Wasn't it RedHat who won't stated that they won't support a release for more than a year?
If, for instance, IBM releases IBM/Linux and includes with that a lifetime of ten years for that release, that is exactly what I would like to see, and I am happy. I do belive that IBM can do it, I don't belive for a second that Red Hat can (at least not yet).
How many small companies can hire one (or more) people just to take care of the software they run? I sure know we couldn't hire a guy fucking about with the servers giving us absolutly no revenue. It is WAY cheaper to get this with a product.
In other words, much cheaper if linux distro X hires people to make sure every version of their OS will stay up to date and patched properly for, lets say 10 years, and then simply add that to the cost of the software. Even if it adds $200 per licence, because that is nothing compared to hire a software engineer.
Hence my comment about it being sad. Please don't assume that I download tons of mp3s. I own 400-500 CDs or something like that already (few of them have been bought that last five years) and I no longer feel that I can afford CDs. Partily because my economical situation has changed, partily because they are hugely overpriced, and partily because that what record companies push today (radio, MTv, commercials, etc) is almost only music that I categorize as "crap".
So don't be so incredibly quick to judge, and if I owned a nice big house I would afford a CD or two a month...
OSS (or more exactly in this case, the linux distributions) are not just a great bargin at a low price, there are also the cost of upgrades and maintenance. There is nothing that says that a company can upgrade to the newest versions of everything all the time, and who supplies fixes to a large set of dated versions?
This is one, of many questions, that needs to be answered before "Free software"/OSS can be used problem free in any commercial environment. I am sure I will be shot down quickly, but I rather see these issuses taken care of than starting yet another flamewar.
On a slightly related note. I would hope that all companies that saves a bundle on free software could set aside a part of their profit and donate it to the projects behind their software. OSS/Linux/etc needs more people who work with it for a living after all.
So somehow I think it won't matter if I download mp3s or not. It is pretty sad when you think of it really. But I don't really get much music these days anyways, since almost nothing comming out today is worth listening to.
If CDs were $5 I would consider buying them, that would be a more fair price for me.
I am not noble, I just want return on my money and a place to live (a.k.a. earth);)
The killer feature would be to engineer the plants to thrive on a lot of CO2 and plant them all around large cities. They eat up the pollution and then you harvest them and they give you fuel.
Hey, if anyone does the above, this message is now prior art. Think about that when you go to the patent office:P
That is why fossile oil is so popular. Since we've been doing it for quite some time we have gotten good at it. Good at getting it, good at refining it, good at distributing it, etc.
So what you have to do is to add up all the numbers for the renewable alternative oils, and the good old warinducing fossile oil.
The "do it at home" version definitly would be better in some areas. No need to transport very long distances in dangerous tankers. No need to care about whatever Saddam and the other madmen are up (greed/talibans/etc) so we won't have prices that skyrocket out of nowhere. We won't run out of it either.
What is needed (as I said before) is companies pushing $1 billion into making this feasable. Find the best plants for each country (hey, cold in Sweden, won't work with just anything), refining, stuff like that.
Heck, I bet that you could buy a lot of desert cheap and start planting stuff;)
I'd invest money in a venture like this, at least if it tanks I know I put money into something I belived in.
The first one is pollution. This is very serious to us as people.
The second is that oil isn't distributed fairly around the world. Some countries have it, others don't. This leads to a number of problems, everything from religious, economical, to practical.
Why not look into making alternative fuels that you can produce locally? We can, for instance, grow a hell of a lot more crop in Europe than we need for food. There are a number of plants that can produce oils that can be refined and used in disel engines, and they pollute less than fossile oil already.
What is needed is that companies like GM invests $1 billion in alternative fuels and make the production much much more effective and the engines more clean/effective with the new types of fuels. This is far more realistic than electrical cars is today.
Fusion could of course change this in a heartbeat. But although we (humans) should persuade this scientifically we shouldn't base our economy on it quite yet, thank you very much.
But imagine cars that you wouldn't have to fuel, were totally clean, and I am sure a lot of people would be happy;) We can simply start chaning models much more often instead.
Isn't it time to get dirty and fire up the good old spy tricks again? I refuse to belive that the US can fight terrorism for very long by sniffing conunications. Either they will start using heavy crypto (or simply throw out a huge string of random characters, and look at 42, if it happens to be 13, it's time to go ahead) or use code words that won't mean dingy shit to the US super spy computers.
This can't be the way to go forward, and I am not especially impressed by the modus operandi of letting terrorist go free AND pay them, just because they rat on the next in line. By the account all but Usama and Saddam could get out of this both rich and clean...
If parents wants to censor their kids, they can invest in the software on their own. This is typical big brother tactics that leaves the general populace even dumber because they don't activly have to make choices and think.
There are no substitute for caring for your children and giving them the time they deserve.
It would be bad if they just send a bill saying "sorry, pay up". I hope that they at least shut your network off when you reach the limit and that you then have to sign a contract saying that you are willing to pay the extra charges.
It is just the honest thing to do after all. I never saw the good thing in fooling poeple into having to pay money they don't possess in the first place, by fooling them never the less.
Why would I want to listen and watch, when I could read instead? It is quiet, nobody around me will be disturbed. I can read faster than most people talk, and it is never unclear. I can paste a part of it to someone else, or I can print it.
What is this obsession with movie media? I have already abandon the TV news since text on the internet is easier to digest for me. I can ignore the stories that don't interest me, and I can read whatever I'm interested in.
First off, in a corporate environment you can pay for IM, but then it has to be something more than simply the same stuff you can get for free. And it is the same old "buy the software and use it" that is going to do then.
I am quite sure I could get tons of people to switch to Jabber the second they would have to pay for AIM/ICQ/MSN. I would be one of the first to close down my ICQ and MSN (which I never use anyway) accounts and in a last message tell everyone that if they want to contact me, do it on jabber, because I will never touch this crap again.
How could they ever make money on this?
The upside is that all jabber software would improve:)
For everybody else, I speak Swedish as well, and it so sounds like a Swede who can't speak proper English, and adding Swedish words in the middle of everything.
No offense to the original poster, and bork bork bork everyone.
Take a peak at who wrote her songs... and then take a peak at which other acts he has produced...
It doesn't take some dumb machine to sell tons of CDs to the masses, it takes a few guys with insight into what would appeal to the masses, and then you find people who look right.
I seriously don't think that the machine would fix me up with music I like, because the parameters would be all skewed towards the drooling idiots that are the masses. No wonder I don't buy CDs anymore, I rather put my money elsewhere thank you very much.
You could get a bunch of statistics out of a server with a linux distribution on as well.
Heck, it could even be a good idea. There are all sorts of good and useful things that can come out of this.
If Microsoft indeed do collect data they say that they don't, could not a bunch of US people sue them? Until I check the packages myself (too lazy;)) or this goes to a court of law I am going to continue grabbing the updates.
A wider memory buss can help, but it is not really connected to the instructionset or the ability to crunch larger numbers.
One thing that the Opteron has going for it though is the fact that x86-64 have more registers. This makes a real difference. I wonder if the mmx registers are shared with the registers, and if not, why not?
Newsletter is one thing (and I certainly am not interested in any solution which uses email as its carrier) and I certainly meant for the system to be easy to use and with minimum (read: no) need for maintenance. Stop being so awfully negative and try to see possibilities instead of just how to either change what you have or simply come up with 20 reasons why someone elses idea suck.
This was not a suggestion geared towards personal communication, nor would I be so dumb as to set up a whitelist and then not add the person I was emailing (including a little tail saying that you could only reply from the address I sent you, otherwise you have to notify me) so I couldn't get a reply. Don't assume everyone is an idiot, makes you look like one yourself.
If you are getting beaten up in school, and your parents doesn't seem to be able to do anything about it, I know of one possible way around this. Martial arts.
So do I want you to be the next Jet Li or something? No. First of all you will learn something worthwhile, probably fixing your body up (a.k.a. can code longer and won't get back problems as easily when you get older), and make friends. Hey, even make friends with black belts who are not the guys getting picked at after all.
There are all sorts of plusses, depending on what you wanna do (that is on the other hand another discussion), but I assure you that one way or another it is going to help. For sure. Just remember that it doesn't mean that you are going to turn into a bully yourself and start being people up. That is wrong.
If they want to beat the crap out of you on the other hand, I won't be the one crying if they get a little bit humiliated. I myself have never had to use either my Karate nor my Aikido. I have great fun at the dojo though.
1. Should Phillips fight this as much as they can? 2. Should Phillips welcome it as added value for customers? 3. Should Phillips start to release just the hardware and specs, and simply let other people do their software work for free?
Interesting business idea if nothing else, sucker others into working for you without having to pay them, and then feed them that it is because of their freedom...
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Wasn't it RedHat who won't stated that they won't support a release for more than a year?
If, for instance, IBM releases IBM/Linux and includes with that a lifetime of ten years for that release, that is exactly what I would like to see, and I am happy. I do belive that IBM can do it, I don't belive for a second that Red Hat can (at least not yet).
How many small companies can hire one (or more) people just to take care of the software they run? I sure know we couldn't hire a guy fucking about with the servers giving us absolutly no revenue. It is WAY cheaper to get this with a product.
In other words, much cheaper if linux distro X hires people to make sure every version of their OS will stay up to date and patched properly for, lets say 10 years, and then simply add that to the cost of the software. Even if it adds $200 per licence, because that is nothing compared to hire a software engineer.
Hence my comment about it being sad. Please don't assume that I download tons of mp3s. I own 400-500 CDs or something like that already (few of them have been bought that last five years) and I no longer feel that I can afford CDs. Partily because my economical situation has changed, partily because they are hugely overpriced, and partily because that what record companies push today (radio, MTv, commercials, etc) is almost only music that I categorize as "crap".
So don't be so incredibly quick to judge, and if I owned a nice big house I would afford a CD or two a month...
OSS (or more exactly in this case, the linux distributions) are not just a great bargin at a low price, there are also the cost of upgrades and maintenance. There is nothing that says that a company can upgrade to the newest versions of everything all the time, and who supplies fixes to a large set of dated versions?
This is one, of many questions, that needs to be answered before "Free software"/OSS can be used problem free in any commercial environment. I am sure I will be shot down quickly, but I rather see these issuses taken care of than starting yet another flamewar.
On a slightly related note. I would hope that all companies that saves a bundle on free software could set aside a part of their profit and donate it to the projects behind their software. OSS/Linux/etc needs more people who work with it for a living after all.
So somehow I think it won't matter if I download mp3s or not. It is pretty sad when you think of it really. But I don't really get much music these days anyways, since almost nothing comming out today is worth listening to.
If CDs were $5 I would consider buying them, that would be a more fair price for me.
I am not noble, I just want return on my money and a place to live (a.k.a. earth) ;)
:P
The killer feature would be to engineer the plants to thrive on a lot of CO2 and plant them all around large cities. They eat up the pollution and then you harvest them and they give you fuel.
Hey, if anyone does the above, this message is now prior art. Think about that when you go to the patent office
That is why fossile oil is so popular. Since we've been doing it for quite some time we have gotten good at it. Good at getting it, good at refining it, good at distributing it, etc.
So what you have to do is to add up all the numbers for the renewable alternative oils, and the good old warinducing fossile oil.
The "do it at home" version definitly would be better in some areas. No need to transport very long distances in dangerous tankers. No need to care about whatever Saddam and the other madmen are up (greed/talibans/etc) so we won't have prices that skyrocket out of nowhere. We won't run out of it either.
What is needed (as I said before) is companies pushing $1 billion into making this feasable. Find the best plants for each country (hey, cold in Sweden, won't work with just anything), refining, stuff like that.
Heck, I bet that you could buy a lot of desert cheap and start planting stuff;)
I'd invest money in a venture like this, at least if it tanks I know I put money into something I belived in.
The first one is pollution. This is very serious to us as people.
The second is that oil isn't distributed fairly around the world. Some countries have it, others don't. This leads to a number of problems, everything from religious, economical, to practical.
Why not look into making alternative fuels that you can produce locally? We can, for instance, grow a hell of a lot more crop in Europe than we need for food. There are a number of plants that can produce oils that can be refined and used in disel engines, and they pollute less than fossile oil already.
What is needed is that companies like GM invests $1 billion in alternative fuels and make the production much much more effective and the engines more clean/effective with the new types of fuels. This is far more realistic than electrical cars is today.
Fusion could of course change this in a heartbeat. But although we (humans) should persuade this scientifically we shouldn't base our economy on it quite yet, thank you very much.
But imagine cars that you wouldn't have to fuel, were totally clean, and I am sure a lot of people would be happy;) We can simply start chaning models much more often instead.
Isn't it time to get dirty and fire up the good old spy tricks again? I refuse to belive that the US can fight terrorism for very long by sniffing conunications. Either they will start using heavy crypto (or simply throw out a huge string of random characters, and look at 42, if it happens to be 13, it's time to go ahead) or use code words that won't mean dingy shit to the US super spy computers.
This can't be the way to go forward, and I am not especially impressed by the modus operandi of letting terrorist go free AND pay them, just because they rat on the next in line. By the account all but Usama and Saddam could get out of this both rich and clean...
I would call it defending their lack of brains!
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If parents wants to censor their kids, they can invest in the software on their own. This is typical big brother tactics that leaves the general populace even dumber because they don't activly have to make choices and think.
There are no substitute for caring for your children and giving them the time they deserve.
It would be bad if they just send a bill saying "sorry, pay up". I hope that they at least shut your network off when you reach the limit and that you then have to sign a contract saying that you are willing to pay the extra charges.
It is just the honest thing to do after all. I never saw the good thing in fooling poeple into having to pay money they don't possess in the first place, by fooling them never the less.
Why would I want to listen and watch, when I could read instead? It is quiet, nobody around me will be disturbed. I can read faster than most people talk, and it is never unclear. I can paste a part of it to someone else, or I can print it.
What is this obsession with movie media? I have already abandon the TV news since text on the internet is easier to digest for me. I can ignore the stories that don't interest me, and I can read whatever I'm interested in.
Makes you wonder how big of a role Apple played in this...
First off, in a corporate environment you can pay for IM, but then it has to be something more than simply the same stuff you can get for free. And it is the same old "buy the software and use it" that is going to do then.
:)
I am quite sure I could get tons of people to switch to Jabber the second they would have to pay for AIM/ICQ/MSN. I would be one of the first to close down my ICQ and MSN (which I never use anyway) accounts and in a last message tell everyone that if they want to contact me, do it on jabber, because I will never touch this crap again.
How could they ever make money on this?
The upside is that all jabber software would improve
*laughs* This is just great fun to read ;)
For everybody else, I speak Swedish as well, and it so sounds like a Swede who can't speak proper English, and adding Swedish words in the middle of everything.
No offense to the original poster, and bork bork bork everyone.
Take a peak at who wrote her songs... and then take a peak at which other acts he has produced...
It doesn't take some dumb machine to sell tons of CDs to the masses, it takes a few guys with insight into what would appeal to the masses, and then you find people who look right.
I seriously don't think that the machine would fix me up with music I like, because the parameters would be all skewed towards the drooling idiots that are the masses. No wonder I don't buy CDs anymore, I rather put my money elsewhere thank you very much.
You could get a bunch of statistics out of a server with a linux distribution on as well.
Heck, it could even be a good idea. There are all sorts of good and useful things that can come out of this.
If Microsoft indeed do collect data they say that they don't, could not a bunch of US people sue them? Until I check the packages myself (too lazy;)) or this goes to a court of law I am going to continue grabbing the updates.
This makes me want to produce records, not make music. The music industry is caving in on itself, because of itself, nothing else.
A wider memory buss can help, but it is not really connected to the instructionset or the ability to crunch larger numbers.
One thing that the Opteron has going for it though is the fact that x86-64 have more registers. This makes a real difference. I wonder if the mmx registers are shared with the registers, and if not, why not?
Newsletter is one thing (and I certainly am not interested in any solution which uses email as its carrier) and I certainly meant for the system to be easy to use and with minimum (read: no) need for maintenance. Stop being so awfully negative and try to see possibilities instead of just how to either change what you have or simply come up with 20 reasons why someone elses idea suck.
This was not a suggestion geared towards personal communication, nor would I be so dumb as to set up a whitelist and then not add the person I was emailing (including a little tail saying that you could only reply from the address I sent you, otherwise you have to notify me) so I couldn't get a reply. Don't assume everyone is an idiot, makes you look like one yourself.
If you are getting beaten up in school, and your parents doesn't seem to be able to do anything about it, I know of one possible way around this. Martial arts.
So do I want you to be the next Jet Li or something? No. First of all you will learn something worthwhile, probably fixing your body up (a.k.a. can code longer and won't get back problems as easily when you get older), and make friends. Hey, even make friends with black belts who are not the guys getting picked at after all.
There are all sorts of plusses, depending on what you wanna do (that is on the other hand another discussion), but I assure you that one way or another it is going to help. For sure. Just remember that it doesn't mean that you are going to turn into a bully yourself and start being people up. That is wrong.
If they want to beat the crap out of you on the other hand, I won't be the one crying if they get a little bit humiliated. I myself have never had to use either my Karate nor my Aikido. I have great fun at the dojo though.
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Shotokan Karate
Aikido
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Don't forget that they always think of Win9x when they say windows, not windows XP...
1. Should Phillips fight this as much as they can?
2. Should Phillips welcome it as added value for customers?
3. Should Phillips start to release just the hardware and specs, and simply let other people do their software work for free?
Interesting business idea if nothing else, sucker others into working for you without having to pay them, and then feed them that it is because of their freedom...