Well, actually Microsoft faced a difficult challenge when they decided to go with Kerberos. The NT security model wasn't a very good fit, but they were committed to it by years of investment and dependent design decisions, not to mention a huge installed base. They had to find a way to paste SIDs onto Kerberos. It was a long time before the rest of us got an unencumbered look at the TDATA that they worked out to do this, but once the format was known working with it should not be that complicated.
In terms of volume of proprietary information to work out, the plethora of interlocking directory object types that an ADS client depends on has got to be the big challenge. The static characteristics of these objects and their attributes are documented (I use the term loosely) in the PSDK, but how they are used or even what some values mean is not at all clear. Throw in a few obvious copy/paste errors in the doco. to cloud the issue further and it's not surprising that Samba took this long. Create a new ADS forest and look at all the stuff that was put into it out of nowhere.
"[Samba is] not a single click system." Hooray for that. I'd love to be able to give the boot to these Windows servers with their sysadmin-hostile pointy-clicky interfaces and their million and one secret Registry keys that have no user interface at all. Go Samba Team!
Obviously there *are* people who want to spend all day writing drivers for hardware, otherwise we'd have no drivers. "Because I want to sell X" and "because I want to buy X" are equally valid reasons for wanting a driver for X to exist.
Planification: the process (ation) of making (fic) plans. Easy. I would have said "planning" or "generating plans" though. "Planification" is probably a term of art. Eventually the recognizer would be set up to know this, and the metadata indicating domain-specificity could even help it work out the rest of the sentence.
Read the English translation of Lem's _Cyberiad_ before you tell us how impossible it is to translate humor. I'll buy the time-to-read argument, though.
Time to check out that Asimov story about a society where mechanical computation was so pervasive that people no longer learned arithmetic. "The Feeling of Power"
Patriotic. What part of "*International* Business Machines" did you not understand? More likely it's to show that they really understand the problem and not just the English-only subset.
Just remember that *you* have a truly enormous and well-filled content-addressable memory, a huge and richly-connected semantic network, and untold numbers of self-adapting heuristics that have been trained all day every day for decades, with more coming into production constantly. It's hard for a machine to match that. Feeding 100,000 distinct pattern matchers in parallel is something most computers just aren't architected to do well. That a machine can do even a passable job of speaker-independant continuous speech recognition is an amazing achievement.
BTW what Teletext is like in the U.S. is that we don't have it.:-( We do have titling on some shows, but to compare that to Teletext is like comparing a single couplet to the poetry section of a library.
I learned what a patent is decades ago. Apparently what's needed is not instruction on patents but instruction on arithmetic. 33% of $10billion is more than THREE TIMES AS MUCH MONEY as 100% of $1billion. Any board that would leave $2,333,333,333.33 of their shareholders' money on the table to finance members' private power trips should be turned out, and perhaps sued. They have wantonly wasted company resources and caused their shareholders' business to underperform.
I still don't see where the need for new drugs tapers off. The current crop have some rather scary side-effects -- there's lots of room for improvement. There's room to tackle health issues which don't get much attention because there are more urgent ones to deal with, or which people have hiitherto believed intractable. There's a lot about health we still don't understand *at all*. Maybe in a thousand years, or five thousand, we'll hit that knee. In the shorter term I'm reminded of the head of the patent office who declared, around 1900, that everything had already been invented.
"...unless you create new diseases." You've been reading "The Sumerian Oath", haven't you.
Anyway, drugs don't cure diseases; they cure *instances* of diseases. If a doctor sets your broken leg, that doesn't mean there won't be any more broken legs in the future. Likewise my taking something for high cholesterol doesn't prevent someone else developing high cholesterol today or 100 years from today. Most drugs being developed today are not aimed at killing pathogens, but at adjusting the patient's own chemistry, and only those who take them get any health benefit whatsoever.
Besides, pharmaceutical manufacturers should remember their history. Modern pharmaceutical development grew out of the dyeing business. If there ever really is dearth of illness, there's gotta be *some* other use for all that skill and understanding. The clever ones will move into genetic surgery or general molecular engineering or what-have-you, and the overall economy will be better off without the other ones.
Ask the question another way. Does it make more sense for a drug company to have 100% of $1billion, 50% of $3billion, or 33% of $10billion? If sharing would do *that* much good then sharing would indeed maximize shareholders' return.
Please be more careful in your use of pronouns. I couldn't tell you the name of that show either, because I have never seen it, because when I heard about it I dismissed it as uninteresting and totally disconnected from my life. Thus your use of "our" is a bit strong.
IPv6 and IPsec are in Windows and have been for some time. They even work pretty well, to the limit of my ability to test them. They interwork well with Linux.
No, I think it's just the service providers balking at the cost of some firmware upgrades and accelerated plant replacement/capacity expansion. What they should be thinking is, "what will FCC do next, once they've rammed through the cutover to digital TV?" ISPs may not have much say in scheduling this upgrade, if they don't choose to move soon. Someone with clout may have noticed that our infrastructure generally is falling behind the curve and decided to force the pace. It's called "industrial policy" and a number of influential people seem to think the U.S. ought to have one. Maybe we do.
I think that if we could strain out all the hot stock tip and, uh, "enhancement" emails, the Internet would work just fine for years to come. Oh, and the zillions of zombified DSL nodes that constantly poke at my systems asking if they are listening to NetBT *now*.
But that's traffic problems, not address-space problems.
Actually I think it'll go both ways: the left wing and the right wing will wipe each other out while the vast majority are wondering what all the noise is about and is it serious enough to stand up and look out of the window.
IPv6 is a new version of IP with larger addresses -- 128 bits instead of 32 bits. One can carve up the address space with all sorts of special areas for special purposes, apply rules to help with route aggregation, and still wind up with enough plain addresses to give one to each electron in the universe, or something like that. With people talking seriously about scattering dust-sized network nodes over the landscape by the billions we need to think seriously about expanding the available address space.
There are other changes that most will notice less, but addressing is big (and so IMHO is the requirement for packet-level security features).
It's kind of like IETF's recognition that "yeah, maybe we *do* need that OSI stuff after all.":-}
The only hardware that needs replacing for IPv6 is (a) routers lacking sufficient memory for longer addresses, or for two sets of routes during the transition phase, and (b) a tiny amount of hardware that handles IP addresses *in hardware*. There was a time when high-end routers used content-addressable memory for route lookup, but with processor speeds going up and costs going down, do they still do that?
BTW here we have several/16 networks, but even so the number of devices we have is causing a big expensive push to reallocate and reclaim as much as possible.
No, I wouldn't. The stock price is going down because the stock price is going down. "Stocks closed broadly lower today on rumors that Alan Greenspan has tennis elbow." I used to try to understand why stock prices fluctuate, but I decided that only a herd animal can make sense of it. The market seems to hate customers, employees, and prudent management.
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Planning, or using metadata to resolve ambiguities in speech? Shakey was doing planning in a limited environment many years ago.
Is using more information about input symbols to reduce the number of viable choices difficult? I confess I haven't studied the matter.
Well, actually Microsoft faced a difficult challenge when they decided to go with Kerberos. The NT security model wasn't a very good fit, but they were committed to it by years of investment and dependent design decisions, not to mention a huge installed base. They had to find a way to paste SIDs onto Kerberos. It was a long time before the rest of us got an unencumbered look at the TDATA that they worked out to do this, but once the format was known working with it should not be that complicated.
In terms of volume of proprietary information to work out, the plethora of interlocking directory object types that an ADS client depends on has got to be the big challenge. The static characteristics of these objects and their attributes are documented (I use the term loosely) in the PSDK, but how they are used or even what some values mean is not at all clear. Throw in a few obvious copy/paste errors in the doco. to cloud the issue further and it's not surprising that Samba took this long. Create a new ADS forest and look at all the stuff that was put into it out of nowhere.
"[Samba is] not a single click system." Hooray for that. I'd love to be able to give the boot to these Windows servers with their sysadmin-hostile pointy-clicky interfaces and their million and one secret Registry keys that have no user interface at all. Go Samba Team!
Obviously there *are* people who want to spend all day writing drivers for hardware, otherwise we'd have no drivers. "Because I want to sell X" and "because I want to buy X" are equally valid reasons for wanting a driver for X to exist.
Planification: the process (ation) of making (fic) plans. Easy. I would have said "planning" or "generating plans" though. "Planification" is probably a term of art. Eventually the recognizer would be set up to know this, and the metadata indicating domain-specificity could even help it work out the rest of the sentence.
Read the English translation of Lem's _Cyberiad_ before you tell us how impossible it is to translate humor. I'll buy the time-to-read argument, though.
Time to check out that Asimov story about a society where mechanical computation was so pervasive that people no longer learned arithmetic. "The Feeling of Power"
"Did he not" and "did not he" both work.
But when did you last see anyone write either of these forms?
For some entertaining examples, see Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language".
Patriotic. What part of "*International* Business Machines" did you not understand? More likely it's to show that they really understand the problem and not just the English-only subset.
Just remember that *you* have a truly enormous and well-filled content-addressable memory, a huge and richly-connected semantic network, and untold numbers of self-adapting heuristics that have been trained all day every day for decades, with more coming into production constantly. It's hard for a machine to match that. Feeding 100,000 distinct pattern matchers in parallel is something most computers just aren't architected to do well. That a machine can do even a passable job of speaker-independant continuous speech recognition is an amazing achievement.
:-( We do have titling on some shows, but to compare that to Teletext is like comparing a single couplet to the poetry section of a library.
BTW what Teletext is like in the U.S. is that we don't have it.
This citizen of the U.S. is not buying the tribalist viewpoint or any attempt to impute it to me.
I learned what a patent is decades ago. Apparently what's needed is not instruction on patents but instruction on arithmetic. 33% of $10billion is more than THREE TIMES AS MUCH MONEY as 100% of $1billion. Any board that would leave $2,333,333,333.33 of their shareholders' money on the table to finance members' private power trips should be turned out, and perhaps sued. They have wantonly wasted company resources and caused their shareholders' business to underperform.
I still don't see where the need for new drugs tapers off. The current crop have some rather scary side-effects -- there's lots of room for improvement. There's room to tackle health issues which don't get much attention because there are more urgent ones to deal with, or which people have hiitherto believed intractable. There's a lot about health we still don't understand *at all*. Maybe in a thousand years, or five thousand, we'll hit that knee. In the shorter term I'm reminded of the head of the patent office who declared, around 1900, that everything had already been invented.
"...unless you create new diseases." You've been reading "The Sumerian Oath", haven't you.
Anyway, drugs don't cure diseases; they cure *instances* of diseases. If a doctor sets your broken leg, that doesn't mean there won't be any more broken legs in the future. Likewise my taking something for high cholesterol doesn't prevent someone else developing high cholesterol today or 100 years from today. Most drugs being developed today are not aimed at killing pathogens, but at adjusting the patient's own chemistry, and only those who take them get any health benefit whatsoever.
Besides, pharmaceutical manufacturers should remember their history. Modern pharmaceutical development grew out of the dyeing business. If there ever really is dearth of illness, there's gotta be *some* other use for all that skill and understanding. The clever ones will move into genetic surgery or general molecular engineering or what-have-you, and the overall economy will be better off without the other ones.
So you're saying that scientific research needs a GPL-like tool?
Ask the question another way. Does it make more sense for a drug company to have 100% of $1billion, 50% of $3billion, or 33% of $10billion? If sharing would do *that* much good then sharing would indeed maximize shareholders' return.
Please be more careful in your use of pronouns. I couldn't tell you the name of that show either, because I have never seen it, because when I heard about it I dismissed it as uninteresting and totally disconnected from my life. Thus your use of "our" is a bit strong.
IPv6 and IPsec are in Windows and have been for some time. They even work pretty well, to the limit of my ability to test them. They interwork well with Linux.
No, I think it's just the service providers balking at the cost of some firmware upgrades and accelerated plant replacement/capacity expansion. What they should be thinking is, "what will FCC do next, once they've rammed through the cutover to digital TV?" ISPs may not have much say in scheduling this upgrade, if they don't choose to move soon. Someone with clout may have noticed that our infrastructure generally is falling behind the curve and decided to force the pace. It's called "industrial policy" and a number of influential people seem to think the U.S. ought to have one. Maybe we do.
I think that if we could strain out all the hot stock tip and, uh, "enhancement" emails, the Internet would work just fine for years to come. Oh, and the zillions of zombified DSL nodes that constantly poke at my systems asking if they are listening to NetBT *now*.
But that's traffic problems, not address-space problems.
Actually I think it'll go both ways: the left wing and the right wing will wipe each other out while the vast majority are wondering what all the noise is about and is it serious enough to stand up and look out of the window.
IPv6 is a new version of IP with larger addresses -- 128 bits instead of 32 bits. One can carve up the address space with all sorts of special areas for special purposes, apply rules to help with route aggregation, and still wind up with enough plain addresses to give one to each electron in the universe, or something like that. With people talking seriously about scattering dust-sized network nodes over the landscape by the billions we need to think seriously about expanding the available address space.
:-}
There are other changes that most will notice less, but addressing is big (and so IMHO is the requirement for packet-level security features).
It's kind of like IETF's recognition that "yeah, maybe we *do* need that OSI stuff after all."
The only hardware that needs replacing for IPv6 is (a) routers lacking sufficient memory for longer addresses, or for two sets of routes during the transition phase, and (b) a tiny amount of hardware that handles IP addresses *in hardware*. There was a time when high-end routers used content-addressable memory for route lookup, but with processor speeds going up and costs going down, do they still do that?
/16 networks, but even so the number of devices we have is causing a big expensive push to reallocate and reclaim as much as possible.
BTW here we have several
Guys, the "early adopters" finished a long time ago.
No, I wouldn't. The stock price is going down because the stock price is going down. "Stocks closed broadly lower today on rumors that Alan Greenspan has tennis elbow." I used to try to understand why stock prices fluctuate, but I decided that only a herd animal can make sense of it. The market seems to hate customers, employees, and prudent management.