Actually, I *am* able to get most of them (I had a source from Nov - March daily) although I missed half of April. Anyone looking for EastEnders via FTP, give me a holler at mgkimsal2@yahoo.com
and if this is the best way to get it, I'm all for it.
BBC - PLEASE make EE available via a pay-for mechanism (reasonable pricing please!) to those of us outside the UK. Your namesake BBCAmerica has seen fit to cancel it last year, ensuring that pretty much everything on that channel is something they can rerun 100 times a month (changing rooms, ground force, etc). If they could rerun one month of news programming for a full year to keep costs down they'd probably do that too.
I'm sure there are *many* people outside the UK willing to pay $150/year for downloadable EE.
(I can't believe Laura just died either!)
What I don't get is with programs like EE, why *not* sell them online? They're just sitting on a shelf. It's just something which is costing them money to archive, and it's never replayed again (maybe on UK Gold now, but certainly not anywhere outside the UK on a regular basis).
Not specifically the BIND folks, but it's good to see that people are more and more waking up to this fact. Hopefully the fact that something is 'open source' and people are 'making money' from it won't be a newsworthy item in the near future.
What I think many programmers don't understand is that most people will often choose a so-so product from a well-run business over a better product from a poorly run business or organization. Having no guaranteed support mechanism for BIND (and other projects) does hurt adoption of those projects in many organizations. Option support is essentially the best of both worlds, as long as the prices aren't cost prohibitive. If pricing is too high, there's much less incentive to switch, because people will usually settle for 'good enough' when 'way better' costs a whole lot more.
BUT... it might not be a million units sold. You may sell only 80,000 (late comer to the market maybe, or not enough buzz yet). So, you're paying something like $20,000 in licensing. Granted, still not a huge amount of money, but it's a bigger perentage. And as someone else pointed out, that's just the cost for MP3 - AAC might be more, and to make players to support other formats will likely add more into the licensing costs too. So why *not* support Ogg in a player as well?
Someone else said 'it's cheaper' isn't enough. Well, it's cheaper, to my ears sounds a bit better for most audio, and takes up less space (more room in my player for audio).
It doesn't have the cachet of the name 'MP3', and frankly came a bit late to get caught up in the hype, but it is a good format. Better, smaller and cheaper *should* be hard to beat, but apparently it's not.:)
The Ctrl/Alt/+ does something *completely different* than the RnR extensions which Suse, Mandrake and others are now putting in their distros. CAP just resizes the screen. The resizing tool in the new distros resizes the entire desktop environment (taskbars and icons are moved relative to the new boundaries, for example).
So, we're only about 6 years behind other major operating systems in something so basic. Yay!
I'm still waiting for someone to point out that this isn't as good as the Ctrl/Alt/+ combination, which has been the standard reply of the clueless for years when people complained that they couldn't resize their desktop. Hopefully those stupid replies will be put to bed, but I've little faith that those people will 'get it' even now.
cut&paste works fine, even with images and spreadsheets. Did you try OpenOffice or Koffice ? Probably not. If your Gnome has problems with it, that does not mean that *all* X-based UIs have problems with it. I guess that it works right even inside Gnome (although I do not use it myself), the standards for drag&drop are in place for very long time already. Interoperability between different applications could be better, but that holds for Windows and Mac as well. If you paste something from Excell into Photoshop, you are going to get less-than-stellar result too, because the application just does not expect that kind of data.
No, it does not 'work fine'. The Excel/Photoshop analogy is poor. Cut a number from a cell and I can paste it in anything in Photoshop which expects text. Consistently, between versions of Windows and versions of Excel and PS. The same is not true of Linux apps.
So, you don't use Gnome - not even any GTK apps? But you're qualified to say that a cut/paste problem doesn't exist on the Linux desktop?
I can consistently reproduce cut/paste problems all the time on various Linux distros and between various apps. There are still 2 major ways of cut/paste, and they don't interoperate with each other. That's all there is to it. When/if that'll get fixed, I don't know. To get something 'fixed' generally means people have to agree it's a 'problem' in the first place, which it seems a majority of people *don't* in the Linux/Unix world.
While I do understand your point, there are some issues which make that difficult. Take OOo for example. MS doesn't make Office for Linux. So, what do Linux people do? Contribute to something which will give them a good office suite. To some extent, the measure of 'good' is MSOFfice itself, because of its installed base. However, you do get things like 'export to PDF' which MS Office doesn't have, nor likely ever *will* have. If MS ever put that in Office, they'd risk pissing off Adobe, a huge partner who may very well start porting their apps to other platforms (instead of dropping support for other platforms as of late). And by (re)supporting other platforms, they'd make it easier for people to justify moving away from MS. So, in short, you *do* get new/original features. Some are big, some are small. The small ones sometimes you don't/can't notice without using the software for awhile.
I've known many people who were/are "Mac" or "OSX gurus" who didn't really know much at all about how computers worked. They didn't need to, because the things they needed to do the Mac would do/hide/make easy, so they didn't have to learn those things. But they know plenty of stuff about *Macs*, and can reasonably be called a "Mac guru". There's a huge difference in knowing how to do things on a Mac and knowing how 'computers' (in the abstract or across a wide range) work (processing, troubleshooting, etc)
I'm guessing it's a bit harder to rebuild and duplicate environments exactly. If I build 3 machines today, it's not easy to ensure I can rebuild the exact same machines 3 months from now, at least not with the standard 'gentoo' approach. At least, not as easy as saying 'pop this mdk10 in and install'. You at least know what base everything is starting from.
I was also bothered by the fact that we have to tear the shrink-wrap agreement (thus agreeing to a license) before being able to read the license agreement.
This has been going on since the 80s at least. I can understand being bothered by it, but it's certainly nothing new.
Pat did not ask for payment of any of that investment, but simply explained to the county he could no longer afford to host and maintain the site for free. For 2 years the sheriff refused to negotiate a way to continue paying for the site.
In January 2004 Pat could no longer afford to host this site out of his own pocket and shut it down.
So, rather than simply transferring it over to the county and telling them to deal with it, he SHUTS IT DOWN and effectively HOLDS IT HOSTAGE? If Pat is *really* not looking for his investment back, he'd simply hand it over to anyone else and be done with it.
Those 'testimonials'. Sheesh! From that page...
To pay for hosting from your own pocket for over 3 years as Mr. Richard has done is an incredibly gracious act.
HOW MUCH does this guy pay for bandwidth? Even at $2.50/gig, he'd have to be pushing terabytes per month. Turn on mod_gzip, for goodness' sake! I certainly don't pretend to know how much traffic they were pushing, but he's either got really bad rates from someone upstream, or he's adding lots of markup to whatever he's claiming in usage.
But even so - if his defenders are saying he's not out for compensation, I say turn the site over to someone else and wash your hands of it, lesson learned. He *is* looking for money back out of this, I bet.
His supporters can't write either...
"You can also view any of our passed updates by clicking the links below."
Is this really an enormous issue for people? My goodness, you can identify the button text in several milliseconds if you just look at what you are clicking on.
Yes, it is an enormous issue. I'd ask back that if it wasn't such a big deal (button order) why did the gnome team feel such a big need to make the change in the first place? Obviously it meant enough to them to do the opposite of what 80-90% of the computer-using population is accustomed to.
The point is some of these changes ARE NOT IN THE DOCUMENTATION OR CHANGELOG. The behvaiour of 'get_object_vars()' changed dramatically from 4.1.2 to 4.2 without a word in the changelog. I couldn't even find the commit where the behaviour changed. Only months later did someone acknowledge that it had changed.
So why couldn't Apple tech supports explain that to him? "Sir, the Airport is running a DHCP server" would have saved him a lot of time. Instead, he got the run around of usual tech support stuff (shut down every other computer on your network so we can walk you through 'troubleshooting' that doesn't address your problem, etc).
Basically, his tech support experience was pretty much the same as with every other company. Apple is pretty much on par with other companies in most respects, it's just that they've got such a rabid fanbase that you can't point this out objectively without getting shouted down/blamed.
I've found that often times Mac stuff 'just works', and that's fine. When it doesn't 'just work' you're often worse off than with other platforms where there's more/better support for strange problems.
That's a pretty basic answer. When the labels finally do this, the few retail outlets left will have new posters and merchandise pushed to them to promote this 'new wave of the future' technology. By then, it'll be too late for most of the retail stores - they'll be closed.
I don't understand why more smaller stores don't offer internet capabilities in their stores specifically for research. Talking about the 'knowledgeable record store employees' is fine in some stores, but most don't have people who know *everything*. I worked in a music store, and hated not having answers to people, especially when I knew I could find the answers at home via newsgroups. *NOW* it's even easier to find most info, but I don't see web connections in stores (big OR small). It would be *so* easy to put them in and throw up a $50/month DSL connection to wire 3-4 PCs for customer/employee research.
*SAME* idea - but why don't video stores have web connections to IMDB. If any of you reading this *have* that, you're lucky. Not one video store around here (big chain or indy) *has* that available. I certainly don't expect the 2-3 employees at a blockbuster to know the ins and outs of all my movie questions, but if I could get those questions answered, I'd likely rent more at that moment (assuming they *had* what I had researched).
Also, by having in store PCs, you could log what people are searching for, and perhaps actually *stock* what people are after. 90% of people who came into our stores were 'just looking' (and that's my line now too) but if I could do a bit of research, I'd likely buy more at the stores). Yeah, wireless web/PDA/cellphones will make that happen one day (right - sure!) but *for now* fight the decline of music and video retailing by making it easier for people to do quick research. They'll buy more.
Re:What I think will be interesting is...
on
Google v. Microsoft
·
· Score: 1
Since the search engine code will be proprietary,
As opposed to Google's code, located right on Sourceforge for all to see?
Yes, there's a level of (dis)trust MS might have to overcome, but Google isn't invincible.
Wow. "Fixed" maybe, but "long back"? You're running *FEDORA* and are saying this was fixed 'long back'. Did fedora have this 3 years ago? 2 years ago? Oh wait - fedora WASN'T AROUND BACK THEN. Sheesh.
Xrandr solves this, but as many others have pointed out, it's hardly integrated into most systems yet, considering it's hardly been available in a widespread sense for even a year.
I'm wondering if you're laughing so much because you find yourself funny too...
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not supposed to use it here since the move to Exchange 2003 because Evolution doesn't support NTLM2. Sigh... :(
Actually, I *am* able to get most of them (I had a source from Nov - March daily) although I missed half of April. Anyone looking for EastEnders via FTP, give me a holler at mgkimsal2@yahoo.com
and if this is the best way to get it, I'm all for it.
BBC - PLEASE make EE available via a pay-for mechanism (reasonable pricing please!) to those of us outside the UK. Your namesake BBCAmerica has seen fit to cancel it last year, ensuring that pretty much everything on that channel is something they can rerun 100 times a month (changing rooms, ground force, etc). If they could rerun one month of news programming for a full year to keep costs down they'd probably do that too.
I'm sure there are *many* people outside the UK willing to pay $150/year for downloadable EE.
(I can't believe Laura just died either!)
What I don't get is with programs like EE, why *not* sell them online? They're just sitting on a shelf. It's just something which is costing them money to archive, and it's never replayed again (maybe on UK Gold now, but certainly not anywhere outside the UK on a regular basis).
That's the primary thing that keeps many OS people going. I ain't saying it's much, but it's there quite often. :)
Not specifically the BIND folks, but it's good to see that people are more and more waking up to this fact. Hopefully the fact that something is 'open source' and people are 'making money' from it won't be a newsworthy item in the near future.
What I think many programmers don't understand is that most people will often choose a so-so product from a well-run business over a better product from a poorly run business or organization. Having no guaranteed support mechanism for BIND (and other projects) does hurt adoption of those projects in many organizations. Option support is essentially the best of both worlds, as long as the prices aren't cost prohibitive. If pricing is too high, there's much less incentive to switch, because people will usually settle for 'good enough' when 'way better' costs a whole lot more.
They'd probably need to get some Apple hardware to run that operating system on.
BUT... it might not be a million units sold. You may sell only 80,000 (late comer to the market maybe, or not enough buzz yet). So, you're paying something like $20,000 in licensing. Granted, still not a huge amount of money, but it's a bigger perentage. And as someone else pointed out, that's just the cost for MP3 - AAC might be more, and to make players to support other formats will likely add more into the licensing costs too. So why *not* support Ogg in a player as well?
:)
Someone else said 'it's cheaper' isn't enough. Well, it's cheaper, to my ears sounds a bit better for most audio, and takes up less space (more room in my player for audio).
It doesn't have the cachet of the name 'MP3', and frankly came a bit late to get caught up in the hype, but it is a good format. Better, smaller and cheaper *should* be hard to beat, but apparently it's not.
The Ctrl/Alt/+ does something *completely different* than the RnR extensions which Suse, Mandrake and others are now putting in their distros. CAP just resizes the screen. The resizing tool in the new distros resizes the entire desktop environment (taskbars and icons are moved relative to the new boundaries, for example).
So, we're only about 6 years behind other major operating systems in something so basic. Yay!
I'm still waiting for someone to point out that this isn't as good as the Ctrl/Alt/+ combination, which has been the standard reply of the clueless for years when people complained that they couldn't resize their desktop. Hopefully those stupid replies will be put to bed, but I've little faith that those people will 'get it' even now.
cut&paste works fine, even with images and spreadsheets. Did you try OpenOffice or Koffice ? Probably not. If your Gnome has problems with it, that does not mean that *all* X-based UIs have problems with it. I guess that it works right even inside Gnome (although I do not use it myself), the standards for drag&drop are in place for very long time already. Interoperability between different applications could be better, but that holds for Windows and Mac as well. If you paste something from Excell into Photoshop, you are going to get less-than-stellar result too, because the application just does not expect that kind of data.
No, it does not 'work fine'. The Excel/Photoshop analogy is poor. Cut a number from a cell and I can paste it in anything in Photoshop which expects text. Consistently, between versions of Windows and versions of Excel and PS. The same is not true of Linux apps.
So, you don't use Gnome - not even any GTK apps? But you're qualified to say that a cut/paste problem doesn't exist on the Linux desktop?
I can consistently reproduce cut/paste problems all the time on various Linux distros and between various apps. There are still 2 major ways of cut/paste, and they don't interoperate with each other. That's all there is to it. When/if that'll get fixed, I don't know. To get something 'fixed' generally means people have to agree it's a 'problem' in the first place, which it seems a majority of people *don't* in the Linux/Unix world.
While I do understand your point, there are some issues which make that difficult. Take OOo for example. MS doesn't make Office for Linux. So, what do Linux people do? Contribute to something which will give them a good office suite. To some extent, the measure of 'good' is MSOFfice itself, because of its installed base. However, you do get things like 'export to PDF' which MS Office doesn't have, nor likely ever *will* have. If MS ever put that in Office, they'd risk pissing off Adobe, a huge partner who may very well start porting their apps to other platforms (instead of dropping support for other platforms as of late). And by (re)supporting other platforms, they'd make it easier for people to justify moving away from MS. So, in short, you *do* get new/original features. Some are big, some are small. The small ones sometimes you don't/can't notice without using the software for awhile.
I've known many people who were/are "Mac" or "OSX gurus" who didn't really know much at all about how computers worked. They didn't need to, because the things they needed to do the Mac would do/hide/make easy, so they didn't have to learn those things. But they know plenty of stuff about *Macs*, and can reasonably be called a "Mac guru". There's a huge difference in knowing how to do things on a Mac and knowing how 'computers' (in the abstract or across a wide range) work (processing, troubleshooting, etc)
I'm guessing it's a bit harder to rebuild and duplicate environments exactly. If I build 3 machines today, it's not easy to ensure I can rebuild the exact same machines 3 months from now, at least not with the standard 'gentoo' approach. At least, not as easy as saying 'pop this mdk10 in and install'. You at least know what base everything is starting from.
I was also bothered by the fact that we have to tear the shrink-wrap agreement (thus agreeing to a license) before being able to read the license agreement.
This has been going on since the 80s at least. I can understand being bothered by it, but it's certainly nothing new.
They're right on the back of the CD jewel case, usually on an orange sticker about 3 inches across.
The Site Goes Down
Pat did not ask for payment of any of that investment, but simply explained to the county he could no longer afford to host and maintain the site for free. For 2 years the sheriff refused to negotiate a way to continue paying for the site.
In January 2004 Pat could no longer afford to host this site out of his own pocket and shut it down.
So, rather than simply transferring it over to the county and telling them to deal with it, he SHUTS IT DOWN and effectively HOLDS IT HOSTAGE? If Pat is *really* not looking for his investment back, he'd simply hand it over to anyone else and be done with it.
Those 'testimonials'. Sheesh! From that page...
To pay for hosting from your own pocket for over 3 years as Mr. Richard has done is an incredibly gracious act.
HOW MUCH does this guy pay for bandwidth? Even at $2.50/gig, he'd have to be pushing terabytes per month. Turn on mod_gzip, for goodness' sake! I certainly don't pretend to know how much traffic they were pushing, but he's either got really bad rates from someone upstream, or he's adding lots of markup to whatever he's claiming in usage.
But even so - if his defenders are saying he's not out for compensation, I say turn the site over to someone else and wash your hands of it, lesson learned. He *is* looking for money back out of this, I bet.
His supporters can't write either...
"You can also view any of our passed updates by clicking the links below."
Is this really an enormous issue for people? My goodness, you can identify the button text in several milliseconds if you just look at what you are clicking on.
Yes, it is an enormous issue. I'd ask back that if it wasn't such a big deal (button order) why did the gnome team feel such a big need to make the change in the first place? Obviously it meant enough to them to do the opposite of what 80-90% of the computer-using population is accustomed to.
Are there any plans for a version of cervisia that works with subversion? Or does it already?
READ HIS POST.
The point is some of these changes ARE NOT IN THE DOCUMENTATION OR CHANGELOG. The behvaiour of 'get_object_vars()' changed dramatically from 4.1.2 to 4.2 without a word in the changelog. I couldn't even find the commit where the behaviour changed. Only months later did someone acknowledge that it had changed.
So why couldn't Apple tech supports explain that to him? "Sir, the Airport is running a DHCP server" would have saved him a lot of time. Instead, he got the run around of usual tech support stuff (shut down every other computer on your network so we can walk you through 'troubleshooting' that doesn't address your problem, etc).
Basically, his tech support experience was pretty much the same as with every other company. Apple is pretty much on par with other companies in most respects, it's just that they've got such a rabid fanbase that you can't point this out objectively without getting shouted down/blamed.
I've found that often times Mac stuff 'just works', and that's fine. When it doesn't 'just work' you're often worse off than with other platforms where there's more/better support for strange problems.
distributions will be created and advertised for free, or created with the express purpose of marketing them to governments at cut-rate pricing.
So, who's going to to compete with slackware on price? Or debian? Or mandrake? Or fedora? This type of statement is just *weird*.
That's a pretty basic answer. When the labels finally do this, the few retail outlets left will have new posters and merchandise pushed to them to promote this 'new wave of the future' technology. By then, it'll be too late for most of the retail stores - they'll be closed.
I don't understand why more smaller stores
don't offer internet capabilities in their stores specifically for research. Talking about the 'knowledgeable record store employees' is fine in some stores, but most don't have people who know *everything*. I worked in a music store, and hated not having answers to people, especially when I knew I could find the answers at home via newsgroups. *NOW* it's even easier to find most info, but I don't see web connections in stores (big OR small). It would be *so* easy to put them in and throw up a $50/month DSL connection to wire 3-4 PCs for customer/employee research.
*SAME* idea - but why don't video stores have web connections to IMDB. If any of you reading this *have* that, you're lucky. Not one video store around here (big chain or indy) *has* that available. I certainly don't expect the 2-3 employees at a blockbuster to know the ins and outs of all my movie questions, but if I could get those questions answered, I'd likely rent more at that moment (assuming they *had* what I had researched).
Also, by having in store PCs, you could log what people are searching for, and perhaps actually *stock* what people are after. 90% of people who came into our stores were 'just looking' (and that's my line now too) but if I could do a bit of research, I'd likely buy more at the stores). Yeah, wireless web/PDA/cellphones will make that happen one day (right - sure!) but *for now* fight the decline of music and video retailing by making it easier for people to do quick research. They'll buy more.
Since the search engine code will be proprietary,
As opposed to Google's code, located right on Sourceforge for all to see?
Yes, there's a level of (dis)trust MS might have to overcome, but Google isn't invincible.
Wow. "Fixed" maybe, but "long back"? You're running *FEDORA* and are saying this was fixed 'long back'. Did fedora have this 3 years ago? 2 years ago? Oh wait - fedora WASN'T AROUND BACK THEN. Sheesh.
Xrandr solves this, but as many others have pointed out, it's hardly integrated into most systems yet, considering it's hardly been available in a widespread sense for even a year.
I'm wondering if you're laughing so much because you find yourself funny too...