On the referred page, one of the IDG VPs is quoted as saying: "These products represent the very best technology available to users of Linux and Open Source..." so it doesn't sound like the products themselves had to be open source.
If Microsoft doesn't include any open source, then why do they include the gpl?
Aren't there such things as products with open source components, and closed source components, like Lindows?
Heck, I don't know, but it just might be that you are assuming something that isn't true.
I don't have a DVR, but the ability to simply time shift without having to keep track of large, bulky VHS tapes would be worth a lot to me.
We live in a pretty small house, and we have to kids who like to *watch* videos more than is probably healty. without having a special, off-limits room with its own dedicated VCR and tape system, reliably time-shifting things that I want to watch would be pretty hard.
Also, the ability to instantaneously skip past commercials without having to FFPlay through them would save a lot of time (it adds up).
Well, some people (believe it or not) didn't live paycheck to paycheck during the "good times" when the money was rolling in. Some people actually put some money away in savings.
I should probably clarify that I am not one of these people:(
I don't really know about that. Take the tornado in a can, which is a very different way to process organic materials (among other uses). It's pretty simple, technologically speaking, but no one invented it until relatively recently. No, it hasn't proven itself to be revolutionary as of yet, but as has already been mentioned many times already, few if any truly revolutionary inventions were recognizable as revolutionary when they were invented. I saw this tornado in a can back in 1993 being used somewhat like a sandblaster to create rather unique works of art, and that use is way different than this agricultural use touted in the article. The person showing it to me back then said that it has many other potential uses, too, such as in the mining industry, which is mentioned in the article. There is no telling what ubiquitous use they might find for for this invention which might be considered revolutionary 20 years from now.
I can't help but suspect millions or tens of millions of people with analog TV sets, and no plans to get digital TV sets any time soon would have to have something to do with it, too, wouldn't you?
Maybe 10% of the people I know have a "digital-ready" television st.
Funny thing, your mention of the penal code not being copyrighted reminded me of the fact that a lot of legal code (lots of building code, for instance) is, indeed copyrighted. There are actually companies which have government-sponsored monolopies on building, electrical, and other types of codes, and will print and ship the code to you for a nominal fee. If you make this same information publicly available, these companies will sue you. I can't remember where I saw this, so if anyone has any further information, feel free to jump in with a link.
He was not trying to say that all bosses can exist without employees; he was saying that while some bosses can exist with no employees, there are ZERO employees who can exist with no one to employ them (unless they are self-employed, which makres them the boss again).
People should be careful when they are too pro-union and anti-business, because if the environment is too unfriendly towards businesses, no new small businesses will start up (hurting the economy). I don't like an environment where only large mega-corporations can exist, because no one else can stand up to the unions demands. The truth is that someone has to be the one handing out the paychecks, unless everyone is self-employed, but that wouldn't work, according to your post, and alternatively, if everyone works for the government, that is called communism (no, thanks).
I was under the impression that NR and NRO were conservative publications, as opposed to being Republican publications. Not exactly the same thing.
If you look at the political definition(s) of the word conservative, instead of how conservatives are often portrayed, it makes more sense
2 a : disposition in politics to preserve what is established b : a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change 3 : the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation as opposed to change
Unlike current PocketPCs that I know about (like the compaq iPAQ), the battery in these new Dell units are user replacable. The more expensive unit has a slot for the spare battery to charge in the cradle (the cheaper unit doesn't come with a cradle IIRC).
So it appears that, unlike the iPAQs, if your battery runs low mid-flight, you should be able to swap batteries, unless you forgot to bring a spare. A spare iPAQ battery should be smaller than a spare laptop battery, I would hope.
...and if you plan on using the power-draining features like multimedia a lot, then you would want to be prepared with spare batteries. You might want to buy more than one. At least it's an option, now that there is a unit that you don't have to dissasemble to change batteries!
Thanks for all the details on The Macintosh system.
Can you tell us if you are comparing Apple's latest offering (OS X) to Microsoft's latest offering (Windos XP), or are you comparing OS X to Windows 98 or (shudder) Windows Me?
The enthusiasm for Apple comes through load and clear, but since the topic here is Windows, at least tell us what you are comparing OS X to. There is a pretty big difference between Windows 98 or Me on one hand and Windows 2000 or XP on the other.
It's against the anti trust law to use a monopoly unfairly to extend that monopoly into other areas, or to use the monopoly to unfairly maintain the monopoly. Selling consoles at a loss is already an established business strategy in the gaming market, so that won't be considered unfair. Microsoft is using their money, but they aren't actually using the monopoly in desktop OSes per se to gain a monopoly in console game systems.
The game developers decided to implement a anti-piracy scheme which requires that the original CD has to be in the drive in order to play it, in an attempt to deter piracy.
He owns the game, but doesn't want his kids scratching up the CD, because he doesn't have to spend another $40.00 buying another copy of the game. A legally archived copy of the game CD will not allow the game to be played, because simply copying the CD doesn't copy the errors intentionally introduced by the game manufacturers onto the CD, as a form of copy protection.
So he installs a crack to allow his children to play this game without actually handling the CD which he owns into the computer. Regardless of the purpose of the copy protection circumvention, what he is doing is likely technical violation of the DMCA.
Are you seriously saying that in your mind, his actions are illegal, and you have absolutely no further opinion on the issue, as if his technical illegality is morally the same as someone who plays the crack and never bought the game in the first place?
How would it be proven that Microsoft is using their monopoly of desktop operating systems in relation to X-Box in any way? Other game manufacturers are also selling consoles at a loss, but they don't have any monopoly on desktop operating systems, so how are the two things related?
billg regularly sells shares of Microsoft. Lots of them. Company founders do it all the time. He already has enough diversified securities set aside that microsoft could evaporate off the face of the earth tomorrow, and he would still be rolling in dough. $100 million sounds like a lot to you and I, but not to him. It seems pretty obvious that his selling 2 million shares of stock today is much more likely to just be a sell order he made earlier being filled today than any sort of deperate attempt to not go to the poor house.
Your mom wanted to write some letters, and was considering buying Microsoft Office to do so? Why? Office costs at least $500, unless you qualify for an upgrade version!
Microsoft Works 7 only costs $55.00, and it includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, a calendar, etc. Whatever happened to the right tool for the right job? In between notepad and Word is something called WordPad, and it comes already included on Windows 2000.
Works Suite 2003 cost $100, and it includes full-blown Word, normal Works, Money, an encyclopedia, photo processing software, and mapping software.
It does sound like your mom is happy with Linux now, and more power to her, but if we are talking about changing our whole OS partly due to the cost of applications, then I just thought I would help others make a more informed decision.
everything's too expensive to be worth the trouble...Not a good business model when your competiton is free.
The prices are not exactly the same, but couldn't you could certainly make the exact same argument for cable or satellite TV? Yet those guys are doing OK, last I checked.
You are both right to a point. You are right in correcting him that DVD has not actually replaced VHS (yet), although it is displacing a lot of VHS volume. It doesn't matter to the VHS consumer until the VHS version has completely disappeared, though.
It will happen, though. It is just a matter of time.
I guarantee the side effect of this "undetectible to the human eye" copy-protection is going to be the same as staring at a monitor with a refresh rate of about 60 mHz for 3 hours. I guess they will also improve their revenues by selling Ibuprofin at the snack counter?
I agree, Pov. Where did he get that definition, anyway?
If someone using MSFT technology gets some technical help from a total stranger by posting a question on one of the microsoft.public newsgroups (the "Microsoft community"), how does this figure into "a few guys they personally know who make money using their MS knowledge?"
I am the last person to publicly defend Microsoft when they deserve criticism, but the spin being put in this original post is somewhat insulting of one's intelligence.
You say "Sure makes ya respect those pricey pieces of paper." as if this Thomas guy has anything to do with microsoft certification.
This guy may not even have a paying job right now. He is just "officially certified" to put the MVP signature on his posts when he answers posts in the microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups.
MVPs do this for free, last I heard. Did anyone else notice that this reporter was quoting him as saying that the 'title' HE holds is "highly regarded"? Wouldn't it strike you as sort of funny if a reporter quoted an airport security screener as saying "Airport securtity screeners are highly regarded"? It wouldn't really lend any credibility to his comment that the anti-theft devices at Wal-Mart might be easily fooled(unless he also happens to work as a Wal-Mart Security guard as a second job)
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On the referred page, one of the IDG VPs is quoted as saying: "These products represent the very best technology available to users of Linux and Open Source..." so it doesn't sound like the products themselves had to be open source.
If Microsoft doesn't include any open source, then why do they include the
gpl?
Aren't there such things as products with open source components, and closed source components, like Lindows?
Heck, I don't know, but it just might be that you are assuming something that isn't true.
Similar to a few months after JAVA was released,
you can get a GOOD job according to the ads that want people with 8-10years experience with C#
8-10 years' experience with C#?
How long has C# existed?
I don't have a DVR, but the ability to simply time shift without having to keep track of large, bulky VHS tapes would be worth a lot to me.
We live in a pretty small house, and we have to kids who like to *watch* videos more than is probably healty. without having a special, off-limits room with its own dedicated VCR and tape system, reliably time-shifting things that I want to watch would be pretty hard.
Also, the ability to instantaneously skip past commercials without having to FFPlay through them would save a lot of time (it adds up).
Well, some people (believe it or not) didn't live paycheck to paycheck during the "good times" when the money was rolling in. Some people actually put some money away in savings.
:(
I should probably clarify that I am not one of these people
I don't really know about that. Take the tornado in a can, which is a very different way to process organic materials (among other uses). It's pretty simple, technologically speaking, but no one invented it until relatively recently. No, it hasn't proven itself to be revolutionary as of yet, but as has already been mentioned many times already, few if any truly revolutionary inventions were recognizable as revolutionary when they were invented. I saw this tornado in a can back in 1993 being used somewhat like a sandblaster to create rather unique works of art, and that use is way different than this agricultural use touted in the article. The person showing it to me back then said that it has many other potential uses, too, such as in the mining industry, which is mentioned in the article. There is no telling what ubiquitous use they might find for for this invention which might be considered revolutionary 20 years from now.
I can't help but suspect millions or tens of millions of people with analog TV sets, and no plans to get digital TV sets any time soon would have to have something to do with it, too, wouldn't you?
Maybe 10% of the people I know have a "digital-ready" television st.
Funny thing, your mention of the penal code not being copyrighted reminded me of the fact that a lot of legal code (lots of building code, for instance) is, indeed copyrighted. There are actually companies which have government-sponsored monolopies on building, electrical, and other types of codes, and will print and ship the code to you for a nominal fee. If you make this same information publicly available, these companies will sue you. I can't remember where I saw this, so if anyone has any further information, feel free to jump in with a link.
If I am not mistaken, didn't Microsoft announce a month or so ago that they will be supporting all their software from now on for at least 5 years?
You underscored his point.
He was not trying to say that all bosses can exist without employees; he was saying that while some bosses can exist with no employees, there are ZERO employees who can exist with no one to employ them (unless they are self-employed, which makres them the boss again).
People should be careful when they are too pro-union and anti-business, because if the environment is too unfriendly towards businesses, no new small businesses will start up (hurting the economy). I don't like an environment where only large mega-corporations can exist, because no one else can stand up to the unions demands. The truth is that someone has to be the one handing out the paychecks, unless everyone is self-employed, but that wouldn't work, according to your post, and alternatively, if everyone works for the government, that is called communism (no, thanks).
I was under the impression that NR and NRO were conservative publications, as opposed to being Republican publications. Not exactly the same thing.
If you look at the political definition(s) of the word conservative, instead of how conservatives are often portrayed, it makes more sense
2 a : disposition in politics to preserve what is established b : a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change
3 : the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation as opposed to change
Unlike current PocketPCs that I know about (like the compaq iPAQ), the battery in these new Dell units are user replacable. The more expensive unit has a slot for the spare battery to charge in the cradle (the cheaper unit doesn't come with a cradle IIRC).
So it appears that, unlike the iPAQs, if your battery runs low mid-flight, you should be able to swap batteries, unless you forgot to bring a spare. A spare iPAQ battery should be smaller than a spare laptop battery, I would hope.
Thanks for all the details on The Macintosh system.
Can you tell us if you are comparing Apple's latest offering (OS X) to Microsoft's latest offering (Windos XP), or are you comparing OS X to Windows 98 or (shudder) Windows Me?
The enthusiasm for Apple comes through load and clear, but since the topic here is Windows, at least tell us what you are comparing OS X to. There is a pretty big difference between Windows 98 or Me on one hand and Windows 2000 or XP on the other.
It's against the anti trust law to use a monopoly unfairly to extend that monopoly into other areas, or to use the monopoly to unfairly maintain the monopoly. Selling consoles at a loss is already an established business strategy in the gaming market, so that won't be considered unfair. Microsoft is using their money, but they aren't actually using the monopoly in desktop OSes per se to gain a monopoly in console game systems.
Are you serious?
The game developers decided to implement a anti-piracy scheme which requires that the original CD has to be in the drive in order to play it, in an attempt to deter piracy.
He owns the game, but doesn't want his kids scratching up the CD, because he doesn't have to spend another $40.00 buying another copy of the game. A legally archived copy of the game CD will not allow the game to be played, because simply copying the CD doesn't copy the errors intentionally introduced by the game manufacturers onto the CD, as a form of copy protection.
So he installs a crack to allow his children to play this game without actually handling the CD which he owns into the computer. Regardless of the purpose of the copy protection circumvention, what he is doing is likely technical violation of the DMCA.
Are you seriously saying that in your mind, his actions are illegal, and you have absolutely no further opinion on the issue, as if his technical illegality is morally the same as someone who plays the crack and never bought the game in the first place?
How would it be proven that Microsoft is using their monopoly of desktop operating systems in relation to X-Box in any way? Other game manufacturers are also selling consoles at a loss, but they don't have any monopoly on desktop operating systems, so how are the two things related?
It's nice that you know what Hatch would do if he could. Can you also tell what I am thinking?
Hatch supposedly has changed his mind about IP law, as he sees the media companies as being way too greedy about the whole thing.
http://www.cluebot.com/articles/00/10/12/2055227.
billg regularly sells shares of Microsoft. Lots of them. Company founders do it all the time. He already has enough diversified securities set aside that microsoft could evaporate off the face of the earth tomorrow, and he would still be rolling in dough. $100 million sounds like a lot to you and I, but not to him. It seems pretty obvious that his selling 2 million shares of stock today is much more likely to just be a sell order he made earlier being filled today than any sort of deperate attempt to not go to the poor house.
They are extremely cool to see in action, of course.
Provided you aren't relying on them to down a real inbound threat!
Actually, if you were counting on them to down a real inbound threat, I would argue that you would consider them extremely cool when they did so!
Your mom wanted to write some letters, and was considering buying Microsoft Office to do so? Why? Office costs at least $500, unless you qualify for an upgrade version!
Microsoft Works 7 only costs $55.00, and it includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, a calendar, etc. Whatever happened to the right tool for the right job? In between notepad and Word is something called WordPad, and it comes already included on Windows 2000.
Works Suite 2003 cost $100, and it includes full-blown Word, normal Works, Money, an encyclopedia, photo processing software, and mapping software.
It does sound like your mom is happy with Linux now, and more power to her, but if we are talking about changing our whole OS partly due to the cost of applications, then I just thought I would help others make a more informed decision.
Actually, Canadian's don't say "aboot", they say "aboat". Get it right!
everything's too expensive to be worth the trouble...Not a good business model when your competiton is free.
The prices are not exactly the same, but couldn't you could certainly make the exact same argument for cable or satellite TV? Yet those guys are doing OK, last I checked.
You are both right to a point. You are right in correcting him that DVD has not actually replaced VHS (yet), although it is displacing a lot of VHS volume. It doesn't matter to the VHS consumer until the VHS version has completely disappeared, though.
It will happen, though. It is just a matter of time.
I guarantee the side effect of this "undetectible to the human eye" copy-protection is going to be the same as staring at a monitor with a refresh rate of about 60 mHz for 3 hours. I guess they will also improve their revenues by selling Ibuprofin at the snack counter?
I agree, Pov. Where did he get that definition, anyway?
If someone using MSFT technology gets some technical help from a total stranger by posting a question on one of the microsoft.public newsgroups (the "Microsoft community"), how does this figure into "a few guys they personally know who make money using their MS knowledge?"
I am the last person to publicly defend Microsoft when they deserve criticism, but the spin being put in this original post is somewhat insulting of one's intelligence.
You say "Sure makes ya respect those pricey pieces of paper." as if this Thomas guy has anything to do with microsoft certification.
This guy may not even have a paying job right now. He is just "officially certified" to put the MVP signature on his posts when he answers posts in the microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups.
MVPs do this for free, last I heard. Did anyone else notice that this reporter was quoting him as saying that the 'title' HE holds is "highly regarded"? Wouldn't it strike you as sort of funny if a reporter quoted an airport security screener as saying "Airport securtity screeners are highly regarded"? It wouldn't really lend any credibility to his comment that the anti-theft devices at Wal-Mart might be easily fooled(unless he also happens to work as a Wal-Mart Security guard as a second job)