people take issues like this lightly because no one seriously believes that cell phones could bring down airplanes.
Good Lord - the passengers on the flights on 9 Sept. were ALL using their cell phones.. i'm just shocked that the handwringing euros of the world like you haven't taken the opportunity to blame the cell phones for what happened instead of the muslim terrorists (you've blamed everyone else but them)
Seriosly - if you *really* thought for one moment that the guy in the cheap suit next to you had forget to turn off his cell phone : and therefore spell your doom - would you REALLY get on the plane.
of course not. And that's because the engineers (both Boeing and the French ones) have worked it out so that it WON'T happen.
If you're going to get ANYONE beyond/. types (read: PHBs) to understand what you're talking about, you're site needs to give some concrete examples of what you're speaking of. You are going to have to name names and point at the naked emperor.
For Example:
"Open File/Protocol Formats: File and protocol formats should be open, correctly documented, and have no charge for their use.
Currently, some popular file formats which do not fall under these caveats are Microsoft Word.doc files (incompletely/incorrectly documented file format) and the SMB/CIFS file sharing protocol (incompletely and incorrectly documented, and recently deemed that use of this format outside of the Win32 API is prohibited).
Open File and protocol formats would allow one to use an application, such as OpenOffice, to read/write/edit Microsoft Word.doc files with 100% accuracy. They would also allow non-proprietary browsers and servers, such as SAMBA, to interoperate on par with Microsoft Windows clients on Microsoft File Sharing servers"
Until its spelled out in large letters with crayon - you're really talking around the issue, and you're not bringing the problem to the focal point.
If Microsoft is really for Software Choice (i'm sorry, that just cracks me up every time i say it) - then you have to give them a 5-foot thick carbon-fibre cube of a target to try to shoot holes in.. Without naming specifics, you're giving them the sky. They will (and are) talking around your points.
MS's life depends 3 legs - Windows, Office, and Exchange. Lets work on one of the 3 legs - maybe that will finally begin the toppeling of the monopoly.
I also agree that if some company is stupid enough to BUY Office - let them.. I have no problem with that. The problem is that if I work with them, i must have it too. And that is what I find objectionable
I see no reason why these games wouldn't play in Classic mode on Mac OS X - however, i'll have to update you later..
actually.. what's really funny is that these are the perfect games for a Blue Box window, instead of a full screen implimentation Classic.. that way, i could play the games in the corner of the screen and still see if i got email.
or.. maybe i'll just buy the PC versions and play them in a VirtPC window.. hmm... now i have no idea what to do. crap.
To all of you who have said "no big deal" "$.75 is not a lot of money" - you are mad.
I ran the numbers - and they are staggering.
The list of licensees guarantees them $2,295,000 PER YEAR for the MINIMUM licenseing fees. I notice that i DIDN'T notice a lot of the super-simple little Mac OS 9 mp3 players that were out there on the licensee list - so i guess that their days are now over.
And that is just the tip of the "ability to buy small governments and a few senators" pile of money.
As a Mac bigot, i see that Apple has had 100,000,000 downloads of Quicktime. If they had supported the MP3 format from the beginning (they haven't) that would be $75,000,000 from Apple, and $75,000,000 to Thompson Multimedia. But you get my point.
Fine - what about RealPlayer?
Their site claims that they have 285 million players out there! So much for Apple.. if these rules were in place, that would be a cool $213,750,000 from Real to Thompson. Their software has been shit up until recently, so i can't tell you how long they've supported mp3's. but if it was the beginning, then that's what it woulda cost them.
That's just crap. And that's just two of the licensees. I can't imagine how many bazillions they plan on making here in the near future.
This will and SHOULD kill mp3. I grow weary of saying it, but if I come up with a good idea, i shouldn't be able to live a thousand lifetimes off of it. There's just no justification. Hell, i don't plan on making money off the work i did today tomorrow - so why the hell do so many other people believe that just because they worked yesterday that they should be paid into perpituity?
IP is a bullshit idea.
For all of you dumbasses on/. that say "this is not a lot to pay" - then you are a freaking moron.
This is NOT cheap - and this WILL stifle creativity and future MP3 deployment. If you come up with a great piece of software that decodes mp3s, pray to God it doesn't become popular (if you're a little-guy developer).
What kills me is that instead of providing SOMETHING of value TODAY - they are going to kill off all the little guys who make mp3 players or force them to 123.
Whatever.. i'm so sick of/. bumming me out that i practically don't give a shit any more.
AND the server is FREE for a limited number of users..
like me. I'm starting up a small company with a handful of folks - and First Class is doing just fine for us. We have caledaring, email, voicemail, reads emails to you thru the phone, can reply to those over the phone with voice emails (.wav files sent as attachements), conferences for group postings, a SMTP service, webmail...
for business users, its got predefined groups of users (management, financial people, marketing pukes, etc.) Security between groups is easy to understand and easy to implement. Even a MSCE can do it!
the list goes on and on.
the school i went to - Biola.edu - they are now running with well over 8000 accounts - with around a few hundred connected at once - if you care, ask me next week when all the students come back, and there will be thousands on at once. We'll know then if the dual Xenon will melt, or survive.
Its been used there since 1993, and its been just great.
I'm looking forward to getting some of that capital i was promised so i can run it on a real server.
its cross platform (Windows, Mac os 9, Mac OS X) and, like i said, and the web interface lets you do anything that the executable client software lets you do - including calendaring and multi-user chat sessions.
its not perfect, so here's some drawbacks... its missing a few key features.. - no "sent mail" folder (and no, you Can't make one), - filters/rules.. all your email goes into the inbox... spam and all. bletch. - amazingly enough, there's no good alert sound to let you know when you've got a new message - no pop-up, no flashing Dock/startmenuthing blinking.. - you can't back up the databases while its running - soooo... you'll probably do what i do, and that's mirror the drives, and pray to God there's no database corruption, but that its just a drive fault.
other than that, its a great and cheap alternative to Exchange - especially since you can try it out today for free. The server runs on Windows and Mac OS 9 (and classic, btw: my server is on a 10.1 server, but its running in classic). There should be a Mac OS X First Class Server out sometime in the near future too. No word yet if it will run on Darwin, but don't be a cheap-ass.. just buy 10.2.
Centrinity is a bunch of levelheaded business people who started out as mac guys, but expanded to windows too. They are also canadians.. what more could you want?
Imagine - a OS who's GUI is being handled by the graphics card...
what an idea!
QE makes Mac OS X feel like Mac OS 9 - except that you get vector graphics everywhere.
Resizeing the whole screen, watching DVD's thru a translucent window, and drop down menus no longer drag your computer to a halt. - so long as you have a 16 meg Radeon or nVidia video card.
For users of older machines - you'll still like the performance enhancements, plus the longer battery life.
the link in the story is mistakenly going to Apple's website
i mean, only Apple users would want to slow down their system with drop shadows, lickable buttons, translucent drop-down menus? I just want to get work done.
I mean, imagine, when the aliens get here, and they show us copies of the pictures from the disk...
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneeart h. html
Well, if they've given those pictures to the others from their home - and presumably have sent those pictures digitally - they're in for a rude awakening when they get here...as they will have to be arrested for copyright infringement.
From the NASA website.
Voyager Record Photograph Index The following is a listing of pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Please note that these images are copyright protected. Reproduction without permission of the copyright holder is prohibited.
As the VP of product development and IT director of a small security firm, I'd like to know how the Initiative for Software Choice will help me.
I choose not to us Microsoft Products as they create data files - which may or may not wholly belong to me if they are created with Microsoft software. Will your group be lobbying Microsoft to open their file formats for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access so that I may choose to use software other than Microsoft to read and edit the files created by those applications with accuracy?
Thank you for helping people by helping us make software choice mean something real.
>Not to split hairs with you here, but I'd be really surprised if Apple's EULA allows you to move your copy of the MacOS from machine to machine.
I can't find anything in the EULA that comes with the Mac OS X that shipped with this eMac over here (see new eMac box for secretary) that says that this copy of os X (which i'm also holding in my hand) must be used on THIS eMac.
And since she is still going to be on 9 for a little while longer - this copy of X is going on one of the ASIP servers - so we can get better filesharing performance on it.
Not only that, but I'm taking the copy of World Atlas (also in my hand) home and putting it on my young cousin's computer - since she got Mac OS X when her dad upgraded her B&W G3 with a retail copy of X.
I would gently disagree and say that Apple's licensing agreements are ALSO a big reason to buy Apple.. and let me tell you why..
APPLE GOT MY MONEY because they sold me SOME THING - not just a pathetic license to use something that they did a few months ago and want to keep getting paid for.
They sold me 3 eMacs, so (almost) as far as they are concerned, they don't give a rats tinker's ass about the copy of OS X compared to the fact that I just dropped $4k on hardware at the Apple store last week.
>it is a pity that you don't get a price break for not >having to pay for Windows. On the other hand, I'd be >just as happy to know that Microsoft wasn't getting >paid a tax out of my money for purchasing a computer.
I would agree - except that we don't know this. After all - if the computers are the same cost - where's the extra money going?
Its an assumption on our part that as part of the new licensing rules that MS has set up with Dell, HPaq, etc. that they don't pay MS for every box that goes out the door. Perhapse that IS part of the new deal with MS - every box out the doors of Dell means $10 to Redmond, else its $MSRP (what's that? $199 for XPlite?) per actual box leaving the OEM?
In fact - the fact that you DON'T get a price break is really stupid. Who actually gives a shit if you get a copy of Windows? Gimme one, i don't care. I'll just dump it in the garbage, use it for kindling, make a cool coaster... whatever..
I just don't want to pay for it.. or in the case of businesses and colleges running under MS License 6.0, I don't want to pay for it twice.
So really - if i'm getting a computer - and i can get it with Windows and without, and its the same price either way.... why WOULDN'T you want to get a copy?
If we had the type of irrational rhetoric coming from the AAAA back in the days of Geutenberg - he would have been accused of being a medieval Napster.
After all, he could crank out orders of magnatude the number of copies that could be crated in the past - making it seem silly to have scribes any more. his invention basically made it so that instead of just a few writers making tons of money - you'd be able to have tons of lame writers flodding the market - making it hard to find who was good and who was not good.
The AAAA made its money on the ablity to distribute the works of others. And like Guetenberg did to the scribes and authors of his day, the internet is killing off the need for today's scribes - the distributors of the works of others...
The RIAA and the MPAA are today's scribes. Their worth, which was previously conciderable - is now next to nothing.. the only difference is that today's scribes have a shitload of money and organization... the scribes didn't really have either.
We are fundamentally screwed if it is the job of the government to work to create laws to keep people employed who have been outdated by technology...
i think we are fundamentally screwed - because this time, unlike the previous incarnations of technology that obsoleted people - these people are mch more motivated - they are going to lose high-paying jobs that gave them hig pay for doing not a whole lot.. previous folks who lost there jobs weren't making a ton of money.
Apple, when designing the Firewire physical port looked into what it would take to build a rugged, tough, port that would accept the rigors of being connected and unconnected repeatedly. In their search, the y found that Nintendo had already done this with the design of their GameBoy link cables.. and thus, used the Nin design for firewire (well, slightly modified).
And let me tell you - how much i plug in and unplug FW devices, i'm sure glad that its like that..
knowing the PC users that i do (you know, covers never on, harddrives mounted with paper wrap so as to prevent shorting the system, etc...) - i can't believe that out of all the comments so far, no one is screaming bloody murder about the tinsey-weensy little detail that the fscking cable kept coming undone - and how insanely stupid that is.
Its written off as "a prototype problem" - i say that Tom's Hardware has done a lousy job of highlighing this and has done a disservice in not making it a major issue.
of course - this is a PC review site - and Tom's is probably used to things crashing and just not working all the time.
uh... I'm think that after Ed Felten, to believe that one SHOULDN'T check with a lawyer before putting something like this out there woud make one a ignorant fool.
why would YOUR news set of rules here be enforced any more than the rules that state "you can't get money from foreign governments, you can't take bribes from anyone (Loral president to DNS to allow GPS tecnolgy transfer).
In your dreams, it would make a difference.. in the real world, however, you can make as many rules as you want, and only the ones that will put Republicans and Libertarians in jail will be those which are enforced.
First of all - since it was Disney who said in their ad "Own it [Tarzan] now on Video or DVD" - so if they can then change their mind that i don't actually own it, I can not give a crap.
Secondly - once I have given YOU the money - it IS mine - so if i want to paint the screen with white out, that's my business. With paint or with another device if i so choose.
I can see the DGA being upset with organized resale of modified DVD's and tapes - but once i buy it, i can - and will - do whatever the hell I want with it.... including burning it, using it as a doorstop, changing it, backing it up.
The Microsoft computer systems market, from a revenue perspective, accounts for one half of 1 percent of the total computer systems revenue each year, or roughly two days' worth of Apple's computer systems revenue," [IDC Analyst] Someone said.
"On the second day of January, Apple had generated more computer systems revenue than Microsoft (will for the entire year).""
what's even better news about that is that Apple is selling actual property in that figure.. not just intellectual property...
and that.. in the end... will make all the difference. because no matter how many laws they make - they can never hire enough cops or lawyers or judges to stop the spread of information and intellect.
>On the other hand, all the PC owners I have >known are still happy with the 400 Mhz >machines they've had for the last four years,
My Power Macintosh 7500/100 that was upgraded with a $300 G4 card, ATA/100 card, and a 10/100 ethernet card is running Mac OS X Server 10.1.4 and handling 50 email accounts, 2 websites, and 80 gigs of fileserver for my local 100 meg network holding DV clips and my MP3 collection.
I'd slam in a brand new Radeon 7000 video card in the last IDE slot, but then, i'm using it as a server, so instead, i put in a "Windows Only" USB/Firewire combo card - and it works fine too.
so you're little PC friends have another 3 years to go to "still be happy" - i bought my 7500 in 1995 instead of a 7200 because i thought "I might get some mileage out of having a removable CPU card". The best freaking purchase i've ever made in my whole life.
and if you think that they're going to be upgrading their 400 mHz boxes to P4's, you're sadly mistaken.
>Just like Americans would hide information on >their president's plane from terrorists.
that's the difference..
we can't play soccer, we can't smoke pot, but damnit, we DO know how to keep secrets.
and if some kind of secret did get out, we'd route around it, not depend upon draconion "people are stupid except for the communist/socialist leaders.. who are smarter than the peasants".
this judge is a moron.. the train people should fix their problems... whatever it is.
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people take issues like this lightly because no one seriously believes that cell phones could bring down airplanes.
Good Lord - the passengers on the flights on 9 Sept. were ALL using their cell phones.. i'm just shocked that the handwringing euros of the world like you haven't taken the opportunity to blame the cell phones for what happened instead of the muslim terrorists (you've blamed everyone else but them)
Seriosly - if you *really* thought for one moment that the guy in the cheap suit next to you had forget to turn off his cell phone : and therefore spell your doom - would you REALLY get on the plane.
of course not. And that's because the engineers (both Boeing and the French ones) have worked it out so that it WON'T happen.
i agree with you 100%
/. types (read: PHBs) to understand what you're talking about, you're site needs to give some concrete examples of what you're speaking of. You are going to have to name names and point at the naked emperor.
.doc files (incompletely/incorrectly documented file format) and the SMB/CIFS file sharing protocol (incompletely and incorrectly documented, and recently deemed that use of this format outside of the Win32 API is prohibited).
.doc files with 100% accuracy. They would also allow non-proprietary browsers and servers, such as SAMBA, to interoperate on par with Microsoft Windows clients on Microsoft File Sharing servers"
BUT
If you're going to get ANYONE beyond
For Example:
"Open File/Protocol Formats: File and protocol formats should be open, correctly documented, and have no charge for their use.
Currently, some popular file formats which do not fall under these caveats are Microsoft Word
Open File and protocol formats would allow one to use an application, such as OpenOffice, to read/write/edit Microsoft Word
Until its spelled out in large letters with crayon - you're really talking around the issue, and you're not bringing the problem to the focal point.
If Microsoft is really for Software Choice (i'm sorry, that just cracks me up every time i say it) - then you have to give them a 5-foot thick carbon-fibre cube of a target to try to shoot holes in.. Without naming specifics, you're giving them the sky. They will (and are) talking around your points.
MS's life depends 3 legs - Windows, Office, and Exchange. Lets work on one of the 3 legs - maybe that will finally begin the toppeling of the monopoly.
I also agree that if some company is stupid enough to BUY Office - let them.. I have no problem with that. The problem is that if I work with them, i must have it too. And that is what I find objectionable
for the Mac OS X users out there..
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I see no reason why these games wouldn't play in Classic mode on Mac OS X - however, i'll have to update you later..
actually.. what's really funny is that these are the perfect games for a Blue Box window, instead of a full screen implimentation Classic.. that way, i could play the games in the corner of the screen and still see if i got email.
or.. maybe i'll just buy the PC versions and play them in a VirtPC window.. hmm... now i have no idea what to do. crap.
I can hear the websites going down as we speak.
/. that say "this is not a lot to pay" - then you are a freaking moron.
/. bumming me out that i practically don't give a shit any more.
To all of you who have said "no big deal" "$.75 is not a lot of money" - you are mad.
I ran the numbers - and they are staggering.
The list of licensees guarantees them $2,295,000 PER YEAR for the MINIMUM licenseing fees. I notice that i DIDN'T notice a lot of the super-simple little Mac OS 9 mp3 players that were out there on the licensee list - so i guess that their days are now over.
And that is just the tip of the "ability to buy small governments and a few senators" pile of money.
As a Mac bigot, i see that Apple has had 100,000,000 downloads of Quicktime. If they had supported the MP3 format from the beginning (they haven't) that would be $75,000,000 from Apple, and $75,000,000 to Thompson Multimedia. But you get my point.
Fine - what about RealPlayer?
Their site claims that they have 285 million players out there! So much for Apple.. if these rules were in place, that would be a cool $213,750,000 from Real to Thompson. Their software has been shit up until recently, so i can't tell you how long they've supported mp3's. but if it was the beginning, then that's what it woulda cost them.
That's just crap. And that's just two of the licensees. I can't imagine how many bazillions they plan on making here in the near future.
This will and SHOULD kill mp3. I grow weary of saying it, but if I come up with a good idea, i shouldn't be able to live a thousand lifetimes off of it. There's just no justification. Hell, i don't plan on making money off the work i did today tomorrow - so why the hell do so many other people believe that just because they worked yesterday that they should be paid into perpituity?
IP is a bullshit idea.
For all of you dumbasses on
This is NOT cheap - and this WILL stifle creativity and future MP3 deployment. If you come up with a great piece of software that decodes mp3s, pray to God it doesn't become popular (if you're a little-guy developer).
What kills me is that instead of providing SOMETHING of value TODAY - they are going to kill off all the little guys who make mp3 players or force them to 123.
Whatever.. i'm so sick of
AND the server is FREE for a limited number of users..
like me. I'm starting up a small company with a handful of folks - and First Class is doing just fine for us. We have caledaring, email, voicemail, reads emails to you thru the phone, can reply to those over the phone with voice emails (.wav files sent as attachements), conferences for group postings, a SMTP service, webmail...
for business users, its got predefined groups of users (management, financial people, marketing pukes, etc.) Security between groups is easy to understand and easy to implement. Even a MSCE can do it!
the list goes on and on.
the school i went to - Biola.edu - they are now running with well over 8000 accounts - with around a few hundred connected at once - if you care, ask me next week when all the students come back, and there will be thousands on at once. We'll know then if the dual Xenon will melt, or survive.
Its been used there since 1993, and its been just great.
I'm looking forward to getting some of that capital i was promised so i can run it on a real server.
its cross platform (Windows, Mac os 9, Mac OS X) and, like i said, and the web interface lets you do anything that the executable client software lets you do - including calendaring and multi-user chat sessions.
its not perfect, so here's some drawbacks... its missing a few key features..
- no "sent mail" folder (and no, you Can't make one),
- filters/rules.. all your email goes into the inbox... spam and all. bletch.
- amazingly enough, there's no good alert sound to let you know when you've got a new message - no pop-up, no flashing Dock/startmenuthing blinking..
- you can't back up the databases while its running - soooo... you'll probably do what i do, and that's mirror the drives, and pray to God there's no database corruption, but that its just a drive fault.
other than that, its a great and cheap alternative to Exchange - especially since you can try it out today for free. The server runs on Windows and Mac OS 9 (and classic, btw: my server is on a 10.1 server, but its running in classic). There should be a Mac OS X First Class Server out sometime in the near future too. No word yet if it will run on Darwin, but don't be a cheap-ass.. just buy 10.2.
Centrinity is a bunch of levelheaded business people who started out as mac guys, but expanded to windows too. They are also canadians.. what more could you want?
Quartz freaking extreme.
Imagine - a OS who's GUI is being handled by the graphics card...
what an idea!
QE makes Mac OS X feel like Mac OS 9 - except that you get vector graphics everywhere.
Resizeing the whole screen, watching DVD's thru a translucent window, and drop down menus no longer drag your computer to a halt. - so long as you have a 16 meg Radeon or nVidia video card.
For users of older machines - you'll still like the performance enhancements, plus the longer battery life.
10.2 is worth every dime.
the link in the story is mistakenly going to Apple's website
i mean, only Apple users would want to slow down their system with drop shadows, lickable buttons, translucent drop-down menus? I just want to get work done.
i think it was a terrible idea.
t h. html
I mean, imagine, when the aliens get here, and they show us copies of the pictures from the disk...
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneear
Well, if they've given those pictures to the others from their home - and presumably have sent those pictures digitally - they're in for a rude awakening when they get here...as they will have to be arrested for copyright infringement.
From the NASA website.
Voyager Record Photograph Index
The following is a listing of pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
Please note that these images are copyright protected. Reproduction without permission of the copyright holder is prohibited.
good Lord, we suck...
how is that any different than the link to Fire in the article?
As the VP of product development and IT director of a small security firm, I'd like to know how the Initiative for Software Choice will help me.
I choose not to us Microsoft Products as they create data files - which may or may not wholly belong to me if they are created with Microsoft software. Will your group be lobbying Microsoft to open their file formats for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access so that I may choose to use software other than Microsoft to read and edit the files created by those applications with accuracy?
Thank you for helping people by helping us make software choice mean something real.
>Not to split hairs with you here, but I'd be really surprised if Apple's EULA allows you to move your copy of the MacOS from machine to machine.
I can't find anything in the EULA that comes with the Mac OS X that shipped with this eMac over here (see new eMac box for secretary) that says that this copy of os X (which i'm also holding in my hand) must be used on THIS eMac.
And since she is still going to be on 9 for a little while longer - this copy of X is going on one of the ASIP servers - so we can get better filesharing performance on it.
Not only that, but I'm taking the copy of World Atlas (also in my hand) home and putting it on my young cousin's computer - since she got Mac OS X when her dad upgraded her B&W G3 with a retail copy of X.
I would gently disagree and say that Apple's licensing agreements are ALSO a big reason to buy Apple.. and let me tell you why..
APPLE GOT MY MONEY because they sold me SOME THING - not just a pathetic license to use something that they did a few months ago and want to keep getting paid for.
They sold me 3 eMacs, so (almost) as far as they are concerned, they don't give a rats tinker's ass about the copy of OS X compared to the fact that I just dropped $4k on hardware at the Apple store last week.
>it is a pity that you don't get a price break for not
>having to pay for Windows. On the other hand, I'd be
>just as happy to know that Microsoft wasn't getting
>paid a tax out of my money for purchasing a computer.
I would agree - except that we don't know this. After all - if the computers are the same cost - where's the extra money going?
Its an assumption on our part that as part of the new licensing rules that MS has set up with Dell, HPaq, etc. that they don't pay MS for every box that goes out the door. Perhapse that IS part of the new deal with MS - every box out the doors of Dell means $10 to Redmond, else its $MSRP (what's that? $199 for XPlite?) per actual box leaving the OEM?
In fact - the fact that you DON'T get a price break is really stupid. Who actually gives a shit if you get a copy of Windows? Gimme one, i don't care. I'll just dump it in the garbage, use it for kindling, make a cool coaster... whatever..
I just don't want to pay for it.. or in the case of businesses and colleges running under MS License 6.0, I don't want to pay for it twice.
So really - if i'm getting a computer - and i can get it with Windows and without, and its the same price either way.... why WOULDN'T you want to get a copy?
If we had the type of irrational rhetoric coming from the AAAA back in the days of Geutenberg - he would have been accused of being a medieval Napster.
After all, he could crank out orders of magnatude the number of copies that could be crated in the past - making it seem silly to have scribes any more. his invention basically made it so that instead of just a few writers making tons of money - you'd be able to have tons of lame writers flodding the market - making it hard to find who was good and who was not good.
The AAAA made its money on the ablity to distribute the works of others. And like Guetenberg did to the scribes and authors of his day, the internet is killing off the need for today's scribes - the distributors of the works of others...
The RIAA and the MPAA are today's scribes. Their worth, which was previously conciderable - is now next to nothing.. the only difference is that today's scribes have a shitload of money and organization... the scribes didn't really have either.
We are fundamentally screwed if it is the job of the government to work to create laws to keep people employed who have been outdated by technology...
i think we are fundamentally screwed - because this time, unlike the previous incarnations of technology that obsoleted people - these people are mch more motivated - they are going to lose high-paying jobs that gave them hig pay for doing not a whole lot.. previous folks who lost there jobs weren't making a ton of money.
Apple, when designing the Firewire physical port looked into what it would take to build a rugged, tough, port that would accept the rigors of being connected and unconnected repeatedly. In their search, the y found that Nintendo had already done this with the design of their GameBoy link cables.. and thus, used the Nin design for firewire (well, slightly modified).
And let me tell you - how much i plug in and unplug FW devices, i'm sure glad that its like that..
knowing the PC users that i do (you know, covers never on, harddrives mounted with paper wrap so as to prevent shorting the system, etc...) - i can't believe that out of all the comments so far, no one is screaming bloody murder about the tinsey-weensy little detail that the fscking cable kept coming undone - and how insanely stupid that is.
Its written off as "a prototype problem" - i say that Tom's Hardware has done a lousy job of highlighing this and has done a disservice in not making it a major issue.
of course - this is a PC review site - and Tom's is probably used to things crashing and just not working all the time.
OR.....
...Mac OS X truly does separate those that use unix because its better from those that use it because it makes them feel superior to Windows users.
install the A04 into a Mac OS X box, put a blank DVD-R disk into the drive, drag your files onto the disk, then hit the burn button.
uh... I'm think that after Ed Felten, to believe that one SHOULDN'T check with a lawyer before putting something like this out there woud make one a ignorant fool.
why would YOUR news set of rules here be enforced any more than the rules that state "you can't get money from foreign governments, you can't take bribes from anyone (Loral president to DNS to allow GPS tecnolgy transfer).
In your dreams, it would make a difference.. in the real world, however, you can make as many rules as you want, and only the ones that will put Republicans and Libertarians in jail will be those which are enforced.
First of all - since it was Disney who said in their ad "Own it [Tarzan] now on Video or DVD" - so if they can then change their mind that i don't actually own it, I can not give a crap.
Secondly - once I have given YOU the money - it IS mine - so if i want to paint the screen with white out, that's my business. With paint or with another device if i so choose.
I can see the DGA being upset with organized resale of modified DVD's and tapes - but once i buy it, i can - and will - do whatever the hell I want with it.... including burning it, using it as a doorstop, changing it, backing it up.
The Microsoft computer systems market, from a revenue perspective, accounts for one half of 1 percent of the total computer systems revenue each year, or roughly two days' worth of Apple's computer systems revenue," [IDC Analyst] Someone said.
"On the second day of January, Apple had generated more computer systems revenue than Microsoft (will for the entire year).""
what's even better news about that is that Apple is selling actual property in that figure.. not just intellectual property...
and that.. in the end... will make all the difference. because no matter how many laws they make - they can never hire enough cops or lawyers or judges to stop the spread of information and intellect.
>On the other hand, all the PC owners I have
>known are still happy with the 400 Mhz
>machines they've had for the last four years,
My Power Macintosh 7500/100 that was upgraded with a $300 G4 card, ATA/100 card, and a 10/100 ethernet card is running Mac OS X Server 10.1.4 and handling 50 email accounts, 2 websites, and 80 gigs of fileserver for my local 100 meg network holding DV clips and my MP3 collection.
I'd slam in a brand new Radeon 7000 video card in the last IDE slot, but then, i'm using it as a server, so instead, i put in a "Windows Only" USB/Firewire combo card - and it works fine too.
so you're little PC friends have another 3 years to go to "still be happy" - i bought my 7500 in 1995 instead of a 7200 because i thought "I might get some mileage out of having a removable CPU card". The best freaking purchase i've ever made in my whole life.
and if you think that they're going to be upgrading their 400 mHz boxes to P4's, you're sadly mistaken.
> individuality and color can't help but improve
> the condiditon of those who must exist in that
> environment from day to day.
Wait..
how could this get a Score of 4? When Apple did this - they got beaten about the head and neck on slashdot.
this place makes no sense sometimes.
and one serious screw up of a installation app....is that the best you can muster after a year?
Keep going, Apple. Maybe someday you'll be taken seriously as a operating system company and have thousands.
Or at LEAST ship with one hole that you know about with Jagwire... that would probably jump start your reputation.
at the hands of militant Arab muslims bent on killing all the jews..
and they have time to bitch about this?
Good Lord.
>Just like Americans would hide information on
>their president's plane from terrorists.
that's the difference..
we can't play soccer, we can't smoke pot, but damnit, we DO know how to keep secrets.
and if some kind of secret did get out, we'd route around it, not depend upon draconion "people are stupid except for the communist/socialist leaders.. who are smarter than the peasants".
this judge is a moron.. the train people should fix their problems... whatever it is.
I just followed the links, and, if i'm not crazy, you can now run 2.0.x on Windows 98...
Any verification of this?
(its not for me - its for a guy i support... i'm running off of OpenBSD myself)