This makes perfect sense: the Internet did well because it relies on smart endpoints (computers) and unintelligent routes. The best routing, then, is equal speed routes from and to every endpoint and we see something approaching this with multiple routes connecting small groups of hosts.
The phone company relies on dumb endpoints (phones) and a smart system in the middle. The best (simple) routing solution would be every phone connected by a line to a central switching station. In an urban area, this is exactly what we see- one or two central switching stations or point of failure.
This really shouldn't be any surprise at all.
As a side note, this is also why growth and development has been much faster than on the phone- to change the phone system you have to change one place - but no one will let you, because you might break it for every other customer. On the Internet I can tinker with one or two machines and everyone else is unaffected.
Browser companies will start getting more creative about why they don't support it
Every XML book out there ("XML in 21 Hours!" "XML for Joe Sixpack!") will have a second edition printed "packed" with "new information" - ie. a reprint of the spec in the appendices
Current web professionals will groan and start thinking seriously about getting around to learn it
Jakob Neilson will write a column about how it's the worst thing a designer could ever consider using
Ziff-Davis will write a glowing review (I mean, c'mon, they do it for everything)
Round about '96 - '97 Cigar Aficianado magazine decided to put the content of their back issues up on their website.
A while prior my father, Joe Harkins, had written an article for them on the history of pool. He noticed they put his article online and got a bit bent out of shape as he'd never agreed they could publish the article online. He sent them a few nastygrams and, I believe, got in touch with a lawyer.
CA backed down and removed the article so he let it drop. This sounds pretty similar to what's happened here.
If you want to contact him for more details, hit his website at travelthe.net for an e-mail address, I don't remember it offhand. Oh, and beware- he's pretty cantankerous.
...and it's a shame to see something like this shut down to be aligned with their 'strategy,' despite Tim's own admission that the projects were profitable."
Wow, I guess the new economy isn't dead- they're killing profitable projects.
So next, they'll advertise in the Superbowl, then...
...Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs). This is where you are sued for defamation or something else for exercising your freedom of speech.
This is also this only place where you'll hear the company lawyer say, "Let's SLAPP her ass."
"Well, it's the open source concept, but one notch better, because the source wouldn't be open... so the companies that write them can keep them and sell them, but from the user's perspective you get the benefit of open source because you can have the content coming from a variety of companies."
No, that's capitalism.
Open source is where you see and can modify the code.
And now that's he's basically thrown this in the face of every OS geek there is, I'm doubting we'll see a lot of geeks saying "Hey, boss check out this new stuff from Corel..."
While it's only for the US (that I can see) Salary.com is a pretty useful site.
We'll see just how helpful it is tomorrow, I'm asking for a raise...
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Not to mention, too, that Stephen Hawking proved that black holes do give off some radiation, and thus will shrink if they do not consume enough mass to stay stable (and if they shrink past a certain limit, they simply explode).
Great, so we'll go from cars that stop when they run out of gas to cars that blow up when they run out of gas.
"...then go back and play with the next gen
formatting tools."
Yeah, I'd also call a decades-old tool like LaTeX "next generation".
Why does the windows crowd insist on ignoring computing's history?
PARC, ArpaNet, C, TeX, Unix, and Englebart.
Let's forget them: Apple invented the GUI, Java was the first portable language, Quark created desktop publishing, Microsoft brings you a stable OS, and video conferencing is still years away. Let's all ignore the last thirty years.
Hell, I'm starting to think I could be a millionaire by digging up research projects from the 60s and 70s and giving them a new coat a paint.
Bah, they're just trying to catch up to slackware.
Anways, what is it with RedHat? 4.0, 4.1, 4.2- and here's 5.0! 5.0, 5.1, 5.2- and here's 6.0! 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 -> 7.0? Are they scared of minor revision numbers, or are they only useful for correcting the egregrious flaws that are always present in RH's.0 shipments?
The -only- significant difference is that Outlook makes it trivially easy to open and run attachments.
I'd like to clarify- more than "trivially easy", the Windows interface (and the WIMP interface in general) don't clearly separate the difference between opening a file and running a program. For computer beginners, this is a subtle and tricky distintion- especially with the inclusion of scripts into documents further blurring the line.
I don't know that there's just one thing to point at to blame- Microsoft's overemphasis on (and poor implementation of) "integration", poor user training, bad security settings, etc.
So I was wondering- what the point of region encoding? To capitalize on the market of about two dozen people who happen to buy DVDs in more than one region? I mean, a lot of the things they're so po'ed about people breaking just seem to be totally worthless to me... does anyone have any reasons? (Besides the rather obvious "stuck in the old mindset from broadcast TV" that never made much sense anyways)
Your statement is akin to saying "What's good for Microsoft is good for America. Everyone in the know knows that Microsoft can't get split up." A decision to include in the Dow has nothing to do with the outcome of this litigation, better or worse.
No, it's not. Regardless of the outcome Microsoft stock will do some heavy trading when the decision is released. A lot of people will be watching.
By waiting until after the market closes people have to take a few hours to think about whatever they do before they can trade again. This isn't something to just help Microsoft- it's that they know have an even larger imact on the american economy... and encouraging odd gyrations in the Dow is not a good idea.
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A bit of salestalk? That guy was full of hot air!
blah, blah, stop groaning
This makes perfect sense: the Internet did well because it relies on smart endpoints (computers) and unintelligent routes. The best routing, then, is equal speed routes from and to every endpoint and we see something approaching this with multiple routes connecting small groups of hosts.
The phone company relies on dumb endpoints (phones) and a smart system in the middle. The best (simple) routing solution would be every phone connected by a line to a central switching station. In an urban area, this is exactly what we see- one or two central switching stations or point of failure.
This really shouldn't be any surprise at all.
As a side note, this is also why growth and development has been much faster than on the phone- to change the phone system you have to change one place - but no one will let you, because you might break it for every other customer. On the Internet I can tinker with one or two machines and everyone else is unaffected.
Hey, don't get down about it, look at it this way: somebody has to free() the malloc()s.
So now that it's a standard:
So for this story, would I get a +1 for Redundant?
Round about '96 - '97 Cigar Aficianado magazine decided to put the content of their back issues up on their website.
A while prior my father, Joe Harkins, had written an article for them on the history of pool. He noticed they put his article online and got a bit bent out of shape as he'd never agreed they could publish the article online. He sent them a few nastygrams and, I believe, got in touch with a lawyer.
CA backed down and removed the article so he let it drop. This sounds pretty similar to what's happened here.
If you want to contact him for more details, hit his website at travelthe.net for an e-mail address, I don't remember it offhand. Oh, and beware- he's pretty cantankerous.
Actually, the point of seeing something other than an action movie is getting to watch your date get undressed afterwards.
Wow, I guess the new economy isn't dead- they're killing profitable projects.
So next, they'll advertise in the Superbowl, then...
This is also this only place where you'll hear the company lawyer say, "Let's SLAPP her ass."
No, that's capitalism.
Open source is where you see and can modify the code.
And now that's he's basically thrown this in the face of every OS geek there is, I'm doubting we'll see a lot of geeks saying "Hey, boss check out this new stuff from Corel..."
Hey, I've got nothing against straight people, as long as they act gay in public.
While it's only for the US (that I can see) Salary.com is a pretty useful site.
We'll see just how helpful it is tomorrow, I'm asking for a raise...
Great, so we'll go from cars that stop when they run out of gas to cars that blow up when they run out of gas.
There's no conspiracy. Money doesn't change hands. People aren't "bought."
Hmm, that sounds like something a member of the Illumanti would say. Fnord.
Yeah, I'd also call a decades-old tool like LaTeX "next generation".
Why does the windows crowd insist on ignoring computing's history?
PARC, ArpaNet, C, TeX, Unix, and Englebart.
Let's forget them: Apple invented the GUI, Java was the first portable language, Quark created desktop publishing, Microsoft brings you a stable OS, and video conferencing is still years away. Let's all ignore the last thirty years.
Hell, I'm starting to think I could be a millionaire by digging up research projects from the 60s and 70s and giving them a new coat a paint.
So that's how Microsoft products get so big!
What a great idea- submitting your own corporate site to slashdot and not first making sure it will survive being linked to.
With this kind of foresight, I'm sure the company will go far...
Bah, they're just trying to catch up to slackware.
.0 shipments?
Anways, what is it with RedHat? 4.0, 4.1, 4.2- and here's 5.0! 5.0, 5.1, 5.2- and here's 6.0! 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 -> 7.0? Are they scared of minor revision numbers, or are they only useful for correcting the egregrious flaws that are always present in RH's
I'd like to clarify- more than "trivially easy", the Windows interface (and the WIMP interface in general) don't clearly separate the difference between opening a file and running a program. For computer beginners, this is a subtle and tricky distintion- especially with the inclusion of scripts into documents further blurring the line.
I don't know that there's just one thing to point at to blame- Microsoft's overemphasis on (and poor implementation of) "integration", poor user training, bad security settings, etc.
I know the Enigma algorithm is known, but has anybody actually implemented it in C or anything? That'd be fun to play with.
So I was wondering- what the point of region encoding? To capitalize on the market of about two dozen people who happen to buy DVDs in more than one region?
I mean, a lot of the things they're so po'ed about people breaking just seem to be totally worthless to me... does anyone have any reasons?
(Besides the rather obvious "stuck in the old mindset from broadcast TV" that never made much sense anyways)
>First thing I do when I get a new computer is throw away the keyboard.
That's funny, the first thing I do is get a screwdriver and put it together.
Undernet? Xnet? Been hanging out on IRC networks a little too often?
> if [ $USER != jnobody ]; then exit 1; fi
Hey now, I don't think I appreciate this.
No, it's not. Regardless of the outcome Microsoft stock will do some heavy trading when the decision is released. A lot of people will be watching.
By waiting until after the market closes people have to take a few hours to think about whatever they do before they can trade again. This isn't something to just help Microsoft- it's that they know have an even larger imact on the american economy... and encouraging odd gyrations in the Dow is not a good idea.