What really SHITS me is that the parent comment is plagiarised word for word from here:
http://cfdr.eu.org/issues/cd/
without attribution to the original author (who incidentally is 'Jim Peters'), then modded up to be 'Interesting'.
Perhaps there should be a PLAGIARISED moderation section, with a link to the original article.
Whenever the topic of Music and CDs the natural progression of the discussion eventually leads to a few posts of fair use, yet this poster has not used 'fair use' with the copying of the text (almost ironic).
I don't mind upgrading the Mac OS X operating system every year, simply because they really do add features that are worthwhile to the new build, not just adding a new look and feel (a la windows). When was the last time that you actually upgraded to a new windows version and it was actually faster? (Generally to upgrade to a new windows system, you really needed to buy a new computer).
You are looking at $AU 455 for an upgrade to the Windows professional, and even then you don't get everything that you do on a Mac (webserver, database, development tools). So $US 129 is cheap.
The first Mac I bought had 10.2 (in my mind previous Mac OS's were fantastic looking, but behind the times in terms of functionality - think memory management for one) and I love it! It is the only time that I have even considered the Mac OS as a serious purchaser. Not a problem spending on the upgrade - I cannot live without expose!
I use windows at work, and there are some things which it does do better, but I am happier with the Mac at home.
New Zealand has always been surprisingly progressive when it come to technology (surprising because of the decisions of some other *cough* Australian *cough* governments, not because of anything else). DVD players with region codes are illegal in New Zealand - they see it as anti-competitive and trade restrictive.
That's why I buy my stuff from NZ - the $AU coupled with the open trade agreement - no import tax - yay!
I have updated, and everything seems to be going ok. I use java a lot - for both development and usage. I still get an error with jEdit that tells me that the Mac OS Plugin requires a newer version (happened ever since I upgraded Java to the latest and greatest version).
Everything else - including JBoss - works as it should.
You should check the logs (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app) that may be able to provide some insight into what is going on inside the java apps.
I think that 90% of the web is a little bit of an over statement - after all Apache does 'own' 66% of the web - see www.netcraft.com
Whilst Microsoft is still THE major player in the consumer PC market, never underestimate the other markets that are out there, after all, the MS OS for cell phones flopped, their PDA is not exactly doing that great either. Also companies are now taking a bigger interest in open source programmes - one is Safari for Mac OS X with the source for the renderer being fed back into the open source community.
The biggest problem is that you don't really have a choice when you buy a PC. You get to pay the Microsoft tax whether you want to or not (remember the naked pc == one more pirated copy of MS Windows campaign that they had?).
Once you have companies seriously considering open source competition, there is no way that they will go back. After all, it does take a LOT to switch platforms, but once you have the know-how for the product, why would you want to upgrade to a commercial offering AND pay money AND retrain your staff.
The problem here is that you don't get the choice of operating system, no matter what the choice.
What an odd legal precedence, why on earth aren't they just putting their legal case forward. Normally you just get sued, rather than being warned.
Why all the advertising i.e. 'Watch out we are going to sue someone.... it may just be you'.
To me it is just about trying to get people to sign up for their licensing scheme (Although giving them only one day is not much notice). IMHO it would be better not to sue a fortune 1000 company, those boys have deep pockets and large legal teams. It is like taking on Goliath.
"sell two versions of its ubiquitous operating system, Windows, in Europe: one with Media Player inside as it does at present, and another with the music and video playing software stripped out and sold separately, people close to the case said on Tuesday."
For the main part, the average user gets the choice: "Should I get an operating system that plays music and video" or one without. I know which one I would choose.
U.S. Army to End Boeing-United Technologies' Comanche (Update1)
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Army plans to cancel the Boeing Co.-United Technologies Corp. Comanche helicopter program, according to people familiar with the plan.
The program has been overhauled six times in its 18-year history as the cost per helicopter grew. The U.S. Army was ordered in 2002 to reduce the number of Comanche helicopters it planned to buy to 650 from 1,207. Initially, it planned to buy 2,000.
United Technologies' Sikorsky Aircraft unit and Boeing split revenue for the development of the Comanche under a cost- reimbursement contract awarded by the Army in 2000. Cancellation is likely to help sales of Boeing's Apache helicopters, which cost about $25 million each and were used successfully in Afghanistan and Iraq, said Richard Aboulafia, vice president of Teal Group, an aerospace consultancy based in Fairfax, Virginia.
``The most directly competing programs in the Army are Apache and Comanche,'' Aboulafia said. ``Which would you rather have - 100 percent of a proven machine with good profit, or 50 percent of a risky venture?''
Shares of Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies fell $3.72 or 3.9 percent in New York Stock Exchange composite trading at 12:20 p.m. Shares of Chicago-based Boeing fell $1.11 or 2.5 percent.
Sikorsky spokesman Matt Broder said the company hasn't heard from the Army and still considers the program intact until the company is notified. A Boeing spokesman also declined to comment.
Soviet Threat
The Comanche is designed to receive and process intelligence from drones and surveillance aircraft and pass it to ground units. The Army was directed in 2002 to focus its research on producing a reconnaissance helicopter rather than one that can attack as well as scout. The helicopter was intended to counter Soviet weapons.
``The Comanche program was overtaken by new threats and new technologies,'' said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst for the Washington-based Lexington Institute. ``After 20 years of development, it had yet to produce an operational helicopter.''
The value of the contract was raised to $6.6 billion from $3.2 billion under a revised development contract awarded in November 2002. That contract calls for the venture to deliver nine Comanche helicopters in 2005 and 2006 for test and evaluation improvements through 2011, according to United Technologies' annual filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Delayed Procurement
While the research contract increased in value, the Army delayed procurement by several years to pay for it.
The program's total budget for the Comanche is $38.3 billion. The Army has spent $6.8 billion through Sept. 30. The fiscal 2005 budget asks $1.2 billion for research and development and just $12 million for procurement. The procurement request is $2 billion in 2009.
The Comanche is the third major weapons program to be canceled by the Bush administration. A Raytheon sea-based missile defense system was killed in December 2001 and the Crusader self-propelled artillery system in May 2002.
President George W. Bush has said he will reduce the U.S. budget deficit by half -- to $237 billion by 2009 from the record $521 billion estimated for this year by the White House. Defense spending accounts for almost 20 percent of Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2005.
The White House on Feb. 10 ordered a review of the Comanche and the $71 billion Lockheed Martin Corp. F/A-22 fighter.
The procurement budget for the U.S. military is slated to increase to $114 billion by 2009 from $75 billion in fiscal 2005.
Comanche subcontractors are the Honeywell Inc.-Rolls Royce Plc Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Co., Indianapolis; Harris Corp., Melbourne, Florida; and Northrop Grumman Inc., San Diego.
To contact the reporter on this story: Tony Capaccio at acapaccio@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor of this story: Glenn Hall at 1966 or ghall@bloomberg.net or Rob Urban in New York 5192 or at robprag@bloomberg.net
Slashdot Mirror
I think he means devices which are not under the brand name Creative (a la Creative SoundBlaster, Zen Touch)
see Creative for an expansive list
Perhaps you should look here:n t/04_26 /photo_essay/0426pe_wireless_a.htm
;-)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/conte
Surprisingly - it was linked to in the article
What really SHITS me is that the parent comment is plagiarised word for word from here:
http://cfdr.eu.org/issues/cd/
without attribution to the original author (who incidentally is 'Jim Peters'), then modded up to be 'Interesting'.
Perhaps there should be a PLAGIARISED moderation section, with a link to the original article.
Whenever the topic of Music and CDs the natural progression of the discussion eventually leads to a few posts of fair use, yet this poster has not used 'fair use' with the copying of the text (almost ironic).
Surprisingly,
I don't mind upgrading the Mac OS X operating system every year, simply because they really do add features that are worthwhile to the new build, not just adding a new look and feel (a la windows). When was the last time that you actually upgraded to a new windows version and it was actually faster? (Generally to upgrade to a new windows system, you really needed to buy a new computer).
You are looking at $AU 455 for an upgrade to the Windows professional, and even then you don't get everything that you do on a Mac (webserver, database, development tools). So $US 129 is cheap.
The first Mac I bought had 10.2 (in my mind previous Mac OS's were fantastic looking, but behind the times in terms of functionality - think memory management for one) and I love it! It is the only time that I have even considered the Mac OS as a serious purchaser. Not a problem spending on the upgrade - I cannot live without expose!
I use windows at work, and there are some things which it does do better, but I am happier with the Mac at home.
Lucky anyhow that the server is unavailable 'before' it got slashdotted.
New Zealand has always been surprisingly progressive when it come to technology (surprising because of the decisions of some other *cough* Australian *cough* governments, not because of anything else). DVD players with region codes are illegal in New Zealand - they see it as anti-competitive and trade restrictive.
That's why I buy my stuff from NZ - the $AU coupled with the open trade agreement - no import tax - yay!
I like the game, but ...
If you have a good look at the current bidding price: US $99,999,900.00
you would think that you would just buy the whole Blizzard studios - then you could do all the testing that you want!
I have updated, and everything seems to be going ok. I use java a lot - for both development and usage. I still get an error with jEdit that tells me that the Mac OS Plugin requires a newer version (happened ever since I upgraded Java to the latest and greatest version).
Everything else - including JBoss - works as it should.
You should check the logs (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app) that may be able to provide some insight into what is going on inside the java apps.
This sort of ties in with the ideas of Robert X cringely, which can be read here:
For Love Not Money: How WhyFi can turn hotspots into a real industry
and
WhyFi Not? - Bob Defends his Wireless Networking Idea
Yes, I realise WiFi, not WhyFi - those are the titles.
I think that 90% of the web is a little bit of an over statement - after all Apache does 'own' 66% of the web - see www.netcraft.com
Whilst Microsoft is still THE major player in the consumer PC market, never underestimate the other markets that are out there, after all, the MS OS for cell phones flopped, their PDA is not exactly doing that great either. Also companies are now taking a bigger interest in open source programmes - one is Safari for Mac OS X with the source for the renderer being fed back into the open source community.
The biggest problem is that you don't really have a choice when you buy a PC. You get to pay the Microsoft tax whether you want to or not (remember the naked pc == one more pirated copy of MS Windows campaign that they had?).
Once you have companies seriously considering open source competition, there is no way that they will go back. After all, it does take a LOT to switch platforms, but once you have the know-how for the product, why would you want to upgrade to a commercial offering AND pay money AND retrain your staff.
The problem here is that you don't get the choice of operating system, no matter what the choice.
What an odd legal precedence, why on earth aren't they just putting their legal case forward. Normally you just get sued, rather than being warned.
Why all the advertising i.e. 'Watch out we are going to sue someone.... it may just be you'.
To me it is just about trying to get people to sign up for their licensing scheme (Although giving them only one day is not much notice). IMHO it would be better not to sue a fortune 1000 company, those boys have deep pockets and large legal teams. It is like taking on Goliath.
"sell two versions of its ubiquitous operating system, Windows, in Europe: one with Media Player inside as it does at present, and another with the music and video playing software stripped out and sold separately, people close to the case said on Tuesday."
For the main part, the average user gets the choice: "Should I get an operating system that plays music and video" or one without. I know which one I would choose.
Not much of a choice.
U.S. Army to End Boeing-United Technologies' Comanche (Update1)
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Army plans to cancel the Boeing Co.-United Technologies Corp. Comanche helicopter program, according to people familiar with the plan.
The program has been overhauled six times in its 18-year history as the cost per helicopter grew. The U.S. Army was ordered in 2002 to reduce the number of Comanche helicopters it planned to buy to 650 from 1,207. Initially, it planned to buy 2,000.
United Technologies' Sikorsky Aircraft unit and Boeing split revenue for the development of the Comanche under a cost- reimbursement contract awarded by the Army in 2000. Cancellation is likely to help sales of Boeing's Apache helicopters, which cost about $25 million each and were used successfully in Afghanistan and Iraq, said Richard Aboulafia, vice president of Teal Group, an aerospace consultancy based in Fairfax, Virginia.
``The most directly competing programs in the Army are Apache and Comanche,'' Aboulafia said. ``Which would you rather have - 100 percent of a proven machine with good profit, or 50 percent of a risky venture?''
Shares of Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies fell $3.72 or 3.9 percent in New York Stock Exchange composite trading at 12:20 p.m. Shares of Chicago-based Boeing fell $1.11 or 2.5 percent.
Sikorsky spokesman Matt Broder said the company hasn't heard from the Army and still considers the program intact until the company is notified. A Boeing spokesman also declined to comment.
Soviet Threat
The Comanche is designed to receive and process intelligence from drones and surveillance aircraft and pass it to ground units. The Army was directed in 2002 to focus its research on producing a reconnaissance helicopter rather than one that can attack as well as scout. The helicopter was intended to counter Soviet weapons.
``The Comanche program was overtaken by new threats and new technologies,'' said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst for the Washington-based Lexington Institute. ``After 20 years of development, it had yet to produce an operational helicopter.''
The value of the contract was raised to $6.6 billion from $3.2 billion under a revised development contract awarded in November 2002. That contract calls for the venture to deliver nine Comanche helicopters in 2005 and 2006 for test and evaluation improvements through 2011, according to United Technologies' annual filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Delayed Procurement
While the research contract increased in value, the Army delayed procurement by several years to pay for it.
The program's total budget for the Comanche is $38.3 billion. The Army has spent $6.8 billion through Sept. 30. The fiscal 2005 budget asks $1.2 billion for research and development and just $12 million for procurement. The procurement request is $2 billion in 2009.
The Comanche is the third major weapons program to be canceled by the Bush administration. A Raytheon sea-based missile defense system was killed in December 2001 and the Crusader self-propelled artillery system in May 2002.
President George W. Bush has said he will reduce the U.S. budget deficit by half -- to $237 billion by 2009 from the record $521 billion estimated for this year by the White House. Defense spending accounts for almost 20 percent of Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2005.
The White House on Feb. 10 ordered a review of the Comanche and the $71 billion Lockheed Martin Corp. F/A-22 fighter.
The procurement budget for the U.S. military is slated to increase to $114 billion by 2009 from $75 billion in fiscal 2005.
Comanche subcontractors are the Honeywell Inc.-Rolls Royce Plc Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Co., Indianapolis; Harris Corp., Melbourne, Florida; and Northrop Grumman Inc., San Diego.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Tony Capaccio at acapaccio@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor of this story: Glenn Hall at
1966 or ghall@bloomberg.net or Rob Urban in New York
5192 or at robprag@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: February 23, 2004 12:41 EST