There is no reason we can't have that setup now. The only problem is that ISPs don't want it. So, in the future will ISPs be different, have competition, or what?
If you read the specs, you'll see that the evil bit doesn't stop malware. Secure systems should ignore every package with the bit set, but unsafe systems should react to the package geting compromissed.
"While chips have remained "only" exponential in growth, this is more of a limitation of the chemical and physical properties than the design limitations."
Moore's law is an economical one. Companies simply don't have enough money to spped things up, and semiconductor fctories are really expensive.
Most people really don't understand exponential* growth... Take a hint: It starts slow, very slow.
Not saying we'll see AI in our lifetime (altough lots of people really think we will), but it may be just around the corner, and still your analisys wouldn't see that.
* Technology is growing at exponential or highter than exponential rate everywhere, even on IA. An highter than exponential rate is different, because it starts slower.
Yet, they'll know how to use a OS that increases their productivity, not decreases it... They won't compete direcly with you on IT, but they'll (everything being the same) out-compete you on every other area that they are able to affect. And that includes the people how pay your salary.
Of course, everything never stays the same. So, wait for big changes at the IT industry.
"But you shouldn't be saying "intellectual property" here - you should be saying "service-based," because that is what is really there."
There is no problem with a service based economy. Most of the world is changing from a production based to a service based one, and most people are happy with that.
The problem is when you want to sell the same, easily replicated product by a large margin and expect everybody to be nice and buy it from you.
"Once you go from there to the support issues, RH take an even bigger beating. 'Just reboot it' is NOT the first (and for 3 hours, only) option I want to hear when I have a production server locked up. And 3 hours to escalate to second line is NOT good enough for a platinum contract (Premium in RH terms?). If I wanted that kind of solution and support, I'd go back to sending my cheques to Redmond."
"Ubuntu may not have user-friendly backup out of the box (I wouldn't know, I use ssh+rsync)"
You hit it right on the head. On Windows, backups are a big deal. You need special tools for it (sometime tools even install drivers at kernel level), you need patience, and luck (most tools fail often - not every time, but a lot more than any one would accept on another system).
On Linux, it is often harder to configure a pre-built backup solution than to roll your own. And that even including GUI solutions, that you'll still need to tell what to backup and how often. If you just want manual backups, plain old 'cp' (or any GUI alternative) can do the work. If you want to fit your data on CDs, there are tools for that, but they won't tell you that they do backups, they just fit stuf on CDs. There is almost no tool exclusively for backup, and the ones that do exist are rarely used, because we don't need them. Will the author complain next that there are too few anti-virus software for Linux?
Also, who said that backup configuration should be done on a GUI? When was the last time you saw a "average user" (i.e. that kind that is supposed to not know how to use a CLI) wondering about backups?
But, if you are backing-up to disk or SAN, you should take a look at rdiff-backup (it is at Etch, I don't know about Ubuntu). It works just like rsync, but create easier to recover images.
2: Kontrol center has an excelent support for printers for a few years now. You can install, reconfigure and remove lots of kinds of local/network/virtual printers just by using wizards on a GUI. I know that Ubuntu is Gnome based, but it is hard to imagine that only KDE made it.
"It makes far more sense for the court to provide the limited order than to give some sweeping declaration of the law on an ex parte motion."
How did the courts accept a one sided case? Any outcome of this would be crapish.
"[Low returns] Coupled with the good will they are losing (assuming they even factor that in), they may decide this is a lost battle at some point..."
Maybe RIAA aren't on it by the money, and they really belive that lawsuits are an efficient means of fighting piracy. They've already showed how irrational they are sometimes.
It depends. Is $175 still cheap, and is it aready taking advantage of economy of scale? If the normal price for the product is near $400, and that was the price for the first, and small batch, people would probably say the same.
But if it was Microsot, they'd only belive the $175 figure when they see it on a store.
So, MS creates a product so bad that people revolt all around the world... And we are still stuck using another, a bit less bad, MS product.
Yes, sir, that seems to be a very weak company. No, no need for government intervention... See? We can say NO to Microsoft, we just need to change to Microsoft!
Why will hardware lack support for XP again? Why would companies stop including drivers if people are using it?
If we stuck with XP, nobody will create Vista only hardware... Never. It is more likely that they stop supporting Vista, that have huge requirements for driver writters and hardware designers. Won't it be nice if the protected paths of Vista are never fully adopted?
Lithium can be oxidated by almost anything, even whater. So, throwing wahter at the fire will just make it worse.
But I don't know what to do about it. Maybe a nitrogen extinguisher can be used. Probably a CO2 one can be used too, but that is dangerous enough by itself. I guess the best way of dealing with it is taking the battery to some safe place and let it burn alone there.
"Where this long rant is going is: of _course_ those corporations are aiming at becoming the next MS. In fact, some of them were the original (near)monopoly long before MS."
Nop. Most of them just want good software to use, some to support. None of them want software to sell. Notice how your favorite example, IBM, has almost all of its revenue coming from hardware and services. The same applies to Sun.
All of them would obviously like to become a new Microsoft, no one seems to be working toward that. Probably because they belive they can't do it.
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And will those servers run Dunken Fuken Forever?
There is no reason we can't have that setup now. The only problem is that ISPs don't want it. So, in the future will ISPs be different, have competition, or what?
If you read the specs, you'll see that the evil bit doesn't stop malware. Secure systems should ignore every package with the bit set, but unsafe systems should react to the package geting compromissed.
Moore's law is an economical one. Companies simply don't have enough money to spped things up, and semiconductor fctories are really expensive.
Most people really don't understand exponential* growth... Take a hint: It starts slow, very slow.
Not saying we'll see AI in our lifetime (altough lots of people really think we will), but it may be just around the corner, and still your analisys wouldn't see that.
* Technology is growing at exponential or highter than exponential rate everywhere, even on IA. An highter than exponential rate is different, because it starts slower.
I really tought I'd have a lot of fun, whatching the keys of hardware players being revocated, one after the other...
And then a bunch of harkers break the system for good, and destroy all possibilities.
Yet, they'll know how to use a OS that increases their productivity, not decreases it... They won't compete direcly with you on IT, but they'll (everything being the same) out-compete you on every other area that they are able to affect. And that includes the people how pay your salary.
Of course, everything never stays the same. So, wait for big changes at the IT industry.
What about collecting DRM keys?
In fact, we should folow their lead. That wasn't the first time MS got it right, and the FOSS have to imitate its features...
There is no problem with a service based economy. Most of the world is changing from a production based to a service based one, and most people are happy with that.
The problem is when you want to sell the same, easily replicated product by a large margin and expect everybody to be nice and buy it from you.
I'm surprised that somehow Brazil got out of that list. Nothing changed since the last couple of lists...
I'd still bet for 2008. Linux is ready since 2006, but the market is slow (and would be even slower if it wasn't for Microsoft helping us).
You are on that for a +1 Funny, aren't you?
Please:
Mb = mega bit
MB = mega byte
Talking about RAM on a x86 it is ok, but on most other uses it leads to confusion.
So, if I get it right, Ubuntu will really work for you... But Vista is so POLISHED!!!
Vey nice conclusion :)
You hit it right on the head. On Windows, backups are a big deal. You need special tools for it (sometime tools even install drivers at kernel level), you need patience, and luck (most tools fail often - not every time, but a lot more than any one would accept on another system).
On Linux, it is often harder to configure a pre-built backup solution than to roll your own. And that even including GUI solutions, that you'll still need to tell what to backup and how often. If you just want manual backups, plain old 'cp' (or any GUI alternative) can do the work. If you want to fit your data on CDs, there are tools for that, but they won't tell you that they do backups, they just fit stuf on CDs. There is almost no tool exclusively for backup, and the ones that do exist are rarely used, because we don't need them. Will the author complain next that there are too few anti-virus software for Linux?
Also, who said that backup configuration should be done on a GUI? When was the last time you saw a "average user" (i.e. that kind that is supposed to not know how to use a CLI) wondering about backups?
But, if you are backing-up to disk or SAN, you should take a look at rdiff-backup (it is at Etch, I don't know about Ubuntu). It works just like rsync, but create easier to recover images.
2: Kontrol center has an excelent support for printers for a few years now. You can install, reconfigure and remove lots of kinds of local/network/virtual printers just by using wizards on a GUI. I know that Ubuntu is Gnome based, but it is hard to imagine that only KDE made it.
How did the courts accept a one sided case? Any outcome of this would be crapish.
Maybe RIAA aren't on it by the money, and they really belive that lawsuits are an efficient means of fighting piracy. They've already showed how irrational they are sometimes.
It depends. Is $175 still cheap, and is it aready taking advantage of economy of scale? If the normal price for the product is near $400, and that was the price for the first, and small batch, people would probably say the same.
But if it was Microsot, they'd only belive the $175 figure when they see it on a store.
Well, you can always lobby into your governent buying some of those for your children too. (Or do you think we are getting them for free?)
Most people OLPC is intended to do have power supply.
But SOME don't, that's why there is a cranck.
So, MS creates a product so bad that people revolt all around the world... And we are still stuck using another, a bit less bad, MS product.
Yes, sir, that seems to be a very weak company. No, no need for government intervention... See? We can say NO to Microsoft, we just need to change to Microsoft!
Why will hardware lack support for XP again? Why would companies stop including drivers if people are using it?
If we stuck with XP, nobody will create Vista only hardware... Never. It is more likely that they stop supporting Vista, that have huge requirements for driver writters and hardware designers. Won't it be nice if the protected paths of Vista are never fully adopted?
I keep asking myself how everybody* seemed to take such BS seriously by that time.
* Not by 2004, but I've felt for such kind of things by the late 90's. Maybe because I was young, but I'm not very convinced of that.
Lithium can be oxidated by almost anything, even whater. So, throwing wahter at the fire will just make it worse.
But I don't know what to do about it. Maybe a nitrogen extinguisher can be used. Probably a CO2 one can be used too, but that is dangerous enough by itself. I guess the best way of dealing with it is taking the battery to some safe place and let it burn alone there.
"Where this long rant is going is: of _course_ those corporations are aiming at becoming the next MS. In fact, some of them were the original (near)monopoly long before MS."
Nop. Most of them just want good software to use, some to support. None of them want software to sell. Notice how your favorite example, IBM, has almost all of its revenue coming from hardware and services. The same applies to Sun.
All of them would obviously like to become a new Microsoft, no one seems to be working toward that. Probably because they belive they can't do it.