Tinfoil taken off. Have you heard about scams where some people have registered many times to eBay and have given good feedback to theirselves using these other accounts? Well, I have BUT I couldn't find an article in the net anymore. I guess you understand anyway how easy it basically is.
Well, that analogy is not perfect because at the flea market you actually see the product you're buying and you see also the vendor. At eBay you see only some sure_I_m_honest@hotmail.com address and that's only thing you really know about other end.
That's why there is a huge risk when buying something from eBay.
Hmm, that sounds more like workaround than real solution. You cannot just copy directory from machine to another to install same software on both machines, can you?
That system would also cause situation in which all files are in two locations. Confusing? Oh yes...
As I have understood they both SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP can do pretty much same things so it is quite useless to use both in same products unless products want to be compatible with both systems for some reason(like gaim, trillian etc.). However SIP is much bigger whole than just messaging and presence. It has also possibilites for VOIP and rich content conferencing, push-to-talk.
And about Nokia, they have published new phone which will be in shops in H1/2004 and it has SIP push-to-talk over Cellular implemented in the phone. So Nokia seems to be supporter of both systems.
Check this out: SIP RFC and find out that SIP is not binary protocol. SIP looks like HTTP and XML combined. It has HTTP style headers and usually XML content (when needed). SIP is also very extensible and it already has extensions for chatting, conference calls, Push To talk etc.
I have no idea about XMPP but SIP is pushed by many big players in the market (Nokia, other mobile manufacturers, Micro$oft, Apple apparently).
Think, if there was 400000 mp3s in the internet:
It's faster to compare 400000 md5sums to each other than to compare 400000 files of size 3 megabytes to each other. rough estimation of amount of data to process would be (400000*32)^2 = 1.6 * 10^14, which is very much less than (400000*4 megs)^2 = 1.4 * 10 ^ 24. I know that calculations are not totally correct but they represent the magnitude of data processed and the idea why to use md5sums instead of complete files.
Now, don't hate for this, but the commies, as you say, had nice ideology behind it. Too bad that realization never succeeded and propably never will. I think human kind is too selfish to make it work.
Capitalism has its weak points too but it seems to work a little bit better.:)
You're right. I must agree. There really isn't any wrong in making own editor if one doesn't like current ones. But I must anyway point out that people could cooperate more than at the moment they do. Of course anybody can program even new operating system if they like (thank god they did) but e.g. Linux is only kernel and some tools around it. All the system shells and system binaries are from GNU project or other common projects which are independent of the development of Linux kernel. And that is good model. That is something I'd like to see also in desktop environments. I don't want to be forced use different applications just because I chose different desktop environment than before. I know that I still can use gaim or some other Gnome application still if I'm using KDE but these are not working under KDE as well as they could.
That is the best argument presented so far on this issue. I don't say, that nobody should do any other editor because there is already one, but I think that many of the Gnome and KDE applications or addons are made only because the system lacks one.
Do you need 100 models of cars which all have same engine and chassis but different dashboard? Maybe just one car which has changeable dashboard?
The problem is that these applications are duplicated many times just to have same kind of application also in the other desktop system. Do you think we need dozen KWrite-alike programs which all have very little features?
I guess smarter developer would have ported karamba to gnome. I've had enough of this duplication of every goddamn app in world for both of the systems. What's the use of making everything twice? Waste of talented programming resources, IMHO.
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Tinfoil taken off. Have you heard about scams where some people have registered many times to eBay and have given good feedback to theirselves using these other accounts? Well, I have BUT I couldn't find an article in the net anymore. I guess you understand anyway how easy it basically is.
That's why there is a huge risk when buying something from eBay.
And no, I don't buy anything from eBay.
Actually I heard that it didn't sell so well because it had relatively underpowered engine for the market.
Why not? It's a distribution like any other.
I sincerely don't think so. Ordering 1000 custom CPUs would be very expensive. 1000 pieces is rather small amount for customization.
That system would also cause situation in which all files are in two locations. Confusing? Oh yes...
You wild guess was close but not enough. It's Estonian.
I guess this whole article should be deleted...
Hmm, not all the important languages are represented in the list. I didn't see e.g. whitespace implementation.
As I have understood they both SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP can do pretty much same things so it is quite useless to use both in same products unless products want to be compatible with both systems for some reason(like gaim, trillian etc.). However SIP is much bigger whole than just messaging and presence. It has also possibilites for VOIP and rich content conferencing, push-to-talk. And about Nokia, they have published new phone which will be in shops in H1/2004 and it has SIP push-to-talk over Cellular implemented in the phone. So Nokia seems to be supporter of both systems.
Check this out: SIP RFC and find out that SIP is not binary protocol. SIP looks like HTTP and XML combined. It has HTTP style headers and usually XML content (when needed). SIP is also very extensible and it already has extensions for chatting, conference calls, Push To talk etc. I have no idea about XMPP but SIP is pushed by many big players in the market (Nokia, other mobile manufacturers, Micro$oft, Apple apparently).
This was exactly what I was after.
Think, if there was 400000 mp3s in the internet:
It's faster to compare 400000 md5sums to each other than to compare 400000 files of size 3 megabytes to each other. rough estimation of amount of data to process would be (400000*32)^2 = 1.6 * 10^14, which is very much less than (400000*4 megs)^2 = 1.4 * 10 ^ 24. I know that calculations are not totally correct but they represent the magnitude of data processed and the idea why to use md5sums instead of complete files.
sorry, I ment of course "...the commies, as you call them, had...".
Capitalism has its weak points too but it seems to work a little bit better. :)
You're right. I must agree. There really isn't any wrong in making own editor if one doesn't like current ones. But I must anyway point out that people could cooperate more than at the moment they do. Of course anybody can program even new operating system if they like (thank god they did) but e.g. Linux is only kernel and some tools around it. All the system shells and system binaries are from GNU project or other common projects which are independent of the development of Linux kernel. And that is good model. That is something I'd like to see also in desktop environments. I don't want to be forced use different applications just because I chose different desktop environment than before. I know that I still can use gaim or some other Gnome application still if I'm using KDE but these are not working under KDE as well as they could.
That is the best argument presented so far on this issue. I don't say, that nobody should do any other editor because there is already one, but I think that many of the Gnome and KDE applications or addons are made only because the system lacks one.
The problem is that these applications are duplicated many times just to have same kind of application also in the other desktop system. Do you think we need dozen KWrite-alike programs which all have very little features?
I guess smarter developer would have ported karamba to gnome. I've had enough of this duplication of every goddamn app in world for both of the systems. What's the use of making everything twice? Waste of talented programming resources, IMHO.