This isn't about the patents. This is about Nokia seeing their lucrative smart phone market get a serious bite taken out of it and digging through their patent portfolio to try to find a way to stifle competition.
Yes. I never would have guessed that it'd be Nokia that created the "iPhone killer" (or that it'd come in the form of court documents).
Abusing their search monopoly to push into other areas could be. But given that often google services aren't the first link from google searches for them I would be a bit surprised.
I was just answering that. I'm not anti-Google. In fact, I use Google Docs almost exclusively for my office suite needs.
The first link (sponsored) on the search page for "web browser" is "Try Google's New Browser." The first link (non-sponsored) on the search page for "photo manager" is "Picasa 3: Free download from Google."
I'm sure there are many more, and I'm kind of disturbed. I think that the sponsored links are probably more dangerous for Google than the non-sponsored ones as long as the algorithm used to decide the non-sposored links is fair.
No matter what, these results sure show the dominance of Google.
Why Apple decided to use the same name for both a software application and an e-commerce site is beyond me
So that average people would equate the music player with the music store (with the protable music player tied to them).
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I respect Red Hat and Fedora for being such pure FOSS organizations. Kudos. You guys prove that you can have your cake (be FOSS) and eat it, too (make a good profit).
Agreed. Ubuntu doesn't seem to have enough core developers for what they try to do. My feeling is that they have grown out of control. The original "one CD with limited options and only the best software" mantra that made Ubuntu 4.10 interesting has been cast off, universe and multiverse are huge and unmanageable, and core technologies are broken every release.
When your default applications have blocker bugs (F-Spot photo manager sidebar is invisible, F-Spot doesn't work on a supported platform, included plug-ins don't work on Totem movie player or Rhythmbox music manager, or Brasero burning application can't burn a DVD, for starters) and well- and long-supported chipsets with open drivers fail to work with new versions (RaLink wireless and i945 graphics), there really is no reason to release.
Canonical needs to step back, Ubuntu needs to consolidate, and both need to focus on "just works in default install" issues.
Ok you haven't read everything here so I'll lay it out for you. I designed and coded a website. I used wampserver (yes I researched what tool I could use on a windows box to install a wamp stack there are several) on my system at home to do the coding and testing because I didn't have a Linux server handy and it was confidential and I couldn't put it on a computer connected to the internet.
A confidential project for an internal military network that you coded from home? (Yes, I know that's a fragment.) I hope I misunderstood.
But your freedom is defined by your government. If your government thinks you should not have the right to free speech, then it has no problems making it prohibited by law.
This has a real chilling effect on speech (and I'm not talking about anonymous trolls). There is no way for a well-meaning whistle blower to escape the reach of Korea's oligopoly and political in-fighting.
Even sadder is that the whole system is strongly tied to IE and ActiveX (just like the banking). Sigh. I'm happy to be out of that situation. If the rest of the countries of the world adopt similar systems, we'll see the Balkanization of Internet. That shattering of communication (and a non-neutral Internet) may be inevitable.
The exact 640k quote from the talk: "So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. . That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."
It was Eisenhower. "But it isn't always easy to tell whether an error is a typo or a thinko. Take the pronunciation of nuclear as "nucular." That one has been getting on people's nerves since Eisenhower made the mispronunciation famous in the 1950's. In Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Mia Farrow character says she could never fall for any man who says "nucular." That would have ruled out not just Dubya, but Bill Clinton, who said the word right only about half the time. (President Carter had his own way of saying the word, as "newkeeuh," but that probably had more to do with his Georgia accent than his ignorance of English spelling.)"
OK, then you compare the 20" iMac to the Dell Studio 19. Compare the 24" iMac to the Dell XPS One. It's all there. I'm sure you'll decide the iMac is a better deal, but the Dells are certainly cheaper than the iMacs for equivalent hardware, which is what the thread was about.
I did a co0mparison of all-in-ones last February, and determined that you could get an arguably better machine (it's impossible to get the specs to line up exactly) from HP or Dell for $250-300 less. That's 12-15% less -- not chump change.
I wish people would do the actual math instead of saying "I understand that if you compare...."
I think I would go into orgasmic spasms if Yahoo!, MSN, and AIM switched to Jabber. Wouldn't it be nice to talk to anyone no matter the service that person was registered on? If Skype would adopt SIP, then the revolution would be complete.
Conversely, imagine if you had to register for Hotmail just to send e-mail to someone else who was a Hotmail user. Would e-mail ever have become as big as it has?
Where consumers have returned machines, Finch said, it wasn't because of technical problems but because they'd bought a low-priced machine expecting Windows and opened it to find a different interface.
I've bought the wrong version of Windows many times. In 1999, I bought a Win98 machine and another with WinME when I really wanted laptops with Linux. Later, I bought at least three XP machines when I wanted Linux ones.
Unfortunately, I couldn't return the laptops for the models I really wanted so I had to keep the "wrong" ones.
He categorized the matter of returns as a "non-issue".
"They are making something of nothing," he said of Microsoft's claims.
It's a non-issue. Obviously, they are the same rate per sale, which is the only one that wouldn't matter. Read the rest of TFA, too, and you'll understand that Finch was speaking at OpenSource World and trying to combat Microsoft's claim that Linux return rates were four to five times higher.
Oh, and please stop posting in a mono font (I assume you're using <tt> tags).
Not really. "For Home Use" > "Laptops and Minis" brings you to a page with the mini9, 10, and 10v on it. Click on the Mini 9 link and get an Ubuntu machine. Click on the others and look for the "Customize with Ubuntu" button.
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b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party,
This isn't about the patents. This is about Nokia seeing their lucrative smart phone market get a serious bite taken out of it and digging through their patent portfolio to try to find a way to stifle competition.
Yes. I never would have guessed that it'd be Nokia that created the "iPhone killer" (or that it'd come in the form of court documents).
It was a joke, drinkypoo. Lighten up.
If Google does that, there'll be nothing left. Why have the deal at all?
Exactly. I was upset enough when spammy blogs with duplicate content filled my search results, but now I wave to deal with one-line tweets, too? Ugh.
Please read the parent:
Abusing their search monopoly to push into other areas could be. But given that often google services aren't the first link from google searches for them I would be a bit surprised.
I was just answering that. I'm not anti-Google. In fact, I use Google Docs almost exclusively for my office suite needs.
The first link (sponsored) on the search page for "web browser" is "Try Google's New Browser." The first link (non-sponsored) on the search page for "photo manager" is "Picasa 3: Free download from Google."
I'm sure there are many more, and I'm kind of disturbed. I think that the sponsored links are probably more dangerous for Google than the non-sponsored ones as long as the algorithm used to decide the non-sposored links is fair.
No matter what, these results sure show the dominance of Google.
Why Apple decided to use the same name for both a software application and an e-commerce site is beyond me
So that average people would equate the music player with the music store (with the protable music player tied to them).
I respect Red Hat and Fedora for being such pure FOSS organizations. Kudos. You guys prove that you can have your cake (be FOSS) and eat it, too (make a good profit).
Agreed. Ubuntu doesn't seem to have enough core developers for what they try to do. My feeling is that they have grown out of control. The original "one CD with limited options and only the best software" mantra that made Ubuntu 4.10 interesting has been cast off, universe and multiverse are huge and unmanageable, and core technologies are broken every release.
When your default applications have blocker bugs (F-Spot photo manager sidebar is invisible, F-Spot doesn't work on a supported platform, included plug-ins don't work on Totem movie player or Rhythmbox music manager, or Brasero burning application can't burn a DVD, for starters) and well- and long-supported chipsets with open drivers fail to work with new versions (RaLink wireless and i945 graphics), there really is no reason to release.
Canonical needs to step back, Ubuntu needs to consolidate, and both need to focus on "just works in default install" issues.
Mod him Informative for providing release dates.
Mod him Off-topic for recommending Ubuntu in a Fedora story.
Never mod because you agree, disagree, like, or dislike a post. There are no mod options for "+1 Agree."
Yeah, I know you were making a joke (and it was cute), but this needed to be said.
Ok you haven't read everything here so I'll lay it out for you. I designed and coded a website. I used wampserver (yes I researched what tool I could use on a windows box to install a wamp stack there are several) on my system at home to do the coding and testing because I didn't have a Linux server handy and it was confidential and I couldn't put it on a computer connected to the internet.
A confidential project for an internal military network that you coded from home? (Yes, I know that's a fragment.) I hope I misunderstood.
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A former MI soldier
But your freedom is defined by your government. If your government thinks you should not have the right to free speech, then it has no problems making it prohibited by law.
Indded! I just moved from South Korea, and my last few months there were made difficult by its new Internet ID requirements. Suddenly, I couldn't comment on (or sometimes simply log into) many large websites. Foreigners living in Korea are not able to log into or comment on Korean sites at all, though ironically, ethnic Koreans living overseas are able to register for an ID number.
This has a real chilling effect on speech (and I'm not talking about anonymous trolls). There is no way for a well-meaning whistle blower to escape the reach of Korea's oligopoly and political in-fighting.
Even sadder is that the whole system is strongly tied to IE and ActiveX (just like the banking). Sigh. I'm happy to be out of that situation. If the rest of the countries of the world adopt similar systems, we'll see the Balkanization of Internet. That shattering of communication (and a non-neutral Internet) may be inevitable.
The exact 640k quote from the talk: "So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. . That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=228031&cid=18475347
It was Eisenhower. "But it isn't always easy to tell whether an error is a typo or a thinko. Take the pronunciation of nuclear as "nucular." That one has been getting on people's nerves since Eisenhower made the mispronunciation famous in the 1950's. In Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Mia Farrow character says she could never fall for any man who says "nucular." That would have ruled out not just Dubya, but Bill Clinton, who said the word right only about half the time. (President Carter had his own way of saying the word, as "newkeeuh," but that probably had more to do with his Georgia accent than his ignorance of English spelling.)"
I'm reasonably certain it's been shown a number of times that if you build a PC with the exact same hardware as a Mac, you'll end up with a PC that costs about the same.
OK, then you compare the 20" iMac to the Dell Studio 19. Compare the 24" iMac to the Dell XPS One. It's all there. I'm sure you'll decide the iMac is a better deal, but the Dells are certainly cheaper than the iMacs for equivalent hardware, which is what the thread was about.
I did a co0mparison of all-in-ones last February, and determined that you could get an arguably better machine (it's impossible to get the specs to line up exactly) from HP or Dell for $250-300 less. That's 12-15% less -- not chump change.
I wish people would do the actual math instead of saying "I understand that if you compare ...."
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I don't want to think of the pictures that would get embedded. Bonus! No need to click that TubGirl link any more!
I think I would go into orgasmic spasms if Yahoo!, MSN, and AIM switched to Jabber. Wouldn't it be nice to talk to anyone no matter the service that person was registered on? If Skype would adopt SIP, then the revolution would be complete.
Conversely, imagine if you had to register for Hotmail just to send e-mail to someone else who was a Hotmail user. Would e-mail ever have become as big as it has?
Unless you're Brazilian, I think Orkut can be considered a failure.
Here. Let me RTFA for you:
Where consumers have returned machines, Finch said, it wasn't because of technical problems but because they'd bought a low-priced machine expecting Windows and opened it to find a different interface.
I've bought the wrong version of Windows many times. In 1999, I bought a Win98 machine and another with WinME when I really wanted laptops with Linux. Later, I bought at least three XP machines when I wanted Linux ones.
Unfortunately, I couldn't return the laptops for the models I really wanted so I had to keep the "wrong" ones.
He categorized the matter of returns as a "non-issue".
"They are making something of nothing," he said of Microsoft's claims.
It's a non-issue. Obviously, they are the same rate per sale, which is the only one that wouldn't matter. Read the rest of TFA, too, and you'll understand that Finch was speaking at OpenSource World and trying to combat Microsoft's claim that Linux return rates were four to five times higher.
Oh, and please stop posting in a mono font (I assume you're using <tt> tags).
Not really. "For Home Use" > "Laptops and Minis" brings you to a page with the mini9, 10, and 10v on it. Click on the Mini 9 link and get an Ubuntu machine. Click on the others and look for the "Customize with Ubuntu" button.
I undid two mods just to post this correction.