Mostly to pander the old divided world that technically came into being thanks to differences in tech choices, but that the industry later learned to harness for economic gains (staggered movie releases, anyone?). High speed net connections (especially flat rate and always on, allowing many2one p2p transfers) have thrown a very big wrench into this, and what we are seeing is the trashing of a dying animal (lawsuits, more draconian laws and more). This as at least one nation appears to have bet the national economy on the "IP" market staying the same forever.
get pre-installed, ready to run from first boot products out into brick and mortar shelves.
As long as microsoft can leverage big oem discounts (i think a recent liberated slide shows a ms office discount around 90% vs retail box) to such a level that adding a couple of 30-day bundles for norton and nero makes the companies money, people will only be exposed to linux via having some geek over to do the install (and most would probably grab a geek if windows needs a reinstall as well).
The basic issue is that pre-packaged grab-n-go deals are not linux based. They are windows based unless one shop at apple. If someone walks into a store with the intent of walking out with a computer, its either windows or osx.
And if one where to click the http link above, would force-tls then convert that to a https?
could it convert a random http facebook or wikipedia url to a https url?
If it can, perhaps EFF should get in touch with the creator of the extension and combine efforts. This basically by having the EFF provide the extension with a preset of pages that will use https indefinitely.
Google have already run afoul the Linus way of doing patches when they tried to dump a whole new scheduler into the mainline source.
For something based on open source, android development at Google is very closed. They do development in their own, in-house branch, and only at release do they push the changes to the public branch. Consider that there is a 2.3 release around the corner, but as of yet there is no knowledge about what is coming.
But to be honest, Nokia handled maemo in much the same way. They did development behind closed doors, and updates where done in bulk rather then rolling. For example a simple bug fix to the email app ended up sitting for months as "fixed" in the public bug tracker, while the actual fix where only internally available and waiting for someone in management to ok the release of a update. This was especially infuriating when Nokia released fremantle and the N900, as various long standing bugs got market "fixed in fremantle" (meaning it would not benefit older devices). Mostly tho, this involved closed source sections (especially around wireless connectivity and power management).
Perhaps on feature phones. But their smartphone range is a no show in areas where carriers love to "neuter" features (to get people to use one of their "services" instead), because said features is a major part of nokia marketing.
How the hell do one make SMS threaded? Unless there is some magic data i don't know of, one only have time and contact data to use for defining the "thread".
that the major issue here is that the backhaul planning for the net is based on projections based on a mostly "download" usage, where a user would download a web page or a new emails and then go quiet again. With torrenting, streaming media and similar, this changes. Torrenting is as much upload as download, while streaming media is a constant download rather then a short spike when the email checker kicks in or the user clicks a link.
With old style net use, the ISPs could sell a fast connection at the user end, and not touch the backhaul. This because the spike would be over soon. And the only time there would be a issue was when multiple users on the same backhaul tried to do something at the exact same time, saturating the backhaul for that short time.
Thing is that for the ISP, laying new backhaul is up front expensive. And especially in areas where they have a monopoly (for whatever reason), they will get a better ROI by getting people to change their usage habits then digging ditches (especially if they can get something like call minutes or kwh in there).
This is not really different to how local call could be free, while long distance was by the minute. This because everyone in the local zone had a wire going to the same switching station anyways, and a wire could only carry a single call, so a second caller would get a busy signal anyways. Long distance however was a limited number of wires out of the local zone, shared among all the people in said zone. As such, keeping the individual uses of those wires short meant more users could be served by fewer actual wires.
So they are trying their best to stuff the "always, everywhere" genie back into the lamp...
Force-tls seems to depend on the page telling the browser to use tls, not sure how different that is from a frontpage that redirects to https. The EFF extension however alters any attempt to access one of the domains it is set up with to https, and do so based on user, rather then page, settings.
What i find most interesting in all this was the news that when the last book of the harry potter series was released, it took german fans 48 hours to scan, translate and distribute a german ebook version.
It could even be that weaker genes and such get taken out before the comparison thresholds comes into play.
I would love to see the death rates for younger people.
And yes, climate could be a big issue. USA allows someone to stay within their nation while having a ski vacation in the rockies and a beach vacation in florida or california. How many elderly in USA ups and moves south once they hit retirement?
Funny enough, i think stock brokers are eying linux these days. Just observe the recent change that happened in london...
Oh, and i keep being surprised by what a recent linux kernel will support. I keep picking up random no-name usb devices that i can just plug in and use. Thing is that a lot of stuff, at least usb related, are the same internals with different product id codes. Once thats figured out the lookup tables can be updated and it just works.
still, in a professional environment there is likely to be some 10+ year old stuff floating around that is built for one just, based on dos or early 9x, and that will play dead if you look at it funny. Those are built more like appliances then computers, they just happen to use computer internals for the rapid product readiness. But then that is the same scenario that keep ie6 alive in the corporate world because the beancounters claim the proper ROI have not been reached.
but in the end i would claim that linux will be the long run choice, as there is no way for any single corporation to build a silo around it and extort ever growing rent with the corporate data as hostage.
Indeed, at least the non-commercial parts. Copyright, at least in UK, grew out of a earlier censorship system that proved to be economically beneficial to a group of printing press owners around london. So when there was a change of leadership, and the original system removed, the lobbied for a similar system to be put into place. Later it got modified to handle the interaction between author and printer, so that the author got a share of the printers profits (profits largely coming from the work of the author in the first place, thanks to the sharp increase in value the sheets of paper got once words where printed on them). Now however, the modern variants of such laws are being used to target non-commercial "printing". Basically the equivalent of someone printing up a bunch of copies at their own expense (computer, storage, net connection) and then giving those prints away to others that would do the same.
In the end it is the middle man distributor (printer, recorder, whatever) that is really crying foul here, as their reason to exist goes up in smoke. The artists will continue being artists (i would claim that the number of people being full time artists are maybe 1% of the total creative population on the planet, the rest maintaining a day job alongside their creative activities). Hell, it may well be just as effective to have either a flat sum added to the net connection that the artists can then get a part of by giving their creations to a central repository for free p2p sharing. Or perhaps put up a noise on sites like kickstarter saying that if sum X is pledged, the artist will create work Y and put it out there under a CC license or directly into the public domain.
It is the idea of transporting truckloads of physical books, tapes and disks around that is dying a slow death, not the drive to be creative.
Given that i keep seeing windows users suddenly switch to mac once they enter some kind of media course at higher education levels, i would say that ad agencies are just one example from the media world in general.
i get the impression that much of the heavy lifting of media rendering use linux clusters these days, but maintain apple mac desktops of various sorts as "terminals". It is even possible that with high speed net connections one can work on a scene in one place, then rent render time on a cluster somewhere else during "off" hours. Send it over at end of office hours, and come back to a completed render the next day.
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Mostly to pander the old divided world that technically came into being thanks to differences in tech choices, but that the industry later learned to harness for economic gains (staggered movie releases, anyone?). High speed net connections (especially flat rate and always on, allowing many2one p2p transfers) have thrown a very big wrench into this, and what we are seeing is the trashing of a dying animal (lawsuits, more draconian laws and more). This as at least one nation appears to have bet the national economy on the "IP" market staying the same forever.
I recall having the same experience with first encounter on PC.
But that is mild vs the crap known as battlecruiser 3000AD. But then that was a forever project that i think required a lawsuit to get released.
well crap, talk about me not noticing who i was responding to until now. Wish i could email you a beer.
ok, so it is not threaded in the email/usenet sense, but just being able to filter out the messages based on contact(s) involved.
Odd that the N97 would not be able to do so. I have a feature phone on hand that can do that if i tell it to (sort messages by contact, that is).
get pre-installed, ready to run from first boot products out into brick and mortar shelves.
As long as microsoft can leverage big oem discounts (i think a recent liberated slide shows a ms office discount around 90% vs retail box) to such a level that adding a couple of 30-day bundles for norton and nero makes the companies money, people will only be exposed to linux via having some geek over to do the install (and most would probably grab a geek if windows needs a reinstall as well).
The basic issue is that pre-packaged grab-n-go deals are not linux based. They are windows based unless one shop at apple. If someone walks into a store with the intent of walking out with a computer, its either windows or osx.
And if one where to click the http link above, would force-tls then convert that to a https?
could it convert a random http facebook or wikipedia url to a https url?
If it can, perhaps EFF should get in touch with the creator of the extension and combine efforts. This basically by having the EFF provide the extension with a preset of pages that will use https indefinitely.
Shuttle was showing of what they hoped would become a laptop motherboard standard at a recent trade show.
Only way i see that happen is by getting rid of basic scarcity.
Google have already run afoul the Linus way of doing patches when they tried to dump a whole new scheduler into the mainline source.
For something based on open source, android development at Google is very closed. They do development in their own, in-house branch, and only at release do they push the changes to the public branch. Consider that there is a 2.3 release around the corner, but as of yet there is no knowledge about what is coming.
But to be honest, Nokia handled maemo in much the same way. They did development behind closed doors, and updates where done in bulk rather then rolling. For example a simple bug fix to the email app ended up sitting for months as "fixed" in the public bug tracker, while the actual fix where only internally available and waiting for someone in management to ok the release of a update. This was especially infuriating when Nokia released fremantle and the N900, as various long standing bugs got market "fixed in fremantle" (meaning it would not benefit older devices). Mostly tho, this involved closed source sections (especially around wireless connectivity and power management).
Perhaps on feature phones. But their smartphone range is a no show in areas where carriers love to "neuter" features (to get people to use one of their "services" instead), because said features is a major part of nokia marketing.
How the hell do one make SMS threaded? Unless there is some magic data i don't know of, one only have time and contact data to use for defining the "thread".
that the major issue here is that the backhaul planning for the net is based on projections based on a mostly "download" usage, where a user would download a web page or a new emails and then go quiet again. With torrenting, streaming media and similar, this changes. Torrenting is as much upload as download, while streaming media is a constant download rather then a short spike when the email checker kicks in or the user clicks a link.
With old style net use, the ISPs could sell a fast connection at the user end, and not touch the backhaul. This because the spike would be over soon. And the only time there would be a issue was when multiple users on the same backhaul tried to do something at the exact same time, saturating the backhaul for that short time.
Thing is that for the ISP, laying new backhaul is up front expensive. And especially in areas where they have a monopoly (for whatever reason), they will get a better ROI by getting people to change their usage habits then digging ditches (especially if they can get something like call minutes or kwh in there).
This is not really different to how local call could be free, while long distance was by the minute. This because everyone in the local zone had a wire going to the same switching station anyways, and a wire could only carry a single call, so a second caller would get a busy signal anyways. Long distance however was a limited number of wires out of the local zone, shared among all the people in said zone. As such, keeping the individual uses of those wires short meant more users could be served by fewer actual wires.
So they are trying their best to stuff the "always, everywhere" genie back into the lamp...
Unless i am getting my units crossed, again, i think watt already implies a time frame.
Force-tls seems to depend on the page telling the browser to use tls, not sure how different that is from a frontpage that redirects to https. The EFF extension however alters any attempt to access one of the domains it is set up with to https, and do so based on user, rather then page, settings.
For some reason, i had a thought that one could replace the media corporations with any other economic entity in a monopoly position.
In the end it all seems to boil down to something out of robin hood, except in this case the merry men use computer rather then bow and quarterstaff.
What i find most interesting in all this was the news that when the last book of the harry potter series was released, it took german fans 48 hours to scan, translate and distribute a german ebook version.
It could even be that weaker genes and such get taken out before the comparison thresholds comes into play.
I would love to see the death rates for younger people.
And yes, climate could be a big issue. USA allows someone to stay within their nation while having a ski vacation in the rockies and a beach vacation in florida or california. How many elderly in USA ups and moves south once they hit retirement?
Funny enough, i think stock brokers are eying linux these days. Just observe the recent change that happened in london...
Oh, and i keep being surprised by what a recent linux kernel will support. I keep picking up random no-name usb devices that i can just plug in and use. Thing is that a lot of stuff, at least usb related, are the same internals with different product id codes. Once thats figured out the lookup tables can be updated and it just works.
still, in a professional environment there is likely to be some 10+ year old stuff floating around that is built for one just, based on dos or early 9x, and that will play dead if you look at it funny. Those are built more like appliances then computers, they just happen to use computer internals for the rapid product readiness. But then that is the same scenario that keep ie6 alive in the corporate world because the beancounters claim the proper ROI have not been reached.
but in the end i would claim that linux will be the long run choice, as there is no way for any single corporation to build a silo around it and extort ever growing rent with the corporate data as hostage.
start issuing keyfobs and be done with it.
Indeed, at least the non-commercial parts. Copyright, at least in UK, grew out of a earlier censorship system that proved to be economically beneficial to a group of printing press owners around london. So when there was a change of leadership, and the original system removed, the lobbied for a similar system to be put into place. Later it got modified to handle the interaction between author and printer, so that the author got a share of the printers profits (profits largely coming from the work of the author in the first place, thanks to the sharp increase in value the sheets of paper got once words where printed on them). Now however, the modern variants of such laws are being used to target non-commercial "printing". Basically the equivalent of someone printing up a bunch of copies at their own expense (computer, storage, net connection) and then giving those prints away to others that would do the same.
In the end it is the middle man distributor (printer, recorder, whatever) that is really crying foul here, as their reason to exist goes up in smoke. The artists will continue being artists (i would claim that the number of people being full time artists are maybe 1% of the total creative population on the planet, the rest maintaining a day job alongside their creative activities). Hell, it may well be just as effective to have either a flat sum added to the net connection that the artists can then get a part of by giving their creations to a central repository for free p2p sharing. Or perhaps put up a noise on sites like kickstarter saying that if sum X is pledged, the artist will create work Y and put it out there under a CC license or directly into the public domain.
It is the idea of transporting truckloads of physical books, tapes and disks around that is dying a slow death, not the drive to be creative.
Could you be a bit more specific about why going all linux would be problematic?
Given that i keep seeing windows users suddenly switch to mac once they enter some kind of media course at higher education levels, i would say that ad agencies are just one example from the media world in general.
i get the impression that much of the heavy lifting of media rendering use linux clusters these days, but maintain apple mac desktops of various sorts as "terminals". It is even possible that with high speed net connections one can work on a scene in one place, then rent render time on a cluster somewhere else during "off" hours. Send it over at end of office hours, and come back to a completed render the next day.
belt and suspenders. Better to have something and never need it, then need it and not have it.
Even the best can slip up.
a linux RDP client perhaps?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol