Considering that if you're using Windows 95/98/ME, 2000/XP is the same class of "different"...
Considering that if you're using 2000 or XP, Vista is the same class of "different"...
Anyone that tells you differently than this or thinks that all of those are the same thing so it is nothing to move to the new stuff is either missing the point or is trying to sell you something.
People just presume because it's got Windows slapped on it it's going to be easy and soldier on, never once questioning that thinking.
Each time you move to the new stuff from Microsoft, you spend as much or more money on that merry-go-round never once contemplating that things might just be a little different and maybe, just maybe things could be done in a manner that the changes are merited instead of at the whim of a company trying to part your money from you. Linux isn't free of cost. It's free of entanglements of that nature. You're not trapped like a rat in a maze. The same cannot be said of Windows or of MS Office.
Typically, no. Rarely are dividends handed out these days.
If they give out dividends, then yes, it's Shareholder value they're worrying about- because it's worth holding onto the stock in and of itself. If they don't, there's only a couple of ways to extract value from the stock you're holding- and they all involve loans against the sale value or selling it outright. That's the norm these days. So, when someone says they're worrying about "shareholder" value, they're usually talking about "shareseller" value- what will someone peddling the stock of the company get at the end of a trading transaction. All they're worrying about is what the daytraders are willing to gamble on their company's value.
You don't really choose the President by popular vote in the current system of government- we never really did.
Your votes do count- but for very little in this case. So, why put out any care or concern about what we feel about things and how they're going in this country? Make the people who ARE directly accountable to us realize this and things will start improving. But, as long as people put the bozos we keep putting into office in place, this crap will just keep on happening. We obviously don't care what they're doing- after all, we put the people in office right now that passed things like DMCA, PATRIOT, and so forth. And we keep putting them in there to do more of the same- why should THEY care about what we feel?
Depends on their location. If it's practical to drop a T1/T3 to the cell to do backhaul, they do it. If it's not, say a really remote location or one where it's just not going to be economical (and there's locations in a metro area where this is going to be the case, believe it or not- lack of available capacity and so forth...), they will do a backhaul link via point to point to another cell to bring the local link bandwidth to the site. And this doesn't even get into linking a COW (Cell on Wheels) into the main network. It's just not common to see microwave links on the sites, but they do sometimes have them.
While you posted Anon, I wish I still had mod points to mod the comment you just made up. You summarized it very well.
In the end, each and every person participating in their economic ecosystem is contributing and funding this sort of insanity either through direct funding through purchases or through network effect from the people trading it illicitly.
Just say "no" just like they tell you to do with drugs- for it's little better, really.
I've found that there's a lot better batch of people making their music available solely through places for free like Creative Commons or Jamendo and through online for pay venues like PayPlay.fm where they charge a minimal fee and give out selected freebies from most bands for free under a "karma points" system. I've just found out about Jamendo, and I've been buying a LOT of MP3 tracks from the Renaissance/Celtic performer crowd that's taken to distributing much of their stuff via PayPlay.fm.
In the end, I think a quote from Wargames best sums up my feelings in regards to the RIAA game:
"A strange game. The only winning move is to not play."
It's intended to try to ensure you don't do it again- and to possibly don't do it in the first place.
Unfortunately, for all parties involved, I think this falls under the "unusual" category- and should be reconsidered, not that they're going to be rational about it or anything. Yes, you've got file sharers. Thing is as long as you lot in the RIAA bunch keep making crap for protected works and keep treating the common person like a thief, you're going to keep losing sales and NOT to file sharing. I know one thing, I definitely don't have much of any desire whatsoever for the new stuff they generate, I've pretty much quit listening to radio and listen only to the things I already have legitimate copies of, whether they came off of my CD collection or from off of legal download sites from unsigned performers.
I don't need their crap. And it's that.
Neither do any of you lot, either.
If everyone quits buying it, quits sharing it, quits listening to it, we'll have a hell of a lot less buying of laws that are strictly in violation of the Bill of Rights and better music and video (movies, television, etc...) to boot.
It's six of one, half dozen of another on GTK+ versus Qt.
There's not really a slap in the face when you think about it. Qtopia presents an entire environment for making mobile phones. Maemo presents a more sophisticated environment for making more than capable smart phones and network-centric appliance devices. While Qtopia's capable of the other, it's not quite the same beast as what they came up with for themselves for that purpose- and Qtopia makes some good sense on things like the average phones now all seem to have in functionality, whereas Maemo doesn't quite fit the bill because of footprint.
As for the licensing... If they discontinue some form of free licensing of Qt, there will be at least the GPL fork, if not a BSD fork. Trolltech saw to it that there would be few complaints about the FOSS use of their library, including having an escape clause for the KDE project to BSD license the entire library at their discretion if Qt was taken solely proprietary or withdrawn completely.
It only kicks in if the new owners choose to take Qt private or do something like dissolve the now new division of their company. It forces a fork of licensing, etc. making a BSD licensed version possible at the KDE Qt Free Foundation's discretion under those circumstances. At that point you'd have a version of Qt that was GPLed, BSD, and the completely closed license version that the new owners had.
In this case, I doubt that Nokia would take it private- they know what Open Source is and seem to have few issues with it in general. I'm not quite sure why they're picking Trolltech and Qt up, to be honest, considering how well Maemo and Hildon works on things like their N770/N800/N810, but perhaps they're picking them up because they want another option choice on the UI and applications suite front.
Moreover, I'd be hesitant to give him even the desktops angle. What passes for what's common in the US isn't in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Same for Asia. Parochial view really.
Now... I wonder how many Nokia N770's, N800's, Asus eeePC's have been shipped/sold... I wonder how many routers out there use Linux... I wonder how many non-smart phones have been shipped by groups like Samsung and Motorola with it on them... I wonder how many OLPC's they'll eventually ship...
In the end, the reality is that Linux is a bit more used than people might want to admit to. Especially if they've bet everything on being a Microsoft world.
But who's having the fun and games at WHOSE expense, hm?
The CIA wasn't kidding when they released the info. I'm surprised it's come out this soon because there's no good answers in sight for at least 6-12 or more months. It's much worse than the Y2K story- and it only became a fizzle because of some serious efforts on the parts of people to catch most of the issues.
They're not all hooked into the Internet. However, the command and control centers for a lot of these utilities ARE all pretty much hooked into the Internet- and if the substations and plants aren't on the Internet, with the poor security planning and even poorer design of the SCADA systems as a whole, they might as well be all on it hot without even a firewall to hope to protect them.
But, you're definitely not alone in your thinking. Not by a longshot.
Heh... Well, I think the punsters have Rooked everyone else with the current Stratego- and I think the ones that hate puns are going to end up thinking they've got Ants in the Pants before we're all said and done.
As you can probably guess (and people have said, such as on NPR just the other day)... he is a modern Ed Wood, except Wood's movies had a charm about them (sort of like a 2nd grade play) where Boll's are just bad (like a bad play at a real opera company).
Heh... You're being too gracious...
Bad's one thing, Uwe Boll's in another category all himself. I don't think there are current words in the English vocabulary that even begin to describe the horror that is a Uwe Boll movie.
I think the only stinker that he actually did a "decent" job on (Though it lost money for differing reasons...) would be his movie version of Postal. Everything else, heh...
He's trying to out "Ed Wood" Ed himself because he makes a HELL of a lot more money that way.
In the end, I know why this batch of people went for the lame thing- I'll bet each and every one of the actors made decent cash on this title and it was something to do, even if it was one of his atrocious movies.
Depends on how recent it is... If it's within the last two months, it could be that the person's a fan of Schlock Mercenary where the Cake WAS a lie in the story arc still ongoing right at the moment... >;-)
She MAY be upping the ante even further than that. She's asking about how an "Open Source Hardware" project should look like over on Groklaw of all things.
It's not that they're non-profit (You're being sarcastic...and it's not working very well.) it's that they're working at doing the "right things" overall. OLPC. Opening the specs on their chips and specifically designing future designs so that in spite of things like DRM still being an issue in the world for some time yet, they can pretty much support Linux and *BSD, plus anything that follows them, without impacting anything but the DRM pieces.
I'd call that a plus.
As it stands, the only reason I bought several Intel designs is that I needed a laptop with properly usable OpenGL capabilities, ATI's offerings just aren't up to the challenge (Partly because of the mobile silicon, partly because of the drivers...) and many of the AMD designs went with ATI parts instead of NVidia parts. The other reason was that I needed a more modern machine and at the price points I had to work with on the budget I had, the Intel CPU was the better bang for buck (Not on the higher end, though, AMD wins that one, even if they don't win the peak speed (Heh... 10% faster for HOW much more cash on everything??)).
My next desktop purchase will probably be an AMD unless I'm faced with a similar situation for my most recent desktop purchase. Hopefully, AMD will change ATI's tendency to cripple the Vertex Shader pipeline sets on all but their top-end mobile GPUs and they will have either solid open source support or get their act together on their proprietary driver (because it sure isn't there NOW...:-) )- and I'll be able to make an AMD choice on the laptop as well.
The flaw lies in that Intel promised to NOT poach like they seem to have been doing and did it anyway.
It's not that Negroponte has an ego (but everyone is seizing on the fact the man DOES have a big ego...) but that Intel didn't live up to it's promises. If the stunt in Peru is provable, then Intel DOES have a big bit of explaining to do- and what Negroponte has been saying isn't QUITE the "hogwash" they're claiming it is.
It's not that he doesn't want laptops in the hands of kids. He wants education TOOLS in the hands of kids. Unfortunately, all the Classmate devices seem to be is indoctrination tools for Microsoft products as opposed to engines to be re-worked, etc. to teach thinking in addition to knowledge. OLPC's goal is that. All the Classmate seems to be is discounted Windows stuff for kids and calling it "education".
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The biggest problem with you using a thumb drive to transport the data, etc. is that they'd just find that too
and confiscate it.
Considering that if you're using Windows 95/98/ME, 2000/XP is the same class of "different"...
Considering that if you're using 2000 or XP, Vista is the same class of "different"...
Anyone that tells you differently than this or thinks that all of those are the same thing so it
is nothing to move to the new stuff is either missing the point or is trying to sell you something.
People just presume because it's got Windows slapped on it it's going to be easy and soldier on, never once
questioning that thinking.
Each time you move to the new stuff from Microsoft, you spend as much or more money on that merry-go-round
never once contemplating that things might just be a little different and maybe, just maybe things could
be done in a manner that the changes are merited instead of at the whim of a company trying to part your
money from you. Linux isn't free of cost. It's free of entanglements of that nature. You're not
trapped like a rat in a maze. The same cannot be said of Windows or of MS Office.
Typically, no. Rarely are dividends handed out these days.
If they give out dividends, then yes, it's Shareholder value they're worrying about- because it's worth holding onto the stock in and of itself.
If they don't, there's only a couple of ways to extract value from the stock you're holding- and they all involve loans against the sale value
or selling it outright. That's the norm these days. So, when someone says they're worrying about "shareholder" value, they're usually talking
about "shareseller" value- what will someone peddling the stock of the company get at the end of a trading transaction. All they're worrying
about is what the daytraders are willing to gamble on their company's value.
You don't really choose the President by popular vote in the current system of government- we never really did.
Your votes do count- but for very little in this case. So, why put out any care or concern about what we
feel about things and how they're going in this country? Make the people who ARE directly accountable to
us realize this and things will start improving. But, as long as people put the bozos we keep putting into
office in place, this crap will just keep on happening. We obviously don't care what they're doing- after
all, we put the people in office right now that passed things like DMCA, PATRIOT, and so forth. And we
keep putting them in there to do more of the same- why should THEY care about what we feel?
There... Corrected that for you.
Depends on their location. If it's practical to drop a T1/T3 to the cell to do backhaul, they do it.
If it's not, say a really remote location or one where it's just not going to be economical (and there's
locations in a metro area where this is going to be the case, believe it or not- lack of available
capacity and so forth...), they will do a backhaul link via point to point to another cell to bring
the local link bandwidth to the site. And this doesn't even get into linking a COW (Cell on Wheels)
into the main network. It's just not common to see microwave links on the sites, but they do sometimes
have them.
While you posted Anon, I wish I still had mod points to mod the comment you just made up. You summarized it very well.
In the end, each and every person participating in their economic ecosystem is contributing and funding this sort of insanity
either through direct funding through purchases or through network effect from the people trading it illicitly.
Just say "no" just like they tell you to do with drugs- for it's little better, really.
I've found that there's a lot better batch of people making their music available solely
through places for free like Creative Commons or Jamendo
and through online for pay venues like PayPlay.fm where they charge a minimal fee and
give out selected freebies from most bands for free under a "karma points" system. I've just found out about Jamendo,
and I've been buying a LOT of MP3 tracks from the Renaissance/Celtic performer crowd that's taken to distributing much
of their stuff via PayPlay.fm.
In the end, I think a quote from Wargames best sums up my feelings in regards to the RIAA game:
"A strange game. The only winning move is to not play."
It's called punitive damages.
It's intended to try to ensure you don't do it again- and to possibly don't do it in the first place.
Unfortunately, for all parties involved, I think this falls under the "unusual" category- and should
be reconsidered, not that they're going to be rational about it or anything. Yes, you've got file
sharers. Thing is as long as you lot in the RIAA bunch keep making crap for protected works and
keep treating the common person like a thief, you're going to keep losing sales and NOT to file
sharing. I know one thing, I definitely don't have much of any desire whatsoever for the new
stuff they generate, I've pretty much quit listening to radio and listen only to the things I already
have legitimate copies of, whether they came off of my CD collection or from off of legal download
sites from unsigned performers.
I don't need their crap. And it's that.
Neither do any of you lot, either.
If everyone quits buying it, quits sharing it, quits listening to it, we'll have a hell of a lot
less buying of laws that are strictly in violation of the Bill of Rights and better music and
video (movies, television, etc...) to boot.
In reality...
It's six of one, half dozen of another on GTK+ versus Qt.
There's not really a slap in the face when you think about it. Qtopia presents an entire environment
for making mobile phones. Maemo presents a more sophisticated environment for making more than
capable smart phones and network-centric appliance devices. While Qtopia's capable of the other,
it's not quite the same beast as what they came up with for themselves for that purpose- and Qtopia
makes some good sense on things like the average phones now all seem to have in functionality,
whereas Maemo doesn't quite fit the bill because of footprint.
As for the licensing... If they discontinue some form of free licensing of Qt, there will be at
least the GPL fork, if not a BSD fork. Trolltech saw to it that there would be few complaints
about the FOSS use of their library, including having an escape clause for the KDE project to
BSD license the entire library at their discretion if Qt was taken solely proprietary or withdrawn
completely.
It only kicks in if the new owners choose to take Qt private or do something like dissolve the now new division of their
company. It forces a fork of licensing, etc. making a BSD licensed version possible at the KDE Qt Free Foundation's
discretion under those circumstances. At that point you'd have a version of Qt that was GPLed, BSD, and the completely
closed license version that the new owners had.
In this case, I doubt that Nokia would take it private- they know what Open Source is and seem to have few issues
with it in general. I'm not quite sure why they're picking Trolltech and Qt up, to be honest, considering how
well Maemo and Hildon works on things like their N770/N800/N810, but perhaps they're picking them up because they
want another option choice on the UI and applications suite front.
There's lies, damned lies, and then there's Statistics...
Moreover, I'd be hesitant to give him even the desktops angle. What passes for what's common in the US isn't in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
Same for Asia. Parochial view really.
Now... I wonder how many Nokia N770's, N800's, Asus eeePC's have been shipped/sold... I wonder how many routers out there use Linux... I wonder
how many non-smart phones have been shipped by groups like Samsung and Motorola with it on them... I wonder how many OLPC's they'll eventually ship...
In the end, the reality is that Linux is a bit more used than people might want to admit to. Especially if they've bet everything on being a
Microsoft world.
Well... Looking at the number of digits in your Slashdot ID, I'd say you're both relatively new here... >;-)
Isn't it, though?
But who's having the fun and games at WHOSE expense, hm?
The CIA wasn't kidding when they released the info. I'm surprised it's come out this soon
because there's no good answers in sight for at least 6-12 or more months. It's much worse
than the Y2K story- and it only became a fizzle because of some serious efforts on the
parts of people to catch most of the issues.
They're not all hooked into the Internet. However, the command and control centers for a lot of these
utilities ARE all pretty much hooked into the Internet- and if the substations and plants aren't on
the Internet, with the poor security planning and even poorer design of the SCADA systems as a whole,
they might as well be all on it hot without even a firewall to hope to protect them.
But, you're definitely not alone in your thinking. Not by a longshot.
Busted, more like...
Heh... Well, I think the punsters have Rooked everyone else with the current Stratego- and I think the ones that
hate puns are going to end up thinking they've got Ants in the Pants before we're all said and done.
Heh... You're being too gracious...
Bad's one thing, Uwe Boll's in another category all himself.
I don't think there are current words in the English vocabulary that even begin to describe the horror that is a Uwe Boll movie.
I think the only stinker that he actually did a "decent" job on (Though it lost money for
differing reasons...) would be his movie version of Postal. Everything else, heh...
He's trying to out "Ed Wood" Ed himself because he makes a HELL of a lot more money that way.
In the end, I know why this batch of people went for the lame thing- I'll bet each and every
one of the actors made decent cash on this title and it was something to do, even if it was
one of his atrocious movies.
Depends on how recent it is... If it's within the last two months, it could be that the person's a fan of Schlock Mercenary where
the Cake WAS a lie in the story arc still ongoing right at the moment... >;-)
UGH...
Now I need brain bleach. You're sick, sick, sick...but you know that don't you?
No kidding. Ugh...
The only thing worse as a vision would be the photos my ex wife took of...ugh...not gonna say.
She MAY be upping the ante even further than that. She's asking about how an "Open Source Hardware" project should look like over on Groklaw of all things.
It's not that they're non-profit (You're being sarcastic...and it's not working very well.) it's that they're working at doing the "right things" overall. OLPC. Opening the specs on their chips and specifically designing future designs so that in spite of things like DRM still being an issue in the world for some time yet, they can pretty much support Linux and *BSD, plus anything that follows them, without impacting anything but the DRM pieces.
:-) )- and I'll be able to make an AMD choice on the laptop as well.
I'd call that a plus.
As it stands, the only reason I bought several Intel designs is that I needed a laptop with properly usable OpenGL capabilities, ATI's offerings just aren't up to the challenge (Partly because of the mobile silicon, partly because of the drivers...) and many of the AMD designs went with ATI parts instead of NVidia parts. The other reason was that I needed a more modern machine and at the price points I had to work with on the budget I had, the Intel CPU was the better bang for buck (Not on the higher end, though, AMD wins that one, even if they don't win the peak speed (Heh... 10% faster for HOW much more cash on everything??)).
My next desktop purchase will probably be an AMD unless I'm faced with a similar situation for my most recent desktop purchase. Hopefully, AMD will change ATI's tendency to cripple the Vertex Shader pipeline sets on all but their top-end mobile GPUs and they will have either solid open source support or get their act together on their proprietary driver (because it sure isn't there NOW...
The flaw lies in that Intel promised to NOT poach like they seem to have been doing and did it anyway.
It's not that Negroponte has an ego (but everyone is seizing on the fact the man DOES have a big ego...)
but that Intel didn't live up to it's promises. If the stunt in Peru is provable, then Intel DOES have
a big bit of explaining to do- and what Negroponte has been saying isn't QUITE the "hogwash" they're
claiming it is.
It's not that he doesn't want laptops in the hands of kids. He wants education TOOLS in the hands of
kids. Unfortunately, all the Classmate devices seem to be is indoctrination tools for Microsoft products
as opposed to engines to be re-worked, etc. to teach thinking in addition to knowledge. OLPC's goal is
that. All the Classmate seems to be is discounted Windows stuff for kids and calling it "education".
I've a problem with that.