What is the advantage of OGG? I hear about it on Slashdot all the time. I personally can't really tell the difference between listening to a CD, an MP3, or AAC. Maybe I don't have a good ear. Are there other advantages to OGG?
Isn't it amazing the things adults will accuse children of that aren't true. And as kids we never got any justice.
I try not to jump to conclusions with my daughter, but unfortunately I'm not a school teacher and I don't work with children which makes me basically powerless to change anything.
... so how is it different that reverse engineering a DVD player? If I read a book and make a movie based on it, that would seem less protected than a straight lifting of the idea of a DVD player.
OK. If I start creating my own PowerPuff Girl cartoons and distributing them (i.e. I write the script, draw the cartoons, etc.), I'm gonna get sued. Under what kind of IP protection am I sued?
If I make a movie based on a recent book without permission, under what kind of IP protection am I being sued? Can't be trademark. Who trademarks a book? It would have to by copyright (right?) But I'm not stealing the book word for word, I'm reimplenting an idea (i.e. the plot).
In what sense is Missouri in the south? I'm from Missorui (although I now live in Seattle), we get snow in Missouri. Even in Springfield, MO where I'm from. St. Louis, Kansas City, and other more northern parts of the state get lots of snow in the winter.
Heck, they even get snow in north Texas from time to time.
Missouri wasn't even part of the confederacy (some state leaders had a confederate Missouri government in exile, but the the state official sided with the union - at gunpoint). Its not south.
You can also switch to DVORAK on Windows just by altering a software setting as well. Also in MacOS 9. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do the same thing on Linux.
I've heard conflicting reports about DVORAK. Some studies have shown only very slight improvements over QWERTY. Plus, you give up the ability to be able to type on someone else's machine without changing the settings. Plus the re-training time.
Personally, I wouldn't bother switching to DVORAK and I am in the process of teaching my little daughter to type using QWERTY.
I have tried to use desktop linux before. Where I got hung up with it was trying to get an 802.11b card that would work with my laptop and get me onto my home network. I finally gave up when I went to compile the driver for the card and I was missing some header file.
Desktop Linux as it sits today is fine. Its that unusual problem that takes a guru to solve that is going to hold the average person or organization back.
The thing that is wonderful about IBM moving to Linux is that they are going to come up with solutions to my problem and the million other little problems that people get into all the time. Someone at IBM will take the info from the help desk and write some really awesome easy to read Linux troubleshooting guide. More drivers will get written as hardware vendors decide that they want to sell things to IBM. If something works with Linux, it will say so on the box. Wine will get better and Windows software will run as well on Linux as classic MacOS software runs on MacOS X.
The sheer number of non-technical people, or semi-technical people that will have to deal with Linux on a day to day basis at IBM will surface these issues and they will get solved.
Once that happens, its gave over for Microsoft unless they can figure out some rabbit to pull out of the hat to give people a compelling reason to stick with Windows. Frankly, I think that's unlikely. Microsoft has been notoriously bad at entering new markets and making money in them. Things like MSN, XBox, and other divisions are big money loosers for them. They are relying on Windows and Office which are the two things most vulnerable to Open Source.
Ironically, I think that Apple will continue to do OK as long as they keep innovating and delivering solutions that are easier to use, sexier, and on the cutting edge, people who are Mac customers will stick with them. In other words, there is a market for quality, but only room enough for one player at the bottom to compete on price - and its hard to compete with free.
windows... is the result of endless focus groups and user surveys to determine exactly what grandma actually works most comfortably with
Wrong. For the main Windows UI, Microsoft was not out doing tons human factors research. Instead, they just copied the Macintosh and where Windows differs from the Mac, it does so mostly for legal reasons because they were trying to get around specific pattens that Apple had and were also trying to win the famous "Look and Feel" case.
I believe the quote from Bill Gates after looking at Windows 1.0 (which had tiled windows, not overlapping ones like the Mac said, "No, you have it wrong. I want Mac on PC!"
Some of of the way the GUI works is based on HF research done at Apple, but a lot of it is based purely on the intuision and very educated guesses of Jef Raskin and the rest of the Mac team.
Please. Go read Raskin's The Humane Interface. He goes through the current research and where it is pointing away from the desktop as we know it.
They list the InFocus LiteShow and then have a description of something else (some projector, maybe?). And they refer to "The Infocus is...". Hello, InFocus is the manufacturer, not the product name.
LiteShow is a wireless projection system that attaches to any InFocus projector with an M1 adapter (i.e. any recent model they make). It allows you to use an 802.11b/g card in your computer to wirelessly project (i.e. no cable). You don't have to attach anything to your computer. The thing in the picture attaches to the projector, not your computer.
It works on Windows and MacOS X. Sadly, there is not a Linux client available yet. (If you want one, I suggest you call InFocus and ask for one. If they get enough requests, they'll probably start making one!)
I too use Mail and use the junk mail filters. I have noticed that spam is starting to get through. Apparently its a new kind of spam message that contains a list of words to get through filters?
Also, when my business partner forwards email to me, it often marks it as Spam for some reason. Like sometimes he forwards info off of a web page that is advertising something he wants me to look at.
Why would you go to the trouble of saying "The inventor of the telephone" when you could say "Alexander Graham Bell"? Its not like who invented the phone is some big mystery like who invented the wheel.
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What is the advantage of OGG? I hear about it on Slashdot all the time. I personally can't really tell the difference between listening to a CD, an MP3, or AAC. Maybe I don't have a good ear. Are there other advantages to OGG?
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Isn't it amazing the things adults will accuse children of that aren't true. And as kids we never got any justice.
I try not to jump to conclusions with my daughter, but unfortunately I'm not a school teacher and I don't work with children which makes me basically powerless to change anything.
So can I do with a book? I could get the Cliff Notes, then make the movie basedon the Cliff Notes, right?
Nope.
So how is a reverse port of a DVD player not a derivative work?
Yeah, I quit heroin when Pepsi decided to cash in on it.
The parent post did not say that. Also, the parent post was kind of dumb :-) Still, manners are nice.
But you can always *buy* some shrimp at LJS to drown your sorrows (pun intended.)
The check for sun usage has to be made out to Montgomery Burns!
Then why does hollywood bother to pay for the movie rights for books?
They aren't duplicating the book. Often they are making really significant changes. The book isn't patented or trademarked - just copyrighted.
What are they paying for if not the idea?
... so how is it different that reverse engineering a DVD player? If I read a book and make a movie based on it, that would seem less protected than a straight lifting of the idea of a DVD player.
OK. If I start creating my own PowerPuff Girl cartoons and distributing them (i.e. I write the script, draw the cartoons, etc.), I'm gonna get sued. Under what kind of IP protection am I sued?
If I make a movie based on a recent book without permission, under what kind of IP protection am I being sued? Can't be trademark. Who trademarks a book? It would have to by copyright (right?) But I'm not stealing the book word for word, I'm reimplenting an idea (i.e. the plot).
Both Ringo Starr and Pete Best are alive. Once a Beatle, always a Beatle.
In what sense is Missouri in the south? I'm from Missorui (although I now live in Seattle), we get snow in Missouri. Even in Springfield, MO where I'm from. St. Louis, Kansas City, and other more northern parts of the state get lots of snow in the winter.
Heck, they even get snow in north Texas from time to time.
Missouri wasn't even part of the confederacy (some state leaders had a confederate Missouri government in exile, but the the state official sided with the union - at gunpoint). Its not south.
Really? Do you give up any speed in order to be able to do this?
A wireless router is not the same as a gun. Besides, even if you "locked it up" by turning on WEP, it is trivial to hack a WEP key.
You can also switch to DVORAK on Windows just by altering a software setting as well. Also in MacOS 9. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do the same thing on Linux.
I've heard conflicting reports about DVORAK. Some studies have shown only very slight improvements over QWERTY. Plus, you give up the ability to be able to type on someone else's machine without changing the settings. Plus the re-training time.
Personally, I wouldn't bother switching to DVORAK and I am in the process of teaching my little daughter to type using QWERTY.
I have tried to use desktop linux before. Where I got hung up with it was trying to get an 802.11b card that would work with my laptop and get me onto my home network. I finally gave up when I went to compile the driver for the card and I was missing some header file.
Desktop Linux as it sits today is fine. Its that unusual problem that takes a guru to solve that is going to hold the average person or organization back.
The thing that is wonderful about IBM moving to Linux is that they are going to come up with solutions to my problem and the million other little problems that people get into all the time. Someone at IBM will take the info from the help desk and write some really awesome easy to read Linux troubleshooting guide. More drivers will get written as hardware vendors decide that they want to sell things to IBM. If something works with Linux, it will say so on the box. Wine will get better and Windows software will run as well on Linux as classic MacOS software runs on MacOS X.
The sheer number of non-technical people, or semi-technical people that will have to deal with Linux on a day to day basis at IBM will surface these issues and they will get solved.
Once that happens, its gave over for Microsoft unless they can figure out some rabbit to pull out of the hat to give people a compelling reason to stick with Windows. Frankly, I think that's unlikely. Microsoft has been notoriously bad at entering new markets and making money in them. Things like MSN, XBox, and other divisions are big money loosers for them. They are relying on Windows and Office which are the two things most vulnerable to Open Source.
Ironically, I think that Apple will continue to do OK as long as they keep innovating and delivering solutions that are easier to use, sexier, and on the cutting edge, people who are Mac customers will stick with them. In other words, there is a market for quality, but only room enough for one player at the bottom to compete on price - and its hard to compete with free.
windows ... is the result of endless focus groups and user surveys to determine exactly what grandma actually works most comfortably with
Wrong. For the main Windows UI, Microsoft was not out doing tons human factors research. Instead, they just copied the Macintosh and where Windows differs from the Mac, it does so mostly for legal reasons because they were trying to get around specific pattens that Apple had and were also trying to win the famous "Look and Feel" case.
I believe the quote from Bill Gates after looking at Windows 1.0 (which had tiled windows, not overlapping ones like the Mac said, "No, you have it wrong. I want Mac on PC!"
Some of of the way the GUI works is based on HF research done at Apple, but a lot of it is based purely on the intuision and very educated guesses of Jef Raskin and the rest of the Mac team.
Please. Go read Raskin's The Humane Interface. He goes through the current research and where it is pointing away from the desktop as we know it.
And that would a problem why?
They list the InFocus LiteShow and then have a description of something else (some projector, maybe?). And they refer to "The Infocus is...". Hello, InFocus is the manufacturer, not the product name.
LiteShow is a wireless projection system that attaches to any InFocus projector with an M1 adapter (i.e. any recent model they make). It allows you to use an 802.11b/g card in your computer to wirelessly project (i.e. no cable). You don't have to attach anything to your computer. The thing in the picture attaches to the projector, not your computer.
It works on Windows and MacOS X. Sadly, there is not a Linux client available yet. (If you want one, I suggest you call InFocus and ask for one. If they get enough requests, they'll probably start making one!)
I too use Mail and use the junk mail filters. I have noticed that spam is starting to get through. Apparently its a new kind of spam message that contains a list of words to get through filters?
Also, when my business partner forwards email to me, it often marks it as Spam for some reason. Like sometimes he forwards info off of a web page that is advertising something he wants me to look at.
Yeah, I tried to email you to offer you a really great job, but you're address didn't work. So, I hired someone else. Sorry.
Why would you go to the trouble of saying "The inventor of the telephone" when you could say "Alexander Graham Bell"? Its not like who invented the phone is some big mystery like who invented the wheel.
Yeah, but we can easily live without them.