The process Inform the company If ignored inform BugTrap so System admin can take precautions to lock down the defect.
In the case of a broken bank lock Inform Bank if bank ignores you Tell the news media.
In todays world however telling the bank the valt door is broken will earn you an FBI investigation and informing the news media could get you arrested.
And it always appears to go this way: The company is informed of the defect and the company clames it's a nonissue (eather saying 'Impossable' or 'it can do no harm') So the original discovering person works on an example code that will prove it is a real and harmful security defect. So the FBI gets involved.
So the company is trying to prevent someone from using a non-existent bug for criminal intent? Or are they just covering there own butts?
Video games current drive the hardware market and have always had some very tight code. While the avrage user may not have noticed it back in the Commodore 64 days frame rate was an issue. However getting 30 fps was very unlikely. It was more of getting enough frames so the human eye didn't see jerky motion.
The faster the hardware the smarter the AI. The faster the video card the better the detail. Thats just the games.
The scientific community is always updating hardware and even worked out that it's better to delay a project a week to get new hardware than be stuck on old hardware. The newer hardware will get the job done a few months faster than the old.
Then you have the movie industry. CG movies and CG specal effects were the domain of super computers and high budget films. The new Doctor Who series is using CG effects and PC farms are being used to render CG movies.
There is something else to consider, Linux can run on 2 meg ram and 1 meg disk. It's hard to imagin anyone making anything with requirements lower than 16 megs total (memory and storage)
Just fab a X86 clone with 64 meg ram and 2 gig flash and you have an imbeded Linux on a chip. (Didn't somebody do this already?)
Linux is already populare in servers and gainning popularity in the imbeded market. (Totally acing out Microsoft. Linux compeates with the far more practical PalmOs.)
Linux isn't the only OS for this. BSD works pritty well. And if you want to drop to the 6502 then Lunix (not Linux) is your only choice.
I can see the ghosting and I can see the flicker. (CRT flicker and LCD ghosting) and I don't care.
This could be a problem for Philips for a lot of reasons. People have a problem lumping an entire class of product together and "Once you've seen one duck you've seen all ducks".
I've seen it in Linux and SUVs. Every Linux distro is diffrent and SUV is a class of vehical refering to many diffrent types of vehicals, Vans, MiniVans, Trucks, Jeeps etc. But people think all SUVs are alike, all Linux distros are alike. They also think all LCD TVs are alike. It's difficult to get most people to appreceate the diffrence in quality between a low end wide screen and a high res wide screen.
With LCDs people just think it's there. If you fix it by adding filcker people will get the idea that all LCDs flicker... and have ghosting. You'll have a hard time convencing anyone that there is a tradeoff.
Way back in the day I had a Sony Trinatron TV for a computer monitor. A friend noticed the guide wire and desided to ask me why do TVs have that. My other computer uses a Zenith monitor (not TV) seeing that my Zenith didn't have the wire he concluded it was a diffrence between a TV set and a computer monitor. It took me a while to get him to understand this was unique to the Trinatron. Thankfully I had a Zenith TV in the living room for watching TV. Thow for the first 5 minuts he sware he could see the wire on it.
Rated M (or Mature) means what? Adults only right? What the hell dose AO mean then? Ohh Adults Only? Isn't that redundent?
Ok I admit I never got why we have R and X movie ratings. They basicly mean the same thing. The ratings are there to tell us if the entertainment is kid friendly and how kid friendly it is (or isn't) M pritty much says it.. Not kid friendly in any way what so ever if you buy it for your kid it's your own fault.
AO means what then? Not kid friendly? Wait then Mature IS kid friendly? Ohh right so a 17 year old teenager can play GTA with all the violence and none of the sex but add some sex into it and WOOH.
By the time I was 17 I didn't need some stupid video game (or movie) to show me what sex was like. However even at the age of 35 my only exposure to extream violence is movies, TV and video games.
Why 17? Well at age 18 your legally an adult and well... Hay if AO truely means adults only then surely someone only one year younger could play the lower rating of M right?
In closing, The Freaking Game was already labled for adults with the "Mature" rating. It already had all the violence needed to justify not getting it for kids. If that didn't justify an AO rating the sex certenly didn't.
Before it was the desk phone. The phone would ring and I'd have to wait for the answering machine to pick up. It would eather be for the boss or it would be the boss trying to reach me. If it's the boss I pick up. The boss seldom calls and only on an emergency but a lot of people call for the boss. Why? Don't know don't care.
Now I have a cell phone of my own. The boss uses the phone companys answering service plus the office phone is locked up in a diffrent office so I don't have access to it (let alone hear it ring). Only the boss has my phone number so only the boss calls.
I use a "pay as you go" service that after 3 months I have to buy more minuts no matter what. I make those minuts last the whole 3 months. It saves me huge amounts of money. So I tell the boss "Use up my minuts and the phone will turn off". Now the boss only calls on sereous emergencys. (Some times she'd call me to check up on her husband when he works late. He turns his cell phone off so she can not reach him)
No calls from Mom telling me the latest plot twist on a show I care nothing about. I can turn off IM if it becomes annoying. I uninstalled ICQ for that reason. *Insert Monty Pythons Spam soung* Dose anybody sereously use ICQ anymore or is it just nonstop spammers?
In the past Microsoft would hire employees from other companys in order to get the technology they were working on. Thies weren't executives but techs in the R&D area.
Microsoft was sued becouse they were recruting those individuals directly while they were still working for the compeating company and managed to hire off the entire staff from someone elses R&D department.
I believe thies people were giving up all kinds of perks for violating the 1 year rule and Microsoft agreed to make up for that.
That means Microsoft knowingly aided in violating the employee contracts of a compeating company.
Microsoft let's go of an executive and he gets a job at Google. Google didn't go out and seek someone simply becouse they worked at Microsoft. They aren't trying to buy off Microsofts technology. Microsoft dosen't have anything Google could want. But Microsoft figured if they got sued for preditory hiring practaces so they could sue Google for accadentally violating a very unusual contractual requirement.
The 1 year rule is very very commen for techs. Even people who repair computers in the back of small computer shops have a one year rule.
But executives are a diffrent story.
Let's go down what people know of what will happen one year from now in the company they work for.
Sales person: We'll have something new. It has binky lights. It'll do wonderful things. I'd like to tell you but the specs I'm holding are 6 months old and they've already changed 180 times sense then.
Executive: We're working on a new computer program that will do automagical things. And it will blink the blinky lights on your computer.
Tech: Transputing the flux capaciter on the wave front we are able to retrosend the data stream from next week to last week causing data flow to increase 1,000 fold and elimate all process lag with no need for memory buffers.
Now who do you want on ice for one year?
By the way the above tech works for me not Microsoft. I don't know who the executive works for but apparently it isn't microsoft.
Once I applied for a job and before they'd even interview me they handed me a bunch of wavers. I read them all. They hadn't hired me yet but wanted me to agree to all kinds of spot testing even if I work for someone else.
I didn't sign one so they didn't give me an interview.
Thankfully none of them were agreements to not apply for work elsewhere.
"It's not a bug it's a feature" are quite likely words never actually spoken by any representive of Microsoft. However there is a reason for this attatude.
Bug that makes it possable to run code on remote users box: Users say "Oh no bug bug. Get rid of it" Develupers say "Ohh feature feature keep it, expand it" Security experts say "Bug"
If the develupers provide a strong enough argument the "bug" is classified as a feature and remains.
My sister uses dial up. I turn my computer off before I go to bed. My mothers cell phone logs out when she isn't using it.
In the United States cell phones can't stay connected to the cell network 24/7. (Plus all the times we turn our phones off for eather politeness, policy or law)
I remember people in the UK complaing about having to use the BT dial up "pay by the bandwith" style service. (Don't know if this is still the case as I don't live there)
In some parts of the world Internet access means going to a community center and logging on from there.
Those of us who have regulare Internet access also tend to use services like AIM, Gnutella and others that maintain a regulare connection with a host.
Besides if someone is mesuring over the day a person with 24/7 internet access checks his e-mail at least once.
However if he's just mesuring web traffic then he's going to lose all the people who are just picking up e-mail, using telnet, using gnutella, playing multiplayer games or just visting websites they don't happen to be monitoring.
A while back someone called trying to get me to switch to Sprint and offered me a free mag subscruption if I did. They had many diffrent publications to chouse from but the sales person was only intrested in having me subscribe to ESPN mag. I don't like sports and explained repeatedly I wasn't intrested in ESPN. I also wasn't intrested in changing my phone carrer. After being put on hold for about 30 minuts I hung up.
I never agreed to anything and certenly didn't agree to a subscription.
A year later I move and suddenly I'm receaving ESPN mag. I've forgotten the phone call. I just send it back with "Return to sender" However famaly members keep pulling it out of the mail box and returnning them to me so they don't always get out.
Still for like 6 months I got a mag I wasn't intrested in never subscribed to.
Then I got a bill from a colection agentcy. For a mag subscription to a mag I didn't want.
For the record the phone sales person didn't mention switching carrers. She just started with the free mag pitch and I went round and round with her on the fact that I don't like sports.
She also mentioned Wired but I already had a subscruption.
I'm cynical. Lagit freedom fighters (Not the terrorists in Iraq etc) wouldn't think twice about using low cost american technology to fight off an invaider and save there own lifes.
But for those whom life is a cheap throw away thing they wouldn't even consider using killer robots made by infedel americans.
However if this really is a case of freedom loving people not anti-american religous fanatics then they should have every right to use this technology.
Back in the day when most operating systems were locked into the hardware computer manufacters had to address this issue.
There were two schools in this problem: 1. Liccens all the good software. 2. Make everything in house.
Commodore and IBM liccensed software.
To do this you contact the software develuper and get an agreement from them. You pay to port the software over to your platform. You pacage, ship and sell the software yourself. You send 75% to 95% of the proffits back to the the develupers.
If your hardware catches on the original software develuper will publish the software themselfs.
This way they get more sales while adding no additional risk.
Today you'll need to offer to support the software yourself. Companys are avoding Linux purely due to support issues. Well publishers are software develupers are releasing unsupported binarys on the side.
Inhouse develupment isn't enough. You should however start with a little inhouse develupment. Geoworks was very populare with it's bundled applications. GeoWrite, GeoDraw etc. That got peoples attention but with nothing to hold peoples attention Geoworks died.
Liccens software to hold them all, In house to find them, Marketting to bring them all. And with closed file formats bind them.
What ring?
In any case.
To pull this on Linux *Ohhhh* becouse this is Slashdot and it must all come back to Linux.
Basicly set up a software publishing company that aims at Linux. Get exclusive Linux agreements so only you can make the Linux version of the liccensed application.
Loki could do it. So could RedHat or OSTG.
Apple could do it for MacOs X. IBM could do it for it's own hardware. They did before.
Palm Source could do it for the PalmOs platform. The real WinCE popularity is all the Windows desktop apps on a PDA. The PalmOs file readers aren't enough. However Palm Os 5 IS powerful enough to it.
And I see AoL only versions of populare online games. Get a Discount on your favoret games from AoL. Sigh... What can be used for good can be used for evil.
I look at it and all I can say is "It's too freaking big" I'm seeing Zoomer all over again. (The PDA that went head to head with the Apple Newton and lost)
The Newton and Zoomer failed on the market for being too big (the zoomer also suffered from poor marketting)
However times have changed. Nither the Newton nore Zoomer could do half what the Peper can.
Think Geek: (Link already on Slashdot) Amazon eBay Froogle Graigs list Koamart: For ramen. Bevrages direct for caffine. Ramen Depot also for raman but I prefer Koamart Cheap Bytes for Linux related stuff (books, Linux distros, The Linux from Scratch book. Everyone must buy the LFS book. Forget Debian LFS is god Easy Linux CDs Primarly linux trainning matereal.
Ahh but it depends on the intent of the author. SOME times that can be easly determined. For example while the post is a lagit opinion it could be easly countered with "So what" meaning it didn't make any sense to bring it up.
It sounds like a creative rehash of the often made complaints of frugle shopers and of people who favor free software.
Basic ecconomic reality, People will not let go of hard earned cash when it isn't nessisary. Unfortunatly a lot of people create stuff thinking people will buy anything. It dosen't work that way. On discovering this some will chouse to blame the consummers for being cheap instead of realising that $200 for a program that dose basicly the same as a $10 disk is not valuable.
If it's a work related injury (and from the discription it probably would be) The boss would know and plan to have your hand rescanned.
Actually the way it would work is (becouse who the &!@# knows thies things in advance?) you get injured come to work the scanner dosen't work you don't know why you call your boss he calls the security people they buzz you in.
You go to the palm scanner people they rescan your hand and find the change and say "Your hand changed. How did that happen?" Jokes of you being a clone for a few days and then it's forgoten.
However. When I first saw a digital key (for data storage) my brain said "32k of password" now it'd be 32 MEG of password. Dude.. USB drives as keys. 8 meg passwords are not easy to crack. USB drives are cheaper ever day. Why dosen't anyone make a lock using a USB drive?
Oh yeah umm and change the password each time every time automaticly.
3 answers. 1. The tubes for the computer were designed to be used this way. The hand is intended to pump blood and once it loses pressure it colapses and becomes fairly disfunctional. 2. A pump designed to handle pumping water into a hand is pritty complicated technology. At this point your better off using some sort of electronic bypass system like the devices used to trick slot machines into giving you a "win" Maybe a heat patern "copy" using a heat emitter fake hand. Then you need only scan the original to have a key that works forever.
3. The results won't be the same. The water will leak heat more than blood will and heat up the surrounding tissue. The sensor will get a blur and probably give a negitive.
To make PET ASCII text animation viewable on a modern Windows box you can't preserve it as text.
modern file formats can hold more information at a higher quality than the old computers could possably handle. In turn the results are much larger than the older counterpart.
You may be able to store all the old BBS files on a DVD but can you use them on a modern PC (with out emulating an old computer)?
Move ahead like 20 years from today. Years ago TOTSE offered the entire BBS archives on CD. (It was a Text archive BBS. It's still online today as a website)
Now picture TOTSE 20 years from now. The same file archive stored entirely in Universal Document Format version 5.
Thankfully todays computers still use the same ASCII text format created about 30 years ago.
> It would be like Linus selling Linux to Microsoft.
Not exactly. The point of running a business is to make a proffit. It's a job where you hire yourself (self employment).
When your ready for retirement you sell out or pass it down. (Selling out gives you a nice retirement fund, Passing it down gives your children jobs).
Linux however is a project. Money is not the objective thus it isn't for sale. That however won't prevent Microsoft from making an MsLinux. Just means Ms Linux will have to compeate with all the other Linux systems.
But if a business owner isn't ready to retire he isn't going to sell.
Actually in each example you've given not only do Linux PDAs support it but Linux PDAs far surppass Windows CE in that support.
However most people who use Windows CE actually need the Microosoft brand name product. Most every Windows office application has a Windows CE counterpart. A clone exists for Linux PDAs and a file reader exists for PalmOs but only Windows CE has the offical PDA mini version of the same applications with the same support.
However this means nothing to a person who runs Linux on the desktop. In this case to have this advantage they need to run Linux on the PDA.
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The process
Inform the company
If ignored inform BugTrap so System admin can take precautions to lock down the defect.
In the case of a broken bank lock
Inform Bank if bank ignores you
Tell the news media.
In todays world however telling the bank the valt door is broken will earn you an FBI investigation and informing the news media could get you arrested.
And it always appears to go this way:
The company is informed of the defect and the company clames it's a nonissue (eather saying 'Impossable' or 'it can do no harm')
So the original discovering person works on an example code that will prove it is a real and harmful security defect.
So the FBI gets involved.
So the company is trying to prevent someone from using a non-existent bug for criminal intent?
Or are they just covering there own butts?
Video games current drive the hardware market and have always had some very tight code.
While the avrage user may not have noticed it back in the Commodore 64 days frame rate was an issue. However getting 30 fps was very unlikely. It was more of getting enough frames so the human eye didn't see jerky motion.
The faster the hardware the smarter the AI. The faster the video card the better the detail.
Thats just the games.
The scientific community is always updating hardware and even worked out that it's better to delay a project a week to get new hardware than be stuck on old hardware. The newer hardware will get the job done a few months faster than the old.
Then you have the movie industry. CG movies and CG specal effects were the domain of super computers and high budget films. The new Doctor Who series is using CG effects and PC farms are being used to render CG movies.
There is something else to consider,
Linux can run on 2 meg ram and 1 meg disk.
It's hard to imagin anyone making anything with requirements lower than 16 megs total (memory and storage)
Just fab a X86 clone with 64 meg ram and 2 gig flash and you have an imbeded Linux on a chip.
(Didn't somebody do this already?)
Linux is already populare in servers and gainning popularity in the imbeded market.
(Totally acing out Microsoft. Linux compeates with the far more practical PalmOs.)
Linux isn't the only OS for this. BSD works pritty well.
And if you want to drop to the 6502 then Lunix (not Linux) is your only choice.
I can see the ghosting and I can see the flicker.
(CRT flicker and LCD ghosting) and I don't care.
This could be a problem for Philips for a lot of reasons.
People have a problem lumping an entire class of product together and "Once you've seen one duck you've seen all ducks".
I've seen it in Linux and SUVs.
Every Linux distro is diffrent and SUV is a class of vehical refering to many diffrent types of vehicals, Vans, MiniVans, Trucks, Jeeps etc.
But people think all SUVs are alike, all Linux distros are alike.
They also think all LCD TVs are alike. It's difficult to get most people to appreceate the diffrence in quality between a low end wide screen and a high res wide screen.
With LCDs people just think it's there. If you fix it by adding filcker people will get the idea that all LCDs flicker... and have ghosting. You'll have a hard time convencing anyone that there is a tradeoff.
Way back in the day I had a Sony Trinatron TV for a computer monitor. A friend noticed the guide wire and desided to ask me why do TVs have that.
My other computer uses a Zenith monitor (not TV) seeing that my Zenith didn't have the wire he concluded it was a diffrence between a TV set and a computer monitor.
It took me a while to get him to understand this was unique to the Trinatron.
Thankfully I had a Zenith TV in the living room for watching TV. Thow for the first 5 minuts he sware he could see the wire on it.
Rated M (or Mature) means what? Adults only right?
What the hell dose AO mean then? Ohh Adults Only?
Isn't that redundent?
Ok I admit I never got why we have R and X movie ratings. They basicly mean the same thing.
The ratings are there to tell us if the entertainment is kid friendly and how kid friendly it is (or isn't)
M pritty much says it.. Not kid friendly in any way what so ever if you buy it for your kid it's your own fault.
AO means what then? Not kid friendly? Wait then Mature IS kid friendly?
Ohh right so a 17 year old teenager can play GTA with all the violence and none of the sex but add some sex into it and WOOH.
By the time I was 17 I didn't need some stupid video game (or movie) to show me what sex was like. However even at the age of 35 my only exposure to extream violence is movies, TV and video games.
Why 17? Well at age 18 your legally an adult and well... Hay if AO truely means adults only then surely someone only one year younger could play the lower rating of M right?
In closing, The Freaking Game was already labled for adults with the "Mature" rating. It already had all the violence needed to justify not getting it for kids. If that didn't justify an AO rating the sex certenly didn't.
Before it was the desk phone.
The phone would ring and I'd have to wait for the answering machine to pick up.
It would eather be for the boss or it would be the boss trying to reach me. If it's the boss I pick up.
The boss seldom calls and only on an emergency but a lot of people call for the boss. Why? Don't know don't care.
Now I have a cell phone of my own. The boss uses the phone companys answering service plus the office phone is locked up in a diffrent office so I don't have access to it (let alone hear it ring).
Only the boss has my phone number so only the boss calls.
I use a "pay as you go" service that after 3 months I have to buy more minuts no matter what. I make those minuts last the whole 3 months. It saves me huge amounts of money.
So I tell the boss "Use up my minuts and the phone will turn off". Now the boss only calls on sereous emergencys.
(Some times she'd call me to check up on her husband when he works late. He turns his cell phone off so she can not reach him)
No calls from Mom telling me the latest plot twist on a show I care nothing about.
I can turn off IM if it becomes annoying. I uninstalled ICQ for that reason. *Insert Monty Pythons Spam soung* Dose anybody sereously use ICQ anymore or is it just nonstop spammers?
In the past Microsoft would hire employees from other companys in order to get the technology they were working on.
Thies weren't executives but techs in the R&D area.
Microsoft was sued becouse they were recruting those individuals directly while they were still working for the compeating company and managed to hire off the entire staff from someone elses R&D department.
I believe thies people were giving up all kinds of perks for violating the 1 year rule and Microsoft agreed to make up for that.
That means Microsoft knowingly aided in violating the employee contracts of a compeating company.
Microsoft let's go of an executive and he gets a job at Google. Google didn't go out and seek someone simply becouse they worked at Microsoft. They aren't trying to buy off Microsofts technology. Microsoft dosen't have anything Google could want.
But Microsoft figured if they got sued for preditory hiring practaces so they could sue Google for accadentally violating a very unusual contractual requirement.
The 1 year rule is very very commen for techs. Even people who repair computers in the back of small computer shops have a one year rule.
But executives are a diffrent story.
Let's go down what people know of what will happen one year from now in the company they work for.
Sales person: We'll have something new. It has binky lights. It'll do wonderful things. I'd like to tell you but the specs I'm holding are 6 months old and they've already changed 180 times sense then.
Executive: We're working on a new computer program that will do automagical things.
And it will blink the blinky lights on your computer.
Tech: Transputing the flux capaciter on the wave front we are able to retrosend the data stream from next week to last week causing data flow to increase 1,000 fold and elimate all process lag with no need for memory buffers.
Now who do you want on ice for one year?
By the way the above tech works for me not Microsoft.
I don't know who the executive works for but apparently it isn't microsoft.
Once I applied for a job and before they'd even interview me they handed me a bunch of wavers. I read them all. They hadn't hired me yet but wanted me to agree to all kinds of spot testing even if I work for someone else.
I didn't sign one so they didn't give me an interview.
Thankfully none of them were agreements to not apply for work elsewhere.
"It's not a bug it's a feature" are quite likely words never actually spoken by any representive of Microsoft.
However there is a reason for this attatude.
Bug that makes it possable to run code on remote users box:
Users say "Oh no bug bug. Get rid of it"
Develupers say "Ohh feature feature keep it, expand it"
Security experts say "Bug"
If the develupers provide a strong enough argument the "bug" is classified as a feature and remains.
My sister uses dial up.
I turn my computer off before I go to bed.
My mothers cell phone logs out when she isn't using it.
In the United States cell phones can't stay connected to the cell network 24/7. (Plus all the times we turn our phones off for eather politeness, policy or law)
I remember people in the UK complaing about having to use the BT dial up "pay by the bandwith" style service. (Don't know if this is still the case as I don't live there)
In some parts of the world Internet access means going to a community center and logging on from there.
Those of us who have regulare Internet access also tend to use services like AIM, Gnutella and others that maintain a regulare connection with a host.
Besides if someone is mesuring over the day a person with 24/7 internet access checks his e-mail at least once.
However if he's just mesuring web traffic then he's going to lose all the people who are just picking up e-mail, using telnet, using gnutella, playing multiplayer games or just visting websites they don't happen to be monitoring.
My mother got into the stock market buying up Commodore stock just before it went into obilvion.
Now it's time for me to buy SGI stock. Just like my mother did.
A while back someone called trying to get me to switch to Sprint and offered me a free mag subscruption if I did.
They had many diffrent publications to chouse from but the sales person was only intrested in having me subscribe to ESPN mag. I don't like sports and explained repeatedly I wasn't intrested in ESPN. I also wasn't intrested in changing my phone carrer. After being put on hold for about 30 minuts I hung up.
I never agreed to anything and certenly didn't agree to a subscription.
A year later I move and suddenly I'm receaving ESPN mag. I've forgotten the phone call. I just send it back with "Return to sender"
However famaly members keep pulling it out of the mail box and returnning them to me so they don't always get out.
Still for like 6 months I got a mag I wasn't intrested in never subscribed to.
Then I got a bill from a colection agentcy.
For a mag subscription to a mag I didn't want.
For the record the phone sales person didn't mention switching carrers. She just started with the free mag pitch and I went round and round with her on the fact that I don't like sports.
She also mentioned Wired but I already had a subscruption.
I'm cynical.
Lagit freedom fighters (Not the terrorists in Iraq etc) wouldn't think twice about using low cost american technology to fight off an invaider and save there own lifes.
But for those whom life is a cheap throw away thing they wouldn't even consider using killer robots made by infedel americans.
However if this really is a case of freedom loving people not anti-american religous fanatics then they should have every right to use this technology.
In short it's all good. Let em have it.
Back in the day when most operating systems were locked into the hardware computer manufacters had to address this issue.
There were two schools in this problem:
1. Liccens all the good software.
2. Make everything in house.
Commodore and IBM liccensed software.
To do this you contact the software develuper and get an agreement from them.
You pay to port the software over to your platform.
You pacage, ship and sell the software yourself.
You send 75% to 95% of the proffits back to the the develupers.
If your hardware catches on the original software develuper will publish the software themselfs.
This way they get more sales while adding no additional risk.
Today you'll need to offer to support the software yourself. Companys are avoding Linux purely due to support issues. Well publishers are software develupers are releasing unsupported binarys on the side.
Inhouse develupment isn't enough.
You should however start with a little inhouse develupment.
Geoworks was very populare with it's bundled applications. GeoWrite, GeoDraw etc.
That got peoples attention but with nothing to hold peoples attention Geoworks died.
Liccens software to hold them all, In house to find them, Marketting to bring them all.
And with closed file formats bind them.
What ring?
In any case.
To pull this on Linux *Ohhhh* becouse this is Slashdot and it must all come back to Linux.
Basicly set up a software publishing company that aims at Linux.
Get exclusive Linux agreements so only you can make the Linux version of the liccensed application.
Loki could do it.
So could RedHat or OSTG.
Apple could do it for MacOs X.
IBM could do it for it's own hardware. They did before.
Palm Source could do it for the PalmOs platform. The real WinCE popularity is all the Windows desktop apps on a PDA. The PalmOs file readers aren't enough. However Palm Os 5 IS powerful enough to it.
And I see AoL only versions of populare online games. Get a Discount on your favoret games from AoL.
Sigh... What can be used for good can be used for evil.
I look at it and all I can say is "It's too freaking big"
I'm seeing Zoomer all over again.
(The PDA that went head to head with the Apple Newton and lost)
The Newton and Zoomer failed on the market for being too big (the zoomer also suffered from poor marketting)
However times have changed. Nither the Newton nore Zoomer could do half what the Peper can.
Unfortunately some of the cheap in a fit of justification for their illegal activities
Nothing illegal about being cheap.
Certanly nothing illegal about doing the work yourself instead of paying someone else to do it.
Think Geek: (Link already on Slashdot)
Amazon
eBay
Froogle
Graigs list
Koamart: For ramen.
Bevrages direct for caffine.
Ramen Depot also for raman but I prefer Koamart
Cheap Bytes for Linux related stuff (books, Linux distros, The Linux from Scratch book. Everyone must buy the LFS book. Forget Debian LFS is god
Easy Linux CDs Primarly linux trainning matereal.
Hmm there might be some pedophilic henti however you need to be intro pedophilic porn to find it.
Basicly if your looking for something you'll find it and not much else.
And the moral here is if anyone clames anime is all pedophilic you know what this persons intrests are.
Besides all anime is sci fi isn't it?
Ahh but it depends on the intent of the author.
SOME times that can be easly determined.
For example while the post is a lagit opinion it could be easly countered with "So what" meaning it didn't make any sense to bring it up.
It sounds like a creative rehash of the often made complaints of frugle shopers and of people who favor free software.
Basic ecconomic reality, People will not let go of hard earned cash when it isn't nessisary.
Unfortunatly a lot of people create stuff thinking people will buy anything. It dosen't work that way.
On discovering this some will chouse to blame the consummers for being cheap instead of realising that $200 for a program that dose basicly the same as a $10 disk is not valuable.
Or see the Anime on Cartoon Network.
Newton would be more appropreately the Gravity Alchemist.
Or maybe the Apple Alchemist.
But then what do I know. I'm just a humunculi.
If it's a work related injury (and from the discription it probably would be)
The boss would know and plan to have your hand rescanned.
Actually the way it would work is (becouse who the &!@# knows thies things in advance?) you get injured come to work the scanner dosen't work you don't know why you call your boss he calls the security people they buzz you in.
You go to the palm scanner people they rescan your hand and find the change and say "Your hand changed. How did that happen?"
Jokes of you being a clone for a few days and then it's forgoten.
However.
When I first saw a digital key (for data storage) my brain said "32k of password" now it'd be 32 MEG of password.
Dude.. USB drives as keys. 8 meg passwords are not easy to crack. USB drives are cheaper ever day.
Why dosen't anyone make a lock using a USB drive?
Oh yeah umm and change the password each time every time automaticly.
3 answers.
1. The tubes for the computer were designed to be used this way. The hand is intended to pump blood and once it loses pressure it colapses and becomes fairly disfunctional.
2. A pump designed to handle pumping water into a hand is pritty complicated technology. At this point your better off using some sort of electronic bypass system like the devices used to trick slot machines into giving you a "win"
Maybe a heat patern "copy" using a heat emitter fake hand. Then you need only scan the original to have a key that works forever.
3. The results won't be the same. The water will leak heat more than blood will and heat up the surrounding tissue. The sensor will get a blur and probably give a negitive.
It's not just the media it's the format.
To make PET ASCII text animation viewable on a modern Windows box you can't preserve it as text.
modern file formats can hold more information at a higher quality than the old computers could possably handle.
In turn the results are much larger than the older counterpart.
You may be able to store all the old BBS files on a DVD but can you use them on a modern PC (with out emulating an old computer)?
Move ahead like 20 years from today.
Years ago TOTSE offered the entire BBS archives on CD.
(It was a Text archive BBS. It's still online today as a website)
Now picture TOTSE 20 years from now. The same file archive stored entirely in Universal Document Format version 5.
Thankfully todays computers still use the same ASCII text format created about 30 years ago.
> It would be like Linus selling Linux to Microsoft.
Not exactly. The point of running a business is to make a proffit. It's a job where you hire yourself (self employment).
When your ready for retirement you sell out or pass it down.
(Selling out gives you a nice retirement fund, Passing it down gives your children jobs).
Linux however is a project. Money is not the objective thus it isn't for sale.
That however won't prevent Microsoft from making an MsLinux. Just means Ms Linux will have to compeate with all the other Linux systems.
But if a business owner isn't ready to retire he isn't going to sell.
My mother uses a Zaurus in tandum with her PalmOs PDA.
She dosen't use a desktop.
She started using a Palm 7 with the intent of using a wireless PDA exclusively for her Internet access.
She's upgraded a few times.
Her next planned upgrade is to a PalmOne Treo 650. This PDA/Phone can be used as a wireless modem for a computer. The Zaurus can be that computer.
The plan is to set up so mom can use her Zaurus when her Treo isn't powerful enough.
Step two is to build a camra that supports bluetooth. The Linux PDA will act as a server pulling video in and spitting it back out as a video feed.
Actually in each example you've given not only do Linux PDAs support it but Linux PDAs far surppass Windows CE in that support.
However most people who use Windows CE actually need the Microosoft brand name product.
Most every Windows office application has a Windows CE counterpart. A clone exists for Linux PDAs and a file reader exists for PalmOs but only Windows CE has the offical PDA mini version of the same applications with the same support.
However this means nothing to a person who runs Linux on the desktop.
In this case to have this advantage they need to run Linux on the PDA.