I have been running Win2000 PRO. The one MS doesn't recommend for "consumers." (Consumers should use ME or XP).
It has been very stable on 3 machines over 2 years; I had NO crashes; on par with my NetBSD and other 'Nix boxes.
I just got a new machine that had XP Home Pre-Installed, and I've given it a test drive for the last 3 weeks.
Guess what, at least 1 crash a DAY! No wonder they didn't want consumers using 2000; Going from 98 or ME -> XP would be feel good for users; going from Win2000 -> XP wouldn't feel good!!
At least I have options if I need an OS that doesn't crash out; it's too bad MS hasn't given consumers that same choice!!
I think "artificially" is a poor choice of words; they may for a fee help companies exploit weaknesses in googles coding system;
Google may have found natural patterns on the web and exploited those in the design of their coding system; this is google exploiting the natural world.
It's all good and natural.
It is certainly find for Google to update it's method the question is are they doing it the same for every site which would unlikely ever be illegal or are they coding a specific site uniquely (which is likely to be illegal.)
Hmm there is already a tax on the income they receive; it's called the income tax. There are other taxes that happen in most places when those works are sold, those are called sales taxes..
IMHO that's enough tax! 50 years is enough for a copyright. The only other reasonable position is 50 years or the author's life span + 10 year which ever is greater.. SO a young artist like Ms. Spears might eek out 70 to 100 years on her copyrights..
The patent is free to all using Linux under GPL. Everyone else pays.
That is to say, If you want to use the patent under some other system or with other software that isn't GPL'd or if you wish to develop a commerical product that isnt' based on GPL'd code, then you have to license and pay for the patent.
Assuming Microsoft has added backdoors or special features or say limited access to crypto API's, etc... They have a very easy story to tell the Government and the Defense Dept.
"Look you guys asked to do these things with our code and we did them. So you know we can very well open up our source, so you can't have it both ways. If you want Microsoft's continued cooperation, don't go trashing us and pushing open source."
You get the idea... parts of the government most likely have as much to lose as MS does with wide spread adoption of open source OS/systems and Apps ESP on the desktop level.
They talk about this thing being used in big cities for people to get to work. Besides the need for a "car" alarm to leave something like that out side of a building in NYC, there is something more important.. There is no place to leave something like that outside a building in NYC... assuming you can tell which seg is yours.
Image a big building with 1000 people working inside; we have 100's of these in each large city. There are notany parking spaces; imagine 1000 little seg's all sitting on the sidewalk waiting for their owners; likewise when the owners travel back to their high rise apartments... although perhaps they can be locked up in the bike room!
Which makes me think the real issue about being able to travel on sidewalks has to do with parking them there as well!
The article said both in store shoppers and those who don't normally come into the stores increased in volume.
It has been going on for several years so while certainly backlash can always occur, so far it hasn't happened.
You talked about "Biz speak" which is no different than "Geek speak" short hand to help those people with in a field communicate with each other. There is nothing wrong with Geeks talking about Linux Clusters, DDR and IEE 1394 and there is nothing wrong with marketers talking about ROI, CPM, retention and churn.
Creating and running a great business is hard work; hard to fine really good ideas. Hard to have vision that isn't so wildly good that it isnt' really possible or like the the instant movie camera that came out the same time as VHS/Betamax (ooops).
It's also hard to manage people, work with customers and even when you do all the right things it doesn't always come out right (Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Amiga).
It' also hard to stay current e.g., buggy whips and wooden airplanes.
Plus basically most people have some level of disfunction (mentally) all minor stuff for the most part, but when you put all of that together in a single company letting their disfunction hang out...
I didn't see any comments get into the fact that the Model 100 had a built in, rather high speed for the time, 300 "baud" modem. That made it popular with news reports and the like. I also was able to use that feature to "back up date" to "The Source."
Another feature was that the memory was always powered (I don't think it was FLASH or anything fancy), but basically you could just turn the thing off and when you turned it back on it was exactly where it had been left (e.g., editing some file).
His words are telling, it isn't "free" software; it's open.
There is nothing free about linux or any of the other open source software projects. (Either you spend time and $$ learning enough tech that you can support your self or you have to pay someone to do it...)
In fact there is lots of $$ to be made from open source software.. but in trying to call it "free" he tries to shift the debate...
I wouldn't mind this thing so much say in school yards, in front of the the Federal Reserve Bank in NYC (it's probably there already anyway), and other places of major security concern (say around US installations over seas, etc.).
The real question is should they really be able to back haul every video feed from every building and ATM and web cam and run it through their system. While that my very well be legal it shouldn't
They company claims to have "electronic "library" of over 100-million people" which by my calculation is more than 1/3 of the people in this country (although they don't claim that all 100 million are US Citz.).
It just seems like way to many people to legitmately have in a data base.
Replay has left the commercial marketplace, so perhaps you can fairly call that "failing." They are now licensing the technology to be embedded into other systems, and products like Set Top Boxes.
I would speculate since Replay has left the commercial marketplace and the collapse of ad supported business models has more to do with the feature's removal than anything else.
In the case of Replay, Mr. "TOG" fails to point out that the product was sold with the clear expectation that it would be ad supported. Unlike the TIVO, which has a purchase price and a MONTHLY fee, the Replay only has a purchase price. If he or anyone else didn't want the ads, they should have bought the Tivo.
That the ads showed up only when you pressed pause and even then a few seconds later, so you can actually see that the pause as worked, was great information design as far as I'm concerned. It didn't interrupt the function of the unit and it didn't intrude into the watching of any show. It didn't stop menus' from working and it didn't interfere with anything... The alternative would be to stop the show while your watching it and to insert an ad of their own.
I would speculate since Replay has left the commercial marketplace and the collapse of ad supported business models has more to do with the feature's removal than anything else.
Replay has been the best product I've owned. 3 times they have added major new features and I didn't have to lift a finger and I didn't have to buy anything. To those who would rather control the feature set of their consumer electronic products, the choice is easy. All the technology is out there for you to "roll your own." For the rest of the world having a product that's easy to use, easy to install and upgrades itself on its own, is a huge boon!
For what it is worth. My sDSL from Panix via NorthPoint is still working.8:52 Eastern Time 3/30/01.
If your in the NYC or Boston area, and lean towards the technical side of things, I strongly endorse panix (www.panix.com). They have keep us fully posted about Northpoint. They have given us two choice for alternative DSL, and they have helped current DSL customers by offering free dial up, ISDN, and co-location of servers. Totally a stand-up company!
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If they say they do, the must.
What I meant to say if they don't then they are open/exposed to legal charges of discrimination.
I have been running Win2000 PRO. The one MS doesn't recommend for "consumers." (Consumers should use ME or XP).
It has been very stable on 3 machines over 2 years; I had NO crashes; on par with my NetBSD and other 'Nix boxes.
I just got a new machine that had XP Home Pre-Installed, and I've given it a test drive for the last 3 weeks.
Guess what, at least 1 crash a DAY! No wonder they didn't want consumers using 2000; Going from 98 or ME -> XP would be feel good for users; going from Win2000 -> XP wouldn't feel good!!
At least I have options if I need an OS that doesn't crash out; it's too bad MS hasn't given consumers that same choice!!
Something shinny indeed!
hmm just like the fish in the trailer with the LEL, light emitting lure!!
I think "artificially" is a poor choice of words; they may for a fee help companies exploit weaknesses in googles coding system;
Google may have found natural patterns on the web and exploited those in the design of their coding system; this is google exploiting the natural world.
It's all good and natural.
It is certainly find for Google to update it's method the question is are they doing it the same for every site which would unlikely ever be illegal or are they coding a specific site uniquely (which is likely to be illegal.)
Actually they have to fairly apply their standard (algorthmic or otherwise) the same to everyone.
Hmm there is already a tax on the income they receive; it's called the income tax. There are other taxes that happen in most places when those works are sold, those are called sales taxes..
IMHO that's enough tax! 50 years is enough for a copyright. The only other reasonable position is 50 years or the author's life span + 10 year which ever is greater.. SO a young artist like Ms. Spears might eek out 70 to 100 years on her copyrights..
i assume this is straight forward...
The patent is free to all using Linux under GPL. Everyone else pays.
That is to say, If you want to use the patent under some other system or with other software that isn't GPL'd or if you wish to develop a commerical product that isnt' based on GPL'd code, then you have to license and pay for the patent.
Assuming Microsoft has added backdoors or special features or say limited access to crypto API's, etc... They have a very easy story to tell the Government and the Defense Dept.
"Look you guys asked to do these things with our code and we did them. So you know we can very well open up our source, so you can't have it both ways. If you want Microsoft's continued cooperation, don't go trashing us and pushing open source."
You get the idea... parts of the government most likely have as much to lose as MS does with wide spread adoption of open source OS/systems and Apps ESP on the desktop level.
They talk about this thing being used in big cities for people to get to work. Besides the need for a "car" alarm to leave something like that out side of a building in NYC, there is something more important.. There is no place to leave something like that outside a building in NYC... assuming you can tell which seg is yours.
Image a big building with 1000 people working inside; we have 100's of these in each large city. There are notany parking spaces; imagine 1000 little seg's all sitting on the sidewalk waiting for their owners; likewise when the owners travel back to their high rise apartments... although perhaps they can be locked up in the bike room!
Which makes me think the real issue about being able to travel on sidewalks has to do with parking them there as well!
The article said both in store shoppers and those who don't normally come into the stores increased in volume.
It has been going on for several years so while certainly backlash can always occur, so far it hasn't happened.
You talked about "Biz speak" which is no different than "Geek speak" short hand to help those people with in a field communicate with each other. There is nothing wrong with Geeks talking about Linux Clusters, DDR and IEE 1394 and there is nothing wrong with marketers talking about ROI, CPM, retention and churn.
It's also hard to manage people, work with customers and even when you do all the right things it doesn't always come out right (Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Amiga).
It' also hard to stay current e.g., buggy whips and wooden airplanes.
Plus basically most people have some level of disfunction (mentally) all minor stuff for the most part, but when you put all of that together in a single company letting their disfunction hang out...
That's my two cents...
Another feature was that the memory was always powered (I don't think it was FLASH or anything fancy), but basically you could just turn the thing off and when you turned it back on it was exactly where it had been left (e.g., editing some file).
I have a Replay unit. I think there are number of things that would quality including the size and resolution of the screen.
On my 19 inch TV, and rarely watching any sports I am very happy with the quality of the video, and I record at the lowest "speed."
I do find sometimes that the audio and video greats slightly out of sync, although I can't prove it...
There is nothing free about linux or any of the other open source software projects. (Either you spend time and $$ learning enough tech that you can support your self or you have to pay someone to do it...)
In fact there is lots of $$ to be made from open source software.. but in trying to call it "free" he tries to shift the debate...
I wouldn't mind this thing so much say in school yards, in front of the the Federal Reserve Bank in NYC (it's probably there already anyway), and other places of major security concern (say around US installations over seas, etc.).
The real question is should they really be able to back haul every video feed from every building and ATM and web cam and run it through their system. While that my very well be legal it shouldn't
They company claims to have "electronic "library" of over 100-million people" which by my calculation is more than 1/3 of the people in this country (although they don't claim that all 100 million are US Citz.).
It just seems like way to many people to legitmately have in a data base.
Replay has left the commercial marketplace, so perhaps you can fairly call that "failing." They are now licensing the technology to be embedded into other systems, and products like Set Top Boxes.
I would speculate since Replay has left the commercial marketplace and the collapse of ad supported business models has more to do with the feature's removal than anything else.
In the case of Replay, Mr. "TOG" fails to point out that the product was sold with the clear expectation that it would be ad supported. Unlike the TIVO, which has a purchase price and a MONTHLY fee, the Replay only has a purchase price. If he or anyone else didn't want the ads, they should have bought the Tivo.
That the ads showed up only when you pressed pause and even then a few seconds later, so you can actually see that the pause as worked, was great information design as far as I'm concerned. It didn't interrupt the function of the unit and it didn't intrude into the watching of any show. It didn't stop menus' from working and it didn't interfere with anything... The alternative would be to stop the show while your watching it and to insert an ad of their own.
I would speculate since Replay has left the commercial marketplace and the collapse of ad supported business models has more to do with the feature's removal than anything else.
Replay has been the best product I've owned. 3 times they have added major new features and I didn't have to lift a finger and I didn't have to buy anything. To those who would rather control the feature set of their consumer electronic products, the choice is easy. All the technology is out there for you to "roll your own." For the rest of the world having a product that's easy to use, easy to install and upgrades itself on its own, is a huge boon!
For what it is worth. My sDSL from Panix via NorthPoint is still working.8:52 Eastern Time 3/30/01.
If your in the NYC or Boston area, and lean towards the technical side of things, I strongly endorse panix (www.panix.com). They have keep us fully posted about Northpoint. They have given us two choice for alternative DSL, and they have helped current DSL customers by offering free dial up, ISDN, and co-location of servers. Totally a stand-up company!