I don't download music. Never have, never will. Why should I pay some non-artist MPAA executive?
Pretty soon we'll pay for everything by just giving our money over to the government and the powers that be. Noone will produce good music because, why should they? They get their money one way or another. The fat-cat execs at MPAA will be rolling in doe and a small pitance will be passed on the artists just to make it look good. Sure sounds like theft to me.
I used to have a pair of Velcro shoes but I took such a beating from my friends that I could only wear them at night in dark places. They were great shoes, but when you ripped them open, the sound of Velcro being torn apart made everyone within 20 feet look.
Microsoft is the reason I always wait for at least the second release. Other software such as Gnome, KDE, FreeBSD, Linux Kernels and so on seem to be tested more thoroughly. Interesting that the open source community seems to have higher quality standards that MS.
But, it's not Open Source vrs Proprietary, because, when I worked for DEC in the 80's and 90's, they had excellent release quality as well with VMS and related products. MS is a profit oriented organization which is fine, but, without the monopoly they have, they would never have been able to be profitable with the quality of their releases.
Guess that's the last time there'll be another IT fair in Germany. My thoughts exactly. One of the few international technological highlights that puts Germany on the map and they go and raid it.
Patents are so pervasive that almost everything infringes on some patent somewhere. I personally would think twice about putting up a stand at CEBIT next year.
what clause 6.2 appears to say is that if AMD gets taken over or goes bankrupt, Intel has the right to end AMD's right to use Intel's patents and copyrights after sixty days notice. This would seem to mean AMD couldn't make x86 processors anymore.
So the arms race isn't so cut-and-dry because x86 is so pervasive. Any competitor would likely find themselves in the same situation as AMD because Intel holds the licensing trump card. Imagine being the startup trying to negotiate a fair arrangement under those conditions (i.e. where they could be truly competitive with Intel down the road).
If that were the case, competition might come from other architectures in the long run. Of course, it would mean that MS's monopoly would have to be ended. Not sure how likely that is. If we lived in a world with real OS competition, companies like Sun (with Sparc), IBM with Power and perhaps other innovative architectures would provide the consumer with more real choice.
For certain markets, yes. IMHO there will be a big market for low power commodity type devices including low-end PC's for many who just surf and write emails. When the power consumption is reduced to the point where you can leave your internet device on all day you open up all kinds of possibilities, such as having immediate knowledge when you get an email, chat and so on. Of course, it also gets us closer to "Big Brother".
"The Linux kernel used is not a "stable release" whereas FreeBSD is (although I'm not aware of any significant performance improvements over the 2.6.24 kernel -- 2.6.25-rc4 is simply what I have installed on the machine)."
Oh yea, really? Then tell me why it takes 5 hours and an act of god to get my frigging wireless card to work on Linux! Which Linux distro are you using? I find that Ubuntu has recognized everything I have (although I haven't tried a wireless card yet).
There are some areas where Linux hardware support is not as user friendly as Windows or Mac, but for hardware that it does support, it seems to be much more automatic than Windows.
VAX who's memory management problem were dragged over to windows. Built a kernel in BASIC! Haha! And got away with it for years!
What memory problem are you referring to? Neither VAX nor VMS had a memory problem. Vax/VMS systems ran mission critical systems 24/7 for years with no memory issues that I ever heard of and I worked for DEC.
Gates bought DOS, which was not written in BASIC. If you are referring to the Altair, that was standard practice given the minimal memory available, the OS had to incorporate an interpreter to be useful.
I find it funny as well how many people believe it is normal to have to reboot every now and then.
After having worked on VMS systems for 5 years with their 5-nine reliability, I went to work for a telecom company which used VMS and had some "Enterprise" IBM systems. It was normal, in fact required, for them to shut the IBM machines down once a week. Although, it was amazing that they sometimes had 1200 people logged into these boxes at one time.
Where I work now, we use Linux for the back end and most of the front end boxes. There servers (two of them) have been running without reboot for over two years on simple Intel hardware.
Not really. When you move to a new neighborhood you have to register with the local police station. And the Catholic church by default gets money out of your paycheck. You have to request otherwise.
I live in Germany and you are complete wrong on both counts.
You do register with the town clerk but you don't have to pay anything to any church unless you decide to be a member.
In the US you don't have to register anywhere unless you want a driver's license at which point you have to have a registered address.
Not at 175 miles up. As the previous poster noted, geostationary orbit is at 35,000+.
I'm assuming the orbit time at that height would be something like 90 minutes. But, I lived in an area where there was no DSL or Cable and I would have been happy if I had highspeed connection for a while every day, even if I had to go outside an move the dish manually as the satellite sped by.;-)
My hope is that the Chinese bring their format through with cheaper and unstricted players (no region codes, no DRM) and that some of the foreign movie makers release films in that format. This whole Blu-Ray, HD DVD setup has way too many restrictions and limitations to appease the movie companies. As a society we're going backwards.
Hollywood has gotten too corrupt and has too much of a monopoly.
I agree with the region codes argument. For those of us living overseas that pick up a movie every now and then in the states which we legally paid for, we couldn't watch it unless our player was a code-free player.
But, blu-ray has a capacity of 25GB (50 dual layer) compared to HD DVD's 15 and 30GB. That's a pretty significant difference and HD DVD had MS's backing which made me question what might be implemented to make it incompatible with other OS's or non-MS gaming products.
Person A buys some friendship bread from Company B then adds some ingredients and gives it to Person B who then adds some ingredients and gives it to Person C and the chain continues on and on.
In case you can't connect the dots on your own
Person A legally purchased music then added bandwidth and computer time to pass along the music to others.
I wonder if that's the first bread analogy on/. Sorry, but I have to disagree. Person A didn't add bandwidth and computer time to the product. He used it to make a copy. It's not that I agree with the RIAA in general but the value in Music is not the medium. Everyone is free to create their own music and make copies of it or make it available to copy for anyone they like. But if you didn't create it, you have to abide by the wishes of those who did. If their wishes are ridiculous, don't
buy the music.
Where I strongly disagree with the RIAA on this is in the area of fair use. If I buy the music I buy a license to use it in any way I see fit for me. I should be able to make copies for my car, MP3 player, living room and computer. Basically, though, I don't buy any music which restricts me on that.
Wow, I tried that on my linux box in a non-priveleged account (figured I was safe) and it definitely hosed up my browser and started something running which seemed to take alot of CPU. Didn't seem to do much else, though.
When people start adding crap like that, it's time to require registration.
Perhaps linux will be stronger if it learns to acknowledge the existence proprietary software vs remaining a religious movement. I agree that any OS should provide the users the freedom to choose between "free" (as in speech) software and proprietary software. I understand the importance of keeping proprietary software out of the kernel, of course, but for applications software, it should be encouraged.
Having said that, the Free Software movement doesn't discourage proprietary software running on top of free software. It's a valid software model. What it does encourage are open protocols and formats so that everyone can compete.
I'd assume it has something to do with the antitrust action the EU was taking. Didn't they order that Microsoft had to open all their protocols/formats? They always were open - you just had to email them for the files rather than just download them. Now you can just download them. The SMB protocol, for example, was never open. And, in fact, it still isn't really open. You can get the specification now from MS but it will cost you a five-figure sum and you must sign an agreement not to disclose it to anyone else.
DOC is still not open. You can't get it by asking for it with an email. Not sure where you got that piece of information.
I guess they're forgetting about things like optimized device drivers, true performance-oriented embedded systems architectures, microcode segments, and anything to do with hardware development. What also seems to get ignored by the point-and-click programming crowd is the inevitable problem that happens when your system starts getting heavy use. Some of these systems just all apart because many young programmers and system designers just don't understand what's happening at a lower level.
As a short-term solution, why doesn't the court just make open-source products exempt from patent violation? If you code something and release the code for it, you're not hiding anything, right? Being "open" and inventing something are two different concepts. In my opinion, no software should be patentable - it's like patenting math.
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Vista who?
I don't download music. Never have, never will. Why should I pay some non-artist MPAA executive?
Pretty soon we'll pay for everything by just giving our money over to the government and the powers that be. Noone will produce good music because, why should they? They get their money one way or another. The fat-cat execs at MPAA will be rolling in doe and a small pitance will be passed on the artists just to make it look good. Sure sounds like theft to me.
I used to have a pair of Velcro shoes but I took such a beating from my friends that I could only wear them at night in dark places. They were great shoes, but when you ripped them open, the sound of Velcro being torn apart made everyone within 20 feet look.
Microsoft is the reason I always wait for at least the second release. Other software such as Gnome, KDE, FreeBSD, Linux Kernels and so on seem to be tested more thoroughly. Interesting that the open source community seems to have higher quality standards that MS.
But, it's not Open Source vrs Proprietary, because, when I worked for DEC in the 80's and 90's, they had excellent release quality as well with VMS and related products. MS is a profit oriented organization which is fine, but, without the monopoly they have, they would never have been able to be profitable with the quality of their releases.
Patents are so pervasive that almost everything infringes on some patent somewhere. I personally would think twice about putting up a stand at CEBIT next year.
what clause 6.2 appears to say is that if AMD gets taken over or goes bankrupt, Intel has the right to end AMD's right to use Intel's patents and copyrights after sixty days notice. This would seem to mean AMD couldn't make x86 processors anymore.
So the arms race isn't so cut-and-dry because x86 is so pervasive. Any competitor would likely find themselves in the same situation as AMD because Intel holds the licensing trump card. Imagine being the startup trying to negotiate a fair arrangement under those conditions (i.e. where they could be truly competitive with Intel down the road).
If that were the case, competition might come from other architectures in the long run. Of course, it would mean that MS's monopoly would have to be ended. Not sure how likely that is. If we lived in a world with real OS competition, companies like Sun (with Sparc), IBM with Power and perhaps other innovative architectures would provide the consumer with more real choice.
Re: "mindless eco-babble".
Apparently you know something that every scientist on the globe doesn't?
Re: ARM's small but tenacious market share.
Isn't ARM is millions of cell phones? That doesn't sound "small" to me.
AMD is supposed to feel threatened by that?
For certain markets, yes. IMHO there will be a big market for low power commodity type devices including low-end PC's for many who just surf and write emails. When the power consumption is reduced to the point where you can leave your internet device on all day you open up all kinds of possibilities, such as having immediate knowledge when you get an email, chat and so on. Of course, it also gets us closer to "Big Brother".Nick says this, as well:
"The Linux kernel used is not a "stable release" whereas FreeBSD is (although I'm not aware of any significant performance improvements over the 2.6.24 kernel -- 2.6.25-rc4 is simply what I have installed on the machine)."
FreeBSD still occupies 4 of the top ten most reliable server categories according to Netcraft and it holds the top position.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/02/12/swishmail_is_the_most_reliable_hosting_company_in_january_2008.html
There are some areas where Linux hardware support is not as user friendly as Windows or Mac, but for hardware that it does support, it seems to be much more automatic than Windows.
Gates bought DOS, which was not written in BASIC. If you are referring to the Altair, that was standard practice given the minimal memory available, the OS had to incorporate an interpreter to be useful.
I find it funny as well how many people believe it is normal to have to reboot every now and then.
After having worked on VMS systems for 5 years with their 5-nine reliability, I went to work for a telecom company which used VMS and had some "Enterprise" IBM systems. It was normal, in fact required, for them to shut the IBM machines down once a week. Although, it was amazing that they sometimes had 1200 people logged into these boxes at one time.
Where I work now, we use Linux for the back end and most of the front end boxes. There servers (two of them) have been running without reboot for over two years on simple Intel hardware.
I live in Germany and you are complete wrong on both counts.
You do register with the town clerk but you don't have to pay anything to any church unless you decide to be a member.
In the US you don't have to register anywhere unless you want a driver's license at which point you have to have a registered address.
Not at 175 miles up. As the previous poster noted, geostationary orbit is at 35,000+.
;-)
I'm assuming the orbit time at that height would be something like 90 minutes. But, I lived in an area where there was no DSL or Cable and I would have been happy if I had highspeed connection for a while every day, even if I had to go outside an move the dish manually as the satellite sped by.
Still seems like it was a bargain, in terms of scientific gain over cost.
My hope is that the Chinese bring their format through with cheaper and unstricted players (no region codes, no DRM) and that some of the foreign movie makers release films in that format. This whole Blu-Ray, HD DVD setup has way too many restrictions and limitations to appease the movie companies. As a society we're going backwards.
Hollywood has gotten too corrupt and has too much of a monopoly.
I agree with the region codes argument. For those of us living overseas that pick up a movie every now and then in the states which we legally paid for, we couldn't watch it unless our player was a code-free player.
But, blu-ray has a capacity of 25GB (50 dual layer) compared to HD DVD's 15 and 30GB. That's a pretty significant difference and HD DVD had MS's backing which made me question what might be implemented to make it incompatible with other OS's or non-MS gaming products.
In case you can't connect the dots on your own
Person A legally purchased music then added bandwidth and computer time to pass along the music to others.
I wonder if that's the first bread analogy on
Where I strongly disagree with the RIAA on this is in the area of fair use. If I buy the music I buy a license to use it in any way I see fit for me. I should be able to make copies for my car, MP3 player, living room and computer. Basically, though, I don't buy any music which restricts me on that.
Re: The impetus is the ongoing EU antitrust case against Microsoft.
Actually, I believe the impetus is ISO standards acceptance.
Wow, I tried that on my linux box in a non-priveleged account (figured I was safe) and it definitely hosed up my browser and started something running which seemed to take alot of CPU. Didn't seem to do much else, though.
When people start adding crap like that, it's time to require registration.
Having said that, the Free Software movement doesn't discourage proprietary software running on top of free software. It's a valid software model. What it does encourage are open protocols and formats so that everyone can compete.
DOC is still not open. You can't get it by asking for it with an email. Not sure where you got that piece of information.