yeesh. wanna beat the pants offa the looks of other desktops? 1.5 years without an update, and e still rocks.. =)
i don't understand how people put up with the limitations of metacity, kfm, and the like.. e certainly has its limitaitons [not that i've ever met rasterman, but...], still no body makes switching desktops or windows appearing look prettier..
just add goggles, joystick, and network a couple in a room, charge $5 bucks a minute, and MANY kinds of games could be written for this thing!!! Revolution in arcade revenues!!!!
Theme park!? hahahahaha, how shortsighted!!!
Sharp Zarus + ViaVoice (or dragon for linux?)
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just an idea.. it's a handheld Linux based system, so why would this be such a bad idea? hell, while your at it, install festival, so it can talk back
yes yes, a scripting nightmare.. perhaps some enterprising programmers could start something on sourceforge or something..
its not like the technology isn't out there. It's certainly not perfect; the Zarus isn't big on storage space, and it's hardly cheap. and of course countless threads on the imperfection of voice recog.. blah blah.. but good enough is a fine answer on the path to [unattainable] perfection.
actually, once GB is far enough, it'll be ported to Windows no doubt.. then if you write it in GB, doesn't matter what platform *nix *nux *bsd or Windows*..
you know, if Microsoft wasn't in a monopoly position, i might agree with you..
however..
The issue isn't can [or even should] Microsoft restrict their code.. The problem is why they're restricting their code today..
Microsoft is saying no to the GPL because they don't want to compete with it. They [as it seems too many in society] don't understand that the more people are exposed to GPL'd programs and environments the more they begin to recognize the value comes from the ability of the software to fit their needs, not the price tag, or name brand.. Later, as consumer awareness continues to increase, they begin to perceive other unbeknownst values, such as, superior support, superior access to the product, superior control over their work with the product, superior quality of labor involved with the product, superior turnaround time on newer versions of the product, ad nauseum..
Business may be war, and Microsoft may be perceived as not playing fair, and all may actually be fair in love and war.. but from a Branding and Positioning point-of-view.. I wouldn't want to be on their side of the campaign..
For you see.. consumers in the software world aren't like consumers in the car or textile or retail or produce industry.. In the software world; the Consumers are also the Manufacturers..
I will illustrate:
If you were a vegatable farmer, instead of an application programmer.. would you go to Vons or Ralphs or Albertsons for your vegatables? or would you simply grow your own?
Yea, well, if Microsoft were a Grocery store, would you shop there? or grow your own food? share tips with your other local farmers on how to grow their food better.. share FOOD with your fellow farmers, and their families.. What if suddenly, the Microsoft Grocery Store suddenly lobbied congress, and made it illegal to shop there AND grow your own food.. what's next? Lobbying to make it illegal to grow your own food and ONLY be able to buy it from them??
ok, this post is suffering from analogy breakdown, since food is not infinitly replicable without loss, like software [if i give you a radish from my pile of radishes, my inventory is reduced. OTOH, If i give you a copy of radish.jpg, my inventory is NOT reduced.. see? material goods != software goods]..
If I take someone's GPLd code, and use it in a commerical application, I am FORCED (under the license of course) to give out my source code with its distibution.
YES! because when your stupid changes to the lifted CODE don't WORK RIGHT, your CUSTOMERS ought to HAVE THE RIGHT to FIX it for themselves without having to wait for YOUR LOUSY CODERS to fix it for them, poorly!
No FORDs would be stolen.. there would be many more FORDs.. You see, every "stolen" FORD would be a COPY of a FORD, not a MISSING FORD.. the original FORD owner would drive home in his original FORD.. or maybe an identical FORD..
FOR IF FORDS WERE SOFTWARE,
STOLEN FORDs would INCREASE the amount of FORDs, and nobody would come out to the parking lot and weep, since the thief wouldn't have to take the ORIGINAL FORD..
SOFTWARE FORDS == more net FORDS per owner
PHYSICAL FORDS == less net FORDS per owner
Once again, FORDs are not SOFTWARE..
you think *THIS* is a fun debate.. just wait til someone successfully creates the Low-Cost Matter Duplicator(tm)
7-11 goes after shoplifters because it reduces their sellable inventory..
when you copy code [source, binary, or otherwise], nobody is losing anything.. in fact, you've increased the amount of code..
Legal and Illegal, in the software realm, don't take the latter into account and are therefore out of date.
If I copy a piece of software, it doesn't mean I won't go out and purchase that same piece [and version!] of software later.. By todays [legal] standards, I'm actually getting a crippled version of the software if I "pirate" it.. since I don't have the box, manuals, artwork, maps, whatever else, and [not least!] the blessing of the software developer[s].. It's incomplete.. if it's worth OWNING, I believe people will do the logical thing, and do what's necessary to obtain the whole product, not just the runtime essentials..
and well.. if it's NOT worth owning, then Softwarical(sic) Darwinism will take it's course..
...not to mention PalmOS takes a lot less horsepower than PocketPC.. and STILL runs rings around it, speedwise.. crashes less, too [unless you're me!]..
a dragonball 66MHz running PalmOS with 16MB will whoop the crap out of a 166MHz ARM based PocketPC anything with 32MB ram
well, what you'll find with the samsung i300 is, your battery life is crapola compared with my kyocera 6035.
And,
Your screen will die LONG before mine does [assuming normal wear & tear: since you must dial with the screen, and there's no flip [like on the 6035] to protect the screen otherwise..
Yours is only SLIGHTLY smaller, colorful, and otherwise kinda cute.. but I'm a pragmatist..
enjoy it while it lasts..
whatever Samsung comes out with next, in the phone/PDA arena will prolly whoop the titties off of the competition.. alas 1st generation products invariably suck.. [I owned a pdq for a while, what a TANK!!]
anyway, the Samsung i300 is still better than the treo mainly because a Phone+PDA is a better design direction than a PDA+Phone..
not your only option, there's always Samsung's SPH-I300
but, it's a 1st generation device [the treo's a 1st generation device too, if you don't count the vizorphone], and the Kyocera's a 2nd generation Qualcomm [Kyocera purchased Qualcomm's wireless division]. So many good design decisions come from pdq-800/1900 customer input/experience..
this is exactly why the QCP-6035 beats the pants off the treo.. it's got speakerphone, and that u can use it as a pda while you're on the phone is a well known fact..
besides.. with the headset plugged in, it even announces when you have an incoming call and allows you to use your voice to answer or not answer it..
I started with the Qualcomm PDQ-800 [singleband], and it was the best thing since sliced bread!!!
it was huge, then Qualcomm sold their mobile-phone division to Kyocera, who produced the 2nd generation, the QCP-6035.. which kicked even MORE ass!!
I finally upgraded to the Kyocera QCP-6035, it's b&w and the battery life is way better, its 8MB, PalmOS 3.5, and you can totally see the design decisions that came out of their experience with the PDQ-800/1900 before it.. it's a SUPERB product!
then there's the poor Samsung SPH-I300, which is color, but doesn't flip closed [no screen protection], and the only way to dial is with software [that looks like a keypad], the qcp-6035 can be dialed the same way, but yuck!
and.. the Kyocera is still a bit big, but it's MUCH cuter and still smaller than the Treo.. blech
I'd like to open this with an insult.. but I won't
in no particular order:
I can sell my Copy of XP if i wish, if i sell my NFL tickets it can be scalping..
No you can't, otherwise, Microsoft wouldn't be cracking down on people on e-bay selling their LEGITIMATE unused copies of WindowsAnything
The major league baseball is an approved monopoly.. WHY? It isn't like we need a standard in baseball players. The NFL is an approved monopoly.. WHY? Verizon sells worse service and products then microsoft and restricts customers choices, but nobody wants to break a telco..
This is great.. Monopolys are ok, if they're not detrimental.. and Verizon?? if i don't like the I switch to sprint, or cingular, or some no-name service.. i don't see a monopoly here..
I'm finding more reasons to use Windows every day. It has great Java support,
You need to be more clear on this for me, at last count WindowXP wasn't even SHIPPING WITH JAVA SUPPORT! Is that crack smoke I smell?
still no good office suit, fun fun fun
still no good (bugfree) developer suit, fun fun fun
Yes, I'm guessing it is crack smoke, didn't KDevelop just win some award or another?? Have you ever TRIED to develop in Emacs?? Obviously you can't be much of a programmer if you truly think this.. Especially if you think ANY software is "bugfree".. even if you're just being figurative, I KNOW you're not tryna convince me VisualStudio is "bugfree" HAHAHAHA!!!!!
I wouldn't ever recommend windows for a server, nor would i recommend linux. HPUX or Solaris all the way, possibly IBM but i'm not a fan of AIX yet.
Obviously you've never used either HP-UX or Slowlaris, especially if you think there's such a thing as an AIX fan.. heh.. I highly recommend using Linux as a server, especially if you'd like to LEARN Solaris or HP-UX..
And, Ask IBM about AIX.. In particular, ASK THEM WHY THEY ARE RETIRING IT AND REPLACING IT WITH LINUX!! on RS6000s, retiring OS/400 on the AS400s, S390s already run Linux, Netfinitys, NUMA boxs, thinkpads, EVERYTHING..
I'd never recommend linux on the desktop. It merely makes a good tool to learn from, tinker around with.
Honestly, neither would I, but the people I work with, who see Gnome, the people I work with who see and use KDE, and those who see it for the first time [i run E, fyi], really really really want me to.. I tell them, maybe.. maybe when StarOffice 6 is out of beta.. I think they're crazy to want Linux on the desktop.. even if it would drive IT support costs down because it's SO MUCH EASIER to administer. The biggest thing holding it back, i think [besides decent MSOffice filters], is Unix administrators who are too used to administering servers, not wanting to support Lusers(tm), and Help Desk/Desktop Support guys who are just now thinking about learning it.. once that gap gets a little narrower, I think I'll start recommending it more.. otherwise, I'll just go around showing people how much more pretty my notebook is than anything they've EVER SEEN..;)
Redone vm, fun fun fun
actually, it is.. my machine swaps A WHOLE LOT LESS nw.. i highly recommend 2.4.14..
Commercial apps dont, work, fun fun fun
Sure they do! VMware runs like a dream! =) So does Oracle, Mentor Graphics.. What in the world are you running??
Bloated new apps, fun fun fun
Hmm, the only thing I can think of here might be Nautilus.. At the same time. It's still being developed [two minor versions now?], long after Eazel went the way of the dodo bird..
And in conclusion.. I can't wait for posts like yours to go the same way..
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS PATCHED WITHIN HOURS OF REPORTED SECURITY HOLES!!!!!!!!!!!
There; it IS possible, and it IS reasonable to expect it.
Who is the "irresponsible" party here? the people who find the flaws, or the people who put flawed software out there WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO SUPPORT IT!!!
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In other news.. Security through obscurity is WEAK SECURITY, ask any security expert. As soon as you take the vulnerablities out of the public hands, you invite the black-hats and the darker-gray hats, and the d|_|mba55 scr1pt kiddies to HACK YOUR BOX..
deny Administrators and Programmers access to your security information, and say goodbye to security on the Internet(tm)..
I'd like to express my deepest regrets that your business has not been successfully able to keep up with the times.
I'd, further like to define the term "fair use" for you, but instead, I think it would be more useful to define another, more appropriate term; "public good."
Eric S. Raymond once made a very good observation; information is not like spaghetti. If I make a pot of spaghetti, and I give you half of my spaghetti, I am left with 50% less than what I originally cooked. I will have to put forth an amount of effort to make more spaghetti in order to return my inventory to the original amount.
On the other hand; If I have a piece of information, and I tell you what it is, now you too have the same piece of information, in the same amount as I do, and I have not diminished in the amount I began with. In fact, if I gave this same piece of information to hundreds of millions of people; why, I'm -still- in possession of the original amount.
Much like digital media in it's native environment, the Internet.
Enter the Internet and the advent of, what I like to call, Global Public Opinion (GPO). As the Governer of Minnesota Jesse "the body" Ventura, has made quite obvious, the Internet can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Get the GPO out of your favor, and all the laws, lawyers, and systems in the world won't help you maintain your business practices or your customers.
As people are freely, and without regard to borders, communicating with one another, they are learning about the world, and life in places they've never been.. What a lot of the online world is learning is that, when groups of people come together and speak with each other, they can, as a body, make a difference in the various systems they live in. It's important to understand this isn't [necessarily] a conscious or deliberate effort on the parties conversing as much as it is a natural effect of mass digital communication. That which you [the reader] and I are doing now.
Bodies of politic tend to sway lifestyles and business models more than marketing budgets, advertising, or law suits. As the average consumer's (we like to call ourselves citizens) intelligence increases, through everyday digital interaction, people will cluster into interest groups.
As some clouds of knowledgable individuals interact, they will find some countries' existing laws resembling a more tangible "industrial" era, out of date; not relevant and beginning to be misused by certain corporate entities for their own benefit.
God help those corporations who turn their customers afoul of their goods and wares. God help those governing bodies who cannot re-visit their systems without the the principles of freedom as their guide, instead of the principles of profit. Tyranny and oppression don't go over too well in America.
All of this begs the question; what about all the poor artists, whose hard work would go un-rewarded without the likes of your clients?
Does access to a direct, unrestricted, world-wide distribution channel for their work honestly detriment them somehow? Isn't part of the point of being an artist to reach as much of an audience as you can with your message?
Nonetheless, the fate of lyrics.ch is an atrocity. Now it's even harder to find new artists, for us the consumer. What do you care? My bet is that you don't, really. You have a Party Line(tm) that expresses "this or that in the 'greater interest' of such and such." Perhaps, not so deep down, you yourself believe that it's mostly BS, too.
Well, you are slowly turning the GPO against you. As you do so, you will find your circles slowly shrinking. Even if, individually, you've invested well and are financially set for life; I do not envy the stigma you are cultivating, as it will follow you well into your retirement.
You and your clients have lost my business, and will steadily lose the business, and confidence, of a significant amount of consumers over acts like this, the DMCA, SSSCA, UCITA, and others. This legislation villifies you and your clients. The world does not resemble what I elucidate in this letter, however, these issues are on the table for all to consider.
Given this unprecedented global medium for communication [the Internet] is publicly and privately developed, supported, and here to stay; how is it honestly expected that the Internet can be legally regulated by what amounts to censorship? It is a proverb among Internet engineers that "The Internet routes around damage". The more attempt to "legally" manipulate the content of the Internet, the more reaction there will be from the Internet, like a living organism, in the interest of its own "health".
Congratulations if you have read this far. I realize my words mean little to you. I am content to have sent you this assessment of your situation, and am interested in your reply only to the extent that I know what it will be. It is obvious to me, and to the world, what your opinion is by simply observing the fate of lyrics.ch. You, the RIAA, and the MPAA are on a steady course to being seen in the same light as the terrorists which brought down the World Trade Center in New York City.
If you feel this will not affect you individually, let the forums keep discussing... Let the artists continue to hear from their fans, and talk amongst each other... What I say in this letter will come to pass if you, your clients, and copyright legislation do not catch up with reality. I for one, will not miss you.
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M*** P.
Unix Administrator at large.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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yay! found it
First they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out -
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
And I did not speak out -
Because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out -
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me -
And there was no-one left
To speak out for me.
Pastor Niemöller, 1938
thank you for playing..
yeesh. wanna beat the pants offa the looks of other desktops? 1.5 years without an update, and e still rocks.. =)
i don't understand how people put up with the limitations of metacity, kfm, and the like.. e certainly has its limitaitons [not that i've ever met rasterman, but...], still no body makes switching desktops or windows appearing look prettier..
my $0.02
P.S. whatever, spellin' nazis, get jobs
just add goggles, joystick, and network a couple in a room, charge $5 bucks a minute, and MANY kinds of games could be written for this thing!!! Revolution in arcade revenues!!!!
Theme park!? hahahahaha, how shortsighted!!!
just an idea.. it's a handheld Linux based system, so why would this be such a bad idea? hell, while your at it, install festival, so it can talk back
yes yes, a scripting nightmare.. perhaps some enterprising programmers could start something on sourceforge or something..
its not like the technology isn't out there. It's certainly not perfect; the Zarus isn't big on storage space, and it's hardly cheap. and of course countless threads on the imperfection of voice recog.. blah blah.. but good enough is a fine answer on the path to [unattainable] perfection.
Anyway; Keep It Simple, Stupid:
Zarus + Microdrive + ViaVoice/Dragon libs [+ festival?] + glueware = handheld voice recognition..
what's the big deal?
yea, who needs those pesky radio stations anyway
oh! you mean an Amiga!
exactly..
if i like the product i buy it..
hmm.. first i grab the song.. if i like it.. i BUY it.. brilliant.. go you.. I concur.. P2P should STAY!
DRM in the kernel would make the MPAA and RIAA happy, and maybe THEN Billy will release Microsoft Linux!! =)
actually, once GB is far enough, it'll be ported to Windows no doubt.. then if you write it in GB, doesn't matter what platform *nix *nux *bsd or Windows*..
i don't expect the same from VB.. [Windows* only]
you know, if Microsoft wasn't in a monopoly position, i might agree with you..
however..
The issue isn't can [or even should] Microsoft restrict their code.. The problem is why they're restricting their code today..
Microsoft is saying no to the GPL because they don't want to compete with it. They [as it seems too many in society] don't understand that the more people are exposed to GPL'd programs and environments the more they begin to recognize the value comes from the ability of the software to fit their needs, not the price tag, or name brand.. Later, as consumer awareness continues to increase, they begin to perceive other unbeknownst values, such as, superior support, superior access to the product, superior control over their work with the product, superior quality of labor involved with the product, superior turnaround time on newer versions of the product, ad nauseum..
Business may be war, and Microsoft may be perceived as not playing fair, and all may actually be fair in love and war.. but from a Branding and Positioning point-of-view.. I wouldn't want to be on their side of the campaign..
For you see.. consumers in the software world aren't like consumers in the car or textile or retail or produce industry.. In the software world; the Consumers are also the Manufacturers..
I will illustrate:
If you were a vegatable farmer, instead of an application programmer.. would you go to Vons or Ralphs or Albertsons for your vegatables? or would you simply grow your own?
Yea, well, if Microsoft were a Grocery store, would you shop there? or grow your own food? share tips with your other local farmers on how to grow their food better.. share FOOD with your fellow farmers, and their families.. What if suddenly, the Microsoft Grocery Store suddenly lobbied congress, and made it illegal to shop there AND grow your own food.. what's next? Lobbying to make it illegal to grow your own food and ONLY be able to buy it from them??
ok, this post is suffering from analogy breakdown, since food is not infinitly replicable without loss, like software [if i give you a radish from my pile of radishes, my inventory is reduced. OTOH, If i give you a copy of radish.jpg, my inventory is NOT reduced.. see? material goods != software goods]..
but I DO hope you get the idea..
Microsoft is disgusting.
(ok, spelling nazi's have at it)
If I take someone's GPLd code, and use it in a commerical application, I am FORCED (under the license of course) to give out my source code with its distibution.
YES! because when your stupid changes to the lifted CODE don't WORK RIGHT, your CUSTOMERS ought to HAVE THE RIGHT to FIX it for themselves without having to wait for YOUR LOUSY CODERS to fix it for them, poorly!
Jeez that argument's getting SO OLD!!
this is the most insightful post in this whole discussion...
if Microsoft's tactics are at all being portrayed accurately of late, you will get to wave the ITY flag the highest... kudos
why, it's right next to my freedom to debug your worthless code cuz it doesn't work for shit without vast amounts of it needing rewriting..
i hate that stupid fscking argument!!
me? I'm using it to play at LAN parties, and behind firewalls.. but all the copies are legit..
please know of where you speak bEFoRE you speak!
...IF FORDS WERE SOFTWARE..
No FORDs would be stolen.. there would be many more FORDs.. You see, every "stolen" FORD would be a COPY of a FORD, not a MISSING FORD.. the original FORD owner would drive home in his original FORD.. or maybe an identical FORD..
FOR IF FORDS WERE SOFTWARE,
STOLEN FORDs would INCREASE the amount of FORDs, and nobody would come out to the parking lot and weep, since the thief wouldn't have to take the ORIGINAL FORD..
SOFTWARE FORDS == more net FORDS per owner
PHYSICAL FORDS == less net FORDS per owner
Once again, FORDs are not SOFTWARE..
you think *THIS* is a fun debate.. just wait til someone successfully creates the Low-Cost Matter Duplicator(tm)
guys do work at hooters.. they're not as pretty..
those are both kinda flawed..
7-11 goes after shoplifters because it reduces their sellable inventory..
when you copy code [source, binary, or otherwise], nobody is losing anything.. in fact, you've increased the amount of code..
Legal and Illegal, in the software realm, don't take the latter into account and are therefore out of date.
If I copy a piece of software, it doesn't mean I won't go out and purchase that same piece [and version!] of software later.. By todays [legal] standards, I'm actually getting a crippled version of the software if I "pirate" it.. since I don't have the box, manuals, artwork, maps, whatever else, and [not least!] the blessing of the software developer[s].. It's incomplete.. if it's worth OWNING, I believe people will do the logical thing, and do what's necessary to obtain the whole product, not just the runtime essentials..
and well.. if it's NOT worth owning, then Softwarical(sic) Darwinism will take it's course..
...not to mention PalmOS takes a lot less horsepower than PocketPC.. and STILL runs rings around it, speedwise.. crashes less, too [unless you're me!]..
a dragonball 66MHz running PalmOS with 16MB will whoop the crap out of a 166MHz ARM based PocketPC anything with 32MB ram
/me posts on top of himself
well, what you'll find with the samsung i300 is, your battery life is crapola compared with my kyocera 6035.
And,
Your screen will die LONG before mine does [assuming normal wear & tear: since you must dial with the screen, and there's no flip [like on the 6035] to protect the screen otherwise..
Yours is only SLIGHTLY smaller, colorful, and otherwise kinda cute.. but I'm a pragmatist..
enjoy it while it lasts..
whatever Samsung comes out with next, in the phone/PDA arena will prolly whoop the titties off of the competition.. alas 1st generation products invariably suck.. [I owned a pdq for a while, what a TANK!!]
anyway, the Samsung i300 is still better than the treo mainly because a Phone+PDA is a better design direction than a PDA+Phone..
not your only option, there's always Samsung's SPH-I300
but, it's a 1st generation device [the treo's a 1st generation device too, if you don't count the vizorphone], and the Kyocera's a 2nd generation Qualcomm [Kyocera purchased Qualcomm's wireless division]. So many good design decisions come from pdq-800/1900 customer input/experience..
this is exactly why the QCP-6035 beats the pants off the treo.. it's got speakerphone, and that u can use it as a pda while you're on the phone is a well known fact..
besides.. with the headset plugged in, it even announces when you have an incoming call and allows you to use your voice to answer or not answer it..
oh, and tri-band is your friend.
omg, yes!!
I started with the Qualcomm PDQ-800 [singleband], and it was the best thing since sliced bread!!!
it was huge, then Qualcomm sold their mobile-phone division to Kyocera, who produced the 2nd generation, the QCP-6035.. which kicked even MORE ass!!
I finally upgraded to the Kyocera QCP-6035, it's b&w and the battery life is way better, its 8MB, PalmOS 3.5, and you can totally see the design decisions that came out of their experience with the PDQ-800/1900 before it.. it's a SUPERB product!
then there's the poor Samsung SPH-I300, which is color, but doesn't flip closed [no screen protection], and the only way to dial is with software [that looks like a keypad], the qcp-6035 can be dialed the same way, but yuck!
and.. the Kyocera is still a bit big, but it's MUCH cuter and still smaller than the Treo.. blech
anyway, my $0.02..
I'd like to open this with an insult.. but I won't
;)
in no particular order:
I can sell my Copy of XP if i wish, if i sell my NFL tickets it can be scalping..
No you can't, otherwise, Microsoft wouldn't be cracking down on people on e-bay selling their LEGITIMATE unused copies of WindowsAnything
The major league baseball is an approved monopoly.. WHY? It isn't like we need a standard in baseball players. The NFL is an approved monopoly.. WHY? Verizon sells worse service and products then microsoft and restricts customers choices, but nobody wants to break a telco..
This is great.. Monopolys are ok, if they're not detrimental.. and Verizon?? if i don't like the I switch to sprint, or cingular, or some no-name service.. i don't see a monopoly here..
I'm finding more reasons to use Windows every day. It has great Java support,
You need to be more clear on this for me, at last count WindowXP wasn't even SHIPPING WITH JAVA SUPPORT! Is that crack smoke I smell?
still no good office suit, fun fun fun
still no good (bugfree) developer suit, fun fun fun
Yes, I'm guessing it is crack smoke, didn't KDevelop just win some award or another?? Have you ever TRIED to develop in Emacs?? Obviously you can't be much of a programmer if you truly think this.. Especially if you think ANY software is "bugfree".. even if you're just being figurative, I KNOW you're not tryna convince me VisualStudio is "bugfree" HAHAHAHA!!!!!
oh, and as far as Office Suites go, I direct your attention to: Staroffice 6 beta's latest scorecard...
hmm,
I wouldn't ever recommend windows for a server, nor would i recommend linux. HPUX or Solaris all the way, possibly IBM but i'm not a fan of AIX yet.
Obviously you've never used either HP-UX or Slowlaris, especially if you think there's such a thing as an AIX fan.. heh.. I highly recommend using Linux as a server, especially if you'd like to LEARN Solaris or HP-UX..
And, Ask IBM about AIX.. In particular, ASK THEM WHY THEY ARE RETIRING IT AND REPLACING IT WITH LINUX!! on RS6000s, retiring OS/400 on the AS400s, S390s already run Linux, Netfinitys, NUMA boxs, thinkpads, EVERYTHING..
I'd never recommend linux on the desktop. It merely makes a good tool to learn from, tinker around with.
Honestly, neither would I, but the people I work with, who see Gnome, the people I work with who see and use KDE, and those who see it for the first time [i run E, fyi], really really really want me to.. I tell them, maybe.. maybe when StarOffice 6 is out of beta.. I think they're crazy to want Linux on the desktop.. even if it would drive IT support costs down because it's SO MUCH EASIER to administer. The biggest thing holding it back, i think [besides decent MSOffice filters], is Unix administrators who are too used to administering servers, not wanting to support Lusers(tm), and Help Desk/Desktop Support guys who are just now thinking about learning it.. once that gap gets a little narrower, I think I'll start recommending it more.. otherwise, I'll just go around showing people how much more pretty my notebook is than anything they've EVER SEEN..
Redone vm, fun fun fun
actually, it is.. my machine swaps A WHOLE LOT LESS nw.. i highly recommend 2.4.14..
Commercial apps dont, work, fun fun fun
Sure they do! VMware runs like a dream! =) So does Oracle, Mentor Graphics.. What in the world are you running??
Bloated new apps, fun fun fun
Hmm, the only thing I can think of here might be Nautilus.. At the same time. It's still being developed [two minor versions now?], long after Eazel went the way of the dodo bird..
And in conclusion.. I can't wait for posts like yours to go the same way..
have a nice day, Captain Uninformed..
m.
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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS PATCHED WITHIN HOURS OF REPORTED SECURITY HOLES!!!!!!!!!!!
There; it IS possible, and it IS reasonable to expect it.
Who is the "irresponsible" party here? the people who find the flaws, or the people who put flawed software out there WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO SUPPORT IT!!!
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In other news.. Security through obscurity is WEAK SECURITY, ask any security expert. As soon as you take the vulnerablities out of the public hands, you invite the black-hats and the darker-gray hats, and the d|_|mba55 scr1pt kiddies to HACK YOUR BOX..
deny Administrators and Programmers access to your security information, and say goodbye to security on the Internet(tm)..
case closed..
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Hi,
I'd like to express my deepest regrets that your business has not been successfully able to keep up with the times.
I'd, further like to define the term "fair use" for you, but instead, I think it would be more useful to define another, more appropriate term; "public good."
Eric S. Raymond once made a very good observation; information is not like spaghetti. If I make a pot of spaghetti, and I give you half of my spaghetti, I am left with 50% less than what I originally cooked. I will have to put forth an amount of effort to make more spaghetti in order to return my inventory to the original amount.
On the other hand; If I have a piece of information, and I tell you what it is, now you too have the same piece of information, in the same amount as I do, and I have not diminished in the amount I began with. In fact, if I gave this same piece of information to hundreds of millions of people; why, I'm -still- in possession of the original amount.
Much like digital media in it's native environment, the Internet.
Enter the Internet and the advent of, what I like to call, Global Public Opinion (GPO). As the Governer of Minnesota Jesse "the body" Ventura, has made quite obvious, the Internet can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Get the GPO out of your favor, and all the laws, lawyers, and systems in the world won't help you maintain your business practices or your customers.
As people are freely, and without regard to borders, communicating with one another, they are learning about the world, and life in places they've never been.. What a lot of the online world is learning is that, when groups of people come together and speak with each other, they can, as a body, make a difference in the various systems they live in. It's important to understand this isn't [necessarily] a conscious or deliberate effort on the parties conversing as much as it is a natural effect of mass digital communication. That which you [the reader] and I are doing now.
Bodies of politic tend to sway lifestyles and business models more than marketing budgets, advertising, or law suits. As the average consumer's (we like to call ourselves citizens) intelligence increases, through everyday digital interaction, people will cluster into interest groups.
As some clouds of knowledgable individuals interact, they will find some countries' existing laws resembling a more tangible "industrial" era, out of date; not relevant and beginning to be misused by certain corporate entities for their own benefit.
God help those corporations who turn their customers afoul of their goods and wares. God help those governing bodies who cannot re-visit their systems without the the principles of freedom as their guide, instead of the principles of profit. Tyranny and oppression don't go over too well in America.
All of this begs the question; what about all the poor artists, whose hard work would go un-rewarded without the likes of your clients?
Does access to a direct, unrestricted, world-wide distribution channel for their work honestly detriment them somehow? Isn't part of the point of being an artist to reach as much of an audience as you can with your message?
Nonetheless, the fate of lyrics.ch is an atrocity. Now it's even harder to find new artists, for us the consumer. What do you care? My bet is that you don't, really. You have a Party Line(tm) that expresses "this or that in the 'greater interest' of such and such." Perhaps, not so deep down, you yourself believe that it's mostly BS, too.
Well, you are slowly turning the GPO against you. As you do so, you will find your circles slowly shrinking. Even if, individually, you've invested well and are financially set for life; I do not envy the stigma you are cultivating, as it will follow you well into your retirement.
You and your clients have lost my business, and will steadily lose the business, and confidence, of a significant amount of consumers over acts like this, the DMCA, SSSCA, UCITA, and others. This legislation villifies you and your clients. The world does not resemble what I elucidate in this letter, however, these issues are on the table for all to consider.
Given this unprecedented global medium for communication [the Internet] is publicly and privately developed, supported, and here to stay; how is it honestly expected that the Internet can be legally regulated by what amounts to censorship? It is a proverb among Internet engineers that "The Internet routes around damage". The more attempt to "legally" manipulate the content of the Internet, the more reaction there will be from the Internet, like a living organism, in the interest of its own "health".
Congratulations if you have read this far. I realize my words mean little to you. I am content to have sent you this assessment of your situation, and am interested in your reply only to the extent that I know what it will be. It is obvious to me, and to the world, what your opinion is by simply observing the fate of lyrics.ch. You, the RIAA, and the MPAA are on a steady course to being seen in the same light as the terrorists which brought down the World Trade Center in New York City.
If you feel this will not affect you individually, let the forums keep discussing... Let the artists continue to hear from their fans, and talk amongst each other... What I say in this letter will come to pass if you, your clients, and copyright legislation do not catch up with reality. I for one, will not miss you.
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M*** P.
Unix Administrator at large.
A************* - x1879
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham