It's not too cheap to enter the market either. Looks like it's for big boys only:
25. What is the license policy/fee for HAVi development?
Licensing for the HAVi specification is handled through Royal Philips Electronics on behalf of seven of the eight Promoter companies who co-created the HAVi Specification. (more information about THOMSON Multimedia's licensing policy)
* One-time license fee of US $5,000.
* US $0.10 per product.
First of all, this entire discussion is just going to get people all worked up. Emotional responses will drive the flow and so many useless words are going to be written on this topic. It is such a shame.
You're new here aren't you?;)
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Great idea. Slashdot got famous by posting other people's articles and often adding sniping remarks. It's grown to be very powerful. Since they now have a lot of clout and could offer content that is difficult/impossible to get anywhere else, such as an interview with Dean. I've long thought this is how/. could provide more value to subscribers.
I think the plan is to cut the existing government so that the DOD *is* the government.
Note: Not flamebait. To see what I mean, read Thomas Frank's "Get Rich or Get Out: Attempted
Robbery with a Loaded Federal Budget" in Harpers (June 2003).
LOL. I especially liked "Me: Ok, first, why the hell didn't you specify the toppings were something other than the default back when we were standing on the imaginary circle in the imaginary state diagram that everyone in the world except you seems to follow when ordering fast food?". That was dynamite, thanks for the laugh man.
Yeah, I think it's a good point. Many Americans are ingrained with the belief that (big, wasteful) government is the root of all evil. Anything to keep the costs down would probably be looked upon positively.
But on the other hand, I don't agree with this article's basic premise that OSS costs less money. You still need support. Look at the Munich case for example, they paid *more* for an OSS solution. In a corporate environment, OSS != free as in beer.
Yeah but secretaries aren't that intense in the software that they use.
Strongly disagree. Most secretaries know Word far better than I ever will. They don't know much software, but the stuff they do know, they know it well. At least good secretaries do.
To elaborate... my first tip off that this was a clever troll was "synnergizing" and the second was "our hard earned IP". It's actually a pretty funny troll when you think about it.
Eclipse is a fantastic IDE, especially if you are a Java developer. There is a very active community as well, check into the Eclipse newsgroups if you have comments/questions.
Even if you aren't a Java programmer, it may be worth having a look at Eclipse as a CVS client. Most graphical CVS clients rub me the wrong way. WinCVS is difficult to use and not intuitive. Try Eclipse - it actually lets you look at the projects on the repository and lets you view the resource history to compare any two files. The branching and mergeing features are very nice as well.
I forgot to mention the one very valid complaint against XP - the activation song and dance. But I think the rest of the OS is OK once you get passed that.
Personally, I still use Win2k and I am quite happy with it. Given a choice, I even prefer it over XP.
OK, I have a beef. I see a lot of people complaining about XP but I don't know why. Of course the "teletubbies theme" as I unaffectionatley dub it, is god awful, but it is easy to turn it off. Desktop > Properties > Appearance > Windows Classic Style. You can also turn off the highly annoying things like the "personalized" menus and the massive Start button page. After that, XP looks like W2K but with some additional nice features, such as very fast boot times and Fast user switching.
Why do you feel a subscription model is more successful than a pay-per-download model? If you look at the successes/failures eMusic vs iTunes so far, isn't it clear that more people prefer the iTunes model over the eMusic model?
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Never mind a Bond movie, it was in Tombraider 2. Or at least I'm assuming it was something like that.
Best.... Post.... Ever.
25. What is the license policy/fee for HAVi development?
Licensing for the HAVi specification is handled through Royal Philips Electronics on behalf of seven of the eight Promoter companies who co-created the HAVi Specification. (more information about THOMSON Multimedia's licensing policy)
* One-time license fee of US $5,000.
* US $0.10 per product.
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Tab -> Error Reporting Button -> Disable error reporting.
You're new here aren't you? ;)
Great idea. Slashdot got famous by posting other people's articles and often adding sniping remarks. It's grown to be very powerful. Since they now have a lot of clout and could offer content that is difficult/impossible to get anywhere else, such as an interview with Dean. I've long thought this is how /. could provide more value to subscribers.
It'll probably be the MPAA themself. Honestly. They pollute P2P networks anyway, might as well pass along a message while you're at it.
This is the kind of post that would have been +5 Funny if it was posted first. That's what I think is wrong with the Slashdot moderation system.
Note: Not flamebait. To see what I mean, read Thomas Frank's "Get Rich or Get Out: Attempted Robbery with a Loaded Federal Budget" in Harpers (June 2003).
LOL. I especially liked "Me: Ok, first, why the hell didn't you specify the toppings were something other than the default back when we were standing on the imaginary circle in the imaginary state diagram that everyone in the world except you seems to follow when ordering fast food?". That was dynamite, thanks for the laugh man.
But on the other hand, I don't agree with this article's basic premise that OSS costs less money. You still need support. Look at the Munich case for example, they paid *more* for an OSS solution. In a corporate environment, OSS != free as in beer.
Strongly disagree. Most secretaries know Word far better than I ever will. They don't know much software, but the stuff they do know, they know it well. At least good secretaries do.
To elaborate... my first tip off that this was a clever troll was "synnergizing" and the second was "our hard earned IP". It's actually a pretty funny troll when you think about it.
My foot. "Upper mid-level managers" (oxymoron) sit around on Slashdot posting stuff like this?
Even if you aren't a Java programmer, it may be worth having a look at Eclipse as a CVS client. Most graphical CVS clients rub me the wrong way. WinCVS is difficult to use and not intuitive. Try Eclipse - it actually lets you look at the projects on the repository and lets you view the resource history to compare any two files. The branching and mergeing features are very nice as well.
I'm assuming it was even longer than that. IBM has made the G3 for Apple for ages.
Can't say I do - if it's not tested, it's broken.
I forgot to mention the one very valid complaint against XP - the activation song and dance. But I think the rest of the OS is OK once you get passed that.
OK, I have a beef. I see a lot of people complaining about XP but I don't know why. Of course the "teletubbies theme" as I unaffectionatley dub it, is god awful, but it is easy to turn it off. Desktop > Properties > Appearance > Windows Classic Style. You can also turn off the highly annoying things like the "personalized" menus and the massive Start button page. After that, XP looks like W2K but with some additional nice features, such as very fast boot times and Fast user switching.
I agree. Insightful, not funny.
Why do you feel a subscription model is more successful than a pay-per-download model? If you look at the successes/failures eMusic vs iTunes so far, isn't it clear that more people prefer the iTunes model over the eMusic model?
Don't forget that it has to play Ogg or I'm not buying!
Actually, if you read the article you'll see their penultimate offer was cheaper than SuSE's as well.
Does it have the calendar/task features that Evolution does? Outlook similarity is a big selling point of Evolution, IMO.