Right now, the dominant computer platform is the mobile phone. The iPhone is just the headliner, the rivals in development will be just as innovative. I wonder how Microsoft intend to deal with that development?
Sun spent a lot of time and cash with lawyers to establish the ownership of all the code that was opensourced. Some parts of Solaris are still not available because of the ownership problems. One of the characteristics of open source is, once released, the worms cannot be forced back into the can. The Solaris code is never going to disappear. What would Novell gain by fighting Sun over this? Novell have no grounds (the same that TSG) for objecting to Sun orginated code, and the old Unix code has been publicaly available from many sources for years.
It's possible that Novell could act as Microsofts legal sockpuppet, but as we have seen, those who act as Microsoft proxies are doomed to failure.
Don't try to sell Linux, sell the advantages that Linux provides. Then when you have a demand for a low cost, reliable, secure, license free product, the fact that it's not a Microsoft product will not seem so horrifying.
People keep saying that computerised voting will eventually work. Yet report after report just proves that computerised voting is much, much worse than any of the alternatives. A vote is too important a thing to waste as test data on an alpha implementation.
It would be interesting to know why computerised voting can't count. Counting is one thing that a computer can do well.
Thank god, the US has no need of foreigners coming in and teaching. If that kind of crazy idea caught on, all hell would break loose. The population might become sufficiently educated to start to question the silly rules.
Concider the failure modes of such a scheme. Apart from the ones where the thief gets to use the iPod, they all result in the legitimate user losing the use of their iPod.
If you can play it, you can crack it. The only question is how much time/money you are prepared to spend. Now, with the internet and hacker cooperation, time is available in many multiples of real-time. As for money, it all depends how much an industrial level "pirate" wants to invest in cracking the security (assuming a simple bit-level copy isn't going to do the job for some reason.)
I found this hidden within the value of Pi expressed in base 11...
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Vista is out for many people as they just don't see why they have to buy new scanners etc just because they are a couple of years old and vista drivers are not available.
If Microsoft had any sense they would create a driver wrapper that would allow existing XP peripheral drivers to operate in Vista. After all, what use is DRM for a scanner?
You _really_ don't want to statically link libraries. If you do, any security problems with the libraries become security problems with your code that can only be fixed by patching all your binaries and not just the library with the problem.
I see no reason why the BBC should award a monopoly to any company and their media format for material owned by the BBC. It is not the job of the BBC to support Microsoft, Real or any other closed format exclusively.
I note with interest that the various free/open media formats are available on every platform and do not require license payments. The only reason not to use a free/open format is DRM and if that is the case here then the BBC is making a wrong choice for both technical and financial reasons.
It's a rare company that has survived a close friendship with Microsoft. Still, it's always good to have an example to warn off future companies who think that they can deal with Microsoft as equals.
NO one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.
Judging by his faculty biography, Alan D. MacCormack is much like the virgin who writes about sex. He writes a lot about software development, but there is no evidence that he has actually done any.
Hey! I like watching a 5 minute diatribe accusing me of being a criminal. I love the way that they don't allow you to skip or FF through the little moral tale. I don't care that I have to wait to see the movie I paid $40 to "own"... every single time from now until doomsday.
It's suggested that this single annoyance drives ordinary people to learn how to rip dvds and in the process eliminate the wonderful story about drug dealing pirates; I couldn't possibly comment.
Someone elsewhere pointed out that since Vista was released there have been approximately 50 million PCs sold. So, selling 40 million Vista licenses isn't that great.
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Right now, the dominant computer platform is the mobile phone. The iPhone is just the headliner, the rivals in development will be just as innovative. I wonder how Microsoft intend to deal with that development?
ZFS is already available for BSD and there is a useland implementation for Linux. How much more open do you need?
It's possible that Novell could act as Microsofts legal sockpuppet, but as we have seen, those who act as Microsoft proxies are doomed to failure.
Don't try to sell Linux, sell the advantages that Linux provides. Then when you have a demand for a low cost, reliable, secure, license free product, the fact that it's not a Microsoft product will not seem so horrifying.
People keep saying that computerised voting will eventually work. Yet report after report just proves that computerised voting is much, much worse than any of the alternatives. A vote is too important a thing to waste as test data on an alpha implementation.
It would be interesting to know why computerised voting can't count. Counting is one thing that a computer can do well.
Thank god, the US has no need of foreigners coming in and teaching. If that kind of crazy idea caught on, all hell would break loose. The population might become sufficiently educated to start to question the silly rules.
Concider the failure modes of such a scheme. Apart from the ones where the thief gets to use the iPod, they all result in the legitimate user losing the use of their iPod.
Email is a P2P protocol that can survive the loss of service on a given provider.
Facebook is totally centralised and will disappear one day and take all the contents with it (as will myspace, twitter etc.)
Oh hum. Call me when they have the equation for a flexagon.
If you can play it, you can crack it. The only question is how much time/money you are prepared to spend. Now, with the internet and hacker cooperation, time is available in many multiples of real-time. As for money, it all depends how much an industrial level "pirate" wants to invest in cracking the security (assuming a simple bit-level copy isn't going to do the job for some reason.)
I'm more and more convinced that TV companies think that Max Headroom is a model to copy rather than a warning.
Why?
Because they are the people who prepare your food and clean your house.
Having money in the bank or paid up health insurance doesn't protect you from catching TB.
Interesting.
;-)
Does it work with typewritten characters?
Oh, I'm totally going to hold one up.
It's always insightful to reverse a slogan and see what it means. Non-people ready business? People not ready business. People ready non-business?
So the slogan is just a restatement of the normal situation. It's spin.
Vista is out for many people as they just don't see why they have to buy new scanners etc just because they are a couple of years old and vista drivers are not available.
If Microsoft had any sense they would create a driver wrapper that would allow existing XP peripheral drivers to operate in Vista. After all, what use is DRM for a scanner?
You _really_ don't want to statically link libraries. If you do, any security problems with the libraries become security problems with your code that can only be fixed by patching all your binaries and not just the library with the problem.
I see no reason why the BBC should award a monopoly to any company and their media format for material owned by the BBC. It is not the job of the BBC to support Microsoft, Real or any other closed format exclusively.
I note with interest that the various free/open media formats are available on every platform and do not require license payments. The only reason not to use a free/open format is DRM and if that is the case here then the BBC is making a wrong choice for both technical and financial reasons.
It's a rare company that has survived a close friendship with Microsoft. Still, it's always good to have an example to warn off future companies who think that they can deal with Microsoft as equals.
Judging by his faculty biography, Alan D. MacCormack is much like the virgin who writes about sex. He writes a lot about software development, but there is no evidence that he has actually done any.
IIRC, superconductors tend to loss their superconducting properties when strong magnetic fields are applied.
Look out for terrorists buying large amounts of copper wire and batteries...
Hey! I like watching a 5 minute diatribe accusing me of being a criminal. I love the way that they don't allow you to skip or FF through the little moral tale. I don't care that I have to wait to see the movie I paid $40 to "own"... every single time from now until doomsday.
It's suggested that this single annoyance drives ordinary people to learn how to rip dvds and in the process eliminate the wonderful story about drug dealing pirates; I couldn't possibly comment.
Someone elsewhere pointed out that since Vista was released there have been approximately 50 million PCs sold. So, selling 40 million Vista licenses isn't that great.