Are you thinking about GTK or Gnome when you hear about GMail ?
No, it's all a matter of branding... and for google, it's way easier to keep everything generic - so GBrowser would be the best name for their browser.
Child porn, spam, spyware, I'm tempted to ad pop-ups to that list.
Why would you add pop-ups to that list ? The main difference between spam and spyware, and pop-ups is that you get spam sent down to your throat, wether you want it or not, and you see pop-ups when you visit a website where the owner decided to keep his site profitable using pop-ups. It's your choice wether you want to view that site or not, which can't be said about spam.
The same reason Europe is building its own GPS-variant... to not depend solely on one country for something. Creating your own alternatives for important things is a good thing, you know.
How on earth the EU can contemplate bringing this braindead patent system to Europe is beyond me.
Simple: they don't know this stuff. The ones who decide about this, get their advice from software companies. Software companies threaten to leave Europe if they don't accept software patents. They get their information from the wrong sources...
Seperation between church and government has been there a long time ago (at least, over here in Europe), when will the seperation between businesses and government happen ?
Don't you think that many Windows users will have problems getting on the internet without a browser ? Heck, if Windows came without a browser, everyone would still have to use a cd-rom to install a browser, before they can go online...
No, what I really would like to see, is Windows coming with a selection of browsers (perhaps a "Welcome to your brand new Microsoft (R) Windows (R) [TM] installation - which browser(s) do you want to install?" and it automatically grabs the latest version of that browser) , and be able to choose which of them to embed in explorer. Now *THAT* would be cool...
But clearly, mr. Gates links to 08.html, and mr. Torvalds to 07.html ! So apparantly, they *were* able to seperate them, they're just afraid to admit it!:)
I think this is very much business related... say AMD has a new feature, xyz, and they want to use that as a feature to sell even more items of product abc, then they simply put a kernel patch up and at least all the linux servers out there will support it then.
Yeah, but then you leave away the fact how such a minister makes a decision... they really don't read up on all of it - they get a document, don't read it, get a few informers, who already have their decision made up, they convince such a minister, and a minister votes.
Anyway, I initially was afraid that the study was just 'yet another study without influence', but I think this will be a big move in the right direction for the dutch view on software patents...
Not only security is the purpose of making it available, but also so that governments can adapt file formats for cross-software compatibility. Now I'm wondering, what will happen if a government wants to adapt this document format to some opensource program, which happen to have a license that requires to donate all adjustments to the code to the opensource community... I'm pretty sure Microsoft will not allow this, will it ?
IMHO, the whole progress after the first version of Windows wasn't innovation, but a logical route. "Hey, i've got a graphical user interface - let's make it prettier" and that's basically all that Microsoft has contibuted.
Nothing against Microsoft and all, but Gates hasn't contributed as much as Kindall by far.
Funny, I work on a speech recognition research project, and well, i have to say, think about all the possibilities... automa
ted speech2text recording of meetings, on-the-fly subtitling of live tv shows, but it can get better : think about searching
multimedia files in a google-kind of way based on audio, that automatically directs you to that part of the file where you
want to be...
If this really is true what they're saying, and knowing how much money is invested in speech recognition research on a yearl
y basis, yeah, i would definately say that this is one million dollars of great investment...
... but then again, maybe they're just throwing around with numbers to make sure they get their money.:)
You just stay in your bed until the guy's gone, and you let insurance take care of the rest...
And well, just breaking in to kill people, you probably won't believe me, but those things don't happen over here, unless you were already having bad friends...
From the article: "One big concern is that electronic voting machines could be tampered with by ''hackers,'' as was the case recently when an 11-year-old New Jersey boy named Jason Feeblehonker, using only his GameBoy, was able to get himself elected governor of both North Carolina and Wisconsin. "
I probably haven't been paying attention, but is this really true ? I really can't imagine hacking something using a gameboy... anyone has an article about this? Wasn't able to find it with google...
The problem is, a lot of the internet is dated from way back. You not only see it in 'the internet' and the main protocol being used (tcp/ip, which is, as far as I can see, the thing intel wants to change), but also how some applications talk to each other.
For example, the SMTP protocol. It was designed WAY back, and only a few people had problems with not being able to verify the sender of an email, but that was being ignored. If someone would want to make such a protocol nowadays, it would contain a HELL lot more security measures. But if you want to change the protocol right now, you will need a pretty big front of important people in order to do that...
My point is: Intel can say they want to make a new layer on top of the internet, which is all fine, but I think in order to really make a 'better' internet, you need to change the way application communicate with each other too...
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No, it's all a matter of branding... and for google, it's way easier to keep everything generic - so GBrowser would be the best name for their browser.
Why would you add pop-ups to that list ? The main difference between spam and spyware, and pop-ups is that you get spam sent down to your throat, wether you want it or not, and you see pop-ups when you visit a website where the owner decided to keep his site profitable using pop-ups. It's your choice wether you want to view that site or not, which can't be said about spam.
The same reason Europe is building its own GPS-variant... to not depend solely on one country for something. Creating your own alternatives for important things is a good thing, you know.
Hmmm, for some reason I have the feeling there is some sort of corelation between the naming of "Red Hat" and "Yellow Dog" ...
Simple: they don't know this stuff. The ones who decide about this, get their advice from software companies. Software companies threaten to leave Europe if they don't accept software patents. They get their information from the wrong sources...
Seperation between church and government has been there a long time ago (at least, over here in Europe), when will the seperation between businesses and government happen ?
No, what I really would like to see, is Windows coming with a selection of browsers (perhaps a "Welcome to your brand new Microsoft (R) Windows (R) [TM] installation - which browser(s) do you want to install?" and it automatically grabs the latest version of that browser) , and be able to choose which of them to embed in explorer. Now *THAT* would be cool...
Too bad Windows isn't an open-source project :)
I am working on an open-source research project that does just that right now. Be patient, it's coming...
But clearly, mr. Gates links to 08.html, and mr. Torvalds to 07.html ! So apparantly, they *were* able to seperate them, they're just afraid to admit it! :)
Great and quick way to ensure product support...
Yeah, but then you leave away the fact how such a minister makes a decision... they really don't read up on all of it - they get a document, don't read it, get a few informers, who already have their decision made up, they convince such a minister, and a minister votes. Anyway, I initially was afraid that the study was just 'yet another study without influence', but I think this will be a big move in the right direction for the dutch view on software patents...
Not only security is the purpose of making it available, but also so that governments can adapt file formats for cross-software compatibility. Now I'm wondering, what will happen if a government wants to adapt this document format to some opensource program, which happen to have a license that requires to donate all adjustments to the code to the opensource community... I'm pretty sure Microsoft will not allow this, will it ?
So basically, SCO is bankrupt now?
But, but, but... the open-source developers have already reverse engineered so many protocols, can't they just reverse engineer this one too ?
ThinkGeek.com should feel like a retard too... they're selling a t-shirt with that exact phrase.
Nothing against Microsoft and all, but Gates hasn't contributed as much as Kindall by far.
... and I can imagine that with a vulnerability, they will do everything to fix it within a day, and it _will_ be released within a day.
Hmmmm, I wonder what the sound quality is... I recently bought this device, but the sound quality is really poor... nice idea though!
So you will need to index the files prior to being able to search them.
If this really is true what they're saying, and knowing how much money is invested in speech recognition research on a yearl y basis, yeah, i would definately say that this is one million dollars of great investment...
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
I think it will be the same as phone companies today - "it's your own problem... and if you don't manage to store it all, we'll fine you!"
You just stay in your bed until the guy's gone, and you let insurance take care of the rest...
And well, just breaking in to kill people, you probably won't believe me, but those things don't happen over here, unless you were already having bad friends...
Ok, well, let's re-read that article without taking everything serious :)
I probably haven't been paying attention, but is this really true ? I really can't imagine hacking something using a gameboy... anyone has an article about this? Wasn't able to find it with google...
The problem is, a lot of the internet is dated from way back. You not only see it in 'the internet' and the main protocol being used (tcp/ip, which is, as far as I can see, the thing intel wants to change), but also how some applications talk to each other.
For example, the SMTP protocol. It was designed WAY back, and only a few people had problems with not being able to verify the sender of an email, but that was being ignored. If someone would want to make such a protocol nowadays, it would contain a HELL lot more security measures. But if you want to change the protocol right now, you will need a pretty big front of important people in order to do that...
My point is: Intel can say they want to make a new layer on top of the internet, which is all fine, but I think in order to really make a 'better' internet, you need to change the way application communicate with each other too...