Since there would be a 150lb+ person on it the total mass moving at UP TO 12.5 mph would be about 220lb. Therefore it wouldn't be equivalent to a 150lb person running at 8 mph.
The bigger issue is the assumption of the dimwits in SF that a Segway can only go 12.5 mph.
A Redhat 8.0 installation is about as easy as XP if not easier. The default installation comes with all the office and internet apps a user would want. It is the installable version of a Linux appliance.
Until large vendors start selling systems with Linux pre-installed the average PC user will think of Linux as a hard to use OS that doesn't work with his stuff. (Because his stuff is in MS formats.)
I'm all for people using what works best. For me at home Windows works best for gaming, for everything else Linux is my desktop. I use Linux not because I'm rabidly anti-MS, I use Linux because I don't have to spend so much time keeping the system running. At work Windows works best 90% of the time. For the other 10% I boot up in Linux.
IBM seems to have done more to kill OS/2 than MS did. I have a friend who writes code for their hard drives (soon to be Hitachi) who really likes OS/2 but has to use NT because IBM wouldn't supply him a development environment for their own OS.
Uh, I was doing that a couple years ago with X10. Mind you it didn't have the embedded web server, but nonetheless the web control worked and even over my 28.8K dial-up it was sufficiently fast to control the lights.
The advantage from X10 is their stuff works most of the time, they've been doing it for a while and have a large assortment of stuff. The disadvantage is you are then contributing to their pervasive pop-under ads. I stopped buying from X10 when they started the ads.
THEN you have to pay per track to unlock it again (on a second computer, from their point of view, or if you sold it to a used CD store and somebody else picked it up
This is interesting, perhaps they are trying to take out the used CD market. If I were an uninformed user and was thinking about getting a used CD but found out I had to pay $1.64 additional per song I would stop buying used CDs. Think about it, 12 song new CD ~$15; 12 song used CD (with this restriction) ~$2.50 + $19.68.
If they are thinking this through I would say their target is not P2P but the used CD market.
they're going to get shunned faster than a sweet potato that's been up Rush Limbaugh's butt for safekeeping during the winter.
Ok, that just ruined my day.
Change their minds?
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Having Linux and open source as a crucial part of studio operations may help executives rethink their corporate position on open source and Linux issues
Not likely. They're in the movie business to make money, anything their customers use for free is a threat, anything they use for free is more money.
The other protection offered by binary only is legal protection. If release the code into the public domain you will have little recourse when a competitor uses it to reverse engineer your hardware. If you release a binary and your competitor disassembles it you would have a greater chance at legal recourse.
Someone could take the code for the hardware I develope and probably get about 85% of the design, common sense would provide another 14%, and a few beers would provide the other 1%(the part required by the CTO). So we are very careful to protect our source code, but the binaries are all over the world.
Perhaps the question should be who is using a browser other than IE. I have to use IE to make sure my pages work in IE, just like I keep Netscape 4.xx around to make sure my apps work for those. Generally though Mozilla is my browser of choice. Thus I can't answer that I am someone who doesn't use IE.
it should just be a crime to drive inattentively or to create diversions for yourself.
In most US states it is a traffic offense to be distracted while driving. So if I have to concentrate on the call I pull over even if I am using a hands free device. If it's my boss, then I can just keep on driving <grin>
However the point is well put. My terms of service state that I cannot use the link primarily for business but I am allowed to have servers, p2p, and pretty much anythings else that is not illegal. I use a lot of bandwidth and get no down time. And that makes me a satisfied customer. DirectTV DSL (aka Telocity) is the best.
"I wrote some software, and didn't pay the company that made the OS so I could write it." In other words, bye bye Linux.
If the DRM is in the OS then Linux should not be affected by it. I thought Palladium was a HW/SW implementation so the OS would have to be verified by the hardware...and that could cause problems for Linux.
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Since there would be a 150lb+ person on it the total mass moving at UP TO 12.5 mph would be about 220lb. Therefore it wouldn't be equivalent to a 150lb person running at 8 mph.
The bigger issue is the assumption of the dimwits in SF that a Segway can only go 12.5 mph.
Or you could print to a file and dump the file to the printer at the office...not that hard to do.
Not of logs
A Redhat 8.0 installation is about as easy as XP if not easier. The default installation comes with all the office and internet apps a user would want. It is the installable version of a Linux appliance.
Until large vendors start selling systems with Linux pre-installed the average PC user will think of Linux as a hard to use OS that doesn't work with his stuff. (Because his stuff is in MS formats.)
I'm all for people using what works best. For me at home Windows works best for gaming, for everything else Linux is my desktop. I use Linux not because I'm rabidly anti-MS, I use Linux because I don't have to spend so much time keeping the system running. At work Windows works best 90% of the time. For the other 10% I boot up in Linux.
A paper mill I worked at in BC used OS/2 to control various pieces of equipment. None of this fancy 2.0 GUI stuff for them, they still run 1.1
IBM seems to have done more to kill OS/2 than MS did. I have a friend who writes code for their hard drives (soon to be Hitachi) who really likes OS/2 but has to use NT because IBM wouldn't supply him a development environment for their own OS.
NT/2000/XP owes more the VMS than to OS/2.
any server on your equipment is illegal
Not on my service...DirectTV DSL is the best.
Uh, I was doing that a couple years ago with X10. Mind you it didn't have the embedded web server, but nonetheless the web control worked and even over my 28.8K dial-up it was sufficiently fast to control the lights.
The advantage from X10 is their stuff works most of the time, they've been doing it for a while and have a large assortment of stuff. The disadvantage is you are then contributing to their pervasive pop-under ads. I stopped buying from X10 when they started the ads.
THEN you have to pay per track to unlock it again (on a second computer, from their point of view, or if you sold it to a used CD store and somebody else picked it up
This is interesting, perhaps they are trying to take out the used CD market. If I were an uninformed user and was thinking about getting a used CD but found out I had to pay $1.64 additional per song I would stop buying used CDs. Think about it, 12 song new CD ~$15; 12 song used CD (with this restriction) ~$2.50 + $19.68.
If they are thinking this through I would say their target is not P2P but the used CD market.
and it's a "bad" thing to pass around Britney Spear's MP3s
That would be bad even if it were completely legal.
Not in the US, we hve our own ways of spelling here ;)
CS does indeed run under Wine.
they're going to get shunned faster than a sweet potato that's been up Rush Limbaugh's butt for safekeeping during the winter.
Ok, that just ruined my day.
Having Linux and open source as a crucial part of studio operations may help executives rethink their corporate position on open source and Linux issues
Not likely. They're in the movie business to make money, anything their customers use for free is a threat, anything they use for free is more money.
I thought MS was the #1 cause of computer failures.
I'm sure they can, but since it's part of the telecommunications infrastructure doing so will require a warrent.
Very simple, grab a Linux CD, put it in the drive and boot...follow on screen instructions.
is the servers hosting results sites. CA official site is just crawling right now. This is worse than /.
The other protection offered by binary only is legal protection. If release the code into the public domain you will have little recourse when a competitor uses it to reverse engineer your hardware. If you release a binary and your competitor disassembles it you would have a greater chance at legal recourse.
Someone could take the code for the hardware I develope and probably get about 85% of the design, common sense would provide another 14%, and a few beers would provide the other 1%(the part required by the CTO). So we are very careful to protect our source code, but the binaries are all over the world.
Perhaps the question should be who is using a browser other than IE. I have to use IE to make sure my pages work in IE, just like I keep Netscape 4.xx around to make sure my apps work for those. Generally though Mozilla is my browser of choice. Thus I can't answer that I am someone who doesn't use IE.
it should just be a crime to drive inattentively or to create diversions for yourself.
In most US states it is a traffic offense to be distracted while driving. So if I have to concentrate on the call I pull over even if I am using a hands free device. If it's my boss, then I can just keep on driving <grin>
53/8*3600*24*30/1048576 ~ 16GB.
However the point is well put. My terms of service state that I cannot use the link primarily for business but I am allowed to have servers, p2p, and pretty much anythings else that is not illegal. I use a lot of bandwidth and get no down time. And that makes me a satisfied customer. DirectTV DSL (aka Telocity) is the best.
"I wrote some software, and didn't pay the company that made the OS so I could write it." In other words, bye bye Linux.
If the DRM is in the OS then Linux should not be affected by it. I thought Palladium was a HW/SW implementation so the OS would have to be verified by the hardware...and that could cause problems for Linux.
That's because Microsoft is not a technology company. So outfoxing them in the technical arena is not difficult.
Now a hacker is moving into their turf, the legal arena, here is where Microsoft is very competent.