Like most geeks I read a lot. When I saw the dedicated readers they looked very promising. The ability to hold a small library in memory, and they solved the 'pain in the eye' problem that monitors produce. The reason I don't have an e-book reader. Selection and copyright. Basically the books I read are not on the bestseller list, somehow I think BGP routing is a rather limited circle of people. Though I do go in for fiction it is not the bestseller fiction. Consequently most of the books I would read are availble in dead tree format only.
As for the copyright problem, well I don't even have to explain that.
rather the problem is the one of network management. When networks only had one or two connections out of the AS and less then ten data streams management from CLI was possible. As the networks grow management is becoming increasingly complex. In essence the problem is developing tools that can easily perform traffic management and provide a good measure of automation in it.
From what I have seen MPLS is a good technology it just needs more robust management tools built around it. Even a protocol such as OSPF can become a bear to manage in a large network with frequent changes.
Part of the security problems pointed out are that in order to ease the workload on both the network engineer and the router things become more generic, which produces security holes.
Basically it all boils down to having a good management system, doing it from a CLI, which we are forced to do now, sucks big donkey balls.
This is really sad. I was looking forward to the whole ebook concept. I can carry around a library in a device, the dedicated readers, that is lightweight and easy on the eyes. Once the selection increased it would be so worth it. But with pricing models like this I think I would rather get my written materials on clay tablets.
If everyone gets their software from a 'friend' who buys the stuff then that implies that there is only one 'friend' out there who buys software out of the entire human population. (This person also buys many many copies as Windows sells in the millions of copies)
So if there is only one person then we can have the 'Six Degrees of The-Friend-Who-Buys-Software-and-lets-Everyone-Cop y-It-From-Him game'
I'm probably at about 3 or 4 degrees as I always get CDRs:)
Of course the ruling in the Napster case can be used in the Freelance case. Meaning no more on-line news sources, someone writes the stuff and whoever writes it will want to get paid for it. What will/. be linking to?????
Gentlemen it is all about greed.
A separate network, or networks, for the corporate types is a very good idea. The divide between those who are trying to do something beneficial for the human species (the open source types) and those who are trying to do something beneficial for their own pockets is growing. An attempt to commercially control the Internet or to create a separate one is just another facet of this divide.
Personally I think this growing divide is good. It's basically evolution at work.
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They could at least try buying us off with some beads and blankets!
Like most geeks I read a lot. When I saw the dedicated readers they looked very promising. The ability to hold a small library in memory, and they solved the 'pain in the eye' problem that monitors produce. The reason I don't have an e-book reader. Selection and copyright. Basically the books I read are not on the bestseller list, somehow I think BGP routing is a rather limited circle of people. Though I do go in for fiction it is not the bestseller fiction. Consequently most of the books I would read are availble in dead tree format only. As for the copyright problem, well I don't even have to explain that.
rather the problem is the one of network management. When networks only had one or two connections out of the AS and less then ten data streams management from CLI was possible. As the networks grow management is becoming increasingly complex. In essence the problem is developing tools that can easily perform traffic management and provide a good measure of automation in it. From what I have seen MPLS is a good technology it just needs more robust management tools built around it. Even a protocol such as OSPF can become a bear to manage in a large network with frequent changes. Part of the security problems pointed out are that in order to ease the workload on both the network engineer and the router things become more generic, which produces security holes. Basically it all boils down to having a good management system, doing it from a CLI, which we are forced to do now, sucks big donkey balls.
This is really sad. I was looking forward to the whole ebook concept. I can carry around a library in a device, the dedicated readers, that is lightweight and easy on the eyes. Once the selection increased it would be so worth it. But with pricing models like this I think I would rather get my written materials on clay tablets.
If everyone gets their software from a 'friend' who buys the stuff then that implies that there is only one 'friend' out there who buys software out of the entire human population. (This person also buys many many copies as Windows sells in the millions of copies) So if there is only one person then we can have the 'Six Degrees of The-Friend-Who-Buys-Software-and-lets-Everyone-Cop y-It-From-Him game'
I'm probably at about 3 or 4 degrees as I always get CDRs :)
Maybe if AOL had a desktop icon in all distros of linux Dell would have stuck with it. We all know that AOL makes everything SO EASY!!!
Of course the ruling in the Napster case can be used in the Freelance case. Meaning no more on-line news sources, someone writes the stuff and whoever writes it will want to get paid for it. What will /. be linking to?????
Gentlemen it is all about greed.
Doesn't AOL realize that their market is by definition limited. There are only about 6 Billion people on this planet. That is a FINITE number!!!
A separate network, or networks, for the corporate types is a very good idea. The divide between those who are trying to do something beneficial for the human species (the open source types) and those who are trying to do something beneficial for their own pockets is growing. An attempt to commercially control the Internet or to create a separate one is just another facet of this divide. Personally I think this growing divide is good. It's basically evolution at work.