Google doesn't have any means of income? I guess they must giving away all their ads on Google searches. You do know that Google is a profitable company right? Also, do you think lawyers are cheap? If they were looking for the cheapest solution they WOULD settle and pay up rather than defend themselves. But they won't, they have the money to defend themselves, and they're a pretty smart bunch.
MS: you pay dearly for the software, they throw in the Windows Updates for free.
RedHat: we give you the software, you pay yearly subscriptions if you want the easy Windows-Update-like RHN.
The fact that RedHat had demo accounts in the first place is to their credit. It's really hard to feel bad about the fact that it's a hassle to abuse the demo account concept (by signing up for an account for each machine). And also, you don't need RHN to get updates anyway - you can always download them from their errata page.
All that would do is give SCO an excuse to ask for more delays ("Judge, we've got 6 billion pages of paper to go through! we need to pospose the trial until 2010!"). That's what SCO wants (the longer the better, since they most likely don't really have a case) and not in the interest of Linux or IBM.
because voting is supposed to be secret. Dropping a ballot in a box in front of the attendants would not make the vote secret. Putting the ballot boxes inside the booths (behind the curtains) would allow people to put more than one ballot in.
considering their monopoly status in the operating system field, it seems unlikely that regulator would let a takeover/merge of/with another operating system company take place.
"entre" does mean between, and "acte" means act. You were however incorrect in telling him (rudely or not) that he should have "realized" from that little fact that the English spelling has an apostrophe in it. Unlike what you apparently assumed, even the French don't put one in there.
All I am saying is that when you write some witty and rude (deserved or not) retort, you'd better have your facts straight.
And the isos that came out today is in that local mirror now? I am sorry, but I find it a bit doubtful. Regardless, your original comment of "get a real net connection" is still out of line. Perhaps something like get a different ISP, but there are not too many ISPs like yours.
Yes, I am using it right now trying to get the isos. I have plenty of bandwidth, but I am getting those isos at 40KB/s with an estimated 18 hours to go. Perfect example where the bandwidth I have makes no difference.
Sure, if you don't mind compiling everything from source and making your own isos (somehow). Redhat does not distribute any binaries or ISOs for the Enterprise Linux stuff. I have yet to find any place that offers those isos (I bet they'd get sued by RedHat - however legal or illegal that move would be).
I've never owned a Mac or anything made by Apple before the Ipod, so I can't say that I have some sort of bias towards Apple products. Personally, to me the appearance of player (white and nice shiny metal), plus the interface (the wheel and buttons), the gorgeous LCD and its backlight, is important. The UI is great as well - it is simple yet very functional. It's the WHOLE package, not any one feature that makes the Ipod so perfect. Nobody but Apple has managed to get everything right (in my book).
If the other players (such as iRiver) has additional features that the Ipod doesn't have, I don't neet them (i.e. I don't need to record, a digital output for MP3s is a bit overkill).
Slimp3 streams MP3 (a lossy format) from a server (your PC) to the device. There is therefore no point in having a digital output - the quality of the music being streamed to the device does not justify it.
My Cisco VoIP adapter that came with Vonage works right out of the box with my Netgear broadband firewall/router. I don't see any issues with VoIP, NAT and IPv4.
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I am familiar with XML and XML schemas and what could be done with them, it all sounds really nice in theory but...
With so many file systems in existence today (not even including the ones on portal devices like MP3 players) to expect that the metadata (XML or otherwise) would get transferred from one machine to another is rather naive. Not only that, but this type of transfer of metadata would have to be implemented in email clients, etc as well.
Nice but never gonna happen. And since it won't, ID3 tags are my friend.
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Waste of time for flat data.
Really? The whole point of NTFS (or other Journaling file system) IS to prevent corruption to data. I would argue just the opposite as you: the drive that holds the OS does NOT need to run NTFS (after all, the OS is on a CD you can reinstall at any time, right?) while the data should be on NTFS.
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Well, the point of ID3 is that the metadata is encapsulated in the file. Storing that stuff in the filesystem does not make the data (easily) transferable should I move/email/share the file. I suppose that MS would make it easily/seamelessly transferable between Windows machines (if you use SMB to transfer it), but that's about it...
It's hightly questionable that OSS is the cause for "large software companies" doing layoffs. But even if it did, "large software companies" are a tiny drop of water in the employment pool. Contrarily to your belief, the economy of this country (or any country) does not revolve around software companies.
Latest version (possibly a development version) doesn't. I downloaded and installed it yesterday. Don't even get that annoying second or so when the ads show then dissapear...
The editorial in the New York time is a page (or two) clearly marked as such. As I am usually looking for news (not for some opinion piece) I skip that section. Journalists are supposed to leave their bias in the closet and write a "fair and balanced" piece explaining, without emotion or name calling, both sides of the argument. I understand that this is not always the case, based on the quality of a newspaper or magazine (and their editors).
Unless you're trying to tell me that the entire Forbes magazine is one big editorial (which I guess it's possible) this does not apply here. This "article" is not marked as being someone's opinion but as being a report on a specific issue. That report was not even close to "fair and balanced".
That's my problem with it. Clueless people will read this as something it's not: News.
Slashdot is not a news outlet. I does not have journalists. Other than the odd book review it does not write/create any articles. It only provides links (and a commentary) to articles on the other sites.
To my knowledge slashdot has never claimed to be unbiased in its selection of articles, or the commentary that goes with it, nor is it expected to.
Maybe I am a bit naive, but the print media (newspaper, news magazines) and associated websites do have a (moral, not legal) obligation to write fair(er) and (more) balanced coverage on issues. Forbes' article was far from that mark.
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Google doesn't have any means of income? I guess they must giving away all their ads on Google searches. You do know that Google is a profitable company right? Also, do you think lawyers are cheap? If they were looking for the cheapest solution they WOULD settle and pay up rather than defend themselves. But they won't, they have the money to defend themselves, and they're a pretty smart bunch.
Two different business models.
MS: you pay dearly for the software, they throw in the Windows Updates for free.
RedHat: we give you the software, you pay yearly subscriptions if you want the easy Windows-Update-like RHN.
The fact that RedHat had demo accounts in the first place is to their credit. It's really hard to feel bad about the fact that it's a hassle to abuse the demo account concept (by signing up for an account for each machine). And also, you don't need RHN to get updates anyway - you can always download them from their errata page.
All that would do is give SCO an excuse to ask for more delays ("Judge, we've got 6 billion pages of paper to go through! we need to pospose the trial until 2010!"). That's what SCO wants (the longer the better, since they most likely don't really have a case) and not in the interest of Linux or IBM.
because voting is supposed to be secret. Dropping a ballot in a box in front of the attendants would not make the vote secret. Putting the ballot boxes inside the booths (behind the curtains) would allow people to put more than one ballot in.
considering their monopoly status in the operating system field, it seems unlikely that regulator would let a takeover/merge of/with another operating system company take place.
"entre" does mean between, and "acte" means act. You were however incorrect in telling him (rudely or not) that he should have "realized" from that little fact that the English spelling has an apostrophe in it. Unlike what you apparently assumed, even the French don't put one in there.
All I am saying is that when you write some witty and rude (deserved or not) retort, you'd better have your facts straight.
English is full is French words misused and/or misspelled. My favorite in the misused category is "entree" which in French means "appetizer".
Just keep that in mind next time you decide to rudely correct other people's mistakes by showing off your (apparently not so good) French skills.
That's nice, but as a french speaking person I can tell you that we write "entracte", not "entr'acte".
And the isos that came out today is in that local mirror now? I am sorry, but I find it a bit doubtful. Regardless, your original comment of "get a real net connection" is still out of line. Perhaps something like get a different ISP, but there are not too many ISPs like yours.
Yes, I am using it right now trying to get the isos. I have plenty of bandwidth, but I am getting those isos at 40KB/s with an estimated 18 hours to go. Perfect example where the bandwidth I have makes no difference.
Not today it won't. You can have all the bandwidth in the world, won't help one bit when all the servers HOSTING the isos are swamped.
Sure, if you don't mind compiling everything from source and making your own isos (somehow). Redhat does not distribute any binaries or ISOs for the Enterprise Linux stuff. I have yet to find any place that offers those isos (I bet they'd get sued by RedHat - however legal or illegal that move would be).
The original poster made a type. It's 20GB.
I've never owned a Mac or anything made by Apple before the Ipod, so I can't say that I have some sort of bias towards Apple products. Personally, to me the appearance of player (white and nice shiny metal), plus the interface (the wheel and buttons), the gorgeous LCD and its backlight, is important. The UI is great as well - it is simple yet very functional. It's the WHOLE package, not any one feature that makes the Ipod so perfect. Nobody but Apple has managed to get everything right (in my book).
If the other players (such as iRiver) has additional features that the Ipod doesn't have, I don't neet them (i.e. I don't need to record, a digital output for MP3s is a bit overkill).
Basic knowledge of audio formats failing you?
Slimp3 streams MP3 (a lossy format) from a server (your PC) to the device. There is therefore no point in having a digital output - the quality of the music being streamed to the device does not justify it.
It seems to be a digital output to play streamed MP3s is overkill.
My Cisco VoIP adapter that came with Vonage works right out of the box with my Netgear broadband firewall/router. I don't see any issues with VoIP, NAT and IPv4.
I am familiar with XML and XML schemas and what could be done with them, it all sounds really nice in theory but...
With so many file systems in existence today (not even including the ones on portal devices like MP3 players) to expect that the metadata (XML or otherwise) would get transferred from one machine to another is rather naive. Not only that, but this type of transfer of metadata would have to be implemented in email clients, etc as well.
Nice but never gonna happen. And since it won't, ID3 tags are my friend.
Waste of time for flat data.
Really? The whole point of NTFS (or other Journaling file system) IS to prevent corruption to data. I would argue just the opposite as you: the drive that holds the OS does NOT need to run NTFS (after all, the OS is on a CD you can reinstall at any time, right?) while the data should be on NTFS.
Well, the point of ID3 is that the metadata is encapsulated in the file. Storing that stuff in the filesystem does not make the data (easily) transferable should I move/email/share the file. I suppose that MS would make it easily/seamelessly transferable between Windows machines (if you use SMB to transfer it), but that's about it...
It's hightly questionable that OSS is the cause for "large software companies" doing layoffs. But even if it did, "large software companies" are a tiny drop of water in the employment pool. Contrarily to your belief, the economy of this country (or any country) does not revolve around software companies.
Latest version (possibly a development version) doesn't. I downloaded and installed it yesterday. Don't even get that annoying second or so when the ads show then dissapear...
Yes, that's what I am telling you. At least in things like technology.
The editorial in the New York time is a page (or two) clearly marked as such. As I am usually looking for news (not for some opinion piece) I skip that section. Journalists are supposed to leave their bias in the closet and write a "fair and balanced" piece explaining, without emotion or name calling, both sides of the argument. I understand that this is not always the case, based on the quality of a newspaper or magazine (and their editors).
Unless you're trying to tell me that the entire Forbes magazine is one big editorial (which I guess it's possible) this does not apply here. This "article" is not marked as being someone's opinion but as being a report on a specific issue. That report was not even close to "fair and balanced".
That's my problem with it. Clueless people will read this as something it's not: News.
That's my problem with it.
Slashdot is not a news outlet. I does not have journalists. Other than the odd book review it does not write/create any articles. It only provides links (and a commentary) to articles on the other sites.
To my knowledge slashdot has never claimed to be unbiased in its selection of articles, or the commentary that goes with it, nor is it expected to.
Maybe I am a bit naive, but the print media (newspaper, news magazines) and associated websites do have a (moral, not legal) obligation to write fair(er) and (more) balanced coverage on issues. Forbes' article was far from that mark.