However your bank will charge you a dramatically inflated "Royalty Fee" to cover their costs of doing business....
That's why this patent is sheer genius. Even if I license it at $0.01 per thousand uses, that's infinite uses (since 1000 is an integer, the act of determining how much you owe me is a use!)
Actually, what got Mandrake into trouble was an idiotic scheme to get into the eLearning fad of a couple of years ago. Their numbers have improved to the point where they expect to show a profit this year.
Well, Dr. Pepper is originally from Dallas. It wasn't until the 1980s when they signed a bottling deal with various Coca-Cola bottlers that it was distributed outside the Texas area (this is also why Mr. Pibb is only done on a regional basis; those Coke bottlers who offer Dr. Pepper have no reason to offer Mr. Pibb). All this is complicated by Dr. Pepper's base in restaurant distribution, which is (mostly, ime) in Pepsi establishments (esp. Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC).
From what I've heard, Pepsi's stronghold is in the Midwest, while Coke 0wnz the South and East Coast. That pretty much leaves the West as the main battleground between the Cola titans.
What's really holding back netbroadcasting is the lack of deployed multicast backbone. How difficult would it be for a DSL ISP to have the gateways (which are probably running embedded Linux or BSD anyway) support multicasting, design a GPL protocol to allow multicast Ogg streaming and offer hundreds of channels of digital music (say 96kbps Ogg) to their subscribers. I would pay an extra $15/month for a DSL ISP with that and decent TOS.
I have DirecTV DSL, nee Telocity, and I find their TOS regarding servers acceptable: everything (except, maybe, IRC servers... I'll have to check that) is okay, as long as you don't exceed an upload cap of 2 GB/mo. There's no download capping (short of the DSL line speed, which in my case is officially 768Kbps, but I've hit speeds north of 1Mbps from time to time.
I would think most retails stores would absolutely love this idea, as would consumers who can finally buy their own "custom mix" CDs - instead of paying for songs they don't like/want, just to get a few that they do. By tallying up exactly which songs sell best, the recording industry gets much more accurate feedback of what's "hot" and what's "not", too.
Not to mention that this solves the problem of "we got 2 hit singles and 45 minutes of filler" albums that the public is wising up to.
Because there's more there to download than just today's crap-ass music, numb nuts.
What, and the music from yesterday isn't available? Maybe your local Wal-Mart doesn't carry it (but considering how many "Led Zeppelin Greatest Hits" collections they stock, I doubt it), but I'll guarantee you that Amazon has a compilation on CD.
There are a variety of advantages to gcc-3.2 (namely many improvements in C++, and a stabilized ABI). If breaking commercial software was a consideration, gcc would never be upgraded.
There is a third way: some commercial developers build/package the software on multiple distributions (Opera does this, for instance).
Open Source is a good thing for the simple reason that the app doesn't chain you to the OS. For instance, Sun Java will not run on the next versions of Mandrake and Red Hat, because of ABI changes brought on by gcc-3.2. If Sun's Java was actually opensourced (rather than their half-assed attempt), it would be a simple matter to rebuild it for new distros.
That being said, yay for Mozilla. A browser that actually runs without a 50 MB footprint and supports actual standards. That and you can get all kinds of silly do-dads on them like pie menus. (Yeah, I just glanced at pie menus briefly so maybe I've missed some really useful part of pie menus.
This is the obligatory Opera advocacy post.
Opera supports the same standards Mozilla supports, and definitely fits in a footprint smaller than 50MB, with mouse gesture support.
I've been reading Slate for many years; and often printed it before they charged a subscription fee (at one point - which I do believe was shortly after being taken over by MSN).
Slate was owned by Microsoft from Day One. They only merged it into the rest of MSN a few repurposings ago.
it's the only editor where there is a sharp learning curve to quit out of the damn thing. Besides learning the incantation to quit, I haven't bothered to learn more vi.
Yeah, Ctrl-X Ctrl-C is pretty fucking intuitive. At least:q makes sense ("quit" anyone? I suppose if English isn't your first language that may take a while).
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However your bank will charge you a dramatically inflated "Royalty Fee" to cover their costs of doing business....
That's why this patent is sheer genius. Even if I license it at $0.01 per thousand uses, that's infinite uses (since 1000 is an integer, the act of determining how much you owe me is a use!)
I'm going to patent addition and negation. Then both of us can charge royalties to users of all integers!
Actually, what got Mandrake into trouble was an idiotic scheme to get into the eLearning fad of a couple of years ago. Their numbers have improved to the point where they expect to show a profit this year.
Well, NetBEUI was originally OS/2's protocol, so it may be more secure than you think. It just got killed with the Intarweb became the big thing.
Well, Dr. Pepper is originally from Dallas. It wasn't until the 1980s when they signed a bottling deal with various Coca-Cola bottlers that it was distributed outside the Texas area (this is also why Mr. Pibb is only done on a regional basis; those Coke bottlers who offer Dr. Pepper have no reason to offer Mr. Pibb). All this is complicated by Dr. Pepper's base in restaurant distribution, which is (mostly, ime) in Pepsi establishments (esp. Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC).
From what I've heard, Pepsi's stronghold is in the Midwest, while Coke 0wnz the South and East Coast. That pretty much leaves the West as the main battleground between the Cola titans.
What's really holding back netbroadcasting is the lack of deployed multicast backbone. How difficult would it be for a DSL ISP to have the gateways (which are probably running embedded Linux or BSD anyway) support multicasting, design a GPL protocol to allow multicast Ogg streaming and offer hundreds of channels of digital music (say 96kbps Ogg) to their subscribers. I would pay an extra $15/month for a DSL ISP with that and decent TOS.
I have DirecTV DSL, nee Telocity, and I find their TOS regarding servers acceptable: everything (except, maybe, IRC servers... I'll have to check that) is okay, as long as you don't exceed an upload cap of 2 GB/mo. There's no download capping (short of the DSL line speed, which in my case is officially 768Kbps, but I've hit speeds north of 1Mbps from time to time.
Genius. Pure Motherfucking Genius.
Yeah, an admin is going to install Linux because he saw a magazine with a CD with Red Hat 6 on it.
Right.
What, and the music from yesterday isn't available? Maybe your local Wal-Mart doesn't carry it (but considering how many "Led Zeppelin Greatest Hits" collections they stock, I doubt it), but I'll guarantee you that Amazon has a compilation on CD.
You could also make a citizen's arrest.
There are a variety of advantages to gcc-3.2 (namely many improvements in C++, and a stabilized ABI). If breaking commercial software was a consideration, gcc would never be upgraded.
There is a third way: some commercial developers build/package the software on multiple distributions (Opera does this, for instance).
It is summer... school's out.
Open Source is a good thing for the simple reason that the app doesn't chain you to the OS. For instance, Sun Java will not run on the next versions of Mandrake and Red Hat, because of ABI changes brought on by gcc-3.2. If Sun's Java was actually opensourced (rather than their half-assed attempt), it would be a simple matter to rebuild it for new distros.
For a company which has been very Linux friendly (contributing XFS and so forth), SGI could certainly do a lot better.
That would only apply if they're a partnership, which I'd bet they're not.
Corporations are limited liability, meaning that the shareholders are not liable for the debts of the company.
You could, conceivably, get some money out of the executives of fax.com, though.
This is the obligatory Opera advocacy post.
Opera supports the same standards Mozilla supports, and definitely fits in a footprint smaller than 50MB, with mouse gesture support.
Slate was owned by Microsoft from Day One. They only merged it into the rest of MSN a few repurposings ago.
The Scoop rating system is not perfect.
I've devised my own system, which I feel is better tha both Slash and Scoop methods, through combining ideas from both.
Switch to a lighter wm/desktop environmenr.
Also, Jiang Zemin has been quoted as saying that the US is the closest nation to achieving Marx's ideal: worker ownership and control of industry.
RSA with your TI calculator?
..."Report from the Land of SEX"?
Yeah, Ctrl-X Ctrl-C is pretty fucking intuitive. At least :q makes sense ("quit" anyone? I suppose if English isn't your first language that may take a while).
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