Anyone stopped to think that we're not the only ones with rights?
The cable companies have invested a great deal in infrastructure and services to provide what they provide. Goal? To make money.
Anything that could be percieved as a threat to that goal will naturally draw their ire.
Don't be stupid enough to think they want to restrict your rights. They could care less.
They're interested JUST in making sure the market for their product and service is wide as it can be. The majority of the cable companies targeted market doesn't own a PVR.
Heck---most people probably think a PVR is something Saddam is not supposed to own. Once the cable companies get their product out and see it reasonably successful---PVR doom and gloom from them will go away.
Kiosk owners will find one of the business challenges is dealing with virtual nuts who form sit downs and disrupt the business for no good reason at all.
Maybe the owners will get to own virtual bazookas that fire burger patties...
Have one PC for the things that they NEED Windows to run, and let them use it only for that. The other should run your free-OS of choice and related software.
As they grow older, teach them the difference, the improvements, and continue curtailing use of the Windows machine until it's just an expensive doorstop.
Very few migrations are successful when done immediatly and cold-turkey. Some are, but they are far and few between---especially when children are involved.
Microsoft is sotware company first and foremost. They make these moves into hardware where they see a niche they can fill, or where it will push adoption of more of their software.
Cisco produces IOS. Are they a software company? Nope---it pushes their hardware. Same thing with MS, but in reverse./. and crew are sensationilizing this a little more than it needs to be. I'd expect MS to do well with the consumer market, as long as the hardware is up to snuff.
I read somewhere else that this will go out and find all the printers (and other devices I guess) that are on your network so you have less work to do.
Sounds like it will muss up a clean running IP network like IPX did. If so, no thanks.
You're reaching...and it's on things you don't understand. Things you don't understand mean a HIGHER intelligence than yours is needed to decipher them.
Do geeks in general tremble at the thought that someone may be invading their own private space, or does Slashdot have an agenda?
Week, by week, by week the great Gods of Slashdot deliver upon us editorialized half-rants about privacy concerns---and it just does not seem like that big a deal to me.
...and they branched out from there and added to it. Another feather in Apples cap.
From : http://www.vxm.com/MPEG-4.html
The QuickTime file format will be used to store digital video, audio, and other types of content displayed using MPEG-4. According to Apple, the creator of the QuickTime technology, MPEG-4 will also contain things like MIDI, animation and 3D worlds. QuickTime will be used to store all of these things. The fact that QuickTime is being used for these kinds of things today is one of the reasons it was such a compelling choice for the MPEG-4 efforts.
No doubt, this QuickTime victory will likely ruffle some feathers at Microsoft, as its adoption by MPEG was actively "supported" by several of its most notable arch rivals -- Sun, Oracle, and Netscape (SGI and IBM also pushed for its adoption). But apart from smarting over the obvious NIH factor, if Microsoft wants to be MPEG-4 compliant, it must now incorporate the Quicktime format into its multimedia applications, like NetShow, NetMeeting, ActiveMovie, and Interactive Music. ActiveX Controls may also have to make some sort of accommodation with Quicktime. How likely and how soon Microsoft will deliver all these modifications after MPEG-4 debuts is anybody's guess.
I don't think Seag is going to be strangled off anytime soon. The games on Dreamcast look and play great, and you'd have to ask a lot of people to put their systems on the shelves and stop buying games to get the console to die. That won't happen as there are currently some great games coming down the pipeline for the Dreamcast.
Add in the fact that Sega will be offering a rebate that makes the Dreamcast free this fall---and you have a situation that will make a lot of households two-console households---and not Sony only.
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Red Hat, Inc. has announced the formation of a new non-profit organization, the Red Hat Center for Open Source (RHCOS), that will sponsor, support, promote and engage in a wide range of scientific and educational projects intended to advance the social principles of open source for the greater good of the general public. RHCOS will foster projects that advance the philosophy of open source, through which collaborative intellectual pursuits produce results to be freely shared and enhanced throughout society. Red Hat, Inc. co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Marc Ewing will devote considerable time and effort to the new organization as a Founding Director.
In addition to Ewing and Young, the Board of Directors for RHCOS includes well-known innovators and thought leaders. Board members include:
John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). His personal research interests include digital culture, ubiquitous computing, user-centering design and organizational and individual learning. A major focus of Brown's research over the years has been in human learning and the management of radical innovation.
John Gilmore, entrepreneur and free software pioneer. The architect of the first Sun workstations, Gilmore is a co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a leading advocate for intellectual freedom.
Lawrence Lessig, Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law and the law of cyberspace.
Sim B. Sitkin, PhD, Associate Professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Professor Sitkin's teaching interests include managerial effectiveness, organizational behavior, organization design, organizational control and the management of organizational change.
RHCOS will initially be funded with $8 million in a combination of cash and Red Hat common stock donated by Red Hat, Inc. and three founding investors of Red Hat: Young; Ewing; and Frank Batten, Chief Executive Officer of Landmark Communications. Details regarding grant criteria and the application process are currently being determined by the Board of Directors and will be released at a later date.
The internet is going to be a pervasive part of human society in the coming years---and as with all things some very undesirable elements will come in.
We *will* need protection against those elements and that protection has to be global in nature as is the internet.
But who watches the watchers and what is their morality? Every human belongs to a nation first and the global community second. How do we assure ourselves that the watchers will act in the best interests of us all...and not their country? Not themselves?
We need definitive answers to those questions before anything of this nature is attempted...
Microsofts stock traditionally has been pretty bullet-proof---but today we see three events that could begin to shake the confidence of investors.
The decision to pay out $150 to $200 million dollars in a settlement instead of vigorously defending themselves in court.
This has started a spate of rumors that the company is going to settle with the DOJ---again failing to legally defend what they have said all along was their right to defend.
And now this.
The stock market is emotional--volatile---and Microsoft stock may bounce a little on this news.
The very first thing that should be available is a explanation of WHY Linux is good and better to use than other operating systems. Put a warm feeling in their belly about the challenge they are about to undertake.
Second, explain exactly WHAT Linux will be able to do for them if they ride out the sometimes steep learning curve.
Third--EXPLAIN that there may be some difficulties along the way---and that these are not reflective of a poorly designed OS, but rather ________________ (fill in your own answer).
Then HOLD THEIR HAND. Acknowledge the fact that they come from a windows world and use pictures and illustrations that bring the concepts they already know from Windows over to Linux. Attempt to educate them on sym links, and file ownership before they ever see a command prompt.
In this case, Bruce posted something ONLINE which he never intended to have leaked to OUTSIDE world. When the thought bubbled up into his brain, he had the decision to keep it there, or to express it. Once he expressed it in a public forum, he became responsible for the effects it caused...wheresoever it might end up. As it is...this will be used by some detractors to show the confusion the community finds itself in. Perhaps not having one company control linux is good for coding...but it can be awful bad for PR.
Microsoft has a team dedicated to the threat of Linux...and I'd bet my pinky and more they're perusing this column of postings seeing where they made mistakes (like the security issue) and gaining more ammo (the people who say "I love Linux, but they are right about this point:...)
I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the/. quotes tossed around by MS one day.
I think they threw Slashdot, and the Linux community, some bait and we swallowed it hook line and sinker.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone stopped to think that we're not the only ones with rights?
The cable companies have invested a great deal in infrastructure and services to provide what they provide. Goal? To make money.
Anything that could be percieved as a threat to that goal will naturally draw their ire.
Don't be stupid enough to think they want to restrict your rights. They could care less.
They're interested JUST in making sure the market for their product and service is wide as it can be. The majority of the cable companies targeted market doesn't own a PVR.
Heck---most people probably think a PVR is something Saddam is not supposed to own. Once the cable companies get their product out and see it reasonably successful---PVR doom and gloom from them will go away.
Kiosk owners will find one of the business challenges is dealing with virtual nuts who form sit downs and disrupt the business for no good reason at all.
Maybe the owners will get to own virtual bazookas that fire burger patties...
...is to use both.
Have one PC for the things that they NEED Windows to run, and let them use it only for that. The other should run your free-OS of choice and related software.
As they grow older, teach them the difference, the improvements, and continue curtailing use of the Windows machine until it's just an expensive doorstop.
Very few migrations are successful when done immediatly and cold-turkey. Some are, but they are far and few between---especially when children are involved.
I still don't see a market for these phones. Most people that want to carry a camera around with them want *usuable* pictures from it.
Just buy an elph.
Microsoft is sotware company first and foremost. They make these moves into hardware where they see a niche they can fill, or where it will push adoption of more of their software. Cisco produces IOS. Are they a software company? Nope---it pushes their hardware. Same thing with MS, but in reverse. /. and crew are sensationilizing this a little more than it needs to be. I'd expect MS to do well with the consumer market, as long as the hardware is up to snuff.
Ahead of serving the time, do you feel this is an effective enough punishment to deter you and others from similer action in the future?
How has the experience changed you, your attitudes and opinions?
Your opinion of the US justice system?
I read somewhere else that this will go out and find all the printers (and other devices I guess) that are on your network so you have less work to do.
Sounds like it will muss up a clean running IP network like IPX did. If so, no thanks.
Isn't that frustratingly slow? Or are they counting on Ocean currents to boost the speed?
There's no I or T in Slashdot...
You have two other methods of locking it...clicking a desktop button or using a taskbar menu item (windows)
What do you do for Linux laptops?
We'd never buy the CD to begin with. THUS: 1. They are testing the more general, less technical home CD makers to see what kind of response they get
OR
2. They are trying to get us all to buy the CD out of curiosity and rake in the dough off of a new market.
Ack
You two are calling things you don't understand wasteful. Why don't you understand them? Higher intelligence.
Our lower intelligence only MAKES it look wasteful...
Intelligent design seems unlikely?
You're reaching...and it's on things you don't understand. Things you don't understand mean a HIGHER intelligence than yours is needed to decipher them.
www.watchtower.org
Do geeks in general tremble at the thought that someone may be invading their own private space, or does Slashdot have an agenda?
Week, by week, by week the great Gods of Slashdot deliver upon us editorialized half-rants about privacy concerns---and it just does not seem like that big a deal to me.
From : http://www.vxm.com/MPEG-4.html
The QuickTime file format will be used to store digital video, audio, and other types of content displayed using MPEG-4. According to Apple, the creator of the QuickTime technology, MPEG-4 will also contain things like MIDI, animation and 3D worlds. QuickTime will be used to store all of these things. The fact that QuickTime is being used for these kinds of things today is one of the reasons it was such a compelling choice for the MPEG-4 efforts.
No doubt, this QuickTime victory will likely ruffle some feathers at Microsoft, as its adoption by MPEG was actively "supported" by several of its most notable arch rivals -- Sun, Oracle, and Netscape (SGI and IBM also pushed for its adoption). But apart from smarting over the obvious NIH factor, if Microsoft wants to be MPEG-4 compliant, it must now incorporate the Quicktime format into its multimedia applications, like NetShow, NetMeeting, ActiveMovie, and Interactive Music. ActiveX Controls may also have to make some sort of accommodation with Quicktime. How likely and how soon Microsoft will deliver all these modifications after MPEG-4 debuts is anybody's guess.
Other resources:
http://www.internetwk.com/news/news0211-15.htm
http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/faq/faq-systems.htm#MP4-M PEG_4_is_based_on
Send your criticisms to Apple...thats how the software is polished and improved, and polished and improved...
Add in the fact that Sega will be offering a rebate that makes the Dreamcast free this fall---and you have a situation that will make a lot of households two-console households---and not Sony only.
Red Hat, Inc. has announced the formation of a new non-profit organization, the Red Hat Center for Open Source (RHCOS), that will sponsor, support, promote and engage in a wide range of scientific and educational projects intended to advance the social principles of open source for the greater good of the general public. RHCOS will foster projects that advance the philosophy of open source, through which collaborative intellectual pursuits produce results to be freely shared and enhanced throughout society. Red Hat, Inc. co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Marc Ewing will devote considerable time and effort to the new organization as a Founding Director.
In addition to Ewing and Young, the Board of Directors for RHCOS includes well-known innovators and thought leaders. Board members include:
John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). His personal research interests include digital culture, ubiquitous computing, user-centering design and organizational and individual learning. A major focus of Brown's research over the years has been in human learning and the management of radical innovation.
John Gilmore, entrepreneur and free software pioneer. The architect of the first Sun workstations, Gilmore is a co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a leading advocate for intellectual freedom.
Lawrence Lessig, Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law and the law of cyberspace.
Sim B. Sitkin, PhD, Associate Professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Professor Sitkin's teaching interests include managerial effectiveness, organizational behavior, organization design, organizational control and the management of organizational change.
RHCOS will initially be funded with $8 million in a combination of cash and Red Hat common stock donated by Red Hat, Inc. and three founding investors of Red Hat: Young; Ewing; and Frank Batten, Chief Executive Officer of Landmark Communications. Details regarding grant criteria and the application process are currently being determined by the Board of Directors and will be released at a later date.
The internet is going to be a pervasive part of human society in the coming years---and as with all things some very undesirable elements will come in.
We *will* need protection against those elements and that protection has to be global in nature as is the internet.
But who watches the watchers and what is their morality? Every human belongs to a nation first and the global community second. How do we assure ourselves that the watchers will act in the best interests of us all...and not their country? Not themselves?
We need definitive answers to those questions before anything of this nature is attempted...
Microsofts stock traditionally has been pretty bullet-proof---but today we see three events that could begin to shake the confidence of investors.
The decision to pay out $150 to $200 million dollars in a settlement instead of vigorously defending themselves in court.
This has started a spate of rumors that the company is going to settle with the DOJ---again failing to legally defend what they have said all along was their right to defend.
And now this.
The stock market is emotional--volatile---and Microsoft stock may bounce a little on this news.
The very first thing that should be available is a explanation of WHY Linux is good and better to use than other operating systems. Put a warm feeling in their belly about the challenge they are about to undertake.
Second, explain exactly WHAT Linux will be able to do for them if they ride out the sometimes steep learning curve.
Third--EXPLAIN that there may be some difficulties along the way---and that these are not reflective of a poorly designed OS, but rather ________________ (fill in your own answer).
Then HOLD THEIR HAND. Acknowledge the fact that they come from a windows world and use pictures and illustrations that bring the concepts they already know from Windows over to Linux. Attempt to educate them on sym links, and file ownership before they ever see a command prompt.
THEN lead them into using the OS.
In this case, Bruce posted something ONLINE which he never intended to have leaked to OUTSIDE world. When the thought bubbled up into his brain, he had the decision to keep it there, or to express it. Once he expressed it in a public forum, he became responsible for the effects it caused...wheresoever it might end up. As it is...this will be used by some detractors to show the confusion the community finds itself in. Perhaps not having one company control linux is good for coding...but it can be awful bad for PR.
Microsoft has a team dedicated to the threat of Linux...and I'd bet my pinky and more they're perusing this column of postings seeing where they made mistakes (like the security issue) and gaining more ammo (the people who say "I love Linux, but they are right about this point: ...)
/. quotes tossed around by MS one day.
I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the
I think they threw Slashdot, and the Linux community, some bait and we swallowed it hook line and sinker.