"Microsoft to buy Hewlett-Packard". How long before we see this to happen? Two years? Three years? HP is highly dependant on Microsoft, and Microsoft needs the support of big major PC vendors.
ECN and SACK are features that need to be supported by the routers.
Even if WinXP supported them (maybe it does, I don't know), most of the routers that nowadays are running the Internet do not support ECN or SACK, so even if the XP's TCP/IP stack would tag your datagrams with ECN and SACK, you would notice nothing.
In fact, if you look at the ECN help in the Linux kernel you'll see it recommends you not to use it, because it'll cause troubles.
I'm a Telecommunications Engineer from Spain. Last week I conversated with an important directive of Telefónica and he explained the biggest problems telcos are having now:
A single optical fiber has a very big capacity: 2.5 Gbps if you don't use WDM, but up to 320 Gbps using DWDM. The fibers telcos are using now use WDM and have a capacity of 40 Gbps. The problem is that very few fibers use more than 10% or 20% of its capacity.
There are lots of carriers, and also there are a lot of "carriers of carriers" (i. e. Global Crossing). Carrier of carriers are a hazard for the survival of telcos, because they depend too much on each client, so they are selling the bandwith at a ridiculous price.
Bandwidth in a fiber is really cheap, but what you are paying is maintenance. Out there, in the international market, 1 Mbps costs your carrier $1100 US, and most of those 1100$ are spent in maintenance.
Just an example: last year a client wanted a 2 Mbps link from London to Cadiz (in the South coast of Spain). It was cheaper for the client to directly contract a 622 Mbps link with a carrier than to contract a 2 Mbps link with a telco. Why? Because there are too many carriers competing, so they sell under price (expecting not to fail) and the result of this is they are bringing bankrupcy to themselves and to the rest of carriers and telcos.
This is why KPNQwest is filing for bankrupcy: too much competence, too much carriers (including KPNQwest) selling bandwidth under price (just trying to survive).
In a few years, there'll be very few telcos and carriers in Europe (and USA), but they'll be very big companys. Good or bad? I don't know, we'll see.
I'm a Telecommunications Engineer from Spain. Last week I conversated with an important directive of Telefónica and he explained the biggest problems telcos are having now:
A single optical fiber has a very big capacity: 2.5 Gbps if you don't use WDM, but up to 320 Gbps using DWDM. The fibers telcos are using now use WDM and have a capacity of 40 Gbps. The problem is that very few fibers use more than 10% or 20% of its capacity.
There are lots of carriers, and also there are a lot of "carriers of carriers" (i. e. Global Crossing). Carrier of carriers are a hazard for the survival of telcos, because they depend too much on each client, so they are selling the bandwith at a ridiculous price.
Bandwidth in a fiber is really cheap, but what you are paying is maintenance. Out there, in the international market, 1 Mbps costs your carrier $1100 US, and most of those 1100$ are spent in maintenance.
Only an example: last year a client wanted a 2 Mbps link from London to Cadiz (in the South coast of Spain). It was cheaper for the client to directly contract a 622 Mbps link with a carrier than to contract a 2 Mbps link with a telco. Why? Because there are too many carriers competing, so they sell under price (expecting not to fail) and the result of this is they are bringing bankrupcy to themselves and to the rest of carriers and telcos.
This is why KPNQwest is filing for bankrupcy: too much competence, too much carriers selling bandwidth under price (just trying to survive).
In a few years, there'll be very few telcos and carriers in Europe (and USA), but they'll be very big companys. Good or bad? I don't know, we'll see.
Computer-related translations to Spanish are usually REALLY BAD. Specially those ones that are made in Mexico or South America. You can not pay the same guy to translate John Grisham and Donald E. Knuth.
I'm Spanish (although Spanish is not my main language, but Catalan) and I tend to buy the books in English. The only exception is when the translator is Luís Joyanes Aguilar, a really good Computer Science professor.
I live in Spain and I can certainly say that's not true. In fact, when you buy a computer you get it without operating system unless you buy one. Some shops even pre-install Linux for free (for instance. PCBox.
I have recently bought a new computer and of course I got it without operating system. I didn't need to tell the vendor I didn't want an operating system: he asked me if I wanted Windows (paying 120EUR, of course) and I said I din't. No more questions.
I don't know in your country, but here in Spain a you can find a NoBrand [tm] DVD player for only 120 EUR (105$ US). And a Samsung, LG, etc. (mid-brand) one costs 180 EUR (150$ US). Of course, you can also get extra-expensive ones.
This technique is very simmilar to the one know as "spectrum widening", only that this new technique saves a lot of bandwith. Of course, there's a big problem: how do both sides get the same noise signal?
Spectrum widening consists on "dissoluting" the original signal (i.e. a 1 MHz signal) into a larger one (i.e. a 100 MHz signal). This way, information is distributed thru the whole 100 MHz spectrum and you get shielding against noise and big resistance to spyers.
Now that judges seem to be a bit sensible, I think it's the right moment to send them a lot of similar cases: what about Adobe Illustrator? (remember the KIllustrator affair)
Pantone is one of the things Gimp will NEVER have. Pantone is a patented technology and requires the Gimp community to pay them $$$ if they want to implement it.
The catalog is a bit limited if you look at it from the USA or Canada. But it's very complete if you think that Weblisten.com is an Spanish site, addressed mainly towards users in Spain.
People are talking a lot about the new sites, i.e. MusicNet and Pressplay, but not saying a word about existing sites.
There is a site here in Spain called Weblisten where you can download thousands and thousands of songs (even full CDs) in MP3 (128 Kbps) or WMA format. They have been out there since 1998 or so and it's LEGAL. Yes, it's LEGAL. They pay a (big) fee to the SGAE, the Spanish Society of Authors.
They carry almost everything that is published in Spain and has any success. I mean, this it NOT only for new artists like mp3.com: Weblisten has REM, Leonard Cohen, Britney Spears, etc.
Their website is in English and Spanish.
BTW, I'm not endorsed in any way with Weblisten.com. I'm only a user.
A quién quieres timar? Por mucho castellano que sepas no consigues un trabajo dónde te dé la gana.
Venga hombe, que no nacimos ayer.
Ni de coña consigues trabajo en el FBI, la CIA, Boeing, etc. simplemente por hablar castellano y sacarte un titulillo segundón.
A la inversa sí: si eres Ingeniero Telecomunicaciones, Ingeniero Informático, Ingeniero Aeronáutico o similar, y tienes un titulillo de castellano (o simplemente lo hablas bien) sí conseguirás un trabajo en lo que quieras.
Yo soy de España y las cosas funcionan así: primero tu carrera universitaria, luego tus idiomas. Cualquier ingeniero es capaz de apender otra lengua (o varias: yo hablo cuatro además del castellano), pero no al contrario, porque cualquier gilipollas aprende un idioma.
Loki was a company making games for Linux. And only for Linux. They ported games made by other companies and paid a (presumably big) royalty.
After Loki's crash, how many companies do you think are going to bet on Linux? If the first game they port doesn't work, you can be sure there won't be a second or third try. Maybe before Loki falling down these companies would had given a second chance to Linux, but now, there won't be.
It's simple: if anyone really likes your game, he/she will have a dual boot system and will boot Windows to play this game. How many people won't buy the game simply not to boot Windows? A very, very little. The vast majority of people prefers to play (under Windows) a game they like rather than not to play that game.
We remain tied to the hope that if a company (say BioWare) releases a Linux game they need to sell less copies than Loki needed, as they haven't to pay royalties and (I suppose they) are developing their games in a cross-platform way (so the cost of Linux development decreases).
An Spanish company called DS2 develops systems that let you send data up to 45 Mbps using the powerline.
From their website: Our technology supports transmission speeds of up to 45 Mb/s, the fastest on the market. With DS2 know-how, existing medium and low voltage electricity networks are transformed into lucrative data supply lines opening up the power of these networks to support high-speed communication services such as:
Voice over IP
High speed Internet access
In home LAN connections
Video and audio on demand
Video conferencing
ITV
Network games
I think Cisco's "new" technology is not any useful if you take a look on DS2's tech. Everybody who is going to use a computer has a powerline. Not everybody has Cat1 cables.
I think Germany won't be able to limit how much time can porn sites be available.
Doing a simple analysis:
a porn site is not as TV. There are "few" TV channels (here in Spain, including digital channels, we have some 100 channels). Besides this, if you are in a country, it's difficult for your TV to receive channels from another country. Almost impossible.
On the other hand, there are millions of porn sites in Internet. A lot of this sites are in countries different than Germany and every site in Internet is accessible from everywhere
So, for me it's clear and simple that the same (or similar)law it's not applicable.
Still more: limiting which time a porn site can operate is like limiting which time could I reproduce a porn VHS/DVD movie in my home. It's private!
I know of cell-phone technologies. And I think it's not difficult to locate a cell-phone if you the base-station can receive signal from it.
For those who don't know how this works, here is a brief explanation: I have a cell-phone ("mobile terminal", MT) and I'm sending signal to a base-station (BS), and the BS says to my MT how much power it has to use and how long before its time slot has to send the signal. Knowing the power and the time, it's easy to locate a cell-phone using at least data from three base-stations (yes, you have to use triangulation).
I think it's not that difficult. In fact, it's easy and the police uses this approach to locate people. Israel even uses this way to kill terrorists (or potential terrorists).
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"Microsoft to buy Hewlett-Packard". How long before we see this to happen? Two years? Three years? HP is highly dependant on Microsoft, and Microsoft needs the support of big major PC vendors.
ECN and SACK are features that need to be supported by the routers.
Even if WinXP supported them (maybe it does, I don't know), most of the routers that nowadays are running the Internet do not support ECN or SACK, so even if the XP's TCP/IP stack would tag your datagrams with ECN and SACK, you would notice nothing.
In fact, if you look at the ECN help in the Linux kernel you'll see it recommends you not to use it, because it'll cause troubles.
I'm a Telecommunications Engineer from Spain. Last week I conversated with an important directive of Telefónica and he explained the biggest problems telcos are having now:
Just an example: last year a client wanted a 2 Mbps link from London to Cadiz (in the South coast of Spain). It was cheaper for the client to directly contract a 622 Mbps link with a carrier than to contract a 2 Mbps link with a telco. Why? Because there are too many carriers competing, so they sell under price (expecting not to fail) and the result of this is they are bringing bankrupcy to themselves and to the rest of carriers and telcos.
This is why KPNQwest is filing for bankrupcy: too much competence, too much carriers (including KPNQwest) selling bandwidth under price (just trying to survive).
In a few years, there'll be very few telcos and carriers in Europe (and USA), but they'll be very big companys. Good or bad? I don't know, we'll see.
I'm a Telecommunications Engineer from Spain. Last week I conversated with an important directive of Telefónica and he explained the biggest problems telcos are having now:
Only an example: last year a client wanted a 2 Mbps link from London to Cadiz (in the South coast of Spain). It was cheaper for the client to directly contract a 622 Mbps link with a carrier than to contract a 2 Mbps link with a telco. Why? Because there are too many carriers competing, so they sell under price (expecting not to fail) and the result of this is they are bringing bankrupcy to themselves and to the rest of carriers and telcos.
This is why KPNQwest is filing for bankrupcy: too much competence, too much carriers selling bandwidth under price (just trying to survive).
In a few years, there'll be very few telcos and carriers in Europe (and USA), but they'll be very big companys. Good or bad? I don't know, we'll see.
Yep, it's true.
Computer-related translations to Spanish are usually REALLY BAD. Specially those ones that are made in Mexico or South America. You can not pay the same guy to translate John Grisham and Donald E. Knuth.
I'm Spanish (although Spanish is not my main language, but Catalan) and I tend to buy the books in English. The only exception is when the translator is Luís Joyanes Aguilar, a really good Computer Science professor.
I live in Spain and I can certainly say that's not true. In fact, when you buy a computer you get it without operating system unless you buy one. Some shops even pre-install Linux for free (for instance. PCBox.
I have recently bought a new computer and of course I got it without operating system. I didn't need to tell the vendor I didn't want an operating system: he asked me if I wanted Windows (paying 120EUR, of course) and I said I din't. No more questions.
I don't know in your country, but here in Spain a you can find a NoBrand [tm] DVD player for only 120 EUR (105$ US). And a Samsung, LG, etc. (mid-brand) one costs 180 EUR (150$ US). Of course, you can also get extra-expensive ones.
This technique is very simmilar to the one know as "spectrum widening", only that this new technique saves a lot of bandwith. Of course, there's a big problem: how do both sides get the same noise signal?
Spectrum widening consists on "dissoluting" the original signal (i.e. a 1 MHz signal) into a larger one (i.e. a 100 MHz signal). This way, information is distributed thru the whole 100 MHz spectrum and you get shielding against noise and big resistance to spyers.
The right name is X Window, so I doubt it could be considered previous art.
Now that judges seem to be a bit sensible, I think it's the right moment to send them a lot of similar cases: what about Adobe Illustrator? (remember the KIllustrator affair)
Pantone is one of the things Gimp will NEVER have. Pantone is a patented technology and requires the Gimp community to pay them $$$ if they want to implement it.
The catalog is a bit limited if you look at it from the USA or Canada. But it's very complete if you think that Weblisten.com is an Spanish site, addressed mainly towards users in Spain.
People are talking a lot about the new sites, i.e. MusicNet and Pressplay, but not saying a word about existing sites.
There is a site here in Spain called Weblisten where you can download thousands and thousands of songs (even full CDs) in MP3 (128 Kbps) or WMA format. They have been out there since 1998 or so and it's LEGAL. Yes, it's LEGAL. They pay a (big) fee to the SGAE, the Spanish Society of Authors.
They carry almost everything that is published in Spain and has any success. I mean, this it NOT only for new artists like mp3.com: Weblisten has REM, Leonard Cohen, Britney Spears, etc.
Their website is in English and Spanish.
BTW, I'm not endorsed in any way with Weblisten.com. I'm only a user.
A quién quieres timar? Por mucho castellano que sepas no consigues un trabajo dónde te dé la gana.
Venga hombe, que no nacimos ayer.
Ni de coña consigues trabajo en el FBI, la CIA, Boeing, etc. simplemente por hablar castellano y sacarte un titulillo segundón.
A la inversa sí: si eres Ingeniero Telecomunicaciones, Ingeniero Informático, Ingeniero Aeronáutico o similar, y tienes un titulillo de castellano (o simplemente lo hablas bien) sí conseguirás un trabajo en lo que quieras.
Yo soy de España y las cosas funcionan así: primero tu carrera universitaria, luego tus idiomas. Cualquier ingeniero es capaz de apender otra lengua (o varias: yo hablo cuatro además del castellano), pero no al contrario, porque cualquier gilipollas aprende un idioma.
Ok, you stupid dreamers. Take a look at this.
Loki was a company making games for Linux. And only for Linux. They ported games made by other companies and paid a (presumably big) royalty.
After Loki's crash, how many companies do you think are going to bet on Linux? If the first game they port doesn't work, you can be sure there won't be a second or third try. Maybe before Loki falling down these companies would had given a second chance to Linux, but now, there won't be.
It's simple: if anyone really likes your game, he/she will have a dual boot system and will boot Windows to play this game. How many people won't buy the game simply not to boot Windows? A very, very little. The vast majority of people prefers to play (under Windows) a game they like rather than not to play that game.
We remain tied to the hope that if a company (say BioWare) releases a Linux game they need to sell less copies than Loki needed, as they haven't to pay royalties and (I suppose they) are developing their games in a cross-platform way (so the cost of Linux development decreases).
An Spanish company called DS2 develops systems that let you send data up to 45 Mbps using the powerline.
From their website: Our technology supports transmission speeds of up to 45 Mb/s, the fastest on the market. With DS2 know-how, existing medium and low voltage electricity networks are transformed into lucrative data supply lines opening up the power of these networks to support high-speed communication services such as:
I think Cisco's "new" technology is not any useful if you take a look on DS2's tech. Everybody who is going to use a computer has a powerline. Not everybody has Cat1 cables.
I think Germany won't be able to limit how much time can porn sites be available.
Doing a simple analysis:
So, for me it's clear and simple that the same (or similar)law it's not applicable.
Still more: limiting which time a porn site can operate is like limiting which time could I reproduce a porn VHS/DVD movie in my home. It's private!
I'm a Spanish Telecommunications Engineer.
I know of cell-phone technologies. And I think it's not difficult to locate a cell-phone if you the base-station can receive signal from it.
For those who don't know how this works, here is a brief explanation: I have a cell-phone ("mobile terminal", MT) and I'm sending signal to a base-station (BS), and the BS says to my MT how much power it has to use and how long before its time slot has to send the signal. Knowing the power and the time, it's easy to locate a cell-phone using at least data from three base-stations (yes, you have to use triangulation).
I think it's not that difficult. In fact, it's easy and the police uses this approach to locate people. Israel even uses this way to kill terrorists (or potential terrorists).
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
Enginyer Tècnic de Telecomunicacions, esp. Telemàtica
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