As light as 6.9 pounds according to the specs, but hey it does come with some ugly facades you can stick on the back of your LCD panel. Seriously, as an owner of two dell laptops previously, they need to loose the weight fast. There is no excuse for a 7 pound 15in notebook.
I love how the IPTPS is invitation only, considering that most of the hackers who made P2P technologies as popular as they are today, wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell in getting an invitation before they released. The concept of an invitation only P2P conference goes against all the ideas which ignited P2P development in the first place.
Even in this paper, the definitions of P2P and Grid computing seem to be hopelesly ambiguous. I've always assumed that grid computing fell under the definition of P2P. Isn't grid computing and distributed computing the same thing? From the oreilly P2P book, I remember distributing computing, file sharing, instant messaging and web services were defined as P2P applications.
Even the definition of grid computing in this paper, is the same as distributed computing using a hybrid centralized+decentralized P2P topology.
For the past year we have listened to Mac fanboys talk about how Apple will never put DRM in to OSX. With this service they will be using a propreitary DRM laced format called AAC made by Dolby Labs. This will prevent users from converting the files they paid for in to other digital formats such as MP3 for use in other players. For instance if you own an Audiotron, you cannot convert your AAC files to MP3 to play on your home MP3 player. Apple is taking a page from Microsoft's strategy book and forcing Apple users to use an I-pod if they want to use their propreitary format on a portable player.
According to this article not only will the service use DRM, but it will also be futher legitimizing Amazon's one click patent. But regardless, this thread will be full of Apple apoligists, who will say that Apple's music service is "insanely great," and that the company is going in the right direction by ignoring fair use.
Although there is no mention of the formats used for this service, I doubt the music industry would give their seal of approval without some form of DRM.
The problem with this service is that it does not meet the demands of the average music enthusiast. MP3 devices are pretty much ubiquitous these days, even in non-techie circles. Nobody is going to subscribe to a service that does not maintain fair use rights. When I purchase a CD or download a song from a pay service, I expect to be able to play that song on my Ipod, put it on a samba share to play on an audiotron, or burn it to a CD for my car.
If your going to provide a pay service, it must be in a standard format. MP3 is the current standard, and if it is not in MP3, it will go under. With this current strategy, Musicnet users can only play downloaded tracks through AOL! The CD burning feature is such a joke, 10 tracks? 10 tracks, considering the average song length is not enough to fill a 74 minute CD.
The most ridiculous part about this whole service is the requirement of an AOL subscription. So in order to use this service a prospective customer needs to pay $25/month for an AOL subscription and $18/month for unlimited downloads of a DRM crippled format and the ability to burn 10 tracks. So for $43, users can download low quality, DRM crippled songs from a 56k modem, and every month they can burn half of a mix CD with 10 tracks!
I've said it before and I will repeat it again, because apparently nobody at AOL/TW reads/. If you are going to charge for a service, any service whether it is downloadable music, catering, or blowjobs in a cheap motel, you need to meet the basic needs of your potential customers.
Thank Bush. Maybe if he would stop looking for wars and focus realistic solutions for the economy, things would look brighter. Unfortunately he dug himself in to hole he can't get out. If Iraq doesn't make major concessions he is a failure, if the US doesn't go to war he is a failure. The economy has been a complete afterthought in the Bush administration, not to mention their ludicrous tax cuts. Tax cuts are great, but they don't fix the fucking economy, especially tax cuts for the rich. Defense spending and tax cuts will not help the deficit either, which the balance budget has went out the door and GW has resorted back to actions that got the US this far in debt in the first place.
My parents paid $2000 for a new Dell PC because they were terrified that a new PowerMac or PowerBook would not have been compatable with my unversity's software requirements. Ironically, my PowerBook G3 which runs at 333mhz is a better development box for my school work than my PC
How would your mac be a better development box than that PC running Linux?
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Linux is certainly mainstream, but the process behind Linux (OSS) is certainly not mainstream, especially to a business audience, hence the "rebillious" description.
Just in case anyone was confused by the name, this is the processor that was codenamed Banias. Depending on when this product is publicly available, this could be the final straw for transmeta. Transmeta's Astro looks like a great product, but if the stronger Intel has the first mover advantage, Transmeta may be SOL.
On a side note, Fujitsu [fujitsu.com] makes a killer laptop [fujitsupc.com]! I've seen it in action...perhaps one of the best laptops for its size...
As an owner of the latest p-2k I have nothing but praise for the p-2000 series. Integrated wireless, DVD/CDR, firewire, and a host of other features packed in to 3.5 pound form factor. The battery life is amazing especially with the little extended main battery I can get 6 hours. Here is a little review I wrote ahwile back,
Was there ever a time when you had to bring some FSF geeks in to court for their expert testimony? How did you manage to clean them up for the courthouse? Was there any beard trimming and/or suit shopping?
The one big feature missing for me in evolution is a spam filter. Fortunately, spamassassin works great even if you have to run it locally. Here are some instructions for evolution users who need to run it locally or are lucky enough to have spamassassin installed on their mail server.
Why go from being tied from one vendor to another? Buying an Xserve kills all the advantages of using commodity hardware. Not to mention on a price/performance ratio x86 blows xserve out of the water. Xserves are great for shops were you don't have a skilled administration staff, but obviously this is not the case with Pixar.
First off, the release of a new Intel mobile chip has absolutley nothing to do with the powerbook. Intel is trying to get some battery life, which has been an issue since the Osborne, which Intel has done a poor job of addressing.
Transmeta's next offering is going to put the Penitum-m to shame, if it doesn't Linus will be looking for a new job.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the powerbook.
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I bought the Sim's online about a month ago, because of all the hype surrounding the release. I played it for about 2 days, and came to the conclusion that it is just too time consuming except for the die-hard Sim's fan. Another problem with the game is the replay-ability factor. The secret to any online game is replay-ability. The Sims online gets boring real quick and I can't imagine only having one computer to play this game. If you only have on computer, Sim's online prevents you from web surfing, iming, or any other activity while playing the game.
BUYER BEWARE, I purchased the Sim's online under the notion that I could try it out, cancel my account, and sell the game used on ebay or amazon. Even after canceling my account, the person who bought the game told me that EA said the game was registered to another user. EA is trying to strongarm the used market, and force everyone to buy the game new.
I guess you've never heard of XRandR. It allows on-the-fly resolution changing and screen rotation. The extension will be included in XFree86 4.3. Both KDE and GNOME are working on support for XRandR.
Typical answer, now explain to me how the newbie is suppose to use this if it isn't in the distro or in the documentation for the distro? Do you expect users to scour the web for software, compile, and install? I understand your point of showing that there are programs out there that are working on this problem, but it doesn't help the newbie who buys a distro today.
We all know NASA is completely mismanaged, and needs a complete restructuring, but it doesn't get that much money. Take a look at this image from the WSJ, that shows that the NASA Budget today is a far cry from the late 60's.
Take a look at this chart of the 2003 Bush Budget proposal increases, which is going to put our economy in the shitter for a long time. The defense budget is getting a $379 billion dollar increase. That's right, in order to fight terrorism we need to invest in the latest defense technologies since we all know 9-11 wouldn't of happened if we had better tanks, fighter jets, and my favorite project looking for an enemy, the missle defense system. I love how the government uses an incident which could only have been prevented by quality intelligence work, immigration procedures, and airport security, as an excuse to feed already bloated defense budgets.
I can link to countless other tales as well and just a little friendly advice, recounting X amount experience comes off as foolish and condescending. Personal experience with anything is not an accurate benchmark. Apple has a great product with OSX, as a tibook owner, I'm very happy, but Apple the company is not as great as their user base perceives it to be and somehow they think buying an Apple product makes them part of a movement, which is completely ludicrous, but a marketing success nonetheless for Apple
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As light as 6.9 pounds according to the specs, but hey it does come with some ugly facades you can stick on the back of your LCD panel. Seriously, as an owner of two dell laptops previously, they need to loose the weight fast. There is no excuse for a 7 pound 15in notebook.
I love how the IPTPS is invitation only, considering that most of the hackers who made P2P technologies as popular as they are today, wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell in getting an invitation before they released. The concept of an invitation only P2P conference goes against all the ideas which ignited P2P development in the first place.
Even the definition of grid computing in this paper, is the same as distributed computing using a hybrid centralized+decentralized P2P topology.
According to this article not only will the service use DRM, but it will also be futher legitimizing Amazon's one click patent. But regardless, this thread will be full of Apple apoligists, who will say that Apple's music service is "insanely great," and that the company is going in the right direction by ignoring fair use.
Although there is no mention of the formats used for this service, I doubt the music industry would give their seal of approval without some form of DRM.
If open source developers should do anything for the Bush's "war effort", it should be this!.
If your going to provide a pay service, it must be in a standard format. MP3 is the current standard, and if it is not in MP3, it will go under. With this current strategy, Musicnet users can only play downloaded tracks through AOL! The CD burning feature is such a joke, 10 tracks? 10 tracks, considering the average song length is not enough to fill a 74 minute CD.
The most ridiculous part about this whole service is the requirement of an AOL subscription. So in order to use this service a prospective customer needs to pay $25/month for an AOL subscription and $18/month for unlimited downloads of a DRM crippled format and the ability to burn 10 tracks. So for $43, users can download low quality, DRM crippled songs from a 56k modem, and every month they can burn half of a mix CD with 10 tracks!
I've said it before and I will repeat it again, because apparently nobody at AOL/TW reads /. If you are going to charge for a service, any service whether it is downloadable music, catering, or blowjobs in a cheap motel, you need to meet the basic needs of your potential customers.
ICal is great, but Apple Mail is no better than many mail clients available for Linux and windows.
Because I doubt M$ would honor the 64 bit windows deal if Sun purchased AMD or maybe Sun could use that to pursue more legal manuvering.
Thank Bush. Maybe if he would stop looking for wars and focus realistic solutions for the economy, things would look brighter. Unfortunately he dug himself in to hole he can't get out. If Iraq doesn't make major concessions he is a failure, if the US doesn't go to war he is a failure. The economy has been a complete afterthought in the Bush administration, not to mention their ludicrous tax cuts. Tax cuts are great, but they don't fix the fucking economy, especially tax cuts for the rich. Defense spending and tax cuts will not help the deficit either, which the balance budget has went out the door and GW has resorted back to actions that got the US this far in debt in the first place.
How would your mac be a better development box than that PC running Linux?
Linux is certainly mainstream, but the process behind Linux (OSS) is certainly not mainstream, especially to a business audience, hence the "rebillious" description.
Just in case anyone was confused by the name, this is the processor that was codenamed Banias. Depending on when this product is publicly available, this could be the final straw for transmeta. Transmeta's Astro looks like a great product, but if the stronger Intel has the first mover advantage, Transmeta may be SOL.
I thought it was really good, compared to what else was released, but it certainly wasn't Scorcese's finest.
As an owner of the latest p-2k I have nothing but praise for the p-2000 series. Integrated wireless, DVD/CDR, firewire, and a host of other features packed in to 3.5 pound form factor. The battery life is amazing especially with the little extended main battery I can get 6 hours. Here is a little review I wrote ahwile back,
Was there ever a time when you had to bring some FSF geeks in to court for their expert testimony? How did you manage to clean them up for the courthouse? Was there any beard trimming and/or suit shopping?
The one big feature missing for me in evolution is a spam filter. Fortunately, spamassassin works great even if you have to run it locally. Here are some instructions for evolution users who need to run it locally or are lucky enough to have spamassassin installed on their mail server.
Why go from being tied from one vendor to another? Buying an Xserve kills all the advantages of using commodity hardware. Not to mention on a price/performance ratio x86 blows xserve out of the water. Xserves are great for shops were you don't have a skilled administration staff, but obviously this is not the case with Pixar.
Hey just because Linux is cheap doesn't mean we should start using ethic stereotypes to describe it. ;)
Transmeta's next offering is going to put the Penitum-m to shame, if it doesn't Linus will be looking for a new job.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the powerbook.
BUYER BEWARE, I purchased the Sim's online under the notion that I could try it out, cancel my account, and sell the game used on ebay or amazon. Even after canceling my account, the person who bought the game told me that EA said the game was registered to another user. EA is trying to strongarm the used market, and force everyone to buy the game new.
Typical answer, now explain to me how the newbie is suppose to use this if it isn't in the distro or in the documentation for the distro? Do you expect users to scour the web for software, compile, and install? I understand your point of showing that there are programs out there that are working on this problem, but it doesn't help the newbie who buys a distro today.
Take a look at this chart of the 2003 Bush Budget proposal increases, which is going to put our economy in the shitter for a long time. The defense budget is getting a $379 billion dollar increase. That's right, in order to fight terrorism we need to invest in the latest defense technologies since we all know 9-11 wouldn't of happened if we had better tanks, fighter jets, and my favorite project looking for an enemy, the missle defense system. I love how the government uses an incident which could only have been prevented by quality intelligence work, immigration procedures, and airport security, as an excuse to feed already bloated defense budgets.
The biggest problem with the Mac user base, is blind loyalty.
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this is a classic
another example of Apple's fine legal department
I can link to countless other tales as well and just a little friendly advice, recounting X amount experience comes off as foolish and condescending. Personal experience with anything is not an accurate benchmark. Apple has a great product with OSX, as a tibook owner, I'm very happy, but Apple the company is not as great as their user base perceives it to be and somehow they think buying an Apple product makes them part of a movement, which is completely ludicrous, but a marketing success nonetheless for Apple