The MPEG-4 standard contains technology copyrighted by an assortment of companies, and so anyone who uses the Open DivX code for business purposes could be walking into a patent minefield.
So they opened it, big deal. Regardless of your opinion on IP patents, they still stole it in the legal sense of the term so opening it doesn't help Open Source in any way.
Hughes Technologies re-enters the market and prepares to release the third generation of the Mini SQL database software.
In the early months of the year 2000, certain matters that are internal to the company forced it to suspend all activities associated with its primary product, Mini SQL. As of the 1st of January 2001, those matters have been resolved and the company is now preparing itself to start offering the products and services for which it was known.
"Our absence from the market has been disappointing for both our user base and ourselves." stated David Hughes, Managing Director. "Although we left the product available from the web site and didn't charge anybody who decided to use it, the lack of continued development and technical support has certainly hurt our users. In the next few weeks our operation will be back to full speed and we hope that users of our products will be happy with the software and support once again."
From the first of January, the development team has been working feverishly to prepare the first public release of the third generation mSQL product. A complete source code audit has been undertaken and the software has been modified extensively to improve it's underlying quality and stability. "Virtually every line of code has been inspected during the audit. The result is that the source has been modularised and rationalised to improve stability, reliability, and our ability to further enhance the software" says Hughes. Further details of the many enhancements made to the software will be made available on the web site at www.Hughes.com.au.
With the development team now back into full operation, the support and administration side of the company will start public work as of the 1st of February 2001.The release schedule for the mSQL 3.0 starts with an initial public release on the 15th of February 2001.
Current figures are more like 2GB/day, or they were last time I checked, at least a year ago.
Average daily traffic is around 175GB/day. It's broken 200GB on some peak days. It's been almost approximately a year since traffic broke the 100GB mark, and about 30GB the year before that, so I don't know what figures you were checking, unless that was a typo or you were referring to a non-binary feed. The last time a full Usenet feed was around 2GB was January of 96. That had already doubled by January of 97.
here are situations where racism is not bad for a company - for instance, when there is a plentyful pool of suitable talent to draw from, so that the racist organisation is no worse off for its refusal to make use of certain qualified groups.
That situation could exist, I suppose. But not in this case. There's no one out there who would say that there's a plentiful pool of skilled anyone in the technical fields. At a time when an MCSE straight out of a "boot camp" can almost distate his own employment terms, employers aren't turning people away.
Also, sometimes it is conceivably better for a company to be racist/sexist, from a purely economic point of view.
Then that's not racist. Racism is not hiring for no other reason than they're minority/women. There are other, non race/gender issues as the deciding factors here. Those people are not being hired because it's more expensive to do so. This is the same argument women's groups use. The simple fact is that women (as a conglomerate group) are more expensive to employ, generally because they work less hours due to family responsibilities. That's not being "sexist," that's protecting your bottom line. It's like hiring a team of women to move 300lb boxes by hand and wondering why they're less productive than a team of men. There are plenty of individual women out there who outshine men and rise to the top, that's the fallacy of averages.
Do you think it's "racist" that American companies move their production facilities to Asian countries and lay off white workers on America? Is Nike racist towards the white man because they hire almost entirely Filipinos to make their shoes? Of course not, they hire the people that will make their shoes for the least amount of money.
Why would a company handicap itself by deliberately excluding either a market sector or a skilled job pool? There's no logical reason. Individuals can be racist, companies cannot be. Isolated incidents will happen, but such rampant supposed racism at high levels in a bastion of capitalism like Microsoft is beyond the realm of plausability.
Competing standards in mobile phones do suck just like having multiple incompatible PC hardware standards would suck.
You mean like Apple and the PC? Or Intel and AMD? Doesn't seem to have hurt anything. In fact the latter seems to be driving technology and preventing complacency. I consider that quite a good thing.
but I would have to pay a fortune for a mobile that would work everywhere in the US
And why is that? A tri-band phone costs about the same as any other feature laden phone out there. All three GSM frequencies. Sprint, for one, offers an International Roaming plan. Unless you're talking about lack of GSM coverage, but that's not relevant to GSM itself. The US is a much larger and sprawling country than those in Europe, there's plenty of areas in the US that have no coverage of any type, even analog cellular.
Europe will have 3G (high-speed wireless) well before the US thanks to GSM, so how can it be a bad thing
If Europe has 3G first, it won't have anything to do with GSM, as that's certainly available here.
Also GSM allows for multiple frequencies, so how can there not be frequencies for GSM but there are for three competing standards
Doesn't anybody do any research before posting? There's plenty of room for GSM, we just put it on a different frequency than Europe and Asia did.
Oh yeah, competition in standards is good isn't it. I mean how could the internet work at all if everyone was forced to use the same standard to access it. (TCP/IP)
You're not forced to use any particular protocol. You could use IPX/SPX, or NetBEUI, or AppleTalk. Whichever protocol you like. All those standards compete with TCP/IP. If you want to get on the Internet you'll use TCP/IP because that's what everyone else is using. If you bring your laptop over to my house and plug it into my network you'll use NetBEUI if you want to get connected. Obviously more people want to get on the Internet than on my network, so TCP/IP is the most popular protocol. That's how competition works, the "good" protocols thrive and the "bad" ones fall into disuse. With GSM the various European governments pretty much came along and said "you will use GSM." That's a bad thing, regardless of how you feel about the particular standard.
I don't tihnk anyone is going to set a TV show to "Record Never" or "Record Once"
Then you have poor reading comprehension. See the last paragraph of the article:
"The entertainment industry now wants ''copy once'' designation on all cable programming. And at least two companies would like it on over-the-air programming, too, if they can get it."
What's the fascination you Americans have with control and censorship? you just don't seem happy unless you're attempting to exert control over others.
True....especially the French or Germans. They would never ban anything that I can think of. Then again, only the government can truly ban something, and that's just not the case with DTV.
But, I guess you'll have to go invent your own standards and multiple versions of them
Yeah....competing standards sure do suck. I hate having choice. Like those damn Linix users. Why did they have to go invent all these new standards when Microsoft had everything planned out?
if your mobile phone industry is anything to go by.
I assume that was a shot at GSM? Do a little fact checking next time. The frequencies Europe and Asia use for GSM were already allocated in the US before mobile phones even came into real use. If Europe was so hot on getting a worldwide standard, maybe it should have checked around first. As the common cry of European slashdotters goes, there are other countries beyond your little world you know.
With Usenet traffic over 200gigs/day this baby oughta have the power to keep up without the meltdowns that periodically plague most news providers. Not to mention some sweet retention in the process.
Six months after it's released, not six months after it's done running (who could define such a thing?). Rocky Horror has been eligible for video for 24 1/2 years.
Unless they are offering you contacts, you are really not getting much.
Well, they do offer contacts, but you still don't seem to be getting much. The field of "Technology" comes up with 63 biddable projects. Everything from Unix admin, to VB programmer, to "work at home, send for info" type jobs, only a small portion of which any given person is likely to be qualified for.
Anybody who is morally-straight and nazi-ish enough to develop this stuff couldn't possibly test it on the real thing, because it would violate their beliefs.
What exactly makes them hypocrites or "nazi-ish"? Maybe they like looking at pr0n themselves on their own time, but want to keep it out of their workplace. You have no idea. Suggesting what you do about the makers of the software, with no knowledge of them personally, is what's hypocritical. Tools and their creators cannot be villified, only actions. Or at least that's the hue and cry when certain "hacking" tools occasionally come up for banning. Do you believe everyone who's written, say port scanning software, is a malicious hax0r? So why do you believe everyone who writes filtering software is a "hypocritical nazi"? You can't have it both ways.
You can think of Kylix as Delphi and C++Builder for Linux. Kylix will have a feature set very similar to the Windows versions of Delphi and C++Builder and is being designed to leverage existing Delphi and C++Builder projects and programming skills.
Kylix is being designed to simply recompile basic applications with minimal changes if any. However, most complete Delphi applications will likely require at least some modification in order to compile with Kylix. The changes will mostly center around a developer's direct calls to Win32 and the availability of 3rd party components on Kylix. Though some source changes may be necessary, porting from Windows to Linux with Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix will by far be the fastest and easiest way to build native applications for both platforms.
Not being a Linux programmer (or more than a causal user), what does this mean for those using the KDE desktop (or others)? Will Kylix apps not run with KDE, only GNOME? Or will it simply mean they won't "look right" under KDE?
Okay, first of all, they're not portscanning. And second of all, they're not violating any AUP:
"I'm not aware of Quova doing anything invasive, or anything that could be considered a denial of service attack," says Eric Uratchko, policy enforcement specialist for Exodus. "If they were, we would certainly take action."
And really, how could they be? If a ping and traceroute is a violation of an AUP, then everyone is guilty. Quova isn't interfering with anyone's network operations, at worst they're a little rude. This overreaction is just coming from a paranoid network climate.
Friends of Wesley have been keeping the athome.discussion-athomesvc group updated on his status. At last report he was waiting for a Nov 3rd install of Telocity SDSL. Uploads are faster than @Home, they give static IPs and allow servers. @Home will have a tough time trying to shut down
that
setup. It would be pretty funny to see if they try to get a DSL provider to take some sort of action against a user criticizing cable.
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So they opened it, big deal. Regardless of your opinion on IP patents, they still stole it in the legal sense of the term so opening it doesn't help Open Source in any way.
For Immediate Release
Hughes Technologies re-enters the market and prepares to release the third generation of the Mini SQL database software.
In the early months of the year 2000, certain matters that are internal to the company forced it to suspend all activities associated with its primary product, Mini SQL. As of the 1st of January 2001, those matters have been resolved and the company is now preparing itself to start offering the products and services for which it was known.
"Our absence from the market has been disappointing for both our user base and ourselves." stated David Hughes, Managing Director. "Although we left the product available from the web site and didn't charge anybody who decided to use it, the lack of continued development and technical support has certainly hurt our users. In the next few weeks our operation will be back to full speed and we hope that users of our products will be happy with the software and support once again."
From the first of January, the development team has been working feverishly to prepare the first public release of the third generation mSQL product. A complete source code audit has been undertaken and the software has been modified extensively to improve it's underlying quality and stability. "Virtually every line of code has been inspected during the audit. The result is that the source has been modularised and rationalised to improve stability, reliability, and our ability to further enhance the software" says Hughes. Further details of the many enhancements made to the software will be made available on the web site at www.Hughes.com.au.
With the development team now back into full operation, the support and administration side of the company will start public work as of the 1st of February 2001.The release schedule for the mSQL 3.0 starts with an initial public release on the 15th of February 2001.
Average daily traffic is around 175GB/day. It's broken 200GB on some peak days. It's been almost approximately a year since traffic broke the 100GB mark, and about 30GB the year before that, so I don't know what figures you were checking, unless that was a typo or you were referring to a non-binary feed. The last time a full Usenet feed was around 2GB was January of 96. That had already doubled by January of 97.
Assuming you believe "we" were taken by surprise in the first place.
That situation could exist, I suppose. But not in this case. There's no one out there who would say that there's a plentiful pool of skilled anyone in the technical fields. At a time when an MCSE straight out of a "boot camp" can almost distate his own employment terms, employers aren't turning people away.
Also, sometimes it is conceivably better for a company to be racist/sexist, from a purely economic point of view.
Then that's not racist. Racism is not hiring for no other reason than they're minority/women. There are other, non race/gender issues as the deciding factors here. Those people are not being hired because it's more expensive to do so. This is the same argument women's groups use. The simple fact is that women (as a conglomerate group) are more expensive to employ, generally because they work less hours due to family responsibilities. That's not being "sexist," that's protecting your bottom line. It's like hiring a team of women to move 300lb boxes by hand and wondering why they're less productive than a team of men. There are plenty of individual women out there who outshine men and rise to the top, that's the fallacy of averages.
Do you think it's "racist" that American companies move their production facilities to Asian countries and lay off white workers on America? Is Nike racist towards the white man because they hire almost entirely Filipinos to make their shoes? Of course not, they hire the people that will make their shoes for the least amount of money.
Why would a company handicap itself by deliberately excluding either a market sector or a skilled job pool? There's no logical reason. Individuals can be racist, companies cannot be. Isolated incidents will happen, but such rampant supposed racism at high levels in a bastion of capitalism like Microsoft is beyond the realm of plausability.
You mean like Apple and the PC? Or Intel and AMD? Doesn't seem to have hurt anything. In fact the latter seems to be driving technology and preventing complacency. I consider that quite a good thing.
but I would have to pay a fortune for a mobile that would work everywhere in the US
And why is that? A tri-band phone costs about the same as any other feature laden phone out there. All three GSM frequencies. Sprint, for one, offers an International Roaming plan. Unless you're talking about lack of GSM coverage, but that's not relevant to GSM itself. The US is a much larger and sprawling country than those in Europe, there's plenty of areas in the US that have no coverage of any type, even analog cellular.
Europe will have 3G (high-speed wireless) well before the US thanks to GSM, so how can it be a bad thing
If Europe has 3G first, it won't have anything to do with GSM, as that's certainly available here.
Also GSM allows for multiple frequencies, so how can there not be frequencies for GSM but there are for three competing standards
Doesn't anybody do any research before posting? There's plenty of room for GSM, we just put it on a different frequency than Europe and Asia did.
You're not forced to use any particular protocol. You could use IPX/SPX, or NetBEUI, or AppleTalk. Whichever protocol you like. All those standards compete with TCP/IP. If you want to get on the Internet you'll use TCP/IP because that's what everyone else is using. If you bring your laptop over to my house and plug it into my network you'll use NetBEUI if you want to get connected. Obviously more people want to get on the Internet than on my network, so TCP/IP is the most popular protocol. That's how competition works, the "good" protocols thrive and the "bad" ones fall into disuse. With GSM the various European governments pretty much came along and said "you will use GSM." That's a bad thing, regardless of how you feel about the particular standard.
Then you have poor reading comprehension. See the last paragraph of the article:
True....especially the French or Germans. They would never ban anything that I can think of. Then again, only the government can truly ban something, and that's just not the case with DTV.
But, I guess you'll have to go invent your own standards and multiple versions of them
Yeah....competing standards sure do suck. I hate having choice. Like those damn Linix users. Why did they have to go invent all these new standards when Microsoft had everything planned out?
if your mobile phone industry is anything to go by.
I assume that was a shot at GSM? Do a little fact checking next time. The frequencies Europe and Asia use for GSM were already allocated in the US before mobile phones even came into real use. If Europe was so hot on getting a worldwide standard, maybe it should have checked around first. As the common cry of European slashdotters goes, there are other countries beyond your little world you know.
It's part of the standard install on the NT 4 machine I'm writing this on. I don't have a 9x box handy to check, but I'll bet it's there too.
They're actually leased by the DoE, not owned, according to this CNet story.
ASCI = Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
Their site is here. More on ASCI White, including a picture, is here.
With Usenet traffic over 200gigs/day this baby oughta have the power to keep up without the meltdowns that periodically plague most news providers. Not to mention some sweet retention in the process.
Six months after it's released, not six months after it's done running (who could define such a thing?). Rocky Horror has been eligible for video for 24 1/2 years.
Well, they do offer contacts, but you still don't seem to be getting much. The field of "Technology" comes up with 63 biddable projects. Everything from Unix admin, to VB programmer, to "work at home, send for info" type jobs, only a small portion of which any given person is likely to be qualified for.
No, it's not. Philips players (the models I know of) have this capability as well. I've upgraded my 825AT via flash.
And finally, China
What exactly makes them hypocrites or "nazi-ish"? Maybe they like looking at pr0n themselves on their own time, but want to keep it out of their workplace. You have no idea. Suggesting what you do about the makers of the software, with no knowledge of them personally, is what's hypocritical. Tools and their creators cannot be villified, only actions. Or at least that's the hue and cry when certain "hacking" tools occasionally come up for banning. Do you believe everyone who's written, say port scanning software, is a malicious hax0r? So why do you believe everyone who writes filtering software is a "hypocritical nazi"? You can't have it both ways.
Is Kylix "Delphi or C++Builder for Linux"?
You can think of Kylix as Delphi and C++Builder for Linux. Kylix will have a feature set very similar to the Windows versions of Delphi and C++Builder and is being designed to leverage existing Delphi and C++Builder projects and programming skills.
Kylix is being designed to simply recompile basic applications with minimal changes if any. However, most complete Delphi applications will likely require at least some modification in order to compile with Kylix. The changes will mostly center around a developer's direct calls to Win32 and the availability of 3rd party components on Kylix. Though some source changes may be necessary, porting from Windows to Linux with Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix will by far be the fastest and easiest way to build native applications for both platforms.
Not being a Linux programmer (or more than a causal user), what does this mean for those using the KDE desktop (or others)? Will Kylix apps not run with KDE, only GNOME? Or will it simply mean they won't "look right" under KDE?
- that
setup. It would be pretty funny to see if they try to get a DSL provider to take some sort of action against a user criticizing cable.Digital Convergence applied for a patent on it?