Comment Re:It's like bicycles... (Score 1) 349
Ah, the good old Atari ST.
Comment Re:The client is not the expensive bit (Score 1) 349
With your advertisement for expensive proprietary software you do one thing exceptionally well: totally miss the point.
The article author wants to boot an operating system via PXE, with no OS actually being present on the client. Even if he were to do it the traditional "remote login" way, the OS on the clients doesn't matter, nor is it visible at all, only the server OS.
Comment Re:What a nightmare. (Score 4, Funny) 306
You were talking to a chair thar was a Google employee? I thought they had somewhat stricter recruitment criteria.
Comment Re:What? (Score 2, Insightful) 163
I really cry for these oppressed US Americans, Liberians and Burmese who are oppressed by our standards tyranny yet still bravely resist and stick to intuitive units like 5/12 of an eighth of an adult foot's approximate length.
Comment Re:Open Source? (Score 1, Funny) 163
I, for one, are hungary for goulash soup now.
Comment Re:This is anticompetitive (Score 4, Informative) 163
Well, then those software publishers finally have to compete on quality, not lock-in, and write software that is good at impementing the standard to win the bid.
Comment Re:Isn't it obvious? (Score 4, Insightful) 163
XML is abused way too often in places where it doesn't belong. Also it is not easy to read or edit with the ultimate tool - the good old text editor.
Mandatory Use of Open Standards In Hungary 163
qpeter writes "Hungarian Parliament has made the use of open standards mandatory by law in the intercommunication between public administration offices, public utility companies, citizens and voluntarily joining private companies, conducted via the central governmental system. The Open Standards Alliance initiating the amendment aims to promote the spread of monopoly-free markets that foster the development of interchangeable and interoperable products generated by open standards, and, consequently, broad competition markets, regardless of whether the IT systems of interconnecting organizations and individuals use open or closed source software. In the near future, in spite of EU tendencies the Alliance seeks to make its approach – interoperability based on publicly defined open standards – the EU norm under the Hungarian presidency of the European Union in 2011. To that end, it will promote public collaboration – possibly between every interested party, civil and political organization in the European Union. What do you think: what would be the best way to cooperate?"
Comment Are we looking at the "right" China? (Score 1) 315
The English-speaking media seem to fail to mention that Plurk is Taiwan based[1]... not in the People's Republic of China.
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[1] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Microsoft-hat-Aerger-in-Asien-886233.html (German)
Comment Re:one billion spammers (Score 1) 118
More like, one-sixth of the world population are part of a botnet, relaying junk mail for the true spammers.
Microsoft Steals Code From Microblogging Startup 315
Readers davidlougheed and TSHTF both let us know that microblogging service Plurk reported today that Microsoft China not only copied look and feel from its interface, but also copied raw code from Plurk's service, when it released its own microblogging service called MSN Juku (or Mclub). In instances of the code released on the Plurk blog, the layout, code structure, and variable names were very similar or in some cases 100% identical. The story has been covered in multiple media sources. The software theft is hypocritical, given Microsoft's past threats against Chinese software piracy."
Building a Global Cyber Police Force 155
dasButcher writes "One of the biggest obstacles to fighting hackers and cyber-criminals is that many operate in the safe harbors of their home countries, insulated from prosecution by authorities in foreign countries where their targets reside. As Larry Walsh writes in his blog, several security vendors and a growing number of countries are now beginning to consider the creation of a global police force that would have trans-border jurisdiction to investigate and arrest suspected hackers."
Comment Re:Pizza Analogy (Score 1) 277
Funny that I didn't manage to get a pizza with chorizo in southern Spain; the few pizzerias I found were only serving American style-something. BTW as a German I associated peperoni with bell pepper too, and we have a lot more common words for different members of the Capsicum genus of plants. The big, mild variety is "Paprika", for example.
Comment Re:About Time! (Score 1) 277
It's certainly most feasible for the American version of rural. In Europe, there is not a single square meter untouched by man (except of some areas north of the polar circle) and walking into into a random direction at a random place will make you stand on someone's lawn within half an hour maximum. Obviously, connected water management is the way to go. I saw a few cesspools in a remote village at the southern outskirts of Spain ("remote" meaning a village of 300 being 20 km away from a town of 22000), but tap water was ok.
Comment Re:Pizza Analogy (Score 1) 277
In my experience with Italy, what you get extremely varies with where you go (not only regarding food). You can expect to get good food at the "traditional" places, otherwise it's more grab bag style.
That said, American pizza is different but not worse or better. I like the kind of cheese on American pizza but not the softness of the edge.
