Linux got big so fast because of it's versatility, configurability and stability. Not because there "just had" to be an antithesis to M$. If such an antithesis exists one could argue it is Apple. Certainly not Linux. And just because Apple foobar'd themselves doesn't mean it isn't true. They just lost trying to play the same game as M$.
In fact one could argue that Linux would be even "bigger" had M$ not been given the key to IT dominance by the US govt. If you think about it, in a true free and open market, monoplies cannot exist. They can only formulate when governments pave the path for their existence. At least the EU has acknowleged the mistake and are doing something about it. Though the rectification (No. It is not a punishment) won't have the intended effect. M$ should have been broken up. Until that happens there is no proper rectification.
And, BTW you are a complete idiot if you think monopolies spur competition. That's why they are supposed to be illegal. It's because they kill competition and innovation. It's a basic FACT.
Take a course in macro economics before spouting off your M$ ordained homebrew closet economic theories.
Here is a fine example of how the RIAA and to a lesser extent the MPAA have gone horribly wrong in their pursuit of their own customers. Quite simply, the greatest damage to the industry comes from those who are on the inside. Not from their hard earned money spending customers.
I mean lets face it. Our country and culture is founded in the concepts of fair play. Most everyone I know respects the concept of paying for what you get. What a fair price is for a fair product. Those who "fileshare" are sick of being fleeced and do it mostly because of that. Come up with a fair price and the customers will return and the "insider" pirates will have no customers to sell to.
I am sick and tired of being accused of being a "pirate" because I want to save my DVD's to my HD. Or because I want to watch my DVD's in Linux. Or because I want to record HDTV just like I can regular TV with my VCR. Or because I want the convenience of being able to listen to any music I want anywhere I want. These are products I have already paid for. Fair use is clear in its benefits for the industry overall.
Because there is nothing that can be done in anything beyond Windwoes 98 that can't be done in Windwoes 98 or Linux.
Why upgrade to newer more buggy Sw with more bloated and less productive features just to put up with more bugs?
Windows 98SE is stable enough to justify it's use. Windows XP has nothing at all to justify it's expense, M$ invasion of privacy, and putting up with more bugs that inevitably exist with new bloated feature laden and bug laden SW.
BTW, this is in no way new technology. Remove the batteries, change the wheels to steel, and beef up the diesel engine a couple a hundred times and you have the standard diesel-electric drive transmission used in every train "loco"-"motive" ever made since the demise of the steam engine for trains.
Hey moron. It is about the government FIXING THEIR OWN FUCKUP!
Why is it all you free market advocates only scream free market after the free market has already been closed and the disasterous mess is all that is left? The government is SUPPOSED to fix the break. Why is it only THEN you start squealing like stuck pigs about the free market?
Where were you when M$ was illegally steamrolling their competition into the ground by govt sanction? What about that free market violation?
If you had half a brain you would realize that in a true free market monopolies CANNOT happen. Monopolies exist ONLY because the government sets up market control scructures that favor monopolies. Some are good overall (patents, copyrights, trademarks, WITH LIMITED TERMS), but most are not (copyrights that last over a century, government payoffs and backdoor dealings, etc.).
The day free markets are truly free is the day when future M$'s cannot happen anymore. Something I doubt will ever happen because most free market advocates are really not free market advocates at all. They just use the term as a whip when things don't go their way after they have raped, burned and pillaged and their dastardly acts have been uncovered.
1280x720p is technically HDTV according to the ATSC standard and besides ther are _NO_ hdtv's in existance today that can actually display every pixel of 1920x1080 so don't waste your breath.
Any HD display close to or over 720x1280 will look as stunning as 1920x1080 with todays technology. Unless you want to watch HDTV on your computer monitor. In that case, just use your computer monitor and don't worry about it.
Hey moron. Most corporations are controlled by a significantly less number of people than the shareowners. When one points the finger of anger at a corporation it is these people they are pointing at.
The original poster makes good points. I guess you think it is ok to lose all your individual rights as long as you own stock?
If you wanted a raise, you should have asked for one first. When you didn't get it, then you could get an offer somewhere else and _maybe_ give your company a chance to counter-offer.
Getting an offer for another job to get a raise from a counter-offer alone is shady and illustrates a problem with communication between you and your management. If the only way to get a raise is to get an offer elswhere, then you are walking a dangerous line and it will probably be your last raise. Who would want to work for a company like that anyway?
The question I keep wondering about is why did you apply for another job if you weren't already sold on leaving the company you are at? I know when I am ready to leave a company for a new one then it is already all over. If I want a raise I ask for it. If I feel I _can't_ get a raise without getting an offer somewhere else, then I do not want to work where I am at and I am already gone.
The PVR industry will be the example HDTV and other high-tech media technologies will follow.
Pay very close attention my friends, because everything else will follow these same footsteps.
BTW, did I mention it seems to me that this is definitely a market killer. I know there is no way I would _ever_ buy one of these things with such restrictions in place. Not even if they gave me the box for FREE!!!
I imagine there are many intelligent people out there just like me who will do the same. Look what happened to DivX.
I guess I'll just _have_ to watch less and less TV and find other ways to entertain myself.
I used to design UPS's for a major American UPS mfr. The author slightly mentioned that you would not want to use a normal UPS for continuous operation due to overheating. He is correct but for the wrong reason. It is NOT overheating of the battery cables you have to worry about. It is the Transformer.
Since the Transformer is the biggest cost item next to the Battery they are highly optimized for the performance/price point. That means a transformer designed to run at 400VA for 3 minutes will probably melt into a glob of laquer, copper, and steel in about 20 minutes. Of course that also means it could short out, catch fire, or send unknown voltages to your computer possibly destroying your computer PS.
Just as a point of reference the industry has made a distinction between continuous duty and back-up supplies. UPS means temporary supply to allow you to save data. Inverter means continous duty.
If you wish to try this project I make two suggestions:
1. Use or purchase an Inverter. Tripp Lite sells the PV series inverters which were designed to be used exactly in the fashion of the unit in that article. They also sell APS's which are UPS's that _are_ continous duty.
2. If you MUST use a UPS inverter, then get one that is overrated by at least 10 to 1 in VA handling capability. Depending on the UPS you get this may not be enough, but it will get you close.
3. If you are really ambitious, replace the UPS transformer with a much bigger one. Keep in mind that the power handling of the drive circuitry is important too, but hey - you want to tinker, right? Just make sure you understand the proper step-up ratio and winding configuration of the original transformer.
not the code. Develop the code under GPL/Open Source. Then charge them to implement it on their system.
Re-organize it so they are paying for your support and service while you are paying to write the program.
Frankly that is what you are trying to do anyway. You want them to pay you for your services not for your code or you wouldn't have even considered open sourcing your SW.
Frankly I am sick of the power of the Federal Government. This goes WAYYYY beyond their function.
For me as a tech professional, the answer is simple. I WILL emigrate somewhere else if this passes. The tech industry will dry into nothing behind the content firewall. The only employemnt you will get will be black market work and you will always be looking over your shoulder (although you will probably double or triple your salary, of course on the other hand you could go to prison). Hell of a country eh?
I like the idea of moving to Germany. At least they had enough sense to boot out M$ and embrace Linux. Good Bier too!
Engineering is 10% creative and 90% crap work. What you should take from this is crap work makes you money, the rest is just fun stuff you get to do for a while.
In the real world, money rules. You will find you _always_ have to justify your existance to your employer in terms of how you make a company money. That is the lesson you should learn. Doing the crap work will distinguish you from your peers. Trust me on this.
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Linux got big so fast because of it's versatility, configurability and stability. Not because there "just had" to be an antithesis to M$. If such an antithesis exists one could argue it is Apple. Certainly not Linux. And just because Apple foobar'd themselves doesn't mean it isn't true. They just lost trying to play the same game as M$.
In fact one could argue that Linux would be even "bigger" had M$ not been given the key to IT dominance by the US govt. If you think about it, in a true free and open market, monoplies cannot exist. They can only formulate when governments pave the path for their existence. At least the EU has acknowleged the mistake and are doing something about it. Though the rectification (No. It is not a punishment) won't have the intended effect. M$ should have been broken up. Until that happens there is no proper rectification.
And, BTW you are a complete idiot if you think monopolies spur competition. That's why they are supposed to be illegal. It's because they kill competition and innovation. It's a basic FACT.
Take a course in macro economics before spouting off your M$ ordained homebrew closet economic theories.
For some reason this makes me think of Virus Software. Lots of parallels here.
.. er webbing.
[START LOOP]
Create lots of useless pop up ads == create lots of virii.
Write software to stop pop up ads == create software to stop the virii.
Sell the Sw to stop pop up ads for lots of $$ == Sell anti-virii Sw for lots of $$.
[REPEAT LOOP]
It's like a military HW company getting rich supplying both sides of the war with their weapons.
Great scam BTW. I almost wish I thought of it except I'm not a scum swimming fecal eater that oozes slime to keep light on my feet
Here is a fine example of how the RIAA and to a lesser extent the MPAA have gone horribly wrong in their pursuit of their own customers. Quite simply, the greatest damage to the industry comes from those who are on the inside. Not from their hard earned money spending customers.
I mean lets face it. Our country and culture is founded in the concepts of fair play. Most everyone I know respects the concept of paying for what you get. What a fair price is for a fair product. Those who "fileshare" are sick of being fleeced and do it mostly because of that. Come up with a fair price and the customers will return and the "insider" pirates will have no customers to sell to.
I am sick and tired of being accused of being a "pirate" because I want to save my DVD's to my HD. Or because I want to watch my DVD's in Linux. Or because I want to record HDTV just like I can regular TV with my VCR. Or because I want the convenience of being able to listen to any music I want anywhere I want. These are products I have already paid for. Fair use is clear in its benefits for the industry overall.
Because there is nothing that can be done in anything beyond Windwoes 98 that can't be done in Windwoes 98 or Linux.
Why upgrade to newer more buggy Sw with more bloated and less productive features just to put up with more bugs?
Windows 98SE is stable enough to justify it's use. Windows XP has nothing at all to justify it's expense, M$ invasion of privacy, and putting up with more bugs that inevitably exist with new bloated feature laden and bug laden SW.
for one simple reason:
... about 80 years now?
Tire changing.
This doesn't look like an easy tire change to me.
BTW, this is in no way new technology. Remove the batteries, change the wheels to steel, and beef up the diesel engine a couple a hundred times and you have the standard diesel-electric drive transmission used in every train "loco"-"motive" ever made since the demise of the steam engine for trains.
What's that
Hey moron. It is about the government FIXING THEIR OWN FUCKUP!
Why is it all you free market advocates only scream free market after the free market has already been closed and the disasterous mess is all that is left? The government is SUPPOSED to fix the break. Why is it only THEN you start squealing like stuck pigs about the free market?
Where were you when M$ was illegally steamrolling their competition into the ground by govt sanction? What about that free market violation?
If you had half a brain you would realize that in a true free market monopolies CANNOT happen. Monopolies exist ONLY because the government sets up market control scructures that favor monopolies. Some are good overall (patents, copyrights, trademarks, WITH LIMITED TERMS), but most are not (copyrights that last over a century, government payoffs and backdoor dealings, etc.).
The day free markets are truly free is the day when future M$'s cannot happen anymore. Something I doubt will ever happen because most free market advocates are really not free market advocates at all. They just use the term as a whip when things don't go their way after they have raped, burned and pillaged and their dastardly acts have been uncovered.
One cannot lead the marketplace when one follows in the marketplace.
Linux Geeks have to give up the me-too catch up to Windows attitude and figure out how to make Linux stand on it's own other than being free.
I don't use KDE or Gnome anymore because they suck just like Windows does. We need something better.
How about Home Theater PC's?
Wrongo bucko.
1280x720p is technically HDTV according to the ATSC standard and besides ther are _NO_ hdtv's in existance today that can actually display every pixel of 1920x1080 so don't waste your breath.
Any HD display close to or over 720x1280 will look as stunning as 1920x1080 with todays technology. Unless you want to watch HDTV on your computer monitor. In that case, just use your computer monitor and don't worry about it.
Hey moron. Most corporations are controlled by a significantly less number of people than the shareowners. When one points the finger of anger at a corporation it is these people they are pointing at.
The original poster makes good points. I guess you think it is ok to lose all your individual rights as long as you own stock?
If you wanted a raise, you should have asked for one first. When you didn't get it, then you could get an offer somewhere else and _maybe_ give your company a chance to counter-offer.
Getting an offer for another job to get a raise from a counter-offer alone is shady and illustrates a problem with communication between you and your management. If the only way to get a raise is to get an offer elswhere, then you are walking a dangerous line and it will probably be your last raise. Who would want to work for a company like that anyway?
The question I keep wondering about is why did you apply for another job if you weren't already sold on leaving the company you are at? I know when I am ready to leave a company for a new one then it is already all over. If I want a raise I ask for it. If I feel I _can't_ get a raise without getting an offer somewhere else, then I do not want to work where I am at and I am already gone.
The PVR industry will be the example HDTV and other high-tech media technologies will follow.
Pay very close attention my friends, because everything else will follow these same footsteps.
BTW, did I mention it seems to me that this is definitely a market killer. I know there is no way I would _ever_ buy one of these things with such restrictions in place. Not even if they gave me the box for FREE!!!
I imagine there are many intelligent people out there just like me who will do the same. Look what happened to DivX.
I guess I'll just _have_ to watch less and less TV and find other ways to entertain myself.
that was not particularly covered in the article.
I used to design UPS's for a major American UPS mfr. The author slightly mentioned that you would not want to use a normal UPS for continuous operation due to overheating. He is correct but for the wrong reason. It is NOT overheating of the battery cables you have to worry about. It is the Transformer.
Since the Transformer is the biggest cost item next to the Battery they are highly optimized for the performance/price point. That means a transformer designed to run at 400VA for 3 minutes will probably melt into a glob of laquer, copper, and steel in about 20 minutes. Of course that also means it could short out, catch fire, or send unknown voltages to your computer possibly destroying your computer PS.
Just as a point of reference the industry has made a distinction between continuous duty and back-up supplies. UPS means temporary supply to allow you to save data. Inverter means continous duty.
If you wish to try this project I make two suggestions:
1. Use or purchase an Inverter. Tripp Lite sells the PV series inverters which were designed to be used exactly in the fashion of the unit in that article. They also sell APS's which are UPS's that _are_ continous duty.
2. If you MUST use a UPS inverter, then get one that is overrated by at least 10 to 1 in VA handling capability. Depending on the UPS you get this may not be enough, but it will get you close.
3. If you are really ambitious, replace the UPS transformer with a much bigger one. Keep in mind that the power handling of the drive circuitry is important too, but hey - you want to tinker, right? Just make sure you understand the proper step-up ratio and winding configuration of the original transformer.
not the code. Develop the code under GPL/Open Source. Then charge them to implement it on their system.
Re-organize it so they are paying for your support and service while you are paying to write the program.
Frankly that is what you are trying to do anyway. You want them to pay you for your services not for your code or you wouldn't have even considered open sourcing your SW.
Frankly I am sick of the power of the Federal Government. This goes WAYYYY beyond their function.
For me as a tech professional, the answer is simple. I WILL emigrate somewhere else if this passes. The tech industry will dry into nothing behind the content firewall. The only employemnt you will get will be black market work and you will always be looking over your shoulder (although you will probably double or triple your salary, of course on the other hand you could go to prison). Hell of a country eh?
I like the idea of moving to Germany. At least they had enough sense to boot out M$ and embrace Linux. Good Bier too!
I am not joking. If this passes, I'm out of here.
Engineering is 10% creative and 90% crap work. What you should take from this is crap work makes you money, the rest is just fun stuff you get to do for a while.
In the real world, money rules. You will find you _always_ have to justify your existance to your employer in terms of how you make a company money. That is the lesson you should learn. Doing the crap work will distinguish you from your peers. Trust me on this.