Companies wanting to preserve their competitive advantage
Here's the problem: In this case, this is not a competitive advantage that they have, because if the customer knew about it, he wouldn't choose their product/service.
It's their market share that they are trying to expand. Or better, they are trying to monopolize the said market.
I do recall that Lexmark sued (using the DMCA) when a low-price ink cartridge manufacturer copied the chip on the cartidge. Here is a link to that story. And not only did Lexmark sue, it actually won a preliminary injunction against the manufacturer. Looks like history is repeating itself...
The main reason is speed...when I transfer stuff via Bluetooth from my phone to my PowerBook, I can get 30kb/s at most...this means that an average 5MB song takes something like, 3 minutes to transfer. This might not be bad at all, if all you want to transfer is a track or two that you've just downloaded (and you're bored enough to pull that cable out of your laptop bag...) and wanna listen in your car or in the train right after work. For many songs however, the iPod will propably drain itself before you even finish transfering...
In any case, making the whole RAID filesystem 0555 (you're not going to create a RAID server with windows, are you?) every 3 hours with a small cron job helps.
Quit your current job.
Get a stress-free job somewhere, that earns a decent buck.
Then do "budget" website development on your free time, with your own terms and conditions (ie. long deadlines, communication only over email). In the end:
1) You still do what you love.
2) You are less stressed.
3) You earn a decent living.
4) You have 2 totally different revenue streams, "just in case".
Last time I heard Linus Torvalds saying something good about something other than his own work was...that's funny! I don't think he has _ever_ done such a thing. I guess there's a first time for everything huh?
Try opening a folder without about 1,000 jpg images of a mere 500K size each. Try it with the Finder and then try it with Konqueror. Just to be fair, use Finder as it comes with 10.3 (a huge Finder improvement over 10.2), and Konqueror either from KDE 3.1 or 3.2.
You'll get a nice spinning wheel of death on the Finder for 3-4 minutes before you can do anything else. Konqueror simply creates icon previews for each of the images one by one, while you can still fully use it. Now that, is not broken.
Also, try browsing an FTP site with the Finder. No problems...until you open up a directory with 2-3,000 files of any size/mimetype. It will disconnect ya after 2 minutes. You won't be able to view the contents of the directory of course. Try this now for yourself; open up ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/suse/i386/9.0/suse/i58 6/ with Finder and do the same with Konqy.
Finally, plug a USB flash disk under OS X. Now, unmount it from the console. The icon is still on the desktop, duh. Drag it to the trash to unmount it. Finder crash-o-matic.
You were saying something along the lines that Konqueror is broken while the Finder isn't?
And don't forget the possibility of people that leave Linux to go for OSX, then, after a while, decide Linux was a better fit for their work after all.
You can't begin to imagine how true this is. I've been wanting to get a Mac for 3 years now, mainly because of OS X. When I did (Powerbook 667), I just found that KDE does the job better, quicker, and best of all, it's Free as in Speech. I can't tweak OS X (Aqua, the Finder, Mail.app, etc) and I'm not talking about the usual lame hints and tips, I'm talking about tweaking the code to add/remove that needed/useless functionality. Not to mention bug squashing that I can't wait for Apple to solve.
The Powerbook (titanium) hardware is great (the first laptop in years to have working sleep/resume, the ACPI subsystem on pc notebooks just won't work on most laptops I have tried), save the orinoco driver for the Airport card that doesn't properly support scanning and has some issues here and there.
I have the original Palmpilot Personal (The one with the whopping 512kb of RAM). It has been working flawlessly for more than 4 years. And guess what. I don't intend to change it.
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Here's the problem: In this case, this is not a competitive advantage that they have, because if the customer knew about it, he wouldn't choose their product/service.
It's their market share that they are trying to expand. Or better, they are trying to monopolize the said market.
I do recall that Lexmark sued (using the DMCA) when a low-price ink cartridge manufacturer copied the chip on the cartidge.
Here is a link to that story. And not only did Lexmark sue, it actually won a preliminary injunction against the manufacturer. Looks like history is repeating itself...
The main reason is speed...when I transfer stuff via Bluetooth from my phone to my PowerBook, I can get 30kb/s at most...this means that an average 5MB song takes something like, 3 minutes to transfer. This might not be bad at all, if all you want to transfer is a track or two that you've just downloaded (and you're bored enough to pull that cable out of your laptop bag...) and wanna listen in your car or in the train right after work. For many songs however, the iPod will propably drain itself before you even finish transfering...
With $300K per employee and buck-saving concerns, they might as well migrate to Linux!
Don't you kretins have something better to do than come up with all those capital K words? Krist!
Can I have a cluster of these in each of my beowulf linux clusters that are clustered all over the world? And most importantly can I...
1) Steal a pre-production model.
2) Make 1000 copies.
3) ???
4) Profit!
You're on Slashdot, duh?
In any case, making the whole RAID filesystem 0555 (you're not going to create a RAID server with windows, are you?) every 3 hours with a small cron job helps.
Quit your current job. Get a stress-free job somewhere, that earns a decent buck. Then do "budget" website development on your free time, with your own terms and conditions (ie. long deadlines, communication only over email). In the end: 1) You still do what you love. 2) You are less stressed. 3) You earn a decent living. 4) You have 2 totally different revenue streams, "just in case".
Last time I heard Linus Torvalds saying something good about something other than his own work was...that's funny! I don't think he has _ever_ done such a thing. I guess there's a first time for everything huh?
Konqueror is broken?
8 6/ with Finder and do the same with Konqy.
Try opening a folder without about 1,000 jpg images of a mere 500K size each. Try it with the Finder and then try it with Konqueror. Just to be fair, use Finder as it comes with 10.3 (a huge Finder improvement over 10.2), and Konqueror either from KDE 3.1 or 3.2.
You'll get a nice spinning wheel of death on the Finder for 3-4 minutes before you can do anything else. Konqueror simply creates icon previews for each of the images one by one, while you can still fully use it. Now that, is not broken.
Also, try browsing an FTP site with the Finder. No problems...until you open up a directory with 2-3,000 files of any size/mimetype. It will disconnect ya after 2 minutes. You won't be able to view the contents of the directory of course. Try this now for yourself; open up ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/suse/i386/9.0/suse/i5
Finally, plug a USB flash disk under OS X. Now, unmount it from the console. The icon is still on the desktop, duh. Drag it to the trash to unmount it. Finder crash-o-matic.
You were saying something along the lines that Konqueror is broken while the Finder isn't?
You can get so much information from a knoppix CD, it's just not worth looking anywhere else.
Actually no, I don't.
I work as a PC repairs person, and I find everything I need in the PCs my clients give me.
Now, if only they gave the NAS to store all that stuff...
Linux ISOs? Ok then, how about getting raided by SCO?
I really love myself so I'm gonna spend the day compiling stuff on my new dual p4 xeon, which of course I bought as a present to myself.
God I love me!
> My mom takes care of the mentally ill, they're having paycuts. (the caretakers, not the mentally ill.)
Time to join the mentally ill then.
I have the original Palmpilot Personal (The one with the whopping 512kb of RAM). It has been working flawlessly for more than 4 years. And guess what. I don't intend to change it.
Anyone know where one can find the diffs for 3.0.1 (diffed from 3.0)? I will certainly not download the whole damn source again!!