If you use Napster, there is a greater than 99.9% chance that you are a thief. The debate on copyright centers revolves around a (false) legal positivism (i.e. gov says so, therefore il/legal). Does a musician really "own" the 1s and 0s on the CD? And what do I own when I purchase the CD? The right to listen to it? Only? This would be the case if I'd made a contract with the artist (maybe like that on a software disk, a license) but I can't find that. Just warnings. But I didn't agree to their terms. This issue is over. The distribution model for digital entertainment will need to change dramatically. I wonder if Napster would be such a big success if CDs cost $5 (or some other price which would deflate the temptation to search through all the Napster junk offerings to find a decent rip).
off point: amd/intel didn't bump up the dev cycle or cut corners. the normal plan is to s-t-r-i-n-g things out to maximize profit. remember: we really haven't had competition in the x86 space until late 1998. i wonder how this will pan out for microsoft as other oses begin to dampen their own string-out sched.
In the mid-90s, prognostication went along the lines that hardware makers, in a commodity business, were on the way out. It was important to "own the OS". However, with the success of open source (Linux/BSD/Darwin), enabled no doubt by the internet, the landscape has changed to hardware and service being the foci of promise. Can anyone say: IBM stinks? Right: I believe Microsoft stinks (in the long term...but that's why they are building PCs called X-box).
We used to have a group of Mac Quadra 700s running A/UX and a suite of applications we'd created for news wire stuff. We wanted to stick with Apple hardware when they switched to the PowerPC, but we were told to transition to IBM's AIX (the RS/6000 boxes with the PowerPC 601). I believe Apple even sold a server for awhile with AIX on it.
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i've been having problems with hotmail this week. now i too have my suspicions.
If you use Napster, there is a greater than 99.9% chance that you are a thief. The debate on copyright centers revolves around a (false) legal positivism (i.e. gov says so, therefore il/legal). Does a musician really "own" the 1s and 0s on the CD? And what do I own when I purchase the CD? The right to listen to it? Only? This would be the case if I'd made a contract with the artist (maybe like that on a software disk, a license) but I can't find that. Just warnings. But I didn't agree to their terms. This issue is over. The distribution model for digital entertainment will need to change dramatically. I wonder if Napster would be such a big success if CDs cost $5 (or some other price which would deflate the temptation to search through all the Napster junk offerings to find a decent rip).
off point: amd/intel didn't bump up the dev cycle or cut corners. the normal plan is to s-t-r-i-n-g things out to maximize profit. remember: we really haven't had competition in the x86 space until late 1998. i wonder how this will pan out for microsoft as other oses begin to dampen their own string-out sched.
In the mid-90s, prognostication went along the lines that hardware makers, in a commodity business, were on the way out. It was important to "own the OS". However, with the success of open source (Linux/BSD/Darwin), enabled no doubt by the internet, the landscape has changed to hardware and service being the foci of promise. Can anyone say: IBM stinks? Right: I believe Microsoft stinks (in the long term...but that's why they are building PCs called X-box).
We used to have a group of Mac Quadra 700s running A/UX and a suite of applications we'd created for news wire stuff. We wanted to stick with Apple hardware when they switched to the PowerPC, but we were told to transition to IBM's AIX (the RS/6000 boxes with the PowerPC 601). I believe Apple even sold a server for awhile with AIX on it.
I think you meant "e.g. Linux" as in "a free example [exemplum gratis] (pause) Linux" not "i.e. Linux" as in "that is [id est] Linux"
this should have been scored higher!
WorkPad z50s are for sale on eBay for prices specified in the article... http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=267345328 Note: I am NOT the seller.