It has been proven once and will be proven again, open-source just doesn't catch on. The government is going to do what governments do, and that is go with the proprietary, expensive "solution."
This is a lot of work, costing millions of dollars, for what? To collect red rocks? Why don't we spend that money on fixing Social Security, or getting more flu shots?
Someday we will be able to install Linux on our brains.
Athlete 1: I need to download a new leg driver
Athlete 2: Make sure to compile it with -march=jock so it runs faster!
/me fails to understand what the great benefit of knobs is. there is always an almost-as-easy (and perhaps easier) way to do things, so why waste your money?
Cisco joins a long chain of American companies who buy out the little guy, thus increasing monopolization. There should be laws against this sort of thing
The gripe I do have with this book is its complete utilitarian nature. A little more theory and insight into the standard itself would have been great. This book stands purely as an Operator's Manual, and not an exploration of WiMax as a standard, but rather a tool.
That was not the purpose of the book. If you want that, buy something else. This book has a specific, defined purpose. It even has "Operator's Manual" in the name.
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It has been proven once and will be proven again, open-source just doesn't catch on. The government is going to do what governments do, and that is go with the proprietary, expensive "solution."
This is a lot of work, costing millions of dollars, for what? To collect red rocks? Why don't we spend that money on fixing Social Security, or getting more flu shots?
Next week on /. we will see the story: "Major HDTV broadcasters sue HD DVR manufacturers"
You know, I could be wrong, but I didn't think neurons could reproduce.
Someday we will be able to install Linux on our brains. Athlete 1: I need to download a new leg driver Athlete 2: Make sure to compile it with -march=jock so it runs faster!
/me fails to understand what the great benefit of knobs is. there is always an almost-as-easy (and perhaps easier) way to do things, so why waste your money?
The machines will be able to diagnose and change their own code if they find bugs in it. Wouldn't that be cool?
Why does everyone have this Crightonesque fear? As long as competent humans program the machines, they will be made unable to harm humans.
Someday all decisions will be made by machines. We'll just sit back while they do all the work. Then, no more human error.
Money is what drives the game business, just like every business, and the more they hype it the more people who will buy it.
Cisco joins a long chain of American companies who buy out the little guy, thus increasing monopolization. There should be laws against this sort of thing
I am amazed that this hasn't yet been modded down. Mod parent down!
AFAIK the (supposed) release date is Nov. 6th. Somewhat related: the 1.0RC1 was supposed to come out 3 days ago and still hasn't.
Firefox is notoriously bad at coming out on the days they say it will. November 6th? Not gonna happen.