Linux is released under the GPL. SCO can't just say "oh, it's ok that you have it but it's not ok that others have it."
However, it does seem logical that SCO could _choose_ not to prosecute SCO Linux users. But then, couldn't you argue that any Linux user that ever had a Caldera/SCO OpenLinux CD is a SCO Linux user?
IANAL, but SCO barely had a leg to stand on legally and now it seems like they shot the foot on that leg:)
I think the opposite will actually happen. If I had never run Linux (i.e., stayed with Windows), I would have zero interest in OS X. It's the Unix core with the legendary Mac polish that makes OS X worth looking at, and the desktop user who wants a machine that "just works" is still a long way away from being ready for Linux.
This is a good point. People loved LRP because it was a small Linux that did a certain job. If you take away the standard tools Linux users are accustomed to, and ask them to learn something new that is really only useful to LRP and not to any of their other Unix/Linux installations, there won't be any interest-- people will simply switch to another small Linux distro.
Agreed! I've been having major problems lately with my mail provider and a 3rd party forwarding service I pay for (to provide a stable e-mail address).
Any anti-spam system is a failure if it prevents a single piece of legitimate e-mail from getting to its destination.
I'm running 0.6 on Windows and Linux (Windows at work, Linux at home) full-time (haven't loaded another browser since 0.6 came out), and I've had a total of three crashes.
Exactly right. It's the same concept as putting one of those cable modem gateways (or doing it right with a spare PC) in your home and running a network. Not everything _needs_ to connect to the internet, it just needs to connect to a device that connects to the internet.
Exactly! Why does the government insist on sticking its nose in things like this?
Companies like Clear Channel are just that-- companies. They make money by selling a product (advertisements generally in this case). People obviously listen to them, because these companies keep making more money!
If you run your business so well that you can afford to buy out your competition, more power to you! No one is forcing us to listen to you, whether you own 1% or 100% of the radio market.
While I admit it can be annoying to carry so many devices around, I think I am one of the few that does NOT want the cell phone and the PDA to converge. Right now it's just too big a hassle. I want to be able to hold my PDA in my hand and look at my schedule while I'm on the phone. Yes, I could use a handsfree kit on my PDA-phone, but then you have the tangle of cords, etc.
I think the answer lies in Bluetooth. Give me a Bluetooth phone, my Palm Tungsten T, and a Bluetooth headset and I'll be happy.
The attitude that crashes are acceptable is exactly the reason companies like Microsoft can get away with releasing crap every 2 years and still selling millions.
If the users make a stand and say "fix the bugs or we're not buying", the bugs will get fixed. The problem is very simple: the average computer user simply doesn't know that it is possible to have a computer that doesn't crash.
"Microsoft's biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software
industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations."
-- Esther Schindler, OS/2 Magazine
This is just idiotic. Radio stations (on the rare occasion they play something good, which is a whole different discussion) RARELY tell you what song/artist you just heard. Not to mention songs in TV commercials, shows, etc.
I cannot begin to count the times I have heard a song in one of those places, wanted to buy the CD, and been unable to because it's not credited anywhere! With lyric sites, all you have to do is put in a few words and there it is. Without them, I buy less music.
If the industry was intelligent, they would encourage lyrics side-by-side with sales. Imagine using Amazon to go search for a line in a song and be able to buy the CD then and there.
Another case of the music industry shooting itself in the foot.
It really depends on what skills you have outside of programming and what kind of programming you're trying to do.
The coding I do is in support of the rest of the company (i.e., we are not a software company), and our best programmer by far is the person who worked for the company for 3 or 4 years and then chose to learn to program to better support the work.
It's that simple. The music industry is pricing itself out of business. Why do I have to pay $15 for a CD with an hour of music when I can spend only a little more to get a DVD... 2 hour movie, often 2 or 3 hours of bonus material, feature commentaries (another 2 hours each).
Start selling CDs at reasonable prices and sales will go up, piracy will go down.
I am a programmer with a computer engineering degree. However, that does NOT make me an engineer. Being a licensed engineer shows that you have had an education in not only your field, but also in safety, ethics, and responsibility. As an engineer, you are legally responsible for your work. Not your company, or your boss, or anyone else-- YOU. Just understanding electronics or programming does not make you an engineer.
Saying that a "1GHz PowerBook just cannot out-perform a 2 GHz AMD" shows that you just don't know how computers work. When the instruction set is different, clock speed comparisons are COMPLETELY irrelevant. The same is true of the ARM v. XScale. Maybe the XScale will outperform it, but the only way to tell is to benchmark it-- not to blindly compare clock speeds.
The music industry thinks we don't buy CDs now. The only way we're going to show them how stupid they are is to just not buy these things. _Real_ CD sales will be huge in comparison.
But the Operating System is NOT disposed with! PDAs have operating systems (PalmOS, WinCE, etc.), cell phones do too. ANY computer has an operating system, even if you don't see it.
Normally this "double dipping" by the studios annoys me, but there are a few reasons why I don't mind at all in this case.
First, New Line announced both versions at the same time. They didn't cash in by taking our money for the first and then announcing the second.
Next, there are no duplicate supplements. It _really_ sucks to buy a new Special Edition release only to get all the same features with only one or two little things added.
Third, the price is quite reasonable. This release was available for $15.99 this week. The new release will come in under $25 (I expect we'll see $19.99), PLUS there is a $5 rebate available for buying both. So, $19.99 + $15.99 - $5 = $30.98 for SIX DVDs worth of Fellowship related material.
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However, it does seem logical that SCO could _choose_ not to prosecute SCO Linux users. But then, couldn't you argue that any Linux user that ever had a Caldera/SCO OpenLinux CD is a SCO Linux user?
IANAL, but SCO barely had a leg to stand on legally and now it seems like they shot the foot on that leg :)
I think the opposite will actually happen. If I had never run Linux (i.e., stayed with Windows), I would have zero interest in OS X. It's the Unix core with the legendary Mac polish that makes OS X worth looking at, and the desktop user who wants a machine that "just works" is still a long way away from being ready for Linux.
But it's still sad to see it go.
Any anti-spam system is a failure if it prevents a single piece of legitimate e-mail from getting to its destination.
I'm running 0.6 on Windows and Linux (Windows at work, Linux at home) full-time (haven't loaded another browser since 0.6 came out), and I've had a total of three crashes.
If they're complaining about access to GUI (Aqua) code, that's one thing, but they could at least show some intelligence and say that instead.
Exactly right. It's the same concept as putting one of those cable modem gateways (or doing it right with a spare PC) in your home and running a network. Not everything _needs_ to connect to the internet, it just needs to connect to a device that connects to the internet.
Companies like Clear Channel are just that-- companies. They make money by selling a product (advertisements generally in this case). People obviously listen to them, because these companies keep making more money!
If you run your business so well that you can afford to buy out your competition, more power to you! No one is forcing us to listen to you, whether you own 1% or 100% of the radio market.
GSM service around here is still pretty poor. Unfortunately I have yet to find a TDMA phone with Bluetooth.
I think the answer lies in Bluetooth. Give me a Bluetooth phone, my Palm Tungsten T, and a Bluetooth headset and I'll be happy.
You're right. The compressed folder support in WinXP only supports Zips-- I had to install WinZip to get gzip support.
The attitude that crashes are acceptable is exactly the reason companies like Microsoft can get away with releasing crap every 2 years and still selling millions. If the users make a stand and say "fix the bugs or we're not buying", the bugs will get fixed. The problem is very simple: the average computer user simply doesn't know that it is possible to have a computer that doesn't crash. "Microsoft's biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations." -- Esther Schindler, OS/2 Magazine
Or if you listen to SCO, Solaris for x86 doesn't exist!
This is just idiotic. Radio stations (on the rare occasion they play something good, which is a whole different discussion) RARELY tell you what song/artist you just heard. Not to mention songs in TV commercials, shows, etc. I cannot begin to count the times I have heard a song in one of those places, wanted to buy the CD, and been unable to because it's not credited anywhere! With lyric sites, all you have to do is put in a few words and there it is. Without them, I buy less music. If the industry was intelligent, they would encourage lyrics side-by-side with sales. Imagine using Amazon to go search for a line in a song and be able to buy the CD then and there. Another case of the music industry shooting itself in the foot.
Thanks for the post, since the site is slashdotted! Would mod you up if I had the points.
It really depends on what skills you have outside of programming and what kind of programming you're trying to do. The coding I do is in support of the rest of the company (i.e., we are not a software company), and our best programmer by far is the person who worked for the company for 3 or 4 years and then chose to learn to program to better support the work.
It's that simple. The music industry is pricing itself out of business. Why do I have to pay $15 for a CD with an hour of music when I can spend only a little more to get a DVD... 2 hour movie, often 2 or 3 hours of bonus material, feature commentaries (another 2 hours each). Start selling CDs at reasonable prices and sales will go up, piracy will go down.
I am a programmer with a computer engineering degree. However, that does NOT make me an engineer. Being a licensed engineer shows that you have had an education in not only your field, but also in safety, ethics, and responsibility. As an engineer, you are legally responsible for your work. Not your company, or your boss, or anyone else-- YOU. Just understanding electronics or programming does not make you an engineer.
Agreed! My employer uses GroupWise and it sucks not having Palm support. I know there is IntelliSync but it's commercial and flaky.
Saying that a "1GHz PowerBook just cannot out-perform a 2 GHz AMD" shows that you just don't know how computers work. When the instruction set is different, clock speed comparisons are COMPLETELY irrelevant. The same is true of the ARM v. XScale. Maybe the XScale will outperform it, but the only way to tell is to benchmark it-- not to blindly compare clock speeds.
The music industry thinks we don't buy CDs now. The only way we're going to show them how stupid they are is to just not buy these things. _Real_ CD sales will be huge in comparison.
If you were manually entering instructions in binary, then actually YOU are the operating system.
But the Operating System is NOT disposed with! PDAs have operating systems (PalmOS, WinCE, etc.), cell phones do too. ANY computer has an operating system, even if you don't see it.
Normally this "double dipping" by the studios annoys me, but there are a few reasons why I don't mind at all in this case.
First, New Line announced both versions at the same time. They didn't cash in by taking our money for the first and then announcing the second.
Next, there are no duplicate supplements. It _really_ sucks to buy a new Special Edition release only to get all the same features with only one or two little things added.
Third, the price is quite reasonable. This release was available for $15.99 this week. The new release will come in under $25 (I expect we'll see $19.99), PLUS there is a $5 rebate available for buying both. So, $19.99 + $15.99 - $5 = $30.98 for SIX DVDs worth of Fellowship related material.
Yes, the venue choices are really odd. I have looked at one or two of the other categories and all the venues are odd...