There are not enough or powerful enough words in any language on this planet that can describe the anger and hatred that I feel for this nameless company for thier attack on Illiad. If it is indeed the company (and I am hard pressed to think of who else it could be) then It's time has come to DIE. Time once was that I didn't want to see Microsoft die, or even be replaced by linux. I just wanted to see Linux compete with Windows in order to force Microsoft to improve thier product. Competition breeds innovation. Just look in the Linux community for proof. Admittidly the winner of "The Best GPL [Insert application type here]" award winner gets little more than bragging rights and the sensation of a job well done, but even that little reward breeds fierce competition and fiecer innovation. Now with all the @#$% that Microsoft has started, I just want it DEAD! I used to like Windows 95. When the Betas of it came out, we were impressed and thinking "Damn! This is the stuff". Now, I have to thank Billy boy for annoying me so much that I went looking for a better solution.
We're a threat, we're not a threat, we're a threat, we're not a threat. MAKE UP YOUR MIND! I'm starting to get dizzy from all this turning around.
But in all seriousness, It seems that Bill is trying to badmouth Linux by telling it's strong points in such a way as to add the elements of FUD. We need to write an article that points out all of Microsoft's good points in a similar light...Well heck! I'm stumped. ya'll got any ideas?
Perhaps instead of whining about jow much the MP3 format is hurting them, they should consider how it can help them. If the albums were sold on an agreed upon, industry standard flash-rom card for use in devices similar to a Diamond Rio, then perhaps they could start benefiting from the mp3.
Points to consider: 1. Battery life in players. One draw back to CD's and even cassttes is thier lack of battery life. There isn't a single "portable" player that can play for more than 90 minutes at best and only about 45 on the average. In a motorless system (like the Rio) there is not the demand of power that there is in anything that has a motor. It's a sad state of affairs that my digital camera has more life than my sony diskman. and my camera has a flash.
2. Cost vs Value. Sure, $15 for a CD is not a bad price, but only if you like most of the songs on the album. If you only like one or two songs, it just is not worth it. With a flash card based system, a music store could have a kiosk where you can put in a blank card and a couple of dollars and you get the song(s) that you want without getting the ones that you don't like.
3. Whine factor. As was posted, there is a problem with the current system of record publishers. If you aren't really massive/popular/contreversial, you aren't going to get as a good of a deal assuming you can even get published at all. Thanks to the tight fisted, iron handed attitudes of the industry, it's no damn wonder that smaller bands are going with internet publication. The guy who posted an apology about hating the mp3 format admitted that when he posted a few of his band's songs, got more requests for appearences, records,and more interest than he ever got in his band's existance.
to sum up... If rhe RIAA is losing money on mp3's then it's thier own damn fault for not keeping with the trends and innovations that are shaping the world
...but what the hell. This has to be said. In the article there was a statement about software ported to Linux. they said something to the effect that it was ported to RedHat and not to other distrib's. Look ZDNet, Distribution Wars aside, Linux, is Linux, is Linux. Caldera, Debian SuSE, RedHat...IT'S ALL FRAGGING LINUX! The front ends are different, the install is different, but what's the real kernel level difference between RHL running 2.2.3 vs Caldera Linux running 2.2.3 vs anyother Linux flavor runing 2.2.3? Damn little that I have been able to work out. Word Perfect 8 ran on them all, Star Office ran on them all. Linux is Linux, all else is value added product.
Besides, there are several distributions of linux that are little more than RedHat 5.2 with either the latest KDE or Gnome bundled with it. RedHat doesn't mind. Let's see someone put out a version of win98 with netscape as the default browser and watch the hordes of lawyers swarm out of Washington.
...away anything that microsoft currently has to offer. What other os can run so many server functions of half the memory required to run the same functions on a NT server. The last time I assisted in the setup of a Back Office server, It took up 85% of system resources with one person loged on and only idle processes running in the background.
I know of a Linux server that coughed up a major hairball and still survived. It one day decided to spawn 300 copies of a sendmail application. People were able to get to the files on the server with no slowdown, people were getting thier mail and internet just fine. In fact the only reason this problem was discovered was when the admin logged on locally and noticed the slow login. One issuance of the killall command, and a bit of re-configuring the sendmail app later, the machine went on for several more weeks till it had to be rebooted for a kernel update. Lets see M$ NT do that.
For most applications, the difference is a relative issue. I probally could not see the difference since I play a select few games, surf the 'net and run word processing and Role-playing applications. I'm told that for higher powered applications, the difference is minor and that the cost of the P3 is not worth the slight performance improvement.
Exactly! Microsoft placed that stipulation in the EULA and they did not make provisions to honor that agreement. This looks like a Class Action Lawsuit to me boys and girls.
For years I have bought my stuff from them. All of my coats, My business wear, And the suit I got married in. They have always had good prices, good service and it warms my heart to see that they have the good sense to go with the operating system that seriously out performs NT.
--First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Well, We at our little store allow for free choice of an operating system and don't tie you down to Windows. So now we need to find the other 199,999 PC makers are
Actually, instaed of advocating piracy of the windows software, one must remember that there are two sides of every contract. Microsoft has said in the EULA that if you weren't going to agreee to the EULA, then you sohuld take it back foe a refund. This implies that Microsoft should have made provisions for those who were going to request a refund. This was THEIR side of the deal. You upheld your side by trying to get the aforementioned refund due you by not using, or having any desire so to use their software (and who can blame you?). Therefore it up to them to keep up their side of that deal as was proposed, written and placed in the EULA by microsoft. Further, this failure of microsoft to follow up on it's side of the EULA then (I could be wrong, but I dinnae think so) this constitutes Breach of Contract on the part of microsoft.
Can we say "Class Action Lawsuit" boys and girls? Sure, I knew you could.
I have been debating if it was worth my renewing my membership with the IEEE. If they keep allowing poorly researched, glaringly inaccurate articles such as that then I will not renew...ever. I used to have a lot of respect in their opinions and facts but that article sucked aol startup disks. I wand to see that chap in an IRC room where we can have a little discussion about his work and to see if he will stand behind his paper.
veronica.org is registered to the parents. If they say that they are holding the site for thier daughter in trust till she is old enough to take posession of it, then that's thier right to do so. It is after all thier site and they can do whatever they want with it within the bounds of legality.
Register a site to my cat? I wish I could do so, but I think the name "Linux" is already taken.
...they class it as a non-planet due to the fact that it looks like an ice ball, only to have the Pluto Express take a detailed survey and say that it's a rock with an icy skin and have to RE-classify it as a planet. D-OH!
I had a cell phone for a day and a half. Then I took it back to the shop and complained that Within 6 hours of getting the damn thing, I recieved three telemarketing calls...AT MY EXPENSE! I calmly explained that if he didn't return my money and canceled my account (without the early cancelation penality)I was going to call my lawyer. My firm has a very good lawyer as a customer and after all the work we did for him and her office, she told us that if we needed and legal help she would have someone do what they could. Needless to say, I got my money back and have sinve never succumed to the temptations of cellular. Now if I could rid myself of this damn beeper I'd really be happy.
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When you put it that way, I guess you could call food an addiction. I know I go through withdrawl symptoms when I try to go with out for a couple of days. I get light headed, tired, irritable. Yup classic withdrawl symptoms. Of course anyone with the slightest medical knowledge knows that's just low blood sugar due to starvation.
Gasp! Blood sugar addiction! Oh-No...not another addiction
It depends on the company. As hard as it may seem, there are still companies that care as much about thier employees as they do the bottom line. In fact some companies consider thier workers AS part of the bottom line. I for one enjoy my work most of the time (all jobs have thier bad days) and I know that My employer isn't going to chuck me to the wolves. At Least as long as I keep my skills current. Heck! With the boss PAYING for my continuing education and updates to my skills that's not really that much of a chore.
He does have a point though...There are far fewer of those kinds of companies than there should be.
I thought that the germans had that problem fixed already. After all, wasn't the Volkswagon airtight? The darn thing should have floated.
On a slightly different note. If you put two cans of shaving cream in Liquid Nitrogen, open the cans and put the frozen contents in a VW bug, it will fill and slightly pressurize said VW bug.
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There are not enough or powerful enough words in any language on this planet that can describe the anger and hatred that I feel for this nameless company for thier attack on Illiad. If it is indeed the company (and I am hard pressed to think of who else it could be) then It's time has come to DIE. Time once was that I didn't want to see Microsoft die, or even be replaced by linux. I just wanted to see Linux compete with Windows in order to force Microsoft to improve thier product. Competition breeds innovation. Just look in the Linux community for proof. Admittidly the winner of "The Best GPL [Insert application type here]" award winner gets little more than bragging rights and the sensation of a job well done, but even that little reward breeds fierce competition and fiecer innovation. Now with all the @#$% that Microsoft has started, I just want it DEAD! I used to like Windows 95. When the Betas of it came out, we were impressed and thinking "Damn! This is the stuff". Now, I have to thank Billy boy for annoying me so much that I went looking for a better solution.
We're a threat, we're not a threat, we're a threat, we're not a threat. MAKE UP YOUR MIND! I'm starting to get dizzy from all this turning around.
But in all seriousness, It seems that Bill is trying to badmouth Linux by telling it's strong points in such a way as to add the elements of FUD. We need to write an article that points out all of Microsoft's good points in a similar light...Well heck! I'm stumped. ya'll got any ideas?
Perhaps instead of whining about jow much the MP3 format is hurting them, they should consider how it can help them. If the albums were sold on an agreed upon, industry standard flash-rom card for use in devices similar to a Diamond Rio, then perhaps they could start benefiting from the mp3.
Points to consider:
1. Battery life in players. One draw back to CD's and even cassttes is thier lack of battery life. There isn't a single "portable" player that can play for more than 90 minutes at best and only about 45 on the average. In a motorless system (like the Rio) there is not the demand of power that there is in anything that has a motor. It's a sad state of affairs that my digital camera has more life than my sony diskman. and my camera has a flash.
2. Cost vs Value. Sure, $15 for a CD is not a bad price, but only if you like most of the songs on the album. If you only like one or two songs, it just is not worth it. With a flash card based system, a music store could have a kiosk where you can put in a blank card and a couple of dollars and you get the song(s) that you want without getting the ones that you don't like.
3. Whine factor. As was posted, there is a problem with the current system of record publishers. If you aren't really massive/popular/contreversial, you aren't going to get as a good of a deal assuming you can even get published at all. Thanks to the tight fisted, iron handed attitudes of the industry, it's no damn wonder that smaller bands are going with internet publication. The guy who posted an apology about hating the mp3 format admitted that when he posted a few of his band's songs, got more requests for appearences, records,and more interest than he ever got in his band's existance.
to sum up...
If rhe RIAA is losing money on mp3's then it's thier own damn fault for not keeping with the trends and innovations that are shaping the world
Phoenix
...but what the hell. This has to be said. In the article there was a statement about software ported to Linux. they said something to the effect that it was ported to RedHat and not to other distrib's. Look ZDNet, Distribution Wars aside, Linux, is Linux, is Linux. Caldera, Debian SuSE, RedHat...IT'S ALL FRAGGING LINUX! The front ends are different, the install is different, but what's the real kernel level difference between RHL running 2.2.3 vs Caldera Linux running 2.2.3 vs anyother Linux flavor runing 2.2.3? Damn little that I have been able to work out. Word Perfect 8 ran on them all, Star Office ran on them all. Linux is Linux, all else is value added product.
Besides, there are several distributions of linux that are little more than RedHat 5.2 with either the latest KDE or Gnome bundled with it. RedHat doesn't mind. Let's see someone put out a version of win98 with netscape as the default browser and watch the hordes of lawyers swarm out of Washington.
Me two shillings worth
Phoenix
...away anything that microsoft currently has to offer. What other os can run so many server functions of half the memory required to run the same functions on a NT server. The last time I assisted in the setup of a Back Office server, It took up 85% of system resources with one person loged on and only idle processes running in the background.
I know of a Linux server that coughed up a major hairball and still survived. It one day decided to spawn 300 copies of a sendmail application. People were able to get to the files on the server with no slowdown, people were getting thier mail and internet just fine. In fact the only reason this problem was discovered was when the admin logged on locally and noticed the slow login. One issuance of the killall command, and a bit of re-configuring the sendmail app later, the machine went on for several more weeks till it had to be rebooted for a kernel update. Lets see M$ NT do that.
For most applications, the difference is a relative issue. I probally could not see the difference since I play a select few games, surf the 'net and run word processing and Role-playing applications. I'm told that for higher powered applications, the difference is minor and that the cost of the P3 is not worth the slight performance improvement.
Exactly! Microsoft placed that stipulation in the EULA and they did not make provisions to honor that agreement. This looks like a Class Action Lawsuit to me boys and girls.
For years I have bought my stuff from them. All of my coats, My business wear, And the suit I got married in. They have always had good prices, good service and it warms my heart to see that they have the good sense to go with the operating system that seriously out performs NT.
--First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Well, We at our little store allow for free choice of an operating system and don't tie you down to Windows. So now we need to find the other 199,999 PC makers are
Actually, instaed of advocating piracy of the windows software, one must remember that there are two sides of every contract. Microsoft has said in the EULA that if you weren't going to agreee to the EULA, then you sohuld take it back foe a refund. This implies that Microsoft should have made provisions for those who were going to request a refund. This was THEIR side of the deal. You upheld your side by trying to get the aforementioned refund due you by not using, or having any desire so to use their software (and who can blame you?). Therefore it up to them to keep up their side of that deal as was proposed, written and placed in the EULA by microsoft. Further, this failure of microsoft to follow up on it's side of the EULA then (I could be wrong, but I dinnae think so) this constitutes Breach of Contract on the part of microsoft.
Can we say "Class Action Lawsuit" boys and girls?
Sure, I knew you could.
just my two shillings worth
(sorry...quoting Monty Python)
I have been debating if it was worth my renewing my membership with the IEEE. If they keep allowing poorly researched, glaringly inaccurate articles such as that then I will not renew...ever. I used to have a lot of respect in their opinions and facts but that article sucked aol startup disks. I wand to see that chap in an IRC room where we can have a little discussion about his work and to see if he will stand behind his paper.
Personally I dinnae think he has the balls.
veronica.org is registered to the parents. If they say that they are holding the site for thier daughter in trust till she is old enough to take posession of it, then that's thier right to do so. It is after all thier site and they can do whatever they want with it within the bounds of legality.
Register a site to my cat? I wish I could do so, but I think the name "Linux" is already taken.
...they class it as a non-planet due to the fact that it looks like an ice ball, only to have the Pluto Express take a detailed survey and say that it's a rock with an icy skin and have to RE-classify it as a planet. D-OH!
I had a cell phone for a day and a half. Then I took it back to the shop and complained that Within 6 hours of getting the damn thing, I recieved three telemarketing calls...AT MY EXPENSE! I calmly explained that if he didn't return my money and canceled my account (without the early cancelation penality)I was going to call my lawyer. My firm has a very good lawyer as a customer and after all the work we did for him and her office, she told us that if we needed and legal help she would have someone do what they could. Needless to say, I got my money back and have sinve never succumed to the temptations of cellular. Now if I could rid myself of this damn beeper I'd really be happy.
When you put it that way, I guess you could call food an addiction. I know I go through withdrawl symptoms when I try to go with out for a couple of days. I get light headed, tired, irritable. Yup classic withdrawl symptoms. Of course anyone with the slightest medical knowledge knows that's just low blood sugar due to starvation.
Gasp! Blood sugar addiction! Oh-No...not another addiction
It depends on the company. As hard as it may seem, there are still companies that care as much about thier employees as they do the bottom line. In fact some companies consider thier workers AS part of the bottom line. I for one enjoy my work most of the time (all jobs have thier bad days) and I know that My employer isn't going to chuck me to the wolves. At Least as long as I keep my skills current. Heck! With the boss PAYING for my continuing education and updates to my skills that's not really that much of a chore.
He does have a point though...There are far fewer of those kinds of companies than there should be.
I thought that the germans had that problem fixed already. After all, wasn't the Volkswagon airtight? The darn thing should have floated.
On a slightly different note. If you put two cans of shaving cream in Liquid Nitrogen, open the cans and put the frozen contents in a VW bug, it will fill and slightly pressurize said VW bug.