Storage Tank comes extremely late - it was first promised to come out in early 2001.
According to this article at The Register, IBM failed to provide such features of Storage Tank as, "link servers and storage systems from all vendors, making it possible to view and access a file from any system. ". Instead, it will only support AIX and Windows platforms starting this November. Support for other Unix versions, including Linux, is expected not earlier than mid-2004.
Just wondering if Sun ever becomes disinterested in continuing its OpenOffice efforts, for instance, by striking a deal with M$ to use its Unix version of MS Office (assuming there is gonna be one).
Would they just kiss all their open source efforts good-buy, like AOL did to Mozilla?
Gift idea: give a copy of OpenOffice.org to your boss tomorrow.
- Mr. Burns, I've got a a present for you, sir! It's just like Microsoft Office, but free and almost works.
- Smithers, help me to slap this guy! SSHLAP! Once more! SSHLAP! Now both of you! SSHLAP-SSHLAP!! Now give me a taste! SSHLAP! Now both of you again! SSHLAP! SSHLAP!
If computers start consistently defeating humans in chess, does it mean humans will loose interest and stop playing it? I guess, not many chess grandmasters would want the "big brother in the box" watching over them, analysing their mistakes during the matches to the cheers of the crowd, thus making them some form of puppets in a theater.
Would people start playing complicated games (from the computers point of view) as Go & others?
This suit is not going to help Mozilla & others. If IE is changed, so will the Internet documents. Other browsers would just have to follow. In that case HTML developers & HTML tool companies will win.
However, I believe that M$ is going to settle - there are just too many pages using the current technology. It would take an _ENORMOUS_ amount of time, money, and effort to modify all those.
And if M$ decides to buy out the patent for itself, that could threaten the very existance of other browsers - that's what SP can do for you!
The idea of compiler being infected with malicious code which would 'pass on' two all the programs that are compiled by it (even a new version of compiler!) is not new indeed;) But I personally think its for very paranoid people only, like Natonal Security Agencies of different countries;)
Besides, it's a lot easier to reverse-engineer the compiler to check for malicious code than the whole Windows.
According to recent talk of Richard M. Stallman at CERN, governments do not get Windows source code as such, but rather a means to look at it on Microsoft site.
There is not way to determine whether what they are looking at is what really running on their computers, thus defeating the whole point of having that access anyway
Did they (e.g. people at VeriSign) think of all the software they've broken with this move? Lots of software libraries dealing with http relies on the hostname not being resolvable.
This wildcard domains creates the most popular site in the world, but it's certainly _not_ good for web crawling software as well as search engines and different PageRanks or their variants.
With the technological breakthrough, it is now possible for bands to deliver music to the fans without RIAA acting as a middleman. How much money a band gets from a sold CD? 5-7%, if they are very lucky? Or 10% if they are as greedy as Metallica. Which means that RIAA gets 95% for being a 'mediator' - hardly a fair share. I certainly would not mind paying $1 pur album and buy it directly from artists.
So, that is what is wrong with the system - the ones who got too powerful simply do not want to go away.
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Storage Tank comes extremely late - it was first promised to come out in early 2001.
According to this article at The Register, IBM failed to provide such features of Storage Tank as, "link servers and storage systems from all vendors, making it possible to view and access a file from any system. ". Instead, it will only support AIX and Windows platforms starting this November. Support for other Unix versions, including Linux, is expected not earlier than mid-2004.
Just wondering if Sun ever becomes disinterested in continuing its OpenOffice efforts, for instance, by striking a deal with M$ to use its Unix version of MS Office (assuming there is gonna be one).
Would they just kiss all their open source efforts good-buy, like AOL did to Mozilla?
Gift idea: give a copy of OpenOffice.org to your boss tomorrow.
- Mr. Burns, I've got a a present for you, sir! It's just like Microsoft Office, but free and almost works.
- Smithers, help me to slap this guy! SSHLAP! Once more! SSHLAP! Now both of you! SSHLAP-SSHLAP!! Now give me a taste! SSHLAP! Now both of you again! SSHLAP! SSHLAP!
I do not really believe that SCO would allow so unprofessional comments about their case, unless it is a PR trick (very bad one, in this case).
If computers start consistently defeating humans in chess, does it mean humans will loose interest and stop playing it? I guess, not many chess grandmasters would want the "big brother in the box" watching over them, analysing their mistakes during the matches to the cheers of the crowd, thus making them some form of puppets in a theater. Would people start playing complicated games (from the computers point of view) as Go & others?
This suit is not going to help Mozilla & others. If IE is changed, so will the Internet documents. Other browsers would just have to follow. In that case HTML developers & HTML tool companies will win.
However, I believe that M$ is going to settle - there are just too many pages using the current technology. It would take an _ENORMOUS_ amount of time, money, and effort to modify all those.
And if M$ decides to buy out the patent for itself, that could threaten the very existance of other browsers - that's what SP can do for you!
The idea of compiler being infected with malicious code which would 'pass on' two all the programs that are compiled by it (even a new version of compiler!) is not new indeed ;) But I personally think its for very paranoid people only, like Natonal Security Agencies of different countries ;)
Besides, it's a lot easier to reverse-engineer the compiler to check for malicious code than the whole Windows.
According to recent talk of Richard M. Stallman at CERN, governments do not get Windows source code as such, but rather a means to look at it on Microsoft site.
There is not way to determine whether what they are looking at is what really running on their computers, thus defeating the whole point of having that access anyway
The core of Ukranian (and Russian) tank army is not T-80, but T-72. The ancient 40.5 tons of steel, wires, diesel fuel and gunpowder.
;-)
Same applies to the computers destroyed. I'm sure the majority were VGA (and maybe even EGA) for monitors and AT286 (XT) for the system blocks.
With the average salary of 700 a year, you would not really want to destroy anything more valuable than that.
As for V8 engines... It would be intersting to watch you trying to destroy 700 kg (diesel version) or 1.5 ton (turbine version) T-80's engine
Did they (e.g. people at VeriSign) think of all the software they've broken with this move? Lots of software libraries dealing with http relies on the hostname not being resolvable.
This wildcard domains creates the most popular site in the world, but it's certainly _not_ good for web crawling software as well as search engines and different PageRanks or their variants.
Pirate 2 Pirate? Oh, now I am disappointed.
With the technological breakthrough, it is now possible for bands to deliver music to the fans without RIAA acting as a middleman. How much money a band gets from a sold CD? 5-7%, if they are very lucky? Or 10% if they are as greedy as Metallica. Which means that RIAA gets 95% for being a 'mediator' - hardly a fair share. I certainly would not mind paying $1 pur album and buy it directly from artists. So, that is what is wrong with the system - the ones who got too powerful simply do not want to go away.