Novell's core strategy has been to leverage it's existing technology (NetWare and eDirectory) to get the company into more profitable markets.
That doesn't mean that NetWare is a dead or dying product. In fact NetWare 6 has been a big seller for the company.
However idiot analysts (Gartner et al) don't know anything about any technology that doesn't have a mouse and pretty gui. You can't run Word on NetWare so many people don't care about the OS.
More importantly NetWare is widely interoperable so that security authentication, resource sharing and other services function on almost any platform going.
Imagine a world where HR could input the name of a new employee into the Personnel system with a start date. The network security system would detect that new employee and create a login account, email address and file share without any user intervention. Then imagine that all these functions use software from different vendors. Thats what Novell brings to the table.
Put that in your bigoted pipes and smoke it.
I guy at AudioT in High wycombe (Excellent HiFi chain in the UK) who is quite knowledgeable about HiFi electronics told me that some copy protection systems can blow some high end audio kit due to the noise at frequencies not normally present being transmitted through to the speakers.
Apparently the out of normal frequency range signals can bust the tweeters and crossovers.
Has the copy protection system been throughly tested in this regard? I doubt it.
Also how long before someone developes a way of gettign round the copy protection, has the record industry learned nothing from the digital watermarking debarcle.
What i've always wondered about quantum computers is how the devil you would measure them.
For those that don't know, nothing is ever finite in quantum mechanics, only probable. (See heisenbergs uncertainty principle).
also by measuring the system by some method you are interfering with the system. And thus how do you know whether the result is the result or a product of your interference.
Now if you were using a lot of electrons on a surface (don't ask me how) all in the same starting spin state, then you performed an operation on them you could then measure the macroscopic properties of your sheet of electrons. IE the bulk magnetisation (see ESR spectroscopy), but single electrons would be impossible to discover with current theory.
The other complication is that the electron spin states are degenerate (have the same energy)in the free state and in the abscence of an external magnetic field.
Thus to measure a change in spin state you would have to stick the quantum device in a very large amgnetic field (5 Tesla or greater). This requires a large super conducting magnetic cooled to the temperature of liquid helium.
Therefore this whole quantum Computer thing is a fairly difficult to achieve and willnot happen over night and probably not until someone comes up with a different theory to current QM theory, which explains in more detail the actions of small particles.
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to build a laptop?
Before you attempt a roll your own take a laptop apart and see if you can get the thing back together. I amost garantee that you will not be able to get the case back on.
Free Speech only works when the masses are educated enough to know the difference between truth and twisted evil.
The majority of people in most countries including the supposedly enlightened free world are ignorant, ill informed and just plain stupid.
Therefore we the intellectual few have a duty to protect the innocent and naive from material that may not present a balanced viewpoint.
After all would every body who stands up and demands the right to freedom of expression say that paedophiles have a right to communicate through the internet and post websites inorder to abuse children.
We have to draw a moral line in the sand and state what is not acceptable in a civilised society.
Loughborough University Physics Department received a grant of £250K (about $400K) to investigate the aerodynamics of Toast, and to find out why toast lands butter side down no matter what height you drop it from.
Hey investigating bird flight with a wind tunnel sounds quite good.
Before anybody reacts to this post, please accept that I am a passionate libertarian and believe whole heartedly in free speech. However I also recognise the dangers of the kind of material that european countries seek to prohibit.
Probably unlike the relatively free and civilised US of A, European countries have very serious problems with Hate crimes and rascist literature.
In france far right groups get between 5 and 10 % of the vote in national elections and currently have control of several town halls in southern france.
In germany Neo - Nazi groups regularly parade and cause trouble. There have been several recent rascist murders linked to these groups.
The internet unfortunately has become aa breeding ground for rascist thugs. It has allowed geographically disparate and previously powerless groups to join forces, thus resulting in supranational fascist groups exchanging their foul and objectional material.
Against the context of europe having fought a war over fascism, then the remergence of the far right groups across europe becomes extremely troubling for many european leaders.
This is why european governments are clamping down on rasicism and far right groups on the internet. Fascists everywhere are as much a threat to our way of life as Islamic fundamentalists or the anarchist groups of the 1970's.
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Novell's core strategy has been to leverage it's existing technology (NetWare and eDirectory) to get the company into more profitable markets. That doesn't mean that NetWare is a dead or dying product. In fact NetWare 6 has been a big seller for the company. However idiot analysts (Gartner et al) don't know anything about any technology that doesn't have a mouse and pretty gui. You can't run Word on NetWare so many people don't care about the OS. More importantly NetWare is widely interoperable so that security authentication, resource sharing and other services function on almost any platform going. Imagine a world where HR could input the name of a new employee into the Personnel system with a start date. The network security system would detect that new employee and create a login account, email address and file share without any user intervention. Then imagine that all these functions use software from different vendors. Thats what Novell brings to the table. Put that in your bigoted pipes and smoke it.
Just use NDS.
Its simple use NDS as a binding agent between various data storage mechanisms.
As well as been scalable, fast and bullet proof, it has the added the added advantage of built in security at every level.
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Fair enough the myth is exploded. however to slag off audioT is a bit harsh as they sell nice hifi without pressure or snobbish ness.
Believe me that is a rarety in the UK. Also bought my cyrus system from them and it works fine.
I guy at AudioT in High wycombe (Excellent HiFi chain in the UK) who is quite knowledgeable about HiFi electronics told me that some copy protection systems can blow some high end audio kit due to the noise at frequencies not normally present being transmitted through to the speakers.
Apparently the out of normal frequency range signals can bust the tweeters and crossovers.
Has the copy protection system been throughly tested in this regard? I doubt it.
Also how long before someone developes a way of gettign round the copy protection, has the record industry learned nothing from the digital watermarking debarcle.
What i've always wondered about quantum computers is how the devil you would measure them.
For those that don't know, nothing is ever finite in quantum mechanics, only probable. (See heisenbergs uncertainty principle).
also by measuring the system by some method you are interfering with the system. And thus how do you know whether the result is the result or a product of your interference.
Now if you were using a lot of electrons on a surface (don't ask me how) all in the same starting spin state, then you performed an operation on them you could then measure the macroscopic properties of your sheet of electrons. IE the bulk magnetisation (see ESR spectroscopy), but single electrons would be impossible to discover with current theory.
The other complication is that the electron spin states are degenerate (have the same energy)in the free state and in the abscence of an external magnetic field.
Thus to measure a change in spin state you would have to stick the quantum device in a very large amgnetic field (5 Tesla or greater). This requires a large super conducting magnetic cooled to the temperature of liquid helium.
Therefore this whole quantum Computer thing is a fairly difficult to achieve and willnot happen over night and probably not until someone comes up with a different theory to current QM theory, which explains in more detail the actions of small particles.
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to build a laptop?
Before you attempt a roll your own take a laptop apart and see if you can get the thing back together. I amost garantee that you will not be able to get the case back on.
Just buy one for heavens sake!!!
You have to much tiem on your hands
Free Speech only works when the masses are educated enough to know the difference between truth and twisted evil.
The majority of people in most countries including the supposedly enlightened free world are ignorant, ill informed and just plain stupid.
Therefore we the intellectual few have a duty to protect the innocent and naive from material that may not present a balanced viewpoint.
After all would every body who stands up and demands the right to freedom of expression say that paedophiles have a right to communicate through the internet and post websites inorder to abuse children.
We have to draw a moral line in the sand and state what is not acceptable in a civilised society.
Loughborough University Physics Department received a grant of £250K (about $400K) to investigate the aerodynamics of Toast, and to find out why toast lands butter side down no matter what height you drop it from. Hey investigating bird flight with a wind tunnel sounds quite good.
Before anybody reacts to this post, please accept that I am a passionate libertarian and believe whole heartedly in free speech. However I also recognise the dangers of the kind of material that european countries seek to prohibit. Probably unlike the relatively free and civilised US of A, European countries have very serious problems with Hate crimes and rascist literature. In france far right groups get between 5 and 10 % of the vote in national elections and currently have control of several town halls in southern france. In germany Neo - Nazi groups regularly parade and cause trouble. There have been several recent rascist murders linked to these groups. The internet unfortunately has become aa breeding ground for rascist thugs. It has allowed geographically disparate and previously powerless groups to join forces, thus resulting in supranational fascist groups exchanging their foul and objectional material. Against the context of europe having fought a war over fascism, then the remergence of the far right groups across europe becomes extremely troubling for many european leaders. This is why european governments are clamping down on rasicism and far right groups on the internet. Fascists everywhere are as much a threat to our way of life as Islamic fundamentalists or the anarchist groups of the 1970's.