I was actually invited to take part in the TCM / Gears of War preview through my website jackass critics but didn't take part.
From viewing the many and trailers / previews.. I will say that Gears of War looks like an updated Kill.Switch. Painful "on the rails" gameplay, with nice looking graphics.
I'll be interested in seeing how it works out. XBL Marketplace Demo will be very telling, when it's released.
An "Adults Only" title is about as racy as Day Time TV, or most anything on cable after 7 PM, I'd say they are about right with ignoring the ratings. Ratings are for politicians to waste our money creating laws, enforcements and punishments and to get elected by creating media (not public) outcry.
I have never been more enraged at a computer in my life.
Just as some background I am your target customer. I own an iPod and have purchased multiple CD's online from both the Apple iTunes Music Store and buymusic.com. I am the person you want out there yelling from the rooftops how great your product is. You're going to hear quite the opposite.
I bought into the hype from various press outlets about Real offering $.49 track downloads and $4.99 CD's. I visited your site and searched your media catalog without downloading your software. I was very impressed by the quantity of artists in your catalog. It seemed too good to be true. Mom told me what to expect when I had that feeling, but, like an idiot, I ignored mom yet again.
First, I downloaded your software. The installation can, at best, be considered painful. Two reboots! C'mon! I am doing this at work! I am supposed to put all my important projects on hold while I reboot twice just so I can start my computer again to give you money. Ridiculous. The worst part is I knew Real was likely sinking their greedy hooks deep into my system with evil DRM type underpinnings. But, once again, I ignored mom's advice to stop before I was "too deep" and continued down the path of Real evil.
So I decided to purchase a Godsmack album. $4.99. I created my Music Store account and paid for my purchase. I was pretty excited as I saw the file sizes were relatively large (as opposed to buymusic.com which obviously have fairly low bitrates). The files came down quickly from your servers.
I excitedly went to burn my CD to a CD-R. Bzzzz! No rights! No freaking rights! Yes, I am sure that is buried deep within some subclause of some clause of some crappy contract I "OK" clicked my way through, but holy cow. I cannot wait to tell the world that today, in 2004, you actually pay Real.com honest money to honestly purchase a music track and support an artist and you are rewarded with idiotic DRM that doesn't allow you to burn the tracks to a real CD. That's funny, I thought I bought a CD! Wrong!
This seriously chapped my behind and I heard my mother laughing in the back of my head. She knew how this was going to turn out, and my mother can't even turn on a computer. But she has more common sense than me and she would have steered far clear of your unReal offering.
So, continuing on, I was mightily frosted and began investigating ways to rip the tracks even with your DRM hooks clawed maniacally into my machine. (Hey, let's be realists, people are going to get the music onto CD whether you like it or not, if they are motivated. And since I was at work I figured I was doing it for the sake of science and whatnot.) I set out to play the tracks to listen to the quality, figuring I would work out a way to capture the audio stream to a WAV file and compressing it into an MP3 later. With just the Real Player running on my computer, I started playing Track #1.
My computer instantaneously shut down.
My mom is having hysterical fits of laughter at my expense by this point. Reminder to self: send mom flowers for all her great advice. She was so right.
So, there goes a few hours of work that I didn't save. Silly me I thought I was just playing a music track. I didn't realize I was connecting to the WHOPR and trying to play Global Thermonuclear War.
So I had enough hate boiled up inside of me to last the rest of the day and didn't attempt to use your crappy player again.
So, I arrive again this morn and figured I would take on "the challenge". I loaded the fugly Real Player and clicked on "Purchased Music". I selected all 11 tracks from the Godsmack album and clicked "Play Selections". I held my breath and closed my eyes and imagined a whole group of mothers laughing at me all chanting: "What do you think you are doing! You know it isn't going to work you fool!" What? It didn't crash! Yippie! Strike up the band. Oh wait... I have to login? What? What is this. Oh yes, I have to log in to your freakin site for permissio
At my company we pretty much look at an aveage last generation machine. That's the minimum specs for the Client workstations. The same software wored three years ago on the machines of that day, but you can't buy those machines anymore. No perticular rhyme or reason, I think the company likes to bust some chops.
Looks, spam, spam mail, telemarketers all exist today due to profits. People profit from them, so people will continue to do it.
"But take away the profit then!" far easier said than done. And even if you could, I would argue that you shouldn't. At least not legislatively. Let's see someone be half as creative in the private market as the spammers are. If they are creative, and their system works, then they get to be rich beyond belief. What's that? You don't want to pay for a spam solution? Well, believe me, those little things called Taxes? You're paying that judge to sit and preside over your case and you're paying those hundreds of Congressmen to sit and chat about this e-mail spam problem. It ain't free people.
If there was no market for spam, then it wouldn't exist. There is a market, you don't like it and I don't like it, but it does exist. People aren't sending chunks of steak through the mail unsolicited because that wouldn't be profitable.
"Multiple Processors Version 1.1 of the Xandros Desktop will not install on systems with multiple processors or Intel Pentium 4 systems with Hyperthreading enabled."
Steve Jobs came back onboard, the product line was way out of hand. I seem to remember there being like 40 products avaialable, no one was sure which product were appropriate for whom.
Jobs (and I am sure lots of other smart people behind the scenes) introduced the 4 quadrants, and Apple suddenly had the easiest decision making avaiable of any computer manufacterer. Student, or on a budget? Want a laptop - iBook. Want a desktop - iMac. Professional? Want a laptop - Powerbook. Want a desktop - G4/G5.
Sure, being so simple might for a 'tweener' to make a choice between upper level and lower level, but creating a choice specific for the 'tweener' crowd makes for a polluted, evil product line. (Along with fragmented R&D costs, higher production costs, etc...)
So my question is, where the hell does a 20" iMac fit in? Certainly at a base cost of $2199 it doesn't fill anyones needs well. Sure, 20" of flat panel goodness aimed at the consumer market is a bit groundbreaking and good outside the box thinking (which I think Apple under Jobs is again known for) but how are you going to market it? Why are you doing to pollute the sales to the "low end" desktop iMac line, with a $2199 and up computer? If I've got $2000 to spend on a computer, do I want a G4 or an iMac? That decision was once made for me by the simple matrix, now that option isn't so simple.
The continued existance of the eMac must really drive Jobs nuts. An actual CRT! Son-of-a-bitch!
An interesting occurance in our Courts recently is the SpikeTV/TNN thing... the judge there was willing to put the injunction against TNN changing their name to SpikeTV, but requried Spike Lee to put up a multi-million dollar bond to compensate TNN if it turned out Mr. Lee was complaining for the sake of complaining (AKA he lost miserably). The millions would help compensate TNN.
SCO might be able to get some sort of injunction, but imagine the bond they might have to put up if they are wrong! The revenues of every Linux company in the world?
Actually you may need to reconsider this, as "our" standard idea of business (in capitalism) doesn't really apply to a monopolistic business field. So, if we operate under the idea that Microsoft is a monopoly (another topic altogether) then we need to consider: How much money is it work to support product B, if product B helps support your monopoly for product A?
If Product A is your gravy train(s) (Windows, Office, Development studio?) which makes you $30B a year in revenue, is it worth subsidizing product B (Office for Mac, IE for Mac consisting of probably 100/50 developers respectively) if that protects your investment?
I'm sure a hardcore beaner (and beaners working for MS) have a lot more academic training than this, and can apply actual numbers to this scenario, but my point is that you cannot just freely apply yours and mine Economics 101 principle of "Whatever doesn't provide Microsoft with a Accounting Profit should get the axe", cause for MS thats a much, much bigger economic equation in reality.
I installed MDK 9.0 on my machine, and have found a bug in top. Read the top man page tells me the maintainer is procps-bugs@redhat.com is the maintainer, whose e-mail bounces.
This is like those lame handouts that your teacher gave you in elementary school when you were done with the math test before everyone else.. Match up the appropriate A to B kiddies:
{BLANK A} is going to put {BLANK B} out of business within {X} years.
Possible A answers: 1. The Audio Cassette 2. The Compact Disc 3. Television 4. Beta Video 5. VHS Video 6. Napster 7. Public Libraries
Possible B answers: 1. Radio Industry 2. Movie Industry 3. Music Producers 4. Theatre Owners 5. Book Publishers
When are they going to learn? Embrace, extend, profit. It's just that simple.
Listen up: You're right! You have reason to be afraid, YES. Therefore read up, get some geeks on staff, and take advantage of the technology. Those that have have gotten ahead, while the bitcher/whiner/moaner/"it's not fair"ers have been passed by.
I think you probably have two options. The biggest commercial effort in this area was called CyberGenie. I forget who made these units, but they are actually pretty neat. They no longer make them or anything, but they are on eBay for like ~$50... you can have up to 10 handsets I believe. The worst part of them is that the OS of the host machine has to be a Microsoft (ugh) and worse yet, Win98 is far and away the most supported OS. I'm on the CyberGenie mailing list (yeah, I guess I Dont get enough spam) and tons of people try to get these going with Win2000 and it isn't worth the trouble. Go ahead and Google for CyberGenie, it'll give you better information than I can give you.
Your other option is to go out and buy yourself a Dialogic Card and program one yourself. A Simple 4 line ISA card will cost you about $100 on eBay. We use Dialogic cards at my work (http://www.telecorpproducts.com) for some real time voice processing stuff. Well a previous developer bought the wrong model so I borrowed it and took it home. Some of the Dialogic models have Linux support. I popped it into my Linux box, and then developed a simple C app to capture the caller ID information coming into my phone w/ the fairly easy to use Dialogic API that dumps the CallerID info into a MySQL DB. Then a simple PHP page to query the DB and viola.. from anywhere in the world I can see who's been callin our casa.
From there it's pretty easy to do voice processing, transfers, etc... At work we take the raw voice coming off the card, do some shifting around, and then pass that information off to a RealAudio SDK/Server to send real time voice over the Internet (specific to call center monitoring)..
Oh well, best of luck... you can either buy a canned, unsupported package or strike out on your own (and I hope open source the results so I can use it for my home!)
I fourth the motion for EditPlus. I don't say this lightly, but it's actually worth PAYING for. Wow. Yeah, it's that good. I use it for C/C++, Perl, Pascal (since I despise debugging former co-workers stuff in Delphi, just edit it in EditPlus and then open Delphi to compile changes), PHP, ASP, VbScript and my SQL create statements.
And I second the guy that says it's not as good as BBEdit for the Mac, which was just sheer joy to work with. But I started to not be able to afford a Mac years ago. Now I'm just one of the Wintel sheep. Baa baa.
Ok, I read through it, and I must be dumb... from what I read, you can only download and use the source for Research Purposes? I got this namely from this section here:
2.1 Original Contributor Grant. Subject to Your compliance with Sections 3, 8.10 and Attachment A of this License, Original Contributor grants to You a worldwide,
royalty-free, non-exclusive license, to the extent of Original Contributor's Intellectual Property Rights covering the Original Code, Upgraded Code and Specifications, to do the following:
(a) Research Use License:... (b) Other than the licenses expressly granted in this License, Original Contributor retains all right, title, and interest in Original Code and Upgraded Code and Specifications.
Even if you don't live local, I know DISH Network carries a great number of Univ. of Washington Telecourses. I have watched their 'Intro to Programming' course several times... mostly for fun thus far, but I could use a brush up on my Polymorphism, etc... coming in later weeks.
Actually Radius made their 81/110, which from the model number you can tell is a clone of an 8100. Same motherboard, they slapped it in a nicer, stronger case, bigger PS, and a Radius Thunder Video Card (nice card for it's time).
Additionally there were a couple independent companies (non-licensees) that were making 8100 clones (and I think they were selling like Quadra/Centris 650 clones too, I remember seeing them in the back of MacWorld many moons ago).
I wouldn't register a.pro address is they were 1/5 the cost of a similar.com domain. From what I have seen, most people agree with me. I register domains for many of my clients, ranging from very technical clients to people that don't even have a computer in their office, and all have insisted that they wanted a.com domain. One of them had their companyname.com registered by someone else, and begrudgingly settled for companyname.net, after it looked like it would require many thousands of dollars to get the.com. Let em go nuts charging whatever they want for.pro..com is still going to be the cats meow.
Teoma makes you pay to submit your URL, it won't come within 1% of the functionality of Google. There are literally millions of pages totally loaded with useful information that would never ever ever ever (yeah, three evers) pay to submit their site. All that information, not available. Tsk Tsk Tsk.
Netscape is owned by AOL-TimeWarner. Don't buy their bullshit that they are this little tiny player going up against the Goliath. Their product overall is crap, so they deserve to have lost the market share. Big fat and lazy, and the up and comer kicked their ass. Gotta love it.
So they take our money and our garbage, and suffer for it. Their decision to make. I won't bother with an analogy or a diabtribe on why this works, I'll just leave it as you're either of the mind to say "So?" or "We have to stop this injustice!". For the second case though, I wonder if you think you have the right to tell me that I can't dispose of my computer in any way I want, and I also wonder how much your morals are going to mean to you when you have to pay $799 instead of $699 for that turd machine at Best Buy. I bet you'll be bitchin then.
My company had their port open, which was eventually found by the Spammers, who were routing just a ton of shit through it. I was too dumb to know how to close in spite of being the ad hoc Exchange Server Admin (I can tell you postfix wouldn't let that crap happen by default, but Exchange.. hell if I know...)
So of course eventually we were reported to the Blacklisters, and rightfully so. I wouldn't want the spam in my inbox (though I noticed 99% of the spam's destination was hotmail.com, so maybe they deserve it?), and it forced me to get off my last ass and fix it. Blacklists worked.
Of course the week, two week waiting period until we were unlisted... well that sucked ass big time... but.. we did the crime so we had to do the time.
The English site lists the price as 649 Euros, with the Euro being 0.9 of a dollar, we are looking at more like $600 instead of $60. At $60 this thing is interesting, at $90 it's interesting, above $200 it's not even registering 0.5% of the marketplace and at $600 I doubt they will get enough preorders to get out of the prototype phase.
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I was actually invited to take part in the TCM / Gears of War preview through my website jackass critics but didn't take part.
From viewing the many and trailers / previews.. I will say that Gears of War looks like an updated Kill.Switch. Painful "on the rails" gameplay, with nice looking graphics.
I'll be interested in seeing how it works out. XBL Marketplace Demo will be very telling, when it's released.
An "Adults Only" title is about as racy as Day Time TV, or most anything on cable after 7 PM, I'd say they are about right with ignoring the ratings. Ratings are for politicians to waste our money creating laws, enforcements and punishments and to get elected by creating media (not public) outcry.
I have never been more enraged at a computer in my life.
Just as some background I am your target customer. I own an iPod and have purchased multiple CD's online from both the Apple iTunes Music Store and buymusic.com. I am the person you want out there yelling from the rooftops how great your product is. You're going to hear quite the opposite.
I bought into the hype from various press outlets about Real offering $.49 track downloads and $4.99 CD's. I visited your site and searched your media catalog without downloading your software. I was very impressed by the quantity of artists in your catalog. It seemed too good to be true. Mom told me what to expect when I had that feeling, but, like an idiot, I ignored mom yet again.
First, I downloaded your software. The installation can, at best, be considered painful. Two reboots! C'mon! I am doing this at work! I am supposed to put all my important projects on hold while I reboot twice just so I can start my computer again to give you money. Ridiculous. The worst part is I knew Real was likely sinking their greedy hooks deep into my system with evil DRM type underpinnings. But, once again, I ignored mom's advice to stop before I was "too deep" and continued down the path of Real evil.
So I decided to purchase a Godsmack album. $4.99. I created my Music Store account and paid for my purchase. I was pretty excited as I saw the file sizes were relatively large (as opposed to buymusic.com which obviously have fairly low bitrates). The files came down quickly from your servers.
I excitedly went to burn my CD to a CD-R. Bzzzz! No rights! No freaking rights! Yes, I am sure that is buried deep within some subclause of some clause of some crappy contract I "OK" clicked my way through, but holy cow. I cannot wait to tell the world that today, in 2004, you actually pay Real.com honest money to honestly purchase a music track and support an artist and you are rewarded with idiotic DRM that doesn't allow you to burn the tracks to a real CD. That's funny, I thought I bought a CD! Wrong!
This seriously chapped my behind and I heard my mother laughing in the back of my head. She knew how this was going to turn out, and my mother can't even turn on a computer. But she has more common sense than me and she would have steered far clear of your unReal offering.
So, continuing on, I was mightily frosted and began investigating ways to rip the tracks even with your DRM hooks clawed maniacally into my machine. (Hey, let's be realists, people are going to get the music onto CD whether you like it or not, if they are motivated. And since I was at work I figured I was doing it for the sake of science and whatnot.) I set out to play the tracks to listen to the quality, figuring I would work out a way to capture the audio stream to a WAV file and compressing it into an MP3 later. With just the Real Player running on my computer, I started playing Track #1.
My computer instantaneously shut down.
My mom is having hysterical fits of laughter at my expense by this point. Reminder to self: send mom flowers for all her great advice. She was so right.
So, there goes a few hours of work that I didn't save. Silly me I thought I was just playing a music track. I didn't realize I was connecting to the WHOPR and trying to play Global Thermonuclear War.
So I had enough hate boiled up inside of me to last the rest of the day and didn't attempt to use your crappy player again.
So, I arrive again this morn and figured I would take on "the challenge". I loaded the fugly Real Player and clicked on "Purchased Music". I selected all 11 tracks from the Godsmack album and clicked "Play Selections". I held my breath and closed my eyes and imagined a whole group of mothers laughing at me all chanting: "What do you think you are doing! You know it isn't going to work you fool!" What? It didn't crash! Yippie! Strike up the band. Oh wait... I have to login? What? What is this. Oh yes, I have to log in to your freakin site for permissio
At my company we pretty much look at an aveage last generation machine. That's the minimum specs for the Client workstations. The same software wored three years ago on the machines of that day, but you can't buy those machines anymore. No perticular rhyme or reason, I think the company likes to bust some chops.
Is it different than what we currently have?
If so, it won't work.
Looks, spam, spam mail, telemarketers all exist today due to profits. People profit from them, so people will continue to do it.
"But take away the profit then!" far easier said than done. And even if you could, I would argue that you shouldn't. At least not legislatively. Let's see someone be half as creative in the private market as the spammers are. If they are creative, and their system works, then they get to be rich beyond belief. What's that? You don't want to pay for a spam solution? Well, believe me, those little things called Taxes? You're paying that judge to sit and preside over your case and you're paying those hundreds of Congressmen to sit and chat about this e-mail spam problem. It ain't free people.
If there was no market for spam, then it wouldn't exist. There is a market, you don't like it and I don't like it, but it does exist. People aren't sending chunks of steak through the mail unsolicited because that wouldn't be profitable.
Taken from their homepage...
"Multiple Processors
Version 1.1 of the Xandros Desktop will not install on systems with multiple processors or Intel Pentium 4 systems with Hyperthreading enabled."
Umm.. that's a bad idea!
Steve Jobs came back onboard, the product line was way out of hand. I seem to remember there being like 40 products avaialable, no one was sure which product were appropriate for whom.
Jobs (and I am sure lots of other smart people behind the scenes) introduced the 4 quadrants, and Apple suddenly had the easiest decision making avaiable of any computer manufacterer. Student, or on a budget? Want a laptop - iBook. Want a desktop - iMac. Professional? Want a laptop - Powerbook. Want a desktop - G4/G5.
Sure, being so simple might for a 'tweener' to make a choice between upper level and lower level, but creating a choice specific for the 'tweener' crowd makes for a polluted, evil product line. (Along with fragmented R&D costs, higher production costs, etc...)
So my question is, where the hell does a 20" iMac fit in? Certainly at a base cost of $2199 it doesn't fill anyones needs well. Sure, 20" of flat panel goodness aimed at the consumer market is a bit groundbreaking and good outside the box thinking (which I think Apple under Jobs is again known for) but how are you going to market it? Why are you doing to pollute the sales to the "low end" desktop iMac line, with a $2199 and up computer? If I've got $2000 to spend on a computer, do I want a G4 or an iMac? That decision was once made for me by the simple matrix, now that option isn't so simple.
The continued existance of the eMac must really drive Jobs nuts. An actual CRT! Son-of-a-bitch!
An interesting occurance in our Courts recently is the SpikeTV/TNN thing... the judge there was willing to put the injunction against TNN changing their name to SpikeTV, but requried Spike Lee to put up a multi-million dollar bond to compensate TNN if it turned out Mr. Lee was complaining for the sake of complaining (AKA he lost miserably). The millions would help compensate TNN.
SCO might be able to get some sort of injunction, but imagine the bond they might have to put up if they are wrong! The revenues of every Linux company in the world?
Actually you may need to reconsider this, as "our" standard idea of business (in capitalism) doesn't really apply to a monopolistic business field. So, if we operate under the idea that Microsoft is a monopoly (another topic altogether) then we need to consider: How much money is it work to support product B, if product B helps support your monopoly for product A?
If Product A is your gravy train(s) (Windows, Office, Development studio?) which makes you $30B a year in revenue, is it worth subsidizing product B (Office for Mac, IE for Mac consisting of probably 100/50 developers respectively) if that protects your investment?
I'm sure a hardcore beaner (and beaners working for MS) have a lot more academic training than this, and can apply actual numbers to this scenario, but my point is that you cannot just freely apply yours and mine Economics 101 principle of "Whatever doesn't provide Microsoft with a Accounting Profit should get the axe", cause for MS thats a much, much bigger economic equation in reality.
I installed MDK 9.0 on my machine, and have found a bug in top. Read the top man page tells me the maintainer is procps-bugs@redhat.com is the maintainer, whose e-mail bounces.
Ideas?
This is like those lame handouts that your teacher gave you in elementary school when you were done with the math test before everyone else.. Match up the appropriate A to B kiddies:
{BLANK A} is going to put {BLANK B} out of business within {X} years.
Possible A answers:
1. The Audio Cassette
2. The Compact Disc
3. Television
4. Beta Video
5. VHS Video
6. Napster
7. Public Libraries
Possible B answers:
1. Radio Industry
2. Movie Industry
3. Music Producers
4. Theatre Owners
5. Book Publishers
When are they going to learn? Embrace, extend, profit. It's just that simple.
Listen up: You're right! You have reason to be afraid, YES. Therefore read up, get some geeks on staff, and take advantage of the technology. Those that have have gotten ahead, while the bitcher/whiner/moaner/"it's not fair"ers have been passed by.
And...
I think you probably have two options. The biggest commercial effort in this area was called CyberGenie. I forget who made these units, but they are actually pretty neat. They no longer make them or anything, but they are on eBay for like ~$50... you can have up to 10 handsets I believe. The worst part of them is that the OS of the host machine has to be a Microsoft (ugh) and worse yet, Win98 is far and away the most supported OS. I'm on the CyberGenie mailing list (yeah, I guess I Dont get enough spam) and tons of people try to get these going with Win2000 and it isn't worth the trouble. Go ahead and Google for CyberGenie, it'll give you better information than I can give you.
Your other option is to go out and buy yourself a Dialogic Card and program one yourself. A Simple 4 line ISA card will cost you about $100 on eBay. We use Dialogic cards at my work (http://www.telecorpproducts.com) for some real time voice processing stuff. Well a previous developer bought the wrong model so I borrowed it and took it home. Some of the Dialogic models have Linux support. I popped it into my Linux box, and then developed a simple C app to capture the caller ID information coming into my phone w/ the fairly easy to use Dialogic API that dumps the CallerID info into a MySQL DB. Then a simple PHP page to query the DB and viola.. from anywhere in the world I can see who's been callin our casa.
From there it's pretty easy to do voice processing, transfers, etc... At work we take the raw voice coming off the card, do some shifting around, and then pass that information off to a RealAudio SDK/Server to send real time voice over the Internet (specific to call center monitoring)..
Oh well, best of luck... you can either buy a canned, unsupported package or strike out on your own (and I hope open source the results so I can use it for my home!)
I fourth the motion for EditPlus. I don't say this lightly, but it's actually worth PAYING for. Wow. Yeah, it's that good. I use it for C/C++, Perl, Pascal (since I despise debugging former co-workers stuff in Delphi, just edit it in EditPlus and then open Delphi to compile changes), PHP, ASP, VbScript and my SQL create statements.
And I second the guy that says it's not as good as BBEdit for the Mac, which was just sheer joy to work with. But I started to not be able to afford a Mac years ago. Now I'm just one of the Wintel sheep. Baa baa.
At least I found EditPlus.
Ok, I read through it, and I must be dumb... from what I read, you can only download and use the source for Research Purposes? I got this namely from this section here:
...
2.1 Original Contributor Grant. Subject to Your compliance with Sections 3, 8.10 and Attachment A of this License, Original Contributor grants to You a worldwide,
royalty-free, non-exclusive license, to the extent of Original Contributor's Intellectual Property Rights covering the Original Code, Upgraded Code and Specifications, to do the following:
(a) Research Use License:
(b) Other than the licenses expressly granted in this License, Original Contributor retains all right, title, and interest in Original Code and Upgraded Code and Specifications.
IANAL, what does that mean? Research only?
Even if you don't live local, I know DISH Network carries a great number of Univ. of Washington Telecourses. I have watched their 'Intro to Programming' course several times... mostly for fun thus far, but I could use a brush up on my Polymorphism, etc... coming in later weeks.
Actually Radius made their 81/110, which from the model number you can tell is a clone of an 8100. Same motherboard, they slapped it in a nicer, stronger case, bigger PS, and a Radius Thunder Video Card (nice card for it's time).
Additionally there were a couple independent companies (non-licensees) that were making 8100 clones (and I think they were selling like Quadra/Centris 650 clones too, I remember seeing them in the back of MacWorld many moons ago).
So actually there are clones of the x100 series.
Now that is a cool name.
The spelling is important too!
Google - easy to submit to.
Temoa - PITA to submit to.
Google wins.
(not to mention the other goodies, such as Google owning Deja. All of a sudden I'm pitchin a tent in my roos)
I wouldn't register a .pro address is they were 1/5 the cost of a similar .com domain. From what I have seen, most people agree with me. I register domains for many of my clients, ranging from very technical clients to people that don't even have a computer in their office, and all have insisted that they wanted a .com domain. One of them had their companyname.com registered by someone else, and begrudgingly settled for companyname.net, after it looked like it would require many thousands of dollars to get the .com. Let em go nuts charging whatever they want for .pro. .com is still going to be the cats meow.
Teoma makes you pay to submit your URL, it won't come within 1% of the functionality of Google. There are literally millions of pages totally loaded with useful information that would never ever ever ever (yeah, three evers) pay to submit their site. All that information, not available. Tsk Tsk Tsk.
If all your morons pay 7 grand a year for college think getting OfficeXP for "free" is "free" then maybe you shouldn't be in college?
Netscape is owned by AOL-TimeWarner. Don't buy their bullshit that they are this little tiny player going up against the Goliath. Their product overall is crap, so they deserve to have lost the market share. Big fat and lazy, and the up and comer kicked their ass. Gotta love it.
So they take our money and our garbage, and suffer for it. Their decision to make. I won't bother with an analogy or a diabtribe on why this works, I'll just leave it as you're either of the mind to say "So?" or "We have to stop this injustice!". For the second case though, I wonder if you think you have the right to tell me that I can't dispose of my computer in any way I want, and I also wonder how much your morals are going to mean to you when you have to pay $799 instead of $699 for that turd machine at Best Buy. I bet you'll be bitchin then.
My company had their port open, which was eventually found by the Spammers, who were routing just a ton of shit through it. I was too dumb to know how to close in spite of being the ad hoc Exchange Server Admin (I can tell you postfix wouldn't let that crap happen by default, but Exchange.. hell if I know...)
So of course eventually we were reported to the Blacklisters, and rightfully so. I wouldn't want the spam in my inbox (though I noticed 99% of the spam's destination was hotmail.com, so maybe they deserve it?), and it forced me to get off my last ass and fix it. Blacklists worked.
Of course the week, two week waiting period until we were unlisted... well that sucked ass big time... but.. we did the crime so we had to do the time.
The English site lists the price as 649 Euros, with the Euro being 0.9 of a dollar, we are looking at more like $600 instead of $60. At $60 this thing is interesting, at $90 it's interesting, above $200 it's not even registering 0.5% of the marketplace and at $600 I doubt they will get enough preorders to get out of the prototype phase.