I've said this before... when phone moved from copper to fibre, the regulations didn't change so why expect them to change when the underlying medium is IP? I'm not saying the regulation is a GoodThing, but surely any arguments that say that a change to IP as a medium is just plain illogical.
Sure, this could drive some VoIp offshore, but what they're likely controlling is the call itself. If the call originates or terminates in the USofA, then the call falls under FCC control and they will want their slice.
To be a useful technology (ie. cost and lifetime) for displays the pixels need to have a very high yield and reliability. I wonder whether LED is sufficiently high yield to work?
It does seem to me though that using silicon LEDs (ie. enough silicon wafer to coer a display) could get pricey.
Sure dial 1200 or 2400 is up is slow, but back then we made good use of the stuff, mainly by doing direct host dial up rather than IP (not that there were a lot of ISPs back then). First up, no IP wrapper overheads. Second, you used text terminals - no graphics. Real work was more than just a theoretical possibility.
Yup... Going to IP or wet string or whatever might be a better implementation for some reason (cost, bandwidth, whatever). As far as the FCC is likely to see this the change in implementation should not impact on their "right" to tax/control/whatever telecom any more than any other change in the history of telecom. I'm not arguing that this control is a good thing, but just arguing that it should be free because it is over internet is plain illogical.
Framebait??? No seriously if something as full of holes as Win2K can get this level of certification then how bad does something have t be to not make it?
At university I wrote a lot of comments that were very BS because we had a quota of comments/lines to meet. You probably would get bad grades for submitting Linux code, but Linux is about making a good OS - not about trying to get good grades.
Yes, in places the Linux code is under commented. The code is, IMHO, structured in a way that in makes the meaning obvious in most cases and the code easy to read. This is far more important than comments. Comments do not make good code.
That is perhaps why nothing really useful comes out of most colleges. Comments are so often BS anyway, so often I see code (Linux and other) that has out of date comments - more damaging than no comments.
It looks like MS is using SCO as cannon fodder. MS knows SCO is going to get shot to hell on the beaches, but at least they will do some damage and potentially soften things up for MS, without dragging MS's name through the mud.
Does all this inter-program communication open the Linux desktop up to virus/trojan attack? From what I can tell this is one of the weak links in Winshit but I don't know enough about this to know if the same thing could happen on a KDE or Gnome desktop.
The way I see it, automatic interprogram communications is convenient for the user but makes security a pig.
Success in this field depends on understanding the customer not on understanding the technology.
For that reason, my money is on Novell making it on the desktop because they have a good understanding of deploying desktop/corporate systems. Sun and RH are more server folks. Maybe they can collaborate in some way?
Joe sixpack thinks: All the SPAM comes from Canada. Gotta tighten up the fences... Better give the border security folks more guns to shoot up the foreign threat.
People still use FAT file system to store their data, though there are robust alternatives. This makes me believe that everyting is throw-away - why not culture too?
They don't want to publicly say "don't wait" because that could land them in the shit. Rather they sow the seeds of doubt and let the PBH join the dots.
And even with a Pentium, the ice compartment should be able to keep it cool:-)
But why, I ask, put internet access in your fridge. It isn't as if you want your girlfriend to get caught up on ICQ while she should be fetching you a beer.
I think he's right to a great extent, but we are not there yet.
I still live on the wrong side of a rural dial-up that get crapped on by electric fences. I expect to get broadband in a few years. IT is being commoditised. Running the batch jobs to do billing was once a "high tech" thing, now it gets farmed out to the lowest bidder (maybe offshore). It used to be that the Silicon Valley was the place to do stuff because that's where everyone was and the communications was a bottleneck. Now we have pretty good phones and internet world wide and a programmer in Pakistan is at no disadvantage to one in Sunnyvale. IT is just becoming a tool. Knowing low to use it is becoming less and less important. Analogy: Fifty years ago you needed to know how to set the advance/retard on a vehicle's ignition to start it reliably; now you don't have to worry about it or the choke. Likewise internet connections are "just there" for many people. Of course people that sell computer equipment don't want to view their product as commodity because that reduces perceived value.
Since the industry is in turmoil, with so many variables changing at a the same time, it is difficult to put a measure on this.
I think likely the biggest % job lost is because the measure was relative to the the dot.com boom (or at least the final days) where almost anybody who could spell computer could get a job. Likely the majority of the job losses can be attributed to that. Next comes the general economic downturn, and next probably outsourcing and open source.
Just like any industry, as things mature they move more to a commoditised economic model. (eg. in the beginning only the industrialised countries could produce low-cost soya beans or corn or whatever, now they're just commodity items you can source from anywhere). The same is happeing with software. Only the very arrogant would suggest that most software cannot be created/maintained etc in India, China, wherever.
I don't profess to know a way out of this at an industry level, but I think you can at an individual level. The computer/electronics industry is about change. Keep learning. When I left University with a Computer Science degree, I had COBOL and FORTRAN and PASCAL under the belt. I taught myself everything else I know and have specialised in firmware development/OS software. Everyone needs to find their own path and walk it. To stagnate is to fall victim to commoditisation.
From the point of view of the articles's target audience software is a tool. They don't care about whether the company behind it is making money. What they care about is whether the stuff works and will be there in the future. Analogy: when you pick up a screwdriver you don't care about the company that made it, only if the friggin thing turns screws.
Value can be looked at from two different sides: consumer: does it work and add value when I use it; producer: can I make money from it.
Bill cares about the latter, Linux and users about the former. Bill cares about the consumer's attitude to the extent that he gets sales, but would rather exert power play to keep market share.
I put it to you that in the long term OSS makes more sense because Bill will kill (or not support) products in line with his business interests, not yours. BIll has not brought anything significant to the party for a long time so, apart from power play, it is difficult to see how he can keep market share in the long term.
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Sure, this could drive some VoIp offshore, but what they're likely controlling is the call itself. If the call originates or terminates in the USofA, then the call falls under FCC control and they will want their slice.
Move over young 'uns us oldies are coming through...
It does seem to me though that using silicon LEDs (ie. enough silicon wafer to coer a display) could get pricey.
Sure dial 1200 or 2400 is up is slow, but back then we made good use of the stuff, mainly by doing direct host dial up rather than IP (not that there were a lot of ISPs back then). First up, no IP wrapper overheads. Second, you used text terminals - no graphics. Real work was more than just a theoretical possibility.
Microsoft: This is WinME, we claim it is shit.
CC Official:sniff, sniff. Yep, sure is. Stamp!
Yup... Going to IP or wet string or whatever might be a better implementation for some reason (cost, bandwidth, whatever). As far as the FCC is likely to see this the change in implementation should not impact on their "right" to tax/control/whatever telecom any more than any other change in the history of telecom. I'm not arguing that this control is a good thing, but just arguing that it should be free because it is over internet is plain illogical.
So it's a bit like ISO9000.... you can put ISO9000 labels on concrete lifejackets - so long as you build them according to your inhouse procedures.
Framebait??? No seriously if something as full of holes as Win2K can get this level of certification then how bad does something have t be to not make it?
Damn, just when I thought the certification had some value!
When telephone calls went from copper to fibre did the rules change? No. So why should the rules change because the calls are going over IP?
Yes, in places the Linux code is under commented. The code is, IMHO, structured in a way that in makes the meaning obvious in most cases and the code easy to read. This is far more important than comments. Comments do not make good code.
That is perhaps why nothing really useful comes out of most colleges. Comments are so often BS anyway, so often I see code (Linux and other) that has out of date comments - more damaging than no comments.
Well that's probably what they hope anyway :-).
The way I see it, automatic interprogram communications is convenient for the user but makes security a pig.
For that reason, my money is on Novell making it on the desktop because they have a good understanding of deploying desktop/corporate systems. Sun and RH are more server folks. Maybe they can collaborate in some way?
IMHO.
Joe sixpack thinks: All the SPAM comes from Canada. Gotta tighten up the fences... Better give the border security folks more guns to shoot up the foreign threat.
People still use FAT file system to store their data, though there are robust alternatives. This makes me believe that everyting is throw-away - why not culture too?
For eVoting to go ahead does not require trust, just apathy and acceptance.
They don't want to publicly say "don't wait" because that could land them in the shit. Rather they sow the seeds of doubt and let the PBH join the dots.
But why, I ask, put internet access in your fridge. It isn't as if you want your girlfriend to get caught up on ICQ while she should be fetching you a beer.
I still live on the wrong side of a rural dial-up that get crapped on by electric fences. I expect to get broadband in a few years. IT is being commoditised. Running the batch jobs to do billing was once a "high tech" thing, now it gets farmed out to the lowest bidder (maybe offshore). It used to be that the Silicon Valley was the place to do stuff because that's where everyone was and the communications was a bottleneck. Now we have pretty good phones and internet world wide and a programmer in Pakistan is at no disadvantage to one in Sunnyvale. IT is just becoming a tool. Knowing low to use it is becoming less and less important. Analogy: Fifty years ago you needed to know how to set the advance/retard on a vehicle's ignition to start it reliably; now you don't have to worry about it or the choke. Likewise internet connections are "just there" for many people. Of course people that sell computer equipment don't want to view their product as commodity because that reduces perceived value.
I think likely the biggest % job lost is because the measure was relative to the the dot.com boom (or at least the final days) where almost anybody who could spell computer could get a job. Likely the majority of the job losses can be attributed to that. Next comes the general economic downturn, and next probably outsourcing and open source.
Just like any industry, as things mature they move more to a commoditised economic model. (eg. in the beginning only the industrialised countries could produce low-cost soya beans or corn or whatever, now they're just commodity items you can source from anywhere). The same is happeing with software. Only the very arrogant would suggest that most software cannot be created/maintained etc in India, China, wherever.
I don't profess to know a way out of this at an industry level, but I think you can at an individual level. The computer/electronics industry is about change. Keep learning. When I left University with a Computer Science degree, I had COBOL and FORTRAN and PASCAL under the belt. I taught myself everything else I know and have specialised in firmware development/OS software. Everyone needs to find their own path and walk it. To stagnate is to fall victim to commoditisation.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25300.html
The Win98 thing doesn't run the fridge. It is basically just a fridge with a built in PC.
Value can be looked at from two different sides: consumer: does it work and add value when I use it; producer: can I make money from it.
Bill cares about the latter, Linux and users about the former. Bill cares about the consumer's attitude to the extent that he gets sales, but would rather exert power play to keep market share.
I put it to you that in the long term OSS makes more sense because Bill will kill (or not support) products in line with his business interests, not yours. BIll has not brought anything significant to the party for a long time so, apart from power play, it is difficult to see how he can keep market share in the long term.