Now, what if this company doesn't care about the people who COULD and WILL crack it.. Maybe they just see that enough people would be innocent enough to actually go through with it.. and not know of what the hackers and other people are doing on the internet..
There are TONS AND TONS of non-hackers on the internet. How many people are on aol??? But anyways, if they're just imaging that people will probably crack it.. just like DVD.. but people still buy the DVD's..
I dunno... They probably thought people could crack them, just like people can copy VHS, but the number of people who buy them pay for the company to be rich and the hackers to get free stuff.. so who can complain? =)
Just because you have a pipeline that can support it doesn't mean you have the technology to sustain that throughput.
Harddrives are a VERY old technology. I mean seriously!! The most vonerable part of the computer is the Harddrive, PowerSupply, and CPU Fans (if you're x86 anyways)..
I can't wait until computers are 100% solid state. Moving parts increase points of failure.
This solid state drive is neet, but looks WAY too risky to me to stick in a production server. I mean if the only way these things are makeing sure they don't loose the data is to keep power to it all the time, COME ON! We have had the ability to do 8GIG Ram Drives for a LONG time now!
Seriously, what if the "PCI CARD" needs a good-ol-fashioned reboot?? You can't tell me this company GAURENTEES a 100% UPTIME on their "NEW" PRODUCT.
I noticed how they recommend it for "web Proxies, Secondary DNS Servers,..." All things where the data on them is not marked as "curtial".
Why can't someone come up with a USABLE product?? Like a 8GIG SolidState Drive with NVRAM instead of SDRAM.... or a 10GIG SDRAM Solution that has a piggy back hardware mirrored 10GIG Harddrive with like 1GIG Cache to write to the harddrive, so if it does reboot, it reads off the 10GIG Harddrive into memory and off it goes. (I think that's what Quantum's drives "SORTA" did). . ... I dunno...
I agree with you 120%! Seriously. What is the KEY reason Microsoft is on just about EVERY desktop in the world? You think it's because their product works well? You think it's because they were inovative? Of course not!!
Here at slashdot, we know better.. right? =)
But the reason that Microsoft's products have infected the world like a plague is because they ALLOW their programs to be coppied and pirated. I think the PIRATE communite is to blame for Microsoft being on everyone's desktop.
Microsoft's marketing team was right on the money! Have a few people buy it initially, make it easy for them to "SHARE" it with their friends, get it on everyone's desktop... once it's everywhere goto OEM Sites to have it include it with their hardware because you can PROVE that YOUR PRODUCT IS WHAT EVERYONE USES, so they need it included with the hardware. And BAM.... We see microsoft as it stands today.
ALL Due to pircay and lack of good copy protection schemes.
I'm sad that we all fell for it. We thought we were getting away with getting free software, where infact we were helping to build the ultimate evil empire.
What you NEED in "USER INTERFACE" are the following:
1. Stability 2. Functionality 3. Configurability
I have been heavy into unix for a while now, I LOVE unix! I have pushed for a WHILE now to have many of my friends put linux on their machines to replace windows. DOWN WITH THE MAN! Recently my cell phone has seemed to become a Linux Technical Support hotline it would seem. There's no one else I could refer them to because they don't have enough knowledge of networking or other things to fix their problems by theirselves.
In the last month I have come to a realization. There are MANY functionality pieces that people are used to having that unix "INTERFACES" do not have. (ie Gnome, KDE, CDE, etc.).. Also those pieces are not STABLE yet, but hell, they're REALLY configurable! (BTW: The one user interface on unix I've never had crap out on me is CDE. The others are still BETA as far as I'm concerned)
As much as you would like, an INTERFACE does not NEED to be as configurable as most linux users want. Sure, it's nice to be able to completely change your desktop EXACTLY how you want it or ever would want it to be. But I think before configurablity should be addressed, I think Stability should be #1 on the list, and #2 is functionality.
As much as I hate microsoft and their tactics, they have a LOT of people working on functionality for the end user. Sure, their products are TOTALLY BLOATED, etc., but right now there are things I can do on a windows box that I will not be able to do on linux for another few years.
One of those things are Multi-Track Recording with my 8 channel Layla sound card (by www.echoaudio.com). This is one of the things I need to make money. Along with that is DirectX functionality for audio plugins, etc..
I sure hope people do not DESTROY Linux by potentially turning a server class operating system into a user desktop for every day tasks!
Linux should be focusing on SERVERS, Unix Desktops, etc. It should not be focusing for becoming the Low-End User Desktop Platform. People should learn from Microsofts Errors.
Microsoft in my head should have STUCK to the desktops. They were doing good. There was not even ONE other company that was providing software that they had. At least not with the functionality that people wanted or THOUGHT they needed. If they would have FOCUSED on the DESKTOP and not decided to do this NT thing and say, "Hey, lets turn this crappy desktop into a server.." and left all their programmers focusing in perfecting Windows 3.1 and then windows 95 today Windows 9X would not be as bloated as it is today and possiably the total solution for the end user.
Now what does that mean in linux terms? Well, get a clue. Linux is doing GREAT in the server market. SGI, IBM, HP, etc.. are ALL stepping upto the plate to bat for LINUX! RUN WITH IT!!! Linux should focus on the functionality of the Kernel, support for drivers, support for hardware, and LAST a desktop box for playing games on.
Sure, that would be nice if down the road linux would take the world over microsoft in every market. But if linux can just keep growing in the market they're in, in the SERVER market and Network Engineer Desktops or SysAdmin Desktops that would be great!
I don't know. I just think linux should be focused as a server. Leave the desktop to the kiddies for now. At this rate if linux user interfaces keep growing at this rate, they will end up just like a windows 98 or Windows 2000 desktop. Just as buggy, just as bloated, and require just as much power to run. What's the point in that?
Please, focus on the kernel. Focus on the support for more hardware, focus on stability as a whole as a SERVER!!! I DON'T RUN X ON ANY SERVER! Keep that in mind.
Thank You.
Ryan Wyler elna@aubevmba.arg (rot13'ed so I get feedback from at least somewhat intelligent people.. =))
Ok.. so maybe there is a hole, maybe there isn't.. but the fact still remains that the words "Netscape programmers are weanies!" backwards in the.dll file that somehow becomes a password and lets people in under certain circumstances.
Being that said, it's still a point against Microsoft and the "security by obscurity" model. A VERY large point it is also..
NOW I see more clearly why Microsoft is trying their DAMNEDEST to not get their source code opened for the whole world to read. Wouldn't you? =)
I have a recording studio. A few years ago I got rid of all my 8track reel-to-reel machines and replaced them with a digital sound card. I have the Echo Audio Layla now (http://www.echoaudio.com). That can record 8 tracks at once while playing back simultaniously 10 tracks of audio.
With recent softwares in WINDOWS (yuk) such as Cakewalk, Sound Forge, CoolEdit Pro, etc., I can actually playback more than 32 tracks of audio WHILE recording 8 more on just my Pentium II 450MHz, 192MB ram, and my single Layla sound card. I am able to install another Layla inside this machine and beable to double my recording tracks, but playback tracks is more limited to the I/O (hard drives, CPU, etc.) than number of tracks your soundcard can playback.
Now I am FORCED to use windows. Not ONLY because there are no complete packages for linux or other OSs (besides macs which have Pro Tools), but also because the INTENSE stuff that I do with Cakewalk or the other programs are actually the DirectX Plugins that I have.
I have MANY reverbs, compressors, gates, loudness maximizers, grapic eq's, parametric eq's, etc.. Without those, no matter how usable the program is, I cannot live without my specific reverb's, eq's, compressors, etc.. It's those things that seperate a garage studio to a professional studio (and of course the knowledge on how to use them and when)..
I am VERY hopefully to get windows off my studio computer soon. But I do not see it in the near future. Unless I could use those DirectX plugins with a linux based application.
I know that right now there are NO drivers for the sound card I have for linux. I talked to Alan Cox a few times about this specific card. He said the manufactures are not working with him and he will not do anything to design a driver he does not have specific information on. Again, I have the Echo Audio Layla...
I watched from the half-time show on. I saw only ONE commercial (mountain dew)that really even was decent. Well, I guess the E*TRADE one was okay.. But I think companies paid so much for the slot they didn't have the funds to make a decent commercial.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.transmeta.com/crusoe/lowpower/batlife.h tml
crusoe consumes 1watt at full usage and 8mw when idle. Intel's will consume 2 watts ALWAYS which is MORE than twice crusoe.
Ryan
Now, what if this company doesn't care about the people who COULD and WILL crack it.. Maybe they just see that enough people would be innocent enough to actually go through with it .. and not know of what the hackers and other people are doing on the internet ..
.. just like DVD .. but people still buy the DVD's ..
There are TONS AND TONS of non-hackers on the internet. How many people are on aol??? But anyways, if they're just imaging that people will probably crack it
I dunno... They probably thought people could crack them, just like people can copy VHS, but the number of people who buy them pay for the company to be rich and the hackers to get free stuff.. so who can complain? =)
Ryan
Yeah, but you're not running NT.. =)
Ryan
PS. Not like I am either.. but still...
I bet you can't!
..." All things where the data on them is not marked as "curtial".
.... or a 10GIG SDRAM Solution that has a piggy back hardware mirrored 10GIG Harddrive with like 1GIG Cache to write to the harddrive, so if it does reboot, it reads off the 10GIG Harddrive into memory and off it goes. (I think that's what Quantum's drives "SORTA" did). . . .. I dunno...
Just because you have a pipeline that can support it doesn't mean you have the technology to sustain that throughput.
Harddrives are a VERY old technology. I mean seriously!! The most vonerable part of the computer is the Harddrive, PowerSupply, and CPU Fans (if you're x86 anyways)..
I can't wait until computers are 100% solid state. Moving parts increase points of failure.
This solid state drive is neet, but looks WAY too risky to me to stick in a production server. I mean if the only way these things are makeing sure they don't loose the data is to keep power to it all the time, COME ON! We have had the ability to do 8GIG Ram Drives for a LONG time now!
Seriously, what if the "PCI CARD" needs a good-ol-fashioned reboot?? You can't tell me this company GAURENTEES a 100% UPTIME on their "NEW" PRODUCT.
I noticed how they recommend it for "web Proxies, Secondary DNS Servers,
Why can't someone come up with a USABLE product?? Like a 8GIG SolidState Drive with NVRAM instead of SDRAM
Why hasn't anyone persued the NVRAM option??
Ryan
I agree with you 120%! Seriously. What is the KEY reason Microsoft is on just about EVERY desktop in the world? You think it's because their product works well? You think it's because they were inovative? Of course not!!
Here at slashdot, we know better.. right? =)
But the reason that Microsoft's products have infected the world like a plague is because they ALLOW their programs to be coppied and pirated. I think the PIRATE communite is to blame for Microsoft being on everyone's desktop.
Microsoft's marketing team was right on the money! Have a few people buy it initially, make it easy for them to "SHARE" it with their friends, get it on everyone's desktop... once it's everywhere goto OEM Sites to have it include it with their hardware because you can PROVE that YOUR PRODUCT IS WHAT EVERYONE USES, so they need it included with the hardware. And BAM.... We see microsoft as it stands today.
ALL Due to pircay and lack of good copy protection schemes.
I'm sad that we all fell for it. We thought we were getting away with getting free software, where infact we were helping to build the ultimate evil empire.
Ryan
Okay everybody, here's the TRUTH.
.. Also those pieces are not STABLE yet, but hell, they're REALLY configurable! (BTW: The one user interface on unix I've never had crap out on me is CDE. The others are still BETA as far as I'm concerned)
What you NEED in "USER INTERFACE" are the following:
1. Stability
2. Functionality
3. Configurability
I have been heavy into unix for a while now, I LOVE unix! I have pushed for a WHILE now to have many of my friends put linux on their machines to replace windows. DOWN WITH THE MAN! Recently my cell phone has seemed to become a Linux Technical Support hotline it would seem. There's no one else I could refer them to because they don't have enough knowledge of networking or other things to fix their problems by theirselves.
In the last month I have come to a realization. There are MANY functionality pieces that people are used to having that unix "INTERFACES" do not have. (ie Gnome, KDE, CDE, etc.)
As much as you would like, an INTERFACE does not NEED to be as configurable as most linux users want. Sure, it's nice to be able to completely change your desktop EXACTLY how you want it or ever would want it to be. But I think before configurablity should be addressed, I think Stability should be #1 on the list, and #2 is functionality.
As much as I hate microsoft and their tactics, they have a LOT of people working on functionality for the end user. Sure, their products are TOTALLY BLOATED, etc., but right now there are things I can do on a windows box that I will not be able to do on linux for another few years.
One of those things are Multi-Track Recording with my 8 channel Layla sound card (by www.echoaudio.com). This is one of the things I need to make money. Along with that is DirectX functionality for audio plugins, etc..
I sure hope people do not DESTROY Linux by potentially turning a server class operating system into a user desktop for every day tasks!
Linux should be focusing on SERVERS, Unix Desktops, etc. It should not be focusing for becoming the Low-End User Desktop Platform. People should learn from Microsofts Errors.
Microsoft in my head should have STUCK to the desktops. They were doing good. There was not even ONE other company that was providing software that they had. At least not with the functionality that people wanted or THOUGHT they needed. If they would have FOCUSED on the DESKTOP and not decided to do this NT thing and say, "Hey, lets turn this crappy desktop into a server.." and left all their programmers focusing in perfecting Windows 3.1 and then windows 95 today Windows 9X would not be as bloated as it is today and possiably the total solution for the end user.
Now what does that mean in linux terms? Well, get a clue. Linux is doing GREAT in the server market. SGI, IBM, HP, etc.. are ALL stepping upto the plate to bat for LINUX! RUN WITH IT!!! Linux should focus on the functionality of the Kernel, support for drivers, support for hardware, and LAST a desktop box for playing games on.
Sure, that would be nice if down the road linux would take the world over microsoft in every market. But if linux can just keep growing in the market they're in, in the SERVER market and Network Engineer Desktops or SysAdmin Desktops that would be great!
I don't know. I just think linux should be focused as a server. Leave the desktop to the kiddies for now. At this rate if linux user interfaces keep growing at this rate, they will end up just like a windows 98 or Windows 2000 desktop. Just as buggy, just as bloated, and require just as much power to run. What's the point in that?
Please, focus on the kernel. Focus on the support for more hardware, focus on stability as a whole as a SERVER!!! I DON'T RUN X ON ANY SERVER! Keep that in mind.
Thank You.
Ryan Wyler
elna@aubevmba.arg
(rot13'ed so I get feedback from at least somewhat intelligent people.. =))
BTW, have any of you guys tried this command on the linux kernel tree before??
/usr/src/linux
# cd
# egrep -i "fuck|shit|damn" `find . -name '*.c'` 2>/dev/null
It's quite amusing.. It's there.. but I can guarentee that you will not find an INTENTIONAL security hole in the linux kernel.
Ryan Wyler
Ok .. so maybe there is a hole, maybe there isn't .. but the fact still remains that the words "Netscape programmers are weanies!" backwards in the .dll file that somehow becomes a password and lets people in under certain circumstances.
Being that said, it's still a point against Microsoft and the "security by obscurity" model. A VERY large point it is also..
NOW I see more clearly why Microsoft is trying their DAMNEDEST to not get their source code opened for the whole world to read. Wouldn't you? =)
Ryan Wyler
I have a recording studio. A few years ago I got rid of all my 8track reel-to-reel machines and replaced them with a digital sound card. I have the Echo Audio Layla now (http://www.echoaudio.com). That can record 8 tracks at once while playing back simultaniously 10 tracks of audio.
..
...
With recent softwares in WINDOWS (yuk) such as Cakewalk, Sound Forge, CoolEdit Pro, etc., I can actually playback more than 32 tracks of audio WHILE recording 8 more on just my Pentium II 450MHz, 192MB ram, and my single Layla sound card. I am able to install another Layla inside this machine and beable to double my recording tracks, but playback tracks is more limited to the I/O (hard drives, CPU, etc.) than number of tracks your soundcard can playback.
Now I am FORCED to use windows. Not ONLY because there are no complete packages for linux or other OSs (besides macs which have Pro Tools), but also because the INTENSE stuff that I do with Cakewalk or the other programs are actually the DirectX Plugins that I have.
I have MANY reverbs, compressors, gates, loudness maximizers, grapic eq's, parametric eq's, etc.. Without those, no matter how usable the program is, I cannot live without my specific reverb's, eq's, compressors, etc.. It's those things that seperate a garage studio to a professional studio (and of course the knowledge on how to use them and when)
I am VERY hopefully to get windows off my studio computer soon. But I do not see it in the near future. Unless I could use those DirectX plugins with a linux based application.
I know that right now there are NO drivers for the sound card I have for linux. I talked to Alan Cox a few times about this specific card. He said the manufactures are not working with him and he will not do anything to design a driver he does not have specific information on. Again, I have the Echo Audio Layla
I watched from the half-time show on. I saw only ONE commercial (mountain dew)that really even was decent. Well, I guess the E*TRADE one was okay.. But I think companies paid so much for the slot they didn't have the funds to make a decent commercial.
Whatever..