RTFA-ing, you'll see that the writer DOES say that it's running Windows 98, not CE. And as for being at the end of it's product lifespan, then 98 would be a bad choice as well - it's gone, history, outta here.
I must say also that I find your statements about the computing needs a bit curious - if you're saying that the cars need little computational power, because not much happens very fast/often, then why would an RTOS be needed?
I thought that the services they offered were a neat little addition...until I started checking my mac.com mailbox. I had only used it for a few things, since I get several mailboxes from my ISP. I was quite surprised to find that I was getting messages from their admin-bot that my mailbox was full. Sure enough, it was...full of notices from the bot. Hmm...deleted them, forgot it. Looked again in a few days - box is full again! Full of...guess what? Bot-spam.
I tried to contact Apple about the problem, but couldn't figure out who to contact - replies to the bot came back as invalid, and there was no easy-to-find contact link.
So now, they want me to pay for the priviledge of having a f*cked-up email account that I don't need? Sure...the check's in the mail, guys...
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Ah yes...fill the voids left by mega-corporations with another mega-corporation. Yea.
XM is just trying to be all things to all people - they play more fringe formats, but they also play the same stuff that broadcast stations play. The business model is a bit different, and maybe that will work out for them & allow some non-mainstream stuff to get heard - but that's only if it makes them money. If not, they will be chasing the same homogenous audiences that Clear Channel is.
I don't see anywhere in that story where Prof. Appel is saying anything about regulating anything - he is merely quoted as saying that it is indeed possible for Windows to be made in a modular fashion, because it has already been done in large part for other projects.
At any rate, designating computer code as free speech doesn't have anything to do with how such "speech" may be used in a business context. A company cannot lie to the public about its products, and then claim protection under First Amendment rights.
Furthermore, where exactly does it say that speech that is classified as "free" cannot be subject to regulation? How about the classic example of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded movie house? I can't believe this got modded up as "Interesting". Fallacious is more like it.
There is no _property_ in the original work, it cannot be bought or sold. The number of copies sold is irrelevant because they have no economic value. If a work is commissioned, then the original work is paid for. Otherwise the creation of the work is speculation by the artiste, speculation that they can perform it in concert and get paid, or gain such repute from the work's excellence that it will lead to additional commissions or even patronage (grateful dead style) when they ask for funding for their next project from the consumer.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! If the work has no "economic value", then how can it be "paid for" by commision? It could only be funded, NOT paid for.
And of course the "copies" of the work have value - that's what you paid for! A copy of the recording of the work! You did NOT "pay for" the work itself with your $15 for the CD. But you can bet that the artist DID pay - $1000s for studio time, $1000s for pressing, more $ for artwork for the booklet, shipping costs, covering defective returns...and this goes for little local bands who work regular jobs & save their $$ just to put out a CD, as well as those who get their money from record labels (who are only fronting it to them anyway, & they make sure that they get their advance money back FIRST, before giving a nickel to their artist).
As for patronage, it would be a sorry world indeed if artists had to rely only on patronage - then only rich people would commision works, & you would have to listen to what they were willing to pay for. Are you ready to let, say, Bill Gates decide what you can buy at Tower Records this month? Just ask any member of a symphony orchestra how well relying on the patronage model works. Better yet - ask any working musician where their money comes from. It's not from touring - it's from MERCHANDISING. Selling stuff at the gig is what makes it profitable, not playing for chump change while some bar owner uses your hard work to sell drinks.
The big difference is that before there was recorded music, if you wanted to hear an artist you HAD to go to a show. Now, with home entertainment being the norm, it is quite possible to consume the work of hundreds of artists without leaving home.
This may or may not be a good thing, but the people in question still have to make a living, or there would be nothing to consume.
Frankly, I'm tired of people insisting that artists have no right to make a living. Aside from the obscene amounts of money made by very few, the vast majority of musicians spend an enormous amount of time and their OWN money pursuing the creation of music. Denying them the right to make some back is ridiculous - if your job stopped paying you today, would you go back tomorrow?
This was available back in December 2001 - as a matter of fact, I submitted it then, but no one bothered with it...
I've used GP3 for Windows for some time now, & I must say it's great! Total integration makes life so easy, rather than having to run separate apps & "integrate" these different docs together with some kludgy workaround. Want a table & a graphic in a word processing doc? Put them in. What a concept...
It also saves as PDF, with no 3rd-party addon, and is WAY faster than using the Acrobat plugin for Office.
As for import/export, it seems to be about on par with StarOffice - some good, some not so good. However, they have made a lot of progress in a short time, with a fairly small team. I think this is a testament to their good work, rather than a shortcoming - NOBODY can import/export Office file formats perfectly - not even between different versions of Office! So to use this as an absolute benchmark of quality or useability is a red herring.
Other than Detleff Schrempf as the basketball player identified as "Linux" in a recent series of IBM ads, when was the last time you saw the word "Linux" in an ad on television?
I'll tell you: never.
Actually, last night, in prime time...in another IBM ad for their servers.
They did hire programmers - about 50 Be employees got hired as part of the deal. So, not only do they have the programmers, they have their work as well.
Ok - A lesson in TV Production...
I was watching the local PBS channel this weekend. They have an all-white logo in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
They were playing a documentary about life in another country, which was heavily subtitled...in white text. So, you would get statements like, "Why did you put the plates in the TV30"
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Shipped & Sold are 2 different things - subtract potential returns & see the difference.
And, considering that OS X only runs on Apple hardware, I still dispute the contention that it's a "real UNIX". To me, a real UNIX has options as to what it will run on. (Yeah, yeah - Darwin - less compatible hardware than most anything comparable, according to Apple's list...)
Schlepping up numbers or words on a webpage does not constitute real 'access' any more than does providing printouts or plain text files - you still need a program (or human) to parse the output
This program is called a web browser...
This is an attempt to make ALL their information accessible by a SINGLE program, and NOT an attempt to make every piece of information accessible by a DIFFERENT program.
And if you don't have that particular program, then you need to get it & keep it around if you want to use that particular source of information, which is exacly what he was referring to.
From what I've observed, from smaller companies or state/government agencies, there are a lot of machines still running NT 4.0, who have been holding off on the Win2k migration.
So - you REALLY think that all the corporate people who waited to see if Win2k was stable enough to use are going to go out in droves all of a sudden & snap up XP? Please -
I think we'll see some big sales figures, but I would bet on more of them coming from the consumer market who would buy it because they think it's better because it's new, rather than the corporate market who generally don't want to screw with what works.
From what I understand (having tried it a few times at various stages), beOS is like *nix with a kick ass graphics/windowing layer. Why not concentrate on bringing the beOS gfx layer to Linux...
Sure - kernel rewrite, anyone?
BeOS' graphical interface is not simply an X-knockoff. Neither is BeOS *nix with a pretty face - I think that most people see the BASH shell and assume it is, but it's not. To put the two together would require a LOT of reworking on both sides, and to what end? You'd end up with yet another window manager that wouldn't really behave like BeOS.
(1) CDs are too expensive. LOWER THE PRICE OF CDs. Why does it cost 15 bucks for a burnt piece of plastic, which is debatably more valuable than a 50 cent blank piece of plastic?
Because when they first came out they were expensive to produce - albums at the time cost around $10. Now that the price has been set, they don't want to pass on the difference in production costs.
(2) CDs are usually one or two good songs mixed with a lot of crap. I don't really know what to do about this one. How about stop manufacturing boy bands and nurture the real artists out there?
Good question. Maybe it's because real artists require development, and the record co.'s don't want to invest in antists anymore when they can sell overpriced crap & gobs of useless merchandise to a bunch of preteens who wouldn't know what art is if it fell on them?
(3) downloading a song is SOOO much easier than fighting traffic to and from some shopping mall or waiting 3-5 days for shipping.
True, & if they had any sense they would provide a system for doing so, rather than trying to prop up their status quo by resorting to crap like this.
I have spent a lot of time in this forum siding with copyright holders' right to do with their work as they choose, & I stand by that position. The fact that record co.'s et al have been ripping off artists for decades does not justify taking the few pennies (literally) that they get for their work.
That said, I am appalled at the RIAA's latest actions on behalf of the "artists" - of course, it wouldn't be about their cut, would it? Why not boycott their products, & support local bands & alternative distribution methods instead? There are LOTS of good people out there, selling their music & giving it away for free. Michael Jackson doesn't need (or deserve) any more money for yelling "ow!".
midiman [midiman.com]...(has) absolutely no linux support.
Actually, if you check the list at opensound.com, you'll see that they support the whole Delta series of cards, with a few limitations; M Audio have even advertised Linux compatibility in their recent print ads.
You'll also find support for the RME Digi/32 series & the Digi/96 series, all very fine cards. Also, they have recently added support for the Hoontech DSP24, which is a 8x8 24-bit card with a companion A/D & D/A converter box, not too unlike the Echo Layla. So, there are options at least on the semi-pro level.
And as for ProTools, the changes in the underlying audio handling in OS X means that, at the moment, ProTools is completely unsupported. It relies on a proprietary interface, and an Apple rep said in the recent EQ Magazine that they have no intention of supporting proprietary hardware interfaces - that will be up to ProTools to do. They probably will, since the bulk of their users are probably on Macs, but it's not native by any means.
There was a learning curve when they first used Windows, too. It won't kill them to learn something.
But, as for those kids they are teaching...it seems to me that it is a far greater service to teach them how to program/work with freely available software. Someone who is really strapped for cash might be able to get an inexpensive computer, but forcing them to go out & buy tons of proprietary software in order to use it makes it far more expensive, which in turn only increases the divide.
Train them to program C, C++, Java, HTML, etc. with the freely available tools, however, and they have a real chance to break out & move themselves to a higher level.
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RTFA-ing, you'll see that the writer DOES say that it's running Windows 98, not CE. And as for being at the end of it's product lifespan, then 98 would be a bad choice as well - it's gone, history, outta here.
I must say also that I find your statements about the computing needs a bit curious - if you're saying that the cars need little computational power, because not much happens very fast/often, then why would an RTOS be needed?
I'll get right on this, Apple. :-\
I thought that the services they offered were a neat little addition...until I started checking my mac.com mailbox. I had only used it for a few things, since I get several mailboxes from my ISP. I was quite surprised to find that I was getting messages from their admin-bot that my mailbox was full. Sure enough, it was...full of notices from the bot. Hmm...deleted them, forgot it. Looked again in a few days - box is full again! Full of...guess what? Bot-spam.
I tried to contact Apple about the problem, but couldn't figure out who to contact - replies to the bot came back as invalid, and there was no easy-to-find contact link.
So now, they want me to pay for the priviledge of having a f*cked-up email account that I don't need? Sure...the check's in the mail, guys...
Err...not to be nitpicky,but the guy who wrote the review is a woman.
Nothing to see here, people.
Ah yes...fill the voids left by mega-corporations with another mega-corporation. Yea.
XM is just trying to be all things to all people - they play more fringe formats, but they also play the same stuff that broadcast stations play. The business model is a bit different, and maybe that will work out for them & allow some non-mainstream stuff to get heard - but that's only if it makes them money. If not, they will be chasing the same homogenous audiences that Clear Channel is.
I don't see anywhere in that story where Prof. Appel is saying anything about regulating anything - he is merely quoted as saying that it is indeed possible for Windows to be made in a modular fashion, because it has already been done in large part for other projects.
At any rate, designating computer code as free speech doesn't have anything to do with how such "speech" may be used in a business context. A company cannot lie to the public about its products, and then claim protection under First Amendment rights.
Furthermore, where exactly does it say that speech that is classified as "free" cannot be subject to regulation? How about the classic example of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded movie house?
I can't believe this got modded up as "Interesting". Fallacious is more like it.
There is no _property_ in the original work, it cannot be bought or sold. The number of copies sold is irrelevant because they have no economic value. If a work is commissioned, then the original work is paid for. Otherwise the creation of the work is speculation by the artiste, speculation that they can perform it in concert and get paid, or gain such repute from the work's excellence that it will lead to additional commissions or even patronage (grateful dead style) when they ask for funding for their next project from the consumer.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! If the work has no "economic value", then how can it be "paid for" by commision? It could only be funded, NOT paid for.
And of course the "copies" of the work have value - that's what you paid for! A copy of the recording of the work! You did NOT "pay for" the work itself with your $15 for the CD. But you can bet that the artist DID pay - $1000s for studio time, $1000s for pressing, more $ for artwork for the booklet, shipping costs, covering defective returns...and this goes for little local bands who work regular jobs & save their $$ just to put out a CD, as well as those who get their money from record labels (who are only fronting it to them anyway, & they make sure that they get their advance money back FIRST, before giving a nickel to their artist).
As for patronage, it would be a sorry world indeed if artists had to rely only on patronage - then only rich people would commision works, & you would have to listen to what they were willing to pay for. Are you ready to let, say, Bill Gates decide what you can buy at Tower Records this month? Just ask any member of a symphony orchestra how well relying on the patronage model works.
Better yet - ask any working musician where their money comes from. It's not from touring - it's from MERCHANDISING. Selling stuff at the gig is what makes it profitable, not playing for chump change while some bar owner uses your hard work to sell drinks.
The big difference is that before there was recorded music, if you wanted to hear an artist you HAD to go to a show. Now, with home entertainment being the norm, it is quite possible to consume the work of hundreds of artists without leaving home.
This may or may not be a good thing, but the people in question still have to make a living, or there would be nothing to consume.
Frankly, I'm tired of people insisting that artists have no right to make a living. Aside from the obscene amounts of money made by very few, the vast majority of musicians spend an enormous amount of time and their OWN money pursuing the creation of music. Denying them the right to make some back is ridiculous - if your job stopped paying you today, would you go back tomorrow?
This was available back in December 2001 - as a matter of fact, I submitted it then, but no one bothered with it...
I've used GP3 for Windows for some time now, & I must say it's great! Total integration makes life so easy, rather than having to run separate apps & "integrate" these different docs together with some kludgy workaround. Want a table & a graphic in a word processing doc? Put them in. What a concept...
It also saves as PDF, with no 3rd-party addon, and is WAY faster than using the Acrobat plugin for Office.
As for import/export, it seems to be about on par with StarOffice - some good, some not so good. However, they have made a lot of progress in a short time, with a fairly small team. I think this is a testament to their good work, rather than a shortcoming - NOBODY can import/export Office file formats perfectly - not even between different versions of Office! So to use this as an absolute benchmark of quality or useability is a red herring.
Actually, last night, in prime time...in another IBM ad for their servers.
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How about Windex?
Oh, wait...damn...
I do this all the time. It's called S/PDIF. I take the digital out from a processor pedal, & go right into the S/PDIF in on my sound card.
All digital.
They did hire programmers - about 50 Be employees got hired as part of the deal. So, not only do they have the programmers, they have their work as well.
Ok - A lesson in TV Production... I was watching the local PBS channel this weekend. They have an all-white logo in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
They were playing a documentary about life in another country, which was heavily subtitled...in white text. So, you would get statements like, "Why did you put the plates in the TV30"
Apparently, ignorance is color-blind...
You have a subscription to a cup of coffee?
What about cream & sugar?
Shipped & Sold are 2 different things - subtract potential returns & see the difference.
And, considering that OS X only runs on Apple hardware, I still dispute the contention that it's a "real UNIX". To me, a real UNIX has options as to what it will run on. (Yeah, yeah - Darwin - less compatible hardware than most anything comparable, according to Apple's list...)
This program is called a web browser...
This is an attempt to make ALL their information accessible by a SINGLE program, and NOT an attempt to make every piece of information accessible by a DIFFERENT program.
And if you don't have that particular program, then you need to get it & keep it around if you want to use that particular source of information, which is exacly what he was referring to.
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So - you REALLY think that all the corporate people who waited to see if Win2k was stable enough to use are going to go out in droves all of a sudden & snap up XP? Please -
I think we'll see some big sales figures, but I would bet on more of them coming from the consumer market who would buy it because they think it's better because it's new, rather than the corporate market who generally don't want to screw with what works.
Isn't this the classic line that every hapless LSD user is supposed to blurt out - right before crashing thru a window? :)
Sure - kernel rewrite, anyone?
BeOS' graphical interface is not simply an X-knockoff. Neither is BeOS *nix with a pretty face - I think that most people see the BASH shell and assume it is, but it's not. To put the two together would require a LOT of reworking on both sides, and to what end? You'd end up with yet another window manager that wouldn't really behave like BeOS.
Because when they first came out they were expensive to produce - albums at the time cost around $10. Now that the price has been set, they don't want to pass on the difference in production costs.
Good question. Maybe it's because real artists require development, and the record co.'s don't want to invest in antists anymore when they can sell overpriced crap & gobs of useless merchandise to a bunch of preteens who wouldn't know what art is if it fell on them?
True, & if they had any sense they would provide a system for doing so, rather than trying to prop up their status quo by resorting to crap like this.
I have spent a lot of time in this forum siding with copyright holders' right to do with their work as they choose, & I stand by that position. The fact that record co.'s et al have been ripping off artists for decades does not justify taking the few pennies (literally) that they get for their work.
That said, I am appalled at the RIAA's latest actions on behalf of the "artists" - of course, it wouldn't be about their cut, would it? Why not boycott their products, & support local bands & alternative distribution methods instead? There are LOTS of good people out there, selling their music & giving it away for free. Michael Jackson doesn't need (or deserve) any more money for yelling "ow!".
Hmm...would you say this to someone from SGI?
Actually, if you check the list at opensound.com, you'll see that they support the whole Delta series of cards, with a few limitations; M Audio have even advertised Linux compatibility in their recent print ads.
You'll also find support for the RME Digi/32 series & the Digi/96 series, all very fine cards. Also, they have recently added support for the Hoontech DSP24, which is a 8x8 24-bit card with a companion A/D & D/A converter box, not too unlike the Echo Layla. So, there are options at least on the semi-pro level.
And as for ProTools, the changes in the underlying audio handling in OS X means that, at the moment, ProTools is completely unsupported. It relies on a proprietary interface, and an Apple rep said in the recent EQ Magazine that they have no intention of supporting proprietary hardware interfaces - that will be up to ProTools to do. They probably will, since the bulk of their users are probably on Macs, but it's not native by any means.
There was a learning curve when they first used Windows, too. It won't kill them to learn something.
But, as for those kids they are teaching...it seems to me that it is a far greater service to teach them how to program/work with freely available software. Someone who is really strapped for cash might be able to get an inexpensive computer, but forcing them to go out & buy tons of proprietary software in order to use it makes it far more expensive, which in turn only increases the divide.
Train them to program C, C++, Java, HTML, etc. with the freely available tools, however, and they have a real chance to break out & move themselves to a higher level.