This isn't totally unexpected. There has been quite a bit of evidence with DeCSS et al than Europe, and in paticular Scandinavia takes a much lighter view on these acts than their US counterparts. In the US the attitude is "its MY toy you can't play" where as the European attitude is more "you've bought it, its your own fault if you bugger it up".
Somewhat ironically in a dicussion on toys the US companies are themselves acting like spoilt toddlers. LEGOs action appears a very mature response to what isn't really a problem. You bought the product, do what you want. If you bought LEGO bricks and , shock horror, made something other than the car on the box then they'd be fine with that.
Hopefully some US companies will realise that once we buy their products we have the right to break them and use them as we want. If I want to use a CD as a coaster I will, or a frisbee or what ever.
So you are suggesting a nutter with a knife could have taken on the other nutter with a knife. So the solution is that there are no security checks and arm all the passengers.
The solutions is to monitor internal flights in the same way that they are required to monitor international flights. US internal security sucks, plain and simple. This disaster was created by the US consumer and the airlines desire for cheap hassle free flights. Prices must rise to pay for the security required.
Go to Japan, come to Europe. This really isn't news. The nokia communicator http://www.nokia.com/phones/9210/index.html or for you guys next year http://www.nokia.com/phones/9290/index.html does all of that, runs on the rock solid EPOC operating system and is very nice as it runs full Java and a proper rather than cWAP browser (although it does that as well).
Java's CLDC and CDC profiles address these sort of issues in a device independent mechanism which is critical given the differences in OSes, memory configurations and facilities.
Sun are a strange bunch, a company where the vi v emacs wars can really kick off as two of the developers are there (Gosling for emacs, Joy for vi). JXTA is another of Bill Joy's babies, its meant to be a language/protocol independent offering for peer to peer solutions, which was originially what http://www.jini.org said they would do (Jim Waldo).
JXTA is a nice idea, and there are some good papers from JavaOne on the subject. But given that Sun's marketing might is behind J2EE will JXTA really be given a chance ?
IMO the answer is probably yes, JXTA and Java are part of a two pronged attack at next generation devices, this isn't really PC to PC type applications but device to device, most of the next generation mobiles will be running Java, some will not and most service provider cells will not, JXTA enables the bridge between the Java world of the device and the big bad world of networking to interact.
Strange how the best ideas come without marketing strategies. Java was an inhouse project which aimed for 10,000 downloads. Will the same explosion happen with JXTA in a wireless world ?
In the days of Apollo it meant something to achieve fame, the Beatles & the Stones were huge and there was no such thing as a C list. These days the "celebrity" list runs down to Z. Why show an astronaut when you can show some 17 year old "singer" in a short dress ?
The worlds largest polluter, either by nation, or per captia is waking up to polluting the planet.
But will they mind paying twice as much for gas to save the planet, or is it just another crock of shit.
Sorry to get passionate about this but the US is acting like the spoilt child of the planet, complaining that the 3rd World doesn't have to do as much, and thus the US is at a disadvantage, of course it is, the worlds strongest economy must be shitting itself that Namibia pollutes less per capita than the US, and isn't required to reduce that lower pollution rate by as much.
Its time to sue the US for damaging the health of the planet, others have a case to answer but at least the rest of the industrialised world is reducing emmisions, unlike the US which is still increasing them.
My god, its a miracle after reams of articles pushing inferior competition and vapourware, Psion gets a pat on the back.
Psion has _always_ been ahead of the game in the PDA world. A proper 32bit RTOS, the links with the mobile companies. And of course the new Nokia Communicator (the first decent phone to be available in the US) runs the EPOC OS, developed by Psion and spun off into Symbian.
The real issue is what the development enviroment will be. Linux would make a great basic box, but the key is what software enviroment is running and what standards it adopts. The biggest people in this area are Europe's DVB (adopted even by OpenCable in the US) and their platform http://www.mhp.org is based around Java. The box underneath is interesting, but at the end of the day the application enviroment is key.
His point is simple, copying a book is the same whether in printed or electronic form. If someone can read it online they _may_ buy a copy, they might just print it out.
We can all get high and mighty but at the end of the day he has a point: He does this for a living, how would _you_ feel if someone copied your work just before you handed it in to the client and got the cash instead of you.
It is the same issue, just because it happens to someone else doesn't mean its right.
Let imagine there are no virii. So I don't need to buy the tools and expertise (not a one off cost as you have to employ extra people to cover you for the virus attacks). So thats the cost before you even talk about time.
Now in terms of time. The issue is quality time, the people who get hit aren't the bright ones, but the bright ones have to clean it up. So yes I've lost 2 hours of an average persons time, but worst of all I've just lost 1 x n hours of bright people. These people are NOT HAVING A BREAK they are WORKING ON A NON-BILLABLE TASK. Thus the cost is that every hour they work they could be billable.
Virii cost money, they cost time, and the immature people who write them should spend a little more time trying to develop decent software rather than being their own personal definition of "clever".
I'll be honest, I grade virus writers several layers below pond scum, the NSA and Barney.
Average Joe Bloggs has bought many changes thanks to name changes over the years, thats why people change names. Nasty Oil spill ? Change your name. Killed thousands ? Change your name.
Hell that is what marketing is all about, smoke and mirrors to portray their truth at you. Nike, wear our trainers and be like Jordan. Coke, drink our drink and be happy. Think of all those lobby groups, all their names. If they actually told the truth they wouldn't work.
Of course the public will accept it. It will be "for their own protection" and "only criminals need to fear it".
Its quite interesting that the big moves in the Wireless market all seem to come from Scandinavia. For a small bunch of people they really really really like keeping in touch.
The last few years have seen the rise and rise of OSS, but with moves like this is Microsoft looking to quash the rebellion ? By owning not only the software but the network will they achieve the subjugation of free software.
Maybe ultimately this is why Microsoft will dominate, even if broken up. They own the computer (X-Box), the software... and now the network.
Why no EPOC, PalmOS or whatever. Surely comparing these without reference to the base standards is pointless ? This isn't the windows arena where a lack of stability is a problem this is palmtop where the two standard UIs are pretty much as solid as a rock.
I'll stick to EPOC that works rather than go for some unstable bells and whistles.
Historians and sociologists call the adult world's response to gaming a "moral panic,"
Which historians, which sociologists ? And on what planet do sociologists always agree on what people do. To quote Rutherford "All research in the Human Sciences can be summed up by the phrase 'some do, some don't'".
I'm sorry I don't buy this persecution crap. Games can be good, games can be bad. This isn't society ganging up on a few "good" people, its about the fundamental right of people to disagree with each other, and the American politic that means he who shouts loudest is right.
Jon, I'm sorry but this just sounds like a whinge based on the old "Well I don't like it so blah" of which you accuse your accusers rather than a balanced approach to the subject. Its after all easier to be a bigot, what ever your flag, than be balanced.
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So their target groups are
The Goverment... who already own loads of their own sats.
Humanitarian Groups, who just have LOADS of spare cash... not.
and a few others.
Am I the only one who thinks that the fact that the humble mobile (GSM) will work over a goodly proportion of the globe and is cheap and reliable is quite an effective way for those that require such communication to get it. Put up a few more cells in a country and you shut out the need for a very very expensive satellite.
What will the satellite offer... 100% coverage. And how many organisations need that, bugger all. And for the cases where they are out of touch with mobile will they use the sat solution everywhere else as well as just the out of touch places... probably not.
And boo.com is back as well.
Are we seeing another period in economics, there was boom and bust, now we have stupidity and sanity cycles.
Umm so on the basis that it is slower on the overall benchmarks and that these benchmarks aren't designed to make Transmeta win... you want new benchmarks. The benchmarks referenced are application benchmarks, and what better test of a CPU than how quickly it runs an application.
Sounds so like MS "we're quicker if you let us rig the test" comparisons with Linux.
Lots of hype, promises of changing the market with a wonder product that isn't quite there yet. Unlike MS however they haven't got the muscle to enforce inferiour products on the rest of us.
I'm sure some people will state this is Intel pressure, but just possibly Compaq (who ship AMD chips) didn't see the cost/performance/power benifits that many on Slashdot have hyped up like a conference of MCSEs.
I agree with the lot, the only one is the number of hours. The myth that more hours = more top quality code. Brook's says it, Peopleware says it, almost every study made says it. Reduce the communication between teams so teams are more productive so can work lower hours and thus be able to concentrate more and create better code.
Everyone thinks that they are more productive in 4 x 100 hour weeks than 4 x 40 hour weeks. But the fact is that in week 4 you are destroying the project with your lack of concentration, and in the other you are still productive.
This is the same as the Film market, its so much harder to make a different and challenging film, it much better to rehash an old plot and add in some more FX.
That said however the games market does benifit in increasing the level of reality in games that are meant to be real (F1, FIFA, Quake etc etc) but whether their current dominance of the games market is due to a lack of imagination on the part of developers or publishers is easy to say.
Of course it is. Just look at what happens when a new genre comes out, everyone plunders it for years to come. Film and games companies contain accountants and imagination is not their strongest point.
So Intel makes the most powerful Intel or Intel clone CPUs. What would be interesting is how it compares with the CPUs that run inside most modern servers. Is a 1.13Ghz Intel processor as fast as a 400MHz 64 Risc processor.
Why the suprise that Intel, the company with the most money and who designs the basic platform, can be the fastest in their own backyard. If they were to challenge the server machines then it would become interesting.
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This isn't totally unexpected. There has been quite a bit of evidence with DeCSS et al than Europe, and in paticular Scandinavia takes a much lighter view on these acts than their US counterparts. In the US the attitude is "its MY toy you can't play" where as the European attitude is more "you've bought it, its your own fault if you bugger it up".
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Somewhat ironically in a dicussion on toys the US companies are themselves acting like spoilt toddlers. LEGOs action appears a very mature response to what isn't really a problem. You bought the product, do what you want. If you bought LEGO bricks and , shock horror, made something other than the car on the box then they'd be fine with that.
Hopefully some US companies will realise that once we buy their products we have the right to break them and use them as we want. If I want to use a CD as a coaster I will, or a frisbee or what ever.
I'll get back in my cot now
So you are suggesting a nutter with a knife could have taken on the other nutter with a knife. So the solution is that there are no security checks and arm all the passengers.
The solutions is to monitor internal flights in the same way that they are required to monitor international flights. US internal security sucks, plain and simple. This disaster was created by the US consumer and the airlines desire for cheap hassle free flights. Prices must rise to pay for the security required.
Go to Japan, come to Europe. This really isn't news. The nokia communicator http://www.nokia.com/phones/9210/index.html or for you guys next year http://www.nokia.com/phones/9290/index.html does all of that, runs on the rock solid EPOC operating system and is very nice as it runs full Java and a proper rather than cWAP browser (although it does that as well).
Java's CLDC and CDC profiles address these sort of issues in a device independent mechanism which is critical given the differences in OSes, memory configurations and facilities.
Sun are a strange bunch, a company where the vi v emacs wars can really kick off as two of the developers are there (Gosling for emacs, Joy for vi). JXTA is another of Bill Joy's babies, its meant to be a language/protocol independent offering for peer to peer solutions, which was originially what http://www.jini.org said they would do (Jim Waldo).
JXTA is a nice idea, and there are some good papers from JavaOne on the subject. But given that Sun's marketing might is behind J2EE will JXTA really be given a chance ?
IMO the answer is probably yes, JXTA and Java are part of a two pronged attack at next generation devices, this isn't really PC to PC type applications but device to device, most of the next generation mobiles will be running Java, some will not and most service provider cells will not, JXTA enables the bridge between the Java world of the device and the big bad world of networking to interact.
Strange how the best ideas come without marketing strategies. Java was an inhouse project which aimed for 10,000 downloads. Will the same explosion happen with JXTA in a wireless world ?
PCs suck, time to distribute.
"The method of claim 6, said software package including a program to detect computer viruses on the remotely located computer"
So if it doesn't include a virus detector then it would appear to be okay.
Still seems a silly patent mind
In the days of Apollo it meant something to achieve fame, the Beatles & the Stones were huge and there was no such thing as a C list. These days the "celebrity" list runs down to Z. Why show an astronaut when you can show some 17 year old "singer" in a short dress ?
Well come to mediocrity by TV.
The worlds largest polluter, either by nation, or per captia is waking up to polluting the planet.
But will they mind paying twice as much for gas to save the planet, or is it just another crock of shit.
Sorry to get passionate about this but the US is acting like the spoilt child of the planet, complaining that the 3rd World doesn't have to do as much, and thus the US is at a disadvantage, of course it is, the worlds strongest economy must be shitting itself that Namibia pollutes less per capita than the US, and isn't required to reduce that lower pollution rate by as much.
Its time to sue the US for damaging the health of the planet, others have a case to answer but at least the rest of the industrialised world is reducing emmisions, unlike the US which is still increasing them.
My god, its a miracle after reams of articles pushing inferior competition and vapourware, Psion gets a pat on the back.
Psion has _always_ been ahead of the game in the PDA world. A proper 32bit RTOS, the links with the mobile companies. And of course the new Nokia Communicator (the first decent phone to be available in the US) runs the EPOC OS, developed by Psion and spun off into Symbian.
The real issue is what the development enviroment will be. Linux would make a great basic box, but the key is what software enviroment is running and what standards it adopts. The biggest people in this area are Europe's DVB (adopted even by OpenCable in the US) and their platform http://www.mhp.org is based around Java. The box underneath is interesting, but at the end of the day the application enviroment is key.
So while you might get annoyed, they still have your cash. You get hot and bothered, annoyed.. so you need another Coke. Well come to capitalism.
His point is simple, copying a book is the same whether in printed or electronic form. If someone can read it online they _may_ buy a copy, they might just print it out.
We can all get high and mighty but at the end of the day he has a point: He does this for a living, how would _you_ feel if someone copied your work just before you handed it in to the client and got the cash instead of you.
It is the same issue, just because it happens to someone else doesn't mean its right.
What complete tosh.
Let imagine there are no virii. So I don't need to buy the tools and expertise (not a one off cost as you have to employ extra people to cover you for the virus attacks). So thats the cost before you even talk about time.
Now in terms of time. The issue is quality time, the people who get hit aren't the bright ones, but the bright ones have to clean it up. So yes I've lost 2 hours of an average persons time, but worst of all I've just lost 1 x n hours of bright people. These people are NOT HAVING A BREAK they are WORKING ON A NON-BILLABLE TASK. Thus the cost is that every hour they work they could be billable.
Virii cost money, they cost time, and the immature people who write them should spend a little more time trying to develop decent software rather than being their own personal definition of "clever".
I'll be honest, I grade virus writers several layers below pond scum, the NSA and Barney.
Yup.
Average Joe Bloggs has bought many changes thanks to name changes over the years, thats why people change names. Nasty Oil spill ? Change your name. Killed thousands ? Change your name.
Hell that is what marketing is all about, smoke and mirrors to portray their truth at you. Nike, wear our trainers and be like Jordan. Coke, drink our drink and be happy. Think of all those lobby groups, all their names. If they actually told the truth they wouldn't work.
Of course the public will accept it. It will be "for their own protection" and "only criminals need to fear it".
But then most security people are the most paranoid people on the planet so it makes some sense.
Ummm guess it must be the real world then.
Its quite interesting that the big moves in the Wireless market all seem to come from Scandinavia. For a small bunch of people they really really really like keeping in touch.
The last few years have seen the rise and rise of OSS, but with moves like this is Microsoft looking to quash the rebellion ? By owning not only the software but the network will they achieve the subjugation of free software.
Maybe ultimately this is why Microsoft will dominate, even if broken up. They own the computer (X-Box), the software... and now the network.
Why no EPOC, PalmOS or whatever. Surely comparing these without reference to the base standards is pointless ? This isn't the windows arena where a lack of stability is a problem this is palmtop where the two standard UIs are pretty much as solid as a rock.
I'll stick to EPOC that works rather than go for some unstable bells and whistles.
Historians and sociologists call the adult world's response to gaming a "moral panic,"
Which historians, which sociologists ? And on what planet do sociologists always agree on what people do. To quote Rutherford "All research in the Human Sciences can be summed up by the phrase 'some do, some don't'".
I'm sorry I don't buy this persecution crap. Games can be good, games can be bad. This isn't society ganging up on a few "good" people, its about the fundamental right of people to disagree with each other, and the American politic that means he who shouts loudest is right.
Jon, I'm sorry but this just sounds like a whinge based on the old "Well I don't like it so blah" of which you accuse your accusers rather than a balanced approach to the subject. Its after all easier to be a bigot, what ever your flag, than be balanced.
Which means in Europe terms it doesn't exist.
So their target groups are
The Goverment... who already own loads of their own sats.
Humanitarian Groups, who just have LOADS of spare cash... not.
and a few others.
Am I the only one who thinks that the fact that the humble mobile (GSM) will work over a goodly proportion of the globe and is cheap and reliable is quite an effective way for those that require such communication to get it. Put up a few more cells in a country and you shut out the need for a very very expensive satellite.
What will the satellite offer... 100% coverage. And how many organisations need that, bugger all. And for the cases where they are out of touch with mobile will they use the sat solution everywhere else as well as just the out of touch places... probably not.
And boo.com is back as well.
Are we seeing another period in economics, there was boom and bust, now we have stupidity and sanity cycles.
Umm so on the basis that it is slower on the overall benchmarks and that these benchmarks aren't designed to make Transmeta win... you want new benchmarks. The benchmarks referenced are application benchmarks, and what better test of a CPU than how quickly it runs an application.
Sounds so like MS "we're quicker if you let us rig the test" comparisons with Linux.
Lots of hype, promises of changing the market with a wonder product that isn't quite there yet. Unlike MS however they haven't got the muscle to enforce inferiour products on the rest of us.
I'm sure some people will state this is Intel pressure, but just possibly Compaq (who ship AMD chips) didn't see the cost/performance/power benifits that many on Slashdot have hyped up like a conference of MCSEs.
I agree with the lot, the only one is the number of hours. The myth that more hours = more top quality code. Brook's says it, Peopleware says it, almost every study made says it. Reduce the communication between teams so teams are more productive so can work lower hours and thus be able to concentrate more and create better code.
Everyone thinks that they are more productive in 4 x 100 hour weeks than 4 x 40 hour weeks. But the fact is that in week 4 you are destroying the project with your lack of concentration, and in the other you are still productive.
Its still like herding cats though.
This is the same as the Film market, its so much harder to make a different and challenging film, it much better to rehash an old plot and add in some more FX.
That said however the games market does benifit in increasing the level of reality in games that are meant to be real (F1, FIFA, Quake etc etc) but whether their current dominance of the games market is due to a lack of imagination on the part of developers or publishers is easy to say.
Of course it is. Just look at what happens when a new genre comes out, everyone plunders it for years to come. Film and games companies contain accountants and imagination is not their strongest point.
So Intel makes the most powerful Intel or Intel clone CPUs. What would be interesting is how it compares with the CPUs that run inside most modern servers. Is a 1.13Ghz Intel processor as fast as a 400MHz 64 Risc processor.
Why the suprise that Intel, the company with the most money and who designs the basic platform, can be the fastest in their own backyard. If they were to challenge the server machines then it would become interesting.