But Passport is a Microsoft product and IE is a Microsoft product. iPaqs are PocketPCs, which as everyone knows, run WindowsCE, which is a Microsoft product. It's not in Microsoft's interest to make Passport cross-platform.
I would contend that you don't have a choice if you choose to use MSN Messenger. It is, after all, a Microsoft product, as is Hotmail. I have no problem in Microsoft giving me a Passport account for using Microsoft services (such as I do). I would be more concerned if I had to use that account to, say, buy anything from Tesco or something.
There are levels of trust. You trust your doctor with your medical records. You trust your bank with your financial details. Word from Redmond has implied, for online purposes certainly, that MS would like Hailstorm to be a single point of trust. I don't think anyone is anywhere near as sophisticated as being able to do that in a trustworthy way, whatever Microsoft think.
The FUD point is very clear here: what if, with a little bit of manipulation, it becomes difficult not to use Hailstorm/Passport/.NET for secure or sensitive transactions? What if Microsoft could secure trust in enough governments and major financial organisations to make a majority of Internet transactions use it? Of the current MS innovations I think it is the most dangerous, because it has the potential to concentrate a lot of responsibility in one private organisation. It really shouldn't be scorned just yet.
A Warm Fuzzy future would have Palm recognising that BeOS has some potential and a respectable user and developer base and making the source available in a Mozilla style arrangement which could feed back into BeIA and even a potential commercial release of BeOS 6 (like Netscape 6, only two years to late to do any good).
I was very excited by the multimedia aspects of BeOS and it would be a shame to lose them. It would have nice to have 3Com 3C509 NIC support as well - not that it's a common NIC or anything.:(
Would gave thought it would be oil rigs out there. They look like Christmas trees. Big square Christmas trees.
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My company insist that we use Netscape for internet access, and the desktops seem to be stuck on 4.74. I've never been able to find a reason why. I'm tempted to download 6.1 and install it just to have something slightly better than the unstable bug-ridden non-standard piece of crap that AOL's only contribution to Netscape was.
They really need to read 'Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure' by Jerry Kaplin and read how the first real PDA, the Go! was royally screwed (well, according to Kaplin) by Apple's 'assistance' pre-Newton and by Microsoft's Pen Computing libraries which seem to have been invented to be a spoiler for Go! and its successor the GRiD - I don't think they ever got used in a PDA and have very little relation to Windows CE. I read 'Startup' when I was trying to do a dotcom myself and it put me off completely. It's required reading for anyone who even thinks of taking on the big boys, even with things they haven't thought of yet.
When/. implemented the karma system much was talked about the concept of reputation servers, sites like Slashdot where a contributor's veracity could be marked up and marked down by their peers according to the validity of their words. Bruce Sterling used it as a minor plot thread in 'Distraction' but it seemed to quickly lost its impetus IRL - I guess it's relatively easy to get an idea of someone's rep on Slashdot but it's not a driving factor of being a contributor. I'm not a Kuro5hin reader but if Scoop offers 'reputation' over 'karma' it has a better basis for publication for peer review (and indeed a potentially important influence over individuals' lives).
That's it. AOL invest in snail mail services all around the world as a method of leveraging the distribution of their CDs. It is, after all their core business.
The truth is that the CDs are the larval form of an alien species which inhabit AOL parasitically. When there is one in every home they will spontaneously mature and eliminate all humans. Fear the Day of The Great Hatching.
Bank's non-N books have become a bit formulaic. In the UK they're published in black or white sleeves and the colour seems to represent some indication of the content: 'The Business', 'Whit' and 'The Crow Road' are black sleeves and for me have central themes of betrayal of trust and take place approximately in reality. The white books are, broadly, more fantastic, which often amounts to a lot more blood and less acceptable moral ideas.'Song of Stone', 'Complicity' and 'Walking on Glass' are white. The black sleeves are generally OK, although 'The Business' doesn't ring true - I couldn't help thinking that an organisation that's been around as long as The Business wouldn't be looking for a seat on the UN at this point in time, as it would have several, or at least access to several. The white sleeves are wildly variable - 'Complicity' was excellent, 'Canal Dreams' is terrible, and I started to read 'Song of Stone' and couldn't be bothered to continue after the first 60 or so pages.
'The Business' is a bit of froth really, maybe it's me getting old or it's Banks getting lazy but he doesn't get me excited anymore. I might only buy a couple more;).
I first heard about this last week from a link to here from this story. The bits about picking up a dying cosmonaut's last breath and a female cosmonaut burning up on reentry seem a little difficult to believe but the story of Vladimir Illushyn's flight appears to have been completely vindicated recently. There's even this programme about him, which was shown on the UK Horizons digital TV station on Wednesday night last week. On the other hand, the story about launches in 1958 does seem a little fanciful.
While rooting around in the bowels of a media company's offices he came across a dusty 386 pushed under a desk. Attaching a monitor to it revealed that it was a Netware 2.12 print server, but while it was connected to the network there were no printers anywhere near it. In the spirit of adventure and tidiness, he decided to shut it down. Almost immediately he got a call telling him that half the network was down. Being a perceptive type, he restarted the 386, and hey presto, the network reappeared. He stuck a sign saying 'DO NOT SWITCH OFF!' on it and pushed it further under the desk.
Google Europe went online a couple of weeks ago, and as far as anyone can work out, they're using IP address based redirects to send users to their country local site. The upshot has been that there were lots of problems in the first few days as the database was being sorted out. I wasn't getting redirected to Google.FR or anything but for a while my searches were getting results in Swedish first.
Can't see why not. QNX have been doing embedded and thin systems for years. I've seen rugged systems that use it in factories so there's no reason why it shouldn't move burgers.
This is the URL I get when I search the USPO's database for this patent:
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO 2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r= 1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1='Private+URL'&OS="Pri vate+URL"&RS="Private+URL"
Seriously though, the patent shows a specific example, which I suppose is patentable, although for what reason I really can't imagine. Why would anybody want to rip them off when it's minimal work to roll your own similar but not identical structure?
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If nowhere else, Disneyland has machines in various places around the park that takes pennies and dimes and presses them into long thin ovals. Then again, it's unwise to mess with the mouse.
To my simple mind the Open Directory Project seems to be the best bet for a model for searching Usenet. It's arranged hierarchically, it's searchable, it's open. And instead of having all the archives stored in a single location, what about having them distributed? Just a couple of random ideas while I've got other better things to do.
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They could have at least dragged in the IR modem from the 88*0 - Glub knows it got everything else.
When they play the whole thing with a full orchestra.
But Passport is a Microsoft product and IE is a Microsoft product. iPaqs are PocketPCs, which as everyone knows, run WindowsCE, which is a Microsoft product. It's not in Microsoft's interest to make Passport cross-platform.
I would contend that you don't have a choice if you choose to use MSN Messenger. It is, after all, a Microsoft product, as is Hotmail. I have no problem in Microsoft giving me a Passport account for using Microsoft services (such as I do). I would be more concerned if I had to use that account to, say, buy anything from Tesco or something.
There are levels of trust. You trust your doctor with your medical records. You trust your bank with your financial details. Word from Redmond has implied, for online purposes certainly, that MS would like Hailstorm to be a single point of trust. I don't think anyone is anywhere near as sophisticated as being able to do that in a trustworthy way, whatever Microsoft think.
The FUD point is very clear here: what if, with a little bit of manipulation, it becomes difficult not to use Hailstorm/Passport/.NET for secure or sensitive transactions? What if Microsoft could secure trust in enough governments and major financial organisations to make a majority of Internet transactions use it? Of the current MS innovations I think it is the most dangerous, because it has the potential to concentrate a lot of responsibility in one private organisation. It really shouldn't be scorned just yet.
There's supposed to be a version of SO6 for MacOS Classic. OS X will, of course, be far easier to do.
Er, that would be VA, and look what happened to them...
I was very excited by the multimedia aspects of BeOS and it would be a shame to lose them. It would have nice to have 3Com 3C509 NIC support as well - not that it's a common NIC or anything. :(
Would gave thought it would be oil rigs out there. They look like Christmas trees. Big square Christmas trees.
My company insist that we use Netscape for internet access, and the desktops seem to be stuck on 4.74. I've never been able to find a reason why. I'm tempted to download 6.1 and install it just to have something slightly better than the unstable bug-ridden non-standard piece of crap that AOL's only contribution to Netscape was.
They really need to read 'Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure' by Jerry Kaplin and read how the first real PDA, the Go! was royally screwed (well, according to Kaplin) by Apple's 'assistance' pre-Newton and by Microsoft's Pen Computing libraries which seem to have been invented to be a spoiler for Go! and its successor the GRiD - I don't think they ever got used in a PDA and have very little relation to Windows CE. I read 'Startup' when I was trying to do a dotcom myself and it put me off completely. It's required reading for anyone who even thinks of taking on the big boys, even with things they haven't thought of yet.
When /. implemented the karma system much was talked about the concept of reputation servers, sites like Slashdot where a contributor's veracity could be marked up and marked down by their peers according to the validity of their words. Bruce Sterling used it as a minor plot thread in 'Distraction' but it seemed to quickly lost its impetus IRL - I guess it's relatively easy to get an idea of someone's rep on Slashdot but it's not a driving factor of being a contributor. I'm not a Kuro5hin reader but if Scoop offers 'reputation' over 'karma' it has a better basis for publication for peer review (and indeed a potentially important influence over individuals' lives).
Wasn't Q3 supposed to be when Amazon would make a profit at last? Or is that every quarter? Ah, no, it's the fourth quarter. So that's all right then.
The truth is that the CDs are the larval form of an alien species which inhabit AOL parasitically. When there is one in every home they will spontaneously mature and eliminate all humans. Fear the Day of The Great Hatching.
'The Business' is a bit of froth really, maybe it's me getting old or it's Banks getting lazy but he doesn't get me excited anymore. I might only buy a couple more ;).
I first heard about this last week from a link to here from this story. The bits about picking up a dying cosmonaut's last breath and a female cosmonaut burning up on reentry seem a little difficult to believe but the story of Vladimir Illushyn's flight appears to have been completely vindicated recently. There's even this programme about him, which was shown on the UK Horizons digital TV station on Wednesday night last week. On the other hand, the story about launches in 1958 does seem a little fanciful.
Actually, the Soviets faked his death and sent him to Venus. According to a Stephen Baxter short story.
While rooting around in the bowels of a media company's offices he came across a dusty 386 pushed under a desk. Attaching a monitor to it revealed that it was a Netware 2.12 print server, but while it was connected to the network there were no printers anywhere near it. In the spirit of adventure and tidiness, he decided to shut it down. Almost immediately he got a call telling him that half the network was down. Being a perceptive type, he restarted the 386, and hey presto, the network reappeared. He stuck a sign saying 'DO NOT SWITCH OFF!' on it and pushed it further under the desk.
Google Europe went online a couple of weeks ago, and as far as anyone can work out, they're using IP address based redirects to send users to their country local site. The upshot has been that there were lots of problems in the first few days as the database was being sorted out. I wasn't getting redirected to Google.FR or anything but for a while my searches were getting results in Swedish first.
Can't see why not. QNX have been doing embedded and thin systems for years. I've seen rugged systems that use it in factories so there's no reason why it shouldn't move burgers.
True, but I was thinking about the actual protocol rather than the Open Directory process.
This is the URL I get when I search the USPO's database for this patent: http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO 2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r= 1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1='Private+URL'&OS="Pri vate+URL"&RS="Private+URL"
Seriously though, the patent shows a specific example, which I suppose is patentable, although for what reason I really can't imagine. Why would anybody want to rip them off when it's minimal work to roll your own similar but not identical structure?
If nowhere else, Disneyland has machines in various places around the park that takes pennies and dimes and presses them into long thin ovals. Then again, it's unwise to mess with the mouse.
To my simple mind the Open Directory Project seems to be the best bet for a model for searching Usenet. It's arranged hierarchically, it's searchable, it's open. And instead of having all the archives stored in a single location, what about having them distributed? Just a couple of random ideas while I've got other better things to do.