The Microsoft version of.NET for Linux existed at least a year ago!
Have you seen it? No. They need the manuverability in the market that hey if all goes to hell on the platform wars, jump ship and start marketing for a newer open systems microsoft using microsoft components. Java kicking in MS's teeth? Open other platform.NET's.. basically they are saving the "big guns" for when they are in a shoot out, and if by some unrealistic miracle, they actually surpass java without any problems do you see them EVER needing to release the ports? Hell no, they already have the lock in, so why make their product line weaker by alowing non-Microsoft platforms to use it?
"OTOH, in practice I applaud anything that will stop the gradual slide of the Internet towards a broadcast-like, producer/consumer relationship."
Nah, that just means that the media giants that have rules your TV watching existance will soon rule your "internet watching" existance and it will throw out all the little guys. AOL come to mind? They sculpt their service the way they want, and many that use that service will eat it all up. So, yeah I would like control of my internet, but no I don't think this will prevent that problem in the least.
Digital is just fine (http://www.sundogwebdesign.com/Should%20I%20get%2 0Digital%20Cable%20or%20a%20Satellite%20Dish.html). Don't troll on it. I live in Canada with digital, and Movie Central Rocks, IMHO.
But I do agree that the selection of broadcast points are narrow, but that is the way governments / corporations like it. It leads to more reliable performance, be it good or bad. Now, that is probably not always the best for "power users" who want everything under the sun at their finger tips, but for the majority, it suffices paying a little extra and living without wizbang feature #1233 for the sake of reliability.
1. Concidering that the preference file is in the same file as the security settings for the browser, it then becomes an administrator's problem, andi would like to to justify how user's security profile doesn't become an administrator's issue.
2. I lived on both sides of the administration domain (programmer then admin) , so I know what both sides are all about. Just remember that even though a users uses 99% of a computer's front end, there is a lot that an admin has to do in the backgound. A uiser may use a workstation in their work, but a workstation IS an admin's job. Giving access to the user as to allow them to do their work without interfearing with the admin's work is the ideal. When you look at larger companies, the role of organizational process makes the split even tougher. You have users, admins, and the process requirements that all have to live together in some kind of nice and balance, or else the deck of cards will crumble.
Simple, just make all religions a profit/non-profit organization under the law, and give them no special abilities. Problem solved. Scientology a religion? They seem to be on the same level, so who are you to judge otherwise?
Conrad Black. He sold the newspapers, so your argument is pretty moot.
But the statistics prove that what we CAN release to the public is a lot better than in other countries.
And about Canada having no real news to show, that all depends on what you call news. If you mean 24-7 911 coverage on CNN, if that floats your boat, then go for it. I am talking about news that isn't a 100th time rehash of what has been released before.
Terminal Services emulates hardware so that the server OS does all the work. That also means that it sends bitmaps and rects while X sends EXVERYTHING over the line. I think over the line, compression / encription would be great extensions to have, but I don't think they decided to make the channel configurable, so unless someone writes a wrapper for it, X over low speed will never be ideal.
As for on-platform performance, same problem in a different way. The channel can be majorly shortcutted if both server and client are on the same computer if someone wrote a faster channel between xlib and the server, like IPC's. Unless it is 100% implemented, aka not an extention like DGA or DRI.
"I think this signing thing is DRM in action. Nobody is realizing it yet."
I think everyone is realizing it, but doing nothing about it. It is one of those sticky technologies that can be used for good and evil. There is and always will be good uses for this technology like the way it is being used today, but on the other hand, forcing certificates on those that just want secure internet connections seems rather arguable to me, but since it is in spec there isn't much for us to do until I take a flame thrower to all the anal-monopolistic companies.
Just to clearify the DRM == cert part, I think the nature of DRM forces anyone who implements that security mechanism to use certs.
The real problem when internet connected devices become more pleantiful, and central authorities like Microsoft and Verisign start signing everything under the sun. Running a program on Windows 2004:
#bash - Error 31337 - Problem: This program has not been signed by an
application trusted provider.
Solution: Bend over and take it like the
mule that you are -
#Format C:
- Error 31337 - Problem: This program has not been signed by an
application trusted provider.
Why bother implementing Nazi-like patents when other, large economy countries have it, for which to expoit?
1. If you don't have a patent presence, you become less restrictive in which technologies are implemented. For the government, they don't have to worry about huge royalty licensing fees for products developed in house, no?
2. You won't scare off business, because they will just patent their processes in the big countries anyways.
3. A "weak" country without a decent economy will just suffer more from restrictive patenting. Businesses will be locked out, or pay deeply for innovative technologies that were simply patented to block competition. AKA strategic innovation;-)
4. None of this matters. Either your country has envy over more prosperous countries, and want "in on the action", or else they are getting bullied by those countries to conform to "their" system of law.
No offense to most Americans here, but your government is brutally arrogent when it comes to foreign policy. It seems that you want the backlash that insues to keep your place over the rest of the world.
Training is a management level initiative brought upon their employees. I think this is probably the right way of doing things. If you run into the paradigm of coder-helps-coder, you can't quantify what level of competence you programmers are actually at. Hiring an external trainer, you can (hopefully) gain insight into the programmers styles and behaviors, and really push them to expand themselves if they like it or not.
I have seen some pig headed programmers that were stuck to one way of doing things, their way, and when it came to moving to a new focus, they fell apart, and it is a waste to the company if you have to fire a programmer for not keeping up to date. It is much cheaper for a company in the long run to keep aboard competent programmers that can change with the company.
If you aren't convinced with having a trainer come in, at least send them off to courses or pay toward continuing education. All it means are higher valued employees who will probably be more content that their employer is actually showing an active interest in their employees.
PS: I was one of those pig headed programmers, and yes I did get kicked. Lesson learned, I hope.
Sysadmins have no power if the boss says "We are an Outlook shop and nothing else". My boss actually said that to me. He could care less about the black magic behind the scenes, but he wanted a unified client interface.
I am sure this applies to many sysadmins, and in reality, the only people with the power to swith over users software are sysadmins of one;-)
This is a decision for IT heads or even presidents of companies to make depending on the size. If it makes economic sense to swith over they will, but not because it "isn't microsoft". If we actually want to create a viable alternative, we need to entice corporate decision makers with dollar signs, not with rhetoric.
Outlook and worrd are basically the same program. Their backend functionality are tied very closely together, at least in Office XP That is why:
1. You can send email natively from word 2. The default message composer in Outlook is actually an instance of Word
Personally, I think optional integration is what the best solution would be. You reuse tons of cross funtaional code and you have the option to turn off a function of the program if it doesn't suit your needs. If you have email, and you want to turn on calandering, load a module, then you have a calander. Some day...
Then stop wearing clothes manufactured in poorer countries, and stop free trade and globalization in general.
All of slashdot was for globalization and outsourcing until it hits home that YOU can be the next disposable profession to hit the trash can. Welcome to macro-ecomomic reality. You aren't economically viable anymore.
If you destroy this program, H-1 do you see more US companies willing to pay twice as much for the same amount of work, or do you see the company move their IT departments to another country all together? As long as their is competent, skilled, cheap labor outside of the country, why should people hire you? Sympathy?
Since it is probably a mass storage device in USB 2.0's eyes, so a windows user could plug in the device to windows and read the entire filesystem as-is.
With Journalling, you don't have that interoperability.
Just to make things more clear on what ICANN is, they are "Internet Canonical Names and Numbers" organization. What has been left out of the topic all together is the Numbers part.
ICANN controls every single IP address in the public domain. If you are given an IP address, it was given to your ISP from an upstream provider from a regional deligation company that is liable to ICANN for technical changes in how things are done.
After 5 Spider-man moves, one would think the same thing. Ex. Superman, Starwars.
Can anyone name any really long running series of movies that truly surpased or even maintained the momentum of past movies that have lasted this long? Just be glad that it isn't another Jason X...
Just because it isn't 100% qwerty, doesn't make it not a keyboard. If this one is anything like the RIM's keyboard (which I think they ripped off), this thing is going to rock. RIMs besides their limited hardware are quite useable and quite well designed.
Forget what it accomplishes, think of it like this. A movie is a form of speech. It allows someone to creatively express themselves in a medium which happens to be interactive. Would you call movies on DVD's not protected, because you can move the cursor around? It is not the content that they are battling with, it is the media.
From a user's perspective, there isn't a difference between DVD's and video games. In both cases, a user interacts with the medium to cause change.
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The Microsoft version of .NET for Linux existed at least a year ago!
.NET's.. basically they are saving the "big guns" for when they are in a shoot out, and if by some unrealistic miracle, they actually surpass java without any problems do you see them EVER needing to release the ports? Hell no, they already have the lock in, so why make their product line weaker by alowing non-Microsoft platforms to use it?
Have you seen it? No. They need the manuverability in the market that hey if all goes to hell on the platform wars, jump ship and start marketing for a newer open systems microsoft using microsoft components. Java kicking in MS's teeth? Open other platform
"OTOH, in practice I applaud anything that will stop the gradual slide of the Internet towards a broadcast-like, producer/consumer relationship."
Nah, that just means that the media giants that have rules your TV watching existance will soon rule your "internet watching" existance and it will throw out all the little guys. AOL come to mind? They sculpt their service the way they want, and many that use that service will eat it all up. So, yeah I would like control of my internet, but no I don't think this will prevent that problem in the least.
Digital is just fine (http://www.sundogwebdesign.com/Should%20I%20get%2 0Digital%20Cable%20or%20a%20Satellite%20Dish.html) .
Don't troll on it. I live in Canada with digital, and Movie Central Rocks, IMHO.
But I do agree that the selection of broadcast points are narrow, but that is the way governments / corporations like it. It leads to more reliable performance, be it good or bad. Now, that is probably not always the best for "power users" who want everything under the sun at their finger tips, but for the majority, it suffices paying a little extra and living without wizbang feature #1233 for the sake of reliability.
hehe you right wing wacko! :-)
They are 'a' voice in the west, but not mine.
1. Concidering that the preference file is in the same file as the security settings for the browser, it then becomes an administrator's problem, andi would like to to justify how user's security profile doesn't become an administrator's issue.
2. I lived on both sides of the administration domain (programmer then admin) , so I know what both sides are all about. Just remember that even though a users uses 99% of a computer's front end, there is a lot that an admin has to do in the backgound. A uiser may use a workstation in their work, but a workstation IS an admin's job. Giving access to the user as to allow them to do their work without interfearing with the admin's work is the ideal. When you look at larger companies, the role of organizational process makes the split even tougher. You have users, admins, and the process requirements that all have to live together in some kind of nice and balance, or else the deck of cards will crumble.
Take that, US Gov!
"I don't quite see what is lost by releasing a device driver under GPL."
Maybe his job if an ARMY of geeks contribute to the driver development. The hardware might also be blocked by 3rd party IP.
Wrong wrong wrong.
Scifi channel may have cancelled it, but the show does still exist and is still sindicated (in Canada anyways).
http://www.farscape.com/news/index.html gives the general rundown
So, exactly how much international press have you read that makes you the expert on international press freedoms? ...
That's what I thought.
Simple, just make all religions a profit/non-profit organization under the law, and give them no special abilities. Problem solved. Scientology a religion? They seem to be on the same level, so who are you to judge otherwise?
Conrad Black. He sold the newspapers, so your argument is pretty moot.
But the statistics prove that what we CAN release to the public is a lot better than in other countries.
And about Canada having no real news to show, that all depends on what you call news. If you mean 24-7 911 coverage on CNN, if that floats your boat, then go for it. I am talking about news that isn't a 100th time rehash of what has been released before.
Terminal Services emulates hardware so that the server OS does all the work. That also means that it sends bitmaps and rects while X sends EXVERYTHING over the line. I think over the line, compression / encription would be great extensions to have, but I don't think they decided to make the channel configurable, so unless someone writes a wrapper for it, X over low speed will never be ideal.
As for on-platform performance, same problem in a different way. The channel can be majorly shortcutted if both server and client are on the same computer if someone wrote a faster channel between xlib and the server, like IPC's. Unless it is 100% implemented, aka not an extention like DGA or DRI.
And a CD burned modern linux OS does not suffice why? How many university labs don't have CD rom drives, anyway?
"I think this signing thing is DRM in action. Nobody is realizing it yet."
I think everyone is realizing it, but doing nothing about it. It is one of those sticky technologies that can be used for good and evil. There is and always will be good uses for this technology like the way it is being used today, but on the other hand, forcing certificates on those that just want secure internet connections seems rather arguable to me, but since it is in spec there isn't much for us to do until I take a flame thrower to all the anal-monopolistic companies.
Just to clearify the DRM == cert part, I think the nature of DRM forces anyone who implements that security mechanism to use certs.
The real problem when internet connected devices become more pleantiful, and central authorities like Microsoft and Verisign start signing everything under the sun. Running a program on Windows 2004:
#bash
- Error 31337 -
Problem: This program has not been signed by an
application trusted provider.
Solution: Bend over and take it like the
mule that you are
-
#Format C:
- Error 31337 -
Problem: This program has not been signed by an
application trusted provider.
Solution: You can never escape us! MWAHAHAHAHA!
-
Why bother implementing Nazi-like patents when other, large economy countries have it, for which to expoit?
;-)
1. If you don't have a patent presence, you become less restrictive in which technologies are implemented. For the government, they don't have to worry about huge royalty licensing fees for products developed in house, no?
2. You won't scare off business, because they will just patent their processes in the big countries anyways.
3. A "weak" country without a decent economy will just suffer more from restrictive patenting. Businesses will be locked out, or pay deeply for innovative technologies that were simply patented to block competition. AKA strategic innovation
4. None of this matters. Either your country has envy over more prosperous countries, and want "in on the action", or else they are getting bullied by those countries to conform to "their" system of law.
No offense to most Americans here, but your government is brutally arrogent when it comes to foreign policy. It seems that you want the backlash that insues to keep your place over the rest of the world.
Training is a management level initiative brought upon their employees. I think this is probably the right way of doing things. If you run into the paradigm of coder-helps-coder, you can't quantify what level of competence you programmers are actually at. Hiring an external trainer, you can (hopefully) gain insight into the programmers styles and behaviors, and really push them to expand themselves if they like it or not.
I have seen some pig headed programmers that were stuck to one way of doing things, their way, and when it came to moving to a new focus, they fell apart, and it is a waste to the company if you have to fire a programmer for not keeping up to date. It is much cheaper for a company in the long run to keep aboard competent programmers that can change with the company.
If you aren't convinced with having a trainer come in, at least send them off to courses or pay toward continuing education. All it means are higher valued employees who will probably be more content that their employer is actually showing an active interest in their employees.
PS: I was one of those pig headed programmers, and yes I did get kicked. Lesson learned, I hope.
Sysadmins have no power if the boss says "We are an Outlook shop and nothing else". My boss actually said that to me. He could care less about the black magic behind the scenes, but he wanted a unified client interface.
;-)
I am sure this applies to many sysadmins, and in reality, the only people with the power to swith over users software are sysadmins of one
This is a decision for IT heads or even presidents of companies to make depending on the size. If it makes economic sense to swith over they will, but not because it "isn't microsoft". If we actually want to create a viable alternative, we need to entice corporate decision makers with dollar signs, not with rhetoric.
Outlook and worrd are basically the same program. Their backend functionality are tied very closely together, at least in Office XP That is why:
1. You can send email natively from word
2. The default message composer in Outlook is actually an instance of Word
Personally, I think optional integration is what the best solution would be. You reuse tons of cross funtaional code and you have the option to turn off a function of the program if it doesn't suit your needs. If you have email, and you want to turn on calandering, load a module, then you have a calander. Some day...
Then stop wearing clothes manufactured in poorer countries, and stop free trade and globalization in general.
All of slashdot was for globalization and outsourcing until it hits home that YOU can be the next disposable profession to hit the trash can. Welcome to macro-ecomomic reality. You aren't economically viable anymore.
If you destroy this program, H-1 do you see more US companies willing to pay twice as much for the same amount of work, or do you see the company move their IT departments to another country all together? As long as their is competent, skilled, cheap labor outside of the country, why should people hire you? Sympathy?
Since it is probably a mass storage device in USB 2.0's eyes, so a windows user could plug in the device to windows and read the entire filesystem as-is.
With Journalling, you don't have that interoperability.
USB2 is 480mbs, theoretically anyways.
Firewire would have been great for interoperability, but there is one option, anyway. They are probably MAC users who use built-in firewire.
Just my assumption since the slash effect is still running rampant.
Just to make things more clear on what ICANN is, they are "Internet Canonical Names and Numbers" organization. What has been left out of the topic all together is the Numbers part.
ICANN controls every single IP address in the public domain. If you are given an IP address, it was given to your ISP from an upstream provider from a regional deligation company that is liable to ICANN for technical changes in how things are done.
To limit ICANN to just DNS would be shortsighted.
After 5 Spider-man moves, one would think the same thing. Ex. Superman, Starwars.
Can anyone name any really long running series of movies that truly surpased or even maintained the momentum of past movies that have lasted this long? Just be glad that it isn't another Jason X...
Just because it isn't 100% qwerty, doesn't make it not a keyboard. If this one is anything like the RIM's keyboard (which I think they ripped off), this thing is going to rock. RIMs besides their limited hardware are quite useable and quite well designed.
Forget what it accomplishes, think of it like this. A movie is a form of speech. It allows someone to creatively express themselves in a medium which happens to be interactive. Would you call movies on DVD's not protected, because you can move the cursor around? It is not the content that they are battling with, it is the media.
From a user's perspective, there isn't a difference between DVD's and video games. In both cases, a user interacts with the medium to cause change.
[Flame blocker] I am not from the states, so I am not 100% sure if movies are 1st amendment protected or not[/Flame blocker]