From the Reuters article on the same topic, it seems that they are focusing on how M$ gives out their APIs!!!
Apparently the EU competition chief, Mario Monti, thinks that they do "it in a way which permits only Microsoft products to be fully interoperable. Microsoft's competitors, which do not have access to the interfaces, would therefore be put at a significant competitive disadvantage"
Actually, the correct name for the MP3 format is MPEG Audio-Layer 3, which is part of the original MPEG (1) standard. This actually has algorithms for both audio and video compression, but the video codec didn't catch on nearly as much as the audio did... that's why most ppl use MPEG2 for video/tv compression.
Well, with the USPS wanting to have an email address for every postal one, and offering to print out and stuff your email into an envelope (for those who don't have a computer), it brings back a question that's been preying on my mind for a while, namely:
What exactly is the relationship between the USPS and the United States government? Not to start some sort of conspiracy theory or anything, but this raises some serious privacy issues.
In general I think usenet is just elitist in general. Anyone who wants to post must obtain a client. Ummm, excuse me, but AFAIK every TCP/IP based service requires a client. For example, HTTP (ie. WWW) requires a browser (netscape, et al); FTP requires a client as well (or you can use netscape for this as well). In fact, you can use netscape for your news as well!!! BTW, why don't you try reading the UDP FAQ (URL is above) before you start condemning (sp?) the process. just my $0.02...
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Apparently the EU competition chief, Mario Monti, thinks that they do "it in a way which permits only Microsoft products to be fully interoperable. Microsoft's competitors, which do not have access to the interfaces, would therefore be put at a significant competitive disadvantage"
Does this guy read /. ?!?!
Actually, the correct name for the MP3 format is MPEG Audio-Layer 3, which is part of the original MPEG (1) standard. This actually has algorithms for both audio and video compression, but the video codec didn't catch on nearly as much as the audio did... that's why most ppl use MPEG2 for video/tv compression.
Well, with the USPS wanting to have an email address for every postal one, and offering to print out and stuff your email into an envelope (for those who don't have a computer), it brings back a question that's been preying on my mind for a while, namely:
What exactly is the relationship between the USPS and the United States government? Not to start some sort of conspiracy theory or anything, but this raises some serious privacy issues.
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See the entry in the Jargon Dictionary for the complete description.
In general I think usenet is just elitist in general. Anyone who wants to post must obtain a client.
Ummm, excuse me, but AFAIK every TCP/IP based service requires a client. For example, HTTP (ie. WWW) requires a browser (netscape, et al); FTP requires a client as well (or you can use netscape for this as well). In fact, you can use netscape for your news as well!!!
BTW, why don't you try reading the UDP FAQ (URL is above) before you start condemning (sp?) the process. just my $0.02...
While we're on the topic of "religous" wars (emacs/vi, gnome/kde, tastes great/less filling)...
I can't help but love my good ole FVWM -- the original, not the '95 knock-off...
BTW, You TOO can take the test on the web @:
http://elvis.rowan.edu/~cusumano/MBTes t.html
Also has interesting descriptions of the 16 differnent types.
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