It's the mobile network operators that are going to be the ones to own this market.
The reason? These companies have a massive existing subscriber base in the hundreds of millions. Already the mobile companies in Europe are banding together to create an interoperable payment platform.
One of the major problems that micropayment providers have is acquiring merchants. While sub-dollar transactions sound good from the customers, for some merchants the proposition is not as attractive. This is particularly true for large merchants who are particularly beholden to the banks, card companies and other acquiring institutions.
Don't wouldn't worry too much about this. This patent will get smashed by the big boys.
I work for a software development arm of 29 billion dollar financial processing business. And I can tell you that there is no way we (and other big fish in the transaction processing business) will take this lying down.
I wonder how many large businesses they have sent their writ to ? These opportunitists won't get a cent.
Yep, my favourite thing about WSH is when I'm running SSH to a 2000 box and it throws a windows dialog error box. It's fun to VNC into the machine just to click that OK button;)
I can also make a Toyota into a rally car by replacing all it's stock components - but that's not really the point is it ?
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MSQL already has a stored procedure language - TSQL, why not use that?
In my experience the object relational style mappings provided by for example Java Stored Procedures in Oracle is a real performance killer. Why would C# Stored Procedures would be any different?
No, generally that would be the job of the business analyst or requirements engineer. It's not good practice to 'state' requirements, generally they are obtained by following a well-defined requirements discovery process, such as RUP.
The product manager's role to is manage the overall strategy and provide the overall interface between all stakeholders of the product.
In my company only people who know about X and Y, but not A are usually individual test engineers, who genuinely don't have to. And even then it never hurts if they do.
It seems that Microsoft is quite encouraging of the Mono effort:
"Hats off to Icaza for getting as far as he has," says John Montgomery, who oversees the.Net Framework at Microsoft. Indeed, he practically gushes every time he hears Icaza's name. "Miguel is an incredibly sharp guy, and he is a pragmatist," Montgomery says. "I would put him in the top five of open-source thought leaders."
However the motives for this seem unclear... probably with all the bad press that MS has recieved lately they are frightened of appearing ani-competitive.
I guess that the big risk for Mono is that it exists in the legal grey area between the ECMA C# and the proprietary.NET. In this twilight area they are very much in Microsoft's shadow and at their legal whim.
If it weren't for all the free software GPL crap, Linux could have been profitable and we'd all still have jobs now.
I don't think that that's entirely correct. To the contrary I think that Linux is responsible for the creation of a lot of jobs. Sure there is not a lot of money to be made in directly selling GPL software licences, however there is a a lot of service and consulting work to be had around Linux and other free* software.
Personally I think that had Linux not been free* it would have gone the same way as BeOS and many other closed source efforts at Windows killers.
As for the tech and telco meltdown I think that had a lot more to do with greedy opportunists pulling the wool over investors eyes to make a quick buck, not to mention systemic corporate corruption.
Agreed. Is it just me or is Slashdot losing focus?
There are plenty other (better) resources out there for general news, information and popular mechanics. I come here for news about software, hardware, networking, open source, and internet, as well as a limited selection of other technical stuff.
Having said that it is Christmas Day and maybe I should just turn this machine off;)
I have nothing to hide from microsoft, the government or anyone.
In that case, why do you put your letters in envelopes instead of on postcards? Why do you close the shades in your house? The desire for privacy is normal and healthy. There is no reason not to extend this protection to your online activities.
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Actually, you are not so far off the mark here. Wait 5 years and these kind of things will start to happen.
Simpay is probably a candidate for this, founded by Orange, Telefónica Móviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone:
http://www.simpay.com
It's the mobile network operators that are going to be the ones to own this market.
The reason? These companies have a massive existing subscriber base in the hundreds of millions. Already the mobile companies in Europe are banding together to create an interoperable payment platform.
One of the major problems that micropayment providers have is acquiring merchants. While sub-dollar transactions sound good from the customers, for some merchants the proposition is not as attractive. This is particularly true for large merchants who are particularly beholden to the banks, card companies and other acquiring institutions.
You are absolutely right. If anything this case shows that the world's patent systems aren't working.
This ridiculous case just may provide just the impetus that government's need to pull their finger out and do something about it.
Don't wouldn't worry too much about this. This patent will get smashed by the big boys.
I work for a software development arm of 29 billion dollar financial processing business. And I can tell you that there is no way we (and other big fish in the transaction processing business) will take this lying down.
I wonder how many large businesses they have sent their writ to ? These opportunitists won't get a cent.
Yep, my favourite thing about WSH is when I'm running SSH to a 2000 box and it throws a windows dialog error box. It's fun to VNC into the machine just to click that OK button ;)
I can also make a Toyota into a rally car by replacing all it's stock components - but that's not really the point is it ?
MSQL already has a stored procedure language - TSQL, why not use that?
In my experience the object relational style mappings provided by for example Java Stored Procedures in Oracle is a real performance killer. Why would C# Stored Procedures would be any different?
Actually I thought that mosquitoes where more attracted to colour (particularly blue).
Say 10 or so hours design.. works out at maybe 7 bucks an hour!! But I guess given the economy most designers have some free time on their hands ;)
No, generally that would be the job of the business analyst or requirements engineer. It's not good practice to 'state' requirements, generally they are obtained by following a well-defined requirements discovery process, such as RUP.
The product manager's role to is manage the overall strategy and provide the overall interface between all stakeholders of the product.
In my company only people who know about X and Y, but not A are usually individual test engineers, who genuinely don't have to. And even then it never hurts if they do.
There is a secure option that can be used in the IP header.
t .h tml#secure
http://www.ee.siue.edu/~rwalden/networking/ipop
00000000 00000000 - Unclassified
11110001 00110101 - Confidential
01111000 10011010 - EFTO
10111100 01001101 - MMMM
01011110 00100110 - PROG
10101111 00010011 - Restricted
11010111 10001000 - Secret
01101011 11000101 - Top Secret
00110101 11100010 - (Reserved for future use)
10011010 11110001 - (Reserved for future use)
01001101 01111000 - (Reserved for future use)
00100100 10111101 - (Reserved for future use)
00010011 01011110 - (Reserved for future use)
10001001 10101111 - (Reserved for future use)
11000100 11010110 - (Reserved for future use)
11100010 01101011 - (Reserved for future use)
At 400 000 ft. survival is sadly unlikely.
Actually there's a good discussion of this here.
It seems that Microsoft is quite encouraging of the Mono effort:
"Hats off to Icaza for getting as far as he has," says John Montgomery, who oversees theHowever the motives for this seem unclear... probably with all the bad press that MS has recieved lately they are frightened of appearing ani-competitive.
I guess that the big risk for Mono is that it exists in the legal grey area between the ECMA C# and the proprietary .NET. In this twilight area they are very much in Microsoft's shadow and at their legal whim.
I don't think that that's entirely correct. To the contrary I think that Linux is responsible for the creation of a lot of jobs. Sure there is not a lot of money to be made in directly selling GPL software licences, however there is a a lot of service and consulting work to be had around Linux and other free* software.
Personally I think that had Linux not been free* it would have gone the same way as BeOS and many other closed source efforts at Windows killers.
As for the tech and telco meltdown I think that had a lot more to do with greedy opportunists pulling the wool over investors eyes to make a quick buck, not to mention systemic corporate corruption.
Just my 2c
* free as in freedom, not beer.
Agreed. Is it just me or is Slashdot losing focus?
There are plenty other (better) resources out there for general news, information and popular mechanics. I come here for news about software, hardware, networking, open source, and internet, as well as a limited selection of other technical stuff.
Having said that it is Christmas Day and maybe I should just turn this machine off ;)
In that case, why do you put your letters in envelopes instead of on postcards? Why do you close the shades in your house? The desire for privacy is normal and healthy. There is no reason not to extend this protection to your online activities.