Well unless I can get 10-15 Hours on 2 AA's in an Ipaq or Zaurus, I would not consider that an option. However -- If I could get OGG support for my Nex II or my ChromeX then I will be ripping my CD's to ogg yesterday. Until then I don't want to be tied down to my computer --- or limited to listening to music on a $500+ PDA that eats batteries for breakfast.
From my memory I remember this is the straw that broke the camels back for many of the people and companies that I knew who had been running IIS in some form or another. We had always been a Unix shop -- but many of the 3rd party "server" products had been written using ISAPI -- and required IIS and or Windows to function...The companies that produced these products were flying high and raising the Microsoft sword of ignorance. This virus sent them all back into their holes. Some of them went back to the drawing board to port their products to a real OS and Web Server....The others are dead or close to death.
I know -- off subject -- mod down if you like. I was really interested in the story, but 5 seconds into the website I had decided it was not worth the price.
Flash must die. This website is a good example of why flash is a bad, bad, thing. As a matter of fact -- the only time I see flash as a good thing is for kids games. IE -- PBSkids.org where my kids can play games with cookie monster and such. But if you are a company trying to peddle a product and you build your whole site like this --- the web Gods must strike you down.
Here..Here...I agree. I always thought that was why the 3rd party "commercial" distributions that were "based" on Debian had a chance to suceed. Alas -- they were stricken with the "Debian Curse" and they all failed within minutes. Even that one distro that was started by one of the original Debian guys went down quicker that a crack whore. It was a noble concept to think that maybe we would get a Debian based distro that had package versions released in this century....But alas it was not to be.
Yea it (pop up ads) sure have done the trick for the internet world and reaped millions (most the sites begging for your last few bucks seem plenty rich from the plethora of ads boxing in the content right?). Now all we need is TV ads that randomly turn the channel to the POPUP network every few minutes.
This may be a dumb question (because since I run Linux and I own an old fashioned TV, and I love to go to movies in old fashioned multiplex's I have never really been into online video.) But if I were to run into some movie files online..and it wasn't advertised what codecs they required (or what version of what codec), how would I determine what codec (or what version of said codec) I needed to be able to partake of the wonder in front of me? It has always seemed pretty confusing to me. At least with audio if the extension is.mp3 I could be confident that 99% of players that advertised themselves as mp3 players would do the trick.
If you read the linked article about pre-release copies getting spread on the internet, it talks about Eminems (sp?) album being available a month ahead of time. Even though it was highly traded online...guess what? When it was released in the stores hundreds of thousands (OK a couple hundred thousand) people still decided to buy it in the dirst couple of months. So how many record sales were lost do to the "pirates" VS. The pre-release mp3's actually helping sales by letting people know what they were buying? Imagine if the record industry were the car sales industry saying "you can't test drive a car before purchase". Sure some customers may decline to buy the car based on having test drove it....But if it is a good car -- the test drives may actually increase sales of said automobiles. I think the RIAA is just scared of how many of the "crappy albums" will not get sold if people actually have a chance to here them before purchase. Or how important is it if people are trading MP3's from a back catlog album that has already sold 14 million copies. There were many cassettes from the 70's-80's that never were made into CD's in the states that were pressed to CD in Japan. Now I have purchased the cassette and LP -- they have made there money from me -- if they knock down my door for downloading the mp3's made from the Japanese CD's...am I allowed to throw the tapes and LP's in there faces and say, "if you would release your back catalogs on CD in the states -- I would be the first in line..."
they take the "open" out of "OpenGL" if Microsoft is going to be involved. With those kind of War Chests -- they could convince a jury that water was wine.
Bottom line -- Spam (and the tools required to fight spam) are the biggest reasons we will still be using stamps and snail mail in the years to come. Spam has taken the "killer app" of the information age -- and crippled it beyond use.
It's a catch 22 because if you don't filter spam the signal to noise ratio is way to high to make email a valid source of legit communication. If you do filter -- the better you filter, the higher the chance of important bits going to/dev/null. I would go into more detail -- but one look into most mail boxes that have been around the internet for long would speak louder than a thousand words.
Linux still has a shot on the desktop for a couple of reasons:
1. OSX does not and will not run on x86 based hardware. (And since 90%+ of the machines are x86 based...)
2. Microsoft is well...Microsoft. You don't have to be much of an activist to detest the way they do business -- And anyone who continues to use products produced by them is "dancing with the devil".....(Just my opinion)
Still -- this guy makes some valid points. I don't really agree on the hardware side. I have actually had better luck with my hardware in Linux than I ever did in Windows. My SCSI card, WinTV PCI card, and Sound Card never played along with each other in any version of Windows. I have never had any problem with them getting along in Linux. X is ultra cool in areas where I need to spawn desktops around the house -- or even around the country....But it's a heavy price to pay when you add in the negatives he talked about. (I guess that is what intrigued me to play around with BeOS and QNX at times --- it was *nix like with nice fonts and performance on the graphical subsytem side of the house. A breath of fresh air if nothing else.)
The problem with finding a solution for application packaging and graphical subsytems is not so much technological rather it is the lack of mass acceptance to any 1 solution. You could end up with "100 packaging solutions that kicked ass" and "25 of the best graphical subsytem solutions ever" but you would then have the bigger problem of usage base and fragmentation. (No 1 solution would get enough mass acceptance to make it a viable standard.)
What apple did with OSX is to take all (most) of what was good about "*nix" and mix that up with what was good with Apple. The problem still being that most people cannot afford to replace all of their x86 hardware with PPC hardware --- and a majority of us would not like using such a high percentage of closed source software in our solution.
Linus never asked us to pony up a little spare change for the kernel? Looks like he is doing pretty good for himself....
If I learned one thing from my dad growing up it was when you start looking to make money from your hobbies then it's to much like your real job -- and maybe time to find a new hobby. Among his many hobby cycles, he restored old saddles and other antiques -- he would spend hundreds of hours on a project for little more than the money for materials and the gleam in his eyes when he finished a project -- when I told he he was crazy to not try to make money doing it -- he said something like "They pay me from 7 AM - 5 PM everyday to do something that has never been fun -- and if I ever have to take money from this it will mean that it has stopped being fun..." When he got burned out he would pick a new hobby.
It never hurt to get a day job. That way you can make money to afford to spend the evenings and weekends doing things you enjoy.
when all of these out of work.com'ers were going to get a chance to work again. ("Last you saw me I was burning through 40 million VC and had no product --- now I am walking throught the streets with an LCD around my neck and joysticks hooked to my waste....")
Believe it or not they had a WAP with 4 CISCO cards "taped" to the package...On the closeout rack at the local home center for $99.00. I figured about 60 for the WAP and $10 each for the cards.
What no review for the Powerpuff Girls? I loved it. There were some great Planet Of The Apes refs. (* Plus going by the quality of the other 10 or so "movies" I have seen this summer -- it's kinda hard to be any worse.)
. I am typing this on IE 5 (which now uses Apple's Quartz text smoothing for so-nice aa fonts) connected to the net via my AirPort base station (WiFi), I have Silverado on DVD playing in a small window, and have Photoshop 7 running in the background because I've been doing some color correction on some digicam images I've imported, via USB, into iPhoto, Apple's free photo management package. I could not be doing these things on the Linux platform. Nor any other UNIX platform. OS X has brought together the best desktop interface I have encountered, the most stable UNIX variant that I have encountered, mainstream application support that leaves the user wanting of nothing, and a company behind it all that has a clear and compelling vision and direction.
As I type this reply on my Toshiba 200MMX laptop in Galeon 1.2.something or another (don't remember what fonts I am using -- but they are not to bad). I am sitting on the couch using some wireless lan card from CISCO that cost about 1/10 what an airport would (the hub is in the basement somewhere). I have "The Road Warrior" playing on the TV next to the couch. I am importing pictures from my cameras Compact Flash card connected to my PCMCIA slot and rotating the ones taken sideways using Gimp 1.something or another -- as soon as I am done transfering the pictures off the CF card -- I am going to delete them and copy over 256 Megs of MP3 files to play on my Nex II portable. (Software cost for this whole setup was $0)
I read this article and I don't buy the "Linux is useless on the Desktop" crap. There is always alternatives -- the only caveot is to be careful when you buy your hardware.
Because the ipod was never really an option for me. Most people were relieved that there was a Windows product released to transfer tunes. That still did not help me. So now this will become a viable option now that it will run on an OS (linux) that I have in my house. Having a partition for Windows is kinda like a recovering alcoholic keeping a 12 pack in his fridge...
The guy would be a Martyr. That is the one thing they are a bit scared of. Hell if this were to happen we should erect statues of the poor guy.
Look at all the real criminals that are not in jail....Can you imagine backing up the court rooms and jail cells with geeky 15 year old kids who download a few songs of the internet? Scare tactics my ass -- Metallica really gained a lot fans by suing them, hu? (maybe the type of people like women who love their husbands "more" after a few good beatings....)
at Microsoft must have lost an office contest or pool -- and his "reward" is to man this booth.
Who said they never had a sense of humor? Kind of like the principal that says: "If you sale 10,000 candy bars for the school fund raiser -- I will shave my head, and move my office to the top roof for a day...."
Something that people have to realize is that movies come out in movie theaters first and make big $$$. Then they come out on DVD and it is just a bonus for the studios.
Music doesn't have that initial money from a movie theater type situation. I think that is why the record companies are more scared and more affected by piracy.
You can compare the money a movie makes in it's theatrical release with the money artists make going on tour. Thus putting the comparison of buying DVD's and CD's back on the same level.
I think this is the best article yet on pointing out what the issues are.
CD's are losing popularity because the consumers are growing smarter about "spending their dollars smarter". CD's are WAAAAY to expensive and in most cases 90% filler with 1 or 2 catchy songs that they are hoping get picked up by radio and video to make them superstars (if this was not the case you would see 10 songs from each CD released as videos/singles because the quality would be such -- instead the artists themselves are saying that most of the CD's are subpar when they release another new full length CD with another good song or two, rather than trying to expeose tracks 3-10 on their previous work). The music industry is trying to play smoke and mirrors saying that it is the internet's fault. But on the flip side -- these same "pirates" are buying DVD's and going to movies in droves. The money is being spent where the consumers feel they are getting the squarest deal.
Yes..We have all seen how successful the.com/linux/open source businesses have been. I may "be rolling my joints with my resume"... but you will be rolling them with stock shares that are worth zilch...zero...
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I wonder if that bag of pennies I sent to Lars ever showed up?
Posting this using Fluxbox...Things don't seem to bloated here.
iPAQ. Zaurus. Oh sorry, thats two.
Well unless I can get 10-15 Hours on 2 AA's in an Ipaq or Zaurus, I would not consider that an option. However -- If I could get OGG support for my Nex II or my ChromeX then I will be ripping my CD's to ogg yesterday. Until then I don't want to be tied down to my computer --- or limited to listening to music on a $500+ PDA that eats batteries for breakfast.
From my memory I remember this is the straw that broke the camels back for many of the people and companies that I knew who had been running IIS in some form or another. We had always been a Unix shop -- but many of the 3rd party "server" products had been written using ISAPI -- and required IIS and or Windows to function...The companies that produced these products were flying high and raising the Microsoft sword of ignorance. This virus sent them all back into their holes. Some of them went back to the drawing board to port their products to a real OS and Web Server....The others are dead or close to death.
I know -- off subject -- mod down if you like. I was really interested in the story, but 5 seconds into the website I had decided it was not worth the price.
Flash must die. This website is a good example of why flash is a bad, bad, thing. As a matter of fact -- the only time I see flash as a good thing is for kids games. IE -- PBSkids.org where my kids can play games with cookie monster and such. But if you are a company trying to peddle a product and you build your whole site like this --- the web Gods must strike you down.
Here..Here...I agree. I always thought that was why the 3rd party "commercial" distributions that were "based" on Debian had a chance to suceed. Alas -- they were stricken with the "Debian Curse" and they all failed within minutes. Even that one distro that was started by one of the original Debian guys went down quicker that a crack whore. It was a noble concept to think that maybe we would get a Debian based distro that had package versions released in this century....But alas it was not to be.
Read the story to find out the difference. There is a url in the main story.
Yea it (pop up ads) sure have done the trick for the internet world and reaped millions (most the sites begging for your last few bucks seem plenty rich from the plethora of ads boxing in the content right?). Now all we need is TV ads that randomly turn the channel to the POPUP network every few minutes.
This may be a dumb question (because since I run Linux and I own an old fashioned TV, and I love to go to movies in old fashioned multiplex's I have never really been into online video.) But if I were to run into some movie files online..and it wasn't advertised what codecs they required (or what version of what codec), how would I determine what codec (or what version of said codec) I needed to be able to partake of the wonder in front of me? It has always seemed pretty confusing to me. At least with audio if the extension is .mp3 I could be confident that 99% of players that advertised themselves as mp3 players would do the trick.
If you read the linked article about pre-release copies getting spread on the internet, it talks about Eminems (sp?) album being available a month ahead of time. Even though it was highly traded online...guess what? When it was released in the stores hundreds of thousands (OK a couple hundred thousand) people still decided to buy it in the dirst couple of months. So how many record sales were lost do to the "pirates" VS. The pre-release mp3's actually helping sales by letting people know what they were buying? Imagine if the record industry were the car sales industry saying "you can't test drive a car before purchase". Sure some customers may decline to buy the car based on having test drove it....But if it is a good car -- the test drives may actually increase sales of said automobiles. I think the RIAA is just scared of how many of the "crappy albums" will not get sold if people actually have a chance to here them before purchase. Or how important is it if people are trading MP3's from a back catlog album that has already sold 14 million copies. There were many cassettes from the 70's-80's that never were made into CD's in the states that were pressed to CD in Japan. Now I have purchased the cassette and LP -- they have made there money from me -- if they knock down my door for downloading the mp3's made from the Japanese CD's...am I allowed to throw the tapes and LP's in there faces and say, "if you would release your back catalogs on CD in the states -- I would be the first in line..."
they take the "open" out of "OpenGL" if Microsoft is going to be involved. With those kind of War Chests -- they could convince a jury that water was wine.
Bottom line -- Spam (and the tools required to fight spam) are the biggest reasons we will still be using stamps and snail mail in the years to come. Spam has taken the "killer app" of the information age -- and crippled it beyond use.
/dev/null. I would go into more detail -- but one look into most mail boxes that have been around the internet for long would speak louder than a thousand words.
It's a catch 22 because if you don't filter spam the signal to noise ratio is way to high to make email a valid source of legit communication. If you do filter -- the better you filter, the higher the chance of important bits going to
Linux still has a shot on the desktop for a couple of reasons:
1. OSX does not and will not run on x86 based hardware. (And since 90%+ of the machines are x86 based...)
2. Microsoft is well...Microsoft. You don't have to be much of an activist to detest the way they do business -- And anyone who continues to use products produced by them is "dancing with the devil".....(Just my opinion)
Still -- this guy makes some valid points. I don't really agree on the hardware side. I have actually had better luck with my hardware in Linux than I ever did in Windows. My SCSI card, WinTV PCI card, and Sound Card never played along with each other in any version of Windows. I have never had any problem with them getting along in Linux. X is ultra cool in areas where I need to spawn desktops around the house -- or even around the country....But it's a heavy price to pay when you add in the negatives he talked about. (I guess that is what intrigued me to play around with BeOS and QNX at times --- it was *nix like with nice fonts and performance on the graphical subsytem side of the house. A breath of fresh air if nothing else.)
The problem with finding a solution for application packaging and graphical subsytems is not so much technological rather it is the lack of mass acceptance to any 1 solution. You could end up with "100 packaging solutions that kicked ass" and "25 of the best graphical subsytem solutions ever" but you would then have the bigger problem of usage base and fragmentation. (No 1 solution would get enough mass acceptance to make it a viable standard.)
What apple did with OSX is to take all (most) of what was good about "*nix" and mix that up with what was good with Apple. The problem still being that most people cannot afford to replace all of their x86 hardware with PPC hardware --- and a majority of us would not like using such a high percentage of closed source software in our solution.
Linus never asked us to pony up a little spare change for the kernel? Looks like he is doing pretty good for himself....
If I learned one thing from my dad growing up it was when you start looking to make money from your hobbies then it's to much like your real job -- and maybe time to find a new hobby. Among his many hobby cycles, he restored old saddles and other antiques -- he would spend hundreds of hours on a project for little more than the money for materials and the gleam in his eyes when he finished a project -- when I told he he was crazy to not try to make money doing it -- he said something like "They pay me from 7 AM - 5 PM everyday to do something that has never been fun -- and if I ever have to take money from this it will mean that it has stopped being fun..." When he got burned out he would pick a new hobby.
It never hurt to get a day job. That way you can make money to afford to spend the evenings and weekends doing things you enjoy.
when all of these out of work .com'ers were going to get a chance to work again. ("Last you saw me I was burning through 40 million VC and had no product --- now I am walking throught the streets with an LCD around my neck and joysticks hooked to my waste....")
Believe it or not they had a WAP with 4 CISCO cards "taped" to the package...On the closeout rack at the local home center for $99.00. I figured about 60 for the WAP and $10 each for the cards.
What no review for the Powerpuff Girls? I loved it. There were some great Planet Of The Apes refs. (* Plus going by the quality of the other 10 or so "movies" I have seen this summer -- it's kinda hard to be any worse.)
. I am typing this on IE 5 (which now uses Apple's Quartz text smoothing for so-nice aa fonts) connected to the net via my AirPort base station (WiFi), I have Silverado on DVD playing in a small window, and have Photoshop 7 running in the background because I've been doing some color correction on some digicam images I've imported, via USB, into iPhoto, Apple's free photo management package. I could not be doing these things on the Linux platform. Nor any other UNIX platform. OS X has brought together the best desktop interface I have encountered, the most stable UNIX variant that I have encountered, mainstream application support that leaves the user wanting of nothing, and a company behind it all that has a clear and compelling vision and direction.
As I type this reply on my Toshiba 200MMX laptop in Galeon 1.2.something or another (don't remember what fonts I am using -- but they are not to bad). I am sitting on the couch using some wireless lan card from CISCO that cost about 1/10 what an airport would (the hub is in the basement somewhere). I have "The Road Warrior" playing on the TV next to the couch. I am importing pictures from my cameras Compact Flash card connected to my PCMCIA slot and rotating the ones taken sideways using Gimp 1.something or another -- as soon as I am done transfering the pictures off the CF card -- I am going to delete them and copy over 256 Megs of MP3 files to play on my Nex II portable. (Software cost for this whole setup was $0)
I read this article and I don't buy the "Linux is useless on the Desktop" crap. There is always alternatives -- the only caveot is to be careful when you buy your hardware.
One thing I got was that the amount of lines of code in Mozilla were about the same as everything else (minus the kernel) put together...
Because the ipod was never really an option for me. Most people were relieved that there was a Windows product released to transfer tunes. That still did not help me. So now this will become a viable option now that it will run on an OS (linux) that I have in my house. Having a partition for Windows is kinda like a recovering alcoholic keeping a 12 pack in his fridge...
The guy would be a Martyr. That is the one thing they are a bit scared of. Hell if this were to happen we should erect statues of the poor guy.
Look at all the real criminals that are not in jail....Can you imagine backing up the court rooms and jail cells with geeky 15 year old kids who download a few songs of the internet?
Scare tactics my ass -- Metallica really gained a lot fans by suing them, hu? (maybe the type of people like women who love their husbands "more" after a few good beatings....)
at Microsoft must have lost an office contest or pool -- and his "reward" is to man this booth.
Who said they never had a sense of humor? Kind of like the principal that says: "If you sale 10,000 candy bars for the school fund raiser -- I will shave my head, and move my office to the top roof for a day...."
Something that people have to realize is that movies come out in movie theaters first and make big $$$. Then they come out on DVD and it is just a bonus for the studios. Music doesn't have that initial money from a movie theater type situation. I think that is why the record companies are more scared and more affected by piracy.
You can compare the money a movie makes in it's theatrical release with the money artists make going on tour. Thus putting the comparison of buying DVD's and CD's back on the same level.
I think this is the best article yet on pointing out what the issues are.
CD's are losing popularity because the consumers are growing smarter about "spending their dollars smarter". CD's are WAAAAY to expensive and in most cases 90% filler with 1 or 2 catchy songs that they are hoping get picked up by radio and video to make them superstars (if this was not the case you would see 10 songs from each CD released as videos/singles because the quality would be such -- instead the artists themselves are saying that most of the CD's are subpar when they release another new full length CD with another good song or two, rather than trying to expeose tracks 3-10 on their previous work). The music industry is trying to play smoke and mirrors saying that it is the internet's fault. But on the flip side -- these same "pirates" are buying DVD's and going to movies in droves. The money is being spent where the consumers feel they are getting the squarest deal.
Yes..We have all seen how successful the .com/linux/open source businesses have been. I may "be rolling my joints with my resume" ... but you will be rolling them with stock shares that are worth zilch...zero...