What I think napster is going to hurt most is going to be the "one hit wonder" music industy. This would include most movie sound tracks. If a band puts out an album on CD that has 12-18 good tracks of music that I want to listen to then I would purchase it. If a band puts out an album with one song that is good and the rest is complete crap I would much rather download that song off of napster and never bother to get the entire album. Napster is going to promote good music as apose to quick buck money maker single hit albums and movie sound tracks.
R&D gains through small improvements over time. The diffrence between open souce R&D and diffrent companies is that compaines will hold on to several hundred of those small improvements and release them all at once makeing it look like a leap forward where as in open source we release every small step forward. "Release early Release often" Unfortanately there was a lot of catch up work that needed to be done for the oss community. I think getting good working desktops together in about 2 years is preaty damn good. After Microsft takeing more than 10 years to almost catch up to Macintosh, here we catch up to both in no time.
wow and i could be just a retalititon to a counter trolled troll.
wow thats deep.
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I just wanted to post that I am in one of the companies that is replaceing SCO with Linux. Right now we are bringing up all new servers in Linux and slowly replaceing old ones with Linux as the need arises.
my favorite thing about the *BSDs is that most of the damn 16 year old to 31337 for windows script kiddie wannabes are starting to see linux as to main stream and switch to one of the BSDs. I am more and more seeing Linux chat rooms switch back to a slightly more mature conversation while *BSD advocates are seeming to get the "We rule!! Everyone else Sux!! w3 4r3 t0 313373 4 U" attitude.
'k' is usually used by many computer litirate people to represent 1,000. (actually 1024 but perversions of marketing have changed that to mean what they want. Usualy it is ment in context to be 1,000) This means that when you see $10k it really would be a short hand way of writeing $10,000.00.
Since the open source revolution is suppose to be a different paradigm than what most are use to why not use a different approach. How about a hardware incomparability certification. This could be run open by the community with a searchable database. This way we can point fingers and hopefully bad press at incomparable hardware.
Of course this could get out of hand with "my Reheat Model 3456 Microwave Oven is not linux comparable!!" But with some kind of planing and restrictions on it I am sure it would be a very good thing. While the amount of hardware out there is huge it is still finite in size, and as far as incomparable stuff it is growing ever smaller.
I would like to see a test of scale, Lets get the most powerfull and expensive whatever box that winNT/2K will run on and the biggest one Linux will run on and then compare them. Forget same hardware. Or another good test would be to make a budget. $10k build the best hardware configuration your OS will run on. Then lets see who has the price/performance race. based on hardware alone I am sure we could build a nice sparc or alpha that would kill anything window$ could run on.
Made of cheese? excuse me? it was like 30 years ago that we went to the moon and found it wasnt made of cheese. Of course we havent found a good enough reason to go back.
That's it attack the poster even though what he said is still true. If one fat person calls another one fat does that make the statement less true? To many people play off faults because the one telling them isn't perfect. What's fact is fact no matter what the source telling you is.
Everyone seems to want open source to take off right now. This is a nice thing to want but we end up with things like the Gnome 1.0 disaster. I love Gnome and use it as my primary desktop, but 1.0 was not stable. I hope Open Source learned a little something from this. "User friendly" will come with time, but if you try to rush it it will flop on its first try. As user base grows we will need good bug/feature request tracking software such as bugzilla to be used more often. I am not fully aware of all of bugzilla's capabilities but as I understand it it should be able to take bug reports and catagorize and prioritize them as needed. As projects like this get better people will be able to submit bug reports on user interface, program operation, feature problems, compile problems etc...
All in all, people need to have a little more patents and these things will come "When they are ready"(tm)
Unless you have really technical parents try to picture your parents doing this. I couldn't picture my parents useing Netscape but they are a mechanic and a store clerk. Most people in the united states don't know what a proxy server is or even how there computer gets anything from the internet. Many people think that the stuff they see on the internet is always on there computer. We cant really blame these people for being ignorant. I don't know every law in the US but I still have to abide by them, I don't know everything about my car but I still have to be able to drive it.
It is basicly useless to try to get everyone to know what they are doing on a computer. It is just not going to happen. The world has many more gas station attendents than it does IT personal.
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Is this going to be compatable with X windows? will i be able to land X apps on a mac os X desktop and vise versa? I have a strong feeling that it wont but I can hope right?
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Well, all moons have an Inner moon just waiting to get out.
What I think napster is going to hurt most is
going to be the "one hit wonder" music industy.
This would include most movie sound tracks. If
a band puts out an album on CD that has 12-18
good tracks of music that I want to listen to
then I would purchase it. If a band puts out
an album with one song that is good and the rest
is complete crap I would much rather download that
song off of napster and never bother to get the
entire album. Napster is going to promote good
music as apose to quick buck money maker single
hit albums and movie sound tracks.
no, but a red swirl kicks ass
Isn't the easy answer to this just have H@ powered power plants?
R&D gains through small improvements over time. The diffrence between open souce R&D and diffrent companies is that compaines will hold on to several hundred of those small improvements and release them all at once makeing it look like a leap forward where as in open source we release every small step forward. "Release early Release often" Unfortanately there was a lot of catch up work that needed to be done for the oss community. I think getting good working desktops together in about 2 years is preaty damn good. After Microsft takeing more than 10 years to almost catch up to Macintosh, here we catch up to both in no time.
just a couple of comments.
how do you know you wernt just counter trolled?
wow and i could be just a retalititon to a counter trolled troll.
wow thats deep.
I just wanted to post that I am in one of the companies that is replaceing SCO with Linux. Right now we are bringing up all new servers in Linux and slowly replaceing old ones with Linux as the need arises.
no no, raped and murded is NOT FUNNY DAMN IT
now murdered then raped that IS funny
:)
my favorite thing about the *BSDs is that most of the damn 16 year old to 31337 for windows script kiddie wannabes are starting to see linux as to main stream and switch to one of the BSDs. I am more and more seeing Linux chat rooms switch back to a slightly more mature conversation while *BSD advocates are seeming to get the "We rule!! Everyone else Sux!! w3 4r3 t0 313373 4 U" attitude.
Thank U BSDs
'k' is usually used by many computer litirate people to represent 1,000. (actually 1024 but perversions of marketing have changed that to mean what they want. Usualy it is ment in context to be 1,000) This means that when you see $10k it really would be a short hand way of writeing $10,000.00.
Hope this helps for future refrence.
Since the open source revolution is suppose to be a different
paradigm than what most are use to why not use a different
approach. How about a hardware incomparability certification.
This could be run open by the community with a searchable
database. This way we can point fingers and hopefully bad press
at incomparable hardware.
Of course this could get out of hand with "my Reheat Model 3456
Microwave Oven is not linux comparable!!" But with some kind of
planing and restrictions on it I am sure it would be a very good
thing. While the amount of hardware out there is huge it is
still finite in size, and as far as incomparable stuff it is
growing ever smaller.
I would like to see a test of scale, Lets get the most powerfull and expensive whatever box that winNT/2K will run on and the biggest one Linux will run on and then compare them. Forget same hardware. Or another good test would be to make a budget. $10k build the best hardware configuration your OS will run on. Then lets see who has the price/performance race. based on hardware alone I am sure we could build a nice sparc or alpha that would kill anything window$ could run on.
yea I use to visit it but then I got a 21" monitor and was able to play quake at 1600x1200 it looked much more realistic that way
ohh yea I forgot about Egg McMuffins I retract my preivious statement
Yea!! Cool!!! its always the victim's fault. She wasn't raped she shouldn't have dressed that way.
Wonder why MacDonalds has server 900million people? Maybe because it is the best food?
Made of cheese? excuse me? it was like 30 years ago that we went to the moon and found it wasnt made of cheese. Of course we havent found a good enough reason to go back.
Isn't this one of the last advances to completing Civilization Call to Power?
Isn't Canada in America too?
That's it attack the poster even though
what he said is still true. If one fat
person calls another one fat does that make
the statement less true? To many people
play off faults because the one telling them
isn't perfect. What's fact is fact no matter
what the source telling you is.
Thanks
No way, this aint true
Sure, I will get on it right away. Now where is the HOWTO?
Everyone seems to want open source to take off right now. This is a nice thing to want but we end up with things like the Gnome 1.0 disaster. I love Gnome and use it as my primary desktop, but 1.0 was not stable. I hope Open Source learned a little something from this. "User friendly" will come with time, but if you try to rush it it will flop on its first try. As user base grows we will need good bug/feature request tracking software such as bugzilla to be used more often. I am not fully aware of all of bugzilla's capabilities but as I understand it it should be able to take bug reports and catagorize and prioritize them as needed. As projects like this get better people will be able to submit bug reports on user interface, program operation, feature problems, compile problems etc...
All in all, people need to have a little more patents and these things will come "When they are ready"(tm)
Unless you have really technical parents try to picture your parents doing this. I couldn't picture my parents useing Netscape but they are a mechanic and a store clerk. Most people in the united states don't know what a proxy server is or even how there computer gets anything from the internet. Many people think that the stuff they see on the internet is always on there computer. We cant really blame these people for being ignorant. I don't know every law in the US but I still have to abide by them, I don't know everything about my car but I still have to be able to drive it.
It is basicly useless to try to get everyone to know what they are doing on a computer. It is just not going to happen. The world has many more gas station attendents than it does IT personal.
ArsonSmith
Is this going to be compatable with X windows? will i be able to land X apps on a mac os
X desktop and vise versa? I have a strong feeling that it wont but I can hope right?
Arsonsmith