Y'know... I've always wanted the usefulness of a computer and a paperweight rolled into one. With this little device, I can keep my papers in order, and still have some cycles to spare. And it won't take up my desk like that pesky AT paperweight did.
All kidding aside, it looks like a very sweet device. Curious though why it only offers Windows CE and Linux, and not the full blown version of Windows. Maybe it's slow enough that loading something other than CE might turn it into a real paperweight (or might tax the processor enough to ignite any papers left under it).
Of course the big stink in all the trade papers (and the mainstream press) has been with XP's new pricing model (the "rent-to-be-owned" model) Of course Microsoft isn't going to be happy with these Linux "communists" giving away free software in front of their pavilion. Add to that the uncertainty of whether people will even upgrade to XP, and you have Microsft at it's finest paranoia point.
"Sure you can come to the party... just don't start handing out gifts to the guests".:)
Yeah, CD sales are up, but are these the same bands that corporate sponsored radio is promoting? Are these the same CDs that sell beer and other things. I have a feeling the reason the RIAA and music companies are so scared is they're losing control of their "A-List" artists (artists they play at least once an hour.)
Maybe I'm wrong here, but I think this is a much bigger problem than just the CD sales. If people have control over what they listen to, when they listen to it, then radio has to do something drastic to get people to listen to the advertisments.
Boy posts to Slashdot bitching about game, and gives review of how he can't get the game to run...
Ok, so you can't get Myst III to work... OK, so many people can't get Myst III to work. So what? If you want a game to work right out of the box, get a console.
OK, now the good points of the review...
Copy protection sucks, and I feel for anyone who gets bit by copy protection. Unfortunately companies will do anything they can to protect their investment, even if their prodct sucks.
Any company that produces a game that can't run from any of the myriad of drive letters that Ms-DOS provides needs to get a clue.
Overall, this review left me with that empty box feeling. I can understand the anger, but this is the wrong forum for that.
Sharing? More like a source code loan.
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Would somebody please tell Microsoft that their definition of "sharing" is more like a loan than sharing? When you share something, you don't expect to get it back (ie: sharing brownies). When you loan something, you still retain ownership (ie: loaning someone a book).
(Of course I'm sure the source code loan program probably doesn't have the same alliteration and "feel good" tendencies that sharing source code does.)
OK, am I completely missing the point of this "press release"? Sure, they're suing Roxio for redirecting their product to freedb.org rather than to gracenote (or whatever the hell they are). I'm assuming that Roxio is also not paying the 0.06 "toll charge" per user to gracenote because they're not using gracenotes servers. Where was this in this in this press release? Why didn't they just come out and say "We're suing Roxio because they're using our code and not paying for it?" Instead we get this drivel about their intellectual property extending far beyond the database. Mmm Hmm... Sounds like someone is afraid that their intellectual property won't be worth the servers it's running on if others catch wind that they don't need to pay gracenote's tax.
Honestly, I think gracenote doesn't have much of a leg to stand on in this case. The real people they need to sue are the freedb.org folks and not Roxio... and honestly I don't think suing the freedb.org folks would do much good either.
I think the community at large would do better without these bozos peddling their wares.
It's nice to see something like this out in the wild. Honestly I think I get a probe from a wormed machine at least once a day now, if not more. Good to see someone taking advantage of the situation to spread something good. Now if they'd distribute those Anna Kornukova pictures and the animation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that the outlook viruses promised, I think the writers of this worm would be sainted.:)
I'm sorry thar they couldn't make a go of it, but I'm glad the project will live on. I know this thread will get the usual "You can't make money off Free Software" rants, but honestly, I think Eazel produced in it's short lifespan something that will live on, and I thank them for taking the time to do so.
Good luck, Team Eazel, wherever you may end up in the real world.
Hate to break it to ya pal, but these companies are about as enlightened as a three watt lightbulb when it comes to what they're running (Dell probably moreso than the others since they're closer to the computer end of things). Generally companies get sold a service, and they work from that. They don't care what it is as long as it works for them. (Unless someone who "cares" (aka has an interest) is on the board making the decisions). If it does not work, then the company gets riled. You'd be amazed how high Microsoft will jump when something goes wrong with a solution they put into place (remember the outlook debacles of the past?) The only thing you don't get with Linux is someone to throttle when things go wrong...
Actually, the interface is written in Java (as far as my discerning eyes can tell) and it too has the same problems with Word Documents that CVS does (i.e. No deltas, and it's not very user friendly)
Basically he's saying that the GPL might not make sense for certain commercially available products. Honestly this isn't much news... It's just more repercussions from the Mundie talk. Love is just restating the obvious that businesses like to keep their modifications to code that they distribute a secret. Big deal. There's no story here, folks... move along.
I'm surprised more people haven't experienced self imolation with laptops. These suckers get HOT after a while. Anybody seen the "Laptop Cookin'" flyer on www.dumbentia.com?
Maybe with the later versions of laptops, they'll bundle a package of marshmallows rather than Microsoft Works. You might get more done in the long run anyway with the marshmallows.:)
I remember working on a project where we were working on using Citrix (Metaframe) for deploying applications remotely. If memory serves, we had to have the following licenses:
Windows NT Server (to run the server itself)
Windows NT Workstation (for each person running, on a per-computer basis... not a concurrent user basis)
Windows Client Access License (for each person remotely-accessing the system, again per computer, not per usage)
Metaframe (which MS bought after we finished the project)
The cost for these licenses was pretty high (as you can imagine). That didn't include the licenses for the software we wanted to run, just the platform to remotely run it. Part of Microsoft's problem is its inability to do usage licensing, which would save companies lots of money, rather than the "if you're using it, you need to pay us, even if it's just one time" licenses they currently have.
Anybody who thinks they can save money going with Microsoft products is deluding themselves. Their license schemes simply don't scale across organizations.
This article is barely an opinion piece. Yes, Linux is quite difficult for the unwashed masses but Mac OS X is not scads better because it is for those unwashed. How many different configurations does OS X have to support? I'll put money that it's a few orders of magnitude less than Linux supports.
Don't get me wrong, I welcome Mac OS X. It looks like Apple is doing some rather neat things nowadays, but to level the complaint that Linux is hard to setup is not valid when Linux supports way more hardware (for better or worse) than Apple ever will.
It was breakout, actually. Jobs basically wandered through the hallowed halls of Atari wearing sandals and several day-old odor while espousing tibetan wisdom. Woz was the real programmer of the two... Jobs is just the marketing guy who loved technology.
At least we won't have to deal with another damn malfunctioning Holodeck episode... Now they'll actually have to travel back in time to screw with history.:)
Honestly, the record companies shouldn't hold the copyright to the music in the first place... that should be the domain of the artist and the artist alone. The record companies should be involved with the distribution of music alone. Let the artists figure out where they're going to record this stuff, and in which studio, and with whomever they wish, and let the record companies fight it out amongst themselves who is going to distribute it.
Anybody else feel that this whole thing would be settled quicker if this was the case?
Actually, from what I've heard, the video game was in development along with the movie. In the game, they had the grid bugs, but there was no mention of them in the movie. So, one of the animation houses created a sequence for them, never keeping in mind the flow of the movie, or anything.
Not sure if it's truth or fiction, but it makes sense.
Hope this helps! I know I've always wondered what the grid bugs had to do with anything from the film.:)
I saw a few BSODs on my last trip to Vegas. I saw one at the airport, one in a video game (Play drums along with music... NOT Drummania, though). I've seen kiosks with BSODs (Hmmm... I wonder if the bride or the groom wanted that BSOD). Windows is creeping ever so slowly into more and more places that embedded technology used to reign.
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Does anybody know of a personal player (Like the Rio 300) that will play .ogg files?
So does this mean we'll get a better connection if we use monster cable, just like the guy in the audio store tells us? :)
All kidding aside, it looks like a very sweet device. Curious though why it only offers Windows CE and Linux, and not the full blown version of Windows. Maybe it's slow enough that loading something other than CE might turn it into a real paperweight (or might tax the processor enough to ignite any papers left under it).
"Sure you can come to the party... just don't start handing out gifts to the guests". :)
Maybe I'm wrong here, but I think this is a much bigger problem than just the CD sales. If people have control over what they listen to, when they listen to it, then radio has to do something drastic to get people to listen to the advertisments.
Just my humble opinion.
- Boy Gets Game
- Boy can't run game
- Boy posts to Slashdot bitching about game, and gives review of how he can't get the game to run...
Ok, so you can't get Myst III to work... OK, so many people can't get Myst III to work. So what? If you want a game to work right out of the box, get a console.OK, now the good points of the review...
Overall, this review left me with that empty box feeling. I can understand the anger, but this is the wrong forum for that.
(Of course I'm sure the source code loan program probably doesn't have the same alliteration and "feel good" tendencies that sharing source code does.)
Honestly, I think gracenote doesn't have much of a leg to stand on in this case. The real people they need to sue are the freedb.org folks and not Roxio... and honestly I don't think suing the freedb.org folks would do much good either.
I think the community at large would do better without these bozos peddling their wares.
It's nice to see something like this out in the wild. Honestly I think I get a probe from a wormed machine at least once a day now, if not more. Good to see someone taking advantage of the situation to spread something good. Now if they'd distribute those Anna Kornukova pictures and the animation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that the outlook viruses promised, I think the writers of this worm would be sainted. :)
Good luck, Team Eazel, wherever you may end up in the real world.
Hate to break it to ya pal, but these companies are about as enlightened as a three watt lightbulb when it comes to what they're running (Dell probably moreso than the others since they're closer to the computer end of things). Generally companies get sold a service, and they work from that. They don't care what it is as long as it works for them. (Unless someone who "cares" (aka has an interest) is on the board making the decisions). If it does not work, then the company gets riled. You'd be amazed how high Microsoft will jump when something goes wrong with a solution they put into place (remember the outlook debacles of the past?) The only thing you don't get with Linux is someone to throttle when things go wrong...
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Basically he's saying that the GPL might not make sense for certain commercially available products. Honestly this isn't much news... It's just more repercussions from the Mundie talk. Love is just restating the obvious that businesses like to keep their modifications to code that they distribute a secret. Big deal. There's no story here, folks... move along.
Maybe with the later versions of laptops, they'll bundle a package of marshmallows rather than Microsoft Works. You might get more done in the long run anyway with the marshmallows. :)
You're right... they don't know they can download pirated versions... that's why the ssame disc gets passed along for several machines. :)
The cost for these licenses was pretty high (as you can imagine). That didn't include the licenses for the software we wanted to run, just the platform to remotely run it. Part of Microsoft's problem is its inability to do usage licensing, which would save companies lots of money, rather than the "if you're using it, you need to pay us, even if it's just one time" licenses they currently have.
Anybody who thinks they can save money going with Microsoft products is deluding themselves. Their license schemes simply don't scale across organizations.
Don't get me wrong, I welcome Mac OS X. It looks like Apple is doing some rather neat things nowadays, but to level the complaint that Linux is hard to setup is not valid when Linux supports way more hardware (for better or worse) than Apple ever will.
It was breakout, actually. Jobs basically wandered through the hallowed halls of Atari wearing sandals and several day-old odor while espousing tibetan wisdom. Woz was the real programmer of the two... Jobs is just the marketing guy who loved technology.
At least we won't have to deal with another damn malfunctioning Holodeck episode... Now they'll actually have to travel back in time to screw with history. :)
Anybody else feel that this whole thing would be settled quicker if this was the case?
OK, The lameness filter won't take it like this so... 2001-01-04 06:00:00
You have nothing to loose, and everything to gain with Maloney. :)
This should make Taco's Anti-Aliased Font Fetish positively spewing with excitement. :)
Actually, from what I've heard, the video game was in development along with the movie. In the game, they had the grid bugs, but there was no mention of them in the movie. So, one of the animation houses created a sequence for them, never keeping in mind the flow of the movie, or anything.
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Not sure if it's truth or fiction, but it makes sense.
Hope this helps! I know I've always wondered what the grid bugs had to do with anything from the film.
I saw a few BSODs on my last trip to Vegas. I saw one at the airport, one in a video game (Play drums along with music... NOT Drummania, though). I've seen kiosks with BSODs (Hmmm... I wonder if the bride or the groom wanted that BSOD). Windows is creeping ever so slowly into more and more places that embedded technology used to reign.