As well as many of the xDSL standards. It just makes sense to allocate more of the available bandwidth to downloading, as that is what most people do, most of the time.
I totally disagree with your definition of developer. To me, a developer is someone who isn't just a programmer, but is a professional programmer who's developed at least one full application, not just program. True, a bunch of application building is making user interface crap, but every application has to be more than that, otherwise why would people use it every day?
I think people who pit Amiga vs Linux here are missing the point. There are different types of users with different goals and abilities. Right now, Linux is a workstation and server OS. The iMac isn't about shiny plastic and un-upgradability, it's about having an appliance for getting on the net, playing games and doing wordprocessing, which is what many user want. It's all they want. Windows is mainstream. It's what people run if they have no sense of adventure at all. The A1200 Amigas that you can buy right now, as you read this, are a cheaper, lower powered version of the iMac, with the ability to get at the innerworkings of the system that UNIX gives you. It's somewhere inbetween. You can think that that's what makes it better than both, or worse. I don't care, I use them all.
I have one reasonably fast machine up front fielding requests. Every so often the children computers send a load update depicting how busyy they are. Based on a table containing these values, the front machine achieves to balance the load by keeping the table at an average value via grade six math.
This is SELF OBVIOUS load balancing. How can something like that be patented? Well, go to the USA and file it - you'll probably succeed.
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> Je ne comprende pas...pourquois ecrivez-vous en français? C'est un website américain!
Mais, c'est une Internet mondiale.
As well as many of the xDSL standards. It just makes sense to allocate more of the available bandwidth to downloading, as that is what most people do, most of the time.
I totally disagree with your definition of developer. To me, a developer is someone who isn't just a programmer, but is a professional programmer who's developed at least one full application, not just program. True, a bunch of application building is making user interface crap, but every application has to be more than that, otherwise why would people use it every day?
I think it's positively insane when people quote what happens in movies as a warning against doing stuff in real life.
Merging? You're missing the point: 3D space. You don't merge, you plot a non-intercepting course.
I think people who pit Amiga vs Linux here are missing the point. There are different types of users with different goals and abilities. Right now, Linux is a workstation and server OS. The iMac isn't about shiny plastic and un-upgradability, it's about having an appliance for getting on the net, playing games and doing wordprocessing, which is what many user want. It's all they want. Windows is mainstream. It's what people run if they have no sense of adventure at all. The A1200 Amigas that you can buy right now, as you read this, are a cheaper, lower powered version of the iMac, with the ability to get at the innerworkings of the system that UNIX gives you. It's somewhere inbetween. You can think that that's what makes it better than both, or worse. I don't care, I use them all.
A way better, and more useful distributed client would run voice recognition software to log every phone call made anywhere on earth, for the Man :)
Not obvious? How about this scheme:
I have one reasonably fast machine up front fielding requests. Every so often the children computers send a load update depicting how busyy they are. Based on a table containing these values, the front machine achieves to balance the load by keeping the table at an average value via grade six math.
This is SELF OBVIOUS load balancing. How can something like that be patented? Well, go to the USA and file it - you'll probably succeed.
If people from Montenegro are communicating with people in Serbia proper, then whether or not satellite communications are down has no affect.
Montenegro and Serbia proper are right next to each other, and are doubtlessly connected by land lines.
The issue is Montenegro's connection to the outside world.
Mark
That should be NATO's new mandate: to bomb all spammers :)
Mark