my preference would be along similar lines. i would like it if they would separate the core language from the many pure java, vm indendepent library classes. the core would be along the lines of what the original j2me or personal java was. maybe java.lang.*, java.net, java.util., etc. actually separate the language from all the add-on libraries.
when all of hp's new hardware is linux compatible, i'll quit ignoring their lip service. they don't have to support linux on the hardware. just don't use linux hostile components. for example, the broadcom wireless chipset in the lance armstrong special edition notebook.
it's interesting to compare this team to the single high school kid profiled on, i believe, this episode of "the science of star wars" on the discovery channel. he appeared to be building everything himself based on an a.t.v., but i missed some of the beginning.
I got disc 1 from netflix. I had actually caught a bit of what I assume was the first episode, "Serenity", when it first aired and wasn't that impressed. However, after watching the 3 episodes last night I would say that I really liked it. Maybe it's the lack of commercials every five minutes disrupting the flow. It was still a bit annoying with the obvious cuts to/from commercials, but at least you didn't have to wait for the actual commercial (most annoying was cuts to black and then right back to the exact same scene).
Is it just me or would regular TV greatly improve if they would revert to a PBS style sponsors message and the beginning and then let you actually watch the damn show without interruption every few minutes. I don't mind commercials, what I mind is having my attention yanked around every five to ten minutes from what I care about to something I have absolutely no interest in.
Why isn't Red Hat actively marketing their Professional Workstation Product?
I wish I could mod this up. I 100% agree. My only wish would be that it was Red Hat Professional without the Workstation part and included all RPMS. Additionally, it appears the key difference from RHEW other than price is that updates are only available for a year through RHN. If this is RHEW why can't they just put the RPMS they've already built into the RHN network channel as well? Oh well.
The 'Other Products' link at the bottom of their software page will lead to the Professional Workstation page.
Additionally, RHPW fills the obvious gaping hole in this matrix between free and ouch. The biggest problem being the difference in 'Update lifetime'. 5 years or 2-3 months. Doesn't really seem reasonable.
I guess my question would be: This whole thing seems like a PR screw up. Is any one in the Red Hat marketing department going to get the axe?
No one seems to have mentioned the Red Hat Professional Worstation product that will also be released. Of course, you'd never know from their front page. It's supposedly the same as RHEL 3 WS, but no support and RHN (not RHEN) update access for a year. Targeted at Home power users. I've only so far found it listed on
buy.com.
Not totally clear what the product is or what the support life will be. If it's in fact RHEL 3 WS and totally compatible that will be a good thing.
secure and anonymous (as far as who voted for whom)
I know this is a requirement that everyone lists, but I just can't see why. For all I care, they could post the entire list of who voted for whom on a public website. I'm sure there's some reason I should care though and someone will no doubt point it out.
Artists are feeling the downturn in sales, too. "My record royalties have dropped 80 percent since 1999," said Steve Miller, whose greatest hits album has been a perennial best-seller since its 1978 release. "To me, it's one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me because people act like it's OK."
Recording artists have watched their record royalties erode over the past few years ("My Van Halen royalties are history," said vocalist Sammy Hagar), but, in fact, few musicians earn the bulk of their income from record sales.
I find these comments offensive. No more royalties from 20+ years ago. Damnit! I'm not working any more, I should be getting paid still! If sales were sky rocketing after the copyright expired (oh wait, that apparently will never happen again) I could see the argument, but the vast majority of money is made when a CD or whatever first comes out. "What have done for me lately?" comes to mind. If I stop working I don't get paid anymore, if you stop working you don't get paid anymore. That's the way it works.
Meanwhile you have a bunch of half-wits on MTV cribs showing there multi-million dollar mansions. How exactly does this produce any insentive to create something new and interesting? Granted, in most cases its not really a loss. You have people that are basically set for life if they use some minute amount of common sense off of 1 CD release. Of course, they're probably really making money of f being famous. I sure Britney made a crap load more off of promoting pepsi than she ever did from CD sales.
I really didn't mean to blather on this much, my bad. Basically, you aren't making royalties from incredibly old albums (shocker), write some new stuff. You still need income? Here's a thought, write some new stuff. If people don't like it, get a different job. Boo hoo, what about my dependents, they can't live off my name for the rest of their lives. Here's a tip, learn to manage your fucking money! Everyone in the real world has various mechanisms to provide for their families, maybe you should look into them.
BTW, I do agree artists are screwed by the record companies and it's about time they started standing up and taking some responsibilities for their own situation and actions.
This doesn't appear to be true, at least for the nx7000. According to hp's website it only supports WXGA w/ 1280x800 and WSXGA w/ 1680x1050. They are an interesting looking option though, however, as far as I've heard the centrino wifi doesn't work under linux either.
If we want many of the commercial software companies to take Linux seriously, we have to convey the message that we find it acceptable to pay for some software that will run in Linux.
I'm willing to pay for software, just not when it's proprietary. I'll only play for Free Software.
I recently purchased an infocus X1 for $999. I had to order the composite 480i and composite 480p/720p/1080i cable from infocus for another $45.
I have been absolutely satisfied and that's projecting on a non-white speckled wall. I have projected on a matte white wall and the picture quality was good enough for me. Especially when you consider the portability. I used to own a 36" Sony. It weighed like 180lbs. projector, like 10lbs w/ about a 90" screen from 11ft.
The one probably may be fan noise. I mostly watch w/ headphones.
Apparently, it's an AOL/TW thing. I was using IE today testing and noticed it. My knee jerk reaction was to cancel my subscription. However, I'll probably just send them some feedback on how dissappointed I am and see if anything changes. Unless I end up discovering somewhere better, they have seemed a bit slow lately on DVD turn-around.
Usage: Novel, New . Everything at its first occurrence is new; that is novel which is so much out of the ordinary course as to strike us with surprise.
Once you have all your products running on an abstraction layer, the OS becsome irrelevant.
Is it just me, or wasn't this the point of an OS in the first place. At least source compatibility. Have a portable OS, write your apps to that API, new hardware comes out, port the OS, recompile all apps. At least, this is the way it was for UNIX and C. Of course, if you want to hide your source this method causes problems for portability.
Yeah, go on tour. Now pay for hotel for everybody. Now pay for transportation for everybody. Now pay the venue. Now pay ticketmaster (both the band and the customer give them money). Now pay the staff. Now count your money...
hmm... not so much as you started with, eh?
Clearly, you do not know what the hell you're talking about. Granted, a large tour (phish, dead) takes a lot of money to run, but they didn't start out that way. You start out w/ the people in the band and a van.
All those expenses, venue, ticketmaster, sometimes hotel, etc) are paid by the promoter of the show. Not the band itself. The band itself it gets a check for a set amount for doing the performance (for phish, I know it was around $100k a night around 1995, I'm sure it's more now and Britney Spears, etc is even higher, how absurd). The promoter has all the risk if the show doesn't sell tickets. And likewise, gets the reward if the show sells out and the tickets are priced well (the promoter sets the price of the tickets as well).
I could go on, but you get the point. The revenue for a large tour can very easily get into the millions. How efficiently the tour is run controls how much profit the artists (or however controls the artist) make.
Now, that being said, if an "artist" can sit at home, produce CDs and make a reasonable living (i.e. > average household income and support there family, etc) doing something they supposedly love then they should shut the fuck up and quit bothering everyone w/ there whining bullshit. The price of art is set by the customer not the artist. If people don't think your art is worth paying for, then maybe you should take a hint.
An artist viewed by the general public as being hugely wealthy is not going to generate any sympathy. Of course, you can't get some unknown, b/c then people will just think its an actor portraying a musician (I guess they could just get Jennifer Love Hewitt or the Bacon Brothers).
If Linux was really 10 steps ahead of Microsoft, markets would recognize that fact much more than they have. The fact is, there are some areas where linux shines and some areas where commercial software shines.
This is true, but $50 million can buy a pretty big mega-phone. And this is just from one company. I find it hard to believe that if you have the "right answer", you need $50+ million to promote it. Not to say that there has to be or is only one way. The important thing is the data format, not the application code.
To me, this is a good thing, since it will raise the bar on standards compliance in the industry and create more niche areas for linux to make its way into the enterprise.
Anyone who thinks MS is going to allow.NET to be an open standard is living in a fantasy world. And BTW, only the CLR is a standard. This completely excludes all the APIs which is what someone would actually use to write an application. The GUI is not included in the CLR either.
Don't have your website IE specific. I have mozilla w/ popups turned off. The frontpage is a blank black page. Not a good start. Then you use VBScript.
OpenOffice.org is collaborating with _all_ the other major Linux office suites and word processors towards the creation of a new, open XML-based, file format.
I'd be content if one of them would come out w/ a straight up DocBook editor that despensed w/ all the WYSIWYG non-sense and provided a convenient way to apply stylesheets and generate different output. What's the advantage of yet another XML DTD?
Of course, it would also be nice if everyone would standardize on kerberos for single sign-on instead of all the bitching about liberty and passport.
Slashdot Mirror
apparently, they already have a plant in gainsville florida. although, it's currently not running for whatever reason related to funding.
Electro Energy Receives First Order for U.S. Produced 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries
maybe that's not what they're looking for.
huckabee doesn't believe in evolution. immediately disqualified.
while i think the income tax system needs to be changed (i prefer removal), the fair tax doesn't seem like such a good idea: http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/unspinning_the_fairtax.html. assuming factcheck is correct.
i don't think you can have any income tax system that is truly "fair" and won't get gamed.
i don't think it's even that complicated. i would suspect it's as simple as men are more likely to buy black. you know, "real men wear black".
also, as a comparison, i paid $1499 for a g3 ibook a couple of years ago. the performance of this machine should greatly exceed it.
my preference would be along similar lines. i would like it if they would separate the core language from the many pure java, vm indendepent library classes. the core would be along the lines of what the original j2me or personal java was. maybe java.lang.*, java.net, java.util., etc. actually separate the language from all the add-on libraries.
don't worry. the drug companies have fixed the short comings of marijuana with a synthetic.
when all of hp's new hardware is linux compatible, i'll quit ignoring their lip service. they don't have to support linux on the hardware. just don't use linux hostile components. for example, the broadcom wireless chipset in the lance armstrong special edition notebook.
btw, they lost at least one sale because of it.
it's interesting to compare this team to the single high school kid profiled on, i believe, this episode of "the science of star wars" on the discovery channel. he appeared to be building everything himself based on an a.t.v., but i missed some of the beginning.
all they need to do is release a super-duper special edition hd-dvd 'lord of the rings'. instant market penetration.
I got disc 1 from netflix. I had actually caught a bit of what I assume was the first episode, "Serenity", when it first aired and wasn't that impressed. However, after watching the 3 episodes last night I would say that I really liked it. Maybe it's the lack of commercials every five minutes disrupting the flow. It was still a bit annoying with the obvious cuts to/from commercials, but at least you didn't have to wait for the actual commercial (most annoying was cuts to black and then right back to the exact same scene).
Is it just me or would regular TV greatly improve if they would revert to a PBS style sponsors message and the beginning and then let you actually watch the damn show without interruption every few minutes. I don't mind commercials, what I mind is having my attention yanked around every five to ten minutes from what I care about to something I have absolutely no interest in.
jason
Why isn't Red Hat actively marketing their Professional Workstation Product?
I wish I could mod this up. I 100% agree. My only wish would be that it was Red Hat Professional without the Workstation part and included all RPMS. Additionally, it appears the key difference from RHEW other than price is that updates are only available for a year through RHN. If this is RHEW why can't they just put the RPMS they've already built into the RHN network channel as well? Oh well.
The 'Other Products' link at the bottom of their software page will lead to the Professional Workstation page.
Additionally, RHPW fills the obvious gaping hole in this matrix between free and ouch. The biggest problem being the difference in 'Update lifetime'. 5 years or 2-3 months. Doesn't really seem reasonable.
I guess my question would be: This whole thing seems like a PR screw up. Is any one in the Red Hat marketing department going to get the axe?
jasonNo one seems to have mentioned the Red Hat Professional Worstation product that will also be released. Of course, you'd never know from their front page. It's supposedly the same as RHEL 3 WS, but no support and RHN (not RHEN) update access for a year. Targeted at Home power users. I've only so far found it listed on buy.com.
Not totally clear what the product is or what the support life will be. If it's in fact RHEL 3 WS and totally compatible that will be a good thing.
jasonsecure and anonymous (as far as who voted for whom)
I know this is a requirement that everyone lists, but I just can't see why. For all I care, they could post the entire list of who voted for whom on a public website. I'm sure there's some reason I should care though and someone will no doubt point it out.
jason
Artists are feeling the downturn in sales, too. "My record royalties have dropped 80 percent since 1999," said Steve Miller, whose greatest hits album has been a perennial best-seller since its 1978 release. "To me, it's one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me because people act like it's OK."
Recording artists have watched their record royalties erode over the past few years ("My Van Halen royalties are history," said vocalist Sammy Hagar), but, in fact, few musicians earn the bulk of their income from record sales.
I find these comments offensive. No more royalties from 20+ years ago. Damnit! I'm not working any more, I should be getting paid still! If sales were sky rocketing after the copyright expired (oh wait, that apparently will never happen again) I could see the argument, but the vast majority of money is made when a CD or whatever first comes out. "What have done for me lately?" comes to mind. If I stop working I don't get paid anymore, if you stop working you don't get paid anymore. That's the way it works.
Meanwhile you have a bunch of half-wits on MTV cribs showing there multi-million dollar mansions. How exactly does this produce any insentive to create something new and interesting? Granted, in most cases its not really a loss. You have people that are basically set for life if they use some minute amount of common sense off of 1 CD release. Of course, they're probably really making money of f being famous. I sure Britney made a crap load more off of promoting pepsi than she ever did from CD sales.
I really didn't mean to blather on this much, my bad. Basically, you aren't making royalties from incredibly old albums (shocker), write some new stuff. You still need income? Here's a thought, write some new stuff. If people don't like it, get a different job. Boo hoo, what about my dependents, they can't live off my name for the rest of their lives. Here's a tip, learn to manage your fucking money! Everyone in the real world has various mechanisms to provide for their families, maybe you should look into them.
BTW, I do agree artists are screwed by the record companies and it's about time they started standing up and taking some responsibilities for their own situation and actions.
jason
This doesn't appear to be true, at least for the nx7000. According to hp's website it only supports WXGA w/ 1280x800 and WSXGA w/ 1680x1050. They are an interesting looking option though, however, as far as I've heard the centrino wifi doesn't work under linux either.
jason
If we want many of the commercial software companies to take Linux seriously, we have to convey the message that we find it acceptable to pay for some software that will run in Linux.
I'm willing to pay for software, just not when it's proprietary. I'll only play for Free Software.
I recently purchased an infocus X1 for $999. I had to order the composite 480i and composite 480p/720p/1080i cable from infocus for another $45.
I have been absolutely satisfied and that's projecting on a non-white speckled wall. I have projected on a matte white wall and the picture quality was good enough for me. Especially when you consider the portability. I used to own a 36" Sony. It weighed like 180lbs. projector, like 10lbs w/ about a 90" screen from 11ft.
The one probably may be fan noise. I mostly watch w/ headphones.
I will never buy another regular TV.
jason
I haven't seen any Netflix popups with Safari, can you point us to a site that causes the popup?
CNN
Apparently, it's an AOL/TW thing. I was using IE today testing and noticed it. My knee jerk reaction was to cancel my subscription. However, I'll probably just send them some feedback on how dissappointed I am and see if anything changes. Unless I end up discovering somewhere better, they have seemed a bit slow lately on DVD turn-around.
"Novelty" is "newness". "Novel" means "new". If no-one else has done something then by definition it is novel.
You might want to review the definition for novel.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=novel
Particularly:
Strikingly new, unusual, or different.
Or farther down:
Usage: Novel, New . Everything at its first occurrence is new; that is novel which is so much out of the ordinary course as to strike us with surprise.
Once you have all your products running on an abstraction layer, the OS becsome irrelevant.
Is it just me, or wasn't this the point of an OS in the first place. At least source compatibility. Have a portable OS, write your apps to that API, new hardware comes out, port the OS, recompile all apps. At least, this is the way it was for UNIX and C. Of course, if you want to hide your source this method causes problems for portability.
jason
Yeah, go on tour. Now pay for hotel for everybody. Now pay for transportation for everybody. Now pay the venue. Now pay ticketmaster (both the band and the customer give them money). Now pay the staff. Now count your money...
hmm... not so much as you started with, eh?
Clearly, you do not know what the hell you're talking about. Granted, a large tour (phish, dead) takes a lot of money to run, but they didn't start out that way. You start out w/ the people in the band and a van.
All those expenses, venue, ticketmaster, sometimes hotel, etc) are paid by the promoter of the show. Not the band itself. The band itself it gets a check for a set amount for doing the performance (for phish, I know it was around $100k a night around 1995, I'm sure it's more now and Britney Spears, etc is even higher, how absurd). The promoter has all the risk if the show doesn't sell tickets. And likewise, gets the reward if the show sells out and the tickets are priced well (the promoter sets the price of the tickets as well).
I could go on, but you get the point. The revenue for a large tour can very easily get into the millions. How efficiently the tour is run controls how much profit the artists (or however controls the artist) make.
Now, that being said, if an "artist" can sit at home, produce CDs and make a reasonable living (i.e. > average household income and support there family, etc) doing something they supposedly love then they should shut the fuck up and quit bothering everyone w/ there whining bullshit. The price of art is set by the customer not the artist. If people don't think your art is worth paying for, then maybe you should take a hint.
An artist viewed by the general public as being hugely wealthy is not going to generate any sympathy. Of course, you can't get some unknown, b/c then people will just think its an actor portraying a musician (I guess they could just get Jennifer Love Hewitt or the Bacon Brothers).
jason
If Linux was really 10 steps ahead of Microsoft, markets would recognize that fact much more than they have. The fact is, there are some areas where linux shines and some areas where commercial software shines.
This is true, but $50 million can buy a pretty big mega-phone. And this is just from one company. I find it hard to believe that if you have the "right answer", you need $50+ million to promote it. Not to say that there has to be or is only one way. The important thing is the data format, not the application code.
To me, this is a good thing, since it will raise the bar on standards compliance in the industry and create more niche areas for linux to make its way into the enterprise.
Anyone who thinks MS is going to allow
Don't have your website IE specific. I have mozilla w/ popups turned off. The frontpage is a blank black page. Not a good start. Then you use VBScript.
jason
More of my point was why can't they just use XML DocBook? What's in this yet another format that is so new and different?
jason
OpenOffice.org is collaborating with _all_ the other major Linux office suites and word processors towards the creation of a new, open XML-based, file format.
I'd be content if one of them would come out w/ a straight up DocBook editor that despensed w/ all the WYSIWYG non-sense and provided a convenient way to apply stylesheets and generate different output. What's the advantage of yet another XML DTD?
Of course, it would also be nice if everyone would standardize on kerberos for single sign-on instead of all the bitching about liberty and passport.
jason
The X Resize and Rotate Extension - RandR
See the section on Migration and Replication. Haven't looked at it lately. I wonder what the current status is.