I bet a million that brotli and zopfli come from Google in Switzerland. IN Swiss German, these are two types of small baked breads/buns, Brötli and Zöpfli.
Now go and tell Patrick McManus that I find his intervention a gross cultural ignorance.
It is ALWAYS the non-technical bureaucrats making the purchasing decisions, since they have the money. But it is the job of the IT/Computer Techs/Nerds under their command to show them the alternatives and, clearly, state why X is better than Y.
Did you ever ask yourself why THEY have the money? Why THEY are in charge?
Because your technical bureaucrats/nerds are unable to keep an overview of the situation. Because they get lost in technical details instead of balancing various facts in their argumentation.
Ok, so take that step back indeed and look at it:
For a very low price, you get access to the largest and most complete software ecosystem in the world. Well documented software. Large availability of human resources trained in using this particular OS.
Linux has its place. But not as the desktop of complex large scale companies.
Write some MS-bashing "article", submit to Slashdot - voilà, instant "fame".
I distantly remember the days when slashdot wasn't overloaded with dupes and trash
As we all know the final ruling will have ramifications on the tech world well beyond P2P
Please, keep the dimensions in check:-)
USA != tech world
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose...
Don't know why such an article makes news in the US, but we've had successful car sharing over here for years. In Switzerland (mainly in urban regions), 58'000 people share ~1'800 cars. You make a reservation over phone or internet, then your membercard opens the car doors when your time has come (car exchanges data with the server using SMS / GSM text messaging)
For each usage, you pay a price per km driven and per hour used, depending on car category. for a small car, this usually works out at something like 0.5 USD per km, larger ones 20-50% more.
If you live in a place with good public transport, it's perfect.
Funny that this comes up right now - because it was only yesterday evening that I happily decided that I now finally have a pretty perfect eBook reader:
A Sony Clie TH55 with Plucker, using the new anti-aliased 'Utopia' fonts.
Simply beautiful at 320x480 pix, easy navigation, fullscreen-mode (nicluding landscape), long battery life, good price (350-400$).
[And I'm not even mentioning the rest of the fun... WiFi, Bluetooth, Movie- and Voicerecorder, Video- and MP3-Player...plus the full Palm universe...]
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I bet a million that brotli and zopfli come from Google in Switzerland. IN Swiss German, these are two types of small baked breads/buns, Brötli and Zöpfli. Now go and tell Patrick McManus that I find his intervention a gross cultural ignorance.
It is ALWAYS the non-technical bureaucrats making the purchasing decisions, since they have the money. But it is the job of the IT/Computer Techs/Nerds under their command to show them the alternatives and, clearly, state why X is better than Y.
Did you ever ask yourself why THEY have the money? Why THEY are in charge? Because your technical bureaucrats/nerds are unable to keep an overview of the situation. Because they get lost in technical details instead of balancing various facts in their argumentation.
Ok, so take that step back indeed and look at it: For a very low price, you get access to the largest and most complete software ecosystem in the world. Well documented software. Large availability of human resources trained in using this particular OS. Linux has its place. But not as the desktop of complex large scale companies.
2nd that. These are GREAT devices.
Please editor, check your facts. This is just too dumb, but...Rolex is Swiss!
No records were lost. A COPY of the records was lost. Quite a difference. But it would sound much more boring...
Fire him. On the spot. For sheer stupidity and completely getting his priorities wrong. Jeeeesus - are this the problems he should care about?
>the large body of evidence that supports a link between playing violent videogames and aggression
:-)
Oh yeah. Au contraire, my dear.
I'm currently VERY ANGRY because I COULD NOT log on to Steam for a round of Counter-Strike
Write some MS-bashing "article", submit to Slashdot - voilà, instant "fame". I distantly remember the days when slashdot wasn't overloaded with dupes and trash
As we all know the final ruling will have ramifications on the tech world well beyond P2P Please, keep the dimensions in check :-)
USA != tech world
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose...
Don't know why such an article makes news in the US, but we've had successful car sharing over here for years. In Switzerland (mainly in urban regions), 58'000 people share ~1'800 cars. You make a reservation over phone or internet, then your membercard opens the car doors when your time has come (car exchanges data with the server using SMS / GSM text messaging) For each usage, you pay a price per km driven and per hour used, depending on car category. for a small car, this usually works out at something like 0.5 USD per km, larger ones 20-50% more. If you live in a place with good public transport, it's perfect.
Funny that this comes up right now - because it was only yesterday evening that I happily decided that I now finally have a pretty perfect eBook reader: A Sony Clie TH55 with Plucker, using the new anti-aliased 'Utopia' fonts. Simply beautiful at 320x480 pix, easy navigation, fullscreen-mode (nicluding landscape), long battery life, good price (350-400$). [And I'm not even mentioning the rest of the fun... WiFi, Bluetooth, Movie- and Voicerecorder, Video- and MP3-Player ...plus the full Palm universe...]