The Brits would certainly not get bothered enough about the risks of a US monopoly, the French on the other hand can be relied upon to get into a galic stew over the issue.
Do you mean garlic stew? That would be very French.
It's also used for confirming sheep numbers for headage payments (subsidies per animal). It lead to a phenomenon in the west of Ireland a couple of years ago where the sale of inflatable sheep went crazy. Farmers were buying them in bulk and putting them in their fields in an effort to boost their numbers.
As it's a search engine, the content is only useful if it's kept fresh. I don't think that people would continue running the client if the database went the way of CDDB. Whether they like it or not, they've got to keep the people running the clients happy.
As an investor, I wouldn't look to favourably on a business plan that relied on keeping the great unwashed slashdot audience happy (who else is going to run the client?)
> I really couldn't imagine having a 'Development Appliance' for
> development work since every developer I know does things a little bit differently
Not sure I agree with this.
You only need a general purpose computer for development if you are running the program on your own machine. But there's nothing stopping you from having a "development machine" to do your coding and a "testbed machine" to do testing and debugging. In fact, as long as the interactions between the machines are nice and streamlined, this might be a much nicer way to do things. One really nice bonus would be that there's absolutely no chance of crashing your OS.
Good point - this is like the embedded development model. The target is seen as external to the development machine.
Once they see the kind of legal protections that American companies are getting, they will demand the same in the name of "fairness," "competition," etc. The largely nebulous enlightenment of Europe and Europeans may soon fall victim to raw corporate power.
Who are they? American companies employ lobbyists in Europe too you know...
GPRS is what is known as 2.5G as it is a bolt on to existing GSM networks, and offers about 128Kbps per cell (note, not per user) the bandwidth is shared between all users.
UMTS is 3G, and is going to be based on (ironically American) CDMA (aka Could have Done More Arithmetic) technology.
Thanks for the clarification. I must remember to not pay so much attention to our marketing people in future.
MBAslug:
I am willing to accept frictional incompatabilities and system failures because the cost for this is still lower than the long term cost of the government setting one standard and maintaining it far beyond its useful life
What a martyr to the one true way you are! Seriously, though, your analysis is slightly out of kilter with what's really happenning. In Europe, telcos are already seriously gearing up for the next generations (3G, 4G) of 'enforced' standards - UMTS, GPRS - which will (eventually) bring streaming video (and other high bandwidth services) to the handset (note - not necessarily a phone).
Rather than holding back the development of the market, the enforced standard has actually promoted market acceptance of the technology.
> Guns are not inherently dangerous products at all.
In The Social Animal, Elliot Aronson relates a study involving guns. In the chapter on Human Aggression. It was found that the mere presence of a firearm could increase a subject's level of aggression. This finding would seem to disprove the "guns don't kill people" mantra.
I agree, foreigners are bad news. We also had some foreigners working with us for a while and they were useless. Of course, in my case, the foreigners were Americans.
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I often wondered why, having survived hitting the bridge, they would want to commit suicide.
Embarrassment
The Brits would certainly not get bothered enough about the risks of a US monopoly, the French on the other hand can be relied upon to get into a galic stew over the issue.
Do you mean garlic stew? That would be very French.
What a waste of Euro taxpayer dollars
It would be a waste, except we don't pay our tax in dollars. We pay in Euros, which are worthless anyway. So, technically, it's not a waste.
It's also used for confirming sheep numbers for headage payments (subsidies per animal). It lead to a phenomenon in the west of Ireland a couple of years ago where the sale of inflatable sheep went crazy. Farmers were buying them in bulk and putting them in their fields in an effort to boost their numbers.
As it's a search engine, the content is only useful if it's kept fresh. I don't think that people would continue running the client if the database went the way of CDDB. Whether they like it or not, they've got to keep the people running the clients happy.
As an investor, I wouldn't look to favourably on a business plan that relied on keeping the great unwashed slashdot audience happy (who else is going to run the client?)
It's long been a rumour, but finally...
Silicon-based light forms!
> I really couldn't imagine having a 'Development Appliance' for
> development work since every developer I know does things a little bit differently
Not sure I agree with this.
You only need a general purpose computer for development if you are running the program on your own machine. But there's nothing stopping you from having a "development machine" to do your coding and a "testbed machine" to do testing and debugging. In fact, as long as the interactions between the machines are nice and streamlined, this might be a much nicer way to do things. One really nice bonus would be that there's absolutely no chance of crashing your OS.
Good point - this is like the embedded development model. The target is seen as external to the development machine.
Sorry, but if I was running *any* serious company
But you're not - I wonder why?
Agreed. Somewhere to rest your elbows/forearms would also be nice when using the keyboard. What were these people thinking?
Ridiculous, simplistic argument. Classic slashdot.
Once they see the kind of legal protections that American companies are getting, they will demand the same in the name of "fairness," "competition," etc. The largely nebulous enlightenment of Europe and Europeans may soon fall victim to raw corporate power.
Who are they? American companies employ lobbyists in Europe too you know...
4G? Just how exactly are we gearing up for that?
GPRS is what is known as 2.5G as it is a bolt on to existing GSM networks, and offers about 128Kbps per cell (note, not per user) the bandwidth is shared between all users.
UMTS is 3G, and is going to be based on (ironically American) CDMA (aka Could have Done More Arithmetic) technology.
Thanks for the clarification. I must remember to not pay so much attention to our marketing people in future.
MBAslug: I am willing to accept frictional incompatabilities and system failures because the cost for this is still lower than the long term cost of the government setting one standard and maintaining it far beyond its useful life What a martyr to the one true way you are! Seriously, though, your analysis is slightly out of kilter with what's really happenning. In Europe, telcos are already seriously gearing up for the next generations (3G, 4G) of 'enforced' standards - UMTS, GPRS - which will (eventually) bring streaming video (and other high bandwidth services) to the handset (note - not necessarily a phone).
Rather than holding back the development of the market, the enforced standard has actually promoted market acceptance of the technology.
let's have a purile 400 message discussion* while we don't find out!
Here's a better idea: You have one and I'll set my threshold higher.
Don't think anyone's posted about WebWasher. It's pretty useful and is free for non-commercial use.
And this would be a good thing?
> Guns are not inherently dangerous products at all.
In The Social Animal, Elliot Aronson relates a study involving guns. In the chapter on Human Aggression. It was found that the mere presence of a firearm could increase a subject's level of aggression. This finding would seem to disprove the "guns don't kill people" mantra.
It's a cunning plan to divert peoples' effort from improving Linux to improving Windoze.
Yez d00d, goodz communicationz izz vitalzz.
Tosser.
I agree, foreigners are bad news. We also had some foreigners working with us for a while and they were useless. Of course, in my case, the foreigners were Americans.
Ahh, there's nothing like a well reasoned argument backed by a comprehensive understanding of the issues.