No, but things like these should never be totally forgotten.
"I'm not sure we ever want to get over it," McCulley adds. "You learn from it and, as we work through these technical issues, folks are asking questions today that they might not have asked before."
Seriously, from Day 1 of those lawsuits it was different stories every week. P2P use declining
It doesn't say exactly which networks are monitored, just: NPD uses two tools to monitor peer-to-peer activity. MusicWatch Digital is a tool that continuously examines PCs of roughly 40,000 participating individuals, recording which sites they have gone to and what they have downloaded on their hard drives. The ongoing survey has been compiling and analyzing data on a monthly basis since April 2003.
The second tool, called MusicLab, is a traditional paper survey mailed to 5,000 individuals asking them to report their usage and Web surfing. The results represent the U.S. population.
There are bound to be variations, and yes, it definately does depend on who you ask. This is perhaps as "neutral" as they come though.
I remember the "Summer olympics" games back in the days, where the runner ran faster the faster you moved the joystick back and forth. We (me and some friends) picked up an old amiga some months ago, and tried it again.. My arm hurt for weeks after that....
2. MacOS, UNIX, AmigaOS, BeOS, Solaris, etc. Operating systems have competed, and lost (so far). MacOS and Solaris (amigaos ?) run on different platforms, even more expensive hardware. (The parent poster was talking about the IBM pc) Unix has never been a serious contender on the desktop, and as we have stated by now, Windows is NOT the leading OS on the web. This leave BeOS the only OS that really competed and lost, but did they really try that hard ? I had never even heard of BeOS until I got it on a CD in a computer mag. several years ago.
With some competition Microsoft would be forced to write more secure software faster, so in a way monopoly is to blame.
Then again, AFAIK, Windows is not leading on the server side, but perhaps somebody can correct or confirm that ?
This is from the article: Being the top species in the information chain means more attention from the malicious coders.
On the desktop, MS is definately "top of the information chain", so naturally more attention will be brought their way.
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As long as we're on the subject of RPGs, Shadowrun is my favorite, and it contains lots of corporate espionage and worse.
As a matter of fact, the world is getting closer and closer to the corporate world in Shadowrun every day.
Most large corporations support XML, and web services etc all use XML for exchanging their data. XML is as you may know an open standard from W3C, not a proprietary format.
These compnaies aren't talking about lots of computers always talking to each other. What they are talking about is "selling a ****load of computers."
They are indeed talking about selling a sh*tload of computers, but they are also talking about having computers talk together. I'm not talking about just the PC, but building computers into your refridgerator which order milk for you when you run out, outdoor lights and security systems that call the police if someone breaks in when you're not home, all chatting along on a WIFI network. This might have been bigger during the dot com period, but the semantic web (read earlier link) is just about that, computers (or agents if you will) talking to eachother without human interference.
Well, according to the explanation of the semantic web, they can talk to eachother about pretty much everything you want them to talk about.
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I worked at National Oilwell Norway last summer, and some people there used 3 - 4 monitors to draw an AutoCAD drawing. For them, these monitor sizes might be just what they need.
Also, imagine displaying your entire source code on the screen without needing to scroll;)
Maybe I wasn't clear enoug, but I did mean to include DVD-rips etc as "software" (You use software to rip the dvd). Instead of ripping to DIVX which is 1/10 the size of a dvd-rip or something like that, they now rip the dvd with all the extra material and data making it 10 gb instead of the 700 mb divx rip.
Perhaps... however, you can't deny that it's pretty mandatory for DVD movies to use a lot more space than most pieces software, which is the reason for the enormous size of the rip.
No, I don't deny that, you are right if you talk only about software, but as I said, DVD ripping, online multimedia etc is all part of the definition of software in my previous post.
Bandwith "can never get high enough". Already I have seen DVD rips of an entire set of DVDs, making it more than 10 GB. Even with 10mbps it will take some time to download.
My lecturer in Distributed Communications said that "increasin bandwith will just result in software makers letting their software use more bandwith", which off course brings us back to where we started.
He didn't say whether or not this was a good thing. IMHO this is bad. He won so clearly it would be great to let the supreme court set precendence (it doesn't work like in the U.S, but it's not that different). Clearly the prosecution realized that there is no way they would benefit from taking it to the supreme court.
By the way, the verdict against DVD-Jon is NOT going to be appealed! This is a copyright issue, so it is on topic. Here's a link.
I remember there being a public outcry in Norway when certain cd's would not play on computers etc. I was expecting to see this appear in a Norwegian court, but a Belgian one will do!
hink of the word "scripting" and what this means: A task that requires some steps, and my possibly be carried out automatically (perhaps with cron or some other daemon...). I know what scripting is, my point was that KDE, Gnome etc, hell, even Windows have programs or "stuff" in the GUI that will let you set up what you want to run, when, and what you want it to do. You do not NEED to write a script to do it!
I wouldn't call it a lost art, but with all the advancements in GUI, it certainly doesn't get used as much as it should. I find it to be a very nice tool to do simple jobs, without having to write a program to do it.
If I'm not mistaken Longhorn (next Windows) will even have a shell like interface (something other than the command prompt), so perhaps shell scripting will have some sort of a ressurection in the following years.
How about RTFA ?
Indoor and outdoor LED display vendor TecnoVision, S.p.A. used the open source KA9Q Network Operating System for TCP/IP over Packet Radio to improve product functionality and flexibility, while reducing time to market and design risks. The 26 year-old Italian company makes signs used in advertisement, sport and entertainment events, live concerts, and for road information.
From this page: Status BOINC is under development. The source code and bug-tracking database are available. We are currently conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications. The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
It sure seems that way. From the.doc document where they talk about the pop up manager: Why is this change important? What threats does it mitigate?
Pop-ups have been misused in many ways. By blocking pop-ups, the Web is safer for our end users, and the customer has more control over their browsing experience.
The document is filled with explanation of security related fixes.
Have you even read the article ? From the article on news.com: Among the security improvements in Service Pack 2 are a beefed-up version of Windows Firewall, previously called Internet Connection Firewall, and software designed to block pop-up ads and prevent the unintended downloading and installation of software. And perhaps you should read this article as well, titled Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups.
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No, but things like these should never be totally forgotten.
"I'm not sure we ever want to get over it," McCulley adds. "You learn from it and, as we work through these technical issues, folks are asking questions today that they might not have asked before."
Seriously, from Day 1 of those lawsuits it was different stories every week. P2P use declining
It doesn't say exactly which networks are monitored, just:
NPD uses two tools to monitor peer-to-peer activity. MusicWatch Digital is a tool that continuously examines PCs of roughly 40,000 participating individuals, recording which sites they have gone to and what they have downloaded on their hard drives. The ongoing survey has been compiling and analyzing data on a monthly basis since April 2003. The second tool, called MusicLab, is a traditional paper survey mailed to 5,000 individuals asking them to report their usage and Web surfing. The results represent the U.S. population.
There are bound to be variations, and yes, it definately does depend on who you ask. This is perhaps as "neutral" as they come though.
To get Gentoo fully installed, you'd have to run the New York Marathon.. twice.
I remember the "Summer olympics" games back in the days, where the runner ran faster the faster you moved the joystick back and forth. We (me and some friends) picked up an old amiga some months ago, and tried it again.. My arm hurt for weeks after that....
2. MacOS, UNIX, AmigaOS, BeOS, Solaris, etc. Operating systems have competed, and lost (so far).
MacOS and Solaris (amigaos ?) run on different platforms, even more expensive hardware. (The parent poster was talking about the IBM pc) Unix has never been a serious contender on the desktop, and as we have stated by now, Windows is NOT the leading OS on the web. This leave BeOS the only OS that really competed and lost, but did they really try that hard ? I had never even heard of BeOS until I got it on a CD in a computer mag. several years ago.
With some competition Microsoft would be forced to write more secure software faster, so in a way monopoly is to blame.
Then again, AFAIK, Windows is not leading on the server side, but perhaps somebody can correct or confirm that ?
This is from the article: Being the top species in the information chain means more attention from the malicious coders.
On the desktop, MS is definately "top of the information chain", so naturally more attention will be brought their way.
As long as we're on the subject of RPGs, Shadowrun is my favorite, and it contains lots of corporate espionage and worse.
As a matter of fact, the world is getting closer and closer to the corporate world in Shadowrun every day.
Most large corporations support XML, and web services etc all use XML for exchanging their data. XML is as you may know an open standard from W3C, not a proprietary format.
These compnaies aren't talking about lots of computers always talking to each other. What they are talking about is "selling a ****load of computers."
They are indeed talking about selling a sh*tload of computers, but they are also talking about having computers talk together. I'm not talking about just the PC, but building computers into your refridgerator which order milk for you when you run out, outdoor lights and security systems that call the police if someone breaks in when you're not home, all chatting along on a WIFI network.
This might have been bigger during the dot com period, but the semantic web (read earlier link) is just about that, computers (or agents if you will) talking to eachother without human interference.
Well, according to the explanation of the semantic web, they can talk to eachother about pretty much everything you want them to talk about.
I worked at National Oilwell Norway last summer, and some people there used 3 - 4 monitors to draw an AutoCAD drawing. For them, these monitor sizes might be just what they need.
;)
Also, imagine displaying your entire source code on the screen without needing to scroll
Uhm, it's the second number that determines stable or development version. 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 are both stable releases.
Maybe I wasn't clear enoug, but I did mean to include DVD-rips etc as "software" (You use software to rip the dvd).
Instead of ripping to DIVX which is 1/10 the size of a dvd-rip or something like that, they now rip the dvd with all the extra material and data making it 10 gb instead of the 700 mb divx rip.
Perhaps... however, you can't deny that it's pretty mandatory for DVD movies to use a lot more space than most pieces software, which is the reason for the enormous size of the rip.
No, I don't deny that, you are right if you talk only about software, but as I said, DVD ripping, online multimedia etc is all part of the definition of software in my previous post.
Bandwith "can never get high enough".
Already I have seen DVD rips of an entire set of DVDs, making it more than 10 GB. Even with 10mbps it will take some time to download.
My lecturer in Distributed Communications said that "increasin bandwith will just result in software makers letting their software use more bandwith", which off course brings us back to where we started.
He didn't say whether or not this was a good thing. IMHO this is bad. He won so clearly it would be great to let the supreme court set precendence (it doesn't work like in the U.S, but it's not that different). Clearly the prosecution realized that there is no way they would benefit from taking it to the supreme court.
By the way, the verdict against DVD-Jon is NOT going to be appealed!
This is a copyright issue, so it is on topic. Here's a link.
I remember there being a public outcry in Norway when certain cd's would not play on computers etc. I was expecting to see this appear in a Norwegian court, but a Belgian one will do!
It's an applet, applets run on the clients computer and not on the server.
hink of the word "scripting" and what this means: A task that requires some steps, and my possibly be carried out automatically (perhaps with cron or some other daemon...).
I know what scripting is, my point was that KDE, Gnome etc, hell, even Windows have programs or "stuff" in the GUI that will let you set up what you want to run, when, and what you want it to do. You do not NEED to write a script to do it!
I wouldn't call it a lost art, but with all the advancements in GUI, it certainly doesn't get used as much as it should.
I find it to be a very nice tool to do simple jobs, without having to write a program to do it.
If I'm not mistaken Longhorn (next Windows) will even have a shell like interface (something other than the command prompt), so perhaps shell scripting will have some sort of a ressurection in the following years.
On Google Print pages, we provide links to some popular book sellers that may offer the full versions of these publications for sale.
Seems that they do not link to the books directly, but to retailers. From this page
How about RTFA ?
Indoor and outdoor LED display vendor TecnoVision, S.p.A. used the open source KA9Q Network Operating System for TCP/IP over Packet Radio to improve product functionality and flexibility, while reducing time to market and design risks. The 26 year-old Italian company makes signs used in advertisement, sport and entertainment events, live concerts, and for road information.
"Little LED's" ? Read more here
From this page:
Status
BOINC is under development. The source code and bug-tracking database are available. We are currently conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications. The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
Guess it will be some time yet.
It sure seems that way. From the .doc document where they talk about the pop up manager:
Why is this change important? What threats does it mitigate?
Pop-ups have been misused in many ways. By blocking pop-ups, the Web is safer for our end users, and the customer has more control over their browsing experience.
The document is filled with explanation of security related fixes.
Have you even read the article ?
From the article on news.com:
Among the security improvements in Service Pack 2 are a beefed-up version of Windows Firewall, previously called Internet Connection Firewall, and software designed to block pop-up ads and prevent the unintended downloading and installation of software.
And perhaps you should read this article as well, titled Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups.
What the hell more can a company add? Talking paperclips?
;)
SHHH! They might hear you!