I don't know how long ago I read about using 3M's Magic tape over the Palm's screen, and specifically the grafiti area, but surely such published use would constitute prior art rendering this patent invalid?
Not that he's talking about - that he's taking on, challenging his government. It's also been mentioned that he's part of the European Parliament - if so that's no mean feat.
Every decision he wants to make is going to be outvoted and quashed by the paid tools of corporate America. How do you think he's going to feel after a year of failure? Pretty bad would be my guess, and that's why I feel sorry for him.
Unfortunately this is exactly what I'd expect to happen as well. I signed up for the ICANN at large elections as soon as I heard about them (On/.), I sent all the emails and jumped through all the hoops to get my voting rights but I never received a single confirmation. I'm half expecting a voting card to arrive next week:o)
Unfortunately ICANN will try and get their way - I just hope that Nominet and other regional registries can force ICANN into being more accountable - if not to the general users then at least to them.
How can you root for i-mode in the belief that i-mode brings packet based access?
It is the network - not the application that provides the data transfer interface. If you want packet based access you have to wait for the network to provide it. If you want i-mode you have to wait for the network to have a suitable infrastructure and for your phone manufacturer to support it.
2. Speed burns baby! WAP, at best can handle 9600.
Not quite true. WAP can't handle anything - WAP is the mobile version of HTTP, WML is the mobile version of HTML and 9600baud are the mobile version of 56k modems.
It is the phone and GSM network that limit the speed to 9600baud. By removing some of the error correction this can be upped to 14,400bps. By using more than one channel you can double, triple etc the speed.
Currently Orange are allowing 14k4 connections and are selling a datacard for PCMCIA equipped PCs which provides 28k8 conections.
You could, if you wanted run a WAP browser on this and be running WAP at 28k8. I prefer to run a WAP browser on my home PC and get WAP at 512kbps though.
iMode is packet based while WAP is circuit based.
We're currently using circuit based systems in Europe and parts of the US - Can't say for anything other than GSM.
These systems simply can not support iMode - as packet based systems arive - g2.5 as they've been nicknamed - we will have a micture of circuit and packet based systems on the samenetwork and will want a system that will work on both. This will be WAP or the next version of it.
Once we have the full g3 and 2Mbps to your device system we'll have gone mostly over to packet based networks however circuit based systems will still be in place for backup and times where more capacity is needed - so we'll still need a systems that works with that.
By the time all of this has happened we'll be using devices far removed from the Nokia 7110 and Ericsson T28 and WAP will most likely be at version 2.something or 3 and have a greatly expanded feature set.
What we're running with now is akin to the first version of Lynx and a work wide web where 9600 baud is a fast link. Things will improve but iMode will not replace WAP simply because there is too much of an architecture difference.
If Eurobell are your local cable company then you wont get NTL cable service until NTL buy Eurobell. In the UK at the moment Cable companies have government owned franchised and Oftel has decided that CableCo's do not need to provide access to theior services to other companies.
It looks from here, and admittedly I'm only a UK user with ADSL and servers in my back bedroom, that they are talking about restricting access into campuses via telnet and FTP which is probably a "good thing".
Telnet and FTP can be replaced with secure variants, telnet by SSH, ftp by pulling sutff over the SSH link. Surely any campus which does this should be applauded.
Obiously holding mirrors of things for the local community on a public access server is different but these should not be directly linked into the campus network anyway if they're taking a hit traffic wise.
simple really, the perceived idea of Open Sourcing something is that you are entitled to change stuff and submit your changes to the maintainers. This means that the maintainers have to take on the added responsibility of testing all the code that they are presented with before adding it to their released code base.
Baan are already loosing money and I doubt they'd be interested in ploughing extra people at the task of weeding throug other peoples suggestions and code tweaks when they are not directly bringing revenue in.
That these big companies have access to the source code mean they are part of the development system - not that it's open source.
Open source works well with large technical user bases or small dedicated developer teams. ERP already apes the latter but I can see businesses failing if they blindly follow the open source mantra.
If something like this were released open source it would definately help with shortages of people who know their way around the basics of ERP systems. Opening the source is bound to get a few people grabbing it and learning however I'm not too sure that the sort of big business providers will be that interested.
As long as they're still getting their ERP via a trusted third party and paying a reasonable rate for supportand install what does it matter to them that the application is open source.
Another thing to bear in mind is what benefits open source would bring? ERP is generally modular in implementation with businesses leasing specific modules - so features are not the big driving force - if a feature is needed it's going to come from a business need within the manegment layer of a ompany not the technical layer which is where the bulk of the drivingforce for the creation of open source innovations seems to stem.
In short I don't think this matters that much - it wont save Baan either way since they still have to train people to specific standards and implement very specific installs of the software.
I'm going to sue AOLuk over the number of times I've had to look at that stupid Connie. She really is evil and the thought of a school allowing kids to use AOL IM is just ridiculous.
IF the phones are DECT and GAP compliant then there is something seriously wrong with this. DECT phones are designed not to interfere with each other. I use two different brands of dect handset myself and they work fine with each other - I can even get them logging onto each other's base station.
Of course Americans dont like DECT because it is the Digital European Cordless Telephony standard (We tell American's it's E for Enhanced but really it stands for European.)
A It means that libraries or schoolteachers can play movies in their classrooms for educational purposes.
This is quite ironic because I am sure that I have seen, in the licenses that come at the end or beginning of films, parts of licenses that restrict the use of DVDs and Videos bought or rented to use in domestic situations only and that Schools (among other institutions) are not meant to use them.
This may be restricted to the UK however but there are definately clauses like that out there.
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Oh yup - you're right there - with the name bit - wouldn't know about their peripherals bing overpriced though.
Rambus is two things - it's the name of the company and that name of the technology they designed to, allegedly, speed up PCs.
They do design work but not actual manufacture of chips - this is left to partners such as Kensington and Viking etc.
Recently Rambus have claimed that they hold patents that affect other RAM technologies such as SDRAM which has angered other RAM makers.
I don't know how long ago I read about using 3M's Magic tape over the Palm's screen, and specifically the grafiti area, but surely such published use would constitute prior art rendering this patent invalid?
Ooops - my apologies to Ilka if this is correct. My german is a little rusty.
Not that he's talking about - that he's taking on, challenging his government. It's also been mentioned that he's part of the European Parliament - if so that's no mean feat.
Unfortunately this is exactly what I'd expect to happen as well. I signed up for the ICANN at large elections as soon as I heard about them (On /.), I sent all the emails and jumped through all the hoops to get my voting rights but I never received a single confirmation. I'm half expecting a voting card to arrive next week :o)
Unfortunately ICANN will try and get their way - I just hope that Nominet and other regional registries can force ICANN into being more accountable - if not to the general users then at least to them.
It's interesting to note that he's just 22 and he's taking on his government :o) Oh and mine :o)
I thought there was some mad keyboard connector shortage or summat.
It is the network - not the application that provides the data transfer interface. If you want packet based access you have to wait for the network to provide it. If you want i-mode you have to wait for the network to have a suitable infrastructure and for your phone manufacturer to support it.
Not quite true. WAP can't handle anything - WAP is the mobile version of HTTP, WML is the mobile version of HTML and 9600baud are the mobile version of 56k modems.
It is the phone and GSM network that limit the speed to 9600baud. By removing some of the error correction this can be upped to 14,400bps. By using more than one channel you can double, triple etc the speed.
Currently Orange are allowing 14k4 connections and are selling a datacard for PCMCIA equipped PCs which provides 28k8 conections.
You could, if you wanted run a WAP browser on this and be running WAP at 28k8. I prefer to run a WAP browser on my home PC and get WAP at 512kbps though.
M@t :o)
iMode is packet based while WAP is circuit based.
We're currently using circuit based systems in Europe and parts of the US - Can't say for anything other than GSM.
These systems simply can not support iMode - as packet based systems arive - g2.5 as they've been nicknamed - we will have a micture of circuit and packet based systems on the samenetwork and will want a system that will work on both. This will be WAP or the next version of it.
Once we have the full g3 and 2Mbps to your device system we'll have gone mostly over to packet based networks however circuit based systems will still be in place for backup and times where more capacity is needed - so we'll still need a systems that works with that.
By the time all of this has happened we'll be using devices far removed from the Nokia 7110 and Ericsson T28 and WAP will most likely be at version 2.something or 3 and have a greatly expanded feature set.
What we're running with now is akin to the first version of Lynx and a work wide web where 9600 baud is a fast link. Things will improve but iMode will not replace WAP simply because there is too much of an architecture difference.
How abount Emdeb?
:oP
M@t
If you're going to go via the /. numbers I believe I actually managed to get the third post.
I just bought an apple cube. Is there a 1 click cancel button? :o)
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If Eurobell are your local cable company then you wont get NTL cable service until NTL buy Eurobell. In the UK at the moment Cable companies have government owned franchised and Oftel has decided that CableCo's do not need to provide access to theior services to other companies.
They're just elephants painted grey with their noses rolled up. Has Timothy not seen Tom & Jerry?
For Email to SMS and possibly the other way Locust are a good bet. £3 per month for Locust, Free for Faxtext.
...if he can't even keep his laptop safe and dry what's going to happen when they start using big servers and drop those into the sea ;o)
Telnet and FTP can be replaced with secure variants, telnet by SSH, ftp by pulling sutff over the SSH link. Surely any campus which does this should be applauded.
Obiously holding mirrors of things for the local community on a public access server is different but these should not be directly linked into the campus network anyway if they're taking a hit traffic wise.
Baan are already loosing money and I doubt they'd be interested in ploughing extra people at the task of weeding throug other peoples suggestions and code tweaks when they are not directly bringing revenue in.
That these big companies have access to the source code mean they are part of the development system - not that it's open source.
Open source works well with large technical user bases or small dedicated developer teams. ERP already apes the latter but I can see businesses failing if they blindly follow the open source mantra.
As long as they're still getting their ERP via a trusted third party and paying a reasonable rate for supportand install what does it matter to them that the application is open source.
Another thing to bear in mind is what benefits open source would bring? ERP is generally modular in implementation with businesses leasing specific modules - so features are not the big driving force - if a feature is needed it's going to come from a business need within the manegment layer of a ompany not the technical layer which is where the bulk of the drivingforce for the creation of open source innovations seems to stem.
In short I don't think this matters that much - it wont save Baan either way since they still have to train people to specific standards and implement very specific installs of the software.
Now who will join me? ;o)
Of course Americans dont like DECT because it is the Digital European Cordless Telephony standard (We tell American's it's E for Enhanced but really it stands for European.)
This is quite ironic because I am sure that I have seen, in the licenses that come at the end or beginning of films, parts of licenses that restrict the use of DVDs and Videos bought or rented to use in domestic situations only and that Schools (among other institutions) are not meant to use them.
This may be restricted to the UK however but there are definately clauses like that out there.
I seem to remember that these can be created by layering materials so would anything stop this technique from being used?