Maybe they are trying to attract that market? I am not saying that is a good or bad thing, though I cannot stand Hungarian notation. But then again, anything that can take some market share from MS is a good thing(TM) to me : )
Things are totally different in the embedded world. Most embedded companies want to standout by doing their own thing. As far as hardware support goes, embedded devices generally have a fixed set of hardware and often the devleopers write their own drivers. Also, we are not talking about Joe Home user here, these are developers and *should* have enough knowledge to look at all the options and choose which one is best for *THEM*. Why would the embedded market want what toolkits they use dictated to them? On the desktop I agree, picking one or two toolkits (QT, GTK+) and sticking with them is the best option. This pretty much what desktop Linux is doing. Sure there are other choices out there, but the majority of apps are GTK+ or QT. There is no problem with having tons of choices in the embedded world. It will only make it stronger and the embedded developers that can differentiate their products most should get the best sales.
What do we (the greedy bastards) do with this wealth?
I didn't say that the American people as a whole are greedy. It is the corporations that are greedy. The whole driving factor of capitalism is greed for more wealth to reward shareholders.
We spread it to poorer countries by bying their products that are made at a cheaper price because most of our workers are being used in a more productive manner and making more money than their 3rd world counterparts.
Don't kid yourself. The process is highly political to make sure that plenty of the money is spent on American corporations. Don't you remember the little hissy fit MS had over the Tron OS? They paid the government to get involved to make sure that MS didn't go down and basically block the Tron OS. I guess that is true capitalism and letting the "market" decide?
Or how about... capitalism? Sure seems to have worked out for us only 5% folks, don't you think? How many non-capitalist economies can stand on their own two feet? And how can you criticize the ideas of capitalism when it is obviously the best economic system out there?
What are you taling about? Where did I criticize capitalism? I have no problem with capitalism for the most part. However, even capitalism if far from perfect. It is a system with one major goal, money. That driving factor is a double edged sword. While it can help fund innovatioin, it also creates monopolies and buys crooked politicians. I personally think the capitalism needs a bunch more checks and balances.
We believe--rightly so--that the American government's first responsibility should be to us, the American citizens.
Guess what, that has not been the case for a *long* time. The US governments first priority is to the large corporations with all the campaign contributions. Our system based on capitalism is quickly moving to a system based on corportism.
But hey, buddy, if you want to give up your job because a third-world country pays their employees a barely-livable fraction of what they would receive for the same work here, go ahead. Just don't call that America's flaw. Me, I'll keep my job. But I suppose that is just the greed in me.
You really like to try to turn an argument around don't you? I was saying that the American corporations are greedy and it is one of the driving factors of capitalism. I personally think it is sickening to take jobs away from Americans and send them overseas to save a few bucks. However, these same companies expect the American people to continue to fund them with our money by buying their products/services. This is why I BOYCOT companies that are doing this or companies that are abusing a monopoly such as MS. Someone should put together a list of all American companies that are sending American jobs overseas.
Of course the RIAA and friends could up the ante, they could use their bought representatives to force laws making it illegal to *not* have DRM software in an OS.
True, however that will only work in the USA. I don't see any other Nation going for that. So basically all the other Nations will become the "Speak-easy" of the internet.
Why don't the "big" CEO, CTO, CFO, etc. ship thier jobs over seas? That would save the company MUCH more then shipping a few QA salaried employees over seas. Greed and power, that is the state of most US companies and the US government. Remove the little man to "save" the company money and then give themselves a bonus for the effort.
Not only that, Americans only represent 5% of the worlds population! Yet they expect to be treated as the majority and the only ones that matter. I guess that is because the USA has taken more then 50% of the worlds wealth. The only reason I can think of that 5% of the worlds population needs 50% of the worlds wealth is greed. Yes, I am a native born American and I served in the US Marines. I am saddened by the state that my nation has acheived. I wish that Americans had a broader view of the world and understood that the WORLD is MUCH larger then just America.
That was my point. The "security" features these guys came up with would not work with out MS making changes. Also, there "security" product does not take other OSes into account such as Linux, *BSD, OS/2, etc. The whole point in this silly DRM crap is to stop "un-authorized" copying. With P2P, it only needs one copy of the file/song and it can propagate all over the web. This is why DRM just wont work. You only need one guy/girl/geek in some country to get past the DRM and it can be all over the net in a few hours. The best approach for the RIAA/MPAA would be to lower prices and to add value to their products, similar to what the MPAA is doing by adding extra "goodies" to DVD's.
I think this is because of the "nasty-gram" I sent them yesterday. Seriously though, I don't see anyway they can save thier product. There is no way they can disable the shift key to make it not by-pass the auto-run "feature". After the first run, they may be able to coerce the user into installing some app that does not allow the auto-run feature to be disabled, however it doesn't seem like a good "anti-piracy" method to me. The first time someone puts one of their disks in, the shift key will still be able to stop the auto-run. I guess it is back to the drawing board for them. Unless they can get MS to force an "upgrade" that stops the shift key from disabling the auto-run "feature".
I think your problem is slackware, not Linux in general. You should try Red Hat 9. I know that everyone complains that it is "bloated", however from my experience, that is not the case. Red Hat has six of the top 10 Linux kernel developers, seven of the top 10 open source development tools engineers working for them that the other distro's just do not have. Red Hat has a pretty tweaked kernel where as Slack has a plain vanilla kernel. Red Hat also has a good XFree build that has given me the best video performance for the Radeon in my laptop. One other thing, switch to 16bit in slack and see what that does for your FPS. The drivers for NVidia are the *same* for Linux, Windows and FreeBSD. They use a common code base or Unified Driver. If you are getting that much of a difference, I would blame it on Slack and not Linux in general.
What brain dead lawyer is telling them to sue with the DMCA? The shift key has been know for years and is DOCUMENTED by MS. If they are to sue anyone it should be MS for documenting this feature (not that I am saying suing MS would make sense, it would be just as dumb as trying to sue this student for pointing out the obvious). This is one of the bigger problems with the DMCA. It is a "blanket" law for all these big corps to use to get their way when they have NO legal grounds to stand on. This student did NOTHING but point out a known MS feature to by pass the auto-run "feature". It is this companies fault for betting their money on a bunch of incompetent developers who would overlook such a well know feature.
Email these punks and let them know how you feel: investor@sunncomm.com
Very easy, you just do it the same way they ported it to win32. Actually, Apple *could* just use the Win32 dll's under Linux. That is how MPLayer an Xine do it. That is why MPLayer and Xine can play just about any audio/vidoe you throw at it after you install the win32-codec package.
They wouldn't need to port all of that to Linux. They would have the app use whatever is a counterpart on Linux. Do you think Apple ported Carbon, Core Audio, IOKit, etc to Win32? I doubt it. It is probably using OpenGL, Quicktime and win32 under MS Windows. Apple could release the same thing to Linux and use OpenGL, Alsa, etc. The don't even need to port Qucktime (though that would be best) to Linux. The win32 dll's work under Linux, that is how MPlayer is able to play all kinds of audio/video.
Does Apple let you burn those songs to standard CD Audio? If so, you can then rip them to non-DRMed ogg/mp3 files with no problems. Does the iPod let you play regular mp3/ogg files? Or only DRMed ones?
I do, just not the *versions* based from 20 years ago, I use the versions that have *evolved* into the technology today. I was just trying to make a point about the millions of patents out there and only a very small fraction of those are patentable. Would you download an ancient version of UNIX from 1983 and use that on all your production servers? Would you compile all of your production code with a C compiler from 1983? Why not use the first version of Oracle from 1985 or so for all your database needs? I mostly was implying that computer science, just like any other science, is an iterative process where you build on previous ideas. Any patents in general slow down that process.
In the IT industry, 20 years *is* forever. Think about the technology from 1983, would you use that over the current technology? This one of the many reasons why patents for software do not work. Copyright is enough to protect software. 20 years for a software patent basically gives the patent holder a lifetime monopoly on the usable lifetime of the patented software.
Actaully, it is not that is was a crime with a computer or the internet. It is because it involved a corporation and *MONEY*. It is pretty sad that a crime that *only* takes money as it's victim has more harsh maximum punishments then a crime that takes a human life as its victim. Only in America!
It actaully is pretty sad that someone who commits murder in the USA would often get a *much* lighter sentence then this with a chance of parol. While what this guy did was wrong, it is no where near as horrid as murder. Though I guess he cost companies money and money seems to be more important then life, at least here in the USA.
Why in the world would you buy a setup like that from Dell? You can build it yourself for almost half the cost. For example, dell wants about $270 to add 512MB of Ram, you can get that 512MB for under $100 online. Dell is just a middle man and really marks up the prices. Search on google, I found plenty of Dual Xeon 2.4GHz setups starting around $1,500, many of them with SCSI. Also, why would you try to compare the cost of a dual 3GHz xeon to a dual 2GHz G5? Wouldn't it be more fair to compare a dual 2GHz to a dual 2GHz?
Well, any studio worth their weight in salt does their OWN programming. Alias Maya, Apple Shake, Pixar RenderMan, Houdini and SoftImage all running on Linux. From the article
three of the most popular 3D animation drawing packages are available in Linux versions: SideFx Houdini (Linux in 1999), Alias Maya (Linux in 2001), and SoftImage (Linux in 2001).
I guess all these huge studios ported millions of lines of code to Linux because Linux sucks right? None of these multi-million/bilion dollar studios know what they are doing, they should be listening to you the "uber" 3D guy. I guess Walt Disney paid to have Photoshop supported under Linux because Disney had nothing better to do with thier money? The most popular motion picture compositing software is Apple Shake and the most popular renderer is Pixar RenderMan, both on Linux.
What idiots. They were just convicted of being a illegal monopoly, but does that stop them? No. They continue to tie products into the OS such as IE and Media player, now they want to try to control what OS is allowed on a PC Sorry, I don't see this having any affect. There are plenty of other bios companies out there, heck HP has their own for HP servers. I just finshed setting up a bunch of HP DL380 servers with Red Hat and in the BIOS they have Linux as one of the OSes to choose. I also don't think IBM and Oracle will sit back and see MS try to destroy their investments in Linux. Sorry MS, try again. When will MS get it, you can't destroy Linux. It will continue as long as people are passionate about it an *want* it to contine. no commercial company can stop it. I hope that IBM can make their newest processor a commodity so that it is more affordable. The PowerPC is much better then anything from Intel. I personally hope Inetl goes down hard for being in bed with MS. Heck, AMD is leaving Intel in the dust with 64 bit chips. Maybe the personal PC can make a switch to PowerPC and still be affordable to the masses?
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I haven't read anything from Baen yet. Do you know of any their fantasy type books that stand out for me to try first?
Maybe they are trying to attract that market? I am not saying that is a good or bad thing, though I cannot stand Hungarian notation. But then again, anything that can take some market share from MS is a good thing(TM) to me : )
Things are totally different in the embedded world. Most embedded companies want to standout by doing their own thing. As far as hardware support goes, embedded devices generally have a fixed set of hardware and often the devleopers write their own drivers. Also, we are not talking about Joe Home user here, these are developers and *should* have enough knowledge to look at all the options and choose which one is best for *THEM*. Why would the embedded market want what toolkits they use dictated to them? On the desktop I agree, picking one or two toolkits (QT, GTK+) and sticking with them is the best option. This pretty much what desktop Linux is doing. Sure there are other choices out there, but the majority of apps are GTK+ or QT. There is no problem with having tons of choices in the embedded world. It will only make it stronger and the embedded developers that can differentiate their products most should get the best sales.
Why don't the "big" CEO, CTO, CFO, etc. ship thier jobs over seas? That would save the company MUCH more then shipping a few QA salaried employees over seas. Greed and power, that is the state of most US companies and the US government. Remove the little man to "save" the company money and then give themselves a bonus for the effort.
Not only that, Americans only represent 5% of the worlds population! Yet they expect to be treated as the majority and the only ones that matter. I guess that is because the USA has taken more then 50% of the worlds wealth. The only reason I can think of that 5% of the worlds population needs 50% of the worlds wealth is greed. Yes, I am a native born American and I served in the US Marines. I am saddened by the state that my nation has acheived. I wish that Americans had a broader view of the world and understood that the WORLD is MUCH larger then just America.
That was my point. The "security" features these guys came up with would not work with out MS making changes. Also, there "security" product does not take other OSes into account such as Linux, *BSD, OS/2, etc. The whole point in this silly DRM crap is to stop "un-authorized" copying. With P2P, it only needs one copy of the file/song and it can propagate all over the web. This is why DRM just wont work. You only need one guy/girl/geek in some country to get past the DRM and it can be all over the net in a few hours. The best approach for the RIAA/MPAA would be to lower prices and to add value to their products, similar to what the MPAA is doing by adding extra "goodies" to DVD's.
I think this is because of the "nasty-gram" I sent them yesterday. Seriously though, I don't see anyway they can save thier product. There is no way they can disable the shift key to make it not by-pass the auto-run "feature". After the first run, they may be able to coerce the user into installing some app that does not allow the auto-run feature to be disabled, however it doesn't seem like a good "anti-piracy" method to me. The first time someone puts one of their disks in, the shift key will still be able to stop the auto-run. I guess it is back to the drawing board for them. Unless they can get MS to force an "upgrade" that stops the shift key from disabling the auto-run "feature".
I think your problem is slackware, not Linux in general. You should try Red Hat 9. I know that everyone complains that it is "bloated", however from my experience, that is not the case. Red Hat has six of the top 10 Linux kernel developers, seven of the top 10 open source development tools engineers working for them that the other distro's just do not have. Red Hat has a pretty tweaked kernel where as Slack has a plain vanilla kernel. Red Hat also has a good XFree build that has given me the best video performance for the Radeon in my laptop. One other thing, switch to 16bit in slack and see what that does for your FPS. The drivers for NVidia are the *same* for Linux, Windows and FreeBSD. They use a common code base or Unified Driver. If you are getting that much of a difference, I would blame it on Slack and not Linux in general.
What brain dead lawyer is telling them to sue with the DMCA? The shift key has been know for years and is DOCUMENTED by MS. If they are to sue anyone it should be MS for documenting this feature (not that I am saying suing MS would make sense, it would be just as dumb as trying to sue this student for pointing out the obvious). This is one of the bigger problems with the DMCA. It is a "blanket" law for all these big corps to use to get their way when they have NO legal grounds to stand on. This student did NOTHING but point out a known MS feature to by pass the auto-run "feature". It is this companies fault for betting their money on a bunch of incompetent developers who would overlook such a well know feature.
Email these punks and let them know how you feel: investor@sunncomm.com
Very easy, you just do it the same way they ported it to win32. Actually, Apple *could* just use the Win32 dll's under Linux. That is how MPLayer an Xine do it. That is why MPLayer and Xine can play just about any audio/vidoe you throw at it after you install the win32-codec package.
They wouldn't need to port all of that to Linux. They would have the app use whatever is a counterpart on Linux. Do you think Apple ported Carbon, Core Audio, IOKit, etc to Win32? I doubt it. It is probably using OpenGL, Quicktime and win32 under MS Windows. Apple could release the same thing to Linux and use OpenGL, Alsa, etc. The don't even need to port Qucktime (though that would be best) to Linux. The win32 dll's work under Linux, that is how MPlayer is able to play all kinds of audio/video.
Does Apple let you burn those songs to standard CD Audio? If so, you can then rip them to non-DRMed ogg/mp3 files with no problems. Does the iPod let you play regular mp3/ogg files? Or only DRMed ones?
I do, just not the *versions* based from 20 years ago, I use the versions that have *evolved* into the technology today. I was just trying to make a point about the millions of patents out there and only a very small fraction of those are patentable. Would you download an ancient version of UNIX from 1983 and use that on all your production servers? Would you compile all of your production code with a C compiler from 1983? Why not use the first version of Oracle from 1985 or so for all your database needs? I mostly was implying that computer science, just like any other science, is an iterative process where you build on previous ideas. Any patents in general slow down that process.
Would you use the versions of Unix from 1983? Or the versions of today that have evolved *based* on those early versions?
In the IT industry, 20 years *is* forever. Think about the technology from 1983, would you use that over the current technology? This one of the many reasons why patents for software do not work. Copyright is enough to protect software. 20 years for a software patent basically gives the patent holder a lifetime monopoly on the usable lifetime of the patented software.
Actaully, it is not that is was a crime with a computer or the internet. It is because it involved a corporation and *MONEY*. It is pretty sad that a crime that *only* takes money as it's victim has more harsh maximum punishments then a crime that takes a human life as its victim. Only in America!
It actaully is pretty sad that someone who commits murder in the USA would often get a *much* lighter sentence then this with a chance of parol. While what this guy did was wrong, it is no where near as horrid as murder. Though I guess he cost companies money and money seems to be more important then life, at least here in the USA.
Why in the world would you buy a setup like that from Dell? You can build it yourself for almost half the cost. For example, dell wants about $270 to add 512MB of Ram, you can get that 512MB for under $100 online. Dell is just a middle man and really marks up the prices. Search on google, I found plenty of Dual Xeon 2.4GHz setups starting around $1,500, many of them with SCSI. Also, why would you try to compare the cost of a dual 3GHz xeon to a dual 2GHz G5? Wouldn't it be more fair to compare a dual 2GHz to a dual 2GHz?
Well you are the odd-ball then since most of hollywood is using Linux to do full production of movies. Linux in Hollywood.
What idiots. They were just convicted of being a illegal monopoly, but does that stop them? No. They continue to tie products into the OS such as IE and Media player, now they want to try to control what OS is allowed on a PC Sorry, I don't see this having any affect. There are plenty of other bios companies out there, heck HP has their own for HP servers. I just finshed setting up a bunch of HP DL380 servers with Red Hat and in the BIOS they have Linux as one of the OSes to choose. I also don't think IBM and Oracle will sit back and see MS try to destroy their investments in Linux. Sorry MS, try again. When will MS get it, you can't destroy Linux. It will continue as long as people are passionate about it an *want* it to contine. no commercial company can stop it. I hope that IBM can make their newest processor a commodity so that it is more affordable. The PowerPC is much better then anything from Intel. I personally hope Inetl goes down hard for being in bed with MS. Heck, AMD is leaving Intel in the dust with 64 bit chips. Maybe the personal PC can make a switch to PowerPC and still be affordable to the masses?