She's got a truly impresive collection of primo vinyl (we're talking hard-to-find old jazz, blues, opera and lots, lots more,) and an old stereo system I'd put together for her back in nineteen-.
I don't need/want a multi-tentacled audio monster that can rattle the windows to my condo so its going to go into the land-fill soon after mother does the same.
I'm going to buy a Firewire A2DConverter I've already got software for my Linux box and I'm going to rip the whole collection to Ogg or AAC and put it on a 160 gigger (hope its big enough,) dedicated to serving ME MY tunes (I'll still have ALL the sources,) to MY boxen ANYWHERE in the world I can get a fast enough connection.
If the RIAA has a problem with that, they can KMMFA.
DeBeers in diamonds, M$ in software, Apple in hardware (seen any Mac clones lately? [though to be fair, the G5 is power at a great price because of the PC competition.]:-)
Anywhere there is no competition there is gouging.
they see what users are doing, (using other people's sofware and innovations of course,) and launch something that they will include on their desktop for "free."
I thing that this should be easy enough to kill though through the anti-trust (ha ha ha ha, like M$ gives a shit about the law,) because its something external to the operating system and M$ should not be allowed to put it on their desktop AT ALL as anything else than a legitimate install process. They should be forced to compete like everybody else.
The alternative is to have the systems report bogus pages and broken to M$ web crawlers and spiders to shut them out of the useful information while leaving anybody else's search-engines go through untrameled.
After a while, people will get the hint "Wanna find shit, use NOT M$ because M$ search engine sucks and gives you a ton of broken links."
In their "racheting up" of their defense (and they do have to defend themselves because they have made enemies of everybody who owns boxen,) they will eventually claim copyright on the design of the very basis of computing.
Why are they not suing everybody?
Because they know they will be laughed out of court, fined for filing nuisance suits and the company will disappear like Jimmy Hoffa.
I absolutely love that M$ is going in exactly the wrong direction, increasing its foot print, increasing the hardware requirement and driving their customers to Linux.
Most computers are owner by MIS shops and their corporate customers. People started getting PCs at home to be compatible with the office.
MIS is sick to death of being stuck with viri, worms, security holes,multi-media instead of useful productivity software and of people having web browser that can play MP3s and movies on their desktops when they're supposed to be at work. (/.ing being a case in point, why are we typing this crap when we're being paid to deliver some code instead?)
Linux is secure, tailorable, runs on existing hardware and is not bloated with geegaws.
And we'll threaten to sue everybody! We'll make MILLIONS and we'll have had to do nothing for it.
Linux isn't owned by anybody? Well now its owned by US!
SCO and crooks who use these strong-arm tactics (and accuse their victims of the crime they themselves commit [and they sound convincing because there IS a crime being committed and they know it but they call themselves the victim instead of the perps that they are]) need to be sent to prison for decades as examples of what happens to people who abuse and attempt to pervert the legal system.
Hey, they're school administrators. (Why would you listen to a high-school guidance conselor? The man's career acumen has led him to become a high-school guidance conselor. Not a glowing recommendation.)
They don't want to have to think. And stop developping new applications too. They are still pissed off at having to teach VisiCalc (What do you mean they don't sell it anymore? Who cares anyway? Its only for school.)
That'll make the clients go away and kill the spam industry. Let'em use another means of advertising because spamming will cost them tens of tousands of dollars a copy.
I'm in Jersey City, typing on a Mac across the Hudson from a very patchily, (mostly un-) lit New York city just part of the east coast that is in the dark (from Virginia to Ottawa [where I just spoke to the ex- who is sweating in her powerless condo,]) wondering how this disrfption will affect the spread of the virus.
Its certainly isn't doing much damage over here. The computers are completely safe. They're shut down and turned off.:-)
First if you're not supporting the stated aim of the service (you can't date a city or a dead person,) you're history.
Second if you insist on attempting to twist the service into something its not, why don't you spend the fifty bucks to buy a url, start your own site and stop defacing somebody else's.
Third people who try to force themselves on others are often called rapists and its against the law. I'm sure some deprivation of civil rights lawsuit could be brought to bear.
Come to think of it I'd like to start a class action suit against people who pay people to send me spam. Nip the problem in the bud with an expensive law suit for whoever is the idiot who's filling my mail box with a Niagara of Viagara.
No, security based on "what you are" (biometric data like fingerprints, retinal patterns, DNA,) is not perfect but its better than relying on security based on "what you know" (and can forget, and can be learned by anybody else.)
Why would anyone want to have to settle for a wimpy box because the M$ tithe is the difference between a killer box and a wimpy box.
Its a no brainer. Linux rules. (The same economic pressure that gave rise to clones [and floated M$ boat] are going to wipe M$ off the map.
The fact that Linux is better, stabler, supported by the world-wide open-source community is gravy but the fact is that boxen with M$ cost more and M$ is doomed to die.
DreamWorks SKG, Pixar Animation Studios and Lucas Digital Ltd. LLC's Industrial Light and Magic, among others, have moved their animation platforms to Linux during the last few years.
DreamWorks' latest animation feature, 'Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas,' was the first movie ever created entirely on Linux.
Gates can't even coerce his movie mogul partners (even with his power to give the crap away for free) to use Windows on their desktops.
somebody stood up and said "Yea? Well so'z your ol' man."
The moment somebody didn't roll over and play dead, they were screwed. The whole thing will fall apart with SCO not being able to defend itself against a civil damages counter-suit. The Linux will probably will probably start a class action suit against SCO demanding trade-lost and punitive damages and it may come to criminal proceedings with SCO's CEO finhgting to stay out of "Club Fed."
Then SCO's share holders will want to hang him by his SCrOtum because SCO's client base will get offers to move over to Linux for free and share price will free-fall.
Want a prediction? SCO doesn't survive until X-Mass.
I think that the RIAA got used to the (illegally) obscene margins on CDs and tought that people would buy the same old crap at the same rate FOREVER.
Now they're hurting because:
1)They've been dragged into anti-trust courts and lost, (the prices for CDs aren't going to rise for a while,)
2)Everybody's tossed out their old turntable and albums a long time ago and have replaced what LPs they though were worth replacing and that source of funds has dried up FOREVER (CDs last a lot longer than LPs.)
3)Recycling may be good for the environment and for lounge/live acts but its lethal for record sales. Most people don't want to shell out more money for yet another cover of the same old song (most people can't tell one version from another after a couple of beers,) and they don't.
4)The RIAA is not capable of creating content, they can only try to make money from it. The more they meddle in the processs, the more it sound like music created by and for accountants. Its really hard to make a move on somebody accompanied by the sound of ringing cash registers.
5)They got used to the marging and never planned for when they would end and the river would run slowly and sluggishly.
Now they're attacking their only reason for living, their only source of funds, the people who 'd buy CDs if they didn't feel so ripped off and insulted at some of the shlock that's pushed at them.
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My mother's dying. I'm dealing with it, thanks.
She's got a truly impresive collection of primo vinyl (we're talking hard-to-find old jazz, blues, opera and lots, lots more,) and an old stereo system I'd put together for her back in nineteen-.
I don't need/want a multi-tentacled audio monster that can rattle the windows to my condo so its going to go into the land-fill soon after mother does the same.
I'm going to buy a Firewire A2DConverter I've already got software for my Linux box and I'm going to rip the whole collection to Ogg or AAC and put it on a 160 gigger (hope its big enough,) dedicated to serving ME MY tunes (I'll still have ALL the sources,) to MY boxen ANYWHERE in the world I can get a fast enough connection.
If the RIAA has a problem with that, they can KMMFA.
analysts analyze, and managers manage, do secretaries secrete?
squeezes the punters for all they can.
:-)
DeBeers in diamonds, M$ in software, Apple in hardware (seen any Mac clones lately? [though to be fair, the G5 is power at a great price because of the PC competition.]
Anywhere there is no competition there is gouging.
they see what users are doing, (using other people's sofware and innovations of course,) and launch something that they will include on their desktop for "free."
I thing that this should be easy enough to kill though through the anti-trust (ha ha ha ha, like M$ gives a shit about the law,) because its something external to the operating system and M$ should not be allowed to put it on their desktop AT ALL as anything else than a legitimate install process. They should be forced to compete like everybody else.
The alternative is to have the systems report bogus pages and broken to M$ web crawlers and spiders to shut them out of the useful information while leaving anybody else's search-engines go through untrameled.
After a while, people will get the hint "Wanna find shit, use NOT M$ because M$ search engine sucks and gives you a ton of broken links."
The functions to calculate integrals (need that to calculatr bond rates,) sucked big time in Excell. Insufficient precision.
If you're working on a multi-million dollar, long-term bond that comes to quite a bit of change dropped betwen the cracks.
In their "racheting up" of their defense (and they do have to defend themselves because they have made enemies of everybody who owns boxen,) they will eventually claim copyright on the design of the very basis of computing.
Why are they not suing everybody?
Because they know they will be laughed out of court, fined for filing nuisance suits and the company will disappear like Jimmy Hoffa.
I absolutely love that M$ is going in exactly the wrong direction, increasing its foot print, increasing the hardware requirement and driving their customers to Linux.
Most computers are owner by MIS shops and their corporate customers. People started getting PCs at home to be compatible with the office.
MIS is sick to death of being stuck with viri, worms, security holes,multi-media instead of useful productivity software and of people having web browser that can play MP3s and movies on their desktops when they're supposed to be at work. (/.ing being a case in point, why are we typing this crap when we're being paid to deliver some code instead?)
Linux is secure, tailorable, runs on existing hardware and is not bloated with geegaws.
And I'll believe it when I see it.
What ever to MITI's much ballyhooed AI program that was supposed to put a ProLog work station on every desk?
'Nuff said.
Just put a sign on it saying "DO NOT FLIP THIS SWITCH."
People will flip it just to see what happens, even if its obviously hooked up to a keg of dynamite.
Just call a pro and walk away until he's done.
As Louis XIV or XVI said: "Apres moi? Le deluge!"
:-)
Meaning that he didn't give a crap what happened "later."
The heat death of the universe is a LOT later. Maybe Windows won't crash by then (but it may still suck.
Hey, they're school administrators. (Why would you listen to a high-school guidance conselor? The man's career acumen has led him to become a high-school guidance conselor. Not a glowing recommendation.)
They don't want to have to think. And stop developping new applications too. They are still pissed off at having to teach VisiCalc (What do you mean they don't sell it anymore? Who cares anyway? Its only for school.)
Just gather spam and fine the spammer's client.
That'll make the clients go away and kill the spam industry. Let'em use another means of advertising because spamming will cost them tens of tousands of dollars a copy.
I'm in Jersey City, typing on a Mac across the Hudson from a very patchily, (mostly un-) lit New York city just part of the east coast that is in the dark (from Virginia to Ottawa [where I just spoke to the ex- who is sweating in her powerless condo,]) wondering how this disrfption will affect the spread of the virus.
:-)
Its certainly isn't doing much damage over here. The computers are completely safe. They're shut down and turned off.
I don't see a big delay before somebody cracks the DRM which wil p-off the media companies.
Plus, M$'s harware dependents don't have iPod...
What's selling iTunes is iPod.
I hope Bill makes a lot of money and get out of the OS business.
First if you're not supporting the stated aim of the service (you can't date a city or a dead person,) you're history.
Second if you insist on attempting to twist the service into something its not, why don't you spend the fifty bucks to buy a url, start your own site and stop defacing somebody else's.
Third people who try to force themselves on others are often called rapists and its against the law. I'm sure some deprivation of civil rights lawsuit could be brought to bear.
Come to think of it I'd like to start a class action suit against people who pay people to send me spam. Nip the problem in the bud with an expensive law suit for whoever is the idiot who's filling my mail box with a Niagara of Viagara.
object-orientation from the file system out.
XML and DTDs carrying content for middle-ware.
IPv6 (and end-to-end tracing so spam and spoofing is impossible.)
No, security based on "what you are" (biometric data like fingerprints, retinal patterns, DNA,) is not perfect but its better than relying on security based on "what you know" (and can forget, and can be learned by anybody else.)
I only want to retire about an hour before I die. With my luck, I will.
Why would anyone want to have to settle for a wimpy box because the M$ tithe is the difference between a killer box and a wimpy box.
Its a no brainer. Linux rules. (The same economic pressure that gave rise to clones [and floated M$ boat] are going to wipe M$ off the map.
The fact that Linux is better, stabler, supported by the world-wide open-source community is gravy but the fact is that boxen with M$ cost more and M$ is doomed to die.
I spent less than $500 on a 2.1GHz AMD box (1 GB RAM, MoBo, a pair of 15GB IDE drives, monitor card.)
And they want $600+ for the cost of their license. They are on crack.
But I just had a thought:
Hmm... How much is a Windows license? And SCO's spreading $ FUD so M$ looks good?
I smell more anti-trust with M$ and a Unix company that was in a death spiral long before this crap surfaced.
(And Gates can't even talk the DreamWorksSKG people out of using Linux!)
Gates can't even coerce his movie mogul partners (even with his power to give the crap away for free) to use Windows on their desktops.
It must suck to be him right now.
somebody stood up and said "Yea? Well so'z your ol' man."
The moment somebody didn't roll over and play dead, they were screwed. The whole thing will fall apart with SCO not being able to defend itself against a civil damages counter-suit. The Linux will probably will probably start a class action suit against SCO demanding trade-lost and punitive damages and it may come to criminal proceedings with SCO's CEO finhgting to stay out of "Club Fed."
Then SCO's share holders will want to hang him by his SCrOtum because SCO's client base will get offers to move over to Linux for free and share price will free-fall.
Want a prediction? SCO doesn't survive until X-Mass.
I think that the RIAA got used to the (illegally) obscene margins on CDs and tought that people would buy the same old crap at the same rate FOREVER.
Now they're hurting because:
1)They've been dragged into anti-trust courts and lost, (the prices for CDs aren't going to rise for a while,)
2)Everybody's tossed out their old turntable and albums a long time ago and have replaced what LPs they though were worth replacing and that source of funds has dried up FOREVER (CDs last a lot longer than LPs.)
3)Recycling may be good for the environment and for lounge/live acts but its lethal for record sales. Most people don't want to shell out more money for yet another cover of the same old song (most people can't tell one version from another after a couple of beers,) and they don't.
4)The RIAA is not capable of creating content, they can only try to make money from it. The more they meddle in the processs, the more it sound like music created by and for accountants. Its really hard to make a move on somebody accompanied by the sound of ringing cash registers.
5)They got used to the marging and never planned for when they would end and the river would run slowly and sluggishly.
Now they're attacking their only reason for living, their only source of funds, the people who 'd buy CDs if they didn't feel so ripped off and insulted at some of the shlock that's pushed at them.
I predict accelerating death for the xxAAs.