One solitary 2.5" drive, which guarantees slower speeds than desktop, higher price, and general lack of space (I use 200+gig on my main machine)
I can't see value for this in langamers (of which I will admit, I am not) because of the lack of module replacement and overclocking. Lacking either an AGP or PCI it doesn't even take the place of business on-site demos that require such things - the laptops will still be preferable.
Of course, I look across the room at two 18" tall towers, the second case I recently purchased -because- it was so roomy. I find small machines too annoying to work on.
"Always looking for new ways to help out the independent music scene in my region, I recently started thinking about putting together a streaming radio station.
If they are independent then RIAA members have no contract with them, and thus RIAA does not dictate the terms of their performance (either public or recorded)
So again, why do you care about the RIAA? Are you trying to mix in Metallica with your "only helping local indie bands" stream?
Yes, because end users won't see it as a reduction of their rights. They will see it as "This computer lets me buy content." See, new content will be shipped encrypted. Palladium-free systems will not be able to use this content. Only systems with Palladium turned on will.
To the end user, this doesn't look like the reduction of rights we all know it is, but rather as a newer more enhanced works worth the new stuff system. Microsoft won't even need to market it as virus protection.
No, the Supremes can cancel the current law, either in part or in full, if they find that there is no constitutional power granted to Congress to extend copyrights -retroactively-.
Now, if they overturn the law in full (instead of just the retroactive part) then a replacement law would only change the time for content created since the new law passed, not the 1998 law.
Not necessarily. The Attorney General is required by law and by his office to defend laws to the best of his ability using all potential arguments. Doesn't matter if he agrees with them or not.
As has been pointed out, non compete licenses are illegal. Refusing to do business with competitors is illegal, etc, etc.
However, BitKeeper isn't saying they won't -sell- licenses to competitors. Just that competitors can't use the free license. The Commerical license does not have the problem clause.
Note that only the use of Bitkeeper for free is affected by this clause. It still seems like this was a bait-and-switch maneuver on the part of BitKeeper, also there seems to be some personal animosity with the Subversion crew.
Subversion isn't quite up to par, yet, but it does seem like the switch to 2.6/3.0 "soon" would be a good time to switch revision control systems to something less... counter productive.
Yahoo also has this article on a different case with a corporation attempting to get a pre-emptive in order that they can sell a DVD copy program under Fair Use rights.
Its no surprise that there isn't an "after a single day of trial - nothing happened" article, because well... nothing happened. The BBC didn't have a "one day before the trial started" article so wasn't repeating itself saying nothing new one day later.
Oh, numerous reasons not to vote for Nader. Maximum allowed income. Destruction of the economy. "Every business except mine is bad." "Every rich white man except me is bad." I could go on
The worst, however, is that the Greens are recruiting McKinney for their 2004 election. Nader is, of course, a Green, perhaps she can be his VP.
It was born dead, the entire timeframe of its submission was planned for its death.
Historically, any bill that is still on the floor when Congress leaves for the winter never gets brought up again. Boucher is doing this in an attempt to gain some votes. The really sad aspect is that the joke bill doesn't even have any teeth. The least he could have done was submit a joke bill that would do something.
Articles and court cases with a contrary opinion notwithstanding your statement, of course.
Guess what, there is a disagreement with what the law means. Even if you're a lawyer (and I know you are not) you wouldn't have the ability to say "The DMCA says so!" while it remains untested in court - especially when it's currently in the process of -being- tested and with no order by the judge.
Legal questions are settled in court, not by an ignorant poster on Slashdot.
Wouldn't an entire year without crops have a seriously fucked up effect on our food supply?
Define 'ours'. If you mean the US, and for only one year, then no. Prices would go up, but more because of a perceived threat than a real one (much like gas prices go up within hours of something happening in the middle east.) The US stockpiles, and let rots generally, a tremendous amount of food. Our exports and handouts would most certainly be affected.
On the other hand, having a year where every single growing season failed across this entire nation would be.. well, difficult. There are winter crops, we'd just grow more of those if the the article is correct.
There have been numbers of cases of people being found innocent...after the execution.
Care to cite these executions? Lets give it a realistic limit, in the US, and from 1960 to now since that's when executions started being done after a long pause.
Here's a hint: It's not a problem with the system when the system gets people off prior to being executed. It's called "working as intended".
If you compare a T-series Thinkpad (a far better comparison), the margin narrows.
Not if you want a fair comparison between computers of relative equal power. 800mhz PowerPC is about 1.2gig Intel. The 1.8gig thinkpad that you quote is not only significantly faster than the fastest Powerbook it's a not even a fair comparison to the 667mhz that you quote. Even so, it's still a full grand cheaper, and for no benefit other than the OS.
Meanwhile, if the idea of a very OS X-like environment on your box is highly appealing, stick your coding where you mouth is and go help the GNUstep project.
Why? I want a Mac for the fact that it's a mac: A unix like system that lets me get my work done yet still has enough of a market share to coexist in the company groupware system and even the occasional game (if frequently delayed) and no Microsoft Tax.
I don't see how Yet Another Freaking Window Manager for Linux is going to give the benefits the Mac does. Other things will, but it will require increased market share and a large userbase defacto standardization on a single desktop and window manager (Which can only start with a distribution like RedHat doing what it has done with Gnome/KDE).
Pricewise, Mac desktops are not all that bad (Dual 867 for $1600) but could still do with some price cutting. However, the real value is in the laptops, and they are -across-the-board- at least $1k too expensive. A 800mhz powerpc laptop with a 40 gig drive a 512 meg memory is $3200. A comparable IBM Thinkpad (1.2 gig, 512meg, 40gig) will be about $1400, and the 1.8 gigs only $400 more.
That $1800 difference sure makes the Microsoft Tax less odious.
Face it. UO is slowly fading into irrelivance. Everquest seems to be the "standard" mmorpg
Oh please, how long do you think it will be before Everquest is doing the same thing? In fact, until this was announced, EQ was the -worst- abuser of "give us more money and we'll make you uber"... Verant's premium servers allows one to level faster, with a high quantity of loot and some of 'special' quality -and-, its the only server you can transfer your character away from (to another server) and keep all the items.
Face it, this is a method for game companies to make a few extra bucks. Companies only pass up such "distasteful" practices so long as the outrage would cost more than the direct financial benefit.
At some point, that outrage becomes less, and it's "Submit your CC# for the Vorpal Sword of Spiffyness"
The day Stormix and Corel came out is the day Debian should have been picking the best GPL pieces out and using them.
Uhm, Debian is not a business. The only 'customer' worth anything are the people working on the distribution themselves, and for the most part (even now) a fancy gui installer is not a priority.
When you're buying redhat, or mandrake, or one of those other rpm based crappy distributions, your handing over of money gives you certain rights to moan and bitch about the priorities of development for the distribution, but for things like Debian, or Gentoo, or any of the others that don't even attempt to be a business, submit your code or keep your yap shut.
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One solitary 2.5" drive, which guarantees slower speeds than desktop, higher price, and general lack of space (I use 200+gig on my main machine)
I can't see value for this in langamers (of which I will admit, I am not) because of the lack of module replacement and overclocking. Lacking either an AGP or PCI it doesn't even take the place of business on-site demos that require such things - the laptops will still be preferable.
Of course, I look across the room at two 18" tall towers, the second case I recently purchased -because- it was so roomy. I find small machines too annoying to work on.
Because Europe wanted, and got, 70 from the US. Not having actual parity makes it a bum deal.
"Always looking for new ways to help out the independent music scene in my region, I recently started thinking about putting together a streaming radio station.
If they are independent then RIAA members have no contract with them, and thus RIAA does not dictate the terms of their performance (either public or recorded)
So again, why do you care about the RIAA? Are you trying to mix in Metallica with your "only helping local indie bands" stream?
Yes, because end users won't see it as a reduction of their rights. They will see it as "This computer lets me buy content." See, new content will be shipped encrypted. Palladium-free systems will not be able to use this content. Only systems with Palladium turned on will.
To the end user, this doesn't look like the reduction of rights we all know it is, but rather as a newer more enhanced works worth the new stuff system. Microsoft won't even need to market it as virus protection.
No, the Supremes can cancel the current law, either in part or in full, if they find that there is no constitutional power granted to Congress to extend copyrights -retroactively-.
Now, if they overturn the law in full (instead of just the retroactive part) then a replacement law would only change the time for content created since the new law passed, not the 1998 law.
He seems to have done a 180 since he became AG.
Not necessarily. The Attorney General is required by law and by his office to defend laws to the best of his ability using all potential arguments. Doesn't matter if he agrees with them or not.
What open source needs is a company which provides an 18 month upgrade cycle and supports three concurrent versions
When Debian did that, it got nothing but flak.
Falconseye is a graphical overlay on Nethack, if you want the pretty graphics (and explosions and other sexy stuff)
As has been pointed out, non compete licenses are illegal. Refusing to do business with competitors is illegal, etc, etc.
However, BitKeeper isn't saying they won't -sell- licenses to competitors. Just that competitors can't use the free license. The Commerical license does not have the problem clause.
Note that only the use of Bitkeeper for free is affected by this clause. It still seems like this was a bait-and-switch maneuver on the part of BitKeeper, also there seems to be some personal animosity with the Subversion crew.
Subversion isn't quite up to par, yet, but it does seem like the switch to 2.6/3.0 "soon" would be a good time to switch revision control systems to something less... counter productive.
Yahoo also has this article on a different case with a corporation attempting to get a pre-emptive in order that they can sell a DVD copy program under Fair Use rights.
Yahoo aka AP coverage on Thursday (pre trial) and a second story.
Its no surprise that there isn't an "after a single day of trial - nothing happened" article, because well... nothing happened. The BBC didn't have a "one day before the trial started" article so wasn't repeating itself saying nothing new one day later.
Oh, numerous reasons not to vote for Nader. Maximum allowed income. Destruction of the economy. "Every business except mine is bad." "Every rich white man except me is bad." I could go on
The worst, however, is that the Greens are recruiting McKinney for their 2004 election. Nader is, of course, a Green, perhaps she can be his VP.
It was born dead, the entire timeframe of its submission was planned for its death.
Historically, any bill that is still on the floor when Congress leaves for the winter never gets brought up again. Boucher is doing this in an attempt to gain some votes. The really sad aspect is that the joke bill doesn't even have any teeth. The least he could have done was submit a joke bill that would do something.
Read the article next time.
Articles and court cases with a contrary opinion notwithstanding your statement, of course.
Guess what, there is a disagreement with what the law means. Even if you're a lawyer (and I know you are not) you wouldn't have the ability to say "The DMCA says so!" while it remains untested in court - especially when it's currently in the process of -being- tested and with no order by the judge.
Legal questions are settled in court, not by an ignorant poster on Slashdot.
Wouldn't an entire year without crops have a seriously fucked up effect on our food supply?
Define 'ours'. If you mean the US, and for only one year, then no. Prices would go up, but more because of a perceived threat than a real one (much like gas prices go up within hours of something happening in the middle east.) The US stockpiles, and let rots generally, a tremendous amount of food. Our exports and handouts would most certainly be affected.
On the other hand, having a year where every single growing season failed across this entire nation would be
In an hour or so I'll be working through some fortran code in unix. Then I'm a greasy peace loving hippy.
No, you're a slide rule using, broken glasses with tape wearing, pocket protecting, greasy haired, slumped over uber-nerd.
Fortran indeed!
There have been numbers of cases of people being found innocent ...after the execution.
Care to cite these executions? Lets give it a realistic limit, in the US, and from 1960 to now since that's when executions started being done after a long pause.
Here's a hint: It's not a problem with the system when the system gets people off prior to being executed. It's called "working as intended".
If you compare a T-series Thinkpad (a far better comparison), the margin narrows.
Not if you want a fair comparison between computers of relative equal power. 800mhz PowerPC is about 1.2gig Intel. The 1.8gig thinkpad that you quote is not only significantly faster than the fastest Powerbook it's a not even a fair comparison to the 667mhz that you quote. Even so, it's still a full grand cheaper, and for no benefit other than the OS.
Too small. Most ibooks are 12", and even the 14" is too small. I've got a 15" laptop, my next one will be 17".
Meanwhile, if the idea of a very OS X-like environment on your box is highly appealing, stick your coding where you mouth is and go help the GNUstep project.
Why? I want a Mac for the fact that it's a mac: A unix like system that lets me get my work done yet still has enough of a market share to coexist in the company groupware system and even the occasional game (if frequently delayed) and no Microsoft Tax.
I don't see how Yet Another Freaking Window Manager for Linux is going to give the benefits the Mac does. Other things will, but it will require increased market share and a large userbase defacto standardization on a single desktop and window manager (Which can only start with a distribution like RedHat doing what it has done with Gnome/KDE).
Pricewise, Mac desktops are not all that bad (Dual 867 for $1600) but could still do with some price cutting. However, the real value is in the laptops, and they are -across-the-board- at least $1k too expensive. A 800mhz powerpc laptop with a 40 gig drive a 512 meg memory is $3200. A comparable IBM Thinkpad (1.2 gig, 512meg, 40gig) will be about $1400, and the 1.8 gigs only $400 more.
That $1800 difference sure makes the Microsoft Tax less odious.
No form of identification should be in a form you can't set down and walk away from.
Face it. UO is slowly fading into irrelivance. Everquest seems to be the "standard" mmorpg
Oh please, how long do you think it will be before Everquest is doing the same thing? In fact, until this was announced, EQ was the -worst- abuser of "give us more money and we'll make you uber"... Verant's premium servers allows one to level faster, with a high quantity of loot and some of 'special' quality -and-, its the only server you can transfer your character away from (to another server) and keep all the items.
Face it, this is a method for game companies to make a few extra bucks. Companies only pass up such "distasteful" practices so long as the outrage would cost more than the direct financial benefit.
At some point, that outrage becomes less, and it's "Submit your CC# for the Vorpal Sword of Spiffyness"
Blackbox looks like Windows? Could have fooled me.
The day Stormix and Corel came out is the day Debian should have been picking the best GPL pieces out and using them.
Uhm, Debian is not a business. The only 'customer' worth anything are the people working on the distribution themselves, and for the most part (even now) a fancy gui installer is not a priority.
When you're buying redhat, or mandrake, or one of those other rpm based crappy distributions, your handing over of money gives you certain rights to moan and bitch about the priorities of development for the distribution, but for things like Debian, or Gentoo, or any of the others that don't even attempt to be a business, submit your code or keep your yap shut.