Is this the end of the beginning? Is it absolutely nothing? Jeez, talk about your random opinion. I don't see XFree dying, but more appropriately, I don't see this as possibly being the cause of the "beginning of the end." XFree-cygwin is definitely not propping the project up, nor are they the primary users.
Touche. My comment was brief and the obvious reaction is to see apples-to-oranges comparison, and this is a valid argument.
However, this is the point I intended to make: I understand that cars and computers are not valid to compare directly, but rather I tried to show how the computer world is different and unique. If cars improved at the same rate of computers, they would be free, run on no gas, and go so fast they'd experience brownian motion. The acceleration curve of computational improvements is something we can't even comprehend fully. Also, the computer industry is not your mom-and-pop used-car market. In this age in the "tech industry," Computers are replaced and disposed of at an increasing rate much like cars, but once again this rate is increasing many orders of magnitude faster. Another "invalid comparison" but perhaps a better one--do you expect your Kia to be serviced in 50 years? No, you expect it to visit the crusher in 10. Red Hat does what it needs to survive, and for those "left in the lurch," by their support decisions, luckily the beauty of the open source community means that they may and probably will find support elsewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if people somewhere are working hard to provide security updates for the discontinued series.
Excellent point. On the other hand, many people have problems with Red Hat dropping their support for older versions of their desktop OS quickly (such as, soon the 7.x series will no longer be supported, and I believe 6.x was dropped recently).
Obviously, it's a balancing act, however, and I think Red Hat is playing it right. They support what is reasonable and feasable for them. No one wants to be forced to upgrade every year, and that is a major counterpoint to M$'s model. Still, Red Hat can't afford to spend money supporting every version ever, and 6.x harkens back to approximately 1998. That is like 50 years in the computer world. Can you take your 1958 Chevy to a Chevy dealer?
Bravo, Red Hat. You're making money in an honest, ethical way and pursuing the goal of making open source software mainstream (they care about that much more than profit, from what I hear).
Well I'll gladly call Gator "Bitchware." As in, they're bitches for installing stuff on my computer without my permission (or installed, rather, back when I used Windows). So go ahead, sue me. I call it freedom of speech. If I call MS a monopoly, can they get mad at me? What about if I say they're a Nazi Fascist Organization? Still no? Is it true or accurate? No... As long as the other site wasn't making money off of "misrepresenting" Gator I don't see the issue or any legal qualm. Someone please correct or clarify this for me if I'm wrong, though.
Agreed. It's open to interpretation, surely, but it reminds me of how every single book in high school ended up to actually be about the fall of man from grace just because a character would "fall" at some point in the story, no matter who fell or how. See, now that you think about it, it makes sense, but un-think about it, and you can see that it could just be that the character fell down and went boom. Similarly, the parallels to modern "piracy" surely make sense but we can't assume that it's the author's intent. This review, to me anyway, read more like a paper than a review--he draws facts from the biography and analyzes it in context of another, current issue.
But yeah, I don't think this is quite a "The Crucible" or anything similar, or at least not by intent of the author.
I'm glad we have the real edition in our university lab, open to students 24x7 (along with matlab, mathematica, studiotools, photoshop, etc.) Seriously, people complain about being "poor students"... well, you may be poor but most universities provide for their poor little ducklings!
So shame that this is crippled, but if you're looking to do anything CONSTRUCTIVE which would take tons of time and effort, you gotta to pay to play.
Jesus, how blind are these investors? How long do you think it will take SCO to make back $50 million in profits, assuming they succeed in their suit? I mean, it's not like the license is an exponentially growing market. In the ideal SCO-wins scenario (i'm talking from their point obviously), they'll sell a finite amount of licenses and view VERY little growth. It's not like they release a product every two years which requires their entire userbase to buy a new license (*cough*MS*cougH*). So how could SCO be seen as a company with huge growth potential?
the same was said about USB. It took years for products to reach market, and years more until things became mainstream. Why? The cost far outweighed the convenience, and software support was sketchy. This mirrors bluetooth--it is definitely a better technology, but it is not fully supported by commodity hardware and software (with Apple leading the way, though) and it is dang expensive! I would have loved a lushious SonyEricsson phone with bluetooth and a headset, but it's $300. Within the reach of some, but not enough to make the market big enough to classify as "taking off."
Well I doubt they'd be liable to make it theme-able, for several reasons. One, they never themed their Quicktime application, it follows the company's iProgram design. Two, they want to advocate their products and platform, the Mac, so they would not want to deviate from it if they have a choice, which they obviously do here.
I'd wager that it will look identical to Mac iTunes. Theoretically this will make people think something in the direction of "Oh, this would look alot better on a Mac, where it came from. Maybe I should buy one." Realistically that wouldn't happen much, but it's a "brand-image" thing.
As I was reading this I thought the next word would be McBride, and I almost fainted. Imagine that man in any sort of political office? "Uh, guys, I got this great plan. Instead of trying to hunt down Saddam, why don't we just sue him unless he pays us $6,999,999.00 for every weapon of mass destruction he has? Yes!!! Brilliant!!!"
no offense, but that is the kind of geek behavior that scares people away from geeks, rather than accepting them. most "geek-phobia" comes from geeks being ultraelitist and scoff at regular users who just don't understand and know better. so i'm glad you made your point, had your fun, and kept your job, but maybe if you tried to reason things out in laymen's terms you'd better the world a little bit more.
I never would have guessed Dell to do this, but it makes so much sense to me. They're the success story in the PC world, and when I read this announcement I was just like "ah ha! brilliant!"
Not to say I think they'll succeed, the product will be perfect, etc., but just thinking about it, Dell seems like the company with the greatest chance of pulling this off to me, and perhaps could be a stepping stone toward more apple-like PC products in the future (Linux R&D to get things working on the newest hardware, anyone?)
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yes and I also liked FX5-1. i assume that has to do with the current trend to have 5.1 audio on high-end gaming/home theater sound systems. jesus, can't they *also* offer these things labeled as friggin athlon64 2.2ghz for the less gaudy crowd?
Gaim is awesome. But not perfect. I tried several of the latest versions and file transfers/direct image sending were not working properly. Then I gave up on Linux on my centrino laptop and went back to windows, and although I'm tempted to use trillian it just feels like AIM is the best client to use.
I thought GTA: Vice City had an awesome commercial. Cool gameplay footage, nice music, gives a great feel for the game while being cool (it's set as a Miami Vice-esque trailer with the music and characters walking around/talking).
No easy solution, but another interesting problem: people don't use different messengers based on how good their service or technology is, they use what their friends use. Two places I've lived, Boston and New York, both have predominantly AIM users that I've encountered. But in Toronto, MSN Messenger is most common. I would actually prefer ICQ, but I can't make all my friends shift, nor can I tell new acquaintances "what online chat program do you use? Oh, that... why don't you switch to this?" It's just not feasible, so everyone sticks to the same thing.
There's so many things wrong here. For starters, Federal tax dollars (aka "your money") are being spent to push the paperwork on a car that only the super-wealthy will ever drive.
Read again. They threw a little clause onto another bill, very quietly so no one would notice. The bill passed to accomplish other things, and in the process granted this little clause (Bill Clinton probably didn't even read that part) that enabled the 959s to be legalized. It wasn't an entire bill devoted to this car, because the senators wouldn't waste their time on that (they're busy wasting it on other stuff... heh heh there's a can of worms).
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well i would blame the poster, because it sounds very different out of context versus what another person who replied to my post said.
actually, i tried not to be very harsh and didn't blame him, anyway, I just pointed out that it's a naive remark.
Nah, because we're the ones POINTING AND LAUGHING at the ducks in the desert!
Touche. My comment was brief and the obvious reaction is to see apples-to-oranges comparison, and this is a valid argument. However, this is the point I intended to make: I understand that cars and computers are not valid to compare directly, but rather I tried to show how the computer world is different and unique. If cars improved at the same rate of computers, they would be free, run on no gas, and go so fast they'd experience brownian motion. The acceleration curve of computational improvements is something we can't even comprehend fully. Also, the computer industry is not your mom-and-pop used-car market. In this age in the "tech industry," Computers are replaced and disposed of at an increasing rate much like cars, but once again this rate is increasing many orders of magnitude faster. Another "invalid comparison" but perhaps a better one--do you expect your Kia to be serviced in 50 years? No, you expect it to visit the crusher in 10. Red Hat does what it needs to survive, and for those "left in the lurch," by their support decisions, luckily the beauty of the open source community means that they may and probably will find support elsewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if people somewhere are working hard to provide security updates for the discontinued series.
Excellent point. On the other hand, many people have problems with Red Hat dropping their support for older versions of their desktop OS quickly (such as, soon the 7.x series will no longer be supported, and I believe 6.x was dropped recently).
Obviously, it's a balancing act, however, and I think Red Hat is playing it right. They support what is reasonable and feasable for them. No one wants to be forced to upgrade every year, and that is a major counterpoint to M$'s model. Still, Red Hat can't afford to spend money supporting every version ever, and 6.x harkens back to approximately 1998. That is like 50 years in the computer world. Can you take your 1958 Chevy to a Chevy dealer?
Bravo, Red Hat. You're making money in an honest, ethical way and pursuing the goal of making open source software mainstream (they care about that much more than profit, from what I hear).
Well I'll gladly call Gator "Bitchware." As in, they're bitches for installing stuff on my computer without my permission (or installed, rather, back when I used Windows). So go ahead, sue me. I call it freedom of speech. If I call MS a monopoly, can they get mad at me? What about if I say they're a Nazi Fascist Organization? Still no? Is it true or accurate? No... As long as the other site wasn't making money off of "misrepresenting" Gator I don't see the issue or any legal qualm. Someone please correct or clarify this for me if I'm wrong, though.
Agreed. It's open to interpretation, surely, but it reminds me of how every single book in high school ended up to actually be about the fall of man from grace just because a character would "fall" at some point in the story, no matter who fell or how. See, now that you think about it, it makes sense, but un-think about it, and you can see that it could just be that the character fell down and went boom. Similarly, the parallels to modern "piracy" surely make sense but we can't assume that it's the author's intent. This review, to me anyway, read more like a paper than a review--he draws facts from the biography and analyzes it in context of another, current issue.
But yeah, I don't think this is quite a "The Crucible" or anything similar, or at least not by intent of the author.
I'm glad we have the real edition in our university lab, open to students 24x7 (along with matlab, mathematica, studiotools, photoshop, etc.) Seriously, people complain about being "poor students"... well, you may be poor but most universities provide for their poor little ducklings!
So shame that this is crippled, but if you're looking to do anything CONSTRUCTIVE which would take tons of time and effort, you gotta to pay to play.
Jesus, how blind are these investors? How long do you think it will take SCO to make back $50 million in profits, assuming they succeed in their suit? I mean, it's not like the license is an exponentially growing market. In the ideal SCO-wins scenario (i'm talking from their point obviously), they'll sell a finite amount of licenses and view VERY little growth. It's not like they release a product every two years which requires their entire userbase to buy a new license (*cough*MS*cougH*). So how could SCO be seen as a company with huge growth potential?
the same was said about USB. It took years for products to reach market, and years more until things became mainstream. Why? The cost far outweighed the convenience, and software support was sketchy. This mirrors bluetooth--it is definitely a better technology, but it is not fully supported by commodity hardware and software (with Apple leading the way, though) and it is dang expensive! I would have loved a lushious SonyEricsson phone with bluetooth and a headset, but it's $300. Within the reach of some, but not enough to make the market big enough to classify as "taking off."
You'd need a 1100-node dual-g5 supercomputer to hold all that! Or a soviet russian beowulf cluster of PDAs might do the trick
The soviet front was horifically bloody in not-your-typical-war ways... the fighting was not the part you learn about in history class
Well I doubt they'd be liable to make it theme-able, for several reasons. One, they never themed their Quicktime application, it follows the company's iProgram design. Two, they want to advocate their products and platform, the Mac, so they would not want to deviate from it if they have a choice, which they obviously do here.
I'd wager that it will look identical to Mac iTunes. Theoretically this will make people think something in the direction of "Oh, this would look alot better on a Mac, where it came from. Maybe I should buy one." Realistically that wouldn't happen much, but it's a "brand-image" thing.
That's what you get for having a country full of convicts...
no offense, but that is the kind of geek behavior that scares people away from geeks, rather than accepting them. most "geek-phobia" comes from geeks being ultraelitist and scoff at regular users who just don't understand and know better. so i'm glad you made your point, had your fun, and kept your job, but maybe if you tried to reason things out in laymen's terms you'd better the world a little bit more.
just my 2 cents though
Wouldn't you suppose that they would measure bandwidth by the type of music played? Like...
Dude, my reggae connection is sooooo slow! I can't wait until the telco rolls out the grunge-death-metal next month!
yeah that'd be great except you know the girls dressed up as niobe will make you cringe and ruin your image of the original forever :-(
I never would have guessed Dell to do this, but it makes so much sense to me. They're the success story in the PC world, and when I read this announcement I was just like "ah ha! brilliant!"
Not to say I think they'll succeed, the product will be perfect, etc., but just thinking about it, Dell seems like the company with the greatest chance of pulling this off to me, and perhaps could be a stepping stone toward more apple-like PC products in the future (Linux R&D to get things working on the newest hardware, anyone?)
yes and I also liked FX5-1. i assume that has to do with the current trend to have 5.1 audio on high-end gaming/home theater sound systems. jesus, can't they *also* offer these things labeled as friggin athlon64 2.2ghz for the less gaudy crowd?
Gaim is awesome. But not perfect. I tried several of the latest versions and file transfers/direct image sending were not working properly. Then I gave up on Linux on my centrino laptop and went back to windows, and although I'm tempted to use trillian it just feels like AIM is the best client to use.
I thought GTA: Vice City had an awesome commercial. Cool gameplay footage, nice music, gives a great feel for the game while being cool (it's set as a Miami Vice-esque trailer with the music and characters walking around/talking).
No easy solution, but another interesting problem: people don't use different messengers based on how good their service or technology is, they use what their friends use. Two places I've lived, Boston and New York, both have predominantly AIM users that I've encountered. But in Toronto, MSN Messenger is most common. I would actually prefer ICQ, but I can't make all my friends shift, nor can I tell new acquaintances "what online chat program do you use? Oh, that... why don't you switch to this?" It's just not feasible, so everyone sticks to the same thing.
yeah but dont try and stick your thingy in there.... baaaaaaaaaaaad things!