It seems that the OS owners are pretty sure about their product success.
Fragmentation is actually not a good thing, but it happens only to successful products, like Linux, soda drinks, hamburgers and windows.
Is like partitioning the hard drive to have your two favourite operating systems in the same machine.
Untill there will be a way to have both of them running my programs at the same time (hybrid SMP), that solution would look like a trick. Users that are concerned with CPUs and chipsets would like to have the real best, not the best of breeds.
I think it's time now to give a closer look to some other open source RDBMS.
It took years to bring MySQL to where it is now. It will take hours to lay it down!
And SCO could also start sending letters to companies to claim money for MySQL licenses!:-)
It's not actually the same situation.
Do you know how many people and tons of goods used to cross the channel by ship?
A couple of magnitude orders more than the Canale di Messina!
The distance between the two sides is 20 times larger in the British Channel.
And, moreover, there is no active volcano snoring close to the tunnel.
I'd spend those money and efforts in something more useful or less useless at least.
This is just a political manoeuvre by the Governemt.
They don't have the money to support it.
None seems to be really interested in such a thing (not even in Sicilia).
Scientists warn against it: the Etna volcano is just 50 Km far from there.
But stock quotes of the company that should build the bridge are going up any time someone quotes the bridge.
In a company that big nothing happens by mistake or as an accident.
Everything is to be planned and carefully prepared (maybe also bugs!) accordingly to precise roadmaps.
For example, they need to show Vista is not vapourware, while not really being able (or willing) to release a beta or a RC. So the leak!
It seems strange this can be true, but otherwise such a "distract and lazy" company should have sinked long time ago!
The Archimedes Mirror is considered a myth because there was not enough technology by that time.
To concentrate the needed amount of sun light at that distance it is needed a fairly high precision in defining the right
flexure of the mirror surface and its polishness. Historians and engineers believe that it was out of reach for that time technology. Even by "clustering" mirrors, the constraint of precision in the flexure remains with some more problems.
China Government is right: free (as in freedom) thinking is an addiction: once you taste it you cannot live without it! I just wonder how big can be an Addiciton Hospital for a billion of people!
History shows that very often government people fears those who show greater or deeper knowledge.
And instead of admitting it and learn they tend to eliminate or restrict that knowledge.
This is why they want us to think bad about hackers.
I block ads because I am free to do so.
I jump among TV channels during ads because I am free to do so.
I skip the ad pages in a magazin because I am free to do so.
Now we can look forward to yet another way to get brain cancer
I don't think that such a technology would add damages to our brains much more than high voltage air power lines, radio frequency repeaters (TV, radio...), cellular networks and Wi Fi.
The real point is that we will still need the recharging station needing wires itself!
Is there any really innovating company with a cell phone battery lasting, say, a couple of months? (No uranium, please)
RIAA has in mind the one and only solution:
1. prevent any broadcasting, podcasting and streaming and
2. prevent anything that can record and reproduce the performances they need to sqeeze revenues from.
But I'm not sure this will solve the problem once and forever.
There is no "USB Wifi antenna" on the market, but just USB wifi adapters.
By the way, laptops (whether Centrino or not) use a quite big antenna hidden into
the diplay/cover case. And this is bigger than any other "normal" external wifi antenna.
The only good thing to be done is to ask manufacturers to add an external antenna plug, as they used to do for cell phones.
I think that in order to compete against MS you should beat it on the same field.
Even the worse office suite installed into your PC is much better than any other one running only via web! Especially when you are offline of with low bandwidth, unless there is some real major innovation in web technologies!
We are looking for a precise thing we call life.
This quest is very specific and could lead to wrong considerations. The point is that we know too little about life, Universe and everything to do something resembling a real search for life. I recall Cristoforo Colombo that knew too little about India to understand that it was not India at all!
If I build and sell a car that can make damages no matter how careful the driver is, I am responsible for it in front of the law.
If I build and sell a toaster that will burn someone's fingers no matter how carefull she is, I'm resposible.
Why on earth if I build (literally!) and sell software that can make damages of any nature because of bugs I am not responsible?
It's a matter of how powerful the software developer is!
The Linux community should take in serious consideration the need for some kind of unification, a-la *BSD!
More choices can yeld to a fragmentation of efforts over too many distributions differing mostly only in the package management and a bunch of software patches.
A very specialised support company could have hard time when a distribution goes out of style .Or maybe not, because a Linux-related problem is (almost) the same on all distributions! E pluribus unum!
Delaying a product in a company that big simply means that there is some major "product marketing" issue rather than technical.
A Linux based device needs the same resources, efforts and care than any other one.
Nokia could be concerned with the Symbian position or simply trying to get the most out of a product.
The point is not how to catch a 360 degrees scene, but how to view it!
The actual view angle of a scene we can enjoy is a fraction of a 360 degrees, if we don't count the case of Mr. Marty Feldman. So we should move our eys and neck in order to embrace the whole scene and then loose the rest of it. It seems that someone in the movie industry is willing to save the money for a good scene shooter and photo director!
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It seems that the OS owners are pretty sure about their product success.
Fragmentation is actually not a good thing, but it happens only to successful products, like Linux, soda drinks, hamburgers and windows.
Is like partitioning the hard drive to have your two favourite operating systems in the same machine.
Untill there will be a way to have both of them running my programs at the same time (hybrid SMP), that solution would look like a trick.
Users that are concerned with CPUs and chipsets would like to have the real best, not the best of breeds.
I have been using pillows until now with no injury.
While Ancient Egyptians were not able to survive witout: they all died!
I think it's time now to give a closer look to some other open source RDBMS. :-)
It took years to bring MySQL to where it is now. It will take hours to lay it down!
And SCO could also start sending letters to companies to claim money for MySQL licenses!
Do you know how many people and tons of goods used to cross the channel by ship?
A couple of magnitude orders more than the Canale di Messina!
The distance between the two sides is 20 times larger in the British Channel.
And, moreover, there is no active volcano snoring close to the tunnel.
I'd spend those money and efforts in something more useful or less useless at least.
This is just a political manoeuvre by the Governemt.
They don't have the money to support it.
None seems to be really interested in such a thing (not even in Sicilia).
Scientists warn against it: the Etna volcano is just 50 Km far from there.
But stock quotes of the company that should build the bridge are going up any time someone quotes the bridge.
In a company that big nothing happens by mistake or as an accident.
Everything is to be planned and carefully prepared (maybe also bugs!) accordingly to precise roadmaps.
For example, they need to show Vista is not vapourware, while not really being able (or willing) to release a beta or a RC. So the leak!
It seems strange this can be true, but otherwise such a "distract and lazy" company should have sinked long time ago!
The Archimedes Mirror is considered a myth because there was not enough technology by that time.
To concentrate the needed amount of sun light at that distance it is needed a fairly high precision in defining the right flexure of the mirror surface and its polishness.
Historians and engineers believe that it was out of reach for that time technology.
Even by "clustering" mirrors, the constraint of precision in the flexure remains with some more problems.
China Government is right: free (as in freedom) thinking is an addiction: once you taste it you cannot live without it!
I just wonder how big can be an Addiciton Hospital for a billion of people!
History shows that very often government people fears those who show greater or deeper knowledge.
And instead of admitting it and learn they tend to eliminate or restrict that knowledge.
This is why they want us to think bad about hackers.
I block ads because I am free to do so.
I jump among TV channels during ads because I am free to do so.
I skip the ad pages in a magazin because I am free to do so.
I don't think that such a technology would add damages to our brains much more than high voltage air power lines, radio frequency repeaters (TV, radio
The real point is that we will still need the recharging station needing wires itself! Is there any really innovating company with a cell phone battery lasting, say, a couple of months? (No uranium, please)
RIAA has in mind the one and only solution:
1. prevent any broadcasting, podcasting and streaming and
2. prevent anything that can record and reproduce the performances they need to sqeeze revenues from.
But I'm not sure this will solve the problem once and forever.
There is no "USB Wifi antenna" on the market, but just USB wifi adapters.
By the way, laptops (whether Centrino or not) use a quite big antenna hidden into the diplay/cover case. And this is bigger than any other "normal" external wifi antenna.
The only good thing to be done is to ask manufacturers to add an external antenna plug, as they used to do for cell phones.
I think that in order to compete against MS you should beat it on the same field.
Even the worse office suite installed into your PC is much better than any other one running only via web!
Especially when you are offline of with low bandwidth, unless there is some real major innovation in web technologies!
You are 100% right. Mine was only an example on the "common sense": we look for something we don't actually know that well!
We are looking for a precise thing we call life. This quest is very specific and could lead to wrong considerations.
The point is that we know too little about life, Universe and everything to do something resembling a real search for life.
I recall Cristoforo Colombo that knew too little about India to understand that it was not India at all!
If I build and sell a car that can make damages no matter how careful the driver is, I am responsible for it in front of the law.
If I build and sell a toaster that will burn someone's fingers no matter how carefull she is, I'm resposible.
Why on earth if I build (literally!) and sell software that can make damages of any nature because of bugs I am not responsible?
It's a matter of how powerful the software developer is!
Hmmm ... can they also detect whther my laptop runs any Windog pseudo-OS without turning it on?
The Linux community should take in serious consideration the need for some kind of unification, a-la *BSD!
More choices can yeld to a fragmentation of efforts over too many distributions differing mostly only in the package management and a bunch of software patches.
A very specialised support company could have hard time when a distribution goes out of style
.Or maybe not, because a Linux-related problem is (almost) the same on all distributions!
E pluribus unum!
Delaying a product in a company that big simply means that there is some major "product marketing" issue rather than technical.
A Linux based device needs the same resources, efforts and care than any other one.
Nokia could be concerned with the Symbian position or simply trying to get the most out of a product.
The bulkier thing there seems to be the power supply.
Some more technology is needed!
I was expecting something smarter than plain copy limitation!
Real copy protection deals with grants and access permissions!
To boldly go where no tin can has gone before!
The point is not how to catch a 360 degrees scene, but how to view it!
The actual view angle of a scene we can enjoy is a fraction of a 360 degrees, if we don't count the case of Mr. Marty Feldman.
So we should move our eys and neck in order to embrace the whole scene and then loose the rest of it.
It seems that someone in the movie industry is willing to save the money for a good scene shooter and photo director!