I think this is a great idea, as long as every person/business/organization that owns inclusive property is negotiated with and is compensated.
In short, it is not going to happen, and I am glad I live in a country where corporations can't dictate my ability to feel comfortable in my own home (or anywhere really)
I don't know how this all stacks on the international scene, or even how patent laws effect over the internet.
What i am wondering is how this might effect software systems developed by orgs that is intended for import over the internet to the US.
In particular i am wondering about Overlay TV (canadian) as they claim to have a patent on their "technology" but i find the system neither ingenious nor difficult to reproduce independently. The technology is clearly targeted to the web and is a software system developed by a Canadian company.
I can see how column stored data is faster for querying, but for these benefits, it will be slower for writes, and the quote claims that databases this way will replace row-format databases. In many cases it may, however, there are many write intensive applications. Additionally the index features of current row-store database engines is pretty much equivalent to column store, (including possible indices on column store tables.)
Ideally a RDBMS would allow a admin to select the primary storage strategy. To me, ideally lookup tables could be column and transaction tables could be row... seamlessly. And as mentioned previously, the term RDBMS really is used incorrectly in the summary, though I suspect it was meant as "traditional RDBMS"
Tablet PCs start around a grand, 100MB of storage is pennies
Tablet PCs allow students to use computers productively (and more easily) in all classes, 100 MB of storage provides ???
Tablet PCs have (most likely) at least 40,000 MB of storage, 100 MB of storage has 100 MB of storage...
I for one think that if teachers are taught to use the tablets effectively, they can be a boon for education, as opposed to laptops, which I find to be virtually useless in most classroom environments in current usage scenarios. I don't that online storage has any discernible benefit to any population's education either.
Whether or not you detest Microsoft, you have to realize the billions of dollars and man hours they have contributed to the industry. Even if some of that was done 'unfairly'.
I think what you say makes a lot of sense, except the last phrase. If games are easier to write (skipping over the effectiveness/perceived effectiveness of any 'platform'), then there are more people writing games and becoming developers, which would make the game market more competitive, and thusly we would have better games!
I can't see any reason why game development should not be point and click, if they made something like OpenGL easier to write for, I think it would be a positive for the game market, and might bring a viable alternative to Microsoft
It depends on how you define "virtualization" but Vista already uses fairly extensive virtualization, eg the UAC system redirects file system stores to user profile areas of disk. And IE7 protected mode (for Vista) is an example of exactly what is mentioned... I think this "talk" is just on already released "innovations." Though I suppose the comment about the paranoia is of note.
If I'm downloading something from anyone, then I have some sort of need for it, a.k.a. I have a use for it. If a new distributed download system reduces the cost and increases the speed at of fulfilling the need then I am all for it. I fail to see how anyone might have a problem with this, especially as it will most likely be an opt-in/out scheme.
I think that you make some valid points, however, i wanted to expand on the fact that "no one knows everything" - People seem to have limited memory, this system may be a key component in a general "diagnosis AI." I imagine someday a system where a physician enters your symptoms and test results, the system would then provide the user with possible diagnoses and medical tests to perform to further reduce possible diagnoses/confirm a diagnosis.
I was originally diagnosed with an "infectious tumour" (not cancer) due to complications in retrieving tumour cells. For 6 months i was given heavy antibiotics, and those 6 months were both very damaging to my long-term health and did not produce any positive results. Finally it was decided to perform another biopsy, and a proper diagnoses was established, and the original biopsy result subsequently made sense, hindsight... Anyways, I imagine, someday an AI system that would circumvent this "blanking of possibilities" and would prevent potentially avoidable situations like mine, where lives are risked and permanent damage results. This will not "obsolete" physicians - they are more than vending machines that dole out diagnoses.
hours at work != hours worked
the author's point, which seemed obvious to me was that the average worker spends an average amount of time there, but their time spent at home is dominated by work there as well.
I know they don't provide an indexer for osx, but the indexer in osx was conceived after ms's vista (longhorn i suppose)'s
i think google is way off base to begin with, and not saying anything about osx really cuts the legs out of the argument imho.
Just to clarify:
I believe all versions of Vista are available in 64-bit and 32-bit, and if you own a retail copy of one you have the ability to install and use 32 or 64-bit-edness.
I did not scan the comments, merely skimmed them... perhaps this has already been discussed?
For a few dollars a year you can buy your recommended dose in pill form, I have been doing this, mainly to help calcium absorption, as I just recently became a tumour survivor.
Are there any detriments to taking the vitamin in this form?
a web browser allows you to access the internet and download files - this is a severe security flaw, if the user is clueless, since they can easily download any malware and run it.
I don't see how IE is any better or worse than FireFox in this regard?
what security issues are you reffering to? ActiveX? ActiveX controls are no easier to install than FireFox extentions, so i suppose the issue extends to firefox as well?
i mean, i love firefox, but you sit an idiot in front of any "useful" computer and you are gonna get junk
call me what you wish, but i feel that trusted computing requiring hardware is not going to be big on the linux platform.
so i didn't include it, however you are right, you can do it with hardware, but the GPL is outside the realm of just trusted computing systems.
anyways, if someone is writting software for the specialized drm hardware, it doesn't seem very much like the type of code that will end up being gpl's anyways.
of course this is all opinion
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probably, and there is starcraft 2...
I think this is a great idea, as long as every person/business/organization that owns inclusive property is negotiated with and is compensated.
In short, it is not going to happen, and I am glad I live in a country where corporations can't dictate my ability to feel comfortable in my own home (or anywhere really)
there are some, though i haven't tried any, eg: 1and1
I don't know how this all stacks on the international scene, or even how patent laws effect over the internet.
What i am wondering is how this might effect software systems developed by orgs that is intended for import over the internet to the US.
In particular i am wondering about Overlay TV (canadian) as they claim to have a patent on their "technology" but i find the system neither ingenious nor difficult to reproduce independently. The technology is clearly targeted to the web and is a software system developed by a Canadian company.
I can see how column stored data is faster for querying, but for these benefits, it will be slower for writes, and the quote claims that databases this way will replace row-format databases. In many cases it may, however, there are many write intensive applications. Additionally the index features of current row-store database engines is pretty much equivalent to column store, (including possible indices on column store tables.)
Ideally a RDBMS would allow a admin to select the primary storage strategy. To me, ideally lookup tables could be column and transaction tables could be row... seamlessly. And as mentioned previously, the term RDBMS really is used incorrectly in the summary, though I suspect it was meant as "traditional RDBMS"
Tablet PCs start around a grand, 100MB of storage is pennies
Tablet PCs allow students to use computers productively (and more easily) in all classes, 100 MB of storage provides ???
Tablet PCs have (most likely) at least 40,000 MB of storage, 100 MB of storage has 100 MB of storage...
I for one think that if teachers are taught to use the tablets effectively, they can be a boon for education, as opposed to laptops, which I find to be virtually useless in most classroom environments in current usage scenarios. I don't that online storage has any discernible benefit to any population's education either.
Whether or not you detest Microsoft, you have to realize the billions of dollars and man hours they have contributed to the industry. Even if some of that was done 'unfairly'.
If i payed American tax dollars, it would be at the top of my agenda.
please indicate the 'forcing' part of this
I think what you say makes a lot of sense, except the last phrase. If games are easier to write (skipping over the effectiveness/perceived effectiveness of any 'platform'), then there are more people writing games and becoming developers, which would make the game market more competitive, and thusly we would have better games!
I can't see any reason why game development should not be point and click, if they made something like OpenGL easier to write for, I think it would be a positive for the game market, and might bring a viable alternative to Microsoft
from a security standpoint, what shortcomings does it have?
It depends on how you define "virtualization" but Vista already uses fairly extensive virtualization, eg the UAC system redirects file system stores to user profile areas of disk. And IE7 protected mode (for Vista) is an example of exactly what is mentioned... I think this "talk" is just on already released "innovations." Though I suppose the comment about the paranoia is of note.
If I'm downloading something from anyone, then I have some sort of need for it, a.k.a. I have a use for it. If a new distributed download system reduces the cost and increases the speed at of fulfilling the need then I am all for it. I fail to see how anyone might have a problem with this, especially as it will most likely be an opt-in/out scheme.
I think that you make some valid points, however, i wanted to expand on the fact that "no one knows everything" - People seem to have limited memory, this system may be a key component in a general "diagnosis AI." I imagine someday a system where a physician enters your symptoms and test results, the system would then provide the user with possible diagnoses and medical tests to perform to further reduce possible diagnoses/confirm a diagnosis.
I was originally diagnosed with an "infectious tumour" (not cancer) due to complications in retrieving tumour cells. For 6 months i was given heavy antibiotics, and those 6 months were both very damaging to my long-term health and did not produce any positive results. Finally it was decided to perform another biopsy, and a proper diagnoses was established, and the original biopsy result subsequently made sense, hindsight... Anyways, I imagine, someday an AI system that would circumvent this "blanking of possibilities" and would prevent potentially avoidable situations like mine, where lives are risked and permanent damage results. This will not "obsolete" physicians - they are more than vending machines that dole out diagnoses.
what about testicular cancer?
The schwartz is a powerful force within all of us, one cannot ask whom it is, because it is a powerful base unit of the universe!
You have the ring, and I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Let's see how well you handle it.hours at work != hours worked the author's point, which seemed obvious to me was that the average worker spends an average amount of time there, but their time spent at home is dominated by work there as well.
I know they don't provide an indexer for osx, but the indexer in osx was conceived after ms's vista (longhorn i suppose)'s i think google is way off base to begin with, and not saying anything about osx really cuts the legs out of the argument imho.
Just to clarify: I believe all versions of Vista are available in 64-bit and 32-bit, and if you own a retail copy of one you have the ability to install and use 32 or 64-bit-edness.
I did not scan the comments, merely skimmed them... perhaps this has already been discussed? For a few dollars a year you can buy your recommended dose in pill form, I have been doing this, mainly to help calcium absorption, as I just recently became a tumour survivor. Are there any detriments to taking the vitamin in this form?
I am sorry, but this is a terrible argument
a web browser allows you to access the internet and download files - this is a severe security flaw, if the user is clueless, since they can easily download any malware and run it.
I don't see how IE is any better or worse than FireFox in this regard?
what security issues are you reffering to? ActiveX? ActiveX controls are no easier to install than FireFox extentions, so i suppose the issue extends to firefox as well?
i mean, i love firefox, but you sit an idiot in front of any "useful" computer and you are gonna get junk
Just have to agree about turtle talk - just about the coolest thing at epcot, especially for the smaller kids
My main issue with this is that the articles look associated with the previous article
call me what you wish, but i feel that trusted computing requiring hardware is not going to be big on the linux platform. so i didn't include it, however you are right, you can do it with hardware, but the GPL is outside the realm of just trusted computing systems. anyways, if someone is writting software for the specialized drm hardware, it doesn't seem very much like the type of code that will end up being gpl's anyways. of course this is all opinion
yes you'd have to pay for the license, but you could easily remove the DRM by rendering the stream to disk, thusly getting a drm free copy.