If Alienware is going to be a wholly owned subsiderary of Dell and no Dell logos or associations will be seen with Alienware products or services, then what is the point?
Is dell just looking to send engineers over to Alienware to learn how to make gaming PCs?
Redhat's first releases were ripped off (and I'm not using that in a negative way) from Slackware way back even though RH is almost a completely different disto now. Mandrake (Now Mandriva) was also ripped off from Redhat before they went their own direction.
Why is this any different?
What Redhat Brings to the table is mainly service and support (that is what they are charging for). Sure..they do A LOT of great development work (and that's a good thing) it may even be more than just about any distro out there but distros all use the GPL'd changes (or sometimes whole GPL'd software) from each other. I've seen code from Redhat in SuSE, SuSE in debian, Redhat in Mandriva, ect....it goes on.
There is nothing wrong with CentOS as long as they don't use RH logos.
The business plan may be wrong (unethical) but as to wrong, well they are STILL the dominant OS vendor. I have yet to see anything that MS has done wrong with windows SIGNIFICANTLY affect their market share.
As bad as windows has been and may continue to be, unless people can't play their games or surf the web I seriously doubt any problem in Vista will slow it's sales.
I used to worry about the national debt, but I figure the country has already jumped off the cliff and the time to worry about it is LONG gone. So, with that in mind I think we should just run the ole credit card as far as it will go! Think I'm crazy? We should buy (the U.S.) stuff that can't be repoed by overseas creditors or countries (Physical items). Want that wall across the southern border...20 billion? 30? NO prob! Need 4 or 5 more Space shuttles? Give everybody GigE to the house! Put it on credit! What are they gunna do (the overseas banks)? They can't repo the stuff if the U.S. defaults. And after we default they'll STILL loan money to us because people still live here and still make money.
I know...it sounds crazy. And it is humor...but the scary thing is you are probably thinking about it seriously...just a little.
I find it facinating how many people will TRASH the GPLv3 based on other people's comments. PLUS...it's a draft! It has yet to be finalized. I think it rather short-sited of Linus to throw out the GPLv3 before it's been finished, finalized and released.
If you don't like what is currently in it, send in comments to the FSF! The license is being developed with input from everybody.
I agree with you, but there have been several articles that have had quotes from teh MPAA/RIAA that dispute the argument that if you have a copy at home you can download a copy from the net.
Their argument being that what you are downloading from the net is NOT from the copy you own and is therefore illegal.
In case anybody cares...the video chipset on this thing was MADE for home theater! It has hardware motion compensation, MPEG-2 hardware decoding, support for native HDTV resolutions and 16x9 aspect displays..among other nice stuff. It's NOT a big 3d gaming platform but definitely has the stuff for decoding video.
I wouldn't worry too much. I don't think myspace will be around for the longterm.
I had never had a myspace account until quite recently. Once I got the account going. The following things jumped out at me RIGHT AWAY.
1. The web design for the user space is GOD AWFUL ugly 2. It's hard to find stuff, it's NOT intuitive 3. myspace seems filled with bogus account (ads for women who want you to sign up for their porn video) 4. It's Sloooooooow
Why would you say that Malicious and neophytic users are at a minimum? These networks connect just about every major college and university on the planet (and a good percentage of the next tier). It would seem to me that hackers would be MORE prevelant on these networks.
So you don't think that, factoring out security that source specific multicast could scale?
Not debating yout technical points, but why has this not happened on I2, or GEANT or any of the other large scale research networks with hundreds of thousands of combined nodes? For all the death and gloom predicted if multicast were to be deployed widely there has not been that many large attacks on multicast on those networks and arguably if there were to be some hacking/experimentation done you'd fine it there first (just a theory).
If ISP's were required to enable multicast all the way to the home all these video delivery problems would be MUCH easier.
You want to see cable and DSL operators go nutz with foaming mouths, get your congressman to introduce a bill requiring multicast to be enabled on all routers and switches, and add a provision punishing ISP's who knowingly degrate UDP.
Many people think that multicast is a failure and does not work, fact of the matter is, it's deployed WORLD WIDE on the backbones of both Internet and Internet2. I can tell you from my own experience that it works as advertized (on I2)
Multicast has been deployed on Internet2 for some time now. I've watched 720p streams multicasted from Europe with no problem.
The problem with deploying it on the commercial Internet is political. Backbone commercial Internet providers have had multicast on for a LONG time. ISP's that give you your home broadband connection which are mostly cable TV operators and companies like verizon don't want to provide a cost effective way for content providers on the net to deliver video. They would rather charge you for their "middleman" service. It's not like they don't know how to enable it, all they need to do is enable it on their switches and routers.
Most cable operators use multicast already to stream the channels through their set top boxes.
In Britain The BBC is working with ISP's to multicast to broadband connections. That would REALLY be nice if something similar happened here (In the U.S.)
There are several VERY important things to consider when buying a cheepo Dell.
Yes it will essentially do email and web just as well as the ars box but....
1) The dell probably has onboard video and NO AGP OR PCI-Express slot so you can upgrade the video
and
2) The CPU will not be upgradable.
I bought a Dell for my mother and did'nt realize that the motherboard did'nt have an AGP slot on it (big bummer).
The ars box can be upgraded with faster AMD socket 939 processors if needed and can upgrade the video card. So 4 years down the road you will be able to upgrade this system to run Vista (or OS X hopefully one day) fairly well.
I think many people are going to be shocked when the MPAA WINS these cases. Primarily they will argue that 1)Yes..it's a search service but 2) It's obvious to anybody looking at these sites and the site operaters that the majority of torrent file names are to copyrighted material
On the other side I'd argue all sorts of things like how would you know what files exactly are being traded since torrent names don't have to match the file names, and how do you know what that torrent file is without downloading it first.
In the end it really depends on which judge they get. If they can convince the judge that it's reasonable to assume that a torrent name with references to copyrighted material is in fact probably copyrighted material, well then they are screwed.
Designers of Highways are agast that roads being used. Quote "Well...we designed the built the roads NEVER intending that it would be used at it's capacity. I mean..people are only supposed to use their cars in the way we predicted. It's just not cost-effective from a profit standpoint to built a road and expect that people would drive here, there and all over the place all the time!".
If you don't understand the above analogy...understand most cable and DSL ISP's design their networks with WEB SURFING in mind...not video or other bothersome traffic. They moan and bitch when somebody uses it in such a way that breaks the amount of bandwidth they provisioned.
I think people forget that google does not nessesarily create these apps with a plan in mind. Many of them are the result of the personal time that google gives it's employees for personal projects. When one looks interesting they (google) elevate it within the company and wait to see where it goes.
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If Alienware is going to be a wholly owned subsiderary of Dell and no Dell logos or associations will be seen with Alienware products or services, then what is the point?
Is dell just looking to send engineers over to Alienware to learn how to make gaming PCs?
Redhat's first releases were ripped off (and I'm not using that in a negative way) from Slackware way back even though RH is almost a completely different disto now. Mandrake (Now Mandriva) was also ripped off from Redhat before they went their own direction.
Why is this any different?
What Redhat Brings to the table is mainly service and support (that is what they are charging for). Sure..they do A LOT of great development work (and that's a good thing) it may even be more than just about any distro out there but distros all use the GPL'd changes (or sometimes whole GPL'd software) from each other. I've seen code from Redhat in SuSE, SuSE in debian, Redhat in Mandriva, ect....it goes on.
There is nothing wrong with CentOS as long as they don't use RH logos.
$5 dollar donation....done!
That's why I use the "cone of silence"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_silence
If that were true then people who think GW is incompetent would feel safe indeed.
Which PDA/Phone are you talking about? He has a different brand/model every week!
The business plan may be wrong (unethical) but as to wrong, well they are STILL the dominant OS vendor. I have yet to see anything that MS has done wrong with windows SIGNIFICANTLY affect their market share.
As bad as windows has been and may continue to be, unless people can't play their games or surf the web I seriously doubt any problem in Vista will slow it's sales.
I used to worry about the national debt, but I figure the country has already jumped off the cliff and the time to worry about it is LONG gone. So, with that in mind I think we should just run the ole credit card as far as it will go! Think I'm crazy? We should buy (the U.S.) stuff that can't be repoed by overseas creditors or countries (Physical items). Want that wall across the southern border...20 billion? 30? NO prob! Need 4 or 5 more Space shuttles? Give everybody GigE to the house! Put it on credit! What are they gunna do (the overseas banks)? They can't repo the stuff if the U.S. defaults. And after we default they'll STILL loan money to us because people still live here and still make money.
I know...it sounds crazy. And it is humor...but the scary thing is you are probably thinking about it seriously...just a little.
"Those who beat their swords into plows will plow for those who don't"
I find it facinating how many people will TRASH the GPLv3 based on other people's comments. PLUS...it's a draft! It has yet to be finalized. I think it rather short-sited of Linus to throw out the GPLv3 before it's been finished, finalized and released.
If you don't like what is currently in it, send in comments to the FSF! The license is being developed with input from everybody.
Oh well....I guess we're bound to end up chirping like birds and growing fur all over.
http://www.chtorr.com/
I agree with you, but there have been several articles that have had quotes from teh MPAA/RIAA that dispute the argument that if you have a copy at home you can download a copy from the net.
Their argument being that what you are downloading from the net is NOT from the copy you own and is therefore illegal.
Ok. I stand corrected.
Intel probably gave them a break on the chips (probably a deal when they went to the Intel CPU)
It's amazing when you consider the previous model did'nt have those features. Not that they are'nt available in another chipset.
yea...I agree the Nforce 2 would of been better, but it really depends on the PRICE that intel said they'd give apple
In case anybody cares...the video chipset on this thing was MADE for home theater! It has hardware motion compensation, MPEG-2 hardware decoding, support for native HDTV resolutions and 16x9 aspect displays..among other nice stuff. It's NOT a big 3d gaming platform but definitely has the stuff for decoding video.
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/
I wouldn't worry too much. I don't think myspace will be around for the longterm.
I had never had a myspace account until quite recently. Once I got the account going. The following things jumped out at me RIGHT AWAY.
1. The web design for the user space is GOD AWFUL ugly
2. It's hard to find stuff, it's NOT intuitive
3. myspace seems filled with bogus account (ads for women who want you to sign up for their porn video)
4. It's Sloooooooow
Why would you say that Malicious and neophytic users are at a minimum? These networks connect just about every major college and university on the planet (and a good percentage of the next tier). It would seem to me that hackers would be MORE prevelant on these networks.
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So you don't think that, factoring out security that source specific multicast could scale?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_specific_mult
Not debating yout technical points, but why has this not happened on I2, or GEANT or any of the other large scale research networks with hundreds of thousands of combined nodes? For all the death and gloom predicted if multicast were to be deployed widely there has not been that many large attacks on multicast on those networks and arguably if there were to be some hacking/experimentation done you'd fine it there first (just a theory).
If ISP's were required to enable multicast all the way to the home all these video delivery problems would be MUCH easier.
You want to see cable and DSL operators go nutz with foaming mouths, get your congressman to introduce a bill requiring multicast to be enabled on all routers and switches, and add a provision punishing ISP's who knowingly degrate UDP.
Many people think that multicast is a failure and does not work, fact of the matter is, it's deployed WORLD WIDE on the backbones of both Internet and Internet2. I can tell you from my own experience that it works as advertized (on I2)
Multicast has been deployed on Internet2 for some time now. I've watched 720p streams multicasted from Europe with no problem.
The problem with deploying it on the commercial Internet is political. Backbone commercial Internet providers have had multicast on for a LONG time. ISP's that give you your home broadband connection which are mostly cable TV operators and companies like verizon don't want to provide a cost effective way for content providers on the net to deliver video. They would rather charge you for their "middleman" service. It's not like they don't know how to enable it, all they need to do is enable it on their switches and routers.
Most cable operators use multicast already to stream the channels through their set top boxes.
In Britain The BBC is working with ISP's to multicast to broadband connections. That would REALLY be nice if something similar happened here (In the U.S.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/
There are several VERY important things to consider when buying a cheepo Dell.
Yes it will essentially do email and web just as well as the ars box but....
1) The dell probably has onboard video and NO AGP OR PCI-Express slot so you can upgrade the video
and
2) The CPU will not be upgradable.
I bought a Dell for my mother and did'nt realize that the motherboard did'nt have an AGP slot on it (big bummer).
The ars box can be upgraded with faster AMD socket 939 processors if needed and can upgrade the video card. So 4 years down the road you will be able to upgrade this system to run Vista (or OS X hopefully one day) fairly well.
I think many people are going to be shocked when the MPAA WINS these cases. Primarily they will argue that 1)Yes..it's a search service but 2) It's obvious to anybody looking at these sites and the site operaters that the majority of torrent file names are to copyrighted material
On the other side I'd argue all sorts of things like how would you know what files exactly are being traded since torrent names don't have to match the file names, and how do you know what that torrent file is without downloading it first.
In the end it really depends on which judge they get. If they can convince the judge that it's reasonable to assume that a torrent name with references to copyrighted material is in fact probably copyrighted material, well then they are screwed.
Designers of Highways are agast that roads being used. Quote "Well...we designed the built the roads NEVER intending that it would be used at it's capacity. I mean..people are only supposed to use their cars in the way we predicted. It's just not cost-effective from a profit standpoint to built a road and expect that people would drive here, there and all over the place all the time!".
If you don't understand the above analogy...understand most cable and DSL ISP's design their networks with WEB SURFING in mind...not video or other bothersome traffic. They moan and bitch when somebody uses it in such a way that breaks the amount of bandwidth they provisioned.
I think people forget that google does not nessesarily create these apps with a plan in mind. Many of them are the result of the personal time that google gives it's employees for personal projects. When one looks interesting they (google) elevate it within the company and wait to see where it goes.