Seems to me that a microdrive is something on the order of a TypeII CompactFlash in size and currently only has something like a maximum of 1Gb of capacity. 10 and 20Gb is something like 10-20 times that- unless of course they're using the same tech (which, while is tougher than most HDs even while operating is still somewhat fragile compared to CF) to make laptop drives that can be used this way...
How many iterations of anti-virus software is out there?
How many brands?
How often do you think they have to update it?
If you're needing anti-virus protection, why use a specialized program that protects just that peerless drive (and needs updating, just like the others) when you can get one that protects everything including the boot sector of all types of bootable drives?
If an API makes you do 2 or more times as much work with little in return, it's of NO use to you. If an API takes up 2 or more times as much binary code without giving you something in return it's of NO use to you. You can use it because you think you're elite or because you enjoy hard work or don't mind inefficient code, but in the end it's not that it's useful that you're using it- it's merely because you WANT to use it.
Sorry to say, Motif makes you work harder for a UI that is both ugly and unwieldy. I know, I used to write Motif apps professionally.
Motif applications, tend to needt he whole library statically linked against your application under Linux- because not all apps work with Lesstif and some of them use Motif2 which isn't supported by Lesstif. That tends to make apps using it much larger than say a GTK+ or Qt application. This doesn't take into account the fact that I'm doing 2-10 times as much calls into the api which results in a larger app even if it's not statically linked.
Whether you like it or not, if I can get the same job done with less code (Similar speed of application operation) then the smaller, easier API wins hands down every time.
My PhotoSmart 1218 seems to work fine with Linux and Windows. However, having said this, I would like to have HP do some official drivers for this printer to use every drop of the power of this printer- but then, knowing my luck, they don't own all the IP used in those printers and they can't make open sourced drivers for them.
"BTW: if you're opposed to this sort of protection, prepare to go back to a pre-industrial revolution timescale for innovation."
Newtonian physics.
Gunpowder.
Steam Engines.
I could go on, but I won't- all of these were obtained during an era that didn't have patents to protect the "Intellectual Property" of these ideas. You have to admit, they're pretty innovative.
While I'm not opposed to patents per se, I am opposed to people making rash comments about things being way worse without them- they wouldn't exactly be worse, just different.
It's not good getting a huge check, no. Problem is, for most, they don't have much in the way of options to tell them how much to withhold. Unless you're self-employed, you're at the mercy of the witholding rules, which aren't finegrained enough to prevent overpaying or underpaying for some.
Worse, they'll penalize you if you severely underpay those taxes.
There's cute things you can do- like file an ammendment like another poster suggested. Another thing you can do is file an automatic extention, which extends your time to file another two months- to the 15th of June.
I think they may be slightly misplaced, but the allure of what the project offers to the millitary (not just the Air Force).
The millitary has to fly/sail/drive troops and equipment to the locations they're needed. That takes time. They're always looking for ways to shave that time off. SSTO technologies offer the promise of the fastest way to deploy things to the front yet.
Think semiballistic flight paths not unlike an ICBM without having to "crash" into their target. This means offering insanely fast transport for stuff to wherever you want it on this planet.
Think manned troop carriers deploying shock troops to nearly anywhere in the world in 90 minutes or less.
Think of a system to deploy equipment of most any kind so long as the payload capacity isn't exceeded- to the same possible places in the same possible time.
Utah-GLX is unsupported, however (architechtural weaknesses don't allow the framerates to get up high enough for reasonable play except on the hottest boxes)- if you've got a G400, you should be getting XFree86 4.0.X, the latest DRM, etc.
Depends on percentages. You can deduct a percentage of the machine proportionate to the business use and it'll pass an audit- because it's allowed for in the Tax Codes.
In the case of a lease, you're NOT allowed to use the software if you don't pay. With the way things are right now, if things don't work, you don't need the "enhancements" you don't buy a nev version. It's not leasing right now and frankly, I don't want it that way.
Leasing equipment makes some small sense for small business- leasing software is a disaster.
If you own the software, you own your data.
If someone else owns the software, it is thier data as they control every aspect of it's use- especially if you're leasing it. If they don't agree to your usage, you're not entitled to it after you've put it there.
Personally, as a businessman, I don't want anyone except myself owning the information that I use and collect on a daily basis. If a business sees that, they're not going to like leasing as it's a liability not a benefit like it might be with physical items like equipment.
I'd think that it was a close call with that- pretty much a push in my opinion.
While they're on "more" machines, it seems that a LOT of those machines are not really in use (As in extant machines- not really pertinent to this discussion) and that there's a lot of "requested" ports for architechtures that Linux seems to be stably running on already or there's ports already in beta stages...
Machines like the s390. There's no completed version for the s390 per the netBSD pages.
Machines like the AS400. There's no mention of that on the netBSD pages.
Embedded machines like the Versalogic VSBC-6 (x86, EBX form-factor, specialized hardware)- *BSD doesn't, to the best of my knowlege have device support for the on-board industrial I/O on the VSBC-6. Any distribution using the 2.2.X Linux kernels does- I know, I wrote a driver for it and officially maintain it.
I think you'll find that the original poster referred taking a source of an app from an x86 Linux box and compiling it for execution under Linux s390 and IBM's experimental wrist computer- and expect to have the app run largely as it's supposed to. You can't do that with netBSD- at least not right now.
Yes, netBSD sits on "more" platforms. More doesn't equate to better in all cases.
ISDN's not any better and a hell of a lot more expensive.
ISDN's drawbacks:
In some areas, it's not much better than dialup (56k, has somewhatshorter latencies and connect times).
The ISPs will gig you for much more money the moment you add the second B channel (115-128kbps)- to the tune of as much as $300 per month for the privilege to go 128k with a block of four addresses.
They're no better at fixing screw-ups with the ISDN line as they are with your voice or xDSL line (If you're getting the xDSL from one of the Baby Bells, that is..)- it's really no better.
While I will agree with you about the CLECs butchering themselves on razor thin margins, I do not agree with you in the slightest that ISDN's are an answer to getting "reliable" connectivity.
Clumsy, if you think about it. Only something like a Psion or a WinCE HPC would be really usable in CLI (No keyboard available except that gui alternative on these devices...)
The Helio DOES support PocketLinux and so does the iPaq (though that means putting some money into MS' pockets as well in that reagrd). The Helio is $169 at CompUSA right now (Though the info on the PocketLinux site is very sparse, there seems to be some info on the VTech site discussing Linux versions on the Helio.)
I'm kind of intrigued by the four options now- do I spend $500 or so on an iPaq, $169 on a Helio, $179 on a developer edition VR3 (Which I've seen- it's got it's upsides and downsides), or approximately $800 on a developer edition Yopy.
The Yopy's a hard sell as is the iPaq (As for only 2-3 times that cost, I could get me a laptop that's infinitely more useful than most PDAs for what I need for a computer) but the others, well...
Capitalism is an economic system, not a government system (though we've gotten that very confused of late here in the US...)- and it's done very good by the people of the United States of America over the years. Socialism is another economic system. So's communism and marxism for that matter.
None of these are forms of governments as people mistake them for. Many of the communist countries have totalitarian or oligarchical regimes in charge of the government.
It's up to Napster to decide whether or not they want to do that. But it's not RIAA's place to do anything other than politely ask for it- they can only insist on blocking what is known to be the properties of the companies they represent. They can't "demand" anything other than that because they don't have a legal standing in that regard.
It's supposed to place the burdens on the holder to prove that a violation has, in fact, occurred. Not the other way around. Many people need to scream "foul" right now over this.
They don't HAVE an official client for AOL (Not that I want that service from them) or for ICQ proper (which I DO want). Free access in my case is in the sense of asking them to support my OS- to either help out with someone under Linux to provide support or to release that nifty official client they made for their appliance device to the community in varying flavors for the different machine architechtures.
And don't tell me to run Windows. I don't do Windows.
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Seems to me that a microdrive is something on the order of a TypeII CompactFlash in size and currently only has something like a maximum of 1Gb of capacity. 10 and 20Gb is something like 10-20 times that- unless of course they're using the same tech (which, while is tougher than most HDs even while operating is still somewhat fragile compared to CF) to make laptop drives that can be used this way...
Here's a CLUE:
How many iterations of anti-virus software is out there?
How many brands?
How often do you think they have to update it?
If you're needing anti-virus protection, why use a specialized program that protects just that peerless drive (and needs updating, just like the others) when you can get one that protects everything including the boot sector of all types of bootable drives?
Your reasoning is flawed from the get-go.
If an API makes you do 2 or more times as much work with little in return, it's of NO use to you. If an API takes up 2 or more times as much binary code without giving you something in return it's of NO use to you. You can use it because you think you're elite or because you enjoy hard work or don't mind inefficient code, but in the end it's not that it's useful that you're using it- it's merely because you WANT to use it.
Sorry to say, Motif makes you work harder for a UI that is both ugly and unwieldy. I know, I used to write Motif apps professionally.
Motif applications, tend to needt he whole library statically linked against your application under Linux- because not all apps work with Lesstif and some of them use Motif2 which isn't supported by Lesstif. That tends to make apps using it much larger than say a GTK+ or Qt application. This doesn't take into account the fact that I'm doing 2-10 times as much calls into the api which results in a larger app even if it's not statically linked.
Whether you like it or not, if I can get the same job done with less code (Similar speed of application operation) then the smaller, easier API wins hands down every time.
They've got image files dating back to the 1800's and a searchable database for the same.
My PhotoSmart 1218 seems to work fine with Linux and Windows. However, having said this, I would like to have HP do some official drivers for this printer to use every drop of the power of this printer- but then, knowing my luck, they don't own all the IP used in those printers and they can't make open sourced drivers for them.
"BTW: if you're opposed to this sort of protection, prepare to go back to a pre-industrial revolution timescale for innovation."
Newtonian physics.
Gunpowder.
Steam Engines.
I could go on, but I won't- all of these were obtained during an era that didn't have patents to protect the "Intellectual Property" of these ideas. You have to admit, they're pretty innovative.
While I'm not opposed to patents per se, I am opposed to people making rash comments about things being way worse without them- they wouldn't exactly be worse, just different.
It's not good getting a huge check, no. Problem is, for most, they don't have much in the way of options to tell them how much to withhold. Unless you're self-employed, you're at the mercy of the witholding rules, which aren't finegrained enough to prevent overpaying or underpaying for some.
Worse, they'll penalize you if you severely underpay those taxes.
There's cute things you can do- like file an ammendment like another poster suggested. Another thing you can do is file an automatic extention, which extends your time to file another two months- to the 15th of June.
I think they may be slightly misplaced, but the allure of what the project offers to the millitary (not just the Air Force).
The millitary has to fly/sail/drive troops and equipment to the locations they're needed. That takes time. They're always looking for ways to shave that time off. SSTO technologies offer the promise of the fastest way to deploy things to the front yet.
Think semiballistic flight paths not unlike an ICBM without having to "crash" into their target. This means offering insanely fast transport for stuff to wherever you want it on this planet.
Think manned troop carriers deploying shock troops to nearly anywhere in the world in 90 minutes or less.
Think of a system to deploy equipment of most any kind so long as the payload capacity isn't exceeded- to the same possible places in the same possible time.
Utah-GLX is unsupported, however (architechtural weaknesses don't allow the framerates to get up high enough for reasonable play except on the hottest boxes)- if you've got a G400, you should be getting XFree86 4.0.X, the latest DRM, etc.
Suffice it to say, I'm buying it.
Depends on percentages. You can deduct a percentage of the machine proportionate to the business use and it'll pass an audit- because it's allowed for in the Tax Codes.
In the case of a lease, you're NOT allowed to use the software if you don't pay. With the way things are right now, if things don't work, you don't need the "enhancements" you don't buy a nev version. It's not leasing right now and frankly, I don't want it that way.
Leasing equipment makes some small sense for small business- leasing software is a disaster.
If you own the software, you own your data.
If someone else owns the software, it is thier data as they control every aspect of it's use- especially if you're leasing it. If they don't agree to your usage, you're not entitled to it after you've put it there.
Personally, as a businessman, I don't want anyone except myself owning the information that I use and collect on a daily basis. If a business sees that, they're not going to like leasing as it's a liability not a benefit like it might be with physical items like equipment.
I'd think that it was a close call with that- pretty much a push in my opinion.
While they're on "more" machines, it seems that a LOT of those machines are not really in use (As in extant machines- not really pertinent to this discussion) and that there's a lot of "requested" ports for architechtures that Linux seems to be stably running on already or there's ports already in beta stages...
Machines like the s390. There's no completed version for the s390 per the netBSD pages.
Machines like the AS400. There's no mention of that on the netBSD pages.
Embedded machines like the Versalogic VSBC-6 (x86, EBX form-factor, specialized hardware)- *BSD doesn't, to the best of my knowlege have device support for the on-board industrial I/O on the VSBC-6. Any distribution using the 2.2.X Linux kernels does- I know, I wrote a driver for it and officially maintain it.
I think you'll find that the original poster referred taking a source of an app from an x86 Linux box and compiling it for execution under Linux s390 and IBM's experimental wrist computer- and expect to have the app run largely as it's supposed to. You can't do that with netBSD- at least not right now.
Yes, netBSD sits on "more" platforms. More doesn't equate to better in all cases.
For some things from them, you have to have a Passport account before they'll let you download.
ISDN's not any better and a hell of a lot more expensive.
ISDN's drawbacks:
In some areas, it's not much better than dialup (56k, has somewhatshorter latencies and connect times).
The ISPs will gig you for much more money the moment you add the second B channel (115-128kbps)- to the tune of as much as $300 per month for the privilege to go 128k with a block of four addresses.
They're no better at fixing screw-ups with the ISDN line as they are with your voice or xDSL line (If you're getting the xDSL from one of the Baby Bells, that is..)- it's really no better.
While I will agree with you about the CLECs butchering themselves on razor thin margins, I do not agree with you in the slightest that ISDN's are an answer to getting "reliable" connectivity.
Clumsy, if you think about it. Only something like a Psion or a WinCE HPC would be really usable in CLI (No keyboard available except that gui alternative on these devices...)
Probably not- that's pretty largish.
The Helio DOES support PocketLinux and so does the iPaq (though that means putting some money into MS' pockets as well in that reagrd). The Helio is $169 at CompUSA right now (Though the info on the PocketLinux site is very sparse, there seems to be some info on the VTech site discussing Linux versions on the Helio.) I'm kind of intrigued by the four options now- do I spend $500 or so on an iPaq, $169 on a Helio, $179 on a developer edition VR3 (Which I've seen- it's got it's upsides and downsides), or approximately $800 on a developer edition Yopy. The Yopy's a hard sell as is the iPaq (As for only 2-3 times that cost, I could get me a laptop that's infinitely more useful than most PDAs for what I need for a computer) but the others, well...
Capitalism is an economic system, not a government system (though we've gotten that very confused of late here in the US...)- and it's done very good by the people of the United States of America over the years. Socialism is another economic system. So's communism and marxism for that matter.
None of these are forms of governments as people mistake them for. Many of the communist countries have totalitarian or oligarchical regimes in charge of the government.
It's up to Napster to decide whether or not they want to do that. But it's not RIAA's place to do anything other than politely ask for it- they can only insist on blocking what is known to be the properties of the companies they represent. They can't "demand" anything other than that because they don't have a legal standing in that regard.
It's supposed to place the burdens on the holder to prove that a violation has, in fact, occurred. Not the other way around. Many people need to scream "foul" right now over this.
I don't think even a vulture/buzzard would be able to safely digest one of those "lawyers"...
Copyrighting the CD's would mean that they're not honoring the GPL- any restrictions on the distribution, etc. is in violation of the license grant.
They don't HAVE an official client for AOL (Not that I want that service from them) or for ICQ proper (which I DO want). Free access in my case is in the sense of asking them to support my OS- to either help out with someone under Linux to provide support or to release that nifty official client they made for their appliance device to the community in varying flavors for the different machine architechtures.
And don't tell me to run Windows. I don't do Windows.