Oh you mean a company that takes public domain material (or at least claims it's public domain), uses it to make movies and then works like hell to make sure its own work never appears in the public domain?
The problems with Irix are not within the OS itself, it's problems with SGI. SGI made some horrible decisions, like selling Windows boxes.
Instead of trying to drive adoption of their OS, they made using it a total nightmare. Ever try to get support? Ever try to get support when you have a SupportFolio contract?
This further shows the huge confusion surrounding "Open Source".
Open Source does not equate to free. Granted, most of the open source software *is* free and charging for something when you post the source on the Internet is very hard, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Open Source means that the source code is available, regardless of the purchase or licensing details. The dearly departed folks at Galacticomm practiced Open Source before there was such a thing. You purchased their BBS package and if you decided you wanted to modify it, you purchased the development kit and off you went. How Open Source can you get?
Of course, the argument is that you can't make money at that, is totally false. I sold nearly 1,000 licenses for my modules for MBBS at $299 a piece, each with the source code gleefully included on the floppy.
If the Open Source community is to survive, they need to fix this flawed perception in the computing community.
Last year, DCX was driving a directly powered hydrogen car all around Germany, but you never hear anything more about it.
From what I remember, the car used liquified hydrogen and achieved normal speeds and fairly comparable mileage to gasoline. The only issue was keeping the liquid hydrogen cold.
Initial rear-end crash tests on this car showed that this wasn't any more dangerous than gasoline nor more explosive.
I purchased several copies of NAI's PGP for Unix version 5. The CD had a standard license agreement with it. Two years later, I receive a letter from NAI telling me that my license was revoked and I could no longer use the software.
Somehow, I do not think I received my $1500 worth.
I should have known, I asked NAI's sales department for a price quote on NAI virus protection products for the "enterprise" and I never did receive a straight answer.
Thank God for GPG! Works with NAI's PGP plug-ins and it's truly free.
Webcasters want the same rates as normal broadcasters. That is, they pay a percentage of gross sales.
So, if an Internet radio station has sales of zero, then they pay zero. If they have gross sales of a million bucks, then they pay the same fee as broadcasters that have gross sales of 5 million dollars.
On one story, they rag on Hollywood for its attempt to control what we watch and how we watch it, and 2 hours later you're extolling the virtues of a product put out by the alleged "evil machine"?
I know, I know...unbiased reporting. Seems to me that if Hollywood is evil, then everyone needs to eschew everything they put out.
Not sure I'd want to run a webserver on OSX. The peculiarities of OSX make me shudder to think of the hair-pulling and "ports" required.
I purchased one of Apple's iBooks last year and was totally dazzled by the display, OSX's performance. I opened a shell and was turned off enough to pack the thing into its box and take it back (eating the 10% restocking fee).
OSX has some peculiarities with its filesystem that are annoying. In Unix, myFilename.txt isn't the same as MYfilename.txt which isn't the same as myfilename.TXT. In OSX, you can't have those three files because the name is the same as far as OSX is concerned.
Unfortunately, I can't remember all the other little annoyances that prompted me to write of the $150 as a fee for trying out one of the iBooks. Too bad too, I really liked the hardware, just hated how different it was from Unix or BSD.
In my previous jobs, HP test gear was a way of life. If you had a budget to buy new gear, no one was ever fired for buying HP. Now, that division is in shambles, the gear actually has flaws or is DOA, getting calibrations is a disaster and they've pretty much kissed-off a solid business for consumer electronics.
I do not know how much of this was the fault of Fiorina, but all I can say is that it's my opinion that in a few years, HP will be remembered for what they once were, not consumer electronics and computers.
It's a shame, but not unexpected. The visions of American corporations are tightly focused on the next two quarters, not on the long-run. They're willing to sacrifice long-term performance for short-term bumps in the financials and stock pricing. This is the crux of the games played in accounting, and it's a disaster that has yet to fully run its course.
Those companies that need big iron are finding that they can get by with cheaper x86 hardware. Fighting the trend and not evolving seems like a sure way to run yourself out of business.
There will always be a demand for big Sun hardware. The problem is that the demand is in a mature market, so the stockholders have to either get used to lower returns and lower value of stock, or slap Mr. McNeily around the ears and tell him to get with the program.
Sun (and SGI) have tremendous talent and abilities. They *could* make a lot of money by helping existing customers that are already considering dumping Solaris (or Irix) deal with the migrations and getting their foot in the door on supporting the new hardware and OS. But that requires forethought and vision, and I'm afraid Sun's management just doesn't get it.
Think of it, not too long ago this mystery device proclaimed to be the revolution of personal transportation was unveiled. The press ate it up! For months all you heard about was "what's Ginger?" Kamen's true genius is marketing.
Now you're seeing the benefit of that pre-emptive strike on the public. People are pumped about this and they've only seen it in pictures.
Here's an interesting thought. How about if you start telling Wal-Mart and Target that you won't buy their "stuff" because half of what they sell is made in China.
It's my highly opinioned opinion that China needs a quick kick in the pants. It's obvious they're jerking the US around, and of course our highly insightful politicians will continue to tolerate such nonsense because our economy is magically tied to paying the Chinese to make shower curtains for pennies in labour costs.
It's time that the US population wake up to the problems corporate America has created. We've basically empowered these people through the economic relationships to make what was formerly made in the US. But I'm asking too much, the sheeple of America are happy as long as they can watch some insipid reality TV show.
This has been prohibited for as long as I've had my merchant account (over 12 years). It's called "factoring", and it's there to prevent account kiting schemes among other nasty types of merchant fraud.
About time the CC companies started enforcing the policies they make every other merchant abide by, yet turn a blind eye when it comes to online transactions.
Corporations, not just Yahoo and AOL of course, have this problem where they think your personal information belongs to them.
I do not know how many times I've had my email address, phone and other details divulged around this "partnership" marketing crap.
The answer to this is to use an ISP that specifically tells you that they do not sell your information. Only *then* will other sleeze-bucket outfits like AOL fall into line.
I've seen this argument from Pets Warehouse on various mailing lists when I kept salt water fish.
His own actions have caused him more problems than one customer complaint.
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CARP should have required compensation along the same lines of traditional over-the-air broadcasters.
That is, you pay a percentage of your gross revenue for unlimited use of the media. Period.
It puts the onus for reporting on the backs of RIAA to figure out who actually is supposed to get paid (albiet, radio stations do have reporting rules, they are widely inaccurate ).
Of course, that would be fair and would give web radio stations legitimacy. That's the last thing the RIAA wants.
Amateurs are encouraged to modify equipment (within the rules of course), whereas the people who were busted modified equipment that required some sort of type acceptance.
There is a long history of amateurs modifying commercial gear for their own purposes.
It appears that the good Senator is a flaming idiot.
What you're seeing is why all those years of public apathy and political disinterest were a bad thing. The people running the government are inept twits who are marginally useful for flipping burgers. And that's about all they're good for too.
You're seeing the arrival of yet another black market, suitable for exploit by gangsters, thugs and drug dealers. Instead of drugs, they'll just sell non-copy protected consumer electronics devices.
Any institution that accepts money for "deposit" is by law, subject to the regulations of a bank. Federal regulators haven't fully caught-on to what PayPal does.
The IPO will make for their easy slaying in federal court.
Seems they are looking toward the wrong goat to milk. The ISPs are providing network connectivity. The patent infringement case is about how the network connectivity is used, namely the *application* layer.
They should be going after Microsoft and AOL.
Of course, this will be tied up in court for a very long time, so the chances of BT getting anything out of this, even with a favourable ruling, are nil.
SBC and the rest will effectively thwart this type of product on any large scale deployment.
Fact remains, Judge Green *gave* the infrastructure to the 9 baby bells in 1984. They have combined into 3 incestuous bells and two waiting to be consumed. They won't sell cooper, period!
Until the politicians are removed from soft money contributions, the former-baby-bells-now-big-bells will be able to stop competition and access to the local infrastructure.
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Oh you mean a company that takes public domain material (or at least claims it's public domain), uses it to make movies and then works like hell to make sure its own work never appears in the public domain?
That would be Disney.
The problems with Irix are not within the OS itself, it's problems with SGI. SGI made some horrible decisions, like selling Windows boxes.
Instead of trying to drive adoption of their OS, they made using it a total nightmare. Ever try to get support? Ever try to get support when you have a SupportFolio contract?
You mean freely available in a non-POSIX OS. That freely available OS that requires "ports"?
Please.
This further shows the huge confusion surrounding "Open Source".
Open Source does not equate to free. Granted, most of the open source software *is* free and charging for something when you post the source on the Internet is very hard, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Open Source means that the source code is available, regardless of the purchase or licensing details. The dearly departed folks at Galacticomm practiced Open Source before there was such a thing. You purchased their BBS package and if you decided you wanted to modify it, you purchased the development kit and off you went. How Open Source can you get?
Of course, the argument is that you can't make money at that, is totally false. I sold nearly 1,000 licenses for my modules for MBBS at $299 a piece, each with the source code gleefully included on the floppy.
If the Open Source community is to survive, they need to fix this flawed perception in the computing community.
Last year, DCX was driving a directly powered hydrogen car all around Germany, but you never hear anything more about it.
From what I remember, the car used liquified hydrogen and achieved normal speeds and fairly comparable mileage to gasoline. The only issue was keeping the liquid hydrogen cold.
Initial rear-end crash tests on this car showed that this wasn't any more dangerous than gasoline nor more explosive.
I purchased several copies of NAI's PGP for Unix version 5. The CD had a standard license agreement with it. Two years later, I receive a letter from NAI telling me that my license was revoked and I could no longer use the software.
Somehow, I do not think I received my $1500 worth.
I should have known, I asked NAI's sales department for a price quote on NAI virus protection products for the "enterprise" and I never did receive a straight answer.
Thank God for GPG! Works with NAI's PGP plug-ins and it's truly free.
Uh, well...the same rate as if the Internet broadcasters made the same rate as normal OTA broadcasters.
You get the idea....
Webcasters want the same rates as normal broadcasters. That is, they pay a percentage of gross sales.
So, if an Internet radio station has sales of zero, then they pay zero. If they have gross sales of a million bucks, then they pay the same fee as broadcasters that have gross sales of 5 million dollars.
How does slashdot do it?
On one story, they rag on Hollywood for its attempt to control what we watch and how we watch it, and 2 hours later you're extolling the virtues of a product put out by the alleged "evil machine"?
I know, I know...unbiased reporting. Seems to me that if Hollywood is evil, then everyone needs to eschew everything they put out.
Not sure I'd want to run a webserver on OSX. The peculiarities of OSX make me shudder to think of the hair-pulling and "ports" required.
I purchased one of Apple's iBooks last year and was totally dazzled by the display, OSX's performance. I opened a shell and was turned off enough to pack the thing into its box and take it back (eating the 10% restocking fee).
OSX has some peculiarities with its filesystem that are annoying. In Unix, myFilename.txt isn't the same as MYfilename.txt which isn't the same as myfilename.TXT. In OSX, you can't have those three files because the name is the same as far as OSX is concerned.
Unfortunately, I can't remember all the other little annoyances that prompted me to write of the $150 as a fee for trying out one of the iBooks. Too bad too, I really liked the hardware, just hated how different it was from Unix or BSD.
...is long gone. It's a shame too.
In my previous jobs, HP test gear was a way of life. If you had a budget to buy new gear, no one was ever fired for buying HP. Now, that division is in shambles, the gear actually has flaws or is DOA, getting calibrations is a disaster and they've pretty much kissed-off a solid business for consumer electronics.
I do not know how much of this was the fault of Fiorina, but all I can say is that it's my opinion that in a few years, HP will be remembered for what they once were, not consumer electronics and computers.
It's a shame, but not unexpected. The visions of American corporations are tightly focused on the next two quarters, not on the long-run. They're willing to sacrifice long-term performance for short-term bumps in the financials and stock pricing. This is the crux of the games played in accounting, and it's a disaster that has yet to fully run its course.
Sun's opportunities continue to dwindle.
Those companies that need big iron are finding that they can get by with cheaper x86 hardware. Fighting the trend and not evolving seems like a sure way to run yourself out of business.
There will always be a demand for big Sun hardware. The problem is that the demand is in a mature market, so the stockholders have to either get used to lower returns and lower value of stock, or slap Mr. McNeily around the ears and tell him to get with the program.
Sun (and SGI) have tremendous talent and abilities. They *could* make a lot of money by helping existing customers that are already considering dumping Solaris (or Irix) deal with the migrations and getting their foot in the door on supporting the new hardware and OS. But that requires forethought and vision, and I'm afraid Sun's management just doesn't get it.
Think of it, not too long ago this mystery device proclaimed to be the revolution of personal transportation was unveiled. The press ate it up!
For months all you heard about was "what's Ginger?" Kamen's true genius is marketing.
Now you're seeing the benefit of that pre-emptive strike on the public. People are pumped about this and they've only seen it in pictures.
Here's an interesting thought. How about if you start telling Wal-Mart and Target that you won't buy their "stuff" because half of what they sell is made in China.
It's my highly opinioned opinion that China needs a quick kick in the pants. It's obvious they're jerking the US around, and of course our highly insightful politicians will continue to tolerate such nonsense because our economy is magically tied to paying the Chinese to make shower curtains for pennies in labour costs.
It's time that the US population wake up to the problems corporate America has created. We've basically empowered these people through the economic relationships to make what was formerly made in the US. But I'm asking too much, the sheeple of America are happy as long as they can watch some insipid reality TV show.
This has been prohibited for as long as I've had my merchant account (over 12 years). It's called "factoring", and it's there to prevent account kiting schemes among other nasty types of merchant fraud.
About time the CC companies started enforcing the policies they make every other merchant abide by, yet turn a blind eye when it comes to online transactions.
Corporations, not just Yahoo and AOL of course, have this problem where they think your personal information belongs to them.
I do not know how many times I've had my email address, phone and other details divulged around this "partnership" marketing crap.
The answer to this is to use an ISP that specifically tells you that they do not sell your information. Only *then* will other sleeze-bucket outfits like AOL fall into line.
I've seen this argument from Pets Warehouse on various mailing lists when I kept salt water fish.
His own actions have caused him more problems than one customer complaint.
CARP should have required compensation along the same lines of traditional over-the-air broadcasters.
That is, you pay a percentage of your gross revenue for unlimited use of the media. Period.
It puts the onus for reporting on the backs of RIAA to figure out who actually is supposed to get paid (albiet, radio stations do have reporting rules, they are widely inaccurate ).
Of course, that would be fair and would give web radio stations legitimacy. That's the last thing the RIAA wants.
Amateurs are encouraged to modify equipment (within the rules of course), whereas the people who were busted modified equipment that required some sort of type acceptance.
There is a long history of amateurs modifying commercial gear for their own purposes.
It appears that the good Senator is a flaming idiot.
What you're seeing is why all those years of public apathy and political disinterest were a bad thing. The people running the government are inept twits who are marginally useful for flipping burgers. And that's about all they're good for too.
Blockbuster baby. They have your info, they have your credit card, they have your address.
Don't think for a minute they don't track and sell the info about what you rent.
You're seeing the arrival of yet another black market, suitable for exploit by gangsters, thugs and drug dealers. Instead of drugs, they'll just sell non-copy protected consumer electronics devices.
Any institution that accepts money for "deposit" is by law, subject to the regulations of a bank. Federal regulators haven't fully caught-on to what PayPal does.
The IPO will make for their easy slaying in federal court.
Seems they are looking toward the wrong goat to milk. The ISPs are providing network connectivity. The patent infringement case is about how the network connectivity is used, namely the *application* layer.
They should be going after Microsoft and AOL.
Of course, this will be tied up in court for a very long time, so the chances of BT getting anything out of this, even with a favourable ruling, are nil.
SBC and the rest will effectively thwart this type of product on any large scale deployment.
Fact remains, Judge Green *gave* the infrastructure to the 9 baby bells in 1984. They have combined into 3 incestuous bells and two waiting to be consumed. They won't sell cooper, period!
Until the politicians are removed from soft money contributions, the former-baby-bells-now-big-bells will be able to stop competition and access to the local infrastructure.