"Having multiple data stores makes life harder for the enterprise customer," Helm said. "Search will become much easier, and this should make it cheaper to build new systems because customers only have to learn one database."
Clearly, then, Microsoft want to dominate the database market VIA the filesystem. Woah!
Oh, and does this have anything to do with the newest Linux kernels supporting NTFS?
Canal Plus has, in a lawsuit, claimed that it has lost $1bn to a "conspiracy" centring around London-based rival NDS.
Here in Morocco, Canal+ Horizons (the digital service for Morocco) shut down because of local piracy of FRENCH Canal+.
(in French)
I think it has a lot to do with clever hackers and the Internet propagating stuff, and very little to do with some big corporation.
It may be, however, that someone working there just happened to be a pirate at the same time, since he'd have had access to hardware to help him to crack Canal+.
...to wait for a full settlement in the case against Microsoft, rather than to wait for them to fix security issues.
Can't help but feel that running an operating system that loads of people all have to play with and hack into at will is a strange thing for the Air Force to do.
If I have a car, and I don't like its security features, I sell it and buy another car.
The Microsoft strategy has been, since day one, to marry Windows and the Home PC such that this kind of consumer choice is not possible... but people KEEP buying Windows licences.
Flamebait if ever I saw it. This is about a legal context which is fair and equitable in the law, and being misused to the profit of some huge mammouth like Vivendi. Are you not scared that they control so much of the media you use and watch, and are now going to stop you creating your own, better, solutions?
Wow! So now I only have to like, travel round the world, whose circumference is appx 25,000 miles, like 400 times... to be able to go up once into space.
What kind of air traveller gets air miles that high? Even with credit card tie-ins and all that? If you have even 1,000,000 miles, tell me how you earned 'em!
The fear of any ID card system is that fraud is easy with digital data. It doesn't matter if there is a photo on there, if they can only be used by the holder, etc. Someone who owns a machine to read them can read whichever card they want and commit fraud.
What is really needed is an end to all this technological one-stop solutions for all ills. An ID card with digital data that is fully, securely protected is a dangerous thing.
Personal liberties aside, the societal ills that this kind of scheme is supposed to help are actually amplified. Big Brother fears are already hitting us, people are more wary, and today's society is so fragmented, so hard to please... how can we fix this?
So with all the data that few have seen, and few practical business applications, it seems to raise the question as to why are they mapping the universe.
Because it's cool, OK... and because some day the data will be useful, viewable, etc? It will be a map for space travel?
Each tape and a backup copy are sent overnight to Fermilab, where they are transferred to a host of Linux servers. Stoughton said the amount of data is small compared with Fermilab's other projects but is the largest capacity project ever assembled in astronomy.
Cool. They are using the penguin...!
"It's hard to say why people should study astronomy," said Gunn. "But in the scheme of human intellect, it is important to know where we came from and what's likely to be in store for us."
Well, it is interesting to know all about that. But collecting data that can't be used... tough cookie.
In general, these kind of projects get funded by curious people who can't use the data. Loads of data written to disks is not ever looked at, and this article raises that question. This is the discussion which interests me, quite apart from the greatness of some liquid nitrogen cooled super telescope with so many megapixels that at any kind of CRT resolution, for example, we would be decimating 99% of the data in order to get something reasonable to look at.
Backup systems have to be in place, and why captains have to be able to navigate manually. Just like how yachts have to have motors in case sails break, etc... and to be able to safely navigate in ports.
The threat of virii could be minimal because the physical security of the ship's navigation systems should be locked down. No internet access, no floppy disk drives, closed systems, etc.
However, there have been failures. I remember a Navy Submarine running Windows NT or something, and it crashed (the OS, not the sub). They had backup systems, of course, but they looked pretty stupid.
Windows NT Crash on Navy ship
The key point here is that you can test systems anyway : running for long periods of time, checking memory leakage, hardware failure periods, etc... and bugs that come up are corrected for free, usually, when you're talking about expensive navigation systems.
Sure, you can lose money for being out of action for a few hours, but that could happen due to any number of other mechanical failures too, so you just calculate some kind of percentage chance of failure based on past history of the navigation system?
Well how many companies really employ people in house to run Exchange? We make a lot of money fixing people's Exchange, and we charge more to fix it than to fix their Sendmail or to reinstall with Postfix or Qmail.
I don't think you can make this direct argument. Find some figures to back it up. Let's think about Total Cost of Ownership: the Microsoft licence alone would pay a year's salary for a person in a large company to put in Linux instead.
"- Thomas Hauser is a New York city attorney and the author of 22 books, including "Missing," which served as the basis for the feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, "Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times," and most recently, "Mark Twain Remembers," published by Barricade Books. He is currently completing his ninth work of fiction--"Finding The Princess"--which will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in Autumn, 2000. He can be reached by fax at (212) 496-7990."
I love that. No email, just a fax number for interacting with him. hihihihi
A way to get the artist to work for next to nothing to make some other dude rich
It has happened throughout history and continues to happen. Just stop bitchin' about the musicians who "sell out" and make money... true artists rarely make money, and rarely care. Everyone else seems to care about it, but the artists themselves just expressin' demselves.
Sure, it hurts when someone else makes money out of your work. But unless you are a money hungry selfish bastard there will always be a hungrier, more selfish bastard who will take what you have made for the entertainment of others, make money out of it, and devalue it.
Perhaps one of the world's many stalwart Linux entrepreneurs will eventually convince AOL management that an AOL-branded, consumer-priced Linux box is a good idea. Otherwise, AOL will probably stick to the current corporate operating system pattern: Linux in the server room, Windows or Mac on user desktops -- except that AOL-ized desktops will run the AOL browser and its Mozilla rendering engine instead of Microsoft Explorer.
Who wants AOL for Linux? What is going on? A proprietary dial-up, authentication and content delivery system? Pulllease.
If AOL offered a dial up account using PAP or CHAP and just TCP/IP access with a browser that went to their homepage and allowed you to see their premium content, this may be a good thing for any AOL content junkies
But I can already use AOL Instant Messenger, and MSN, and Yahoo! through Linux, why would I need anything else?
AOL are right not to create AOL for Linux. Linux users should be following Internet standards and not some proprietary bullshit.
Windows users can have AOL for all I care. Give me a proper ISP any day of the week.
I think Lucas, in general, is doing what he can with Star Wars. He wants to make the story into movies, he is now going backwards.... doing the older part of the plot after everyone already has built their own past for all the characters and probably even role-played parts of it.
He's bound to get flamed even if the new films are cooooool.
But in general, I think his development is really a fluke, a movie that took off and even today, ask yourself this question: did I say that the movie Phantom Menace sucked? And how many times did I watch it?
Rarely do I view movies twice. In spite of my apprehensions and all, I still ended up watching Phantom Menace three times. I haven't watched any other movies that many times!
Well this is hardly a surprise. Telcos make money per second that you are speaking, with the exception in some states of free local calls, a phenomenon hard to understand if you were brought up in Europe as I was.
Their infrastructures have rarely been upgraded apart from by default, when old equipment goes obsolete, or in order to make more money with interoperability issues and by increasing international traffic.
That they now realise they have a security issue is no surprise really; they are running stuff which is often vendor configured anyway. They have no value to add - the voice conversation is just a voice conversation. They just want you to stay for more and more minutes.
Some have imaginatively added Caller ID, Voicemail, etc, but all with the interest of more minutes (you call back, you reply to calls even when you wouldn't usually because you can see who's calling, etc) rather than making a better network.
Most Telcos have a monopoly on a geographical area anyway, the small fry always get eaten up. Better quality, higher speed dialup etc all come way after the technology has been available.
The problem of course is that user choice is always limited; the Internet is democratic because you can choose your OS and run what you want, taking your own security. But the phone network you can do nothing about, you have to lump it and pay high rates because regulators tend, alarmingly, to protect the Telco way more than the consumer.
Hopefully someone will make a big attack and wake them up. Not unlike Bin Laden. Whatever the morals of the story, the violence, the cause he was fighting for, one positive thing to come out of the tragedy was the shift in psychology of the average Amercian, who has been forced to soul-search and reach out internationally to understand why some people hate America so much. The Telcos need to understand why the consumers hate them so much.
I cannot think of one state where Telcos run losses on voice calls on fixed networks; GSM and 3G is a whole different ball game which should be taken apart from landline fixed telephony.
Don't get me into a war about Europe (several governments) and America (one government) and past history and all that.
I made my remark as a flippant aside and that's it. In all, I am pretty disappointed with the current American government and certainly the moves towards world economic domination.
Piri Reis drew an accurate map of the globe way before then, if we are to believe Von Daniken's books and research previous.
We can't blame the Chinese for the bastardisation of European Culture that happened in America, we CAN blame Columbus. So give him the credit. (Flame me if you like, Americans).
We can't blame whoever it was who cultivated tobacco since time immemorial, we can blame Walter Raleigh for bringing it back to Elizabeth I and making it trendy. Did he "discover" tobacco? NO. But in British history, he gets a lot of credit for bringing stuff back, when all he was doing was trying to impress the queen.
I buy pirate music and DivX movies in the local market. But quality is not as good and I still yearn for DVD quality.
I just *consume* more music and movies than I did before, now I have high bandwidth. This is the point. Until everyone has a high speed pipe the dent in sales is limited. In any case, most people would rather have originals just like they still buy real Nike trainers and not fakes. A quality issue.
But this does not lead to less sales. It actually gives a big marketing push. In those areas where piracy is super prevalent, it's actually because good access to originals is hard. I just don't go for that "lost market" crap.
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What next, the state is going to charge me for every minute I'm on the freeway?
A lot of European states do this anyway. In fact, very few don't (the UK happens to be one of them). Tolls exist on European motorways (freeways) and because there is also a speed limit, they really are charging you for every minute you spend on the freeway. In fact, if you decide to stop and sleep and your journey takes over 24 hours (don't forget that scale is smaller, most in country trips don't take that long) you have to pay the maximum fee. So you can't stop and sleep in freeway cafés, you have to leave the freeway, pay, and then pay to get back on.
As far as MPEG-4 is concerned, note that DivX 4 is rebuilt from the ground up to be a fully open standard. It seems pretty good to me.
Somewhere along the line we are all paying directly or indirectly for everything. I have no objection to Microsoft paying for serving me content, because I'm not interested in their shite anyway. Even Apple. Why not? They spent ages developing it.
For my home video and audi projects, I use OGG and DivX. That's what's important. All other content is copyright anyway and I will always pay for the format I choose to watch it in, whether that be the medium of the CD / DVD, the compression codec of Real Player etc, whatever.
Perpective is missing here because all of a sudden people still think Internet should be free. Internet has never been free. Really. Just that services that used to subsidise others are now making way less money.
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I thought there were two kinda standard chips and that ripping ROMs was, with a card reader, reasonably easy to do.
Can someone find a link which explains the technical reason they had to bigtime reverse engineer everything?
In Haiti, Internet is ALL wireless. Wish I could find a link for you but I can't :(
Clearly, then, Microsoft want to dominate the database market VIA the filesystem. Woah!
Oh, and does this have anything to do with the newest Linux kernels supporting NTFS?
Remember... electronic transactions are always going to haunt you.
Don't say anything, anywhere, that you don't want repeated.
Don't do anything, anywhere, that you don't want to be held up for.
Be aware of your email.
Oh, and use a decent email client/server solution. Use IMAP so that you only have one mail store. Delete old files.
And beware... Big Brother IS already watching a LOT of people.
Here in Morocco, Canal+ Horizons (the digital service for Morocco) shut down because of local piracy of FRENCH Canal+. (in French)
I think it has a lot to do with clever hackers and the Internet propagating stuff, and very little to do with some big corporation.
It may be, however, that someone working there just happened to be a pirate at the same time, since he'd have had access to hardware to help him to crack Canal+.
...to wait for a full settlement in the case against Microsoft, rather than to wait for them to fix security issues.
Can't help but feel that running an operating system that loads of people all have to play with and hack into at will is a strange thing for the Air Force to do.
If I have a car, and I don't like its security features, I sell it and buy another car.
The Microsoft strategy has been, since day one, to marry Windows and the Home PC such that this kind of consumer choice is not possible... but people KEEP buying Windows licences.
Go figure.
Why are you agreeing with Blizzard???
Flamebait if ever I saw it. This is about a legal context which is fair and equitable in the law, and being misused to the profit of some huge mammouth like Vivendi. Are you not scared that they control so much of the media you use and watch, and are now going to stop you creating your own, better, solutions?
Be flamed!
Wow! So now I only have to like, travel round the world, whose circumference is appx 25,000 miles, like 400 times... to be able to go up once into space.
What kind of air traveller gets air miles that high? Even with credit card tie-ins and all that? If you have even 1,000,000 miles, tell me how you earned 'em!
The fear of any ID card system is that fraud is easy with digital data. It doesn't matter if there is a photo on there, if they can only be used by the holder, etc. Someone who owns a machine to read them can read whichever card they want and commit fraud.
What is really needed is an end to all this technological one-stop solutions for all ills. An ID card with digital data that is fully, securely protected is a dangerous thing.
Personal liberties aside, the societal ills that this kind of scheme is supposed to help are actually amplified. Big Brother fears are already hitting us, people are more wary, and today's society is so fragmented, so hard to please... how can we fix this?
So with all the data that few have seen, and few practical business applications, it seems to raise the question as to why are they mapping the universe.
Because it's cool, OK... and because some day the data will be useful, viewable, etc? It will be a map for space travel?
Each tape and a backup copy are sent overnight to Fermilab, where they are transferred to a host of Linux servers. Stoughton said the amount of data is small compared with Fermilab's other projects but is the largest capacity project ever assembled in astronomy.
Cool. They are using the penguin...!
"It's hard to say why people should study astronomy," said Gunn. "But in the scheme of human intellect, it is important to know where we came from and what's likely to be in store for us."
Well, it is interesting to know all about that. But collecting data that can't be used... tough cookie.
In general, these kind of projects get funded by curious people who can't use the data. Loads of data written to disks is not ever looked at, and this article raises that question. This is the discussion which interests me, quite apart from the greatness of some liquid nitrogen cooled super telescope with so many megapixels that at any kind of CRT resolution, for example, we would be decimating 99% of the data in order to get something reasonable to look at.
Backup systems have to be in place, and why captains have to be able to navigate manually. Just like how yachts have to have motors in case sails break, etc... and to be able to safely navigate in ports.
The threat of virii could be minimal because the physical security of the ship's navigation systems should be locked down. No internet access, no floppy disk drives, closed systems, etc.
However, there have been failures. I remember a Navy Submarine running Windows NT or something, and it crashed (the OS, not the sub). They had backup systems, of course, but they looked pretty stupid. Windows NT Crash on Navy ship
The key point here is that you can test systems anyway : running for long periods of time, checking memory leakage, hardware failure periods, etc... and bugs that come up are corrected for free, usually, when you're talking about expensive navigation systems.
Sure, you can lose money for being out of action for a few hours, but that could happen due to any number of other mechanical failures too, so you just calculate some kind of percentage chance of failure based on past history of the navigation system?
I don't think you can make this direct argument. Find some figures to back it up. Let's think about Total Cost of Ownership: the Microsoft licence alone would pay a year's salary for a person in a large company to put in Linux instead.
I love that. No email, just a fax number for interacting with him. hihihihi
A way to get the artist to work for next to nothing to make some other dude rich
It has happened throughout history and continues to happen. Just stop bitchin' about the musicians who "sell out" and make money... true artists rarely make money, and rarely care. Everyone else seems to care about it, but the artists themselves just expressin' demselves.
Sure, it hurts when someone else makes money out of your work. But unless you are a money hungry selfish bastard there will always be a hungrier, more selfish bastard who will take what you have made for the entertainment of others, make money out of it, and devalue it.
Who wants AOL for Linux? What is going on? A proprietary dial-up, authentication and content delivery system? Pulllease.
If AOL offered a dial up account using PAP or CHAP and just TCP/IP access with a browser that went to their homepage and allowed you to see their premium content, this may be a good thing for any AOL content junkies
But I can already use AOL Instant Messenger, and MSN, and Yahoo! through Linux, why would I need anything else?
AOL are right not to create AOL for Linux. Linux users should be following Internet standards and not some proprietary bullshit.
Windows users can have AOL for all I care. Give me a proper ISP any day of the week.
I think Lucas, in general, is doing what he can with Star Wars. He wants to make the story into movies, he is now going backwards.... doing the older part of the plot after everyone already has built their own past for all the characters and probably even role-played parts of it.
He's bound to get flamed even if the new films are cooooool.
But in general, I think his development is really a fluke, a movie that took off and even today, ask yourself this question: did I say that the movie Phantom Menace sucked? And how many times did I watch it?
Rarely do I view movies twice. In spite of my apprehensions and all, I still ended up watching Phantom Menace three times. I haven't watched any other movies that many times!
Well this is hardly a surprise. Telcos make money per second that you are speaking, with the exception in some states of free local calls, a phenomenon hard to understand if you were brought up in Europe as I was.
Their infrastructures have rarely been upgraded apart from by default, when old equipment goes obsolete, or in order to make more money with interoperability issues and by increasing international traffic.
That they now realise they have a security issue is no surprise really; they are running stuff which is often vendor configured anyway. They have no value to add - the voice conversation is just a voice conversation. They just want you to stay for more and more minutes.
Some have imaginatively added Caller ID, Voicemail, etc, but all with the interest of more minutes (you call back, you reply to calls even when you wouldn't usually because you can see who's calling, etc) rather than making a better network.
Most Telcos have a monopoly on a geographical area anyway, the small fry always get eaten up. Better quality, higher speed dialup etc all come way after the technology has been available.
The problem of course is that user choice is always limited; the Internet is democratic because you can choose your OS and run what you want, taking your own security. But the phone network you can do nothing about, you have to lump it and pay high rates because regulators tend, alarmingly, to protect the Telco way more than the consumer.
Hopefully someone will make a big attack and wake them up. Not unlike Bin Laden. Whatever the morals of the story, the violence, the cause he was fighting for, one positive thing to come out of the tragedy was the shift in psychology of the average Amercian, who has been forced to soul-search and reach out internationally to understand why some people hate America so much. The Telcos need to understand why the consumers hate them so much.
I cannot think of one state where Telcos run losses on voice calls on fixed networks; GSM and 3G is a whole different ball game which should be taken apart from landline fixed telephony.
Don't get me into a war about Europe (several governments) and America (one government) and past history and all that. I made my remark as a flippant aside and that's it. In all, I am pretty disappointed with the current American government and certainly the moves towards world economic domination.
Piri Reis drew an accurate map of the globe way before then, if we are to believe Von Daniken's books and research previous.
We can't blame the Chinese for the bastardisation of European Culture that happened in America, we CAN blame Columbus. So give him the credit. (Flame me if you like, Americans).
We can't blame whoever it was who cultivated tobacco since time immemorial, we can blame Walter Raleigh for bringing it back to Elizabeth I and making it trendy. Did he "discover" tobacco? NO. But in British history, he gets a lot of credit for bringing stuff back, when all he was doing was trying to impress the queen.
We could go on and on.
Arrrgh! Bill is everywhere!
If only the right people would read them
docalc() {
p = profit
v = people at movies
y = dl pirates
}
get input v()
get input y()
p = v - y
ERROR! cannot quantify y!
Copyright is fine for a while. Intellectual property has a place in society, but people who copy will always copy.
Arguing about Mickey Mouse now is a big waste of money and time. Disney are rich, they want to protect their money. Unfair.
Give others a chance, for christs sake, for innovations sake.
Arrgh it makes me sick. The rich are always finding ways to protect what they have, and screw others.
Democracy != Meritocracy
I still buy original CDs, as many as before.
I still buy original DVDs, as many as before.
I buy pirate music and DivX movies in the local market. But quality is not as good and I still yearn for DVD quality.
I just *consume* more music and movies than I did before, now I have high bandwidth. This is the point. Until everyone has a high speed pipe the dent in sales is limited. In any case, most people would rather have originals just like they still buy real Nike trainers and not fakes. A quality issue.
But this does not lead to less sales. It actually gives a big marketing push. In those areas where piracy is super prevalent, it's actually because good access to originals is hard. I just don't go for that "lost market" crap.
A lot of European states do this anyway. In fact, very few don't (the UK happens to be one of them). Tolls exist on European motorways (freeways) and because there is also a speed limit, they really are charging you for every minute you spend on the freeway. In fact, if you decide to stop and sleep and your journey takes over 24 hours (don't forget that scale is smaller, most in country trips don't take that long) you have to pay the maximum fee. So you can't stop and sleep in freeway cafés, you have to leave the freeway, pay, and then pay to get back on.
As far as MPEG-4 is concerned, note that DivX 4 is rebuilt from the ground up to be a fully open standard. It seems pretty good to me.
Somewhere along the line we are all paying directly or indirectly for everything. I have no objection to Microsoft paying for serving me content, because I'm not interested in their shite anyway. Even Apple. Why not? They spent ages developing it.
For my home video and audi projects, I use OGG and DivX. That's what's important. All other content is copyright anyway and I will always pay for the format I choose to watch it in, whether that be the medium of the CD / DVD, the compression codec of Real Player etc, whatever.
Perpective is missing here because all of a sudden people still think Internet should be free. Internet has never been free. Really. Just that services that used to subsidise others are now making way less money.