a quick search on Freshmeat.net reveals the Tivo source code as far as what was modified of the Linux Kernell.
http://www.tivo.com/linux/index.html
beyond that, with a system fast enough to capture and encode video, and a few command line video tools readily available it it really trivial to setup a cron job to record TV shows. The KEY to making this work is being able to find out what's on at what time. you could go to a website to browse TV listings, and when you select the show you want to record, click the listing to download a shell script that when run, sets the cron job to grab the video stream.
so we could all download the Tivo source, ./configure
make
make install
and point the software to TVlistings.org
now TVListings.org could try the subscription based service or various Marketing agencies could offer kickbacks or promotions if you allow them to track your personal data.
if they're making money selling my data, I don't want to have to pay for my subscription and IMHO, I shouldn't have to.
I want more than targeted commercials for my personal data, I WANT KICKBACKS, and I WANT TO KNOW WHO GETS WHAT, and I WANT TO CONTROL WHO GETS WHAT. ya know what else, sooner or later I WILL GET WHAT I WANT, even if TIVO looses my subscription because sombody did a TVListings.org TIVO are you listening?
Badwidth is getting cheaper faster than Microprocessors. Most people will only download one thing at a time, a Movie perhaps. if it took 10 minutes to download a 2 hour movie, then the next hour and 50 minutes is sitting at Obps. the biggest challenge is getting networks to allow their content to be delivered in this manner. if all my cable TV content could be kept on a local proxy, there wouldn't be an impact on the net as a whole for at least the Network TV subscription services.
I constantly try to use as much bandwidth as possible on my connection, yes I am a web hog, because if there isn't demand, why scale. I want it to scale so I make all the demand I can generate. The internet as a whole will continue to expand and will grow to meet these needs as more broadband services become available like mp3.com and pixelon.com.
seems like the whole focus is to change Windows into a 'terminal' for getting at your data that's being safguarded by MS. now instead of just being compatable as a reason to upgrade your OS, you will need to just pay MS for using and keeping data on file for you.
MS, here are my nuts, please be gentle with them, no wait let go, let go!!! MS has me by the balls and won't let go. Who will save us? our hero Tux will get a whole slew of new devotees as people strain to get their balls back from MS.
note to those who don't have balls, just imagine that MS has you by the..uh, by the short hairs? no it's a 'got you by the balls' thing, no other way to explain it.
current cable modem technology based around the DOCSIS standard can give you up to 38Mbps downloads and 10 Mbps uploads. Cable companies currently cap that potential to about 1/10th of that. The Coax cable coming into your house has a 'bandwidth' of 750Mhz and each TV channel uses 6Mhz slots. Cable modems use 1 slot upstream and one slot downstream, meaning about 12Mhz out of the 750Mhz is used for your data connection. Digital TV boxes now can stuff about 10 TV channels into one 6Mhz slot. Obviously most of that 750Mhz is used for a broadcast medium. Cable vendors can easily scale this approach to take away from 'broadcast' and move to 'download TV' where you could open up a guide and see what's on for the day and then pull a TIVO to download the show only if it's requested. in theory, this would allow them to dedicate more of that 750Mhz into Data-like connections and to provide that 38Mbps to anyone who wants it using the equipment currently installed in your home(if you already have a cable modem). think about 750Mhz divided into 6Mhz slots gives you 125 slots at a potential of 38Mbps per slot you come up with some 4,750Mbps downloading potential. Of course this approach would change the way people watch TV and fly in the face of traditional broadcast networks, but technology wise, the Cable providers are already there.
apllications? well I already stream my music in from the net at 128kbps, and downloading the latest Mozilla only takes a few minutes. Getting a copy of a new Linux distibution as ISO images (650Mb) still takes awhile. still, I want More currently I'd like more upstream to be able to do DV quality Video conferencing. I'd like more speed to be able to watch DVD quality video from the net like I stream my music today. DVD quality video can not yet be had with 100Mbps ethernet connection. I'd like to see them shoot for Gigabit ethernet to my house, I really need it.
I can see setting my PDA down only to watch it get picked up by the wind and blown away. Of course more power is always nice, but at what point would it be cheaper/easier to just start stuffing multiple cpu's in a case and Multi-thread stuff? you gotta figure that this new technology is expensive and at some point having 10 2Ghz chips in a box might be more effective then buying a machine with one 20Ghz chip.
what's it all for? see the article in the same issue on tele-immersion where a 3d world is created on each end for virtual meetings. It's great stuff but it takes racks of computers on each end to get about 2-3 frames per second. I guess we really do need faster computers yet....
Email is a mess when it gets beyond a small group of people, what we really need is a slashdot.gov with lots of polls about real issues. Community moderation is the best way to sort stuff out, I don't want a "machine" to count where my "email vote" stands. For the government to interact with the public as a whole, the public must assumne the position of the government.
the current systems in place for voting and writting letters makes it feel like it's "Us and Them" instead of "We The People"
this is still the infancy of the information age, it will get better.
pehaps we should start with a slashdotgov.org site for unofficial voting/community, and then go.gov once they see it's the best way.
will this grow into RPM's for Redhat systems becoming "SPECIAL"? Won't I be able to go to rpmfind.net and locate updated RPM's by platform because they won't have REDHAT RPM's? I can't see RedHat placing restrictions on redistributing the updates, it just wouldn't be 'Linuxish' of them.
If there isn't one now, somebody will code us a tool that uses rpmfind.net to inventory system packages and check for updates automatically. There's nothing that will slow down the Linux Movement, I doubt a major distributor charging for updates will make much difference.
If a Company won't join you in the investment of time and money, you may as well be independent and not an employee as it's YOUR ASS when something doesn't fly.
I picked up the book for LPI.org certification, and after the first few chapters on finding and reading documentation (man pages, info, how-to's) I haven't picked the book back up. Seems like whatever I try to do, there is the 'README' walking me through the process.
beyond the readme, there is the source itself, and good programs have great source, where not even being a programmer, comments show you what's going on, and leave a trail of clues to find your solution. I'd like a "paper" saying how good I am at using Linux, and at some point, if I go job hunting I'll shell out the cash and take the LPI.org test to get that certificate to wave around, but for using Linux in my home network and installing/configuring software, I can always rely on the 'MAN'. for those who wonder how hard these tests are, go over to ExamCram and take the practice tests. The LPI test seems focused on Linux, the RedHat test was asking questions about Windows Commands, which has some value if you're looking to use Linux in a Win environment. Personally I don't want to waste and brain space on that "Other" Operating system.
if you have to pay to get a Job, it's not a money making oportunity, it's Money Draining.
Employers who won't put their neck on the line for you (invest in training you for example) don't have much confidence in your abilities to learn or don't feel that the training will pay off.
the internet is only a medium of information travel. By the same logic, someone should go after the highway department eveytime somebody uses the road to transport illegal drugs.
or how about this one:
Ford gets sued for providing vans used in transporting dead baby seals
Social ills are not a result of increased ability to transmit information, there are underling issues to these problems and going after a legitimate means of communication will not solve these issues. Further, this approach has the potential to 'punish' legitimate users of the system by invading privacy and resticting internet usage.
you will get tivo-like digital vcr, mp3 jukebox, web browsing and email, DVD Movies, HDTV.
oh and it also plays games.
for the price, (it'll be around $300 I'm guestimating) a 600mhz pc with a sweet graphic card (upgradeable) and all the tv in/out/recording, I think it'll be an awsome deal.
I use a pII 266 and have had the upgrade itch for too long. Indrema will give me that high end gaming system, without me having to shell out much money, and I'll still rtain all the functionality of a PC.
HDTV output alone is worth big bucks right now, this makes Indrema seem like the deal of the century.
I can also see it runnig graphic apps like gimp or blender and being able to work on a big screen tv would beat using a 17" monitor.
for most, the function of gaming/mp3box/tivo/DVD is enough, being a Linux Hacker means it can be all that and pretty much everything else you'd want it to do.
10baseT ethernet right out of the box, going right into my home lan, and now I can get online during commercials while watching TV in the livingroom.
if they took pre-orders, they'd already have my money even without the games.
Lay it o the table, let them know that you've already been working on it for 6 months. Declare an open source GPL. YOU are the EXPERT it is YOUR IDEA. YOU can do the right thing and SHARE YOUR VISION WITH THE WORLD.
If they don't like it, they're stuck trying to explain your vision to someone else that has to start from scratch. If they decide to go this route, they are not in the business of common sense and you'd likely do better elsewhere.
Just because they own you for 40 hours a week does not mean they own your mind and creative energy, much less your time "off the clock". If they loose you over this, it's their loss, and taking that approach they will loose more good people until they learn or go bankrupt.
YOU on the other hand will go on to create an application that fills a specific need and by doing so establish yourself as an EXPERT on this application. Being the creator of the software you are likely to command a higher wage as a consultant to several companies and not being tied to one employer anymore, this question can be answered in the future by you telling your clients to go elsewhere if they won't respect your work and it's GPL.
I suspect MS was in power over Correll just long enough to enter into some 'agreements' meant to be the 'Bait' for Correll forming a 'close working relationship', now here's the 'switch' where good 'ole MS just takes a hike and says "you're on your own Correll, don't you violate those IP contracts you signed into"
just speculation on my part, MS has a way with 'working relationships' that always seems to strip others of their own "Intellectual Property", or at least make that I.P. somehow useless
Trying to justify what came out of Jim Allchins mouth is making you look real bad.
A better approach would be to declare Jim Allchin an idiot, this way it doesn't make it seem like everyone at the company is in the dark, just this one moron heading up the windows software development.
that's why people think Windows is so great, they don't know how good it is be to be free. I am Empowered by my Linux system far more so that I could ever expect to be using any MS WIndows products.
I try to explain this to people all the time, that, Although you pay lots for your computer, MS OWNS YOU, if you're runnig windows.
Perhaps they (the normals) are best influenced by just plain calling Microsoft EVIL in a televised interview. EVIL is a nice term to cover MS without going into NDA pressures, software development, and the open free flow of information.
Linux is the start of a Utopian world. As we all pool our resources together, instead of looking to "protect" innovation under the guise of "intellectual property", soon the world will be fully automated, and we can all sit around and Doodle with great open source software like Gimp and Blender
.
I hope the world can see MS as it really is, a company trying to pull wool over their eyes with outright lies and deception. I hope the guy at MS who said all this stuff gets some help, his view of the world is either seriously warped, or he has a serious lack of personal integrity lying to the world like he did.
I fear that many people will discount what the Redhat guy was saying because he was wearing a silly read hat on his head in the interview. they'll think to themselves "what's windows? that reminds me, I need to call my ISP to ask what kind of illegal operation is going on there!"
2 space heaters, a coffee pot, 3 computers, cable conveter and 3 lamps... and that's just in my home office not the rest of my house. Not a hiccup all day long. Freaking utility bill is over 250$ a month here now, it'd better not be dropping out at that rate!!!
Linux IS easy to use and VERY WELL DOCUMENTED. getting MS knowlege out of your head is what's holding you back. Don't expect Linux to build on your Windows knowlege base, you'll confuse the hell out of yourself.
get a Linux book, read the first chapter on how to read man pages and how to find documentation in your system. Forget Windows ever tainted you mind,try to put it out of your head, and don't look back.
Also, delete your Windows partition and 'tough it out'. going back only serves to corrupt you mind.
what other fruit am I not allowed to paint pictures of? Chiquita Bananas are you listening? I saw someone putting bananas in a video game, better go tell them to knock it off. If I see something I own that visual data simply from having laid eyes on it I should be allowed to share my experience with others, an ink and paper drawing, collection of pixels, a verbal description of what I saw. This is the crazy thing that Intellectual property and copyrights have become, it is insane and violates my rights as a free thinking human being!!! they are wanting to ride the 'open source wave' but going open source for apple was because they needed to use work done by others to be able to compete in a new networked world. Apple cares not what is best for the world we live in, their image of 'creative people that uses Macs who 'think different' scares the hell out of me. Using something because the Company tells you you're a real special kind of person is another example of the Fluff that fills our heads in this strange new world. Apple is EVIL and this proves it.
wouldn't it be nice if we could all come up with a way to define all the data we want out of the government in an XML document table definition (or whatever dtd stands for) then the site could be scaled and made available to everything from WAP browsers all the way up to 1.5Ghz monster with sounds/animations and such.
Even better, custom XML-GOV aware 'Clients' could be developed on top of Mozilla as just some chrome that's stored locally to create a Govzilla application/skin that would be extremely efficient in being able to send and recieve just the data, and apply all the flash/nonflashy stuff from the client side. XML is easilly parsed such that XML-GOV functiontions could even be added to chat applications like Gabber
Like how about this XML-GOV applet: have a site map in a Pull-down menu at the top of the browser, so you could go 2-6 pages deep with one click
Also, give us accounts so you can know what we want. if I'm a penguin, I might want to see the obscure story about Linux being used at the local DMV to speed things up. And offer web-based email or 'personal message box' functions, such that if I request a message or response in email, I don't need to rely on my ISP's crappy email service at home
it starts with an Option to get a subscription product, and then subscription only features begin to creep into the standard Office suite
read the following:
"if you subscibe now you can use 100 mb of free online active server directory to extend the capabilities of your M$ office solution"
"to view this document you need to have an account with M$.NET, Auto-register now?"
"To use the security auto-update feature, you must first have an account with M$.NET, try out this feature and others like online document sharing with a Free Guest account with M$.NET, to Auto-register now, Click Continue"
[OK] [Continue]
residual revenue streams and reliability on the Network Services offered by a remote server is the whole strategy here. I'd like to see a "desktop" type of file sharing environment as part of both KDE and Gnome or even as an extension to the kernell ala "freenet" where the open source environment allows you to contribute your machine to the network in exchange for the ability to use the online network for acces to -services,documents sharing...
this way, instead of paying M$.net to make things work you could 'contribute' some clockcycles, bandwidth, disk space to a redundant open secure network....
problem fixed. the world is ours:-)
are there any ISP branded versions of Mozilla in the works? Will other ISP's stay away because Netscape is owned by AOL? Many ISP's use customer branded browsers and will not support anything but their own customized version of that browser, forcing their customers into using that 'other' browser(especialy newbies-'the unconverted'-the people we need on our open source wagon). Mozzila being highly customizable seems to lend itself to ISP Branding, but I'm sure a lot of ISP corporate dodohead decision makers would see using mozzila as siding with the enemy (AOL). Me thinks this "Themes" thing could be used to gain acceptance for Mozzila via ISP branding, esspecially because the ISP now has a cross platform 'portal' to their services. Is anyone reading this in a position to make ISP browser distribution decisions, and if someone gave you a nice looking mozzila based browser with your logo all over it, would you go with it?
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a quick search on Freshmeat.net reveals the Tivo source code as far as what was modified of the Linux Kernell. http://www.tivo.com/linux/index.html beyond that, with a system fast enough to capture and encode video, and a few command line video tools readily available it it really trivial to setup a cron job to record TV shows. The KEY to making this work is being able to find out what's on at what time. you could go to a website to browse TV listings, and when you select the show you want to record, click the listing to download a shell script that when run, sets the cron job to grab the video stream.
do they also offer hacker toolkits for download or do I have to go elsewhere for that?
so we could all download the Tivo source,
./configure
make
make install
and point the software to TVlistings.org
now TVListings.org could try the subscription based service or various Marketing agencies could offer kickbacks or promotions if you allow them to track your personal data.
if they're making money selling my data, I don't want to have to pay for my subscription and IMHO, I shouldn't have to.
I want more than targeted commercials for my personal data, I WANT KICKBACKS, and I WANT TO KNOW WHO GETS WHAT, and I WANT TO CONTROL WHO GETS WHAT. ya know what else, sooner or later I WILL GET WHAT I WANT, even if TIVO looses my subscription because sombody did a TVListings.org
TIVO are you listening?
Badwidth is getting cheaper faster than Microprocessors. Most people will only download one thing at a time, a Movie perhaps. if it took 10 minutes to download a 2 hour movie, then the next hour and 50 minutes is sitting at Obps. the biggest challenge is getting networks to allow their content to be delivered in this manner. if all my cable TV content could be kept on a local proxy, there wouldn't be an impact on the net as a whole for at least the Network TV subscription services.
I constantly try to use as much bandwidth as possible on my connection, yes I am a web hog, because if there isn't demand, why scale. I want it to scale so I make all the demand I can generate. The internet as a whole will continue to expand and will grow to meet these needs as more broadband services become available like mp3.com and pixelon.com.
seems like the whole focus is to change Windows into a 'terminal' for getting at your data that's being safguarded by MS. now instead of just being compatable as a reason to upgrade your OS, you will need to just pay MS for using and keeping data on file for you.
MS, here are my nuts, please be gentle with them, no wait let go, let go!!! MS has me by the balls and won't let go.
Who will save us? our hero Tux will get a whole slew of new devotees as people strain to get their balls back from MS.
note to those who don't have balls, just imagine that MS has you by the..uh, by the short hairs? no it's a 'got you by the balls' thing, no other way to explain it.
current cable modem technology based around the DOCSIS standard can give you up to 38Mbps downloads and 10 Mbps uploads. Cable companies currently cap that potential to about 1/10th of that. The Coax cable coming into your house has a 'bandwidth' of 750Mhz and each TV channel uses 6Mhz slots. Cable modems use 1 slot upstream and one slot downstream, meaning about 12Mhz out of the 750Mhz is used for your data connection. Digital TV boxes now can stuff about 10 TV channels into one 6Mhz slot. Obviously most of that 750Mhz is used for a broadcast medium.
Cable vendors can easily scale this approach to take away from 'broadcast' and move to 'download TV' where you could open up a guide and see what's on for the day and then pull a TIVO to download the show only if it's requested. in theory, this would allow them to dedicate more of that 750Mhz into Data-like connections and to provide that 38Mbps to anyone who wants it using the equipment currently installed in your home(if you already have a cable modem). think about 750Mhz divided into 6Mhz slots gives you 125 slots at a potential of 38Mbps per slot you come up with some 4,750Mbps downloading potential. Of course this approach would change the way people watch TV and fly in the face of traditional broadcast networks, but technology wise, the Cable providers are already there.
apllications? well I already stream my music in from the net at 128kbps, and downloading the latest Mozilla only takes a few minutes. Getting a copy of a new Linux distibution as ISO images (650Mb) still takes awhile.
still, I want More
currently I'd like more upstream to be able to do DV quality Video conferencing. I'd like more speed to be able to watch DVD quality video from the net like I stream my music today. DVD quality video can not yet be had with 100Mbps ethernet connection. I'd like to see them shoot for Gigabit ethernet to my house, I really need it.
I can see setting my PDA down only to watch it get picked up by the wind and blown away. Of course more power is always nice, but at what point would it be cheaper/easier to just start stuffing multiple cpu's in a case and Multi-thread stuff? you gotta figure that this new technology is expensive and at some point having 10 2Ghz chips in a box might be more effective then buying a machine with one 20Ghz chip.
what's it all for?
see the article in the same issue on tele-immersion where a 3d world is created on each end for virtual meetings. It's great stuff but it takes racks of computers on each end to get about 2-3 frames per second. I guess we really do need faster computers yet....
and I'm not ashmed to admit that I love Playing Mario.
Don't even get me started on Zelda.
Nintendo, here's my blank check for the GameCube, Just fill in the amount.
Email is a mess when it gets beyond a small group of people, what we really need is a slashdot.gov with lots of polls about real issues. Community moderation is the best way to sort stuff out, I don't want a "machine" to count where my "email vote" stands. .gov once they see it's the best way.
For the government to interact with the public as a whole, the public must assumne the position of the government.
the current systems in place for voting and writting letters makes it feel like it's "Us and Them" instead of "We The People"
this is still the infancy of the information age, it will get better.
pehaps we should start with a slashdotgov.org site for unofficial voting/community, and then go
will this grow into RPM's for Redhat systems becoming "SPECIAL"? Won't I be able to go to rpmfind.net and locate updated RPM's by platform because they won't have REDHAT RPM's? I can't see RedHat placing restrictions on redistributing the updates, it just wouldn't be 'Linuxish' of them.
If there isn't one now, somebody will code us a tool that uses rpmfind.net to inventory system packages and check for updates automatically. There's nothing that will slow down the Linux Movement, I doubt a major distributor charging for updates will make much difference.
If a Company won't join you in the investment of time and money, you may as well be independent and not an employee as it's YOUR ASS when something doesn't fly.
I picked up the book for LPI.org certification, and after the first few chapters on finding and reading documentation (man pages, info, how-to's) I haven't picked the book back up. Seems like whatever I try to do, there is the 'README' walking me through the process.
beyond the readme, there is the source itself, and good programs have great source, where not even being a programmer, comments show you what's going on, and leave a trail of clues to find your solution. I'd like a "paper" saying how good I am at using Linux, and at some point, if I go job hunting I'll shell out the cash and take the LPI.org test to get that certificate to wave around, but for using Linux in my home network and installing/configuring software, I can always rely on the 'MAN'.
for those who wonder how hard these tests are, go over to ExamCram and take the practice tests. The LPI test seems focused on Linux, the RedHat test was asking questions about Windows Commands, which has some value if you're looking to use Linux in a Win environment. Personally I don't want to waste and brain space on that "Other" Operating system.
if you have to pay to get a Job, it's not a money making oportunity, it's Money Draining.
Employers who won't put their neck on the line for you (invest in training you for example) don't have much confidence in your abilities to learn or don't feel that the training will pay off.
the internet is only a medium of information travel. By the same logic, someone should go after the highway department eveytime somebody uses the road to transport illegal drugs.
or how about this one:
Ford gets sued for providing vans used in transporting dead baby seals
Social ills are not a result of increased ability to transmit information, there are underling issues to these problems and going after a legitimate means of communication will not solve these issues. Further, this approach has the potential to 'punish' legitimate users of the system by invading privacy and resticting internet usage.
you will get tivo-like digital vcr, mp3 jukebox, web browsing and email, DVD Movies, HDTV.
oh and it also plays games.
for the price, (it'll be around $300 I'm guestimating) a 600mhz pc with a sweet graphic card (upgradeable) and all the tv in/out/recording, I think it'll be an awsome deal.
I use a pII 266 and have had the upgrade itch for too long. Indrema will give me that high end gaming system, without me having to shell out much money, and I'll still rtain all the functionality of a PC.
HDTV output alone is worth big bucks right now, this makes Indrema seem like the deal of the century.
I can also see it runnig graphic apps like gimp or blender and being able to work on a big screen tv would beat using a 17" monitor.
for most, the function of gaming/mp3box/tivo/DVD is enough, being a Linux Hacker means it can be all that and pretty much everything else you'd want it to do.
10baseT ethernet right out of the box, going right into my home lan, and now I can get online during commercials while watching TV in the livingroom.
if they took pre-orders, they'd already have my money even without the games.
MYSQL can scale fine as long as you know how to scale Linux. Buy a few extra boxes with the money you save and distibute your load
Lay it o the table, let them know that you've already been working on it for 6 months. Declare an open source GPL. YOU are the EXPERT it is YOUR IDEA. YOU can do the right thing and SHARE YOUR VISION WITH THE WORLD.
If they don't like it, they're stuck trying to explain your vision to someone else that has to start from scratch.
If they decide to go this route, they are not in the business of common sense and you'd likely do better elsewhere.
Just because they own you for 40 hours a week does not mean they own your mind and creative energy, much less your time "off the clock". If they loose you over this, it's their loss, and taking that approach they will loose more good people until they learn or go bankrupt.
YOU on the other hand will go on to create an application that fills a specific need and by doing so establish yourself as an EXPERT on this application. Being the creator of the software you are likely to command a higher wage as a consultant to several companies and not being tied to one employer anymore, this question can be answered in the future by you telling your clients to go elsewhere if they won't respect your work and it's GPL.
I suspect MS was in power over Correll just long enough to enter into some 'agreements' meant to be the 'Bait' for Correll forming a 'close working relationship', now here's the 'switch' where good 'ole MS just takes a hike and says "you're on your own Correll, don't you violate those IP contracts you signed into"
just speculation on my part, MS has a way with 'working relationships' that always seems to strip others of their own "Intellectual Property", or at least make that I.P. somehow useless
Trying to justify what came out of Jim Allchins mouth is making you look real bad.
A better approach would be to declare Jim Allchin an idiot, this way it doesn't make it seem like everyone at the company is in the dark, just this one moron heading up the windows software development.
that's why people think Windows is so great, they don't know how good it is be to be free. I am Empowered by my Linux system far more so that I could ever expect to be using any MS WIndows products.
I try to explain this to people all the time, that, Although you pay lots for your computer, MS OWNS YOU, if you're runnig windows.
Perhaps they (the normals) are best influenced by just plain calling Microsoft EVIL in a televised interview. EVIL is a nice term to cover MS without going into NDA pressures, software development, and the open free flow of information.
Linux is the start of a Utopian world. As we all pool our resources together, instead of looking to "protect" innovation under the guise of "intellectual property", soon the world will be fully automated, and we can all sit around and Doodle with great open source software like Gimp and Blender .
I hope the world can see MS as it really is, a company trying to pull wool over their eyes with outright lies and deception. I hope the guy at MS who said all this stuff gets some help, his view of the world is either seriously warped, or he has a serious lack of personal integrity lying to the world like he did.
I fear that many people will discount what the Redhat guy was saying because he was wearing a silly read hat on his head in the interview. they'll think to themselves "what's windows? that reminds me, I need to call my ISP to ask what kind of illegal operation is going on there!"
and in just several hours, VA Linux will have it deposited for my viewing pleasure. Most of the discs I've BOUGHT I can't seem to watch.
2 space heaters, a coffee pot, 3 computers, cable conveter and 3 lamps... and that's just in my home office not the rest of my house. Not a hiccup all day long. Freaking utility bill is over 250$ a month here now, it'd better not be dropping out at that rate!!!
get a Linux book, read the first chapter on how to read man pages and how to find documentation in your system. Forget Windows ever tainted you mind,try to put it out of your head, and don't look back.
Also, delete your Windows partition and 'tough it out'. going back only serves to corrupt you mind.
it worked for me.what other fruit am I not allowed to paint pictures of? Chiquita Bananas are you listening? I saw someone putting bananas in a video game, better go tell them to knock it off. If I see something I own that visual data simply from having laid eyes on it I should be allowed to share my experience with others, an ink and paper drawing, collection of pixels, a verbal description of what I saw. This is the crazy thing that Intellectual property and copyrights have become, it is insane and violates my rights as a free thinking human being!!! they are wanting to ride the 'open source wave' but going open source for apple was because they needed to use work done by others to be able to compete in a new networked world. Apple cares not what is best for the world we live in, their image of 'creative people that uses Macs who 'think different' scares the hell out of me. Using something because the Company tells you you're a real special kind of person is another example of the Fluff that fills our heads in this strange new world. Apple is EVIL and this proves it.
wouldn't it be nice if we could all come up with a way to define all the data we want out of the government in an XML document table definition (or whatever dtd stands for) then the site could be scaled and made available to everything from WAP browsers all the way up to 1.5Ghz monster with sounds/animations and such.
Even better, custom XML-GOV aware 'Clients' could be developed on top of Mozilla as just some chrome that's stored locally to create a Govzilla application/skin that would be extremely efficient in being able to send and recieve just the data, and apply all the flash/nonflashy stuff from the client side. XML is easilly parsed such that XML-GOV functiontions could even be added to chat applications like Gabber
Like how about this XML-GOV applet: have a site map in a Pull-down menu at the top of the browser, so you could go 2-6 pages deep with one click
Also, give us accounts so you can know what we want. if I'm a penguin, I might want to see the obscure story about Linux being used at the local DMV to speed things up. And offer web-based email or 'personal message box' functions, such that if I request a message or response in email, I don't need to rely on my ISP's crappy email service at home
it starts with an Option to get a subscription product, and then subscription only features begin to creep into the standard Office suite read the following: "if you subscibe now you can use 100 mb of free online active server directory to extend the capabilities of your M$ office solution" "to view this document you need to have an account with M$.NET, Auto-register now?" "To use the security auto-update feature, you must first have an account with M$.NET, try out this feature and others like online document sharing with a Free Guest account with M$.NET, to Auto-register now, Click Continue" [OK] [Continue] residual revenue streams and reliability on the Network Services offered by a remote server is the whole strategy here. I'd like to see a "desktop" type of file sharing environment as part of both KDE and Gnome or even as an extension to the kernell ala "freenet" where the open source environment allows you to contribute your machine to the network in exchange for the ability to use the online network for acces to -services,documents sharing... this way, instead of paying M$.net to make things work you could 'contribute' some clockcycles, bandwidth, disk space to a redundant open secure network.... problem fixed. the world is ours :-)
are there any ISP branded versions of Mozilla in the works? Will other ISP's stay away because Netscape is owned by AOL? Many ISP's use customer branded browsers and will not support anything but their own customized version of that browser, forcing their customers into using that 'other' browser(especialy newbies-'the unconverted'-the people we need on our open source wagon). Mozzila being highly customizable seems to lend itself to ISP Branding, but I'm sure a lot of ISP corporate dodohead decision makers would see using mozzila as siding with the enemy (AOL). Me thinks this "Themes" thing could be used to gain acceptance for Mozzila via ISP branding, esspecially because the ISP now has a cross platform 'portal' to their services. Is anyone reading this in a position to make ISP browser distribution decisions, and if someone gave you a nice looking mozzila based browser with your logo all over it, would you go with it?