All of them. There isn't just one game changing event in history, there are a successive series of them almost continuously. No one event makes the use prior to that insignificant, but it can make the use subsequent to that very significant.
Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line - he merely added the facet of moving the product down the line on a continuous basis. Assembly lines predated Ford by centuries.
Actually that changed in 2008, when the Beeb shifted larger content from the Akamai CDN to direct delivery over a peering agreement with Level3, causing much outrage amongst smaller ISPs.
Oh I really really dislike people like you - its not laid out on a nice silver platter, so you bitch about it and think you have a legitimate complaint because you have found the tiniest thread at which to pick and also know how to find something on Wikipedia.
I'm afraid you are completely wrong in that,.Net is a quickly growing market among small to medium businesses (the type of work that I see), and is already widely used in the large business area. VB6 is certainly hanging on well past life support, but that doesn't mean people aren't moving on.
However, after this period, Virgin’s broadband and mobile subscribers will be the only ones to get the services for free. People on other networks will have to get online via a pay-as-you-go model.
A Virgin Media spokesperson told TechWeekEurope that it was looking into other models. These could include providing access in a wholesale manner, charging rivals for offering services over its kit. BT said it had no comment on the deal.
It's a loss leader for Virgin to get their kit in there, and then they will run it after the Olympics in the same manner as BT run their existing nationwide OpenZone wifi network - some mobile networks users get access as part of their contracts, everyone else has to pay for access.
There are also thousands of photos taken ever since photography was invented, all of the maiming that humankind has done to one another over the countless years.
Drones aren't anything special - but they do remove the risk to a pilot in the process, and thats good enough for me.
"Stop adding value to my current investment and bring out a new platform so I can throw money at you all over again!"
Never thought I'd hear that on slashdot, the place that almost universally derides the upgrade train from LPs to tapes to CDs and then on into the downloadable content realm.
Not to mention that Dropbox are quick to give full access to your Dropbox to any third party app developer who sets "full access" in their dev token - you can't override that when you install said app.
I don't have any links - I tried looking for stuff to back this up a year or so ago and couldn't find anything linkable then - but I do have an archive of a dozen or so emails between myself and a MySQL salesman in 2002 where he outlined the exact issue described. Up until 2006 or so, MySQL considered *all* communication mechanisms with the MySQL server as "linking", and thus the license applied even if you wrote your own library and communicated with the TCP/IP socket directly, not calling any of MySQLs libs.
Yes, the point of their claim was so that you couldnt write a proprietary library and use that to talk to MySQL, you had to use their licensed libraries - which meant that for a commercial proprietary app, you had to license their commercial offering rather than just use the GPLed library.
The point I was making was why isn't the arrival of yet another Android phone derided in the same manner as the phone concept in this story? Why wasn't the arrival of Android in the first place derided, as it is having exactly the same effect as discussed in this story...
For a loooooong time the MySQL team were claiming that any library which implemented the API required to talk to MySQL also fell under the licensing terms for MySQL - you didnt have to link to anything provided by MySQL, you just had to use the same structures and names.
Then they quietly stopped claiming it and all traces vanished from the MySQL website.
Compare this to the French investigation of the Air France crash from Brazil a couple of years ago where efforts were made both to protect the pilots' good names and to shift blame away from Airbus.
I have to really take issue with this - right up until the black boxes were recovered, everything the BEA released implicated Airbus, to the point that Airbus had to issue several Airworthiness Directives regarding pitot tube icing and other things.
It was only when the flight data recorders were recovered that the BEAs stance shifted, and the pilots actions were called into question. Its highly likely that the BEA will implicate both the pilots and Airbus in its final report later this year.
So I think your assertion that the BEAs objectivity being in question is absurd.
So what would be the point in using the Facebook phone? Well, remember, it will be cheap. But so are lots of Android phones. If Facebook makes a phone, then, the device will necessarily spark a battle for the low end of the phone market, with each company offering ever-cheaper devices in the hopes of cashing in on some future advertising bonanza.
So why doesnt that apply to anyone looking to launch a new Android phone, or why didnt it apply when Android entered the market after the iPhone?
Why would it be a perjury issue - fair use is a defence, not an exclusion so making the DMCA claim would not be false at all, and it would be up to the alleged infringer to make the case for fair use.
The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida doesn't seem to be an issue - pretty much everything Nasa has had in its arsenal has been launched from within it at some point or another, and we haven't seen any animals with nervous breakdowns...
I beg to differ, countries can and do protest U-2 overflights as they do violate sovereign airspace - airspace above a certain altitude is uncontrolled, but you still have to be authorised to overfly the country to use it. Perhaps you were thinking of the Shuttle.
Ahh right, the old "exploitation" line - fine, what are these "impoverished" people going to do if you force Facebook to withdraw their line of work? Magically go and get a higher paying job somewhere? I don't think so.
Yup, non-story really - Facebook manage to screen all of their photos and images (admittedly its not pre-screening), and they do it on a much lower payscale than this bloke assumes.
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All of them. There isn't just one game changing event in history, there are a successive series of them almost continuously. No one event makes the use prior to that insignificant, but it can make the use subsequent to that very significant.
Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line - he merely added the facet of moving the product down the line on a continuous basis. Assembly lines predated Ford by centuries.
Actually that changed in 2008, when the Beeb shifted larger content from the Akamai CDN to direct delivery over a peering agreement with Level3, causing much outrage amongst smaller ISPs.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/bbc_cdn_isps_level3/
Oh I really really dislike people like you - its not laid out on a nice silver platter, so you bitch about it and think you have a legitimate complaint because you have found the tiniest thread at which to pick and also know how to find something on Wikipedia.
Im not interested in your drivel.
No one cares about .Net applications
I'm afraid you are completely wrong in that, .Net is a quickly growing market among small to medium businesses (the type of work that I see), and is already widely used in the large business area. VB6 is certainly hanging on well past life support, but that doesn't mean people aren't moving on.
From one of the main links in the article:
Trivial to find, if you intend to look at all.
They did, you didn't check any of the release notes it would seem - too quick to complain perhaps?
You can bitch all you want about MS tie ins, but switching to PHP ties you in to PHP and that is the worst possible scenario in the world.
It's a loss leader for Virgin to get their kit in there, and then they will run it after the Olympics in the same manner as BT run their existing nationwide OpenZone wifi network - some mobile networks users get access as part of their contracts, everyone else has to pay for access.
It's not rocket science.
There are also thousands of photos taken ever since photography was invented, all of the maiming that humankind has done to one another over the countless years.
Drones aren't anything special - but they do remove the risk to a pilot in the process, and thats good enough for me.
"Stop adding value to my current investment and bring out a new platform so I can throw money at you all over again!"
Never thought I'd hear that on slashdot, the place that almost universally derides the upgrade train from LPs to tapes to CDs and then on into the downloadable content realm.
Not to mention that Dropbox are quick to give full access to your Dropbox to any third party app developer who sets "full access" in their dev token - you can't override that when you install said app.
I don't have any links - I tried looking for stuff to back this up a year or so ago and couldn't find anything linkable then - but I do have an archive of a dozen or so emails between myself and a MySQL salesman in 2002 where he outlined the exact issue described. Up until 2006 or so, MySQL considered *all* communication mechanisms with the MySQL server as "linking", and thus the license applied even if you wrote your own library and communicated with the TCP/IP socket directly, not calling any of MySQLs libs.
Yes, the point of their claim was so that you couldnt write a proprietary library and use that to talk to MySQL, you had to use their licensed libraries - which meant that for a commercial proprietary app, you had to license their commercial offering rather than just use the GPLed library.
The point I was making was why isn't the arrival of yet another Android phone derided in the same manner as the phone concept in this story? Why wasn't the arrival of Android in the first place derided, as it is having exactly the same effect as discussed in this story...
For a loooooong time the MySQL team were claiming that any library which implemented the API required to talk to MySQL also fell under the licensing terms for MySQL - you didnt have to link to anything provided by MySQL, you just had to use the same structures and names.
Then they quietly stopped claiming it and all traces vanished from the MySQL website.
Compare this to the French investigation of the Air France crash from Brazil a couple of years ago where efforts were made both to protect the pilots' good names and to shift blame away from Airbus.
I have to really take issue with this - right up until the black boxes were recovered, everything the BEA released implicated Airbus, to the point that Airbus had to issue several Airworthiness Directives regarding pitot tube icing and other things.
It was only when the flight data recorders were recovered that the BEAs stance shifted, and the pilots actions were called into question. Its highly likely that the BEA will implicate both the pilots and Airbus in its final report later this year.
So I think your assertion that the BEAs objectivity being in question is absurd.
So why doesnt that apply to anyone looking to launch a new Android phone, or why didnt it apply when Android entered the market after the iPhone?
Why would it be a perjury issue - fair use is a defence, not an exclusion so making the DMCA claim would not be false at all, and it would be up to the alleged infringer to make the case for fair use.
SpaceX want to own this complex, so unless that is on the table for the NASA launch sites...
The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida doesn't seem to be an issue - pretty much everything Nasa has had in its arsenal has been launched from within it at some point or another, and we haven't seen any animals with nervous breakdowns...
I beg to differ, countries can and do protest U-2 overflights as they do violate sovereign airspace - airspace above a certain altitude is uncontrolled, but you still have to be authorised to overfly the country to use it. Perhaps you were thinking of the Shuttle.
Ahh right, the old "exploitation" line - fine, what are these "impoverished" people going to do if you force Facebook to withdraw their line of work? Magically go and get a higher paying job somewhere? I don't think so.
No, its not hypocritical at all - its software freedom, they wanted an alternative and so someone started to develop one.
Only here on Slashdot could that possibly be twisted to be a bad thing.
Yup, non-story really - Facebook manage to screen all of their photos and images (admittedly its not pre-screening), and they do it on a much lower payscale than this bloke assumes.