All the posts are assuming networks will still charge in Ala carte pricing. Who says that a channel won't offer their programming for free? Most of the networks I get already have advertising on them, it won't be a stretch for them to forgo the subscriber fee to make sure they have a subscriber for advertising purpose. These networks have to have lower costs than most broadcast channels. No FCC license fees or transmitting equipment.
FYI, you can install OSX Server without the gui... In fact, you can install it on a machine without a keyboard, mouse or monitor. It could be locked away (but that would make it switching disks a little hard). The XServes have a serial port so you can even do it over a terminal.
A lot of people only think of the capabilities of OS X Client when in the server role they should look at OS X Server. You can configure everything over SSH, and they are a bunch of GUI tools to make things even easier.
This brings up a good point about what to buy. I've got ~10 free songs coming to me from the Pepsi/iTunes giveaway, and I don't know what to buy with them.
I start looking around for a song I want, and I usually end up buying the entire album instead (latest purchases, Gershwin's Greatest Hits and Buffy: Once More with Feeling). My tastes in music are pretty varied, going from classical to hip-hop, but I'm having a tough time finding music I want to get.
I don't even look at CDs anymore. Too expensive and takes too long to find something you like.
I'm sure every record exec started shaking in their boots with the USA Today article that shows that a lot more youth are turning to their parents CD collection of Queen and ZZ Top. No new sales.
Nintendo no longer makes profit from NES/SNES, so I wouldn't exactly call playing an NES/SNES emulator "pirating".
By all means, point me to a store that sells SNES games where NINTENDO makes a profit.
Well, to be totally facetious, it appears that Nintendo is re-releasing every SNES game as a Gameboy Advance game, so they are still profiting off of these old games. (And they plan on releasing NES games soon, such as Excitebike and Legend of Zelda).
If you can't find any non-violent mods for Quake 3, have the students create one.
The could create the own map, their own non-violent weapons... You'd have to call them something other than weapons. Maybe a non-violent game of tag... Or water balloons.... The hand to hand combat could be pillows for a pillow fight.
Or want about some non-violent mods for Never Winter Nights?
I'm glad someone is standing up to what amounts to extortion. Viacom wants Echostar/Dish to carry additional programming, and if they don't do it, they pull the rights to broadcast CBS, all the while raising the rates for Viacom networks....
I noticed that DirecTV rolled over and raised their rates all the while taking out a full page ad in USA Today trumpeting that they now carry NickToons. You can also sorta compare the packages they both offer:
(I picked the lowest packages that carried TechTV. And you would need to add onto Dish Network if you want the locals.)
I've been a Dish Network subscriber for 4 years now, and the only thing that really irks me is that all their offers for new boxes or PVRs are for new customers only.
Without Hotsync Manager, iSync does not work. So unless you want to spend more money, you will not be able to sync the newest palms with your Mac.
That's a shame because at my school district we were looking at rolling out a Palm program to help teachers stay organized. Now that Palm made this decision, I don't know what we're going to do.
I've already sent them feedback, but I'm not holding my breath waiting on a reply.
Check out FileMaker Pro if you want an easy to use, cross platform and relatively powerful database that I think will do exactly what you want...
It runs on Linux & Mac OS X - so there's your Unix compatibility (it also runs on Windows and Mac OS 9).
But will they be able to say From the makers of Toy Story and Finding Nemo or does Disney have a clause stating they don't have the rights to those title?
It tends to cost a company three times your salary to employ you (including office space, equipment, salary and benefits, etc). That's closer to $120 per hour for your hypothetical worker.
Actually, this number is closer to 30-35% of your salary.
Annual subscription to a commercial desktop antivirus: $25 per employee. Without this you have no hope of cost-effectively containing a virus that hits you before there is a patch for the mail/file server anti-virus.
It's easier than that. I just drop any message that has an executable file in it. Now that doesn't help in all cases, especially this one, since the virus can come in in a.zip file. That's where my second layer of defense comes in, run Mac OS 9/X! (~650 desktops, this is a school).
It looks like Internet access is provided by TON Services which provides drivers and travelers easy access to pre-paid calling cards, load/equipment posting, freight matching, advertising services, truck insurance, and other driver related services all through the RoadLink System located in Flying J Travel Plazas across the US & Canada.
I can't believe that OSX refuses to start it's GUI if there is no monitor attached on bootup. That means you can't start a VNC server to remotely use the GUI tools.
No, OS X Server (and probably the client) run just fine without a monitor. In fact, you can do an entire install of OS X server without a monitor. I took the Apple OS X Server training, and went through the whole class without using the monitor (in fact, it was disconnected).
You can also install Apple Remote Desktop if you want to control the gui on the server, but I don't know why you would ever need to do this. Almost everything is available from the command line.
Server Settings, Workgroup Manager, and Server Monitor lets you do all the GUI stuff remotely.
Although Star Trek: Enterprise hasn't really rocked at all, it did take a few seasons for TNG to hit their stride. There is a definate problem with focus. Secretly I was hoping they could get Joss Whedon to come in and at least help them map out a story arc over this season and the remaining seasons. Unfortunately, they decided to totally change the premise of the show, make Archer to be some sort of maniac will to do anything to save Earth.
A review at the beginning of the season in USA Today brought up some very good points on the lack of focus in Enterprise. Although Paramount wants you to think they took the show for a dramatic twist this season, nothing really has changed. They are still exploring the unknown, which is what they have been doing the first two seasons. Nothing to see here, move along.
IANAL, but I do watch a lot of Law & Order:-). If the warrant was only for information on Valve and Half-Life, I'm pretty sure that anything else that they find would not be admissible into the court. Now, this doesn't mean that they couldn't find some reason to go back to a judge and get another search warrant for other things, but they would have to find some evidence of wrong doing going on that did not involve the first search. It would be pretty hard to do.
As always, I'm sure it would be prudent to clear this through a lawyer!
The reason that I don't remember is that I couldn't listen to it. This was very early on in '96 or '97, and there still weren't any mp3 decoders for the Mac at the time.
Hate to break it to you after you trashed your MP3s, but SoundAPP PPC was released April 1, 1996. It would've been able to play the songs (if you had at least a PowerPC):-).
If you have to ask that question, you've obviously never used Omniweb. I can search google for x by typing in 'google x'. If I want it in Japanese, it's 'googlej x'. I can search amazon.com by searching 'az x'. Etc. It cuts down on browsing time by at least 50%, since my hands never have to keyboard, ever (I have memorized all of the useful keyboard shortcuts, and even added some of my own).
While this is a very useful feature, it is by no means unique to OW. Even IE has had this feature for several years. I believe that Firebird has a similar feature as an extension but I may be mistaken.
My biggest problem with this feature is that when you come up with a lot of different search engines, I tend to forget what the shortcuts are. I prefer just setting them in Firebird's search bar. It requires you to take your hands off the keyboard but that method works better for me.
To use the search box in Safari without the mouse, you can hold down command option F to go to the Google search box. Under Firebird with Linux I use CONTROL-L and then TAB to get to the box. I'm sure there probably is a keyboard shortcut for this....
Install your favorite Linux distribution (I would recommend Debian) and Samba. Don't use Netatalk for OS X access, connect through Samba. Store your documents in your home directory from all three systems. Then use the directions here to use Rsync to backup your files.
I don't know how any meta-information on files is handled with BeOS. Under OS X, connecting through Samba stores the meta-information in a hidden file in each directory.
What does your university use for music appreciation classes? When I was in school, our history of western music textbook had an accompanying CD set to buy. For those that didn't/couldn't buy it, they had the examples for you to listen to in the library.
The professor should find a rock-n-roll anthology series of CDs with the music and have the campus book stores offer it for sale. Then have the library have them available for listening or checkout. Or maybe get a couple of local bands to do covers of the songs and distribute them. You would have to worry about ASCAP/BMI fees, but this might be a cheaper route.
Myth. By the time Windows took off, with version 3.1, it was technically as sophisticated as the MacOS of the day, and the hardware it ran on was faster and cheaper. It lagged in UI design and stability - but don't you realise that one of the reasons Windows was less stable than MacOS was because it was doing more? It had real multitasking, for one thing, and virtual memory.
Win 3.1 had the exact same cooperative multitasking as Mac OS 7 at the time, meaning one application could still take over the whole computer. Windows didn't get cooperative multitasking until Win95, with NT allowing old 16 bit Win3.1 programs to preemptively multitask.
bootdisk.com has all sort of boot disks for this situation.
Back to the original question about an OS neutral solution, it will probably happen when people start clamoring for it. It wouldn't take much for companies to put a disk image up that has freedos and the new bios image on it so people can flash their bios just by booting the floppy. The problem will arise though when the machine you need to flash won't have a floppy drive, then I guess it's time for the motherboard companies to create ISOs of bootable CDs with the BIOS upgrades.
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If you're using a Mac, it keeps all the metadata for you when you burn a CD, so you can rip the burned copy and have all the tags in the right place.
All the posts are assuming networks will still charge in Ala carte pricing. Who says that a channel won't offer their programming for free? Most of the networks I get already have advertising on them, it won't be a stretch for them to forgo the subscriber fee to make sure they have a subscriber for advertising purpose. These networks have to have lower costs than most broadcast channels. No FCC license fees or transmitting equipment.
FYI, you can install OSX Server without the gui... In fact, you can install it on a machine without a keyboard, mouse or monitor. It could be locked away (but that would make it switching disks a little hard). The XServes have a serial port so you can even do it over a terminal.
A lot of people only think of the capabilities of OS X Client when in the server role they should look at OS X Server. You can configure everything over SSH, and they are a bunch of GUI tools to make things even easier.
This brings up a good point about what to buy. I've got ~10 free songs coming to me from the Pepsi/iTunes giveaway, and I don't know what to buy with them.
I start looking around for a song I want, and I usually end up buying the entire album instead (latest purchases, Gershwin's Greatest Hits and Buffy: Once More with Feeling). My tastes in music are pretty varied, going from classical to hip-hop, but I'm having a tough time finding music I want to get.
I don't even look at CDs anymore. Too expensive and takes too long to find something you like.
I'm sure every record exec started shaking in their boots with the USA Today article that shows that a lot more youth are turning to their parents CD collection of Queen and ZZ Top. No new sales.
Six was on Blossom, George wanted Seven. :-)
Well, to be totally facetious, it appears that Nintendo is re-releasing every SNES game as a Gameboy Advance game, so they are still profiting off of these old games. (And they plan on releasing NES games soon, such as Excitebike and Legend of Zelda).
If you can't find any non-violent mods for Quake 3, have the students create one.
The could create the own map, their own non-violent weapons... You'd have to call them something other than weapons. Maybe a non-violent game of tag... Or water balloons.... The hand to hand combat could be pillows for a pillow fight.
Or want about some non-violent mods for Never Winter Nights?
Pay by the year and you save $2.91 a month on Dish Network, brings it to a dollar cheaper than DirectTV.
I'm glad someone is standing up to what amounts to extortion. Viacom wants Echostar/Dish to carry additional programming, and if they don't do it, they pull the rights to broadcast CBS, all the while raising the rates for Viacom networks....
I noticed that DirecTV rolled over and raised their rates all the while taking out a full page ad in USA Today trumpeting that they now carry NickToons. You can also sorta compare the packages they both offer:
Dish Network Total 120: $34.99 or $385 ($32.08/m) a year
Direct TV Total Choice (130 channels): $39.99 a month
(I picked the lowest packages that carried TechTV. And you would need to add onto Dish Network if you want the locals.)
I've been a Dish Network subscriber for 4 years now, and the only thing that really irks me is that all their offers for new boxes or PVRs are for new customers only.
I would have rather seen two 9-pin ports on it, so I can play two player games. I don't see myself wanting to spend $30 for one player games.
Any ideas why they didn't put two ports on it?
Without Hotsync Manager, iSync does not work. So unless you want to spend more money, you will not be able to sync the newest palms with your Mac.
That's a shame because at my school district we were looking at rolling out a Palm program to help teachers stay organized. Now that Palm made this decision, I don't know what we're going to do.
I've already sent them feedback, but I'm not holding my breath waiting on a reply.
And today me without mod points.... Anyway, this is an excellent suggestion!
A PDA version on a 486 or old pentium would rock as an Internet appliance for relatives.
Only the server component runs under Linux.
But will they be able to say From the makers of Toy Story and Finding Nemo or does Disney have a clause stating they don't have the rights to those title?
Actually, this number is closer to 30-35% of your salary.
It's easier than that. I just drop any message that has an executable file in it. Now that doesn't help in all cases, especially this one, since the virus can come in in a .zip file. That's where my second layer of defense comes in, run Mac OS 9/X! (~650 desktops, this is a school).
Pricing:
1 Hour ............. $1.95
1 Day ............. $4.95
1 Month ............. $24.95
1 Year ............. $199.95
And a map with their service locations.
It looks like Internet access is provided by TON Services which provides drivers and travelers easy access to pre-paid calling cards, load/equipment posting, freight matching, advertising services, truck insurance, and other driver related services all through the RoadLink System located in Flying J Travel Plazas across the US & Canada.
You can also install Apple Remote Desktop if you want to control the gui on the server, but I don't know why you would ever need to do this. Almost everything is available from the command line.
Server Settings, Workgroup Manager, and Server Monitor lets you do all the GUI stuff remotely.
A review at the beginning of the season in USA Today brought up some very good points on the lack of focus in Enterprise. Although Paramount wants you to think they took the show for a dramatic twist this season, nothing really has changed. They are still exploring the unknown, which is what they have been doing the first two seasons. Nothing to see here, move along.
To fix Enterprise they need to:
Be a little more subtle with public commentary. Compare Similitude with TOS's Let That Be Your Last Battleground
More friction among the crew.
Lose the T'Pol-Tucker story line
Slow DOWN THE TRANSPORTER!!!! It's faster than The Original Series'!
There have been a couple good episodes:
Shockwave
Chosen Realm
And a lot of duds:
A remake of Data's Day: Dear Doctor
An A-Team episode: Marauders
And just a really lame episode: Extinction
As always, I'm sure it would be prudent to clear this through a lawyer!
Hate to break it to you after you trashed your MP3s, but SoundAPP PPC was released April 1, 1996. It would've been able to play the songs (if you had at least a PowerPC) :-).
To use the search box in Safari without the mouse, you can hold down command option F to go to the Google search box. Under Firebird with Linux I use CONTROL-L and then TAB to get to the box. I'm sure there probably is a keyboard shortcut for this....
I don't know how any meta-information on files is handled with BeOS. Under OS X, connecting through Samba stores the meta-information in a hidden file in each directory.
The professor should find a rock-n-roll anthology series of CDs with the music and have the campus book stores offer it for sale. Then have the library have them available for listening or checkout. Or maybe get a couple of local bands to do covers of the songs and distribute them. You would have to worry about ASCAP/BMI fees, but this might be a cheaper route.
Back to the original question about an OS neutral solution, it will probably happen when people start clamoring for it. It wouldn't take much for companies to put a disk image up that has freedos and the new bios image on it so people can flash their bios just by booting the floppy. The problem will arise though when the machine you need to flash won't have a floppy drive, then I guess it's time for the motherboard companies to create ISOs of bootable CDs with the BIOS upgrades.