Well, the only real limit would be whatever the size of three silicon atoms is. I believe that is all you need to create a transistor (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Well, you're wrong. The mechanics of silicium transistors is based on differences in material. To archieve these differences, silicium is poisoned with electron donors or acceptors. Hence P-material (named after phosfor, an electron donating element often used) an N-material (named after nitrogen, an electron accepting material). It's switching effect comes from the interaction between these materials, and can never be archieved with single atoms.
That's standard legal mumbo jumbo, and not applicable at that. The chips aren't produced in the USA, but in Dresden, Germany, using wafersteppers from ASML, from Holland.
Produced in the EC, America has lost yet another lead in electronics.
I really don't think that's an option. Linux, and to a lesser extent FreeBSD and openBSD, is picked up by corporations. They don't care for the product (at least, most of them don't). They just see it as a tool to make money.
What will happen is that these so called geeks will (have to) find another outlet for their programming creativity. The geeks and protestors of today will be the establishment of tomorrow. That's how it's always been, and that's how it always will be.
I agree with most people here, about the movie industry going too far. I don't believe DeCSS had anything to do with piracy, or with theft. So please don't flame me for that.
Still I must disagree with you on principles. The legal system is exacly for what is presented here: theft of property. If someone steals anything from you, they should be prosecuted. It makes no difference at all if that property was locked thightly, or wasn't protected at all. You shouldn't take anything that isn't yours.
Something else is happening here (and it up to the judges to convince them of that). Nothing was stolen here. What happend was that people had a right to use something that was locked away, and they found an alternative way to open that lock.
Let's please review the facts, and not get carried away here.
I _could_ have just moderated this down, but I thought this needed a more mature response. Your selfishness and arrogance are simply appalling.
The music industry isn't what makes this world go round. Musicians aren't gods. Accountants aren't inferior people. People losing their jobs are sad people. They're to pity because they lose their jobs.
Your argument centers around money. You may not even realise it yourself, but your anger stems from the fact you, or bands you like, cannot profit from the succes of others. Well, wake up! The music industry is just that. An industry. As alternative bands don't have an audience big enough, they're laid off. Their job is making records that sell. If they're not good at their jobs ther're fired. Just like accountants.
If these fired musicians make music you like, hire them, enjoy them, but please, don't demand charity from your neighbours, like you're doing now.
The same goes for WinNT as it goes for Linux. DMA makes the difference. Look at www.arstechnica.com to see how to turn it on, it's not as easy as Linux, but it can be done.
I fully agree on your 2nd comment though. Maybe Hemos can ask him to do next weeks/. interview:)
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I think you're missing a point here. IBM obviously is much more interested in servers than it is in desktops. So why bother?
Even more: I wouldn't be surprised to see IBM quitting the desktop market altogether. They've already closed their stores, and moved to web sales exclusively. And they're not making (a lot of) profit on them anymore, quickly losing marketshare to other companies.
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Of course they don't distribute the Tivo application: they don't have a patent for it!
But seriously folks. These people put a lot of time (read: money) into the development of this thing. And they want to make money off it. As long as they do that in a decent way, which they seem to do, I can only applaud them for it.
Well said, but that is slightly off topic. We're not talking about freelance here. We're talking about paying schemes within a company.
Although being payed by the hour is awfully close to being freelance, there are differences. The main difference is, that when employed, but being paid by the hour, you can have a guaranteed minimum nr of hours you can work. So there's not as much risk involved.
A second difference between freelance and hourly paid employee is employee benefits. As an employee of a larger company, you often have benefits that freelancers don't have.
Maybe, some people who cannot decide (like me), can also opt for a hybrid form of payment: half salary and half hourly. Could be worth a try.
The serial number in processors is presented to us in several different ways. Intel promotes it as a more secure way to do e-business. Privacy advocates label it as a tool for the devil.
The truth is that your computer is filled with unique numbers on hardware (HDD, BIOS, MAC-address on your network card, some graphics cards), all of which are much easier to check (they cannot be disabled), and much easier to use for privacy invasion or to secure e-business.
I think it's sad to hear that high officials now want to use the fear for another serial in hardware as excuse to boycot a company, their decisions based on pure FUD. Which is what it is.
In the US, a similar debateis over guns. Possesion of certain weapons is illegal. For other guns, possesion is legal, while damaging other people with them isn't (obviously).
The same can be applied (in general terms) to software. Harmful virusses and the like have only limited use: causing damage, for whatever reason. Possession of these could be considered criminal.
OTH, a lot of programs (eg. portscanners) can be used for good or for bad, directly or indirectly. In case of those, it's up to the user to use them ethically.
The problems with legislation are rather similar to the guns debate too. Illegal possesion will occur. How to handle that is off topic here.
Encryption of a stream basicly comes down to the encryption of batches (or packets) of data. The size of these batches is variable of course. It depends on the delay that is still acceptable.
E.g. if you think a 2 minute delay is acceptable, you can opt co collect 2 minutes of data, encrypt it and send it. The client then decrypts it and views it. Thus, in the client, while viewing these 2 minutes of data, the next two minutes are processed.
With public channels, this is not really an option, for you don't know when someone attaches to this stream. They have to be more continuous. With public/private keystreams this is a viable option. The request request can be authenticated with the public key, and acted upon immediately, serving only that connection.
An even better scheme would be to let each batch, or number of batches be encoded with a new 'public transmission key', generated by the client and sent to the server. Thus even if, at a later time, the original keys were broken or discovered, all the transmission keys would still secure the data sent.
The problems in all this don't lie in the encryption. That's hardly a problem. The problems lie in speed. 1. It still takes quite some time to encode data, and decode it on the client. Weaker keys will have to be used to decrease needed computing power. 2. Encrypted data is cannot be compressed (if it could, recurring structures could be identified, and thus encryption can be (partly) broken). Therefor transmission speeds would drop dramatically.
What's all this about. First we rant on about windows not being made for palmtops, but for desktops, and now we put Linux on the palmtop.
Exacly which of the two makes more sense than WinCE does? Graphics mode? (fit that in 8Mb) or the console mode? Sounds cool [NOT]. Try to type kill -9 (or perl )on your silkscreen. They must be masochistic.
We have a rather decent palmtop OS, and now we have to replace it with Linux? Why?
Oracle 8i with an optimized version of RedHat? I think this is great for the acceptance of linux in the server market. But I doubt it's usefulness for linux in general.
E-commerce is booming. There's no doubt about that. But most companies entering the arena at this point don't need Oracle 8i. They don't serve 10000+ transactions a day, and most of them never will.
It's nice to see large companies giving attention to other large companies. It's great to see that development is going on. But I'm afraid that this is only serving a few companies, while leaving the smaller parties out in the cold.
Linux is being commercialized. The people who started all this are being left in the cold. The ones that benefit today are not from the open source movement. How many of them have ever been close to a supercomputer? All these developments don't encourage free software. They encourage greed.
Feel free to moderate this down. I just wanted this out.
Remember that this is a still developing field. The implications of this larger LCD screen not nessecarily mean larger laptops:
1. It means new techniques have been developed so smaller LCD screens can be produced cheaper. 2. It means development in this area is still going on. 3. Maybe, in the future it means larger screens on laptops. But why enlarge the laptop? Why not fold the screen?
Just sticking with what we have now, and ridiculing it makes no sense. Instead take what you have and improve. See the possibilities. Make the world better.
This is really a nice thing. It opens up the PDA (palm in this case) for text entry. Only, this is not what the palm was designed for.
The palm was designed for portability and ease of use. With all these accesoires, one needs an ever larger bag to carry it all.
One strongpoint of Palm over WinCE machines has always been their program design. It's not a downsized desktop. It's a palmtop, with an entirely different role. It's programs, and it's limited mode of input reflect that.
Therefor I don't think the palm is the platform that's going to gain most from this new keyboard, or from any of the latest developments in this area: miniature harddrives, gigantic amounts of memory, lots of connectivity possibilities. These are just things that bring notebooks closer to the palmtops, not enhancements for my Palm.
Before you start flaming, maybe, just maybe you should think first!
Privacy isn't sacred. It used to be social control. Now it's databases, but basically the same.
E.g. The grocery on the corner doesn't know anymore what you need. Heck, it doesn't even exist anymore. Now you have the megastores, which need to know what to ship where in order to service their customers best. They do this by keeping track of sales, and yes, who buys what. Just like the old grocer, only bigger.
This privacy thing has gotten way out of hand. In my country, criminals go free, because of privacy. Camera's in stores are illegal because of privacy. I _do_ understand the concern, but I _don't_ understand this extremism.
By the way. The book is called 1984. It was written by George Orwell. Go read it, it's good.
Drat! Why don't I have moderation access when I need it.
I totally agree with this post. But not only that. All these banners are actually a boon for us. As there's a lot of money made online, a lot is invested in the infrastructure, in the net itself.
Ads make the life of a lot of webmasters a lot easier. I doubt slashdot would have survived as long as it has done so far without revenue from banner ads. Websites cost money, a lot of it.
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Well, the only real limit would be whatever the size of three silicon atoms is. I believe that is all you need to create a transistor (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Well, you're wrong. The mechanics of silicium transistors is based on differences in material. To archieve these differences, silicium is poisoned with electron donors or acceptors. Hence P-material (named after phosfor, an electron donating element often used) an N-material (named after nitrogen, an electron accepting material). It's switching effect comes from the interaction between these materials, and can never be archieved with single atoms.
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That's standard legal mumbo jumbo, and not applicable at that. The chips aren't produced in the USA, but in Dresden, Germany, using wafersteppers from ASML, from Holland.
Produced in the EC, America has lost yet another lead in electronics.
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I really don't think that's an option. Linux, and to a lesser extent FreeBSD and openBSD, is picked up by corporations. They don't care for the product (at least, most of them don't). They just see it as a tool to make money.
What will happen is that these so called geeks will (have to) find another outlet for their programming creativity. The geeks and protestors of today will be the establishment of tomorrow. That's how it's always been, and that's how it always will be.
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That's what you get for hurrying things. Better take your time next time, Rob :)
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well, be my guest. Try it then. Make a win95 bootdisk, and install netware with it. Have fun.
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I agree with most people here, about the movie industry going too far. I don't believe DeCSS had anything to do with piracy, or with theft. So please don't flame me for that.
Still I must disagree with you on principles. The legal system is exacly for what is presented here: theft of property. If someone steals anything from you, they should be prosecuted. It makes no difference at all if that property was locked thightly, or wasn't protected at all. You shouldn't take anything that isn't yours.
Something else is happening here (and it up to the judges to convince them of that). Nothing was stolen here. What happend was that people had a right to use something that was locked away, and they found an alternative way to open that lock.
Let's please review the facts, and not get carried away here.
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It not only uses DOS as a bootloader, it uses it all the way. And not only that, it _needs_ dos 6.
Any newer version of dos, (eg from win95), will load netware, but causes major problems in any Novell server 3/4/5.
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I _could_ have just moderated this down, but I thought this needed a more mature response. Your selfishness and arrogance are simply appalling.
The music industry isn't what makes this world go round. Musicians aren't gods. Accountants aren't inferior people. People losing their jobs are sad people. They're to pity because they lose their jobs.
Your argument centers around money. You may not even realise it yourself, but your anger stems from the fact you, or bands you like, cannot profit from the succes of others. Well, wake up! The music industry is just that. An industry. As alternative bands don't have an audience big enough, they're laid off. Their job is making records that sell. If they're not good at their jobs ther're fired. Just like accountants.
If these fired musicians make music you like, hire them, enjoy them, but please, don't demand charity from your neighbours, like you're doing now.
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Hear Hear. 2 good comments in a row.
The same goes for WinNT as it goes for Linux. DMA makes the difference. Look at www.arstechnica.com to see how to turn it on, it's not as easy as Linux, but it can be done.
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And how much would the tax be?
/. interview :)
I fully agree on your 2nd comment though. Maybe Hemos can ask him to do next weeks
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I think you're missing a point here. IBM obviously is much more interested in servers than it is in desktops. So why bother?
Even more: I wouldn't be surprised to see IBM quitting the desktop market altogether. They've already closed their stores, and moved to web sales exclusively. And they're not making (a lot of) profit on them anymore, quickly losing marketshare to other companies.
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I know this is off topic. Feel free to moderate me down. But not being able to moderate I just have to say this:
hear hear!
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Of course they don't distribute the Tivo application: they don't have a patent for it!
But seriously folks. These people put a lot of time (read: money) into the development of this thing. And they want to make money off it. As long as they do that in a decent way, which they seem to do, I can only applaud them for it.
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This is untrue. There's no way code can be tagged to a processor serial, just by the processor.
It's the compiler doing so. The same as with any other serial.
A pentium processor takes a 32 bit word, processes it, and writes it to memory. Fetch, decode, write. That's it!
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Well said, but that is slightly off topic. We're not talking about freelance here. We're talking about paying schemes within a company.
Although being payed by the hour is awfully close to being freelance, there are differences. The main difference is, that when employed, but being paid by the hour, you can have a guaranteed minimum nr of hours you can work. So there's not as much risk involved.
A second difference between freelance and hourly paid employee is employee benefits. As an employee of a larger company, you often have benefits that freelancers don't have.
Maybe, some people who cannot decide (like me), can also opt for a hybrid form of payment: half salary and half hourly. Could be worth a try.
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The serial number in processors is presented to us in several different ways. Intel promotes it as a more secure way to do e-business. Privacy advocates label it as a tool for the devil.
The truth is that your computer is filled with unique numbers on hardware (HDD, BIOS, MAC-address on your network card, some graphics cards), all of which are much easier to check (they cannot be disabled), and much easier to use for privacy invasion or to secure e-business.
I think it's sad to hear that high officials now want to use the fear for another serial in hardware as excuse to boycot a company, their decisions based on pure FUD. Which is what it is.
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In the US, a similar debateis over guns. Possesion of certain weapons is illegal. For other guns, possesion is legal, while damaging other people with them isn't (obviously).
The same can be applied (in general terms) to software. Harmful virusses and the like have only
limited use: causing damage, for whatever reason. Possession of these could be considered criminal.
OTH, a lot of programs (eg. portscanners) can be used for good or for bad, directly or indirectly. In case of those, it's up to the user to use them ethically.
The problems with legislation are rather similar to the guns debate too. Illegal possesion will occur. How to handle that is off topic here.
----------------------------------------------
Encryption of a stream basicly comes down to the encryption of batches (or packets) of data. The size of these batches is variable of course. It depends on the delay that is still acceptable.
E.g. if you think a 2 minute delay is acceptable, you can opt co collect 2 minutes of data, encrypt it and send it. The client then decrypts it and views it. Thus, in the client, while viewing these 2 minutes of data, the next two minutes are processed.
With public channels, this is not really an option, for you don't know when someone attaches to this stream. They have to be more continuous. With public/private keystreams this is a viable option. The request request can be authenticated with the public key, and acted upon immediately, serving only that connection.
An even better scheme would be to let each batch, or number of batches be encoded with a new 'public transmission key', generated by the client and sent to the server. Thus even if, at a later time, the original keys were broken or discovered, all the transmission keys would still secure the data sent.
The problems in all this don't lie in the encryption. That's hardly a problem. The problems lie in speed.
1. It still takes quite some time to encode data, and decode it on the client. Weaker keys will have to be used to decrease needed computing power.
2. Encrypted data is cannot be compressed (if it could, recurring structures could be identified, and thus encryption can be (partly) broken). Therefor transmission speeds would drop dramatically.
This has become quite a rant. Hope it helps.
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What's all this about. First we rant on about windows not being made for palmtops, but for desktops, and now we put Linux on the palmtop.
Exacly which of the two makes more sense than WinCE does? Graphics mode? (fit that in 8Mb) or the console mode? Sounds cool [NOT]. Try to type kill -9 (or perl )on your silkscreen. They must be masochistic.
We have a rather decent palmtop OS, and now we have to replace it with Linux? Why?
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Oracle 8i with an optimized version of RedHat? I think this is great for the acceptance of linux in the server market. But I doubt it's usefulness for linux in general.
E-commerce is booming. There's no doubt about that. But most companies entering the arena at this point don't need Oracle 8i. They don't serve 10000+ transactions a day, and most of them never will.
It's nice to see large companies giving attention to other large companies. It's great to see that development is going on. But I'm afraid that this is only serving a few companies, while leaving the smaller parties out in the cold.
Linux is being commercialized. The people who started all this are being left in the cold. The ones that benefit today are not from the open source movement. How many of them have ever been close to a supercomputer? All these developments don't encourage free software. They encourage greed.
Feel free to moderate this down. I just wanted this out.
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Remember that this is a still developing field. The implications of this larger LCD screen not nessecarily mean larger laptops:
1. It means new techniques have been developed so smaller LCD screens can be produced cheaper.
2. It means development in this area is still going on.
3. Maybe, in the future it means larger screens on laptops. But why enlarge the laptop? Why not fold the screen?
Just sticking with what we have now, and ridiculing it makes no sense. Instead take what you have and improve. See the possibilities. Make the world better.
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This is really a nice thing. It opens up the PDA (palm in this case) for text entry. Only, this is not what the palm was designed for.
The palm was designed for portability and ease of use. With all these accesoires, one needs an ever larger bag to carry it all.
One strongpoint of Palm over WinCE machines has always been their program design. It's not a downsized desktop. It's a palmtop, with an entirely different role. It's programs, and it's limited mode of input reflect that.
Therefor I don't think the palm is the platform that's going to gain most from this new keyboard, or from any of the latest developments in this area: miniature harddrives, gigantic amounts of memory, lots of connectivity possibilities. These are just things that bring notebooks closer to the palmtops, not enhancements for my Palm.
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Hey AC!
Before you start flaming, maybe, just maybe you should think first!
Privacy isn't sacred. It used to be social control. Now it's databases, but basically the same.
E.g. The grocery on the corner doesn't know anymore what you need. Heck, it doesn't even exist anymore. Now you have the megastores, which need to know what to ship where in order to service their customers best. They do this by keeping track of sales, and yes, who buys what. Just like the old grocer, only bigger.
This privacy thing has gotten way out of hand. In my country, criminals go free, because of privacy. Camera's in stores are illegal because of privacy. I _do_ understand the concern, but I _don't_ understand this extremism.
By the way. The book is called 1984. It was written by George Orwell. Go read it, it's good.
Drat! Why don't I have moderation access when I need it.
I totally agree with this post. But not only that. All these banners are actually a boon for us. As there's a lot of money made online, a lot is invested in the infrastructure, in the net itself.
Ads make the life of a lot of webmasters a lot easier. I doubt slashdot would have survived as long as it has done so far without revenue from banner ads. Websites cost money, a lot of it.