulder at the moment is some minor opposition to external conflict, but give it some time, more FUD and more punishment the citizen of the US might succumb to the "master plan".
At the moment, great progress has been made into raising the public's aggression towards "Eurasia" (France, Germany..) and attempts have started fueling the same for "Eastasia" (Korea..).
One thing's for sure, I'll be watching the size of the common US dictionaries and if they start shrinking, I'll migrate to a third world island and start growing carrots or something.
- "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
I'm not sure this theory bears water either. If it is as you stated, why hasn't GPRS/3G been a hit creating opportunities for a bunch of content providers who can make a living?
Most of Europe (all of it?) has metered rates / cost per minute, for landlines. Here people are using the phones to talk with each other. SMS is used mostly by kids as they have pre-paid SIM cards without a subscription but instead having very high minute rates. Another reason (albeit minor) might be because it gives them something to do on the bus or the subway while listening to their minidiscs.
Anyway, I don't buy the argument that minute rates would be the explanation as Europe is in the exact same situation as Japan in that regard.
As I stated, I wasn't sure that 2.4 was the latest. But you should have been able to see the theory behind the argument and thus deduced that the latest branch +1 would be suitable, thus 2.6.
Versioning differs between projects, but unless there is a marketing needs, there is generally no point in inflating the numbers artificially as it'll A) create confusion and B) that there is a major release (e.g.. separate project / separately sponsored with new requirements and separate budget from a version released in a previous project).
Again, I'm not sure how you OSS guys mark these things or how this correlates to "corporate" development. Pardon my ignorance in the specifics.
Not entirely, the primary reason for the Japanese to be using their mobile phones to access network services is because a japanese home in average is considerably smaller than homes in the western world. They simply don't have much space to put computers and stuff. The mobile phone has become the platform of choice in Japan because the number of computers per capita is considerably lower than in the west while the japanese still have the same need for exchanging information as we have. Also playing in might be the cultural difference (which I have not yet investigated in any depth). One can wonder why the japanese cartoons have such a tremendous cultural impact in Japan and not in Europe for example.. There is something on the cultural side worth looking in to as well.
This is partly the reason why the Docomo didn't hit in the west and why half of the telecom sector is heading towards bankruptcy. They thought it was the content and spent quadrillions on 3G licenses, while it in fact was other factors no one apparently looked at, driving the wide adoption in Japan.
What's wrong with simply incrementing the version number by one?
<Major level>.<Minor level>.<Modification level>
Something I found in a very old configuration- and release management book in the back of my shelf.
Ok, I haven't followed the kernel development, as I couldn't care less. All I'm interested in is that it (the kernel) provides the services I need via documented interfaces and has a unique version name / number, which I can refer to when documenting and talking to people.
There is also a bit of logic in following a numbering scheme. Even a 5 year old knows that two comes after one but before three. If the current kernel is 2.4 (which I'm not sure it is), then it'd follow some logic and common sense in giving the next version the number 2.5.
As people have pointed out, the kernel name has a market impact of close to nil and as such, I can't really see a justification for confusing people by skipping numbers.
Anyway, that's my take on this. Opinions are sure to differ.
The quantum leap from "Pong" and "Pacman" to "The Legend of Zelda" or "Grand Theft Auto"
What's wrong with the words evolution or progression? It's like saying "Mankind took a quantum leap from Squibbly things in the water, to crawling in mud, to apes and finally overweighed geeks".
"We're going to surpass Hollywood in entertainment value."
What he's actually saying is "sure, 10-20 years ago, this was already true with Bard's Tale and the like, but now we will be able to do bad impressions of these games but with more polygons while sitting in offices taken over from the crashed dot.com companies".
What isn't mentioned though is that the next consoles will be 1-2 years delayed and in the mean time some of these polygon monsters will instead be released for the PC, forcing each gamer to play the upgrade game yet once or trice.
True, I did not read the article. I've read about 50 of them in the last year and was assuming (wrongly in this case) that this one stated what the other 50 had. My mistake. Regarding your observation of the fact that games are driving the industry. I second that, but there is also one other thing. Java development.Not long ago, I had to purchase one of IBM's most powerful laptops available, just to meet the minimum req. of 1 Gig memory and 1 GHz processor for J2EE development. This machine will have a life span of 6 months before it'll be sent for destruction. Running huge frameworks on top of application servers eats memory and CPU like nothing besides games and 3D/ video processing. I'd estimate most consumers of powerful workstations are gamers. In second place Java developers and then far behind 3D and video specialists. These few are the only suckers which HAVE TO upgrade all the time.
Quite frankly I'm starting to get fed up with the argument "But hardware is cheep".
At least with Intel if their DRM pisses off Joe sixpack the Government can take heavy action e.g. forcing Intel to kill DRM or treating Intel as "terrorists" and freezing Intel's bank accounts and indibting all Managers under the new Enron laws
Indeed, exactly like the strong armed way they dealt with Microsoft. Why did I for a second doubt the government, thinking it was simply a puppet from Sesame street, held in strings by the corporations. Silly notion. You are of course correct as proof has clearly stated during the last few years.
Ahm. Without IP Laws there would be no need for GPL!
GPL is simply here to counter weigh the ever stricter IP Laws. If IP would be missing you would be free to do whatever you wanted with anything immaterial.
I'm perceiving my modest 1GHz Athlon desktop as sounding like a vacuum cleaner. I dare not envision how the monsters in the article would sound. Who would like to shell out $4K for a machine sounding like a jet engine warming up? Do these gamers live far into the woods, where they can crank up their 900 watt speakers in order to hear anything in a game like Thief (where the audio clues is most important)? Or did they accomplish the same thrashing of their eardrums by using head phones on maximum volume? How else can they stand the noise?
What fun is a "super gaming rig" if you can only stand sitting near it for 15 minutes?
Personally, I'd rather pay a premium for a quiet machine. I'd pay as much as 50% extra to get a silent desktop. Until some progress is done on the noise arena, I'm sticking to my silent IBM laptops. For me gaming on a PC is dead and will be until the manufacturers start taking this problem seriously.
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And what would stop the spammers from using this as a validation list for real email addresses?
They could use their normal combination of mined / purchased / "brute-forced" addresses, hash'em and do a match against this list.
I still don't see this solving the problem.
In XP it only appears Microsoft borrowed UCLA code for network related stuff (or they only choose to acknowledged the copyright holder for these). Licensed code from UCLA is also found in nslookup, finger, rcp and rsh. Perhaps Microsoft is using the university's inet_addr.c file? That would explain the same type of programs (network apps).
Interestingly enough, the number one acknowledged IP holder of MS seem to be Mark Russinovich (The guy at SysInternals). I really wonder what it is he has produced which is so essential that Microsoft includes his code in almost every single executable and library (on my system, he has copyrighted stuff in 99,8% of all ocx, dll and exe files)! Any takers on this one?
The 'cost' of Windows is not as straight forward as 'buying' a Windows 2K server license or downloading Red Hat. I know in my area that someone who is a real expert in W2K will cost around £30k/year and I'd have a choice of them, yet the cost for a Red Hat specialist is -far- more expensive. It's more in the £40k region at least, and I'd not have many to choose from. Therefore, the cost of the software is beset by the personnel costs.
Is the cost really beset? How many "help-runner monkeys" are there in an average corp. compared to "user monkeys"? At my current customer (a government branch) I'd say in their IT department there's about 50 tech. people (i.e. people who know more about comp.sci. than just writing PowerPoint pictures) out of a 150 people staff serving the entire branch which is about 10000 people. In your comparison, you mention a 25% diff in salary between Linux and MS techies. In this particular case that would mean a 1.25% difference in per capita price for support (provided that a Linux user and MS user has the same amount of problems taking similar time to solve, which in reality would probably not happen).
This 1.25% is IMO as small as makes no odds. It's negligible, as any other financial (or other) parameter between the two OSes will probably have a much larger impact.
Using Linux would incur an initial cost, where the company had to create a custom image, with suitable applications and set up a support scheme which work. However, I don't see this as being any different from whenever MS rolls out a new OS.
As for Linux being the savior of the corporate monkeys, it's not my belief at all. The real savior is centralized computing (yeah, we're back to the Mainframe kind of thought), preferably a web portal designed for business processes and letting each user simply use a thin client (in this regard, Linux would suit well here, as most monkeys would get by using just a browser and a JVM).
Thanks for the mod. Clearly you didn't read the comment at all, or you would have seen that it contains some valid observations presented with much irony.
This vendor lock-in syndrome isn't something new and didn't start with Microsoft, but they're simply the ones which are able to pull this kind of crap the farthest.
If you still don't get it, the stuff within the parentheses are supposed to be valued opinions which represent both end-users' and Microsoft's.
"Longhorn" is instantly recognizable as a well-known breed of cattle.
And cattle is what MS in this case refers to... the intended customers?
A big change in Longhorn will be the new Windows Future Storage (WinFS) file system, based on SQL Server database technology and designed to give users a direct route to data, making the physical location of a file irrelevant. WinFS replaces the NTFS and FAT32 file systems used in current Windows versions.
And... Why not make it encrypted and require that every application which is loaded into memory is signed with a (MS)key and uses encrypted argument passing like the lovely "blackbox" dll (used in their DRM solution), so that only good and secure(MS certified) applications can access the file system or run at all? This ought to protect (stop) the average user (pirate) from accidentally (intentionally) running Hacker (ordinary and popular) tools, like non-MS development environments, debuggers or those pesky (great) hacker (command line) GNU utilities from the FSF hacker (support) organization.
Not trying to say that this thing will go anywhere, but... Shrink-wrap agreements which you have the ability to read only AFTER a purchase holds no water in most counties. AFAIK, these kinds of agreements haven't been proven to bear any legal value in the US either.
Point is, hiding some whishful text, which the consumer can not see, inside a purchased product can not dictate any kind of restriction or other whishful commitment on the customer's part.
- Give me all you money!
- Why?
- You're wearing a shirt which on the inside, just beside the laudry tag states "Any wearer of this shirt agrees to give all their money to whom ever asks for it".
'ts Stupid.
Probably no signed artists, as the record labels 00wns th3m, so to speak. IIRC, an artist is often "forced" to give up quite a lot of things in order to even be signed (small things like their artist's name and such..)
Seen in that light, this probably won't make a difference to these artists. For unsigned though, it might be the chance they've always been waiting for!
The thing is that right now, all that has been announced over and over again are stated plans. Don't be suprised if nothing comes out of this when the price money has been distributed.
Also, it makes even more sense not to "join efforts", since each winning billionarie will get more $$$ for himself without losing out on anything (if the plan is indeed as hinted above).
He could simply watch an episode of Red Dwarf. IIRC, private Lister, the janitor had the lowest rank on the ship (if you're not counting the lab-rats).
The purpose of a hyperlink is to make it easy for people to navigate to pages / resources of interest, without doing a "copy-paste" of a page's content onto the URL bar of their browser.
Below is an example of a HTML hyperlink anchor.
See not that hard, now was it? Perhaps we could all try to use this "new" piece of technological gizmo?
Still, judging by the financial records, MS still dwarfs what is seen as the industry's #1 gigant IBM.
(From the same source as the parent post)
MSFT 1Q
Total Assets: $68,379,000,000
Total Liabilities: $14,079,000,000
(Total Worth: $54,300,000,000)
IBM 1Q
Total Assets: $83,056,000,000
Total Liabilities: $60,005,000,000
(Total Worth: $23,051,000,000)
This is unfortunately yet another step in the trend which started a few years back. Every other month, reading /. makes me think that someone's agenda is to create a version of George Orwell's version of the future in which most people ( those not exempt from the laws, like politicians / party members) are fed FUD and punished for even the slightest of actions natural to a human society.
..) and attempts have started fueling the same for "Eastasia" (Korea..).
How many years until the US of A corp. is "re branded" Oceania? A chip on the shoulder at the moment is some minor opposition to external conflict, but give it some time, more FUD and more punishment the citizen of the US might succumb to the "master plan".
At the moment, great progress has been made into raising the public's aggression towards "Eurasia" (France, Germany
One thing's for sure, I'll be watching the size of the common US dictionaries and if they start shrinking, I'll migrate to a third world island and start growing carrots or something.
- "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
I'm not sure this theory bears water either. If it is as you stated, why hasn't GPRS/3G been a hit creating opportunities for a bunch of content providers who can make a living?
Most of Europe (all of it?) has metered rates / cost per minute, for landlines. Here people are using the phones to talk with each other. SMS is used mostly by kids as they have pre-paid SIM cards without a subscription but instead having very high minute rates. Another reason (albeit minor) might be because it gives them something to do on the bus or the subway while listening to their minidiscs.
Anyway, I don't buy the argument that minute rates would be the explanation as Europe is in the exact same situation as Japan in that regard.
As I stated, I wasn't sure that 2.4 was the latest. But you should have been able to see the theory behind the argument and thus deduced that the latest branch +1 would be suitable, thus 2.6.
Versioning differs between projects, but unless there is a marketing needs, there is generally no point in inflating the numbers artificially as it'll A) create confusion and B) that there is a major release (e.g.. separate project / separately sponsored with new requirements and separate budget from a version released in a previous project).
Again, I'm not sure how you OSS guys mark these things or how this correlates to "corporate" development. Pardon my ignorance in the specifics.
Not entirely, the primary reason for the Japanese to be using their mobile phones to access network services is because a japanese home in average is considerably smaller than homes in the western world. They simply don't have much space to put computers and stuff. The mobile phone has become the platform of choice in Japan because the number of computers per capita is considerably lower than in the west while the japanese still have the same need for exchanging information as we have. Also playing in might be the cultural difference (which I have not yet investigated in any depth). One can wonder why the japanese cartoons have such a tremendous cultural impact in Japan and not in Europe for example.. There is something on the cultural side worth looking in to as well.
This is partly the reason why the Docomo didn't hit in the west and why half of the telecom sector is heading towards bankruptcy. They thought it was the content and spent quadrillions on 3G licenses, while it in fact was other factors no one apparently looked at, driving the wide adoption in Japan.
A wild take on some of the coming comments: "privacy inavsion", "Like the movie Gattica", "trating people as criminals" ...
<Major level>.<Minor level>.<Modification level>
Something I found in a very old configuration- and release management book in the back of my shelf.
Ok, I haven't followed the kernel development, as I couldn't care less. All I'm interested in is that it (the kernel) provides the services I need via documented interfaces and has a unique version name / number, which I can refer to when documenting and talking to people.
There is also a bit of logic in following a numbering scheme. Even a 5 year old knows that two comes after one but before three. If the current kernel is 2.4 (which I'm not sure it is), then it'd follow some logic and common sense in giving the next version the number 2.5.
As people have pointed out, the kernel name has a market impact of close to nil and as such, I can't really see a justification for confusing people by skipping numbers.
Anyway, that's my take on this. Opinions are sure to differ.
True, I did not read the article. I've read about 50 of them in the last year and was assuming (wrongly in this case) that this one stated what the other 50 had. My mistake.
Regarding your observation of the fact that games are driving the industry. I second that, but there is also one other thing. Java development.Not long ago, I had to purchase one of IBM's most powerful laptops available, just to meet the minimum req. of 1 Gig memory and 1 GHz processor for J2EE development. This machine will have a life span of 6 months before it'll be sent for destruction. Running huge frameworks on top of application servers eats memory and CPU like nothing besides games and 3D/ video processing. I'd estimate most consumers of powerful workstations are gamers. In second place Java developers and then far behind 3D and video specialists. These few are the only suckers which HAVE TO upgrade all the time.
Quite frankly I'm starting to get fed up with the argument "But hardware is cheep".
And that makes them quiet?
Or you could simply go out and buy any CPU on the market as none of them as DRM inside(TM).
Indeed, exactly like the strong armed way they dealt with Microsoft. Why did I for a second doubt the government, thinking it was simply a puppet from Sesame street, held in strings by the corporations. Silly notion. You are of course correct as proof has clearly stated during the last few years.
GPL is simply here to counter weigh the ever stricter IP Laws. If IP would be missing you would be free to do whatever you wanted with anything immaterial.
Sorry, I can't see your argument.
I'm perceiving my modest 1GHz Athlon desktop as sounding like a vacuum cleaner. I dare not envision how the monsters in the article would sound. Who would like to shell out $4K for a machine sounding like a jet engine warming up? Do these gamers live far into the woods, where they can crank up their 900 watt speakers in order to hear anything in a game like Thief (where the audio clues is most important)? Or did they accomplish the same thrashing of their eardrums by using head phones on maximum volume? How else can they stand the noise?
What fun is a "super gaming rig" if you can only stand sitting near it for 15 minutes?
Personally, I'd rather pay a premium for a quiet machine. I'd pay as much as 50% extra to get a silent desktop. Until some progress is done on the noise arena, I'm sticking to my silent IBM laptops. For me gaming on a PC is dead and will be until the manufacturers start taking this problem seriously.