I've tried to set up a Mandrake 10.0 system recently by partitioning the hard drive. I used different partitions for certain directory trees like/var,/tmp,/home,/usr, and/boot. Once I got to the package selection screen, I was informed that I had approximately 1.4 gigs of space to install, so I couldn't pick all the packages I wanted. The / partition itself was 1.4 gigs, but the other mount points took up the rest of the 6 gig drive. It seemed I could not continue with the installation unless I did a bare minimal instal
Chances are you made either/var,/usr, and/or root (/) too small. Sure, a single partition got you around all that, but now you have a potential problem waiting to happen should you have a run-away process that eats/tmp or/var/tmp/ or/home, as it effectively consumes all the freespace, and then good luck logging in.
(And I must say that I just love being mod'd a troll in my prior post despite being factually correct)
1. An installation process as straightforward and simple as Windows
Or better, an understanding that Linux is NOT as straightforward and simple as Windows, and at the very least they are going to have to contend with multiple disk partitions (a.k.a, file systems) and that they are either going to have to have a clue as to how they are going to use their system and consequently what the file system size requirements are, or live with the default install. The former takes a little time and effort, the later a lot of patience once the system is installed and subsequently hangs once/var/tmp is full because/var got installed as part of the root file system along with everything else.
2. The device compatibility offered by Windows
Talk to the device manufacturers about having a linux driver. This was the deal in the early days of DOS vs Win3.1 or WinNT drivers, and isn't likely to change any time soon with regard to Linux.
3. The level of cooperation shared by Windows applications
Do you mean other than by MS Office Apps? Or do you mean how all the MS Office apps cooperate to hang the system if you try to run them all at once?
4. The games available on Windows
See the response to number 2 above and apply to the game developers. The PS2 and Xbox crowd occasionally contend with this over various titles release for only one of those platforms.
5. The simplicity of changing system configurations offered by Windows
Linuxconf? The current KDE or Gnome clone? Or did you have something else in mind?
Security isn't an add-on, it's an integral part of every component of every system--whether functional or flawed--and needs to be a design consideration ranking right up there with the user interface.
One of the obvious benefits of posting secuity holes is that it gives developers the insight and the opportunity to not duplicate that same security flaw in another system. How consistently, or not, we are learning these lessons is a different issue.
"In the absence of the requested discovery items, SCO has had to rely upon some alternative sources for proof," the memorandum read. "IBM has so far only produced selected pieces of AIX and Dynix."
Apart from any monetary gains they hope to make, SCO is still fishing for AIX and Dynix source code. Even without verbatim copying, what they can learn from the IBM source code can be applied to SCO's own software products. Were this not the case, they would only need the revision histories for IBM to demonstrate ownership.
No, the project was very obviously ill-advised. Anyone with a clue realizes this now.
The project was clearly mismanaged, but to say ill-advised is to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
In retrospect, the promises made to sell it were clearly deliberate lies. Had the shuttle's performance been known back in the 1970s, the program would have been cancelled almost immediately
The shuttle is comprised of a million parts and half of them move. While the shuttle is "reusable" in principle, in practice a significant portion of the shuttle's components are not. This fact was never hidden; it was incredbily underemphasized to the public, but never hidden.
The problem was not the initial design, it was there weren't enough test flights done prior to declaring it "operational". This speaks to the mismanagement of the program by NASA, the underfunding of the program by the Carter an Reagan administrations, and the stupid perceptions that the government gave the public that the shuttle program was going to be as successful as the Apollo program was on an even more comparatively shoestring budget.
I am not, as the parent poster declared, a NASA shill. I am very much an advocate for a continuous human presense in space because I believe that is where the future of our species lies. And while that future is obviously 100 or more years away, we are never going to get there if we do nothing to reach it.
As for not trusting NASA, I also believe that within minutes of the launch, engineers and key management at NASA knew that Columbia was fatally damaged. I think they chose not to disclose that for the simple fact that there wasn't a damn thing they could do about it. The primary lesson is that we should have always had two shuttles ready to fly. The fact that we have only the Soyuez to get to and from the ISS says that NASA still hasn't learned that lesson.
I never said that the Challenger and Columbia failures weren't NASA's fault, or that decisions weren't overly politicized. What I should have made more clear is that you are an idiot if you think the project was "ill-advised". The knowledge we have gained on many fronts has been huge, and in most cases, unobtainable any other way.
The nature of the launch vehicle was dominated by political considerations, not ones of survivability and quality
Source? Attribution? First and foremost, You need to decouple the design of the shuttle from the management of the flight program.
The loss of tiles was not a failure. It was a loss of tiles
Given that the tails are supposed to stay put, this, in engineering terms, would indeed be described as "a failure" of the tile component. Before you decide to pontificate again, get a freakin' clue about the subject at hand first.
Ok, fair enough. The only other comment I'll add is that while almost anyone can be taught to program, very few people have the mindset and skills necessary to be a good programmer--much in the same what that almost anyone can learn to play the piano, but very few are inherantly great musicians.
You'd be hard pressed to find a mission that demands an astronaut on anything that we reasonably can do in the next 10 years
If you truly believe that, then you have completely missed the point of going to space at all.
Moreover they took on all the limitations of the airplane. 5 operational craft were constructed, two have been lost. The suggestion is that each craft has a lifespan on the order of 25 flights. All failures to date have been catastrophic, with 7 fatalities apiece.
One of the major problems of the space shuttle was that they couldn't fly it enough. How many test flights do you think a fighter plane gets before it goes into production? How many test flights of the shuttle were there? 3 or 4?
Furthermore, for you to say that all of the failures have been "catastrophic" is blatantly incorrect. They had problems with the tiles from day one that were not catastrophic. They had electrical problems, engine problems of various types and other equipment problems. There have been very few flights that have not had at least one failure of one component or piece of equipment. It's the nature of mechanical and electrical systems to fail at some point and that is to be expected, anticipated, and planned for. NASA does this, for the very most part. The catastrophic failures to date have been with those components for which there were not backups and no failsafe alternatives. That is the part they need to better identify: to overcome the engineering bias that produces blindspots in our perception of what can and cannot reasonably be conisdered a potential single point of failure.
How someone can defend themselves and their friends being paid vastly overblown salaries
Overblown on their part or sour grapes on yours?
Indian society places more emphasis on the importance of studies than American society - which favors athletic prowess
Yes, all those Ivy league schools threatening once again to sweep the NCAA championships across all sports. Damn them!
Want to get jobs back to the US? Lower the wages. For US IT professionals to demand comparatively high salaries almost demands their jobs are sent elsewhere
Just what do you think has happened in the post dot com bust? Salaries are only now starting to rise. Do you still know web developers who only know html (and only if they have a book in front of them) pulling down six figures? Do you know anyone who is a dba and yet can't write a simple query making that sort of cash? Sure, back in 97 and 98 there were all too many of that sort of situation. But today? Please!
His figures for WWII and WWI are incorrect, the WWII figures are off by a lot. It almost appears he's only counting the military dead. And that's not even considering that the "official" figures for the Russian civilian dead run as high as 20 million. At face value, it cannot be said whether this is an honest discrepancy between "offical" sources, or if he was employing some creative accounting to opportunistically make his point. If he has fudge the figures, that puts the entire premise into a suspect light. Reality is what it is; trying to shape it as a means to an end speaks to basic issues of integrity and the most obvious next question is what else may have been "adjusted"?
Then there's the matter of perspective. The plage of the 1300's killed as much as half of the population in the cities that did not institute quarantines, which flys in the face of his "age is the number one killer" premise.
The idea is to take a policy like 'thou shalt not run OS X on the network,' and then if someone with a Mac plugs into our network... it can tell the firewall to [block them]," he said.
If this Comes To Pass, all someone will have to do is fire-up snort on you network (custom knoppix cd anyone?) with a policy to not allow any MS products on the network, and *poof*! Instant, internally-generated DOS!
I'd say awareness of computer technology in Egypt or India is as big or bigger than in countries like Greece or Poland (I confess this is not a very well informed opinion but I'm sure the differences won't be as big as the question implies).
Actually, yes it is. One of the software vendors with whom my employer does business has a number of programmers who are in Poland. They work on the system during what is overnight here on the east coast, so it has its advantages. Poland is one of the most well advanced of the former "east block" nations.
Now had he said Romania or Bulgaria instead of Poland, then the delta would indeed have been less.
Part of both the perspective and motivation from which OSS in general, and Linux in particular, were started was to offer choice. Having two desktops is part of that offering. If having to make a selection between only two choices is viewed as a failure of Linux, why even bother with it? Why not just stick with M$ with their mandated desktop that you are not burdened with having to chose as there is no choice to be made?
And isn't there really more than two choices? I thought CDE still runs in Linux as well? And someone running linux on HP may be able to tell us if HPTERM has been ported.
Given the two-tier rate structure, slashdotters ought to chill. This obviously isn't targeted at the random Linux hacker, but toward the corporate users of linux who aren't necessarily open source savy. I'm thinking banks, life insurance companies, financial institutions, and conglomerates. Companies with lots of money, who traditionally run large iron from the Big Name Computer companies and are the type to pay a software vendor for open source products they could otherwise download for free (as in beer), simply because they need to have the comfort level of a (supposed) VAR in the middle.
It's not a bad move, as far as business strategies go. It's practically free money, as these sorts of companies go for this sort of "low cost, high risk protection" all the time. Plus the chances of SCO (or anyone else) successfully taking on any of these corporations is fairly small, making the risk-reward ratio incredibly favorable.
If/. had that function, would have left this one at -1, troll.
does the nature of the World Wide Web in fact give sites like Wonkette, Drudge, or even Slashdot a free pass on accuracy if it means the difference between getting the scoop or not?"
Absolutely not, and how brain-dead does a person have to be to even ask that question, let alone have it posted with an article?
The only need is to have a clear delination between news and entertainment. A blog is entertainment, based on the premise of the concept. It's social commentary--sometimes at it's finest but much more often at it's worst. Even blogs from well-known journalists are commentary despite whatever amount of informative content, if for no other reason, because they are simply the viewpoint of single person.
What Cray's rightfully pointing out is that for most business applications, however, distributed computing is not a viable option. When processing on a transaction basis, the transactions often need to posted in the exact order they were recieved, which means they must be taken serially.
The veracity of that depends on a few things, including whether or not the database behind the app is single- or multi-threaded. For a database like Universe, performance running on a cluster wouldn't differ all that much from performance on an IBM or Sun or HP risc box of the same processing power. The downside of multi-threaded databases is that, aside from dealing with a sharp increase in the number of users, you cannot make aggregate processing any faster by adding CPU's, you have to add memory, or move to faster buses or faster CPU's.
The cluster isn't the solution to everything. Nor is the supercomputer. You've gotta think about the job, then figure out which tool is right for the task.
It's all a trade-off of one sort or another, and yes, you have to have the right tool for the situation at hand. But let's not forget that there are a variety of non-traditional solutions for traditional situations that often result in a much lower Total Cost of Ownership. We don't read more about these, in part, because it's not in Vendors' best interests for us to do so.
Annoyed? How about totally pissed-off. I first noticed the give-away trailer format all the way back with "Throw Momma from the Train". There were 3 different commercials they were showing on TV and if you'd seen them all, then you saw almost every physical gag they did in the movie. Very disappointing, particularly as ticket prices keep going up the net effect is we are paying for less and less as the trailers reveal more and more.
The trailer for Hellboy, which I've not seen yet, seems to give a good mix of enticement and still not be a complete give-away. The Hildalgo trailer, however, looks like it shows way too many of the dramatic parts.
or TV, or cable - but they do expect to own their magazines and newspapers which they expect to be able to keep. Subscriptions models (or at least popular ones) tend to give individuals ownership, not just use, of content - not to distribute, but to use as they see fit.
I have a few newspapers, magazines and a lot of books from the 1800's and older. How much of "music by subscription" is going to be around in 10 years? What happens 10-20 years from now when there is only electronically distributed music, and distributed tangible media becomes a thing of the past? We have the music of Motzart and Brahams today because it was recorded in a tangible, people-readable media that was able to be passed from generation to generations. Not that all (or even much) of today's music will stand that sort of test of time, but it ought to be given the opportunity to do so.
Simulating a 3-D interface in a 2-D media isn't going to be revolutionary. It's going to be time consuming, resource intensive, and ultimately frustrating for the user. The best thing that's going to come from might be a successor to java, one that does what java does more efficiently in order to deal with the inefficiencies of simulating one environment in a different, lesser one.
Until someone perfects a holodisplay, simulated 3-D interfaces are always going to be less efficent to use than a 2-D interface. And don't get me started about simply using the commandline.
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I've tried to set up a Mandrake 10.0 system recently by partitioning the hard drive. I used different partitions for certain directory trees like /var, /tmp, /home, /usr, and /boot. Once I got to the package selection screen, I was informed that I had approximately 1.4 gigs of space to install, so I couldn't pick all the packages I wanted. The / partition itself was 1.4 gigs, but the other mount points took up the rest of the 6 gig drive. It seemed I could not continue with the installation unless I did a bare minimal instal
/var, /usr, and/or root (/) too small. Sure, a single partition got you around all that, but now you have a potential problem waiting to happen should you have a run-away process that eats /tmp or /var/tmp/ or /home, as it effectively consumes all the freespace, and then good luck logging in.
Chances are you made either
(And I must say that I just love being mod'd a troll in my prior post despite being factually correct)
If you ask Aunt Tillie to type rpm -ivvf lovelyrpm-withnoguitoinstall-2.3-5.rpm she will, legitimatly I think, return to windows
The KDE package manager provides the ability to install RPMs via a GUI interface.
Or why up2date keeps crashing
Odd. The only time I've had problems with up2date is when the ssl cert changed.
1. An installation process as straightforward and simple as Windows
/var/tmp is full because /var got installed as part of the root file system along with everything else.
Or better, an understanding that Linux is NOT as straightforward and simple as Windows, and at the very least they are going to have to contend with multiple disk partitions (a.k.a, file systems) and that they are either going to have to have a clue as to how they are going to use their system and consequently what the file system size requirements are, or live with the default install. The former takes a little time and effort, the later a lot of patience once the system is installed and subsequently hangs once
2. The device compatibility offered by Windows
Talk to the device manufacturers about having a linux driver. This was the deal in the early days of DOS vs Win3.1 or WinNT drivers, and isn't likely to change any time soon with regard to Linux.
3. The level of cooperation shared by Windows applications
Do you mean other than by MS Office Apps? Or do you mean how all the MS Office apps cooperate to hang the system if you try to run them all at once?
4. The games available on Windows
See the response to number 2 above and apply to the game developers. The PS2 and Xbox crowd occasionally contend with this over various titles release for only one of those platforms.
5. The simplicity of changing system configurations offered by Windows
Linuxconf? The current KDE or Gnome clone? Or did you have something else in mind?
as newbie after newbie complain that linux needs a "clipy". or worse, a talking, pop-up tux.
Security isn't an add-on, it's an integral part of every component of every system--whether functional or flawed--and needs to be a design consideration ranking right up there with the user interface.
One of the obvious benefits of posting secuity holes is that it gives developers the insight and the opportunity to not duplicate that same security flaw in another system. How consistently, or not, we are learning these lessons is a different issue.
Even something as 'trivial' as a slightly unnatural pertubation of one small cheeckbone twitch
Your bones twitch? Now that is unnatural.
"In the absence of the requested discovery items, SCO has had to rely upon some alternative sources for proof," the memorandum read. "IBM has so far only produced selected pieces of AIX and Dynix."
Apart from any monetary gains they hope to make, SCO is still fishing for AIX and Dynix source code. Even without verbatim copying, what they can learn from the IBM source code can be applied to SCO's own software products. Were this not the case, they would only need the revision histories for IBM to demonstrate ownership.
No, the project was very obviously ill-advised. Anyone with a clue realizes this now.
The project was clearly mismanaged, but to say ill-advised is to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
In retrospect, the promises made to sell it were clearly deliberate lies. Had the shuttle's performance been known back in the 1970s, the program would have been cancelled almost immediately
The shuttle is comprised of a million parts and half of them move. While the shuttle is "reusable" in principle, in practice a significant portion of the shuttle's components are not. This fact was never hidden; it was incredbily underemphasized to the public, but never hidden.
The problem was not the initial design, it was there weren't enough test flights done prior to declaring it "operational". This speaks to the mismanagement of the program by NASA, the underfunding of the program by the Carter an Reagan administrations, and the stupid perceptions that the government gave the public that the shuttle program was going to be as successful as the Apollo program was on an even more comparatively shoestring budget.
I am not, as the parent poster declared, a NASA shill. I am very much an advocate for a continuous human presense in space because I believe that is where the future of our species lies. And while that future is obviously 100 or more years away, we are never going to get there if we do nothing to reach it.
As for not trusting NASA, I also believe that within minutes of the launch, engineers and key management at NASA knew that Columbia was fatally damaged. I think they chose not to disclose that for the simple fact that there wasn't a damn thing they could do about it. The primary lesson is that we should have always had two shuttles ready to fly. The fact that we have only the Soyuez to get to and from the ISS says that NASA still hasn't learned that lesson.
I never said that the Challenger and Columbia failures weren't NASA's fault, or that decisions weren't overly politicized. What I should have made more clear is that you are an idiot if you think the project was "ill-advised". The knowledge we have gained on many fronts has been huge, and in most cases, unobtainable any other way.
The nature of the launch vehicle was dominated by political considerations, not ones of survivability and quality
Source? Attribution? First and foremost, You need to decouple the design of the shuttle from the management of the flight program.
The loss of tiles was not a failure. It was a loss of tiles
Given that the tails are supposed to stay put, this, in engineering terms, would indeed be described as "a failure" of the tile component. Before you decide to pontificate again, get a freakin' clue about the subject at hand first.
Ok, fair enough. The only other comment I'll add is that while almost anyone can be taught to program, very few people have the mindset and skills necessary to be a good programmer--much in the same what that almost anyone can learn to play the piano, but very few are inherantly great musicians.
You'd be hard pressed to find a mission that demands an astronaut on anything that we reasonably can do in the next 10 years
If you truly believe that, then you have completely missed the point of going to space at all.
Moreover they took on all the limitations of the airplane. 5 operational craft were constructed, two have been lost. The suggestion is that each craft has a lifespan on the order of 25 flights. All failures to date have been catastrophic, with 7 fatalities apiece.
One of the major problems of the space shuttle was that they couldn't fly it enough. How many test flights do you think a fighter plane gets before it goes into production? How many test flights of the shuttle were there? 3 or 4?
Furthermore, for you to say that all of the failures have been "catastrophic" is blatantly incorrect. They had problems with the tiles from day one that were not catastrophic. They had electrical problems, engine problems of various types and other equipment problems. There have been very few flights that have not had at least one failure of one component or piece of equipment. It's the nature of mechanical and electrical systems to fail at some point and that is to be expected, anticipated, and planned for. NASA does this, for the very most part. The catastrophic failures to date have been with those components for which there were not backups and no failsafe alternatives. That is the part they need to better identify: to overcome the engineering bias that produces blindspots in our perception of what can and cannot reasonably be conisdered a potential single point of failure.
How someone can defend themselves and their friends being paid vastly overblown salaries
Overblown on their part or sour grapes on yours?
Indian society places more emphasis on the importance of studies than American society - which favors athletic prowess
Yes, all those Ivy league schools threatening once again to sweep the NCAA championships across all sports. Damn them!
Want to get jobs back to the US? Lower the wages. For US IT professionals to demand comparatively high salaries almost demands their jobs are sent elsewhere
Just what do you think has happened in the post dot com bust? Salaries are only now starting to rise. Do you still know web developers who only know html (and only if they have a book in front of them) pulling down six figures? Do you know anyone who is a dba and yet can't write a simple query making that sort of cash? Sure, back in 97 and 98 there were all too many of that sort of situation. But today? Please!
His figures for WWII and WWI are incorrect, the WWII figures are off by a lot. It almost appears he's only counting the military dead. And that's not even considering that the "official" figures for the Russian civilian dead run as high as 20 million. At face value, it cannot be said whether this is an honest discrepancy between "offical" sources, or if he was employing some creative accounting to opportunistically make his point. If he has fudge the figures, that puts the entire premise into a suspect light. Reality is what it is; trying to shape it as a means to an end speaks to basic issues of integrity and the most obvious next question is what else may have been "adjusted"?
Then there's the matter of perspective. The plage of the 1300's killed as much as half of the population in the cities that did not institute quarantines, which flys in the face of his "age is the number one killer" premise.
Interesting scenario. I'm not sure how well that would work on a network where damn near every subnet is vlan'd (like the one I'm using at work).
I'll have to go check out FIRE, sounds fun^H^H^H interesting as well.
The idea is to take a policy like 'thou shalt not run OS X on the network,' and then if someone with a Mac plugs into our network... it can tell the firewall to [block them]," he said.
If this Comes To Pass, all someone will have to do is fire-up snort on you network (custom knoppix cd anyone?) with a policy to not allow any MS products on the network, and *poof*! Instant, internally-generated DOS!
I'd say awareness of computer technology in Egypt or India is as big or bigger than in countries like Greece or Poland (I confess this is not a very well informed opinion but I'm sure the differences won't be as big as the question implies).
Actually, yes it is. One of the software vendors with whom my employer does business has a number of programmers who are in Poland. They work on the system during what is overnight here on the east coast, so it has its advantages. Poland is one of the most well advanced of the former "east block" nations.
Now had he said Romania or Bulgaria instead of Poland, then the delta would indeed have been less.
Part of both the perspective and motivation from which OSS in general, and Linux in particular, were started was to offer choice. Having two desktops is part of that offering. If having to make a selection between only two choices is viewed as a failure of Linux, why even bother with it? Why not just stick with M$ with their mandated desktop that you are not burdened with having to chose as there is no choice to be made?
And isn't there really more than two choices? I thought CDE still runs in Linux as well? And someone running linux on HP may be able to tell us if HPTERM has been ported.
Given the two-tier rate structure, slashdotters ought to chill. This obviously isn't targeted at the random Linux hacker, but toward the corporate users of linux who aren't necessarily open source savy. I'm thinking banks, life insurance companies, financial institutions, and conglomerates. Companies with lots of money, who traditionally run large iron from the Big Name Computer companies and are the type to pay a software vendor for open source products they could otherwise download for free (as in beer), simply because they need to have the comfort level of a (supposed) VAR in the middle.
It's not a bad move, as far as business strategies go. It's practically free money, as these sorts of companies go for this sort of "low cost, high risk protection" all the time. Plus the chances of SCO (or anyone else) successfully taking on any of these corporations is fairly small, making the risk-reward ratio incredibly favorable.
If /. had that function, would have left this one at -1, troll.
does the nature of the World Wide Web in fact give sites like Wonkette, Drudge, or even Slashdot a free pass on accuracy if it means the difference between getting the scoop or not?"
Absolutely not, and how brain-dead does a person have to be to even ask that question, let alone have it posted with an article?
The only need is to have a clear delination between news and entertainment. A blog is entertainment, based on the premise of the concept. It's social commentary--sometimes at it's finest but much more often at it's worst. Even blogs from well-known journalists are commentary despite whatever amount of informative content, if for no other reason, because they are simply the viewpoint of single person.
...It's the End of the SCO as we know it,
It's the End of the SCO as we know it,
And I feel fine!
I feel fine!
comprehensive intrusion detection system
Comprehensive? So you basicially rewrote Tripwire, Saint, and a bunch of other stuff using ethereal?
What Cray's rightfully pointing out is that for most business applications, however, distributed computing is not a viable option. When processing on a transaction basis, the transactions often need to posted in the exact order they were recieved, which means they must be taken serially.
The veracity of that depends on a few things, including whether or not the database behind the app is single- or multi-threaded. For a database like Universe, performance running on a cluster wouldn't differ all that much from performance on an IBM or Sun or HP risc box of the same processing power. The downside of multi-threaded databases is that, aside from dealing with a sharp increase in the number of users, you cannot make aggregate processing any faster by adding CPU's, you have to add memory, or move to faster buses or faster CPU's.
The cluster isn't the solution to everything. Nor is the supercomputer. You've gotta think about the job, then figure out which tool is right for the task.
It's all a trade-off of one sort or another, and yes, you have to have the right tool for the situation at hand. But let's not forget that there are a variety of non-traditional solutions for traditional situations that often result in a much lower Total Cost of Ownership. We don't read more about these, in part, because it's not in Vendors' best interests for us to do so.
Annoyed? How about totally pissed-off. I first noticed the give-away trailer format all the way back with "Throw Momma from the Train". There were 3 different commercials they were showing on TV and if you'd seen them all, then you saw almost every physical gag they did in the movie. Very disappointing, particularly as ticket prices keep going up the net effect is we are paying for less and less as the trailers reveal more and more.
The trailer for Hellboy, which I've not seen yet, seems to give a good mix of enticement and still not be a complete give-away. The Hildalgo trailer, however, looks like it shows way too many of the dramatic parts.
or TV, or cable - but they do expect to own their magazines and newspapers which they expect to be able to keep. Subscriptions models (or at least popular ones) tend to give individuals ownership, not just use, of content - not to distribute, but to use as they see fit.
I have a few newspapers, magazines and a lot of books from the 1800's and older. How much of "music by subscription" is going to be around in 10 years? What happens 10-20 years from now when there is only electronically distributed music, and distributed tangible media becomes a thing of the past? We have the music of Motzart and Brahams today because it was recorded in a tangible, people-readable media that was able to be passed from generation to generations. Not that all (or even much) of today's music will stand that sort of test of time, but it ought to be given the opportunity to do so.
Simulating a 3-D interface in a 2-D media isn't going to be revolutionary. It's going to be time consuming, resource intensive, and ultimately frustrating for the user. The best thing that's going to come from might be a successor to java, one that does what java does more efficiently in order to deal with the inefficiencies of simulating one environment in a different, lesser one.
Until someone perfects a holodisplay, simulated 3-D interfaces are always going to be less efficent to use than a 2-D interface. And don't get me started about simply using the commandline.