And the distributer will claim it costs them 98.9 cents per song, so the writer and artists get to split the remaining fraction of a cent...
By U.S. law, the songwriter can demand 8 cents per track from the record label, which the songwriter usually splits 50:50 with his publisher (source: Songwriting FOR DUMMIES, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Songwriting, and most of the surrounding books at my local b&n store). So if you want to make money in the music business, write your own songs.
But does the law even let you write your own songs? It's possible for a songwriter to get sued and lose for writing a song that, in his best judgment at the time he wrote it, was original, but in fact was accidentally plagiarized from another popular song.
How is this an advantage when only a select few Internet users have broadband? I can easily max out my dial-up on WinMX with just one or two simultaneous downloads.
In some countries, the maker of Lupin III can't publish under the title Lupin III because of trademark problems. In those countries, he becomes "The Wolf" (literal translation of "Lupin") or "Rupan III" (transliteration of kana).
In the parallel universe, the phone company is Hortical (the opposite combination of vertical + horizon), the cellphone company is Pleural (more than one, misspelled), and the cheap x86 processor is Asparagon (another similar vegetable).
I have hot swapable drive support. HP is working on this for w2k but does dell have this?
Mac OS X has had this since version 10.0. It's called FireWire(tm) brand IEEE 1394 serial bus technology. FireWire storage devices are hot-swappable, and there's no reason a hardware manufacturer can't make a cage that holds a couple dozen FireWire drives.
Every version of the Microsoft Windows OS since Windows 98 and Windows 2000 can speak IEEE 1394 as well.
Int64
The i386 architecture can already handle 64-bit long long variables straightforwardly, just not natively. The x86-64 architecture processors (AMD Athlon 64; AMD Opteron) will fix this deficiency. (Yes, I know Dell doesn't currently sell AMD CPU based machines.)
I have a scalable server that has supperior clustering software that NT and Linux lack. With up to 128 processors I can have one fast mutha.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of PC blades? If not, what clustering feature does the Solaris OE have that the GNU/Linux OE lacks?
Linux has serious VM problems
I've been told Linux 2.6 will take steps toward improving the kernel's scheduler and VM.
If a chip fails you can have an engineer from Sun with a replacement part be at your office within a matter of hours if your a gold member!
Dell has only begun to compete with Sun. How do you know Dell won't introduce an analogous "gold" program for its machines?
There are distinct "byte" and "char" data types in the Java programming language. The "byte" is 8-bit as expected in PC-type and RISC architectures, but because the Java programming language's native character encoding is UTF-16 Unicode, "char" is 16-bit.
So given the task "I want to add a shortcut on my kicker to an application named foo which does not have a menu entry in the OS distribution I use", how does a novice user reason from there to "Look in the settings menu and choose KAppfinder"? For instance, how does the user know that "KAppfinder" isn't a web interface to Freshmeat or something (logic: find the name of a KDE app based on keywords)?
and no the Mac way of expanding to some apparently random size is not good, it's a pain in the ass.
A window's zoom box under Mac OS doesn't expand the window to a "random" size. It expands the window to the smallest size that holds the entire document or, failing that, expands the window to nearly fill the screen. It's precisely the same behavior as Ctrl+E on GIMP.
Can you write a closed source program with GPL software? NOT LIKELY...
Depends on whether your definition of "with" includes linking the GPL program with your program. Software created "with" Qt is linked to Qt. Software created "with" KDevelop, on the other hand, isn't necessarily linked to Qt. Actual example: Nintendo provides a GCC toolchain to official developers of proprietary GBA game software and can do so because GCC itself isn't linked into the proprietary program.
Much of the confusion surrounding the "free" in "free software" arises from the same source as the 1800s conflict between the freedom of the slaves and the freedom of the slave owners.
Use the mini-PC as your kvm component
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but not waste space on a full sized keyboard/monitor/mouse.
Then use a Pocket PC system. There's a reason to have a full-size screen; otherwise, either you have to squint all the time or you have to scroll all the time. There's a reason to have a full-size keyboard; otherwise, your fingers get cramped. (If your big concern is the two blocks of keys to the right of the main keyboard, get a Happy Hacking keyboard.)
The system can go under the desk, the KVM components can't.:)
Then just use the mini-PC as your KVM component using X11 or VNC, and connect it to your bigger iron via 100BASE-T Ethernet. You won't need to upgrade it unless you want to, say, watch a movie or do something else that involves huge amounts of data transfer from the CPU to the screen.
If the mod chips were sold as "XBOX Linux-Enabler Chips" rather than pirate devices, would it have made a difference?
Given the language of 17 USC 1201(b), which seems equivalent to "substantial non-infringing use", a "Linux chip" for Xbox shouldn't violate the DMCA provided that it's packaged with a distribution of the GNU/Linux operating environment that's compatible with the "Linux chip". For the packaging, picture a penguin in a surfing pose atop a DIP chip.
Perhaps not laptop form factor but...
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I took one look at the video server sitting on the other table in my room, taking up all that space, and wished I could get something in a laptop type form factor that was only a keyboard/monitor/mouse.
It's not a laptop, but if you add a LCD panel, keyboard, and mouse to this, your footprint problems should be 90 percent solved.
Nope. The implication, not well stated, was that you have to use those Delco parts because no 3rd party can make compatible parts due to DMCA-related lawsuits by GM.
Once I got to the end of grandparent, I inferred a different implication: that you have to use those Ford Motorcraft parts because AC Delco cannot make better-quality compatible parts due to DMCA-related lawsuits by Ford.
the print head is built into the cartridge (at least on the printers I've used). That allows HP/Lewxmark/Canon to make dirt cheap inkjet printers
Actually, Canon does the Right Thing with its inkjet printers. A Canon cartridge has replaceable ink tanks. The cartridges do wear out, but overall, Canon consumables are less expensive than HP and Lexmark consumables.
Seems like a pretty crappy AUP to me, then. Why should everything I'm hosting be accessible via links?
Because the hosting company oversells its virtual hosts' disk space, and it can't sell the space used by your large binary files to people who actually want to use it for web documents (HTML, CSS, small PNG images, small JPEG images) that 1. have a smaller data transfer size and 2. can have ads inserted. That's why some hosting companies enforce file-size limits and restrictions on remote loading (i.e. no Referer or foreign Referer == 403 Forbidden).
Either rent me the server space and bandwidth or don't.
Then how is the hosting company supposed to pay its own bill for bandwidth and for buying drives?
Slashdot does not allow HTML entities other than <, > and &. How did you manage to remember the Alt+code necessary to write umlauted vowels on a U.S. keyboard? And how are you going to correctly spell a word that uses a character that isn't in ISO Latin 1?
The patent notice contains a U.S. patent number. When entered into the USPTO search engine, a patent number calls forth a complete description of how to implement an invention.
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And the distributer will claim it costs them 98.9 cents per song, so the writer and artists get to split the remaining fraction of a cent...
By U.S. law, the songwriter can demand 8 cents per track from the record label, which the songwriter usually splits 50:50 with his publisher (source: Songwriting FOR DUMMIES, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Songwriting, and most of the surrounding books at my local b&n store). So if you want to make money in the music business, write your own songs.
But does the law even let you write your own songs? It's possible for a songwriter to get sued and lose for writing a song that, in his best judgment at the time he wrote it, was original, but in fact was accidentally plagiarized from another popular song.
The transfers happen quickly.
How is this an advantage when only a select few Internet users have broadband? I can easily max out my dial-up on WinMX with just one or two simultaneous downloads.
In some countries, the maker of Lupin III can't publish under the title Lupin III because of trademark problems. In those countries, he becomes "The Wolf" (literal translation of "Lupin") or "Rupan III" (transliteration of kana).
Verizon, Cingular, Enterasys, Celeron, Athlon etc
In the parallel universe, the phone company is Hortical (the opposite combination of vertical + horizon), the cellphone company is Pleural (more than one, misspelled), and the cheap x86 processor is Asparagon (another similar vegetable).
Well, info is a stand-alone shell command. So, you'd have to use lynx to prove your point.
So was w3m (syntax: w3m index.html) when I last installed it on Red Hat Linux. Apparently, so is links.
You do have a point that Emacs-W3 doesn't come with the official FSF source distribution of GNU Emacs.
There is no Unix company.
Then what's The Open Group?
www.sun.com doesn't run Mac OS or Windows NT (as others suggested). It runs Netscape-Enterprise/6.0 on Solaris 8.
I have hot swapable drive support. HP is working on this for w2k but does dell have this?
Mac OS X has had this since version 10.0. It's called FireWire(tm) brand IEEE 1394 serial bus technology. FireWire storage devices are hot-swappable, and there's no reason a hardware manufacturer can't make a cage that holds a couple dozen FireWire drives.
Every version of the Microsoft Windows OS since Windows 98 and Windows 2000 can speak IEEE 1394 as well.
Int64
The i386 architecture can already handle 64-bit long long variables straightforwardly, just not natively. The x86-64 architecture processors (AMD Athlon 64; AMD Opteron) will fix this deficiency. (Yes, I know Dell doesn't currently sell AMD CPU based machines.)
I have a scalable server that has supperior clustering software that NT and Linux lack. With up to 128 processors I can have one fast mutha.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of PC blades? If not, what clustering feature does the Solaris OE have that the GNU/Linux OE lacks?
Linux has serious VM problems
I've been told Linux 2.6 will take steps toward improving the kernel's scheduler and VM.
If a chip fails you can have an engineer from Sun with a replacement part be at your office within a matter of hours if your a gold member!
Dell has only begun to compete with Sun. How do you know Dell won't introduce an analogous "gold" program for its machines?
don't make important docs available only as .html
What's the significant difference between browsing .info files with info and browsing .html files with w3m?
CV stands for "curriculum vitae", and Dictionary.com says it's pretty much the same as a résumé, but CV can be typed with fewer keystrokes (Caps C V Caps vs. R Alt 0 2 3 3 S U M Alt 0 2 3 3).
There is no "byte" data type in C
There are distinct "byte" and "char" data types in the Java programming language. The "byte" is 8-bit as expected in PC-type and RISC architectures, but because the Java programming language's native character encoding is UTF-16 Unicode, "char" is 16-bit.
So given the task "I want to add a shortcut on my kicker to an application named foo which does not have a menu entry in the OS distribution I use", how does a novice user reason from there to "Look in the settings menu and choose KAppfinder"? For instance, how does the user know that "KAppfinder" isn't a web interface to Freshmeat or something (logic: find the name of a KDE app based on keywords)?
If it's not on your menu, then run kappfinder and THEN drag it over.
Then how does somebody discover kappfinder other than by asking Arandir? All features of a desktop environment should be easily to discover.
and no the Mac way of expanding to some apparently random size is not good, it's a pain in the ass.
A window's zoom box under Mac OS doesn't expand the window to a "random" size. It expands the window to the smallest size that holds the entire document or, failing that, expands the window to nearly fill the screen. It's precisely the same behavior as Ctrl+E on GIMP.
Can you write a closed source program with GPL software? NOT LIKELY...
Depends on whether your definition of "with" includes linking the GPL program with your program. Software created "with" Qt is linked to Qt. Software created "with" KDevelop, on the other hand, isn't necessarily linked to Qt. Actual example: Nintendo provides a GCC toolchain to official developers of proprietary GBA game software and can do so because GCC itself isn't linked into the proprietary program.
Much of the confusion surrounding the "free" in "free software" arises from the same source as the 1800s conflict between the freedom of the slaves and the freedom of the slave owners.
but not waste space on a full sized keyboard/monitor/mouse.
Then use a Pocket PC system. There's a reason to have a full-size screen; otherwise, either you have to squint all the time or you have to scroll all the time. There's a reason to have a full-size keyboard; otherwise, your fingers get cramped. (If your big concern is the two blocks of keys to the right of the main keyboard, get a Happy Hacking keyboard.)
The system can go under the desk, the KVM components can't. :)
Then just use the mini-PC as your KVM component using X11 or VNC, and connect it to your bigger iron via 100BASE-T Ethernet. You won't need to upgrade it unless you want to, say, watch a movie or do something else that involves huge amounts of data transfer from the CPU to the screen.
If the mod chips were sold as "XBOX Linux-Enabler Chips" rather than pirate devices, would it have made a difference?
Given the language of 17 USC 1201(b), which seems equivalent to "substantial non-infringing use", a "Linux chip" for Xbox shouldn't violate the DMCA provided that it's packaged with a distribution of the GNU/Linux operating environment that's compatible with the "Linux chip". For the packaging, picture a penguin in a surfing pose atop a DIP chip.
I took one look at the video server sitting on the other table in my room, taking up all that space, and wished I could get something in a laptop type form factor that was only a keyboard/monitor/mouse.
It's not a laptop, but if you add a LCD panel, keyboard, and mouse to this, your footprint problems should be 90 percent solved.
Nope. The implication, not well stated, was that you have to use those Delco parts because no 3rd party can make compatible parts due to DMCA-related lawsuits by GM.
Once I got to the end of grandparent, I inferred a different implication: that you have to use those Ford Motorcraft parts because AC Delco cannot make better-quality compatible parts due to DMCA-related lawsuits by Ford.
The Epson printers I've used just use a tank of ink, and the print head is part of the printer (the way it should be).
Then what if the print head wears out? Do you buy a new printer?
Canon gives you the best of both worlds: a replaceable cartridge with replaceable ink tanks.
the print head is built into the cartridge (at least on the printers I've used). That allows HP/Lewxmark/Canon to make dirt cheap inkjet printers
Actually, Canon does the Right Thing with its inkjet printers. A Canon cartridge has replaceable ink tanks. The cartridges do wear out, but overall, Canon consumables are less expensive than HP and Lexmark consumables.
Seems like a pretty crappy AUP to me, then. Why should everything I'm hosting be accessible via links?
Because the hosting company oversells its virtual hosts' disk space, and it can't sell the space used by your large binary files to people who actually want to use it for web documents (HTML, CSS, small PNG images, small JPEG images) that 1. have a smaller data transfer size and 2. can have ads inserted. That's why some hosting companies enforce file-size limits and restrictions on remote loading (i.e. no Referer or foreign Referer == 403 Forbidden).
Either rent me the server space and bandwidth or don't.
Then how is the hosting company supposed to pay its own bill for bandwidth and for buying drives?
Slashdot does not allow HTML entities other than <, > and &. How did you manage to remember the Alt+code necessary to write umlauted vowels on a U.S. keyboard? And how are you going to correctly spell a word that uses a character that isn't in ISO Latin 1?
The patent notice contains a U.S. patent number. When entered into the USPTO search engine, a patent number calls forth a complete description of how to implement an invention.