Bottom line is microsoft controls 90% of the OS Market. Period. They're moving into the server space where they were unheard of before and laughed at, but now even BUY.com is a MS site.
SUN / IBM etc. are hanging in there, some even doing quite well as the need for servers has grown exponentially and they can sell reliable scalable solutions. But even in IBMs case we pay MS to put there software on our machines to sell, but used to compete (OS2) It will be interesting to see how MS does in the enterprise.
The only ones who have beeten MS are Palm and AOL. But notice that MS never gives up and MSN and new versions of CE are here..
Windows NT used to be called windows Nice Try, now its still sucks but its much better.
Only a monopoly can get away with this. They have many conflicts of interest, but people keep using them.
Think about the sonystation vs. the MS Xbox. Sony is still paying microsoft for windows while competeing with them in the console space.
Office software suites are another example of this problem. And we all know how well lotus and Borland did vs MS.
Why would you want to write any software knowing that if microsoft decides to release something similar they're going to leverage the OS to run you out of business?
Because about 80-90% of computers still run windows.
If there was a more viable alternative (large market share) I'm sure many companies would write software for them.
uncompressed (TIF). I can fill any drive very very quickly with 35 mm photos at 4000dpi scans.
Thats not even including medium format which is about 3 times bigger per photo..
of course archiving as highest quality JPEG after retouching helps.
Copyright is what makes GNU licencing posible. Without it anyone could take code change it and charge for it.
Also, The original coder(s) made the decision to gpl the code, it was there right to decide what to do with their code. They could have sold it, it belonged to them...
When someone violates the GPL slashdoters are outraged. I don't see any outrage for the musicians being stripped of there rights. They're was an interview of a small struggling musician who was surprised to find his music on napster.. He wasn't pleased.
Why shouldn't musicians have that right to control there music the way programer have the right to control there code?
I'm not sure if its posible... But why not integrate dual monitor support into linux. I have a mac and it was obsencenly easy to add a second card (Just plug and go...)
It works great, except the menu bar doesn't float with applications but you get used to that. I love dual monitor set ups.
I don't know enough about X to know if its posible
thats what AOL wants.
As a company they are far from technically illeterate. A lot of people use the JAVA Instant messanger in the unix lab. They don't care who/what OS you use as long as your using AOL to get on the internet. If They can make it easy and cross platform the settop boxes will follow....
I don't think AOL likes microsoft very much../Aram
What bothers me about this whole napster thing more than anything is all the people who think its Ok to download music and not pay for it and then hide behind the "RIAA is BAD".
NEWS FLASH: There are many small record companies and musicians/creative types should decide who/how there music/creations should be distributed. Its not your right/moral obligation to distribute it for these people and not compensate them. Even if the RIAA makes 2$ for the artists 1$ the artist still gets something, with napster they get nothing.
Image your company spends thousands promoting a new band only to have sales lost to napster. That sucks.
I think people should be personally responsible for there own actions and to that end I see more strict recording and copyright infringment laws coming soon.
The service whos stated purpose is the anonymous piracy of music is on shaky legal ground. (did you read the pdf?) They use the diamond player case as precident. If Napter inc. wern't trying to make a profit off others work it wouldn't be as big a deal.
Since apple is doing it development of OS X with gcc and they're working on optimizing it, shouldn't all linux distros benifit when these optimizations are distributed?
I've run linux ppC on 3 machines. A tower power pro, motorola starmax and apple 7200. No problems on any. These machines have very similar hardware and therefore need way fewer drivers. I have friends who couldn't get linux "supported" cards working on the pc side. It would seem the less variety of hardware you have the easier it is to get drivers.
Look at BEOS. They're big problem is lack of driver support on the intel side.
I used Suse linux on a 400 mhz G3 with 300 megs of ram.. Its a good way to experiment, but x is really slow. I went to linuxppc after getting my feet wet with installation and rpms. Its much much faster native.
Ok here goes. There is nothing wrong with peer to peer file sharing. The problem is people are attracted to free music like flies on Sh*t. They can't control themselves and they download and download. These people need to think. What are they doing? What are the concequences. This woulndn't be a big deal if only a few people are distributing music.
Music should be free when the bands that make it decide it should be free and not ever else. It doesn't matter if they might sell more by giving it away. If a band gets signed they decide that the RIAA is the way they can make the most money/ get the most exposure then they should be allowed to do that.
A college friend of mine is in a band called "tobin bridge". They can't give away there mp3s (and they're not bad.). Many Many bands give away there MP3s for exposure, it hasn't changed anything. The masses just don't want them. They want highly produced music and they want it for free.
I used to be a photographer at a "college" newpaper (70,000 copies daily. I was the photo editor as well. In my wildest dreams I would not take a photo that we didn't pay for or get legitimately and use it in the paper (public and free distribution).
Napster is about getting music for free that you shouldn't have.
People that want to get music fill find other ways to get music for free, (ftp,GNUtella etc.) maybe a "company",aka NAPSTER, shouldn't be trying to profit from this piracy. That is what this is about in my mind
MP3.com should be more popular, as they have many unsigned bands. But its not. They're are other sites that give away "live" performances from phish and DMB that allow taping of there shows. These bands have made the descion and allow this taping and free distribution of there music to increase there mindshare. But it was the Bands choice and that is the way it should be.
If you want to make a mp3 copy of your CD I think you should be allowed. You should rip it yourself (roll your own?). I think if you run linux you should be allowed to view DVDs. Peer to Peer networking should be legal. I like MP3 streaming radio "shoutcasts".
Napster disturbs me beacause of what it says about people and individual responsibility.
It has TDI direct injection and is pretty good size..
Its got good speed and decent pick up and emits very very low levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.. The engine is completely computer controlled (I was trying to figure out what all those wires were for as diesels have no spark plugs).. There is no black soot like the diesels of yesteryear. Also to keep in mind is diesel is more environmentally friendly to refine than gas.
I only get 45 mpg avg (city/highway), but I think the jetta is bigger than the honda.
I won't say my car is cleaner than a honda, but its better than a normal "car" or "SUV" . It isn't even technically "cooler", but most people who ride in it don't even know its a diesel.
I'm very happy with it. only 17k.$
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IE 5.0 for mac doesn't seem to have any problems backing out of anything.
I don't like microsoft, but this is the best browser I've ever used. (and I've used many,.... Lynx, mosaic, netscape, opera, mozilla....)
This is ridiculous. I'm not a fan of those who like to get their music for free and then complain when companies try to stop it. I have no problem with metalica going after those that give thier work away for free.
This new law suit is just silly and is obviously a knee jerk reaction to try and stop the mp3 thing anyway they can. I think they'd be better served going after the sites actually distributing the MP3s not jthe ones linking to them.. I mean LYCOS has an mp3 search feature too.
This is to be expected though as people are going a little crazy for the free (beer) mp3s. I think the industry realizes the first step to distributing (selling) music on the web is to stop those that are giving it away for free. Why buy it when it s FREE. The scale of the piracy is amazing and if people don't watch out and start acting responsibly I think draconian laws criminalizing mp3 trading (MDCA) will continue to be enacted.
I alway though computer people knew that information is value. Of course the RIAA is going to try and protect its place.
I HATE pop up ads. I realy do. But one thing that is getting lost in all this is that these ads pay for "service" or information that we want.
I'm sure almost everyone is used to banner ads, and ignores them most of the time. but relize that someone or something has to pay to get a web site up, and these ads help to pay for it.. As internet companies struggle to make profits these ads are going to become more important (also as click through rates continue to drop...)
But I'lm willing to accept the ad to get at information on the net I want for free (as in beer). It would really suck if you had to pay for content each time you accessed it.
Cds used to be boxed in a box about 2x the size of the CD. There was great resistance to "un boxing" them from stores having to redo there "shelves" and deal with greater theft of the smaller boxes. Now they sell CDs without boxes.
Early playstation games came in very large jewel cases.. Now just regular jewel cases.
I think its a retail "marketing" thing. People still equate a good big box with something important. odd when you consider box size has absolutely nothing to do with program quality. Hopefully computer CDs will go the way of music CDs.
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Bottom line is microsoft controls 90% of the OS Market. Period. They're moving into the server space where they were unheard of before and laughed at, but now even BUY.com is a MS site.
SUN / IBM etc. are hanging in there, some even doing quite well as the need for servers has grown exponentially and they can sell reliable scalable solutions. But even in IBMs case we pay MS to put there software on our machines to sell, but used to compete (OS2) It will be interesting to see how MS does in the enterprise.
The only ones who have beeten MS are Palm and AOL. But notice that MS never gives up and MSN and new versions of CE are here..
Windows NT used to be called windows Nice Try, now its still sucks but its much better.
Only a monopoly can get away with this. They have many conflicts of interest, but people keep using them.
Think about the sonystation vs. the MS Xbox. Sony is still paying microsoft for windows while competeing with them in the console space.
Office software suites are another example of this problem. And we all know how well lotus and Borland did vs MS.
Why would you want to write any software knowing that if microsoft decides to release something similar they're going to leverage the OS to run you out of business?
Because about 80-90% of computers still run windows.
If there was a more viable alternative (large market share) I'm sure many companies would write software for them.
Maybe linux someday?
we didn't have these fancy namby pampy hard drives. We had cassete tape recorders to load and save programs.. And we liked it..
Now I feel old.
uncompressed (TIF). I can fill any drive very very quickly with 35 mm photos at 4000dpi scans.
Thats not even including medium format which is about 3 times bigger per photo..
of course archiving as highest quality JPEG after retouching helps.
Copyright is what makes GNU licencing posible. Without it anyone could take code change it and charge for it.
Also, The original coder(s) made the decision to gpl the code, it was there right to decide what to do with their code. They could have sold it, it belonged to them...
When someone violates the GPL slashdoters are outraged. I don't see any outrage for the musicians being stripped of there rights. They're was an interview of a small struggling musician who was surprised to find his music on napster.. He wasn't pleased.
Why shouldn't musicians have that right to control there music the way programer have the right to control there code?
2600 has no case. I don't think DMCA is constitutional, but its going to be a long and expensive fight. The MPAA has way more dollars.
I'm not a layer either
I'm not sure if its posible... But why not integrate dual monitor support into linux. I have a mac and it was obsencenly easy to add a second card (Just plug and go...)
It works great, except the menu bar doesn't float with applications but you get used to that. I love dual monitor set ups.
I don't know enough about X to know if its posible
I had a microvax II a couple years ago. My company used it for CAD. They gave it to me.. Pretty useles, as PCs are way faster now.
I should see if its still in my folks basement...
thats what AOL wants. As a company they are far from technically illeterate. A lot of people use the JAVA Instant messanger in the unix lab. They don't care who /what OS you use as long as your using AOL to get on the internet. If They can make it easy and cross platform the settop boxes will follow....
I don't think AOL likes microsoft very much.. /Aram
What bothers me about this whole napster thing more than anything is all the people who think its Ok to download music and not pay for it and then hide behind the "RIAA is BAD".
/moral obligation to distribute it for these people and not compensate them. Even if the RIAA makes 2$ for the artists 1$ the artist still gets something, with napster they get nothing.
NEWS FLASH: There are many small record companies and musicians/creative types should decide who/how there music/creations should be distributed. Its not your right
Image your company spends thousands promoting a new band only to have sales lost to napster. That sucks.
I think people should be personally responsible for there own actions and to that end I see more strict recording and copyright infringment laws coming soon.
The service whos stated purpose is the anonymous piracy of music is on shaky legal ground. (did you read the pdf?) They use the diamond player case as precident. If Napter inc. wern't trying to make a profit off others work it wouldn't be as big a deal.
Since apple is doing it development of OS X with gcc and they're working on optimizing it, shouldn't all linux distros benifit when these optimizations are distributed?
I've run linux ppC on 3 machines. A tower power pro, motorola starmax and apple 7200. No problems on any. These machines have very similar hardware and therefore need way fewer drivers. I have friends who couldn't get linux "supported" cards working on the pc side. It would seem the less variety of hardware you have the easier it is to get drivers.
Look at BEOS. They're big problem is lack of driver support on the intel side.
/aram
I used Suse linux on a 400 mhz G3 with 300 megs of ram..
Its a good way to experiment, but x is really slow. I went to linuxppc after getting my feet wet with installation and rpms. Its much much faster native.
/Aram
Ok here goes. There is nothing wrong with peer to peer file sharing. The problem is people are attracted to free music like flies on Sh*t. They can't control themselves and they download and download. These people need to think. What are they doing? What are the concequences. This woulndn't be a big deal if only a few people are distributing music.
Music should be free when the bands that make it decide it should be free and not ever else. It doesn't matter if they might sell more by giving it away. If a band gets signed they decide that the RIAA is the way they can make the most money/ get the most exposure then they should be allowed to do that.
A college friend of mine is in a band called "tobin bridge". They can't give away there mp3s (and they're not bad.). Many Many bands give away there MP3s for exposure, it hasn't changed anything. The masses just don't want them. They want highly produced music and they want it for free.
I used to be a photographer at a "college" newpaper (70,000 copies daily. I was the photo editor as well. In my wildest dreams I would not take a photo that we didn't pay for or get legitimately and use it in the paper (public and free distribution).
Napster is about getting music for free that you shouldn't have.
People that want to get music fill find other ways to get music for free, (ftp,GNUtella etc.) maybe a "company",aka NAPSTER, shouldn't be trying to profit from this piracy. That is what this is about in my mind
MP3.com should be more popular, as they have many unsigned bands. But its not. They're are other sites that give away "live" performances from phish and DMB that allow taping of there shows. These bands have made the descion and allow this taping and free distribution of there music to increase there mindshare. But it was the Bands choice and that is the way it should be.
If you want to make a mp3 copy of your CD I think you should be allowed. You should rip it yourself (roll your own?). I think if you run linux you should be allowed to view DVDs. Peer to Peer networking should be legal. I like MP3 streaming radio "shoutcasts".
Napster disturbs me beacause of what it says about people and individual responsibility.
Those "virtual" hard drives make starting your x86 emulator with a different OS easy. I have Win and an SUSE disc. It works well, only a little slow.
So I went and got a copy of linuxppc. Now I dual boot. (athough linuxppc will boot off the cd)
I heard it when my clock radio went off. "analyst expect apple to release a cube computer and newmouse today at MW expo.., "
from the citizens bank news report
the link http://www.vwvortex.com/news/07_00/07_03/index.htm l
I have a VW TDI Jetta and love it. ITs clean quiet and peppy (I can't call it fast since I had a GTI before the diesel)
I have a 98 Turbo-Diesel Jetta.
It has TDI direct injection and is pretty good size..
Its got good speed and decent pick up and emits very very low levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.. The engine is completely computer controlled (I was trying to figure out what all those wires were for as diesels have no spark plugs).. There is no black soot like the diesels of yesteryear.
Also to keep in mind is diesel is more environmentally friendly to refine than gas.
I only get 45 mpg avg (city/highway), but I think the jetta is bigger than the honda.
I won't say my car is cleaner than a honda, but its better than a normal "car" or "SUV" . It isn't even technically "cooler", but most people who ride in it don't even know its a diesel.
I'm very happy with it. only 17k.$
IE 5.0 for mac doesn't seem to have any problems backing out of anything.
I don't like microsoft, but this is the best browser I've ever used. (and I've used many,.... Lynx, mosaic, netscape, opera, mozilla....)
Virtual PC makes the mac emulate standard PC hardware. You can install linux on it (I have suse linux on one virtual PC harddrive.)
This makes it a very different beasthan WINE.
I think much of Virtual PC is written in assembler by "old school" coders at connectix so don't think the new api will make much difference at all.
This is ridiculous. I'm not a fan of those who like to get their music for free and then complain when companies try to stop it. I have no problem with metalica going after those that give thier work away for free.
This new law suit is just silly and is obviously a knee jerk reaction to try and stop the mp3 thing anyway they can. I think they'd be better served going after the sites actually distributing the MP3s not jthe ones linking to them..
I mean LYCOS has an mp3 search feature too.
This is to be expected though as people are going a little crazy for the free (beer) mp3s. I think the industry realizes the first step to distributing (selling) music on the web is to stop those that are giving it away for free. Why buy it when it s FREE.
The scale of the piracy is amazing and if people don't watch out and start acting responsibly I think draconian laws criminalizing mp3 trading (MDCA) will continue to be enacted.
I alway though computer people knew that information is value. Of course the RIAA is going to try and protect its place.
/Aram
/Aram
I HATE pop up ads. I realy do. But one thing that is getting lost in all this is that these ads pay for "service" or information that we want.
I'm sure almost everyone is used to banner ads, and ignores them most of the time. but relize that someone or something has to pay to get a web site up, and these ads help to pay for it.. As internet companies struggle to make profits these ads are going to become more important (also as click through rates continue to drop...)
But I'lm willing to accept the ad to get at information on the net I want for free (as in beer). It would really suck if you had to pay for content each time you accessed it.
ads are a better way.
They should have named it after homers barber shop quartet...
D-Oh
photopaint was a neea program on the mac.. Stability problems forced me back to photoshop. Hope its a bit more stable under linux..
/Aram
Cds used to be boxed in a box about 2x the size of the CD. There was great resistance to "un boxing" them from stores having to redo there "shelves" and deal with greater theft of the smaller boxes. Now they sell CDs without boxes.
Early playstation games came in very large jewel cases.. Now just regular jewel cases.
I think its a retail "marketing" thing. People still equate a good big box with something important. odd when you consider box size has absolutely nothing to do with program quality. Hopefully computer CDs will go the way of music CDs.