Hopefully Tivo won't go the same route. Fortunately, if it did, the active Tivo hackers community would probably provide some solutions for replacing the discontinued service portion of the Tivo product.
Saying some individuals demonstrated great craft is much different (and more accurate) than lauding Gangs as a triumph of cinema and the best picture of the year.
Agreed - some individual nominations might have been warranted, but the "Best Picture" nomination is an example of some Academy members:
Letting their respect for the director cloud their judgement
Letting their praise for components of the picture interfere with their assessment of the picture as a whole
using their vote to encourage risk-taking and ambitious pictures rather than rewarding excellence
Another movie that has received critical acclaim of which I do not understand is Gangs of New York.
I thought that Gangs of New York had a lot of marvelous parts that simply didn't tie together into a cohesive whole. The set design and visuals were amazing, and as another post points out the setting was one that we haven't seen much in movies.
On the whole, it was an ambitious and flawed effort. Too long, and the details and backround were more interesting than the main plot, but I can understand why many Academy members were impressed. While not a great movie, some individuals (both actors and technical folks) involved in this movie demonstrated great craft.
An example of the whole being less than the sum of the parts.
The only justification for not charging sales taxes for online retail purchases was that the sytem was just too complicated - retailers couldn't be expected to be familiar with the rules of every taxing authority nationwide.
If a rational system for determining which sales tax applies can be put into place, there is no reason that online sites should be exempt.
BTW, I agree that the moritorium was justified - I just don't think you can reasonably expect it to last forever.
>>Only reason anyone buys stuff online is because it is marked down enough to cover shipping...
Not true - I shop online for selection, convenience, and easy price comparison. Not to say that it won't hurt the online retailers from a price competitiveness standpoint, but this decision certainly doesn't mean "the end of online retailing."
"All Dell has to do is pick one (RH or Lycoris), support it, and make sure drivers are available on all the others, should a technically astute person want to put SuSE or Debian on it."
You forgot the other thing they need to do: make a profit. Supporting an additional OS on your hardware is not a trivial undertaking if you want to do it right. Building the required additional infrastructure only makes sense if they can sell enough units. Whether they can sell enough units to make a profit on a new pre-installed Linux initiative remains open to question.
Hopefully, companies with significant Internet sales (Land's End, Amazon, etc) have enough lobbyists on retainer to slow down the implementation of these taxes. I suspect that we'll eventually see Internet transactions taxed in some way, but the additional bureaucracy involved in figuring out which of the thousands of taxing authorities has jurisdiction over each sales will be a nightmare.
Taxing Internet transactions in a fair and equitable manner will require wholesale changes to the way taxes are collected in the U.S. at the federal, state, and local levels. We're not ready to make this change yet.
I remember one game where you were on a stairstepper that powered an airtanker/fighter that swooped over fires and put them out
I liked that one two, but only saw it once in a gym in Wisconsin when I was travelling on business. Really made the time go by quickly, and the nature of the game helped you do interval training without thinking about it. I wish more gyms would start adding these.
Ah, so the familiar motion of going for the horn might produce either a burst of acceleration or a sudden stop. Is the horn on the floor?
If you read the article carefully, it sounds like they used the funky "user interface" to demonstrate the flexibility of the platform. I don't think that they necessarily intended to use the "hands-only" controls in the eventual mass-market version of this vehicle. (Maybe it will be available as an option for people with disabilities)
I don't really see anything that sinister here. It looks like a typical memo defining a procedure for responding with "one voice" to a business challenge that Microsoft faces. Frankly, I'd be surprised if they weren't having these kind of discussions.
Some of the comments seem unecessarily shrill to me. Example:
Name the key contacts within the gov't {Translation: Who can we suborn?}
Providing a list of people to contact does not imply suborning (from m-w.com "to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing") to me. How is it unlawful to contact a customer who might be going to a competitor and trying to convince them to reconsider?
Don't get me wrong - I'm excited to see governments looking at Linux and Open Source as an alternative. I just don't think it serves anybody's best interest to take a pretty routine memo and try to turn it into the Pentagon Papers.
Mark Sobell's A Practical Guide to Linux is the best beginner's book on Linux I've ever found. After reading this book, all the man pages and HowTos finally started making sense.
" So, let me get this straight: because Intel packs wi-fi onto each intel chip, wi-fi won't sell as an accessory? Ah, yes, I see...just like how motherboard venders include sound and video, and as such, the video card and sound card industries flail in lack of funds."
The companies that used to make "Super I/O cards" may turn out to be a better comparison. The market for separate cards for IDE controllers, serial ports, and parallel ports, hasn't disappeared (after all, Promise makes some money selling their IDE controllers), but it's tiny compared to what it was before these features became standard as an integrated part of the motherboard.
With sound and video, there are clear gradations of quality. Wireless network access is more of a binary quality - it either works or it doesn't. There will probably always be a niche market for external wireless adapters with special features (longer range, etc), but I suspect that integrated wireless access devices will become the norm.
What about the reverse? Should companies help propagate freedom in other countries? Sell only to the rebels!? Free speech = right to advertise. Viva la revolucion!
There is definitely room for an appeal to enlightened self-interest. Free speech and free markets are more closely related than a lot of people think.
"you make a good point, but remember that the burden of proof will be on Microsoft. They would have to fight a costly, uphill battle in each case where they suspect any "contamination" is taking place."
Microsoft has plenty of money to pursue any legal battle that they think is in their own best interest. I can more easily envision a scenario where a "GPL programmer" or his/her company with limited cash reserves would back down rather than try to fight Microsoft in court.
"Rare texts" are rare, because it's easy to use them agains (sic)Catholic Church. I think they'll stay "rare".
No, rare texts are rare because few copies exist. Why not? For one thing, many of the books and manuscripts that we're talking about predate the printing press. No need to come up with conspiracy theories to explain it.
I have a DHCP allocated address. I would like a static address. I don't want to ask Comcast because they will suspect (correctly) that I want to run my own HTTP, email, etc, servers.
If you leave your system on 24/7 and configure it to re-register it's DHCP info on a regular basis, you will usually keep the same IP address indefinitely. If you're using a broadband router like the SMC barricade, you may even have an option labelled something like "Renew IP Forever."
Of course, none of this will prevent Comcast from using other means to detect that you're violating your terms of service.
"Transgaming is nice and all, but it seems that all the momentum is over porting games"
That's why Codeweavers makes Crossover office (http://www.codeweavers.com/home/). The free market at work - both Codeweavers and Transgaming are responding to the fact that two different market segments are willing to pay for an easy-to-install version of wine that supports their applications.
If only it had a "video in" connection - it would be ideal for catching up on your TV watching while your flying cross-country. I suppose that aside from any legal issues, video encoding would be more intensive than the audio encoding that it does support.
Include the GNU utilities for Win32. Put it in the user's path and it won't bother them if they don't use the tools.
If you want to transition folks to Linux, prepare them by familiarizing them with the basic tools. Personally, I've found tools such as grep and sed to be indispensible even when I'm using Windows.
Despite the fact that the original poster specifically dismissed Cygwin, I think he should reconsider. The new graphical installer makes the installation relatively painless for "Joe Windows User," and some of the included tools are indispensible.
Not ever user will try them out, but once you've gotten used to being able to grep files on your Win32 box, it's hard to do without! Plus, because you're using standard GNU versions of tools such as SSH, online examples will be easier to follow.
If disk space allows, go ahead and include Cygwin.
I used to use PuTTY, but found it became unstable after 30-45 minutes of heavy tunneling (web proxy, VNC, SMTP, IMAP, etc).
The problem might be related to my connection, but when I switched over to using the SSH version that comes with Cygwin everything became much more stable. Again, I think that my connection is a factor, but the Cygwin version of SSH was much more tolerant and stable under the same conditions.
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Hopefully Tivo won't go the same route. Fortunately, if it did, the active Tivo hackers community would probably provide some solutions for replacing the discontinued service portion of the Tivo product.
The $29 after rebate version is sold out.
Agreed - some individual nominations might have been warranted, but the "Best Picture" nomination is an example of some Academy members:
Another movie that has received critical acclaim
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of which I do not understand is Gangs of New York.
I thought that Gangs of New York had a lot of marvelous parts that simply didn't tie together into a cohesive whole. The set design and visuals were amazing, and as another post points out the setting was one that we haven't seen much in movies.
On the whole, it was an ambitious and flawed effort. Too long, and the details and backround were more interesting than the main plot, but I can understand why many Academy members were impressed. While not a great movie, some individuals (both actors and technical folks) involved in this movie demonstrated great craft
An example of the whole being less than the sum of the parts.
The only justification for not charging sales taxes for online retail purchases was that the sytem was just too complicated - retailers couldn't be expected to be familiar with the rules of every taxing authority nationwide.
If a rational system for determining which sales tax applies can be put into place, there is no reason that online sites should be exempt.
BTW, I agree that the moritorium was justified - I just don't think you can reasonably expect it to last forever.
>>Only reason anyone buys stuff online is because it is marked down enough to cover shipping...
Not true - I shop online for selection, convenience, and easy price comparison. Not to say that it won't hurt the online retailers from a price competitiveness standpoint, but this decision certainly doesn't mean "the end of online retailing."
"All Dell has to do is pick one (RH or Lycoris), support it, and make sure drivers are available on all the others, should a technically astute person want to put SuSE or Debian on it."
You forgot the other thing they need to do: make a profit. Supporting an additional OS on your hardware is not a trivial undertaking if you want to do it right. Building the required additional infrastructure only makes sense if they can sell enough units. Whether they can sell enough units to make a profit on a new pre-installed Linux initiative remains open to question.
Hopefully, companies with significant Internet sales (Land's End, Amazon, etc) have enough lobbyists on retainer to slow down the implementation of these taxes. I suspect that we'll eventually see Internet transactions taxed in some way, but the additional bureaucracy involved in figuring out which of the thousands of taxing authorities has jurisdiction over each sales will be a nightmare.
Taxing Internet transactions in a fair and equitable manner will require wholesale changes to the way taxes are collected in the U.S. at the federal, state, and local levels. We're not ready to make this change yet.
I remember one game where you were on a stairstepper that powered an airtanker/fighter that swooped over fires and put them out
I liked that one two, but only saw it once in a gym in Wisconsin when I was travelling on business. Really made the time go by quickly, and the nature of the game helped you do interval training without thinking about it. I wish more gyms would start adding these.
Ah, so the familiar motion of going for the horn might produce either a burst of acceleration or a sudden stop. Is the horn on the floor?
If you read the article carefully, it sounds like they used the funky "user interface" to demonstrate the flexibility of the platform. I don't think that they necessarily intended to use the "hands-only" controls in the eventual mass-market version of this vehicle. (Maybe it will be available as an option for people with disabilities)
I don't really see anything that sinister here. It looks like a typical memo defining a procedure for responding with "one voice" to a business challenge that Microsoft faces. Frankly, I'd be surprised if they weren't having these kind of discussions.
Some of the comments seem unecessarily shrill to me. Example:
Name the key contacts within the gov't
{Translation: Who can we suborn?}
Providing a list of people to contact does not imply suborning (from m-w.com "to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing") to me. How is it unlawful to contact a customer who might be going to a competitor and trying to convince them to reconsider?
Don't get me wrong - I'm excited to see governments looking at Linux and Open Source as an alternative. I just don't think it serves anybody's best interest to take a pretty routine memo and try to turn it into the Pentagon Papers.
"this doesn't seem to be a bootable working distro . . . "
Not true - you can start up X-Windows and do quite a bit with this BBC. Ideal for running remote X Sessions, for example.
Mark Sobell's A Practical Guide to Linux is the best beginner's book on Linux I've ever found. After reading this book, all the man pages and HowTos finally started making sense.
" So, let me get this straight: because Intel packs wi-fi onto each intel chip, wi-fi won't sell as an accessory? Ah, yes, I see...just like how motherboard venders include sound and video, and as such, the video card and sound card industries flail in lack of funds."
The companies that used to make "Super I/O cards" may turn out to be a better comparison. The market for separate cards for IDE controllers, serial ports, and parallel ports, hasn't disappeared (after all, Promise makes some money selling their IDE controllers), but it's tiny compared to what it was before these features became standard as an integrated part of the motherboard.
With sound and video, there are clear gradations of quality. Wireless network access is more of a binary quality - it either works or it doesn't. There will probably always be a niche market for external wireless adapters with special features (longer range, etc), but I suspect that integrated wireless access devices will become the norm.
What about the reverse? Should companies help propagate freedom in other countries? Sell only to the rebels!? Free speech = right to advertise. Viva la revolucion!
There is definitely room for an appeal to enlightened self-interest. Free speech and free markets are more closely related than a lot of people think.
There is definitely a moral issue here - should companies help suppress freedom in other countries?
But is there really a legal issue here? I'm not so sure.
"you make a good point, but remember that the burden of proof will be on Microsoft. They would have to fight a costly, uphill battle in each case where they suspect any "contamination" is taking place."
Microsoft has plenty of money to pursue any legal battle that they think is in their own best interest. I can more easily envision a scenario where a "GPL programmer" or his/her company with limited cash reserves would back down rather than try to fight Microsoft in court.
"Rare texts" are rare, because it's easy to use them agains (sic)Catholic Church. I think they'll stay "rare".
No, rare texts are rare because few copies exist. Why not? For one thing, many of the books and manuscripts that we're talking about predate the printing press. No need to come up with conspiracy theories to explain it.
I have a DHCP allocated address. I would like a static address. I don't want to ask Comcast because they will suspect (correctly) that I want to run my own HTTP, email, etc, servers.
If you leave your system on 24/7 and configure it to re-register it's DHCP info on a regular basis, you will usually keep the same IP address indefinitely. If you're using a broadband router like the SMC barricade, you may even have an option labelled something like "Renew IP Forever."
Of course, none of this will prevent Comcast from using other means to detect that you're violating your terms of service.
What I want is a an inexexpensive thin client for my TV - say ~$200 - that could:
a. act as an X server when needed
b. connect to my stereo to stream audio from my PC upstairs.
SO, minumum would be TV out, 802.11b, sound card.
"Transgaming is nice and all, but it seems that all the momentum is over porting games"
That's why Codeweavers makes Crossover office (http://www.codeweavers.com/home/). The free market at work - both Codeweavers and Transgaming are responding to the fact that two different market segments are willing to pay for an easy-to-install version of wine that supports their applications.
If only it had a "video in" connection - it would be ideal for catching up on your TV watching while your flying cross-country. I suppose that aside from any legal issues, video encoding would be more intensive than the audio encoding that it does support.
Include the GNU utilities for Win32. Put it in the user's path and it won't bother them if they don't use the tools.
If you want to transition folks to Linux, prepare them by familiarizing them with the basic tools. Personally, I've found tools such as grep and sed to be indispensible even when I'm using Windows.
Despite the fact that the original poster specifically dismissed Cygwin, I think he should reconsider. The new graphical installer makes the installation relatively painless for "Joe Windows User," and some of the included tools are indispensible.
Not ever user will try them out, but once you've gotten used to being able to grep files on your Win32 box, it's hard to do without! Plus, because you're using standard GNU versions of tools such as SSH, online examples will be easier to follow.
If disk space allows, go ahead and include Cygwin.
I used to use PuTTY, but found it became unstable after 30-45 minutes of heavy tunneling (web proxy, VNC, SMTP, IMAP, etc).
The problem might be related to my connection, but when I switched over to using the SSH version that comes with Cygwin everything became much more stable. Again, I think that my connection is a factor, but the Cygwin version of SSH was much more tolerant and stable under the same conditions.