Arrogance does not bring you far. Microsoft is really pushing its own music service, and so are others (Wall-mart, Coke, etc). There are mp3 players out there (Dell, iRiver, etc) with hell of a lot more features and quality than overbranded iPod & iPod-Mini. Apple R.I.P. for its arrogance. Sad, but true.
You can legally _download_ music in Canada - it is covered by the levies we pay on the media (yay!:). You cannot legally _upload_ (i.e. share) music, as that makes you a "distributor" (and thus not covered under any form of personal use). blah-blah...
Now there is a question: since almost all the modern p2p file sharing makes you an uploader as well as downloader, e.g. KaZaA, *Mule, DC++, Gnutella2, etc... would that make you liable even if you only "download"?
Let me disagree with you on the certain points you make:
Ability to run more software is an advantage if you can do that well. Linux does NOT emulate win16/32 application environment well. If it did, IBM would not have suggested to port MS Office.
OS/2 has offered a number of significant advantages over Windows 3.1(1): a real multi-tasking system, great reliability, tons of configuration parameters & more.
My parent post is not an attack on Linux or OpenSource. Your arguments in favour of both Linux and OpenSource are completely useless here.
Now, back to the points I was making: I think the ability of Linux to use Windows drivers through 'wrappers', Windows applications through WINE and other emulators, etc is a BAD thing for Linux because it introduced another unreliable link in the program 'chain'. As I said, emulation is good as long as it is reliable. But it is not, and never will be with companies like Microsoft which would do anything to break away from compatibilities with OpenSource software. So OpenSource will always be behind by definition and by definition, less reliable, because it would not have the latest features, etc.
Linux has already gathered a critical mass to be taken into consideration seriously. It is time to stop emulating, it is time to start building - so I am agree with IBM on their latest move.
IBM tried to emulate Win16 application compatibility with its OS/2. As a result, nobody cared developing application of OS/2 as such. IMHO, emulation is a dead-end branch of development in this case.
For some reason (probably licensing issues with Sun) or compatibility with the rest of MS office document base, IBM does not want to develop OpenOffice or Corel WordPerfect Suit. I am just wondering - have they given up on their Lotus completely then?
Now SCO can sue Microsoft for stealing their code, too! *LOL*
Seriously, though... If the circulating source is really NT4 & W2K, that would give a powerful instrument to both sides - the ones who wants to sue Microsoft for stealing their technologies and for Microsoft, too, since from now on they will be looking very closely at newcoming products of their rivals.
Are there any people from countries using non-latin domain names that might want to comment on this?
I really believe use of Unicode domain names breaks Internet interoperability. How would you write an email to the person in China or Japan if they use their characters, for instance? Especially if they need to give you the address over the phone? Or fax it to you? At least on the computer you might have an option of cut and paste.
When telephone networks appeared. At least, people around the world has agreed upon the use of numerical system. With Internet, we have agreed with numerical system and latin alphabet. Now it seems as the whole integration achieved is going backwards:-(
Sharman also operates P2P telephony-IM project called Skype I'm just wondering if there is any spyware in it and if so, is anybody going to create something like Skype Lite L++?
We had one NeXT already. It turned back into Apple;) On the other hand, obsession with X's will finally bring you to triple X. What an operating system that would be!:-)
It's gonna be 512 MB for BlueGene/L(ite) and 1Gb for proper BlueGene
I mean, per node:-)
AFAIK, 512 Mb is just too little for proper protein-folding calculations, while 1Gb provides enough capacity... And, of course, no swap is possible in this types of systems
I know sometimes obscurity can be useful, but I still believe it is violation of privacy. Which means the thief should be set free since the methods that were used to trace him were unlawful.
somehow I don't like the idea of my private ssh keys being sown like a seed across a number of systems. To much of a headace worrying about where they are, were they deleted properly... etc.
I believe that if security is of great concern to you, you should not use any machines except your own in the first place to store and work with your files.
Plus, you are not required to use private keys for CVS authentication anyway, your password would do just fine (of course, you'll have to enter it each time you want to access CVS on your remote machine)
Don't forget Torvald's Linux, Apache's web server, Oracle's database, Sony's Playstation, and TiVo's TiVo. All spectacular failures compared to their Microsoft competitors, right?
M$ managed to get to all of those areas by itself, and is a very stiff competitor. Apache's popularity is declining, IIS is groing; Linux
adaptation is dragged by SCO's lawsuit, if SCO wins, Linux dies; Sony PS2 faces a stiff competition from Xbox in the US and other M$ strongholds; so does Oracle.
M$ is testing its new web search service at the moment, and let me reassure you, in a couple of years they'll get it right and it will be a default search engine in Longhorn. Nobody believed in Internet Explorer, everybody was praising Navigator.
Resistance is futile...
The history repeats itself, anything that resists M$ signs off its death sentense. Sun's Java, Netscape's Navigator, IBM's OS/2...
Now it's Google's turn. Doesn't anybody learn anything from the history???
Google now is in quite desperate situation: their PageRank's are undermined by link spammers and bloggers, Yahoo! and Microsoft are actively developing their own search technologies and buy other companies
Google also swallows its small competitors and thinks of personalizing searches, essentially giving RIP to its PageRank(tm) technology.
What keeps Google afloat nowadays is just its name.
I used to participate in RC5-64 project project. Over the 4 year period of participation, I personally involved about 80 PCs at work into it (with my boss's permission). The only negative side of that was the fact of CPU coolers needed to be cleaned quite regularly (which is really nasty job to do, really).
Would Mozilla be 'quite ok' as you are saying? It still burns that $2M fat given to it by AOL, but what happens when the money run out? Support for 40 highly skilled full-time developers could cost you dearly. Plus the equipment, bills, etc. I suspect that by giving away $2M to Mozilla Foundation, AOL just gave its yearly spending on Mozilla in advance not to be bothered with it ever again.
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speculations worth nothing, just create unnecessary hassle. what i mean is "speak the facts or just shut up".
Arrogance does not bring you far. Microsoft is really pushing its own music service, and so are others (Wall-mart, Coke, etc). There are mp3 players out there (Dell, iRiver, etc) with hell of a lot more features and quality than overbranded iPod & iPod-Mini. Apple R.I.P. for its arrogance. Sad, but true.
Now there is a question: since almost all the modern p2p file sharing makes you an uploader as well as downloader, e.g. KaZaA, *Mule, DC++, Gnutella2, etc... would that make you liable even if you only "download"?
IMHO there is no point talking about the past. The good question is what they will do about it.
That tool is not available for business use. That is exactly what people needed after Microsoft made the Remove Hidden Data Add-In available just for Office XP/Office 2003 only. More details are available at The Register
Let me disagree with you on the certain points you make:
Now, back to the points I was making: I think the ability of Linux to use Windows drivers through 'wrappers', Windows applications through WINE and other emulators, etc is a BAD thing for Linux because it introduced another unreliable link in the program 'chain'. As I said, emulation is good as long as it is reliable. But it is not, and never will be with companies like Microsoft which would do anything to break away from compatibilities with OpenSource software. So OpenSource will always be behind by definition and by definition, less reliable, because it would not have the latest features, etc.
Linux has already gathered a critical mass to be taken into consideration seriously. It is time to stop emulating, it is time to start building - so I am agree with IBM on their latest move.
IBM tried to emulate Win16 application compatibility with its OS/2. As a result, nobody cared developing application of OS/2 as such. IMHO, emulation is a dead-end branch of development in this case.
For some reason (probably licensing issues with Sun) or compatibility with the rest of MS office document base, IBM does not want to develop OpenOffice or Corel WordPerfect Suit. I am just wondering - have they given up on their Lotus completely then?
Now SCO can sue Microsoft for stealing their code, too! *LOL*
Seriously, though... If the circulating source is really NT4 & W2K, that would give a powerful instrument to both sides - the ones who wants to sue Microsoft for stealing their technologies and for Microsoft, too, since from now on they will be looking very closely at newcoming products of their rivals.
I really believe use of Unicode domain names breaks Internet interoperability. How would you write an email to the person in China or Japan if they use their characters, for instance? Especially if they need to give you the address over the phone? Or fax it to you? At least on the computer you might have an option of cut and paste.
When telephone networks appeared. At least, people around the world has agreed upon the use of numerical system. With Internet, we have agreed with numerical system and latin alphabet. Now it seems as the whole integration achieved is going backwards :-(
Sharman also operates P2P telephony-IM project called Skype I'm just wondering if there is any spyware in it and if so, is anybody going to create something like Skype Lite L++?
We had one NeXT already. It turned back into Apple ;) On the other hand, obsession with X's will finally bring you to triple X. What an operating system that would be! :-)
It's gonna be 512 MB for BlueGene/L(ite) and 1Gb for proper BlueGene
I mean, per node :-)
AFAIK, 512 Mb is just too little for proper protein-folding calculations, while 1Gb provides enough capacity... And, of course, no swap is possible in this types of systems
It's gonna be 512 MB for BlueGene/L(ite) and 1Gb for proper BlueGene
I know sometimes obscurity can be useful, but I still believe it is violation of privacy. Which means the thief should be set free since the methods that were used to trace him were unlawful.
I believe that if security is of great concern to you, you should not use any machines except your own in the first place to store and work with your files.
Plus, you are not required to use private keys for CVS authentication anyway, your password would do just fine (of course, you'll have to enter it each time you want to access CVS on your remote machine)
or close the source since other mobile device developers would just switch to Windows CE/Embedded Linux instead.
In a long run all proprietory systems die out, open ones survive.
Certainly, IMHO
Teoma does sometimes search better than Google, and so does, surprisingly, AltaVista, if you skip the advertising crap.
M$ managed to get to all of those areas by itself, and is a very stiff competitor. Apache's popularity is declining, IIS is groing; Linux
adaptation is dragged by SCO's lawsuit, if SCO wins, Linux dies; Sony PS2 faces a stiff competition from Xbox in the US and other M$ strongholds; so does Oracle.
M$ is testing its new web search service at the moment, and let me reassure you, in a couple of years they'll get it right and it will be a default search engine in Longhorn. Nobody believed in Internet Explorer, everybody was praising Navigator.
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Gee, I'm so pessimistic today...
Resistance is futile... The history repeats itself, anything that resists M$ signs off its death sentense. Sun's Java, Netscape's Navigator, IBM's OS/2... Now it's Google's turn. Doesn't anybody learn anything from the history???
Google now is in quite desperate situation: their PageRank's are undermined by link spammers and bloggers, Yahoo! and Microsoft are actively developing their own search technologies and buy other companies
Google also swallows its small competitors and thinks of personalizing searches, essentially giving RIP to its PageRank(tm) technology.
What keeps Google afloat nowadays is just its name.
Just a note: Linux/unix developers of RAV are now working for Kaspersky Lab.
I used to participate in RC5-64 project project. Over the 4 year period of participation, I personally involved about 80 PCs at work into it (with my boss's permission). The only negative side of that was the fact of CPU coolers needed to be cleaned quite regularly (which is really nasty job to do, really).
With recent aquisition of Ximian, the primary Mono contributor, by Novell, Inc. there is hope that no reverse-engineering will be necessary.
Still, priprietory technologies is like an infection - the less you mess up with them, the less chance you'll get yourself in trouble
- .NET? Nooo, that's too proprietory!
- J2EE? Nooo, that's too complex!
Well, any volunteers then to implement GPLed version of Corba Component Model (CCM)?Would Mozilla be 'quite ok' as you are saying? It still burns that $2M fat given to it by AOL, but what happens when the money run out? Support for 40 highly skilled full-time developers could cost you dearly. Plus the equipment, bills, etc. I suspect that by giving away $2M to Mozilla Foundation, AOL just gave its yearly spending on Mozilla in advance not to be bothered with it ever again.