Couldn't this be used as a way of keeping your adress book up to date? Encode a persons name, his email adress and the last time you received a mail from him (adress confirmed good). Send it out to everybody you know. If I receive a different email adress than the one in my contact list and it is more up-to-date then mine, I know the person changed email adress.
I thought we would have an entire/. discussion about the olympics without anybody mentionning the dream team. Obligatoury Fawlty towers quote: "Don't mention the war!!"
Would it not be possible for OS companies (MS, but also Redhat,...) to configure their install so that the computer only accepts connections from the upgrade/patch server until the user specifically "releases" the box? Or would it get hacked anyway?
Please get real. Fusion is not going to pay off in the next quarter you know. You want to find private billions for something which MAYBE will pay off 50 years from now? Good luck searching, but I'm not holding my breath.
I did an embedded application with a flash disk which emulated a floppy. In the autoexec: create RAM disk, copy whole sheboodle, run from ramdisk. Without this the device only lasted 2 years. Can't see you do that with XP on a 10 gig drive though... I guess it would be good for a non-dynamic server. Host all the Slashdot logo's on one?
There seems to be an I.P. armsrace going on with all the large corporations building up their stock. Wonder what would happen if a serious crisis puts some of these big boys on the edge of the cliff. A global patentwar where MS, Apple, IBM and Oracle start sueing the hell out of each other?
In Europe, the 3G spectrum was sold in mid.COM, going for crazy prices. Result? The governments who sold at the right time made a lot of $$$. All the telco's are now part of chains, so a Belgian mobile phone owner (spectrum sold rather cheap) has to help pay for the gazilions the german and english governments pocketed. Apart from that, 3G is years late because no one can afford to really roll it out, and 2G is rolling out band-aid hacks by the trainwagon to try and get the most out of existing infrastructure. When the Brits started conquering the world, they decided it should be possible to send a letter anywhere in the empire for the cost of a cup of tea, no matter the real cost. It is called infrastructure, and it was (part of) the basis for their success.
And it takes how long to boot XP? In case you meet a friend in the shopping center and quickly need to give him a phone nr... boot, Login, load Outlook, no I FUCKING KNOW I AM NOT ONLINE,...
There was this story not long ago on a Laptop that would have primitive PIM functions in BIOS. Sounds a lot cooler to me.
Personal firewalls do give out a warning that "Program XYZ is connecting to server ABC. Do you want to allow this?" Things like ad-aware, antivirus and personal firewall do have a role here, but it makes me sick thinking I am going to have to install/update all that shit on a pda. Considering they have almost started from scratch on CE, you 'd think they would use the occasion to get their security right. Maybe the solution is to filter at the ISP/Telco level. I don't know many legal applications for sending 1000+ emails from a PDA.
In Belgium, notary's still pay law students to copy by hand important documents on thick books, made from acid-free paper and solidly bound together. Stacked in a basement, you can throw a jerrycan of gasoline over them and set fire to it. You will lose (almost) nothing. Instead of relying on laser discs (see other post), print everything out and count on OCR.
Whenever distributed computing is discussed, people forget one thing: their electricity bill. A P4 running BOINC will consume 50 to 100 Watts more then one with Boinc turned off. Get a hold of your last electricity bill and figure out how much 24 hours of BOINC will cost you. Scientist will have to make very attactive offers indeed if they want to let you make a profit.
I have plenty of sleep. Yet I am TIRED of my girlfriend asking me when I will get hold of a Gmail account for her..... send it to mpdc AT novozymes DOT com.
ARM does not sell to the consumer. They sell to other companies who have a professional purchase department. And if ARM tries to pull the same stunts as MS does, they will see a decline in sales, like, DAMN fast....
A consumer protest broke out about this in Denmark some time ago. The first IP adresses encountered when dialled in were in.....London. The operators charge the long distance call, but your phonecall actually never reaches the country of destination. The blocking described is now standard for all Danish telco's.
Simply send all patent applications to competing companies/scientists and allow them to draw up a list of prior art. Start from there. If the lists are all bogus, accept the application.
I read in a technical newspaper (Ingeniøren.dk) that the European telcos are slamming the brakes on anything resembling IPV6. Reason: IPV6 means QoS, and QoS means decent quality VOIP. Bye Bye primary source of income...
Here in Europe, it is truly heartbreaking. As I travel around, I find out how every european country has some great hits. But these are, at best, exported to a few neighbouring countries, e.g. inside scandinavia, or Germany-Austria etc. Instead, we get Bronx-rapper 'hits' shoveled down our throats with which we have absolutely NO cultural link. The chinese probably have great musicians, but if I forced you to listen to chinese music all day long... It just shows how the big labels put all their money on a few big cannons, and everything else just gets pushed aside. Listening on the net is great and all, but not everybody has time to do research and until I get ADSL in my car....
It is amazing to read these dozens of posts, coming from the most industrialised country in the world, about where you can and can't call. I can drive from Northern Denmark to the south of Spain and not lose coverage once. I can phone in the tunnels in Brussels, in the Copenhagen subway, in the chunnel and on the french ski-slopes. It goes to show what happens if you don't choose a standardised solution...
Linux is perfect for a service-based company like IBM:
+ Even if it gets 99% marketshare: no anti-monopoly lawsuits.
+ Total control: build in whatever feature you need for your business.
+ Cheap: concentrate on what YOU need, let somebody else write a driver for that USB toothbrush.
One more area where they will pour gazillions of $$$ . Money the make with... Windows. Every time I buy a PC, I already pay for the devellopment of a stupid game console I will never use and for dickheads who want to open Excel on their mobile phone. I guess XP licenses will go up again next year, and then I will know I am gratefully contributing to the Clippy-cluster. Bwèèk.
Nokia always said they were not going to do this because it cuts in their customers (read: telco's) revenues. But get to think of it, it would be real cool to do 3G. Give all your ADSL customers routers with built in WIFI. Use the leftover bandwith to allow any of your 3G customers passing by to connect via WIFI instead of UMTS. Save a bundle on antennae, less complaints of people who think UMTS gives you cancer....
Performance on dial-up is pretty much going to depend on what client they use (cacheing of javabeans?) , but on LAN this should not be that much of a problem, no? C'mon, 5 years ago you would have needed C++ to deliver adequate speed, but programs like Jedit are there to show you can make a decent wordprocessor in Java on today's architecture. Remember, "Web-based" can also mean you download all kinds of shit first time you use it...
One of the most spectacular kold-war stunts was when the ruskies gave a wooden statue to the U.S. Embassy. It was of couse thouroughly scanned for mikes and found clean. Turned out the thing had a passive mike in it. The russians would bomb it with microwaves from a nearby building and this would cause the statue to start working like a transmitter. Maybe if you bomb the cans with microwaves, you get them to react?
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Couldn't this be used as a way of keeping your adress book up to date? Encode a persons name, his email adress and the last time you received a mail from him (adress confirmed good). Send it out to everybody you know. If I receive a different email adress than the one in my contact list and it is more up-to-date then mine, I know the person changed email adress.
I thought we would have an entire /. discussion about the olympics without anybody mentionning the dream team. Obligatoury Fawlty towers quote: "Don't mention the war!!"
Anybody ever been there? Boulder, Colorado I mean, not the moon...
Would it not be possible for OS companies (MS, but also Redhat,...) to configure their install so that the computer only accepts connections from the upgrade/patch server until the user specifically "releases" the box? Or would it get hacked anyway?
Please get real. Fusion is not going to pay off in the next quarter you know. You want to find private billions for something which MAYBE will pay off 50 years from now? Good luck searching, but I'm not holding my breath.
I did an embedded application with a flash disk which emulated a floppy. In the autoexec: create RAM disk, copy whole sheboodle, run from ramdisk. Without this the device only lasted 2 years. Can't see you do that with XP on a 10 gig drive though... I guess it would be good for a non-dynamic server. Host all the Slashdot logo's on one?
There seems to be an I.P. armsrace going on with all the large corporations building up their stock. Wonder what would happen if a serious crisis puts some of these big boys on the edge of the cliff. A global patentwar where MS, Apple, IBM and Oracle start sueing the hell out of each other?
In Europe, the 3G spectrum was sold in mid .COM, going for crazy prices. Result? The governments who sold at the right time made a lot of $$$. All the telco's are now part of chains, so a Belgian mobile phone owner (spectrum sold rather cheap) has to help pay for the gazilions the german and english governments pocketed. Apart from that, 3G is years late because no one can afford to really roll it out, and 2G is rolling out band-aid hacks by the trainwagon to try and get the most out of existing infrastructure. When the Brits started conquering the world, they decided it should be possible to send a letter anywhere in the empire for the cost of a cup of tea, no matter the real cost. It is called infrastructure, and it was (part of) the basis for their success.
There was this story not long ago on a Laptop that would have primitive PIM functions in BIOS. Sounds a lot cooler to me.
Personal firewalls do give out a warning that "Program XYZ is connecting to server ABC. Do you want to allow this?" Things like ad-aware, antivirus and personal firewall do have a role here, but it makes me sick thinking I am going to have to install/update all that shit on a pda. Considering they have almost started from scratch on CE, you 'd think they would use the occasion to get their security right. Maybe the solution is to filter at the ISP/Telco level. I don't know many legal applications for sending 1000+ emails from a PDA.
In Belgium, notary's still pay law students to copy by hand important documents on thick books, made from acid-free paper and solidly bound together. Stacked in a basement, you can throw a jerrycan of gasoline over them and set fire to it. You will lose (almost) nothing. Instead of relying on laser discs (see other post), print everything out and count on OCR.
Whenever distributed computing is discussed, people forget one thing: their electricity bill. A P4 running BOINC will consume 50 to 100 Watts more then one with Boinc turned off. Get a hold of your last electricity bill and figure out how much 24 hours of BOINC will cost you. Scientist will have to make very attactive offers indeed if they want to let you make a profit.
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ARM does not sell to the consumer. They sell to other companies who have a professional purchase department. And if ARM tries to pull the same stunts as MS does, they will see a decline in sales, like, DAMN fast....
A consumer protest broke out about this in Denmark some time ago. The first IP adresses encountered when dialled in were in.....London. The operators charge the long distance call, but your phonecall actually never reaches the country of destination. The blocking described is now standard for all Danish telco's.
Another good one would be conductivity and capacitance. Easy to measure, should be within a certain range... Gelatine is probably higly resistive.
Simply send all patent applications to competing companies/scientists and allow them to draw up a list of prior art. Start from there. If the lists are all bogus, accept the application.
I read in a technical newspaper (Ingeniøren.dk) that the European telcos are slamming the brakes on anything resembling IPV6. Reason: IPV6 means QoS, and QoS means decent quality VOIP. Bye Bye primary source of income...
Here in Europe, it is truly heartbreaking. As I travel around, I find out how every european country has some great hits. But these are, at best, exported to a few neighbouring countries, e.g. inside scandinavia, or Germany-Austria etc. Instead, we get Bronx-rapper 'hits' shoveled down our throats with which we have absolutely NO cultural link. The chinese probably have great musicians, but if I forced you to listen to chinese music all day long... It just shows how the big labels put all their money on a few big cannons, and everything else just gets pushed aside. Listening on the net is great and all, but not everybody has time to do research and until I get ADSL in my car....
It is amazing to read these dozens of posts, coming from the most industrialised country in the world, about where you can and can't call. I can drive from Northern Denmark to the south of Spain and not lose coverage once. I can phone in the tunnels in Brussels, in the Copenhagen subway, in the chunnel and on the french ski-slopes. It goes to show what happens if you don't choose a standardised solution...
Linux is perfect for a service-based company like IBM:
+ Even if it gets 99% marketshare: no anti-monopoly lawsuits.
+ Total control: build in whatever feature you need for your business.
+ Cheap: concentrate on what YOU need, let somebody else write a driver for that USB toothbrush.
One more area where they will pour gazillions of $$$ . Money the make with... Windows. Every time I buy a PC, I already pay for the devellopment of a stupid game console I will never use and for dickheads who want to open Excel on their mobile phone. I guess XP licenses will go up again next year, and then I will know I am gratefully contributing to the Clippy-cluster. Bwèèk.
Nokia always said they were not going to do this because it cuts in their customers (read: telco's) revenues. But get to think of it, it would be real cool to do 3G. Give all your ADSL customers routers with built in WIFI. Use the leftover bandwith to allow any of your 3G customers passing by to connect via WIFI instead of UMTS. Save a bundle on antennae, less complaints of people who think UMTS gives you cancer....
Performance on dial-up is pretty much going to depend on what client they use (cacheing of javabeans?) , but on LAN this should not be that much of a problem, no? C'mon, 5 years ago you would have needed C++ to deliver adequate speed, but programs like Jedit are there to show you can make a decent wordprocessor in Java on today's architecture. Remember, "Web-based" can also mean you download all kinds of shit first time you use it...
One of the most spectacular kold-war stunts was when the ruskies gave a wooden statue to the U.S. Embassy. It was of couse thouroughly scanned for mikes and found clean. Turned out the thing had a passive mike in it. The russians would bomb it with microwaves from a nearby building and this would cause the statue to start working like a transmitter. Maybe if you bomb the cans with microwaves, you get them to react?