We have Lotus Notes at work. It is not uncommon for me to have more than two messages open at once, each under its own tab. Even my reply is under its own tab. Another example of a good use, I am reading an involved message and an urgent one comes to my attention. Open the new one in its tab and leaving the other's display undisturbed.
Bringing OSS applications up to the level of current business applications is key to gaining acceptance. As with any other feature it should be selectable. Now there are many OSS packages that have features I would love to see in the commercial applications I use by feature movement is much easier one way than the other.
Seems to me that the balloon is being floated from many directions, getting more so each coming month.
I still think that the studios will get a third party to write software to put DRM songs on iPods without requiring iTunes. They will then market songs to iPod users that Apple no longer carries or is allowed to carry. In fact they may just seek to portray Apple as "the problem".
Remember, the buying public isn't filled with millions of the brightest people. Many believe that big portions of their dollars go to the artist. So its not beyond reason to see the studios do and end-run or attempt one to force Apple to comply.
In fact schools can regulate speech as long as its "politically correct". The best example is the current refusal by some schools to permit military recruiters on their campuses because of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Yet what of the rights of their students who want these recruiters to have access? Or what of the students who want fair representation by all, including those they disagree with.
How do they pull this seemingly impossible double standard? Easy, brand anything that opposes as "Hate Speech". That excuses any double standard.
Its a different rule for the productive and the non-productive.
Where is the benefit of locking up someone like Ellison? He can produce more while in society and someone can benefit from his money. Whereas the unproductive who usually are those engaged in petty crimes probably have no means other than jailhouse labor to payback society for the damage they cause.
As for what politicians do, hell there ain't no way for them to pay us back, we just have to hope the cost isn't to high that we pay for having them.
Novell integration and NT server integration Virus protection (no system is immune from users) Automatic updates (push and pull). software management beyond updates (load/unload un/authorized software) 5250 and 3270 emulation Office must run on it.
Oh, and all of it must have support available 24/7 from known companies. Then to top it off we will need 3 vendors to provide versions of their software to run under linux which will never happen.
E-Mail is the least of the worries. Its all the other pieces which make up the corporate PC. You then have to get past entrenched individuals (read: can't be fired) who can shoot down anything with FUD. (in our case Novell hacks)
I don't know what RAIDs you are referring to buy many are long and convoluted. Everyone has a job and I have seen people banned from RAIDS for making simple mistakes or not doing their job fast enough. All because sweatshop_farmer_9412 or should we say nolife_liveinbasement_9472 is just a jerk with no life but a penchant of blaming anyone else for problems? WOW is all milk and honey. Numerous RAIDS are out door affairs that are subject to intense griefing. Having a RAID over 10 people even in an instance is a path to griefing whether it is ninja-looting or clique looting.
Brad wasn't totally wrong but instances are not the anwser either. They are an unnatural solution to a problem. Simply put the worlds are not big enough and varied enough to support the number of people they allow to play. Instancing works better as an anti-asshole system than content promotion. Small instances, in WOW this would be a 5 man raid type, are good mainly because the lack of competition.
At the least the first people they should have turned off once the judge went to idiotville is the government workers. They might have given the jerks in Congress a clue about just how bogus patents can be.
Instead they will cave and the patent whores will become even more belligerent. Hell Canada should invalidate any holdings NTP has just to prove a point. (or better yet, pay off RIMs losses by charging a few US based companies idiot fees)
The laws intent was to help rural people, as in farmers. However as with a horrid system of taxes that the US suffers from a loophole was found. The law did not originally specify what "types" of vehicles qualified for the discount. It merely stated over 6,000 pounds. This normally would have been the domain of vehicles used mostly on farms and some small businesses.
It is the tax system which is at fault for most disparities. It allows the rich to dodge payment as they can buy loopholes from Congress. It is their lawyers and lobbyist who work to keep the system in place. By making sure to keep a near majority of people from paying income taxes, and worse actually paying the least capable of those, they have created a system which actually allows them keep more of their wealth. They prey on the middle class and the poor by misdirection and deceit.
All these tax dodges have to get paid for. The usual means is to pass it off to business. why? Because it is easier to portray businesses as evil and uncaring. Trouble is no business actually pays any tax, they are merely collectors for taxes. That is why people don't notice it. When the price of their favorite items goes up they blame the business, ignoring the effects of tax laws and abuse of them and how the resposibility for paying those taxes got mysteriously moved.
Blame Bush is the cheap way out and exactly what these boys want you to do. Blame anyone but the right people and they continue their game unharrassed. Convince people who already distrust whomever is in power to blame those in power is the easiest part of the game.
Fortunately once the abuses were figured out they did get shut down, the new side effect of the internet and such was that people who would not know of the ability to abuse the law suddenly had an abundance of information provided on how to do just that.
The problem with newspapers is similar to broadcast television. They have gotten this idea in their head that their reports should never be challenged and what they decide to print will BE the truth.
The internet has allowed individuals to challenge the accuracy and fairness of the newspaper and broadcast television industry. No longer do people just blindly accept what they read in their local paper or see on the nightly news. They are now exposed to many views and many sources of information. This brings about higher scrutiny of what the newspaper or nightly news tells them.
Another problem with newspapers is they tend to be based in big cities and have a big city mindset which is does not always connect to those who might work in the city but live outside of it. Local small town papers are viable until the larger neighbor city buys it up and shuts it down (the Atlanta Journal Constitution has done this where I live). This action alone forces more people to look elsewhere for information.
Still I think the key is the egotistical outlook of papers and broadcast media that they control what the truth is has come to and end. They just don't accept it.
People now are much better picking out when a story is more opinion/editorial than factual compared to the editors of the same.
People should not have to pay for channels they have no desire to watch. What gives you the right to have other people subsidize your enjoyment? The problem is too many people they are "entitled" to what they want even at the expense of others. Terms like fairness are often used and if that doesn't work discrimination and disenfranchisement are then employed.
I don't want to pay for certain channels let alone fund them. Currently I don't have a choice, if I want certain channels I have to pay for those I have no intention of ever watching.
What this is all about is the cable companies make money hosting select channels, channels that pay to be shown. Those channels will continue to do so but now they may actually have to develop an audience.
The only negative is that the entry costs to push a new channel will be higher but hopefully that will lead to better entrants.
To own a Mac is to have it give me some functionality I cannot easily derive from my Windows PC in a format that doesn't collide with my entertainment center.
I would like to have a Mac around to experience OS/X but I don't need it and therefor have no reason to spend the money. Make it do something useful for me that I would have to already spend money to have and then I can consider it.
Yeah I know TiVO is big, my friends have them. I also see MCE and some Linux solutions. The first is proprietary and the other two require work on my end to have something that both looks decent and might actually work.
If Apple can deliver a PVR that also allows me to dabble with OS/X who knows where it might lead. The big IF is, will they price it for the market or let their ego do the pricing?
is a major problem with this society today. I find it truly annoying that we don't celebrate more the success that many people do have. Instead we have many people who attempt to bring these people down.
STOP IT.
Damn it, we are a society of achievers. It is what drives this country. Yes it can be excessive but damn if we keep up this "loser" mentality then we truly will fall behind.
It is the lack of celebrating the winners that is affecting our schools. We have systems which now "play games" with grades so as not to embarras those who don't strive to succeed. Schools go out of there way to minimize the success of a few and wonder why the students stop trying? If we want to know why our schools are falling behind in math and science we have only to look at why we stopped celebrating those who truly were outstanding. If you punish success you will get mediocrity.
You ever think that many of the people buying these things don't have to care about their heating bills; which btw are not going to be that hideously different from last year. My price per therm hasn't budged, don't believe all the BS hype
you will see that this machine really is well done and offers lots of useful features. It is very well thought out and if you opt for the harddrive you get even more options.
I was actually impressed with its ability to work with other devices to include an iPOD and PsP. The nice thing about this machine is that it really is expandable as wireless gives them many options. You will probably see an addon keyboard/mouse combo one day.
There are many of us out here who don't need our PCs to program on, we have them for games, other entertainment, e-mail, and surfing. Give me an insta-on box with those features and I may just consider it. The XBOX360 is actually the first console I am seriously considering because of the potential.
Playing DvDs is a bonus, if it means one less component I have to hook up or keep up with all the better. People harped on the PS2 for the same reason yet I know many who have one for that very reason.
Just because its Microsoft doesn't make it wrong which seems to be your whole beef against it. (who made it)
(allow me to run some IBM style emulator/vpn over the net with a wireless keyboard and I really really need a PC even less)
What if EMI is testing the waters? What if they are having this technology developed as a means to market to iPod users? The reason would be simple, they intend to go ahead and jack the wholesale rate for songs setting values based on popularity. Then should Apple not go along with it they can tell consumers that they don't need iTunes to get THEIR music that mean old Apple isn't letting them have.
So bascially, develop a method to get your music on the most popular MP3 player DRM protected with Apple out of the loop. Perhaps an attempt to force Apple to accept the new pricing scheme? EMI could be the frontman with the other studios quietly awaiting the outcome. I fully expect that if they get this to work that Apple will have to try to stop it. If they do get it to work and Apple doesn't agree to the new pricing I expect other companies to join in.
The only reason I suspect this is that iTunes has taken away the control they crave. I don't think they would stop at anything to get it back either. If it means "blackmailing" Apple with a working circumvention then I suspect they will float it.
Oh I am quite sure there will be titles below 99 cents but I bet no one will want to listen to them and should they start they won't be less than 99 cents anymore.
Jobs should simply refuse access to iTunes for the media execs who want to reach into our pockets after colluding on CD pricing for so long
I would suspect some of the commercials are to buy the boxed set for the episodes being viewed. Get consumers to distribute your shows in a small computer version just so they get the idea to buy the boxed set for the living room HDTV.
I look at it this way. If it takes George Bush being President to get our voting systems reviewed and all the dirty laundry brought out in the open then I say "so be it".
Fraudulent voting was not a problem until the people relying on it saw it used against them or had it thwarted. Electronic voting put a big crimp in the works of those who relied on fradulent voting. As such they had to scare the public into believing the old system's amount of fraud while verifiable was "manageable".
Look at Chicago and its elections. People joke about dead people and people voting multiple times because a "joke" is the last bastion of those who have already giving up. The apathy about it simply turned into morbid humor.
I do like how some groups toss Ohio out there as an example of distrust or voter fraud when it was never a close contest. It simply was the closest state to victory of one part over another. Two other states showed much more possibly voter fraud but have been overlooked simply because of the party they went for. In other words, when you lose make sure people think the other side cheated, after all losing because you fail to appeal the majority isn't much fun.
Verifiable voting and verifiable voters are BOTH needed. Having one without the other leaves the problem unfixed.
By monopolizing the hardware Apple is just as evil if not worse than Microsoft. The one great thing about the x86 platform was that we could put what operating system we wanted on it.
Apple is bringing to the x86 world that it is okay to lock consumers into your own brand of hardware. This is not the direction we need to go.
too many people excuse Apple's actions just because they are Apple. After what Apple did to the original Mac clone makers it makes one wonder how anyone can excuse them. Perhaps its just "correct" to continue to excuse their obviously monopolistic activities because a lot of geeks think they are cool (and all so not Microsoft)
With your type of thinking we would still be playing pong just in multiple colors. There is nothing excessive about the game requirements what is excessive is the whiners about how other people spend their time and money.
There are always those who will try to guilt-trip anyone for whatever reason. Most always it boils down to money. Like people who harp about how much gasoline costs, to hummers, to millionaires buying rides to the ISS.
Enjoyment and relaxation come in many forms and how people spend THEIR money is of no real concern to me as long as it does not endanger me in the process.
Computer games are advancing the state of entertainment, attempting to bring realism to the screen. Doing so does require oodles of computer power and we have that luxury these days. People looking at the future would never imagine the power we dedicate to games but looking back 10 years the picture changes.
The amount of power expended by high end PCs is nothing to cry about. In fact it trivializes many other real wastes of power and money.
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We have Lotus Notes at work. It is not uncommon for me to have more than two messages open at once, each under its own tab. Even my reply is under its own tab. Another example of a good use, I am reading an involved message and an urgent one comes to my attention. Open the new one in its tab and leaving the other's display undisturbed.
Bringing OSS applications up to the level of current business applications is key to gaining acceptance. As with any other feature it should be selectable. Now there are many OSS packages that have features I would love to see in the commercial applications I use by feature movement is much easier one way than the other.
Seems to me that the balloon is being floated from many directions, getting more so each coming month.
I still think that the studios will get a third party to write software to put DRM songs on iPods without requiring iTunes. They will then market songs to iPod users that Apple no longer carries or is allowed to carry. In fact they may just seek to portray Apple as "the problem".
Remember, the buying public isn't filled with millions of the brightest people. Many believe that big portions of their dollars go to the artist. So its not beyond reason to see the studios do and end-run or attempt one to force Apple to comply.
In fact schools can regulate speech as long as its "politically correct". The best example is the current refusal by some schools to permit military recruiters on their campuses because of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Yet what of the rights of their students who want these recruiters to have access? Or what of the students who want fair representation by all, including those they disagree with.
How do they pull this seemingly impossible double standard? Easy, brand anything that opposes as "Hate Speech". That excuses any double standard.
as anyone else. Their products should be viewed just as anyone else's software.
The common joke with Apple products is always to wait for version 2.
Hold them accountable, maybe they will change.
Its like Frontrow, for me its useless as its not a PVR. Yet try and present this argument and you get flamed.
Its a different rule for the productive and the non-productive.
Where is the benefit of locking up someone like Ellison? He can produce more while in society and someone can benefit from his money. Whereas the unproductive who usually are those engaged in petty crimes probably have no means other than jailhouse labor to payback society for the damage they cause.
As for what politicians do, hell there ain't no way for them to pay us back, we just have to hope the cost isn't to high that we pay for having them.
In our case.
Novell integration and NT server integration
Virus protection (no system is immune from users)
Automatic updates (push and pull).
software management beyond updates (load/unload un/authorized software)
5250 and 3270 emulation
Office must run on it.
Oh, and all of it must have support available 24/7 from known companies. Then to top it off we will need 3 vendors to provide versions of their software to run under linux which will never happen.
E-Mail is the least of the worries. Its all the other pieces which make up the corporate PC. You then have to get past entrenched individuals (read: can't be fired) who can shoot down anything with FUD. (in our case Novell hacks)
I don't know what RAIDs you are referring to buy many are long and convoluted. Everyone has a job and I have seen people banned from RAIDS for making simple mistakes or not doing their job fast enough. All because sweatshop_farmer_9412 or should we say nolife_liveinbasement_9472 is just a jerk with no life but a penchant of blaming anyone else for problems? WOW is all milk and honey. Numerous RAIDS are out door affairs that are subject to intense griefing. Having a RAID over 10 people even in an instance is a path to griefing whether it is ninja-looting or clique looting.
Brad wasn't totally wrong but instances are not the anwser either. They are an unnatural solution to a problem. Simply put the worlds are not big enough and varied enough to support the number of people they allow to play. Instancing works better as an anti-asshole system than content promotion. Small instances, in WOW this would be a 5 man raid type, are good mainly because the lack of competition.
Offer their services there and turn the US off.
At the least the first people they should have turned off once the judge went to idiotville is the government workers. They might have given the jerks in Congress a clue about just how bogus patents can be.
Instead they will cave and the patent whores will become even more belligerent. Hell Canada should invalidate any holdings NTP has just to prove a point. (or better yet, pay off RIMs losses by charging a few US based companies idiot fees)
Time to go to war over something truly valuable.
The laws intent was to help rural people, as in farmers. However as with a horrid system of taxes that the US suffers from a loophole was found. The law did not originally specify what "types" of vehicles qualified for the discount. It merely stated over 6,000 pounds. This normally would have been the domain of vehicles used mostly on farms and some small businesses.
It is the tax system which is at fault for most disparities. It allows the rich to dodge payment as they can buy loopholes from Congress. It is their lawyers and lobbyist who work to keep the system in place. By making sure to keep a near majority of people from paying income taxes, and worse actually paying the least capable of those, they have created a system which actually allows them keep more of their wealth. They prey on the middle class and the poor by misdirection and deceit.
All these tax dodges have to get paid for. The usual means is to pass it off to business. why? Because it is easier to portray businesses as evil and uncaring. Trouble is no business actually pays any tax, they are merely collectors for taxes. That is why people don't notice it. When the price of their favorite items goes up they blame the business, ignoring the effects of tax laws and abuse of them and how the resposibility for paying those taxes got mysteriously moved.
Blame Bush is the cheap way out and exactly what these boys want you to do. Blame anyone but the right people and they continue their game unharrassed. Convince people who already distrust whomever is in power to blame those in power is the easiest part of the game.
Fortunately once the abuses were figured out they did get shut down, the new side effect of the internet and such was that people who would not know of the ability to abuse the law suddenly had an abundance of information provided on how to do just that.
I have always been under the impression that it is a greenhouse gas, probably one of the most popular ones at that.
I would go find some good sources but will settle for Wiki...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
The problem with newspapers is similar to broadcast television. They have gotten this idea in their head that their reports should never be challenged and what they decide to print will BE the truth.
The internet has allowed individuals to challenge the accuracy and fairness of the newspaper and broadcast television industry. No longer do people just blindly accept what they read in their local paper or see on the nightly news. They are now exposed to many views and many sources of information. This brings about higher scrutiny of what the newspaper or nightly news tells them.
Another problem with newspapers is they tend to be based in big cities and have a big city mindset which is does not always connect to those who might work in the city but live outside of it. Local small town papers are viable until the larger neighbor city buys it up and shuts it down (the Atlanta Journal Constitution has done this where I live). This action alone forces more people to look elsewhere for information.
Still I think the key is the egotistical outlook of papers and broadcast media that they control what the truth is has come to and end. They just don't accept it.
People now are much better picking out when a story is more opinion/editorial than factual compared to the editors of the same.
People should not have to pay for channels they have no desire to watch. What gives you the right to have other people subsidize your enjoyment? The problem is too many people they are "entitled" to what they want even at the expense of others. Terms like fairness are often used and if that doesn't work discrimination and disenfranchisement are then employed.
I don't want to pay for certain channels let alone fund them. Currently I don't have a choice, if I want certain channels I have to pay for those I have no intention of ever watching.
What this is all about is the cable companies make money hosting select channels, channels that pay to be shown. Those channels will continue to do so but now they may actually have to develop an audience.
The only negative is that the entry costs to push a new channel will be higher but hopefully that will lead to better entrants.
To own a Mac is to have it give me some functionality I cannot easily derive from my Windows PC in a format that doesn't collide with my entertainment center.
I would like to have a Mac around to experience OS/X but I don't need it and therefor have no reason to spend the money. Make it do something useful for me that I would have to already spend money to have and then I can consider it.
Yeah I know TiVO is big, my friends have them. I also see MCE and some Linux solutions. The first is proprietary and the other two require work on my end to have something that both looks decent and might actually work.
If Apple can deliver a PVR that also allows me to dabble with OS/X who knows where it might lead. The big IF is, will they price it for the market or let their ego do the pricing?
More likely it has a new form of horseshoes.
is a major problem with this society today. I find it truly annoying that we don't celebrate more the success that many people do have. Instead we have many people who attempt to bring these people down.
STOP IT.
Damn it, we are a society of achievers. It is what drives this country. Yes it can be excessive but damn if we keep up this "loser" mentality then we truly will fall behind.
It is the lack of celebrating the winners that is affecting our schools. We have systems which now "play games" with grades so as not to embarras those who don't strive to succeed. Schools go out of there way to minimize the success of a few and wonder why the students stop trying? If we want to know why our schools are falling behind in math and science we have only to look at why we stopped celebrating those who truly were outstanding. If you punish success you will get mediocrity.
You ever think that many of the people buying these things don't have to care about their heating bills; which btw are not going to be that hideously different from last year. My price per therm hasn't budged, don't believe all the BS hype
you will see that this machine really is well done and offers lots of useful features. It is very well thought out and if you opt for the harddrive you get even more options.
I was actually impressed with its ability to work with other devices to include an iPOD and PsP. The nice thing about this machine is that it really is expandable as wireless gives them many options. You will probably see an addon keyboard/mouse combo one day.
There are many of us out here who don't need our PCs to program on, we have them for games, other entertainment, e-mail, and surfing. Give me an insta-on box with those features and I may just consider it. The XBOX360 is actually the first console I am seriously considering because of the potential.
Playing DvDs is a bonus, if it means one less component I have to hook up or keep up with all the better. People harped on the PS2 for the same reason yet I know many who have one for that very reason.
Just because its Microsoft doesn't make it wrong which seems to be your whole beef against it. (who made it)
(allow me to run some IBM style emulator/vpn over the net with a wireless keyboard and I really really need a PC even less)
and put them on your keyring.
Essentially they can perform the same function as a key so why not treat them as such.
What if EMI is testing the waters? What if they are having this technology developed as a means to market to iPod users? The reason would be simple, they intend to go ahead and jack the wholesale rate for songs setting values based on popularity. Then should Apple not go along with it they can tell consumers that they don't need iTunes to get THEIR music that mean old Apple isn't letting them have.
So bascially, develop a method to get your music on the most popular MP3 player DRM protected with Apple out of the loop. Perhaps an attempt to force Apple to accept the new pricing scheme? EMI could be the frontman with the other studios quietly awaiting the outcome. I fully expect that if they get this to work that Apple will have to try to stop it. If they do get it to work and Apple doesn't agree to the new pricing I expect other companies to join in.
The only reason I suspect this is that iTunes has taken away the control they crave. I don't think they would stop at anything to get it back either. If it means "blackmailing" Apple with a working circumvention then I suspect they will float it.
and the hit songs as much as $1.99.
Oh I am quite sure there will be titles below 99 cents but I bet no one will want to listen to them and should they start they won't be less than 99 cents anymore.
Jobs should simply refuse access to iTunes for the media execs who want to reach into our pockets after colluding on CD pricing for so long
I would suspect some of the commercials are to buy the boxed set for the episodes being viewed. Get consumers to distribute your shows in a small computer version just so they get the idea to buy the boxed set for the living room HDTV.
I look at it this way. If it takes George Bush being President to get our voting systems reviewed and all the dirty laundry brought out in the open then I say "so be it".
Fraudulent voting was not a problem until the people relying on it saw it used against them or had it thwarted. Electronic voting put a big crimp in the works of those who relied on fradulent voting. As such they had to scare the public into believing the old system's amount of fraud while verifiable was "manageable".
Look at Chicago and its elections. People joke about dead people and people voting multiple times because a "joke" is the last bastion of those who have already giving up. The apathy about it simply turned into morbid humor.
I do like how some groups toss Ohio out there as an example of distrust or voter fraud when it was never a close contest. It simply was the closest state to victory of one part over another. Two other states showed much more possibly voter fraud but have been overlooked simply because of the party they went for. In other words, when you lose make sure people think the other side cheated, after all losing because you fail to appeal the majority isn't much fun.
Verifiable voting and verifiable voters are BOTH needed. Having one without the other leaves the problem unfixed.
and at what point does it become impossible to do anything with a computer that doesn't infringe on someone's patent?
Innovation is one thing but we are soon approaching the point where doing normal everyday activities with a computer will infringe.
By monopolizing the hardware Apple is just as evil if not worse than Microsoft. The one great thing about the x86 platform was that we could put what operating system we wanted on it.
Apple is bringing to the x86 world that it is okay to lock consumers into your own brand of hardware. This is not the direction we need to go.
too many people excuse Apple's actions just because they are Apple. After what Apple did to the original Mac clone makers it makes one wonder how anyone can excuse them. Perhaps its just "correct" to continue to excuse their obviously monopolistic activities because a lot of geeks think they are cool (and all so not Microsoft)
Open Source is Intelligent Design and urked..
then I thought about and figured, perhaps that is a better definition of OS?
With your type of thinking we would still be playing pong just in multiple colors. There is nothing excessive about the game requirements what is excessive is the whiners about how other people spend their time and money.
There are always those who will try to guilt-trip anyone for whatever reason. Most always it boils down to money. Like people who harp about how much gasoline costs, to hummers, to millionaires buying rides to the ISS.
Enjoyment and relaxation come in many forms and how people spend THEIR money is of no real concern to me as long as it does not endanger me in the process.
Computer games are advancing the state of entertainment, attempting to bring realism to the screen. Doing so does require oodles of computer power and we have that luxury these days. People looking at the future would never imagine the power we dedicate to games but looking back 10 years the picture changes.
The amount of power expended by high end PCs is nothing to cry about. In fact it trivializes many other real wastes of power and money.