Microsoft is behind this SCO effort. Microsoft has a lot more money and influence than IBM.
There is a LOT more money and power that have more of an interest squashing the open source community, than there are interests who want to see it prosper.
I would like to remind everybody to not get all caught up in the details of being "right", and thinking that just because you have irrefutable evidence that the SCO claim is a sham, means in any way, they don't have a very realistic chance of screwing the Linux community hard.
In the new United States, being right doesn't mean you're going to win. It's all about money now folks.
Let's take this into account when we rally to protect the rights to our software, and not assume that the "facts" are going to be as relevant as the overwhelming wall of bullshit that seems to surround the amazingly fucked up stuff that the government claims is fair.
I agree with you, and the improved color saturation and ability to more-easily adapt to a wider variety of exposure scenarios makes digital photography very exciting and promising.
IMO, one major aspect of photography is timing. Being in the right place at the right time and getting the "perfect" picture is extremely rewarding, and if you snap the perfect picture, and it's at 2 megapixels, it's a rather hollow victory.
I'm glad at least some country has high hopes and wants to expand their horizons. The way I figure it, the United States won't put any resources into space travel until the Russians discover oil there.
The standard by which I judge is the digital equivalent of Fujichome Velvia film, which is one of the industry standards for high quality, and 27MP is the mark at which point the analog 35mm industry will have been surpassed by digital technology. That's just my opinion obviously. I do professional photography, so I'm sure 6MP is fine for most people who want to take pictures of their drooling toddlers. But IMO when technology hits 27MP, 35mm will be dead.
I know people like you like to take apart small household appliances, and spend 40 hours to gloat over how your dishwasher can now be used to get the skid marks out of your underwear so you don't have to hit the laundramat, but some of us have better things to do, so piss off.
Sony cripples the PC100 line of otherwise excellent video cameras by enabling a very high lossless form of jpeg compression on the images that cannot be disabled.
The VIDEO at 640x480 is better quality than the still images at the same resolution! Sony has deliberately crippled the quality of their video camera still image capabilities in order to force consumers to purchase both a video AND a still camera, when in most cases, it's not necessary.
It really sucks to have a great video camera that was deliberately made to produce crappy, lossless stills because the company wants to sell more crap.
High quality 35mm images would be comparable to something digitally in the area of 27 megapixels. We're not there yet, but we're getting very close. And the color saturation of electronic CCDs rivals that of the best slide film IMO, so it's just a matter of time before film is dead.
I refuse to purchase any of Sony's still cameras. I am protesting their annoying practice of crippling their equipment's capabilities in order to introduce a plethora of different versions. Specifically, I can't stand how they take a great video camera, the DCR PC100-120 and cripple its still image capability in order to force consumers to purchase two pieces of equipment instead of one. Just say NO!
What do you expect from Cringely? He has basically missed almost every boat that's docked in his port. He was Apple employee #26 and he turned down the option to get stock options in the company. He wrote a column for years and then lost his identity to the company he worked for. The last two articles I read of his were equally ridiculous: one suggesting people put a wi-fi PC in their attic to hide mp3s from investigators, and another suggesting a goofball anti-spam technique where people pay to send/receive email.
Cringely, unfortunately, is the Latoya Jackson of the computer industry.
Let's preview the baseless speculation that we'll likely hear in the next hour or so as 24-hour news pundits rush to scare the crap out of the public in their overzealous attempt to add more color to the simple news item that they intend to milk for all its worth over the next day:
* CNN interviews a taxicab driver whose cousin thinks this may be the work of Saddam Hussein
* Fox "confirms" the "terrorist attack" using as evidence, an unnamed "washington insider" noticing a dark-skinned man walking down the hallway of an unspecified building seconds prior to the outage.
* Red Cross is immediately planning "Power Aid 2003" featuring an all-new remake by Vicki Lawrence of "The Night the Lights Went Out in George" - proceeds of $100 billion are expected, $11.43 of which will actually be used to improve the power grid.
Watch what happens in the wake of this... every news program on the planet is going to talk about how "inadequate" the power system is and how we need MORE, MORE, MORE power. Nowhere will you likely hear anything in the mainstream about CONSERVATION. That's a four-letter word in the eyes of the current hyper-consuming society.
Whether GNUCash makes it or not, the community desperately needs a robust open-source accounting solution to compete with Quicken and their mafia stranglehold over the industry. Everyone I know is sick of Quicken's unethical business practices and tax-table/upgrade extortion schemes. Whoever develops a suitable alternative to Quickbooks will be a major player.
One of the worst sins of the spammer is the theft of bandwidth and other parties resources. The idea of launching a DDOS against a spamvertised site compounds that problem even further.
I have a better idea. Write a program that sends a letter to your local District Attorney, FBI office and the FTC every time you get spam that asks them when they're going to do their job?
99.9% of the spam on the Internet already is illegal and many cases criminal, involving the theft of computer resources and bandwidth, mail relay hijacking, forged headers, etc.
The problem is the Feds won't enforce the existing laws on the books. Unless there is X amount of damage involved to a specific politically-connected corporation, they turn the other cheek.
People need to ask their local District Attorney to start prosecuting these cases. A friend of mine had a spammer break into his computer and he filed a report with the FBI. They identified exactly who the spammer was and had all the logs and everything, and the DA refused to prosecute or pursue the case. This is the problem! Law enforcement authorities aren't enforcing the laws!!
Has anybody made an effort to contact the original manufacturers and see if they'd make a deal to license the ROM code? All they'd need to do is set an arbitrary price and then the whole vintage gaming industry could likely experience a rennaissance as people start plopping MAME cabinets in various locations.
I know some manufacturers that make MAME peripherals such as Hanaho have managed to license some of the classic game roms and allow for redistribution. It would be great if a more aggressive, more complete effort was made to see to what degree the companies that own these rights would be willing to license them.
Is there a correllation between the sky and inspiration? I remember when I was younger living in rurual areas and going out at night being in awe of the sky and all its beauty. I think people just don't realize how amazing it can be to look up and see an unblemished sky, speckled with a billion pinpoints of light teasing you with their possibilities.
I wonder if this is less about winning than it is muddying the waters and trying to make Linux look like "rogue technology" that people could get in trouble for using (a la Napster, Kazaa, Morpheous, etc.). Maybe there is some weird method to this madness? Maybe someone like Microsoft is in the background pulling some strings? In any case, a desperate company often does desperate things so this shouldn't surprise anybody.
SAN FRANCISCO - Having called Linux and open-source software a cancer, un-American and bankrupt, Microsoft Corp. now plans to focus on facts instead of emotions, the company's competitive strategist said last week.
Does this remind anyone of O'Reilly's "No Spin Zone?"
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You forget one thing..
Microsoft is behind this SCO effort. Microsoft has a lot more money and influence than IBM.
There is a LOT more money and power that have more of an interest squashing the open source community, than there are interests who want to see it prosper.
I would like to remind everybody to not get all caught up in the details of being "right", and thinking that just because you have irrefutable evidence that the SCO claim is a sham, means in any way, they don't have a very realistic chance of screwing the Linux community hard.
In the new United States, being right doesn't mean you're going to win. It's all about money now folks.
Let's take this into account when we rally to protect the rights to our software, and not assume that the "facts" are going to be as relevant as the overwhelming wall of bullshit that seems to surround the amazingly fucked up stuff that the government claims is fair.
I agree with you, and the improved color saturation and ability to more-easily adapt to a wider variety of exposure scenarios makes digital photography very exciting and promising.
IMO, one major aspect of photography is timing. Being in the right place at the right time and getting the "perfect" picture is extremely rewarding, and if you snap the perfect picture, and it's at 2 megapixels, it's a rather hollow victory.
Here's a classic example:
Deer in Fire
An amazing picture. It's such a shame it was shot with a low-res digital camera.
But if we get rid of ICANN we can't vicariously live through their amazingly productive corporate meetings in Sri Lanka and Bermuda!
I'm glad at least some country has high hopes and wants to expand their horizons. The way I figure it, the United States won't put any resources into space travel until the Russians discover oil there.
The standard by which I judge is the digital equivalent of Fujichome Velvia film, which is one of the industry standards for high quality, and 27MP is the mark at which point the analog 35mm industry will have been surpassed by digital technology. That's just my opinion obviously. I do professional photography, so I'm sure 6MP is fine for most people who want to take pictures of their drooling toddlers. But IMO when technology hits 27MP, 35mm will be dead.
I know people like you like to take apart small household appliances, and spend 40 hours to gloat over how your dishwasher can now be used to get the skid marks out of your underwear so you don't have to hit the laundramat, but some of us have better things to do, so piss off.
Sony cripples the PC100 line of otherwise excellent video cameras by enabling a very high lossless form of jpeg compression on the images that cannot be disabled.
The VIDEO at 640x480 is better quality than the still images at the same resolution! Sony has deliberately crippled the quality of their video camera still image capabilities in order to force consumers to purchase both a video AND a still camera, when in most cases, it's not necessary.
It really sucks to have a great video camera that was deliberately made to produce crappy, lossless stills because the company wants to sell more crap.
High quality 35mm images would be comparable to something digitally in the area of 27 megapixels. We're not there yet, but we're getting very close. And the color saturation of electronic CCDs rivals that of the best slide film IMO, so it's just a matter of time before film is dead.
I refuse to purchase any of Sony's still cameras. I am protesting their annoying practice of crippling their equipment's capabilities in order to introduce a plethora of different versions. Specifically, I can't stand how they take a great video camera, the DCR PC100-120 and cripple its still image capability in order to force consumers to purchase two pieces of equipment instead of one. Just say NO!
Let's pass a law that forces district attorneys to actually prosecute spammers that break the law.
What do you expect from Cringely? He has basically missed almost every boat that's docked in his port. He was Apple employee #26 and he turned down the option to get stock options in the company. He wrote a column for years and then lost his identity to the company he worked for. The last two articles I read of his were equally ridiculous: one suggesting people put a wi-fi PC in their attic to hide mp3s from investigators, and another suggesting a goofball anti-spam technique where people pay to send/receive email.
Cringely, unfortunately, is the Latoya Jackson of the computer industry.
CNN just spewed the same speculative garbage.
Let's preview the baseless speculation that we'll likely hear in the next hour or so as 24-hour news pundits rush to scare the crap out of the public in their overzealous attempt to add more color to the simple news item that they intend to milk for all its worth over the next day:
* CNN interviews a taxicab driver whose cousin thinks this may be the work of Saddam Hussein
* Fox "confirms" the "terrorist attack" using as evidence, an unnamed "washington insider" noticing a dark-skinned man walking down the hallway of an unspecified building seconds prior to the outage.
* Red Cross is immediately planning "Power Aid 2003" featuring an all-new remake by Vicki Lawrence of "The Night the Lights Went Out in George" - proceeds of $100 billion are expected, $11.43 of which will actually be used to improve the power grid.
Watch what happens in the wake of this... every news program on the planet is going to talk about how "inadequate" the power system is and how we need MORE, MORE, MORE power. Nowhere will you likely hear anything in the mainstream about CONSERVATION. That's a four-letter word in the eyes of the current hyper-consuming society.
Whether GNUCash makes it or not, the community desperately needs a robust open-source accounting solution to compete with Quicken and their mafia stranglehold over the industry. Everyone I know is sick of Quicken's unethical business practices and tax-table/upgrade extortion schemes. Whoever develops a suitable alternative to Quickbooks will be a major player.
One of the worst sins of the spammer is the theft of bandwidth and other parties resources. The idea of launching a DDOS against a spamvertised site compounds that problem even further.
I have a better idea. Write a program that sends a letter to your local District Attorney, FBI office and the FTC every time you get spam that asks them when they're going to do their job?
Do the research and you realize that Sun and Microsoft are funding SCO's attack against Linux.
Then SCO's ridiculous IP claim begins to make a lot of sense.
People still don't get it....
No new spam laws are needed to stop spam.
99.9% of the spam on the Internet already is illegal and many cases criminal, involving the theft of computer resources and bandwidth, mail relay hijacking, forged headers, etc.
The problem is the Feds won't enforce the existing laws on the books. Unless there is X amount of damage involved to a specific politically-connected corporation, they turn the other cheek.
People need to ask their local District Attorney to start prosecuting these cases. A friend of mine had a spammer break into his computer and he filed a report with the FBI. They identified exactly who the spammer was and had all the logs and everything, and the DA refused to prosecute or pursue the case. This is the problem! Law enforcement authorities aren't enforcing the laws!!
Has anybody made an effort to contact the original manufacturers and see if they'd make a deal to license the ROM code? All they'd need to do is set an arbitrary price and then the whole vintage gaming industry could likely experience a rennaissance as people start plopping MAME cabinets in various locations.
I know some manufacturers that make MAME peripherals such as Hanaho have managed to license some of the classic game roms and allow for redistribution. It would be great if a more aggressive, more complete effort was made to see to what degree the companies that own these rights would be willing to license them.
And this is relevant in what way?
Does this mean if I can get my dog to poop in a select 1 square foot area of my lawn I can get slashdot to feature it?
Is there a correllation between the sky and inspiration? I remember when I was younger living in rurual areas and going out at night being in awe of the sky and all its beauty. I think people just don't realize how amazing it can be to look up and see an unblemished sky, speckled with a billion pinpoints of light teasing you with their possibilities.
I wonder if this is less about winning than it is muddying the waters and trying to make Linux look like "rogue technology" that people could get in trouble for using (a la Napster, Kazaa, Morpheous, etc.). Maybe there is some weird method to this madness? Maybe someone like Microsoft is in the background pulling some strings? In any case, a desperate company often does desperate things so this shouldn't surprise anybody.
SAN FRANCISCO - Having called Linux and open-source software a cancer, un-American and bankrupt, Microsoft Corp. now plans to focus on facts instead of emotions, the company's competitive strategist said last week.
Does this remind anyone of O'Reilly's "No Spin Zone?"
Welcome to America. Home of the free (as long as you pay your taxes) and the brave (as long as you have money and/or lawyers).