so I don't see how they can do this without breaking thier agreement with the FCC
I think the first sentence of the article answers that:
"...that transforms a latent portion of the digital television signal..."
I believe the key words are 'latent portion'. If their video signal doesn't use all of the bandwidth allocated to them, then any un-used portion could theoretically be 'reused' without contradicting an agreement to 'trade analog for digital frequencies'...
As long as they're still broadcasting their programming in digital, I don't see a conflict...
Sure. People jumped on the LINUX bandwagon way before they market was ready to accept it, and that means that companies will fold.... especially if they're dedicated to the task.
The possible exception to this is RedHat. But you also have to look at the stuff that RH has done. They've been partnering up the wah-zoo. Dell server preloads are ONLY RedHat. Most of RH's announcements recently have been in the 'big' arena: big databases, big support. Big.
Lastly, Redhat is working to make a zSeries port for IBM.
And those three letters are probably what Microsoft fears more than Linux itself: a LARGE scale vendor dishing up LINUX. If large companies use LINUX with their consolidated servers, then it's going to be an easy/easier push down to smaller/dedicated servers.
IBM has the cash that LINUX needs to get accepted... PLUS, there are datacenters full of mainframes with support people that love them. If LINUX let's them keep them longer, They'll embrace it.
Is this letter real? Maybe, maybe not. Based on meetings I've had w/ MS/Redmond people (part of a corporate trip with a fortune 10 company)... it sure sounds exactly like the attitude I've seen from all the employees I've met (including Balmer himself). There's big ego's, big attitudes, and big expectations. Relentless doesn't even BEGIN to describe these guys...
So, how many updates a month to they provide for my $9.95? I mean for 1/2 of an UNLIMITED ISP account, there better be a LOT of REAL updates available..
Otherwise, there's not a lot of value in that price...
Besides, how much money do these people think I have? $10/mo for Real, $10/mo for ximian, $10 for MP3.com, $10 for napster (maybe, someday)...
Actually, the calendar client in Outlook/Exchange is a 90% client side function. The *ONLY* serverside component is the posting of your 'Free/Busy' data to a public folder that is then replicated to other Exchange servers...
All other calendar services are client based, relying on a pre-determined message format that the client understands...
The security model for Exchange extends down to the FOLDER LEVEL only. There is no item level security, so if you give someone read access to your calendar, then there is NOTHING stopping people from reading any item in that folder... Because the ITEM security is ALSO a client function...(don't trust that 'private' flag! Both Outlook98 Beta2 and Outlook 2000 (pre-SR1) had bugs that IGNORED that flag and allowed you to PRINT or VIEW the 'private items'..)
Microsoft has done what Microsoft does best: CLIENT SOFTWARE. The calendaring system in Exchange is really an outlook-calendaring client with a tiny bit of server-side hooks for Free/Busy data.
In a nut-shell, Exchange is Microsoft Mail on steroids, and that's about it.
...OpenMail is the *only* e-mail platform out there, besides Exchange that will support a whole slew of Microsoft Outlook features.
That is not true (any more). The Calendar product in OpenMail is a version of the Steltor CorporateTime calendar. The Steltor Calendar has an Outlook 'service provider' that allows Outlook to talk to their calendar server. Combine that with SMTP/IMAP4/LDAP, and you've got a close competitor to Exchange..
Take a look at Bynari's Insight product... for another 'possbility'.. Calendar-server less calender service!
Oh, one thing about OpenMail.. it IS standards based, as long as you don't mind running an X.400 mail system with an SMTP gateway...
What happens when I go under an overpass in my car? Last time I checked, satellite communications were line of site... Is my radio going dropp out ever 1/2 mile as a go up 'sunken' highways with overpasses ever 1/2 mile?
The news hear is that Microsoft actually views Linux as the competition. Enough that they'are making sure that that sales force is aware of it, and that, for MS to gain market share, they not only have to take away from Sun, HP, IBM, and etc, but they have to take away from Linux as well...
People say that Win2k is 'almost' there... (I read it in a post for this article), and I start to wonder "It's almost" what? Almost secure? Almost as stable? Almost as flexible? Almost as managable? Almost as inexpensive?
I think you're asking the wrong question. I think the right question is, why do all us 'tekkies' care what happens with Linux in the commercial world? It was created without Microsoft. Why do we care about what MS says and does?
We want it to suceed because we're tired of MS bugs, MS admin hell, MS SW prices, and Sun/HP/SGI HW costs.
Seeing MS actually fear Linux, and IBM/SGI adopt Linux, and Sun to support Gnome, all because it's better, faster, and cheaper is what Linux is about. That's why it's news.
MS can never eliminate Linux. There's nothing to kill. It'll be there for as long as we want it to be... It'll always be over their shoulder. Keeping them honest, and really making them work HARD for their market share.
It's that a little high on the price? A Rio Reciever is only $150, and the audiotron is only $300... Hell, a TiVO with a 60GB hard drive is only $400 (list)...
I'm still looking for an installer that doesn't end in.exe .
"The goal is to leave windows behind... where it started out..."
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All 'scrapping' aside:
Sidebar tools for AIM and more
Built-in JRE support (no DLL copying/.so linking)
Easy IMAP support for Netscape Email
Spell Checker (by default)
'End-user' features like shopping/my netscape buttons)
Flash included (I believe, possibly RealPlayer too)
It's a nice tidy package for people to use... Mozilla can require some 'fussing about' to get it all to play nicely..
If it truely is a issue of the drivers running faster because they know it was quake (not a program that is uses graphics calls in a certain way, but it is acutally an executable called QUAKE3.EXE with quake3 strings inside), then it's not an issue of tuning. If the drivers were 'tuned', they would be optiomized for the way the quake3 engine uses/makes graphics calls. Changing the STRINGS would have no effect.
I'm beginning to think this is is some sort of collusion, although the benefit seems lost to me...
Not publishing the details of a virus does NOT stop the virus from existing. The "I Love You Virus" didn't have a post mortem until AFTER it took down entire corporations networks. Not publishing the details of the virii will NOT stop other hackers from getting their hands on the virus code, and making modifications to it.
Culp is assuming that the only people smart enough to decipher the viruses are the security people themselves, and THAT is the false assumption that invalidates the theory behind the 'essay'...
"it?s unrealistic to expect that we will ever achieve perfection."
Let me finish that sentence for him:
"and maintain our revenue stream, so we're giving up on perfection"
People buy features, and expect 'perfection'. Microsoft delivers 'features' at the COST of perfection. And they can't find a revenue stream in fixing bugs...
"All of these worms made use of security flaws in the systems they attacked, and if there hadn?t been security vulnerabilities in Windows®, Linux, and Solaris®, none of them could have been written."
I remember a day when Microsoft would not have even MENTIONED Linux. Now, it's listed ahead of Solaris...
Then nothing would pick up for the Telezapper when no one is home. (From the FAQ, this is the recommended way of using the Telezapper: let the answering machine pick up the phone).
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so I don't see how they can do this without breaking thier agreement with the FCC
I think the first sentence of the article answers that:
"...that transforms a latent portion of the digital television signal..."
I believe the key words are 'latent portion'. If their video signal doesn't use all of the bandwidth allocated to them, then any un-used portion could theoretically be 'reused' without contradicting an agreement to 'trade analog for digital frequencies'...
As long as they're still broadcasting their programming in digital, I don't see a conflict...
I think your comment may be a bit short sited.
Sure. People jumped on the LINUX bandwagon way before they market was ready to accept it, and that means that companies will fold.... especially if they're dedicated to the task.
The possible exception to this is RedHat. But you also have to look at the stuff that RH has done. They've been partnering up the wah-zoo. Dell server preloads are ONLY RedHat. Most of RH's announcements recently have been in the 'big' arena: big databases, big support. Big.
Lastly, Redhat is working to make a zSeries port for IBM.
And those three letters are probably what Microsoft fears more than Linux itself: a LARGE scale vendor dishing up LINUX. If large companies use LINUX with their consolidated servers, then it's going to be an easy/easier push down to smaller/dedicated servers.
IBM has the cash that LINUX needs to get accepted... PLUS, there are datacenters full of mainframes with support people that love them. If LINUX let's them keep them longer, They'll embrace it.
Is this letter real? Maybe, maybe not. Based on meetings I've had w/ MS/Redmond people (part of a corporate trip with a fortune 10 company)... it sure sounds exactly like the attitude I've seen from all the employees I've met (including Balmer himself). There's big ego's, big attitudes, and big expectations. Relentless doesn't even BEGIN to describe these guys...
It very well could be real..
--Rule #1 in a flamewar - If your opponent resorts to profanity... you just won.
What the HELL are you talking about?
G*d damn it.. I just lost..
Shit, I did it again...
F*ck...
So, how many updates a month to they provide for my $9.95? I mean for 1/2 of an UNLIMITED ISP account, there better be a LOT of REAL updates available..
Otherwise, there's not a lot of value in that price...
Besides, how much money do these people think I have? $10/mo for Real, $10/mo for ximian, $10 for MP3.com, $10 for napster (maybe, someday)...
geez.
Very easy. Steltor.
Actually, the calendar client in Outlook/Exchange is a 90% client side function. The *ONLY* serverside component is the posting of your 'Free/Busy' data to a public folder that is then replicated to other Exchange servers...
All other calendar services are client based, relying on a pre-determined message format that the client understands...
The security model for Exchange extends down to the FOLDER LEVEL only. There is no item level security, so if you give someone read access to your calendar, then there is NOTHING stopping people from reading any item in that folder... Because the ITEM security is ALSO a client function...(don't trust that 'private' flag! Both Outlook98 Beta2 and Outlook 2000 (pre-SR1) had bugs that IGNORED that flag and allowed you to PRINT or VIEW the 'private items'..)
Microsoft has done what Microsoft does best: CLIENT SOFTWARE. The calendaring system in Exchange is really an outlook-calendaring client with a tiny bit of server-side hooks for Free/Busy data.
In a nut-shell, Exchange is Microsoft Mail on steroids, and that's about it.
...OpenMail is the *only* e-mail platform out there, besides Exchange that will support a whole slew of Microsoft Outlook features.
That is not true (any more). The Calendar product in OpenMail is a version of the Steltor CorporateTime calendar. The Steltor Calendar has an Outlook 'service provider' that allows Outlook to talk to their calendar server. Combine that with SMTP/IMAP4/LDAP, and you've got a close competitor to Exchange..
Take a look at Bynari's Insight product... for another 'possbility'.. Calendar-server less calender service!
Oh, one thing about OpenMail.. it IS standards based, as long as you don't mind running an X.400 mail system with an SMTP gateway...
What happens when I go under an overpass in my car? Last time I checked, satellite communications were line of site... Is my radio going dropp out ever 1/2 mile as a go up 'sunken' highways with overpasses ever 1/2 mile?
I bet they wouldn't! I remember seeing the stack of floppies that = 1 Travan tape.. It was 6 feet high.
And like most things "Microsoft", it's been two years, and nothin'!
Other members of the alliance are Sun, Nokia, Real Networks and General Motors
GENERAL MOTORS?!?!?!
okie-dokie...
Yeah, and I can cut my hair with a butter knife...
the question is...
why would I want to do that?
The RIO reciever is like 8 inches wide, by 6 inches deep, and 3 inches high...
W/ a PC, I have a wired keyboard and a monitor to deal with...
Sometimes, people don't want computers in every room of the house.....
from the comfortable confinds of Jon's Herman-Miller chair...
Jon, did you research your story? Try to verify the facts? Try to corraborate it with conventional news broadcasts?
Jon Katz: reporter, commentator, or story teller? (a/k/a fact, opinion, or fiction?)
The news hear is that Microsoft actually views Linux as the competition. Enough that they'are making sure that that sales force is aware of it, and that, for MS to gain market share, they not only have to take away from Sun, HP, IBM, and etc, but they have to take away from Linux as well...
People say that Win2k is 'almost' there... (I read it in a post for this article), and I start to wonder "It's almost" what? Almost secure? Almost as stable? Almost as flexible? Almost as managable? Almost as inexpensive?
I think you're asking the wrong question. I think the right question is, why do all us 'tekkies' care what happens with Linux in the commercial world? It was created without Microsoft. Why do we care about what MS says and does?
We want it to suceed because we're tired of MS bugs, MS admin hell, MS SW prices, and Sun/HP/SGI HW costs.
Seeing MS actually fear Linux, and IBM/SGI adopt Linux, and Sun to support Gnome, all because it's better, faster, and cheaper is what Linux is about. That's why it's news.
MS can never eliminate Linux. There's nothing to kill. It'll be there for as long as we want it to be... It'll always be over their shoulder. Keeping them honest, and really making them work HARD for their market share.
And *that* is why it's news.
It's that a little high on the price? A Rio Reciever is only $150, and the audiotron is only $300... Hell, a TiVO with a 60GB hard drive is only $400 (list)...
How do they justify a grand?
I'm still looking for an installer that doesn't end in .exe .
"The goal is to leave windows behind... where it started out..."
All 'scrapping' aside:
Sidebar tools for AIM and more
Built-in JRE support (no DLL copying/.so linking)
Easy IMAP support for Netscape Email
Spell Checker (by default)
'End-user' features like shopping/my netscape buttons)
Flash included (I believe, possibly RealPlayer too)
It's a nice tidy package for people to use... Mozilla can require some 'fussing about' to get it all to play nicely..
Looks like a slight discrepancy in the gamma leves... but the details seem similar..
If it truely is a issue of the drivers running faster because they know it was quake (not a program that is uses graphics calls in a certain way, but it is acutally an executable called QUAKE3.EXE with quake3 strings inside), then it's not an issue of tuning. If the drivers were 'tuned', they would be optiomized for the way the quake3 engine uses/makes graphics calls. Changing the STRINGS would have no effect.
I'm beginning to think this is is some sort of collusion, although the benefit seems lost to me...
"Sometimes I don't know my own strength"
I have had a inspiron 7000 REFURB w/ the 15" display going for going on 3 years now, and I haven't broken ONE hinge...
What the HELL are you doing to them?
As for supporting the product, it sounds to me like that's exactly what they are doing: Fixing your broken hinges...
You'll never get a recall, because it's not a safety issue.
Personally, I think you're just angling for a new laptop...
Appearently, this is similar to a group of slashdot posters who are trying to bring back some of the classic (older) Slashdot Articles.
I guess if it's here twice, it's a really good thing...
Not publishing the details of a virus does NOT stop the virus from existing. The "I Love You Virus" didn't have a post mortem until AFTER it took down entire corporations networks. Not publishing the details of the virii will NOT stop other hackers from getting their hands on the virus code, and making modifications to it.
Culp is assuming that the only people smart enough to decipher the viruses are the security people themselves, and THAT is the false assumption that invalidates the theory behind the 'essay'...
"it?s unrealistic to expect that we will ever achieve perfection."
Let me finish that sentence for him:
"and maintain our revenue stream, so we're giving up on perfection"
People buy features, and expect 'perfection'. Microsoft delivers 'features' at the COST of perfection. And they can't find a revenue stream in fixing bugs...
"All of these worms made use of security flaws in the systems they attacked, and if there hadn?t been security vulnerabilities in Windows®, Linux, and Solaris®, none of them could have been written."
I remember a day when Microsoft would not have even MENTIONED Linux. Now, it's listed ahead of Solaris...
Cool.
Then nothing would pick up for the Telezapper when no one is home. (From the FAQ, this is the recommended way of using the Telezapper: let the answering machine pick up the phone).