Not at all, I admit that there is that group of programmers... I just do not agree that they are collectively a being, which would by your assertions give Linux a will of it's own.
I for one am hoping that Bush does not give the nod to Jonathan Adelstein, while he is from SD and that certainly gives him points in my eyes... a number of years ago I had the opportunity to hear him speak and answer a number of questions. Never in my life have I met a man such as he who is so devoted to the corporate agenda at the expense of the consumer and not willing to admit it and seemingly happy to have the consumer be screwed over.
As a brief example: I has asked him about the broadcast flag issue, and he dodged the question with a "on one hand this, on the other hand that"... and never concluding anything.
It's up to the product? Are you saying that Linux is a being with free will of it's own and will do what it chooses... not what the likes of Bill or Linus command of it?
Also... I agree with the above poster, it is in Microsoft's best interest to have Linux in the world. Why? Simple, competition. It's the same reason they like having Apple around and have helped bail them out a few times.
Should Apple and Linux suddenly implode one day, Microsoft will be in a very bad position because they would be accused of setting out to destroy their competitors and what not. Yes, just the very things they were found guilty of. The difference, is the level of success.
No matter how big Microsoft may grow, with serious (or semi serious) competition from Apple and Linux, it is far harder to accuse it of having utter and complete control of the market, so long as they exist, it's easy for their lawyers in court to say "Yes we are big, but we don't control the world *muffled voice* yet".
Just remember that fundamentally, the GPL is a EULA and dictates what you can and cannot do with a given application or code base. One says "you cannot do this, this this or this", the other "do what you want, just don't forget to give away the code should you distribute a binary".
Like it or not, without one, the other cannot exist.
We do not know that, nor do we know if he is a US based.
For all you know, he is a Canadian living in Ontario (the e-mail address noted in the post does seem to indicate that) who hired a US contractor.
Anytime you deal with those outside of your reach your options are limited. Yes, if both parties are in the same country, the law suit option always exists... but when a national border is involved and the parties are on different sides of it, it can be quite difficult, no matter how friendly relations are between the two contries.
Until you know more facts, it would be nice avoided jumping to such baseless conclusions.
In some cases... albeit limited ones. Secrets must be kept in order to remain safe. Should Osama and crew learn all of the ways that we spy on them, they are liable to change their tactics and make it that much harder for us to try to foil them.
Same goes for the Russians of years past. Had they known everything we were doing and knew about them, their view and response to us over time would be radically different.
In short, for ANY government to function, it must have secrets and be able to keep them.
Xerox is pretty safe because of the quality differences between digital and analog copies. If Xerox were able to make some sort of replicate that could produce near perfect copies of books or documents in a very short amount of time... then they would have to worry about such liability. Until that day, the difficulty involved in making many (or even a single) copies of a book or other large set of pages is extremely difficult.
The only reason we would add it as an option to our existing products is if our customers asked for it. Thankfully, there is a lot of communication between us and them, especially considering a number of our products were created because of customers coming to us and saying "We need something to do this". So to us... the only advantage is satisfying our customers and the benefits we reap from that.
The primary advantage to a consumer of HDMI is the simplicity. Want to plug your DVD player into your TV? Just run a single cable. Want to run your cable box into your TV? Just another single cable. A single HDMI cable is far easier to manage than a DVI (or component) cable(s) + some audio ones, even if it is only cutting the # of cables down by half, it's not a bad deal.
Another nifty feature of HDMI is the communication between devices that occurs. Yes, there is DRMness involved "What? You can output to a non secured video format? No video for you!" Want to watch a DVD on your TV? Rather than selecting the proper input on the TV and making sure everything is configured... simply turn on the DVD player. The communication system built into HDMI lets properly configured devices not only talk, but also control each other. Imagine plugging in a new device to your home entertainment center and having it auto configure itself to your configuration (something you could of course override later).
HDMI is a great technology... except for the costs involved.
The company I work for has been asked by many interested customers when we will be having HDMI addons for a number of our popular video playing products... because of the costs involved, we have had to hold back on any kind of rollout of these things.
In order to do licensed development of HDMI components (on the sending or receiving end), it runs about 30k... for the licensing alone! After that of course you have the joys of per unit costs, which we don't care about so much.
Chances are, we wont be doing HDMI until more customers are demanding it, shame though, I'd love to get my hands dirty with it.
Sorry, that was not my post. In fact, it is extremely rare that I post AC. And when I do say something flamish, I say it under my own name. Sadly, I do not spend anytime (nor have I) flaming or bad mouthing the Mac... now Linux... I spend plenty of time on that horrible topic.
Their keeping your bandwidth low has less to do with the wiring between you and them than it does with the head end setup. Most cable modems support data transfers around 40mbs, each way. Most cable companies do not have enough bandwidth or hardware at the head end to support so a large number of people having so much bandwidth... so they cap you nice and low to keep their network running fast.
You guys are up now to episode 11 of BSG? It's rather sad seeing them up on the usenet when they still haven't even aired here yet... I wonder if SciFi's delay in broadcasting them could be considered inducement to commit copyright infringement. No doubt many not sick of waiting to be able to watch legitimately and decided to go the less than legal route of DLing them.
I'm sure one can live without oil based plastics or paints... but without oil based lubricants... one wonders how they will keep their cars running and their sex lives lively.
There is no problem with owning a non smart gun, you just could not purchase one in the state 3 years after personalized guns become commercially available. So should I ever decide to move to NJ, my trust 9mm will be able to join me... although somehow I doubt I could get a conceal and carry permit there as easily as I can here in SD.
I can understand this for new gun sales, however I am forced to wonder about what this will do to used gun sales? I'm guessing they too will be legal to buy, just new ones would not be.
IIRC, Compaq also has/had a similar solution... I think they were called Remote Insight cards... I've always meant to grab one of those server type cards and see if it could/would work in a general PC.
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Not at all, I admit that there is that group of programmers... I just do not agree that they are collectively a being, which would by your assertions give Linux a will of it's own.
I guess I don't.
I for one am hoping that Bush does not give the nod to Jonathan Adelstein, while he is from SD and that certainly gives him points in my eyes... a number of years ago I had the opportunity to hear him speak and answer a number of questions. Never in my life have I met a man such as he who is so devoted to the corporate agenda at the expense of the consumer and not willing to admit it and seemingly happy to have the consumer be screwed over.
As a brief example: I has asked him about the broadcast flag issue, and he dodged the question with a "on one hand this, on the other hand that"... and never concluding anything.
It's up to the product? Are you saying that Linux is a being with free will of it's own and will do what it chooses... not what the likes of Bill or Linus command of it?
Also... I agree with the above poster, it is in Microsoft's best interest to have Linux in the world. Why? Simple, competition. It's the same reason they like having Apple around and have helped bail them out a few times.
Should Apple and Linux suddenly implode one day, Microsoft will be in a very bad position because they would be accused of setting out to destroy their competitors and what not. Yes, just the very things they were found guilty of. The difference, is the level of success.
No matter how big Microsoft may grow, with serious (or semi serious) competition from Apple and Linux, it is far harder to accuse it of having utter and complete control of the market, so long as they exist, it's easy for their lawyers in court to say "Yes we are big, but we don't control the world *muffled voice* yet".
Just remember that fundamentally, the GPL is a EULA and dictates what you can and cannot do with a given application or code base. One says "you cannot do this, this this or this", the other "do what you want, just don't forget to give away the code should you distribute a binary".
Like it or not, without one, the other cannot exist.
We do not know that, nor do we know if he is a US based.
For all you know, he is a Canadian living in Ontario (the e-mail address noted in the post does seem to indicate that) who hired a US contractor.
Anytime you deal with those outside of your reach your options are limited. Yes, if both parties are in the same country, the law suit option always exists... but when a national border is involved and the parties are on different sides of it, it can be quite difficult, no matter how friendly relations are between the two contries.
Until you know more facts, it would be nice avoided jumping to such baseless conclusions.
How do you know he didn't hire someone local?
Outsourcing only means that the work is done outside of the company, not out of the country.
Funny... I didn't know Microsoft Outlook used Mozilla Thunderbird.
It was a single example, of two. Nice to know you had no problem with the second one... would you prefer I give more examples?
In some cases... albeit limited ones. Secrets must be kept in order to remain safe. Should Osama and crew learn all of the ways that we spy on them, they are liable to change their tactics and make it that much harder for us to try to foil them.
Same goes for the Russians of years past. Had they known everything we were doing and knew about them, their view and response to us over time would be radically different.
In short, for ANY government to function, it must have secrets and be able to keep them.
Xerox is pretty safe because of the quality differences between digital and analog copies. If Xerox were able to make some sort of replicate that could produce near perfect copies of books or documents in a very short amount of time... then they would have to worry about such liability. Until that day, the difficulty involved in making many (or even a single) copies of a book or other large set of pages is extremely difficult.
The only reason we would add it as an option to our existing products is if our customers asked for it. Thankfully, there is a lot of communication between us and them, especially considering a number of our products were created because of customers coming to us and saying "We need something to do this". So to us... the only advantage is satisfying our customers and the benefits we reap from that.
The primary advantage to a consumer of HDMI is the simplicity. Want to plug your DVD player into your TV? Just run a single cable. Want to run your cable box into your TV? Just another single cable. A single HDMI cable is far easier to manage than a DVI (or component) cable(s) + some audio ones, even if it is only cutting the # of cables down by half, it's not a bad deal.
Another nifty feature of HDMI is the communication between devices that occurs. Yes, there is DRMness involved "What? You can output to a non secured video format? No video for you!" Want to watch a DVD on your TV? Rather than selecting the proper input on the TV and making sure everything is configured... simply turn on the DVD player. The communication system built into HDMI lets properly configured devices not only talk, but also control each other. Imagine plugging in a new device to your home entertainment center and having it auto configure itself to your configuration (something you could of course override later).
HDMI is a great technology... except for the costs involved.
The company I work for has been asked by many interested customers when we will be having HDMI addons for a number of our popular video playing products... because of the costs involved, we have had to hold back on any kind of rollout of these things.
In order to do licensed development of HDMI components (on the sending or receiving end), it runs about 30k... for the licensing alone! After that of course you have the joys of per unit costs, which we don't care about so much.
Chances are, we wont be doing HDMI until more customers are demanding it, shame though, I'd love to get my hands dirty with it.
Sorry, that was not my post. In fact, it is extremely rare that I post AC. And when I do say something flamish, I say it under my own name. Sadly, I do not spend anytime (nor have I) flaming or bad mouthing the Mac... now Linux... I spend plenty of time on that horrible topic.
Their keeping your bandwidth low has less to do with the wiring between you and them than it does with the head end setup. Most cable modems support data transfers around 40mbs, each way. Most cable companies do not have enough bandwidth or hardware at the head end to support so a large number of people having so much bandwidth... so they cap you nice and low to keep their network running fast.
It's not irony for Bugzilla to have a bug... the irony would be if a Bugzilla bug prevented the same bug from being reported and fixed.
You guys are up now to episode 11 of BSG? It's rather sad seeing them up on the usenet when they still haven't even aired here yet... I wonder if SciFi's delay in broadcasting them could be considered inducement to commit copyright infringement. No doubt many not sick of waiting to be able to watch legitimately and decided to go the less than legal route of DLing them.
To quote Futurama:
"You can't shut us down! The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other peoples ideas"
Sadly whale oil is rarely an option due to the opposition from Greenpeace and other nature first groups.
I'm sure one can live without oil based plastics or paints... but without oil based lubricants... one wonders how they will keep their cars running and their sex lives lively.
Yours is the first post I have seen to mention the key point.
For those not in the know: Iceland is blessed with an abundance of geo-thermal energy which dramatically lowers their electricity and heating costs.
There is no problem with owning a non smart gun, you just could not purchase one in the state 3 years after personalized guns become commercially available. So should I ever decide to move to NJ, my trust 9mm will be able to join me... although somehow I doubt I could get a conceal and carry permit there as easily as I can here in SD.
I can understand this for new gun sales, however I am forced to wonder about what this will do to used gun sales? I'm guessing they too will be legal to buy, just new ones would not be.
You mean they haven't begun already?
IIRC, Compaq also has/had a similar solution... I think they were called Remote Insight cards... I've always meant to grab one of those server type cards and see if it could/would work in a general PC.
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