You don't need huge institutes and government funding to do global interconnected network. The major government-sponsored networking initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial global network development efforts is getting serious traction. Just as e.g. the Microsoft of 90's how they beat the Internet.
You don't need huge institutes and government funding to put man in the Moon. The major government-sponsored space exploration initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial space travel is getting serious traction. Granted, it's partially (and only partially) true for the current state of affairs in the US, but can you afford to ignore past 70 years + just about everything else done outside of the American soil?
Not necessarily a recipe for success and we all know about the pitfalls of large stashes of public money earmarked for something, but just give them a chance, will you. Big things require big backing entities. Sure go ahead if you're Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, FB, Baidu or Alibaba. Sadly, here in Europe we have no companies such as the mentioned.
Handling small but valuable physical objects (coins, notes) is expensive (transport, local storage, theft). Proper secure processes related to the said assets is not the core business of any company. That's why you want to get rid of it. It's not the name of the currency that matters, it's the burden of maintaining various channels required to handle the different kinds of transactions using the same currency. While not free, the electronic channels are cheaper business expense than physical. This may not be self-evident from the US point of view considering how different things are over there.
Sure, the cache may've been abandoned by a contractor, but still that does not change the point of the original question at all if you think about it a bit.
So with the new owners click-whoring headlines enter Slashdot? I've been visiting the site from pretty much the beginning and haven't really noticed this journalistic cancer before. If you stop it now, no major damage happens.
I guess that in order to please the shareholders and ultimately survive in the business it's absolutely essential for the traditional PC vendors such as Dell to be innovative and seek and try out any possible new revenue streams, markets, and business models due to the terrible shape of the industry... Five years ago the idea of starting to build and offer Linux based gaming boxes probably would've raisen rather unintentionally hilarious sentiments among the senior product management people of a PC vendor if someone would've dared to suggest something like that.
If you're really interested in privacy of your data stored on some cloud service, I'm sure you'll understand that the only way to make sure that your data is safe is to encrypt the data yourself before uploading.
I beg to offer a different perspective. During the Cold War era the economies of the super powers we're independent of each other. Actually they were actively rivaling each other. The relationship between The US and China is quite some different. They are economically so interlinked and in bed with each other that starting a war would mean literal suicide for both nations as we know them currently. Suicide by not nuking each other (China doesn't have the capability to nuke the whole North American continent, they would've to settle "only" nuking the US allies South Korea and Japan out of this world while the US could certainly nuke China off the map) but by causing internal revolt by the people in both countries.
In the US the people would not be able to enjoy the relatively comfortable lifestyle based on consumerism that has lasted for last 70 years or so anymore as it's all based on global import of goods, China leading the pack of exporters of course. Government that deprived the people from this privilege would soon be thrown out by democratic process if the nation is strong enough internally that it can function by its most deeply rooted ideals even during really serious war time (China would be quite a different beast to beat than Saddam or a few thousand bearded men living in the barren mountains) or if not, then by force. In China internal revolt is maybe more difficult due to the authority-respecting/fearing mindset of the people established by authoritarian governmental mechanisms that have been in place in a form or another for thousands years there. But maybe crushing of the humble Chinese dream (i.e. moving from the countryside to the ever expanding megacities of the coastal area in order to seek better life), that is completely facilitated by the fact that China acts as the factory of the cheap goods for the world, something would happen. And that something would certainly not be in the interest of the current ruling dynasty of the long chain of dynasties that have been ruling China like forever.
So if the economical ties would be cut down by the war, both societies would probably either just collapse as nothing would work as it used to be, or better, leaders who would end the madness would gain the power. But no-one would know what would be the end result of this global turmoil. Global, because we're all in the same global economical boat. The world is quite a different place now than in the 70's. It's much smaller and balanced. Like it or not, The US is not the same super power it used to be when the world was very polarized as The US and USSR were trying to divide the world into two factions ruled by the said true super powers. The economical downward spiral of The US, the rise of China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and other big emerging countries, re-rise of the Russia led by the Putin's mob clan and the unification and even federalization process on-going in Europe means that we've become much more converged globally as instead of two superior powers compared to others we have a number of more equal powers with significant global influence (economically and politically, not militarily, The US is the only nation left with true military presence globally, too bad they can't afford to put it in use anymore in any significant campaigns even if needed).
Why China is arming then? To counter the strategic shift in The US policies, of course. It's no secret that The US is shifting its military focus from the Atlantic side of its home continent to the Pacific side, and at the other shore, there's China. In fact they've been very open about it. And why wouldn't they? If the global economical balance is shifting from West to East, the troops should follow of course. The flow of goods must be secured. How ever, it doesn't mean that the armadas with ever increasing weight in steel and number of guns and missiles patroling the same waters have to encounter each other in an inevitable hot war. The troops are there to secure that no power is dominating too much. It's a pissing contest, basically.
Nukes are not holding the status quo anymore, trade links and economy is.
Just a small note, no need to convert the iso image to a bootable HD image that can be dd'ed on the USB device anymore. You can skip that step as the latest Ubuntu ISO images employ a clever hack that enables the image to be bootable straight away off the USB stick as is, just dd the ISO and you're good to go...
You're now talking Samba3 here. Samba4 is a different kind of a beast. It fully implements everything (protocols, services) that when packaged together is then called AD by Microsoft. At least that's what it aiming at, some stuff is not ready and many things might be broken. So you should be able to use a Linux server running Samba4 as a drop-in replacement for a Windows server that implements AD. All those AD enabled gadgets shouldn't know a difference and just work as is.
Here in Finland the same question has been raised in media since yesterday. The official response from Nokia is that due to Finnish insider trading laws, Elop has not been able to neither sell existing Microsoft shares nor buy new Nokia shares because his evident participation in the planning of the partnership between companies and that he'll be buying Nokia shares when it's possible for him to do that legally. I don't know if this is bullshit or not...
We've been doing smartphone based banking over over 10 years now.. Nordea (Swedish/Finnish bank) launched mobile on-line banking service in January 2000. Granted, you didn't call handsets "smart phones" and they weren't as shiny as iPhone (Nokia 7110 for instance) and the service was (and is, I guess the service is still running) based on WAP instead of HTTP over TCP/IP but still it was smartphone based banking of the time. Source:
Nordea Annual Report 2000, page 4. Personally, I've been doing all my personal daily banking needs (wire transfers, paying of bills, checking the balance and so on) using Nordea's online bank since 1997 (then called Merita). The site hasn't changed that much for over 10 years now except for minor layout face lifts and addition of services, and that's great. I've been using the same simple service meant for desktop browsers with phone browsers for many years. This stuff really shouldn't be very exiting..
There maybe be a political angle to this also. Skype is originally written in Estonia. Diplomatic relationship between Russia and Estonia is not exactly warm at the moment. I guess that makes "the threat to Russian businesses" particularly "threatening".
Setup a publically accessible Linux box at your school. Load the development server with a selection of text editors to experiment, Sun Java JDK and screen (if using Ubuntu, everything is installable by running just one apt-get(1) command). Give each pair a shared account on the machine. Have them connect to the development server using what ever SSH client they please (Terminal.app + command line ssh on Macs, what ever GUI terminal emulator on Linux clients + command line ssh or Putty for Windows clients). First one to log in starts a screen(1) session. Second one will attach to the session by running screen -x. Now they both share the console session in real time. Both can type input and the other one will see the updates immediately. Have them write code using any Unix text editor such as vim or emacs (or pico or jed or what ever for wussies).
Summa summarum.
It can't get more text based than this.
Connection will be perfectly usable over a low-bandwidth link (though you should have reasonable latency, say 100ms or less, for jerk-free operation).
Minimal requirements at student's end
Having to work on text-based command line may sound a bit kinky at first if the student's are not familiar with it, but hey, you need not to be a long-bearded Unix weirdo in order to set up and use this kind of system. It's really simple when you think about it and let your prejudice go and spend 15 minutes learning the basics first.
I don't get it what's the big deal here. An Atom-Based MID is a PC, which can run Linux, which can run XBMC. Just install Ubuntu Intrepid, add a couple of lines to/etc/apt/sources.list and a dozen pressed keys later you have XBMC installed. Yay.
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Btw, diehard KDE fan here --I'm not even considering GNOME until they start having user-configurable key shortcuts. Waiting for KDE4 final release in December to be worked into Gutsy so I can put it on my Came-With-Ubuntu laptop.)
What's your problem? I hope you're not a troll but just ignorant. User-configurable key shortcuts have been in GNOME like forever. System/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts, easy.
And in fact in any GNOME application you can define your own shortcuts for _any_ menu item visible in the top menus (though this feature is not enabled by default, it can be enbled by System/Preferences/Appearance/Interface tab/click Editable menu shortcut keys checkbox). When enabled, just navigate on top of a menu item with mouse, but don't click it, instead press the key combo you'd like to assign to this menu item and you're done. Now you can launch the action of the menu item by pressing the shortcut you chose.
...why and how would "implementing AJAX" cause problems with your "security/privacy software such as Norton and McAfee". Can you please explain? As far as I know AJAX is is just a friendly word for technique where a web browser sends regular HTTP requests dynamically based on action the user performs using web based user interface so that certain aspects of the user interface change accordingly to the performed action without fully reloading the page. In what way would these kind of HTTP requests/responses be distinct from the requests the browser performs when initially loading the page and resources that are needed to render the page from the point of view of "security/privacy software"?
And why do you think that "implementing AJAX" would magically reduce the load on database servers? The load on database server is purely dependant on the data you are storing and the queries you're doing in order to access it. Sure, you could be able to avoid certain queries hitting the database by firing the queries only after the user does something on the web interface. But on the other hand, this is not magic bullet for sure. If you don't know what you're trying, you might find yourself in a situation where your web and database servers are hammered with say 10x increase in requests/queries.
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You don't need huge institutes and government funding to do global interconnected network. The major government-sponsored networking initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial global network development efforts is getting serious traction. Just as e.g. the Microsoft of 90's how they beat the Internet. You don't need huge institutes and government funding to put man in the Moon. The major government-sponsored space exploration initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial space travel is getting serious traction. Granted, it's partially (and only partially) true for the current state of affairs in the US, but can you afford to ignore past 70 years + just about everything else done outside of the American soil? Not necessarily a recipe for success and we all know about the pitfalls of large stashes of public money earmarked for something, but just give them a chance, will you. Big things require big backing entities. Sure go ahead if you're Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, FB, Baidu or Alibaba. Sadly, here in Europe we have no companies such as the mentioned.
Handling small but valuable physical objects (coins, notes) is expensive (transport, local storage, theft). Proper secure processes related to the said assets is not the core business of any company. That's why you want to get rid of it. It's not the name of the currency that matters, it's the burden of maintaining various channels required to handle the different kinds of transactions using the same currency. While not free, the electronic channels are cheaper business expense than physical. This may not be self-evident from the US point of view considering how different things are over there.
Sure, the cache may've been abandoned by a contractor, but still that does not change the point of the original question at all if you think about it a bit.
Go read the damn blog post and then ask yourself again if your concern is still valid in this case.
So with the new owners click-whoring headlines enter Slashdot? I've been visiting the site from pretty much the beginning and haven't really noticed this journalistic cancer before. If you stop it now, no major damage happens.
Of course it's in the Internet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I guess that in order to please the shareholders and ultimately survive in the business it's absolutely essential for the traditional PC vendors such as Dell to be innovative and seek and try out any possible new revenue streams, markets, and business models due to the terrible shape of the industry... Five years ago the idea of starting to build and offer Linux based gaming boxes probably would've raisen rather unintentionally hilarious sentiments among the senior product management people of a PC vendor if someone would've dared to suggest something like that.
If you're really interested in privacy of your data stored on some cloud service, I'm sure you'll understand that the only way to make sure that your data is safe is to encrypt the data yourself before uploading.
Fish eating birds is not that unusual.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_E4BUt1z8Y for instance. Ducklings belong to pike's menu. I've witnessed a similar attack, too.
I beg to offer a different perspective. During the Cold War era the economies of the super powers we're independent of each other. Actually they were actively rivaling each other. The relationship between The US and China is quite some different. They are economically so interlinked and in bed with each other that starting a war would mean literal suicide for both nations as we know them currently. Suicide by not nuking each other (China doesn't have the capability to nuke the whole North American continent, they would've to settle "only" nuking the US allies South Korea and Japan out of this world while the US could certainly nuke China off the map) but by causing internal revolt by the people in both countries.
In the US the people would not be able to enjoy the relatively comfortable lifestyle based on consumerism that has lasted for last 70 years or so anymore as it's all based on global import of goods, China leading the pack of exporters of course. Government that deprived the people from this privilege would soon be thrown out by democratic process if the nation is strong enough internally that it can function by its most deeply rooted ideals even during really serious war time (China would be quite a different beast to beat than Saddam or a few thousand bearded men living in the barren mountains) or if not, then by force. In China internal revolt is maybe more difficult due to the authority-respecting/fearing mindset of the people established by authoritarian governmental mechanisms that have been in place in a form or another for thousands years there. But maybe crushing of the humble Chinese dream (i.e. moving from the countryside to the ever expanding megacities of the coastal area in order to seek better life), that is completely facilitated by the fact that China acts as the factory of the cheap goods for the world, something would happen. And that something would certainly not be in the interest of the current ruling dynasty of the long chain of dynasties that have been ruling China like forever.
So if the economical ties would be cut down by the war, both societies would probably either just collapse as nothing would work as it used to be, or better, leaders who would end the madness would gain the power. But no-one would know what would be the end result of this global turmoil. Global, because we're all in the same global economical boat. The world is quite a different place now than in the 70's. It's much smaller and balanced. Like it or not, The US is not the same super power it used to be when the world was very polarized as The US and USSR were trying to divide the world into two factions ruled by the said true super powers. The economical downward spiral of The US, the rise of China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and other big emerging countries, re-rise of the Russia led by the Putin's mob clan and the unification and even federalization process on-going in Europe means that we've become much more converged globally as instead of two superior powers compared to others we have a number of more equal powers with significant global influence (economically and politically, not militarily, The US is the only nation left with true military presence globally, too bad they can't afford to put it in use anymore in any significant campaigns even if needed).
Why China is arming then? To counter the strategic shift in The US policies, of course. It's no secret that The US is shifting its military focus from the Atlantic side of its home continent to the Pacific side, and at the other shore, there's China. In fact they've been very open about it. And why wouldn't they? If the global economical balance is shifting from West to East, the troops should follow of course. The flow of goods must be secured. How ever, it doesn't mean that the armadas with ever increasing weight in steel and number of guns and missiles patroling the same waters have to encounter each other in an inevitable hot war. The troops are there to secure that no power is dominating too much. It's a pissing contest, basically.
Nukes are not holding the status quo anymore, trade links and economy is.
Just a small note, no need to convert the iso image to a bootable HD image that can be dd'ed on the USB device anymore. You can skip that step as the latest Ubuntu ISO images employ a clever hack that enables the image to be bootable straight away off the USB stick as is, just dd the ISO and you're good to go...
You're now talking Samba3 here. Samba4 is a different kind of a beast. It fully implements everything (protocols, services) that when packaged together is then called AD by Microsoft. At least that's what it aiming at, some stuff is not ready and many things might be broken. So you should be able to use a Linux server running Samba4 as a drop-in replacement for a Windows server that implements AD. All those AD enabled gadgets shouldn't know a difference and just work as is.
LDAP - UMich
Here in Finland the same question has been raised in media since yesterday. The official response from Nokia is that due to Finnish insider trading laws, Elop has not been able to neither sell existing Microsoft shares nor buy new Nokia shares because his evident participation in the planning of the partnership between companies and that he'll be buying Nokia shares when it's possible for him to do that legally. I don't know if this is bullshit or not...
Nokia shipped 123.7 million phones in 2010 Q4. Out of them smart phones were the quoted 31 million. So the summary should say that Android overtakes Symbian in the smart phone segment, not all mobile phones. Those over 90 million phones are cheaper models running S40 etc. That makes Symbian still the most-shipped mobile platform.
Sources:
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/01/27/nokia-q4-2010-sales-up-profits-down/
http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1482864
We've been doing smartphone based banking over over 10 years now.. Nordea (Swedish/Finnish bank) launched mobile on-line banking service in January 2000. Granted, you didn't call handsets "smart phones" and they weren't as shiny as iPhone (Nokia 7110 for instance) and the service was (and is, I guess the service is still running) based on WAP instead of HTTP over TCP/IP but still it was smartphone based banking of the time. Source: Nordea Annual Report 2000, page 4. Personally, I've been doing all my personal daily banking needs (wire transfers, paying of bills, checking the balance and so on) using Nordea's online bank since 1997 (then called Merita). The site hasn't changed that much for over 10 years now except for minor layout face lifts and addition of services, and that's great. I've been using the same simple service meant for desktop browsers with phone browsers for many years. This stuff really shouldn't be very exiting..
You can run HDMI over Cat5/6... http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21489
There maybe be a political angle to this also. Skype is originally written in Estonia. Diplomatic relationship between Russia and Estonia is not exactly warm at the moment. I guess that makes "the threat to Russian businesses" particularly "threatening".
Summa summarum.
I don't get it what's the big deal here. An Atom-Based MID is a PC, which can run Linux, which can run XBMC. Just install Ubuntu Intrepid, add a couple of lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and a dozen pressed keys later you have XBMC installed. Yay.
What's your problem? I hope you're not a troll but just ignorant. User-configurable key shortcuts have been in GNOME like forever. System/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts, easy.
And in fact in any GNOME application you can define your own shortcuts for _any_ menu item visible in the top menus (though this feature is not enabled by default, it can be enbled by System/Preferences/Appearance/Interface tab/click Editable menu shortcut keys checkbox). When enabled, just navigate on top of a menu item with mouse, but don't click it, instead press the key combo you'd like to assign to this menu item and you're done. Now you can launch the action of the menu item by pressing the shortcut you chose.
...to first actually check out what stores have to offer before asking? Sigh...
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Oh, wait... You say it's RedHat ignoring Microsoft and not the other way around??...why and how would "implementing AJAX" cause problems with your "security/privacy software such as Norton and McAfee". Can you please explain? As far as I know AJAX is is just a friendly word for technique where a web browser sends regular HTTP requests dynamically based on action the user performs using web based user interface so that certain aspects of the user interface change accordingly to the performed action without fully reloading the page. In what way would these kind of HTTP requests/responses be distinct from the requests the browser performs when initially loading the page and resources that are needed to render the page from the point of view of "security/privacy software"?
And why do you think that "implementing AJAX" would magically reduce the load on database servers? The load on database server is purely dependant on the data you are storing and the queries you're doing in order to access it. Sure, you could be able to avoid certain queries hitting the database by firing the queries only after the user does something on the web interface. But on the other hand, this is not magic bullet for sure. If you don't know what you're trying, you might find yourself in a situation where your web and database servers are hammered with say 10x increase in requests/queries.
Does Apple think a mac is a supercomputer?
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At least in the past they did: http://www.architosh.com/news/1999-08/0831-supper