As an Apple user, I agree with the general argument, but Apple has spent a lot of time basically taking an open source operating system and making it a great desktop. Sure, you can argue this point... is it BSD is it not... But, the point is that Linux will have a great advantage once it runs on everything from cell phones to mainframes. This IMHO opinion is what makes open source a great idea. create a solid common foundation, and allow others to build upon it and profit.
A great Linux desktop is most certainly in the future, but the future always arrives, though sometimes it takes its time getting there.
...stuffed in vaults. Safes, fireproof boxes... most of what was available on vinyl, never made it to cd. most of what is recorded, was never thought to have "commercial" value in the mass production sense. So, I mean actually stuffed in vaults, decaying. Films also suffer the same fate. By the contracts the band itself signs you, of course, mean the only viable contract. As if there were an alternative. You, of course, mean the contract where the artist pays for the wining and dining necessary to get airplay. "Payola" is such an old term! They're now called "music marketers," the most influential of which is actually upstairs from my office.
In the bleak and horrible past, people made decisions for us.
For that 85%, we can guarantee that you will be able to record, find distribution, people willing to work with you, and we won't break your legs! Thanks!
"it used to be called payola, now it's music marketing!"
I think you have this wrong! We still live in the bleak and horrible past where most of the music the world has made is stuffed in vaults. Where most of the money which is used to buy music goes to the management. Sort of like directing cigarette advertising towards kids, and then telling them they can't smoke! Who exactly is wrong here?
They stated that they need to refocus, and i would imagine that the role playing legos and expensive tie-in products like star wars will be the first to go. Lego is about building, not role playing. But Mindstorms is a great building product, and other companies (Dacta) support it. Mindstorms will likely never go away as a concept.
That aside, people don't listen to the slashdot community in its natural technological capacity, why the hell would they listen to some crazed middle-aged guy talk about toys?
i would love to see a pc card slot so that i could use a cdma cell phone/modem in it. talk about a full featured phone! skip the p900...
but, in terms of the market you describe, communications are key. and, there is not a slot. What good could it be in that market? oqo needs to be a bit more focused on the market for this product. fujitsu has been doing this for years, and some of the palmtop pc profiles are downright strange, yet driven by customer needs... barcode readers, technician equipment...
my wishlist would be: tablet pc driven, higher capacity hard disk, pc card slot for a cell phone, and a decent graphics card. battery capacity can be added by battery packs when needed. most people don't need the processor speed, but want to drive a decent monitor, though a 1ghz transmeta is so 2 years ago, not nine months from now.
so, i bought a fujitsu tablet which weighs in under three pounds. on the road, i access email via a cdma modem, and hunt and peck my way through the emails. at home or at the office, i use a keyboard. the weight was my primary issue. i was really tired of lugging around a full laptop, when the uses for a pc on the road are primarily information gathering and communication.
my questions about the oqo are: will it use tablet edition of xp, and isn't a 1gz transmeta a bit backwards for 9 months from now? i like the profile/size, but i think people underestimate the power requirements for a pc you want to use in different settings, particularly graphics processors.
i have to agree with the assessment. my son has a few items from about everyline since the mid eighties up to mindstorm. He played with the things until he was about 13, and a few times i caught him playing with the blocks since then. but, lego was getting dangerously close to playmobil, in terms of role playing rather than constructing. i doubt mindstorms will go away. companies such as dacta have created a nice nitch in education with these products.
my first legos were the 3" x 6" red and white blocks, which occupied my attention fowever--with only one type of block. great stuff, but the basics are what counts--imagination over reality.
i had emailed apple regarding the cobalt products when osx was in version one, stating that this was the perfect apple like device. hell, the founders came from apple. then they come out with that damn cube. duh! i currently use plesk but, it just is way to complicated for somebody with actual work to do. when i had a t1 and the raq as well as nasraq, my maintenance was really simple. this type of product coupled with a good groupware solution for small business, and perhaps backup solutions would be quite nice. the cobalt os is now generalized as opposed to the first mips based products. mips is great however.
if anybody wants to start a group/business around this, i'm in the chicago area, and can be reached at anything (info) plus simple interfaces dot com.
there is already a purpose! and in conjunction with Alias design tools there is some integration, and more I would expect in the future. As a Mac person primarily, i am often put off by Steve's blanket denunciation of platforms (Newton) and technology (interconnectedness--Appletalk vs TCP-IP). I use my tablet to design packaging conncepts, which i export to TIFFS, and incorporate them into documents for clients. I would love a high power Mac tablet pc like device, but i doubt that will happen soon. even on the Windows side, the tablet pc's are generally underpowered for tasks like 3d.
more frightening than this rant is the simple explanation that we are lemmings following the leader who is running from the pack. firearms have never helped much, except in real wars between armed societies. you are really talking about culture wars. wanna win? think the cia is capable of watching everybody? think W could lead a coup? instead of insulting joe six pack, teach him what made this country great. here's a clue: it wasn't a gun. it was a pen. give joe six pack the federalist papers not an nra brochure, because if you need a gun, it's too late.
i've met your enemy, and he is joe six pack. so don't worry!
like many things in life, there is rich overlap. god's greatest success is likely putting everything in the open and giving man the blinders of needing certainty. "it's also a dessert topping!"
free software is generated in a very socialistic manner, yet feeds the libertarian need for freedom. socialism, democracy, freedom... perhaps amerika will find these things go together very well. it most certainly hasn't been finding the latter two as of late.
conservatives like to feed the hopes of everybody thinking they'll get rich some day. you too can be bill gates! little do the masses realize that they'll never be rich. but in the mean time, the things that matter will have been sacrificed--education, neighborhoods, lives--requiring even more work to rebuild.
isn't it odd that sco would target companies capable of clobbering them with legal resources? sort of contrary to the usual attempts at establishing precedence, don't you think? perhaps they are just looking for a purchase since ibm most definitely is not caving. the clock is ticking! somebody has to buy before the cards are layed down! jokers. damn it!
i liked the idea of this also, but the first thing that came to mind was the current royalty practices. typically, a movie is only "profitable" after all expenses (read parties, massages, and alcohol binges) have been deducted. few movies are profitable! so, i wonder what the accounting standards will be, and what the incentive for investors will be. "i gave my hard earned money to bob so he could party and make some movies." i would rather see 1 million people prepurchase "tickets."
i agree with your assessment and solution. but to comment on the reasons that this is a good idea, i would say that the article gives the best reason. why keep upgrading the network from twisted pair to cable to ethernet to fiber when with government support you can jump right to the top? this is where government works best and the reason we are surfing now.
additionally, this will create a lot of new business opportunities. i'm interested in getting a place in the mountains and this would sure as hell sell me! park city here i come...
you have to admit that the telcos have not exactly jumped at the chance to improve the network. hopefully, initiatives like this will wake them from sleepy time.
i was just reading about one of two companies who retrieve information from failed drives, and how one should purchase drives from different batches, because when one fails they all fail. whenever a light fails on my car, i replace them all, because the others are going soon, oddly hondas were the most consistent (the others would be gone in days!). interestingly enough, one of the firms maintains a grief counselor! damn i can't find it...
xp is disabling third party applications with their own--hence the concept of a monopoly. if you install windows media player, the option of resetting your preferences to use this player for certain types of files is presented. likewise with most other media players, quicktime included... there is a distinction--though subtle--between the two types of applications mentioned. one is extending a monopoly, one is choice.
additionally, my understanding is that music match still functions, though not with the ipod. drm is complex enough, and this of course is the main issue with microsoft drm. if it is installed with the os, it is extending the monopoly, because how can differing drm systems interoperate? the will take decades to sort out. but, this slashdot article does not discuss the whole issue and of course sensationalizes the problem. musicmatch still works! so it is funny that quite different concepts of monopoly are in play here, though apple cannot quite be considered a monopoly with 3% of the market, whereas microsoft with 95% of the market can.
there was a version of windows for ppc. perhaps microsoft in a shrewd move to ensure its continued relevance should intel fail, has maintain the os in parallel. apple is thought to have an intel version maintained along side ppc. this makes business sense, not to mention that most of the world will not be intel ia32 or 64. remember that arm based processors for paltops and cell phones, as well as other risc processors run on most portable devices, where microsoft has strong interest. the future is not the pc!
perhaps it is actually more than three years. while i am primarily a mac person--designer--i have installed linux on apple machines for fun in the past. mk linux was supported (financially) by apple, and i installed it on a powermac 6100. i just didn't have anything to do with it once i got it up and running! toys!
i want to know what my windows machine is thinking while it's trying to retain its memory. does it wish it was another os? does it wonder why this is happening again?... i mean didn't i just blue screen a few minutes ago for the very same reason? the blue screen would be the perfect place for such discussion. i'm sitting there captivated!
i want to know! tell me windows! how do you feel about this?
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As an Apple user, I agree with the general argument, but Apple has spent a lot of time basically taking an open source operating system and making it a great desktop. Sure, you can argue this point... is it BSD is it not... But, the point is that Linux will have a great advantage once it runs on everything from cell phones to mainframes. This IMHO opinion is what makes open source a great idea. create a solid common foundation, and allow others to build upon it and profit.
A great Linux desktop is most certainly in the future, but the future always arrives, though sometimes it takes its time getting there.
...stuffed in vaults. Safes, fireproof boxes... most of what was available on vinyl, never made it to cd. most of what is recorded, was never thought to have "commercial" value in the mass production sense. So, I mean actually stuffed in vaults, decaying. Films also suffer the same fate. By the contracts the band itself signs you, of course, mean the only viable contract. As if there were an alternative. You, of course, mean the contract where the artist pays for the wining and dining necessary to get airplay. "Payola" is such an old term! They're now called "music marketers," the most influential of which is actually upstairs from my office.
In the bleak and horrible past, people made decisions for us.
For that 85%, we can guarantee that you will be able to record, find distribution, people willing to work with you, and we won't break your legs! Thanks!
"it used to be called payola, now it's music marketing!"
I think you have this wrong! We still live in the bleak and horrible past where most of the music the world has made is stuffed in vaults. Where most of the money which is used to buy music goes to the management. Sort of like directing cigarette advertising towards kids, and then telling them they can't smoke! Who exactly is wrong here?
They stated that they need to refocus, and i would imagine that the role playing legos and expensive tie-in products like star wars will be the first to go. Lego is about building, not role playing. But Mindstorms is a great building product, and other companies (Dacta) support it. Mindstorms will likely never go away as a concept.
That aside, people don't listen to the slashdot community in its natural technological capacity, why the hell would they listen to some crazed middle-aged guy talk about toys?
Just curious if SCO is considering protecting SCO licensees against the threat of legal from others. Please SCO, protect us from big bad IBM.
Reminds me of that Honey Mooners episode!
i would love to see a pc card slot so that i could use a cdma cell phone/modem in it. talk about a full featured phone! skip the p900...
but, in terms of the market you describe, communications are key. and, there is not a slot. What good could it be in that market? oqo needs to be a bit more focused on the market for this product. fujitsu has been doing this for years, and some of the palmtop pc profiles are downright strange, yet driven by customer needs... barcode readers, technician equipment...
my wishlist would be: tablet pc driven, higher capacity hard disk, pc card slot for a cell phone, and a decent graphics card. battery capacity can be added by battery packs when needed. most people don't need the processor speed, but want to drive a decent monitor, though a 1ghz transmeta is so 2 years ago, not nine months from now.
so, i bought a fujitsu tablet which weighs in under three pounds. on the road, i access email via a cdma modem, and hunt and peck my way through the emails. at home or at the office, i use a keyboard. the weight was my primary issue. i was really tired of lugging around a full laptop, when the uses for a pc on the road are primarily information gathering and communication.
my questions about the oqo are: will it use tablet edition of xp, and isn't a 1gz transmeta a bit backwards for 9 months from now? i like the profile/size, but i think people underestimate the power requirements for a pc you want to use in different settings, particularly graphics processors.
i have to agree with the assessment. my son has a few items from about everyline since the mid eighties up to mindstorm. He played with the things until he was about 13, and a few times i caught him playing with the blocks since then. but, lego was getting dangerously close to playmobil, in terms of role playing rather than constructing. i doubt mindstorms will go away. companies such as dacta have created a nice nitch in education with these products.
my first legos were the 3" x 6" red and white blocks, which occupied my attention fowever--with only one type of block. great stuff, but the basics are what counts--imagination over reality.
you don't like osx, correct? you could have shown you're brother the software update option!
that's a pretty big percentage of users! certainly they are a bit off, but still...
i had emailed apple regarding the cobalt products when osx was in version one, stating that this was the perfect apple like device. hell, the founders came from apple. then they come out with that damn cube. duh! i currently use plesk but, it just is way to complicated for somebody with actual work to do. when i had a t1 and the raq as well as nasraq, my maintenance was really simple. this type of product coupled with a good groupware solution for small business, and perhaps backup solutions would be quite nice. the cobalt os is now generalized as opposed to the first mips based products. mips is great however.
if anybody wants to start a group/business around this, i'm in the chicago area, and can be reached at anything (info) plus simple interfaces dot com.
there is already a purpose! and in conjunction with Alias design tools there is some integration, and more I would expect in the future. As a Mac person primarily, i am often put off by Steve's blanket denunciation of platforms (Newton) and technology (interconnectedness--Appletalk vs TCP-IP). I use my tablet to design packaging conncepts, which i export to TIFFS, and incorporate them into documents for clients. I would love a high power Mac tablet pc like device, but i doubt that will happen soon. even on the Windows side, the tablet pc's are generally underpowered for tasks like 3d.
more frightening than this rant is the simple explanation that we are lemmings following the leader who is running from the pack. firearms have never helped much, except in real wars between armed societies. you are really talking about culture wars. wanna win? think the cia is capable of watching everybody? think W could lead a coup? instead of insulting joe six pack, teach him what made this country great. here's a clue: it wasn't a gun. it was a pen. give joe six pack the federalist papers not an nra brochure, because if you need a gun, it's too late.
i've met your enemy, and he is joe six pack. so don't worry!
like many things in life, there is rich overlap. god's greatest success is likely putting everything in the open and giving man the blinders of needing certainty. "it's also a dessert topping!"
free software is generated in a very socialistic manner, yet feeds the libertarian need for freedom. socialism, democracy, freedom... perhaps amerika will find these things go together very well. it most certainly hasn't been finding the latter two as of late.
conservatives like to feed the hopes of everybody thinking they'll get rich some day. you too can be bill gates! little do the masses realize that they'll never be rich. but in the mean time, the things that matter will have been sacrificed--education, neighborhoods, lives--requiring even more work to rebuild.
isn't it odd that sco would target companies capable of clobbering them with legal resources? sort of contrary to the usual attempts at establishing precedence, don't you think? perhaps they are just looking for a purchase since ibm most definitely is not caving. the clock is ticking! somebody has to buy before the cards are layed down! jokers. damn it!
i liked the idea of this also, but the first thing that came to mind was the current royalty practices. typically, a movie is only "profitable" after all expenses (read parties, massages, and alcohol binges) have been deducted. few movies are profitable! so, i wonder what the accounting standards will be, and what the incentive for investors will be. "i gave my hard earned money to bob so he could party and make some movies." i would rather see 1 million people prepurchase "tickets."
i agree with your assessment and solution. but to comment on the reasons that this is a good idea, i would say that the article gives the best reason. why keep upgrading the network from twisted pair to cable to ethernet to fiber when with government support you can jump right to the top? this is where government works best and the reason we are surfing now.
additionally, this will create a lot of new business opportunities. i'm interested in getting a place in the mountains and this would sure as hell sell me! park city here i come...
you have to admit that the telcos have not exactly jumped at the chance to improve the network. hopefully, initiatives like this will wake them from sleepy time.
i was just reading about one of two companies who retrieve information from failed drives, and how one should purchase drives from different batches, because when one fails they all fail. whenever a light fails on my car, i replace them all, because the others are going soon, oddly hondas were the most consistent (the others would be gone in days!). interestingly enough, one of the firms maintains a grief counselor! damn i can't find it...
next-->display postscript... upon which quartz is based.
xp is disabling third party applications with their own--hence the concept of a monopoly. if you install windows media player, the option of resetting your preferences to use this player for certain types of files is presented. likewise with most other media players, quicktime included... there is a distinction--though subtle--between the two types of applications mentioned. one is extending a monopoly, one is choice.
additionally, my understanding is that music match still functions, though not with the ipod. drm is complex enough, and this of course is the main issue with microsoft drm. if it is installed with the os, it is extending the monopoly, because how can differing drm systems interoperate? the will take decades to sort out. but, this slashdot article does not discuss the whole issue and of course sensationalizes the problem. musicmatch still works! so it is funny that quite different concepts of monopoly are in play here, though apple cannot quite be considered a monopoly with 3% of the market, whereas microsoft with 95% of the market can.
there was a version of windows for ppc. perhaps microsoft in a shrewd move to ensure its continued relevance should intel fail, has maintain the os in parallel. apple is thought to have an intel version maintained along side ppc. this makes business sense, not to mention that most of the world will not be intel ia32 or 64. remember that arm based processors for paltops and cell phones, as well as other risc processors run on most portable devices, where microsoft has strong interest. the future is not the pc!
perhaps it is actually more than three years. while i am primarily a mac person--designer--i have installed linux on apple machines for fun in the past. mk linux was supported (financially) by apple, and i installed it on a powermac 6100. i just didn't have anything to do with it once i got it up and running! toys!
i want to know what my windows machine is thinking while it's trying to retain its memory. does it wish it was another os? does it wonder why this is happening again?... i mean didn't i just blue screen a few minutes ago for the very same reason? the blue screen would be the perfect place for such discussion. i'm sitting there captivated!
i want to know! tell me windows! how do you feel about this?
as i just received another couple of letter asking for assistance from the war torn regions of africa, how much of this is spam and related garbage?
oddly enough the most useful information is often the most concise. duck!