Eventually you hope that having a high quality search engine developed by chinese companies would help capitalism displace communism...that's the whole idea...
Let them build search engines. Let them sell it to us. Let them understand what democracy and capitalism are like...and we don't need any flaimbait bushisms here...for the most part americans are quite well off. Go to Egypt sometime and you'll then understand poverty.
It is their country. They can do what they want really. If they want to disallow the usage of google even, that IS their right.
We also have the right never to use their search engines.
Aren't rights wonderful? Eventually they'll become more capitalistic. By allowing them to create their own technologies to do so we allow them to create superior products theoretically...and if they have a superior search engine eventually, they'll want to sell it to americans. Capitalism keeps the world going round and round..that or Newton's law of universal gravitation...not sure which:).
It seems to me that this is the backend for the 802.11b and/or 802.11g wireless hotspots. Try this scenario..
Say I own a lot of starbucks (if they allow franchising, but this is an example so it doesn't matter).
I have a big fat oc3 sitting in downtown LA ready to serve bandwith to a lot of starbucks in LA. It would be MUCH more economical to pay for just one oc3 rather then a bunch of t1's or even cable modems for EACH starbucks. Using this technology, you pay once for the hardware and can send the bandwith from your oc3 over to each and every starbucks you want to and siphon it through the 802.11x clients without having to have the cable/phone companies come in and install land lines in each location.
Also, say that it was decided that you needed more bandwith for your coffee shops. Welp, you just add more bandwith at the home site (assuming each starbucks doesn't NEED 70mbits or whatever the new standard allows), and you now have more bandwith for all your starbucks shops...i think it's a great idea and is extremely expandable.
They are totally cutting out Logic users from the ability to use a PC in the near future. I have no idea how long they plan to keep logic for PC updated, but I absolutely love logic. Midi wise, it's far ahead of pro tools and it can utilize the VST plugins while pro tools forces you upon expensive RTAS or TDM (depending on whether you use LE or a MIX system). I'm happy with my digi 001 running with logic on a pc. Runs great...I am sad however. Oh well.
Anyone know the exact cutoff date?
Also, we need to get open support for the digidesign stuff, as well as the presonus firestation and the motu stuff.
I'm not a Microsoft supporter. I don't *mind* Microsoft software, but I have other preferences really.
I use opensource tools every day and I'm a senior in electrical engineering. Honestly, not having excel on lab machines that interpolate with home machines and professor's machines would cause chaos. Microsofts app suites are pretty solid and widely used. It would be detrimental to go out to the real world and not even know how to use excel, let alone windows, etc.
You have to think about the kids who don't have computers in their dorms and have to go to the labs. What if they want their dad to proofread an english paper? What standard will they use? Will they know how to save it to a file that daddy can read at home in word?
This goes far beyond CIS...Microsoft software runs the general world of word processing and productivity apps. Yes, the alternatives (abiword) rock, but like I said, you have to think and the non tech saavy major who doesn't own a computer as well.
Honestly, one shouldn't limit themselves to ANY platform. Having Microsoft products is an important thing to have in a college enviornment since it is so predominant in the world. If anything, it'll give you more of an appreciation for what is not Microsoft.
I personally advocate a hybrid lab of many platforms which then is integrated together. If you eliminate all microsoft products, you go back to the one platform teaching idea, which isn't really good. Anyone who wants a real job doing real things in the future will need to be fluent in multiple platforms, including but not limited to those microsoft platforms.
Don't throw out windows boxes quite yet because they make you appreciate having control of your own system a lot more.
Everyone who poops, yeah I have that algorithm too, thats a penny.
Oh yeah, anyone that wants to use muscles, well, yep, I have that too. That's ten cents.
Pay up now. I'm going after every American with my patents and making tons of money. You thought bill gates would make money off patenting 1's and 0's (old joke)? Well, move over Gates. You owe me a lifetime of breathing, pooping, and muscle movements.
that's right. pay up.
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John Romero wishes he were cool still. He'll forever live in the shadows of his former self from id software. While he's forced to make crappy titles and other titles that never make it to the market, the guys at id turn out very sucessful games.
Not that I worship id or anytihng - I just know what a fun game is, and Daikatana sucked. He obviously didn't understand the world either since his company's successful game, dues ex, was initially released without multiplayer support.
What can I say? I wish I had a cool url like, rome.ro....well maybe not. I'm not that much of a loser.
It get's us no closer to overturning the law, but instead sets a precedent. The precedent it has set is that (at least so far) it is alright to reverse engineer software under the DCMA. If I recall correctly, they had reverse engineered adobe's ebook format.
This did not help in protecting anything dealing with fair use or any of those aspects, but instead seems to deal with one's ability to reverse engineer a product. Maybe the courts woke up and realized that the whole computer industry really started picking up with compaq's reverse engineering of the IBM architecture.
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Eventually you hope that having a high quality search engine developed by chinese companies would help capitalism displace communism...that's the whole idea ...
Let them build search engines. Let them sell it to us. Let them understand what democracy and capitalism are like...and we don't need any flaimbait bushisms here...for the most part americans are quite well off. Go to Egypt sometime and you'll then understand poverty.
It is their country. They can do what they want really. If they want to disallow the usage of google even, that IS their right.
:).
We also have the right never to use their search engines.
Aren't rights wonderful? Eventually they'll become more capitalistic. By allowing them to create their own technologies to do so we allow them to create superior products theoretically...and if they have a superior search engine eventually, they'll want to sell it to americans. Capitalism keeps the world going round and round..that or Newton's law of universal gravitation...not sure which
This is 802.16a ...not 802.11b...totally different standards.
Don't worry. You'll probably never use 802.16a explicitly, but rather through an 802.11b system.
When I thought about this for a second...
It seems to me that this is the backend for the 802.11b and/or 802.11g wireless hotspots. Try this scenario..
Say I own a lot of starbucks (if they allow franchising, but this is an example so it doesn't matter).
I have a big fat oc3 sitting in downtown LA ready to serve bandwith to a lot of starbucks in LA. It would be MUCH more economical to pay for just one oc3 rather then a bunch of t1's or even cable modems for EACH starbucks. Using this technology, you pay once for the hardware and can send the bandwith from your oc3 over to each and every starbucks you want to and siphon it through the 802.11x clients without having to have the cable/phone companies come in and install land lines in each location.
Also, say that it was decided that you needed more bandwith for your coffee shops. Welp, you just add more bandwith at the home site (assuming each starbucks doesn't NEED 70mbits or whatever the new standard allows), and you now have more bandwith for all your starbucks shops...i think it's a great idea and is extremely expandable.
That date has already passed.....
Do you mean 2003?
They are totally cutting out Logic users from the ability to use a PC in the near future. I have no idea how long they plan to keep logic for PC updated, but I absolutely love logic. Midi wise, it's far ahead of pro tools and it can utilize the VST plugins while pro tools forces you upon expensive RTAS or TDM (depending on whether you use LE or a MIX system). I'm happy with my digi 001 running with logic on a pc. Runs great...I am sad however. Oh well.
Anyone know the exact cutoff date?
Also, we need to get open support for the digidesign stuff, as well as the presonus firestation and the motu stuff.
I'm not a Microsoft supporter. I don't *mind* Microsoft software, but I have other preferences really.
I use opensource tools every day and I'm a senior in electrical engineering. Honestly, not having excel on lab machines that interpolate with home machines and professor's machines would cause chaos. Microsofts app suites are pretty solid and widely used. It would be detrimental to go out to the real world and not even know how to use excel, let alone windows, etc.
You have to think about the kids who don't have computers in their dorms and have to go to the labs. What if they want their dad to proofread an english paper? What standard will they use? Will they know how to save it to a file that daddy can read at home in word?
This goes far beyond CIS...Microsoft software runs the general world of word processing and productivity apps. Yes, the alternatives (abiword) rock, but like I said, you have to think and the non tech saavy major who doesn't own a computer as well.
Honestly, one shouldn't limit themselves to ANY platform. Having Microsoft products is an important thing to have in a college enviornment since it is so predominant in the world. If anything, it'll give you more of an appreciation for what is not Microsoft.
I personally advocate a hybrid lab of many platforms which then is integrated together. If you eliminate all microsoft products, you go back to the one platform teaching idea, which isn't really good. Anyone who wants a real job doing real things in the future will need to be fluent in multiple platforms, including but not limited to those microsoft platforms.
Don't throw out windows boxes quite yet because they make you appreciate having control of your own system a lot more.
Everyone who breathes, that's 5cents a breath.
Everyone who poops, yeah I have that algorithm too, thats a penny.
Oh yeah, anyone that wants to use muscles, well, yep, I have that too. That's ten cents.
Pay up now. I'm going after every American with my patents and making tons of money. You thought bill gates would make money off patenting 1's and 0's (old joke)? Well, move over Gates. You owe me a lifetime of breathing, pooping, and muscle movements.
that's right. pay up.
John Romero wishes he were cool still. He'll forever live in the shadows of his former self from id software. While he's forced to make crappy titles and other titles that never make it to the market, the guys at id turn out very sucessful games.
Not that I worship id or anytihng - I just know what a fun game is, and Daikatana sucked. He obviously didn't understand the world either since his company's successful game, dues ex, was initially released without multiplayer support.
What can I say? I wish I had a cool url like, rome.ro....well maybe not. I'm not that much of a loser.
Get a new job, John.
Comapnies should ph33r the gpl. Cause if not, RMS will come and eat them.
Who wants RMS to even touch them? I mean, come on...everyone's at least seen a pic of the guy.
*CHOMP CHOMP* WATCH OUT NON GPL KIDDIES!
It get's us no closer to overturning the law, but instead sets a precedent. The precedent it has set is that (at least so far) it is alright to reverse engineer software under the DCMA. If I recall correctly, they had reverse engineered adobe's ebook format.
This did not help in protecting anything dealing with fair use or any of those aspects, but instead seems to deal with one's ability to reverse engineer a product. Maybe the courts woke up and realized that the whole computer industry really started picking up with compaq's reverse engineering of the IBM architecture.
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