News Corp is removing its self from the gene pool and will drive traffic to the sites that 'get it'.
Haha, I remember people saying stuff like this back in 1999. The more times change...
Owning a newspaper has always been about the vanity of owning a newspaper, they've never made money.
I take it you've never heard of William Randolph Hearst? Murdoch's own fortune was built in newspapers. You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
The smaller Kindles have been a roaring success, and this new one doesn't look to be any different. I agree though, it would be great if you could pour a glass of milk on it, drop it in the sand, and then rinse it off under the tap so it's good as new.
I really like the newspaper subscription feature...if they worked out something with The Economist, then I might have to shoot the lock off the wallet.
Good for you. Of course, your needs are very simple. Good thing you don't need to run one of the thousands of enterprise apps that will never, ever have an open equivalent. Or do anything remotely complex, like pro-quality video editing.
I agree that if you are a simple home user/hobbyist, open source works fine.
No, it does need to run the same software, particularly in a corporate setting. And I'm not talking about Office here. It also needs seamless AD integration and about a million other things.
Can you be more specific about what's so hard about starting up a software firm? I've been a part of three startups, and I'm now independent and working with another small company, and none have encountered any problems whatsoever with lawsuits or lobbyists. What exactly did you have in mind?
Also, people start movie production companies all the time (every independent movie that comes out starts their own, it seems) and they don't have any problems. A close friend of mine is a movie cameraman on various big-budget Hollywood films, and he sometimes works with smaller independents just for the hell of it. Never mentioned any legal issues.
Even worse, it's "Paradigms OF Artifical Intelligence Programming", not IN. They got the name of the bible wrong! Er, not that I'm a cult member or anything.
You can always tell because they believe all of the business logic should be migrated from your current app framework to stored procedures, there to bitrot in PL/SQL hell forever.
I know, it saddens me too. Enterprise/corporate environments are so specialised, it's not even funny. However, I have high hopes for OpenChange, the open source Exchange protocol library, and there are plans for Kontact and Mailody (I think) to support this. Not sure about Thunderbird.
As for the Cisco vpn stuff, KVPNC uses vpnclient, and I've had problems with timeouts and dropped connections in the past. Also, managing and auto-updating of multiple profiles (what Cisco calls "Connection Entries") wasn't supported well. Maybe I should check again.
The great fear of the carriers is that they become dumb pipes. The lockdown of wireless bandwidth is simply shameful, but I can't imagine it changing without legislation.
I wonder if any Republicans will make hay out of the fact that Blackberries are made by a Canadian company, and the President is unpatriotic for using one.
Sadly, desktop Linux is nowhere near ready for the typical corporate environment. Exchange is a huge issue, as you mentioned. Same with Cisco VPNs (very common), MS Office workflow and automation, etc.
But for your typical mom-like home user who doesn't have specialised needs, something like Ubuntu is pretty great. Hopefully they don't get into video editing though...
Agreed, that is outrageous. I guess the whole matinee thing only works where prices are somewhat reasonable. To be honest, not all theatres here are that cheap either, but luckily there's one near me.
Manhattan is just generally expensive, but it sure is one great place to hang out. Wish I could get there more often.
Stupidest comment ever, eh? Flexible employment gives you lots of options in life that go way beyond seeing movies in the daytime. I thought that would be obvious, but I guess I needed to spell it out for you.
Then again, you may not have the education or employment options to take control of your life in this fashion, which explains your angry outburst. Sorry.
Vacation time? I started work at 7 am, I'll head to the movie at noon, and then put in a couple more hours after. You might want to look into more flexible employment options, kid.
True, I keep forgetting most people haven't arranged their lives in a flexible manner. I work at home, and only pop into the office a couple of days a week. I hate the 9 to 5 grind, personally, but I guess it works for you.
Try going to matinees, like the first matinee of the day on a Monday or something. They are generally much cheaper and there is just a smattering of people, if anyone at all. So it's almost like a private showing for you and your friends.
In fact, I'm going to see Observe and Report today at 12:30 pm, and it will only cost $7.75.
I didn't like Fallout 3 either. I just didn't care about the side quests or any of the paper-thin characters. The game failed to involve me - I think I really need a strong central plot and a big mystery. Currently playing Dead Space, which is great.
Well, there are trackerless torrents - that's been around for years - and peer exchange. Those plus encryption should give most of what you're after, right? I guess there's no way around the port forwarding though.
I happen to know that code rather well, and it's all there, at least for the routers. Cisco hasn't added anything they haven't released. The existing complaints that I know of (and the ones Google turns up) mostly have to do with build scripts, as what you download can be annoying to build. And it's true that they can be slow to release source when new firmware comes out, but they always do in the end.
Anyway, the poster above that I initially responded to implied that Cisco has released nothing (false), and wants to see Cisco execs imprisoned (absurd).
I did read it. It's all to do with Linksys, which was a Cisco acquisition, and the source has been available for ages. So I'm not sure what the FSF is complaining about - unfortunately, there are no specifics given.
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It's in the US Constitution. I think that makes it a right, does it not? You seem to be the one defining it as a privilege.
News Corp is removing its self from the gene pool and will drive traffic to the sites that 'get it'.
Haha, I remember people saying stuff like this back in 1999. The more times change...
Owning a newspaper has always been about the vanity of owning a newspaper, they've never made money.
I take it you've never heard of William Randolph Hearst? Murdoch's own fortune was built in newspapers. You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
I personally enjoy this old classic:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-announce/2001/msg00000.html
Scroll down to the thanks list, and read below. Not saying who is right or wrong here, but it makes for some funny reading.
The smaller Kindles have been a roaring success, and this new one doesn't look to be any different. I agree though, it would be great if you could pour a glass of milk on it, drop it in the sand, and then rinse it off under the tap so it's good as new.
I really like the newspaper subscription feature...if they worked out something with The Economist, then I might have to shoot the lock off the wallet.
Good for you. Of course, your needs are very simple. Good thing you don't need to run one of the thousands of enterprise apps that will never, ever have an open equivalent. Or do anything remotely complex, like pro-quality video editing.
I agree that if you are a simple home user/hobbyist, open source works fine.
No, it does need to run the same software, particularly in a corporate setting. And I'm not talking about Office here. It also needs seamless AD integration and about a million other things.
I use Poderosa - http://en.poderosa.org/
It has tabs and various nice options. Works pretty well.
Can you be more specific about what's so hard about starting up a software firm? I've been a part of three startups, and I'm now independent and working with another small company, and none have encountered any problems whatsoever with lawsuits or lobbyists. What exactly did you have in mind?
Also, people start movie production companies all the time (every independent movie that comes out starts their own, it seems) and they don't have any problems. A close friend of mine is a movie cameraman on various big-budget Hollywood films, and he sometimes works with smaller independents just for the hell of it. Never mentioned any legal issues.
Even worse, it's "Paradigms OF Artifical Intelligence Programming", not IN. They got the name of the bible wrong! Er, not that I'm a cult member or anything.
You can always tell because they believe all of the business logic should be migrated from your current app framework to stored procedures, there to bitrot in PL/SQL hell forever.
Let me be the first to say that you have a really cool job.
I know, it saddens me too. Enterprise/corporate environments are so specialised, it's not even funny. However, I have high hopes for OpenChange, the open source Exchange protocol library, and there are plans for Kontact and Mailody (I think) to support this. Not sure about Thunderbird.
As for the Cisco vpn stuff, KVPNC uses vpnclient, and I've had problems with timeouts and dropped connections in the past. Also, managing and auto-updating of multiple profiles (what Cisco calls "Connection Entries") wasn't supported well. Maybe I should check again.
The great fear of the carriers is that they become dumb pipes. The lockdown of wireless bandwidth is simply shameful, but I can't imagine it changing without legislation.
I wonder if any Republicans will make hay out of the fact that Blackberries are made by a Canadian company, and the President is unpatriotic for using one.
Sadly, desktop Linux is nowhere near ready for the typical corporate environment. Exchange is a huge issue, as you mentioned. Same with Cisco VPNs (very common), MS Office workflow and automation, etc.
But for your typical mom-like home user who doesn't have specialised needs, something like Ubuntu is pretty great. Hopefully they don't get into video editing though...
Agreed, that is outrageous. I guess the whole matinee thing only works where prices are somewhat reasonable. To be honest, not all theatres here are that cheap either, but luckily there's one near me.
Manhattan is just generally expensive, but it sure is one great place to hang out. Wish I could get there more often.
Stupidest comment ever, eh? Flexible employment gives you lots of options in life that go way beyond seeing movies in the daytime. I thought that would be obvious, but I guess I needed to spell it out for you.
Then again, you may not have the education or employment options to take control of your life in this fashion, which explains your angry outburst. Sorry.
Vacation time? I started work at 7 am, I'll head to the movie at noon, and then put in a couple more hours after. You might want to look into more flexible employment options, kid.
True, I keep forgetting most people haven't arranged their lives in a flexible manner. I work at home, and only pop into the office a couple of days a week. I hate the 9 to 5 grind, personally, but I guess it works for you.
Try going to matinees, like the first matinee of the day on a Monday or something. They are generally much cheaper and there is just a smattering of people, if anyone at all. So it's almost like a private showing for you and your friends.
In fact, I'm going to see Observe and Report today at 12:30 pm, and it will only cost $7.75.
I didn't like Fallout 3 either. I just didn't care about the side quests or any of the paper-thin characters. The game failed to involve me - I think I really need a strong central plot and a big mystery. Currently playing Dead Space, which is great.
Well, there are trackerless torrents - that's been around for years - and peer exchange. Those plus encryption should give most of what you're after, right? I guess there's no way around the port forwarding though.
I happen to know that code rather well, and it's all there, at least for the routers. Cisco hasn't added anything they haven't released. The existing complaints that I know of (and the ones Google turns up) mostly have to do with build scripts, as what you download can be annoying to build. And it's true that they can be slow to release source when new firmware comes out, but they always do in the end.
Anyway, the poster above that I initially responded to implied that Cisco has released nothing (false), and wants to see Cisco execs imprisoned (absurd).
I did read it. It's all to do with Linksys, which was a Cisco acquisition, and the source has been available for ages. So I'm not sure what the FSF is complaining about - unfortunately, there are no specifics given.
The code used in Linksys routers is available for download. How is Cisco breaking the law?