... if someone gets to rant to slashdot on the frontpage, than I shall counter with a comment rant!
First off this the vast gulf between Liberals and Conservatives, I don't exactly know what to say to this except no shit that's like saying there's a huge contrast between black and white, seems to me that possibly stating the obvious is a little too much this early in the wonderful work day.
Second off, why is everyone making SCO the talk of the town? It's the right of every american to be able to sue another american, but that doesn't mean their right. How many civil suits are just tossed out every year? I mean lets face it folks, if the hens in the hen house are going to spread the rumors at least focus on the fact that everyone except SCO has stated they don't haev a leg to stand on. Quit bringing them up all the damned time, it's really insanely getting old and quite frankly it's time to call a spade a spade. SCO/Caldera/Whatever was a viable company back in the day with DR DOS, Caldera OpenLinux, and other software packages. They led the way in easy linux installers and netware networking code, and they really did bring the idea of a nice easy system to reality. But like everything else this was copied and innovation stopped, henceforth Caldera stopped being a real player in the market. There was a little wind in their sail when they went after the LSB, but alas hard to push for LSB when you're suing the L.
So it's a ploy for them to pretend like their still a player in the game when they haven't been on the playing roster for nearly 3 years and a few exhibition games don't count. They're like the Harlom Globtrotters of the Linux World, except they really suck at what they do, so I guess they're not like the Harlem Globtrotters of the Linux World.
Lastly I know everyone seems all "scared" of media companies getting to big, but entertainment is quite possibly the most cut-throat industry in all the world. There are so many avenues for entertainment and leisure that these companies will stop at nothing to try and score the almigty buck. And will they ever stop, nope. Ask yourself, do you own a TV, does it watch commercial/cable television. Do you remember the last mt. dew commercial you saw? Then really stop bitching because you're part of your own self-identified problem. Don't bite the hand that feeds ya, whether you acknowledge it or not. I like commercial television, and I like television. I don't mind getting independent news from the web and independent publications (right and left wing newsletters are great reading).
Enlighten yourself and be an example to others. Don't just bitch about everything all the time. Anyone can whine, it takes someone actually doing something to make a difference.
and I'm saying that the best they might be able to do is tell generally phyiscally where the person is, but unless they are able to cooberate a mac with the router and the nic, then I don't see how this could be hit or miss. Besides these aren't criminal cases and considering my legal experience comes from lots of boomtown and law and order I don't really have much to go on here. I just think that you get the right judge to see that there's no way to prove a damned thing for sure then you're golden.
Since logging is not required by law, I'm actually a supporter of the acadmic worlds policy of destroying all logs after a week. Makes a lot less pesky litigation problems and saves space, excellent setup for all parties involved except the plantiff if you ask me.
Ohh yeah also watch a little judge judy, so I guess I do know about this stuff a little more.
Man can you see Judge Judy doing an piracy damage suit, that would be a good episode.
... Since when is the RIAA a secret police. How much evidence do you need to submit to make a case? And how can the RIAA not prove it was falsified, I mean they've got psuedo anonymous IP's (lets face it if it's DHCP then it could be anyone) and screen names. That's not a real good legal case to stand on, unless I'm missing something about how the legal system works.
It seems to me that this is none other than pure bullying.
But yeah there's a little problem with calling it a "powerbook killer" for one, it doesn't run Mac OS. That would be a key component for it to "kill" the power book's notebook share. Plus lets face it there are many laptops for many needs. Many things come into play when purchasing a laptop and best bang for the buck seems to be the #1 reason people actually buy laptops.
While this may be cool (wouldn't know can't read the article), let's face it people will sacrifice weight, size, and battery life for a cheaper model that does the same thing. UNLESS they are walking around with the thing, or travel a lot, or have a particular breifcase they'd like this to fit it. Believe it or not I've seen someone buy a new laptop because it was the right "size" of the breif case they had grown quite accustomed to.
12" is hard to read at a res bigger than 1024x768 as well. I really don't see this thing killing anything as there are so many laptops on the market now that no one can decide on one "ultimate" laptop.
Seems wireless cards are just about as bastardized as the soundcards of yesterday. I remember when you either had a Sound Blaster audio card or you didn't have sound. There were maybe at best 7 well supported cards. Sound in the 2.0.x kernel series was horrible.
So what happened OSS (free and not free) and ALSA happened. Bunch of people go together and said "To hell with the manufacturers not helping us, we'll make it work anyways". It was with this pressure that companies like "Aureal" (who about 3 months after releasing their first linux driver went under) to release drivers. Now you see sound support almost everywhere with linux and it's uncommom to not have sound. Another example of course would be "winmodems", modems actually designed to only run in windows running just fine in linux. It's always just a matter of time.
The community is strong, but you'll see real grassroots efforts take shape especially when developers are told "no". Wireless AP/Routers are in the sub $60 range and you can get a wireless card for around $20, it's now not just a rich kid toy, but a common mans networking solution. Expect more things to come of wireless support and expect that companies will take notice. Too bad it's not that easy to just start writing kernel mods for hardware support. There's a reason only a select few hack the kernel (it's really not easy), and well if you ever run into a developer, thank them, they put a whole lot of work into something and don't always get the credit they deserve.
This was for Intel's Speedstep tech. This cuts the CPU down when the machine is idle in order to conserv on battery life. Mhz programs will read the CPU as half-speed, because your machine isn't doing anythign else...which leads to:
I even gave my modem number... you could have looked up the specs quite easily and seen that it is a pIII non-speed step. This is not some "feature" to help out the heat, this is because the pIII overheats the machine and kills it. Reasearch before you claim someone is posting FUD, Toshiba is the only laptop manfacturer I know that has the audacity to throw a desktop processor into a laptop on so many occassions, check their satellite line if you don't believe me.
So nope, don't see a connection, not using a speed-step chip, hence the shady update to "fix" the problem. The chip was cut in HALF always, not just when it was idle or hot. Hence the lawsuit against toshiba.
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If you buy a used car at Al's Super Sales Used Auto Mart, then he'll throw in a family member, but wait that's not all if you get there in the next two hours he'll even throw in a free person all you can eat buffet pass to the sizzler!
This isn't VW's big pull to align with apple (obviously the thing interacts through a tape deck). This is a gimick. They going to throw in a chop-o-matic too?
Okay I have a Toshiba 5005-S507 (little older model) and I'm part of the class action lawsuit against Toshiba for this model.
Here's some stuff you wouldn't realize until you made the mistake of buying one.
1.) Toshiba's now come with a "BIOS-less" system which means that windows controls all the hardware and you can change NONE of the settings, which makes installing linux a real pain in the ass, but it is still possible.
2.) Toshiba's have a problem of having their own "helping" software that when you boot with a net connection it will call home and download "updates" automatically for you. One such update was for my model to cut the clock speed in half.
3.) Every toshiba I've owned has horrible battery life, you might as well consider them a computer with a built in UPS and easy to move around, and not a "portable laptop".
4.) Toshiba has a little problem with laptops overheating (hence the lawsuit) and certain parts melting.
5.) Toshiba's only selling point is their spec sheets, but as far as being a good purchase you're in for some real problems down the road, I have yet to meet someone who hasn't had some part of their toshiba fall apart and cost less than $100 to fix.
All-in-all these laptops aren't that great, while they pack the latest and greatest they aren't exactly stellar machines. Overheating and hardware failures are certainly nothing new to toshiba's and I would recommend everyone read reviews of ANY laptop model out there.
Remember while it may be cool to have a laptop usually there is something sub-par (make sure you check the waruntee by the manufacturer and highest screen resolution). And ALWAYS remember that if you have the opportunity to grab an extended or three year waruntee for less than $150 then go for it. The battery WILL die, you WILL lose a key on the keyboard, you WILL drop it at least once in 3 years, and something WILL die in it. These are not model specific by any means, these are general laptop things.
Extortion?? Come on my good man that's such an heavy word. And lets face it, no one knows what it means, lets break it down, ex (as in not yours anymore) and tortion (as in pressure), so this is just a pressure reliever.
Let's call a spade a spade here and call it what it is, it's simply insurance that you're with us. I mean you are with us right? The court room is such a cold heartless place, when you're with us you're part of the family, and you know that family is warm and ther for ya all the time.
So you take a little time to think about it, whether or not you want to be insured or not, kay? I'd hate to see you end up in court, a cold heartless place when for a simple reoccuring fee of showing your gratitude for our service. It's in your best interest to be with us not against us.
What the hell does SCO have to do with GPL? I mean really this just seems like a way to jab at SCO for something completely not on topic.
Lets see, GPL, GNU not UNIX, so lets mention SCO? Where the hell is the logic, just seems like you wanted to post a link that might cause a little slashdotting to SCO's site. One might infer this as particularly malicious.
SCO has never once said anything against the GNU, in fact the GNU actually semi-support the SCO standpoint, if code was not given by the author than it violated the codes original copyright.
I do believe making this thread appaling to the commentors because of a mention to SCO is pretty tasteless and definantelly offtopic.
Geeze, good thing he doesn't have a * by his name, to think if you actually treated customers this way. Hey, wait a minute, every visitor to a website that makes 99% of revenue on ads is in fact a customer.
Now Michael, I must actually applaud you for taking the time to use the "comment" feature of slashdot instead of just throwing whatever nonsense you want on the actual front page article itself. But Michael, is it really neccessary to get in a pissing match online? I mean it's like racing in the special olympics, even if you win, you're still retarded.
I do also think that it is quite ironic that there is such negative moderation done to not only the parent, but replies to the parent. If I didn't know any better I'd say you couldn't take constructive criticism. Are we to believe that you're fair and all knowing when you not only get unlimited mod points BUT can also comment. That doesn't seem real fair.
I'm sure I'll be in -1 overrated land soon enough, but withthe +2 that means 3 opportunities for metamods to see the crap you pull.
It's a known fact that Michael just likes to troll controversy in tag line of the stories so that people make comments. Comments make ad impressions, ad impressions lead to money, and money leads to the dark side.
Do what I do, ignore the before and after italicized sections. That way you get to comment on what the author wanted you to see not what someone with frontpage access thought was neccessary as they're too good to post comments like us common folk.
This is not however a new phenomenon to slashdot by any means.
Until the price meets the demand. The demand is for unlimited multimedia, the price is waiting for it. So until the "copyrighted" material meets what the market sees as fair, then there will be a desire for p2p copyright exchange. Let's face it, most of the stuff on p2p is absolute shit because if they like what they have they'll invest in it, just kills time to have multimedia you don't want to waste money on.
Don't know how much sense that made, but p2p is too big to stop now, even with a million bazillion lawsuits.
However, the major antivirus companies have once again left out the whole story - most of them currently rate Sobig.e as 'low damage.'
Of course they do, they didn't make this one. It's almost obsurd to think that there isn't some tie between anti-virus and virus creators. It may seem a little far fetched, but what better way to keep yourself in business than to make new business. Just like the mob... some places would call this extortion, here we call it "Virus Protection"... guess if you call it something more than "Protection" it makes it okay.
The motive behind this virus was simple, spam blocking has actually gotten to be a threat to spammers, so what better way than relaying spam through innocent windows boxes on the internet. Though who knows maybe there's an unmarked envelope of cash sitting waiting for them. Or hell, maybe symantec didn't think they weren't making enough money and decided to take a little something from the spam industry to get a bonus for new sales.
Just because you pretend to not to see things in the world doesn't mean this world isn't the most evil cruel place immagineable.
I know the other comment-replies to this post have been marked -1 for one reason or the other, but in all honesty I couldn't agree with you more.
In all honest the BSD license is the "Ultimate Opensource Freedom". You release your code in hopes of the good will of future coders seeing your code. You bank on the fact that if you had the heart to release it to the public that future developers may feel the same way. But you also realize that they may not even explore your code if it has a license that forces them to release their code.
So corperate america is willing to take a look at the possibility if their hands aren't tied. Eventually it's the hope that they will see the benifit of the source being released in the first place and let their modifications benifit the whole as well, possibly a little later after there has been a corner on the market from the secondary developers.
Perfect example? Macintosh OS X and FreeBSD. Apple saw that the FreeBSD system was solid and they added to it to make it a system they thought was overly viable for them and then later released an entire project (darwin) back under the BSD code it was incepted with.
So is BSD dying? Who knows, it's a wonder what exactly BSD code is doing right now as there is no obligation for the developers to release their modifications source. It's like a behind the scenes world where everyone uses the stuff but no one admits it. But yet we still see great projects come out of it, anyone ever used OS X?
Hell I can build an "almost" top of the line PC for that. The software doesn't look all that impressive and it is still a PC that doesn't look like an entertainment center applaince. Reading the specs of a VIA C3 sub 1 GHz processor with 256 megs of 2100 Ram. This thing is a $200 PC for almost a grand.
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First off this the vast gulf between Liberals and Conservatives, I don't exactly know what to say to this except no shit that's like saying there's a huge contrast between black and white, seems to me that possibly stating the obvious is a little too much this early in the wonderful work day.
Second off, why is everyone making SCO the talk of the town? It's the right of every american to be able to sue another american, but that doesn't mean their right. How many civil suits are just tossed out every year? I mean lets face it folks, if the hens in the hen house are going to spread the rumors at least focus on the fact that everyone except SCO has stated they don't haev a leg to stand on. Quit bringing them up all the damned time, it's really insanely getting old and quite frankly it's time to call a spade a spade. SCO/Caldera/Whatever was a viable company back in the day with DR DOS, Caldera OpenLinux, and other software packages. They led the way in easy linux installers and netware networking code, and they really did bring the idea of a nice easy system to reality. But like everything else this was copied and innovation stopped, henceforth Caldera stopped being a real player in the market. There was a little wind in their sail when they went after the LSB, but alas hard to push for LSB when you're suing the L.
So it's a ploy for them to pretend like their still a player in the game when they haven't been on the playing roster for nearly 3 years and a few exhibition games don't count. They're like the Harlom Globtrotters of the Linux World, except they really suck at what they do, so I guess they're not like the Harlem Globtrotters of the Linux World.
Lastly I know everyone seems all "scared" of media companies getting to big, but entertainment is quite possibly the most cut-throat industry in all the world. There are so many avenues for entertainment and leisure that these companies will stop at nothing to try and score the almigty buck. And will they ever stop, nope. Ask yourself, do you own a TV, does it watch commercial/cable television. Do you remember the last mt. dew commercial you saw? Then really stop bitching because you're part of your own self-identified problem. Don't bite the hand that feeds ya, whether you acknowledge it or not. I like commercial television, and I like television. I don't mind getting independent news from the web and independent publications (right and left wing newsletters are great reading).
Enlighten yourself and be an example to others. Don't just bitch about everything all the time. Anyone can whine, it takes someone actually doing something to make a difference.
Since logging is not required by law, I'm actually a supporter of the acadmic worlds policy of destroying all logs after a week. Makes a lot less pesky litigation problems and saves space, excellent setup for all parties involved except the plantiff if you ask me.
Ohh yeah also watch a little judge judy, so I guess I do know about this stuff a little more.
Man can you see Judge Judy doing an piracy damage suit, that would be a good episode.
1.) Duke Nuke Um Forever
2.) Team Fortress 2
3.) Doom III
They're calling it the "vaporware of the century pack" and it will be available for the low cost of $0.00 that's right folks, free.
Just playing, I mean it's not like there aren't screenshots that people love and a huge crowd of ever-anticipating buyers just waiting.
They're interchangeable ... lemme rephrase anything that specified RIAA to *AA :-)
It seems to me that this is none other than pure bullying.
Pan out the windows of his dorm room
Show a copy of his bank account with $32 in it
Show you being a heartless bastard and him opening a subpoena
Show him getting really pissed off just because you think the world owes you because you managed to rip off some recording artist.
Show that, and I'll be impressed.
Fuck the RIAA
FYI ... here's the background ...
http://www.dwp.ch.vu/wallpapers/anna_falchi_01.jpg
Wait, looking closer ...
AND TETRIS!! Chicks and Tetris, what more do you need for a computer?
Though if I didn't know any better there might be a valid alternative to X real soon. All-in-all, looks good.
While this may be cool (wouldn't know can't read the article), let's face it people will sacrifice weight, size, and battery life for a cheaper model that does the same thing. UNLESS they are walking around with the thing, or travel a lot, or have a particular breifcase they'd like this to fit it. Believe it or not I've seen someone buy a new laptop because it was the right "size" of the breif case they had grown quite accustomed to.
12" is hard to read at a res bigger than 1024x768 as well. I really don't see this thing killing anything as there are so many laptops on the market now that no one can decide on one "ultimate" laptop.
So what happened OSS (free and not free) and ALSA happened. Bunch of people go together and said "To hell with the manufacturers not helping us, we'll make it work anyways". It was with this pressure that companies like "Aureal" (who about 3 months after releasing their first linux driver went under) to release drivers. Now you see sound support almost everywhere with linux and it's uncommom to not have sound. Another example of course would be "winmodems", modems actually designed to only run in windows running just fine in linux. It's always just a matter of time.
The community is strong, but you'll see real grassroots efforts take shape especially when developers are told "no". Wireless AP/Routers are in the sub $60 range and you can get a wireless card for around $20, it's now not just a rich kid toy, but a common mans networking solution. Expect more things to come of wireless support and expect that companies will take notice. Too bad it's not that easy to just start writing kernel mods for hardware support. There's a reason only a select few hack the kernel (it's really not easy), and well if you ever run into a developer, thank them, they put a whole lot of work into something and don't always get the credit they deserve.
IT_GUY to Boss: "Sir I believe its time we began supporting IPv6"
Boss: "And what are the benifits?"
IT_GUY: "More IP's better system etc."
Boss: "What about MP3 Streaming, does it have that?"
IT_GUY: "Why yes it does sir."
Boss: "Well then load it up!"
Ahh if only pretty music and pictures were the key components of Open Source software, would make convincing implementation so much easier.
"Look at all these benchmarks"..."ohhh pretty colors, we'll buy it!!"
is there an IQ test or something?
I even gave my modem number ... you could have looked up the specs quite easily and seen that it is a pIII non-speed step. This is not some "feature" to help out the heat, this is because the pIII overheats the machine and kills it. Reasearch before you claim someone is posting FUD, Toshiba is the only laptop manfacturer I know that has the audacity to throw a desktop processor into a laptop on so many occassions, check their satellite line if you don't believe me.
So nope, don't see a connection, not using a speed-step chip, hence the shady update to "fix" the problem. The chip was cut in HALF always, not just when it was idle or hot. Hence the lawsuit against toshiba.
This isn't VW's big pull to align with apple (obviously the thing interacts through a tape deck). This is a gimick. They going to throw in a chop-o-matic too?
Here's some stuff you wouldn't realize until you made the mistake of buying one.
1.) Toshiba's now come with a "BIOS-less" system which means that windows controls all the hardware and you can change NONE of the settings, which makes installing linux a real pain in the ass, but it is still possible.
2.) Toshiba's have a problem of having their own "helping" software that when you boot with a net connection it will call home and download "updates" automatically for you. One such update was for my model to cut the clock speed in half.
3.) Every toshiba I've owned has horrible battery life, you might as well consider them a computer with a built in UPS and easy to move around, and not a "portable laptop".
4.) Toshiba has a little problem with laptops overheating (hence the lawsuit) and certain parts melting.
5.) Toshiba's only selling point is their spec sheets, but as far as being a good purchase you're in for some real problems down the road, I have yet to meet someone who hasn't had some part of their toshiba fall apart and cost less than $100 to fix.
All-in-all these laptops aren't that great, while they pack the latest and greatest they aren't exactly stellar machines. Overheating and hardware failures are certainly nothing new to toshiba's and I would recommend everyone read reviews of ANY laptop model out there.
Remember while it may be cool to have a laptop usually there is something sub-par (make sure you check the waruntee by the manufacturer and highest screen resolution). And ALWAYS remember that if you have the opportunity to grab an extended or three year waruntee for less than $150 then go for it. The battery WILL die, you WILL lose a key on the keyboard, you WILL drop it at least once in 3 years, and something WILL die in it. These are not model specific by any means, these are general laptop things.
Hope this helped ...
Everyone should really try out the HURD, I hear they just got ISA and IDE support!!
Extortion?? Come on my good man that's such an heavy word. And lets face it, no one knows what it means, lets break it down, ex (as in not yours anymore) and tortion (as in pressure), so this is just a pressure reliever.
Let's call a spade a spade here and call it what it is, it's simply insurance that you're with us. I mean you are with us right? The court room is such a cold heartless place, when you're with us you're part of the family, and you know that family is warm and ther for ya all the time.
So you take a little time to think about it, whether or not you want to be insured or not, kay? I'd hate to see you end up in court, a cold heartless place when for a simple reoccuring fee of showing your gratitude for our service. It's in your best interest to be with us not against us.
Lets see, GPL, GNU not UNIX, so lets mention SCO? Where the hell is the logic, just seems like you wanted to post a link that might cause a little slashdotting to SCO's site. One might infer this as particularly malicious.
SCO has never once said anything against the GNU, in fact the GNU actually semi-support the SCO standpoint, if code was not given by the author than it violated the codes original copyright.
I do believe making this thread appaling to the commentors because of a mention to SCO is pretty tasteless and definantelly offtopic.
Geeze, good thing he doesn't have a * by his name, to think if you actually treated customers this way. Hey, wait a minute, every visitor to a website that makes 99% of revenue on ads is in fact a customer.
Now Michael, I must actually applaud you for taking the time to use the "comment" feature of slashdot instead of just throwing whatever nonsense you want on the actual front page article itself. But Michael, is it really neccessary to get in a pissing match online? I mean it's like racing in the special olympics, even if you win, you're still retarded.
I do also think that it is quite ironic that there is such negative moderation done to not only the parent, but replies to the parent. If I didn't know any better I'd say you couldn't take constructive criticism. Are we to believe that you're fair and all knowing when you not only get unlimited mod points BUT can also comment. That doesn't seem real fair.
I'm sure I'll be in -1 overrated land soon enough, but withthe +2 that means 3 opportunities for metamods to see the crap you pull.
So ... who's the idiot now?
Do what I do, ignore the before and after italicized sections. That way you get to comment on what the author wanted you to see not what someone with frontpage access thought was neccessary as they're too good to post comments like us common folk.
This is not however a new phenomenon to slashdot by any means.
Don't know how much sense that made, but p2p is too big to stop now, even with a million bazillion lawsuits.
Of course they do, they didn't make this one. It's almost obsurd to think that there isn't some tie between anti-virus and virus creators. It may seem a little far fetched, but what better way to keep yourself in business than to make new business. Just like the mob ... some places would call this extortion, here we call it "Virus Protection"... guess if you call it something more than "Protection" it makes it okay.
The motive behind this virus was simple, spam blocking has actually gotten to be a threat to spammers, so what better way than relaying spam through innocent windows boxes on the internet. Though who knows maybe there's an unmarked envelope of cash sitting waiting for them. Or hell, maybe symantec didn't think they weren't making enough money and decided to take a little something from the spam industry to get a bonus for new sales.
Just because you pretend to not to see things in the world doesn't mean this world isn't the most evil cruel place immagineable.
In all honest the BSD license is the "Ultimate Opensource Freedom". You release your code in hopes of the good will of future coders seeing your code. You bank on the fact that if you had the heart to release it to the public that future developers may feel the same way. But you also realize that they may not even explore your code if it has a license that forces them to release their code.
So corperate america is willing to take a look at the possibility if their hands aren't tied. Eventually it's the hope that they will see the benifit of the source being released in the first place and let their modifications benifit the whole as well, possibly a little later after there has been a corner on the market from the secondary developers.
Perfect example? Macintosh OS X and FreeBSD. Apple saw that the FreeBSD system was solid and they added to it to make it a system they thought was overly viable for them and then later released an entire project (darwin) back under the BSD code it was incepted with.
So is BSD dying? Who knows, it's a wonder what exactly BSD code is doing right now as there is no obligation for the developers to release their modifications source. It's like a behind the scenes world where everyone uses the stuff but no one admits it. But yet we still see great projects come out of it, anyone ever used OS X?
Damn, that comment was meant to be a joke. Wow.
Hell I can build an "almost" top of the line PC for that. The software doesn't look all that impressive and it is still a PC that doesn't look like an entertainment center applaince. Reading the specs of a VIA C3 sub 1 GHz processor with 256 megs of 2100 Ram. This thing is a $200 PC for almost a grand.
But it runs linux, wait no, that's free.
Seems like quite the not good deal ...