>Isn't this almost true by construction ? I mean, can one imagine buying a computer - *any* computer - that *wasn't* much better than their previous, older one ? I mean really, man, you're comparing you're new computer against, among other things, an ancient Powerbook !
almost. but not completely. I was referring to the amount of satisfaction at time of purchase + satisfaction after purchase (in years)
the PB 100 was still a staple system for the person that used it after me for many many years.
the 7500 was by far the most impressive Mac desktop of all time... and still is, in my opinion..
i mean, i just recently stopped using my 7500 as my main server.. and that's ONLY because there was a problem with the mouse cursor showing up on screen in Mac OS X 10.2! Yeah.. i was using Mac OS X 10.2.2 on that machine up until three weeks ago...
i am absolutely amazed at the 7500 as one of the top 10 Macs of the ages.
(now, to go 100% OT......)
my other favorite macs... they each have a significance all their own... all other Macs were simply stepping stones between (imho, of course)
The iMac - ressurection PowerBook 100 - design still influences 11 years later iBook dual USB - purest, most powerful iteration of PB100 PowerMacintosh 7500 - oldest mac that still runs 10.2.2 well.. makes windows "macs don't upgrade" lusers cringe in horror. Mac IIci - look ma, no screws to open me up! TAM - design matters PowerMac G3 B&W - look ma, don't need to open me, but you can if you really want to, pull my finger PowerBook 2400 - tiny, powerful, sexy, perfect PowerBook G4 Titanium - portable $100,000 a/v editing studio, 1" thick. Quadra 660/AV - video is as easy to work with as text
wow.. i am off topic now. but i have kharma to burn.
This seems like a really good deal for Saint Leo University:
* Many students will not follow all the rules and will have to give the laptop back.
* After two years, the laptops will be monetarily worthless (definitely after four years). So why not just let the students keep them?
* I wonder if they're getting a tax writeoff? They could definitely save on taxes if they do it right.
* Obviously is getting them a lot of pubicity...
it said "publicity"... i changed it. (/obscure SNL faux commercial reference)
and i am convinced that my new iBook 800 with combo drive is the best Mac i've ever owned. It took about 2 days for me to belive that. (PB 100, Duo 230, 280c, 180c, 520c, 660AV, 7500, G4/450, and TiBook 550 if you really care to know)
It is cheap (as in beer), its fast, its rock solid construction, its got a sexy bright screen, its got very good wireless coverage, its light (in grams), it has every port i could ever want, and its simple in design which doesn't lend itself to breakage of parts (like my work's Thinkpad with now broken USB door and broken PCCard buttons)
so what?
This is a great plan and gives students a great leg up with the ultimate college computer. I wish that i had had the opportunity 12 years ago when i went to college to get a PowerBook 100 (included with tution price).
if the file you want to work on is locked down by Digital Restrictions Managment in Windows XP. Every time.
(this used to be "a Mac Plus is faster than (windows computer X) if the video card and the parallel port on the Windows machine are having an IRQ conflict")
However, now that it only took 10 years to get rid of IRQ and DMA conflicts, its nice to see that a new conflict - user vs. Microsoft - is the new conflict... which is much more powerful.... at least IRQ conflicts could eventually be worked out.
Privacy, lack of DRM, simple to manage server software and open standards are why i use Mac OS X... speed is like 5th down my give-a-shit list.
is the book copyrighted? If not, is it under any license agreement? Or can i scan it in, and redistribute it on the internet (in its entirety, with obvious credit that RMS was the author and not me?)
obviously, since the book has physical attributes, i wouldn't believe or suggest that a physical book itself would be free... but i'm curious if he eats his own dog food.
tangental question... how did it come about that Lessig's eBook was protected to the point of being unusable? Did not he write it? (/Yoda) And did he not have control over how its protections were to be set? I am a devotee of Lessig's ideas (not to the man himself), but this has always bothered and confused me.
> I would argue that infact many Linux users suffer from more cognative dissonance that a normal computer user (everyone suffers form it from time to time).
I constantly hear the virtues of Linux espoused and many people seem to think it is in every way better than Windows. However, when they get confronted with shortcommings or concessions they had to make in their switch to Linux, they either downplay them, ignore them, or just claim it isn't the truth. >
Many people do not have games as a motivation. Many people DO have security, privacy, and supportability for the long term as their motivations.
If security, privacy, and supportability for the long term as their motivations, there are clearly few reasons to pay for Windows, and many more reasons to put up with some drawbacks of Linux, Mac OS X, and other open source-based operating systems. It a matter of weighing the pros and cons of each, and making a decision. For myself, the ability to play games has absolutely no weight in my decision on which systems to run a business on.
So, it may not be cognative dissonance in the people that use Linux/UNIX/Mac OS X... i would argure that your persepctive may be limited to more pedestrian computing needs.
>No offense, but this isn't just a report or some finite amount of data that you provided. This sort of thing always goes way beyond just delivering a binary.
no offense taken.. that is why i said "i'm asking, please educate me".:-)
while many people appear to have said "you don't understand", and the go on to say that they charge over time for additional work... which is what i asked.
If company X asks me to "support" them for the next year, then i'm going to charge them just the same as the software coder. My work is up front, the software people is in the back.. but there is no fundamental difference.
"It will cost $Y for this product because it will cost me X time" doesn't change if you make a delivery part-way thru the X or at the very end, or in increments throughout the time X.
I guess what i'm asking is is the concept of "pay me for my time" a long lost concept? Because it seems like many (maybe not these) coders want to get paid today and tomorrow for work they did today... and i'm not talking about support, because, obviously, support is work. Support is work half way thru X. Delivery was at half way, and then the support was the second half.
I don't mean to sound flippant.. but i'm in a line of work where, when i work during the day, i assume that that work is done, and that tomorrow, i'm going to get paid for working tomorrow.. and not to keep getting paid and repaid for the work i did last week.
Is the concept of "pay me for work" completely dead? Must everything be "pay me for work, and keep paying me for years later too?"
Why do you not just simply charge them for getting a job accomplished, and then, if they want you to come back, tell them it will cost them more money?
If you think that there is something to your work, and if the source code get distributed, then you may see that others will want to pay to have you come and work for them to help them integrate whatever it is that is so wonderful that you wrote up.
What you sound like you want is "pay us now, but we want to hold our code hostage so that any time someone uses it, you want to get paid."
If you were to ask 3 times as much for your work, and they got an unlimited use of your code, would that be sufficient?
IANACIAAA (I am not a coder, i am an analyst), so please, this is not a "you suck" post.. this is an honest question.... where does my idea fall flat, if it does, please tell me, i want to be educated.
So that you can get a sense of where i'm coming from.... what i do every day is i sell out my brain power (and those of my partners here) by the hour.
I get paid to give someone a analysis of this, or an analysis of that... and i tell them "that will take 6 months and cost you $100,000". My reputation is good, so i get more people to come back to me and keep hiring me to do more work for them.
I do not hold my output hostage...i give it freely to the companies, and their use of it is what they will of it, except that they must reference the writer - me - when they use the data. They are not allowed to say "this analysis was done by us" I only ask that they say "this analysis was done by gsfprez".
What else they do with the data, i don't care, and its not my business....I have gotten plenty of work simply from others seeing my output, and they were impressed.
My customers always have new problems, and i'm here to help them when those problems come up. They also have partners, and so, they come to us for help because they saw what were were able to accomplish.
When they do, they ask me how much it will cost.... they pay us then....
This story is 100% bullshit. None of the pay-for-stale_media services has ever worked out. Yet, this article touts that these services are the wave of the future...?! Its not news to call listen-per-pay the future.. its and damn lie.
So the RIAA approves a few crippled download services and the MPAA approves a few crippled download services... so what? Its been done before... failures of Biblical proportions. Why didn't they report that?
In the real world, DVD's are open media (thanks to our friend who's paying for it with his freedom)... and what's going on in the world of DVD sales?
DVD sales are making them money hand over fist.. they can't buy enough trucks to take the money to the bank fast enough.
This story is bullshit because it doesn't note that 1/2 of the protection was taken off of a DVD last year in a underreported coup.. and what happend? Hary Potter.. which was both un-Macrovisioned AND was on the P2P nets long before the theatrical release became the biggest selling DVD of all time..
from the article..."[the iMac] also has a large contingent of early adopters, who likely would be interested in trying out technologies such as video on demand. "
That is not news... that is bullshit.
note to c|net... those iMac adopters can ALREADY watch Harry Potter, you NONCES!. They bought the open media format on DVD and are already watching it! Do you have to practice to be this stupid?
the real truth will be found out in the next 5 years.. who will proseper - open media or crippled formats? The trending up of DVD sales and the trending down of CD sales... which are being more and more crippled each day. Or the new cripple-ware services....
I'm putting my money on the open media standards....
What the article also doesn't do a good enough job of it pointing out WHY Final Cut Pro, TiBooks and linux renderfarms are the darling of Hollywood.. and all content creators....
The reason is.. they are not DRM-crippled.
Damnit... it should be against the law to call your site news.com when you are nothing but Microsoft and now, DRM shills... with no actual desire to report news.
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>USA and, suprisngly Canada are the worst in the world for energy usage (Per Person!)
how is this statistic assume that this is a "bad" thing?
Would it be better for everyone in the US to stop using all forms of power? If we went to sub-Ethiopian levels of power usage.. who, then would make drugs for AIDS patients, invent the internet, build spaceships to discover the wonders of space, or to send inordinate amounts of food to shit-hole piss poor countries like Ethiopia?
You never got a job from a poor person that could help you feed and clothe yourself.. and a person that shits in a hole, freezes in the winter, and tills the land with his own children didn't do much to help anyone else.
I am damn PROUD that we and the Canunks use the most enegery.. we do the most good for the world too.
If you don't believe it - then give back your polio shot, and start speaking German... unless you're a Jew.. then you can just go fuck yourself.
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just look for yourself. Asia and the Euros take the cake for winter-time pollution because they have no effective way of running clean heating sources... they are the ones who are fscking up the environment, not the US.
If instead of implimenting the Kyoto Protocols they simply spent time cleaning up the air NEAR Kyoto, then they'd actually be doing something..
but, as usual, its news to everyone except for those that look at the facts that the US and Canada does more to ACTUALLY protect the environment than a whole room full of UN Anti-Americanists TALK about protecting it.
Just go look for yourself - and tell me where the dirty air is and is not and at what times of the year....
okay.. who else needs a supercomputer? And don't say chess guys... IBM already does their computers.
Seriously.. where's the market for "part time" supercomputing? Who needs to simulate to the interaction of atoms on tuesday, but not on wednesday? I may be missing something.. so while i'm sounding snotty... i really am wondering who "part time supercomputer users" are. Can anyone enlighten me?
All the users i can think of also spend a bunch of their time hacking the setup of their systems as well.. the last thing they will want is to lose all that mindshare - because these guys are uber-deep into the understanding of the problems AND the MP architectures needed to support the specific problems.. OR they'll spend their time trying to explain their problems to the IBM guys.
Help me... who does IBM think the users of this power are going to be?
please tell me where you see the greatest levels of pollution over the year?
Are you shocked at the polution coming from India, Russia, and Europe? I'm certainly not. Now - compare it to the USA.
That's right.. its a piss in the ocean in comparison.
What amazes me is that the Russians, who have been whining and crying about Kyoto... good Lord! Look at Russia during the winter months.
The rest of the world is so full of crap when they complain about us.. but then, hard facts and evidence don't really matter to hippies, tree-huggers, or liberals.
No - this is an attempt to pass on the truth. You are obfuscating the point of the story - Microsoft is FINALLY pointing out that your software licenses are THEIR property, not yours..
"The licenses that debtors (Kmart) have of Microsoft's products are licenses of copyrighted materials and, therefore, may not be assumed or assigned with[out] Microsoft's consent,"
there are also some tax issues, but no one here gives a flying-fsck about that.
If KMart also sells off some of their Ford trucks, where would it be Ford's problem if the trucks were sold to someone else? Hell no.
The truth remains...Microsoft IS able to determine what someone does with their licenses AFTER PURCHASE and WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A SIGNATURE as far as resale and transfer, and there's fuck-all any of us can do about it, except not involve ourselves with them to being with. Right of first sale is cirlcing the drain right next to fair use and unrestricted use.
You may or MAY NOT transfer your copy of XP to your little brother if you get money for it. You MUST contact Microsoft and establish that the license can be transfered. Period.
Yes - we have a country full of lawbreakers.... they also go 70 in 65 zones, don't stop within 1 foot of the white line at stop signs, and (humor)tear the tags off of their matresses(/humor)
Just because you've BEEN doing it DOES NOT mean that its legal. Microsoft has decided that since there are more than likely multi-millions of dollars "worth" of MS software involved with this transaction, they are going to step in and assert their "rights".
Remember THAT during your next round of computer purchases, pointy-haired-boss-kissing-IT- director-of-Mega-Corp.
If a screen only lasts a year or two with the current OLED technology, why is that a big deal?
Make the screens replaceable. I mean, this technology makes it sound like they're pretty cheap to make since they are built using a modified (granted, more complex) inkjet technolgy. You've also now got a whole new after-market for laptop screens.
Don't need super-hgh rez - get a cheaper one.
Want to have a tri-fold-out screen at the office, and a lighter, energy efficient one for on the plane?
So what if the screen goes out if you can just buy a new screen for a few benjamins?
If i could get a lot more battery life, have a much more rugged screen, and it was mch brighter - i'd pay $200 for a newer screen(with higher rez, of course) every year and a half.
or did you all miss the fact that their first press release - which reads amazingly similar to their latest ones (without the patent listings) came out in 1997?
until i can buy a monitor based on this technology, i'm putting it up there with 10 GB sugarcube sized holoraphic memory, a actual Windows/Mac desktop-replacement Linux, and 3G.
>The copy-protected CDs limit users options--preventing them from making a copy of the CD to play in their car, for example, as one could with a cassette tape.
this is 100% BS.
Copy-protected CD do NOT stop someone from making a copy of the CD to play in their car, for example.
There is NO CD that can stop you from doing this.
1. Get a 1/8" to 1/8" cable from Radio Shack 2. Plug one end into a CD player that the CD plays in 3. Plug the other end into your computer 4. Hit "play" on the CD player at the same time you hit "record" on your computer's audio recording program.
99% of people will NOT be able to tell the difference when listening to the "unmakable" CD in their car.
They will, also, be able to make mixes.. that is, they can put tracks from MULTPILE "copy protected" circular-shiny-thingies-that-only-play-in-older-cd -players.
The only copy-protected music CD is the one that doesn't play in ANY CD player.
There is no way to stop me from copying the information from a media which allows me to hear, see, smell or taste. At least, not a copy which is "close enough" for me not to care that its a "perfect" copy.
"Honda just started a thing where they put a GPS reciever/transmitter in your car. They track everywhere you go and how long you're there (when you're stopped).
Say you stop at AM/PM, they know that you are a user of Arco gasoline. Say you stop at a Michales craft store, they know that you are into crafts. Perhapse you stop at Costco - they could surmise that you have a large family.
This, along with the ability to record your conversations in the car are used to find out what your into, but its anonymous, of course. All that they use that information for is to customize advertisements on your car stereo just for you.
They also track who is in the car with you, because they is useful demographic information to help them with their targeted advertizing.
You don't have anything to hide, so that wouldn't bother you, would it?
So - are you wondering when you can get one of these new Hondas?
No?
Aunt Mary, just replace Honda with Microsoft and/or your Internet service provider.
You DO know that you've ALREADY agreed to this on your computer, right?"
This has worked for me 100% of the time. They get creeped out every time.
if the guys that did the semi-recent "viruses" like Melissa and iloveyou had included click-thru EULAs that completely discribed what the program was doing....
would they have been in any kind of trouble? Would it not have legitimized their "virus" to the status of "legal"? If not, why not? I mean - "you agreed to the EULA when you clicked it"...
We seem to have here a EULA that can sign you up to the terms of the agreements on this story.. what then, fundamentally, is the difference between a virus and a "powerful EULA" for a piece of software written by a "legit" company? A click-thru?
Good heavens...
and honestly... if melissa/iloveyou, etc HAD had a click thru - does anyone believe that the damage would have been any less?
Of course not.
if this ever happens... and let me say - i PRAY THAT IT DOES.... it will finally get people to start noticing what it is they are clicking on.... and that could lead to nothing but good.
>Tourt reform is sponsored by the mega corps to reduce consumers right to sue. ITs all about profit for them. At least that is Bush's version of it.
are you a tit?
Tourt reform has been 100% rejected by Democrats - who are literally either part of the system or are beholden to the system.
The love of the judicical branch of government by the left-wing is their inability to have the most kooky of hippie beliefs passed by the people of the country - so they get into the judiciary, where it is impossible (practically) to be removed from their places of power.
Or haven't you noticed that the last Democrat to be president was a lawyer... and the next Democrat in office will ALSO be a lawyer (and also named Clinton).
your allegience to the left-wing has you blinded to truth.
i am starting a small business....privacy will be one of the top concerns of our clients.
i want an email server, a file server, a printer server, a web server, and a small database server....
can you give me one reason why the FUCK i would want to pay you...
-for the server software -for the email server software -and THEN - for every single person that wants to connect TO the server on TOP of the stuff that you already charged me for? And then want me to keep paying you every year?
good Lord - many small businesses don't want to keep paying your ass at every turn - our money is precious to us, because we don't have a lot, and so if we can save a buck or a few THOUSAND - we're NOT going to give it over to you when there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to do so.
AND... the lawyers tell me, like the medical folks are finding out - that if we are going to guarantee security and privacy AND be on the internet too - then you must think i'm wearing an ass-hat to go with software that hasn't fully told me
what data it collects what data it sends back what software it may or may not install what software or data it may or may not watch what format the files are in so that i can get at my data if i chance vendors later....
The reason that you are losing to Linux is because i get all of that for the supremely expensive cost of $0. TODAY.
If i don't want to be a linux geek, but still have the same kind of stability and software choice - i can hand Apple Computer $1000, and click my way to almost command-line free blissful servers.
And if you think that Palladium, Trusted Computing, and Licensing 6.0 are reasons TO RENT your software - you must be a gran mal ass choad.
Let me tell you what i DO want...
i want my privacy and i don't want to keep paying your ass, okay?
I don't keep paying the furniture guy, i don't keep paying the painter, and i don't keep paying the guy that i paid to run cable in my office.. so why the fuck do you think i should keep paying you after i've gotten what from you?
YOU ARE STUPID and YOU DON'T LISTEN TO US. And it won't be the DOJ or a bunch of lawyers that bring you down..
its your arrogance in thinking that i can't live without you...
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>Isn't this almost true by construction ? I mean, can one imagine buying a computer - *any* computer - that *wasn't* much better than their previous, older one ? I mean really, man, you're comparing you're new computer against, among other things, an ancient Powerbook !
.2 on that machine up until three weeks ago...
almost. but not completely. I was referring to the amount of satisfaction at time of purchase + satisfaction after purchase (in years)
the PB 100 was still a staple system for the person that used it after me for many many years.
the 7500 was by far the most impressive Mac desktop of all time... and still is, in my opinion..
i mean, i just recently stopped using my 7500 as my main server.. and that's ONLY because there was a problem with the mouse cursor showing up on screen in Mac OS X 10.2! Yeah.. i was using Mac OS X 10.2
i am absolutely amazed at the 7500 as one of the top 10 Macs of the ages.
(now, to go 100% OT......)
my other favorite macs... they each have a significance all their own... all other Macs were simply stepping stones between (imho, of course)
The iMac - ressurection
PowerBook 100 - design still influences 11 years later
iBook dual USB - purest, most powerful iteration of PB100
PowerMacintosh 7500 - oldest mac that still runs 10.2.2 well.. makes windows "macs don't upgrade" lusers cringe in horror.
Mac IIci - look ma, no screws to open me up!
TAM - design matters
PowerMac G3 B&W - look ma, don't need to open me, but you can if you really want to, pull my finger
PowerBook 2400 - tiny, powerful, sexy, perfect
PowerBook G4 Titanium - portable $100,000 a/v editing studio, 1" thick.
Quadra 660/AV - video is as easy to work with as text
wow.. i am off topic now. but i have kharma to burn.
This seems like a really good deal for Saint Leo University:
* Many students will not follow all the rules and will have to give the laptop back.
* After two years, the laptops will be monetarily worthless (definitely after four years). So why not just let the students keep them?
* I wonder if they're getting a tax writeoff? They could definitely save on taxes if they do it right.
* Obviously is getting them a lot of pubicity...
it said "publicity"... i changed it.
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>I'd like to see this program offer a choice. Do you want a MacOS, M$, or some flavor of unix on your free laptop?
Yes. That's what they did.
They gave them a machine that does MacOS, M$, or some flavor of unix on your free laptop.
doofus.
and i am convinced that my new iBook 800 with combo drive is the best Mac i've ever owned. It took about 2 days for me to belive that.
(PB 100, Duo 230, 280c, 180c, 520c, 660AV, 7500, G4/450, and TiBook 550 if you really care to know)
It is cheap (as in beer), its fast, its rock solid construction, its got a sexy bright screen, its got very good wireless coverage, its light (in grams), it has every port i could ever want, and its simple in design which doesn't lend itself to breakage of parts (like my work's Thinkpad with now broken USB door and broken PCCard buttons)
so what?
This is a great plan and gives students a great leg up with the ultimate college computer. I wish that i had had the opportunity 12 years ago when i went to college to get a PowerBook 100 (included with tution price).
if the file you want to work on is locked down by Digital Restrictions Managment in Windows XP. Every time.
(this used to be "a Mac Plus is faster than (windows computer X) if the video card and the parallel port on the Windows machine are having an IRQ conflict")
However, now that it only took 10 years to get rid of IRQ and DMA conflicts, its nice to see that a new conflict - user vs. Microsoft - is the new conflict... which is much more powerful.... at least IRQ conflicts could eventually be worked out.
Privacy, lack of DRM, simple to manage server software and open standards are why i use Mac OS X... speed is like 5th down my give-a-shit list.
> elaboration on Plato's Academy 4
i was scanning through and thought i saw " elaboration on Police Academy 4"....
now, i can't stop laughing for some innane reason.
is the book copyrighted? If not, is it under any license agreement? Or can i scan it in, and redistribute it on the internet (in its entirety, with obvious credit that RMS was the author and not me?)
obviously, since the book has physical attributes, i wouldn't believe or suggest that a physical book itself would be free... but i'm curious if he eats his own dog food.
tangental question...
how did it come about that Lessig's eBook was protected to the point of being unusable? Did not he write it? (/Yoda) And did he not have control over how its protections were to be set? I am a devotee of Lessig's ideas (not to the man himself), but this has always bothered and confused me.
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I would argue that infact many Linux users suffer from more cognative dissonance that a normal computer user (everyone suffers form it from time to time).
I constantly hear the virtues of Linux espoused and many people seem to think it is in every way better than Windows. However, when they get confronted with shortcommings or concessions they had to make in their switch to Linux, they either downplay them, ignore them, or just claim it isn't the truth.
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Many people do not have games as a motivation. Many people DO have security, privacy, and supportability for the long term as their motivations.
If security, privacy, and supportability for the long term as their motivations, there are clearly few reasons to pay for Windows, and many more reasons to put up with some drawbacks of Linux, Mac OS X, and other open source-based operating systems. It a matter of weighing the pros and cons of each, and making a decision. For myself, the ability to play games has absolutely no weight in my decision on which systems to run a business on.
So, it may not be cognative dissonance in the people that use Linux/UNIX/Mac OS X... i would argure that your persepctive may be limited to more pedestrian computing needs.
>No offense, but this isn't just a report or some finite amount of data that you provided. This sort of thing always goes way beyond just delivering a binary.
:-)
no offense taken.. that is why i said "i'm asking, please educate me".
while many people appear to have said "you don't understand", and the go on to say that they charge over time for additional work... which is what i asked.
If company X asks me to "support" them for the next year, then i'm going to charge them just the same as the software coder. My work is up front, the software people is in the back.. but there is no fundamental difference.
"It will cost $Y for this product because it will cost me X time" doesn't change if you make a delivery part-way thru the X or at the very end, or in increments throughout the time X.
I guess what i'm asking is is the concept of "pay me for my time" a long lost concept? Because it seems like many (maybe not these) coders want to get paid today and tomorrow for work they did today... and i'm not talking about support, because, obviously, support is work. Support is work half way thru X. Delivery was at half way, and then the support was the second half.
I don't mean to sound flippant.. but i'm in a line of work where, when i work during the day, i assume that that work is done, and that tomorrow, i'm going to get paid for working tomorrow.. and not to keep getting paid and repaid for the work i did last week.
.i give it freely to the companies, and their use of it is what they will of it, except that they must reference the writer - me - when they use the data. They are not allowed to say "this analysis was done by us" I only ask that they say "this analysis was done by gsfprez".
Is the concept of "pay me for work" completely dead? Must everything be "pay me for work, and keep paying me for years later too?"
Why do you not just simply charge them for getting a job accomplished, and then, if they want you to come back, tell them it will cost them more money?
If you think that there is something to your work, and if the source code get distributed, then you may see that others will want to pay to have you come and work for them to help them integrate whatever it is that is so wonderful that you wrote up.
What you sound like you want is "pay us now, but we want to hold our code hostage so that any time someone uses it, you want to get paid."
If you were to ask 3 times as much for your work, and they got an unlimited use of your code, would that be sufficient?
IANACIAAA (I am not a coder, i am an analyst), so please, this is not a "you suck" post.. this is an honest question.... where does my idea fall flat, if it does, please tell me, i want to be educated.
So that you can get a sense of where i'm coming from.... what i do every day is i sell out my brain power (and those of my partners here) by the hour.
I get paid to give someone a analysis of this, or an analysis of that... and i tell them "that will take 6 months and cost you $100,000". My reputation is good, so i get more people to come back to me and keep hiring me to do more work for them.
I do not hold my output hostage..
What else they do with the data, i don't care, and its not my business....I have gotten plenty of work simply from others seeing my output, and they were impressed.
My customers always have new problems, and i'm here to help them when those problems come up. They also have partners, and so, they come to us for help because they saw what were were able to accomplish.
When they do, they ask me how much it will cost.... they pay us then....
rinse, lather, repeat.
This story is 100% bullshit. None of the pay-for-stale_media services has ever worked out. Yet, this article touts that these services are the wave of the future...?! Its not news to call listen-per-pay the future.. its and damn lie.
So the RIAA approves a few crippled download services and the MPAA approves a few crippled download services... so what? Its been done before... failures of Biblical proportions. Why didn't they report that?
In the real world, DVD's are open media (thanks to our friend who's paying for it with his freedom)... and what's going on in the world of DVD sales?
DVD sales are making them money hand over fist.. they can't buy enough trucks to take the money to the bank fast enough.
This story is bullshit because it doesn't note that 1/2 of the protection was taken off of a DVD last year in a underreported coup.. and what happend? Hary Potter.. which was both un-Macrovisioned AND was on the P2P nets long before the theatrical release became the biggest selling DVD of all time..
from the article..."[the iMac] also has a large contingent of early adopters, who likely would be interested in trying out technologies such as video on demand. "
That is not news... that is bullshit.
note to c|net... those iMac adopters can ALREADY watch Harry Potter, you NONCES!. They bought the open media format on DVD and are already watching it! Do you have to practice to be this stupid?
the real truth will be found out in the next 5 years.. who will proseper - open media or crippled formats? The trending up of DVD sales and the trending down of CD sales... which are being more and more crippled each day. Or the new cripple-ware services....
I'm putting my money on the open media standards....
What the article also doesn't do a good enough job of it pointing out WHY Final Cut Pro, TiBooks and linux renderfarms are the darling of Hollywood.. and all content creators....
The reason is.. they are not DRM-crippled.
Damnit... it should be against the law to call your site news.com when you are nothing but Microsoft and now, DRM shills... with no actual desire to report news.
>USA and, suprisngly Canada are the worst in the world for energy usage (Per Person!)
how is this statistic assume that this is a "bad" thing?
Would it be better for everyone in the US to stop using all forms of power? If we went to sub-Ethiopian levels of power usage.. who, then would make drugs for AIDS patients, invent the internet, build spaceships to discover the wonders of space, or to send inordinate amounts of food to shit-hole piss poor countries like Ethiopia?
You never got a job from a poor person that could help you feed and clothe yourself.. and a person that shits in a hole, freezes in the winter, and tills the land with his own children didn't do much to help anyone else.
I am damn PROUD that we and the Canunks use the most enegery.. we do the most good for the world too.
If you don't believe it - then give back your polio shot, and start speaking German... unless you're a Jew.. then you can just go fuck yourself.
this is not opinion...
o ls /
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Aeros
just look for yourself. Asia and the Euros take the cake for winter-time pollution because they have no effective way of running clean heating sources... they are the ones who are fscking up the environment, not the US.
If instead of implimenting the Kyoto Protocols they simply spent time cleaning up the air NEAR Kyoto, then they'd actually be doing something..
but, as usual, its news to everyone except for those that look at the facts that the US and Canada does more to ACTUALLY protect the environment than a whole room full of UN Anti-Americanists TALK about protecting it.
Just go look for yourself - and tell me where the dirty air is and is not and at what times of the year....
okay.. who else needs a supercomputer? And don't say chess guys... IBM already does their computers.
Seriously.. where's the market for "part time" supercomputing? Who needs to simulate to the interaction of atoms on tuesday, but not on wednesday? I may be missing something.. so while i'm sounding snotty... i really am wondering who "part time supercomputer users" are. Can anyone enlighten me?
All the users i can think of also spend a bunch of their time hacking the setup of their systems as well.. the last thing they will want is to lose all that mindshare - because these guys are uber-deep into the understanding of the problems AND the MP architectures needed to support the specific problems.. OR they'll spend their time trying to explain their problems to the IBM guys.
Help me... who does IBM think the users of this power are going to be?
Okay.. the protein folding guys.... that's 1....
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Aerosols /
please tell me where you see the greatest levels of pollution over the year?
Are you shocked at the polution coming from India, Russia, and Europe? I'm certainly not. Now - compare it to the USA.
That's right.. its a piss in the ocean in comparison.
What amazes me is that the Russians, who have been whining and crying about Kyoto... good Lord! Look at Russia during the winter months.
The rest of the world is so full of crap when they complain about us.. but then, hard facts and evidence don't really matter to hippies, tree-huggers, or liberals.
No - this is an attempt to pass on the truth. You are obfuscating the point of the story - Microsoft is FINALLY pointing out that your software licenses are THEIR property, not yours..
"The licenses that debtors (Kmart) have of Microsoft's products are licenses of copyrighted materials and, therefore, may not be assumed or assigned with[out] Microsoft's consent,"
there are also some tax issues, but no one here gives a flying-fsck about that.
If KMart also sells off some of their Ford trucks, where would it be Ford's problem if the trucks were sold to someone else? Hell no.
The truth remains...Microsoft IS able to determine what someone does with their licenses AFTER PURCHASE and WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A SIGNATURE as far as resale and transfer, and there's fuck-all any of us can do about it, except not involve ourselves with them to being with. Right of first sale is cirlcing the drain right next to fair use and unrestricted use.
You may or MAY NOT transfer your copy of XP to your little brother if you get money for it. You MUST contact Microsoft and establish that the license can be transfered. Period.
Yes - we have a country full of lawbreakers.... they also go 70 in 65 zones, don't stop within 1 foot of the white line at stop signs, and (humor)tear the tags off of their matresses(/humor)
Just because you've BEEN doing it DOES NOT mean that its legal. Microsoft has decided that since there are more than likely multi-millions of dollars "worth" of MS software involved with this transaction, they are going to step in and assert their "rights".
Remember THAT during your next round of computer purchases, pointy-haired-boss-kissing-IT- director-of-Mega-Corp.
That's truth. Not FUD.
If a screen only lasts a year or two with the current OLED technology, why is that a big deal?
Make the screens replaceable. I mean, this technology makes it sound like they're pretty cheap to make since they are built using a modified (granted, more complex) inkjet technolgy. You've also now got a whole new after-market for laptop screens.
Don't need super-hgh rez - get a cheaper one.
Want to have a tri-fold-out screen at the office, and a lighter, energy efficient one for on the plane?
So what if the screen goes out if you can just buy a new screen for a few benjamins?
If i could get a lot more battery life, have a much more rugged screen, and it was mch brighter - i'd pay $200 for a newer screen(with higher rez, of course) every year and a half.
you've been doing it for over 5 years now..
= 19 97-08-05
or did you all miss the fact that their first press release - which reads amazingly similar to their latest ones (without the patent listings) came out in 1997?
http://www.universaldisplay.com/newsroom.php?pr
until i can buy a monitor based on this technology, i'm putting it up there with 10 GB sugarcube sized holoraphic memory, a actual Windows/Mac desktop-replacement Linux, and 3G.
from the article (yes, i read it)
d -players .
>The copy-protected CDs limit users options--preventing them from making a copy of the CD to play in their car, for example, as one could with a cassette tape.
this is 100% BS.
Copy-protected CD do NOT stop someone from making a copy of the CD to play in their car, for example.
There is NO CD that can stop you from doing this.
1. Get a 1/8" to 1/8" cable from Radio Shack
2. Plug one end into a CD player that the CD plays in
3. Plug the other end into your computer
4. Hit "play" on the CD player at the same time you hit "record" on your computer's audio recording program.
99% of people will NOT be able to tell the difference when listening to the "unmakable" CD in their car.
They will, also, be able to make mixes.. that is, they can put tracks from MULTPILE "copy protected" circular-shiny-thingies-that-only-play-in-older-c
The only copy-protected music CD is the one that doesn't play in ANY CD player.
There is no way to stop me from copying the information from a media which allows me to hear, see, smell or taste. At least, not a copy which is "close enough" for me not to care that its a "perfect" copy.
"Honda just started a thing where they put a GPS reciever/transmitter in your car. They track everywhere you go and how long you're there (when you're stopped).
Say you stop at AM/PM, they know that you are a user of Arco gasoline. Say you stop at a Michales craft store, they know that you are into crafts. Perhapse you stop at Costco - they could surmise that you have a large family.
This, along with the ability to record your conversations in the car are used to find out what your into, but its anonymous, of course. All that they use that information for is to customize advertisements on your car stereo just for you.
They also track who is in the car with you, because they is useful demographic information to help them with their targeted advertizing.
You don't have anything to hide, so that wouldn't bother you, would it?
So - are you wondering when you can get one of these new Hondas?
No?
Aunt Mary, just replace Honda with Microsoft and/or your Internet service provider.
You DO know that you've ALREADY agreed to this on your computer, right?"
This has worked for me 100% of the time. They get creeped out every time.
because the "Mainstream press is the cable companies
Just wondering..
if the guys that did the semi-recent "viruses" like Melissa and iloveyou had included click-thru EULAs that completely discribed what the program was doing....
would they have been in any kind of trouble? Would it not have legitimized their "virus" to the status of "legal"? If not, why not? I mean - "you agreed to the EULA when you clicked it"...
We seem to have here a EULA that can sign you up to the terms of the agreements on this story.. what then, fundamentally, is the difference between a virus and a "powerful EULA" for a piece of software written by a "legit" company? A click-thru?
Good heavens...
and honestly... if melissa/iloveyou, etc HAD had a click thru - does anyone believe that the damage would have been any less?
Of course not.
if this ever happens... and let me say - i PRAY THAT IT DOES.... it will finally get people to start noticing what it is they are clicking on.... and that could lead to nothing but good.
>For super-geeks, here is is a more thorough discussion of the Poincaré Conjecture.
i had to click on every single link of every single link of that explanation page...
to discover that i am a stupid ass-hat.
screw the frog math guy that came up with this.. and the frenchman he rode in on.
>Tourt reform is sponsored by the mega corps to reduce consumers right to sue. ITs all about profit for them. At least that is Bush's version of it.
are you a tit?
Tourt reform has been 100% rejected by Democrats - who are literally either part of the system or are beholden to the system.
The love of the judicical branch of government by the left-wing is their inability to have the most kooky of hippie beliefs passed by the people of the country - so they get into the judiciary, where it is impossible (practically) to be removed from their places of power.
Or haven't you noticed that the last Democrat to be president was a lawyer... and the next Democrat in office will ALSO be a lawyer (and also named Clinton).
your allegience to the left-wing has you blinded to truth.
i am starting a small business....privacy will be one of the top concerns of our clients.
i want an email server, a file server, a printer server, a web server, and a small database server....
can you give me one reason why the FUCK i would want to pay you...
-for the server software
-for the email server software
-and THEN - for every single person that wants to connect TO the server on TOP of the stuff that you already charged me for? And then want me to keep paying you every year?
good Lord - many small businesses don't want to keep paying your ass at every turn - our money is precious to us, because we don't have a lot, and so if we can save a buck or a few THOUSAND - we're NOT going to give it over to you when there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to do so.
AND... the lawyers tell me, like the medical folks are finding out - that if we are going to guarantee security and privacy AND be on the internet too - then you must think i'm wearing an ass-hat to go with software that hasn't fully told me
what data it collects
what data it sends back
what software it may or may not install
what software or data it may or may not watch
what format the files are in so that i can get at my data if i chance vendors later....
The reason that you are losing to Linux is because i get all of that for the supremely expensive cost of $0. TODAY.
If i don't want to be a linux geek, but still have the same kind of stability and software choice - i can hand Apple Computer $1000, and click my way to almost command-line free blissful servers.
And if you think that Palladium, Trusted Computing, and Licensing 6.0 are reasons TO RENT your software - you must be a gran mal ass choad.
Let me tell you what i DO want...
i want my privacy and i don't want to keep paying your ass, okay?
I don't keep paying the furniture guy, i don't keep paying the painter, and i don't keep paying the guy that i paid to run cable in my office.. so why the fuck do you think i should keep paying you after i've gotten what from you?
YOU ARE STUPID and YOU DON'T LISTEN TO US. And it won't be the DOJ or a bunch of lawyers that bring you down..
its your arrogance in thinking that i can't live without you...