I understand what you're saying, but I disagree about the need to 'clear out' CRTs. I think it is important to remember that all of those CRT manufacturing plants / processes are probably paid for by this time, whereas the new LCD process is still being bankrolled by a 4.5% loan.
I would enjoy seeing quality 15" LCDs go below $200. I'm paying about $400 (delivered) for the ViewSonics I have been purchasing. I am very pleased with the quality and so far, no mishaps (dead pixels)!
I know *exactly* what you mean. I switch between development tasks and project planning (hellllo visio!) tasks all day long. Having all the windows I need open in 1024 X 768 space would never cut it. Remember, most LCDs are built to work very well in 1 reslolution.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
The article mentions total sales
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not total units shipped. LCDs are typically 2X the cost of a CRT (roughly). This means that CRTs are still outselling LCDs on a volume basis.
You are very correct, it is not as simple as I make it out to be. My post was made more to counter the original parent's straw man (that people have argued spam is OK because it's free speech).
Interesting Nike link from Ma Jones, but it appears they are just appealing an earlier ruling from CA supremes? I found good info here.
The biggest reason i find it unconvincing is that i dont think learning to be a software user is something inherently valuable. It is definately not something that one should go to college for. It is not even a valuable side skill... considering how microsoft plans to change its software every two to three years.
While I agree that very few applications should require college level classes I disagree that learning to be a good user is an invalid skill. As an employer, I can tell you that the people I hire with better software skills (be they general "I am proficient with a Mac" or more specific, "I am a fast CAD drafter" skills) are radically more productive than the people who require all the lower level training before I can get to the interesting stuff.
People should be able to just pick up software by starting to use it, or reading the manual or going to a 1 hour training course. And that is usually the case.
Your arguement falls down on a number of levels in my opinion, but most important, almost anything worth doing with software requires some amount of concentration, skill and training. To assume that I can just pick up 3d StudioMAX, read the manual then next month apply at Pixar is to take a sincerely isolationist view of human learning.
So software use should not be seen as part of someone's education. And it is not.
That being said open source software could be part of people's education, because it allows people to actually see how the software works, and maybe even change it...
I am not sure how to respond to this. Software you do not agree with should not be part of everyone's education, because you say so. Software you do agree with should be part of everyone's education, because you say so?
Great, so go after the ones in the US under the RICO statues (organized crime). This will allow the Feds to sieze Alan Ralsky's big house (we all remember where he lives, right?) and his nice cars and trade them for a nice orange suit while Mr. Ralsky awaits trial.
Perhaps I misunderstand your question. How will depriving students of the ability to learn on MS systems or to code for windows or even us MS products be a good thing?
I would be more apt to sympathize with the strings attached to this donation if it weren't so clearly going to dictate the educational doctrine of my school.
To follow your analogy, my thoughts on the subject would be that the inventor trying to market her invention or license her invention would be more than enough to validate her claim to the patent.
Rather than waste our collective energies decrying the victims of a broken patent system, we should fix and refine the process by which patentees are recognized.
The problem is that how do you define "do anything with them for 2 years."
Does that mean successfully market? Have someone pay to use it? Actively market it? Continue development?
See what I mean?
No, no, I understand your point exactly. Admittedly, what I posted was much more reaction than it was a full exploration of my thoughts on the subject of IP and your very pertinent question.
What is acceptable as "development of a patent" in order to ensure the holder's retention of said patent's rights? That's a very tricky question, but I think it is that question that we should be debating, rather then playing whack a mole with squatter cases and cases in which prior art clearly exists but was not brouht to light at the time of issuance.
Clearly, I do not perceive myself as an IP socialist; I place great value on the importance of intellectual property in our information driven society. Unlike others, I think we need to make changes to existing patent law and practice in order to fine tune for the times.
Not to take joy in the bludgeoning of the little guy, but this dude is a squatter. Patents should expire if you don't do anything with them for 2 years.
Ohhh, ohhh, I've got this really good idea, but rather than do something with it (that involves risk!) I'll just patent it and sit around until some big company does something close enough that I can sue them.
Our legal and "intellectual property" (poverty?) system supports this - that's the news and that's the thing we should work to change.
I admit my ignorance here, but why would the police actually "raid" the ISPs in question rather than just subpeona the information they require through the court system?
From the tone of this article it strikes me that the police suspect the ISPs of criminal complicity in regards to their subscriber's alleged actions.
Yes, I was just remembering how annoying it was to get the Voodoo2 card to run glquake back in the day (what? Glide drivers, glide minidrivers? wtf? wrong minidriver for this windows driver? baaaaah!).
I surmise as you do that to The Average Consumer nVidia feels a bit big for its britches. It is unfortunate as I feel that nVidia has done and is doing The Right Thing in so many other areas.
Yeah, the whole idea that spammers will go to legitimate ISPs rather than continue to bounce off Asian open-relays is vacant.
Lesse, I'm a spammer, I can spam people almost for free by stealing services from a bunch of folks who live half way around the globe... or I can pay a comparably huge sum of cash and be perceived as a legitimate bulk mailer of my herbal viagra and penis enlargers.
Right.
Message for Barry Shein @ TheWorld ISP -- Stick to mission statements.
I agree with your opinion; this is the worst/. "review" I have seen. I suppose it is hard to get a tech angle on fires in night clubs but could we please consider not posting so many stories on a slow news day as opposed to posting trash?
Even worse, _The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect_ is a great read. I caught it when localroger first posted to Kuro some weeks back. Fantastic!
Of course there are always some people who will hear about a book from their friends, and then we get book burnings, but those are fortunately still poorly organized and haphazard.
Would they be a similar group to those who do not read the reference material but feel qualified to espouse their conciliatory critique after browsing a semi-plot summary?
Please note that I am referring to your post's parent.
in England hundreds of years ago. They called them debtor's prisons. Simple, you went to prison because you could not pay your debt. I am not sure how it made sense then nor now.
Law enforcement is one of the most clearly defined aspects of the US legal system: it is the jurisdiction of the local police, the county sheriff's department, state police, US Marshals and the FBI. That's it (well, unless I've gone brain dead and am forgetting a few Departments of The Man).
Heh. A lot of nix geeks posting about MS license policies. Nice.
First things first: any MS shop with any sense and more than 5 employees would do well to invest in an open license. An open license is an agreement between you and MS in which you are given licenses at a slightly discounted price based upon the volume and general expense of those items you purchase.
When you purchase an open license for say, an OS, you do not receive any media whatsoever. You will have to purchase a media pack that will come with a simple reg key. This is the reg key that you will can and should use on your OS installations (assuming you don't just mirror them like everyone else does).
As for the "University that got sued for millions" because they didn't have an unique license # on each machine. I don't buy that story in it's current incantation. I think you either heard it wrong or plain old don't know what you're talking about. Regardless, anyone here can find this information out on MS' Open License web page or by calling a large software reseller (CDW is friendly about this) and asking to speak to an open license rep.
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That is so high-quality. If you do not mind, I'll borrow it for friends in far away lands.
-- Cheers,
-- RLJ
Roseburg, OR.
Humor folks,
-- RLJ
I would enjoy seeing quality 15" LCDs go below $200. I'm paying about $400 (delivered) for the ViewSonics I have been purchasing. I am very pleased with the quality and so far, no mishaps (dead pixels)!
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Interesting Nike link from Ma Jones, but it appears they are just appealing an earlier ruling from CA supremes? I found good info here.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
While I agree that very few applications should require college level classes I disagree that learning to be a good user is an invalid skill. As an employer, I can tell you that the people I hire with better software skills (be they general "I am proficient with a Mac" or more specific, "I am a fast CAD drafter" skills) are radically more productive than the people who require all the lower level training before I can get to the interesting stuff.
Your arguement falls down on a number of levels in my opinion, but most important, almost anything worth doing with software requires some amount of concentration, skill and training. To assume that I can just pick up 3d StudioMAX, read the manual then next month apply at Pixar is to take a sincerely isolationist view of human learning.
I am not sure how to respond to this. Software you do not agree with should not be part of everyone's education, because you say so. Software you do agree with should be part of everyone's education, because you say so?
Viva la diversite!
Cheers,
-- RLJ
q.e.d.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
I would be more apt to sympathize with the strings attached to this donation if it weren't so clearly going to dictate the educational doctrine of my school.
Am I missing the obvious?
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Rather than waste our collective energies decrying the victims of a broken patent system, we should fix and refine the process by which patentees are recognized.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
No, no, I understand your point exactly. Admittedly, what I posted was much more reaction than it was a full exploration of my thoughts on the subject of IP and your very pertinent question.
What is acceptable as "development of a patent" in order to ensure the holder's retention of said patent's rights? That's a very tricky question, but I think it is that question that we should be debating, rather then playing whack a mole with squatter cases and cases in which prior art clearly exists but was not brouht to light at the time of issuance.
Clearly, I do not perceive myself as an IP socialist; I place great value on the importance of intellectual property in our information driven society. Unlike others, I think we need to make changes to existing patent law and practice in order to fine tune for the times.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Ohhh, ohhh, I've got this really good idea, but rather than do something with it (that involves risk!) I'll just patent it and sit around until some big company does something close enough that I can sue them.
Our legal and "intellectual property" (poverty?) system supports this - that's the news and that's the thing we should work to change.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
From the tone of this article it strikes me that the police suspect the ISPs of criminal complicity in regards to their subscriber's alleged actions.
Is this how it normally works down under?
Cheers,
-- RLJ
I surmise as you do that to The Average Consumer nVidia feels a bit big for its britches. It is unfortunate as I feel that nVidia has done and is doing The Right Thing in so many other areas.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Lesse, I'm a spammer, I can spam people almost for free by stealing services from a bunch of folks who live half way around the globe ... or I can pay a comparably huge sum of cash and be perceived as a legitimate bulk mailer of my herbal viagra and penis enlargers.
Right.
Message for Barry Shein @ TheWorld ISP -- Stick to mission statements.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
- RLJ
kidding, kidding! love the sig.
Even worse, _The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect_ is a great read. I caught it when localroger first posted to Kuro some weeks back. Fantastic!
- RLJ
Would they be a similar group to those who do not read the reference material but feel qualified to espouse their conciliatory critique after browsing a semi-plot summary?
Please note that I am referring to your post's parent.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
-- RLJ
have you fed a troll today?
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Law enforcement is one of the most clearly defined aspects of the US legal system: it is the jurisdiction of the local police, the county sheriff's department, state police, US Marshals and the FBI. That's it (well, unless I've gone brain dead and am forgetting a few Departments of The Man).
I do not recall seeing the BSA on COPS.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
First things first: any MS shop with any sense and more than 5 employees would do well to invest in an open license. An open license is an agreement between you and MS in which you are given licenses at a slightly discounted price based upon the volume and general expense of those items you purchase.
When you purchase an open license for say, an OS, you do not receive any media whatsoever. You will have to purchase a media pack that will come with a simple reg key. This is the reg key that you will can and should use on your OS installations (assuming you don't just mirror them like everyone else does).
As for the "University that got sued for millions" because they didn't have an unique license # on each machine. I don't buy that story in it's current incantation. I think you either heard it wrong or plain old don't know what you're talking about. Regardless, anyone here can find this information out on MS' Open License web page or by calling a large software reseller (CDW is friendly about this) and asking to speak to an open license rep.
Cheers,
-- RLJ