When you sleep with dogs, you better expect to get fleas.
.NET may be an excellent technology, but when dealing with a for-profit company who owns the technology, you must accept the risk that the direction you want the technology to go won't be the direction they want it to go.
The recording companies and the RIAA just do not realize that they are hurting themselves. Let them issue copy-protected, encrypted CDs. Let them disenfranchise the average record purchasing consumer. Let them continue to strive for the perfect monopoly over the copyrights they own.
And when the RIAA and the recording industry has succeeded at this, they will realize that the piracy is still rampant, and the consumer is not responsible for that piracy. Rather than go after the "mega-pirates" and mass producers of illegal CDs, they choose to fight the very people they wish to have as customers.
While there are many stupid consumers, they are becoming less and less technology ignorant as time goes on. The more technically saavy consumers there are, the less those consumers will tolerate the inability to use the music or video they have legally purchased as they see fit.
"If copies are outlawed, then only outlaws will have copies." If the industry thinks the piracy is bad now, wait until every audio or video CD or DVD can't be copied.
Microsoft has criticized the alternative remedy offered by the hold-out states as ``radical and punitive'' measures that ''seem calculated to inflict maximum commercial harm on Microsoft.''
Uhmmmm... isn't that the point when someone is found guilty?
... out in the suburbs, even with the light pollution, the show is very impressive. Most activity seems to be facing south east, at about 50 degrees elevation. (We're at 41 degrees north latitude)
What corporation is going to replace or upgrade every single PC they have to comply with this law? How will it be paid for? Are educational institutions exempt?
Kiss this bill goodbye.... wait until the other non-media companies get involved with this bill. After the other corporations figure what it will cost them, or pay their legal staff to lobby to become exempt, the costs will be too high.
I don't believe that all Senators and Representatives are owned by the media companies, and those non-owned Congressmen will be beaten to death by the "other" companies that pay their reelection costs.
Too many rich compaines will get hurt by this bill.... this bill will be deader than Stalin.
Hmmmmm . . . prior art. Netscape's "Smart Update" dated from *before* December, 1998. That is a "browser directed" update "encapsulated in the markup."
Let's see . . . the pundits, trade press, and vendors declared the death of the mainframe, Unix, and the PC.
When the user community decides that Linux (or NT or OS/390) is no longer beneficial, they will disappear. Looks how long Multics stayed with us. And how many companies are still running VMS?
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
Funny, I could code anything faster if I reused my code base . . . .
I use rsync with ssh to update websites remotely. It works very well, and with the compression and update functions in rsync, it cuts down the amount of data that travels over the link.
I highly recommend this combination. rsync is available on most Linux distros, or from the Samba site in Australia. ssh is available from ftp.replay.com.
Rather than contacting the webmaster of the site, like a good netizen should, JP screams law suit. Great.
However, Ken probably shouldn't have had his private musings about JP or his current CS project on a server that's not his.
Obviously, JP needs to learn to accept that people in the Internet community may not like him or his views. I don't, but then again, I won't sue him, either.
No doubt that everything you say true . . . however, when the IS management reads this, they will read that NT is faster than Linux. OK, that's a problem because they will miss all of the other benefits to making Linux a standard. For right now.
I believe that the kernel developers have some excellent information to work with here. Any benchmark, whether you win or lose, is always good education. The Apache group and the Samba guys have also gotten excellent information to work with, too.
Now comes the best part of these benchmarks, the part that shows *why* open source, community development is the best development model out there. That part is the speed at which these shortcomings are addressed, reviewed, fixed, and implemented. How long will it take a Linux administrator to upgrade Apache, Samba or the kernel if there will be a marked improvement in performance? Not long, I imagine.
Linux, and its developer community, will win even this round of tests and benchmarks by having the performance issues addressed in "Internet Time" rather than Microsoft time. And that is what makes Linux, and all open source development, winners every time.
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And which existing codebase would that be?
" ... the first one is free."
Sorry, but I "IEradicated" all the NT and Win 2K machines, and they work just fine. Test it before you pass judgement.
.NET may be an excellent technology, but when dealing with a for-profit company who owns the technology, you must accept the risk that the direction you want the technology to go won't be the direction they want it to go.
Fore warned is fore armed.
Newly Updated Info from Network Associates. Time to run the DAT file scripts ....
The recording companies and the RIAA just do not realize that they are hurting themselves. Let them issue copy-protected, encrypted CDs. Let them disenfranchise the average record purchasing consumer. Let them continue to strive for the perfect monopoly over the copyrights they own.
And when the RIAA and the recording industry has succeeded at this, they will realize that the piracy is still rampant, and the consumer is not responsible for that piracy. Rather than go after the "mega-pirates" and mass producers of illegal CDs, they choose to fight the very people they wish to have as customers.
While there are many stupid consumers, they are becoming less and less technology ignorant as time goes on. The more technically saavy consumers there are, the less those consumers will tolerate the inability to use the music or video they have legally purchased as they see fit.
"If copies are outlawed, then only outlaws will have copies." If the industry thinks the piracy is bad now, wait until every audio or video CD or DVD can't be copied.
Microsoft has criticized the alternative remedy offered by the hold-out states as ``radical and punitive'' measures that ''seem calculated to inflict maximum commercial harm on Microsoft.''
... isn't that the point when someone is found guilty?
Uhmmmm
As my domains expired, I moved them to Register.com. I didn't even require me to contact NSI to complete the transaction.
... out in the suburbs, even with the light pollution, the show is very impressive. Most activity seems to be facing south east, at about 50 degrees elevation. (We're at 41 degrees north latitude)
What corporation is going to replace or upgrade every single PC they have to comply with this law? How will it be paid for? Are educational institutions exempt?
.... wait until the other non-media companies get involved with this bill. After the other corporations figure what it will cost them, or pay their legal staff to lobby to become exempt, the costs will be too high.
.... this bill will be deader than Stalin.
Kiss this bill goodbye
I don't believe that all Senators and Representatives are owned by the media companies, and those non-owned Congressmen will be beaten to death by the "other" companies that pay their reelection costs.
Too many rich compaines will get hurt by this bill
However, the common carrier rules for telephone comapnies in the US only apply to voice service.
Hmmmmm . . . prior art. Netscape's "Smart Update" dated from *before* December, 1998. That is a "browser directed" update "encapsulated in the markup."
> From Micorsoft's perspective, the "best
> interconnectivity" is "no interconnectivity".
Actually, it is the "best interconnectivity" is "Our Internconnectivity"
The END is near!!
Let's see . . . the pundits, trade press, and vendors declared the death of the mainframe, Unix, and the PC.
When the user community decides that Linux (or NT or OS/390) is no longer beneficial, they will disappear. Looks how long Multics stayed with us. And how many companies are still running VMS?
'Nough said.
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Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
Funny, I could code anything faster if I reused my code base . . . .
I use rsync with ssh to update websites remotely. It works very well, and with the compression and update functions in rsync, it cuts down the amount of data that travels over the link.
I highly recommend this combination. rsync is available on most Linux distros, or from the Samba site in Australia. ssh is available from ftp.replay.com.
Rather than contacting the webmaster of the site, like a good netizen should, JP screams law suit. Great.
However, Ken probably shouldn't have had his private musings about JP or his current CS project on a server that's not his.
Obviously, JP needs to learn to accept that people in the Internet community may not like him or his views. I don't, but then again, I won't sue him, either.
Where's the ACLU when you need them?
pfc
No doubt that everything you say true . . . however, when the IS management reads this, they will read that NT is faster than Linux. OK, that's a problem because they will miss all of the other benefits to making Linux a standard. For right now.
I believe that the kernel developers have some excellent information to work with here. Any benchmark, whether you win or lose, is always good education. The Apache group and the Samba guys have also gotten excellent information to work with, too.
Now comes the best part of these benchmarks, the part that shows *why* open source, community development is the best development model out there. That part is the speed at which these shortcomings are addressed, reviewed, fixed, and implemented. How long will it take a Linux administrator to upgrade Apache, Samba or the kernel if there will be a marked improvement in performance? Not long, I imagine.
Linux, and its developer community, will win even this round of tests and benchmarks by having the performance issues addressed in "Internet Time" rather than Microsoft time. And that is what makes Linux, and all open source development, winners every time.