But its a growing industry and Microsoft is a behemoth that has already been investigated for antitrust in a fairly closely neighboring industry - and weakly slapped on the wrist for it.
I think its pretty weak - if they investigate this then they should re-open the microsoft case - i still can't buy a PC without windows on it (unless it's a mac) that has to be much more anticompetitive.
EBay's core asset is the BUYERS - not the sellers - people sell on EBay because it has the largest amount of buyers. This is why the buyers pay nothing and the sellers pay ridiculously high selling fees (I really think the final value fees are too high). I sold a laptop on it for 450 and got charged 28 for doing so. I don't think EBay are too worried about the sellers because they know the sellers need them. Maybe if they advertise they wont try to constantly milk sellers for more cash.
I agree, in France they are rolling out 24Mbps connections (i think they are already available in some places) so comparing that with a 2Mbps line then uk telcosa re obviously going to have bandwidth issues - the problem is they are not upgrading their networks like they should. It can even be easily seen that there is an advantage for them not to upgrade their network as it will keep the price of bandwidth high.
i think the best solution is to have a publicly owned fibre (like they're building in france) network that all the companies contribute to ( and generate revenue from )- but i wont hold my breath!
this is just the sort of shit we should be doing unitl long term reseacrh has proved it to be safe. some company will try and push these things through the FDA, and food associations, and there is just no way of telling what the side effects would be - especially the long term ones.
this is such a digusting aborration of science - only when we have lost what we have got will we realise how beautiful it was untouched.
Microsoft force upgrades on user about every four years anyway then four years after that they wont support the product before that. so over a 12 years all desktops will have to upgraded at least twice.
I dont think novell could seriously expect to take a lions share of the market anytime soon - linux adoption will always be a gradual process. I think a big problem is that a lot of windows admin would be out of a job if they had to use linux. there is a big learning curve for moving from windows to linux especially when something doesnt appear to work.
but there are plenty of places where linux on work desktop could start, especially when user have restricted functionality to a few apps anyway (e.g. call centres which genreraly restrict users severely) i would think these sorts of places would be a good place to start.
i had a friend that was working for a company which tried to roll out linux to company desktop but the user revloted because thopenoffice wouldnt run excel macros and they were a finance company. there are always going to be a plethora of issues doing a migration like this and most users will say linux doesnt work (simply cos they're used to windows and are too lazy to figue things out) - so there would have to be a deegree of training to offset this.
so, in summary, for a company generally there will be an increased cost in training/administering linux in the short term but i would say the TCO in the long term would have to work out in linux advantage in the long term as windows always forces upgrades of its products and as we all know is prone to all sorts of security holes/bugs.
Haven't really used wikipedia but I was able to edit the crushing by elephant article by clicking on "edit this page", isn't there any security on this site? how does it garuntee the correctness of the articles?
now it will be more convenient to download movies than to rent them. ans since you can't rent movies via download, that means all movies will be free in the future.
Which means that pirates will get most of the proceeds of the DVD sales, bring it on, this'll a be great laugh.
wasnt the point of free software (well OSS covered by GNU gen. pub. lic.) that people could see and know what they were running on their systems. if people run this software they know what theyre getting and they can change and test it and maybe use it to find out what other people are doing.
There always going to be money - at least for the next coupla thousand years so people have to produce something to get it.wheather they make more, in the long run, by keeping it closed , we'll see.
I think if Freee software run with closed then it more likely to keep the closed source companys honest, and not pull any( well less) fast , big borther style moves.
The cameras on the TM videos were held over the proc and after about five seconds smoke began to appear form the AMD chip, the camera on this video was turned off only a couple of seconds after the heatsink was taken off and was held far enough away from the proc that you couldnt see it. I wuold say this video is dubious at best. looks like marketing or defence of AMDs honour to me, hey I've got one and it rocks - but I aint gonna take the heatsink off.
Cool... we now have a high tech truck that will likely be never used, we truly are evolving to higher levels of intelligence, guess we have to wait for the oil companies to produce some practical technology.... I mean wait for the oil supply to be sold off for maximum profit before we have some chance of not drowning under rising oceans. Maybe it should have been a boat?
A) DeCSS is only used for accessing to video once it is changed is it still the same movie. Is the new video protected by the same copyright?
B) The copy can be made by the os so does this make OS's illegal under DMCA? (Id like to see a battle royal beetween Mr Gates and the MPAA)
C) A gun only has malicious intentions and they are legal. What sort world is this when DeCSS is considered more dangerous than a gun?
D) I think code is free speech in this case because it expresses to the MPAA that they gave away all their encryption keys in a short portion of black footage in the movie - they should be thanking these guys not suing them. Beauty and logic are intertwined by ease of understanding breaking complex issues to grass roots and making a different piont of view known.
2 wrongs dont make a right but 3 lefts do.
Is ther perfection... it already is.
regards
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But its a growing industry and Microsoft is a behemoth that has already been investigated for antitrust in a fairly closely neighboring industry - and weakly slapped on the wrist for it.
I think its pretty weak - if they investigate this then they should re-open the microsoft case - i still can't buy a PC without windows on it (unless it's a mac) that has to be much more anticompetitive.
EBay's core asset is the BUYERS - not the sellers - people sell on EBay because it has the largest amount of buyers. This is why the buyers pay nothing and the sellers pay ridiculously high selling fees (I really think the final value fees are too high). I sold a laptop on it for 450 and got charged 28 for doing so. I don't think EBay are too worried about the sellers because they know the sellers need them. Maybe if they advertise they wont try to constantly milk sellers for more cash.
I agree, in France they are rolling out 24Mbps connections (i think they are already available in some places) so comparing that with a 2Mbps line then uk telcosa re obviously going to have bandwidth issues - the problem is they are not upgrading their networks like they should. It can even be easily seen that there is an advantage for them not to upgrade their network as it will keep the price of bandwidth high.
i think the best solution is to have a publicly owned fibre (like they're building in france) network that all the companies contribute to ( and generate revenue from )- but i wont hold my breath!
i knew it. definitley opens a loophole of blame to pass any screw up along to the terrorists. We got hacked - we couln't have seen it!!!
this is just the sort of shit we should be doing unitl long term reseacrh has proved it to be safe. some company will try and push these things through the FDA, and food associations, and there is just no way of telling what the side effects would be - especially the long term ones.
this is such a digusting aborration of science - only when we have lost what we have got will we realise how beautiful it was untouched.
Microsoft force upgrades on user about every four years anyway then four years after that they wont support the product before that. so over a 12 years all desktops will have to upgraded at least twice.
I dont think novell could seriously expect to take a lions share of the market anytime soon - linux adoption will always be a gradual process. I think a big problem is that a lot of windows admin would be out of a job if they had to use linux. there is a big learning curve for moving from windows to linux especially when something doesnt appear to work.
but there are plenty of places where linux on work desktop could start, especially when user have restricted functionality to a few apps anyway (e.g. call centres which genreraly restrict users severely) i would think these sorts of places would be a good place to start.
i had a friend that was working for a company which tried to roll out linux to company desktop but the user revloted because thopenoffice wouldnt run excel macros and they were a finance company. there are always going to be a plethora of issues doing a migration like this and most users will say linux doesnt work (simply cos they're used to windows and are too lazy to figue things out) - so there would have to be a deegree of training to offset this.
so, in summary, for a company generally there will be an increased cost in training/administering linux in the short term but i would say the TCO in the long term would have to work out in linux advantage in the long term as windows always forces upgrades of its products and as we all know is prone to all sorts of security holes/bugs.
Haven't really used wikipedia but I was able to edit the crushing by elephant article by clicking on "edit this page", isn't there any security on this site? how does it garuntee the correctness of the articles?
now it will be more convenient to download movies than to rent them. ans since you can't rent movies via download, that means all movies will be free in the future.
Which means that pirates will get most of the proceeds of the DVD sales, bring it on, this'll a be great laugh.
wasnt the point of free software (well OSS covered by GNU gen. pub. lic.) that people could see and know what they were running on their systems. if people run this software they know what theyre getting and they can change and test it and maybe use it to find out what other people are doing.
There always going to be money - at least for the next coupla thousand years so people have to produce something to get it.wheather they make more, in the long run, by keeping it closed , we'll see.
I think if Freee software run with closed then it more likely to keep the closed source companys honest, and not pull any( well less) fast , big borther style moves.
me
The cameras on the TM videos were held over the proc and after about five seconds smoke began to appear form the AMD chip, the camera on this video was turned off only a couple of seconds after the heatsink was taken off and was held far enough away from the proc that you couldnt see it. I wuold say this video is dubious at best. looks like marketing or defence of AMDs honour to me, hey I've got one and it rocks - but I aint gonna take the heatsink off.
Cool ... we now have a high tech truck that will likely be never used, we truly are evolving to higher levels of intelligence, guess we have to wait for the oil companies to produce some practical technology .... I mean wait for the oil supply to be sold off for maximum profit before we have some chance of not drowning under rising oceans. Maybe it should have been a boat?
A) DeCSS is only used for accessing to video once it is changed is it still the same movie. Is the new video protected by the same copyright? B) The copy can be made by the os so does this make OS's illegal under DMCA? (Id like to see a battle royal beetween Mr Gates and the MPAA) C) A gun only has malicious intentions and they are legal. What sort world is this when DeCSS is considered more dangerous than a gun? D) I think code is free speech in this case because it expresses to the MPAA that they gave away all their encryption keys in a short portion of black footage in the movie - they should be thanking these guys not suing them. Beauty and logic are intertwined by ease of understanding breaking complex issues to grass roots and making a different piont of view known. 2 wrongs dont make a right but 3 lefts do. Is ther perfection ... it already is.
regards