Apple is EXACTLY where they want to be - they may occupy a niche in the PC market but they are trying -- and succeeding -- at being the BMW/Porsche of personal computing rather than GM.
Land Rover, Volvo, Jaguar and Aston Martin are all owned by Ford. GM isn't as good an example, but they do own Saab and Hummer.
Of course it's wasting time, this whole discussion is wasting time, we're all wasting time, that's why we're reading slashdot.
Now to the next obligatory statement; kudos to the gimp developers, it's a hell of an impressive piece of work.
But now to the meat of it; Gimp isn't as good as Photoshop. There, I said it. If gimp were as good as photoshop, given that it's free (beer, speech, sweet, sweet beer), photoshop would just go away and die, but it's not. Adobe has highly paid proffessionals on staff that stay up nights making sure that photoshop is not only better, but orders of magnitude better, than the competition.
Gimp is fine for some people's needs, but those people are not graphics proffessionals.
It sounds like you're making a case for the FTC, not Mary Bono. When you ask why they aren't doing anything you're really getting to the point; if laws are already in place and nothing is happening it's a failure of enforcement, not legislation, and that's a technical problem that could be corrected (maybe with some industry support) under current laws.
Also, when you say that they (the fscking spyware companies) have shown no restraint in doing "whatever they damn well please", that makes me wonder what in the hell good you think more legislation would do. If they won't obey current laws what makes you think they would obey new ones? They won't.
These guys are making money, and as long as there's money to be made off spyware, someone will make it. The best we could hope for with more legislation would be to force them to move their operations offshore. At worst, some of them would go under and new spyware companies from china, the ukraine, you name it, spring up in their places.
At first glance, my gut feeling was, "yay, congress hates spyware too!" But Mary Bono doesn't know how to run ad-aware, or spybot, she doesn't know what's involved in having to download HijackThis or CWShredder to get rid of a really nasty browser hijacker. Although she may think she's doing the right thing she really has no idea what it takes to fight this problem, and she's probably not the right person to lead the fight. She's a congresscritter and the only way they know how to combat a problem is to throw more legislation at it. But this is a software problem, and it'll take software people to solve it.
California jails are hemorrhaging prisoners, 50,000 released early last year in LA county alone, and they're giving a guy a year for setting up a video camera in a movie theater. i'm not saying this asshat shouldn't be punished, he should. i'm just saying that asshead jack valenti shouldn't get to write california state law just because he's the head of the largest trade association in the state.
yes, the latency sucks. but if you've been using shitty, rural 56k for a long time (and if you're considering direcway you probably have) this is going to be a huge improvement. fps gaming is out, but you can still play civ3. and ssh is useable. the new system is agnostic as noted, so unlike the previous version you won't need a win98 firewall (damn!). there are some gotchas still - you can't run a server due to the way they have their system set up, but i doubt you were running one on the dialup.
More to the point, Daniel Lyons is a foaming-at-the-mouth idiot.
the Free Software Foundation, a Boston-based group that controls the licensing process for Linux and other "free" programs - free, in quotes? like maybe it's not free?
the $129 device has been a smash hit, selling 400,000 units - well if it's a hit then maybe we shouldn't vigorously defend our copyright, and maybe the RIAA will decide to just leave 55 million Kazaa usera alone
if you distribute GPL software in a product, you must also distribute the software's source code. And not just the GPL code, but also the code for any "derivative works" you've created - outragous! why don't you hippies just shut up, let me use your code, and make a lot of money. quit whining about your damn copyright.
a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement - let's not forget who's code is being used by whom
the Free Software Foundation runs a lot of these "enforcement actions." - is that like a terrorist action?
Progress uses an open source database program distributed under the less onerous Berkeley Software Distribution license - by "less onerous", he means they can just use the code for free without contributing anything back to the community
the Free Software Foundation doesn't want royalties--it wants you to burn down your house - yes, you've figured it out. the FSF wants to burn down all houses, it was part of the charter.
the foundation wants GPL-covered code to creep into commercial products so it can use GPL to force open those products - correct, this was the other reason the FSF was formed, they really wanted to know what made linksys routers tick.
More to the point, Daniel Lyons is a foaming-at-the-mouth idiot.
the Free Software Foundation, a Boston-based group that controls the licensing process for Linux and other "free" programs - free, in quotes? like maybe it's not free?
the $129 device has been a smash hit, selling 400,000 units - well if it's a hit then maybe we shouldn't vigorously defend our copyright, and maybe the RIAA will decide to just leave 55 million Kazaa usera alone
if you distribute GPL software in a product, you must also distribute the software's source code. And not just the GPL code, but also the code for any "derivative works" you've created - outragous! why don't you hippies just shut up, let me use your code, and make a lot of money. quit whining about your damn copyright.
a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement - let's not forget who's code is being used by whom
the Free Software Foundation runs a lot of these "enforcement actions." - is that like a terrorist action?
Progress uses an open source database program distributed under the less onerous Berkeley Software Distribution license - by "less onerous", he means they can just use the code for free without contributing anything back to the community
the Free Software Foundation doesn't want royalties--it wants you to burn down your house - yes, you've figured it out. the FSF wants to burn down all houses, it was part of the charter.
the foundation wants GPL-covered code to creep into commercial products so it can use GPL to force open those products - correct, this was the other reason the FSF was formed, they really wanted to know what made linksys routers tick.
thanks for the chuckle comrade.
we're getting pretty far off target from a family home computer here but, here are some of my favorite alternatives to the above list;
mozilla - if prefer MyIE2
ws ftp - i much prefer filezilla
PuTTY - try transparent putty
vnc - if you're running xp or 2k you should go with ultravnc
gnu-emacs - yikes!if you must have a unix style text editor under windows, may i recommend cream for vim
free-av - i'd probably go with AVG anti virus
boingo - don't forget netstumbler
here are a few more i install before i ever run a new system;
have you looked at the t-mobile sidekick? i bought mine the day they came out (oct 1) and i love it. it fits your criteria pretty well;
a. desktop synch
not exactly, it syncs with a 'desktop interface' at the t-mobile website. i actually like it better because it's constantly synched. if i enter an address in my sidekick and the battery dies 2 seconds later, it'll still be there when i charge back up because it intsantly synchs with the backend server.
b. a decent, usable screen/browser
more than decent, the 160x240 screen is excellent, as is the real (xhtml, not wap) browser. about the only thing it can't do is javascript.
c. a smallish form factor (less than my currrent clunky rig, but super-duper small isn't a big deal to me)
i don't know how big your current rig is, but my sidekick is 6 ounces and resides in my front pants pocket all day every day.
d. palm-like features (handwriting recognition, scheduler, phonebook, to-do list)
everything except the handwriting recognition, which it doesn't need due to the excellent thumboard.
e. lots of third party developers and apps
give it a little time, the sdk just came out (in beta) last week. it's java, so i expect to see a lot of development in the near future. go to www.hiptop.com and and check out the developer forum. also see developer.danger.com
f. total cost $100
i paid $250 for mine on opening day, but amazon recently had them for $50 or even $0 after rebate.
g. good coverage (very important)
i don't have any problems in my hometown or anywhere i travel but, since i have no idea where you live ymmv.
h. 1 meg/day of transfer for data
unlimited
i. under $50/mo.
two plans - $40 and $80, both have the unlimited data
j. 250 primetime minutes, free weekends/nights
the $40 option has 200 anytime minutes and 1000 WEEKEND minutes. i'm not sure about the $80 plan but i'm sure it has a lot more.
i find that i can live within the restrictions of the device, and even the voice plan, because of the excellent data capabilities. i don't talk as much because i always have AOL instant messenger on, and i hit my corporate email with pop3 so it's constantly updated. oh yeah, it comes with a crappy (but fun) camera.
just a couple more tidbits - yesterday corel announced that the next version of WordPerfect Office 11 will ship in April, at least two months ahead of Microsoft Office 2003, and there was also an eWeek story about Microsoft Office embracing XML.
i agree. i think phoenix is great, but crazy browser is better once you get it configured to your tastes. and even better than that is MyIE2. it's a lot like crazy browser but with a few more features. definitely worth checking out.
reminds my of the "Coupon: The Movie" episode of Mr. Show
"I sentence each and every person in the United States to one viewing of "Coupon: The Movie." And may God have mercy...on your souls. Who wants to go Friday?"
http://www.unoriginal.com/mrshow/2_6.html
let's clarify a little more...
as someone who has set up a few small office networks for legal offices i will say this, your lawyer may or may not use wordperfect, but his secretary/paralegal does.
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thanks for clearing this up for those of us that are physics impaired. even newton's cannon makes my brain hurt.
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Too bad there are no sites like Linux-Laptop for BSD
You mean like this?
As to your other question, I use a Netgear fa410tx.
dammit, they're using the soviet offense.
In Soviet Russia, the monopoly sue you!
Did you miss the part that OS/2, Win95 and early Mac OS versions worked this way too? How is it inovation if it's already been done before?
I think he was using the M$ definition of innovation. As in, "it hasn't been innovated until *we* innovate it."
Of course it's wasting time, this whole discussion is wasting time, we're all wasting time, that's why we're reading slashdot. Now to the next obligatory statement; kudos to the gimp developers, it's a hell of an impressive piece of work. But now to the meat of it; Gimp isn't as good as Photoshop. There, I said it. If gimp were as good as photoshop, given that it's free (beer, speech, sweet, sweet beer), photoshop would just go away and die, but it's not. Adobe has highly paid proffessionals on staff that stay up nights making sure that photoshop is not only better, but orders of magnitude better, than the competition. Gimp is fine for some people's needs, but those people are not graphics proffessionals.
It sounds like you're making a case for the FTC, not Mary Bono. When you ask why they aren't doing anything you're really getting to the point; if laws are already in place and nothing is happening it's a failure of enforcement, not legislation, and that's a technical problem that could be corrected (maybe with some industry support) under current laws. Also, when you say that they (the fscking spyware companies) have shown no restraint in doing "whatever they damn well please", that makes me wonder what in the hell good you think more legislation would do. If they won't obey current laws what makes you think they would obey new ones? They won't. These guys are making money, and as long as there's money to be made off spyware, someone will make it. The best we could hope for with more legislation would be to force them to move their operations offshore. At worst, some of them would go under and new spyware companies from china, the ukraine, you name it, spring up in their places. At first glance, my gut feeling was, "yay, congress hates spyware too!" But Mary Bono doesn't know how to run ad-aware, or spybot, she doesn't know what's involved in having to download HijackThis or CWShredder to get rid of a really nasty browser hijacker. Although she may think she's doing the right thing she really has no idea what it takes to fight this problem, and she's probably not the right person to lead the fight. She's a congresscritter and the only way they know how to combat a problem is to throw more legislation at it. But this is a software problem, and it'll take software people to solve it.
driver got 18 months in jail for speeding that killed man
the guy in the movie theater got a year and all he had to do was take out his videocam.
even if he gets the full one year sentence, he'll never serve it.
California jails are hemorrhaging prisoners, 50,000 released early last year in LA county alone, and they're giving a guy a year for setting up a video camera in a movie theater. i'm not saying this asshat shouldn't be punished, he should. i'm just saying that asshead jack valenti shouldn't get to write california state law just because he's the head of the largest trade association in the state.
yay!
yes, the latency sucks. but if you've been using shitty, rural 56k for a long time (and if you're considering direcway you probably have) this is going to be a huge improvement. fps gaming is out, but you can still play civ3. and ssh is useable. the new system is agnostic as noted, so unlike the previous version you won't need a win98 firewall (damn!). there are some gotchas still - you can't run a server due to the way they have their system set up, but i doubt you were running one on the dialup.
More to the point, Daniel Lyons is a foaming-at-the-mouth idiot.
the Free Software Foundation, a Boston-based group that controls the licensing process for Linux and other "free" programs - free, in quotes? like maybe it's not free?
the $129 device has been a smash hit, selling 400,000 units - well if it's a hit then maybe we shouldn't vigorously defend our copyright, and maybe the RIAA will decide to just leave 55 million Kazaa usera alone
if you distribute GPL software in a product, you must also distribute the software's source code. And not just the GPL code, but also the code for any "derivative works" you've created - outragous! why don't you hippies just shut up, let me use your code, and make a lot of money. quit whining about your damn copyright.
a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement - let's not forget who's code is being used by whom
the Free Software Foundation runs a lot of these "enforcement actions." - is that like a terrorist action?
Progress uses an open source database program distributed under the less onerous Berkeley Software Distribution license - by "less onerous", he means they can just use the code for free without contributing anything back to the community
the Free Software Foundation doesn't want royalties--it wants you to burn down your house - yes, you've figured it out. the FSF wants to burn down all houses, it was part of the charter.
the foundation wants GPL-covered code to creep into commercial products so it can use GPL to force open those products - correct, this was the other reason the FSF was formed, they really wanted to know what made linksys routers tick.
thanks for the chuckle comrade.
More to the point, Daniel Lyons is a foaming-at-the-mouth idiot. the Free Software Foundation, a Boston-based group that controls the licensing process for Linux and other "free" programs - free, in quotes? like maybe it's not free? the $129 device has been a smash hit, selling 400,000 units - well if it's a hit then maybe we shouldn't vigorously defend our copyright, and maybe the RIAA will decide to just leave 55 million Kazaa usera alone if you distribute GPL software in a product, you must also distribute the software's source code. And not just the GPL code, but also the code for any "derivative works" you've created - outragous! why don't you hippies just shut up, let me use your code, and make a lot of money. quit whining about your damn copyright. a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement - let's not forget who's code is being used by whom the Free Software Foundation runs a lot of these "enforcement actions." - is that like a terrorist action? Progress uses an open source database program distributed under the less onerous Berkeley Software Distribution license - by "less onerous", he means they can just use the code for free without contributing anything back to the community the Free Software Foundation doesn't want royalties--it wants you to burn down your house - yes, you've figured it out. the FSF wants to burn down all houses, it was part of the charter. the foundation wants GPL-covered code to creep into commercial products so it can use GPL to force open those products - correct, this was the other reason the FSF was formed, they really wanted to know what made linksys routers tick. thanks for the chuckle comrade.
we're getting pretty far off target from a family home computer here but, here are some of my favorite alternatives to the above list;
mozilla - if prefer MyIE2
ws ftp - i much prefer filezilla
PuTTY - try transparent putty
vnc - if you're running xp or 2k you should go with ultravnc
gnu-emacs - yikes!if you must have a unix style text editor under windows, may i recommend cream for vim
free-av - i'd probably go with AVG anti virus
boingo - don't forget netstumbler
here are a few more i install before i ever run a new system;
foobar2000 console2
divx player
stuffit expander
trillian
and if you need an email client try popcorn
i've got links to lots more free windows software at my links page
have you looked at the t-mobile sidekick? i bought mine the day they came out (oct 1) and i love it. it fits your criteria pretty well;
a. desktop synch
not exactly, it syncs with a 'desktop interface' at the t-mobile website. i actually like it better because it's constantly synched. if i enter an address in my sidekick and the battery dies 2 seconds later, it'll still be there when i charge back up because it intsantly synchs with the backend server.
b. a decent, usable screen/browser
more than decent, the 160x240 screen is excellent, as is the real (xhtml, not wap) browser. about the only thing it can't do is javascript.
c. a smallish form factor (less than my currrent clunky rig, but super-duper small isn't a big deal to me)
i don't know how big your current rig is, but my sidekick is 6 ounces and resides in my front pants pocket all day every day.
d. palm-like features (handwriting recognition, scheduler, phonebook, to-do list)
everything except the handwriting recognition, which it doesn't need due to the excellent thumboard.
e. lots of third party developers and apps
give it a little time, the sdk just came out (in beta) last week. it's java, so i expect to see a lot of development in the near future. go to www.hiptop.com and and check out the developer forum. also see developer.danger.com
f. total cost $100
i paid $250 for mine on opening day, but amazon recently had them for $50 or even $0 after rebate.
g. good coverage (very important)
i don't have any problems in my hometown or anywhere i travel but, since i have no idea where you live ymmv.
h. 1 meg/day of transfer for data
unlimited
i. under $50/mo.
two plans - $40 and $80, both have the unlimited data
j. 250 primetime minutes, free weekends/nights
the $40 option has 200 anytime minutes and 1000 WEEKEND minutes. i'm not sure about the $80 plan but i'm sure it has a lot more.
i find that i can live within the restrictions of the device, and even the voice plan, because of the excellent data capabilities. i don't talk as much because i always have AOL instant messenger on, and i hit my corporate email with pop3 so it's constantly updated. oh yeah, it comes with a crappy (but fun) camera.
just a couple more tidbits - yesterday corel announced that the next version of WordPerfect Office 11 will ship in April, at least two months ahead of Microsoft Office 2003, and there was also an eWeek story about Microsoft Office embracing XML.
i agree. i think phoenix is great, but crazy browser is better once you get it configured to your tastes. and even better than that is MyIE2. it's a lot like crazy browser but with a few more features. definitely worth checking out.
of course i ordered prosuite 9 from mandrakestore in october, and it just arrived (slightly crumpled) on my desk this past monday, the 13th.
reminds my of the "Coupon: The Movie" episode of Mr. Show "I sentence each and every person in the United States to one viewing of "Coupon: The Movie." And may God have mercy...on your souls. Who wants to go Friday?" http://www.unoriginal.com/mrshow/2_6.html
well, ballmer clearly said that australia needed to "change their legal framework" to fit microsoft's "economic model".
...who the fuck do you work for? you've got pro-dmca posts all over this thread.
let's clarify a little more... as someone who has set up a few small office networks for legal offices i will say this, your lawyer may or may not use wordperfect, but his secretary/paralegal does.
thanks for clearing this up for those of us that are physics impaired. even newton's cannon makes my brain hurt.
...the other day at my local gamestop(e.b.), used, for just a few bucks.
...inside his hollowed-out volcano, high in the Peruvian Andes.
...i could buy a couple of 3 pound vaios, save my aching back and some money.