They could say this covers EVERYTHING, JPEG, MPEG, PNG, AVI etc etc etc. What the hell is wrong with the US patent office? I hope some high court has the sense to see that this patent is much to broad and will only stifle development.
What will they gain by sueing Napster? Bankrupt a free route for advertising? All the sane information I have read says that Napster and things like it increase peoples awareness of music, introducing them to things they might have never listened to before and hence increasing albumn sales. "Ms. Love" is sueing the wrong party, sueing Napster won't get her more money, if anything it will get her less. What I am saying is sueing Napster because she can't sue the record companies for her lack of forthought in getting crappy record deal isn't going to fix her original problem.
If you are unhappy with Micro$oft and its p-A$$-port, like I am, then simply don't use it. If your bank switches you and forces you to use it for online purchases switch to a bank or credit card that does not. Your dollars will tell them what you want. Course if we all just file in like cattle to the slaughter we will have all sorts of things forced down our throats.
Janis Ian seems to embrace giving away free music on Napster and such. Stating that it sold more records when some of her songs were downloaded off Napster. On the other hand Courtney Love seems to say that since the record companies are screwing the artists out of money that the artists should sue Napster and Gnutella. Whoever wrote the post for/. didn't seem to read past page 1 of Courtney Love's speech.
I ended up with 4 cats courtesy of my wife (I had one to start with), also have hear tortise (which luckily is the small type which won't ever get bigger then 18 inches, course it will live 80+ years), her giant igauna (about 4+ feet long), and after we married we folded a couple smaller reef tanks we both had into a larger 75 gallon job with a 30 gallon sump. Course my wife is fasinated by mantis shrimp, so we have one (damn thing eats my snails!!!! but it amuses the wife and leaves my coral alone so other then buying snails every 6 months it is a neat pet).
I travel weekly, and normally rent from Hertz (my company has a discount and they have GREAT service). I tried Budget a couple times, cause they were a little cheaper, and I just got horrible service. The woman behind the counter was rude, took a personal phone call while I was trying to rent, the car had problems, the list goes on and on. Knowing now that they would possible could be tracking me as I drive makes me NEVER want to rent from them in the future. Great marketing move on their part.
If you really want to be truely nerdy setup a mini reef tank, about 20 gallons. It is pretty simple to maintain and is most certainly geeky (you built and maintianed a small ecosystem in you apartment). Or a simple solution is get a cat, assuming you get a good one they play with you, but don't require any where near as much trouble as a dog or ferret.
Use some sense man, if you call them out on it, and if for whatever reason they do get in big trouble you will be making a "career limiting move". If you really want to try and get the situation fixed why don't you run it up the chain at your company? See what upper management says? Maybe they have permission from the manufacters?
Thems the breaks buddy, this is a VERY VERY common practice in retail outlets that let customers return items for a refund. The choices are they act honestly and don't resell games, and hence no longer remain profitable or continue resealing them and selling them as new.
Why does them pushing.NET not make sense? Gnome supports it and De Icaza love it. Hence my guess that Microsoft will be pushing.NET, cause I doubt they really "love" Linux.
I am sure they will be pushing.NET, with Mr Gnome following close behind. Oh well hopefully people will have sense to stay out of the clutches of the evil empire.
Though being a huge corporation with mounds of cash they might just have some Hot Booth Babes.
Is it really worth the trouble?
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Why bother? I am sure some people would say it would be needed for government or secret, blah blah. Well I work in a "secure" government facility and the physical security alone is enough to make printing in the area safe and secure, and the network is isolated and sheilded, etc etc etc, so to me this is a mute point. Anyway once you print it it can be intercepted, copied etc, not to mention the fact that the last page is still technically on the print drum till it is used again.
Soekris, about the size of a piece of Toast
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These are great little PC's the boards are about the size of a piece of toast, with the case they are about the size of 2 pieces of toast, they only use 800 milliamps at 12 volt (if I remember right), have no moving parts, serial console and 3 network ports, and a CF slot for the disk. I have been using one with a IBM microdrive and OpenBSD as a border router for about a year now, and it works great.
Am I missing the point? They want 99 bucks for the device, on top of the 99 (or whatever the current price is) for the Game Boy Advance, plus the cost of a memory card. Hmmmm, or I can just spend 99 bucks a get a Rio or other MP3 player that gets better battery mileage then my GBA.
What sucks is they dropped the commercial VPN client totally, the freeware version is still around (or was a couple weeks ago) but it only supports machine to machine, no machine to network connectivity, that was only in the commercial version.
"Can anyone explain why IE:mac and Outlook Express:mac support Zulu and Portugeuse but not Russian or Hebrew?"
Or incredibly, Arabic and Korean too.
300 million people speak Portuguese 200 million people speak Arabic 65 million speak Korean 8 million speak Zulu
Only 3 million speak Hebrew, and my guess is most also speak English. As for the Russians, most who are wealthy enough to afford a computer speak/read English or another more common language. So I think it is simple economics. Sure Israel will pay to add Hebrew support, but will they pay for the ongoing costs in supporting the language for years to come?
So all and all this is NOT a case of unfair competition (which I would prefer it to be, cause I don't like the beast that is Microsoft), nor is it a case of Anti-Semetism (which I am sure people are lead to belive it might be), it is a case of economics, plain and simple. Selling 2000 copies of some software program doesn't outway the issue of ongoing support over years and years. I am sure if Israel would agree to pay for the support forever then Microsoft/Apple would relent and take them up on the offer.
If you are talking "beige box" pricewatch machine, then sorry but that isn't comparing apples to apples (no pun intended). They are benching major manufactuers file servers. While a "beige box" is great for a mom and pop or small shop, most corporatations aren't quite ready to run them for production file servers. Yes that is stupid, yes I don't agree with it, cause they are just as good. But this article is comparing MAJOR brands.
Ended up buying the wife a couple Mac's to do here art on and such. Never got her to use the Linux box, or her Windows box much. Got her that Mac and she is on it all the time, working in Photoshop and using her tablet and stuff (guess they are more intiative for artists, course I am lost on the thing sometimes, end up using the command prompt a lot;). The thing that struck me was the price was about the cost of a lowend PC from say Dell or something. So assuming their servers are prices likewise there shouldn't be a steep price curve anymore.
Email me, I can give you names and number for people using OpenSSH in a corporate envionment. (I am posting this to the main commments since the article poster doesn't have an email address).
And has docs on it. Use things like sendmail and bind (DNS) as examples of opensource in practice. Also, show them the prices for a commercial SSH implementation on a large scale. Very little beats the bottom line of free, as in beer/books.
Guess the point is some people for whatever reason, don't have that measure of restraint, but trust me, they had a serious porn problem, couple people even got fired.
I was asked to put in a filtering solution for a local company to stop porn usage (which was rampaging through this small local firm). So I put in a IPF/OpenBSD/Squid with transparent http filtering. Itis cheap and effective, but not fullproof, it required a lot of monitoring in the begining and making sure sites were what they were, adding and removing sites from the list I was able to get to start with.
My advice, if you have a legitimate buissness reason for accessing SourceForge (which a lot of us do) then go to you IT department and get it removed, or added for you. Who knows maybe they had some problems with something on it, or more then likely they don't even know.
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They could say this covers EVERYTHING, JPEG, MPEG, PNG, AVI etc etc etc. What the hell is wrong with the US patent office? I hope some high court has the sense to see that this patent is much to broad and will only stifle development.
JPEG what are they sueing over? Their own propritary addition to JPEG? Cause the base is supposed to patent free, only?
What will they gain by sueing Napster? Bankrupt a free route for advertising? All the sane information I have read says that Napster and things like it increase peoples awareness of music, introducing them to things they might have never listened to before and hence increasing albumn sales. "Ms. Love" is sueing the wrong party, sueing Napster won't get her more money, if anything it will get her less. What I am saying is sueing Napster because she can't sue the record companies for her lack of forthought in getting crappy record deal isn't going to fix her original problem.
If you are unhappy with Micro$oft and its p-A$$-port, like I am, then simply don't use it. If your bank switches you and forces you to use it for online purchases switch to a bank or credit card that does not. Your dollars will tell them what you want. Course if we all just file in like cattle to the slaughter we will have all sorts of things forced down our throats.
Janis Ian seems to embrace giving away free music on Napster and such. Stating that it sold more records when some of her songs were downloaded off Napster. On the other hand Courtney Love seems to say that since the record companies are screwing the artists out of money that the artists should sue Napster and Gnutella. Whoever wrote the post for /. didn't seem to read past page 1 of Courtney Love's speech.
I ended up with 4 cats courtesy of my wife (I had one to start with), also have hear tortise (which luckily is the small type which won't ever get bigger then 18 inches, course it will live 80+ years), her giant igauna (about 4+ feet long), and after we married we folded a couple smaller reef tanks we both had into a larger 75 gallon job with a 30 gallon sump. Course my wife is fasinated by mantis shrimp, so we have one (damn thing eats my snails!!!! but it amuses the wife and leaves my coral alone so other then buying snails every 6 months it is a neat pet).
I travel weekly, and normally rent from Hertz (my company has a discount and they have GREAT service). I tried Budget a couple times, cause they were a little cheaper, and I just got horrible service. The woman behind the counter was rude, took a personal phone call while I was trying to rent, the car had problems, the list goes on and on. Knowing now that they would possible could be tracking me as I drive makes me NEVER want to rent from them in the future. Great marketing move on their part.
If you really want to be truely nerdy setup a mini reef tank, about 20 gallons. It is pretty simple to maintain and is most certainly geeky (you built and maintianed a small ecosystem in you apartment). Or a simple solution is get a cat, assuming you get a good one they play with you, but don't require any where near as much trouble as a dog or ferret.
Use some sense man, if you call them out on it, and if for whatever reason they do get in big trouble you will be making a "career limiting move". If you really want to try and get the situation fixed why don't you run it up the chain at your company? See what upper management says? Maybe they have permission from the manufacters?
Thems the breaks buddy, this is a VERY VERY common practice in retail outlets that let customers return items for a refund. The choices are they act honestly and don't resell games, and hence no longer remain profitable or continue resealing them and selling them as new.
Why does them pushing .NET not make sense? Gnome supports it and De Icaza love it. Hence my guess that Microsoft will be pushing .NET, cause I doubt they really "love" Linux.
your point? other then the fact that you obviously are literate?
I am sure they will be pushing .NET, with Mr Gnome following close behind. Oh well hopefully people will have sense to stay out of the clutches of the evil empire.
Though being a huge corporation with mounds of cash they might just have some Hot Booth Babes .
Why bother? I am sure some people would say it would be needed for government or secret, blah blah. Well I work in a "secure" government facility and the physical security alone is enough to make printing in the area safe and secure, and the network is isolated and sheilded, etc etc etc, so to me this is a mute point. Anyway once you print it it can be intercepted, copied etc, not to mention the fact that the last page is still technically on the print drum till it is used again.
http://www.soekris.com/
These are great little PC's the boards are about the size of a piece of toast, with the case they are about the size of 2 pieces of toast, they only use 800 milliamps at 12 volt (if I remember right), have no moving parts, serial console and 3 network ports, and a CF slot for the disk. I have been using one with a IBM microdrive and OpenBSD as a border router for about a year now, and it works great.
Am I missing the point? They want 99 bucks for the device, on top of the 99 (or whatever the current price is) for the Game Boy Advance, plus the cost of a memory card. Hmmmm, or I can just spend 99 bucks a get a Rio or other MP3 player that gets better battery mileage then my GBA.
What sucks is they dropped the commercial VPN client totally, the freeware version is still around (or was a couple weeks ago) but it only supports machine to machine, no machine to network connectivity, that was only in the commercial version.
"Can anyone explain why IE:mac and Outlook Express:mac support Zulu and Portugeuse but not Russian or Hebrew?"
Or incredibly, Arabic and Korean too.
300 million people speak Portuguese
200 million people speak Arabic
65 million speak Korean
8 million speak Zulu
Only 3 million speak Hebrew, and my guess is most also speak English. As for the Russians, most who are wealthy enough to afford a computer speak/read English or another more common language. So I think it is simple economics. Sure Israel will pay to add Hebrew support, but will they pay for the ongoing costs in supporting the language for years to come?
So all and all this is NOT a case of unfair competition (which I would prefer it to be, cause I don't like the beast that is Microsoft), nor is it a case of Anti-Semetism (which I am sure people are lead to belive it might be), it is a case of economics, plain and simple. Selling 2000 copies of some software program doesn't outway the issue of ongoing support over years and years. I am sure if Israel would agree to pay for the support forever then Microsoft/Apple would relent and take them up on the offer.
Ya lost me on that response me bucko. Guess I ain't all that clever.
If you are talking "beige box" pricewatch machine, then sorry but that isn't comparing apples to apples (no pun intended). They are benching major manufactuers file servers. While a "beige box" is great for a mom and pop or small shop, most corporatations aren't quite ready to run them for production file servers. Yes that is stupid, yes I don't agree with it, cause they are just as good. But this article is comparing MAJOR brands.
Ended up buying the wife a couple Mac's to do here art on and such. Never got her to use the Linux box, or her Windows box much. Got her that Mac and she is on it all the time, working in Photoshop and using her tablet and stuff (guess they are more intiative for artists, course I am lost on the thing sometimes, end up using the command prompt a lot ;). The thing that struck me was the price was about the cost of a lowend PC from say Dell or something. So assuming their servers are prices likewise there shouldn't be a steep price curve anymore.
Email me, I can give you names and number for people using OpenSSH in a corporate envionment. (I am posting this to the main commments since the article poster doesn't have an email address).
And has docs on it. Use things like sendmail and bind (DNS) as examples of opensource in practice. Also, show them the prices for a commercial SSH implementation on a large scale. Very little beats the bottom line of free, as in beer/books.
Guess the point is some people for whatever reason, don't have that measure of restraint, but trust me, they had a serious porn problem, couple people even got fired.
I was asked to put in a filtering solution for a local company to stop porn usage (which was rampaging through this small local firm). So I put in a IPF/OpenBSD/Squid with transparent http filtering. Itis cheap and effective, but not fullproof, it required a lot of monitoring in the begining and making sure sites were what they were, adding and removing sites from the list I was able to get to start with.
My advice, if you have a legitimate buissness reason for accessing SourceForge (which a lot of us do) then go to you IT department and get it removed, or added for you. Who knows maybe they had some problems with something on it, or more then likely they don't even know.