You're probably doing something wrong. Post your request on the lists dedicated to your syncing apps, and we can help (gnome-pilot? jpilot? pilot-link? kpilot? PilotManager?)
There are many thousands of users happily syncronizing their PalmOS-based PDAs on Linux and BSD, using serial, IR, and USB connection methods.
"..and selling them under a different title and using the tables of contents in his ads without showing the license or listing me as the author"
This is also a Lanham Act violation, otherwise known as "False designation of origin", and you can persue him on that through the US Copyright Office as well as through most attorneys.
Also, to the previous people who insist that this is not a GPL violation, but a copyright violation, you're wrong... it's both.
Once the GPL is violated (by the letter of the license, refusing to include the license or full works), he is now forbidden from redistributing the work at all. All further attempts to do so, are NOW copyright violations (as well as the Lanham Act).
For each copy redistributed, you are eligible for a financial penalty from the suit. You own the works from the point of creation on, but it makes it much easier to legally enforce through a court system if you have filed Copyright papers through the United States Copyright office. I know, because we've had to do this with one of our Free Software products (Company A took our software, created an entire business around it, stripped our names and license from the code, sold it to other companies who resell it, and then claimed THEY wrote it).
You can do all of this without having to use the double-edged sword of the DMCA to enforce it.
I too am seeing *MAJOR* slowdowns in performance when using 2.5.66 or anything after 2.5.64-mm1 (.64-mm1 is hands-down the most responsive out of any 2.5.xx kernel series to date).
Since -mm1, the rest have gotten more and more and more sluggish. Now with 2.5.66-mm1, it takes rougly 3-4 seconds for an xterm to open with a ctrl-alt-b keystroke in sawfish. With 2.5.64-mm1, it's instantaneous. 2.5.66-mm1 (or alan's patch or straight 2.5.66) also seems to "miss" my keyboard shortcuts to launch applications, like an xterm, and I have to hit them several times before the first instance will launch, then about 10 seconds later, 3-4 other copies will launch too. Not fun for apps that don't lock well.
I can also reproducably hard-lock any 2.5 kernel running with the USB visor module by simply plugging in my USB Palm handheld, hitting HotSync on the handheld, and then tapping Cancel on the handheld about 2 seconds later. I've tested this hundreds of times, and I can reproduce it 100% of the time. This is a major blocker for me, since I was going to be using the 2.5 series in a product that works around USB Palm devices. The same process on 2.4.21-pre6 does not exhibit these symptoms. Greg Kroah is aware of it already, though there doesn't seem to be any resolution yet.
I'll wait until they get the responsiveness that was in 2.5.64-mm1 back into the 2.5.66 series before I go whole-hog over to it.
Has anyone considered that this was intentional, and that they have some (ahem) "fixes" that they'd like you to install, which will be shipped in SP2? How about, oh, more DRM? Back doors? Spyware hooks?
I for one, don't trust Microsoft's tactics these days. This comes days after the announcement that they aren't going to fix the bug in NT4.0.
This all smells like a ploy to try to get everyone to use XP, and then from there, to get SP2 installed. I can only wonder what goodies this brings, besides the "fix" that it purportedly addresses.
Yet even more reason to consider the more feature-rich, secure alternatives such as FreeBSD or Linux. Move now, your data may not be able to move later on if this keeps up.
The company went from over 500 people to under 200 in under two years.
My last job (incidentally, 70 weeks ago, unable to find work since) required me to relocate 3,100 miles from the Right coast to the Left coast, to work for them, leaving a very stable job behind. A week after I got there, my hiring manager was fired, along with 76 other people. We were 250 people at the time.
Over the next 14 months, we went through 5 rounds of layoffs, including the last one which liquidated my entire department, leaving me as the only person standing. Even my boss was let go.
In 18 months time, we had gone from 250 people to 30, and were on our 4th CEO. All three founders had resigned, two failed merger deals (one with a company that just recently bit the dust themselves), two sexual harassment suits pending against the first CEO and his team, and it only got worse from there.
We originally had free vending machines, but those were soon turned into pay-only machines. The senior management team had free parking in a mostly-empty garage space, and we had to pay $20.00-per-day to park across the street. The middle-management groups were internally promoting themselves, laying off more and more people, and making the remaining people work longer and longer hours, for less pay. We were earning (as developers) roughly 1/4 of what the managers were earning at the time. They were working 4-day weeks, 5 hour days, feet up on the desks, while we were camping in the offices overnight sometimes to meet customer deliverables.
Every day, people would come in wondering if "..they were next". That's not a nice way to come to work, not wondering if you're going to lose your job, but when.
In November 2001, I decided to pack up my things, and resign. The company wasn't going to survive a 6th round of layoffs, and now with the board in control, they had changed direction, completely tarnishing their name with the Open Source community. I moved back 3,100 miles to the Right coast, and haven't been able to find a job since (yes, it's incredibly tough out here).
After I left, they worked on a product, and after the remaining developers completed version 1.0 of the product, and delivered it, they were all fired, en-masse.
That's an absurd argument. An album costs tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce. A single copy of that album costs $15 or so. It should be fairly obvious that the money being spent by the purchaser doesn't justify creating and releasing an unlimited number of copies of that album.
First, I am not advocating piracy at all, and to date, I have never downloaded a single mp3 from the internet that wasn't already on the artist's website. However, ever single cd I have purchased, I rip to ogg format, because I don't have a stereo (it was stolen), so my ONLY way to listen to music is on my computers.
Second, I was correcting the myth that the music was never purchased. It was, and had to be (in most cases) by at least one person, who ripped the disk and illegally put it onto the net or p2p space.
Third, your math is grossly incorrect. If putting out 1M copies of a cd costs 'x', putting out 4M copies of a cd does not cost 'x*4'. The initial startup and production (studio) costs may be more initially, but once you have a digitally reproducable medium, you can replicate that BILLIONS of times at only the cost of negligible commodity hardware. You don't incur studio (human, carbon) costs for each new run. You do, however incur non-human (silicon, paper, cd media) costs.
It currently costs roughly $4-5/USD to put a cd into the hands of consumers in the record stores, which does take into account shipping, packaging, printing, and so on. The remaining $10-15/USD that you pay is.. PROFIT. Please do some research first. CDs do not cost $15.00/USD each to produce and master. If you believe that, you've been brainwashed by the record companies and RIAA for far too long.
Also, artists are starving because the record companies don't own up to their end of the bargain, and refuse to pay them, withold payments and loans, etc. Bands have no recourse but to claim bankruptcy in many cases, and now the RIAA and record companies are trying to make that against the law as well. When a singer like Jennifer Lopez clears $40k in salary in 2000, you really start thinking about where the $200 BILLION dollars that the record companies collected that year goes.
Besides, it's not always a purchased copy that's used as the source of the copyright infringement. There was a Slashdot article a little while ago that talked about how Eminem's album was #1 on a chart that tracked CD plays done on computers. The catch? His album wasn't even out yet -- he made it to #1 just from people listening to illegal copies.
You just reinforced my point. These were obviously leaked from the studio itself, so how are "piraters" and p2p/filesharing services to blame? The motivation to put it out on the net existed already, the existance of p2p didn't "suck it out of the studio windows". Someone wanted to leak it, and they did. If it wasn't p2p, it would be ftp, or http, or some other means.
This also just recently happened with the Oscar pre-release DVD versions of many movies not-yet-released.
People need to get a grip on reality here. The RIAA is pissed because they missed the boat on the internet as a legitimate music distribution medium.
Broadband is available, and cheap. You can now download 600 megs of data in very short order.
Printers have gotten much better in quality and price
CDR/CDRW media and hardware is also exceptional quality and low price
So why didn't the RIAA/record companies just decide to make an "online store", where you pay $5.00 for an ISO + artwork, download them, print them and make your own version? If it was $5.00, their sales would SKYROCKET. But for $15.00 in a store, where most of the music on the disk is garbage, of COURSE people will pirate it.
I'm all for allowing everyone their piece of the pie, but the RIAA and the record companies are quadruple-dipping, and at the same time, trying to make it illegal or impossible to use t
You have hit the nail on the head. Most people realize (intuitively) that downloading music/movies/software is (at the very least) a victimless crime in that 99.99% of the stuff that is downloaded and not later bought would never have been bought anyway.
The more-important piece of this, is that the music WAS BOUGHT by someone, who then took it upon themselves to rip it and upload it to the internet somewhere. The band did get paid for their work, for that copy.
I'd love to buy one of these but I need something that works with a genuinely cross platform email/address/calendar client. Evolution is great, Outlook is easy but none of these are on every platform I use. Without that, it's of no use to me.
In any case, you can sync to Mozilla, assuming your export your data to a format suitable for import into Mozilla. The OeOne group are doing just that with their products, and I can do the same thing here with LDIF and other formats.
"Here's how the software works. You invite friends to form a posse of up to 10 participants. Representing the group on your desktop will be a colorful image, either one from a set provided by the software or something one of the group has produced. (It could even be a digital photo.) If you're online and since threedegrees assumes you have broadband, you're probably online all the time, you give your friends a holler simply by sending the equivalent of an instant message. Everyone in the group will see it. "
I'm very tempted by this. My current PDA is the original 2MB Handspring Visor which my life has come to depend upon. I'm in the market for a replacement because I'm running out of room for my appointments, contacts, and notes.
Do you really have more than 6,000 addresses, 3,000 appointments, 1,500 to do items, 1,500 memos, and 200 email messages sitting on your Visor? Are you SURE? You might want to consider archiving past data if you do, to save some storage on the device.
Really though, I've never run out of actual storage on those things, unless I've completely consumed the device with third-party applications, and in most cases, there are many third-party replacements for other third-party applications that are smaller.
If you have, perhaps it's time to rethink your organization strategy.
As for your wishlist, good luck. I've been using PDAs, tablets, and other handhelds since the late 80's and early 90's, and I've seen people wish for the same things over and over and over (longer battery life), and then wish for other things that just cancel them out (bright color screen, built-in wifi, mp3 player).
You can't have everything all in one, and get everything you need, so compromise. In 10 years, when the technology improves to the point of making this feasible, maybe, but in the next 3-5, forget it.
...people won't pay billions of dollars to get piece of data, unless it's really something world-shattering...
You're absolutely right, they won't pay billions, since the process costs only $7,000 to $10,000/drive to recover data from it.
When I was working at [Largest Pharmeceutical Company in the World], we would regularly get requests from road-warriors who had damaged their laptop drives in irreparable ways, and had to have the data sent off for recovery, including drives that had been mistakenly formatted and used for months before it was realized that they contained data that was necessary for one process or another.
The claim at the time (this was 1998/1999 timeframes) was that they could recover data up to 7 low-level formats deep, but anything beyond that was not guaranteed.
The reason why this no longer works, is that it now takes less than a fingernail's sized chip of a hard drive platter to recover, say, 500 megabytes of data from the original drive itself, maybe more.
With drive capacities getting larger and larger, and physical drive size getting smaller and smaller, you now no longer need to recover an entire platter to get prosecutable data in a large-enough bite to be useful. Just a small chip will do, and it's very easy to recover the data on the drive from that chip, microscopy or otherwise.
RFID tags are not the size of "grains of sand" but rather the size of an oversized stamp. They are based on passive RF technology. When probed, they absorb a little of the energy and use it to respond. Outside an RFID scanners range, they are just circuits and have no function.
You must be using some pretty-old technology there. Current RFID tags are the size of a grain of rice, and contain 20k of writable storage on the RFID tag itself. You might want to upgrade your technology, or at least your understanding of it.
I've been present at one demo where these exact tags were used and displayed. Great technology for material tracking on a warehouse floor and on moving palettes. They can scan 100 tags/second going through a doorway.
You DO realize that these RFID tags aren't just read-only devices, right? They have up to 20k of memory on the actual "rice grain" itself, where you can write data back to it.
I attended the Symbol Technologies seminar where these were demo'd. The customer can simply pack up their cart, walk through, and get charged off, and EVERY tag is then rewritten with a "SOLD" bitmask with a date, but it can still contain the buyer's date of purchase, UIN, and all kinds of relevant information about the buyer and the product itself.
You can fit quite a bit of useful data in 20k of space.
sigh... you still don't understand, so maybe a visual representation will help you here.
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See above. If you are on page 1, a page of links, or a URL you typed into a browser window, and then follow a link from page 1 to page 2, and then hit "Back", you are returned to page 1 (as expected).
If you now go from page 1 to page 3, and hit "Back", you are suggesting that somehow there should be a way to get back to page 2? That's just silly, because you never went from page 2 to page 3 to create a relationship between 2 and 3.
The only problem is that the forward button is typically implemented so that it gives you a list of items to pick so that if you hit back 3 times, you would see the 3 web pages you just visited in reverse order in the list. I think it could be adequately implemented with expanding menus (but this is a UI pain-in-the-ass!).
Funny, I've been using this in Mozilla for at least a year, maybe more. It's been a built-in for awhile. Click the little down-arrow on your Forward button or Back button when you have a history in there. Works like a champ.
5) Now try to use your back button to get back to the discussion about the back button. On both Mozilla 1.2.1 and IE 6, that piece of data is gone. You go back to the slashdot main page and then back to the site you visited before slashdot. It is a feature I've been annoyed with for awhile.
..probably because the "Discussion About the Back Button" is no longer in the same tree as the path that led you to the "Microsoft Hates Self" discussion.
I don't see how ANYONE could consider this logical at all. You follow a path, from one link to the next. Why would you expect that a link from 1->3 should bring you from 3->2 when you press Back? That's the most unintuitive behavior I've ever heard of, and it doesn't apply ANYWHERE in society. Think of maps, driving directions, a paper book, a filing cabinet.
In any case, Mozilla has this feature, and does exactly what you want, if you click the little "down arrow" next to Mozilla's back button. A dropdown menu of all the pages you've been to will be presented.
There needs to be a system in place where artists can make significant contributions to the DESIGN of open source software.
There is, it's called Open Source, maybe you've heard of it?
You get the source code, you make your changes, you submit them to the author. If he doesn't include them, you're welcome to fork the code yourself and create/sell/distribute your own version.
One thing, for example, which will definitely be coming along in the not too far away future, is the "one-program" paradigm. The general idea behind is to
a) essentially have one "framework" interface for more or less all applications
Except this is entirely WRONG. Linux and Unix are rapidly moving in the OPPOSITE direction of this "one-program" paradigm. Linux's strength lies in the ability to take one PROBLEM, and combine many different types of programs to solve that problem, using your own style, needs, etc. Take mail for example. We don't have Exchange/Outlook, we have:
sendmail, qmail, postfix, others
fetchmail, getmail, metamail, others
procmail, others (I can't think of any)
pine, mutt, elm, Evolution, sylpheed, others.
You can couple these in any way, with any other program you want, to add/extend/remove the parts you don't like. You aren't saddled with a HUGE bloated UI and application footprint that you don't use the features of. The strength is in being able to retain CHOICE, and being able to remove one part, replace it, and still solve the original problem.
Lots of things put together, solve one problem.
One big thing with everything included, causes problems.
If YOU PERSONALLY, want the "one-program" paradigm, you can certainly write it. The code is out there, and available, have at it. I can tell you from a decade of experience with Linux and a decade before that of Unix use, along with hundreds of my personal friends, that this is definately NOT the way the Linux and Unix industry are (and have always been) moving.
Major mistake, you need to listen to the users your applications (or OS) is targeted for. This is what Linux advocates don't understand.
One thing Linux users don't understand is that Linux developers write applications to solve THEIR OWN problems, not to solve the problems of users of those applications. If we were paid BY users, to write software FOR users, the features and functionality might actually contain user requests and features, but WE ARE ALL VOLUNTEERS.
If you don't like it, submit a patch, pay us to help add the features you want, fork the code, hire someone else to add those features, or return it for a refund.
Amusing that this do-not-mail list is maintained by the very group that is going to sue to stop the new do-not-call list.
And..
Costs $5.00 to process online
Is "free" through snail mail (if the processing online is $5.00, why is it any less through snail mail?)
Their online system for processing either request is completely broken, and clicking on their forms to process it leads you to a nearly blank page, in both Windows, Linux, and BSD, under 11 separate browsers.
Maybe they should hire a webmaster to clean up their act. Or.. maybe that's how they get around the requirement. Just put up a page saying that you can get yourself off the list, "Click here now!" and then break the web form, so it doesn't actually do anything.
"Look! We comply with the laws! We're just having technical difficulties right now, but we'll be back up in a few months."
You need non standard versions of Linux for people who don't want it for Desktops. Period. Trouble is, those people are the ones driving its development, so we won't see a standard Linux anytime in the next decade.
Please let me know the location you donated several hundred thousand dollars to help change this, and I'll begin to be sympathetic.
Linux is not free, and people need to realize this. It takes time, effort, hardware, resources, documentation, etc. to make things work well together. Many Linux developers have day jobs also. If you want to change their priorities, you need to supplant their income, because they're going to have to take time away from their "normal day" to fix your problems. I'm sure you didn't pay for your Linux distribution, so that gives you ZERO right to complain.
We develop what we want, when we want, because we need it, or because we think it'd be cool, or for any number of other reasons. We don't all develop with the same goals, because we all have different goals. If YOU want to change those goals, help motivate us in that direction, but remember, a "thank you" and a pat on the back doesn't pay the rent.
Different TVs, but they all can view the same channels and use the same antenna connectors.
How is this any different than Windows vs. Linux? They both run on your computer, and give you access to the same features; video, hardware detection, internet, documents, games. Not all TVs have the "On" button on the right, or the left. They might not even have the same knobs, but once you LEARN HOW TO USE IT, you figure out where all the knobs are. I have yet to hear one single person complain that their television knobs need to get moved to the other side, because $OTHER_BRAND of TV has them there. Don't be silly.
Different VCRs but they all use the same tapes and work with any TV.
Then I'm afraid I still miss your point, we already have this, and have for years..
- Different document editors, same common document format. Linux is 100% compatible with Microsoft document formats, so that point is no longer valid.
- Different hardware types. Linux now supports more hardware than Microsoft ever did, and in many different ways.
- Different user preferences. Linux supports an infinite level of customization, including making it look and feel EXACTLY LIKE WINDOWS if you wanted to.
...I must have missed it, what was your point again?
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There are many thousands of users happily syncronizing their PalmOS-based PDAs on Linux and BSD, using serial, IR, and USB connection methods.
This is also a Lanham Act violation, otherwise known as "False designation of origin", and you can persue him on that through the US Copyright Office as well as through most attorneys.
Also, to the previous people who insist that this is not a GPL violation, but a copyright violation, you're wrong... it's both.
Once the GPL is violated (by the letter of the license, refusing to include the license or full works), he is now forbidden from redistributing the work at all. All further attempts to do so, are NOW copyright violations (as well as the Lanham Act).
For each copy redistributed, you are eligible for a financial penalty from the suit. You own the works from the point of creation on, but it makes it much easier to legally enforce through a court system if you have filed Copyright papers through the United States Copyright office. I know, because we've had to do this with one of our Free Software products (Company A took our software, created an entire business around it, stripped our names and license from the code, sold it to other companies who resell it, and then claimed THEY wrote it).
You can do all of this without having to use the double-edged sword of the DMCA to enforce it.
Since -mm1, the rest have gotten more and more and more sluggish. Now with 2.5.66-mm1, it takes rougly 3-4 seconds for an xterm to open with a ctrl-alt-b keystroke in sawfish. With 2.5.64-mm1, it's instantaneous. 2.5.66-mm1 (or alan's patch or straight 2.5.66) also seems to "miss" my keyboard shortcuts to launch applications, like an xterm, and I have to hit them several times before the first instance will launch, then about 10 seconds later, 3-4 other copies will launch too. Not fun for apps that don't lock well.
I can also reproducably hard-lock any 2.5 kernel running with the USB visor module by simply plugging in my USB Palm handheld, hitting HotSync on the handheld, and then tapping Cancel on the handheld about 2 seconds later. I've tested this hundreds of times, and I can reproduce it 100% of the time. This is a major blocker for me, since I was going to be using the 2.5 series in a product that works around USB Palm devices. The same process on 2.4.21-pre6 does not exhibit these symptoms. Greg Kroah is aware of it already, though there doesn't seem to be any resolution yet.
I'll wait until they get the responsiveness that was in 2.5.64-mm1 back into the 2.5.66 series before I go whole-hog over to it.
I for one, don't trust Microsoft's tactics these days. This comes days after the announcement that they aren't going to fix the bug in NT4.0.
This all smells like a ploy to try to get everyone to use XP, and then from there, to get SP2 installed. I can only wonder what goodies this brings, besides the "fix" that it purportedly addresses.
Yet even more reason to consider the more feature-rich, secure alternatives such as FreeBSD or Linux. Move now, your data may not be able to move later on if this keeps up.
My last job (incidentally, 70 weeks ago, unable to find work since) required me to relocate 3,100 miles from the Right coast to the Left coast, to work for them, leaving a very stable job behind. A week after I got there, my hiring manager was fired, along with 76 other people. We were 250 people at the time.
Over the next 14 months, we went through 5 rounds of layoffs, including the last one which liquidated my entire department, leaving me as the only person standing. Even my boss was let go.
In 18 months time, we had gone from 250 people to 30, and were on our 4th CEO. All three founders had resigned, two failed merger deals (one with a company that just recently bit the dust themselves), two sexual harassment suits pending against the first CEO and his team, and it only got worse from there.
We originally had free vending machines, but those were soon turned into pay-only machines. The senior management team had free parking in a mostly-empty garage space, and we had to pay $20.00-per-day to park across the street. The middle-management groups were internally promoting themselves, laying off more and more people, and making the remaining people work longer and longer hours, for less pay. We were earning (as developers) roughly 1/4 of what the managers were earning at the time. They were working 4-day weeks, 5 hour days, feet up on the desks, while we were camping in the offices overnight sometimes to meet customer deliverables.
Every day, people would come in wondering if "..they were next". That's not a nice way to come to work, not wondering if you're going to lose your job, but when.
In November 2001, I decided to pack up my things, and resign. The company wasn't going to survive a 6th round of layoffs, and now with the board in control, they had changed direction, completely tarnishing their name with the Open Source community. I moved back 3,100 miles to the Right coast, and haven't been able to find a job since (yes, it's incredibly tough out here).
After I left, they worked on a product, and after the remaining developers completed version 1.0 of the product, and delivered it, they were all fired, en-masse.
How's that for morale for you?
First, I am not advocating piracy at all, and to date, I have never downloaded a single mp3 from the internet that wasn't already on the artist's website. However, ever single cd I have purchased, I rip to ogg format, because I don't have a stereo (it was stolen), so my ONLY way to listen to music is on my computers.
Second, I was correcting the myth that the music was never purchased. It was, and had to be (in most cases) by at least one person, who ripped the disk and illegally put it onto the net or p2p space.
Third, your math is grossly incorrect. If putting out 1M copies of a cd costs 'x', putting out 4M copies of a cd does not cost 'x*4'. The initial startup and production (studio) costs may be more initially, but once you have a digitally reproducable medium, you can replicate that BILLIONS of times at only the cost of negligible commodity hardware. You don't incur studio (human, carbon) costs for each new run. You do, however incur non-human (silicon, paper, cd media) costs.
It currently costs roughly $4-5/USD to put a cd into the hands of consumers in the record stores, which does take into account shipping, packaging, printing, and so on. The remaining $10-15/USD that you pay is.. PROFIT. Please do some research first. CDs do not cost $15.00/USD each to produce and master. If you believe that, you've been brainwashed by the record companies and RIAA for far too long.
Also, artists are starving because the record companies don't own up to their end of the bargain, and refuse to pay them, withold payments and loans, etc. Bands have no recourse but to claim bankruptcy in many cases, and now the RIAA and record companies are trying to make that against the law as well. When a singer like Jennifer Lopez clears $40k in salary in 2000, you really start thinking about where the $200 BILLION dollars that the record companies collected that year goes.
You just reinforced my point. These were obviously leaked from the studio itself, so how are "piraters" and p2p/filesharing services to blame? The motivation to put it out on the net existed already, the existance of p2p didn't "suck it out of the studio windows". Someone wanted to leak it, and they did. If it wasn't p2p, it would be ftp, or http, or some other means.
This also just recently happened with the Oscar pre-release DVD versions of many movies not-yet-released.
People need to get a grip on reality here. The RIAA is pissed because they missed the boat on the internet as a legitimate music distribution medium.
So why didn't the RIAA/record companies just decide to make an "online store", where you pay $5.00 for an ISO + artwork, download them, print them and make your own version? If it was $5.00, their sales would SKYROCKET. But for $15.00 in a store, where most of the music on the disk is garbage, of COURSE people will pirate it.
I'm all for allowing everyone their piece of the pie, but the RIAA and the record companies are quadruple-dipping, and at the same time, trying to make it illegal or impossible to use t
The more-important piece of this, is that the music WAS BOUGHT by someone, who then took it upon themselves to rip it and upload it to the internet somewhere. The band did get paid for their work, for that copy.
In any case, you can sync to Mozilla, assuming your export your data to a format suitable for import into Mozilla. The OeOne group are doing just that with their products, and I can do the same thing here with LDIF and other formats.
Wait, you mean Microsoft reinvented... IRC?!
Really though, I've never run out of actual storage on those things, unless I've completely consumed the device with third-party applications, and in most cases, there are many third-party replacements for other third-party applications that are smaller.
If you have, perhaps it's time to rethink your organization strategy.
As for your wishlist, good luck. I've been using PDAs, tablets, and other handhelds since the late 80's and early 90's, and I've seen people wish for the same things over and over and over (longer battery life), and then wish for other things that just cancel them out (bright color screen, built-in wifi, mp3 player).
You can't have everything all in one, and get everything you need, so compromise. In 10 years, when the technology improves to the point of making this feasible, maybe, but in the next 3-5, forget it.
You're absolutely right, they won't pay billions, since the process costs only $7,000 to $10,000/drive to recover data from it.
When I was working at [Largest Pharmeceutical Company in the World], we would regularly get requests from road-warriors who had damaged their laptop drives in irreparable ways, and had to have the data sent off for recovery, including drives that had been mistakenly formatted and used for months before it was realized that they contained data that was necessary for one process or another.
The claim at the time (this was 1998/1999 timeframes) was that they could recover data up to 7 low-level formats deep, but anything beyond that was not guaranteed.
Back to Biology class for you. Identical twins do NOT share identical DNA.
The reason why this no longer works, is that it now takes less than a fingernail's sized chip of a hard drive platter to recover, say, 500 megabytes of data from the original drive itself, maybe more.
With drive capacities getting larger and larger, and physical drive size getting smaller and smaller, you now no longer need to recover an entire platter to get prosecutable data in a large-enough bite to be useful. Just a small chip will do, and it's very easy to recover the data on the drive from that chip, microscopy or otherwise.
You must be using some pretty-old technology there. Current RFID tags are the size of a grain of rice, and contain 20k of writable storage on the RFID tag itself. You might want to upgrade your technology, or at least your understanding of it.
I've been present at one demo where these exact tags were used and displayed. Great technology for material tracking on a warehouse floor and on moving palettes. They can scan 100 tags/second going through a doorway.
However, the maliscious uses are obvious..
I attended the Symbol Technologies seminar where these were demo'd. The customer can simply pack up their cart, walk through, and get charged off, and EVERY tag is then rewritten with a "SOLD" bitmask with a date, but it can still contain the buyer's date of purchase, UIN, and all kinds of relevant information about the buyer and the product itself.
You can fit quite a bit of useful data in 20k of space.
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See above. If you are on page 1, a page of links, or a URL you typed into a browser window, and then follow a link from page 1 to page 2, and then hit "Back", you are returned to page 1 (as expected).
If you now go from page 1 to page 3, and hit "Back", you are suggesting that somehow there should be a way to get back to page 2? That's just silly, because you never went from page 2 to page 3 to create a relationship between 2 and 3.
Funny, I've been using this in Mozilla for at least a year, maybe more. It's been a built-in for awhile. Click the little down-arrow on your Forward button or Back button when you have a history in there. Works like a champ.
This whole Back button discussion is a non-issue.
You just answered your own question. "type in", does not begin creating a tree of events to record. Consider this:
You can't, because you don't have a LINK from one to the other. "Back" implies a path that includes at least two points, not one.
I think your perception of what the back button should do is a bit flawed.
..probably because the "Discussion About the Back Button" is no longer in the same tree as the path that led you to the "Microsoft Hates Self" discussion.
I don't see how ANYONE could consider this logical at all. You follow a path, from one link to the next. Why would you expect that a link from 1->3 should bring you from 3->2 when you press Back? That's the most unintuitive behavior I've ever heard of, and it doesn't apply ANYWHERE in society. Think of maps, driving directions, a paper book, a filing cabinet.
In any case, Mozilla has this feature, and does exactly what you want, if you click the little "down arrow" next to Mozilla's back button. A dropdown menu of all the pages you've been to will be presented.
There is, it's called Open Source, maybe you've heard of it?
You get the source code, you make your changes, you submit them to the author. If he doesn't include them, you're welcome to fork the code yourself and create/sell/distribute your own version.
Except this is entirely WRONG. Linux and Unix are rapidly moving in the OPPOSITE direction of this "one-program" paradigm. Linux's strength lies in the ability to take one PROBLEM, and combine many different types of programs to solve that problem, using your own style, needs, etc. Take mail for example. We don't have Exchange/Outlook, we have:
You can couple these in any way, with any other program you want, to add/extend/remove the parts you don't like. You aren't saddled with a HUGE bloated UI and application footprint that you don't use the features of. The strength is in being able to retain CHOICE, and being able to remove one part, replace it, and still solve the original problem.
Lots of things put together, solve one problem.
One big thing with everything included, causes problems.
If YOU PERSONALLY, want the "one-program" paradigm, you can certainly write it. The code is out there, and available, have at it. I can tell you from a decade of experience with Linux and a decade before that of Unix use, along with hundreds of my personal friends, that this is definately NOT the way the Linux and Unix industry are (and have always been) moving.
One thing Linux users don't understand is that Linux developers write applications to solve THEIR OWN problems, not to solve the problems of users of those applications. If we were paid BY users, to write software FOR users, the features and functionality might actually contain user requests and features, but WE ARE ALL VOLUNTEERS.
If you don't like it, submit a patch, pay us to help add the features you want, fork the code, hire someone else to add those features, or return it for a refund.
Maybe they should hire a webmaster to clean up their act. Or.. maybe that's how they get around the requirement. Just put up a page saying that you can get yourself off the list, "Click here now!" and then break the web form, so it doesn't actually do anything.
"Look! We comply with the laws! We're just having technical difficulties right now, but we'll be back up in a few months."
Suuuuuuure you will.
Please let me know the location you donated several hundred thousand dollars to help change this, and I'll begin to be sympathetic.
Linux is not free, and people need to realize this. It takes time, effort, hardware, resources, documentation, etc. to make things work well together. Many Linux developers have day jobs also. If you want to change their priorities, you need to supplant their income, because they're going to have to take time away from their "normal day" to fix your problems. I'm sure you didn't pay for your Linux distribution, so that gives you ZERO right to complain.
We develop what we want, when we want, because we need it, or because we think it'd be cool, or for any number of other reasons. We don't all develop with the same goals, because we all have different goals. If YOU want to change those goals, help motivate us in that direction, but remember, a "thank you" and a pat on the back doesn't pay the rent.
Then I'm afraid I still miss your point, we already have this, and have for years..
- Different document editors, same common document format. Linux is 100% compatible with Microsoft document formats, so that point is no longer valid.
- Different hardware types. Linux now supports more hardware than Microsoft ever did, and in many different ways.
- Different user preferences. Linux supports an infinite level of customization, including making it look and feel EXACTLY LIKE WINDOWS if you wanted to.
...I must have missed it, what was your point again?