What ought to happen is that the court system should delay processing any MicroSoft suits until they get around to complying. Anyone who felt like violating MicroSoft copyrights could do so with impunity until MicroSoft followed the terms of the settlement. Anyone who felt like paying MicroSoft for anything could consider that they were presently under no compulsion to do so, and that it might not be a socially responsible behavior.
Alternatively, if the government decides MicroSoft is no longer vital to US businesses, they could declare that, since MicroSoft isn't following the settlement, the case resumes, and seek to have MicroSoft shut down.
It wasn't designed with speed in mind at all, just the issue with the hammers sticking. So common combinations are generally somewhat separated (remember that two keys which are adjacent horizontally are four hammers apart, because there are four rows, ignoring space and modifier keys, which don't have hammers).
This helps to reduce vertical movement of individual fingers, and helps some with alternating hands. Of course, he didn't optimize as effectively as Dvorak, but he was mostly interested in building a functioning typewriter at the time.
Of course, computer keyboards follow typewriter keyboards because people knew them, and they've stuck in part because programs are designed to use keys based on position (ctrl-x,c,v are next to each other; hjkl are together under different fingers, etc). So, while Dvorak is better for typing English text, it's not so good for typing it into a word processor.
They have actually generally licensed their trademark for that purpose; they just don't like this particular use of it, probably because it doesn't make it clear whether it refers to meat or mail (since one doesn't normally "arrest" either).
Solaris used to be their preferred platform, but it's now Linux. At least, that's what Oracle sales told me this May. Evidently, they've gotten enough of the features they want into recent kernels.
I'm using Java for a data warehouse web app (which is somewhat different from the usual database app, because there aren't significant amounts of data going in through the application). We develop on Linux and Windows and will deploy on Linux. We're using Oracle and Tomcat.
We're using Java mainly because we used it for a previous project and it worked well; switching to a different language, including evaluating, leaning, and determining good practices would not be worthwhile. We're using Oracle and Tomcat for similar reasons. We're going to deploy on Linux because it has better performance, and because it's Oracle's primary platform.
You really mean cleartext authentication, not cleartext protocols. Cleartext ftp is fine for anonymous downloads; cleartext HTTP is fine so long as you don't use passwords or authentication cookies (note that you and I are both posting in violation of what we're saying. But anyway...); cleartext telnet is fine for rainmaker.wunderground.com; and so forth.
I find it odd that systems package together telnet (a nice wrapper for TCP, with a few extra features; very useful for a number of things, including getting the weather) with telnetd (a program for providing shell access to attackers, simply based on the few extra features over TCP. Similarly ssh and sshd. Programs that make connections are very different from programs that provide shell access.
Personally, I think Linux distros should have remote login disabled by default. Anyone who actually wants it will know how to enable it, and will hopefully pick a sane protocol to use to do so.
SMTP doesn't have passwords at all, and POP3 (like IMAP) can be run over SSL in a standard way. SMTP can't be made more "secure" in any particularly clear sense, because it doesn't involve any recipient authentication (in any case, the most common reason for the wrong person getting an email message is that it's sent to the wrong address, and delivered correctly).
I personally find news.google.com to be better for finding relevant news. 9/11 is the only TV news I've watched in the last several years; after that, I just went online, where you can find a wider variety of sources, which are generally at most a couple of hours old, and you don't have to wade through the fluff. (I also, actually, listen to NPR, but that's in the interesting coverage of current events, not breaking news, category; plus I'm listening to it in the car).
When you watch news delayed, do you skip more of the commercials or the program?
Back in the old days, hard drives were so small that files sometimes ended up near the end of them, and so you couldn't resize the partition until you moved the files towards the beginning of the drive. This was because people would keep from running out of storage by deleting files, which would create free spaces in somewhat random parts of the drive.
Of course, nobody deletes things any more, so you no longer need to defrag drives when you install Linux on a formerly Windows-only machine. But the people helping him probably remember the old way.
Napster was particularly big at the high point of the music sales, and gone now, at the low point. I'm certain that Napster's demise has had a major effect in turning people away from purchasing albums; I, at least, have felt it immoral to pay the RIAA anything since then, and have avoided it (buying music from used CD stores instead). Given the recent success of independant labels, I suspect that the cause of death of Napster has been a factor there, as well.
The consumer is willing to give up money for their entertainment, but not convenience. I'd rather pay the artist $10 for some music I liked than get it for free without a sense of entitlement to it; but I certainly don't want to pay $18 for a useless hunk of plastic that may damage my hardware and gives me no sense of entitlement.
I was thinking of things like CNN or various nightly news programs. 60 Minutes is a significantly different show, and it makes sense to delay that. (A news show versus "the news", which implies to me the whole "live on the scene" thing; you could watch it a bit delayed to avoid the commercials, but it's not like you're going to record it and watch last night's news in the morning instead of the morning news program with more recent information)
I've personally used them to decide which new game seemed like something I was in the mood for. Sometimes I want to play something relaxing, and knowing how gruesome the game I'm considering is likely to be is important. I'd need to be in quite a different mood to want to play a life-like violence game than an animated violence game, and they're not necessarily distinguishable until you see what the characters look like after they've been shot.
Extracting hydrogen from hydrocarbons can happen at much lower temperatures than burning them for mechanical energy, so the carbon results are much more easily controlled, and the reaction can run closer to completion. The issue with chemical processing turns out not so much to be the carbon content but the traces of sulfer, which tend to end up as H2S in this process, which is a toxic and corrosive gas.
Reality TV, news, and "event" programming are even less interesting that the worst of the ads. No, wait, the news is more interesting, but people don't watch it delayed, so they can't skip ads.
I certainly hope they're going to account for people who show the show as well as the commercials. Of course, there's nothing they can do about accounting for people who aren't paying any attention to the TV because they just want background noise while they play chess.
On the other hand, $500 is a lot if your job doesn't depend on the application. That's probably why only 10% of the users don't really need the software.
Musical hobbyists currently can't really get good recordings of their music to give to their friends. Artists of various other sorts have been able to share their work with others pretty trivially for a while now. People make photos of their trips available online, put up stuff they drew, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to say, "Learning the cello is going pretty well. Here's a recording of my progress." without a substantial investment in equipment?
For that matter, it would probably be helpful to a lot of bands if they could record their practices, edit them into something reasonable, and discuss them. It's not worth the $500, but it would be worth it if it were free.
In short, $500 isn't too much for software for making professional-quality recordings, but it's a bit much for something that's just for fun.
If it's sufficient to run on a server, where you have dozens of people using it at the same time, it's sufficient to run on a desktop. It's just that the initial implementations were slow because the necessary technology hadn't been developed yet.
Java is also slow to start up the virtual machine, which makes it inefficient for programs you stop and restart frequently.
If you switched everyone over to Linux, using bash and mutt, you could put all the necessary instructions to do everything that people are doing under Windows on a 3x5 card next to the computer. I know, because I've got such a card for my mother to use my Linux box to read email.
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It would have been really funny to replace the TV with just a speaker one day, and see how long everybody else could pretend that nothing was unusual. "Hmm... everybody else really sucks today. I wonder why?"
The FAQ also says it could be modified to comply with any possible interpretation of the Berne Treaty if some other country actually bothers with the possibility of holding the US to a treaty, is convinced that this tax is not legitimate, and doesn't like this idea of this law. And while they're at it, they could get the US to pay their UN dues.
But this bill could apply to works beyond the term set in the Berne treaty, which doesn't get extended periodically by Congress, which would lead to at least some works coming into the public domain.
PC hardware is insufficient to run a proper production server, but there is Intel-based hardware that is, and a cluster of PC hardware is, as well.
If anyone knows what is necessary for an enterprise system and is willing to suggest it, it's got to be Oracle. Oracle's platform of choice, both for suggesting to customers and for the customer databases they host, is now Linux. For that matter, IBM is largely moving to Linux these days, despite being in the middle of your list.
In the particular case of IBM, they don't need to charge you OS licensing fees for the OS on your S/390, since they're selling you the big iron. This means that they can pay their developers to work on Linux (in particular, features desireable in this configuration). You want to use Linux on your big hardware because IBM, Oracle, and so forth are all working on it. If you use AIX, you only get IBM's work. Don't you think enterprise software would be better if it didn't have to get separately implemented 6 times?
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Actually, managers in my experience default to widely-used, industry standard tools. It's just that these tend to be commercial. But there are plenty of commercial packages which managers will avoid by default, because they aren't what everyone else uses.
There are a few open source packages (such as Apache) that are the industry standard in some segments, and it would be odd to use something else instead.
If you're looking to get something where there's no established package at all (Java charting packages, for instance), a free package without license hassles where you can modify it yourself is generally preferred over a commercial one.
(The SCO lawsuit is a contract lawsuit. SCO has a contract with MicroSoft. SCO, as Caldera, has actually gotten a settlement out of MicroSoft in the past. I'd hesitate to buy from such a vulnerable company at this point...)
People don't think of anything other than MS Office, but what they call it isn't actually "MS Office", but "Office", so they'd find OpenOffice.org, or StarOffice, or KOffice, or whatever, if it was available with the generic name.
If SCO gives out a license to anyone, the license must be GPL-compatible; otherwise SCO is violating the terms of the GPL, which give them the only right they have to distribute Linux at all, and they are suddenly the world leader in software piracy, selling commercially a large number of pieces of software by even more copyright holders. If they're saying that 50 lines of code are worth $3 billion, they'd be in a position even MicroSoft couldn't bail them out of.
If they do give their users a legimitate license to the code, their users can use other distributions if desired, and can pass this license on to anyone else.
Of course, they could simply stop distributing anything licensed to them under the GPL. They've said they're not going to continue selling Linux, but they are still offering it (and updates) for download currently. They could claim that they were doped into distributing their code with GPL code, but it would be hard for them to claim that the still don't know, and the current situation is not viable for them with respect to the GPL.
I think you've picked the right applications there. The Mac has a loyal following of graphic designers who won't switch to anything else, and form a core user group that no other system has touched. Until Linux has applications for these purposes which are as well established, the Mac has nothing to fear.
Of course, that doesn't mean that Linux won't pass OS X in market share. The bulk of the market share each of these gets on the desktop comes from Windows. If Linux supports the office desktop business people are accustomed to and makes the admins happier, Linux will suddenly get a huge increase in market share (which would be a slight drop for Windows).
On the other hand, it seems like a substantial portion of OS X users are converts from Linux. So OS X could see a substantial gain in user base from Linux taking market share from Windows. Having Linux gain popularity to become #2 on the desktop means people deciding what system to run, and that means more people for everything that's not Windows.
The Mac's been around long enough that everyone who might switch to it from Windows already has. But people might switch from Windows to Linux (no new hardware needed), and then switch to the Mac (much of the same software available).
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What ought to happen is that the court system should delay processing any MicroSoft suits until they get around to complying. Anyone who felt like violating MicroSoft copyrights could do so with impunity until MicroSoft followed the terms of the settlement. Anyone who felt like paying MicroSoft for anything could consider that they were presently under no compulsion to do so, and that it might not be a socially responsible behavior.
Alternatively, if the government decides MicroSoft is no longer vital to US businesses, they could declare that, since MicroSoft isn't following the settlement, the case resumes, and seek to have MicroSoft shut down.
It wasn't designed with speed in mind at all, just the issue with the hammers sticking. So common combinations are generally somewhat separated (remember that two keys which are adjacent horizontally are four hammers apart, because there are four rows, ignoring space and modifier keys, which don't have hammers).
This helps to reduce vertical movement of individual fingers, and helps some with alternating hands. Of course, he didn't optimize as effectively as Dvorak, but he was mostly interested in building a functioning typewriter at the time.
Of course, computer keyboards follow typewriter keyboards because people knew them, and they've stuck in part because programs are designed to use keys based on position (ctrl-x,c,v are next to each other; hjkl are together under different fingers, etc). So, while Dvorak is better for typing English text, it's not so good for typing it into a word processor.
They have actually generally licensed their trademark for that purpose; they just don't like this particular use of it, probably because it doesn't make it clear whether it refers to meat or mail (since one doesn't normally "arrest" either).
Solaris used to be their preferred platform, but it's now Linux. At least, that's what Oracle sales told me this May. Evidently, they've gotten enough of the features they want into recent kernels.
I'm using Java for a data warehouse web app (which is somewhat different from the usual database app, because there aren't significant amounts of data going in through the application). We develop on Linux and Windows and will deploy on Linux. We're using Oracle and Tomcat.
We're using Java mainly because we used it for a previous project and it worked well; switching to a different language, including evaluating, leaning, and determining good practices would not be worthwhile. We're using Oracle and Tomcat for similar reasons. We're going to deploy on Linux because it has better performance, and because it's Oracle's primary platform.
You really mean cleartext authentication, not cleartext protocols. Cleartext ftp is fine for anonymous downloads; cleartext HTTP is fine so long as you don't use passwords or authentication cookies (note that you and I are both posting in violation of what we're saying. But anyway...); cleartext telnet is fine for rainmaker.wunderground.com; and so forth.
I find it odd that systems package together telnet (a nice wrapper for TCP, with a few extra features; very useful for a number of things, including getting the weather) with telnetd (a program for providing shell access to attackers, simply based on the few extra features over TCP. Similarly ssh and sshd. Programs that make connections are very different from programs that provide shell access.
Personally, I think Linux distros should have remote login disabled by default. Anyone who actually wants it will know how to enable it, and will hopefully pick a sane protocol to use to do so.
SMTP doesn't have passwords at all, and POP3 (like IMAP) can be run over SSL in a standard way. SMTP can't be made more "secure" in any particularly clear sense, because it doesn't involve any recipient authentication (in any case, the most common reason for the wrong person getting an email message is that it's sent to the wrong address, and delivered correctly).
I personally find news.google.com to be better for finding relevant news. 9/11 is the only TV news I've watched in the last several years; after that, I just went online, where you can find a wider variety of sources, which are generally at most a couple of hours old, and you don't have to wade through the fluff. (I also, actually, listen to NPR, but that's in the interesting coverage of current events, not breaking news, category; plus I'm listening to it in the car).
When you watch news delayed, do you skip more of the commercials or the program?
Back in the old days, hard drives were so small that files sometimes ended up near the end of them, and so you couldn't resize the partition until you moved the files towards the beginning of the drive. This was because people would keep from running out of storage by deleting files, which would create free spaces in somewhat random parts of the drive.
Of course, nobody deletes things any more, so you no longer need to defrag drives when you install Linux on a formerly Windows-only machine. But the people helping him probably remember the old way.
Napster was particularly big at the high point of the music sales, and gone now, at the low point. I'm certain that Napster's demise has had a major effect in turning people away from purchasing albums; I, at least, have felt it immoral to pay the RIAA anything since then, and have avoided it (buying music from used CD stores instead). Given the recent success of independant labels, I suspect that the cause of death of Napster has been a factor there, as well.
The consumer is willing to give up money for their entertainment, but not convenience. I'd rather pay the artist $10 for some music I liked than get it for free without a sense of entitlement to it; but I certainly don't want to pay $18 for a useless hunk of plastic that may damage my hardware and gives me no sense of entitlement.
I was thinking of things like CNN or various nightly news programs. 60 Minutes is a significantly different show, and it makes sense to delay that. (A news show versus "the news", which implies to me the whole "live on the scene" thing; you could watch it a bit delayed to avoid the commercials, but it's not like you're going to record it and watch last night's news in the morning instead of the morning news program with more recent information)
I've personally used them to decide which new game seemed like something I was in the mood for. Sometimes I want to play something relaxing, and knowing how gruesome the game I'm considering is likely to be is important. I'd need to be in quite a different mood to want to play a life-like violence game than an animated violence game, and they're not necessarily distinguishable until you see what the characters look like after they've been shot.
Extracting hydrogen from hydrocarbons can happen at much lower temperatures than burning them for mechanical energy, so the carbon results are much more easily controlled, and the reaction can run closer to completion. The issue with chemical processing turns out not so much to be the carbon content but the traces of sulfer, which tend to end up as H2S in this process, which is a toxic and corrosive gas.
Reality TV, news, and "event" programming are even less interesting that the worst of the ads. No, wait, the news is more interesting, but people don't watch it delayed, so they can't skip ads.
I certainly hope they're going to account for people who show the show as well as the commercials. Of course, there's nothing they can do about accounting for people who aren't paying any attention to the TV because they just want background noise while they play chess.
On the other hand, $500 is a lot if your job doesn't depend on the application. That's probably why only 10% of the users don't really need the software.
Musical hobbyists currently can't really get good recordings of their music to give to their friends. Artists of various other sorts have been able to share their work with others pretty trivially for a while now. People make photos of their trips available online, put up stuff they drew, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to say, "Learning the cello is going pretty well. Here's a recording of my progress." without a substantial investment in equipment?
For that matter, it would probably be helpful to a lot of bands if they could record their practices, edit them into something reasonable, and discuss them. It's not worth the $500, but it would be worth it if it were free.
In short, $500 isn't too much for software for making professional-quality recordings, but it's a bit much for something that's just for fun.
If it's sufficient to run on a server, where you have dozens of people using it at the same time, it's sufficient to run on a desktop. It's just that the initial implementations were slow because the necessary technology hadn't been developed yet.
Java is also slow to start up the virtual machine, which makes it inefficient for programs you stop and restart frequently.
If you switched everyone over to Linux, using bash and mutt, you could put all the necessary instructions to do everything that people are doing under Windows on a 3x5 card next to the computer. I know, because I've got such a card for my mother to use my Linux box to read email.
It would have been really funny to replace the TV with just a speaker one day, and see how long everybody else could pretend that nothing was unusual. "Hmm... everybody else really sucks today. I wonder why?"
The FAQ also says it could be modified to comply with any possible interpretation of the Berne Treaty if some other country actually bothers with the possibility of holding the US to a treaty, is convinced that this tax is not legitimate, and doesn't like this idea of this law. And while they're at it, they could get the US to pay their UN dues.
But this bill could apply to works beyond the term set in the Berne treaty, which doesn't get extended periodically by Congress, which would lead to at least some works coming into the public domain.
PC hardware is insufficient to run a proper production server, but there is Intel-based hardware that is, and a cluster of PC hardware is, as well.
If anyone knows what is necessary for an enterprise system and is willing to suggest it, it's got to be Oracle. Oracle's platform of choice, both for suggesting to customers and for the customer databases they host, is now Linux. For that matter, IBM is largely moving to Linux these days, despite being in the middle of your list.
In the particular case of IBM, they don't need to charge you OS licensing fees for the OS on your S/390, since they're selling you the big iron. This means that they can pay their developers to work on Linux (in particular, features desireable in this configuration). You want to use Linux on your big hardware because IBM, Oracle, and so forth are all working on it. If you use AIX, you only get IBM's work. Don't you think enterprise software would be better if it didn't have to get separately implemented 6 times?
Actually, managers in my experience default to widely-used, industry standard tools. It's just that these tend to be commercial. But there are plenty of commercial packages which managers will avoid by default, because they aren't what everyone else uses.
There are a few open source packages (such as Apache) that are the industry standard in some segments, and it would be odd to use something else instead.
If you're looking to get something where there's no established package at all (Java charting packages, for instance), a free package without license hassles where you can modify it yourself is generally preferred over a commercial one.
(The SCO lawsuit is a contract lawsuit. SCO has a contract with MicroSoft. SCO, as Caldera, has actually gotten a settlement out of MicroSoft in the past. I'd hesitate to buy from such a vulnerable company at this point...)
People don't think of anything other than MS Office, but what they call it isn't actually "MS Office", but "Office", so they'd find OpenOffice.org, or StarOffice, or KOffice, or whatever, if it was available with the generic name.
I'll say. Nobody uses globbing for any serious work any more...
If SCO gives out a license to anyone, the license must be GPL-compatible; otherwise SCO is violating the terms of the GPL, which give them the only right they have to distribute Linux at all, and they are suddenly the world leader in software piracy, selling commercially a large number of pieces of software by even more copyright holders. If they're saying that 50 lines of code are worth $3 billion, they'd be in a position even MicroSoft couldn't bail them out of.
If they do give their users a legimitate license to the code, their users can use other distributions if desired, and can pass this license on to anyone else.
Of course, they could simply stop distributing anything licensed to them under the GPL. They've said they're not going to continue selling Linux, but they are still offering it (and updates) for download currently. They could claim that they were doped into distributing their code with GPL code, but it would be hard for them to claim that the still don't know, and the current situation is not viable for them with respect to the GPL.
I think you've picked the right applications there. The Mac has a loyal following of graphic designers who won't switch to anything else, and form a core user group that no other system has touched. Until Linux has applications for these purposes which are as well established, the Mac has nothing to fear.
Of course, that doesn't mean that Linux won't pass OS X in market share. The bulk of the market share each of these gets on the desktop comes from Windows. If Linux supports the office desktop business people are accustomed to and makes the admins happier, Linux will suddenly get a huge increase in market share (which would be a slight drop for Windows).
On the other hand, it seems like a substantial portion of OS X users are converts from Linux. So OS X could see a substantial gain in user base from Linux taking market share from Windows. Having Linux gain popularity to become #2 on the desktop means people deciding what system to run, and that means more people for everything that's not Windows.
The Mac's been around long enough that everyone who might switch to it from Windows already has. But people might switch from Windows to Linux (no new hardware needed), and then switch to the Mac (much of the same software available).