Actually this is done already in e. g. Europe. The only difference is usage of country abbreviation (the one used on car stickers) and blank as separator.
It would however completely sufficient if US based websites would recognize the world outside and make 'state' a non-mandatory field and have a 'coutry' field as well.
Just two citations: "They licensed Qualcomm's patents, but what they're now discovering is that Qualcomm didn't patent everything it knows about making CDMA work, and that it's a really difficult problem. (Damned straight it is. We know a hell of a lot we're not telling. It's pretty straightforward to make it work badly and unreliably, using a lot of battery power. Making it work well on low power is damned tough, and that knowledge is not for sale.)"
And
"Both these articles say that CDMA2K is "controlled by Qualcomm". That's true and not true.There's an industry standards body, and Qualcomm is probably the most important and influential member of it. It's also true that most of the CDMA2K proposal came out of Qualcomm. But the members of that standards body understand that they're going to get further by cooperation than by competition, and there's very much a "can do" attitude there which helped get a standard approved a long time ago. Qualcomm's proposal wasn't predatory."
Reading the former makes the latter, especially the 'wasn't predatory' a good laugh.
IMHO KDDI is doing well, because customers like two things: - It works - The price is OK.
Looking at the promises for the Nokia 6650 and track record of the company, WCDMA will work. Together with GSM. Price is a matter for the Telcos.
This is why WCDMA will be working. Worldwide. Except in the USA, as there is no additional Spectrum.
BTW
Its CDMA2000-1x at KDDI. That's 144kb/s. So it's equivalent to GPRS.
Eons ago I had to program in Fortran. I don't know, if it was for the arcane machine, OS and compiler, but I suspect it was because of Fortran 77, that it sucked so badly.
Of course, if You know the size of Your matrices in advance, and are able to simulate decent control structures with GOTOs, go ahead...
But I'd rather recommend to spend a week learning decent dynamic memory allocation in C, than wasting one week with Fortran. Or googling around for math and simulation libs for C.
One thing is for sure. There's nothing in Fortran, that You can't find in C.
is actually not the question, though not for the reason given.
Microsoft itself would say that their offer complies to the terms of the settlement.
Thereby totally neglecting that there will be no really punishing remedy if Microsoft is able to negociate it (which is their victory in the case as everybody knows).
Thereby totally neglecting that this kind of remedy will have not even no punishing impact, but - to the contrary - will help Microsoft.
IMHO the offer shows a typical behaviour of MIcrosoft as well: They try actively to find which borders they will encounter.
Some Facts:
1. Margins for PCs are slim.
Even Dell has problems though they have been
able to negotiate good conditions from Intel
and Microsoft
2. HP and Compaq have sold their technology
PA-RISC and Alpha to Intel. In hope to
get better terms from Intel.
3. Margins for printers are slim as well,
but HP is #1 there and does more than just
assembly (like with PCs) or placing a sticker
(CD-*s, Scanners,...).
Some Assumptions:
1. Bosses think that Linux is not ready for the
desktop.
(Gates sells directly to the CEOs anyway.
We will see him on XP promoting tour soon)
2. There is no commercial Unix for Itanium.
Sun is for SPARC; IBM is for PowerPC.
3. There is no real Technology left in new HP.
My Guesses:
1. They will have to merge HP-UX and Tru64 to
some new HP-UX to have a comercial Unix
for Itanium. It'll be a pain in the back,
but they'll have to. Just think of 'bdf'.
2. Most layoffs will occur, where PCs are
assembled.
3. It's more likely that assembling and selling
PCs will not be profitable for them.
4. OpenVMS will haunt them a very long time.
5. Linux? They are still looking for a place
where they could hide it.
Spend some time with Your kind playing with Lego or whatever. Do not just place them in the middle of some toys and go away.
It also helps if they play regularly with slightly older kids like in kindergrden. This is why my son improved his skills building things faster and why my daughter alraedy plays with Duplo...
My guess is that it is more effective to tell Your politicians that DMCA kills economy.
Remember how clean room reengineering IBMs PC
BIOS created the (IBM) PC market.
That was about the same time Apple Lawyers had their final victory over Apple clone makers.
Guess which company did sell their stuff better afterwards?
And to the record companies:
They are really distribution companies specialized in music.
As long as You have to shift some hardware to the customer (CDs), You need to decide which to produce in large amounts & deliver to outlets _beforehand_.
PR will have be made so that demand is more likely to meet Your decision.
With the internet, the whole concept of disribution as record companies know it is redundant.
All they do for now is fighting with the back to wall to curb distribution of music via internet.
They will do it as long there is no way for them to rule distribution via internet the way they do now rule the traditional distribution channel.
Now that they spin the plasma in the tokamak, would it be possible and make sense to let collide two counterrotating 'donuts'?
Perhaps so that the point(s) of collision stay at the same place?
The audience of billg should better check the implications. Especially software developers should think carefully.
Just because GPLed software is about to eat Mircrosofts bacon, does not mean for other software developeing companies that integrating GPLed software with own software product does
harm.
So how does Microsofts world look like:
They mainly sell off-the-shelf software for basic needs, like OSes, Office and Browser.
Competition in that area is weak, but now comes GPLed software from independent developers.
GPLed and truly open software addresses every problem and matches any task a typical computer user might have. It just lacks a common look&feel, so that learning to use another tool for the same task seems not easy for the typical user.
BTW, people got taught principles for OSes and DBMSes and whatsoever for decades now.
Small wonder that those mushroom easily.
Microsoft decided to fight that kind of software - officially.
So it cannot use it without loosing face. Because using GPLed software would let them look like thieves or liars - hypocrites at best.
Other off-the-shelf / mass market software producers can fill their gaps with GPled software; it helps them to stay competative, even though their biggest competitor is MSFT.
And producers of seldomly sold / niche Software can integrate GPLed software and relax anyway.
So developers really should know who is crying wolf.
The XBOX was to have a 300MHz CPU in the early planning stage. This has changed. And the same will apply to Nokias MT. Simply because You will have to recycle those CPUs from used PCs in a year.
In any case this box should be a decent digital video recorder and as it has a LAN port as well, it could be perused as a firewall&router as well. In that way it would complement my PC nicely, which then wouldbe used for gaming, buring CDs, storing of those films I'd like to keep,...
So this box makes perfect friend with your PC and it'll be bought more like a video recorder.
chess
Most of it is already done by DIRC.
Except the 'mobile subscriber' part.
This has been dropped at some stage from the original DIRC project, although they had an idea
how to route calls (using GPS).
See http://www.dirc.net/ for Yourself.
BTW they will be present at CeBIT with a demo.
Looks more like integration & miniaturization work than research work for the happy DoD contractor.
chess
- marketing (e. g. new technology will
solve old Problem instantly)
"Advances in speech recognition software, for
example, will open up the Internet to the
estimated 2 billion people worldwide who
cannot read or write, vastly increasing the
size of the Internet and the potential data
collected on it."
IMHO this is incredibly stupid.
Just think about people that have to cope
hunger, housing, health and other basic needs.
How should they spend some 'superflouous'
resources? RRR or WWW?
- AI (e. g. speech recognition,
Computer understands what You want
"The vast majority of computers have few
interactive features and are largely unable
to forecast human behavior")
- integration of different HW and SW is easy,
Computer Scientists just have to come up with
clean, watertight and bulletproof standards.
Whereever You look, people read standards
in a different way than You (e. g. MSFTs
Kerberos, where UNIX boxes can only work as
client), no matter how well written they are.
From personal experience I can assure
that this causes a hell of a lot of work.
To agree on a standard (so that it works
perfectly) there is no competition
based on merits, but on economic success.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually this is done already in e. g. Europe.
The only difference is usage of country abbreviation (the one used on car stickers) and blank as separator.
It would however completely sufficient if US based websites would recognize the world outside and make 'state' a non-mandatory field and have a 'coutry' field as well.
chess
Use a proxy. A proxy would be the only origin of packets.
The only thing ISPs will really upset is when You screw their routing. In that case they may screw You, IMHO.
Only these Super DMCA (proof that stupid legislation can be made worse) would be a worry.
chess
Nice solution, Ron.
Can I throw away some 5%-10% less invoices?
And by the way, Your Telco has a micropayment solution since ages. Your Mobile Operator also.
It's called phone bill.
Don't know were I read it several years ago:
"The (Business) Model of a (3G) Operator is the Business Model of a bank"
chess
Just two citations:
"They licensed Qualcomm's patents, but what they're now discovering is that Qualcomm didn't patent everything it knows about making CDMA work, and that it's a really difficult problem. (Damned straight it is. We know a hell of a lot we're not telling. It's pretty straightforward to make it work badly and unreliably, using a lot of battery power. Making it work well on low power is damned tough, and that knowledge is not for sale.)"
And
"Both these articles say that CDMA2K is "controlled by Qualcomm". That's true and not true.There's an industry standards body, and Qualcomm is probably the most important and influential member of it. It's also true that most of the CDMA2K proposal came out of Qualcomm. But the members of that standards body understand that they're going to get further by cooperation than by competition, and there's very much a "can do" attitude there which helped get a standard approved a long time ago. Qualcomm's proposal wasn't predatory."
Reading the former makes the latter, especially the 'wasn't predatory' a good laugh.
IMHO KDDI is doing well, because customers like two things:
- It works
- The price is OK.
Looking at the promises for the Nokia 6650 and track record of the company, WCDMA will work.
Together with GSM. Price is a matter for the Telcos.
This is why WCDMA will be working. Worldwide.
Except in the USA, as there is no additional Spectrum.
BTW
Its CDMA2000-1x at KDDI. That's 144kb/s. So it's equivalent to GPRS.
Economies of scale may favor WCDMA as well.
chess
Eons ago I had to program in Fortran.
I don't know, if it was for the arcane machine, OS and compiler, but I suspect it was because
of Fortran 77, that it sucked so badly.
Of course, if You know the size of Your matrices in advance, and are able to simulate decent control structures with GOTOs, go ahead...
But I'd rather recommend to spend a week learning decent dynamic memory allocation in C, than wasting one week with Fortran.
Or googling around for math and simulation libs for C.
One thing is for sure. There's nothing in Fortran, that You can't find in C.
chess
The most interesting thing is that they broke up /etc/rc.config. AFAIR the comment in the file it should resemble the Red Hat way now...
chess
Ask those Ericssons and Nokias, they do need IPv6 badly. If it were not them, those fixed line lamers would do with IPv4 and NAT forever.
chess
It is only GSM V.3, being based on TDMA.
It is done via channel bundeling and new protocoll for airinterface.
3G is WCDMA (here in Europe) or some other stuff (ask Qualcomm).
cees
"Is Microsoft a do-gooder, or up to no good?"
is actually not the question, though not for the reason given.
Microsoft itself would say that their offer complies to the terms of the settlement.
Thereby totally neglecting that there will be no really punishing remedy if Microsoft is able to negociate it (which is their victory in the case as everybody knows).
Thereby totally neglecting that this kind of remedy will have not even no punishing impact, but - to the contrary - will help Microsoft.
IMHO the offer shows a typical behaviour of MIcrosoft as well: They try actively to find which borders they will encounter.
chess
Some Facts: ...).
1. Margins for PCs are slim.
Even Dell has problems though they have been
able to negotiate good conditions from Intel
and Microsoft
2. HP and Compaq have sold their technology
PA-RISC and Alpha to Intel. In hope to
get better terms from Intel.
3. Margins for printers are slim as well,
but HP is #1 there and does more than just
assembly (like with PCs) or placing a sticker
(CD-*s, Scanners,
Some Assumptions:
1. Bosses think that Linux is not ready for the
desktop.
(Gates sells directly to the CEOs anyway.
We will see him on XP promoting tour soon)
2. There is no commercial Unix for Itanium.
Sun is for SPARC; IBM is for PowerPC.
3. There is no real Technology left in new HP.
My Guesses:
1. They will have to merge HP-UX and Tru64 to
some new HP-UX to have a comercial Unix
for Itanium. It'll be a pain in the back,
but they'll have to. Just think of 'bdf'.
2. Most layoffs will occur, where PCs are
assembled.
3. It's more likely that assembling and selling
PCs will not be profitable for them.
4. OpenVMS will haunt them a very long time.
5. Linux? They are still looking for a place
where they could hide it.
Please mod this up!
...
Spend some time with Your kind playing with Lego or whatever. Do not just place them in the middle of some toys and go away.
It also helps if they play regularly with slightly older kids like in kindergrden. This is why my son improved his skills building things faster and why my daughter alraedy plays with Duplo
chess
My guess is that it is more effective to tell Your politicians that DMCA kills economy.
Remember how clean room reengineering IBMs PC
BIOS created the (IBM) PC market.
That was about the same time Apple Lawyers had their final victory over Apple clone makers.
Guess which company did sell their stuff better afterwards?
And to the record companies:
They are really distribution companies specialized in music.
As long as You have to shift some hardware to the customer (CDs), You need to decide which to produce in large amounts & deliver to outlets _beforehand_.
PR will have be made so that demand is more likely to meet Your decision.
With the internet, the whole concept of disribution as record companies know it is redundant.
All they do for now is fighting with the back to wall to curb distribution of music via internet.
They will do it as long there is no way for them to rule distribution via internet the way they do now rule the traditional distribution channel.
cees
Now that they spin the plasma in the tokamak, would it be possible and make sense to let collide two counterrotating 'donuts'?
Perhaps so that the point(s) of collision stay at the same place?
Just curious
chess
The audience of billg should better check the implications. Especially software developers should think carefully.
Just because GPLed software is about to eat Mircrosofts bacon, does not mean for other software developeing companies that integrating GPLed software with own software product does
harm.
So how does Microsofts world look like:
They mainly sell off-the-shelf software for basic needs, like OSes, Office and Browser.
Competition in that area is weak, but now comes GPLed software from independent developers.
GPLed and truly open software addresses every problem and matches any task a typical computer user might have. It just lacks a common look&feel, so that learning to use another tool for the same task seems not easy for the typical user.
BTW, people got taught principles for OSes and DBMSes and whatsoever for decades now.
Small wonder that those mushroom easily.
Microsoft decided to fight that kind of software - officially.
So it cannot use it without loosing face. Because using GPLed software would let them look like thieves or liars - hypocrites at best.
Other off-the-shelf / mass market software producers can fill their gaps with GPled software; it helps them to stay competative, even though their biggest competitor is MSFT.
And producers of seldomly sold / niche Software can integrate GPLed software and relax anyway.
So developers really should know who is crying wolf.
chess
The XBOX was to have a 300MHz CPU in the early planning stage. This has changed. And the same will apply to Nokias MT. Simply because You will have to recycle those CPUs from used PCs in a year. In any case this box should be a decent digital video recorder and as it has a LAN port as well, it could be perused as a firewall&router as well. In that way it would complement my PC nicely, which then wouldbe used for gaming, buring CDs, storing of those films I'd like to keep, ...
So this box makes perfect friend with your PC and it'll be bought more like a video recorder.
chess
Most of it is already done by DIRC. Except the 'mobile subscriber' part. This has been dropped at some stage from the original DIRC project, although they had an idea how to route calls (using GPS). See http://www.dirc.net/ for Yourself. BTW they will be present at CeBIT with a demo. Looks more like integration & miniaturization work than research work for the happy DoD contractor. chess
those Scientists still believe in
- marketing (e. g. new technology will
solve old Problem instantly)
"Advances in speech recognition software, for
example, will open up the Internet to the
estimated 2 billion people worldwide who
cannot read or write, vastly increasing the
size of the Internet and the potential data
collected on it."
IMHO this is incredibly stupid.
Just think about people that have to cope
hunger, housing, health and other basic needs.
How should they spend some 'superflouous'
resources? RRR or WWW?
- AI (e. g. speech recognition,
Computer understands what You want
"The vast majority of computers have few
interactive features and are largely unable
to forecast human behavior")
- integration of different HW and SW is easy,
Computer Scientists just have to come up with
clean, watertight and bulletproof standards.
Whereever You look, people read standards
in a different way than You (e. g. MSFTs
Kerberos, where UNIX boxes can only work as
client), no matter how well written they are.
From personal experience I can assure
that this causes a hell of a lot of work.
To agree on a standard (so that it works
perfectly) there is no competition
based on merits, but on economic success.
cees
Common, human genome leads more likely to a (26000! / 13000!) times more complex being than a roundworm.
Even in relation to mice, a (26000! / 25700!) times bigger complexity is possible.
These complexity relations may be different, depending on the effect of control genes, but I'd bet that complexity grows much faster than #genes.
chess
Actually, with all the words directly imported :-))
from English, German can make up that difference
easily