Is this worse than drafting or buying a very young sportsman? Whether you play soccer in the English Premier League at the age of 16 or you get a PhD at the age of 16 you will not be able to grow up in the same way as others, but with that kind of talent comes certain issues. If they hold him back and force him to "be his age", it will most likely severly hurt his intellectual growth.
Aren't we also misusing terms here? P2P has nothing to do with the WEB. The internet itself has been around a lot longer than the World Wide Web and P2P applications technically do not use the web. So even if the web hadn't been invented, P2P still might have.
This also shows a problem with the monopoly position they have. They are one of the companies that can actually make an impact by saying "we're going home" simply because of their influence and their market dominance.
Google constantly moves into new areas, they've received a solid name for themselves and outdid Microsoft (MSN) on search. I don't think it's that weird that they will "fight" Google, they see them as a threat to their position. Perhaps they really are scared that Google will officially support a Linux distro or something like that. Few companies have the money to compete with MS, they may be scared that Google will achieve just that.
The only thing statements like these are good for is amusement from the numerous analogies that will be drawn.
Imo, it's kind of pointless to compared cares, bridge construction etc to programming. Programming is an art in itself, and the CEO's are the people who demand NO BUGS and at the same time require the application to be developed by two guys in one week with a feature set list longer than the bible.
I certainly do not NEED 2 gb of mail storage, but the old 2 mb was not enough and Google changed that. This just goes to show what competition can do and like the GP I don't inherently hate MS or love Google, I just want the greatest products and if Google can turn some heat on MS making them improve it's all good.
They don't "screw up the network", nothing goes wrong on a network, they just actively prevent people from illegally downloading material for which they have the copyright.
Furthermore, why would a person be arrested for sending a corrupted file? That's the stupidest thing I've heard, there's no law against that. Perhaps I should sue the guy who sent me an episode of sesame street when I thought I was downloading Lost?
You're right about that, and speed itself usually does not kill. However, the road infratstructure here is horrible in many places. These camaras will likely be put up in places where passing a car can be dangerous (only one road in each direction, not separated), meaning if someone wants to pass another car, he/she will have to think twice due to the average speed. This way they hope to reduce the number of accidents with cars smashing straight into each other coming from opposing directions. Those accidents are often caused by someone speeding and thinking they can pass the other car before the opposing car can reach them.
Then again, a lot of those passings come due to frustration over the girl driving in front of you 20 km/h below the speed limit because she's scared of driving..
Personally, I see the average thing as another tax on drivers. More need more cops stopping people who are so tired they can't even see straight, not more cameras to detect someone who drives 100 km/h in the 90 km/h zone.
Well, set it up on a stretch where you know people are speeding and it might slow things down a bit.
That said, I see a lot of danger in old and unreliable drivers who will most likely decrease their speed to absolutely make sure that they average out below the speed limit (most likely being 10 - 20 km/h below), which in turn may cause very dangerous situation due to frustration from the drivers behind them..
In Norway they have done something even more extreme. They have a camera taking your picture at one place, then several kilometers further down they take a new picture and calculate how fast you have driven between the two cameras, basically, your speed on average must meet the speed limit on average over quite a distance... They are testing this solution right now and it most likely will be legal to set it up.
You're absolutely correct, and to clarify, I use Linux (Kubuntu currently, Slackware as a server) and I did buy a card for my laptop which worked just fine in Linux. However, like I said, many aren't going to go through the hassle I did just to get something to work in Linux. Like you say, people are expecting it to "just work" and whether or not that's a third party problem becomes sort of irrelevant if the user won't use the end product because of it.
What came first of the chicken and the egg? The vendors won't release games for Linux because the userbase isn't big enough and the userbase won't switch to Linux because the lack of games.. Overgeneralisation, but the point is still there. The same goes for everything you said. I've had numerous problems with a wireless card. It wouldn't work with prism54 and with ndiswrapper it just stayed up for a short while. Yeah, it's up to my vendor to create drivers for it, but guess what, most users aren't even going to go through the hassels I did in getting it to work, let alone contact anyone to complain on the lack of drivers. They will simply shrug, blame it on Linux and give up. And I intentionally said "Linux" and no specific OS because that's the way they will attack it, I tried if 3 distros before I got it to "work".
Therein lies the problem: the SW is a framework, which means what, exactly? Sounds good; nerds love it. What does it do for me?
Currently? Not much, it's still fairly new and being developed all the time. XML is an integral part of the semantic web and you use that no?
RSS/Atom is a product. I can see immediately that it is, or is not for me. The SW is just ideas. Good ideas, but nothing in the sack.
Unfortunately, it's still in the starting blocks, but the plans have always been to take it step by step. The latest step to be filled in was a full fledged ontology language (OWL) and that became a recommendation in February last year. Not exactly a lot of time to mature.
Semantic web is perhaps best described as a framework. I totally agree that it's a pointless comparison. RDF/RDFS and OWL build upon XML so it would make more sense to say that RSS could be a building block for further extensions on the semantic web using for example OWL to represent data.
One of the reasons it appears to move along so slowly now is that the research is handling a lot of issues and as van Harmelen has said, they're afraid to enter the same pitfalls as the research in artificial intelligence where there has been a lot of buzz, but not many concrete results. That's not to say that there aren't any issues with the semantic web, but it's still coming along. OWL is being extended with OWL-S and OWL-QL and the issues of security and privacy are being looked at. Besides, even though ontologies are a new development on the web, they are nothing new overall, something I guess AI researches can testify to.
Recommended book for those who want to extend your knowledge on SW A Semantic Web Primer
Absolutely, and to make matters worse, it's MS we're talking about. However, I really do think they are sort of afraid of what it might do to their reputation if they disallow that many security packs leaving a user open for pretty serious vulnerabilities..
Microsoft said the company has no plans at this time to require users running automatic updates to provide proof that their copies of Windows are genuine.
FTFA: While counterfeit copies of Windows will be prevented from downloading updates, Lazar said Microsoft is not including security updates in the lock-out. Even customers who do not check their copies of Windows for authenticity will be allowed to download security updates through Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows and the Download Center, he said.
"Those are available to all Windows users with or without validation," Lazar said. "We think of it like public health. We want to make sure no one gets infected by another system on the Internet because of our program."
That's not what I said either, but there have been talks about providing movies for download (or maybe just Slashdot talk, but still) and so it would make more sense to provide a movie where the audience is more likely to make use of the service, which seems to be the point of the original poster as well.
It's easier to reach the core audience wouldn't you say? Not saying that there aren't obstacles, but if they are going to try making something downloadable a show were the audience knows technology well enough to actually make use of the opportunity would make more sense than releasing the movie version of "Days of our lives" or something.
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Or a 3.0?
Is this worse than drafting or buying a very young sportsman? Whether you play soccer in the English Premier League at the age of 16 or you get a PhD at the age of 16 you will not be able to grow up in the same way as others, but with that kind of talent comes certain issues. If they hold him back and force him to "be his age", it will most likely severly hurt his intellectual growth.
Aren't we also misusing terms here? P2P has nothing to do with the WEB. The internet itself has been around a lot longer than the World Wide Web and P2P applications technically do not use the web. So even if the web hadn't been invented, P2P still might have.
Soon monitors will be banned because they're used to view porn.
Yeah, and the FBI will get an anti-porn task force! Oh, wait...
This also shows a problem with the monopoly position they have. They are one of the companies that can actually make an impact by saying "we're going home" simply because of their influence and their market dominance.
Or it would spark more piracy as people desperate to play Counterstrike and Starcraft download Windows instead of buying it in the stores.
Google constantly moves into new areas, they've received a solid name for themselves and outdid Microsoft (MSN) on search. I don't think it's that weird that they will "fight" Google, they see them as a threat to their position. Perhaps they really are scared that Google will officially support a Linux distro or something like that. Few companies have the money to compete with MS, they may be scared that Google will achieve just that.
But he was whining about the patent, which Roche holds.
I did hear they contemplated licensing out Tamiflu to increase the production capacity.
Roche (developers of Tamiflu) is a Swiss company.
The only thing statements like these are good for is amusement from the numerous analogies that will be drawn.
Imo, it's kind of pointless to compared cares, bridge construction etc to programming. Programming is an art in itself, and the CEO's are the people who demand NO BUGS and at the same time require the application to be developed by two guys in one week with a feature set list longer than the bible.
I certainly do not NEED 2 gb of mail storage, but the old 2 mb was not enough and Google changed that. This just goes to show what competition can do and like the GP I don't inherently hate MS or love Google, I just want the greatest products and if Google can turn some heat on MS making them improve it's all good.
They don't "screw up the network", nothing goes wrong on a network, they just actively prevent people from illegally downloading material for which they have the copyright.
Furthermore, why would a person be arrested for sending a corrupted file? That's the stupidest thing I've heard, there's no law against that. Perhaps I should sue the guy who sent me an episode of sesame street when I thought I was downloading Lost?
You're right about that, and speed itself usually does not kill. However, the road infratstructure here is horrible in many places. These camaras will likely be put up in places where passing a car can be dangerous (only one road in each direction, not separated), meaning if someone wants to pass another car, he/she will have to think twice due to the average speed. This way they hope to reduce the number of accidents with cars smashing straight into each other coming from opposing directions. Those accidents are often caused by someone speeding and thinking they can pass the other car before the opposing car can reach them.
Then again, a lot of those passings come due to frustration over the girl driving in front of you 20 km/h below the speed limit because she's scared of driving..
Personally, I see the average thing as another tax on drivers. More need more cops stopping people who are so tired they can't even see straight, not more cameras to detect someone who drives 100 km/h in the 90 km/h zone.
Well, set it up on a stretch where you know people are speeding and it might slow things down a bit.
That said, I see a lot of danger in old and unreliable drivers who will most likely decrease their speed to absolutely make sure that they average out below the speed limit (most likely being 10 - 20 km/h below), which in turn may cause very dangerous situation due to frustration from the drivers behind them..
In Norway they have done something even more extreme. They have a camera taking your picture at one place, then several kilometers further down they take a new picture and calculate how fast you have driven between the two cameras, basically, your speed on average must meet the speed limit on average over quite a distance... They are testing this solution right now and it most likely will be legal to set it up.
You're absolutely correct, and to clarify, I use Linux (Kubuntu currently, Slackware as a server) and I did buy a card for my laptop which worked just fine in Linux. However, like I said, many aren't going to go through the hassle I did just to get something to work in Linux. Like you say, people are expecting it to "just work" and whether or not that's a third party problem becomes sort of irrelevant if the user won't use the end product because of it.
What came first of the chicken and the egg? The vendors won't release games for Linux because the userbase isn't big enough and the userbase won't switch to Linux because the lack of games.. Overgeneralisation, but the point is still there. The same goes for everything you said. I've had numerous problems with a wireless card. It wouldn't work with prism54 and with ndiswrapper it just stayed up for a short while. Yeah, it's up to my vendor to create drivers for it, but guess what, most users aren't even going to go through the hassels I did in getting it to work, let alone contact anyone to complain on the lack of drivers. They will simply shrug, blame it on Linux and give up. And I intentionally said "Linux" and no specific OS because that's the way they will attack it, I tried if 3 distros before I got it to "work".
Therein lies the problem: the SW is a framework, which means what, exactly? Sounds good; nerds love it. What does it do for me?
Currently? Not much, it's still fairly new and being developed all the time. XML is an integral part of the semantic web and you use that no?
RSS/Atom is a product. I can see immediately that it is, or is not for me. The SW is just ideas. Good ideas, but nothing in the sack.
Unfortunately, it's still in the starting blocks, but the plans have always been to take it step by step. The latest step to be filled in was a full fledged ontology language (OWL) and that became a recommendation in February last year. Not exactly a lot of time to mature.
Semantic web is perhaps best described as a framework. I totally agree that it's a pointless comparison. RDF/RDFS and OWL build upon XML so it would make more sense to say that RSS could be a building block for further extensions on the semantic web using for example OWL to represent data.
One of the reasons it appears to move along so slowly now is that the research is handling a lot of issues and as van Harmelen has said, they're afraid to enter the same pitfalls as the research in artificial intelligence where there has been a lot of buzz, but not many concrete results. That's not to say that there aren't any issues with the semantic web, but it's still coming along. OWL is being extended with OWL-S and OWL-QL and the issues of security and privacy are being looked at. Besides, even though ontologies are a new development on the web, they are nothing new overall, something I guess AI researches can testify to.
Recommended book for those who want to extend your knowledge on SW A Semantic Web Primer
Absolutely, and to make matters worse, it's MS we're talking about. However, I really do think they are sort of afraid of what it might do to their reputation if they disallow that many security packs leaving a user open for pretty serious vulnerabilities..
Microsoft said the company has no plans at this time to require users running automatic updates to provide proof that their copies of Windows are genuine.
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-26-micr
I did this myself until I got a proper version.
FTFA: While counterfeit copies of Windows will be prevented from downloading updates, Lazar said Microsoft is not including security updates in the lock-out. Even customers who do not check their copies of Windows for authenticity will be allowed to download security updates through Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows and the Download Center, he said.
"Those are available to all Windows users with or without validation," Lazar said. "We think of it like public health. We want to make sure no one gets infected by another system on the Internet because of our program."
If you used the Security Center and set it to receive Automatic Updates automatically it would work, even with a counterfeit version of Windows.
That's not what I said either, but there have been talks about providing movies for download (or maybe just Slashdot talk, but still) and so it would make more sense to provide a movie where the audience is more likely to make use of the service, which seems to be the point of the original poster as well.
It's easier to reach the core audience wouldn't you say? Not saying that there aren't obstacles, but if they are going to try making something downloadable a show were the audience knows technology well enough to actually make use of the opportunity would make more sense than releasing the movie version of "Days of our lives" or something.