Getting your customers to pay $10 a month for the same ad-riddled service is perfectly logical...If you're hired as a suit at the networks.
Remember, Hulu is owned by NBC - the same geniuses who thought hiring Jeff Zucker was a smart move.
With you 110%. When you underwrite an OS that is faster, lighter and more user-friendly than its monolithic competitor, the one thing you
do -not- do is form or allow a clearly self-serving alliance with said monolith, whose sole motivating desire is to see you and your product
implode and present no further threat.
Novell is doomed, and perhaps so is Linux. All Suse users should start checking the alternatives.
That's my point, Paul - Most UK residents pay the license fee. Those who choose to use iPlayer would therefore pay -twice-?? DRM is repugnant, but instead of gouging UK=based viewers for two fees, let ex-Brits now abroad [like me - been in California since '97] who can't see the shows at -all- be the source of the allegedly much=needed income. The license fee is an inexcusable joke, but sticking those forced to pay it with -another- fee if they dare to then use other technology is abhorrent,
I agree - DRM is repugnant. No doubts. As for the license fee, I moved to California in '97 so that's not my angle = My beef is the thousands who are already forced to pay this legalized extortion, then have to pay twice if they miss a show and dare to try and catch it online. The BBC is a clueless, arrogant fossil, and the license fee is both insulting, and an inexcusable joke, That's all I'm saying.
So dear old Auntie Beeb has added DRM to all over their content so the dear British taxpayer has to fork over more cash to watch programmes they already paid for.
Brilliant....Not.
The scene is quite odd, but the result is hypnotic - and *way* more musical than most
things infecting the Billboard these days!
Where do we get the album? Will they tour?
If this change means Uncle Bill can no longer hijack the OLPC project, I'm more than good with the concept. And I'd be surprised if I'm not one of a very large crowd.
It's a sad but inescapable fact that you're right, Gad_zuki. Damn funny...but right. Let's face it, unless they merge with NASA tomorrow, GM and Chrysler are screwed:(
If they want auto-booting they just set the Grub menu so the OS they want
is the default. If that default is linux, they just enable 'auto log-in'
and there's no need to be there at all.
1/ Charter are in debt and need money.
2/ They cap people's Bandwidth.
3/ Their victims upgrade to get more.
4/ Charter make far more money.
Customers Screwed = Problem Solved.
Why can't you put the OS on a flash drive and boot a PC
from *that*? They're too unstable for use as an HD at present,
but for storing and loading the OS [read only] they'd be ideal.
You'll probably never achieve boot in under a second, but I'd
bet you could easily be up and running in well under 10.
...if every home in the US replaced their five most-used bulbs with CFL's, the energy and greenhouse gas savings would equal taking 8-million cars off the road. The numbers from replacing every street light in a city of 9m people could be just overwhelming. So let's do it nationwide. Now!
So not only did MS bankroll SCO's risible efforts to scuttle Linux and thus cause a ruling that means the Penguin can never be challenged again, but they're now herding people towards it with that laughable turd called Vista.
As long as Uncle Bill and his cronies keep shooting themselves in the groin like this, Linux use will grow like a weed.
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Joke is probably right - Here's the best they can do until DNT is 'fully' implemented... http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html
So if their own AV kit is free, why, except of course to increase profits, does MS insist all MS boxes be sold with MacAfee? / Rhetorical question.
Sprint own Virgin Mobile as well - our days of suffering this c**p will almost certainly come.
It is necessary to get behind someone/thing in order to stab them in the back.
The 'next big thing' in HDD's was supposed to be Solid State...So what are these numchucks doing improving what's now seen as the past??
Getting your customers to pay $10 a month for the same ad-riddled service is perfectly logical...If you're hired as a suit at the networks. Remember, Hulu is owned by NBC - the same geniuses who thought hiring Jeff Zucker was a smart move.
With you 110%. When you underwrite an OS that is faster, lighter and more user-friendly than its monolithic competitor, the one thing you do -not- do is form or allow a clearly self-serving alliance with said monolith, whose sole motivating desire is to see you and your product implode and present no further threat. Novell is doomed, and perhaps so is Linux. All Suse users should start checking the alternatives.
That's my point, Paul - Most UK residents pay the license fee. Those who choose to use iPlayer would therefore pay -twice-?? DRM is repugnant, but instead of gouging UK=based viewers for two fees, let ex-Brits now abroad [like me - been in California since '97] who can't see the shows at -all- be the source of the allegedly much=needed income. The license fee is an inexcusable joke, but sticking those forced to pay it with -another- fee if they dare to then use other technology is abhorrent,
I agree - DRM is repugnant. No doubts. As for the license fee, I moved to California in '97 so that's not my angle = My beef is the thousands who are already forced to pay this legalized extortion, then have to pay twice if they miss a show and dare to try and catch it online. The BBC is a clueless, arrogant fossil, and the license fee is both insulting, and an inexcusable joke, That's all I'm saying.
So dear old Auntie Beeb has added DRM to all over their content so the dear British taxpayer has to fork over more cash to watch programmes they already paid for. Brilliant....Not.
Geek or not, no woman will never be happy until we come factory-installed with an 11-inch schlong that shoots out free money.
The scene is quite odd, but the result is hypnotic - and *way* more musical than most things infecting the Billboard these days! Where do we get the album? Will they tour?
If this change means Uncle Bill can no longer hijack the OLPC project, I'm more than good with the concept.
And I'd be surprised if I'm not one of a very large crowd.
It's a sad but inescapable fact that you're right, Gad_zuki. :(
Damn funny...but right. Let's face it, unless they merge
with NASA tomorrow, GM and Chrysler are screwed
...could be hired to work for GM or Chrysler, Toyota
and Honda would be the ones needing a bail-out.
If they want auto-booting they just set the Grub menu so the OS they want is the default. If that default is linux, they just enable 'auto log-in' and there's no need to be there at all.
1/ Charter are in debt and need money. 2/ They cap people's Bandwidth. 3/ Their victims upgrade to get more. 4/ Charter make far more money. Customers Screwed = Problem Solved.
If all they achieve is to get SCO to STFU and p*** off, they will have rendered the Linux world a great service.
..and they still couldn't find their own butt with
both hands and a map. Apple and the Ubuntu posse must love stories like this?!
Why can't you put the OS on a flash drive and boot a PC from *that*? They're too unstable for use as an HD at present, but for storing and loading the OS [read only] they'd be ideal. You'll probably never achieve boot in under a second, but I'd bet you could easily be up and running in well under 10.
...we'd have an industry creating products of such jaw-dropping reliability it would almost beggar logic. ...If only.
...if every home in the US replaced their five most-used bulbs with CFL's, the energy and greenhouse gas savings would equal taking 8-million cars off the road. The numbers from replacing every street light in a city of 9m people could be just overwhelming. So let's do it nationwide. Now!
So not only did MS bankroll SCO's risible efforts to scuttle Linux and thus cause a ruling that means the Penguin can never be challenged again, but they're now herding people towards it with that laughable turd called Vista. As long as Uncle Bill and his cronies keep shooting themselves in the groin like this, Linux use will grow like a weed.
You're all crazy, and clearly high on 'herbal' products and noodle sauce. Keep it up!
The best news I've heard all day! This calls for a block party, with pizza, beer, gallons of ice cream, and a cake larger than Kirstie Alley's butt!
On behalf of Penguinistas everywhere, may I just say to SCO: "Gotcha! Cowards!!"
/ We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...