Wikipedia says it's so? Oh my, can't argue with that then, can we?
TBPH (to be pedantically honest[patent options reserved]), Wikipedia has gotten more things wrong than right the last few years, so much that most Universities are refusing to accept any work citing it as a reference.
GMail has been around for several years.. yet no objections were raised by him when it opened (google.com has been talking it up since it's inception as a beta service). Go ahead and think "well, it wasn't in germany then..". Bullocks. It's a Google tool. If you've a local google.xyz domain to connect to, chances are it will be in your back yard soon.
It just sounds like this GMail company in Germany got lucky with their name, and rode the wave of Google's Marketing department all the way until he got his chance to open suit against them (because if you don't defend it, you lose it). It's a more subtle squatter movement than registering "microsoft.com", knowing microsoft will eventually pay you off - but imho, sitting on it while Google spent the marketing dosh makes this very similar.
[quote]Doesn't it than make more sense to call it what it really is and just say "XMLHttpRequest?"[/quote]
Not really. Would be about as right as saying "VBScript" instead of ASP.
AU$65 for an 11mps line? My god man, that's nothing.
In Ireland, it costs about 30euro for a 2mb up/512k down connection which is usually shared by 40 people (average contention ratio is 40). To get a contention ratio of less than 20, and bump that speed up to 3mb up, 1mb down costs an average of around 50euro to 70euro depending on who you use.
Availability is around 33%, give or take a handful of percent.
Currently most businesses are leaving Ireland citing, among other things; "over expensive and low quality internet connectivity, low availability for remote users".
Why do I mention Ireland? Guess who owns a nice healthy chunk of Eircom - yeah, your good buddy Telstra.
...which is why I said "for the most part".
I'll agree there are a few folks that are upstanding gems; but as they are very few, the reasonable assumption is that you will not get one of the better options. Otherwise, would people with money bother with private lawyers?
What I find increasingly grevious is that the police department (and by extension the court system) can - and will - arrest anyone with a hairs breadth of suspicion when under pressure (and often when not).
Not only have there been countless cases in the past where the obviously guilty have gotten off scot-free (do I even dare mention OJ?), but there are many cases as well where the innocent have been put behind bars just because the local cops were under pressure to "get someone into the process".
Sad point is, in the eyes of the law you're supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty". Bollocks. If that were the case, you would not be behind bars (or on bail) while the trial is taking place.
If you're innocent and have any assets you are forced to use your own lawyer - otherwise be faced with the prospect of using the cr*p lawyers in the "state provided" attorney listing (for the most part they are, otherwise they would be in the private sector).
IMHO, the state should pay all legal costs if you are found innocent.
We're not talking just loss of freedom folks: we're talking loss of home, future employment prospects, respect of the community, often loss of life; with no compensation to make up for it when innocence is proven. And even if you are found innocent, the Media has already branded you as "involved".
But hey, "Justice" must be served. Unless you're wealthy. Justice don't apply to you then, unless you've got blood splattered all over your gloves and car (oh wait, not even then)..
But I would suggest trying a multiplayer online game, like Neverwinter nights or (as suggested) guild wars, etc. I recently had the same painful exercise with my wife, and I found that to be a quick way to teach her the ropes without causing me much pain. We both created new characters together, and picked a multiplayer server that I didn't know (to make us both 'noobs').
Now we both play games like Halo, UT.. and the great part is, no more getting bollocked over playing games. Worked out well for both of us.
You have got to be kidding if you take this seriously. So many premises, so many assumptions.
For example: "...this requirement could be relaxed on the assumption that a game-lover will own a separate Xbox or PlayStation". Not only do I think that's a bad assumption; but the attraction of the mobile phone as a pc is to _reduce_ clutter, no?
Carry on to his reasons why a PC is a bad thing (just the ones I thought were interesting)
1) "A standard PC offers multiple ways to do any given task, thus creating confusion (e.g., email can be sent from Outlook Express, Outlook, clicking right on a document, using a Web-based mail system such as Gmail or Hotmail)". So; we must let someone else (Bill Gates maybe?) decide what we use?
2) "A standard PC needs to be told who are the users and what are their privileges.". Not gonna even touch that one. Needless to say, I think a good few people would love it if this is removed - your bank balance may be a little empty, but hey less hassle. For families, it's even worse.
3)...
4) "A standard PC always has the potential for someone to come along and install performance-hogging software or otherwise compromise the system with configuration changes.". Author: read your own point 2.
All in all, an interesting concept but very poorly thought-out document.
actually, I seem to remember a stink over MS SQL Server, as they bought a limited-use licence for software used to make SQL Server work. This licence [IIRC] makes it illegal to modify SQL Server, or to use it in different environments. Redhat offering services to indemnify buyers against this is actually helping to get those that would hesitate - and it's actually still far more economical that MS (actually, if you count future support and forced upgrades from MS, Linux distro's could charge $1000 per seat and still come over cheaper in the whole TCO argument).
Off topic, but there was a big stink about this over a period of what? a few hours on slashdot?
Really, stop advertising these ginks that don't help the problem, and start getting more information up on the propriety sh****** that is the problem..
Amen. It's comments like that which make new users (YES I AM NEW TO LINUX, AND I WANT MY GUI DAWGGARNIT) cringe at the prospect. I don't have the money to blow on a new top-of-the-line spankmeister of a pc; I find my Celeron 600 with 256mb RAM does almost everything I want - at a decent speed - on Win2K (pfft!). And Win95. And WinNT. And Win98 (but that's a sad story). Yet install a recent copy of Linux (most recently tried Mandrake 10 - and no, that's not the only flavour I've tried); the pc goes so fast it almost catches up with a cooked fillet of fish on dry land running from Barney the ShoeMouse! That's using plain old default install (ie like a newbie).
I think the guys out there who make things count should look at this as being a major issue with Linux and fix that FIRST before trying to compete in mainstream. Because until Linux stops being so top-heavy, it will be popular - yes! it is VERY stable, yes! it has uber-benefits, but it will never take over other OS' as a realistic alternitive.
Well, my 2c, anyway (cowers behind flame-retardant underwear).
So, Borland has this TODO Task List feature and it's really cool, but they're not a$$holes about it, hey it's a free world and they supply the source code to the majority of their inner workings for Delphi, et al. So along comes Mr Gate$ and sees a cool idea waiting to be stolen! Not unlike the Windows Platform! Kinda like everything they sell!
I can imagine the board meeting for this one: 'Hey, Steve-o! Guess what I done seen - uh, lemme rephrase that! Guess what I just done thought up my self - an automatic list built from those daft notes developers use in their - what was that thing again - oh, yeah,comments. Ya know, like maybe we can patent this and then make Borl- ah, I mean any patent offenders Cough Up, like we got spanked on the ActiveX deal!'
Ok, this is slightly OT; but the last time I installed Mandrake (9.0 IIRC); it was too slow on the Celeron600 (only machine I have!), so I decided to reinstall Windows2000 (yes, yes, evil, wooooo, etc, etc) which (having been the previous OS) I found was a _hell_ of a lot faster than XFree. Yes, maybe my install was crap. Maybe I should disable this and that. [btw, the reinstallation totally fried the partitions - creating a gazillion partitions of about 1mb each. Got that fixed, but that's not what I wanted to make the point about]. The point I was wanting to make is that the installation (using defaults, mind) resulted in a very slow system, _very_ noticably slower than Windows2000. Is this version faster than 9.0?
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and possibly had people on the payrole working with Linux code for a time before this.. what would have prevented them from placing the offensive code into the codebase at some point in the last few years, then grabbing the latest distro from some choice companies (IBM/Redhat/Suse/etc) and verifying if that code was still there? Yes, it sounds kinda cloak-an-daggerish (even MS-ish), but I wouldn't put it past them..
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Guantanamo. Where the rights of the world are pissed on en-masse. Nothing to see here folks..
It never ceases to amaze me how scientists always think that, if there is life out there, it's as limited as us in creativity/science/life/etc.
[quote]he detainee topics themselves weren't harmed in any substantive way by the lack of ID numbers[/quote] Yeah, the Gitmo guards took care of that.
The US Government doing something reprehensible! OH GOD NO TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUE.
Wikipedia says it's so? Oh my, can't argue with that then, can we? TBPH (to be pedantically honest[patent options reserved]), Wikipedia has gotten more things wrong than right the last few years, so much that most Universities are refusing to accept any work citing it as a reference.
GMail has been around for several years.. yet no objections were raised by him when it opened (google.com has been talking it up since it's inception as a beta service). Go ahead and think "well, it wasn't in germany then..". Bullocks. It's a Google tool. If you've a local google.xyz domain to connect to, chances are it will be in your back yard soon. It just sounds like this GMail company in Germany got lucky with their name, and rode the wave of Google's Marketing department all the way until he got his chance to open suit against them (because if you don't defend it, you lose it). It's a more subtle squatter movement than registering "microsoft.com", knowing microsoft will eventually pay you off - but imho, sitting on it while Google spent the marketing dosh makes this very similar.
[quote]Doesn't it than make more sense to call it what it really is and just say "XMLHttpRequest?"[/quote] Not really. Would be about as right as saying "VBScript" instead of ASP.
AU$65 for an 11mps line? My god man, that's nothing. In Ireland, it costs about 30euro for a 2mb up/512k down connection which is usually shared by 40 people (average contention ratio is 40). To get a contention ratio of less than 20, and bump that speed up to 3mb up, 1mb down costs an average of around 50euro to 70euro depending on who you use. Availability is around 33%, give or take a handful of percent. Currently most businesses are leaving Ireland citing, among other things; "over expensive and low quality internet connectivity, low availability for remote users". Why do I mention Ireland? Guess who owns a nice healthy chunk of Eircom - yeah, your good buddy Telstra.
...which is why I said "for the most part". I'll agree there are a few folks that are upstanding gems; but as they are very few, the reasonable assumption is that you will not get one of the better options. Otherwise, would people with money bother with private lawyers?
What I find increasingly grevious is that the police department (and by extension the court system) can - and will - arrest anyone with a hairs breadth of suspicion when under pressure (and often when not). Not only have there been countless cases in the past where the obviously guilty have gotten off scot-free (do I even dare mention OJ?), but there are many cases as well where the innocent have been put behind bars just because the local cops were under pressure to "get someone into the process". Sad point is, in the eyes of the law you're supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty". Bollocks. If that were the case, you would not be behind bars (or on bail) while the trial is taking place. If you're innocent and have any assets you are forced to use your own lawyer - otherwise be faced with the prospect of using the cr*p lawyers in the "state provided" attorney listing (for the most part they are, otherwise they would be in the private sector). IMHO, the state should pay all legal costs if you are found innocent. We're not talking just loss of freedom folks: we're talking loss of home, future employment prospects, respect of the community, often loss of life; with no compensation to make up for it when innocence is proven. And even if you are found innocent, the Media has already branded you as "involved". But hey, "Justice" must be served. Unless you're wealthy. Justice don't apply to you then, unless you've got blood splattered all over your gloves and car (oh wait, not even then)..
But I would suggest trying a multiplayer online game, like Neverwinter nights or (as suggested) guild wars, etc. I recently had the same painful exercise with my wife, and I found that to be a quick way to teach her the ropes without causing me much pain. We both created new characters together, and picked a multiplayer server that I didn't know (to make us both 'noobs'). Now we both play games like Halo, UT.. and the great part is, no more getting bollocked over playing games. Worked out well for both of us.
You have got to be kidding if you take this seriously. So many premises, so many assumptions. For example: "...this requirement could be relaxed on the assumption that a game-lover will own a separate Xbox or PlayStation". Not only do I think that's a bad assumption; but the attraction of the mobile phone as a pc is to _reduce_ clutter, no? Carry on to his reasons why a PC is a bad thing (just the ones I thought were interesting) 1) "A standard PC offers multiple ways to do any given task, thus creating confusion (e.g., email can be sent from Outlook Express, Outlook, clicking right on a document, using a Web-based mail system such as Gmail or Hotmail)". So; we must let someone else (Bill Gates maybe?) decide what we use? 2) "A standard PC needs to be told who are the users and what are their privileges.". Not gonna even touch that one. Needless to say, I think a good few people would love it if this is removed - your bank balance may be a little empty, but hey less hassle. For families, it's even worse. 3) ...
4) "A standard PC always has the potential for someone to come along and install performance-hogging software or otherwise compromise the system with configuration changes.". Author: read your own point 2.
All in all, an interesting concept but very poorly thought-out document.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/mopi2.html
actually, I seem to remember a stink over MS SQL Server, as they bought a limited-use licence for software used to make SQL Server work. This licence [IIRC] makes it illegal to modify SQL Server, or to use it in different environments. Redhat offering services to indemnify buyers against this is actually helping to get those that would hesitate - and it's actually still far more economical that MS (actually, if you count future support and forced upgrades from MS, Linux distro's could charge $1000 per seat and still come over cheaper in the whole TCO argument). Off topic, but there was a big stink about this over a period of what? a few hours on slashdot? Really, stop advertising these ginks that don't help the problem, and start getting more information up on the propriety sh****** that is the problem..
Amen. It's comments like that which make new users (YES I AM NEW TO LINUX, AND I WANT MY GUI DAWGGARNIT) cringe at the prospect. I don't have the money to blow on a new top-of-the-line spankmeister of a pc; I find my Celeron 600 with 256mb RAM does almost everything I want - at a decent speed - on Win2K (pfft!). And Win95. And WinNT. And Win98 (but that's a sad story). Yet install a recent copy of Linux (most recently tried Mandrake 10 - and no, that's not the only flavour I've tried); the pc goes so fast it almost catches up with a cooked fillet of fish on dry land running from Barney the ShoeMouse! That's using plain old default install (ie like a newbie). I think the guys out there who make things count should look at this as being a major issue with Linux and fix that FIRST before trying to compete in mainstream. Because until Linux stops being so top-heavy, it will be popular - yes! it is VERY stable, yes! it has uber-benefits, but it will never take over other OS' as a realistic alternitive. Well, my 2c, anyway (cowers behind flame-retardant underwear).
So, Borland has this TODO Task List feature and it's really cool, but they're not a$$holes about it, hey it's a free world and they supply the source code to the majority of their inner workings for Delphi, et al.
So along comes Mr Gate$ and sees a cool idea waiting to be stolen! Not unlike the Windows Platform! Kinda like everything they sell!
I can imagine the board meeting for this one:
'Hey, Steve-o! Guess what I done seen - uh, lemme rephrase that! Guess what I just done thought up my self - an automatic list built from those daft notes developers use in their - what was that thing again - oh, yeah,comments. Ya know, like maybe we can patent this and then make Borl- ah, I mean any patent offenders Cough Up, like we got spanked on the ActiveX deal!'
Ok, this is slightly OT; but the last time I installed Mandrake (9.0 IIRC); it was too slow on the Celeron600 (only machine I have!), so I decided to reinstall Windows2000 (yes, yes, evil, wooooo, etc, etc) which (having been the previous OS) I found was a _hell_ of a lot faster than XFree. Yes, maybe my install was crap. Maybe I should disable this and that. [btw, the reinstallation totally fried the partitions - creating a gazillion partitions of about 1mb each. Got that fixed, but that's not what I wanted to make the point about]. The point I was wanting to make is that the installation (using defaults, mind) resulted in a very slow system, _very_ noticably slower than Windows2000. Is this version faster than 9.0?
and possibly had people on the payrole working with Linux code for a time before this..
what would have prevented them from placing the offensive code into the codebase at some point in the last few years, then grabbing the latest distro from some choice companies (IBM/Redhat/Suse/etc) and verifying if that code was still there? Yes, it sounds kinda cloak-an-daggerish (even MS-ish), but I wouldn't put it past them..