I can not believe that this post has made its way into the front page. Whoever is checking posts at/. should be immediately fired. Anyway, once this post has been proved as absolutely nonsense, it should have been removed from the page long ago. In my country, Spain, false advertisement is illegal, isn't it in the US?
You might want to consider that 3G is only providing the full bandwidth in the most crowded areas, and there is precisely where you can find WiFi access points as well. It is not a problem of what do you use for accessing the network (a phone or a PCMCIA card supporting 3G, for example). The bandwidth itself is what count, as what justifies the high bandwidth is the data, not the voice, and for data you do not want to be tied to a small-screened, lousy-keyboard, phone, but to be able to use any system you find most convenient to access to the network.
That's what can make 3G fail against WiFi. They are competing if fact for overlapping markets.
This, in the state it is presented in the article, is absolutely useless and obvious. I mean, proving that during the beginning of the Atomic Era, the word "atomic" was very common, or that during the war in Vietnam, "Vietnam" was a common word, is just making the evident more evident. It only proves that people tend to talk about what is happening at their time. If they were able to preview any of this, say, trends, it could mean something. But, don0t you think that, if you are able to find many occurences of a word, it means that it is already a trend? This is way it is difficult to foresee the future, because you don't have lots of newspapers talking about it (just joking).
The thing is that, if you really want your laptop to emit these UWB, you can do it (you don't have to power off your laptop even if you have it in its case, you know). If there is really a case against the USE of laptops within the airplanes, there is an absolute need for some kind of screening system (we should be forced to put our laptops in special cases). If not, then this is just another case of false sense of security, and all this discussion is nonsense.
IMHO you should stop for a moment and think why these now big consulting companies are so big. Do you really think all their clients are really stupid people?, because all these consulting firms are really expensive. I don't think it is realistic thinking that all these firms could charge that much if their clients didn't see any real benefit from their services. This doesn't mean, of course, that some projects end badly, bad I don't think it is the most general case. I'm quite fed up with this bad attitude against the big consulting corporations. I've worked with some small consulting companies, and many times I have seen just a bunch of code monkeys, unable many times to compromise with the client or take the responsibility for the project when it is needed. IMHO again, the reason why many times the big companies go for the services of the big consulting firms, is just because they know they are not able to accomplish their objectives by themselves. And finally, the big consulting and the small and freelance consulting worlds are not very far away. I know people who has crossed borders in both ways.
Just for the sake of simplicity, I don't think it is any necessary to change the time system to decimal. I like to have some scale in this world that is not just powers of 10. If anyone could make a point proving that it would bring noticeable benefits, I could think of it, but not just for making the world even more uniform and self-similar that it is right know.
In my opinion, this is a very important subject that might have its own place in/. Why not keep a list of "recommended books", maintained by the readers. Some short reviews could be added as well.
Just an idea, but I have seen many good book references here to be missed.
After so much talk about the adequacy of Linux to the mass market, i.e. the desktop, don't you think it is time to standardize on some Window Manager (at least as a minimum) and stop launching more and more new pet-projects on WMs?. Another WM thread is not what Linux needs by now. We just need a good one, not thousand half-finished, IMHO.
As an aside note, could this be part of some clever strategy by Sun to delay the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop?
This idea would modify the whole philosophy behind public management. If we agree to do this, why should anyone without a car pay for the cost of building highways?, or even funnier, what happens if I am not interested in financing the educational system because my sons are going to be sent to private schools? Turning all taxes into direct taxes is not the way to go for a modern society, I think. Of course, if the idea is that the NASA is kind of a luxury, then it should be just privatized, and let it survive by its own resources (how long do you think it would last?).
Maybe I was forgetting that candidates sometimes need to be known more than taken seriously, though. We should congratulate this guy then.
What worries me about this is that, by getting encription deeper into its niche, the time when massive operating systems (Windows the first one) and applications (Outlook for example) integrate encryption functionality just out-of-the-box is being more and more delayed. I am deadly sure that, just after MS includes the "Encryption Wizard" application for managing your keyring (with a nice animated paperclip, of course) crypto be quickly adopted by everyone.
I don't think Mr. Gates cares about educating the masses, though.
Man, I had the idea of these modders building nice boxes full of colours and lights, or setting up some clever Peltier systems for overclocking. There is no review on the articles on that site?
Well, if I'm not wrong, nothing is for free, in the US specially. If you read the article, one of the main reasons for settling was that they couldn't afford facing the full trial. Justice MUST be free, or it is not justice, it becomes just another good, which can be acquired of higher quality and quantity by the wealthiest.
That's my very humble opinion, of course.
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... that, after that many tries to explain what.NET is about, it doesn't seem clear to almost anyone.
Might be that, in the end, what they really want is the crowds to shout what THEY want from.NET, so that they offer it... pretty clever roadmap!
Finally, after long dark times, and a very tough re-structuring effort, it seems that SGI is back on the field they lead by far: Big and powerful Unix systems, with the best graphics you can find in the industry. After the strategic zig-zag due to Mr. Belluzio 3-4 years ago("Now we're gonna be an NT vendor!"), it's good to see some big company other than Sun which sticks to the good old, reliable and scalable UNIX systems.
Because, at least, not everyone should sell Windows machines, let Mr. Dell do it.
Just hope support for Linux up to some extent.
Here is how they can do this. The question about how ethical (or aesthetical?) is to degrade the music just to avoid (just up to some extent) being pirated, is pretty interesting, I think.
As Sun's business is to sell UNIX servers, there is no strategic benefit from selling Solaris to run on PCs. At most, it could just bring Dell another weapon to fight against the more expensive Sun machines in the medium-sized servers market. Although it was an interesting effort to provide Solaris for Intel archs., I don't think it has never be really profitable to them. And no one is giving anything for free these days (bye-bye.com boom).
Of course this is just my opinion.
Specially SGI, which is the biggest seller in the Defense and Federal markets. I'm sure that, despite the economic problems in Russia and China, they will save some money to buy some "big iron" from them. I don't think they will base some of their strategic systems in PC-clusters, not even if they run Linux.
Well, I worked in a University in Spain setting up a cluster based on Myrinet 3 years ago, and I can say that there are some restrictions on importing Myrinet, at least. We had to certify that the equipment was going to be used for academic purposes only. The certification had to be signed by our Dean, so you can see they were pretty serious about it.
Do you really think that, in case there was any ultra-secure system, this information would be posted in/.?
Security through obscurity is not an option, but this doesn't mean that you have to publish in capital letters all your security measures. That would be simply silly (no flaming).
I think we are getting much more of these kind of postings that would be desirable (not long ago, a physician was asking for ideas to keep increasing his/her wealth with some kind of hi-tech hospital, and some flaming went on in response). Some may think these kind of questions are good as an starting point posting clever comments on "will be" stuff, but I really do not think that giving anyone ideas for building a business case is what slashdot is supposed to do.
As far as I know from IPR people talks at my former company, it doesn't mean anything that you don't find anything in the patent database, for there is a quite long period of time (I thing is something like 2 years) between you submit the patent, and it is publicly accessible. During that period, your rights on it apply exactly the same, but the patent is just not "searchable". The idea is protecting exactly the same kind of thing the IT guys are trying to protect.
In brief, don't trust too much on patent search.
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I can not believe that this post has made its way into the front page. Whoever is checking posts at /. should be immediately fired.
Anyway, once this post has been proved as absolutely nonsense, it should have been removed from the page long ago. In my country, Spain, false advertisement is illegal, isn't it in the US?
You might want to consider that 3G is only providing the full bandwidth in the most crowded areas, and there is precisely where you can find WiFi access points as well.
It is not a problem of what do you use for accessing the network (a phone or a PCMCIA card supporting 3G, for example). The bandwidth itself is what count, as what justifies the high bandwidth is the data, not the voice, and for data you do not want to be tied to a small-screened, lousy-keyboard, phone, but to be able to use any system you find most convenient to access to the network.
That's what can make 3G fail against WiFi. They are competing if fact for overlapping markets.
So, you are traveling to the old Europe, and the most important thing you need to know is the availability of broadband access?
Funny life must be yours, really.
This, in the state it is presented in the article, is absolutely useless and obvious. I mean, proving that during the beginning of the Atomic Era, the word "atomic" was very common, or that during the war in Vietnam, "Vietnam" was a common word, is just making the evident more evident. It only proves that people tend to talk about what is happening at their time.
If they were able to preview any of this, say, trends, it could mean something. But, don0t you think that, if you are able to find many occurences of a word, it means that it is already a trend?
This is way it is difficult to foresee the future, because you don't have lots of newspapers talking about it (just joking).
The thing is that, if you really want your laptop to emit these UWB, you can do it (you don't have to power off your laptop even if you have it in its case, you know).
If there is really a case against the USE of laptops within the airplanes, there is an absolute need for some kind of screening system (we should be forced to put our laptops in special cases). If not, then this is just another case of false sense of security, and all this discussion is nonsense.
IMHO you should stop for a moment and think why these now big consulting companies are so big. Do you really think all their clients are really stupid people?, because all these consulting firms are really expensive. I don't think it is realistic thinking that all these firms could charge that much if their clients didn't see any real benefit from their services. This doesn't mean, of course, that some projects end badly, bad I don't think it is the most general case.
I'm quite fed up with this bad attitude against the big consulting corporations. I've worked with some small consulting companies, and many times I have seen just a bunch of code monkeys, unable many times to compromise with the client or take the responsibility for the project when it is needed.
IMHO again, the reason why many times the big companies go for the services of the big consulting firms, is just because they know they are not able to accomplish their objectives by themselves.
And finally, the big consulting and the small and freelance consulting worlds are not very far away. I know people who has crossed borders in both ways.
Just for the sake of simplicity, I don't think it is any necessary to change the time system to decimal. I like to have some scale in this world that is not just powers of 10.
If anyone could make a point proving that it would bring noticeable benefits, I could think of it, but not just for making the world even more uniform and self-similar that it is right know.
That's just my little thought on it.
In my opinion, this is a very important subject that might have its own place in /. Why not keep a list of "recommended books", maintained by the readers. Some short reviews could be added as well.
Just an idea, but I have seen many good book references here to be missed.
Do you mean that the staff at /. work just for fun? Don't be naive, please!
After so much talk about the adequacy of Linux to the mass market, i.e. the desktop, don't you think it is time to standardize on some Window Manager (at least as a minimum) and stop launching more and more new pet-projects on WMs?.
Another WM thread is not what Linux needs by now. We just need a good one, not thousand half-finished, IMHO.
As an aside note, could this be part of some clever strategy by Sun to delay the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop?
This idea would modify the whole philosophy behind public management. If we agree to do this, why should anyone without a car pay for the cost of building highways?, or even funnier, what happens if I am not interested in financing the educational system because my sons are going to be sent to private schools?
Turning all taxes into direct taxes is not the way to go for a modern society, I think.
Of course, if the idea is that the NASA is kind of a luxury, then it should be just privatized, and let it survive by its own resources (how long do you think it would last?).
Maybe I was forgetting that candidates sometimes need to be known more than taken seriously, though. We should congratulate this guy then.
What worries me about this is that, by getting encription deeper into its niche, the time when massive operating systems (Windows the first one) and applications (Outlook for example) integrate encryption functionality just out-of-the-box is being more and more delayed.
I am deadly sure that, just after MS includes the "Encryption Wizard" application for managing your keyring (with a nice animated paperclip, of course) crypto be quickly adopted by everyone.
I don't think Mr. Gates cares about educating the masses, though.
Just my humble opinion, but I'm serious at it.
Man, I had the idea of these modders building nice boxes full of colours and lights, or setting up some clever Peltier systems for overclocking.
There is no review on the articles on that site?
It seems they have put down the server.
Well, if I'm not wrong, nothing is for free, in the US specially. If you read the article, one of the main reasons for settling was that they couldn't afford facing the full trial.
Justice MUST be free, or it is not justice, it becomes just another good, which can be acquired of higher quality and quantity by the wealthiest.
That's my very humble opinion, of course.
... that, after that many tries to explain what .NET is about, it doesn't seem clear to almost anyone.
.NET, so that they offer it... pretty clever roadmap!
Might be that, in the end, what they really want is the crowds to shout what THEY want from
(Just kidding, guys)
Finally, after long dark times, and a very tough re-structuring effort, it seems that SGI is back on the field they lead by far: Big and powerful Unix systems, with the best graphics you can find in the industry. After the strategic zig-zag due to Mr. Belluzio 3-4 years ago("Now we're gonna be an NT vendor!"), it's good to see some big company other than Sun which sticks to the good old, reliable and scalable UNIX systems.
Because, at least, not everyone should sell Windows machines, let Mr. Dell do it.
Just hope support for Linux up to some extent.
Here is how they can do this. The question about how ethical (or aesthetical?) is to degrade the music just to avoid (just up to some extent) being pirated, is pretty interesting, I think.
As Sun's business is to sell UNIX servers, there is no strategic benefit from selling Solaris to run on PCs. At most, it could just bring Dell another weapon to fight against the more expensive Sun machines in the medium-sized servers market. Although it was an interesting effort to provide Solaris for Intel archs., I don't think it has never be really profitable to them. And no one is giving anything for free these days (bye-bye .com boom).
Of course this is just my opinion.
Specially SGI, which is the biggest seller in the Defense and Federal markets. I'm sure that, despite the economic problems in Russia and China, they will save some money to buy some "big iron" from them. I don't think they will base some of their strategic systems in PC-clusters, not even if they run Linux.
Well, I worked in a University in Spain setting up a cluster based on Myrinet 3 years ago, and I can say that there are some restrictions on importing Myrinet, at least. We had to certify that the equipment was going to be used for academic purposes only. The certification had to be signed by our Dean, so you can see they were pretty serious about it.
Do you really think that, in case there was any ultra-secure system, this information would be posted in /.?
Security through obscurity is not an option, but this doesn't mean that you have to publish in capital letters all your security measures. That would be simply silly (no flaming).
This makes me think of Cryptonomicon's Van Eck phreacking references as something more than fiction.
I think we are getting much more of these kind of postings that would be desirable (not long ago, a physician was asking for ideas to keep increasing his/her wealth with some kind of hi-tech hospital, and some flaming went on in response). Some may think these kind of questions are good as an starting point posting clever comments on "will be" stuff, but I really do not think that giving anyone ideas for building a business case is what slashdot is supposed to do.
As far as I know from IPR people talks at my former company, it doesn't mean anything that you don't find anything in the patent database, for there is a quite long period of time (I thing is something like 2 years) between you submit the patent, and it is publicly accessible. During that period, your rights on it apply exactly the same, but the patent is just not "searchable". The idea is protecting exactly the same kind of thing the IT guys are trying to protect. In brief, don't trust too much on patent search.