Maybe this is why CA inked the deal? When it's proved that SCO don't own anything, I'm sure CA will file suit for $699 x number of machines, since that's what SCO swindled them out of.
The law is quite clear, they can't abuse their monopoly by bundling WMP. If there are to be two version of Windows, one with and one without, they won't be allowed to sell the one with here in Europe.
They are not going to be required to sell a *separate* WMP-free version, twhat's being considered is that they will ONLY be abre to sell a WMP-free version here in Europe. There is no incentive to make it work badly when it's all they can sell.
Anyone who wants to see media players competing on quality and price rather than the current unfair advantage WMP has will benefit.
You'd be surprised. The Smart City Coupe has it's petrol cap on one side of the car, and an air intake on the other in roughly the same position.
Despite the fact that you would have to ignore the fact that there is no flip-open lid, no cap to unscrew, and no hole that you could concievably fit a hose into, then physically smash a quite robust piece of plastic which has the words 'no petrol' written on it, and then remove the resulting debris, Smart garages are still reporting cars coming in with petrol forced into the air intake.
Well of course we have considered the implications on ambiguous votes, and we have a system for dealing with them which doesn't involve chads, smartcards, modems or anything else other than what the voter did with the the pencil and paper.
We simply look at what's on the voting paper and apply the following test "did the voter make their voting intentions clear?" if so it's counted as a vote for whoever, and if not it's counted as 'spoiled'. All candidates can inspect the bits of paper and demand a recount if they think things are unfair.
All this is very odd to me, in both the process and the execution.
The idea of the government paying for the counting of votes about internal party issues is unthinkable here - I'd go so far as to say it would almost certainly be illegal for our tax money to be used to pay for that. Can anyone set up a political party and demand that the US Government counts votes for their candidates?
The whole concepts of a 'voting machine' is alien to me. What's wrong with paper and a pencil? Sure there are procedural exploits that are theoretically possible, but no more or less so than with the machines, and we don't have any of this chad-dangling nonsense.
More importantly, the main reason we will not have voting machines here is simply cost. Why pay for something that is going to cost more than pencil and paper?
More from the stream (am I the only one on topic in this story?) - jeez these guys are giving up powerpoint hell here. I won at managementspeak bingo in under a minute, and there has barely an unabbreviated noun for the last 10 minutes. Basically it's about how they will get to the Moon again and then onto Mars. Here's the important bits:
CEV = Crew Exploration Vehicle
Initially robotic CEV missions then manned ones, repeated use of the phrases "mars and beyond" and "our next destination"
NASA are announcing their plans and timeline for the future:
Commitment to manned exploration of the solar system and beyond
Space shuttle back on line asap
ISS to be repurposed for manned exploration (Hmm, did they dicuss this with the other countries that built it?
New manned vehicle do be developed called CEV (anyone have more info on this? I tuned in just as this part ended)
Manned mission to the moon sometime between 2014 to 2020 (ie slower than the 'in this decade' with 1960s technology)
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It's not a troll, if the poster cares enough about audio to blow vast amounts of shift-4 on Pro-Tools, then he's after some seriously high-end results. The G5 is a quiet machine but it's a long way from being totally silent.
My advice is for the poster to do whatever is necessary to put the G5 in a different room. This doesn't have to involve moving the G5 though, maybe the answer is to turn the problem round, and get a dedicated vocal booth to record in?
Other things to do do are ensure that the mac is not resting on a hard surface which reflects or transmits a lot of sound (a desk can act like a sounding board) and to try to cut down reflected sound from objects near the G5 (walls, desk etc) by putting something soft on them - you might be surprised how much of the sound is reflected.
Presumably, your laptop's power supply is the issue. While putting 2 extra pins on the socket might be simple, adding the necessary strength to the power supply and cooling system to power whatever device(s) anyone might ever choose to plug in isn't going to be simple at all.
Get the cable. Trying to shove video down a USB connector when you have firewire is ridiculous.
The last 3 Macs I bought all came with the cable, check that you don't already have it and filed it away when you found it wasn't needed for anything when you set the mac up.
Maybe the poster doesn't know that iLink is what sony call firewire? For some obscure reason Sony use a different name and a different connector, so it's not at all obvious that it's the same thing.
If the camera has firewire, then once it's connected iMovie wil handle the software side of things, no additional drivers are needed.
DMX isn't rocket science, with a simple midi to dmx converter (like this one: http://www.cinetix.de/intrface/english/midmxbox.ht m) you can send DMX control data from any application that can work with midi, which should give you a choice of dozens of apps, whichever platform you decide to use... try here: http://xmidi.com/apps.html for OS X.
The problem with the emerging model you're talking about is finding a way to for the end users to find music they like.
That's easy to solve using existing technology too, there is not reason why I shouldn't be browsing something like ampfea.org and awarding a (+1 funky) or (-1 off-genre) to tracks that people have posted.
All it needs is a critical mass of users and content creators.
It doesn't solve that problem, but it offers the opportunity to tarpit people who are doing this, or better yet send provides a possible mechanism to send newsgroup-style 'cancels' out when it becomes obvious that this has hapenned.
It also means that bounces would go to the sender, and wouldn't end up filling my mailbox (guess who is being joe-jobbed at the moment?) and I would be able to find out who is joe-jobbing me and go and kill them.
If you run a mailserver, please spend a few seconds checking that you don't bounce undeliverable spam to the 'from' address.
I seem to have explained this a dozen times on Slashdot, but I guess it's not redundant until people start understanding it...
There is nothing wrong with having a monopoly. The illegal part is abusing a monopoly to gain another monopoly. If it was legal to do this, we would pretty quickly end up with just 1 big company owning everything.
So Microsoft can't legally turn their OS software monopoly into a media player monopoly by using a ubsidy to price their media player so low (or worse, bundling it for free and installing it by default) that no-one else can compete.
Apple can legally bundle Quicktime with their OS because they don't have an OS monopoly. Microfsoft can't bundle WMP, because they do.
In America the penalty seems to be a quick slap on the wrists and a large share of the schools market by means of a voucher system.
Here in Europe, we are (hopefully) actually going to enforce the law, make Microsoft stop breaking it, and maybe even fine them enough to make them think twice before doing in again.
Well, for a start, it's not just me that is saying all this, it's the laws of just about every western country.
I'm not suggesting Microsoft can't make whatever software they want, what I'm saying is that they can't force other companies out of business by giving that software away so cheaply that no-one else can compete.
If monopolies were allowed to behave like this, they could leverage more and more monopolies, and we'd just end up with 3 or 4 big companies running everything, and being able to charge a fortune for their products because all the competition was killed off.
TO use your analogy, what if Microsoft decided they wanted to own the mousetrap industry? If they were unrestricted, they could set up an 0800 number anyone could call for free mousetraps, fund it with their cash mountain, wait for all the other manufacturers to go bankrupt, then charge as much as they wanted once they were the only supplier.
1) If your hand is able to reach the touchpad, it is less than 1 inch away from the keyboard where there about 100 buttons. Are you really too lazy to reach them?
2) You should take a look at the folllowing list of Mac software that requires a 2nd button:
If you don't intend using any of those, you should be ok.
Ok, let me spell out exactly what the problem is...
Imagine you (or your company) writes a better media player (shoudn't be too hard to do!). You can't sell this software at a profit (or even at cost), because Microsoft already had their media player shipped for free with a large majority of PCs and therefore no-one will buy what you are offering, therfore you go bankrupt even though you had a better product.
Microsoft have leveraged their OS monopoly into a media player monopoly (and a browser monopoly and so on...)
Having an OS monopoly is NOT illegal. Having a media player monopoly is NOT illegal. Abusing your OS monopoly to obtain a media player monopoly IS illegal.
Given that Disney just lost their main content supplier (Pixar), and are creatively running on empty (Atlantis, Lilo and Stitch, dozens of straight to video cash-in sequels to classics anyone?), this seems like a lot of money for a chain of shops, a few theme parks and a stack of about-to-go-out-of-copyright cartoon characters.
Pixar have shown a start-up can outdo Disney at animation, Universal and Busch have shown the theme parks are cost effective to build from scratch, and the shops are nothing special.
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Maybe this is why CA inked the deal? When it's proved that SCO don't own anything, I'm sure CA will file suit for $699 x number of machines, since that's what SCO swindled them out of.
Speculation AND rumour? Oh well...
The law is quite clear, they can't abuse their monopoly by bundling WMP. If there are to be two version of Windows, one with and one without, they won't be allowed to sell the one with here in Europe.
They are not going to be required to sell a *separate* WMP-free version, twhat's being considered is that they will ONLY be abre to sell a WMP-free version here in Europe. There is no incentive to make it work badly when it's all they can sell.
Anyone who wants to see media players competing on quality and price rather than the current unfair advantage WMP has will benefit.
Can someone give a me layman's explanation of what (if anything) frequency means in the context of magnetism?
I can't I just read a review of an MP3 player that didn't mention how much memory it ships with!
You'd be surprised. The Smart City Coupe has it's petrol cap on one side of the car, and an air intake on the other in roughly the same position.
Despite the fact that you would have to ignore the fact that there is no flip-open lid, no cap to unscrew, and no hole that you could concievably fit a hose into, then physically smash a quite robust piece of plastic which has the words 'no petrol' written on it, and then remove the resulting debris, Smart garages are still reporting cars coming in with petrol forced into the air intake.
Well of course we have considered the implications on ambiguous votes, and we have a system for dealing with them which doesn't involve chads, smartcards, modems or anything else other than what the voter did with the the pencil and paper.
We simply look at what's on the voting paper and apply the following test "did the voter make their voting intentions clear?" if so it's counted as a vote for whoever, and if not it's counted as 'spoiled'. All candidates can inspect the bits of paper and demand a recount if they think things are unfair.
All this is very odd to me, in both the process and the execution.
The idea of the government paying for the counting of votes about internal party issues is unthinkable here - I'd go so far as to say it would almost certainly be illegal for our tax money to be used to pay for that. Can anyone set up a political party and demand that the US Government counts votes for their candidates?
The whole concepts of a 'voting machine' is alien to me. What's wrong with paper and a pencil? Sure there are procedural exploits that are theoretically possible, but no more or less so than with the machines, and we don't have any of this chad-dangling nonsense.
More importantly, the main reason we will not have voting machines here is simply cost. Why pay for something that is going to cost more than pencil and paper?
More from the stream (am I the only one on topic in this story?) - jeez these guys are giving up powerpoint hell here. I won at managementspeak bingo in under a minute, and there has barely an unabbreviated noun for the last 10 minutes. Basically it's about how they will get to the Moon again and then onto Mars. Here's the important bits:
CEV = Crew Exploration Vehicle
Initially robotic CEV missions then manned ones, repeated use of the phrases "mars and beyond" and "our next destination"
NASA are announcing their plans and timeline for the future:
Commitment to manned exploration of the solar system and beyond
Space shuttle back on line asap
ISS to be repurposed for manned exploration (Hmm, did they dicuss this with the other countries that built it?
New manned vehicle do be developed called CEV (anyone have more info on this? I tuned in just as this part ended)
Manned mission to the moon sometime between 2014 to 2020 (ie slower than the 'in this decade' with 1960s technology)
It's not a troll, if the poster cares enough about audio to blow vast amounts of shift-4 on Pro-Tools, then he's after some seriously high-end results. The G5 is a quiet machine but it's a long way from being totally silent.
My advice is for the poster to do whatever is necessary to put the G5 in a different room. This doesn't have to involve moving the G5 though, maybe the answer is to turn the problem round, and get a dedicated vocal booth to record in?
Other things to do do are ensure that the mac is not resting on a hard surface which reflects or transmits a lot of sound (a desk can act like a sounding board) and to try to cut down reflected sound from objects near the G5 (walls, desk etc) by putting something soft on them - you might be surprised how much of the sound is reflected.
Presumably, your laptop's power supply is the issue. While putting 2 extra pins on the socket might be simple, adding the necessary strength to the power supply and cooling system to power whatever device(s) anyone might ever choose to plug in isn't going to be simple at all.
Get the cable. Trying to shove video down a USB connector when you have firewire is ridiculous.
The last 3 Macs I bought all came with the cable, check that you don't already have it and filed it away when you found it wasn't needed for anything when you set the mac up.
Maybe the poster doesn't know that iLink is what sony call firewire? For some obscure reason Sony use a different name and a different connector, so it's not at all obvious that it's the same thing.
If the camera has firewire, then once it's connected iMovie wil handle the software side of things, no additional drivers are needed.
DMX isn't rocket science, with a simple midi to dmx converter (like this one: http://www.cinetix.de/intrface/english/midmxbox.ht m) you can send DMX control data from any application that can work with midi, which should give you a choice of dozens of apps, whichever platform you decide to use... try here: http://xmidi.com/apps.html for OS X.
The problem with the emerging model you're talking about is finding a way to for the end users to find music they like.
That's easy to solve using existing technology too, there is not reason why I shouldn't be browsing something like ampfea.org and awarding a (+1 funky) or (-1 off-genre) to tracks that people have posted.
All it needs is a critical mass of users and content creators.
Quite a proud moment for me, my first dupe. I submitted this one over 3 years ago...
* 2001-01-04 16:31:48 Forget fiber optics, use Marine Worm Spines! (articles,news) (accepted)
For some reason it's not showing up when I search the archives though.
It doesn't solve that problem, but it offers the opportunity to tarpit people who are doing this, or better yet send provides a possible mechanism to send newsgroup-style 'cancels' out when it becomes obvious that this has hapenned.
It also means that bounces would go to the sender, and wouldn't end up filling my mailbox (guess who is being joe-jobbed at the moment?) and I would be able to find out who is joe-jobbing me and go and kill them.
If you run a mailserver, please spend a few seconds checking that you don't bounce undeliverable spam to the 'from' address.
I seem to have explained this a dozen times on Slashdot, but I guess it's not redundant until people start understanding it...
There is nothing wrong with having a monopoly. The illegal part is abusing a monopoly to gain another monopoly. If it was legal to do this, we would pretty quickly end up with just 1 big company owning everything.
So Microsoft can't legally turn their OS software monopoly into a media player monopoly by using a ubsidy to price their media player so low (or worse, bundling it for free and installing it by default) that no-one else can compete.
Apple can legally bundle Quicktime with their OS because they don't have an OS monopoly. Microfsoft can't bundle WMP, because they do.
In America the penalty seems to be a quick slap on the wrists and a large share of the schools market by means of a voucher system.
Here in Europe, we are (hopefully) actually going to enforce the law, make Microsoft stop breaking it, and maybe even fine them enough to make them think twice before doing in again.
They were firing disposable anti-helicopter rockets!?!?
Tsk! The waste!
Well, for a start, it's not just me that is saying all this, it's the laws of just about every western country.
I'm not suggesting Microsoft can't make whatever software they want, what I'm saying is that they can't force other companies out of business by giving that software away so cheaply that no-one else can compete.
If monopolies were allowed to behave like this, they could leverage more and more monopolies, and we'd just end up with 3 or 4 big companies running everything, and being able to charge a fortune for their products because all the competition was killed off.
TO use your analogy, what if Microsoft decided they wanted to own the mousetrap industry? If they were unrestricted, they could set up an 0800 number anyone could call for free mousetraps, fund it with their cash mountain, wait for all the other manufacturers to go bankrupt, then charge as much as they wanted once they were the only supplier.
1) If your hand is able to reach the touchpad, it is less than 1 inch away from the keyboard where there about 100 buttons. Are you really too lazy to reach them?
2) You should take a look at the folllowing list of Mac software that requires a 2nd button:
If you don't intend using any of those, you should be ok.
Ok, let me spell out exactly what the problem is...
Imagine you (or your company) writes a better media player (shoudn't be too hard to do!). You can't sell this software at a profit (or even at cost), because Microsoft already had their media player shipped for free with a large majority of PCs and therefore no-one will buy what you are offering, therfore you go bankrupt even though you had a better product.
Microsoft have leveraged their OS monopoly into a media player monopoly (and a browser monopoly and so on...)
Having an OS monopoly is NOT illegal. Having a media player monopoly is NOT illegal. Abusing your OS monopoly to obtain a media player monopoly IS illegal.
Given that Disney just lost their main content supplier (Pixar), and are creatively running on empty (Atlantis, Lilo and Stitch, dozens of straight to video cash-in sequels to classics anyone?), this seems like a lot of money for a chain of shops, a few theme parks and a stack of about-to-go-out-of-copyright cartoon characters.
Pixar have shown a start-up can outdo Disney at animation, Universal and Busch have shown the theme parks are cost effective to build from scratch, and the shops are nothing special.
Just because you were playing a videogame at the time does not automatically make this the game's fault.