the only reason I pay for broadband is to get to the results of the last decades experimentation (i.e., slashdot and P2P networks).
Warner wants to sell web hosting for sites such as Slashdot. Warner wants to keep its customers from easily distributing infringing copies of its works over its network.
is really just to admitt you haven't thought about the cost of your own path.
The point is that Warner can make more money by following the path that leads to offering web hosting than by following the path that leads to offering symmetric connections to residential users.
it is Time Warner itself that is the first party to separate out the upstream and downstream and charge for them separately.
Only because Time Warner is forced to set those prices by the market. If Time Warner allocates more upstream bandwidth to residential customers, it pays an opportunity cost in lost web hosting business.
(If you don't know what an opportunity cost is, please study this definition and then read a basic economics textbook.)
One fine day Torrey T. Lyons came along and gave the Darwin patches the attention they had been waiting for. Finally, he brought them to a new home, the official XFree86 CVS repository.
At least one component of the QuickTime media architecture has been emancipated. Darwin Streaming Server is designed to serve QuickTime media over an Internet Protocol network.
If a GNU userland (that is, a set of user programs composed largely of programs whose copyright is owned by the Free Software Foundation) is slapped on top of a kernel, the resulting system can be called "GNU/" plus the name of the kernel. For example, the name "Cygwin" stands for "Cygnus GNU/Windows".
How do you expect volunteers to keep up with annual changes to the multi-million-word tax codes of hundreds of countries and their thousands of subdivisions?
I would like to run one command, or click one button, to install an app. I HATE having to download a variety of libraries to install something. It's stupid.
So you'd rather have every program be a multimegabyte static binary or come with megabytes of DLLs, just like on Windows?
Names don't have to be generic or descriptive to be effect. For instance, examine "Dodge Stratus". How does "Dodge" or "Stratus" imply an automobile, except through an acquired secondary meaning earned by promoting the product?
NTFS write support (would help people out)
Are you willing to contribute fully-paid-up licenses for Microsoft's patents that cover writing to NTFS?
Simple folder naming convention like Program Files, Document and settings, (what the heck does var, etc, proc mean anyway?)
In many environments, path names with long folder names that include spaces are generally a bad idea. They make keyboard navigation of the environment much more difficult. I would have named Program Files "Programs" and Documents and Settings "Home".
Slashcode's accepted pound signs quite happily until now so why change it?
HTML character entities have been blocked ever since somebody exploited character entities to insert text-direction overrides into subjects and comments that screw up the layout.
Another argument sometimes presented is that uploading somehow costs the cable company more in bandwidth than downloading.
This is, in fact, true. Time Warner Telecom sells web hosting services, and it doesn't want Road Runner customers to interfere with the transfer rates of its commercial web hosting customers.
If this were the case the cable modem network would cap bandwidth leaving it's system but not the connections from one customer to another.
This is, in fact, true. Internet connection providers in Australia and New Zealand typically cap inter-ISP transfer at 3 GB per month.
Designer: "So how can I get Photoshop running on this Linux thing?"
Linux guy: "Are you running a recent RPM based distro?" (This should guarantee a reasonably up-to-date glibc and GCC.)
Designer: "What's that?"
Linux guy: "Red Hat 8 or later, Mandrake 9 or later..."
Designer: "Mandrake. I have that."
Linux guy: "Here's a program to install on your Linux box, called Wine. It'll run Photoshop and a lot of other Windows apps." Gives a URL to download the package, plus generic RPM installation instructions, which amount to a right-click and choose Install. (I haven't used KDE recently so I wouldn't know how it handles.rpm association.)
Designer: "And then what?"
Linux guy: "Then stick the Photoshop install CD in the drive, open setup.exe, and you're off."
Designer: "Thanks."
I admit that Wine printing is complicated, but that's a problem for distros to solve. Watch the Lindows people tackle it.
The GIMP user interface sucks. Like a Hoover. Just look at all the silly little windows it throws up when you start it.
GIMP pops up exactly the same tool windows you had open when you last closed it, except for the Tip of the Day (which most users turn off after a week). Doesn't Photoshop pop up a whole bunch of silly little tool windows as well? Or is your real complaint that your window manager won't let you dock the toolbars?
No support for 16 bit per channel. [and] Less polish in the algorithms, both in speed and accuracy.
The CinePaint fork development team has added 16-bit support, which in itself adds more accuracy, and the changes should work their way into GIMP 2.
No support for color profiles (ICC).
Would you please pony up the money for a fully-paid-up worldwide license for the essential patents necessary to implement color conversion with ICC profiles?
No support for pressure and tilt info from drawing tablets such as Wacom's.
Then who was deluded into mentioning such support in this HOWTO?
Do you know how legal it would be to use one of these programs with these algorithms in it to create something like two images that could be used together as a lookup table for converting rather than algebra?
Congratulations, you've just described how to violate the very patents that prevent implementation of high-quality color space conversion in free software. The commercial systems use such look-up tables.
Why bother making your product work properly on linux when you can have others do it for you free of charge?
If Marketing can convince Quality Assurance to test the Windows ports of the publisher's products on all three platforms (Wine, Windows 9x, and Windows NT) instead of just two (9x and NT), then Marketing scores an extra bullet point in the products' features lists.
why turn Linux into a Windows clone?
Commercial distributors of emancipated operating systems want whatever the market wants. During my college education (1999-2003), the market wanted a Windows clone.
Sure, Wine using its own reimplemented DLLs probably doesn't run as many apps as Wine using Microsoft's DLLs, but as long as the app you want to use works "properly", then Wine works "properly" for you. Which app do you use regularly that works with Microsoft's DLLs but not with the free ones?
I mean when something doesn't work who is held accountable? Linus? Alan?...?
A vendor of a commercial distribution of an emancipated operating system will usually sell support contracts. Red Hat makes a sizable chunk of change from that line of work.
Slashdot Mirror
the only reason I pay for broadband is to get to the results of the last decades experimentation (i.e., slashdot and P2P networks).
Warner wants to sell web hosting for sites such as Slashdot. Warner wants to keep its customers from easily distributing infringing copies of its works over its network.
is really just to admitt you haven't thought about the cost of your own path.
The point is that Warner can make more money by following the path that leads to offering web hosting than by following the path that leads to offering symmetric connections to residential users.
it is Time Warner itself that is the first party to separate out the upstream and downstream and charge for them separately.
Only because Time Warner is forced to set those prices by the market. If Time Warner allocates more upstream bandwidth to residential customers, it pays an opportunity cost in lost web hosting business.
(If you don't know what an opportunity cost is, please study this definition and then read a basic economics textbook.)
From the linked page:
One fine day Torrey T. Lyons came along and gave the Darwin patches the attention they had been waiting for. Finally, he brought them to a new home, the official XFree86 CVS repository.
In other words, you're both right, to a point.
At least one component of the QuickTime media architecture has been emancipated. Darwin Streaming Server is designed to serve QuickTime media over an Internet Protocol network.
If a GNU userland (that is, a set of user programs composed largely of programs whose copyright is owned by the Free Software Foundation) is slapped on top of a kernel, the resulting system can be called "GNU/" plus the name of the kernel. For example, the name "Cygwin" stands for "Cygnus GNU/Windows".
How do you expect volunteers to keep up with annual changes to the multi-million-word tax codes of hundreds of countries and their thousands of subdivisions?
businesses buy computers and operating environments (commodity software) to run their core business software (CRM, ERP, groupware, accounting, etc.)
Accounting? And have a few volunteers keep up with the changes to the tax codes in 200 countries and countless subdivisions of those countries?
I would like to run one command, or click one button, to install an app. I HATE having to download a variety of libraries to install something. It's stupid.
So you'd rather have every program be a multimegabyte static binary or come with megabytes of DLLs, just like on Windows?
Color management is a patent minefield.
Names that mean something
Names don't have to be generic or descriptive to be effect. For instance, examine "Dodge Stratus". How does "Dodge" or "Stratus" imply an automobile, except through an acquired secondary meaning earned by promoting the product?
NTFS write support (would help people out)
Are you willing to contribute fully-paid-up licenses for Microsoft's patents that cover writing to NTFS?
Simple folder naming convention like Program Files, Document and settings, (what the heck does var, etc, proc mean anyway?)
In many environments, path names with long folder names that include spaces are generally a bad idea. They make keyboard navigation of the environment much more difficult. I would have named Program Files "Programs" and Documents and Settings "Home".
A single distribution
What benefits would you find in a monopoly?
back to the letters with XP
Here, I'm assuming that Microsoft marketing didn't want to commit to a once-a-year release schedule that a "Windows 2001" release would have implied.
and I suppose it will simply do device detection for the powered-off machine across the room
What's wrong with having the kernel redetect hardware whenever a boot device is moved to a different computer, like in Mac OS?
Try WarioWare instead. The games only last 3 seconds, so you shouldn't have any problems.
Slashcode's accepted pound signs quite happily until now so why change it?
HTML character entities have been blocked ever since somebody exploited character entities to insert text-direction overrides into subjects and comments that screw up the layout.
Another argument sometimes presented is that uploading somehow costs the cable company more in bandwidth than downloading.
This is, in fact, true. Time Warner Telecom sells web hosting services, and it doesn't want Road Runner customers to interfere with the transfer rates of its commercial web hosting customers.
If this were the case the cable modem network would cap bandwidth leaving it's system but not the connections from one customer to another.
This is, in fact, true. Internet connection providers in Australia and New Zealand typically cap inter-ISP transfer at 3 GB per month.
If there is no DSL in the area, and there is only one cable provider, then who has six figures USD to relocate a family just to shift providers?
Designer: "So how can I get Photoshop running on this Linux thing?"
Linux guy: "Are you running a recent RPM based distro?" (This should guarantee a reasonably up-to-date glibc and GCC.)
Designer: "What's that?"
Linux guy: "Red Hat 8 or later, Mandrake 9 or later..."
Designer: "Mandrake. I have that."
Linux guy: "Here's a program to install on your Linux box, called Wine. It'll run Photoshop and a lot of other Windows apps." Gives a URL to download the package, plus generic RPM installation instructions, which amount to a right-click and choose Install. (I haven't used KDE recently so I wouldn't know how it handles .rpm association.)
Designer: "And then what?"
Linux guy: "Then stick the Photoshop install CD in the drive, open setup.exe, and you're off."
Designer: "Thanks."
I admit that Wine printing is complicated, but that's a problem for distros to solve. Watch the Lindows people tackle it.
Then why was there not enough dissent within the ranks to prevent this?
The GIMP user interface sucks. Like a Hoover. Just look at all the silly little windows it throws up when you start it.
GIMP pops up exactly the same tool windows you had open when you last closed it, except for the Tip of the Day (which most users turn off after a week). Doesn't Photoshop pop up a whole bunch of silly little tool windows as well? Or is your real complaint that your window manager won't let you dock the toolbars?
No support for 16 bit per channel. [and] Less polish in the algorithms, both in speed and accuracy.
The CinePaint fork development team has added 16-bit support, which in itself adds more accuracy, and the changes should work their way into GIMP 2.
No support for color profiles (ICC).
Would you please pony up the money for a fully-paid-up worldwide license for the essential patents necessary to implement color conversion with ICC profiles?
No support for pressure and tilt info from drawing tablets such as Wacom's.
Then who was deluded into mentioning such support in this HOWTO?
Do you know how legal it would be to use one of these programs with these algorithms in it to create something like two images that could be used together as a lookup table for converting rather than algebra?
Congratulations, you've just described how to violate the very patents that prevent implementation of high-quality color space conversion in free software. The commercial systems use such look-up tables.
Why bother making your product work properly on linux when you can have others do it for you free of charge?
If Marketing can convince Quality Assurance to test the Windows ports of the publisher's products on all three platforms (Wine, Windows 9x, and Windows NT) instead of just two (9x and NT), then Marketing scores an extra bullet point in the products' features lists.
why turn Linux into a Windows clone?
Commercial distributors of emancipated operating systems want whatever the market wants. During my college education (1999-2003), the market wanted a Windows clone.
Sure, Wine using its own reimplemented DLLs probably doesn't run as many apps as Wine using Microsoft's DLLs, but as long as the app you want to use works "properly", then Wine works "properly" for you. Which app do you use regularly that works with Microsoft's DLLs but not with the free ones?
That said, if DisneyCo is using the work of the commons, why can't it give back to the commons?
Do you mean to imply that there are really that many GNOME users in Germany, now that KDE is within epsilon of being as easy to learn and use as Microsoft Windows XP?
Did you know there are several governments in here ?
Other than United States Inc. and the government of the State of California, where Slashdot's parent VA Software is headquartered?
And what makes you think other national governments don't recognize Common Criteria certifications?
I mean when something doesn't work who is held accountable? Linus? Alan? ...?
A vendor of a commercial distribution of an emancipated operating system will usually sell support contracts. Red Hat makes a sizable chunk of change from that line of work.
Banks skim a percentage off credit card donations as well. What donation method would you suggest?