Can someone place the binaries on a usenet group (and post which one here)? That would distribute it over a wide region. Of course this just might not be allowed by the License either - not sure.
One the computers of the people that wrote it. Are you afraid their going to be doing weird things to your computer? I feel sorry for someone so paranoid.... I'm off to hunt for aliens now...
We just got a call from the folks at Lucasfilm. They let us know that the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) was about to contact us and order us to remove the MP3 file of Duel of the Fates. Lucasfilm made it very clear that it was not them that was ordering us to remove it, but the RIAA. I assume the RIAA has some sort of deal with Sony and they are enforcing it.
It sounds like Lucasfilm doesn't have a problem with it.
I think my time is worth more than the HUGE number of hours required to download one of these movies. $4.50 for an afternoon flick is a much better tradeoff in my mind. What a complete waste of bandwith and computer time.
And wasn't the iMac supposed to be 1000% faster than a PII 450 too? Able to jump tall buildings in a single bound, more powerful than a locomotive, etc etc....
Apple seems to be one of the best at trumping up they hardware/software - and turning a deaf ear when people actually start doing real world tests on it (like in the iMac's case - turning it on).
I don't think it'd put them in the same place. It would put them in the same market, but they would still have 90%+ of the market and still have a portion of the MS giant and drive behind it.
I mentioned this in one of the replies, but don't know if it'll get much reader response there. What would the Linux community (or the more anti-MS Linux community) think if MS announce/released a MS Linux distribution?
Do you think the non-technical types would be more willing to go to Linux if it had a MS stamp on it? And if so, would the possibility of it becoming the dominant desktop of Linux, and basically becoming Windows on Linux be bad or good? And if this happened and most commercial software is written to support it, would the Linux community continue to exist in it's anti-MS state (just a lot closer to it since it would only be different by a desktop), or would it move on to some other direction (BeOS or something new).
I think you get the jist of the hypothetical above - just curious if people think this is completely impossible or the Linux communities' worst nightmare?
Actually, MS Office rarely crashes on my NT machine (StarOffice, although it works, it considerably slower (PPro with 128 megs of memory)).
Corel software, on the other hand, is completely unstable. My wife chose to use Quattro for her PhD work and I'm afraid that sometimes she's going to stick the keyboard through the floppy drive - it crashes constantly. Usually after running 15-20 minutes of macro's on her data (big suckers).
Maybe MS's real strategy is to create a Linux desktop alternative in attempts to unify the community - you know, standard interface, standard apps, standard this, standard that - I would think MS making software for Linux right now would be a BAD thing and would not imply any type of victory. Maybe MS views it as a platform it can help with it's infinite knowledge.
If Linux caught on with the non-tech community, they might be more likely to migrate to a MS Stamped version of Linux. Can you imagine it? A MS Linux distribution? That'd be weird.
The possibility of users using the MacOS didn't stop MS from porting to that OS, and at one time I remember the Mac-Windows war being MUCH larger than the Linux-Windows conflict of today.
If MS is broken up as a result of the trial, it could be worse for the MS haters within the Linux community. Can you imagine a MS division (Office products) whose only interest is getting everyone with every viable OS using their product? You'd have Mac versions, Windows versions, Unix versions, etc.... They'd just be a bigger version of Corel. At least now, they have a self-interest in keeping the dominance within the Windows environment.
I was 6 when I saw it. Remember the people I went with, but don't remember much about when I saw it (I don't remember if the opening crawl message meant anything to me or not). I'd give anything to have a video of me watching it for the first time. I can only imagine being wide-eyed and mouth open. I also vividly remember purchasing my first star wars toy and going to my grandmothers house afterwards and playing with it (still have that well used storm trooper too).
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Bless you! Now if this download just finishes before everyone overloads the server (30% right now)!
Can someone place the binaries on a usenet group (and post which one here)? That would distribute it over a wide region. Of course this just might not be allowed by the License either - not sure.
One the computers of the people that wrote it. Are you afraid their going to be doing weird things to your computer? I feel sorry for someone so paranoid.... I'm off to hunt for aliens now...
I think my time is worth more than the HUGE number of hours required to download one of these movies. $4.50 for an afternoon flick is a much better tradeoff in my mind. What a complete waste of bandwith and computer time.
I thought it had 1 million downloads of Trailer 2.
But the mob is 1/2 the fun!
And wasn't the iMac supposed to be 1000% faster than a PII 450 too? Able to jump tall buildings in a single bound, more powerful than a locomotive, etc etc....
Apple seems to be one of the best at trumping up they hardware/software - and turning a deaf ear when people actually start doing real world tests on it (like in the iMac's case - turning it on).
I've got an MPG version of the trailer. Got it from a mirror off www.countingdown.com.
I don't think it'd put them in the same place. It would put them in the same market, but they would still have 90%+ of the market and still have a portion of the MS giant and drive behind it.
I mentioned this in one of the replies, but don't know if it'll get much reader response there. What would the Linux community (or the more anti-MS Linux community) think if MS announce/released a MS Linux distribution?
Do you think the non-technical types would be more willing to go to Linux if it had a MS stamp on it? And if so, would the possibility of it becoming the dominant desktop of Linux, and basically becoming Windows on Linux be bad or good? And if this happened and most commercial software is written to support it, would the Linux community continue to exist in it's anti-MS state (just a lot closer to it since it would only be different by a desktop), or would it move on to some other direction (BeOS or something new).
I think you get the jist of the hypothetical above - just curious if people think this is completely impossible or the Linux communities' worst nightmare?
Actually, MS Office rarely crashes on my NT machine (StarOffice, although it works, it considerably slower (PPro with 128 megs of memory)).
Corel software, on the other hand, is completely unstable. My wife chose to use Quattro for her PhD work and I'm afraid that sometimes she's going to stick the keyboard through the floppy drive - it crashes constantly. Usually after running 15-20 minutes of macro's on her data (big suckers).
Maybe MS's real strategy is to create a Linux desktop alternative in attempts to unify the community - you know, standard interface, standard apps, standard this, standard that - I would think MS making software for Linux right now would be a BAD thing and would not imply any type of victory. Maybe MS views it as a platform it can help with it's infinite knowledge.
If Linux caught on with the non-tech community, they might be more likely to migrate to a MS Stamped version of Linux. Can you imagine it? A MS Linux distribution? That'd be weird.
The possibility of users using the MacOS didn't stop MS from porting to that OS, and at one time I remember the Mac-Windows war being MUCH larger than the Linux-Windows conflict of today.
If MS is broken up as a result of the trial, it could be worse for the MS haters within the Linux community. Can you imagine a MS division (Office products) whose only interest is getting everyone with every viable OS using their product? You'd have Mac versions, Windows versions, Unix versions, etc.... They'd just be a bigger version of Corel. At least now, they have a self-interest in keeping the dominance within the Windows environment.
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I was 6 when I saw it. Remember the people I went with, but don't remember much about when I saw it (I don't remember if the opening crawl message meant anything to me or not). I'd give anything to have a video of me watching it for the first time. I can only imagine being wide-eyed and mouth open. I also vividly remember purchasing my first star wars toy and going to my grandmothers house afterwards and playing with it (still have that well used storm trooper too).
Obviously only true nerds would understand....
Three years?!? Try 15-20 years!