According to the RIAA, CD sales dropped by 10% in 2001 and a further 6.8% last year, largely because of file sharing.
The IFPI's Commercial Music Piracy 2003 report, produced in early July, reveals pirate CD sales rose 14% in 2002 and exceeded one billion units for the first time.
so that means (using RIAA's simplistic logic) that file sharing has, in fact, increased legitimate CD sales by 3.2%.
great observation! Novell also purchased a company called SoftSolutions who, at the time, pretty much owned the document management space (I mean real document management, not web content management) particularly in the legal sector.
you will notice that SoftSolutions no longer does business - although their ex management staff have recently established NetDocuments to revive their previous success.
ok, so maybe the robot is pretty cool - but the rest...
...has been working to replace the remote controls lying around the home with one device, such as a cellphone or a personal digital assistant. Eventually, he said, appliances could be equipped with technology to receive the commands. your mean the philips pronto and X10?
...is working on a glove that could translate sign language into digitized letters... you mean this?
Those included a rebuilt task bar that could sort onscreen files, and a program that acted like a magnifying glass for Web sites. A program called Fabric would allow a user to drag windows to the side of the computer screen, where they would turn into small icons. what? anonscreen magnifyingglass? and dockable applications? er OSX?
in the old days, to conduct a slightly complex search you had to be a divine booleanist - with google, you don't.
this is mainly in reference towards this whole shopping bias. i agree that if you search for, say, "Sony Widescreen" you get a crap-load of pages about where you can buy it. add the word "review" in your search term, and all of a sudden you get a lot more relevance.
perhaps google should suggest additional keywords for the refinement of your search vis "You appear to be interested in Sony telelvisions, click here to search for product reviews." where the "here" just adds &review in the same search term. not rocket science.
secondly, i'm quite astounded with their "apple" statement. i put apple in, hit i'm feeling lucky and i'm on the apple.com website - am i missing something?
Also the benefit of not using MSFT tools is the weaker propagation of acronymedics. E.g. I can code DOM SOAP.NET ASP super programs. oh yeah
as opposed to i write PHP ZEND XML super programs on GNOME with my POSIX system and my BASH shell that I got in with PAM authentication after I had AWKED the SED's GREP...
go cruise around freshmeat for a while and see how many OSS applications are acronyms - your blind ignorance astounds me.
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well considering you opted for the coward route, how is anyone going to take you up on that one!
plus, i entirely disagree with you, i have php applications that pull data from mysql faster than an equivalent java application.
the JAVA advantages, for me, are: - OO through and through - scalability in the form of J2EE - well writen java is a pleasure to read and understand - cross-platform - fantastic package library and 3rd party packages - sun screwed up and gave it away!
i've run linux at home for over 5 years now. at work i'm pretty much forced to use windows for interop with everyone else (exchange, siebel, visio, VS.NET). i've pretty much always just used IE because it is well integrated with windows (anti-competitive etc...).
a few months ago i thought i'd give mozilla another bash. if i was to screenshot and post my XP taskbar right now, you would see about 4 mozilla sessions open and about 2 ie sessions open. i hate having to do this, but some sites mozilla just doesn't handle. in some cases its poor HTML (mainly DHTML problems where non-visible layers aren't), in some cases it's performance, in some cases its flash/JAVA little idiosyncracies.
now, i could just submit a screenshot with 6 IE windows - because that would do the job just fine - but i go the mozilla route mainly out of respect. i will admit that its page rendering is a bit faster, but cutting 1/3 of a second off rendering a page vs. having to launch IE two or three times a day and copy and paste URLs around is not really worth it.
also, stability and bugs. i've discovered, i'd say, a few more bugs in mozilla than i have with IE (tab refreshing problems, mozilla mail client problems with IMAP servers etc...)
my point is, maybe its not AOL circuming to MS pressure or any other such wonderful/. conspiracy theories - maybe its just a case of:
There are more Windows desktops on AOL targeted coputers that there are Linux and the fact that Windows and IE are closer orientated than Windows + Mozilla means that for the average AOL use, IE is just a better option period.
they appear to have fscked up their installation regarding JAVA.
i have 3 or 4 different JVM versions on my box - and normally i can run just about everything without any problems. the highest version of JAVA I have is 1.4.1 and whenever i run their installer it tells me that JAVA is not found and then it installs JRE 1.3.1 and then does exactly the same thing.
SYNOPSIS: if you have anything higher that 1.3.1, this probably won't work.
This one confuses the fsck out of people. People don't understand the difference between memory and hard disk space. They think that memory is what your computer uses to store stuff.
They do, however, understand what multi-tasking is. I know this is uber-general, but more memory = better multitasking.
So, in my convoluted round-about way of saying things - PCs should be sold on tangible benefit and not on numbered features.
EG:
100 GIG Storage Space (enough to store 19043829043820 documents/mp3s) 512 MB RAM (enough to run 3 applications simultaneiously)
Ok, speaking of just discovering things; I've read every Gibson - his concepts are great, but I find his language appauling (grammar errors, spelling errors, concorde errors); although his new book Pattern Recognition has done a lot for the latter - although I did find it a little "empty".
Anyway, I read Gibson, Banks, Stephenson, Sterling etc.... and have just discovered Grimwood's Arabesk series and am nearly through the first one. WOW is all I can say. The review on the back of the book "Science fiction so trendy, you can wear it" says it all.
I can thoroughly recommend picking them up this summer.
this is the worst review i have ever read in my life.
and this comment just astounded me:
The OpenOffice.org office suite included is supposed to be even more compatible with Office documents though I did not really do any testing in that department since Iâ(TM)m focusing on the desktop user.
so, right, desktop users don't use office producivity applications? right.
you mean the linux email client that has microsoft exchange connectors so that users don't have to run licensed copies of windows on their desktops. hmmm....
i also second the motion regarding end-user training. you just try giving pine to our sales guys and see what happens...
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you may want to look at someline along the lines of this. although its a bit pricey for my liking...
oops, got confused and thought that pirated CD sales rolse 10%. so that ACTUALLY means that file sharing increased legitimate CD sales by 7.2.
According to the RIAA, CD sales dropped by 10% in 2001 and a further 6.8% last year, largely because of file sharing.
The IFPI's Commercial Music Piracy 2003 report, produced in early July, reveals pirate CD sales rose 14% in 2002 and exceeded one billion units for the first time.
so that means (using RIAA's simplistic logic) that file sharing has, in fact, increased legitimate CD sales by 3.2%.
great observation!
Novell also purchased a company called SoftSolutions who, at the time, pretty much owned the document management space (I mean real document management, not web content management) particularly in the legal sector.
you will notice that SoftSolutions no longer does business - although their ex management staff have recently established NetDocuments to revive their previous success.
ok, so maybe the robot is pretty cool - but the rest...
...has been working to replace the remote controls lying around the home with one device, such as a cellphone or a personal digital assistant. Eventually, he said, appliances could be equipped with technology to receive the commands.
...is working on a glove that could translate sign language into digitized letters...
your mean the philips pronto and X10?
you mean this?
Those included a rebuilt task bar that could sort onscreen files, and a program that acted like a magnifying glass for Web sites. A program called Fabric would allow a user to drag windows to the side of the computer screen, where they would turn into small icons.
what? an onscreen magnifying glass?
and dockable applications? er OSX?
i was doing this 5 years ago with a palm pilot, IR and an ericsson modem phone...very useful.
i quite like the spoonerism on his name - especially given the outgoing head...
the question is, though - how much longer would it have taken you to have learnt to fly a plane if you had never tinkered with x-plane at all?
in the old days, to conduct a slightly complex search you had to be a divine booleanist - with google, you don't.
this is mainly in reference towards this whole shopping bias. i agree that if you search for, say, "Sony Widescreen" you get a crap-load of pages about where you can buy it. add the word "review" in your search term, and all of a sudden you get a lot more relevance.
perhaps google should suggest additional keywords for the refinement of your search vis "You appear to be interested in Sony telelvisions, click here to search for product reviews." where the "here" just adds &review in the same search term. not rocket science.
secondly, i'm quite astounded with their "apple" statement. i put apple in, hit i'm feeling lucky and i'm on the apple.com website - am i missing something?
i can certainly agree with that statement! but i didn't feel that your acronym comment was very true ;)
Also the benefit of not using MSFT tools is the weaker propagation of acronymedics. E.g. I can code DOM SOAP .NET ASP super programs. oh yeah
as opposed to i write PHP ZEND XML super programs on GNOME with my POSIX system and my BASH shell that I got in with PAM authentication after I had AWKED the SED's GREP...
go cruise around freshmeat for a while and see how many OSS applications are acronyms - your blind ignorance astounds me.
well considering you opted for the coward route, how is anyone going to take you up on that one!
plus, i entirely disagree with you, i have php applications that pull data from mysql faster than an equivalent java application.
the JAVA advantages, for me, are:
- OO through and through
- scalability in the form of J2EE
- well writen java is a pleasure to read and understand
- cross-platform
- fantastic package library and 3rd party packages
- sun screwed up and gave it away!
i've run linux at home for over 5 years now. at work i'm pretty much forced to use windows for interop with everyone else (exchange, siebel, visio, VS.NET). i've pretty much always just used IE because it is well integrated with windows (anti-competitive etc...).
/. conspiracy theories - maybe its just a case of:
There are more Windows desktops on AOL targeted coputers that there are Linux and the fact that Windows and IE are closer orientated than Windows + Mozilla means that for the average AOL use, IE is just a better option period.
;)
a few months ago i thought i'd give mozilla another bash. if i was to screenshot and post my XP taskbar right now, you would see about 4 mozilla sessions open and about 2 ie sessions open. i hate having to do this, but some sites mozilla just doesn't handle. in some cases its poor HTML (mainly DHTML problems where non-visible layers aren't), in some cases it's performance, in some cases its flash/JAVA little idiosyncracies.
now, i could just submit a screenshot with 6 IE windows - because that would do the job just fine - but i go the mozilla route mainly out of respect. i will admit that its page rendering is a bit faster, but cutting 1/3 of a second off rendering a page vs. having to launch IE two or three times a day and copy and paste URLs around is not really worth it.
also, stability and bugs. i've discovered, i'd say, a few more bugs in mozilla than i have with IE (tab refreshing problems, mozilla mail client problems with IMAP servers etc...)
my point is, maybe its not AOL circuming to MS pressure or any other such wonderful
*sits back and admires the flame*
they appear to have fscked up their installation regarding JAVA.
i have 3 or 4 different JVM versions on my box - and normally i can run just about everything without any problems. the highest version of JAVA I have is 1.4.1 and whenever i run their installer it tells me that JAVA is not found and then it installs JRE 1.3.1 and then does exactly the same thing.
SYNOPSIS: if you have anything higher that 1.3.1, this probably won't work.
This one confuses the fsck out of people. People don't understand the difference between memory and hard disk space. They think that memory is what your computer uses to store stuff.
They do, however, understand what multi-tasking is. I know this is uber-general, but more memory = better multitasking.
So, in my convoluted round-about way of saying things - PCs should be sold on tangible benefit and not on numbered features.
EG:
100 GIG Storage Space (enough to store 19043829043820 documents/mp3s)
512 MB RAM (enough to run 3 applications simultaneiously)
or something.
Surely thats the implication here - which is just plain wrong.
sorry folks, was using my friends laptop and forgot to cycle logins.
forgot the "I am not a best-selling author so don't mock my spelling/grammar etc..." disclaimer ;)
Ok, speaking of just discovering things; I've read every Gibson - his concepts are great, but I find his language appauling (grammar errors, spelling errors, concorde errors); although his new book Pattern Recognition has done a lot for the latter - although I did find it a little "empty".
Anyway, I read Gibson, Banks, Stephenson, Sterling etc.... and have just discovered Grimwood's Arabesk series and am nearly through the first one. WOW is all I can say. The review on the back of the book "Science fiction so trendy, you can wear it" says it all.
I can thoroughly recommend picking them up this summer.
lol.
come to think of it, where in the world is jon katz?? i haven't seen one of his rantings in ages.
this is the worst review i have ever read in my life.
and this comment just astounded me:
The OpenOffice.org office suite included is supposed to be even more compatible with Office documents though I did not really do any testing in that department since Iâ(TM)m focusing on the desktop user.
so, right, desktop users don't use office producivity applications? right.
ah, i always thought those were made from the in-flight phones.
although...
1) were those planes at cruising altitude at the time?
2) trans-altlantic (+ wide open spaces...) flights obviously wouldn't get as reliable a signal.
um, on the point of it being a plot to make you use their expensive sky phones...
would one even get reception up there? not only up there - but in there (metal cylinder)?
cheaper than windows + office....
ximian has to somehow maintain a business.
you mean the linux email client that has microsoft exchange connectors so that users don't have to run licensed copies of windows on their desktops. hmmm....
i also second the motion regarding end-user training. you just try giving pine to our sales guys and see what happens...