I find it amusing that Slashdot posted a troll as a story. Noone is going to drop prices they, are just going to have one less expense and be happy about it. Free software is going to be the cheif benefactor as far as end users are concerned. Troll.
The insightful question to ask would be, what will Unisys do in the next few days? Something similar to what RSA did when RSA expired? That being, toss the patent into the public domain a few days before it expires, turn the whole thing into a big press marketing event, give away some tee shirts, build brand, etc. One way or another, mention of the patent expiring will wind up in every tech mag in the planet, because gif is used all over.. If they do nothing those articles are all going to be "haha!", "gif patent expires, helps open source", and "Unisys loses gif royalty revenue". If they do something smart they can get whatever their thing is talked about in every tech mag on the planet at once for free as a consolation prize..
In SCO's last 10-Q, it claimed roughly $35M of earnings for the last six months.. So, lets just say they do $70M a year. That makes this suit the equivlant of aprox 42 years of earnings at SCO's current rate. [Insert Douglas Adams joke here]
Says a Rep from Texas: 'A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.'"
If a mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb, then I guess that means a bash shell could be considerd a WMD under the right circumstances.
After Netscape 2 came out, EVERYONE had a java applet on their page. Being it was a 'new feature' in the eye's of many, it must be abused. There was a period of about 6 months where there were more lame scrollers on pages they anyone with taste could take.
Eventually it died down as people got over the 'new feature' buzz and remembered they had taste..
You can tell smoking geeks by their keyboard gunk. Which usually winds up being 60% ash. ...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
This has been around for awhile. SESAC has been using digital fingerprinting to survey radio play for awhile.
There are lots of interesting things going on right now in the internet music realm. Check out http://www.mongomusic.com, check out the 'sounds like' feature. Something other then collarabitive filtering! Woohoo! And it works! ...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
. intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
Points: 1) Redhat's kickstart system is very usefull. Split a 'in house' tree of 6.2. 2) Create custom package lists in the base/comps file to reflect the type of machines you need. 3) Create/recreate rpm's in distro to reflect all the spicific setting changes/customizations you need. (And any comercial software you need on machines. Those RPMS are just kept inhouse. 4) Make sure all updates/systemconfig changes are done thru some type of package management system.. RPM is actually VERY good for this. Get familar with writing spec files..:) 5) Auth systems: Kerb5. NIS, only if necessary and on 'controled' network segments. 6) Home dir Fileserver: Network Appliance F760. Period. There is simply no other solution that works as nicely. Cost per megabyte is high, but its so damn reliable and easy to deal with. 7) Give all your machines hostnames based upon some location sceme, and use dhcp to give out addresses _based upon hostname_ so management of vlans can be a easier to keep track of.
Also.. Its not hard to hack together a web interface to pop out floppy images with all the necessary info in the kickstart config file. Have every machine with a nearby copy of its 'reinstal' floppy, so if the machine gets 'screwed', its easier to do a 20 min reinstall (thats all it takes) then send someone from IT to 'fix' the machine. ... . ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and . intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
For one, 128 bit vs 64 bit vs 32 bit has nothing to do with processors when it comes to network addressing.
There are several factors for going completely overboard with the addressing.. It is better to err on the side of overkill (when it dosen't effect preformance) in that as our need for the internet starts to expand into more areas of our life, we risk getting into the situation where we are now. That being internet addresses being a scarse resource that must be concerserved.. When your wristwatch, pda, laptop, tv, vcr, coffee maker, etc, etc, are all connected, the last thing we want to have to deal with is lack of address space.
Granted, all that is a damn long way off. And people will have to start to get damn serious about their network security before I am going to be able to start a pot of coffee at home from an atm machine or someting wacked like that.
Remember, when ipv4 was concieved, noone thought it would ever run out of addresses. Yet its right around the corner... ... . ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and . intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
AnimEigo has defintally taken a step in the right direction. Most of the best anime is in series form, and not movie. And buying a 13 or 26 episode series on VHS is damn expensive. Usually there are only two episodes per tape.
Currently there are a few really good series coming from ADV Films. Nadesco and Bubblegum Crisis 2040. They are both going to run to 20+ episodes. Its expensive..
On the good news side of things, Evangelion is being re-released by ADV on DVD.. They are just taking forever to get it all out. The first DVD is out, but a date hasen't even been released for the next DVD yet. (And the first one was delayed for a damn long time..) ... . ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and . intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
I have worked both in the traditional music industry (studio engineering, live production, and concert promotion) and in the Internet music realm. The music industry is very slow to change, this is painfully clear. Like any large industry, it looks after itsself and its own intrests.
As soon as a good economic model pops up behind the distribution of music (books, movies, etc) the traditional companies that have dominated the realm will still be the big players. They will adapt. Aside from the front line runners (currently the 'bad boys' of the new music world) like mp3.com and Napster, all the other companies entering in the realm are aligning themselves with the traditional music companies and preparing for an all out assault on the market. Expecially in the not-yet-born wireless market.
Check out companies like http://www.mongomusic.com, look at who their investors are. Its pretty damn clear were this industry is going to go. mp3 lockers, subscription services, the empasis on streaming, etc..
Art has never been free, and I don't see career/full-time/whatever artists giving away their music anytime soon. Music outlets are just going to use a subscription model to pump music into your house, car, and that headphone jack that will find its way into the next generation of digital cell phones.
The record companies are pretty much just banks that fund artists. And that is not going to change, just evolve.
Another thing: One of the really great things about music on the Internet and some of the new searching technology is that its going to be alot easier to break new bands. Hence, there will be more music readily available that normally was very 'underground'.. Being that smaller artists don't make crap off record sales until they get to a certain size, I think that this will result in more of an emphasis on live preformance. If anything, this will be the best result for the bands. Bands, with both small and large following, make most of their cash off touring. I hope this translates into more 'alive' local music scenes, more shows, and rave going on every weekend.:)
Companies like Napster and mp3.com are giving the industry a good kick in the ass right now. Their reaction will move out of the courts and into the market place shortly. They will figure it out. They will learn how to make money in the information age. They are NOT going to go away. . . .
. . . as much as we would like them to. ... . ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and . intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
Nadesco. You MUST see Nadesco. The first three volumes are out on VHS. (Not DVD yet thou..) ... . ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and . intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
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I find it amusing that Slashdot posted a troll as a story. Noone is going to drop prices they, are just going to have one less expense and be happy about it. Free software is going to be the cheif benefactor as far as end users are concerned. Troll.
The insightful question to ask would be, what will Unisys do in the next few days? Something similar to what RSA did when RSA expired? That being, toss the patent into the public domain a few days before it expires, turn the whole thing into a big press marketing event, give away some tee shirts, build brand, etc. One way or another, mention of the patent expiring will wind up in every tech mag in the planet, because gif is used all over.. If they do nothing those articles are all going to be "haha!", "gif patent expires, helps open source", and "Unisys loses gif royalty revenue". If they do something smart they can get whatever their thing is talked about in every tech mag on the planet at once for free as a consolation prize..
In SCO's last 10-Q, it claimed roughly $35M of earnings for the last six months.. So, lets just say they do $70M a year. That makes this suit the equivlant of aprox 42 years of earnings at SCO's current rate. [Insert Douglas Adams joke here]
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I guess MS figured out that if they were only supporting windows on the server side, Passport couldn't possibly attain the market share they desire..
Says a Rep from Texas: 'A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.'"
If a mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb, then I guess that means a bash shell could be considerd a WMD under the right circumstances.
This year I asked for the old economy back.
This one is for all my poor dot-commie brothers in San Francisco this Christmas.. [ pours out the 40 ]
After Netscape 2 came out, EVERYONE had a java applet on their page. Being it was a 'new feature' in the eye's of many, it must be abused. There was a period of about 6 months where there were more lame scrollers on pages they anyone with taste could take.
Eventually it died down as people got over the 'new feature' buzz and remembered they had taste..
You can tell smoking geeks by their keyboard gunk. Which usually winds up being 60% ash.
...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
This has been around for awhile. SESAC has been using digital fingerprinting to survey radio play for awhile.
There are lots of interesting things going on right now in the internet music realm. Check out http://www.mongomusic.com, check out the 'sounds like' feature. Something other then collarabitive filtering! Woohoo! And it works!
...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
. intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
I'll be breif.
:)
Points:
1) Redhat's kickstart system is very usefull. Split a 'in house' tree of 6.2.
2) Create custom package lists in the base/comps file to reflect the type of machines you need.
3) Create/recreate rpm's in distro to reflect all the spicific setting changes/customizations you need. (And any comercial software you need on machines. Those RPMS are just kept inhouse.
4) Make sure all updates/systemconfig changes are done thru some type of package management system.. RPM is actually VERY good for this. Get familar with writing spec files..
5) Auth systems: Kerb5. NIS, only if necessary and on 'controled' network segments.
6) Home dir Fileserver: Network Appliance F760. Period. There is simply no other solution that works as nicely. Cost per megabyte is high, but its so damn reliable and easy to deal with.
7) Give all your machines hostnames based upon some location sceme, and use dhcp to give out addresses _based upon hostname_ so management of vlans can be a easier to keep track of.
Also.. Its not hard to hack together a web interface to pop out floppy images with all the necessary info in the kickstart config file. Have every machine with a nearby copy of its 'reinstal' floppy, so if the machine gets 'screwed', its easier to do a 20 min reinstall (thats all it takes) then send someone from IT to 'fix' the machine.
...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
. intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
For one, 128 bit vs 64 bit vs 32 bit has nothing to do with processors when it comes to network addressing.
There are several factors for going completely overboard with the addressing.. It is better to err on the side of overkill (when it dosen't effect preformance) in that as our need for the internet starts to expand into more areas of our life, we risk getting into the situation where we are now. That being internet addresses being a scarse resource that must be concerserved.. When your wristwatch, pda, laptop, tv, vcr, coffee maker, etc, etc, are all connected, the last thing we want to have to deal with is lack of address space.
Granted, all that is a damn long way off. And people will have to start to get damn serious about their network security before I am going to be able to start a pot of coffee at home from an atm machine or someting wacked like that.
Remember, when ipv4 was concieved, noone thought it would ever run out of addresses. Yet its right around the corner...
...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
. intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
AnimEigo has defintally taken a step in the right direction. Most of the best anime is in series form, and not movie. And buying a 13 or 26 episode series on VHS is damn expensive. Usually there are only two episodes per tape.
Currently there are a few really good series coming from ADV Films. Nadesco and Bubblegum Crisis 2040. They are both going to run to 20+ episodes. Its expensive..
On the good news side of things, Evangelion is being re-released by ADV on DVD.. They are just taking forever to get it all out. The first DVD is out, but a date hasen't even been released for the next DVD yet. (And the first one was delayed for a damn long time..)
...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
. intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
I have worked both in the traditional music industry (studio engineering, live production, and concert promotion) and in the Internet music realm. The music industry is very slow to change, this is painfully clear. Like any large industry, it looks after itsself and its own intrests.
:)
As soon as a good economic model pops up behind the distribution of music (books, movies, etc) the traditional companies that have dominated the realm will still be the big players. They will adapt. Aside from the front line runners (currently the 'bad boys' of the new music world) like mp3.com and Napster, all the other companies entering in the realm are aligning themselves with the traditional music companies and preparing for an all out assault on the market. Expecially in the not-yet-born wireless market.
Check out companies like http://www.mongomusic.com, look at who their investors are. Its pretty damn clear were this industry is going to go. mp3 lockers, subscription services, the empasis on streaming, etc..
Art has never been free, and I don't see career/full-time/whatever artists giving away their music anytime soon. Music outlets are just going to use a subscription model to pump music into your house, car, and that headphone jack that will find its way into the next generation of digital cell phones.
The record companies are pretty much just banks that fund artists. And that is not going to change, just evolve.
Another thing: One of the really great things about music on the Internet and some of the new searching technology is that its going to be alot easier to break new bands. Hence, there will be more music readily available that normally was very 'underground'.. Being that smaller artists don't make crap off record sales until they get to a certain size, I think that this will result in more of an emphasis on live preformance. If anything, this will be the best result for the bands. Bands, with both small and large following, make most of their cash off touring. I hope this translates into more 'alive' local music scenes, more shows, and rave going on every weekend.
Companies like Napster and mp3.com are giving the industry a good kick in the ass right now. Their reaction will move out of the courts and into the market place shortly. They will figure it out. They will learn how to make money in the information age. They are NOT going to go away. . . .
. . . as much as we would like them to.
...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
. intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
Nadesco. You MUST see Nadesco. The first three volumes are out on VHS. (Not DVD yet thou..)
...
. ""The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
. intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
Oh common. All the ORA books have animals on the cover. They should have used a beaver. :)