Don't know about US, but I'm hearing more and more that there really isn't a shortage of personel, but that HR isn't keeping up with IT demands, ie hiring people who can't do what they say they can, or not being prepared to spend the money on someone who can actually do the job properly.
Is anyone using WAP? It'll probably be a while before CSS gets supported, and even longer before it gets implemented. Even browsers running on PC's don't all support it(or support it in the standard way). I don't think the idea of browsing stuff on a dodgy screen is going to take off anyway.
I just got the binaries, and pre aplha 6.0 is looking good. Importing word files works particulary well. If they can get this thing up to a stable build in a couple of months, it might start giving office some competition. It was pretty stable, but some work needs to be done still.
OK, so Napster isn't great, in terms of it allowing prirating of music, but it isn't too bad if people keep buying the CD's they like. It's a pitty they decided to make money off the scheme, otherwise they would have a better case in court. But Mojo is blatently allowing people to "sell" stuff that they have no rights to eg. warez, mp3. If this ever becomes popular, the warez scene will just get even bigger.
(I don't use Windows byond trying to understand it so I don't know what makes it slow down)...
Turning the computer on usually makes it slow and unreliable. But in windows defence, its never crashed on me while the computer isn't on.
From what I can tell, most of the population *should* not be able to hear the watermarking. I wonder how they tested that? Does this mean that people with more sensitve hearing(eg. young kids) or with better stereos will be left hearing crap, with no other choice? The human ear is pretty sensitive, and the watermarks doesn't seem to be too "inaudible".
Bit of a strange long term business tactic really. Sue everyone who uses your stuff, screw everyone who deals with you and watch the cash roll in. Who would continue to do business with someone like that?
I don't see how this matters, or how the legal system is doing anything to stop Microsoft. The legal process is just too slow to be of any real use, and when all is said and done, it's remedies are not going to be very good anyway. The government would be better off buying from others until Microsoft behave. It would have a very immediate effect, as the US govt is an important customer.
Open sourceing makes very little difference, as the encrypted stuff is very hard to crack, even if you know the algorithm. Knowing the algorithm used doesn't get you very far, as you don't have the keys. RSA is very secure, provided you use big enough keys.
Your economics argument forgets one thing. RISK. If I invest my time and money and I don't sell what I thought I would, I lose money big time. Not everything I do will be a sure thing, just look at the music industry. For every Britney Spears, there are a lot of other unknowns and failures that the music companies have spent big money on. They have to recoup that money somehow, and when one of their risks pays off, why should they not collect their money from their investments.
Which is why free software is so good. It has no risk, because if no one uses it, it really doesn't matter, because the author probably did it for fun anyway.
It would be interesting if the napster server logs were ever opened up, to see what people actually downloaded. I wonder what percentage would be Top 40 material?
Wine's Direct X compatability is quite hit and miss, but for some games it works very well, and others it doesn't even start. It works even better if you've got windows on the machine, but if you do, you may as well play on windows.
Who cares? Its under GPL now(not that it matters), so why all this bickering? I'd rather stuff about KDE 2.0 or Gnome 1.4. Actual software rather than foundation announcements or licensing flamewars.
True, you do have to be careful about what you install and use with win2K. Choose hardware that works with Microsoft standard drivers, and Microsoft software, and its rock solid. But if you want to run something else, there are bugs galore.
To get rpms and all the rpms that it needs, try using rpmdrake and check
"install dependencies"(or something like that). Also, try out the new mandrake update, its pretty cool too. If only they used the helix code installer for everything!
Sony fighting their customers is not a smart idea. If the people who used Napster did not buy their products, then it wouldn't be a problem. But, I know a lot of people who use napster and still buy the CD's. The customer may not always be right, but you don't tell them that, and you certainly don't argue with them.
Why just two standards? Because operating systems are only useful if you have applications. The linux kernal by itself is not much fun.
It takes of a lot of effort to make compilers and programs for operating systems, hence the need for some real standards, otherwise you have to write many more programs, all for a different platform.
One way to get around this is to use a language liek java, so the underlying OS doesn't really matter. However, java is far from perfect.
What I want to know is why don't someone like intel or AMD sponsor something like bochs? Then there would be no need for backwards compatability.
Need to run your old apps? Use an emulator. It would probably be much cheaper than designing a chip to run around the x86 architechure.
The biggest uneploited territory is hardware... enter the Xbox.
Hardware is not exactly unexploited territory, it's probably even harder to break into than the software business. The only thing Xbox has going for it is compababilty with windows versions of games.
However, not many console games are very good on the PC, like Tekken, Gran Turismo, Mario Kart etc. These games need only a low resolution and controls are well suited to a joystick.
The same goes for PC games, starcraft, quake etc. are suited to very high resolutions, mouse and keyboard controls.
The two markets have never mixed very well, and very few games have made the jump from console to PC. Tombraider was one of the exceptions.
True, IE5 is very good, but I just got the windows M17 build, and it is extremely fast(using win98). There is now very little difference between IE5 and M17, as both have the occasional window display glitch.
One thing that is *very* useful is the font size selector in mozilla, which makes it worth using if you have apps that force you into small windows system fonts.
I guess technically yes, they might be able to. However, it would be a huge political gamble. There would be a lot of annoyed Americans, never mind the rest fo the world. I doubt that politically it could ever be done.
The "My Documents" directory is a good idea, but only if you're the *only* user on the system. Otherwise, everybody's stuf gets put there automatically. And yes, I used to change the directories in a similar way to what you have done, but I found that this is quite a bad idea, as it makes the system very unstable, windows can't find stuff, programs get conflicts, can't find files etc. While the Linux/Unix file structure is confusing at first, if you've got more than one person on the system, it's a godsend.
Fusion may not be as clean as many believe, even though the fuel used is not radioactive, the actual reactor and components surrounding the fusion process do become radioactive and dangerous. So it is pretty clean, but not perfect.
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Don't know about US, but I'm hearing more and more that there really isn't a shortage of personel, but that HR isn't keeping up with IT demands, ie hiring people who can't do what they say they can, or not being prepared to spend the money on someone who can actually do the job properly.
Is anyone using WAP? It'll probably be a while before CSS gets supported, and even longer before it gets implemented. Even browsers running on PC's don't all support it(or support it in the standard way). I don't think the idea of browsing stuff on a dodgy screen is going to take off anyway.
I just got the binaries, and pre aplha 6.0 is looking good. Importing word files works particulary well. If they can get this thing up to a stable build in a couple of months, it might start giving office some competition. It was pretty stable, but some work needs to be done still.
OK, so Napster isn't great, in terms of it allowing prirating of music, but it isn't too bad if people keep buying the CD's they like. It's a pitty they decided to make money off the scheme, otherwise they would have a better case in court. But Mojo is blatently allowing people to "sell" stuff that they have no rights to eg. warez, mp3. If this ever becomes popular, the warez scene will just get even bigger.
(I don't use Windows byond trying to understand it so I don't know what makes it slow down)... Turning the computer on usually makes it slow and unreliable. But in windows defence, its never crashed on me while the computer isn't on.
From what I can tell, most of the population *should* not be able to hear the watermarking. I wonder how they tested that? Does this mean that people with more sensitve hearing(eg. young kids) or with better stereos will be left hearing crap, with no other choice? The human ear is pretty sensitive, and the watermarks doesn't seem to be too "inaudible".
Bit of a strange long term business tactic really. Sue everyone who uses your stuff, screw everyone who deals with you and watch the cash roll in. Who would continue to do business with someone like that?
I don't see how this matters, or how the legal system is doing anything to stop Microsoft. The legal process is just too slow to be of any real use, and when all is said and done, it's remedies are not going to be very good anyway. The government would be better off buying from others until Microsoft behave. It would have a very immediate effect, as the US govt is an important customer.
Open sourceing makes very little difference, as the encrypted stuff is very hard to crack, even if you know the algorithm. Knowing the algorithm used doesn't get you very far, as you don't have the keys. RSA is very secure, provided you use big enough keys.
Your economics argument forgets one thing. RISK. If I invest my time and money and I don't sell what I thought I would, I lose money big time. Not everything I do will be a sure thing, just look at the music industry. For every Britney Spears, there are a lot of other unknowns and failures that the music companies have spent big money on. They have to recoup that money somehow, and when one of their risks pays off, why should they not collect their money from their investments. Which is why free software is so good. It has no risk, because if no one uses it, it really doesn't matter, because the author probably did it for fun anyway.
It would be interesting if the napster server logs were ever opened up, to see what people actually downloaded. I wonder what percentage would be Top 40 material?
Wine's Direct X compatability is quite hit and miss, but for some games it works very well, and others it doesn't even start. It works even better if you've got windows on the machine, but if you do, you may as well play on windows.
Who cares? Its under GPL now(not that it matters), so why all this bickering? I'd rather stuff about KDE 2.0 or Gnome 1.4. Actual software rather than foundation announcements or licensing flamewars.
True, you do have to be careful about what you install and use with win2K. Choose hardware that works with Microsoft standard drivers, and Microsoft software, and its rock solid. But if you want to run something else, there are bugs galore.
To get rpms and all the rpms that it needs, try using rpmdrake and check "install dependencies"(or something like that). Also, try out the new mandrake update, its pretty cool too. If only they used the helix code installer for everything!
Sony fighting their customers is not a smart idea. If the people who used Napster did not buy their products, then it wouldn't be a problem. But, I know a lot of people who use napster and still buy the CD's. The customer may not always be right, but you don't tell them that, and you certainly don't argue with them.
Why just two standards? Because operating systems are only useful if you have applications. The linux kernal by itself is not much fun. It takes of a lot of effort to make compilers and programs for operating systems, hence the need for some real standards, otherwise you have to write many more programs, all for a different platform. One way to get around this is to use a language liek java, so the underlying OS doesn't really matter. However, java is far from perfect.
What I want to know is why don't someone like intel or AMD sponsor something like bochs? Then there would be no need for backwards compatability. Need to run your old apps? Use an emulator. It would probably be much cheaper than designing a chip to run around the x86 architechure.
The biggest uneploited territory is hardware... enter the Xbox. Hardware is not exactly unexploited territory, it's probably even harder to break into than the software business. The only thing Xbox has going for it is compababilty with windows versions of games. However, not many console games are very good on the PC, like Tekken, Gran Turismo, Mario Kart etc. These games need only a low resolution and controls are well suited to a joystick. The same goes for PC games, starcraft, quake etc. are suited to very high resolutions, mouse and keyboard controls. The two markets have never mixed very well, and very few games have made the jump from console to PC. Tombraider was one of the exceptions.
True, IE5 is very good, but I just got the windows M17 build, and it is extremely fast(using win98). There is now very little difference between IE5 and M17, as both have the occasional window display glitch. One thing that is *very* useful is the font size selector in mozilla, which makes it worth using if you have apps that force you into small windows system fonts.
Many people in America have guns. Makes an angry populace a bit more serious doesn't it.
I guess technically yes, they might be able to. However, it would be a huge political gamble. There would be a lot of annoyed Americans, never mind the rest fo the world. I doubt that politically it could ever be done.
The "My Documents" directory is a good idea, but only if you're the *only* user on the system. Otherwise, everybody's stuf gets put there automatically. And yes, I used to change the directories in a similar way to what you have done, but I found that this is quite a bad idea, as it makes the system very unstable, windows can't find stuff, programs get conflicts, can't find files etc. While the Linux/Unix file structure is confusing at first, if you've got more than one person on the system, it's a godsend.
Fusion may not be as clean as many believe, even though the fuel used is not radioactive, the actual reactor and components surrounding the fusion process do become radioactive and dangerous. So it is pretty clean, but not perfect.
Anyone know if this will ship with bochs, since mandrake is now funding them?