You don't have to configure the file browser or install & configure codecs n plugins, etc.
left Click a Divx AVI in Konq & it automatically opens in Xine (or something) & just works
Open the browser onto a website that has 3 flash menus or animation & they just work. You don't get 3 windows poping on Netscape's plugin suggest you click a link to download a flash plugin & you click it & it downloads onto the computer heavens knows where & doesn't do anything.
This isn't even worth a slashdot thread till the thing's released.
That's when we can debate till the cows come home whether he's complying with the GPL.
Anyway I make its a rule in life to not comply with any rules, regulations or laws I don't agree with. Life would be bloody boring if everyone complied with the rules.
Which, with all those IDE connectors would have been piss easy to dump.
Afterall IDE floppy drives have been arround for at least 5 years (both the normal 1.4MB type & the 1.4MB/120MB supper floppy type), actually if you search hard enough on the web you can find 5.25" CD-ROM/floopy combo IDE drives (yes they don't just make em for laptops).
"...The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in as soon as four weeks. It plans to use the machines--with their owners' permission--to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks..."
It transforms those ECS Athlon boards from shit to the bargin of the century, well almost.
Look at all the bullshit they said about Abit
on
Mass Motherboard Review
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· Score: 4, Informative
You can tell the writer worships their arse.
Going on about Abits history of great stability/support/reliability etc.
Bullshit, just a couple of years ago Abit had worse RMA rates than bloody PC Chips/ECS, AT 10%. Ontop of that Abit charged a RMA fee (even when it was 100% their fault) of $20, forcing retailers to charge an extra $2 on every Abit board to make sure they didn't lose out on the 10% that failed.
Mind you they're improved since then, the box I'm typing this on has a Abit board.
All car makers of any substance belong to a naming association.
Car makers can name their cars anything they want as long as the name's not taken in that particullar market (think Subaru Legacy in the US, Subaru Liberty everywhere else)
If a name hasn't been used for 15 years or something in a particular market, others can grab the name
Leyland P76 Executive (mid 70's Australia)
Holden Commadore Executive (1990's again in Oz)
Look at the Pontiac GTO & the Ferrari GTO.
This means as long as Peuget hasn't sold a 504 in Australia for 15 years, Ford could name one of their cars a '504' in the Oz market without contravening the Automotive Naming Convention or whatever its called.
for example somone could buid a core with a internal clock reducer (like the FPU in VIAs Winchip cum CIII), so even though a chip for all intensive purposes hase a external clock of 2ghz, if it has a reducer isnide that knocks it in half (like the CIII FPU), its really running a 1ghz. Now if AMD did this with a internal 1/4 reducer they could match the Intel clock & performance wise, would you be happy then.
Or one could build a chip with a long pipeline, so when it runs at 2ghz it performs like a 1ghz chip
"Everyone knows that Taiwanese companies make notebooks for big companies like IBM, Compaq, Dell and HP. But which company makes what? Here's the OEM list, courtesy of a Taiwanese wire. Quanta makes Gateway, Dell, IBM, Apple and Siemens products. Acer makes IBM and Hitachi products. Inventec makes Compaq notebooks. Compal makes Dell and HP notebooks. Arima makes Compaq notebooks. Twinhead manufactures for HP and Winbook. Clevo makes Hitachi notebooks. Mitac manufactures for Sharp. GVC manufactures for Siemens, Micron, Apple and Packard Bell. And FIC manufactures for NEC and Packard Bell. ® According to the survey, total notebook from the small (240 miles long) island amounted to 5,420,000 in 1998."
Told to me by a salesman at a Harvey Norman Store, when I said I can knock together a AMD system from parts at the computer markets for not much more than half the price.
I somehow doubt that straight DVD piracy is truelly viable because of the current cost of blank DVD media, especially once all the other costs are added up.
Give it a year or 2 though & it definitly will be.
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That would force the govt/s to reform the patent registration process.
They should be emphaisising it, you can run bloody netscrape on almost any nix box.
All partitions automount.
You don't have to configure the file browser or install & configure codecs n plugins, etc.
left Click a Divx AVI in Konq & it automatically opens in Xine (or something) & just works
Open the browser onto a website that has 3 flash menus or animation & they just work. You don't get 3 windows poping on Netscape's plugin suggest you click a link to download a flash plugin & you click it & it downloads onto the computer heavens knows where & doesn't do anything.
Actually I think they are based on Caldera.
Are all the netscape plugins pre-loaded & configured by default?
They have to learn all that CLI crap,
This isn't even worth a slashdot thread till the thing's released.
That's when we can debate till the cows come home whether he's complying with the GPL.
Anyway I make its a rule in life to not comply with any rules, regulations or laws I don't agree with. Life would be bloody boring if everyone complied with the rules.
The floppy connector.
Which, with all those IDE connectors would have been piss easy to dump.
Afterall IDE floppy drives have been arround for at least 5 years (both the normal 1.4MB type & the 1.4MB/120MB supper floppy type), actually if you search hard enough on the web you can find 5.25" CD-ROM/floopy combo IDE drives (yes they don't just make em for laptops).
Really its buyer beware.
If you can't afford to burn the same amount of money with a match, you can't afford to spend it on the web.
If you are unwilling top take the risk, then just shop local.
Just think of shopping on the web as a form of gambling where the odds are mostly in your favour unlike the pokies at the local pub or club.
Whether you like it all not, the web is above the law, & its better if it stays that way.
Hopefully other govts won't follow the US precedent.
Anyway how can they enforce this on some 14 year old shoutcasting through his cable connection?
Its really a toss up between the 2, well installer wise anyway
RTFA
Right there in the 3rd paragraph:-
"...The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in as soon as four weeks. It plans to use the machines--with their owners' permission--to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks..."
RTFA
"where does it say in ANY biblical text that its 'ok' to slaughter children "
It seems the Pals are just folling our example, only they have the guts to sacrifice their own lives too.
It transforms those ECS Athlon boards from shit to the bargin of the century, well almost.
You can tell the writer worships their arse.
Going on about Abits history of great stability/support/reliability etc.
Bullshit, just a couple of years ago Abit had worse RMA rates than bloody PC Chips/ECS, AT 10%. Ontop of that Abit charged a RMA fee
(even when it was 100% their fault) of $20, forcing retailers to charge an extra $2 on every Abit board to make sure they didn't lose out on the 10% that failed.
Mind you they're improved since then, the box I'm typing this on has a Abit board.
All car makers of any substance belong to a naming association.
Car makers can name their cars anything they want as long as the name's not taken in that particullar market (think Subaru Legacy in the US, Subaru Liberty everywhere else)
If a name hasn't been used for 15 years or something in a particular market, others can grab the name
Leyland P76 Executive (mid 70's Australia)
Holden Commadore Executive (1990's again in Oz)
Look at the Pontiac GTO & the Ferrari GTO.
This means as long as Peuget hasn't sold a 504 in Australia for 15 years, Ford could name one of their cars a '504' in the Oz market without contravening the Automotive Naming Convention or whatever its called.
for example somone could buid a core with a internal clock reducer (like the FPU in VIAs Winchip cum CIII), so even though a chip for all intensive purposes hase a external clock of 2ghz, if it has a reducer isnide that knocks it in half (like the CIII FPU), its really running a 1ghz. Now if AMD did this with a internal 1/4 reducer they could match the Intel clock & performance wise, would you be happy then.
Or one could build a chip with a long pipeline, so when it runs at 2ghz it performs like a 1ghz chip
Well sort of
Both AppleWorks & Gobe evolved from ClarisWorks.
Apparently a 14 day demo
Go to love that 'save as' 'pdf' capability.
Why comply with US laws when one doesn't have to.
If you don't like it.
At "The Register" (circa early 99)
"Everyone knows that Taiwanese companies make notebooks for big companies like IBM, Compaq, Dell and HP. But which company makes what? Here's the OEM list, courtesy of a Taiwanese wire. Quanta makes Gateway, Dell, IBM, Apple and Siemens products. Acer makes IBM and Hitachi products. Inventec makes Compaq notebooks. Compal makes Dell and HP notebooks. Arima makes Compaq notebooks. Twinhead manufactures for HP and Winbook. Clevo makes Hitachi notebooks. Mitac manufactures for Sharp. GVC manufactures for Siemens, Micron, Apple and Packard Bell. And FIC manufactures for NEC and Packard Bell. ® According to the survey, total notebook from the small (240 miles long) island amounted to 5,420,000 in 1998."
Told to me by a salesman at a Harvey Norman Store, when I said I can knock together a AMD system from parts at the computer markets for not much more than half the price.
I somehow doubt that straight DVD piracy is truelly viable because of the current cost of blank DVD media, especially once all the other costs are added up.
Give it a year or 2 though & it definitly will be.