I wouldn't say I am a strict Catholic by any sense of the imagination, but I do go to church, and a help out in my church community, and I have to say this museum is a complete crock of shit! Any good Christian knows the Earth really IS millions of years old and that evolution works, and works quite well, if the biodiversity on the planet is any indication.
I love the poster showing how species quickly adapted after the flood. If a species could adapt THAT quickly, how come we have not seen any new species of things such as horses pop up in recorded history.
PLUS, the Bible contradicts itself. First says God made man Adam and then he made Eve out of Adams rib. Later in Genesis it says that he made Man and Woman together.
And then, when Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel were the only people on the WHOLE planet, Cain kills Abel and goes to the land of Nod and takes a wife? Where the HELL did these people in Nod come from?
The Bible contradicts itself all over the place in Genesis. It's a good book with a lot of good moral lessons, but it's blatantly obvious to me that the early creation stories were just pulled out of someone's ass, as they are in most religions.
Every religion, including my own, has it's creation stories and they were THE BEST PEOPLE COULD DO AT THE TIME. Since that first biblical creation story was written, our understanding of how Biology works has come a long way.
I can easily believe in God. I can believe that God created this universe. You can't get energy from no energy, so something got the ball rolling. If it was the big bang that started it all, where did all the energy come from No one has ever made energy without using energy.
So, in the grand scheme of things, religious people (whether they are Christians, Jews, Muslims or any other religion out there), need to accept two basic principles:
1. Evolution happens to be the tool whatever god you worship uses to create new species. 2. Since evolution is going on around us now all the time, I would say creation is NOT DONE YET.
If God is using Evolution so successfully here on our planet, imagine what he's doing on other planets all over the universe? You think all those other intelligent species, have a half-ass pulled out of your creation story in their version of the Bible?
Novell also markets and sells, Netware, GroupWise, ZENWorks, IDM, iChain and a laundry list of other products that are not and never will be open source. With the cross licensing deal, I would think MS has access to documentation on this, and Novell will probably NEVER release any of these documents to the open source community, since none of these products are open source.
Get over it people. Linux isn't what it used to be. It means big business to Novell and Redhat. If you want to run a feel good Linux, run Debian. If you want to run a Linux you might run into in a Fortune 500 company, run SLES 10 or RHEL.
All of these sights say 16 million colors. I'm sure I could easily find a dozen more. True Color MEANS millions of colors. Microsoft is just disguising their guilt with another term. Let the lawyers converge on Redmond!
All I am trying to say is, if Apple is guilty, the WHOLE INDUSTRY is guilty.
I could easily turn this into a soapbox on why we sue people way to much in this country over the stupidest of things....
I'd like to meet someone who went out and bought a MacBook or MacBook Pro just because it did "Millions of Colors."
The suit specifically targets MacBook and MacBook Pro owners, which are Apple's most popular line of PCs. iMacs, Mac Minis and Mac Pros are excluded, even though they should, in theory, suffer from the "Millions of Colors" error.
Oh wait, the lawyers will wait for this lawsuit to be settled and then use this as legal precedent for the SECOND class action lawsuit.
From Wikipedia on Trucolor:
"Truecolor graphics is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory such that each pixel is represented by three or more bytes.
Generally one byte is used for each channel with the fourth byte (if present) being used either as an alpha channel data or simply ignored. Byte order is usually either RGB or BGR. However, systems do exist with more than 8 bits per channel, and these are often also referred to as truecolor (for example a 48-bit truecolor scanner).
One byte (eight bits) per channel gives 256 (28) intensites for each of the channels which gives 16,777,216 colors for each pixel (often approximated as 16 million despite the fact that it's closer to 17 million). The human eye is popularly believed to be capable of discriminating between as many as 10 million colors."
Seems Linux and Windows are just as guilty, since the very definition of Truecolor means almost 17 million colors.
More lawsuits to follow...
Andy
The point is a cosmetic technicality. If should be thrown out of court. I believe True Color is in fact millions of colors and when they listed the actual number of colors, they showed a number greater than 1 million.
Windows used to display the actual number of colors and then they changed it to High Color And True Color.
Overall, this is a frivolous lawsuit that should be thrown out of court. Millions of Colors on my PowerBoook looks way better that Thounds of Colors does.
Andy
Wouldn't this apply to ALL laptop displays by ANY manufacturer? Everyone claims millions of colors for their laptops. Why isn't there a class action lawsuit against Lenovo, HP, Sony and all the others....
Andy
More FUD. Not even one example given. When SCO couldn't do their dirty work for them, they decide to crank up the FUD engine and see if they can take on F/OSS software themselves. We'll see if the list is ever produced with the actual patents and what software infringes on them...
Andy
You need 4 cable lines running into your house to get that kind of speed. That's insane! FIOS is way better. I find it interesting that FIOS can do 100 Mbits now, thought Verizon does not offer that service yet.
I think that running Fiber to the door was a smart move for Verizon. It's killing them now, but they should be good for at least 50 years, if not longer I would think. Hell, if they can give me 3 MBit DSL on a POTS line, I'm sure they'll find a way to increase the bandwidth on FIOS over time.
What if the company had switched to Ubuntu? Or Perhaps SLES 10? Or even CentOS? Would there have been such an outcry? Probably not.
Oracle now makes a Linux distribution that is 100% identical to RHEL. And so does CentOS and White Box Linux and a few others.
Guess what. That's what the GPL allows. Get over it. Everyone was going to "abandon" Red Hat when they discontinued Red Hat Linux. They were all screaming and cursing how this was going to ruin Red Hat's dominant position. Everyone hated Red Hat back then for "abandoning" the core Linux geek.
Now Oracle comes along and everyone is mad at them now for trying to destroy Red Hat.
Jesus people! Save your energy! We need to stay focused and be mad at Microsoft!
They are locked to iPods because of the other digital audio player manufacturers. All these things use the same chips in them. Enabling AAC on another player is simply a matter of paying Dolby Labs and updating your firmware.
If a second label agrees to do this on iTunes, I guarantee you we'll see a bunch of firmware updates for MP3 players to add AAC support.
All the DirecTV HD satellite streams are in MPEG4 and not WMV. So, WMV is not everywhere. Yes, I realize that divx is based off of MS-MPEG4, which is based off of the MPEG-4 spec defined by the MPEG group. MS abandoned MPEG4 when they realized they couldn't own it. Microsoft also abandoned ASF, which they developed and owned.
I just don't see anyone switching off of JPEG
I believe the supposed patent on JPEG is about to run out. Also the company hasn't actually won anything in court. Sony settled out of court. It's my understanding that other users of JPEG gave the company the big middle finger.
JPEG2000 also has patents on it that are under some kind of open specification promise. So, people have a choice, they can use JPEG and risk litigation, or use JPEG2000 and be safe. Most people are using JPEG.
And look what happened there. WMV was supposed to be the death of MPEG-4/Divx. And the Zune was supposed to be the death of the iPod. They try so hard and always come up short.
I'm sure the format has a boatload of patents associated with it that would preclude it from being used in any open source projects.
Heck, if JPEG2000 and MP3Pro can't catch on, what makes them think this will?
To some extent, Microsoft is trying to do the right thing. Vista's security is way better than XPs security, actually running as a user and prompting for permission to run with admin rights.
And IE7, though not perfect, is much better at rendering standard compliant webpages than IE6 ever was. IE7's method of installing ActiveX controls is way better than that IE6.
And yet vendors continue to write software that forces you to run as an admin, or uses IE6's proprietary rendering. Then Vista and IE7 come along, and everyone screams foul because the stuff they wrote IMPROPERLY IN THE FIRST PLACE won't work on Vista and IE 7.
We can't move to IE 7 at work because over a dozen vendors have web apps that drop unsigned ActiveX controls on the box. We have other vendors that won't sign their Java apps, so the newest version of JVM 1.5 causes us issues.
The biggest holdup for Vista won't be IT budgets, but poorly written apps. It's a good thing Microsoft bought Softricity. They're going to need it.
And for the record, I would use a Mac or Linux any day over Windows. And yes, I have used Vista.
You forget something very important here. Novell/SuSE can happily continue to develop all the software it wants that infringes on Microsoft IP, and then SuSE can happily release the software in Europe, where there are NO software patent laws. Then, a US Company that wants to use the software in the US, could simple buy a license from Novell for the code.
This is the case with a lot of other software out there now. FreeType's Bytecode interpreter infringes on Apple IP, yet the code is still in there, for you to turn on. I am sure if Microsoft really sat down and looked at Samba, they could probably find some patent violations also. The code could easily be distributed and commented out, to be turned on by a compile time switch.
You are blaming the wrong people for Linux's problem. You tried to use StarOffice/OpenOffice to read MS Office files and you converted back and forth. Even back then you should have known that OpenOffice was available for Windows, and, had your Windows users started using it, then you would have had no issues.
Same deal with Exchange. It's a proprietary server written by Microsoft that is designed to work with Outlook. If you wanted access to public folders, have the Exchange admin turn on NNTP access to public folders and get to them that way.
What is comes down to in the end is not that Linux is not Enterprise friendly. It's that your corporate environment is not Linux friendly.
You would have had the same issues getting a Macintosh working in that environment.
With 20+ GB downloads of HD movies, we're going to need much faster pipes in order to continue to illegally download movies. Verizon should help fund these guys, as it will help sell the 15 Mbit FIOS intetnet option.
They can't wait that long. The Cowon A2, Creative Zen Vision W and the Archos 504/604 are all there with real nice screens. The iPod is going to play catchup soon, of they don't release a widescreen model.
We, as humans, feel the need to save every single species on the planet, just because they live in our time and we have direct interaction with them. Unless this is something like the Tasmanian wolf, the Dodo, or the Passenger Pigeon, perhaps the species is simply dying out for evolutionary reasons.
Human beings are not the cause of every single extinction on the planet, though we have caused our fair share of extinctions for no good reason, except convenience.
Andy
Most other portable music players cost exactly the same as the iPod. And Microsoft has pretty much abandoned it's PlayForSure partners with the Zune.
So it's time for Apple to step up here and really crush the competition.
1. License FairPlay to the other PlayForSure makers, and allow them all to connect to iTunes. Apple could make a lot of money by collecting a fee for every Fairplay enabled player sold by a third party, and may even be able to charge a $1/month/player fee from the 3rd party makers for access to the iTunes Store.
2. Disable PlayForSure and enable AAC/Fairplay on 3rd party players via Firmware Update
3. Allow 3rd party players to sync with iTunes by giving the makers APIs and let them write drivers.
4. Offer free upgrades of all DRMed WMA songs to AAC on iTunes.
Apple gets a new revenue stream and Napster, MSN Music and BuyMusic.com all go out of business overnight.
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I wouldn't say I am a strict Catholic by any sense of the imagination, but I do go to church, and a help out in my church community, and I have to say this museum is a complete crock of shit! Any good Christian knows the Earth really IS millions of years old and that evolution works, and works quite well, if the biodiversity on the planet is any indication.
I love the poster showing how species quickly adapted after the flood. If a species could adapt THAT quickly, how come we have not seen any new species of things such as horses pop up in recorded history.
PLUS, the Bible contradicts itself. First says God made man Adam and then he made Eve out of Adams rib. Later in Genesis it says that he made Man and Woman together.
And then, when Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel were the only people on the WHOLE planet, Cain kills Abel and goes to the land of Nod and takes a wife? Where the HELL did these people in Nod come from?
The Bible contradicts itself all over the place in Genesis. It's a good book with a lot of good moral lessons, but it's blatantly obvious to me that the early creation stories were just pulled out of someone's ass, as they are in most religions.
Every religion, including my own, has it's creation stories and they were THE BEST PEOPLE COULD DO AT THE TIME. Since that first biblical creation story was written, our understanding of how Biology works has come a long way.
I can easily believe in God. I can believe that God created this universe. You can't get energy from no energy, so something got the ball rolling. If it was the big bang that started it all, where did all the energy come from No one has ever made energy without using energy.
So, in the grand scheme of things, religious people (whether they are Christians, Jews, Muslims or any other religion out there), need to accept two basic principles:
1. Evolution happens to be the tool whatever god you worship uses to create new species.
2. Since evolution is going on around us now all the time, I would say creation is NOT DONE YET.
If God is using Evolution so successfully here on our planet, imagine what he's doing on other planets all over the universe? You think all those other intelligent species, have a half-ass pulled out of your creation story in their version of the Bible?
Andy
Does this mean we can spread our hate evenly between Xandros and Novell now? I guess Novell, Microsoft and Xandros are the new "Axis of Evil."
Andy
Novell, markets and sells SuSE Linux.
Novell also markets and sells, Netware, GroupWise, ZENWorks, IDM, iChain and a laundry list of other products that are not and never will be open source. With the cross licensing deal, I would think MS has access to documentation on this, and Novell will probably NEVER release any of these documents to the open source community, since none of these products are open source.
Get over it people. Linux isn't what it used to be. It means big business to Novell and Redhat. If you want to run a feel good Linux, run Debian. If you want to run a Linux you might run into in a Fortune 500 company, run SLES 10 or RHEL.
I believe Wikipedia. True Color is defined as millions of colors here:
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_g
http://www.scala.com/definition/true-color.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/true_color.html
http://www.sketchpad.net/basics6.htm
All of these sights say 16 million colors. I'm sure I could easily find a dozen more. True Color MEANS millions of colors. Microsoft is just disguising their guilt with another term. Let the lawyers converge on Redmond!
All I am trying to say is, if Apple is guilty, the WHOLE INDUSTRY is guilty.
Throw it out of court before it sets a precedent!
Andy
I could easily turn this into a soapbox on why we sue people way to much in this country over the stupidest of things....
I'd like to meet someone who went out and bought a MacBook or MacBook Pro just because it did "Millions of Colors."
The suit specifically targets MacBook and MacBook Pro owners, which are Apple's most popular line of PCs. iMacs, Mac Minis and Mac Pros are excluded, even though they should, in theory, suffer from the "Millions of Colors" error.
Oh wait, the lawyers will wait for this lawsuit to be settled and then use this as legal precedent for the SECOND class action lawsuit.
From Wikipedia on Trucolor:"Truecolor graphics is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory such that each pixel is represented by three or more bytes.
Generally one byte is used for each channel with the fourth byte (if present) being used either as an alpha channel data or simply ignored. Byte order is usually either RGB or BGR. However, systems do exist with more than 8 bits per channel, and these are often also referred to as truecolor (for example a 48-bit truecolor scanner).
One byte (eight bits) per channel gives 256 (28) intensites for each of the channels which gives 16,777,216 colors for each pixel (often approximated as 16 million despite the fact that it's closer to 17 million). The human eye is popularly believed to be capable of discriminating between as many as 10 million colors."
Seems Linux and Windows are just as guilty, since the very definition of Truecolor means almost 17 million colors. More lawsuits to follow... AndyThe point is a cosmetic technicality. If should be thrown out of court. I believe True Color is in fact millions of colors and when they listed the actual number of colors, they showed a number greater than 1 million.
Windows used to display the actual number of colors and then they changed it to High Color And True Color. Overall, this is a frivolous lawsuit that should be thrown out of court. Millions of Colors on my PowerBoook looks way better that Thounds of Colors does. Andy
Wouldn't this apply to ALL laptop displays by ANY manufacturer? Everyone claims millions of colors for their laptops. Why isn't there a class action lawsuit against Lenovo, HP, Sony and all the others.... Andy
More FUD. Not even one example given. When SCO couldn't do their dirty work for them, they decide to crank up the FUD engine and see if they can take on F/OSS software themselves. We'll see if the list is ever produced with the actual patents and what software infringes on them... Andy
You need 4 cable lines running into your house to get that kind of speed. That's insane! FIOS is way better. I find it interesting that FIOS can do 100 Mbits now, thought Verizon does not offer that service yet.
I think that running Fiber to the door was a smart move for Verizon. It's killing them now, but they should be good for at least 50 years, if not longer I would think. Hell, if they can give me 3 MBit DSL on a POTS line, I'm sure they'll find a way to increase the bandwidth on FIOS over time.
What if the company had switched to Ubuntu? Or Perhaps SLES 10? Or even CentOS? Would there have been such an outcry? Probably not.
Oracle now makes a Linux distribution that is 100% identical to RHEL. And so does CentOS and White Box Linux and a few others.
Guess what. That's what the GPL allows. Get over it. Everyone was going to "abandon" Red Hat when they discontinued Red Hat Linux. They were all screaming and cursing how this was going to ruin Red Hat's dominant position. Everyone hated Red Hat back then for "abandoning" the core Linux geek.
Now Oracle comes along and everyone is mad at them now for trying to destroy Red Hat.
Jesus people! Save your energy! We need to stay focused and be mad at Microsoft!
They are locked to iPods because of the other digital audio player manufacturers. All these things use the same chips in them. Enabling AAC on another player is simply a matter of paying Dolby Labs and updating your firmware.
If a second label agrees to do this on iTunes, I guarantee you we'll see a bunch of firmware updates for MP3 players to add AAC support.
256K DRM free? I think I'm going to start buying music again!
Does anyone know if these songs will be watermarked with your AppleID?
It's a shame they don't give you a choice of AAC or MP3. My iPod plays AAC, but my Cowon does not.
All the DirecTV HD satellite streams are in MPEG4 and not WMV. So, WMV is not everywhere. Yes, I realize that divx is based off of MS-MPEG4, which is based off of the MPEG-4 spec defined by the MPEG group. MS abandoned MPEG4 when they realized they couldn't own it. Microsoft also abandoned ASF, which they developed and owned. I just don't see anyone switching off of JPEG
I believe the supposed patent on JPEG is about to run out. Also the company hasn't actually won anything in court. Sony settled out of court. It's my understanding that other users of JPEG gave the company the big middle finger. JPEG2000 also has patents on it that are under some kind of open specification promise. So, people have a choice, they can use JPEG and risk litigation, or use JPEG2000 and be safe. Most people are using JPEG.
And look what happened there. WMV was supposed to be the death of MPEG-4/Divx. And the Zune was supposed to be the death of the iPod. They try so hard and always come up short.
I'm sure the format has a boatload of patents associated with it that would preclude it from being used in any open source projects.
Heck, if JPEG2000 and MP3Pro can't catch on, what makes them think this will?
To some extent, Microsoft is trying to do the right thing. Vista's security is way better than XPs security, actually running as a user and prompting for permission to run with admin rights.
And IE7, though not perfect, is much better at rendering standard compliant webpages than IE6 ever was. IE7's method of installing ActiveX controls is way better than that IE6.
And yet vendors continue to write software that forces you to run as an admin, or uses IE6's proprietary rendering. Then Vista and IE7 come along, and everyone screams foul because the stuff they wrote IMPROPERLY IN THE FIRST PLACE won't work on Vista and IE 7.
We can't move to IE 7 at work because over a dozen vendors have web apps that drop unsigned ActiveX controls on the box. We have other vendors that won't sign their Java apps, so the newest version of JVM 1.5 causes us issues.
The biggest holdup for Vista won't be IT budgets, but poorly written apps. It's a good thing Microsoft bought Softricity. They're going to need it.
And for the record, I would use a Mac or Linux any day over Windows. And yes, I have used Vista.
Andy
You forget something very important here. Novell/SuSE can happily continue to develop all the software it wants that infringes on Microsoft IP, and then SuSE can happily release the software in Europe, where there are NO software patent laws. Then, a US Company that wants to use the software in the US, could simple buy a license from Novell for the code.
This is the case with a lot of other software out there now. FreeType's Bytecode interpreter infringes on Apple IP, yet the code is still in there, for you to turn on. I am sure if Microsoft really sat down and looked at Samba, they could probably find some patent violations also. The code could easily be distributed and commented out, to be turned on by a compile time switch.
You are blaming the wrong people for Linux's problem. You tried to use StarOffice/OpenOffice to read MS Office files and you converted back and forth. Even back then you should have known that OpenOffice was available for Windows, and, had your Windows users started using it, then you would have had no issues.
Same deal with Exchange. It's a proprietary server written by Microsoft that is designed to work with Outlook. If you wanted access to public folders, have the Exchange admin turn on NNTP access to public folders and get to them that way.
What is comes down to in the end is not that Linux is not Enterprise friendly. It's that your corporate environment is not Linux friendly.
You would have had the same issues getting a Macintosh working in that environment.
With 20+ GB downloads of HD movies, we're going to need much faster pipes in order to continue to illegally download movies. Verizon should help fund these guys, as it will help sell the 15 Mbit FIOS intetnet option.
Andy
They can't wait that long. The Cowon A2, Creative Zen Vision W and the Archos 504/604 are all there with real nice screens. The iPod is going to play catchup soon, of they don't release a widescreen model.
OS X is now EMBEDDED. Apple can now take their OS and use it to run a whole mountain of consumer electronic devices.
So how long till they announce HD based widescreen iPods.
Andy
We, as humans, feel the need to save every single species on the planet, just because they live in our time and we have direct interaction with them. Unless this is something like the Tasmanian wolf, the Dodo, or the Passenger Pigeon, perhaps the species is simply dying out for evolutionary reasons. Human beings are not the cause of every single extinction on the planet, though we have caused our fair share of extinctions for no good reason, except convenience. Andy
Most other portable music players cost exactly the same as the iPod. And Microsoft has pretty much abandoned it's PlayForSure partners with the Zune.
So it's time for Apple to step up here and really crush the competition.
1. License FairPlay to the other PlayForSure makers, and allow them all to connect to iTunes. Apple could make a lot of money by collecting a fee for every Fairplay enabled player sold by a third party, and may even be able to charge a $1/month/player fee from the 3rd party makers for access to the iTunes Store.
2. Disable PlayForSure and enable AAC/Fairplay on 3rd party players via Firmware Update
3. Allow 3rd party players to sync with iTunes by giving the makers APIs and let them write drivers.
4. Offer free upgrades of all DRMed WMA songs to AAC on iTunes.
Apple gets a new revenue stream and Napster, MSN Music and BuyMusic.com all go out of business overnight.
I use Notes every day at work now. It's an OK product, but GroupWise is simply much better. Andy