I'll probably get moderated troll for that but it's pretty obvious to me: Put your data into a (trusted) cloud and not onto the phone itself, use encryption on the way and you are as safe as you can get. The phone is only useful when connected anyway, so why should I have to carry the data on the phone?
The phones are useful when not connected because you have stored your important data on the device. Because cell phone coverage and WIFI are not ubiquitous, a phone connected to the cloud is essentially useless in the absence of a signal. I have visited places all over this country where a flare gun would have been more a effective means of communication than my smartphone, but I could still call up that important office document, pdf or diagram because it was stored locally on the device. Less secure, probably. More convenient, absolutely.....
Palm is wrong here, Apple is primarily a hardware company and uses iTunes, the App Store and OSX in order to increase their hardware sales. Allowing Palm to hack together support for iTunes in a competing product jeopardizes Apple's business model, they are right to fight back. THEN Palm goes and advertises iTunes support as a key feature of their competing device when it's nothing more than a hack talk about biting that hand that unwillingly feeds you.
Palm could have licensed support for iTunes from Apple and avoided this all together, but this is probably an indicator of where they are as a viable company right now. They have 1 relevant product and are exclusive on a carrier that runs a very distant 3rd as far as subscriber base. WebOS is very nice, but that IP just solidifies them as a prime target for takeover, they will not beat Apple at this game........
You are moving too fast, Politicians are not concerned with the details. They have been advised that broadband sucks. The details of making broadband suck less are left to the providers and they will pass that cost on to us........
if the indy car was actually RUNNING LINUX, someone please correct me if I am wrong. At least have the car's ECU running linux and geeks might take an interest. I personally find no interest in donating money to see tux included in a sea of advertising, what are we talking here, a few stickers? Yes, I know ANY publicity is good publicity and I really am a capitalist at heart, but I need a little more to open my wallet.....
A reverse split will keep them from being delisted, and they could quietly list it in their late 10K filing, but the market almost never reacts kindly to reverse splits,just look at AT&T and Lucent, both hammered by the street after reverse splits. I speculate that if they do this, it is the final nail in the coffin for SCO a stock doesn't trade under a dollar unless there are serious financial problems, a reverse split would simply confirm that management feels that the end is near.
I don't see how they have a case. California already enforces a stricter vehicle emissions standard than the rest of the US hence the term "california emissions". If I am not mistaken, all automakers who sell cars in Cali are required to modify their vehicles to meet the stricter standard. If the automakers have done this, which they obviously have, then they are following emissions standards created by California, not the generic standards set forth by the US Govt. If cars are still polluting too much, then I would think they should have set a lower standard to begin with and the auto makers are not at fault as they are simply following th rules. Someone please correct me if I am wrong........
Microsoft developer network at htt:\\msdn.microsoft.com IMHO its probably more information than most developers might need to accomplish a given task or learn about 2k5 MS technology. Don't sleep, msdn has some excellent content and the coverage of the new SQL 2005 implementation is fairly extensive. Most books I buy collect dust after just a few weeks.......
You should pretty much expect it to live until, well, the end of the internet. Unless their website is some sort of copyrighted work, I don't think they have a leg to stand on.
Say what you will about the evil empire, but this is a good move for them and not really surprising considering their acquisition of Virtual PC (connectix I think). The VPC software while not the best on the market, is extremely useful. On my windoze XP Laptop, I have different Virtual PC images for Oracle, SQL Server 2005 Beta, Redhat Enterprise Linux, etc. The images do take up quite a bit of space, but since disk drive are affordable, I only have to run a minimal XP installation and only need to worry about upgrades when the latest and greatest service pack comes out. When I'm done with a project, I just shut down the VM, when I'm done with the technology, I delete or archive the VM and keep a clean base OS. Integrating a virtual machine seems like a logical move to me.
most of our team left Debian a while back. While its stability is still a strong point, many other distros are very proactive about putting out a stable, quality product these days without the rediculously long timeline....
Perhaps we are getting back to the good old days of NASA. You just cannot go cheap on space/planet exploration. Look at the original Pioneer probes, these things might just run forever, they were overengineered for the task from the get go. After all of the recent shuttle and probe failures, I'm glad NASA is getting more than they paid for on this one. Space exploration shoud ensure the future of the human race.........
Some people will always want something for nothing regardless of how affordable that something is to be gin with. I do agree that considering the quality of the greater percentage of today's mainstream music,.05 is just about the right price per single......
my take is, we are searching for signs of intelligent life based upon technologies that we have mastered. Perhaps, we are the infants of interstellar communications and they communicate in a fashion thats completely, well, alien to us and our technology. I would not ruled out other dimensions either. Plus, if you were an advanced civilization would you make yourself know to or allow yourself to be discovered by a planet of savages constantly on the verge of destroying themselves? Its like going on safari and walking in on a pack of lions to introduce yourself........
I disagree, excel is the STANDARD for number cunching and for good reason. I can take excel from Office XP and directly connect to an olap data source or just about any other data source for that matter. I can create pivot tables, do trend analysis, data mining, and most enterprise reporting from this single application. In addition I can put that information on the web and interact with my data in the exact same way as I would within the application. While all of this can probably be done with some combination of open source alternatives, you just can't beat the ease of use that comes with MS Excel. I can create my data sources, be they relational, dimensional, or olap regardless of complexity and tell the business users to analyze to their hearts content. They know how to use excel so the learning curve is practically nil. I am a huge fan of open source software in general, but gnumeric just doesn't cut it at the enterprise level. I hope this clone can bridge some of the gaps.
"Linux is developed in a so-called open-source environment in which the software code generally isn't owned by any one company. That, as well as programs such as music-sharing software from Napster Inc., means the world's largest software maker has to do a better job of talking to policymakers, he said.
I love the way he just goes off on a tangent now Linux and Napster share the same light. Come on now, are you against Open Source or Fair Use, which is it? Can you even get the source code for napster?????
the average age of a U.S. Gov't official is around
60 yrs of age, I don't think we will be moving to e-ballots just yet. The generation that has grown up with the internet has about ooohhh 30 years before they will hold seats in Congress or any other high ranking political position that might make a difference. I know they have advisors, but
in this day and age of political accountability (finally we have a little here in the US), would you vote for something you don't or can't understand?
If I remember correctly, the military is working with a technology known as Active Caomouflage. This system would allow a soldier's uniform or a tactical vehicle's camouflage netting to analyze the light signatures of the surrounding terrain and mimic these signatures thus integrating the soldier or vehicle into the surrounding area. There is an army Submission of Proposal for this technology. Read about it here. From what I understand, the candidate would wear a special suit lined with fiber optic cabling which would dynamically integrage the wearer into his surroundings. There was also a special on the Discovery Channel last year about this technology but I can find no reference to the programme on their website.
"So what if you can still determine the location by triangulation"
Actually, triangulation will not be allowed under this ruling. The only requirement for Cellular carriers will be to provide the location of the tower handling the call. The court rightly felt that triangulation "could undermine individual privacy" because triangulating a persons position based on towers turns a cell phone into a tracking device.
UNIX and UNIX-like Operating Systems were not created to serve as desktop Operating Systems. UNIX does not suck at being a server the purpose for which it was intended. If a man dresses up in pumps and a nice dress will he not suck as a woman? (no pun intended, well maybe;) Perhaps Miguel should concentrate on writing a linux variant made specifically as a desktop OS that doesn't suck. You don't see the helixcode team crying that UNIX sucks when they are pedalling their CDs do you? How can you start a company
selling a free product that you think sucks?
There is alot more info at the Bell Labs website. It appears to be yet another Network OS but I think it is well work a look. Running it as an application under linux won't cost me anything so I may give it a try. Also Bell Labs has some great documentation on the OS at their site, including a programmers manual for Limbo the OS's programming language various other things that might be of interest read or download it all here . I gotta admit that the screenshot of the Inferno desktop doesn't inspire me. I don't think that the GUI is the main concern of these developers and that IMHO is a good thing. Peace
If I am not mistaken, RDRAM will be the more expensive of the two technologies. RDRAM can be incredibly fast, much faster than SDRAM but suffers from latency problems in some circumstances due the the use of a 16-bit bus for RDRAM as opposed to a 64-bit bus for SDRAM. Hardware Central has a nice comparison of the pros and cons of each. The link is The Future of RAM RDRAM vs. DDR Explained
While a PDA should do those things, I don't see any problem with them doing much more. Could you imagine 1 device with integraged GPS, Cellphone, MP3 player, digital radio receiver, camera, etc. I think this would be a dream come true. My palm V is a great device and I will not be replacing it any time soon, but once these things have proven themselves in the marketplace, I'll be maxing out the credit card again;-) The fact that it might include the stability of Linux would only be a plus.
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I'll probably get moderated troll for that but it's pretty obvious to me:
Put your data into a (trusted) cloud and not onto the phone itself, use encryption on the way and you are as safe as you can get. The phone is only useful when connected anyway, so why should I have to carry the data on the phone?
The phones are useful when not connected because you have stored your important data on the device. Because cell phone coverage and WIFI are not ubiquitous, a phone connected to the cloud is essentially useless in the absence of a signal. I have visited places all over this country where a flare gun would have been more a effective means of communication than my smartphone, but I could still call up that important office document, pdf or diagram because it was stored locally on the device. Less secure, probably. More convenient, absolutely.....
Palm is wrong here, Apple is primarily a hardware company and uses iTunes, the App Store and OSX in order to increase their hardware sales. Allowing Palm to hack together support for iTunes in a competing product jeopardizes Apple's business model, they are right to fight back. THEN Palm goes and advertises iTunes support as a key feature of their competing device when it's nothing more than a hack talk about biting that hand that unwillingly feeds you.
Palm could have licensed support for iTunes from Apple and avoided this all together, but this is probably an indicator of where they are as a viable company right now. They have 1 relevant product and are exclusive on a carrier that runs a very distant 3rd as far as subscriber base. WebOS is very nice, but that IP just solidifies them as a prime target for takeover, they will not beat Apple at this game........
You are moving too fast, Politicians are not concerned with the details. They have been advised that broadband sucks. The details of making broadband suck less are left to the providers and they will pass that cost on to us........
if the indy car was actually RUNNING LINUX, someone please correct me if I am wrong. At least have the car's ECU running linux and geeks might take an interest. I personally find no interest in donating money to see tux included in a sea of advertising, what are we talking here, a few stickers? Yes, I know ANY publicity is good publicity and I really am a capitalist at heart, but I need a little more to open my wallet.....
A reverse split will keep them from being delisted, and they could quietly list it in their late 10K filing, but the market almost never reacts kindly to reverse splits,just look at AT&T and Lucent, both hammered by the street after reverse splits. I speculate that if they do this, it is the final nail in the coffin for SCO a stock doesn't trade under a dollar unless there are serious financial problems, a reverse split would simply confirm that management feels that the end is near.
When your business model depends upon litigation, and you have no one else to sue. What do you expect to happen?
I don't see how they have a case. California already enforces a stricter vehicle emissions standard than the rest of the US hence the term "california emissions". If I am not mistaken, all automakers who sell cars in Cali are required to modify their vehicles to meet the stricter standard. If the automakers have done this, which they obviously have, then they are following emissions standards created by California, not the generic standards set forth by the US Govt. If cars are still polluting too much, then I would think they should have set a lower standard to begin with and the auto makers are not at fault as they are simply following th rules. Someone please correct me if I am wrong........
Microsoft developer network at htt:\\msdn.microsoft.com IMHO its probably more information than most developers might need to accomplish a given task or learn about 2k5 MS technology. Don't sleep, msdn has some excellent content and the coverage of the new SQL 2005 implementation is fairly extensive. Most books I buy collect dust after just a few weeks.......
You should pretty much expect it to live until, well, the end of the internet. Unless their website is some sort of copyrighted work, I don't think they have a leg to stand on.
Say what you will about the evil empire, but this is a good move for them and not really surprising considering their acquisition of Virtual PC (connectix I think). The VPC software while not the best on the market, is extremely useful. On my windoze XP Laptop, I have different Virtual PC images for Oracle, SQL Server 2005 Beta, Redhat Enterprise Linux, etc. The images do take up quite a bit of space, but since disk drive are affordable, I only have to run a minimal XP installation and only need to worry about upgrades when the latest and greatest service pack comes out. When I'm done with a project, I just shut down the VM, when I'm done with the technology, I delete or archive the VM and keep a clean base OS. Integrating a virtual machine seems like a logical move to me.
most of our team left Debian a while back. While its stability is still a strong point, many other distros are very proactive about putting out a stable, quality product these days without the rediculously long timeline....
Perhaps we are getting back to the good old days of NASA. You just cannot go cheap on space/planet exploration. Look at the original Pioneer probes, these things might just run forever, they were overengineered for the task from the get go. After all of the recent shuttle and probe failures, I'm glad NASA is getting more than they paid for on this one. Space exploration shoud ensure the future of the human race.........
free.........
.05 is just about the right price per single......
Some people will always want something for nothing regardless of how affordable that something is to be gin with. I do agree that considering the quality of the greater percentage of today's mainstream music,
The same coin,
Democrat or Republican, would you like your B.S. baked (for good health )or fried (to keep the cooking oil industry alive)
my take is, we are searching for signs of intelligent life based upon technologies that we have mastered. Perhaps, we are the infants of interstellar communications and they communicate in a fashion thats completely, well, alien to us and our technology. I would not ruled out other dimensions either. Plus, if you were an advanced civilization would you make yourself know to or allow yourself to be discovered by a planet of savages constantly on the verge of destroying themselves? Its like going on safari and walking in on a pack of lions to introduce yourself........
I disagree, excel is the STANDARD for number cunching and for good reason. I can take excel from Office XP and directly connect to an olap data source or just about any other data source for that matter. I can create pivot tables, do trend analysis, data mining, and most enterprise reporting from this single application. In addition I can put that information on the web and interact with my data in the exact same way as I would within the application. While all of this can probably be done with some combination of open source alternatives, you just can't beat the ease of use that comes with MS Excel. I can create my data sources, be they relational, dimensional, or olap regardless of complexity and tell the business users to analyze to their hearts content. They know how to use excel so the learning curve is practically nil. I am a huge fan of open source software in general, but gnumeric just doesn't cut it at the enterprise level. I hope this clone can bridge some of the gaps.
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the average age of a U.S. Gov't official is around
60 yrs of age, I don't think we will be moving to e-ballots just yet. The generation that has grown up with the internet has about ooohhh 30 years before they will hold seats in Congress or any other high ranking political position that might make a difference. I know they have advisors, but
in this day and age of political accountability (finally we have a little here in the US), would you vote for something you don't or can't understand?
If I remember correctly, the military is working with a technology known as Active Caomouflage. This system would allow a soldier's uniform or a tactical vehicle's camouflage netting to analyze the light signatures of the surrounding terrain and mimic these signatures thus integrating the soldier or vehicle into the surrounding area. There is an army Submission of Proposal for this technology. Read about it here. From what I understand, the candidate would wear a special suit lined with fiber optic cabling which would dynamically integrage the wearer into his surroundings. There was also a special on the Discovery Channel last year about this technology but I can find no reference to the programme on their website.
Actually, triangulation will not be allowed under this ruling. The only requirement for Cellular carriers will be to provide the location of the tower handling the call. The court rightly felt that triangulation "could undermine individual privacy" because triangulating a persons position based on towers turns a cell phone into a tracking device.
UNIX and UNIX-like Operating Systems were not created to serve as desktop Operating Systems. UNIX does not suck at being a server the purpose for which it was intended. If a man dresses up in pumps and a nice dress will he not suck as a woman? (no pun intended, well maybe;) Perhaps Miguel should concentrate on writing a linux variant made specifically as a desktop OS that doesn't suck. You don't see the helixcode team crying that UNIX sucks when they are pedalling their CDs do you? How can you start a company
selling a free product that you think sucks?
Congrats Hemos
Just had my 1 year anniversary in May.....good luck!
There is alot more info at the Bell Labs website. It appears to be yet another Network OS but I think it is well work a look. Running it as an application under linux won't cost me anything so I may give it a try. Also Bell Labs has some great documentation on the OS at their site, including a programmers manual for Limbo the OS's programming language various other things that might be of interest read or download it all here . I gotta admit that the screenshot of the Inferno desktop doesn't inspire me. I don't think that the GUI is the main concern of these developers and that IMHO is a good thing. Peace
If I am not mistaken, RDRAM will be the more expensive of the two technologies. RDRAM can be incredibly fast, much faster than SDRAM but suffers from latency problems in some circumstances due the the use of a 16-bit bus for RDRAM as opposed to a 64-bit bus for SDRAM. Hardware Central has a nice comparison of the pros and cons of each. The link is The Future of RAM RDRAM vs. DDR Explained
While a PDA should do those things, I don't see any problem with them doing much more. Could you imagine 1 device with integraged GPS, Cellphone, MP3 player, digital radio receiver, camera, etc. I think this would be a dream come true. My palm V is a great device and I will not be replacing it any time soon, but once these things have proven themselves in the marketplace, I'll be maxing out the credit card again;-) The fact that it might include the stability of Linux would only be a plus.