So, what you're saying is that there's actually no advantage in using Microsoft windows. It's expensive, not open and the quality isn't that good either (just getting better).
Well, I did draw that conclusion about 5 years ago so actually they seem to haven't improved much.
I still use my old Matrox cards (millenium/mistique) a lot. I basically have the whole matrox series (up to G550) still in use and they perform well for what I do.
They all got =32MB
I never played a game since I put my commodore VC-20 on the shelf and I'm not at all interested in games anymore. So why would I need such large memory on a graphics card ?
The parhelia seems a nice solution for me though:-)
The problem just lies in that start-up money. Often there's no money left for a lawyer and in case there no simple way to file a patent, only large companies can do this. This means that patents are not what they should be anymore. Filing a patent should be simple and cheap for individuals. You already indicate that you need a lot of studying for this. That by itself already makes it very clear that there's a serious problem with the patent system.
So, Lionux is ready for these companies. It's just that those companies are not ready for Linux.
In my company we've switched to Linux about two years ago for development. Still our IT departmenet can't manage because they didn't forsee that they need some knowledge of Linux. Basically we bypass the IT department as developers and maintain our own systems. Those IT guys should be carefull here, they might losse their job if they don't catch up soon enough:-)
If someone can change a licence, also other persons can change a licence. That means that next year ogg could be asking fees also. Is there any guarantee that this wouldn't happen ? Is it actually legitimate to change a licence this way and do existing decoders have agree to the new licence ? (sounds really like no agreement at all to me)
About the copyright stuff you may be right, but not about the bandwidth stuff. Even people who download songs and movies pay for their bandwidth so they may use that as well. In case you think your purpose of using bandwidth is better, that's up to you I'm afraid. If it's not, than I would like to shut down playing games over the net. It's also useless use of bandwidth (how little it may be):-)
About the funny part, that's what consumes bandwidth even more because such person would go out on the net to find what he wants again and download more:-)
Certainly not true. A manager should be objective, that's a whole lot different than having lack of knowledge. What a lot of managers seem to forget is that they are part of a team. The same team as the engineers. When managers ask the impossible, it is up to engineer to convince them that it is not feasible. When a manager still decides to continue that job, it is his full responcibility and not the team he works in. Unfortunately, it's often the engineers who have to clear up the mess once such project has failed. At least that's what I experienced quite a few times. In that case, you're dealing with not only a manager who has lack of knowledge, but does not trust the engineers knowledge. Those managers should seriously consider starting a one-man company as they do not fit in any team. As for the engineers, they should be aware of their own planning. It's part of the engineers job to get his part of the job finished in time. A good engineer finishes his job in the time that he claimed for it otherwise he would let a whole team down. Unfortunately lots of engineers only look at the technical aspect of their job, which also means they do not fit well into a team.
It's more about a whole team that functions (not) well. In case there's no interaction between managers and engineers, you're probably in te wrong company.
Unfortunately apt-get and RPM don't solve much either. I've tried today to get my system to use this, but I can not find many RPMS that I need. It basically means that I must use those that are provided which are often old versions or they link against optional things that I don't want. Still can't find an xvid RPM what avifile links against for example. Still, using the source is the best way and the little problem I have to maintain my own list of dependencies isn't that hard to do.
I visited HK many times and own such a card. It's the best system I've seen. I don't care about any personal info on it either and think most people are overreacting and very paranoid when something personal is involved.
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20 years ? In my country even a murderer wouldn't get that much:-( Be realistic, stealing whatever isn't worse than killing someone. In some underdeveloped countries they still allow people to own guns. Those countries do have much more serious problems than someone cracking whatever database unless they believe life is worth less than data. Personally I would give someone my ID/credit card nr and bank account etc instead of being killed. My personal data is not worth my life. Even though I agree with the fact that these crimes should be punished, I also believe that it should be punished according the crime. Theft like this doesn't really hurt unless the data is used. In that case it would be fraud and should be punished like that (Whatever that may be).
that won't do it. The page uses all sorts of shit in windows (IE outlook stuff etc) that are necessary to send in homework etc.... In case I filter them out, the fucntionality is gone:-)
It's very unfortunate that the average user doesn't notice that MS is making them use IE by having software on the market that creates web pages only viewable by IE. I have one page that I need to access on a regular basis and has been created with help form MS. It is not accessable by any other browser so far and I was forced to use IE and through that even Windows. Since I must use this web page (no other alternative, it's my school's page), I certainly refuse to buy MS software to view it. I do use an illegal copy of windows to view it and I do stand behind the use of it in this way even though I don't stand behind the use of illegal software. It's MS who created this mess and I haven't been left a choice. I use the windows copy only to view one page in a week. It's a damn shame that it's using some valuable harddisk space over here for that purpose and it cost me extra time to switch over to it. MS doesn't care about the WWW. If it would be up to them, there would only be MSN and as an internet user you should really look at the long term and care about their censorship. A faster browser doesn't do you good in case you're not left a choice with what you browse and where you can go. Next thing from IE would probably be that IE doesn't read any page that spreads GPL software:-) I certainly do not agree that MS did a great job on IE when it comes to the general use of the web.
Actually, I think that in case MS stands behind this statement they dig their own grave.
Lets say someone wants to do something bad with their code and the source is not there. What would stop them from reverse engineering it ? A bloody law ???
It probably means that the judge should require MS to withdraw the 'bad' code from the market.
My first guess is that this message is a trick from MS. I can't think of one company that makes products that demand high safety standard and who do use MS code for that.
If one such company exists, they do have an extremely bad quality department and in case someone buys their products they must be even more stupid.
Most of this industrie rely on proven technology and stay with that for many years. MS changes code so fast that there's no solid ground for such companies to build on.
No, I don't see any this critical applications run on MS code. Anyone of you guys do ?
because they might need a good sound engineer, producer, recording studio etc.... Of course they could pay for that directly, but the whole structure in the music business isn't like that. When you pay for an album, you pay for all of these things. Sab but true is that you pay a lot of the price to distributors and shops too. That could easily change in case record companies would start selling directly and set up a good network to do this. It wouldn't surprice me if the price for an album would drop 50%. Don't expect a real sound studio to have 1 PC with a soundblaster. It just won't do unless your hearing has already been damaged by listening to too much crap.
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You better should have changed the lighting in your room to cover up your mistakes:-)
Consumers are basically to impatient to study an EULA. It takes a bloody hour to go through such a license and that's what no consumer will do. They want to test what they have bought. Just like nobody reads the manuals of their new equipment before installing it and doing a first test. These kind of licenses are not complained about because nobody reads them and will ever read them. People will start reading them when some problem occurs (like MS knocking on your door).
I believe that such licenses should not be complicated and not exceed 5-10 lines otherwise they will not be read and putting the "I agree" button next to a 10 page covering EULA is putting your customers on the wrong track. Actually I think these kind of licenses should be declared illegal because they are much too complicated for normal users to understand and therefore a user can not judge wether he/she "agrees" with the license.
The software companies that spread such complicated licenses should be put on trail, not the users who didn't know to what they agreed.
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So, what you're saying is that there's actually no advantage in using Microsoft windows.
It's expensive, not open and the quality isn't that good either (just getting better).
Well, I did draw that conclusion about 5 years ago so actually they seem to haven't improved much.
It seems like you haven't tried any Linux distro over the past two years and don't like to try it yourself anymore.
They must be having a cash flow problem to even bother about this.
only three copies ?
You must be kidding, in China I get at least 250 copies for that sort of money.
MS business model my ass......
right.
:-)
I still use my old Matrox cards (millenium/mistique) a lot. I basically have the whole matrox series (up to G550) still in use and they perform well for what I do.
They all got =32MB
I never played a game since I put my commodore VC-20 on the shelf and I'm not at all interested in games anymore. So why would I need such large memory on a graphics card ?
The parhelia seems a nice solution for me though
That'll be me.
The problem just lies in that start-up money. Often there's no money left for a lawyer and in case there no simple way to file a patent, only large companies can do this.
This means that patents are not what they should be anymore.
Filing a patent should be simple and cheap for individuals.
You already indicate that you need a lot of studying for this. That by itself already makes it very clear that there's a serious problem with the patent system.
I'll sleep better now :-)
: :-)
Just in case they come up with some funny stuff like this again
I'm willing to break the law in order to sleep better
So, Lionux is ready for these companies.
:-)
It's just that those companies are not ready for Linux.
In my company we've switched to Linux about two years ago for development. Still our IT departmenet can't manage because they didn't forsee that they need some knowledge of Linux. Basically we bypass the IT department as developers and maintain our own systems. Those IT guys should be carefull here, they might losse their job if they don't catch up soon enough
If someone can change a licence, also other persons can change a licence. That means that next year ogg could be asking fees also.
Is there any guarantee that this wouldn't happen ?
Is it actually legitimate to change a licence this way and do existing decoders have agree to the new licence ? (sounds really like no agreement at all to me)
About the copyright stuff you may be right, but not about the bandwidth stuff. :-)
:-)
Even people who download songs and movies pay for their bandwidth so they may use that as well.
In case you think your purpose of using bandwidth is better, that's up to you I'm afraid. If it's not, than I would like to shut down playing games over the net. It's also useless use of bandwidth (how little it may be)
About the funny part, that's what consumes bandwidth even more because such person would go out on the net to find what he wants again and download more
Certainly not true. A manager should be objective, that's a whole lot different than having lack of knowledge.
What a lot of managers seem to forget is that they are part of a team. The same team as the engineers. When managers ask the impossible, it is up to engineer to convince them that it is not feasible. When a manager still decides to continue that job, it is his full responcibility and not the team he works in. Unfortunately, it's often the engineers who have to clear up the mess once such project has failed. At least that's what I experienced quite a few times. In that case, you're dealing with not only a manager who has lack of knowledge, but does not trust the engineers knowledge. Those managers should seriously consider starting a one-man company as they do not fit in any team.
As for the engineers, they should be aware of their own planning. It's part of the engineers job to get his part of the job finished in time. A good engineer finishes his job in the time that he claimed for it otherwise he would let a whole team down. Unfortunately lots of engineers only look at the technical aspect of their job, which also means they do not fit well into a team.
It's more about a whole team that functions (not) well. In case there's no interaction between managers and engineers, you're probably in te wrong company.
Unfortunately apt-get and RPM don't solve much either.
I've tried today to get my system to use this, but I can not find many RPMS that I need. It basically means that I must use those that are provided which are often old versions or they link against optional things that I don't want. Still can't find an xvid RPM what avifile links against for example.
Still, using the source is the best way and the little problem I have to maintain my own list of dependencies isn't that hard to do.
I visited HK many times and own such a card. It's the best system I've seen.
I don't care about any personal info on it either and think most people are overreacting and very paranoid when something personal is involved.
What about Microsoft creating such virus ?
20 years ? :-(
In my country even a murderer wouldn't get that much
Be realistic, stealing whatever isn't worse than killing someone.
In some underdeveloped countries they still allow people to own guns. Those countries do have much more serious problems than someone cracking whatever database unless they believe life is worth less than data. Personally I would give someone my ID/credit card nr and bank account etc instead of being killed. My personal data is not worth my life.
Even though I agree with the fact that these crimes should be punished, I also believe that it should be punished according the crime. Theft like this doesn't really hurt unless the data is used. In that case it would be fraud and should be punished like that (Whatever that may be).
that won't do it. :-)
The page uses all sorts of shit in windows (IE outlook stuff etc) that are necessary to send in homework etc....
In case I filter them out, the fucntionality is gone
It's very unfortunate that the average user doesn't notice that MS is making them use IE by having software on the market that creates web pages only viewable by IE. :-)
I have one page that I need to access on a regular basis and has been created with help form MS. It is not accessable by any other browser so far and I was forced to use IE and through that even Windows.
Since I must use this web page (no other alternative, it's my school's page), I certainly refuse to buy MS software to view it. I do use an illegal copy of windows to view it and I do stand behind the use of it in this way even though I don't stand behind the use of illegal software. It's MS who created this mess and I haven't been left a choice. I use the windows copy only to view one page in a week. It's a damn shame that it's using some valuable harddisk space over here for that purpose and it cost me extra time to switch over to it.
MS doesn't care about the WWW. If it would be up to them, there would only be MSN and as an internet user you should really look at the long term and care about their censorship. A faster browser doesn't do you good in case you're not left a choice with what you browse and where you can go.
Next thing from IE would probably be that IE doesn't read any page that spreads GPL software
I certainly do not agree that MS did a great job on IE when it comes to the general use of the web.
Thank you MS for censoring the web.
Actually, I think that in case MS stands behind this statement they dig their own grave.
Lets say someone wants to do something bad with their code and the source is not there. What would stop them from reverse engineering it ?
A bloody law ???
It probably means that the judge should require MS to withdraw the 'bad' code from the market.
My first guess is that this message is a trick from MS.
I can't think of one company that makes products that demand high safety standard and who do use MS code for that.
If one such company exists, they do have an extremely bad quality department and in case someone buys their products they must be even more stupid.
Most of this industrie rely on proven technology and stay with that for many years. MS changes code so fast that there's no solid ground for such companies to build on.
No, I don't see any this critical applications run on MS code. Anyone of you guys do ?
I guess you never really tried their products.
What makes you think the problems are caused by Matrox. Could it be caused by your OS ?
I'm using Matrox cards (Mil I,II,G400,G550) for over 5 years with Linux now and I'm very happy with the result and stability of the drivers.
They certainly teach all these kids to never sign up a contract with Microsoft. So, the kids are actually learning something usefull here.
because they might need a good sound engineer, producer, recording studio etc....
Of course they could pay for that directly, but the whole structure in the music business isn't like that.
When you pay for an album, you pay for all of these things. Sab but true is that you pay a lot of the price to distributors and shops too. That could easily change in case record companies would start selling directly and set up a good network to do this. It wouldn't surprice me if the price for an album would drop 50%.
Don't expect a real sound studio to have 1 PC with a soundblaster. It just won't do unless your hearing has already been damaged by listening to too much crap.
You better should have changed the lighting in your room to cover up your mistakes :-)
And still, nobody will read it.
Consumers are basically to impatient to study an EULA. It takes a bloody hour to go through such a license and that's what no consumer will do. They want to test what they have bought.
Just like nobody reads the manuals of their new equipment before installing it and doing a first test.
These kind of licenses are not complained about because nobody reads them and will ever read them. People will start reading them when some problem occurs (like MS knocking on your door).
I believe that such licenses should not be complicated and not exceed 5-10 lines otherwise they will not be read and putting the "I agree" button next to a 10 page covering EULA is putting your customers on the wrong track.
Actually I think these kind of licenses should be declared illegal because they are much too complicated for normal users to understand and therefore a user can not judge wether he/she "agrees" with the license.
The software companies that spread such complicated licenses should be put on trail, not the users who didn't know to what they agreed.