That makes no sense for China - there's no way they could run the US into the ground as happened to the Soviet Union, and if they're going to escalate spending, they'd be better off focusing on mass employment programs to keep their rural population from getting more upset about the disparity between rural and urban economic conditions.
A nice, US-style interstate highway system or something like that would be a more appropriate way of opening the financial floodgates...
It's lasted so long because we've had such a strong military presence over there that we've picked up many of the responsibilities for them (at much of the cost, too). Japan is eventually going to emerge from that cover, but it will take a great deal of political wrangling and social discussion before it occurs.
Between the North Koreans and the Chinese, however, there are more reasons for them to mobilize with each passing day...
Ho hum, another "MS is so successful only because they're a monopoly" post. Did you ever consider that it takes something to actually become a monopoly in the first place, one that fostered an unprecedented (PC software) industry expansion over the last 20 or so years?
MS does actually provide value to a huge customer base - there's a reason that their monopoly has thrived. Like it or not, MS has played a large role in the progress of desktop systems over the last two decades.
It's all about the cost savings - they've used Unix before, but this makes it less expensive to crank up the number of computers involved. Really, this isn't that big a story. It's well-known that Linux is becoming the platform of choice for this specific application...
As one of the helpers for the installfest, I can say that this is pretty much only going to help our cause. We couldn't ask for better advertising (both the NZ Herald, and Slashdot).
I'm sure the Society told these guys, "if you turn us down, we'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine..."
There are several other state laws kicking in as well - here in Indiana there's a new anti-spam law (modeled after several others and unlikely ever to get dusted off) targeting forged email headers...
Now if we can only get Daylight Savings Time here we might step into the 20th Century (nevermind the 21st!).
Perhaps the strongest result to come out of SETI@home is the validation of a new means of performing research, i.e. the distributed computing model. SETI@home took that model and rolled it out into the public domain where everyday people could become a contributing part of research.
In that sense alone, regardless of concrete results, SETI@home belongs on the list...
But what articles like this can provide is an opportunity to lay out the different areas of risk that need to be considered, and then address how each of these can be examined and dealt with properly. The biggest obstacle to OSS in the corporate arena is simple unfamiliarity more than anything. A manager who's thinking of making an OSS recommendation needs to have good information backing him up when he makes the pitch to his/her superiors...
There have been applications talked about, however, that could help people in low-tech industries like agriculture. For instance, someone could check various local markets and decide where to take their produce for the day. I thought there was a recent article in The Economist about this, but I'm having difficulty finding it right now.
Bottom line, places like Africa need a lot of things to come together to foster self-sustaining economic growth - stronger laws, better access to rich-world markets, etc. But deploying wireless seems to be a natural choice rather than trying to string wire all over the continent and bring them up to 1950's technology...
Very true - they've moved beyond pure retail to being a fulfillment operation for an industry. And by the way, here's a link to the Amazon Hacks book...
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That makes no sense for China - there's no way they could run the US into the ground as happened to the Soviet Union, and if they're going to escalate spending, they'd be better off focusing on mass employment programs to keep their rural population from getting more upset about the disparity between rural and urban economic conditions.
A nice, US-style interstate highway system or something like that would be a more appropriate way of opening the financial floodgates...
Reach out and touch someone, of course!
Well, for one thing, it helps to serve as a warning to the many sysadmins around here to make sure the hatches are battoned down...
Just posting a story doesn't imply an advocation for defacement.
and finally something to use my university-mandated foreign language classes for! Other than ordering Viener Schnitzel and spatzel, that is...
It's lasted so long because we've had such a strong military presence over there that we've picked up many of the responsibilities for them (at much of the cost, too). Japan is eventually going to emerge from that cover, but it will take a great deal of political wrangling and social discussion before it occurs.
Between the North Koreans and the Chinese, however, there are more reasons for them to mobilize with each passing day...
Ho hum, another "MS is so successful only because they're a monopoly" post. Did you ever consider that it takes something to actually become a monopoly in the first place, one that fostered an unprecedented (PC software) industry expansion over the last 20 or so years?
MS does actually provide value to a huge customer base - there's a reason that their monopoly has thrived. Like it or not, MS has played a large role in the progress of desktop systems over the last two decades.
It's all about the cost savings - they've used Unix before, but this makes it less expensive to crank up the number of computers involved. Really, this isn't that big a story. It's well-known that Linux is becoming the platform of choice for this specific application...
As one of the helpers for the installfest, I can say that this is pretty much only going to help our cause. We couldn't ask for better advertising (both the NZ Herald, and Slashdot).
I'm sure the Society told these guys, "if you turn us down, we'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine..."
There are several other state laws kicking in as well - here in Indiana there's a new anti-spam law (modeled after several others and unlikely ever to get dusted off) targeting forged email headers...
Now if we can only get Daylight Savings Time here we might step into the 20th Century (nevermind the 21st!).
Maybe so, but the thought of a bunch of programmers walking around saying things like "shiver me timbers" sounds pretty cool...
That doesn't matter - I understand their patent is about to be approved anyway. Talk about prior art!
*rimshot*
Perhaps the strongest result to come out of SETI@home is the validation of a new means of performing research, i.e. the distributed computing model. SETI@home took that model and rolled it out into the public domain where everyday people could become a contributing part of research.
In that sense alone, regardless of concrete results, SETI@home belongs on the list...
That damn bus is dangerous - always seems to wipe out the one guy who can resolve a sticky situation. How come it never hits the PHB's?
I hear you - Police Academy II was such a letdown. I just can't watch the original the same way anymore...
All these and more SCO statements have been competely reversed now. Why should we listen to this never-ending story of lies from SCO.
Which, translated into biz-speak, means: "we really do want to be acquired, but jack up the price a bit."
How much you wanna "bet" that he makes "those" marks with his "hands" when he "talks", too?
But what articles like this can provide is an opportunity to lay out the different areas of risk that need to be considered, and then address how each of these can be examined and dealt with properly. The biggest obstacle to OSS in the corporate arena is simple unfamiliarity more than anything. A manager who's thinking of making an OSS recommendation needs to have good information backing him up when he makes the pitch to his/her superiors...
There have been applications talked about, however, that could help people in low-tech industries like agriculture. For instance, someone could check various local markets and decide where to take their produce for the day. I thought there was a recent article in The Economist about this, but I'm having difficulty finding it right now.
Bottom line, places like Africa need a lot of things to come together to foster self-sustaining economic growth - stronger laws, better access to rich-world markets, etc. But deploying wireless seems to be a natural choice rather than trying to string wire all over the continent and bring them up to 1950's technology...
No, but sometimes they do issue more than one death sentence. I guess they do that just in case being dead once already isn't enough.
What, you haven't heard of refried beings?
wow, and you sound like such a pleasure to work with! That couldn't have anything to do with it, could it?
And just wait until the development of military pornography kicks into high gear - we'll be at IPv8 in no time...
Working together? Has this guy even seen Slashdot???
But if they did that, how would they play America's Army Operations?
Oh come on, it's just like any other revision of history - the winner (and thus the writer) never ends up shooting first...
Very true - they've moved beyond pure retail to being a fulfillment operation for an industry. And by the way, here's a link to the Amazon Hacks book...