welcome to the freedom...
"Thus the mere act of creation of a work isn't sufficient to justify their 'owning' it. "
so if we create something, we should not own it? we should own it only if creates benefit to all?
very interesting, am I to presume that you never created anything original in you whole life?
right, and moxi "has" digital tuner ONLY, meaning you wont be able to record analog channels, meaning that you wont be able to record any network programming, which is where the most shows are... HBO repeats their shows 30 times a week anyway...
... slashdot keeps posting articles like this... moxi was never a real product and they never even talked about anything revolutionary (replay 4000 has shipped with all those goodies 4 months ago)... so moxi, thank you for confirming my original thoughts, you were a vaporware and you have gone away... now it is left for two real pvr companies to work their magics and bring us some goodies... thank you tivo and replaytv, because of you, our world will never be the same again!
actually, to counter that idea, first shareware program ever made was turned into shareware since its creator learned he can make decent money out of it and start on his own. It was based on assumtion that people using it will pay for it, like people in those days did (80's). Shareware always required payment for use, but it did not enforce it at beggining.
As to people liking to program, we do... which is why we like doing shareware application - it let us do what we want, without usual corporate ideas on what product should be...
Concept of shareware has evolved soon after to include mostly everything written by small companies that was downloadable (hence not published)... today, i doubt you will be able to find any program that sticks to old, old days of shareware
It seems as if many people believe that "shareware" in todays world doesnt have much space between freeware and corporate software world... I can tell you that it does right away, good shareware is usually quite updated, price is cheap, registrations are lifetime and support is almost instant
however with all of that being said, concept is moving forward towards more complicated applications that cant be easily replicated and required constant development - that usually has its price which is changing program to be more restrictive
problem is that guys like me & others who had experience with shareware 7-10 years ago feel bad about moving on to the next phase, which is going to be a death of few left standing true shareware applications
I as a poweruser dont turn off my pc ever... ever... and ever... so do many other users who use Linux or Win2k/XP... what should we do? Turn it off? What about business users? No overtime;-)...
there are so many examples in which these IBM drives should not be used that it makes them essentially useless.. hard drive failures are not something anyone would want to mess around with so in future I will just make sure that whatever I buy does not have IBM drive in it
you are correct... it would tell you your trial expired, but it never stopped working;-)...
they now release demo's essentially, and charge more for it... now they are top 100 desktop software company in the USA;-)
thats not the definition of shareware program... it might have been 15 years ago, but it definetly isnt anymore.
Basically, shareware is an trialware that never expires. Every single shareware program that came out in past 5 years is exactly like that (if not more restrictive). Check their licenses and you will see...
Futhermore, this was never ever point of shareware - it was always ment to be free to try & share but pay if you use it (not pay if you want to pay).
You wishing it to be something else, does not make it so... I work for shareware company and we depend on sales to pay out salaries... the fact that we hold to the true meanings of shareware (full functionallity, no expirations) only hurt us today. We dont drive BMW's or have expensive office's, we dont have overhead yet most of shareware companies are struggling. I suspect this to advance futhermore and you will see more and more restrictive shareware programs in future, same way you see more and more freeware going into some kind of payware.
Reason that modern shareware went into trialware zone is that people like yourself do not want to pay for something if they dont have to, hence developers could not pay off their own bills anymore, much less anything else. What you are talking about is modern freeware programs, most of which have donation pages for people to donate few bucks for developement... and few ever do, even with huge freeware programs, I doubt anyone would get enough money to pay their own hosting bills.
Sad part is that pioneers of modern shareware, such as Jasc (whose Paint Shop Pro was one of the major shareware contributors long, long time ago) now release time limited demoes because thats the only way to sell their own programs.
Actually guys, picture shows Profile 3, which is on market for almost past 2 years (?!), so they had it quite some time before Apple did...
Also, there are bunch of smaller European manufacturers that had all in one lcd design - since people are willing to spend a bit more money there for computers than in USA.
So while Imac is pretty (??), it definetly was not anywhere close to being first integrated lcd system... sorry mac fans
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yeah, so basically since I paid my subscription for past 2 years, they now want me to pay another 200$ or 13$/month for it.. more money for tivo!
I have no issues with slowly looking at replaytv 4000, it owns anway, add the season pass and I am in...
As to "TiVO service", its only tv guide listings, plus ads...and bug fixes... thats it. There are plenty of TV's and VCR's (80%) that now have free lifetime Tv Guide + data which is basically the same thing (tivo used to have guid ppl in house as well, but they fired all 60 of them 3 months ago)... if they can offer it for free, for lifetime, without any ads, I doubt it is really expensive for TiVO to do the same thing... so basically, TiVO is milking their users... which is fine really, we are here to be milked, but at the same time, in the other corner we have ReplayTV 4000, with digital audio support (on cable), networking features and few other neat tricks that make it ohh so much interesting...
since you are lazy to check the numbers, let me lay it down for ya... P4 will be 3 GHZ long before Amd goes to "2600+"... Intel demoed P4 4GHZ recently while at the same time AMD demoed
As to running 32 bit mode, thats just silly... there is no way anyone should/will cash out 3x more money for Hammer (or Intels Itanium for that matter) to run it 32 bit emulation mode that make it slower than AMD Duron
Who cares what is actually the most efficient way? Humans dont want to be efficient, we want to enjoy life in all its glory... and yes, that includes skinning and having 20 aplications with 15 different interfaces, driving our fuel inefficient Mustang GT's, eating burgers and getting drunk every friday night.
Humans are not robots, and we should not be treated so...there even this crazy idea new economy that happy workers are productive workers... dont know about you, but being stuck in the cubicle with black & white screen for 10 hours a day does not make me particulary happy
I am assuming the guy is getting paid for his work, could he searched around a bit for more information? use google.com , it helps you find stuff. he obviously needs a custom screen anyway.
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no, correct thing to say would be that apple is going to sue apple;-)
well, dont forget to consider that Quake3 is 3 years old... add effects of 2002 games +4x anti aliasing + 1600x1200 resolution + multiplayer enviroment with 20+ players on screen and you will have nice P4/AMD XP crawling at 15 fps... so yes, games need faster computers
Quake3 is there for refference as it was standard in measurments for past 3 years.
well actually, R&D is calculated in company's margins....
and afterall, Apple does not develop the hardware really... most of the components are actually done by 3rd part manufacturers, including R&D... like hard drive, cpu, video card, etc... main parts of your system... sure apple does design their systems but so do other companies... Apple is more invloved on software side when compared to other makers than hardware.
All that being said, as long as they have people buying their products, there is nothing wrong with high margins and nice profits... thats why companies are around for...
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welcome to the freedom...
"Thus the mere act of creation of a work isn't sufficient to justify their 'owning' it. "
so if we create something, we should not own it?
we should own it only if creates benefit to all?
very interesting, am I to presume that you never created anything original in you whole life?
lol... no it was not downloaded over the phone line.. it would take weeks ;-)
TiVO in the states recorded show (car commercial) at 2 AM when you didnt have anything set to record...
no.... but they will be able to browse the web on 386!!! beat that MS!
right, and moxi "has" digital tuner ONLY, meaning you wont be able to record analog channels, meaning that you wont be able to record any network programming, which is where the most shows are... HBO repeats their shows 30 times a week anyway...
... slashdot keeps posting articles like this... moxi was never a real product and they never even talked about anything revolutionary (replay 4000 has shipped with all those goodies 4 months ago)... so moxi, thank you for confirming my original thoughts, you were a vaporware and you have gone away... now it is left for two real pvr companies to work their magics and bring us some goodies... thank you tivo and replaytv, because of you, our world will never be the same again!
ATT Global net... they prive dialup access in most of the countries
actually, to counter that idea, first shareware program ever made was turned into shareware since its creator learned he can make decent money out of it and start on his own. It was based on assumtion that people using it will pay for it, like people in those days did (80's). Shareware always required payment for use, but it did not enforce it at beggining.
As to people liking to program, we do... which is why we like doing shareware application - it let us do what we want, without usual corporate ideas on what product should be...
Concept of shareware has evolved soon after to include mostly everything written by small companies that was downloadable (hence not published)... today, i doubt you will be able to find any program that sticks to old, old days of shareware
It seems as if many people believe that "shareware" in todays world doesnt have much space between freeware and corporate software world... I can tell you that it does right away, good shareware is usually quite updated, price is cheap, registrations are lifetime and support is almost instant
however with all of that being said, concept is moving forward towards more complicated applications that cant be easily replicated and required constant development - that usually has its price which is changing program to be more restrictive
problem is that guys like me & others who had experience with shareware 7-10 years ago feel bad about moving on to the next phase, which is going to be a death of few left standing true shareware applications
I as a poweruser dont turn off my pc ever... ever... and ever... so do many other users who use Linux or Win2k/XP... what should we do? Turn it off? What about business users? No overtime ;-)...
there are so many examples in which these IBM drives should not be used that it makes them essentially useless.. hard drive failures are not something anyone would want to mess around with so in future I will just make sure that whatever I buy does not have IBM drive in it
you are correct... it would tell you your trial expired, but it never stopped working ;-)...
they now release demo's essentially, and charge more for it... now they are top 100 desktop software company in the USA ;-)
thats not the definition of shareware program... it might have been 15 years ago, but it definetly isnt anymore.
Basically, shareware is an trialware that never expires. Every single shareware program that came out in past 5 years is exactly like that (if not more restrictive). Check their licenses and you will see...
Futhermore, this was never ever point of shareware - it was always ment to be free to try & share but pay if you use it (not pay if you want to pay).
You wishing it to be something else, does not make it so... I work for shareware company and we depend on sales to pay out salaries... the fact that we hold to the true meanings of shareware (full functionallity, no expirations) only hurt us today. We dont drive BMW's or have expensive office's, we dont have overhead yet most of shareware companies are struggling. I suspect this to advance futhermore and you will see more and more restrictive shareware programs in future, same way you see more and more freeware going into some kind of payware.
Reason that modern shareware went into trialware zone is that people like yourself do not want to pay for something if they dont have to, hence developers could not pay off their own bills anymore, much less anything else. What you are talking about is modern freeware programs, most of which have donation pages for people to donate few bucks for developement... and few ever do, even with huge freeware programs, I doubt anyone would get enough money to pay their own hosting bills.
Sad part is that pioneers of modern shareware, such as Jasc (whose Paint Shop Pro was one of the major shareware contributors long, long time ago) now release time limited demoes because thats the only way to sell their own programs.
Actually guys, picture shows Profile 3, which is on market for almost past 2 years (?!), so they had it quite some time before Apple did...
Also, there are bunch of smaller European manufacturers that had all in one lcd design - since people are willing to spend a bit more money there for computers than in USA.
So while Imac is pretty (??), it definetly was not anywhere close to being first integrated lcd system... sorry mac fans
and OS X runs very slow unless you add 512 ram ;-)
its a movie industry not music... read damn article first
p.s. I am not saying movie industry is right or wrong, but there is enormusly huge difference between a movie and music cd
oh, standard in $3,900 G4? right ;-)
hey, but they have Geforce4 MX!!! (slower than Geforce3 TI200) ;-)
yeah, but thats GPL...they can do anything with it as long as they provide source...and they dont have to contact anyone about it
yeah, so basically since I paid my subscription for past 2 years, they now want me to pay another 200$ or 13$/month for it.. more money for tivo!
I have no issues with slowly looking at replaytv 4000, it owns anway, add the season pass and I am in...
As to "TiVO service", its only tv guide listings, plus ads...and bug fixes... thats it. There are plenty of TV's and VCR's (80%) that now have free lifetime Tv Guide + data which is basically the same thing (tivo used to have guid ppl in house as well, but they fired all 60 of them 3 months ago)... if they can offer it for free, for lifetime, without any ads, I doubt it is really expensive for TiVO to do the same thing... so basically, TiVO is milking their users... which is fine really, we are here to be milked, but at the same time, in the other corner we have ReplayTV 4000, with digital audio support (on cable), networking features and few other neat tricks that make it ohh so much interesting...
since you are lazy to check the numbers, let me lay it down for ya... P4 will be 3 GHZ long before Amd goes to "2600+"... Intel demoed P4 4GHZ recently while at the same time AMD demoed
As to running 32 bit mode, thats just silly... there is no way anyone should/will cash out 3x more money for Hammer (or Intels Itanium for that matter) to run it 32 bit emulation mode that make it slower than AMD Duron
acutally, intel didnt dump rambus, that article was bull... they will incorporate support for next gen Rambus in their next 533 mhz bus chipset...
... since they are utterly useless...
Who cares what is actually the most efficient way? Humans dont want to be efficient, we want to enjoy life in all its glory... and yes, that includes skinning and having 20 aplications with 15 different interfaces, driving our fuel inefficient Mustang GT's, eating burgers and getting drunk every friday night.
Humans are not robots, and we should not be treated so...there even this crazy idea new economy that happy workers are productive workers... dont know about you, but being stuck in the cubicle with black & white screen for 10 hours a day does not make me particulary happy
just my 2c
I am assuming the guy is getting paid for his work, could he searched around a bit for more information? use google.com , it helps you find stuff. he obviously needs a custom screen anyway. jesus
no, correct thing to say would be that apple is going to sue apple ;-)
"more easily" ? No, it is the only way for software pirates to play blizzard's online multiplayer...
well, dont forget to consider that Quake3 is 3 years old... add effects of 2002 games +4x anti aliasing + 1600x1200 resolution + multiplayer enviroment with 20+ players on screen and you will have nice P4/AMD XP crawling at 15 fps... so yes, games need faster computers
Quake3 is there for refference as it was standard in measurments for past 3 years.
well actually, R&D is calculated in company's margins....
and afterall, Apple does not develop the hardware really... most of the components are actually done by 3rd part manufacturers, including R&D... like hard drive, cpu, video card, etc... main parts of your system... sure apple does design their systems but so do other companies... Apple is more invloved on software side when compared to other makers than hardware.
All that being said, as long as they have people buying their products, there is nothing wrong with high margins and nice profits... thats why companies are around for...