It seems to be a trend in Europe. After the anti-trust case came a Finnish European Commisionar 'Erkii Likaanen' claims that Microsoft is to open the source codes otherwise all local European gouvernmental institutions will get negative advice on using Microsoft product.
This could be an MS-killer in Europe.
Next French (local) gouvernments start using open-source products.
Anti-Microsoft sentiments are growing on continental scale here, the mentioned article is just another thrill in this proces.
If the fake IP would be cnet, then the returning route can be established, the packets will be sent and the server doesn't wait.
You need a fake (non-existant) adress to do the DoS, because if the returning route can not be established, the server waits and tries again, read the CNN article...
According to my information Compaq quit NT on Alpha because they had to run it through some sort of emulator to create a 32-bit environment, the resulting overhead would be so high that it would end up with speeds we're used to on an ordinary pentium.
These Linux products ported for Alpha are potential Microsoft killers. As Compaq quit their project on porting Windows NT to Alpha (and MS said 'we don't care anyway') Microsoft's future could get very rough.
If you look at the problems of Intel, trying to get their Merced up and running (last I heard they got about 450 Mhz clock speeds?), there could be a problem in the evolution of ever increasing processor speeds.
The ports of multiple Unices / Linuces to the Alpha in combination with the Intel / Microsoft problems could change the rules.
Well, we won't see anything of it by tomorrow, but maybe within 2 years or so?
The DVD protection scheme was quite good. I mean, it's Xing's fault that it could be cracked isn't it?
It's the fault of the DVD industry coalition, that there were motives to crack DVD.
If they'd given away DVD drivers for Linux, BeOs, OS/2 etc. then DVD would not have been cracked.
Everybody says that making a DVD copy is more expensive than buying the original, well, that works then!
A new business model should serve customers in a broad way, this new business model is better prepared. They should sell 'DVD' drivers with encrypted keys to third-party businesses who'm provide front-end software.
Gartner Group obviously has an important name in the IT-world (independent of what you think of this organization), I think this reckognition of open source value is very comforting.
If many follow in employing commercial developers R&D into opensource projects, it means a new world order... probably less capitalized and improved socially.
By the way, I asked a big on-line magazine to publish a link to opendvd.org which links to a petition which you can sign. It is a protest against the way Johanson was treated!
Eliminating the reason for cracking would have been a good idea, this is exactly why soft-drugs are legalized in Holland, because it's cheap, it's not interesting for organized crime.
So people can do things they want, without doing it illegally
Not the actual hardware (like transistors or communication cables) but the intelligent side of software changed the way we think.
Abstraction levels have gone up, we can now manufacture a new formal language, i.e. we now understand lexicography better and it has become quit popular.
Thanks to Information Technology we created an art-of-thinking (inductive reasoning) in which we try to solve core-problems instead of fighting symptoms.
I think Information Technology is one of the most important things we invented, as the consequences encapsulate all previous inventions by re-ordering topic knowledge.
Ofcourse communications play an important role here too, but it all starts with the urge for abstraction and induction.
I don't really get what this Tunes is about, but I do know that functional languages like Haskell, Miranda, Amanda, Kleisly and others will see future soon.
Tim is right in one thing:
C++ still is the old C, with some add ons (that's where the ++ operator in C++ comes from).
C++ nowadays should be used to build new languages and lift the generation level.
For fast programming 3GL (so this means Java too!) will be dead, 4GL (for SQL and all) will survive longer, 5GL nobody ever uses as Prolog is a very tough language.
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Just because I'm quite new to Slashdot, and some sadistic moderator disagreed with one of my previous posts.
This could be an MS-killer in Europe.
Next French (local) gouvernments start using open-source products.
Anti-Microsoft sentiments are growing on continental scale here, the mentioned article is just another thrill in this proces.
If the fake IP would be cnet, then the returning route can be established, the packets will be sent and the server doesn't wait.
You need a fake (non-existant) adress to do the DoS, because if the returning route can not be established, the server waits and tries again, read the CNN article...
HAL is a secret publicity stunt, add one to each letter and you get: IBM
According to my information Compaq quit NT on Alpha because they had to run it through some sort of emulator to create a 32-bit environment, the resulting overhead would be so high that it would end up with speeds we're used to on an ordinary pentium.
If you look at the problems of Intel, trying to get their Merced up and running (last I heard they got about 450 Mhz clock speeds?), there could be a problem in the evolution of ever increasing processor speeds.
The ports of multiple Unices / Linuces to the Alpha in combination with the Intel / Microsoft problems could change the rules.
Well, we won't see anything of it by tomorrow, but maybe within 2 years or so?
It's the fault of the DVD industry coalition, that there were motives to crack DVD.
If they'd given away DVD drivers for Linux, BeOs, OS/2 etc. then DVD would not have been cracked.
Everybody says that making a DVD copy is more expensive than buying the original, well, that works then!
A new business model should serve customers in a broad way, this new business model is better prepared. They should sell 'DVD' drivers with encrypted keys to third-party businesses who'm provide front-end software.
Hope these guys aren't going for the monopoly-price?
What's next?
You know that total ignorance kills you! You're hurt!
By the way, using documentation... is that rev. eng.? Don't they assume no-one to be bothered to rev. eng.?
What are the copyright rules for the documentation, doesn't this give any clue?
Did you take the cheap offer?
Making black holes scares the hell out of me anyways, so I don't think it's interesting at all.
;)
So can I now scare the bugs away by yelling at my computer? ;-)
Note the date, the documents are a few weeks old, I didn't notice any change...
Maybe they reference the source codes in an rpm (yes, RedHat) package
Hell I'm a newbie on Slashdot and I don't get it here either...
If many follow in employing commercial developers R&D into opensource projects, it means a new world order... probably less capitalized and improved socially.
By the way, I asked a big on-line magazine to publish a link to opendvd.org which links to a petition which you can sign. It is a protest against the way Johanson was treated!
So people can do things they want, without doing it illegally
If they manage to win this, they wouldn't even need the DVD crypto anyways!
Hope that those lawyers aren't Adam and Eve supporters, would they burn the dino-skeletons?
With DeCCS it's too late, but what did you expect?
Abstraction levels have gone up, we can now manufacture a new formal language, i.e. we now understand lexicography better and it has become quit popular.
Thanks to Information Technology we created an art-of-thinking (inductive reasoning) in which we try to solve core-problems instead of fighting symptoms.
I think Information Technology is one of the most important things we invented, as the consequences encapsulate all previous inventions by re-ordering topic knowledge.
Ofcourse communications play an important role here too, but it all starts with the urge for abstraction and induction.
The digital revolution isn't finished yet... :-)
Tim is right in one thing:
C++ still is the old C, with some add ons (that's where the ++ operator in C++ comes from).
C++ nowadays should be used to build new languages and lift the generation level.
For fast programming 3GL (so this means Java too!) will be dead, 4GL (for SQL and all) will survive longer, 5GL nobody ever uses as Prolog is a very tough language.