This dude sits on some serious cash. If he for example makes cache software which ISP's can use to cut long-distance bills while keeping net neutrality...
I see you don't know the French. Youu see, it is not true that they hate Americans. They just like making decisions by themselves. With Mandriva being largely French, you can be sure they just won't see the need to buy foreign.
When we moved from farms to towns in the early middle ages, we brought our habits: pigs running freely in the streets, unexisting hygene. Then came the plague. Some refused to adapt, and they died. Others accepted sewages and garbage collection as a new way of life. They lived. AIDS will be eradicated from Africa the same way the plague was eradicated from Europe (and cholera,...) By a mixture of biological resistance and cultural resistance. Condoms for fun, monogamy for making children, the solutions are there. Africa needs to accept them as unavoidable cultural changes.
You need to hook it up anyway to recharge. Just using Wifi to download music means they will have to cram a lot of iTunes/iStore functionality into the ipod. Byebye simple userinterface... How about security? Either they make you enter your credit card number with the clickwheel(????) or else it gets "linked" to your iPod on the Apple servers. Lose your iPod and the thief can shop around on your card... The whole point about the iPod is that all complexity is parked in iTunes.
If you look at the list, you will see that you are lowest among long term western democracies, and that "USA extra-territorial" (read: Guantanamo & Irak) is on par with Nigeria. Not exactly an A+, I'd say...
Solar panels give DC right? A datacentre will convert AC to DC, pump it into the UPS batteries, then convert it back to AC to power the servers. If you hook the panels directly onto the batteries, you would save the cost of an AC converter, plus the running cost of conversion losses. Has anybody tried this?
Everybody building up his own little electricity depot can never be as efficient as a large-scale approach. An advantage of this scenario would however be that these depots would release heat both during charging and decharging. If you use them during the winter and heat up your house as a side effect, there might be a case. During the summer, forget it. Hydrogen is such a complex energy form it can only be profitable in places where you need to take your energy with you, e.g. your car.
Been flippin' through the report. This is not just about ODF. His proposition 3.7:
Compléter le mémorandum pour une Europe numérique, en proposant à nos partenaires européens d'établir l'interopérabilité comme règle de droit commun fondamental
en matière de développement informatique.
This calls for making IT interoperability a "fundamental rule of common law". Somebody 'sgonna be kissing their secret network protocols goodbye! The report also calls for closer cooperation with the Russians, proposes a legal framework for RFID, explains the GPL, promotes the Quaero project...
..and he sais serial numbers are the ONLY way of the police getting your stuff back. Where he works, the police holds a big database of serials of stolen stuff. If they bust a suspected thief, they check everything in his house against the database. So whenever you buy a flatscreen, PC, TV or whatever, ALWAYS write down the serial. I just take a picture of the ID plate, print it on a B/W laser, holds forever.
We just got upgraded to Outlook 2003 with fancy junk-mail features and it still sucks donkey balls (suprise, suprise). The reason is very simple: Setting up a bayesian spam filter is way too complicated for joe sixpack. And any spamfilter run at the mailserver is missing one very important piece of information: the adres book of the recipient. It should be possible for mail servers which pass on the mails to add spam-info in the header. Any server should be able to add a spam-probability to the header, and any server should be able to modify the estimate by the previous one based on wether it trusts the previous server or not. As we slowly upgrade the SMTP network to more secure standards, the servers will be more accurate in predicting wether the message is spam or not. In the end, the last server sets in the header:"this is 78% certain spam". The client (Outlook or whatever) can than proces it with a very simple rule s.a.: "If it is more than 75%, and the sender is not in my adres book, then ditch the crap." This method would allow ISP's to experiment with the spam-catching technology of the month, and yet provide a standardised interface to the end user. Who volunteers to write the RFC?
Come on, we have seen the same before with modems. First, modems did everything by themselves, then we started seeing Winmodems which pushed a lot of the work back to the main processor. Intelligent network cards will be more expensive than letting the CPU do all the work. Of course, if Moore's law becomes harder to uphold in the future, then decentralising the computing work might be the only way to make computers run faster. Until then, it will be a niche product for computers where TCP is a significant part of the CPU load (webservers). Just like 3D engines on video cards are a niche product for gaming PC's where rendering is a significant part of the CPU load. Oh and a little question: how easy will the upgrade to IPv6 be? Especially if it is not just the OS being involved? As far as I understand, Vista will have a nice soup where IPv4 and IPv6 are mixed in the same driver?
Look at license plates. You want "STALLION" on the back of your car, you pay extra. Fair 'nough. Problem is there seems to be a competition in money making schemes. Just look at the use of international characters. If you register citib ä nk.com, what the fuck are you going to use that for? Skandinavian characters should only be allowed in scandinavian TLD's. Period. And if the Danes allow spelling ø as oe then føbar.dk and foebar.dk should point to the same IP adress. ALWAYS. Any other behaviour is misguiding the public as part of a grab-the-money-and-run scheme. If you have "google" in your adres, you claim to be part of Google. Google paid for its own name, and nobady else should make money on that.
When the russians invaded Berlin, they believed toilets were machines for washing potatoes. Working in a HQ were a lot of Russians came was a smelly business to say the least. First time Americans found a microphone in their embassy in Moscow, it was accompanied by 2 beautifull "fingerprints", probably left behind by those who placed the microphone.
Wouldn't it be cheaper (both power and price) to use a gigabyte of RAM? Sure you would lose everything at a powerloss, but this is a router, not a server. And if your Torrent does not fit completely, you could build up "credit" all night seeding the first half of your movie and then the next day boot your PC, synchronise your HD with the router and let the router start downloading the second half. Yes, you would need a synchronisation protocol a little more sophisticated then FTP, but how hard can it be? Same if you want it to host a small website; just have the website on your HD, and sync it to the router just before switching off your PC. Running a POP server could be a problem, but maybe the POP server could trick the remote SMTP server into delaying sending you the email until it can see your PC is turned on again?
We recently started getting DVB-T over here, so I got a nice decoder. Now I need one remote to change channels, and another to change volume. If I wanted to run the audio over my hifi, that would make three. I have 2 cameras, a MP3 and a cellphone, all with USB cables. For some weird reason, they all use different plugs on the device-side. When will these stupid manufacturors get their heads out of their asses and STANDARDISE. How about daisy-chaining all your AV equipment with some cheap POF cable which can transport BOTH the music AND the control signals. How about my DVB decoder telling the TV: "hey, I'll take care of the channels now, stop responding to those signals from the remote." How about standardising wall-warts so I can recharge my mobile with the mouse recharger? Is it REALLY going to take all your customers away? WAKE UP!!!!
Some people have suggested to combine both: make a new version of english, with dumbed-down grammar and a reduced vocabulary. Egyptian-taxi-driver-english if you want. That I believe would be a good solution, as everybody could learn it, and those with time/talent could "move on" to normal english.
I guess most of you guys have heard of the Swift scandal as well. Well, for all those of you who think europeans are anti-american: imagine being an european minister or head of state. You want to fight terrorism as much as the next guy, and the biggest player in this game is the white house. But if are pro-Bush, you are allying with a government which does not respect its own constitution, never mind yours. Instead of asking Interpol or an institution under democratic supervision to monitor suspect international financial traffic, just send a CC of every single Swift transaction to the NSA. Is Boeing getting updates on Airbus transactions before Airbus gets them themselves? Hopefully not. But even if GWB doesn't allow it, Boeing is cooperating with 3 letter agencies on a daily basis, and what is a little memory stick among friends? Especially if there is no outside control on the use and spread of data? So the European voter brands the politician a gullible idiot at best, disrespectful of human rights at worst. And the Bush administration keeps on painting itself in a corner...
I work with a computer system which collects data from spectrometers and predicts chemical properties. The "special" thing is the spectra from different instruments get stored on a central server and the server does the prediction (a simple mathematical operation), instead of each spectrometer having its own PC. The company who makes it cannot export this "technology" to the US because the concept is patented. This is a reasonably big research institute with their own full-time IP-lawyers. Believe me they looked at this carefully. The only way we can stop this bullshit is by doing a Darl Mc'Bride on them. Find out who they are, get an adress, hack their website, give them hell. And don't forget to complain to your local politician.
My brother works in the Belgian justice system, and they are (slowly) migrating to Linux on the desktop. Money talks, yes indeed. And Linux is a hell of a lot cheaper.
The CNN article sais they are both getting a lot of heat from the far east. We are not talking consumer products you can push with the right marketing. I am sure the Vodaphone purchase director does not care how sexy the switches look. They will need to make good quality products for the right price, and a merger is probably the only way to keep Europe in the running.
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This dude sits on some serious cash. If he for example makes cache software which ISP's can use to cut long-distance bills while keeping net neutrality...
I see you don't know the French. Youu see, it is not true that they hate Americans. They just like making decisions by themselves. With Mandriva being largely French, you can be sure they just won't see the need to buy foreign.
clicked on the link and it tries to install some activeX crapware. How 'bout using the machine gun on that kind of threat?
When we moved from farms to towns in the early middle ages, we brought our habits: pigs running freely in the streets, unexisting hygene. Then came the plague. Some refused to adapt, and they died. Others accepted sewages and garbage collection as a new way of life. They lived. AIDS will be eradicated from Africa the same way the plague was eradicated from Europe (and cholera,...) By a mixture of biological resistance and cultural resistance. Condoms for fun, monogamy for making children, the solutions are there. Africa needs to accept them as unavoidable cultural changes.
English....? Anyone? Please?
You need to hook it up anyway to recharge. Just using Wifi to download music means they will have to cram a lot of iTunes/iStore functionality into the ipod. Byebye simple userinterface... How about security? Either they make you enter your credit card number with the clickwheel(????) or else it gets "linked" to your iPod on the Apple servers. Lose your iPod and the thief can shop around on your card... The whole point about the iPod is that all complexity is parked in iTunes.
If you look at the list, you will see that you are lowest among long term western democracies, and that "USA extra-territorial" (read: Guantanamo & Irak) is on par with Nigeria. Not exactly an A+, I'd say...
Solar panels give DC right? A datacentre will convert AC to DC, pump it into the UPS batteries, then convert it back to AC to power the servers. If you hook the panels directly onto the batteries, you would save the cost of an AC converter, plus the running cost of conversion losses. Has anybody tried this?
Everybody building up his own little electricity depot can never be as efficient as a large-scale approach. An advantage of this scenario would however be that these depots would release heat both during charging and decharging. If you use them during the winter and heat up your house as a side effect, there might be a case. During the summer, forget it. Hydrogen is such a complex energy form it can only be profitable in places where you need to take your energy with you, e.g. your car.
This calls for making IT interoperability a "fundamental rule of common law". Somebody 'sgonna be kissing their secret network protocols goodbye! The report also calls for closer cooperation with the Russians, proposes a legal framework for RFID, explains the GPL, promotes the Quaero project...
For the Zune, I don't think this is going to be a really big problem...
..and he sais serial numbers are the ONLY way of the police getting your stuff back. Where he works, the police holds a big database of serials of stolen stuff. If they bust a suspected thief, they check everything in his house against the database. So whenever you buy a flatscreen, PC, TV or whatever, ALWAYS write down the serial. I just take a picture of the ID plate, print it on a B/W laser, holds forever.
in Danish ø -> oe æ -> ae å -> aa
And for those who didn't get the subject line: Yet Another Twenty Bucks For A Record In A Database Scam
We just got upgraded to Outlook 2003 with fancy junk-mail features and it still sucks donkey balls (suprise, suprise). The reason is very simple: Setting up a bayesian spam filter is way too complicated for joe sixpack. And any spamfilter run at the mailserver is missing one very important piece of information: the adres book of the recipient. It should be possible for mail servers which pass on the mails to add spam-info in the header. Any server should be able to add a spam-probability to the header, and any server should be able to modify the estimate by the previous one based on wether it trusts the previous server or not. As we slowly upgrade the SMTP network to more secure standards, the servers will be more accurate in predicting wether the message is spam or not. In the end, the last server sets in the header:"this is 78% certain spam". The client (Outlook or whatever) can than proces it with a very simple rule s.a.: "If it is more than 75%, and the sender is not in my adres book, then ditch the crap." This method would allow ISP's to experiment with the spam-catching technology of the month, and yet provide a standardised interface to the end user. Who volunteers to write the RFC?
Come on, we have seen the same before with modems. First, modems did everything by themselves, then we started seeing Winmodems which pushed a lot of the work back to the main processor. Intelligent network cards will be more expensive than letting the CPU do all the work. Of course, if Moore's law becomes harder to uphold in the future, then decentralising the computing work might be the only way to make computers run faster. Until then, it will be a niche product for computers where TCP is a significant part of the CPU load (webservers). Just like 3D engines on video cards are a niche product for gaming PC's where rendering is a significant part of the CPU load. Oh and a little question: how easy will the upgrade to IPv6 be? Especially if it is not just the OS being involved? As far as I understand, Vista will have a nice soup where IPv4 and IPv6 are mixed in the same driver?
Look at license plates. You want "STALLION" on the back of your car, you pay extra. Fair 'nough. Problem is there seems to be a competition in money making schemes. Just look at the use of international characters. If you register citib ä nk.com, what the fuck are you going to use that for? Skandinavian characters should only be allowed in scandinavian TLD's. Period. And if the Danes allow spelling ø as oe then føbar.dk and foebar.dk should point to the same IP adress. ALWAYS. Any other behaviour is misguiding the public as part of a grab-the-money-and-run scheme. If you have "google" in your adres, you claim to be part of Google. Google paid for its own name, and nobady else should make money on that.
When the russians invaded Berlin, they believed toilets were machines for washing potatoes. Working in a HQ were a lot of Russians came was a smelly business to say the least. First time Americans found a microphone in their embassy in Moscow, it was accompanied by 2 beautifull "fingerprints", probably left behind by those who placed the microphone.
Wouldn't it be cheaper (both power and price) to use a gigabyte of RAM? Sure you would lose everything at a powerloss, but this is a router, not a server. And if your Torrent does not fit completely, you could build up "credit" all night seeding the first half of your movie and then the next day boot your PC, synchronise your HD with the router and let the router start downloading the second half. Yes, you would need a synchronisation protocol a little more sophisticated then FTP, but how hard can it be? Same if you want it to host a small website; just have the website on your HD, and sync it to the router just before switching off your PC. Running a POP server could be a problem, but maybe the POP server could trick the remote SMTP server into delaying sending you the email until it can see your PC is turned on again?
We recently started getting DVB-T over here, so I got a nice decoder. Now I need one remote to change channels, and another to change volume. If I wanted to run the audio over my hifi, that would make three. I have 2 cameras, a MP3 and a cellphone, all with USB cables. For some weird reason, they all use different plugs on the device-side. When will these stupid manufacturors get their heads out of their asses and STANDARDISE. How about daisy-chaining all your AV equipment with some cheap POF cable which can transport BOTH the music AND the control signals. How about my DVB decoder telling the TV: "hey, I'll take care of the channels now, stop responding to those signals from the remote." How about standardising wall-warts so I can recharge my mobile with the mouse recharger? Is it REALLY going to take all your customers away? WAKE UP!!!!
Some people have suggested to combine both: make a new version of english, with dumbed-down grammar and a reduced vocabulary. Egyptian-taxi-driver-english if you want. That I believe would be a good solution, as everybody could learn it, and those with time/talent could "move on" to normal english.
I guess most of you guys have heard of the Swift scandal as well. Well, for all those of you who think europeans are anti-american: imagine being an european minister or head of state. You want to fight terrorism as much as the next guy, and the biggest player in this game is the white house. But if are pro-Bush, you are allying with a government which does not respect its own constitution, never mind yours. Instead of asking Interpol or an institution under democratic supervision to monitor suspect international financial traffic, just send a CC of every single Swift transaction to the NSA. Is Boeing getting updates on Airbus transactions before Airbus gets them themselves? Hopefully not. But even if GWB doesn't allow it, Boeing is cooperating with 3 letter agencies on a daily basis, and what is a little memory stick among friends? Especially if there is no outside control on the use and spread of data? So the European voter brands the politician a gullible idiot at best, disrespectful of human rights at worst. And the Bush administration keeps on painting itself in a corner...
I work with a computer system which collects data from spectrometers and predicts chemical properties. The "special" thing is the spectra from different instruments get stored on a central server and the server does the prediction (a simple mathematical operation), instead of each spectrometer having its own PC. The company who makes it cannot export this "technology" to the US because the concept is patented. This is a reasonably big research institute with their own full-time IP-lawyers. Believe me they looked at this carefully. The only way we can stop this bullshit is by doing a Darl Mc'Bride on them. Find out who they are, get an adress, hack their website, give them hell. And don't forget to complain to your local politician.
My brother works in the Belgian justice system, and they are (slowly) migrating to Linux on the desktop. Money talks, yes indeed. And Linux is a hell of a lot cheaper.
The CNN article sais they are both getting a lot of heat from the far east. We are not talking consumer products you can push with the right marketing. I am sure the Vodaphone purchase director does not care how sexy the switches look. They will need to make good quality products for the right price, and a merger is probably the only way to keep Europe in the running.