Another possible reason for making an IPO and letting the "overspeculation of a million tech-hyper investors" is to finance the free software.
This is an important point. Right now Wall Street is paying ridiculess amount of money for hightech companies simply because they are cool. In a few years when the internet starts to lose its cool, internet stock falls to the level they should be at and Wall Street starts to do real analysis of high tech companies before buying into them, then stock might not sell for as high.
If RH and VA were to go IPO now they are almost guarenteed to get more than the company is worth just because they involve high-tech, Linux and the internet. In a few years they probably won't get more than they are worth
Funnny - there's also an american TV show about a psychiatrist/detective by the same name.
It's the same show. Some american studio bought the scripts and re-shot the show using american actors. Why? I have no idea. The american version is a bit toned down and the guy who plays "cracker" is a bit more `nice' in the american version, but all in all not a terrible conversion.
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This should work out to be comparable in price to a cellphone connection. And on the pluss side it's twice as fast.
That would be cool - to have such a defence fund. Especially when it's run by a bunch of uncompromising RMS style free software fanatics; they'd attack each and every of this companies patents. Bye bye IPO.
Does anybody know why this doesn't exist yet? I would have thought that someone like the FSF would have at least thoughy of the idea by now.
Perhaps there has never been a need, but it's now getting clear that a need is forming. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is allready under consideration by some group like the FSF, I only hope it happens soon. If it works for the EFF I see no reason why the free software people can't pull of something similar.
The code may exist but support for devices could dwindle to a trickle. Currently many large device manufacturers are working on Linux drivers for their devices. If Microsoft can prevent Linux from growing into a widely used business OS, the support will end
I'm not convinced about this. Let's say that M$ through some sort of magic managed to make all future sound blaster cards incompatible with linux. What would happen? Someone like Turtle Beach would fill the void. Linux is probably big enough today to make it worthwhile to write a linux driver if it would mean that 80% of linux owners would chose your hardware.
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I guess none of you have heard of xml as a default standard for saving data. Xml is designed to be open and office 2000 is going to support.
What you mean like M$ supports DHTML, JavaScript, Java, CSS and all those other open standards?
Finally you can read data no matter which platform its used
You mean kind of like M$ Java?
I know Office 200 is supposed to do XML and I know how XML is supposed to be the ultimate answer to cross platform apps, but judging on M$ pervious record with open standards I'm not too optimistic. I just know they will find a way to break it in an unfixable way. Let's face it M$ has never shown any interest to support a cross platform anything, so why are they going to start now?
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There has already been much progress in the area of office suites in the open source community and their is no need to include Microsoft
You obviously haven't worked much in the real world. Everything is written in Office and everything is distributed in office. 99% of all companines require documents in office format and 99% of evey attached document you will recieve will be in Office. And until Microsoft releases the specs for their file format filters will not be good enough to handle everything.
I used to work in a pure Unix (well excpet for one Mac that did Photoshop and video editing) work place, yet we still had two Win95 boxes just so that we could run Office.
But I digress. Plain and simple, what happened to 7, 8, and 9???????
Plain and simple Lucas got bored. He says he's had enough Star Wars and he wants to do other stuff before he retires. If he was to do 7, 8 and 9 then that would take up the rest of his career. Sure he could hand it off to someone else, but we all know that won't happen. According to Lucas the only reason he let some write the books was because he knew he never would make the movie.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I was less than impressed by the post ROJ books and as such I'm quite happy that Lucas has decided to drop the whole thing.
I don't know stats about China, but I bet they are not much different.
I read somewhere that US publishing houses have been shipping computer books to China as fast as they can print them so something is definitly happening in China.
to disbelieve everything M$ flacks, lawyers, salesmen, employees, contractors, etc. say
Oh I don't know. I've managed to get two MS sales droids to admit that Unix is more stable under heavy loads than NT. That was quite fun. Of course they quickly added stuff like "for most uses NT is at least as stable as UNIX and NT is much easier to administrate" and similar bollocks. But Just to hear them grugingly admit that UNIX was better under certain circumstances really made my day.
I need to use Office 97 at work, and it constantly tries to change my style and numbering, it its always wrong
Now I know that you can turn most of these features off, but the question is why are they there in the first place? I have yet to meet anybody, no matter how computer illiterate, who does anything but bitch loudly about how Word munges their documents.
Now folks are attempting to intergrate MP3 players into a traditional Hi-Fi setup, which just stuns me. I think mainstream culture was dragged down quite far enough by the pathetic audio reproduction of traditional CDs, with their damn laughable 16 bit/44.1 KHz "superior digital sound," but now MP3, which is just frightening in its "quality," are starting to become more prevalent.
Thank you. Finaly some one with some sense. Although I can not lay claim to having any kind of proffesional qualifications, I'm not deaf.
I really cannot see why MP3 is such a big deal. Sure you can down load it and it doesn't take up much space on a hard drive/CD-Rom, but this doesn't change that fact that it sucks.
Have any of you people who are talking about plugging an MP3 player into your Hi-Fi ever heard good music? Have you ever listened to a good quality vinyl (or even CD) system? Probably not. Because if you had there would be no way you would settle for MP3.
Well one `good' thing about MP3 is that anybody out there wanting to start a band and cut a record isn't going to have to bother about expensive things like recording studios and mixing and stuff. All you need is to gather around a simple tape deck, press record and off you go. Then releas it as MP3 and no one will hear the difference.
I'm one of the idiots who bought a Sparc. I'd have to be even more stupid to risk it again on yet another "wonder" drive. Good old DAT tape works fine for me.
You obviously haven't worked anywhere where backups are vital. According to one Digital tech I talked to/worked with, Digital would not have anything to with anything that wasn't backed up onto DLT.
The same tech could tell you countless stories of where DAT's had failed with all kinds of `amusing' consequences. Icluding one where the data was backed up twice on two different DAT's and both failed.
Although I would trust DAT over any cartridge type system any day of the week. I guess the moral of the story is, if it's really important back it up two different places, at least.
>good 16 bit audio, and either dedicated MP3 >hardware built in(probably cheaper), or enough >processing power to decode in software,
Why are people screaming MP3? Sure on the surface it may be a neat idea, but lets face it, even with 12 megs of memory how much music will you be able to store? 2 or 3 songs at acceptable quality at the most if you still want some space for apps. Either that or boost memory to 40+ megs and send the price through the roof. No MP3 is still more of funky gimmic than a useful feature. The only possibility would be to implement some kind of removable memory cards, but even that would cost a lot.
I don't know about 3DS Max specifically, but I've used academic versions of other animation (and other types) software.
The Basic deal is you get the full program, feature complete, but you can only use it for academic purposes, ie to learn. You cannot make money off anything you make with the software either directly or indirectly, and often you cannot even publish it in any way outside of an academic setting.
What market? There is no Linux Market as far as 98% of the world is concerned. If you're the average Joe Loser what would you buy; M$ Linux with a desktop you are used to (since they would force the Win9X desktop onto it) from a company who've heard of and will run M$ Office.
Or some tiny weird company called Red Hat whom you've never heard of
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This is an important point. Right now Wall Street is paying ridiculess amount of money for hightech companies simply because they are cool. In a few years when the internet starts to lose its cool, internet stock falls to the level they should be at and Wall Street starts to do real analysis of high tech companies before buying into them, then stock might not sell for as high.
If RH and VA were to go IPO now they are almost guarenteed to get more than the company is worth just because they involve high-tech, Linux and the internet. In a few years they probably won't get more than they are worth
It's the same show. Some american studio bought the scripts and re-shot the show using american actors. Why? I have no idea.
The american version is a bit toned down and the guy who plays "cracker" is a bit more `nice' in the american version, but all in all not a terrible conversion.
This should work out to be comparable in price to a cellphone connection. And on the pluss side it's twice as fast.
Does anybody know why this doesn't exist yet? I would have thought that someone like the FSF would have at least thoughy of the idea by now.
Perhaps there has never been a need, but it's now getting clear that a need is forming. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is allready under consideration by some group like the FSF, I only hope it happens soon. If it works for the EFF I see no reason why the free software people can't pull of something similar.
I'm not convinced about this. Let's say that M$ through some sort of magic managed to make all future sound blaster cards incompatible with linux. What would happen? Someone like Turtle Beach would fill the void.
Linux is probably big enough today to make it worthwhile to write a linux driver if it would mean that 80% of linux owners would chose your hardware.
What you mean like M$ supports DHTML, JavaScript, Java, CSS and all those other open standards?
Finally you can read data no matter which platform its used
You mean kind of like M$ Java?
I know Office 200 is supposed to do XML and I know how XML is supposed to be the ultimate answer to cross platform apps, but judging on M$ pervious record with open standards I'm not too optimistic. I just know they will find a way to break it in an unfixable way. Let's face it M$ has never shown any interest to support a cross platform anything, so why are they going to start now?
You obviously haven't worked much in the real world. Everything is written in Office and everything is distributed in office. 99% of all companines require documents in office format and 99% of evey attached document you will recieve will be in Office. And until Microsoft releases the specs for their file format filters will not be good enough to handle everything.
I used to work in a pure Unix (well excpet for one Mac that did Photoshop and video editing) work place, yet we still had two Win95 boxes just so that we could run Office.
Plain and simple Lucas got bored. He says he's had enough Star Wars and he wants to do other stuff before he retires. If he was to do 7, 8 and 9 then that would take up the rest of his career.
Sure he could hand it off to someone else, but we all know that won't happen. According to Lucas the only reason he let some write the books was because he knew he never would make the movie.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I was less than impressed by the post ROJ books and as such I'm quite happy that Lucas has decided to drop the whole thing.
I read somewhere that US publishing houses have been shipping computer books to China as fast as they can print them so something is definitly happening in China.
Oh I don't know. I've managed to get two MS sales droids to admit that Unix is more stable under heavy loads than NT. That was quite fun. Of course they quickly added stuff like "for most uses NT is at least as stable as UNIX and NT is much easier to administrate" and similar bollocks. But Just to hear them grugingly admit that UNIX was better under certain circumstances really made my day.
Now I know that you can turn most of these features off, but the question is why are they there in the first place? I have yet to meet anybody, no matter how computer illiterate, who does anything but bitch loudly about how Word munges their documents.
Thank you. Finaly some one with some sense. Although I can not lay claim to having any kind of proffesional qualifications, I'm not deaf.
I really cannot see why MP3 is such a big deal. Sure you can down load it and it doesn't take up much space on a hard drive/CD-Rom, but this doesn't change that fact that it sucks.
Have any of you people who are talking about plugging an MP3 player into your Hi-Fi ever heard good music? Have you ever listened to a good quality vinyl (or even CD) system? Probably not. Because if you had there would be no way you would settle for MP3.
Well one `good' thing about MP3 is that anybody out there wanting to start a band and cut a record isn't going to have to bother about expensive things like recording studios and mixing and stuff. All you need is to gather around a simple tape deck, press record and off you go. Then releas it as MP3 and no one will hear the difference.
You obviously haven't worked anywhere where backups are vital.
According to one Digital tech I talked to/worked with, Digital would not have anything to with anything that wasn't backed up onto DLT.
The same tech could tell you countless stories of where DAT's had failed with all kinds of `amusing' consequences. Icluding one where the data was backed up twice on two different DAT's and both failed.
Although I would trust DAT over any cartridge type system any day of the week. I guess the moral of the story is, if it's really important back it up two different places, at least.
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>good 16 bit audio, and either dedicated MP3
>hardware built in(probably cheaper), or enough
>processing power to decode in software,
Why are people screaming MP3? Sure on the surface it may be a neat idea, but lets face it, even with 12 megs of memory how much music will you be able to store? 2 or 3 songs at acceptable quality at the most if you still want some space for apps. Either that or boost memory to 40+ megs and send the price through the roof.
No MP3 is still more of funky gimmic than a useful feature.
The only possibility would be to implement some kind of removable memory cards, but even that would cost a lot.
KillRaven
I don't know about 3DS Max specifically, but I've used academic versions of other animation (and other types) software.
The Basic deal is you get the full program, feature complete, but you can only use it for academic purposes, ie to learn. You cannot make money off anything you make with the software either directly or indirectly, and often you cannot even publish it in any way outside of an academic setting.
>If Be was really interested in supporting the PowerPC they'd just do the port.
But to do so would require some reverse engineering and thus opening them up for all kinds of legal problems.
>Of course, they have been reticent about >releasing technical specs for the G3s. I wonder >what this means for the folks over at Be.
h tml
Last I heard it meant that BeOS won't run on the new G3's. Check out
http://www.be.com/support/qandas/faqs/faq-0408.
>Qt? Oh I'm sorry, I was looking for the >open-source discussion group
/. an open-source group? And anyway
Since when was
Qt is open-source
What market? There is no Linux Market as far as 98% of the world is concerned. If you're the average Joe Loser what would you buy;
M$ Linux with a desktop you are used to (since they would force the Win9X desktop onto it) from a company who've heard of and will run M$ Office.
Or some tiny weird company called Red Hat whom
you've never heard of