No, seriously. VMWare having some decent competition isn't going to do any harm - and VMWare will still dominate the Linux market which is not insignificant - and everyone legally allowed to virtualise any version of Vista is great news for everybody including VMWare, if belated.
Microsoft wanting a piece of the market could easily result in great products being created. Look at the recent versions of IIS that have been a vast improvement thanks to the old versions being crappy compared to Apache. Even MS realise that people who are interested in this sort of thing aren't after any old shit.
No, she isn't. You won't be able to buy a Linux laptop that doesn't have working drivers out of the box - vendors are going to ensure there are supported drivers before the released them, much like they do with Windows and vendors will just favour chipsets with supported Linux drivers, which is an upside for Linux-users too as a wider amount of hardware will support it as it makes financial sense to do so.
I kind of agree with the story - certainly the low-cost Acer EeePC is Linux-based primarily down to price, although speed comes into it too where a Linux distribution runs faster on low-spec desktops. It certainly can't do any harm, that's for sure.
I do understand/why/ Adobe can charge so much - it's a combination of familiarity, quality of the product and lack of competition. But if there's a product that can equal two-thirds of that, and force Adobe to compete, it'll drive down prices and improve the software. That's why competition is a good thing. Even if someone is earning a fortune through Photoshop, if there's something better they aren't going to resent switching, and nobody is going to be upset if that competition prompts a price cut.
I don't have a "problem" with Adobe, but I do find the lack of real competition and continuing price increases extremely worrying. And it's not hard to when you compare the UK price to the US price, the UK price is £485 before tax, which an utterly ridiculous ~$982(!) compared to $650 in the US, and their control over Flash with a lack of decent competing technologies.
but I can't feel any sympathy for Adobe, who is increasingly monopolising the design arena with their obscenely priced tools. Competition is good, no matter what your opinion on Microsoft is - someone needs to take on rapidly enlarging 500lb gorilla that is Adobe, particularly since they took over Macromedia.
>Chances are that they will attempt to use uTorrent to further their agenda.
I don't think they can use uTorrent to leverage closed changes to the BitTorrent protocol, and would be foolish to do so.
What is likely to happen is the BitComet effect. Before the release of uTorrent, 2 years ago, BitComet was the most popular client thanks to it having a good GUI, light-weight memory usage and generally the best client avaliable. - it was also closed-source. BitComet started abusing the protocol (manipulating super-seeding, not following "private torrent" rules among others) and many sites banned it and the BitTornado client banned it. uTorrent appeared at the time, and borrowed many of the features from BitComet, only being even more lightweight, and quickly became the client of choice with people moving mainly from BitComet.
What? The GPL states you need to provide the source to code you're distributing, otherwise they have no right. They haven't done that.
See: "For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights."
and "3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange"
Please go read and understand the licence and the FAQ before correcting people on what it says.
So it's $66 in China, the UK retail price for Vista Basic is £160 which is $324. So that's a $258 difference for the exact same piece of software. Shocking.
With being one of the contributors to this issue (With my rushed Top 5) I am amazed how big this magazine has got. Spectacular!
Anyway, this magazine is 100% free and is not affiliated with any non-electronic magazine. It also it entirely submitted by the readers of the uk.video.games.misc newsgroup.
T&C's would be the best way around this situation. "All messages could be edited at the disgresion of the moderator" or suchlike would do wonders, and get rid of all lawsuits in one fair hit surely?
I just pray that with this, Google will have a tickbox on whether or not you want to have a page ranked - Less Money for Google, better searches for me.
Besides, doesn't Pagerank on Google's toolbar already do this in its own way?
Old news.. but the possibilities?
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Perhaps the fact that MAME was very quickly converted to the XBox is a good sign. Maybe home-developing tools (Based on semi-legitimate real tools) are going to appear quicker than we originally thought...
Another one opens. We can't all live on nostalgia.
And, for anyone depressed about HP leaving, now that HP has got rid of it's Calculator department, the classics that HP have been made will be antiques.
Let's just pray that HP never leaves the printer market. Let's just hope...
Someone has seen sense and realised the only way to have a mass-market storage device is to make it easy to develop for. Ever wondered why the Floppy/CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW are each successful?
But I think its the only way that Phillips can hope to compete with DVD-R, DVD-RW or whatever;)
You should never trust Microsoft with your Credit Cards, e-mail, servers or anything else for that matter.
Might sound like a flame, but just look at how many hacks, bugs, and general problems that have happened to MS products in comparison to independant open-sourced ones. Perhaps it's time for me to start changing in the "Open Source Revolution"
If you can have a Virus on a DVD, surely it must be software?
Besides, as the DVD prices in Austrialia are cheap, and no-one rents DVD's anyway ($3 for two nights when you can buy it for $9) it mustn't be that important, unless it's the Tax (ie. EU's Computer tax is alot lower then on Films)
It's a two sided coin remember. Keeping cookies has its advantages for forgetful users, advertisers and website designers, but its a bad thing for total privacy.
Perhaps the EU, in reality, is doing the best thing for users of confidential buisness. Very few people who don't work in the IT industry know about "cookies" and information they keep.
But then again, in real life you could look at it this way: You close your windows so people don't look in, but it's not illegal for people to try and look through them.
I doubt the law will pass through, as many similar US laws have been thrown out in the past, and I would hope that the EU is this compatent.
DOS will never truely die. I'm a teenager and I still use DOS every day. Perhaps I'm just geeky, or maybe people are trying to kill something far too useful.
Is there an easier way to move around files without problems like accidently dragging onto the wrong folder? If so, I would like to see it.
DOS will never die out in whatever form it is in, whether Command Prompt, command.com or some floppy disk and you haven't used in a couple of years.
Maybe it's time I moved to Linux, or perhaps, one day, Microsoft will not try to completely kill a good product because of it's age.
Obviously lost track of their patents. In recent years, companies have patented anything.
I also don't consider Macromedia a rival to anything Adobe make. Unless, of course, they are homing that Adobe take them over (In Sony vs. Connectix style).
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No, seriously. VMWare having some decent competition isn't going to do any harm - and VMWare will still dominate the Linux market which is not insignificant - and everyone legally allowed to virtualise any version of Vista is great news for everybody including VMWare, if belated.
Microsoft wanting a piece of the market could easily result in great products being created. Look at the recent versions of IIS that have been a vast improvement thanks to the old versions being crappy compared to Apache. Even MS realise that people who are interested in this sort of thing aren't after any old shit.
No, she isn't. You won't be able to buy a Linux laptop that doesn't have working drivers out of the box - vendors are going to ensure there are supported drivers before the released them, much like they do with Windows and vendors will just favour chipsets with supported Linux drivers, which is an upside for Linux-users too as a wider amount of hardware will support it as it makes financial sense to do so.
I kind of agree with the story - certainly the low-cost Acer EeePC is Linux-based primarily down to price, although speed comes into it too where a Linux distribution runs faster on low-spec desktops. It certainly can't do any harm, that's for sure.
Nope. How is it uncover and indirect? How has anyone tried to hide it?
I do understand /why/ Adobe can charge so much - it's a combination of familiarity, quality of the product and lack of competition. But if there's a product that can equal two-thirds of that, and force Adobe to compete, it'll drive down prices and improve the software. That's why competition is a good thing. Even if someone is earning a fortune through Photoshop, if there's something better they aren't going to resent switching, and nobody is going to be upset if that competition prompts a price cut.
I don't have a "problem" with Adobe, but I do find the lack of real competition and continuing price increases extremely worrying. And it's not hard to when you compare the UK price to the US price, the UK price is £485 before tax, which an utterly ridiculous ~$982(!) compared to $650 in the US, and their control over Flash with a lack of decent competing technologies.
Which is why we should welcome Microsoft employing professionals and bringing alternative robust solutions for doing professional work.
I don't see anyone losing if there's two professional-quality graphics applications competing with each other. Except possibly Adobe's share price.
but I can't feel any sympathy for Adobe, who is increasingly monopolising the design arena with their obscenely priced tools. Competition is good, no matter what your opinion on Microsoft is - someone needs to take on rapidly enlarging 500lb gorilla that is Adobe, particularly since they took over Macromedia.
>Chances are that they will attempt to use uTorrent to further their agenda.
I don't think they can use uTorrent to leverage closed changes to the BitTorrent protocol, and would be foolish to do so.
What is likely to happen is the BitComet effect. Before the release of uTorrent, 2 years ago, BitComet was the most popular client thanks to it having a good GUI, light-weight memory usage and generally the best client avaliable. - it was also closed-source. BitComet started abusing the protocol (manipulating super-seeding, not following "private torrent" rules among others) and many sites banned it and the BitTornado client banned it. uTorrent appeared at the time, and borrowed many of the features from BitComet, only being even more lightweight, and quickly became the client of choice with people moving mainly from BitComet.
What? The GPL states you need to provide the source to code you're distributing, otherwise they have no right. They haven't done that.
See: "For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
rights."
and "3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange"
Please go read and understand the licence and the FAQ before correcting people on what it says.
You're wrong. Tell me where they've offered to let me download the source of the build they're using.
You can't? That's because they're still violating the GPL.
>Can Slashdot editors fire-up Google before they post old theories as new ones?
You're new here, aren't you?
So it's $66 in China, the UK retail price for Vista Basic is £160 which is $324. So that's a $258 difference for the exact same piece of software. Shocking.
With being one of the contributors to this issue (With my rushed Top 5) I am amazed how big this magazine has got. Spectacular!
Anyway, this magazine is 100% free and is not affiliated with any non-electronic magazine. It also it entirely submitted by the readers of the uk.video.games.misc newsgroup.
An hurrah for free magazines!
Isn't gonna happen. There has to be the percentage of use, and if 90% of people haven't switched over, it won't happen.
And I doubt many people will be using Digital Terrestrial, as unfortunately it's pathetic (Note: This is my experience after prolonged use).
T&C's would be the best way around this situation. "All messages could be edited at the disgresion of the moderator" or suchlike would do wonders, and get rid of all lawsuits in one fair hit surely?
I just pray that with this, Google will have a tickbox on whether or not you want to have a page ranked - Less Money for Google, better searches for me.
Besides, doesn't Pagerank on Google's toolbar already do this in its own way?
Perhaps the fact that MAME was very quickly converted to the XBox is a good sign. Maybe home-developing tools (Based on semi-legitimate real tools) are going to appear quicker than we originally thought...
Another one opens. We can't all live on nostalgia.
And, for anyone depressed about HP leaving, now that HP has got rid of it's Calculator department, the classics that HP have been made will be antiques.
Let's just pray that HP never leaves the printer market. Let's just hope...
Someone has seen sense and realised the only way to have a mass-market storage device is to make it easy to develop for. Ever wondered why the Floppy/CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW are each successful?
;)
But I think its the only way that Phillips can hope to compete with DVD-R, DVD-RW or whatever
You should never trust Microsoft with your Credit Cards, e-mail, servers or anything else for that matter.
Might sound like a flame, but just look at how many hacks, bugs, and general problems that have happened to MS products in comparison to independant open-sourced ones. Perhaps it's time for me to start changing in the "Open Source Revolution"
It's a known fact that XP is slower then 2000, due to Microsoft rebranded and lack of code optimisation upon the few "upgrades".
/me looks in the direction of Media Player and IE6
If you can have a Virus on a DVD, surely it must be software?
Besides, as the DVD prices in Austrialia are cheap, and no-one rents DVD's anyway ($3 for two nights when you can buy it for $9) it mustn't be that important, unless it's the Tax (ie. EU's Computer tax is alot lower then on Films)
And besides, there's always DivX....
It's a two sided coin remember. Keeping cookies has its advantages for forgetful users, advertisers and website designers, but its a bad thing for total privacy.
Perhaps the EU, in reality, is doing the best thing for users of confidential buisness. Very few people who don't work in the IT industry know about "cookies" and information they keep.
But then again, in real life you could look at it this way: You close your windows so people don't look in, but it's not illegal for people to try and look through them.
I doubt the law will pass through, as many similar US laws have been thrown out in the past, and I would hope that the EU is this compatent.
A silent system doesn't exist, so the quest for a quiet system goes on. But for what reason?
;)
Surely, for the price of all this "silent" equiptment you could build a cupboard to remove all fan noise anyway and it'd be a damn sight cheaper.
Besides, the small amount of noise I have got helps remind me to shutdown the computer at night anyway
DOS will never truely die. I'm a teenager and I still use DOS every day. Perhaps I'm just geeky, or maybe people are trying to kill something far too useful.
Is there an easier way to move around files without problems like accidently dragging onto the wrong folder? If so, I would like to see it.
DOS will never die out in whatever form it is in, whether Command Prompt, command.com or some floppy disk and you haven't used in a couple of years.
Maybe it's time I moved to Linux, or perhaps, one day, Microsoft will not try to completely kill a good product because of it's age.
Obviously lost track of their patents. In recent years, companies have patented anything.
I also don't consider Macromedia a rival to anything Adobe make. Unless, of course, they are homing that Adobe take them over (In Sony vs. Connectix style).