They should rather remember that Communist Vietnam tends to win wars.
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They confused complexity with usefulness.
A system with complex rules isn't necessarily more powerful, but it's usually more difficult and error prone.
Unfortunately this misconception is very common in computer science. People tend always to create complex APIs/infaces and protocols just to get a "powerful tools". The result is the security and error ridden state of the internet and computers we see these days.
Strangely other hard sciences have seen these problems decades ago (sometimes even centuries ago) and changed their terminology and fundations accordingly. Take e.g. Mathematics with is based on 2nd order logic and set theory. And this started with Godel, Riemann, Abel and Gauss about 120 years ago. We have the same drive now in Physics with Wolfram and co. propagating simple cellular automata. Some people in string theory move in this direction, too.
Unfortunately computer scientists seem to be immune to this amount of common sense right now. Perhaps they need some centuries of fumbling aroung with overly complex model, too, until they get back to earth.
You see, there is something called copyright which means that you actually have to pay for source code and software if the owner doesn't give it to you for free.
It's well known that MS uses Unix stuff in it's operating systems - the BSD TCP/IP stack for instance.
And these 21$ million might seem much to you but for a company with such huge revenues like MS these are just peanuts.
If you finish you education some day and get a job in big business, you'll see that such stuff are really minor contracts.
If a company chooses a product activation scheme which doesn't transmit any personal data and allows the change of hardware etc then I don't see why product activation should be evil.
The company is just protecting their IP from pirates. And come on a quick internet connection or phone call is neither expensive or much effort,
especially given the prices of software these days. There should be sophisticated schemes for mass installs of course.
But any complaints beyond that usually come from people who are angry that they can't get warez of Tax/Word/Office/Game blubb anymore.
I don't know why companies should deactivate product activation to support thieves.
These sued people ain't RIAA customers but potential customers of it's member. In fact with increased file sharing these people won't be customers. But the sueing will convert them into customers.
File sharing is illegal. No, please spare any rubbish discussions about "music should be free" or "bad sucking companies". File sharing is illegal by the IP laws in most countries of the world. If you don't like that then you can lobby your politicians. But this doesn't give you the right to break the law. There is something called democratic process. Anything else is anarchy and crime.
It doesn't matter for laws if the damaged party is wealthy or not. People always give this lame "rich companies" excuse for file sharing. But this doesn't matter. You break the law. If you burn down Arnold Schwarzeneggers car, you would get arrested, too, not mattering how much bucks the governator has in his pockets.
Copyright is not an evil invention. If you think about - the whole OSS scene uses it.
Artists have rights on their creation.
You can't take these away just because they are annoying. And if they choose to lay the commercial use of these right in the hands of the companies, then this is ok. It's their decision and not your. You do not have the right to negate this decision and break the revenue system.
Microsoft is a company, not a carity organisation.
Improving IE would cost them money without getting any revenues - they are giving IE away for free.
Innovation and improvement made only sense when they had something to achieve: pushing Netscape out of the market. But this is no longer the case.
I would not even blame them. If the customers were keen on good browsers, they would rush to pay money for better versions like Opera. But they aren't. They are simply whining that MS is not innovating, but they won't do anything themselves.
Really, this study is from NEC (making monitors) and ATI (making videocards with dual head abilities).
This gives a truely objective and scientific study.
Giving this level of reporting, we'll see these study soon on slashdot:
SCO show that Linux users who pay them 699 bucks are leading a healthier life, have better sex and are less likely to infringe IP.
Bush administration hands out study that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein magicked the WMDs in Iraq away by using 5 black goats and a CD of Barbara Straysand.
The oil industry publishes study that global warming is an environmentalist scam and the climate is in fact getting colder. Any temperature measurements contradicting this thesis are to blame on old thermometers which give wrong temperatures.
Businesses strive to max out the revenue while minimizing the costs.
In theory this development is kept in check by competitor which offer cheaper and better serives which drain customers away.
In practice this is however very different. Very often customers are restricted in their right to choose or simply the competitors aren't there or adequate.
At this stage the goverment and the judicative come into play. They should protect the customers from unfair business practices pulling back the level of opportunity back to them.
Unfortunately we see in current goverment (Republican/Bush administration) and judicative a certain trend to restrict this pro customer regulations. The results are failing "don't call lists", country wide power shortage and Enron finance scandals.
In criminal and illegal business the Euro has wolrdwide achieved a leading role due to the existence of the 500 Euro notes. So you can stuff more money in a bag etc. Furthermore criminals switched much of the money laundries and storage to Europe. This has a major impact on the economy - the criminal market is worth at least 1100 billion Dollar a year. This has even lead to the radical decline of the Dollar we see these days.
So the US authorities being not all that stupid are going now to introduce smaller Dollar notes to fight the Euro's competitive advantage and stop the continuous devaluation of the Dollar.
The set of hurricanes is a convex cone in the Hilbert space of all weather conditions. Thus adding two hurricanes gives another, non-zero hurricane.
In fact the sum of two hurricanes is always larger than just one of the summands.
Note that the cone of hurricanes if not self dual, making finding optimal hurricanes more difficult.
MS creates so much holes accidentially so that the NSA won't need any additional entries. However securing Windows is much easier than Linux or *BSD, just format C:.
If Linux is not ready for the desktop yet, then how can it be usable on a PDA. I mean you need sophisticated stuff like handwriting and speech recognition etc.
CIOs and CTOs don't know whether they have to pay 699 buck per server to SCO. And that's just introcutionary pricing and might rise in the future.
While it's unlikely that SCO will succeed, MBA owners usually hate to take any risks which might damage their carreer and thus they'll stick to Windows. Nobody gets fired for using Windows.
But you also have to blame the US open source community. Unlike in Europe they failed to enforce a gag order to SCO stopping effectively their FUD.
I you really think lobbying and uniting intrest groups is a socialist agenda, than OSS will be dead in US very soon.
Adding more features to the already bloated X-servers and X-protocol won't solve the most important issues of X-windows. Yes, it's nice to have alpha this, blending that and gimmick no. 314. But there are more fundamental problems with the X-windows system:
Too much focused on 2D user interfaces, no native transperency for multimedia, low level and optimized applications.
Too little scalability between devices with varing performance and ability.
No sufficient support for disabled user enhanching devices.
Severe security issues in the protocol.
Especially no encrypted operation at NATO standard SECPROT level 4.
Network protocol too bloated and complicated.
No smooth integration into the operating system.
No smooth integration of the window managers.
No stream compression in the protocols.
What the author of Y does is basically reenforcing the usage of old problematic software and protocols. This can be best compared to giving free cigarettes to a nicotine addict.
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When you think about the theory that the dinosaurs died due to a massive amount of solar flares.
Laser rays are not reflected by mirrors because they operate on a different wavelengths.
They should rather remember that Communist Vietnam tends to win wars.
A system with complex rules isn't necessarily more powerful, but it's usually more difficult and error prone.
Unfortunately this misconception is very common in computer science. People tend always to create complex APIs/infaces and protocols just to get a "powerful tools". The result is the security and error ridden state of the internet and computers we see these days.
Strangely other hard sciences have seen these problems decades ago (sometimes even centuries ago) and changed their terminology and fundations accordingly. Take e.g. Mathematics with is based on 2nd order logic and set theory. And this started with Godel, Riemann, Abel and Gauss about 120 years ago. We have the same drive now in Physics with Wolfram and co. propagating simple cellular automata. Some people in string theory move in this direction, too.
Unfortunately computer scientists seem to be immune to this amount of common sense right now. Perhaps they need some centuries of fumbling aroung with overly complex model, too, until they get back to earth.
Loose: Linux can't obviously not contain any SCO IP, because it's not business ready. SCO's lawsuit will collapse.
The only problem is that the BSD benchmarking might count as disturbing the rest of the dead and will have severe legal consequences.
You see, there is something called copyright which means that you actually have to pay for source code and software if the owner doesn't give it to you for free.
It's well known that MS uses Unix stuff in it's operating systems - the BSD TCP/IP stack for instance.
And these 21$ million might seem much to you but for a company with such huge revenues like MS these are just peanuts.
If you finish you education some day and get a job in big business, you'll see that such stuff are really minor contracts.
With bin Laden running around initiating terrorist attacks on high buildings...
What do you think of Java ?
that these information collectors seem to go through people's garbage for such stuff.
I wonder if this can be even remotely profitable.
Let's calculate e !
that the world's biggest machine is our ecological system.
If a company chooses a product activation scheme which doesn't transmit any personal data and allows the change of hardware etc then I don't see why product activation should be evil.
The company is just protecting their IP from pirates. And come on a quick internet connection or phone call is neither expensive or much effort, especially given the prices of software these days. There should be sophisticated schemes for mass installs of course.
But any complaints beyond that usually come from people who are angry that they can't get warez of Tax/Word/Office/Game blubb anymore. I don't know why companies should deactivate product activation to support thieves.
Microsoft is a company, not a carity organisation. Improving IE would cost them money without getting any revenues - they are giving IE away for free.
Innovation and improvement made only sense when they had something to achieve: pushing Netscape out of the market. But this is no longer the case.
I would not even blame them. If the customers were keen on good browsers, they would rush to pay money for better versions like Opera. But they aren't. They are simply whining that MS is not innovating, but they won't do anything themselves.
Giving this level of reporting, we'll see these study soon on slashdot:
Businesses strive to max out the revenue while minimizing the costs.
In theory this development is kept in check by competitor which offer cheaper and better serives which drain customers away.
In practice this is however very different. Very often customers are restricted in their right to choose or simply the competitors aren't there or adequate.
At this stage the goverment and the judicative come into play. They should protect the customers from unfair business practices pulling back the level of opportunity back to them.
Unfortunately we see in current goverment (Republican/Bush administration) and judicative a certain trend to restrict this pro customer regulations. The results are failing "don't call lists", country wide power shortage and Enron finance scandals.
In criminal and illegal business the Euro has wolrdwide achieved a leading role due to the existence of the 500 Euro notes. So you can stuff more money in a bag etc. Furthermore criminals switched much of the money laundries and storage to Europe. This has a major impact on the economy - the criminal market is worth at least 1100 billion Dollar a year. This has even lead to the radical decline of the Dollar we see these days.
So the US authorities being not all that stupid are going now to introduce smaller Dollar notes to fight the Euro's competitive advantage and stop the continuous devaluation of the Dollar.
Any manifold with a Lorentzian metric can be embedded in an Euclidian space with a sufficient number of timelike dimensions.
It's well know that you can easily remove IE from Windows.
Note that the cone of hurricanes if not self dual, making finding optimal hurricanes more difficult.
Main rule for business:
You won't succeed if there is a well established, cheaper, reliable Competitor (OpenBSD) out there.
But at least they can truthfully blame Theo for their failure.
MS creates so much holes accidentially so that the NSA won't need any additional entries.
However securing Windows is much easier than Linux or *BSD, just format C:.
If Linux is not ready for the desktop yet, then how can it be usable on a PDA. I mean you need sophisticated stuff like handwriting and speech recognition etc.
CIOs and CTOs don't know whether they have to pay 699 buck per server to SCO. And that's just introcutionary pricing and might rise in the future.
While it's unlikely that SCO will succeed, MBA owners usually hate to take any risks which might damage their carreer and thus they'll stick to Windows. Nobody gets fired for using Windows.
But you also have to blame the US open source community. Unlike in Europe they failed to enforce a gag order to SCO stopping effectively their FUD.
I you really think lobbying and uniting intrest groups is a socialist agenda, than OSS will be dead in US very soon.
- Too much focused on 2D user interfaces, no native transperency for multimedia, low level and optimized applications.
- Too little scalability between devices with varing performance and ability.
- No sufficient support for disabled user enhanching devices.
- Severe security issues in the protocol.
Especially no encrypted operation at NATO standard SECPROT level 4.
- Network protocol too bloated and complicated.
- No smooth integration into the operating system.
- No smooth integration of the window managers.
- No stream compression in the protocols.
What the author of Y does is basically reenforcing the usage of old problematic software and protocols. This can be best compared to giving free cigarettes to a nicotine addict.