"My gut feeling is that 90% of consumers would rather pay a sum of money for music that is endorsed by the artist."
Really? Well then why are you even pursuing this "Secure Music Digital Initiative" if you're so sure the consumers want to pay? Hah! What an asshole. I hope this goes the way of DIVX, and fast. Let's make it so!
I liked what linux today was doing with the interviews from the conference in Austin. The beginnings of something cool. Yeah I know it was crude, but it was nice not having to deal with Real Audio.
Can any expert out there tell us what Quick Time offers that mpeg does not? Is it just that MPEG requires hardware decoding to look decent?
IIRC the SR's were huge but disorganized, the Bolsheviks were a small (smaller in number than the Mensheviks!).
Linux is more like the SR's (linux is like Makhno, Stallman is Bakunin!). BeOS is like Milukov and his party Apple is like the Bolsheviks FreeBSD are like Mensheviks Microsoft is like the tzarist govt., Ballmer is Rasputin.
Oh what fun, but your post is full of factual errors and extreme opinions and there isn't any real parallel to draw. Bolsheviks were nothing more than a pack of ruthless thugs that picked up the pieces after the 1917 revolution.
He has had a long career as a playwright but has been writing a lot of screenplays lately. He is simply an incredible writer who can basically turn shit into gold. Perhaps he could've done something with TPM. Search for him in IMDB.COM for examples. He is frequently used as a sort of "hired gun" writer.
Lucas has zero writing skills. Great with FX, zero with storytelling.
... guess it's Paramount that has the evil IP grip then. Apologies to GR.
Anyway - think about it - there will ALWAYS be scarce resources and people will ALWAYS "pay" more for them.
A "replicator" can make a perfect pound of 24 carat gold or a cup of coffee but can it give me a vacation on a beach in (real) Aculpoco? Something will always be "scarce", it is the nature of things.
but one must ask whether star wars is really worth all this analysis.
Yes, Lucas sucks, he should've hired Tom Stoppard or something to write his movie. *That* would've been interesting.
Star Trek... has anyone ever wondered about Gene Rodenberry's sincerity - he puts forth this quasi utopian scenario where there is no "property" and the problem of scarce goods has been done away with by technology (umm ridiculous). Yet Rodenberry was an IP droid who maintained an iron grip on his lttle Star Trek franchise. Ho Hum. So much for "vision".
and it is extremely user unfriendly. Besides, I hate CDE! If you're used to the GNU programs on linux, I think the commercial unixes are quite painful until you get them installed.
... because windows does suck. The only thing good I can say about it is that it is slick looking. I don't mean that the UI is good, I think the UI is horrible. I just mean that it looks pretty.
User friendliness. While use friendliness is a topic that does not usually come up in discussions about unix, it warrants mention here.
Linux is by far the most user friendly unix out there. Usually bash is included as the default shell with the emacs key bindings already set up. BSD uses csh with no CLI editing configured. This is a major turn off to a newbie. This is just an example - this kind of user friendliness pervades linux and is totally absent from BSD (and commercial unices as well). I remember when I first used linux, setting up my ethernet card was very easy. And I was utterly unix-clueless at the time. After a year of using linux, I decided to give FreeBSD a try and it took me quite a while to figure out how to set it up.
Linux has many little setup tools like linuxconf and the distributions usually include their own nice setup utilities.
Linux has a very strong user friendly focus. Linux aims to be for home users as well as professionals. Even slackware is easier than BSD. BSD seems to me a very insular community.
BSD is very painful for someone who does not know unix. BSD might convert some people from linux, but it will never convert anyone from windows.
People have always been proclaiming the death of coffe. "Tea is so much so and so stronger than coffee" they say. "Some stupid corporate bullshit soda is so much stronger than coffee".
I give those people my coffee. They fall down. They twich for a few moments before finally giving in to total cardiac arrest.
Linux is actually a very useful thing to have on a laptop. Not only a useful desktop but a good network analysis tool, out of the box with standard stuff. NT is horrible for laptops. The pcmcia support blows. Nothing lke booting linux and having it detect your card automagically.
Actually I think linux is th best thing to put on a laptop.
1. It forces you to move your pointer to that portion of the screen to click on it. WindowMaker uses right mouse button to launch it's menu, so that you can get the menu from anywhere on the desktop. You can also "tear off" menus and stick them on the dektop. This is definitely an improvement. 2. It gets too cluttered to use. 3. I've noticed that no one ever uses it, probably due to (1). If users don't have a desktop icon for it, they think it isn't installed. 4. Users can't figure out how to change it. More consistent with explorer UI would be to have a "properties" choice by right clicking the start button.
I'm not sure if points 2,3 and 4 are fixable but they are problems nonetheless.
When people at work or friends ask me for help with their windows machines, I tell them "no, I can't help you, but if you want me to install linux I'll do that". I can't believe the amount of time I've wasted fixing my friends broken windows machines.
My only experience with NeXT is with WindowMaker (a clone), but I can't see any similarity between explorer and windowmaker. Windowmaker is very elegant and useful, while explorer is frankly all-thumbs. The start menu is about the worst UI concept I've ever seen.
I _think_ KOffice has a great deal of integration planned. The integration will be on the level of O2K... it looks very ambitious. Check it out.
The only problem for Office is the price. $800 for an Office suite? Yeah, my company would love those features, but at that price, it's easy to dissuade them. Especially with Y2K and all sorts of other worries in 2K.
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Really? Well then why are you even pursuing this "Secure Music Digital Initiative" if you're so sure the consumers want to pay? Hah! What an asshole. I hope this goes the way of DIVX, and fast. Let's make it so!
I liked what linux today was doing with the interviews from the conference in Austin. The beginnings of something cool. Yeah I know it was crude, but it was nice not having to deal with Real Audio.
Can any expert out there tell us what Quick Time offers that mpeg does not? Is it just that MPEG requires hardware decoding to look decent?
yes, a windowmaker addict.
I really agree, this is the best, most complete wm out there for linux. I try other stuff, bu I always come back.
IIRC the SR's were huge but disorganized, the Bolsheviks were a small (smaller in number than the Mensheviks!).
Linux is more like the SR's (linux is like Makhno, Stallman is Bakunin!).
BeOS is like Milukov and his party
Apple is like the Bolsheviks
FreeBSD are like Mensheviks
Microsoft is like the tzarist govt., Ballmer is Rasputin.
Oh what fun, but your post is full of factual errors and extreme opinions and there isn't any real parallel to draw. Bolsheviks were nothing more than a pack of ruthless thugs that picked up the pieces after the 1917 revolution.
a slap in the face to the computer industry just like bjj was to the martial arts world ...
He has had a long career as a playwright but has been writing a lot of screenplays lately. He is simply an incredible writer who can basically turn shit into gold. Perhaps he could've done something with TPM. Search for him in IMDB.COM for examples. He is frequently used as a sort of "hired gun" writer.
Lucas has zero writing skills. Great with FX, zero with storytelling.
... guess it's Paramount that has the evil IP grip then. Apologies to GR.
Anyway - think about it - there will ALWAYS be scarce resources and people will ALWAYS "pay" more for them.
A "replicator" can make a perfect pound of 24 carat gold or a cup of coffee but can it give me a vacation on a beach in (real) Aculpoco? Something will always be "scarce", it is the nature of things.
No, DM was there to kill QuiGon and Obi Wan specifically. Not to atack the queen.
but one must ask whether star wars is really worth all this analysis.
... has anyone ever wondered about Gene Rodenberry's sincerity - he puts forth this quasi utopian scenario where there is no "property" and the problem of scarce goods has been done away with by technology (umm ridiculous). Yet Rodenberry was an IP droid who maintained an iron grip on his lttle Star Trek franchise. Ho Hum. So much for "vision".
Yes, Lucas sucks, he should've hired Tom Stoppard or something to write his movie. *That* would've been interesting.
Star Trek
so it ain't goin away any time soon
when their offbeat trivia piece on penguins gets 50,000 hits. I wonder if they'll figure it out.
A troll is a troll.
/. is a linux site for linux geeks, just like freshmeat or linux today. Get used to it. If you like ms then go play on an ms site.
First, it was a stupid troll, obviously by an idiot.
Second,
?I don?t know what you? losers are talking about. You?re probably just jealous of Bill Gate?s billions?. Yeah MS?HTML. Right/
and it is extremely user unfriendly. Besides, I hate CDE! If you're used to the GNU programs on linux, I think the commercial unixes are quite painful until you get them installed.
... because windows does suck. The only thing good I can say about it is that it is slick looking. I don't mean that the UI is good, I think the UI is horrible. I just mean that it looks pretty.
User friendliness. While use friendliness is a topic that does not usually come up in discussions about unix, it warrants mention here.
Linux is by far the most user friendly unix out there. Usually bash is included as the default shell with the emacs key bindings already set up. BSD uses csh with no CLI editing configured. This is a major turn off to a newbie. This is just an example - this kind of user friendliness pervades linux and is totally absent from BSD (and commercial unices as well). I remember when I first used linux, setting up my ethernet card was very easy. And I was utterly unix-clueless at the time. After a year of using linux, I decided to give FreeBSD a try and it took me quite a while to figure out how to set it up.
Linux has many little setup tools like linuxconf and the distributions usually include their own nice setup utilities.
Linux has a very strong user friendly focus. Linux aims to be for home users as well as professionals. Even slackware is easier than BSD. BSD seems to me a very insular community.
BSD is very painful for someone who does not know unix. BSD might convert some people from linux, but it will never convert anyone from windows.
Replacement for coffee? Nonsense.
People have always been proclaiming the death of coffe. "Tea is so much so and so stronger than coffee" they say. "Some stupid corporate bullshit soda is so much stronger than coffee".
I give those people my coffee. They fall down. They twich for a few moments before finally giving in to total cardiac arrest.
Do not fuck with me about coffee.
I repeat do not fuck with me about coffee.
Linux is actually a very useful thing to have on a laptop. Not only a useful desktop but a good network analysis tool, out of the box with standard stuff.
NT is horrible for laptops. The pcmcia support blows. Nothing lke booting linux and having it detect your card automagically.
Actually I think linux is th best thing to put on a laptop.
MS Word has done nothing but scatter useless question marks all over the web. The sad thing is, IE5 doesn't even display the pages properly.
that's nothing. At the Defense Language Institue in Monterey they have the "Fukio Aiso Memorial Library"
1. It forces you to move your pointer to that portion of the screen to click on it. WindowMaker uses right mouse button to launch it's menu, so that you can get the menu from anywhere on the desktop. You can also "tear off" menus and stick them on the dektop. This is definitely an improvement.
2. It gets too cluttered to use.
3. I've noticed that no one ever uses it, probably due to (1). If users don't have a desktop icon for it, they think it isn't installed.
4. Users can't figure out how to change it. More consistent with explorer UI would be to have a "properties" choice by right clicking the start button.
I'm not sure if points 2,3 and 4 are fixable but they are problems nonetheless.
When people at work or friends ask me for help with their windows machines, I tell them "no, I can't help you, but if you want me to install linux I'll do that". I can't believe the amount of time I've wasted fixing my friends broken windows machines.
My only experience with NeXT is with WindowMaker (a clone), but I can't see any similarity between explorer and windowmaker. Windowmaker is very elegant and useful, while explorer is frankly all-thumbs. The start menu is about the worst UI concept I've ever seen.
I _think_ KOffice has a great deal of integration planned. The integration will be on the level of O2K ... it looks very ambitious. Check it out.
The only problem for Office is the price. $800 for an Office suite? Yeah, my company would love those features, but at that price, it's easy to dissuade them. Especially with Y2K and all sorts of other worries in 2K.
Does it have compression? Compression built into the filesystem is a cool thing. What other features does it have?