I do disagree with you, but at least you present real arguments here. Your previous argument was like stating there is no reason to worry about murder because it is so common.
The problem with your current argumentation is that it is not necessarily a choice made by the employee. In an employer's market, the employee might not have any other option but to accept such terms even though they are bad.
Unscrupulous companies might very well milk employee desperation for what it is worth.
I am not saying employees should have jobs for life, I am saying that employees should have a right not to be exploited by their employers.
People hate to do bad purchases. People that have bought a product will thus try to justify the purchase making him/her even less trustworthy than the professional reviewers.
The default in copyright law is that you are not allowed to distribute the copyrighted work of others.
The GPL is the only thing that grants you the right to distribute the software.
If the GPL is "declared void" then SCO will lose ALL rights to the copyrighted works and will in effect be violating the copyrights of thousands of programmers.
Pseudonym had a better argument, but there is another.
I could just turn around your question and ask:
"Why should the descendants of someone reap in royalties forever for something one of their ancestors happened to create?"
Copyright have been created to make it possible for artists and authors to make some money off their work and thus encourage more work to be done.
If copyright is extended over the life of the author for some really important work, the author and his descendants have no need to do any more work ever, and it will thus do the opposite of encouraging innovation and artistery.
Personally I think copyright should only be around 15 years. That is plenty of time to reap in profits on your work, and most would still have to do more work in their life time.
If it was really advertised then sites would start blocking Mozilla from entering the site. Then we would have to fake the identity of the browser, and it would all be a big mess.
Besides, sites would start to charge people for watching the site.
Advertisement blocking works because only a minority of people uses them. Please don't screw that up.
I`d rather see my Linux desktop implement useful features from other desktops than trying to reinvent everything itself.
There is nothing wrong with learning from others. People that refuse to do so are actually rather stupid.
Sure, innovate yourself, but make sure the innovation is actually a step forward.
My personal opinion is that Slicker is a confusing mess created by trying to create something new just for the sake of being fresh instead of being useful.
.. they were also speaking for the majority of the world. If the French should be named as weasels for the way they handled the iraqi war, then so should almost all of Europe. Even the majority population of most of the countries that did actually enter the war were against it.
Make no mistake about it, the US and Tony Blair were pretty much alone on this one. If Bush tells people that he had wide world support for the war, he is either lying or greasing the conditions a bit.
It is not the idea of RIAA that we hate. "We" hate the strong armed tactics that the RIAA has used instead of trying new business models. We don't like the way RIAA has tried to force technology into working like they want it to, instead of working with technology.
I don't think most people mind paying for music, they just want it to be reasonably priced and convinient.
I still find $.99 to be way too expensive for a song though, especially since there is very low costs on packaging and distribution. I think most of this is still RIAA's members fault.
$.50 per song would start to look more like the right price.
1. Pirated versions of some silly software like games is not something the enterprise managers care about. They are the target for this.
2. Most enterprise customers use only a very limited amount of software very extensively. If that exact piece of software is available for Linux, then it is an alternative. Many such packages ARE available for Linux.
3. SUN has a decent brand name, and some very cool technology that can be combined with this, for instance SunRay thin-clients.
4. If the enterprise starts to use Linux, then more software will get ported and eventually it might have a chance with Joe Luser. But right now, the full focus is at the enterprise, and rightly so.
"Battery life is where the ThinkPad T40 scores well. Even with the standard 10.8V, 4,400mAh Li-ion battery, it delivered just under four hours' life in desktop mode. Tweaking the power management settings with this battery should push battery life well over four hours; with the optional high-capacity 6,600mAh battery fitted, you can expect to get nearly seven hours."
Or: "a huge 10.8V, 6,600mAh battery that's so big it sticks out about an inch from the back of the notebook. "
"While our evaluation system included this big battery, most ThinkPad T40 configurations include a smaller, less expensive 10.8V, 4,400mAh battery."
The processor on this is very comparable to the powerbooks (1.6GHz Pentium-M and the price is above $2500. See here: http://reviews.cnet.com/IBM_ThinkPad_T40/40 14-3122 _7-20947059.html?tag=box
At that price you get a 15" Powerbook stuffed with all the goodies at a comparable speed. It also comes with 4,5 hours estimated battery life out of the box without having to resort to a huge battery sticking out.
The problem is that most people compare the powerbooks with the "el cheapo" PC-laptops. When you look at the laptops that actually can be compared (like the IBM you mentioned), the prices are very competitive.
At the entry price of the iBook the comparable PC-laptops struggle to provide anything close to the unified feeling of the thing, it's durability, it's looks, battery life and noise.
The entry PC-laptops advertise around 2 hours battery life. The entry iBook has almost 4 hours.
The decision is definitely not "already made for you".
Bear in mind that not all people care most for raw power in their laptop. I for instance love having a 12" notebook with almost 4 hours battery. The fact that it doesn't run the latest games or compile things as fast as a P4 is irrelevant for me.
And, when I talk about noise, I can tell you that the iBook when on battery literally makes no noise at all. You have to put your ear to it to be able to hear something at all.
All in all it is a great little notebook. It might not be for everyone, but it does cater for a quite large niche.
People buy Macs because they like macs better. Personally I own a PC and an iBook and used to have a PC-laptop. My PC run both Linux and Windows, so did my PC-laptop.
The iBook beats the crap out of most PC-laptops at this price. The battery life and the silence of the thing is incredible compared to similiarly priced PCs.
Sure the PC laptops have a higher clock speed, but that is not always what you want.
Ultimately you normally buy a Mac because you want it to run MacOS (though some people actually buys Macs to run Linux on it because the hardware is just so much nicer than the comparable PC-hardware).
I've just moved to the UK, and I have found out that you are luckily being forced over to the metric system by the European Union.
The pint will never leave, but in about 50 years people will think it is just a name for "beer".
Most TV-channels now present Celcius first and Fahrenheit as an afterthought and all food are measured in grams first and foremost and imperial as an afterthought.
It will take years for it to settle with the people, but formally England is firmly on it's way to a pure metric system.
Why not? Why does one have to earn millions of dollars each day for anything to be viable?
Red Hat have said this themselves before. They do not believe that they will ever be a cash cow like Microsoft, but they think they can make a pretty decent living for a number of people. Why some people bought into the idea that they would take over from Microsoft beats me.
Did you read the article? Some of the benchmarks show that the workstation cards do the job at a magnitude of 3 times faster in some test than the fastest gaming card from NVIDIA.
If you need this speed, then you pay for it. Paying say $2k for a video card is not much if it makes your employees more productive.
You fail to mention that those benchmarks are from January 2002. They are thus 1.5 years old.
GCJ is very much a moving target under a lot of development, while the JVM is reasonably stable and have much greater demands about backwards compatibility i.e.
How things compare right now is difficult to say, but it is not unreasonable to think that GCJ might have improved more than the JVM.
So what is so special about Florida? Am I right in guessing that just about any state and country can enter into the same kind of lawsuit?
So if $200M seems like a small amount of cash to Microsoft, then how about 50-100*$200M. It is starting to sound like a lot of money even to Microsoft.
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I do disagree with you, but at least you present real arguments here. Your previous argument was like stating there is no reason to worry about murder because it is so common.
The problem with your current argumentation is that it is not necessarily a choice made by the employee. In an employer's market, the employee might not have any other option but to accept such terms even though they are bad.
Unscrupulous companies might very well milk employee desperation for what it is worth.
I am not saying employees should have jobs for life, I am saying that employees should have a right not to be exploited by their employers.
People hate to do bad purchases. People that have bought a product will thus try to justify the purchase making him/her even less trustworthy than the professional reviewers.
Are you for real? You argue against something being worrisome by taking up that it is extremely common.
This practise is horrible for employees, and the fact that it is really common just makes it more worrisome.
It does show that Microsoft is not unique though.
The default in copyright law is that you are not allowed to distribute the copyrighted work of others.
The GPL is the only thing that grants you the right to distribute the software.
If the GPL is "declared void" then SCO will lose ALL rights to the copyrighted works and will in effect be violating the copyrights of thousands of programmers.
The libs you are talking about are not really GNOME-libs. They just happen to be created by some people that also work on GNOME.
Pseudonym had a better argument, but there is another.
I could just turn around your question and ask:
"Why should the descendants of someone reap in royalties forever for something one of their ancestors happened to create?"
Copyright have been created to make it possible for artists and authors to make some money off their work and thus encourage more work to be done.
If copyright is extended over the life of the author for some really important work, the author and his descendants have no need to do any more work ever, and it will thus do the opposite of encouraging innovation and artistery.
Personally I think copyright should only be around 15 years. That is plenty of time to reap in profits on your work, and most would still have to do more work in their life time.
If it was really advertised then sites would start blocking Mozilla from entering the site. Then we would have to fake the identity of the browser, and it would all be a big mess.
Besides, sites would start to charge people for watching the site.
Advertisement blocking works because only a minority of people uses them. Please don't screw that up.
I`d rather see my Linux desktop implement useful features from other desktops than trying to reinvent everything itself.
There is nothing wrong with learning from others. People that refuse to do so are actually rather stupid.
Sure, innovate yourself, but make sure the innovation is actually a step forward.
My personal opinion is that Slicker is a confusing mess created by trying to create something new just for the sake of being fresh instead of being useful.
I get around 4,5 hours battery life on my 4 month old iBook 900 with 12" screen.
.. they were also speaking for the majority of the world. If the French should be named as weasels for the way they handled the iraqi war, then so should almost all of Europe. Even the majority population of most of the countries that did actually enter the war were against it.
Make no mistake about it, the US and Tony Blair were pretty much alone on this one. If Bush tells people that he had wide world support for the war, he is either lying or greasing the conditions a bit.
It is not the idea of RIAA that we hate. "We" hate the strong armed tactics that the RIAA has used instead of trying new business models. We don't like the way RIAA has tried to force technology into working like they want it to, instead of working with technology.
.99 to be way too expensive for a song though, especially since there is very low costs on packaging and distribution. I think most of this is still RIAA's members fault.
I don't think most people mind paying for music, they just want it to be reasonably priced and convinient.
I still find $
$.50 per song would start to look more like the right price.
1. Pirated versions of some silly software like games is not something the enterprise managers care about. They are the target for this.
2. Most enterprise customers use only a very limited amount of software very extensively. If that exact piece of software is available for Linux, then it is an alternative. Many such packages ARE available for Linux.
3. SUN has a decent brand name, and some very cool technology that can be combined with this, for instance SunRay thin-clients.
4. If the enterprise starts to use Linux, then more software will get ported and eventually it might have a chance with Joe Luser. But right now, the full focus is at the enterprise, and rightly so.
"The Shuttle is only about 99% reliable. In other words, if you fly it 100 times it is pretty much certain to have a fatal failure."
I liked reading your posting, but I'm pretty glad you were not the one teaching me statistics.
This is almost like saying that you are pretty much certain to get a six by throwing the dice six times.
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This is truly insulting. They act as if the Site Finder service was some kind of favor done by them to the tech community.
This is a blatent insult to everybody's intelligence.
But if you instead are forced to pay the bill BEFORE you can take your new TV home you have no reason not to have them collect your TV afterwards.
Personally I think this is a splendid idea.
"Battery life is where the ThinkPad T40 scores well. Even with the standard 10.8V, 4,400mAh Li-ion battery, it delivered just under four hours' life in desktop mode. Tweaking the power management settings with this battery should push battery life well over four hours; with the optional high-capacity 6,600mAh battery fitted, you can expect to get nearly seven hours."
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Or:
"a huge 10.8V, 6,600mAh battery that's so big it sticks out about an inch from the back of the notebook. "
"While our evaluation system included this big battery, most ThinkPad T40 configurations include a smaller, less expensive 10.8V, 4,400mAh battery."
The processor on this is very comparable to the powerbooks (1.6GHz Pentium-M and the price is above $2500. See here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/IBM_ThinkPad_T40/4
At that price you get a 15" Powerbook stuffed with all the goodies at a comparable speed. It also comes with 4,5 hours estimated battery life out of the box without having to resort to a huge battery sticking out.
The problem is that most people compare the powerbooks with the "el cheapo" PC-laptops. When you look at the laptops that actually can be compared (like the IBM you mentioned), the prices are very competitive.
At the entry price of the iBook the comparable PC-laptops struggle to provide anything close to the unified feeling of the thing, it's durability, it's looks, battery life and noise.
The entry PC-laptops advertise around 2 hours battery life. The entry iBook has almost 4 hours.
The decision is definitely not "already made for you".
Bear in mind that not all people care most for raw power in their laptop. I for instance love having a 12" notebook with almost 4 hours battery. The fact that it doesn't run the latest games or compile things as fast as a P4 is irrelevant for me.
And, when I talk about noise, I can tell you that the iBook when on battery literally makes no noise at all. You have to put your ear to it to be able to hear something at all.
All in all it is a great little notebook. It might not be for everyone, but it does cater for a quite large niche.
This is a joke right?
People buy Macs because they like macs better. Personally I own a PC and an iBook and used to have a PC-laptop. My PC run both Linux and Windows, so did my PC-laptop.
The iBook beats the crap out of most PC-laptops at this price. The battery life and the silence of the thing is incredible compared to similiarly priced PCs.
Sure the PC laptops have a higher clock speed, but that is not always what you want.
Ultimately you normally buy a Mac because you want it to run MacOS (though some people actually buys Macs to run Linux on it because the hardware is just so much nicer than the comparable PC-hardware).
Who modded this as a troll?
There is nothing at all trollish about the parent of this post.
I've just moved to the UK, and I have found out that you are luckily being forced over to the metric system by the European Union.
The pint will never leave, but in about 50 years people will think it is just a name for "beer".
Most TV-channels now present Celcius first and Fahrenheit as an afterthought and all food are measured in grams first and foremost and imperial as an afterthought.
It will take years for it to settle with the people, but formally England is firmly on it's way to a pure metric system.
Why not? Why does one have to earn millions of dollars each day for anything to be viable?
Red Hat have said this themselves before. They do not believe that they will ever be a cash cow like Microsoft, but they think they can make a pretty decent living for a number of people. Why some people bought into the idea that they would take over from Microsoft beats me.
.. the game would sue YOU!
Seriously though, why not sue the parents for parenting kids that make you feel less safe?
For the parents of the victim this lawsuit is a given, but anyone can join in.
They might not have killed anyone in YOUR family, but they are part of what makes the world less safe.
Did you read the article? Some of the benchmarks show that the workstation cards do the job at a magnitude of 3 times faster in some test than the fastest gaming card from NVIDIA.
If you need this speed, then you pay for it. Paying say $2k for a video card is not much if it makes your employees more productive.
You fail to mention that those benchmarks are from January 2002. They are thus 1.5 years old.
GCJ is very much a moving target under a lot of development, while the JVM is reasonably stable and have much greater demands about backwards compatibility i.e.
How things compare right now is difficult to say, but it is not unreasonable to think that GCJ might have improved more than the JVM.
So what is so special about Florida? Am I right in guessing that just about any state and country can enter into the same kind of lawsuit?
So if $200M seems like a small amount of cash to Microsoft, then how about 50-100*$200M. It is starting to sound like a lot of money even to Microsoft.