Neat idea - but then, even if you didn't have to pay for licensing the content, you have to come up with the equipment to play the music, & the staff to run it. And if your satelite ever had problems, well...who's gonna volunteer to go fix it?
Actually, BeIA runs on pretty much any x86 hardware, including the Crusoe & Geode processors. Given that BeOS also ran on PPC, one could surmise that, unless they gutted PPC support for BeIA, it'll run on that too.
Sony wasn't the only one that was running BeIA - they were the most prominent.
Can someone explain to me why KDE makes their announcement of availability pointing to packages that do not exist?
I can see putting it out as good old.tar.gz, & that's fine - but their announcements (which appear to be fairly standard after the initial copy) always have links to 'currently available binaries', yet when you follow the link - nothing there.
If it's like the 2.2 release, then the packages will show up in the next week or so. But come on, guys - is it really that big a deal to change your initial release form to reflect this fact? An additional benfit would be that you get to announce the binaries later, after the initial release is last week's news.
I think that, rather than breaking up the company (which really may not have a real impact on the way they do business, anyway) is to require the release of the format codes for Office.
One of the big reasons that businesses use Microsoft is because it emerged as a "standard" for business communication. Products like WordPerfect, StarOffice, KOffice, Gobe Productive, etc. etc. all have had to implement some sort of filter to display Office documents - usually with less-than-adequate results. The end result is that information that belongs to US is being held hostage by Microsoft - if you want to communicate with others, you have to use MS Office. (Why do you think there is a version of Office for the Mac? Certainly not because there was no quality office suite available.)
Releasing those codes would go a long way towards truly leveling the playing field for other office software makers, and would in turn give people the choice to use any office software (and hence any operating system) they please.
It's quite true that youth have a lot more to offer than they often get credit for.
It's also true, however, that I for one (and I have heard this sentiment echoed by many people) knew everything I needed to know at the age of 15, and it wasn't until I was in my 20's that I began to understand the depths of my own ignorance.
But manufacturers can't make money off anything they can't patent.
Actually, it seems to me that manufacturers of MP3 devices, unless they held the patent on MP3, are the ones who would be losing money to licensing fees. If they used Ogg Vorbis, they would not be forced to pay those fees, so they would be able to pocket the difference - as in make more money.
Of course, if you build an ATI chip in your mobo, then ATI gets a cut. If MS really gave a shit about their "partners" then they could simply bundle the existing products as a "value-add", cut in the companies that created popular software fro THEIR platform, & let people upgrade later if they choose to.
As it stands its an old law, but by changing this law what's to say that somewhere down the line heroin and cocaine addicts won't start the same "Legalize It" tactics? Why should it be only a legalize pot issue when pot isn't the only drug?
It's an old law bred largely from misinformation combined with knee-jerk reactions. The main difference that I can see is that the harmful effects of heroine & cocaine are more immediate & severe. Those addicted to these substances will rob & kill to get a fix, whereas most potheads (none that I have ever known) will do this for weed.
Studies have shown, and I personally have seen effects of those studies, that a large portion of people who recreated with `weed' often graduated on to harder drugs.
My personal experience was that, after hearing what the "authorities" said about pot & finding that it did not bear out from my personal experiences, I figured if they're bullshitting me about pot, they're probably lying about the other stuff, too. This unfortunately led me down a road I wish I hadn't taken, and one I have gotten away from since. But, the fact remains that inconsistancies & untruth led me to make certain judgements at the time, which could have been different if people had simply told the truth.
So I don't think legalizing just one because people are bitching about it is a good thing unless you're not going to stop playing favorites and legalize them all, period.
How about this idea: legalization of naturally-occuring substances? This would allow the use of pot, peyote (used in various indigenous rituals) and mushrooms (not that I'm advocating them), while banning man-made concoctions such as cocaine, heroine, etc. Personally, I've always wondered how society could outlaw something that was placed on this Earth by God. We are presented with choices along the road of life after all, & not everything can be sanitized for your protection. I do believe, however, that man-made substances (of all sorts) should be used with restraint, especially as we often do not fathom the full impact of our clever inventions until it's too late.
OK - back to the topic at hand. Talk amongst yourselves...:^)
The sysadmin probably knows this already, unless he's busy getting somebody's coffee cup out of their CD-ROM drive. Stopping them to complain about it only delays action.:)
Supposedly, they are going to have a combination of commercial & commercial-free channels. Of course, I would guess that this would be somewhat dependant on how much they make from ads & subscriptions - it wouldn't surprise me if they ended up selling commercial time on all of 'em after a period of time.
If every time your user has a problem, you fix it without explaining what caused it, you're going to potentially decrease the learning rate of your user base. In other words, users will commonly repeat the same mistakes, and you will commonly repeat the same fix.
The flip side to this, however, is "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". I can't count the number of times I took support calls from users who, after getting an explanation of something that happened & how to fix it, went on with this "little knowledge" & tried to apply it to some other problem, resulting in a long (& expensive) support call after all. Not only did we have to fix their original problem, but first we had to fix whatever it was they broke.
These were also the people who, to whom you would say, "hit Cntl-C" andthen hear something like 'clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclic kclickclickclickclick..."Uh-Oh"...clickclickclickc lickclickclickclickclick...
OTOH, remote support was quite useful to diagnose & fix problems. An additional benefit was that you could see what the person was doing wrong, rather than apply psychology to get them to admit it. (Very few people will admit that they made a mistake.)
Sure, some people want to have you on the phone, and this is usually part of the service that is provided. Our usual practice was to have them on the phone as we were attached to their PC, because we usually needed the additional feedback. But, if they had other work to do - which many of them did - then we could administer a fix while they got on with their business.
It's not MS's fault that in this country, blacks choose to educate themselves much less than other ethnic groups.
I would really like to know how you discovered this mass choice by blacks in this country to be ignorant.
I personally know many blacks who work extremely hard to educate themselves in spite of a horrendous lack of support & resources from the community around them, and many of them are much more intelligent than a lot of whites that I have known who have come up in better surroundings.
The reason? They want it, and it isn't given to them as easily as it is to many whites, who often end up taking the oppurtunities presented to them for granted.
Next time you're looking in the mirror, ask yourself about the face of subtle racism.
The reason why is that outboard effects units require you to use analog signals for the input. When you are working in digital, each pass thru D/A -> A/D degrades the signal to the point where most reasonably affordable DSP units would just sound crappy. Now, if you had one that had digital I/O, then it would definitely be a better choice, but these are few if not non-existant. (I am not aware of any myself.) Protools and similar integrated solutions do just that - they use seperate DSP processing on extra cards for effects, as does the company I work for. (Ours is aimed at the broadcast market, so we don't do reverb, etc. but we do have various EQ and dynamics processing modules. Unfortunately for me, it's a Windows-based system.:( Oh, well - at least I get to use it for some programming.)
I personally enjoy the fact that I get so many apps with my distro (Mandrake is my favorite). But, aside from the one on his head, the writer of this article does have a point. (For example, I only use 2 or 3 of the 5 X-terminals I have installed, and that's only for a change of scenery, really.) How's this for a solution:
As an installation option, have a "basic" choice - one that would install the most mature packages that would do the job in question, without redundancy. Later, if the user decided that another app would fit their particular need, they could install that alongside of (or perhaps in place of - an rpm option, perhaps?) the original. This way, Newbies wouldn't have to try to find their way through +1000 packages either before or after installation. You could have your cake & eat something else if you don't want it later.
As for what gets picked as "mature", that should be up to the company that makes the distro. Variance in the included packages already exists anyhow, so it wouldn't really make a big difference on their end, I suspect.
(BTW - Too many applications included is a good problem, & one that Windows & Mac users never have to face...)
"Imagine having several programs/documents open at the same time and be able to seamlessly operate between them, as if they were one program."
As far as Orifice-type docs go, I don't have to imagine this - I have Gobe Productive.
As for.NET for Linux...I wonder if MS is ready to give up their exclusionary approaches to their software, or will they continue to use MS-specific features that won't function properly without a MS-approved interface? (.NET or.NOT?)
Except, of course, the thousands of groups/artists who scrimp & save a small pile of money from their REAL jobs to go to a studio (or buy their own gear) to self-produce their own CDs, which they can sell at a >100% profit for less than the price you'd pay at MegaMusic Inc...but hey - they were foolish enough to record it, so screw them, right?
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Ummm...if it's free, then it's not for sale.
Neat idea - but then, even if you didn't have to pay for licensing the content, you have to come up with the equipment to play the music, & the staff to run it. And if your satelite ever had problems, well...who's gonna volunteer to go fix it?
I must have missed the subliminal messages within the song that can only be heard by a Radio Executive.
Everything sounds different with your head up your arse...
Actually, BeIA runs on pretty much any x86 hardware, including the Crusoe & Geode processors. Given that BeOS also ran on PPC, one could surmise that, unless they gutted PPC support for BeIA, it'll run on that too.
Sony wasn't the only one that was running BeIA - they were the most prominent.
Can someone explain to me why KDE makes their announcement of availability pointing to packages that do not exist?
.tar.gz, & that's fine - but their announcements (which appear to be fairly standard after the initial copy) always have links to 'currently available binaries', yet when you follow the link - nothing there.
I can see putting it out as good old
If it's like the 2.2 release, then the packages will show up in the next week or so. But come on, guys - is it really that big a deal to change your initial release form to reflect this fact? An additional benfit would be that you get to announce the binaries later, after the initial release is last week's news.
I think that, rather than breaking up the company (which really may not have a real impact on the way they do business, anyway) is to require the release of the format codes for Office.
One of the big reasons that businesses use Microsoft is because it emerged as a "standard" for business communication. Products like WordPerfect, StarOffice, KOffice, Gobe Productive, etc. etc. all have had to implement some sort of filter to display Office documents - usually with less-than-adequate results. The end result is that information that belongs to US is being held hostage by Microsoft - if you want to communicate with others, you have to use MS Office. (Why do you think there is a version of Office for the Mac? Certainly not because there was no quality office suite available.)
Releasing those codes would go a long way towards truly leveling the playing field for other office software makers, and would in turn give people the choice to use any office software (and hence any operating system) they please.
It's quite true that youth have a lot more to offer than they often get credit for.
It's also true, however, that I for one (and I have heard this sentiment echoed by many people) knew everything I needed to know at the age of 15, and it wasn't until I was in my 20's that I began to understand the depths of my own ignorance.
I tried that once, but it came with no RAM...and I couldn't find the floppy...
Thank you, folks - I'll be here all week...
But manufacturers can't make money off anything they can't patent.
Actually, it seems to me that manufacturers of MP3 devices, unless they held the patent on MP3, are the ones who would be losing money to licensing fees. If they used Ogg Vorbis, they would not be forced to pay those fees, so they would be able to pocket the difference - as in make more money.
I think we have to remember that when we bought a PC that "came with" Windows, we bought that copy of Windows, too.
Of course, if you build an ATI chip in your mobo, then ATI gets a cut. If MS really gave a shit about their "partners" then they could simply bundle the existing products as a "value-add", cut in the companies that created popular software fro THEIR platform, & let people upgrade later if they choose to.
As it stands its an old law, but by changing this law what's to say that somewhere down the line heroin and cocaine addicts won't start the same "Legalize It" tactics? Why should it be only a legalize pot issue when pot isn't the only drug?
:^)
It's an old law bred largely from misinformation combined with knee-jerk reactions. The main difference that I can see is that the harmful effects of heroine & cocaine are more immediate & severe. Those addicted to these substances will rob & kill to get a fix, whereas most potheads (none that I have ever known) will do this for weed.
Studies have shown, and I personally have seen effects of those studies, that a large portion of people who recreated with `weed' often graduated on to harder drugs.
My personal experience was that, after hearing what the "authorities" said about pot & finding that it did not bear out from my personal experiences, I figured if they're bullshitting me about pot, they're probably lying about the other stuff, too. This unfortunately led me down a road I wish I hadn't taken, and one I have gotten away from since. But, the fact remains that inconsistancies & untruth led me to make certain judgements at the time, which could have been different if people had simply told the truth.
So I don't think legalizing just one because people are bitching about it is a good thing unless you're not going to stop playing favorites and legalize them all, period.
How about this idea: legalization of naturally-occuring substances? This would allow the use of pot, peyote (used in various indigenous rituals) and mushrooms (not that I'm advocating them), while banning man-made concoctions such as cocaine, heroine, etc. Personally, I've always wondered how society could outlaw something that was placed on this Earth by God. We are presented with choices along the road of life after all, & not everything can be sanitized for your protection. I do believe, however, that man-made substances (of all sorts) should be used with restraint, especially as we often do not fathom the full impact of our clever inventions until it's too late.
OK - back to the topic at hand. Talk amongst yourselves...
The sysadmin probably knows this already, unless he's busy getting somebody's coffee cup out of their CD-ROM drive. Stopping them to complain about it only delays action. :)
Supposedly, they are going to have a combination of commercial & commercial-free channels. Of course, I would guess that this would be somewhat dependant on how much they make from ads & subscriptions - it wouldn't surprise me if they ended up selling commercial time on all of 'em after a period of time.
For stability, give me wires over wireless any day.
...I stole some TV last night. But, Your Honor - in all fairness, I REALLY had to pee...
The flip side to this, however, is "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". I can't count the number of times I took support calls from users who, after getting an explanation of something that happened & how to fix it, went on with this "little knowledge" & tried to apply it to some other problem, resulting in a long (& expensive) support call after all. Not only did we have to fix their original problem, but first we had to fix whatever it was they broke.
These were also the people who, to whom you would say, "hit Cntl-C" andthen hear something like 'clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclic kclickclickclickclick..."Uh-Oh"...clickclickclickc lickclickclickclickclick...
OTOH, remote support was quite useful to diagnose & fix problems. An additional benefit was that you could see what the person was doing wrong, rather than apply psychology to get them to admit it. (Very few people will admit that they made a mistake.)
Sure, some people want to have you on the phone, and this is usually part of the service that is provided. Our usual practice was to have them on the phone as we were attached to their PC, because we usually needed the additional feedback. But, if they had other work to do - which many of them did - then we could administer a fix while they got on with their business.
It's not MS's fault that in this country, blacks choose to educate themselves much less than other ethnic groups.
I would really like to know how you discovered this mass choice by blacks in this country to be ignorant.
I personally know many blacks who work extremely hard to educate themselves in spite of a horrendous lack of support & resources from the community around them, and many of them are much more intelligent than a lot of whites that I have known who have come up in better surroundings.
The reason? They want it, and it isn't given to them as easily as it is to many whites, who often end up taking the oppurtunities presented to them for granted.
Next time you're looking in the mirror, ask yourself about the face of subtle racism.
SO - the answer is to use Mac or Windows, huh? Thanks, but no thanks.
The reason why is that outboard effects units require you to use analog signals for the input. When you are working in digital, each pass thru D/A -> A/D degrades the signal to the point where most reasonably affordable DSP units would just sound crappy. Now, if you had one that had digital I/O, then it would definitely be a better choice, but these are few if not non-existant. (I am not aware of any myself.) Protools and similar integrated solutions do just that - they use seperate DSP processing on extra cards for effects, as does the company I work for. (Ours is aimed at the broadcast market, so we don't do reverb, etc. but we do have various EQ and dynamics processing modules. Unfortunately for me, it's a Windows-based system. :( Oh, well - at least I get to use it for some programming.)
I personally enjoy the fact that I get so many apps with my distro (Mandrake is my favorite). But, aside from the one on his head, the writer of this article does have a point. (For example, I only use 2 or 3 of the 5 X-terminals I have installed, and that's only for a change of scenery, really.) How's this for a solution: As an installation option, have a "basic" choice - one that would install the most mature packages that would do the job in question, without redundancy. Later, if the user decided that another app would fit their particular need, they could install that alongside of (or perhaps in place of - an rpm option, perhaps?) the original. This way, Newbies wouldn't have to try to find their way through +1000 packages either before or after installation. You could have your cake & eat something else if you don't want it later. As for what gets picked as "mature", that should be up to the company that makes the distro. Variance in the included packages already exists anyhow, so it wouldn't really make a big difference on their end, I suspect. (BTW - Too many applications included is a good problem, & one that Windows & Mac users never have to face...)
"Imagine having several programs/documents open at the same time and be able to seamlessly operate between them, as if they were one program."
.NET for Linux...I wonder if MS is ready to give up their exclusionary approaches to their software, or will they continue to use MS-specific features that won't function properly without a MS-approved interface? (.NET or .NOT?)
As far as Orifice-type docs go, I don't have to imagine this - I have Gobe Productive.
As for
This has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read on /. - and that ain't easy...
Except, of course, the thousands of groups/artists who scrimp & save a small pile of money from their REAL jobs to go to a studio (or buy their own gear) to self-produce their own CDs, which they can sell at a >100% profit for less than the price you'd pay at MegaMusic Inc...but hey - they were foolish enough to record it, so screw them, right?
You know, I've never understood how people could take pride in something that they have absolutely no control over whatsoever.