Yeah, according to Microsoft's David Fester iTunes is rather limited in it's music selection. From this article:
Unless Apple decides to make radical changes to their service model, a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system, where iPod owners cannot access content from other services. Additionally, users of iTunes are limited to music from Apple's Music Store. As I mentioned earlier, this is a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device," said Fester. David, that is. So, Windows users expect choice in music etc more than others ?
Some of us that have spent significant time reading, understanding, and programming the underlying OS concepts and architecture for a great many years across a great many OSs and systems I don't deny that, nor that you are good at it, I was merely saying what I have experienced. I have several friends with MSCE degrees, but that doesn't help me much when developing a program for Linux, and neither are very interested in learning about it. I urge you to seek out those who DO know the difference and give them an opportunity to assist; you will have a friend for corporate life(!) and an invaluable resource when the ball falls within their bailiwick.. I assure you I appreciate any person with indepth knowledge who can teach me more about an OS, language etc:)
"I didn't think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. It wasn't as annoying as telemarketing, because with e-mail, I wasn't interrupting anyone's dinner," Wallace said. To me, this is one of the biggest problem. These people don't realise that what they are doing is wrong, or they flat out don't care. When it comes to telemarketing I can always tell them to f**k off and never call me again, har to do with a spam mail which return adress is a fake.
The System Administrators almost always have a much better understanding of OS performance. In my experience sysadmins tend to know much about a certain OS, and will proclaim it to be the best no matter what the benchmarking results are. They may have knowledge about the OS, but rarely have any depth knowledge of the actual hardware performance.
Guess that question will be asked, and to those to lazy to RTFA, here's his reply: I chose RedHat 9 for the simple fact that it is a very popular distribution, and is ubiquitous in terms of corporate and personal deployment. Of course it is not the end-all be-all of Linux distributions, but it's both popular and effective, which makes it appropriate as an evaluation platBesides, most of what I evaluate has more to do with Linux itself, and not the distribution. The only significant affect RedHat has on this evaluation is the specific version of the kernel (2.4.20-20.9) and the use of RPMs (which some other Linux distributions use as well).form.
For geeks like us, this is just great, fun stuff, but for some this is more of a problem. Escpecially the elderly like to have some kind of interaction. They feel more at ease talking to a human being rather than just a machine. This may be a technology for the future, but at present we must still have "the old" way available for those not comfortable using computers.
"Weiner said the use of Shopping Buddies and self-checkout counters won't cost any jobs. For one thing, she said, Stop & Shop will always have some people ringing up purchases. "We're not looking to replace cashiers because it would eliminate part of the personality of our stores," said Weiner. For another, there's plenty of other work to be done in running a supermarket -- stocking shelves, cutting salami, sweeping up. Weiner said the displaced cashiers will be moved to these other tasks." I agree on this.. Many supermarkets look very messy, and could use some cleaning. With this system, they could move the cashier over to cleaning up etc. IMHO it could create a cleaner look, help finding stuff when you need it, and getting filling the shelves quickly to ensure they're out of toilet paper when you arrive.
The SCO has no chance of getting them to renew their licenses! Its just a desperate last hope for a desperate company.
They still get attention they want. I've seen this "desperate last breath of a dying company" about SCO for months now. Lot of people shaking their heads going "they will soon be gone", but SCO is still here, unfortunately.
I mean anyone who uses a proprietary network to do communication on is taking some pretty big chances... Why is this ? The regular user wouldn't recognize code if I hit him in the head with it. To him it doesn't matter if his chatting protocol is open source or not, he just wants to reach his those on his buddy list.
My point is simply that is appears Caldera/SCO is not sure themselves of which code belongs to whom. If they did, they could open source the parts to which they held the copyright. IMHO it appears they've lost control along they way. Like what has been said about the presentation SCO held, it seems that they have stripped the copyright notice and added their own.
After all, if it's so encumbered by other companies code that they couldn't open source it if they wanted too, that code base has to be a gigantic fucking mess from a copyright standpoint.
A very good point, and my thought exactly. My guess is that this so called "patter recognition" group SCO used also "got lost" in the code somewhere. Cause, if the code is such a mess that they couldn't figure out which parts to open source, how can they find 1 million lines of code which has been illegally implemented into Linux ? They clearly haven't used MD5 checksums or anything.
This is speculation on my side, but I won't be surprised at all if your and my speculations are accurate.
Indeed, at first we wanted to open-source all of Unix's code, but we quickly found that even though we owned it, it was, and still is, full of other companies' copyrights.
And now this company is suing others for copyright violations. It becomes more and more clear that SCO will have a hard time documenting where the code lines in question originated, that they actually have and has always held the copyright on them.
Well, I live in Norway, Europe, and going to America for a conference is way to expensive. I totally support your idea, and I would also like to see some more conferences here in Europe. Even in England, it would still be a lot easier and cheaper for me to go to than USA.
I find conferences like this both interesting and important. Both to keep up with what's going on, and a way of expressing your own ideas. But like I said, it's hard for people like me to attend, when most of the conferences are held in USA
I don't know what a "gnome-distro" is, but accodring to this article:
The distribution is based on SuSE 8.2 and not on Red Hat Linux as it was originally said about a year ago. Yast2 and other SuSE/administrative utilities are only accessible via the command line and not from the graphical menu system. The desktop is based on Gnome 2.2, though Sun's engineers have tweaked it quite a bit.
In this glowing review Chris Gulker calls Sun's Java Desktop System 'the most polished and real-world user-ready Linux desktop in existence.
From this article : The "proper" name of Sun Linux is "Java Desktop System" (which can be confusing as Sun is branding everything as "%java%" lately, exactly the same way Microsoft did with their ".NET"). The development/high-end version of Java Desktop System (JDS) is called "Java Enterprise System".
The distribution is based on SuSE 8.2 and not on Red Hat Linux as it was originally said about a year ago. According to that article Java Desktop System is a Linux distribution, not just a desktop.
Well, this issue is about a patent violation, and will affect other web-browsers as well, not just Microsoft. It has nothing to do with their monopoly situation as it would affect them even if IE only had 2% market share.
Why is MS acting like it's going to lose this lawsuit. It has never done that before. All the times it's been sued (too many to count at this point) it has always put up a public face of invincibilty and constant press releases about how the suit is groundless and how it is positive it's going to win.
They did loose the antitrust case did they not ?
But you do have a point, Microsoft are usually very out in the open talking about how they are going to win the cases. Just maybe they have discovered that this patent is valid, and that they are breaking it..
IANAL, but I'm fairly sure that this is NOT legal in Norway. This is descrimination.. You won't get a job because of WHERE you work, rather than HOW you've done your job.
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Now, anyone have ideas for a killer app?
How about creating a Clippy to help people write their SMS.
"It appears u r trying to send an sms, do u w4nt me to check it for mistypings ?"
I agree. This editorial at ars technica looks at some of the points you bring up.
Yeah, according to Microsoft's David Fester iTunes is rather limited in it's music selection. From this article:
Unless Apple decides to make radical changes to their service model, a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system, where iPod owners cannot access content from other services. Additionally, users of iTunes are limited to music from Apple's Music Store. As I mentioned earlier, this is a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device," said Fester. David, that is.
So, Windows users expect choice in music etc more than others ?
Some of us that have spent significant time reading, understanding, and programming the underlying OS concepts and architecture for a great many years across a great many OSs and systems :)
I don't deny that, nor that you are good at it, I was merely saying what I have experienced. I have several friends with MSCE degrees, but that doesn't help me much when developing a program for Linux, and neither are very interested in learning about it.
I urge you to seek out those who DO know the difference and give them an opportunity to assist; you will have a friend for corporate life(!) and an invaluable resource when the ball falls within their bailiwick..
I assure you I appreciate any person with indepth knowledge who can teach me more about an OS, language etc
"I didn't think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. It wasn't as annoying as telemarketing, because with e-mail, I wasn't interrupting anyone's dinner," Wallace said.
To me, this is one of the biggest problem. These people don't realise that what they are doing is wrong, or they flat out don't care. When it comes to telemarketing I can always tell them to f**k off and never call me again, har to do with a spam mail which return adress is a fake.
The System Administrators almost always have a much better understanding of OS performance.
In my experience sysadmins tend to know much about a certain OS, and will proclaim it to be the best no matter what the benchmarking results are. They may have knowledge about the OS, but rarely have any depth knowledge of the actual hardware performance.
Guess that question will be asked, and to those to lazy to RTFA, here's his reply :
I chose RedHat 9 for the simple fact that it is a very popular distribution, and is ubiquitous in terms of corporate and personal deployment. Of course it is not the end-all be-all of Linux distributions, but it's both popular and effective, which makes it appropriate as an evaluation platBesides, most of what I evaluate has more to do with Linux itself, and not the distribution. The only significant affect RedHat has on this evaluation is the specific version of the kernel (2.4.20-20.9) and the use of RPMs (which some other Linux distributions use as well).form.
For geeks like us, this is just great, fun stuff, but for some this is more of a problem. Escpecially the elderly like to have some kind of interaction. They feel more at ease talking to a human being rather than just a machine. This may be a technology for the future, but at present we must still have "the old" way available for those not comfortable using computers.
"Weiner said the use of Shopping Buddies and self-checkout counters won't cost any jobs. For one thing, she said, Stop & Shop will always have some people ringing up purchases. "We're not looking to replace cashiers because it would eliminate part of the personality of our stores," said Weiner. For another, there's plenty of other work to be done in running a supermarket -- stocking shelves, cutting salami, sweeping up. Weiner said the displaced cashiers will be moved to these other tasks." .. Many supermarkets look very messy, and could use some cleaning. With this system, they could move the cashier over to cleaning up etc. IMHO it could create a cleaner look, help finding stuff when you need it, and getting filling the shelves quickly to ensure they're out of toilet paper when you arrive.
I agree on this
The SCO has no chance of getting them to renew their licenses! Its just a desperate last hope for a desperate company.
They still get attention they want. I've seen this "desperate last breath of a dying company" about SCO for months now. Lot of people shaking their heads going "they will soon be gone", but SCO is still here, unfortunately.
After October 15 MSN access will also be restricted
We'll have to wait and see if ICQ will do the same thing eventually
I mean anyone who uses a proprietary network to do communication on is taking some pretty big chances...
Why is this ? The regular user wouldn't recognize code if I hit him in the head with it. To him it doesn't matter if his chatting protocol is open source or not, he just wants to reach his those on his buddy list.
My point is simply that is appears Caldera/SCO is not sure themselves of which code belongs to whom. If they did, they could open source the parts to which they held the copyright. IMHO it appears they've lost control along they way. Like what has been said about the presentation SCO held, it seems that they have stripped the copyright notice and added their own.
Here's a BBC story on the same subject.
For those like me who do not wish to register with NYT
After all, if it's so encumbered by other companies code that they couldn't open source it if they wanted too, that code base has to be a gigantic fucking mess from a copyright standpoint.
A very good point, and my thought exactly. My guess is that this so called "patter recognition" group SCO used also "got lost" in the code somewhere. Cause, if the code is such a mess that they couldn't figure out which parts to open source, how can they find 1 million lines of code which has been illegally implemented into Linux ? They clearly haven't used MD5 checksums or anything.
This is speculation on my side, but I won't be surprised at all if your and my speculations are accurate.
Indeed, at first we wanted to open-source all of Unix's code, but we quickly found that even though we owned it, it was, and still is, full of other companies' copyrights.
And now this company is suing others for copyright violations. It becomes more and more clear that SCO will have a hard time documenting where the code lines in question originated, that they actually have and has always held the copyright on them.
Well, I live in Norway, Europe, and going to America for a conference is way to expensive. I totally support your idea, and I would also like to see some more conferences here in Europe. Even in England, it would still be a lot easier and cheaper for me to go to than USA.
I find conferences like this both interesting and important. Both to keep up with what's going on, and a way of expressing your own ideas. But like I said, it's hard for people like me to attend, when most of the conferences are held in USA
And before you mod me flamebait, try asking yourself what is so great, exciting or thought-provoking about the article.
.. there wasn't a single coffee machine ... do they really expect a programmer to work without coffee ?
What I found thought-provoking
The coolest thing is that you actually got modded informative ...
I don't know what a "gnome-distro" is, but accodring to this article :
The distribution is based on SuSE 8.2 and not on Red Hat Linux as it was originally said about a year ago. Yast2 and other SuSE/administrative utilities are only accessible via the command line and not from the graphical menu system. The desktop is based on Gnome 2.2, though Sun's engineers have tweaked it quite a bit.
In this glowing review Chris Gulker calls Sun's Java Desktop System 'the most polished and real-world user-ready Linux desktop in existence.
From this article :
The "proper" name of Sun Linux is "Java Desktop System" (which can be confusing as Sun is branding everything as "%java%" lately, exactly the same way Microsoft did with their ".NET"). The development/high-end version of Java Desktop System (JDS) is called "Java Enterprise System". The distribution is based on SuSE 8.2 and not on Red Hat Linux as it was originally said about a year ago.
According to that article Java Desktop System is a Linux distribution, not just a desktop.
Well, this issue is about a patent violation, and will affect other web-browsers as well, not just Microsoft. It has nothing to do with their monopoly situation as it would affect them even if IE only had 2% market share.
Why is MS acting like it's going to lose this lawsuit. It has never done that before. All the times it's been sued (too many to count at this point) it has always put up a public face of invincibilty and constant press releases about how the suit is groundless and how it is positive it's going to win.
They did loose the antitrust case did they not ?
But you do have a point, Microsoft are usually very out in the open talking about how they are going to win the cases. Just maybe they have discovered that this patent is valid, and that they are breaking it..
Relax, just fill out this form, and RIAA will leave you alone.
IANAL, but I'm fairly sure that this is NOT legal in Norway. This is descrimination.. You won't get a job because of WHERE you work, rather than HOW you've done your job.