The lowest priced G5 is $1999. Expensive, and remember, just like with any OS, the power users adopt first. I don't want no stinkin' eMac, that's for sure.
...but being based on BSD and such, it's pretty easy to port Linux software to OS X. Apple's stuff it more expensive, so for existing installations (i.e. business desktops) Linux has a huge advantage of working on existing hardware and being free. However, i see Mac OS X as a complement to systems like Linux and BSD. For home use, I'm not sure Linux will surpass OS X, simply because most people still are not familiar with it.
If Apple's prices where lower ($1999 for an entry level G5? I love Macs, but Jesus tapdancing Christ...) they'd beat everyone in a heartbeat.
Kazaa is unquestionably primarily used to download warez, mpegs and mp3's, but because it can have other legitimate uses, their defence against the RIAA prevailed.
Wrong. Kazaa won because, unlike Napster, it doesn't keep a central database of files and.or their locations. (For reference, Napster kept a database of file locations, and when you performed a search , you performed it though Napster's central server) Kazaa simply bounces queries from your node to all the others on the network. Therefore Kazaa, by design, is incapable of filtering such queries, unless you want to have a 300MB database of banned filenames/checksums included with Kazaa...
Actually it's a marketing ploy: The reason the yo-yo doesn't work is the string is only a inch long, and MS can simply act like the yo-yo gets 99.999% uptime.
Re: Infringements of HAPPY BIRTHDAY Copyrights and Trademarks
I write as attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America ("RIAA").
As you are, no doubt, aware, RIAA owns all of the rights to the musical composition entitled HAPPY BIRTHDAY and all derivatives, including HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW, and the YOU SMELL LIKE A MONKEY remix (collectively the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties"). These rights are protected by numerous copyrights trademarks in both the compositions themselves and the lyrics, sheet music, and other elements appearing in those compositions.
We have recently learned that you have posted various elements of the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties on your site at slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/22/172247. For example, we refer to your posting entitled "Happy Birthday, Dear DNS" (the "Synopsis"). Your posting of these items is an infringement of RIAA's rights in the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties.
Based upon the foregoing, we hereby demand that your confirm to us in writing within ten days of receipt of this letter that: (i) you have removed all infringing materials from your site, including the aforementioned Synopsis and all HAPPY BIRTHDAY references; and (ii) you will refrain from posting any similar infringing material on the Internet or any other on-line service in the future.
The foregoing is without waiver of any and all rights of the Recording Industry Association of America, all of which are expressly reserved herein.
Props for this addition, that really should have been on my list. That is another thing I wonder: why do they wish to extend the copyrights to these massive back catalogs that they dont' even DO anything with? It seems as though they're just hoarding it all away for no one else to enjoy...
The first RIAA-member who realizes the potential here is going to make a killing.
That, and the crappy US economy at the moment. I sure don't go buy music when I'm broke...of course, this is just another excuse to say "OH, they're PIRATING because they CAN'T AFFORD IT".
Sadly, the RIAA answers their own question about why some people prefer to go to the trouble of pirating (hunting it down, getting a stable connection, finding correctly labeled files at a decent bitrate), but they dont realize that the answer isn't "eliminate piracy", that's a fight you'll never win.
The answer is better quality for lower cost, just like EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY IN THE WORLD MUST DO. Somehow they think they can do it sdrawkcab and sue/lobby their way to success. Thy're not losing much from me, I never pirate music anymore because I feel most things I could find I wouldn't want to listen to. Other people, however, won't just vote with their wallet, they'll vote with their LimeWire. The music industry is destroying themselves and they don't even realize it.
Intestesting side note: Think this dip in sales might possibly be a massive "voting with out wallets", and the RIAA just thinks we're all pirates because we're not buying? I think they need a wakeup on the content front, I'd really be happy to give them my money if they'd improve the situation instead of just antagonizing it. It's easy guys:
Make it better. (More interest.)
Make it cheaper. (More units sold.)
Profit! (And everyone else is happy, too.)
Not everyone is interested in "stealing". We do, however, like to be entertained and we're willing to pay when we can afford it. Think about that.
...but I'd think step #1 in preventing this kind of attack is to ssh to a raw IP instead of relying on a DNS...unless it's a dynamic IP? Then again, you'd never have known about it if you did that, but at least it would be harder to spoof on you.
As for no one caring, that's a damn travesty. I don't want to see one more fscking computer-related law passed in this country (yea, I'm an "USian", whatever the hell that means) unless the people who pass them plan on providing the manpower to enforce the rules when an actual crime has been commited. Honestly, if it worked against you, how do they know these guys aren't out sniffing logins to some protected bank system or something? Perhaps their not hacking banks, but they could be; plus it can already be proven they're up to something illegal.
Manpower, shmanpower, if they don't have time for you then they're not pooling their recources into the proper areas, and their just passing some of these laws from the influence of lobbyists or their own shenanigans. Sketchy as hell.
How can you tell if it's bad if you haven't heard it?
I just started a band, right now, called "Shoe" (I guess...). Are we crap? How do you know? We might be awsome, but you haven't heard us so you have no idea. (Except for the fact I'm making this up to make a point, but that's er... besides the point. Yeah.)
"To help the public grasp this subtle distinction USB 2, which was the old USB 1.1, would have ``Full Speed'' added to its title and USB 2, which was USB 2, would have ``Hi-Speed'' added."
That's still confusing. Even to me, having the difference explained to me, it doesn't make much sense.
Hi-Speed I'd expect to be somewhere nice and high on the speed spectrum.
Full-Speed sounds like it's the maximum speed possible, like it's a full-on thing.
So people are still going to probably be buying "Full Speed" USB because it implies that it's faster when compared to "Hi Speed". I agree with the parent, USB-12 and USB-480 are better names.
Truth be told, it shouldn't matter. We don't want different browsers that all have different ideas how to render pages. We want to write once view anywhere.
I agree with you wholeheartedly here, for this is the point of HTML in the first place. However:
If there are differences between IE and Mozilla, then shouldn't Mozilla learn to be more like IE when it comes to rendering HTML?
WHo's to say IE is correct in their implementation? No browser follows the specs exactly (last I heard, Mozilla was closest), and that is a damn shame. Most of the pages that require IE use some fancy-pants feature (like that page transitions crap) that Microsoft threw in there to make people believe IE is somehow more powerful. In all honesty, most pages that tell you "Sorry, you need Internet Explorer" will work fine if you spoof the browser ID. Therefore, it's just more of the MS Jihad Against All Other Tech Companies Ever(TM) campaign.
I know that's not what you all want to hear, but one of the main reasons places standardize on IE is because it's such a pain in the ass to test across different browsers and fix the page to work with them.
I wish I could earn a living as a lazy web designer, toying with Photoshop and Dreamweaver all day and not even lifting a finger as to do some actual work, like checking cross-platform or at least cross-browser compatability. Sign me up.
It's not worth the effort when the vast majority of machines out there have IE ready to go.
To install another browser on the development workstation and navagate an Open File dialog box? Shit, you could drag & drop the stupid thing if you wanted! It works on the Mac & Windows, at least. I'm sure no one with a mindset like "Everyone uses IE, no one will be affected by eliminating other browsers" probably wouldn't bother with Linux anyways, but if you support the Big Two and test on at least the Mac & Windows, you're already supporting most browsers anyways.
All pawns are equal, but some are more equal than others. Being able to identify the pawns with the greatest leverage â" or even better, being able to recruit pawns that have the potential to gain leverage, and helping them to do so â" is what separates the great evangelists from the ordinary. Donâ(TM)t just find leverage; create it.
The Animal Farm reference is chilling. The rest of the paragraph just makes me think SCO is currently a much more equal pawn...
Also, it's funny how this book on Evangelism is written in such a way as to convince you that what it is saying is true. Almost self-evangelizing? If the author wasn't a former M$ employee, I'd almost think he wrote the book to make MS look bad. Or perhaps he did?
OT: WHY in the hell did I just see ads for SCO Unix on/. ?
Linux is not a "distant third" on the desktop; its usage is at least comparable to Mac OS X, if it hasn't surpassed it already.
For some reason I highly doubt Linux has suprassed OS X on the desktop. For servers, however, it most definitely has, and not suprisingly so. Still, I'm willing to bet that there are more Mac OS X desktop machines out there than Linux.
Perhaps they'll be presenting more detailed evidence in court...or perhaps they're busy researching proper dates to fill their changelogs with?
The thing that gets me is the part about comments, including programmers' jokes, matching verbatim; yet the lines of code they where attached too where substantially different in most cases. Again, this could mean improper reverse-engeneering technique on the part of a Linux contributor (a simple open file and re-write the code as you go), but if this where true, wouldn't the comments be erased with the code you're attempting to emulate? Why would you leave the exact comments there? If you where re-writing the code, why would you type a line of code and then copy the comments from the old code but erase the code itself? The only possible answer is sabotage, and I wouldn't rule that out, either.
However, I'm thinking the popular/. theory is true: they'll be showing the courts things like
<DRAMATIZATION>
SCO lawyer:In this memory management function, a pointer must be incremented beyond the newly created memory block to the next availible free space. Observe our code:
*pointer = *pointer + length_of_new_block;// Set pointer to free space
...and now observe the Linux equivalent:
*next_free += block_len;// Set pointer to free space
...YOU SEE??!? Irrefutable evidence in our favor. The Linux kernel's code does the SAME EXACT THING, it was simply re-phrased to the computer by a clever little thieving Open Source programmer!
*Microsoft chuckles in the back of the courtroom audience*
Judge:Order!*pounds gavel*
SCOmbag lawyer:*ahem* Er... even the comments match. I rest my case.
</DRAMATIZATION>
Either way, I don't think SCO would have enough feet to shoot itself in if it was a centipede. Time will tell, but that might not be nessisary.;-D (PS: Pardon if my pointer arithmetic code isn't syntactically sound...it's been a long time since I've written any code D-: )
Did I read in that English translation that all date and time info was removed from the code that was shown, and that the Linux code presented was taken from MAILING LIST POSTINGS? Assumng this isn't some hoax, I smell the very, very pungant odor of bullshit...
What is wrong with a camera in the phone? Hell, they've had it in Japan for a few years now IIRC and people seem to love it. I for one would love to have a camera phone.
We can't possibly use that many addresses (though I'm sure somebody said this for ipv4 also...). Unless I'm being entirely ignorant, aren't we just going to end up sending a bunch of redundant zeroes around the net? I suppose we could use the first nybble for other purposes (evil bits!). But I can't help but wonder if they're all entirely necessary.
This of it this way: We won't need another protocol change when we colonize Mars.:-)
I propose a new domain system: ICANN, instead of managing domain names, manages TLDs. A TLD could be purchased ;.business,.porn, anything; by a registrar. Then, that particular registrar would be in charge of any and all domains one might want to create under that name.
Notable problems:
Purchaser validity: That's a pretty harsh way to squat domains: Buy an entire TLD. We could put ICANN up to something worthwhile and have them actually check to make sure no one is squatting TLDs (i.e. Buy a TLD and you'd better be a company intent on being a registrar service with hardware and connections to back yourself). That, and laws (presumably in more than one country) may have to be re-worded to suit the new infastructure.
Congested address space: Probably would make things harder to remeber, unless it was done right. That and I'm not sure what kind of extra load this would put on DNS servers, if any.
Compatability. Presumably it could work, witness the recent addition of.info and.biz, and IIRC.museum? But, once again I'm not the most informed on the intricacies of the DNS system, perhaps a simple patch coudl resolve such issues? (as long as we're on the subject, let's make domains longer than 26 characters, perhaps 50 is enough. You may soon see a domain problem arising liek the IP problem that has already arrived. IPv6 anyone?)
It migh tnot end all disputes over hot names, but instead of two guys wanting to be "sex.com", once could settle for "sex.porn" and the other one "sex.pics" or something...
I wonder if it would be easy to turn people into ethanol.
Yes. Kinda. If this machine is not complete BS, wouldn't it seem logical to use the fuel products it produces to process hydrogen, since suddenly it all can be so cheap and easy?
Collect waste products
Convert to useable fuel products and other raw materials.
Sell raw materials. Profit!
Sell some oil. Profit!
Use remaining oil to fuel massive hydrogen refining process.
Sell hydrogen. Profit!
All while cleaning up the planet, a whole lot. This makes the hippies, the business types, and the everyday people happy. Let's just hope it works like they say it does and it might just be one of the best solutions we've been presented with.
As for the leakage issue: Why would it be so hard to contain hydrogen? I mean yea I realize porous metals and since it's the smallest atom etc...however I routinely see tanker trucks with things like "AIRTECH: Liquid Refrigerated Hydrogen" in big letters on them. So if these trucks can hold it so easily, why not other things?
Can't they just fly near it, slow down, and "spacewalk" to the ISS, land in an airlock and be alright? Is it not possible to enter the ISS without docking? How does the ISS crew do spacewalks, or can they?
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The lowest priced G5 is $1999. Expensive, and remember, just like with any OS, the power users adopt first. I don't want no stinkin' eMac, that's for sure.
...but being based on BSD and such, it's pretty easy to port Linux software to OS X. Apple's stuff it more expensive, so for existing installations (i.e. business desktops) Linux has a huge advantage of working on existing hardware and being free. However, i see Mac OS X as a complement to systems like Linux and BSD. For home use, I'm not sure Linux will surpass OS X, simply because most people still are not familiar with it.
If Apple's prices where lower ($1999 for an entry level G5? I love Macs, but Jesus tapdancing Christ...) they'd beat everyone in a heartbeat.
Actually it's a marketing ploy: The reason the yo-yo doesn't work is the string is only a inch long, and MS can simply act like the yo-yo gets 99.999% uptime.
Re: Infringements of HAPPY BIRTHDAY Copyrights and Trademarks
I write as attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America ("RIAA").
As you are, no doubt, aware, RIAA owns all of the rights to the musical composition entitled HAPPY BIRTHDAY and all derivatives, including HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW, and the YOU SMELL LIKE A MONKEY remix (collectively the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties"). These rights are protected by numerous copyrights trademarks in both the compositions themselves and the lyrics, sheet music, and other elements appearing in those compositions.
We have recently learned that you have posted various elements of the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties on your site at slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/22/172247. For example, we refer to your posting entitled "Happy Birthday, Dear DNS" (the "Synopsis"). Your posting of these items is an infringement of RIAA's rights in the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties.
Based upon the foregoing, we hereby demand that your confirm to us in writing within ten days of receipt of this letter that: (i) you have removed all infringing materials from your site, including the aforementioned Synopsis and all HAPPY BIRTHDAY references; and (ii) you will refrain from posting any similar infringing material on the Internet or any other on-line service in the future.
The foregoing is without waiver of any and all rights of the Recording Industry Association of America, all of which are expressly reserved herein.
Very truly yours,
Troll.
[Attorney]
Props for this addition, that really should have been on my list. That is another thing I wonder: why do they wish to extend the copyrights to these massive back catalogs that they dont' even DO anything with? It seems as though they're just hoarding it all away for no one else to enjoy...
The first RIAA-member who realizes the potential here is going to make a killing.
That, and the crappy US economy at the moment. I sure don't go buy music when I'm broke...of course, this is just another excuse to say "OH, they're PIRATING because they CAN'T AFFORD IT".
Sadly, the RIAA answers their own question about why some people prefer to go to the trouble of pirating (hunting it down, getting a stable connection, finding correctly labeled files at a decent bitrate), but they dont realize that the answer isn't "eliminate piracy", that's a fight you'll never win.
The answer is better quality for lower cost, just like EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY IN THE WORLD MUST DO. Somehow they think they can do it sdrawkcab and sue/lobby their way to success. Thy're not losing much from me, I never pirate music anymore because I feel most things I could find I wouldn't want to listen to. Other people, however, won't just vote with their wallet, they'll vote with their LimeWire. The music industry is destroying themselves and they don't even realize it.
Intestesting side note: Think this dip in sales might possibly be a massive "voting with out wallets", and the RIAA just thinks we're all pirates because we're not buying? I think they need a wakeup on the content front, I'd really be happy to give them my money if they'd improve the situation instead of just antagonizing it. It's easy guys:
- Make it better. (More interest.)
- Make it cheaper. (More units sold.)
- Profit! (And everyone else is happy, too.)
Not everyone is interested in "stealing". We do, however, like to be entertained and we're willing to pay when we can afford it. Think about that....but I'd think step #1 in preventing this kind of attack is to ssh to a raw IP instead of relying on a DNS...unless it's a dynamic IP? Then again, you'd never have known about it if you did that, but at least it would be harder to spoof on you.
As for no one caring, that's a damn travesty. I don't want to see one more fscking computer-related law passed in this country (yea, I'm an "USian", whatever the hell that means) unless the people who pass them plan on providing the manpower to enforce the rules when an actual crime has been commited. Honestly, if it worked against you, how do they know these guys aren't out sniffing logins to some protected bank system or something? Perhaps their not hacking banks, but they could be; plus it can already be proven they're up to something illegal.
Manpower, shmanpower, if they don't have time for you then they're not pooling their recources into the proper areas, and their just passing some of these laws from the influence of lobbyists or their own shenanigans. Sketchy as hell.
Amen, my brother. If only you could get a TB-303 on eBay for $25
The worse you make us look the worse we can get away with being.
So stop.
How can you tell if it's bad if you haven't heard it?
I just started a band, right now, called "Shoe" (I guess...). Are we crap? How do you know? We might be awsome, but you haven't heard us so you have no idea. (Except for the fact I'm making this up to make a point, but that's er... besides the point. Yeah.)
Hi-Speed I'd expect to be somewhere nice and high on the speed spectrum.
Full-Speed sounds like it's the maximum speed possible, like it's a full-on thing.
So people are still going to probably be buying "Full Speed" USB because it implies that it's faster when compared to "Hi Speed". I agree with the parent, USB-12 and USB-480 are better names.
Agreed. 100% and totally. If it was Microsoft getting the favor, we'd all be screaming bloody murder.
We'd all be pissed if there was a 10% tax on Free Software, right? Let's see, 10% of...oh yea. LOL
Also, it's funny how this book on Evangelism is written in such a way as to convince you that what it is saying is true. Almost self-evangelizing? If the author wasn't a former M$ employee, I'd almost think he wrote the book to make MS look bad. Or perhaps he did?
OT: WHY in the hell did I just see ads for SCO Unix on
(Then again, my Mac dual boots to Linux...<GRIN>)
Perhaps they'll be presenting more detailed evidence in court...or perhaps they're busy researching proper dates to fill their changelogs with?
The thing that gets me is the part about comments, including programmers' jokes, matching verbatim; yet the lines of code they where attached too where substantially different in most cases. Again, this could mean improper reverse-engeneering technique on the part of a Linux contributor (a simple open file and re-write the code as you go), but if this where true, wouldn't the comments be erased with the code you're attempting to emulate? Why would you leave the exact comments there? If you where re-writing the code, why would you type a line of code and then copy the comments from the old code but erase the code itself? The only possible answer is sabotage, and I wouldn't rule that out, either.
However, I'm thinking the popular
<DRAMATIZATION></DRAMATIZATION>
Either way, I don't think SCO would have enough feet to shoot itself in if it was a centipede. Time will tell, but that might not be nessisary.
(PS: Pardon if my pointer arithmetic code isn't syntactically sound...it's been a long time since I've written any code D-: )
Did I read in that English translation that all date and time info was removed from the code that was shown, and that the Linux code presented was taken from MAILING LIST POSTINGS? Assumng this isn't some hoax, I smell the very, very pungant odor of bullshit...
What is wrong with a camera in the phone? Hell, they've had it in Japan for a few years now IIRC and people seem to love it. I for one would love to have a camera phone.
I propose a new domain system: ICANN, instead of managing domain names, manages TLDs. A TLD could be purchased ;
Notable problems:
- Purchaser validity: That's a pretty harsh way to squat domains: Buy an entire TLD. We could put ICANN up to something worthwhile and have them actually check to make sure no one is squatting TLDs (i.e. Buy a TLD and you'd better be a company intent on being a registrar service with hardware and connections to back yourself). That, and laws (presumably in more than one country) may have to be re-worded to suit the new infastructure.
- Congested address space: Probably would make things harder to remeber, unless it was done right. That and I'm not sure what kind of extra load this would put on DNS servers, if any.
- Compatability. Presumably it could work, witness the recent addition of
.info and .biz, and IIRC .museum? But, once again I'm not the most informed on the intricacies of the DNS system, perhaps a simple patch coudl resolve such issues? (as long as we're on the subject, let's make domains longer than 26 characters, perhaps 50 is enough. You may soon see a domain problem arising liek the IP problem that has already arrived. IPv6 anyone?)
It migh tnot end all disputes over hot names, but instead of two guys wanting to be "sex.com", once could settle for "sex.porn" and the other one "sex.pics" or something...- Collect waste products
- Convert to useable fuel products and other raw materials.
- Sell raw materials. Profit!
- Sell some oil. Profit!
- Use remaining oil to fuel massive hydrogen refining process.
- Sell hydrogen. Profit!
All while cleaning up the planet, a whole lot. This makes the hippies, the business types, and the everyday people happy. Let's just hope it works like they say it does and it might just be one of the best solutions we've been presented with.As for the leakage issue: Why would it be so hard to contain hydrogen? I mean yea I realize porous metals and since it's the smallest atom etc...however I routinely see tanker trucks with things like "AIRTECH: Liquid Refrigerated Hydrogen" in big letters on them. So if these trucks can hold it so easily, why not other things?
Can't they just fly near it, slow down, and "spacewalk" to the ISS, land in an airlock and be alright? Is it not possible to enter the ISS without docking? How does the ISS crew do spacewalks, or can they?
The 8600 isnt' a bad machine at all. I'm using one right now.
PS: Perl isn't proper grammar, either.