Thats not entirely true, look at the policy speakeasy has promoted in the past (I have not checked lately since they are not available here), where they actively encourage people to share connections over 802.11, etc. With the attitude that selling a shared connection is better than not making a sale at all.
This is partly true, however there are issues of stray light reflection from dust particles in the light path. There is a second MAJOR reason for a shroud that has nothing to do with light, namely it helps preventing due on the primary mirror.
BTW Yes I am also an ATM Ike
An example of misuse of dynamic web-pages
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I think this is a great example of mis use of dynamic web pages to store static data.
Sometime it would be nice if slashdot readers would do a little research before speaking. What makes you think that a Library that is running 70+ linux machines currently on RedHat, would consider this unrelated. It even says on the White Box page that the primary reason for it to be developed was for internal use.
You may have jumped the gun a bit here, but the official plan was to make Whitebox Linux public later today, as the Library will be closed for the next few days due to Thanksgiving, and any slashdotting would have a minimal effect on other users. Also there are now a handful of high bandwidth ftp mirrors.
This is a perfect example of why the state should not be involved in something like product distribution and why monopolies are bad. They have no incentive to do things right, do proper testing, etc. Instead its all the small business owners that get hurt.
Several months ago Red Hat announced a number of changes to their product line, included in these changes was what ammounts to dropping their stable free product (from now on the free version will be at best the unstable.0 releases), the more stable and supported product will only be available in their Enterprise software, the license for the Enterprise software comes close to violating the GPL at least in spirit.
Ike
p.s. I am sure that others with more specific facts will post the details soon
I bought a muvo last weekend, so far I love it except for a few minor design complaints (the battery cover does not close securly, and you have to hold down on the power button for ever to get it to turn on (4-5 seconds).
Ok, lets see Gateway introduces a small MP3 player that is bigger, heavier, and costs more than the Creative Nomad Muvo I bought last weekend (I paid $75 for the 128 meg version) for all this you get one extra feature (an LCD screen to tell you the name of the song you are currently listening to and to help drain that 1 AAA battery even faster).
This sounds to me like a case of paying for windows if you get it or not. The Classic Deal of the machine being priced the same if it ships with Windows, or ships with a bare drive (or linux in this case).
There is a big difference here, Caldera bought the DR-DOS rights including the law suit, but the lawsuit had already been in the court system for years prior to the purchase.
We use it here at work (version 4.0) on one computer (its the only windows install we have on about 2 dozen machines in this small business). It runs great for our needs (a windows based payroll program, and a current copy of IE for those web sites that refuse to talk to Mozilla, etc.). When we decided we needed a virtual Windows machine here, I closely looked at both Win4Lin and VMware, and all things considered I choose Win4Lin because it did everything we needed, boots much faster than VMware, and is MUCH cheaper.
I can see this sort fo thing being used in high end hotels, the kind that now have 3 phones with 3 seperate lines in the same room, including the bathroom. Combine this with a couple of other bits of tech, and you could have a voice activated TV/Multimedia device that you could watch while taking a bath. If you think of it as a more dynamic device than broadcast TV it might have potential for the busy business traveler, look over the breakfast menu, or convention meeting schedule, or review your room charges and express checkout, while you brush your teeth. Many hotels have tried the idea of putting a TV in the bathroom in the past, but have always ran into certain problems, not the least of which is water and electronics don't tend to mix. Of course the reality of this would probably be a device that plays a canned promo whenever a guest walks by, or first enters the room.
Ike
p.s. I think the idea of using this as a notebook computer monitor has its flaws, people tend to like their monitors on a desktop, not a wall.
I have been looking at this problem for the last few months. I admin a small business network and the idea of paying an extra thousand plus dollars per year for per seat license for the same thing we have been getting for nearly free does not appeal to me, for a broken (no SMP, etc), non redistributable product. The choice is for me now is which distro to move to as as the option of only running the "unstable" redhat release with a very limited support life (errata, bug fixes, etc.)
Ike
p.s. Redhat has lost me as a loyal customer over this, I have been running RH since 4.2
Why is it that so many of the people posting to this thread clearly feel that it is ok to impose their morals on other by taxing those that they don't agree with (using taxes to encourage more ecologically sound habits, anti-SUV, etc.), and at the same time proclaim a desire for individual freedom on so many other issues?
The other real question should be cost of admining, I have a friend that is the support Admin for several thousand windows machines in a couple of dozen states at around 300 individual sites, his company has spent hundreds of of thousands of dollars on remote admin software to allow their support personel to remotely upgrade computer applications, software that would be nearly pointless under linux thanks to tools as simple as xhost.
Ike
How can so many people get so much wrong
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DRM and the elements there of are a tool, and like most tools they neither good nor bad, its the use of the tool that counts. Consider a chain saw, it can be used to cut down the dead tree about to fall on your house, or you can use it in ways inspired by certain horror movies. Now imagine a secure DRM platform for police car video cameras, where it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the images shown in court are as the camera saw them with no manipulation. There are many other examples
I can see it now, the next step down this road is soft updates of the processor. The customer buys the cheap 2 Ghz machine that really has a 5 Ghz processor locked down to 2 Ghz by intel. Then when the customer wants to upgrade to play a new game, they just pay intel for the unlock code to up the clock. Intel will probably get a patent on that too (remote processor speed upgrades OVER THE INTERNET). They will probably also offer it as a selling feature, Upgrade your computer without opening the case....
As things stand in the world today you can travel to almost any 3rd world country on the planet and find that the locals will accept two forms of payment, the local currency and U.S. Dollars. If the U.S. Dollar stops looking like the U.S. Dollar, then some of its appeal around the world may drop off. Just think about that the next time you are being asked for a bribe by some 3rd world police officer when he finds a bottle of tylenol in your bag.
Go price any name brand notebook computer with Windows, now price the same model without windows. You will find that you either can't buy it without windows, or that the price is the same (You are being sold windows, they are just not including it) This is because Microsoft requires vendors to but a windows license for each unit they produce of any model that is offered with windows.
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Thats not entirely true, look at the policy speakeasy has promoted in the past (I have not checked lately since they are not available here), where they actively encourage people to share connections over 802.11, etc. With the attitude that selling a shared connection is better than not making a sale at all.
The advantage is when you walk into certain places wearing a $15,000 Rolex Presidential people treat you differently. (sometimes this is good)
This is partly true, however there are issues of stray light reflection from dust particles in the light path. There is a second MAJOR reason for a shroud that has nothing to do with light, namely it helps preventing due on the primary mirror.
BTW Yes I am also an ATM
Ike
I think this is a great example of mis use of dynamic web pages to store static data.
Ike
Yeah, but Tim Burton did not make Robbin a girl either, or turn Gotham City into a tropical island.
Sometime it would be nice if slashdot readers would do a little research before speaking. What makes you think that a Library that is running 70+ linux machines currently on RedHat, would consider this unrelated. It even says on the White Box page that the primary reason for it to be developed was for internal use.
Ike
You may have jumped the gun a bit here, but the official plan was to make Whitebox Linux public later today, as the Library will be closed for the next few days due to Thanksgiving, and any slashdotting would have a minimal effect on other users. Also there are now a handful of high bandwidth ftp mirrors.
Ike
This is a perfect example of why the state should not be involved in something like product distribution and why monopolies are bad. They have no incentive to do things right, do proper testing, etc. Instead its all the small business owners that get hurt.
Ike
Living in fly over country, I have to ask, how many hundreds of miles will I have to drive to see this?
Several months ago Red Hat announced a number of changes to their product line, included in these changes was what ammounts to dropping their stable free product (from now on the free version will be at best the unstable .0 releases), the more stable and supported product will only be available in their Enterprise software, the license for the Enterprise software comes close to violating the GPL at least in spirit.
Ike
p.s. I am sure that others with more specific facts will post the details soon
I bought a muvo last weekend, so far I love it except for a few minor design complaints (the battery cover does not close securly, and you have to hold down on the power button for ever to get it to turn on (4-5 seconds).
Ike
p.s. I paid $75 for a 128 meg version
Ok, lets see Gateway introduces a small MP3 player that is bigger, heavier, and costs more than the Creative Nomad Muvo I bought last weekend (I paid $75 for the 128 meg version) for all this you get one extra feature (an LCD screen to tell you the name of the song you are currently listening to and to help drain that 1 AAA battery even faster).
Ike
This sounds to me like a case of paying for windows if you get it or not. The Classic Deal of the machine being priced the same if it ships with Windows, or ships with a bare drive (or linux in this case).
Ike
There is a big difference here, Caldera bought the DR-DOS rights including the law suit, but the lawsuit had already been in the court system for years prior to the purchase.
We use it here at work (version 4.0) on one computer (its the only windows install we have on about 2 dozen machines in this small business). It runs great for our needs (a windows based payroll program, and a current copy of IE for those web sites that refuse to talk to Mozilla, etc.). When we decided we needed a virtual Windows machine here, I closely looked at both Win4Lin and VMware, and all things considered I choose Win4Lin because it did everything we needed, boots much faster than VMware, and is MUCH cheaper.
Ike
I can see this sort fo thing being used in high end hotels, the kind that now have 3 phones with 3 seperate lines in the same room, including the bathroom. Combine this with a couple of other bits of tech, and you could have a voice activated TV/Multimedia device that you could watch while taking a bath. If you think of it as a more dynamic device than broadcast TV it might have potential for the busy business traveler, look over the breakfast menu, or convention meeting schedule, or review your room charges and express checkout, while you brush your teeth. Many hotels have tried the idea of putting a TV in the bathroom in the past, but have always ran into certain problems, not the least of which is water and electronics don't tend to mix. Of course the reality of this would probably be a device that plays a canned promo whenever a guest walks by, or first enters the room.
Ike
p.s. I think the idea of using this as a notebook computer monitor has its flaws, people tend to like their monitors on a desktop, not a wall.
I too am looking at Debian over this (also something I never thougth I would do regarding a production machine)
I have been looking at this problem for the last few months. I admin a small business network and the idea of paying an extra thousand plus dollars per year for per seat license for the same thing we have been getting for nearly free does not appeal to me, for a broken (no SMP, etc), non redistributable product. The choice is for me now is which distro to move to as as the option of only running the "unstable" redhat release with a very limited support life (errata, bug fixes, etc.)
Ike
p.s. Redhat has lost me as a loyal customer over this, I have been running RH since 4.2
Why is it that so many of the people posting to this thread clearly feel that it is ok to impose their morals on other by taxing those that they don't agree with (using taxes to encourage more ecologically sound habits, anti-SUV, etc.), and at the same time proclaim a desire for individual freedom on so many other issues?
The other real question should be cost of admining, I have a friend that is the support Admin for several thousand windows machines in a couple of dozen states at around 300 individual sites, his company has spent hundreds of of thousands of dollars on remote admin software to allow their support personel to remotely upgrade computer applications, software that would be nearly pointless under linux thanks to tools as simple as xhost.
Ike
DRM and the elements there of are a tool, and like most tools they neither good nor bad, its the use of the tool that counts. Consider a chain saw, it can be used to cut down the dead tree about to fall on your house, or you can use it in ways inspired by certain horror movies. Now imagine a secure DRM platform for police car video cameras, where it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the images shown in court are as the camera saw them with no manipulation. There are many other examples
I can see it now, the next step down this road is soft updates of the processor. The customer buys the cheap 2 Ghz machine that really has a 5 Ghz processor locked down to 2 Ghz by intel. Then when the customer wants to upgrade to play a new game, they just pay intel for the unlock code to up the clock. Intel will probably get a patent on that too (remote processor speed upgrades OVER THE INTERNET). They will probably also offer it as a selling feature, Upgrade your computer without opening the case....
As things stand in the world today you can travel to almost any 3rd world country on the planet and find that the locals will accept two forms of payment, the local currency and U.S. Dollars. If the U.S. Dollar stops looking like the U.S. Dollar, then some of its appeal around the world may drop off. Just think about that the next time you are being asked for a bribe by some 3rd world police officer when he finds a bottle of tylenol in your bag.
Ike
Go price any name brand notebook computer with Windows, now price the same model without windows. You will find that you either can't buy it without windows, or that the price is the same (You are being sold windows, they are just not including it) This is because Microsoft requires vendors to but a windows license for each unit they produce of any model that is offered with windows.
Why would anyone want to be like windows, you say unix like as if it were a bad thing.