The companies appealed, and said that they will take the case to the Supreme Court, because it is a 'question of principles'.
It is difficult for me to read this sentence and not be a little angry at its blatant hypocrisy. "Principles" indeed:
The vice-president of EMI, Bannitz Luiz, affirms that she is inevitable will happen problems in situations of implantation of new technologies. "the consumer complains, we changes the product. But it is lamentable that certain people use this as extortion form "
Right, because not being able to listen to a CD in my car is an "inevitable problem." And suing them because I can't do this is "extortion." Exactly what principles do these companies subscribe to? (Don't answer.)
The only principle involved here is an affirmation of one's rights as a consumer.
Going with Linux doesn't mean you have to use multiple distros,
However, this is nevertheless often the case.
What? You have just mentioned two examples to completely undermine this position.
Not so. The only reason Red Hat and SuSE have centralized technical support is because they have commercialized their distributions of Linux as a packaged product and market it as such. Technical support is part of their package. For non-commercialized versions of Linux, such as Slackware or Debian, no such convenient package exists.
It's not so much about the actual amount of open-source tech support out there -- we know full well there's a hell of a lot of it -- but about about tech support identity.
Who do you call for trouble with Windows? Microsoft. Trouble with DB2? IBM. Trouble with Red Hat or SuSE Linux? Red Hat or SuSE. What if one of your critical machines happens to be Debian and the one guy that configured it isn't home? Is management going to endorse going to a mailing list or USENET for the solution? What if those sources are wrong?
Quite simply, the very nature of open-source development does not lend itself to the establishment of centralized technical support, which is exactly what corporations are looking for. Perhaps individual companies whose sole focus is tech support of open-source operating systems and applications could emerge as viable contractors.
I suppose worrying about maintaining at least the image of international dominance is a legitimate concern for the country lucky (or cursed) enough to hold such a status.
Neither one of those articles mentions the race among Jupiter's moons between the Chinese spacecraft Tsien and the U.S.-Russian spacecraft Leonov, and how the Tsien crash-lands on Europa and gets devoured by a huge green bloatbeast from the alien waters, and how the Leonov meets up with an old American spacecraft and oh god I need to get outside. Open the front door, Hal.
I always thought the covers of video games constituted a decent rating system all by themselves. It's not as if a parent is going to look at the cover of Vice City and think "Oh, this looks like a great game for little Billy!" or buy something whose cover is on a par with Super Monkey Ball 2 and have it turn out to be more along the lines of Soldier of Fortune. But I guess there's no accounting for poor judgment.
before information surpasses transportation as the largest consumer of energy on the planet
No, see, they'll be combined. We'll leave our bodies, transform ourselves into pure energy, and travel among the wires à la Matrix or Serial Experiments Lain.
There's no such thing as too geeky. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go polish my Star Trek figurines, attend to my X-Wing model, review my anime collection, dust my wallscrolls, order an Alienware case, muse over Kerouac, check the Slashdot front page again, write a new Linux text editor, submit an Amazon review for the latest Babylon 5 novel, put a P4 motherboard in a Commodore case, make a particle accelerator out of coffee grounds and tin foil, and post to sci.math and alt.tv.x-files. And recompile my kernel.
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But it is a crime that is very difficult to police, and a crime that is growing daily, as spammers find ever more inventive ways of staying ahead.
Well, now Microsoft is on the case. So they'd just better watch out.
which promise to power electronics ten times longer than the lithium-ion batteries currently in use.
Let's say the average laptop battery lasts 4-5 hours, as given in a previous iBook example. So that's 40-50 hours.
How many folks ever need to be in front of a laptop for 40-50 hours?
Dare you to put an AMD in it.
It's the same as it was during the Space Race:
Because we can.
The companies appealed, and said that they will take the case to the Supreme Court, because it is a 'question of principles'.
It is difficult for me to read this sentence and not be a little angry at its blatant hypocrisy. "Principles" indeed:
The vice-president of EMI, Bannitz Luiz, affirms that she is inevitable will happen problems in situations of implantation of new technologies. "the consumer complains, we changes the product. But it is lamentable that certain people use this as extortion form "
Right, because not being able to listen to a CD in my car is an "inevitable problem." And suing them because I can't do this is "extortion." Exactly what principles do these companies subscribe to? (Don't answer.)
The only principle involved here is an affirmation of one's rights as a consumer.
Going with Linux doesn't mean you have to use multiple distros,
However, this is nevertheless often the case.
What? You have just mentioned two examples to completely undermine this position.
Not so. The only reason Red Hat and SuSE have centralized technical support is because they have commercialized their distributions of Linux as a packaged product and market it as such. Technical support is part of their package. For non-commercialized versions of Linux, such as Slackware or Debian, no such convenient package exists.
even though the likelihood is that they may never need support.
Now, isn't that a bit presumptuous?
I don't care what OS you run on your desktops/servers, stuff is going to screw up. It's the techie's job to minimize the impact.
It's not so much about the actual amount of open-source tech support out there -- we know full well there's a hell of a lot of it -- but about about tech support identity.
Who do you call for trouble with Windows? Microsoft. Trouble with DB2? IBM. Trouble with Red Hat or SuSE Linux? Red Hat or SuSE. What if one of your critical machines happens to be Debian and the one guy that configured it isn't home? Is management going to endorse going to a mailing list or USENET for the solution? What if those sources are wrong?
Quite simply, the very nature of open-source development does not lend itself to the establishment of centralized technical support, which is exactly what corporations are looking for. Perhaps individual companies whose sole focus is tech support of open-source operating systems and applications could emerge as viable contractors.
I suppose worrying about maintaining at least the image of international dominance is a legitimate concern for the country lucky (or cursed) enough to hold such a status.
Neither one of those articles mentions the race among Jupiter's moons between the Chinese spacecraft Tsien and the U.S.-Russian spacecraft Leonov, and how the Tsien crash-lands on Europa and gets devoured by a huge green bloatbeast from the alien waters, and how the Leonov meets up with an old American spacecraft and oh god I need to get outside. Open the front door, Hal.
cheap, renewable hydrogen
Paving the way for cheap, renewable forms of transportation. *Foom!*
I always thought the covers of video games constituted a decent rating system all by themselves. It's not as if a parent is going to look at the cover of Vice City and think "Oh, this looks like a great game for little Billy!" or buy something whose cover is on a par with Super Monkey Ball 2 and have it turn out to be more along the lines of Soldier of Fortune. But I guess there's no accounting for poor judgment.
. . . Or hardly working?
If you're reading Slashdot, how is this even a question?
the perpetual motion DeLorean
Sounds like you could end up inadvertently careening way, way, farther back or forward in time than you ever wanted to go...
"Son?? Help!!!"
SCO = Strange Concept, "Open."
On Slashdot? This has to be the grand-slam heavyweight champion of trick questions.
Interviewer: ...where the code that goes in the Linux kernel comes from.
Linus: I allege that SCO is full of it.
Watch out, SCO is just nutty enough to take that the wrong way.
before information surpasses transportation as the largest consumer of energy on the planet
No, see, they'll be combined. We'll leave our bodies, transform ourselves into pure energy, and travel among the wires à la Matrix or Serial Experiments Lain.
And instead of traffic jams, we'll have DoS jams.
But within their niche they dominate.
That's why it's a niche, not mainstream. Macintosh, Red Meat, Amish, et cetera.
"The system was built to expand but not necessarily to be secure,"
Holy tapdancing Christ, really?
Where is the quarter slot?
Thanks a heap. There go all my dirty pinball jokes.
I should tell those hot girls next door to keep it down, too.
What's a bikini? Does it have something to do with girls?
I thought that comment was a little TOO geeky,
There's no such thing as too geeky. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go polish my Star Trek figurines, attend to my X-Wing model, review my anime collection, dust my wallscrolls, order an Alienware case, muse over Kerouac, check the Slashdot front page again, write a new Linux text editor, submit an Amazon review for the latest Babylon 5 novel, put a P4 motherboard in a Commodore case, make a particle accelerator out of coffee grounds and tin foil, and post to sci.math and alt.tv.x-files. And recompile my kernel.