You're completely missing the point. If Yahoo had to pay tariffs for other countries to access their site, they would have to cut costs. Indian customers can currently access Yahoo freely, so if they decided against paying the tariff they lose users, if they decide to pay, users who previously had access maintain that access. They wouldn't be gaining *ANY* userbase, just retaining what users they had a month ago. Therefore, profits don't magically go up...they can't even say that traffic went up, the same number of users access their site. Thusly, they now would have to cough up money for keeping the same amount of traffic, which = cutting costs. First thing to go? Free services. They're not making any direct revenue, so they're out. Now they lose more users. Hmm. See the frightening trend? As for the ISPs, they wouldn't be making a million bajillion dollars (yes, that's scientific notation), just a moderately sized sum. What does that mean for the company? Holiday bonuses, new CIO gets a new car, etc. They wouldn't be making enough to distribute a noticable savings over thousands (tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands) of users anyway. Finally, India doesn't have the Internet clout to pull this off, anyway. As it was stated, there are only 3.3 internet subscribers in India. As a country, it's just not worth it, as there wouldn't be anough users to justify the extra costs....and I'll give you a hint: less profit for "Internet Companies" equals fewer free services. You could kiss hotmail goodbye if MSN had to pay $0.50 for every customer to their home country.
I'd say that the most intelligent people trying to get away from Windows aren't doing it to get away from the kludge-y look-and-feel. I don't run Windows because I don't agree with their business tactics and their "get it out the door before we're sure it works" development model, not because I abhor the start menu. If emulating the look and feel of Windows over a free and open operating system draws more home users, then more power too them. Linux users have always had a love/hate relationship with it becoming a prominent desktop OS, and that's sad. If the community wants Linux to be a desktop force, then we're going to have to unify on how that is possible. To be possible, yes, we're going to have to swallow a little pride and make it more user friendly.
The header states: "Ogg seems to work well on dance music, WMA8 on chamber music, etc."
However, as far as I could tell the only chamber pieces here were LisztBMinor and BachS1007, and for both of theses pieces mp3pro beat out WMA8, in the case of Liszt by a rather large margin.
I don't know *which* table you were reading off of, but the one that I'm currently staring at shows that BachS1007 was encoded at a bitrate of 64 for oggq0, and 67 for ogg64. Beyond that, oggq0 had an average bitrate of 70 and 74 for two different tests (in both it utterly destroyed the others). So while I agree that this report is inaccurate, and should have been subject to a larger sample and reported with a trimmed mean, I do not believe that it was skewed against Ogg format in any way here.
McKiernan said that "true interoperability" would be like e-mail, in which you wouldn't have to be on the same service as another person to send that fellow an IM.
Well, the current level of "service interoperability" we enjoy in email is only available to us because POP3,IMAP, and SMTP are *published* and *open* standards. Yahoo doesn't block rogue email bandits who figure out how to send email to their users from their own SMTP server or home-brewed email client.
McKiernan said that this is a technologically difficult task, but that "no company has done more than ours" to meet that goal.
Uhh...not exactly. Sure, they released the ToC protocol, but in terms of "work" towards that end, it's pretty simple. If you release your protocol, the OS world will do the rest. The bottom line is that they don't _want_ interoperability. If they did, they would release their work and allow others to try and crack the "problem", instead of questionably working on an answer behind closed doors and concluding it infeasible.
Damian was given a grant over an 18 month span. Dan over 6. Larry over 6.
18 + 6 + 6 = 30
200,000 / 30 = $6,666.67 per programmer month WITHOUT any expenses whatsoever.
even that is 80,000 per year (again with no expenses, individual or organizational), which is not that far off for senior programmers, a lot less in reality, considering they have experience overseeing large software projects.
I haven't, honestly..the time commitment was too great traveling between nearby cities for a few hours every sunday. I'm going on a co-op job for the next 6 months pretty far away, and NWN was just shown to me by a member of the group today, and we all decided it would be a great idea. An online D&D style RPG has been a long time coming.
While this post seems to be less flamebait than it is uninformed, I must admit that the statement that we will see no more advances in web technology is ludicrous. Besides that statement, XML is definitely not simply a web technology. Several major applications, such as jabber, rely on XML to operate. Granted most websites will probably never use XML, but then it was never intended to replace HTML. As for the lack of CSS3 and XSL support, if you would be so quick to complain, why not get to work on Mozilla and do something about it?
I have to agree that there is more to gaining VC than product marketability. To elaborate on another post, consoles are purchased for they quality/quantity of games put out for them. Quite frankly, we wouldn't expect to see a Final Fantasy 10 or Tekken Tag come out for Indrema, at least for a long time, since no game programmer is going to quit their job and start writing for an open source console. Also with the absence of licensing, the Indrema will have to make money off of console sales, which from what I can understand of the industry hasn't been done since the Atari 2600. The point is that since the downfall of "The New Economy", VC just aren't going to back companies that aren't going to turn a steady profit.
Please provide some proof. Internet journalism is about as trustworthy as the National Enquirer.
I can't. That was the point of this article. Notice the use of the words 'if' and 'may'. Microsoft didn't get to be the foremost software company by not covering its tracks, if it needed to do so. But seeing as there is legal proof that Microsoft has performed some disreputable practices towards competition in the past, it doesn't seem very surprising that this might have been employed. Again, not as company policy, but on occasion by an employee or two.
Of course, that was before AOL Version 6.0, which any one who can breathe on their own, and has at least 2 fingers can use. IMHO, services like AOL are making today's computer consumer even dumber than they were before using them.
I personally found it funny (and a bit of a tipoff) how when first someone posted a link to DALNet's website (on Dalnet)that I followed, it was 11 pm Eastern time on March 31, 4 hours before it would become April 1st in San Diego, which is the date and location on the letter;) Also, I agree with other people that 90% of AOL users don't know what IRC even is, so AOL would have no reason to buy it.
First may I say that for someone on the "light side" (on the law's side), you sure use profanities alot. Secondly, this is not about stealing content. This is about the same principle that Linux was founded on, hacking. Not h4x0ring, or the deleterious use of computer knowledge, but breaking apart complex problems and rebuilding the answer from an already existing one. Most people don't have the time to wait for a 700 meg movie to download with their current connection. So STFU and stop fighting a lost war. Since the DeCSS case is a metaphor for the Linux mentality, are you saying that Linux is a lost war? I sincerely hope not.
Java only undergoes pseudo-compilation. Even after it is compiled, it is still only in byte code, which must be interpreted. This wonderful combination of a compiled/interpreted language brought to you by Sun makes for incredibly slow runtime versus purely compiled languages. While it's not required to be knowledgable to post on slashdot, it really should be a prerequisite for reprimanding someone on misinformation.
The official release date on kernel.org was something like January 4th, actually. Also, besides the addition of being almost comepletely usb-compliant, there aren't that many features that would be noticeable to the desktop user, or would warrant a fresh newbie to compile it because it "BEATS THE CRAP OUT OF WINDOWS"
I couldn't disagree more. The fact that you bought the software perpetuates exactly why proprietary code companies don't have to be responsive. They already made their money. Chances are, if there are bugs or holes in the code, it is already being worked on, or has been deemed to not need to be redesigned. Also, the phrase "...and just because the developers thinks it's fun." is completely unfounded, and based solely on your opinion besides. OSS projects tend to be more responsive, because there is a specific person you may contact with a problem, and are probably very interested (for reasons other than money) in working with you to fix it. Note the term working with you. I've never heard of MS inviting people to help fix bugs.
What is wrong with taxation of writable media? Chances are that at one point in the life of the device, illegally obtained music will somehow find its way onto your harddisk/zip drive/cd burner, whether intentionally or otherwise. If I am required to pay a small fee to vindicate my download of such music, so be it. Don't forget that both Napster and [The network formerly known as] ScourExchange will soon force you to pay a small fee every single month of use.
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You're completely missing the point. If Yahoo had to pay tariffs for other countries to access their site, they would have to cut costs. Indian customers can currently access Yahoo freely, so if they decided against paying the tariff they lose users, if they decide to pay, users who previously had access maintain that access. They wouldn't be gaining *ANY* userbase, just retaining what users they had a month ago. Therefore, profits don't magically go up...they can't even say that traffic went up, the same number of users access their site. Thusly, they now would have to cough up money for keeping the same amount of traffic, which = cutting costs. First thing to go? Free services. They're not making any direct revenue, so they're out. Now they lose more users. Hmm. See the frightening trend? As for the ISPs, they wouldn't be making a million bajillion dollars (yes, that's scientific notation), just a moderately sized sum. What does that mean for the company? Holiday bonuses, new CIO gets a new car, etc. They wouldn't be making enough to distribute a noticable savings over thousands (tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands) of users anyway. Finally, India doesn't have the Internet clout to pull this off, anyway. As it was stated, there are only 3.3 internet subscribers in India. As a country, it's just not worth it, as there wouldn't be anough users to justify the extra costs. ...and I'll give you a hint: less profit for "Internet Companies" equals fewer free services. You could kiss hotmail goodbye if MSN had to pay $0.50 for every customer to their home country.
I'd say that the most intelligent people trying to get away from Windows aren't doing it to get away from the kludge-y look-and-feel. I don't run Windows because I don't agree with their business tactics and their "get it out the door before we're sure it works" development model, not because I abhor the start menu. If emulating the look and feel of Windows over a free and open operating system draws more home users, then more power too them. Linux users have always had a love/hate relationship with it becoming a prominent desktop OS, and that's sad. If the community wants Linux to be a desktop force, then we're going to have to unify on how that is possible. To be possible, yes, we're going to have to swallow a little pride and make it more user friendly.
The header states: "Ogg seems to work well on dance music, WMA8 on chamber music, etc."
However, as far as I could tell the only chamber pieces here were LisztBMinor and BachS1007, and for both of theses pieces mp3pro beat out WMA8, in the case of Liszt by a rather large margin.
I don't know *which* table you were reading off of, but the one that I'm currently staring at shows that BachS1007 was encoded at a bitrate of 64 for oggq0, and 67 for ogg64. Beyond that, oggq0 had an average bitrate of 70 and 74 for two different tests (in both it utterly destroyed the others). So while I agree that this report is inaccurate, and should have been subject to a larger sample and reported with a trimmed mean, I do not believe that it was skewed against Ogg format in any way here.
as this article clearly points out, the organization required to set up a decent orgy often winds up being not worth the effort of even trying.
...but i want a flying DeLorean!
..but now it's time to bust out the moonshine!
McKiernan said that "true interoperability" would be like e-mail, in which you wouldn't have to be on the same service as another person to send that fellow an IM.
Well, the current level of "service interoperability" we enjoy in email is only available to us because POP3,IMAP, and SMTP are *published* and *open* standards. Yahoo doesn't block rogue email bandits who figure out how to send email to their users from their own SMTP server or home-brewed email client.
McKiernan said that this is a technologically difficult task, but that "no company has done more than ours" to meet that goal.
Uhh...not exactly. Sure, they released the ToC protocol, but in terms of "work" towards that end, it's pretty simple. If you release your protocol, the OS world will do the rest. The bottom line is that they don't _want_ interoperability. If they did, they would release their work and allow others to try and crack the "problem", instead of questionably working on an answer behind closed doors and concluding it infeasible.
$200,000 = total amount raised over 2 years
Damian was given a grant over an 18 month span.
Dan over 6.
Larry over 6.
18 + 6 + 6 = 30
200,000 / 30 = $6,666.67 per programmer month WITHOUT any expenses whatsoever.
even that is 80,000 per year (again with no expenses, individual or organizational), which is not that far off for senior programmers, a lot less in reality, considering they have experience overseeing large software projects.
i too am bored at work, and that was the cleverest troll-trapping trick i have ever read.
I haven't, honestly..the time commitment was too great traveling between nearby cities for a few hours every sunday. I'm going on a co-op job for the next 6 months pretty far away, and NWN was just shown to me by a member of the group today, and we all decided it would be a great idea. An online D&D style RPG has been a long time coming.
While this post seems to be less flamebait than it is uninformed, I must admit that the statement that we will see no more advances in web technology is ludicrous. Besides that statement, XML is definitely not simply a web technology. Several major applications, such as jabber, rely on XML to operate. Granted most websites will probably never use XML, but then it was never intended to replace HTML. As for the lack of CSS3 and XSL support, if you would be so quick to complain, why not get to work on Mozilla and do something about it?
I have to agree that there is more to gaining VC than product marketability. To elaborate on another post, consoles are purchased for they quality/quantity of games put out for them. Quite frankly, we wouldn't expect to see a Final Fantasy 10 or Tekken Tag come out for Indrema, at least for a long time, since no game programmer is going to quit their job and start writing for an open source console. Also with the absence of licensing, the Indrema will have to make money off of console sales, which from what I can understand of the industry hasn't been done since the Atari 2600. The point is that since the downfall of "The New Economy", VC just aren't going to back companies that aren't going to turn a steady profit.
Please provide some proof. Internet journalism is about as trustworthy as the National Enquirer.
I can't. That was the point of this article. Notice the use of the words 'if' and 'may'. Microsoft didn't get to be the foremost software company by not covering its tracks, if it needed to do so. But seeing as there is legal proof that Microsoft has performed some disreputable practices towards competition in the past, it doesn't seem very surprising that this might have been employed. Again, not as company policy, but on occasion by an employee or two.
Of course, that was before AOL Version 6.0, which any one who can breathe on their own, and has at least 2 fingers can use. IMHO, services like AOL are making today's computer consumer even dumber than they were before using them.
:) Dropping acid is what caused this thread in the first place.
I personally found it funny (and a bit of a tipoff) how when first someone posted a link to DALNet's website (on Dalnet)that I followed, it was 11 pm Eastern time on March 31, 4 hours before it would become April 1st in San Diego, which is the date and location on the letter ;)
Also, I agree with other people that 90% of AOL users don't know what IRC even is, so AOL would have no reason to buy it.
First may I say that for someone on the "light side" (on the law's side), you sure use profanities alot. Secondly, this is not about stealing content. This is about the same principle that Linux was founded on, hacking. Not h4x0ring, or the deleterious use of computer knowledge, but breaking apart complex problems and rebuilding the answer from an already existing one. Most people don't have the time to wait for a 700 meg movie to download with their current connection.
So STFU and stop fighting a lost war.
Since the DeCSS case is a metaphor for the Linux mentality, are you saying that Linux is a lost war? I sincerely hope not.
Java only undergoes pseudo-compilation. Even after it is compiled, it is still only in byte code, which must be interpreted. This wonderful combination of a compiled/interpreted language brought to you by Sun makes for incredibly slow runtime versus purely compiled languages. While it's not required to be knowledgable to post on slashdot, it really should be a prerequisite for reprimanding someone on misinformation.
While your point still holds true, Symantec makes Norton Antivirus, MacAffee is a completely different company. Let's give blame where blame's due...
The official release date on kernel.org was something like January 4th, actually. Also, besides the addition of being almost comepletely usb-compliant, there aren't that many features that would be noticeable to the desktop user, or would warrant a fresh newbie to compile it because it "BEATS THE CRAP OUT OF WINDOWS"
I couldn't disagree more. The fact that you bought the software perpetuates exactly why proprietary code companies don't have to be responsive. They already made their money. Chances are, if there are bugs or holes in the code, it is already being worked on, or has been deemed to not need to be redesigned. Also, the phrase
"...and just because the developers thinks it's fun."
is completely unfounded, and based solely on your opinion besides. OSS projects tend to be more responsive, because there is a specific person you may contact with a problem, and are probably very interested (for reasons other than money) in working with you to fix it. Note the term working with you. I've never heard of MS inviting people to help fix bugs.
Easy to say from behind an Anonymous moniker, the rest of us have phalluses, and they have names!
What is wrong with taxation of writable media? Chances are that at one point in the life of the device, illegally obtained music will somehow find its way onto your harddisk/zip drive/cd burner, whether intentionally or otherwise. If I am required to pay a small fee to vindicate my download of such music, so be it. Don't forget that both Napster and [The network formerly known as] ScourExchange will soon force you to pay a small fee every single month of use.
Only if you've got more than 6,000 pieces in stock. :-P