In spite of this, Canadian television has yet to produce a domestic hit television series, and virtually all our recording artists flee to the states.
OK, I'll enlighten you:
Stargate SG1
Due South
Degrassi Junior High
Relic Hunter
PSI Factor
Reboot (Be proud!)
SCTV
Andromeda
And of course, if you mean "made it past two seasons" as being a domestic hit, there is always:
Earth : Final Conflict
Lexx
Nikita
The Naked News
You get the picture. OH wait, maybe a couple of musicicans too then, There are tons of them,but the short list off the top of my head:
RUSH
I mother earth
Our lady peace
The Barenaked Ladies
Nickleback
Crash Test Dummies
Cowboy Junkies
There's tons of great Canadian stuff out there. Spend a bit of time on Google before you spew out idiotic comments like that.
These are intelligent, wealthy people, and they did not get that way by filing groundless lawsuits.
Correct, they are. Do you not think it possible that these intelligent wealthy people stand to become much more wealthy by spreading Linux FUD through these activities, regardless of what happens to SCO?
There has already been an alleged financial connection made between SCO and Microsoft which seems to be quite compelling. And you've just admitted first hand that your company is considering Windows 2003 over linux simply as a result of this case existing, under the assumption that SCO would be insane to do what they are doing if they didn't have a good case.
So you are right, they are intelligent. They've fooled you and your company. And they are more wealthy for it too.
Have you been living under a rock? There are plenty of alternatives. The short list would include (I know there are plenty more, but most coporate users run Windows, so listing Gnumeric etc. is moot):
OpenOffice.org calc (which I find far superior to Excel.)
Corel Quattro Pro.
Most users just need something that performs a function on a row or column of data. Many corporate users _think_ they need Excel to do it. When in reality, they could use an application with far less feature bloat.
Likely, someone would buy the company and all of its assets, seeing a very profitable future in owning the rights to a popular language, OS, and hardware platform.
Yikes, I wonder... if SCO bought them just for Java, would Darl sue Starbucks and Tim Hortons for $699 a cup?!
Actually, I prefer reading on my Clie over paper now. Apart from the advantages other posters have pointed out, I find that reading from a PDA more similarly suits -how- I read now.
For around the past 10 years, I've done the majority of my reading in a browser. As such, I've become accustomed to scrolling up and down, rather than flipping pages, when I'm ready for more content
Palm reader operates in the same fashion, up and down scrolling.
You can easily buy a PC without Windows on it... and if you don't like Microsoft you can use one of the many alternatives. If you are a business owner and want to stream media content, you can choose from one of the many alternatives.
1) People don't choose Microsoft because they have to.
2) People don't choose Microsoft because they're stupid.
Bull.
Slashdotters know they don't have to choose Microsoft. The regular user does *not* distinguish between their PC and the OS. And while I hesitate to call the average user stupid, I would call them ignorant in the tech arena. So if the this convicted monopoly abuser continues to bundle it's own software, codecs et. al. with it's OS, the regular user will become ignorant of the fact that there are other media players (much as some users don't know the Internet Explorer is not the internet.)
*HINT* When's the last time you saw a commerical from ANY major manufacturer that says "With your choice of Windows XP, Linux or BSD?" No, they usually (if they mention the OS at all) say that it 'comes' with Windows $FLAVOR_OF_THE_DAY.
People choose Microsoft because it offers benefits that they consider worthwhile, and as Microsoft's success as a business shows, people are willing to pay for these benefits.
Thanks for writing in Bill.
Most people don't even know that they've payed for the OS when they buy a new computer. Some people don't even know that they've paid for any of the bundled software, since the sales sheet usually says 'software included in this package' but fails to mention the additional cost involved.
If the customer really chooses microsoft, because of the 'benefits', and that's why they pay for it : why is it there is still so much Windows 98 floating around. You would think that with the added benefits of 2000 or XP, these users would FLOCK to the store to give more cash to Microsoft. But that doesn't happen, maybe because they don't really understand the benefits at all as you suggest they do.
Maybe you really just don't get what the problem is here.
...in the original post, so I'm not sure where you get..."Your information is off. Either you haven't used hard drives for about 15 years, or you are making the whole thing up. The MBR does not store the bad block information. "
How about from "These bozo's have essentially wiped out the MBR (READ: Defect Map) and formatted the full capacity of the entire disk."
"If Peter Jackson is a genius at all, it is for recognizing how monumentous the Middle Earth culture really was, and not manipulating an already great story."
Maybe you could qualify that statement? I seem to remember a great many changes to the story. In fact, it doesn't seem at all that he "just shot the damn thing."
Granted, some changes were necessary, despite leaving a bad taste. We really needed to know a little more about Arwen before the marriage, or it would have seemed odd on screen. But, the elves at Helm's Deep? The rewritten ending! How are these NOT manipulations?
They were ordered to produce a version of Windows 95 (IIRC) without IE.
Say what? I may certainly be wrong, this was almost 10 years ago, but I was part of the 95 beta support team. IIRC, the initial release of Windows 95 did NOT even have Internet Explorer INSTALLED, certainly the betas didn't. If I remember, you needed to install it from the Plus! pack. Sorry, I don't have a 95 CD kicking around to verify that though.
I believe that the integrated IEs began shipping with either Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98. Although, that would have been IE4, and it was installable / uninstallable on windows 95, so how is that integrated? (hint, it was pre-installed on 98, not integrated!)
Looks like we should cut MS some slack if this is true, after all:"the blame really doesn't go to [Windows] for its design. It just happens to be popular amongst people who don't know squat about security, though it would help if [Microsoft] would lock things down by default." is just as valid and true a statement.
If they were suing you for downloading, your figures add up. The math looks quite different when they sue you for sharing music. Let take your figure of 100 songs, 10 songs per cd and $15 per CD. Which is $150. Let say 1,000 users take that content that you were sharing, the damage is not $150, its $150,000 (unless you downloaded the music you're sharing, then it's $150,150).
It doesn't include an email app, WYSIWYG HTML editor or IRC client that I'm never going to use.
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that you can custom install and choose NOT to install Mozilla mail, Chatzilla and Composer when you install Mozilla. Not installing those aught to make the Mozilla install small and fast. So where's the advantage in Firefox?
Medium format digital files are much larger. There is a definite advantage to an 8G CF card there.I played with a Kodac DCS pro back : 4080x4080 images, 12-bit/color, 32 bit color images. Weighing in at 20M per image (losslessly compressed.) Woops, there goes your 2G pretty fast!
"I'm sorry, but it did. The main plot point all along was for Frodo to destroy the ring. I never read the books, but I never doubted that he would succeed. And he did destroy the ring."
I believe by real story he is referring to the novels. Destroying the ring was not the end of the story, neither in the movie, nor in the books. The ending in the real story is NOT predictable and is not a happy ending. The ending of the movie however is typical Hollywood fluff.
One of the main plot points of the story was these four Hobbits, out of their element, doing what hobbits generally don't do, adventure... and looking forward to getting back to the Shire that they are so used to. When you read the book, you feel such a sense of relief when the ring is destroyed that these hobbits finally get to go home, to the shire they know and love. I won't spoil the real ending for you, but they, and the reader, are VERY surprised by what they find.
Firstly, the amature photographer who makes money from photography is no longer an amature in my eyes. If you want to make money from photography, then $500 is a very small price to pay for the proper tool.
Adobe doesn't want to sell Photoshop to amatures, anymore than Microsft markets Windows 2003 Datacenter to home users.
Layers and filters are such a tiny fraction of what makes Photoshop attractive to professionals. If those are all you are looking for, there are software vendors, other than Adobe, who also make comprable software, with Layers and filters, for much more reasonable prices. There is also the Gimp, which I think is a very decent package.
"First of all, it takes however long the track is to transfer it too and from the computer or other device. Maybe it's different with the optical in/out, but i never had anything to plug that into. If they had made it a dual functioning device to begin with (ie, audio read/write AND data read/write with no data loss) it would have been more well recieved. they wouldn't have even needed to allow for both types on the same disc."
How on EARTH could you expect to do faster than realtime recording via analog inputs, in a unit that is in no way synced with the source! I think your expectations are quite far from realistic. If you hooked up any other device as an analog input device, be it an iPod, mp3 recorder or tape deck, you will be limitied to realtime recording, so how is this a negative for minidisc???
As for the data/audio comment. The original minidisc units from Sony were made to well, encode and decode and store music, basically a random access/read/write editable digital replacement for DAT. Well over a decade ago. Before USB support. And guess what, they were stereo components! That's right, full size decks. It did not interface with a PC in any way, for anything. So why the hell would it do data storage? If they had made it your way, we would have had to transfer data via SERIAL or PARALLEL!! Again tell me, why would a stereo component built to talk to other stereo components store data?
But FYI, data transfer via USB is faster than realtime, by a longshot. Although it's not worth the quality and DRM tradeoff.
"Sony over-specialized this product to death. It was nice to use to record an occasional concert, and to record myself and friends musical sessions. It just could have had so many more uses."
It WAS specialised, the same way a turntable is, a DAT player is, and a reel to reel is. How is this at all remotely insightful? The damn thing was made to RECORD MUSIC!
"The media cost for MD wouldn't be so bad if it had other uses such as data backup. how much to tapes cost these days? a MD is what, maybe a dollar each? expensive compared to CD's but cheaper than tapes i imagine."
Minidisc is an order of magnitude cheaper than comparable (capacity wise) solid state mediums, and the convenicence of random access read/write (ie. completely editable, move/split/combine and erase indvidual tracks) plus its form factor more than makes up for the cost difference between minidisc and CDRW.
Or, the public at large might see it as "criminals" using their skills for good for a change, instead of defacing web sites and stealing credit card information.
In the public's eye, hacker already has a definition. And this story "fits" one of their descriptions : computer experts who use their skills to break into machines, and find out personal information. Don't know how well that would pan out. Heck, they might be worried that the "Hackers" stole banking information when they traced info back to the US financial institutions!
"Each voter after voting would receive a confirmation receipt showing who he voted for (human readable)+ ser no + date etc + nonce + digitally signed (e.g. pgp), with a code for the voter to later verify online who he voted for (the voter not being easily identifiable by the code). The voter can go to a preferred party at anytime to verify the receipt's signature and the vote record - either online or onsite.
No No NO! Paper receipt, sure. Drop it in a box on the way out for validation. A way to identify a vote to a particular voter. No way in hell.
If you walk out of the building with proof of who you voted for, you can be sure at some point a fine gentleman will want to verify that you voted the way he told you to. Otherwise, it's ball peen hammer time on the toes for you.
Sorry, the Diebold way of rigging elections seems far less painful.
Slashdot Mirror
Hope they filed for a US patent or they will be due for a world of hurt shortly.
- Stargate SG1
- Due South
- Degrassi Junior High
- Relic Hunter
- PSI Factor
- Reboot (Be proud!)
- SCTV
- Andromeda
And of course, if you mean "made it past two seasons" as being a domestic hit, there is always:You get the picture. OH wait, maybe a couple of musicicans too then, There are tons of them,but the short list off the top of my head:
There's tons of great Canadian stuff out there. Spend a bit of time on Google before you spew out idiotic comments like that.
It is illegal to distribute copyrighted materials. You Can download an mp3, you cannot share an mp3 (Distribution).
You can make a personal copy of a CD, you cannot make a copy for someone else (Distribution)
Assume that when they say they are suing file sharers, that they are after those who make the files available...
Correct, they are. Do you not think it possible that these intelligent wealthy people stand to become much more wealthy by spreading Linux FUD through these activities, regardless of what happens to SCO?
There has already been an alleged financial connection made between SCO and Microsoft which seems to be quite compelling. And you've just admitted first hand that your company is considering Windows 2003 over linux simply as a result of this case existing, under the assumption that SCO would be insane to do what they are doing if they didn't have a good case.
So you are right, they are intelligent. They've fooled you and your company. And they are more wealthy for it too.
Have you been living under a rock? There are plenty of alternatives. The short list would include (I know there are plenty more, but most coporate users run Windows, so listing Gnumeric etc. is moot):
Most users just need something that performs a function on a row or column of data. Many corporate users _think_ they need Excel to do it. When in reality, they could use an application with far less feature bloat.
Yikes, I wonder... if SCO bought them just for Java, would Darl sue Starbucks and Tim Hortons for $699 a cup?!
Actually, I prefer reading on my Clie over paper now. Apart from the advantages other posters have pointed out, I find that reading from a PDA more similarly suits -how- I read now.
For around the past 10 years, I've done the majority of my reading in a browser. As such, I've become accustomed to scrolling up and down, rather than flipping pages, when I'm ready for more content
Palm reader operates in the same fashion, up and down scrolling.
Bull.
Slashdotters know they don't have to choose Microsoft. The regular user does *not* distinguish between their PC and the OS. And while I hesitate to call the average user stupid, I would call them ignorant in the tech arena. So if the this convicted monopoly abuser continues to bundle it's own software, codecs et. al. with it's OS, the regular user will become ignorant of the fact that there are other media players (much as some users don't know the Internet Explorer is not the internet.)
*HINT* When's the last time you saw a commerical from ANY major manufacturer that says "With your choice of Windows XP, Linux or BSD?" No, they usually (if they mention the OS at all) say that it 'comes' with Windows $FLAVOR_OF_THE_DAY.
People choose Microsoft because it offers benefits that they consider worthwhile, and as Microsoft's success as a business shows, people are willing to pay for these benefits.
Thanks for writing in Bill.
Most people don't even know that they've payed for the OS when they buy a new computer. Some people don't even know that they've paid for any of the bundled software, since the sales sheet usually says 'software included in this package' but fails to mention the additional cost involved.
If the customer really chooses microsoft, because of the 'benefits', and that's why they pay for it : why is it there is still so much Windows 98 floating around. You would think that with the added benefits of 2000 or XP, these users would FLOCK to the store to give more cash to Microsoft. But that doesn't happen, maybe because they don't really understand the benefits at all as you suggest they do.
Maybe you really just don't get what the problem is here.
It would seem you've never used a Leatherman before.
Unfortunately, they don't come with Knoppix CDs yet. But I have a Wave and have never been dissapointed.
How about from "These bozo's have essentially wiped out the MBR (READ: Defect Map) and formatted the full capacity of the entire disk."
Maybe you could qualify that statement? I seem to remember a great many changes to the story. In fact, it doesn't seem at all that he "just shot the damn thing."
Granted, some changes were necessary, despite leaving a bad taste. We really needed to know a little more about Arwen before the marriage, or it would have seemed odd on screen. But, the elves at Helm's Deep? The rewritten ending! How are these NOT manipulations?
Yes Indeed, their first move was to do away with the apostrophe!
Say what? I may certainly be wrong, this was almost 10 years ago, but I was part of the 95 beta support team. IIRC, the initial release of Windows 95 did NOT even have Internet Explorer INSTALLED, certainly the betas didn't. If I remember, you needed to install it from the Plus! pack. Sorry, I don't have a 95 CD kicking around to verify that though.
I believe that the integrated IEs began shipping with either Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98. Although, that would have been IE4, and it was installable / uninstallable on windows 95, so how is that integrated? (hint, it was pre-installed on 98, not integrated!)
Looks like we should cut MS some slack if this is true, after all :"the blame really doesn't go to [Windows] for its design. It just happens to be popular amongst people who don't know squat about security, though it would help if [Microsoft] would lock things down by default." is just as valid and true a statement.
It's not the downloading, it's the uploading!
If they were suing you for downloading, your figures add up. The math looks quite different when they sue you for sharing music. Let take your figure of 100 songs, 10 songs per cd and $15 per CD. Which is $150. Let say 1,000 users take that content that you were sharing, the damage is not $150, its $150,000 (unless you downloaded the music you're sharing, then it's $150,150).
Not that I support or agree with the RIAA.
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that you can custom install and choose NOT to install Mozilla mail, Chatzilla and Composer when you install Mozilla. Not installing those aught to make the Mozilla install small and fast. So where's the advantage in Firefox?
Medium format digital files are much larger. There is a definite advantage to an 8G CF card there.I played with a Kodac DCS pro back : 4080x4080 images, 12-bit/color, 32 bit color images. Weighing in at 20M per image (losslessly compressed.) Woops, there goes your 2G pretty fast!
The letter Y deserves a break after yesterday, don't you think?
I believe by real story he is referring to the novels. Destroying the ring was not the end of the story, neither in the movie, nor in the books. The ending in the real story is NOT predictable and is not a happy ending. The ending of the movie however is typical Hollywood fluff.
One of the main plot points of the story was these four Hobbits, out of their element, doing what hobbits generally don't do, adventure... and looking forward to getting back to the Shire that they are so used to. When you read the book, you feel such a sense of relief when the ring is destroyed that these hobbits finally get to go home, to the shire they know and love. I won't spoil the real ending for you, but they, and the reader, are VERY surprised by what they find.
Firstly, the amature photographer who makes money from photography is no longer an amature in my eyes. If you want to make money from photography, then $500 is a very small price to pay for the proper tool.
Adobe doesn't want to sell Photoshop to amatures, anymore than Microsft markets Windows 2003 Datacenter to home users.
Layers and filters are such a tiny fraction of what makes Photoshop attractive to professionals. If those are all you are looking for, there are software vendors, other than Adobe, who also make comprable software, with Layers and filters, for much more reasonable prices. There is also the Gimp, which I think is a very decent package.
How on EARTH could you expect to do faster than realtime recording via analog inputs, in a unit that is in no way synced with the source! I think your expectations are quite far from realistic. If you hooked up any other device as an analog input device, be it an iPod, mp3 recorder or tape deck, you will be limitied to realtime recording, so how is this a negative for minidisc???
As for the data/audio comment. The original minidisc units from Sony were made to well, encode and decode and store music, basically a random access/read/write editable digital replacement for DAT. Well over a decade ago. Before USB support. And guess what, they were stereo components! That's right, full size decks. It did not interface with a PC in any way, for anything. So why the hell would it do data storage? If they had made it your way, we would have had to transfer data via SERIAL or PARALLEL!! Again tell me, why would a stereo component built to talk to other stereo components store data?
But FYI, data transfer via USB is faster than realtime, by a longshot. Although it's not worth the quality and DRM tradeoff.
"Sony over-specialized this product to death. It was nice to use to record an occasional concert, and to record myself and friends musical sessions. It just could have had so many more uses."It WAS specialised, the same way a turntable is, a DAT player is, and a reel to reel is. How is this at all remotely insightful? The damn thing was made to RECORD MUSIC!
"The media cost for MD wouldn't be so bad if it had other uses such as data backup. how much to tapes cost these days? a MD is what, maybe a dollar each? expensive compared to CD's but cheaper than tapes i imagine."Minidisc is an order of magnitude cheaper than comparable (capacity wise) solid state mediums, and the convenicence of random access read/write (ie. completely editable, move/split/combine and erase indvidual tracks) plus its form factor more than makes up for the cost difference between minidisc and CDRW.
Demonstrates what to do if you want your internet connection to go down.
I'm curious what the implications are for the BSD code in Windows?
Or, the public at large might see it as "criminals" using their skills for good for a change, instead of defacing web sites and stealing credit card information.
In the public's eye, hacker already has a definition. And this story "fits" one of their descriptions : computer experts who use their skills to break into machines, and find out personal information. Don't know how well that would pan out. Heck, they might be worried that the "Hackers" stole banking information when they traced info back to the US financial institutions!
No No NO! Paper receipt, sure. Drop it in a box on the way out for validation. A way to identify a vote to a particular voter. No way in hell.
If you walk out of the building with proof of who you voted for, you can be sure at some point a fine gentleman will want to verify that you voted the way he told you to. Otherwise, it's ball peen hammer time on the toes for you.
Sorry, the Diebold way of rigging elections seems far less painful.