The dead knell for C# is that in practice it only runs on Windows (Nobody that I know of is using mono for production work). Linux on the server is growing at a quick pace. If you use.net you are only targeting some of the servers running out there. If you use java you are targeting all of them. That is a real problem for.net if you plan to reuse your code with the next client, because you dont know if they will be Linux based.
I will repeat what I say on this cases, and also about censorship and network neutrality issues:
The only way to assure net neutrality is to encrypt every packet and randomize the ports on all new network protocols. This is true right now for some P2P and skype. Given the current European policy on data retention, we should do it even for mail and instant messaging. Of course you should use sftp instead of ftp and ssh instead of telnet, and your SMTP sessions should go encrypted, but that is not enough. We should rewrite every protocol and make it look like IPSEC.
This way we would avoid the following problems without the need for regulation:
- Government censorship (the China firewall becomes less efficient) - Traffic Shaping (ISPs shouldn't have the right to decide what protocols can you use). - Multi tier pricing (the ISP could discriminate by IP, but not by service) - Traffic analysis (for example the European Data Retention policy. If all packets look the same it becomes much more difficult)
A technical solution is always better than a political one.
In this case, the "expert" wouldn't have suggested the filtering solution if all of the p2p protocols where encrypted, like some bittorrent variants.
But this is based on the idea that the new T cells coming from the bone marrow would be immune to infection. Eventually they would be the only ones around and the HIV wouldn't have room on them. Can the HIV live in a host where it can't infect the T cells?
We know that we can "reboot" the immune system by destroying the bone marrow and repopulating it with new one coming from a donor.
Now lets say that we do an autotransplant. First we take a sample from the donor and then this sample is treated with the enzyme so all of the HIV's DNA is removed. Next, we introduce a gene on this cultured cells that will produce the enzyme, thus rendering them immune to infection. Next we destroy the donor's bone marrow and implant the new one.
There will be infected T cells left behind, but they won't reproduce as they are outside the bone marrow and they would eventually die.
The only way to assure net neutrality is to encrypt every packet and randomize the ports on all the new network protocols. This is true right now for some P2P and skype. Given the current European policy on data retention, we should do it even for mail and instant messaging. Of course you should use sftp instead of ftp and ssh instead of telnet, and your SMTP sessions should go encrypted, but that is not enough. We should rewrite every protocol and make it look like IPSEC.
This way we would avoid the following problems without the need for regulation:
- Government censorship (the China firewall becomes less efficient) - Traffic Shaping (ISPs shouldn't have the right to decide what protocols can you use). - Multi tier pricing (the ISP could discriminate by IP, but not by service) - Traffic analysis (for example the European Data Retention policy. If all packets look the same it becomes much more difficult)
A technical solution is always better than a political one.
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
If sun is moving OpenSolaris to the GPL3 from their current license ZFS will be a high profile case where incompatibilities between GPL v2 and v3 are causing big trouble to Linux, the kernel.
Unless Linus and everyone else decide to move to v3
Is to encrypt every protocol so it looks like IPSEC or ssh and use random ports. This is going to be defeating the point of network management, firewalls, etc, but it is the only option they allow us to get information across without it being cataloged, censored and billed according to whatever criteria they want to impose.
"Just because distribution is easier on the internet does not give anyone with access to a computer the right to distribute content they do not hold the copyrights to. Many new services of downloadable content are springing up and work just fine and they support the production studios. Use them if you want to download movies/music or don't consume copyrighted entertainment. It is really they simple."
Or just ignore the legislation on copyright and use stuff as you see fit. A law that is unenforceable is stupid. Do you know why there is no law regulating the intake of air by human beings? not because it is unmoral, but because it is unenforceable. The same thing applies to information. If you can copy it as easily as it is today, there is no point on regulating the making copies of information because it cannot be enforced. They will eventually come to understand it.
Second, what if I record, say, a "C.S.I." parody? By rights I should be allowed to post it as such, will my file get flagged as lawsuit-bait and zapped because I used a copyrighted term in the description?
Actually, that situation would be interesting!
You create a "C.S.I" parody video (not very difficult task, by the way) and it gets censored by the automatic filter at google. You sue and google goes to trial and looses. The judge orders google to disable or fix the automatic filter. As they cannot fix it (it is a very hard AI problem to distinguish between a parody and the real thing) they have to disable the tagger.
Google may be interested in actually *loosing* this suit and it would settle a precedent where if a filter filters legitimate uses of the technology it can't be used.
Well, you would actually raise the sea levels although not very much. But this would work against us on the global warming front as your piss would be warm.
If you run Linux you don't buy ATI. Their drivers truly suck and any performance advantage the ATI card could have on paper will not be realized because of the drivers.
When KDE 4 is released, many of its apps will be compiled for windows. There are some of them like amarok and k3b that are the best in their class, including closed source ones, and there are others that are as good as the closed sourced ones like krita, krusader, scribus, kivio and some others. When they are available for windows, and if you also consider firefox, thunderbird and openoffice you will be able to run a windows system with most of the applications open sourced.
By this interpretation, Google could have waited for the lawsuits to start and then buy YouTube for very little money, they could have saved a Billion.
If I put together all the digits I know by heart about anything at all, phone numbers, dates, train schedules, computer IPs, heck even application version numbers...
I don't think the total would be more than a thousand digits:-)
So the big companies will have a influence on what new technologies get patents?
That is an unfair advantage because two reasons.
First, they will have a better view of developing technologies than the other companies. They will know earlier than others if some new tech is available, innovative and useful. They will be able to buy out the upstart producing it before anyone else.
Also, they will be able to give a harder time in the review process to patent applications coming from competitors.
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The dead knell for C# is that in practice it only runs on Windows (Nobody that I know of is using mono for production work). Linux on the server is growing at a quick pace. If you use .net you are only targeting some of the servers running out there. If you use java you are targeting all of them. That is a real problem for .net if you plan to reuse your code with the next client, because you dont know if they will be Linux based.
I will repeat what I say on this cases, and also about censorship and network neutrality issues:
The only way to assure net neutrality is to encrypt every packet and randomize the ports on all new network protocols. This is true right now for some P2P and skype.
Given the current European policy on data retention, we should do it even for mail and instant messaging. Of course you should use sftp instead of ftp and ssh instead of telnet, and your SMTP sessions should go encrypted, but that is not enough. We should rewrite every protocol and make it look like IPSEC.
This way we would avoid the following problems without the need for regulation:
- Government censorship (the China firewall becomes less efficient)
- Traffic Shaping (ISPs shouldn't have the right to decide what protocols can you use).
- Multi tier pricing (the ISP could discriminate by IP, but not by service)
- Traffic analysis (for example the European Data Retention policy. If all packets look the same it becomes much more difficult)
A technical solution is always better than a political one.
In this case, the "expert" wouldn't have suggested the filtering solution if all of the p2p protocols where encrypted, like some bittorrent variants.
Well, you can even get the consensus opinion from SAP lawyers. They said "innapropiate download" as opposed to "stealing of code" so there you go.
But this is based on the idea that the new T cells coming from the bone marrow would be immune to infection. Eventually they would be the only ones around and the HIV wouldn't have room on them. Can the HIV live in a host where it can't infect the T cells?
Ok, this is my wild idea.
We know that we can "reboot" the immune system by destroying the bone marrow and repopulating it with new one coming from a donor.
Now lets say that we do an autotransplant. First we take a sample from the donor and then this sample is treated with the enzyme so all of the HIV's DNA is removed. Next, we introduce a gene on this cultured cells that will produce the enzyme, thus rendering them immune to infection. Next we destroy the donor's bone marrow and implant the new one.
There will be infected T cells left behind, but they won't reproduce as they are outside the bone marrow and they would eventually die.
Could this ever work?
How would the community have coped with two of the largest vendors doing so?
One word,
Ubuntu
The only way to assure net neutrality is to encrypt every packet and randomize the ports on all the new network protocols. This is true right now for some P2P and skype.
Given the current European policy on data retention, we should do it even for mail and instant messaging. Of course you should use sftp instead of ftp and ssh instead of telnet, and your SMTP sessions should go encrypted, but that is not enough. We should rewrite every protocol and make it look like IPSEC.
This way we would avoid the following problems without the need for regulation:
- Government censorship (the China firewall becomes less efficient)
- Traffic Shaping (ISPs shouldn't have the right to decide what protocols can you use).
- Multi tier pricing (the ISP could discriminate by IP, but not by service)
- Traffic analysis (for example the European Data Retention policy. If all packets look the same it becomes much more difficult)
A technical solution is always better than a political one.
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
If sun is moving OpenSolaris to the GPL3 from their current license ZFS will be a high profile case where incompatibilities between GPL v2 and v3 are causing big trouble to Linux, the kernel.
Unless Linus and everyone else decide to move to v3
Is to encrypt every protocol so it looks like IPSEC or ssh and use random ports. This is going to be defeating the point of network management, firewalls, etc, but it is the only option they allow us to get information across without it being cataloged, censored and billed according to whatever criteria they want to impose.
From TFA:
"There are so many ways of doing it improperly, and only one way of doing it right."
But he doesn't say what the right way is, or how it could be, or even if he thinks his company is on the right track. There is no information at all.
and what is the upstream speed?
"Just because distribution is easier on the internet does not give anyone with access to a computer the right to distribute content they do not hold the copyrights to. Many new services of downloadable content are springing up and work just fine and they support the production studios. Use them if you want to download movies/music or don't consume copyrighted entertainment. It is really they simple."
Or just ignore the legislation on copyright and use stuff as you see fit. A law that is unenforceable is stupid. Do you know why there is no law regulating the intake of air by human beings? not because it is unmoral, but because it is unenforceable. The same thing applies to information. If you can copy it as easily as it is today, there is no point on regulating the making copies of information because it cannot be enforced. They will eventually come to understand it.
So has chip performance doubled every 18 months?
I have tried to find out, but didn't get a clear enough answer from what is publicly available on the internet.
Now it is the perfect time to show Microsoft that FUD works both ways:
.net to develop software, in the future your projects can be taken down because of patent infringement.
LEGAL WARNING:
If you use
Using Microsoft products is a legal minefield!!!
You should consult your legal department before purchasing any Microsoft product.
Second, what if I record, say, a "C.S.I." parody? By rights I should be allowed to post it as such, will my file get flagged as lawsuit-bait and zapped because I used a copyrighted term in the description?
Actually, that situation would be interesting!
You create a "C.S.I" parody video (not very difficult task, by the way) and it gets censored by the automatic filter at google. You sue and google goes to trial and looses. The judge orders google to disable or fix the automatic filter. As they cannot fix it (it is a very hard AI problem to distinguish between a parody and the real thing) they have to disable the tagger.
Google may be interested in actually *loosing* this suit and it would settle a precedent where if a filter filters legitimate uses of the technology it can't be used.
Well, you would actually raise the sea levels although not very much. But this would work against us on the global warming front as your piss would be warm.
If we extract lots of energy from the wind that would make the atmosphere cooler I guess. So this would work against global warming in two fronts.
Novell is the new SCO
If you run Linux you don't buy ATI. Their drivers truly suck and any performance advantage the ATI card could have on paper will not be realized because of the drivers.
When KDE 4 is released, many of its apps will be compiled for windows. There are some of them like amarok and k3b that are the best in their class, including closed source ones, and there are others that are as good as the closed sourced ones like krita, krusader, scribus, kivio and some others.
When they are available for windows, and if you also consider firefox, thunderbird and openoffice you will be able to run a windows system with most of the applications open sourced.
By this interpretation, Google could have waited for the lawsuits to start and then buy YouTube for very little money, they could have saved a Billion.
I was under the impression that software patents were _not_ allowed on the whole of Europe.
If I put together all the digits I know by heart about anything at all, phone numbers, dates, train schedules, computer IPs, heck even application version numbers...
:-)
I don't think the total would be more than a thousand digits
How do they do it?
So the big companies will have a influence on what new technologies get patents?
That is an unfair advantage because two reasons.
First, they will have a better view of developing technologies than the other companies. They will know earlier than others if some new tech is available, innovative and useful. They will be able to buy out the upstart producing it before anyone else.
Also, they will be able to give a harder time in the review process to patent applications coming from competitors.