While the initial reaction to this news for a consumer is "Yippie, cheaper CD's!" The end result of this ruling is that the retail CD market will become dominated by a few major players (read- Big Corporations). I worked in the music retail/wholesale for 5 years and the profit margin at that level is small compared to other business'. When Best Buy et al were using loss-leader tactics it was just killing everybody in the business.
Save a couple bucks on your Cd's and say hello to limited choice and corporate domination.
A very good justification for the inclusion of a VB like protocol, yet the second concern of the above poster, the registry, was not addressed. The MS registry is the "Mother Of Evil", the "Heart of Darkness", etc. I, and hopefully others, would cringe at a similar thing in GNOME. Yet if there was a well thought out and understandable implementation of a central repository of configuration info, I could be swayed. Just don't call it the registry and make it accessible.
Humans can't read my writing, I imagine software would have a rough time too (and how would it handle all those crossed out words that I thoroughly messed up?). Plus I deplore actually putting pen to paper. With a keyboard people finally read what I have to say, after I fix the screw-ups(TM).
Merry Christmas and Thanks to All for an informative/entertaining year.
AFAIK putting KDE in/usr was to bring KDE more in line with standards,/opt was non-standard. But it does make things a bit more trying if you are trying to tinker around with, or even locate, KDE bits and pieces.
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While the initial reaction to this news for a consumer is "Yippie, cheaper CD's!" The end result of this ruling is that the retail CD market will become dominated by a few major players (read- Big Corporations). I worked in the music retail/wholesale for 5 years and the profit margin at that level is small compared to other business'. When Best Buy et al were using loss-leader tactics it was just killing everybody in the business.
Save a couple bucks on your Cd's and say hello to limited choice and corporate domination.
Jonathan Moran
I've using E with KDE2 off and on since January, both with E as wm in KDE2 and KDE2 apps within E alone. Its takes a little tweaking thats all.
Jonathan Moran
A very good justification for the inclusion of a VB like protocol, yet the second concern of the above poster, the registry, was not addressed. The MS registry is the "Mother Of Evil", the "Heart of Darkness", etc. I, and hopefully others, would cringe at a similar thing in GNOME. Yet if there was a well thought out and understandable implementation of a central repository of configuration info, I could be swayed. Just don't call it the registry and make it accessible.
JM
Humans can't read my writing, I imagine software would have a rough time too (and how would it handle all those crossed out words that I thoroughly messed up?). Plus I deplore actually putting pen to paper. With a keyboard people finally read what I have to say, after I fix the screw-ups(TM).
Merry Christmas and Thanks to All for an informative/entertaining year.
JM
AFAIK putting KDE in /usr was to bring KDE more in line with standards, /opt was non-standard. But it does make things a bit more trying if you are trying to tinker around with, or even locate, KDE bits and pieces.
JM
This Napster thing looks kinda neat, but I would be a bit worried about giving the world access to my disk. The site is a bit sketchy on the details.
JM
Terribly curious as to what they include. I trolled through the web site to no avail and the ftp server wouldn't let me log in.
JM
It was down yestersay (9/21). They have a ftp address, but I have it at home and I'm not there now.
JCM