Not quite the same. Power does come from a different source but electrical plants put out much less emmissions and are much more efficent then the equivelent amount of engines running in cars do. Although this is not a perfect solution, the overall amount of toxic emmissions would be lower and you would have the benefit of moving and controlling the source of the emmissions. An example would be a large city with many cars and a stable lower atmosphere like the valleys in southern CA. Instead of having all of those cars creating polution and it collecting in those areas, you could produce less polution in a less populated area where it can be dispersed to lower healthier levels. Yes, people around the larger electrical plant would not be happy but the rest of the US to the east (or the world for that matter) would have much lower levels overall blowing thier way. You can agrue either way for the not in my backyard or the breathe what you create but it is an option to consider.
Is that the Wal-Mart down the road from Wheeler and Schofield with the roof top parking? I haven't lived there for over 10 years but I remember more often then not, at night there was a pack wild dogs hanging out near the entrance of the roof parking lot. Maybe the area is more built up now and the dogs hang elsewhere.
My kids are a lot older now but I still remember arguing with my mother-in-law about why I should buy "baby" apple juice. It was like $1.50 for a 8 oz glass bottle of Kerber Apple juice for babies. The ingredients were Apple juice from concentrate and filtered water. I could buy a damn gallon of regular premium 100% pure apple juice for $2.50 and add my own filtered water to reach the same concentration level of the baby version. My estimate was the baby version was 75% Apple juice and 25% water based on my unscientific color and taste tests. I probably could have busted out my deluxe pool water test kit and ran a series of pH, alkalinity and total dissolved solids tests on my mixtures and got more accurate results but I gave up trying to convince her.
Interest point but the real issue is the people will use whatever search engine appeals to them the most. If you do not get consistenly good results, you will move to another engine or at least use multiple engines. It only takes seconds to use another engine or install a different engines toolbar. No amount of bundling, packaging, or force feeding will change that. You will always have the "default" crowd but as far as search engines go, people already know there is alternatives. Even my grandmother knows about Google and Yahoo and MSN searches. MS may be able to bundle increased functionality and integration between MS Word, MS Excel, and IE but a search web site and search engine are not software packages. It is a URL entered into a browser or a specific companies application like the Google desktop search.
Here in the real world, online companies have to pay rent (or construction + property tax) and utilities - they don't operate out of the back of a pickup truck. (And those premises require upkeep and maintenance too.)
I agree but the overhead of not running a store with customer foot traffic is much lower then just having employees and stock on hand. I have bought stuff from Butterflyphoto.com in the past. In real life, they are nothing but a run down looking warehouse located off the beaten path in downtown NYC. Thier "store" is much cheaper to maintain then putting multiple retail outlets in a mid sized strip malls.
Consider the crossover B&M/Internet shops like Bestbuy and Wal-Mart as well. They do not run the internet or the mail order part of thier businesses from the existing retail square footage, it would be too expensive because the light industrial or commercial zoned areas are much cheaper to maintain.
According to this link, losing Apple will account for 2% of IBM's chip sales and IBM's overall chip sales make up only 2-3% of their overall sales revenue company wide. Losing any business is bad but looking big picture, this specific instance had very little impact on IBM.
Your negatives towards Wal-Mart are not just Wal-Mart, they are the same across every single fast food resturant, retailer, and just about every employee of store that is in any Mall or shopping center thoughout the US. Kmart, Target, and Sears pay about the same wages and have the same benefits as Wal-Mart, as does Mcdonalds and 7-11. These are low barrier to entry positions in retail and basic service and the benefits and wages reflect that. You can not support a family on a job like that from any company. If you feel those core issues are a problem, getting rid of Wal-Mart is not the direct solution.
I agree with you. I am white box all the way but I suggest Dell to everyone that asks for computer buying advice, specifically the rotating "Outrageous Deals" in the small business section of thier web site. They get a decent computer for a decent price with a decent warranty and most importantly, I do not become the lifetime tech support for them.
The referenced article is very interesting and I often wonder about the process that goes into such things or what seems to be a lack of process. One thing that has me wondering is the rack managment of some servers. You have companies like HP that in the past has made some great contributions to technology with a wide variety of electronics, test equipment, and computing with both hardware and software. All that being said, HP has some of the strangest contraptions for server wire management. A few years ago, they had this setup with these retractable cables that could probably sever your fingers if they let loose (like those retractable keychains) connected to what looked like a small cargo net with about 6 sets of velco straps, the contraption even had numbers so you knew where to attach what as you were fighting with the velco glob. You put your wires in that thing if you could. They eventually moved over to the swinging metal rack and after several years of revisions, they finally have something reasonable. For a company that was one of the most respected engineering companies in the world, you'd think they could make better progress with wire management and rack slider setups then what they have offered up to this point.
So hiding upcoming products and product changes and new releases from consumers is a good thing from a consumer point of view? Would you like to know that your $XXX purchase will be superseded in the next week by version X+1? Simple question. Many companies release that information far in advance so you can make a more educated decision. Here is the way I see it. Companies like to keep information and some specific technical details away from competitors to get a jump or to maintain a competitive edge. They balance the time and will release that specific information but give the consumers more then ample time to make a decision. Everyone knows when the Honda Accord will be redesigned, we have seen the pictures, we have details of the engine and that the legroom was increased, not quite sure of the colors but we also know exactly when it will be released and when we can buy one. You can read reviews of the redesign from many places and many people have test drove and published reviews way before it ever hits the market. Apple seems to want everyone in the complete dark so Steve can get in front of a crowd and get some ohhs and ahhs and the guy that bought his version last week got completely screwed. Maybe you consider that a benefit of supporting Apple, I do not.
Metallica comes to mind here. I have no hard feelings about the format change. I just do not purchase or listen to the relatively newer material (since "Black"). Metallica and I owe each other nothing. I did go to a concert from the most recent tour but I got seats in my companys private box for free so no money out of my pocket there either.
Off topic here but I have found option C to be the best when working dual boot Linux/Windows. You then configure the standard Windows boot loader to recognize and provide an option for booting from the Linux partition as well. Generally, it is much easier to recover a lost Linux partition then it is to recover Windows when a dual boot goes wrong so staying as much Windows native as possible seems like the most stable approach. Bootpart can make option C very easy.
I have a VERY premature assessment of the the MS Virtual server product. To be fair, I have only been using it for 2 days. I don't like it;). I do not even have a virtual server built on it yet but I am getting there. I created a 12GB virtual disk and I am using a Windows 2003 Server iso mounted on a virtual CD to do a fresh install of the OS. When I left work today, It just got done formatting the 12GB partition but that took over 2 hours. That is like the third step in the OS install. Another thing I do not like is the ActiveX control for controlling the virtual host. It seems and there is no way to bounce around between the server controls and the virtual host without closing the remote session and opening it back up again. I think a standalone application would be much better, maybe they have one already.
For a comparision, last week I installed VMWare server (the free version) and had it up and running in no time, and had a virtual server installed in less then 60 minutes from scratch. We have been using ESX for years so maybe some of the lingo and layout is already familiar to me. Another bonus with the VMWare Server is the network drivers and SCSI disk drivers are the same as ESX and our dos network boot disk works fine. We use the gold disk concept for all of our workstations and servers. I can boot a new virtual machine with our network boot disk iso, connect to our share where GHOST.EXE resides and pull our standard server image over just as you would do for a physical server. With VMServer and ESX, I can install that ghost image in about 20 minutes. I modified our network boot iso to add the driver that the MS Virtual presents to its virtuals (A DEC/Intel 211XX) and although the new virtual boot image booted fine and connected to the network, I was getting less then 100K/sec pulling the image and Ghost was reporting some time over 24 hours to complete. Maybe the DOS capabilities of MS Virtual server is severly lacking (as noted by the slow install and the slow DOS performance running ghost). Who knows.
To sum it all up. I have very little face time with the MS Virtual server product, but I had very little time with VMWare Server as well. My ESX background may have made my VMServer experience better so who knows.
I feel bad for Ford, imagine the money they are losing from Fram oil filters, Valvoline oil, BBS rims, Ventshade bug deflectors, Bridgestone tires, a Sears battery, and Pioneer car stereos. Oh the pity... Not to mention the all of the independent mechanics using non Ford purchased tools using manuals and guides not published by Ford. Oh the shame, I feel so bad.
Off topic but I bought a PC with Lycoris and one with Linspire (Lindows at the time). They were the $199 cheapies that Walmart.com had a few years ago from Microtel. I put in 512 more ram in each used them for a month or so and they were alright but I ended up putting Mandrake on them. No specific reasons other then at the time, I liked Mandrake better. As they sit now a few years later, one still has Mandrake, the other Xandros.
I doubt either Linspire or Lycoris got any money from me as I did not subscribe to thier service offerings.
I have had multiple issues with at least 5 different makes and models of home routers. I finally made my own on an old PC running Smoothwall Express. Not as "easy" as a small non moving parts home router but if you have an extra PC, it works much better. I've been using my Smoothwall box for over a year on P200/128MB ram/1GB HD. In the last 365 days, I've downloaded 720GB and uploaded 125GB through it and it has been rock solid. YMMV
More often then not, those huge investments they made were only done because they were granted a monopoly in specific regions. Without a monopoly, another ISP or broadband provider would be able to step in and offer a different service and price that may benefit you in some why but that can not happen now. I have Comcast, if they decide to limit me to 512 kbits/sec, I have NO choice but to accept it or move to Verizon DSL (which is not in my area because the CO is too far away). I could go back to dialup but my only choice is Verizon or Comcast for POTS (I don't have POTS now, I use cell and VoIP over my broadband). Wow, look at that would you! The same two companies are my only choice for phone service as well. Imagine that and they can charge whatever they want and provide whatever service level or features they want and there is nothing I can do about it. Great.
Here is an example or what competition without a monopoly can provide... My average POTS phone bill with Verizon was $50/month. With MY choice of VOiP provider, I pay about 1/3 of that AND have two numbers (one in a different area code), built in voice mail, find me call forwarding, voice mail to email, unlimited US calling (long distance), and a few more features I'll probably never use.
The ONLY reason and way that this rate setting and preferential treatment of bandwidth in question would work is because the local bandwidth providers have a monopoly. Without that monopoly, people would go elsewhere in a heartbeat. That is why they need to be watched and possibly regulated.
Did you see what she wore last night at the awards ceremony? The desire of someone following the day to day activities or even have a remote interest of "famous" people is very hard for me to understand. Maybe people feel a connection or something or do not have anything to do that is closer to reality. Obviously it is common and there is an entire businesses built on that concept that people are interested in the stars.
Others have pointed out in other threads but I will summerize.
VMWare makes quite a few virtualization products and they have been on the market for quite some time. They are pretty much the standard for virtualization. Years later, MS decides to enter the market. VMWare, wanting to survive has to do something. In the past 6 months, they have released two "free" products, VMPlayer which allows any Windows/Linux machine to run certain VMWare virtual machines and more recently, VMWare server which is very similar to the existing VMWare GSX line of products. They now have a wider range of products to compete at many different levels. The top is ESX with Virtual Center, this product allows different forms of clustering, state saving, seemless and automatic moving of VMs between different physical servers for failover and load balancing and much more. The bottom is the free VM Server products with VM Desktop and GSX in the middle.
MS, knowing that VM is opening up to a broader market and trying to gain a larger foothold, is also going to try saturation bombing with some form of free version to gain its own share of the market as well.
So far MS entering the market has been good for IT folks overall as VMWare is adding features and cheap or free products into the mix. Do or die I guess as I'm sure MS can sustain a lot more negatives then VMWare can in the long fight.
I still do not get the same thing out of that argument based on the reading and the fact that there are many players in the market right now that allow removeble storage or internal storage that can be moved from PC to PC or copied freely. If your theory was correct, any portable audio device with the capability of using removeable media would fall under those guidelines and should be required to have SCMS incorporated. I have an RCA Lyra that shows up as a removeable disk. I can drag and drop audio files to and from it with no problem on any PC, Windows or Linux and probably even a Mac. I do not have any special software and there are no restrictions. Is that device considered illegal and should it have SMCS? If this case set the standard that those type of devices would fall under the 1992 audio recording act, how are these devices being sold legally?
I have 40GB of music, it is all organized in a directory structure. Does not matter what computer, portable, frontend, or listening device or application I use. I have the same directory structure. It's not like I suddenly came upon 40GB of files and had to go through them all. As I ripped, I placed them in specific directories. I have NO problem finding what I need. It just works. I got burned in the past using cataloging.
I do the same exact thing with all of my digital pictures and use IMAP/LDAP for my email folders and addess books and these of the exact same benefits.
I applaud Jobs for getting much of the music industry to agree to distribute songs one-by-one digitally.
Take off your blinders man. Your credit to Jobs seems to defy history. There were at least 3 mainstream online music stores that sold individual tracks for 99 cents a piece from the major labels long BEFORE iTMS was doing it. I'm sure Jobs was not negotiating conditions for his competitors.
When did Real/Rhapsody start negotiations with the RIAA? I assume you know as you claimed Jobs did the actual work.
Instead of modding me down as a troll, or changing the subject, stand by the claim and show us your timeline of the events using some actual facts.
What I read... Why would they change? They should just pay us and our layers instead. If they don't pay, we may actually have to take a risk and develop something based on our patent or we will go broke. So yes America, and all that is reading our press release, Microsoft is bad, not us. Repeat that 10 times to as many people as you know and it will eventually become the truth.
Can you point out the sections of your links that you base you claim from?
It may be in there but what I got out of the findlaw link was:
- The Rio is not making digital copies of a digital transmission in the manner that the SCMS rules of the home recording act should not apply to Rio. It does not apply because it is coping "files", and not making a digital copy of an actual digital transmission, they refered to the Rio "file" copy as an indirect transmission.
The final word is in the referneced fidlaw link is:
For the foregoing reasons, the Rio is not a digital audio recording device subject to the restrictions of the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992. The district court properly denied the motion for a preliminary injunction against the Rio's manu- facture and distribution. Having so determined, we need not consider whether the balance of hardships or the possibility of irreparable harm supports injunctive relief.
The only legal resolution I see from this is the Rio and similar devices do not apply to that law.
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Not quite the same. Power does come from a different source but electrical plants put out much less emmissions and are much more efficent then the equivelent amount of engines running in cars do. Although this is not a perfect solution, the overall amount of toxic emmissions would be lower and you would have the benefit of moving and controlling the source of the emmissions. An example would be a large city with many cars and a stable lower atmosphere like the valleys in southern CA. Instead of having all of those cars creating polution and it collecting in those areas, you could produce less polution in a less populated area where it can be dispersed to lower healthier levels. Yes, people around the larger electrical plant would not be happy but the rest of the US to the east (or the world for that matter) would have much lower levels overall blowing thier way. You can agrue either way for the not in my backyard or the breathe what you create but it is an option to consider.
Is that the Wal-Mart down the road from Wheeler and Schofield with the roof top parking? I haven't lived there for over 10 years but I remember more often then not, at night there was a pack wild dogs hanging out near the entrance of the roof parking lot. Maybe the area is more built up now and the dogs hang elsewhere.
Younger kids can have a few hours of fun with a big cardboard box and some crumbled up newspaper.
My kids are a lot older now but I still remember arguing with my mother-in-law about why I should buy "baby" apple juice. It was like $1.50 for a 8 oz glass bottle of Kerber Apple juice for babies. The ingredients were Apple juice from concentrate and filtered water. I could buy a damn gallon of regular premium 100% pure apple juice for $2.50 and add my own filtered water to reach the same concentration level of the baby version. My estimate was the baby version was 75% Apple juice and 25% water based on my unscientific color and taste tests. I probably could have busted out my deluxe pool water test kit and ran a series of pH, alkalinity and total dissolved solids tests on my mixtures and got more accurate results but I gave up trying to convince her.
Interest point but the real issue is the people will use whatever search engine appeals to them the most. If you do not get consistenly good results, you will move to another engine or at least use multiple engines. It only takes seconds to use another engine or install a different engines toolbar. No amount of bundling, packaging, or force feeding will change that. You will always have the "default" crowd but as far as search engines go, people already know there is alternatives. Even my grandmother knows about Google and Yahoo and MSN searches. MS may be able to bundle increased functionality and integration between MS Word, MS Excel, and IE but a search web site and search engine are not software packages. It is a URL entered into a browser or a specific companies application like the Google desktop search.
Here in the real world, online companies have to pay rent (or construction + property tax) and utilities - they don't operate out of the back of a pickup truck. (And those premises require upkeep and maintenance too.)
I agree but the overhead of not running a store with customer foot traffic is much lower then just having employees and stock on hand. I have bought stuff from Butterflyphoto.com in the past. In real life, they are nothing but a run down looking warehouse located off the beaten path in downtown NYC. Thier "store" is much cheaper to maintain then putting multiple retail outlets in a mid sized strip malls.
Consider the crossover B&M/Internet shops like Bestbuy and Wal-Mart as well. They do not run the internet or the mail order part of thier businesses from the existing retail square footage, it would be too expensive because the light industrial or commercial zoned areas are much cheaper to maintain.
Wow, 10%, not quite.
According to this link, losing Apple will account for 2% of IBM's chip sales and IBM's overall chip sales make up only 2-3% of their overall sales revenue company wide. Losing any business is bad but looking big picture, this specific instance had very little impact on IBM.
Your negatives towards Wal-Mart are not just Wal-Mart, they are the same across every single fast food resturant, retailer, and just about every employee of store that is in any Mall or shopping center thoughout the US. Kmart, Target, and Sears pay about the same wages and have the same benefits as Wal-Mart, as does Mcdonalds and 7-11. These are low barrier to entry positions in retail and basic service and the benefits and wages reflect that. You can not support a family on a job like that from any company. If you feel those core issues are a problem, getting rid of Wal-Mart is not the direct solution.
I agree with you.
I am white box all the way but I suggest Dell to everyone that asks for computer buying advice, specifically the rotating "Outrageous Deals" in the small business section of thier web site. They get a decent computer for a decent price with a decent warranty and most importantly, I do not become the lifetime tech support for them.
The referenced article is very interesting and I often wonder about the process that goes into such things or what seems to be a lack of process. One thing that has me wondering is the rack managment of some servers. You have companies like HP that in the past has made some great contributions to technology with a wide variety of electronics, test equipment, and computing with both hardware and software. All that being said, HP has some of the strangest contraptions for server wire management. A few years ago, they had this setup with these retractable cables that could probably sever your fingers if they let loose (like those retractable keychains) connected to what looked like a small cargo net with about 6 sets of velco straps, the contraption even had numbers so you knew where to attach what as you were fighting with the velco glob. You put your wires in that thing if you could. They eventually moved over to the swinging metal rack and after several years of revisions, they finally have something reasonable. For a company that was one of the most respected engineering companies in the world, you'd think they could make better progress with wire management and rack slider setups then what they have offered up to this point.
So hiding upcoming products and product changes and new releases from consumers is a good thing from a consumer point of view? Would you like to know that your $XXX purchase will be superseded in the next week by version X+1? Simple question. Many companies release that information far in advance so you can make a more educated decision.
Here is the way I see it. Companies like to keep information and some specific technical details away from competitors to get a jump or to maintain a competitive edge. They balance the time and will release that specific information but give the consumers more then ample time to make a decision. Everyone knows when the Honda Accord will be redesigned, we have seen the pictures, we have details of the engine and that the legroom was increased, not quite sure of the colors but we also know exactly when it will be released and when we can buy one. You can read reviews of the redesign from many places and many people have test drove and published reviews way before it ever hits the market. Apple seems to want everyone in the complete dark so Steve can get in front of a crowd and get some ohhs and ahhs and the guy that bought his version last week got completely screwed.
Maybe you consider that a benefit of supporting Apple, I do not.
Metallica comes to mind here.
I have no hard feelings about the format change. I just do not purchase or listen to the relatively newer material (since "Black"). Metallica and I owe each other nothing. I did go to a concert from the most recent tour but I got seats in my companys private box for free so no money out of my pocket there either.
Off topic here but I have found option C to be the best when working dual boot Linux/Windows. You then configure the standard Windows boot loader to recognize and provide an option for booting from the Linux partition as well. Generally, it is much easier to recover a lost Linux partition then it is to recover Windows when a dual boot goes wrong so staying as much Windows native as possible seems like the most stable approach.
Bootpart can make option C very easy.
I have a VERY premature assessment of the the MS Virtual server product. ;). I do not even have a virtual server built on it yet but I am getting there. I created a 12GB virtual disk and I am using a Windows 2003 Server iso mounted on a virtual CD to do a fresh install of the OS. When I left work today, It just got done formatting the 12GB partition but that took over 2 hours. That is like the third step in the OS install. Another thing I do not like is the ActiveX control for controlling the virtual host. It seems and there is no way to bounce around between the server controls and the virtual host without closing the remote session and opening it back up again. I think a standalone application would be much better, maybe they have one already.
To be fair, I have only been using it for 2 days.
I don't like it
For a comparision, last week I installed VMWare server (the free version) and had it up and running in no time, and had a virtual server installed in less then 60 minutes from scratch. We have been using ESX for years so maybe some of the lingo and layout is already familiar to me. Another bonus with the VMWare Server is the network drivers and SCSI disk drivers are the same as ESX and our dos network boot disk works fine. We use the gold disk concept for all of our workstations and servers. I can boot a new virtual machine with our network boot disk iso, connect to our share where GHOST.EXE resides and pull our standard server image over just as you would do for a physical server. With VMServer and ESX, I can install that ghost image in about 20 minutes. I modified our network boot iso to add the driver that the MS Virtual presents to its virtuals (A DEC/Intel 211XX) and although the new virtual boot image booted fine and connected to the network, I was getting less then 100K/sec pulling the image and Ghost was reporting some time over 24 hours to complete. Maybe the DOS capabilities of MS Virtual server is severly lacking (as noted by the slow install and the slow DOS performance running ghost). Who knows.
To sum it all up. I have very little face time with the MS Virtual server product, but I had very little time with VMWare Server as well. My ESX background may have made my VMServer experience better so who knows.
I feel bad for Ford, imagine the money they are losing from Fram oil filters, Valvoline oil, BBS rims, Ventshade bug deflectors, Bridgestone tires, a Sears battery, and Pioneer car stereos. Oh the pity... Not to mention the all of the independent mechanics using non Ford purchased tools using manuals and guides not published by Ford. Oh the shame, I feel so bad.
Off topic but I bought a PC with Lycoris and one with Linspire (Lindows at the time). They were the $199 cheapies that Walmart.com had a few years ago from Microtel. I put in 512 more ram in each used them for a month or so and they were alright but I ended up putting Mandrake on them. No specific reasons other then at the time, I liked Mandrake better. As they sit now a few years later, one still has Mandrake, the other Xandros.
I doubt either Linspire or Lycoris got any money from me as I did not subscribe to thier service offerings.
I have had multiple issues with at least 5 different makes and models of home routers. I finally made my own on an old PC running Smoothwall Express. Not as "easy" as a small non moving parts home router but if you have an extra PC, it works much better. I've been using my Smoothwall box for over a year on P200/128MB ram/1GB HD. In the last 365 days, I've downloaded 720GB and uploaded 125GB through it and it has been rock solid. YMMV
More often then not, those huge investments they made were only done because they were granted a monopoly in specific regions. Without a monopoly, another ISP or broadband provider would be able to step in and offer a different service and price that may benefit you in some why but that can not happen now. I have Comcast, if they decide to limit me to 512 kbits/sec, I have NO choice but to accept it or move to Verizon DSL (which is not in my area because the CO is too far away). I could go back to dialup but my only choice is Verizon or Comcast for POTS (I don't have POTS now, I use cell and VoIP over my broadband). Wow, look at that would you! The same two companies are my only choice for phone service as well. Imagine that and they can charge whatever they want and provide whatever service level or features they want and there is nothing I can do about it. Great.
Here is an example or what competition without a monopoly can provide...
My average POTS phone bill with Verizon was $50/month.
With MY choice of VOiP provider, I pay about 1/3 of that AND have two numbers (one in a different area code), built in voice mail, find me call forwarding, voice mail to email, unlimited US calling (long distance), and a few more features I'll probably never use.
The ONLY reason and way that this rate setting and preferential treatment of bandwidth in question would work is because the local bandwidth providers have a monopoly. Without that monopoly, people would go elsewhere in a heartbeat. That is why they need to be watched and possibly regulated.
Did you see what she wore last night at the awards ceremony?
The desire of someone following the day to day activities or even have a remote interest of "famous" people is very hard for me to understand. Maybe people feel a connection or something or do not have anything to do that is closer to reality.
Obviously it is common and there is an entire businesses built on that concept that people are interested in the stars.
Others have pointed out in other threads but I will summerize.
VMWare makes quite a few virtualization products and they have been on the market for quite some time. They are pretty much the standard for virtualization. Years later, MS decides to enter the market. VMWare, wanting to survive has to do something. In the past 6 months, they have released two "free" products, VMPlayer which allows any Windows/Linux machine to run certain VMWare virtual machines and more recently, VMWare server which is very similar to the existing VMWare GSX line of products. They now have a wider range of products to compete at many different levels. The top is ESX with Virtual Center, this product allows different forms of clustering, state saving, seemless and automatic moving of VMs between different physical servers for failover and load balancing and much more. The bottom is the free VM Server products with VM Desktop and GSX in the middle.
MS, knowing that VM is opening up to a broader market and trying to gain a larger foothold, is also going to try saturation bombing with some form of free version to gain its own share of the market as well.
So far MS entering the market has been good for IT folks overall as VMWare is adding features and cheap or free products into the mix. Do or die I guess as I'm sure MS can sustain a lot more negatives then VMWare can in the long fight.
I still do not get the same thing out of that argument based on the reading and the fact that there are many players in the market right now that allow removeble storage or internal storage that can be moved from PC to PC or copied freely. If your theory was correct, any portable audio device with the capability of using removeable media would fall under those guidelines and should be required to have SCMS incorporated. I have an RCA Lyra that shows up as a removeable disk. I can drag and drop audio files to and from it with no problem on any PC, Windows or Linux and probably even a Mac. I do not have any special software and there are no restrictions. Is that device considered illegal and should it have SMCS? If this case set the standard that those type of devices would fall under the 1992 audio recording act, how are these devices being sold legally?
I have 40GB of music, it is all organized in a directory structure. Does not matter what computer, portable, frontend, or listening device or application I use. I have the same directory structure. It's not like I suddenly came upon 40GB of files and had to go through them all. As I ripped, I placed them in specific directories. I have NO problem finding what I need. It just works. I got burned in the past using cataloging.
I do the same exact thing with all of my digital pictures and use IMAP/LDAP for my email folders and addess books and these of the exact same benefits.
I applaud Jobs for getting much of the music industry to agree to distribute songs one-by-one digitally.
Take off your blinders man. Your credit to Jobs seems to defy history. There were at least 3 mainstream online music stores that sold individual tracks for 99 cents a piece from the major labels long BEFORE iTMS was doing it. I'm sure Jobs was not negotiating conditions for his competitors.
When did Real/Rhapsody start negotiations with the RIAA? I assume you know as you claimed Jobs did the actual work.
Instead of modding me down as a troll, or changing the subject, stand by the claim and show us your timeline of the events using some actual facts.
What I read...
Why would they change? They should just pay us and our layers instead. If they don't pay, we may actually have to take a risk and develop something based on our patent or we will go broke. So yes America, and all that is reading our press release, Microsoft is bad, not us. Repeat that 10 times to as many people as you know and it will eventually become the truth.
Can you point out the sections of your links that you base you claim from?
It may be in there but what I got out of the findlaw link was:
- The Rio is not making digital copies of a digital transmission in the manner that the SCMS rules of the home recording act should not apply to Rio. It does not apply because it is coping "files", and not making a digital copy of an actual digital transmission, they refered to the Rio "file" copy as an indirect transmission.
The final word is in the referneced fidlaw link is:
For the foregoing reasons, the Rio is not a digital audio
recording device subject to the restrictions of the Audio Home
Recording Act of 1992. The district court properly denied the
motion for a preliminary injunction against the Rio's manu-
facture and distribution. Having so determined, we need not
consider whether the balance of hardships or the possibility of
irreparable harm supports injunctive relief.
The only legal resolution I see from this is the Rio and similar devices do not apply to that law.