I have never, ever, anywhere seen Ogg Vorbis
content that I wanted to download. The only
content so encoded that I even know about is
Richard Stallman speaking, available at
ftp.gnu.org.
I don't lead that sheltered a life that I
shouldn't have come across such content by now.
Actually, you'll be 'sucking down' WMA files
because the compression is tighter. Smaller
files, faster transfers, less use of storage.
I've already noticed the significant size
reduction in WMV files as opposed to MPEG2, but
that would be expected, as MPEG2 video is old
stuff.
Of course, I'll be sticking with MPEG because
that's what burns properly to Video CD. (over
200 Simpsons episodes saved to VCD so far in my
library of disks)
The liquidation company will know absolutely nothing about the contents of the computers. Most likely, they will have implemented a
policy, for their own legal protection, not to sell computers and media without erasing them first.
That's why so much nice Sparc hardware is available on eBay, but minus the hard drives. I've even bought used hard drives from one vendor, plugged them into a Sparc 5 from a different vendor, and had the machine boot up with a totally different build of Solaris than the machine originally had. I suspect the guy who sold me the hard drive would have been in deep trouble if the orignal owners knew they were being sold unwiped on eBay.
If the company goes under, though, it's often because something was wrong with the product. Liquidators aren't going to rush in to repeat the mistakes that the previous company made. They're going to be leery about just grabbing hold of the reins and continuing to rent the software. And as I said, they have to decide if they want to spend the money figuring out if the product is a stinker or not. The business analysts needed to make certain it was because of corporate practices, and not a stinking product, are expensive. It's not safe to assume things will just go on as they did.
Divx failed because nobody wanted to plug their phone into their VCR. It wasn't because 'the public' rejected the concept of pay-per-view with a bandwidth boost called 'a piece of plastic' (equivalent to the famous 'station wagon full of tapes' from Unix folklore).
Too many people on the net 'cheer' as if they defeated Divx. It failed in the marketplace, not in Usenet threads filled with people who hated it.
And it failed because of the particular implementation, not because people refuse pay-per-view, which is a fairly successful venture in the Cable industry.
Yes, but rented software still isn't a very good deal.
I have Office 4.3, Office 97, and Office 2000 all three on CD-ROM. They are not upgrade-tracked to each other (one did not replace the other). I therefore can run the three pieces of software on three computers. My posession of the original CD-ROMs entitles me to that.
Personally, I thought they were all 'good deals' (actually the Office 97 was a really good deal considering it was 'thrown in for free' with a used 9 gig SCSI drive I bought on eBay for $30) I can use them forever, or so long as I like. The cost per use drops closer to zero the longer I use them.
It's kinda like Leasing versus buying a car. I could have leased my car, a '93 Saturn. But I bought it and made payments, which were about the same cost as lease payments would have been. I paid the car off a year ago. If it had been a lease agreement I would have had to turn the car in. Instead I have an essentially 'free' car in turns of monthy cost (besides gas and insurance, of course).
Socket to slot was a hardware issue. There needed to be a hybrid to hold any large amount of cache, as it couldn't practically fit on one die (the Celeron was all on one die, so was the first 'new' socket part). Sorry. No conspiracy.
I agree. I'm glad that I have two W2K licenses at home, as I can ride out the next several years without worrying. Heck, one of them is even retail-box, if MS gets prissy about OEM licenses...
It's actually a requirement of the hardware standards that Microsoft drives. The response from the hardware vendors tends to lag Microsoft's edict, but Microsoft has been demanding that all 'legacy' hardware (serial ports, parallel ports, ISA slots, keyboard ports) be removed from next generation hardware for a few years now. My joke has been that to upgrade a motherboard to suit Microsoft, we should clip off the header pins for the serial/parallel connectors and fill the ISA slot connectors with epoxy.
However, up until not long ago at all, the only USB device compatible with Linux was a strip of black electrical tape placed over the USB connector, so nobody is perfect.
Black and White photography is now substantially more expensive than color photography. The film is more expensive and the prints are far more expensive. This is because the black in B&W prints is silver, while all the silver used in the process with color photography is replaced with dyes. Photo labs get back almost all the silver these days, except the part that's shipped out in black and white prints.
Granted, the lower demand for B&W prints, is also a signifiant factor.
It's worth noting that one hundred years from now some of the most valuable land may be the former landfills. They're chock full of high quality resources. Copper, iron, recoverable plastics. We may rue the day that incinerators were promoted as a replacement.
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Now that's a reliable server. Running Novell, no less.
A few years back there was an ad in Unix Review that featured a gangly looking bunch of programmers. It was counterposed with a Windows NT solution of some kind that didn't involve employing a bunch of misfits. It seemed like a very effective ad to me at the time. And since Unix Review now has ceased to exist, after a transition period when it was a Unix/Windows NT magazine, the ad appears to have been on the mark.
Sweet! This precedent will make it easier to implement a permanent bans of troublemakers and site pests. Weblogs are almost always private property, and the people who post on them are guests.
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Have you ever spent a single dime on 'support'
for the software that you use?
It seems like a pretty meager revenue stream to
me.
And no, I'm not the poster of the parent comment,
that was clearly just a troll.
I have never, ever, anywhere seen Ogg Vorbis
content that I wanted to download. The only
content so encoded that I even know about is
Richard Stallman speaking, available at
ftp.gnu.org.
I don't lead that sheltered a life that I
shouldn't have come across such content by now.
Actually, you'll be 'sucking down' WMA files
because the compression is tighter. Smaller
files, faster transfers, less use of storage.
I've already noticed the significant size
reduction in WMV files as opposed to MPEG2, but
that would be expected, as MPEG2 video is old
stuff.
Of course, I'll be sticking with MPEG because
that's what burns properly to Video CD. (over
200 Simpsons episodes saved to VCD so far in my
library of disks)
The liquidation company will know absolutely nothing about the contents of the computers. Most likely, they will have implemented a
policy, for their own legal protection, not to sell computers and media without erasing them first.
That's why so much nice Sparc hardware is available on eBay, but minus the hard drives. I've even bought used hard drives from one vendor, plugged them into a Sparc 5 from a different vendor, and had the machine boot up with a totally different build of Solaris than the machine originally had. I suspect the guy who sold me the hard drive would have been in deep trouble if the orignal owners knew they were being sold unwiped on eBay.
If the company goes under, though, it's often because something was wrong with the product. Liquidators aren't going to rush in to repeat the mistakes that the previous company made. They're going to be leery about just grabbing hold of the reins and continuing to rent the software. And as I said, they have to decide if they want to spend the money figuring out if the product is a stinker or not. The business analysts needed to make certain it was because of corporate practices, and not a stinking product, are expensive. It's not safe to assume things will just go on as they did.
Divx failed because nobody wanted to plug their phone into their VCR. It wasn't because 'the public' rejected the concept of pay-per-view with a bandwidth boost called 'a piece of plastic' (equivalent to the famous 'station wagon full of tapes' from Unix folklore).
Too many people on the net 'cheer' as if they defeated Divx. It failed in the marketplace, not in Usenet threads filled with people who hated it.
And it failed because of the particular implementation, not because people refuse pay-per-view, which is a fairly successful venture in the Cable industry.
Yes, but rented software still isn't a very good deal.
I have Office 4.3, Office 97, and Office 2000 all three on CD-ROM. They are not upgrade-tracked to each other (one did not replace the other). I therefore can run the three pieces of software on three computers. My posession of the original CD-ROMs entitles me to that.
Personally, I thought they were all 'good deals' (actually the Office 97 was a really good deal considering it was 'thrown in for free' with a used 9 gig SCSI drive I bought on eBay for $30) I can use them forever, or so long as I like. The cost per use drops closer to zero the longer I use them.
It's kinda like Leasing versus buying a car. I could have leased my car, a '93 Saturn. But I bought it and made payments, which were about the same cost as lease payments would have been. I paid the car off a year ago. If it had been a lease agreement I would have had to turn the car in. Instead I have an essentially 'free' car in turns of monthy cost (besides gas and insurance, of course).
There are a whole bunch of us out here who don't care squat about 'karma.'
Seriously, folks, do you come here to read meaningful content, or is this a little contest to see who can get the most points?
(offtopic, moderate as necessary)
(yes, I know, it's probably just someone trolling)
How much code have you released?
Socket to slot was a hardware issue. There needed to be a hybrid to hold any large amount of cache, as it couldn't practically fit on one die (the Celeron was all on one die, so was the first 'new' socket part). Sorry. No conspiracy.
I agree. I'm glad that I have two W2K licenses at home, as I can ride out the next several years without worrying. Heck, one of them is even retail-box, if MS gets prissy about OEM licenses...
It's actually a requirement of the hardware standards that Microsoft drives. The response from the hardware vendors tends to lag Microsoft's edict, but Microsoft has been demanding that all 'legacy' hardware (serial ports, parallel ports, ISA slots, keyboard ports) be removed from next generation hardware for a few years now. My joke has been that to upgrade a motherboard to suit Microsoft, we should clip off the header pins for the serial/parallel connectors and fill the ISA slot connectors with epoxy.
However, up until not long ago at all, the only USB device compatible with Linux was a strip of black electrical tape placed over the USB connector, so nobody is perfect.
Do you have a Pantone scale handy? (cheaper alternative is a reference bottle of the branded version)
Black and White photography is now substantially more expensive than color photography. The film is more expensive and the prints are far more expensive. This is because the black in B&W prints is silver, while all the silver used in the process with color photography is replaced with dyes. Photo labs get back almost all the silver these days, except the part that's shipped out in black and white prints.
Granted, the lower demand for B&W prints, is also a signifiant factor.
I think it's time for the obligatory reference to the movie Brazil.
It's worth noting that one hundred years from now some of the most valuable land may be the former landfills. They're chock full of high quality resources. Copper, iron, recoverable plastics. We may rue the day that incinerators were promoted as a replacement.
Now that's a reliable server. Running Novell, no less.
A few years back there was an ad in Unix Review that featured a gangly looking bunch of programmers. It was counterposed with a Windows NT solution of some kind that didn't involve employing a bunch of misfits. It seemed like a very effective ad to me at the time. And since Unix Review now has ceased to exist, after a transition period when it was a Unix/Windows NT magazine, the ad appears to have been on the mark.
If the newspapers in question are publicly funded they have responsibilities that privately funded media do not have.
You trolls are making my case for me this morning.
So, any opinion that upsets you is 'flamebait' wether or not I believe in what I said?
Trolling is also a problem.
If you don't believe something, why the heck are you expounding it loudly in a discussion? Just to get attention? Just to disrupt the discussion?
It's a private forum. Not a public forum.
Sweet! This precedent will make it easier to implement a permanent bans of troublemakers and site pests. Weblogs are almost always private property, and the people who post on them are guests.
First posters, trolls, etc., beware.
What happened to it? Why aren't you still using it?