Sun might apologize, but Blackdown or any other developers outside sun that might have contributed. are still not mentioned anywhere on their site (Early access site requires registration woth Java Developer Connection).
To my experience, the normal reaction of a big company's purchasing rep. would be: It's free? No thanks, then we don't take it (thinking: free ==> crap).
Hmm, about the PalmPilot compared to other PDAs: It might be better than most of them, but certainly not better than the Newton. At least, if you have a closer look, it really seems to be a reduced Newton. No handwriting recogn., smaller screen, no rechargeable batteries. Internal concepts and even the DevEnv are *very* similar. OK, smaller size is nicer, and it's recognition is faster, but I want to have my assistant learn *my* language, not the other way round.
1: Most people don't look at source code of the SW they run. The advantage of linux (at the moment) is, that the source code is *available* in the first place. But this will probably change as soon as more and more commercial SW for linux (linux==linux/i386, of course:-(((( ) comes up.
1.1: Yes, fewer holes get released in non-beta SW. But, many packages never make it out of beta. What would your linux system look like if you deleted all beta SW?
2: Have you thought about a virus/worm using exactly these "easy upgrading" features? Of course, it is easy to get a bugfix through that, but it is also easy(er) to get a virus through that. Yes, I know that debian uses signed packages ect. I go for the principle of easy SW downloading/installing here. Who checks the sigs anyway.
3: Yes, but you can even write a virus in LaTeX, just by using standard functions.
I don't think the "home computer" branch was mentioned at all. It simply was the IBM-PC branch. Have you ever heared about Commodore C64? Amiga? Millions of machines (C=64) sold? Preemtive multitasking and multimedia for home users since 1985 (Amiga)? This was the "home computer" branch back then.
And of course, the article does not mention any of the people whose ideas made all the technology described there possible, like Niklaus Wirth (Pascal, the first programming language for which less than 10 people could write a working compiler in less than 10 years), the inventors of microprocessors, RISC, and so on.
For those of you who are interested in research on this topic: Go look at the Santa Fe Institute web pages (http://www.santafe.edu). This instutute was founded to do advanced research in this area.
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According to this (german, use Babelfish) yahoo.fr DID block the Nazi auctions. The ruling was against yahoo.com.
Sun might apologize, but Blackdown or any other developers outside sun that might have contributed. are still not mentioned anywhere on their site (Early access site requires registration woth Java Developer Connection).
It is up to the robot to comply with the rules stated in the robots.txt file. So this does not prevent anyone from anything.
Who would run such a big database on a *filesystem*, anyway? Normally, you use partitions for that.
To my experience, the normal reaction of a big company's purchasing rep. would be: It's free? No thanks, then we don't take it (thinking: free ==> crap).
Hmm, about the PalmPilot compared to other PDAs: It might be better than most of them, but certainly not better than the Newton. At least, if you have a closer look, it really seems to be a reduced Newton. No handwriting recogn., smaller screen, no rechargeable batteries. Internal concepts and even the DevEnv are *very* similar. OK, smaller size is nicer, and it's recognition is faster, but I want to have my assistant learn *my* language, not the other way round.
You are proposing a one-time-pad. But this only works if the key (your first message) is completely random. Otherwise, it is *very* easy to break.
Just some comments:
:-(((( ) comes up.
1: Most people don't look at source code of the SW they run. The advantage of linux (at the moment) is, that the source code is *available* in the first place. But this will probably change as soon as more and more commercial SW for linux (linux==linux/i386, of course
1.1: Yes, fewer holes get released in non-beta SW. But, many packages never make it out of beta. What would your linux system look like if you deleted all beta SW?
2: Have you thought about a virus/worm using exactly these "easy upgrading" features? Of course, it is easy to get a bugfix through that, but it is also easy(er) to get a virus through that. Yes, I know that debian uses signed packages ect. I go for the principle of easy SW downloading/installing here. Who checks the sigs anyway.
3: Yes, but you can even write a virus in LaTeX, just by using standard functions.
4: And not LaTeX untrusted documents?
This is an official report in the EC. It covers sigint and comint, what is done and how, in quite some detail.
Not really everything... What about Linux/non-intel?
As always: there are no versions for non-intel processors. When are these people going to see that there are other architectures? :-(((
I don't think the "home computer" branch was mentioned at all. It simply was the IBM-PC branch. Have you ever heared about Commodore C64? Amiga? Millions of machines (C=64) sold? Preemtive multitasking and multimedia for home users since 1985 (Amiga)? This was the "home computer" branch back then.
And of course, the article does not mention any of the people whose ideas made all the technology described there possible, like Niklaus Wirth (Pascal, the first programming language for which less than 10 people could write a working compiler in less than 10 years), the inventors of microprocessors, RISC, and so on.
For those of you who are interested in research on this topic: Go look at the Santa Fe Institute web pages (http://www.santafe.edu). This instutute was founded to do advanced research in this area.