This article reads like a Slashback post on April 1st... I know I looked twice at my calendar when I read it. Twice this week, I've forgotten what day of the week it was - so maybe I'm more delusional that I thought. -N
What are you saying that's different from what I'm saying? Yes, Microsoft is an illegal monopoly. Yes, that gives them an advantage adn puts free software on a much more difficult path to compete. Yes, the government didn't really do anything to help affairs even after successfully trying MS as an illegal monopoly.
Quit defending yourself and recognize that you're not even disagreeing with me. -N
I'm assuming this is flamebait, but I'll respond anyway... karma to burn and all...
Read my post again and you'll find you agree with it (also my reply to the other person who replied to me). I didn't say that the monopoly wasn't a problem and wasn't being abused. Capitalism as a system is not responsible for that though - as you pointed out, it's the government's lax attitude toward big business and antitrust issues at the root of that problem.
I already described the ways Microsoft abused this monopoly, which were the same ones you gave. You and I are on the same page...
But capitalism still does work on competition. Microsoft has an advantage, but free software is continually getting better and while the competition is harder because of the Microsoft monopoly, it still can level things. It'll just take longer. -N
That's true, I admit... but the market is supposed to level itself out. I don't personally believe monopolies are inherently bad until abused. Once they're abused, you're in a position like the software world where Microsoft dominates and can stand in the way of real innovation and anything that would unseat their power.
If they didn't abuse their monopoly why proprietary standards (like office suite file formats for example) and didn't pressure manufactures (both hardware and software) to only support Windows, then the playing field would be pretty fair. However, the government has already shown their resolve in preventing this by convicting them of abusing a monopoly and then forgetting to actually punish for it.
MS didn't get where they are because of a failure of capitalism. They got there because of a failure of the government to support the antitrust effort. Maybe Massachusetts can still make a difference, but I doubt it. -N
I'm up for some MS-bashing as much as the next slashdotter, but this isn't the way to beat Microsoft or get them to release secure code.
Capitalism holds the answer - provide a better alternative that takes away their market share forcing them to improve or be left behind. With them being a monopoly, this problem is far greater in difficulty, but progress is always being made. Free software is getting viably close to many of the roles that many people use Windows for.
I'd rather wait for that to happen than have another frivolous lawsuit like this. I'll feel better about the successs of better software all around if MS gets to be better because of competition from free software getting better. -N
I used Win2K pretty regularly up until this year actually. And I'm well aware that Windows has had application protected memory spaces for quite some time, but if it doesn't work, then what good is it? My whole point is that when something does happen to crash in Linux, it's isolated. Whenever anything crashes in Windows, it likely took down the whole system, and if it didn't, it introduced instability into everything until a restart happened anyway. -N
That's a big difference. When Everybuddy crashes on my Linux desktop, my OpenOffice.org 20 page document is still there and generally has no idea Everybuddy hit a bug. When I jam up my machine's resources with a huge bzip2 command, Mozilla will just slow down under the load of my machine. The machine won't just lock up.
KDE (and I'd assume Gnome) doesn't really lock up much on its own, albeit I have known it to every couple months. I'll admin that if it does, then any applications that were open in KDE will go with it, but nothing's perfect and we're talking months here - it's more often I'll reboot for a new kernel compile or something.
When anything goes wrong in Windows, pretty much everything goes to hell. There's no protection of one application from another (at least not functionally). -N
I'll just add a note that my fiance's 2.2MP PowerShot S220 does work fine with gphoto2 for me, albeit not as a USB Mass Storage Device, which is admittedly simpler. Anyway, gphoto2 isn't that hard to use once you get it working and I think KDE's kio_slave kamera or camera works with it. -N
I think this is a really interesting perspective, especially in the current work climate. What tech industry reporter is going to choose to hedge this line between the FBI and integrity when there's just as easily another story to report? Those who do report on Lamo are going to make things much harder for themselves. -N
Actually, a lot more is powered by Linux that that. The sensors you speak of trigger events on the Linux machine so that it plays the correct sound and can log the event. Then the Linux machine can be used to analyze playing habits, difficulties, etc. It's a very good implementation I'd say.
Linux doesn't have to do everything for it to be an impressive application of the software. He used what was best for each job and interfaced all of it together. -N
5 is a button click and and you change what button it is by clicking / for left, * for both, and - for right. + is a double-click. 0 is button hold, . is release. -N
They've made 3D-rendering packages, animation packages, etc. It's not just CorelDRAW and Photo-Paint. And by the way, Photo-Paint does work with frame-based animation graphics/movies - not sure where you got the idea it doesn't. -N
Didn't the courts rule that card counting is legal since the eighties? I'm pretty sure they did, even though I find it surprising that no one's mentioned it. Besides, this article doesn't mention that they'll be using the information to kick people off the table - they really can't do that. They perhaps won't encourage counters with free drinks/rooms/etc, but they won't kick them out.
Just like any industry like this, it's all about marketing strategy which is all about reports and data. This is one more way they can gather data and learn about their customers and try to make the best of them for better business. -N
Yeah, I expect the Treo to retail somewhere in the high $400s
Dude, if that's true, I'll buy one in a second. I'm a huge Handspring fan with a VisorPhone Prism. I'd love to have had the money to buy the Treo 270, but come on - it just came down from $700 in the last few months. I'll be ecstatic if a Treo 600 will be under $500, but let's get a little realistic at least.
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Actually, the RIAA is a combination of several recording companies and those companies are usually the copyright holders. I'm not sure where you read that artists have copyright ownership - they usually sign that away unless they carry lots of weight... and I mean lots. -N
If the other filesystem has no way to store metadata, then perhaps someone will write a sort of add-on for that filesystem that attaches an XML file to something.mp3 that is called something.mp3.meta that will contain the metadata and because that person is running the "patched" filesystem, nothing will be lost.
As for SSH, that's just one of the tools I spoke of - the tools will have to implement the features of the filesystems - it's not up to the filesystems. If a filesystem addon like I specified above becomes common enough, then perhaps it too will become supported in various tools.
Ultimately, the point remains that the tools will support newer filesystem features and do their best to operate as translators from one filesystem to another. If one filesystem really just can't support the data on another, then something will have to be lost, but if that's the case, then perhaps it's time to upgrade the older filesystem. -N
I would think that would be prevented by the filesystem implementation. A filesystem's features are only as good as the implementation. So if you have fs metadata and are transferring it to another filesystem, whatever tool you are using to move the files, whether it be at a BASH prompt or drag and drop in Konqueror, should figure some way of properly translating data from one system to another without losing anything. Moreover, the tool should be able to do it without knowing any particulars about the actual types of filesystems in use. It's all in the implentation. -N
Being closed source they'll taint your kernel, but what the heck.
At least take the whole quote. It does taint the kernel and that is an important point to make because to some it makes a difference. Clearly, the majority probably won't be bothered by this, hence "but what the heck."
If you didn't lose any phone fuctionality while using the PDA, why do they sell a carriage that holds your visorphone and lets you use it without the PDA? That product was a flop, but I believe it was for people who still wanted to have a phone when they swapped in other springboard modules - the VisorPhone won't work alone.
As for the rest of your points, mostly preference I guess. I will say this - color screens have far exceeded the Prism's, even with a lower color depth. Accept that from a Prism owner jeaous of every b/w screen in the sunlight. You already know the new features available, the new OS being the biggest. The new Treo 600 having PalmOS 5.2, which means multitasking and speed far quicker than other versions, without a loss of usefulness.
-N
Ummm... I love my VisorPhone Prism. They did this and everyone said it sucked. They released a Sprint PCS version of it too. They started with a great PDA, the Visor line, and then they added a phone and it flopped.
As for being barely usable, it's not. And these Treos are even more useful. Handspring has never crammed a PDA into a phone - that's why their products are better than the phones out there will built in PDA functions. -N
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This article reads like a Slashback post on April 1st... I know I looked twice at my calendar when I read it. Twice this week, I've forgotten what day of the week it was - so maybe I'm more delusional that I thought.
-N
What are you saying that's different from what I'm saying? Yes, Microsoft is an illegal monopoly. Yes, that gives them an advantage adn puts free software on a much more difficult path to compete. Yes, the government didn't really do anything to help affairs even after successfully trying MS as an illegal monopoly.
Quit defending yourself and recognize that you're not even disagreeing with me.
-N
I'm assuming this is flamebait, but I'll respond anyway... karma to burn and all...
Read my post again and you'll find you agree with it (also my reply to the other person who replied to me). I didn't say that the monopoly wasn't a problem and wasn't being abused. Capitalism as a system is not responsible for that though - as you pointed out, it's the government's lax attitude toward big business and antitrust issues at the root of that problem.
I already described the ways Microsoft abused this monopoly, which were the same ones you gave. You and I are on the same page...
But capitalism still does work on competition. Microsoft has an advantage, but free software is continually getting better and while the competition is harder because of the Microsoft monopoly, it still can level things. It'll just take longer.
-N
That's true, I admit... but the market is supposed to level itself out. I don't personally believe monopolies are inherently bad until abused. Once they're abused, you're in a position like the software world where Microsoft dominates and can stand in the way of real innovation and anything that would unseat their power.
If they didn't abuse their monopoly why proprietary standards (like office suite file formats for example) and didn't pressure manufactures (both hardware and software) to only support Windows, then the playing field would be pretty fair. However, the government has already shown their resolve in preventing this by convicting them of abusing a monopoly and then forgetting to actually punish for it.
MS didn't get where they are because of a failure of capitalism. They got there because of a failure of the government to support the antitrust effort. Maybe Massachusetts can still make a difference, but I doubt it.
-N
I'm up for some MS-bashing as much as the next slashdotter, but this isn't the way to beat Microsoft or get them to release secure code.
Capitalism holds the answer - provide a better alternative that takes away their market share forcing them to improve or be left behind. With them being a monopoly, this problem is far greater in difficulty, but progress is always being made. Free software is getting viably close to many of the roles that many people use Windows for.
I'd rather wait for that to happen than have another frivolous lawsuit like this. I'll feel better about the successs of better software all around if MS gets to be better because of competition from free software getting better.
-N
Except that Yoda puts the predicate before the rest of the sentence and wouldn't have said anything like this.
He'd have said, "Destruction obsession with money leads to."
Unless you mean that Yoda uses big words, in which case I admit I had to look up "to" myself.
-N
I used Win2K pretty regularly up until this year actually. And I'm well aware that Windows has had application protected memory spaces for quite some time, but if it doesn't work, then what good is it? My whole point is that when something does happen to crash in Linux, it's isolated. Whenever anything crashes in Windows, it likely took down the whole system, and if it didn't, it introduced instability into everything until a restart happened anyway.
-N
That's a big difference. When Everybuddy crashes on my Linux desktop, my OpenOffice.org 20 page document is still there and generally has no idea Everybuddy hit a bug. When I jam up my machine's resources with a huge bzip2 command, Mozilla will just slow down under the load of my machine. The machine won't just lock up.
KDE (and I'd assume Gnome) doesn't really lock up much on its own, albeit I have known it to every couple months. I'll admin that if it does, then any applications that were open in KDE will go with it, but nothing's perfect and we're talking months here - it's more often I'll reboot for a new kernel compile or something.
When anything goes wrong in Windows, pretty much everything goes to hell. There's no protection of one application from another (at least not functionally).
-N
I was thinking t-shirts with that "Peace, Love, Linux" logo on it that IBM plastered all over San Francisco (I think?) some years back.
-N
I'll just add a note that my fiance's 2.2MP PowerShot S220 does work fine with gphoto2 for me, albeit not as a USB Mass Storage Device, which is admittedly simpler. Anyway, gphoto2 isn't that hard to use once you get it working and I think KDE's kio_slave kamera or camera works with it.
-N
Mod parent up ^^
I think this is a really interesting perspective, especially in the current work climate. What tech industry reporter is going to choose to hedge this line between the FBI and integrity when there's just as easily another story to report? Those who do report on Lamo are going to make things much harder for themselves.
-N
Actually, a lot more is powered by Linux that that. The sensors you speak of trigger events on the Linux machine so that it plays the correct sound and can log the event. Then the Linux machine can be used to analyze playing habits, difficulties, etc. It's a very good implementation I'd say.
Linux doesn't have to do everything for it to be an impressive application of the software. He used what was best for each job and interfaced all of it together.
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But not CTX?
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I just downloaded 1:3.4p1-1.1 on my servers.
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5 is a button click and and you change what button it is by clicking / for left, * for both, and - for right. + is a double-click. 0 is button hold, . is release.
-N
They've made 3D-rendering packages, animation packages, etc. It's not just CorelDRAW and Photo-Paint. And by the way, Photo-Paint does work with frame-based animation graphics/movies - not sure where you got the idea it doesn't.
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Didn't the courts rule that card counting is legal since the eighties? I'm pretty sure they did, even though I find it surprising that no one's mentioned it. Besides, this article doesn't mention that they'll be using the information to kick people off the table - they really can't do that. They perhaps won't encourage counters with free drinks/rooms/etc, but they won't kick them out.
Just like any industry like this, it's all about marketing strategy which is all about reports and data. This is one more way they can gather data and learn about their customers and try to make the best of them for better business.
-N
AOL has features?
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Dude, if that's true, I'll buy one in a second. I'm a huge Handspring fan with a VisorPhone Prism. I'd love to have had the money to buy the Treo 270, but come on - it just came down from $700 in the last few months. I'll be ecstatic if a Treo 600 will be under $500, but let's get a little realistic at least.
-N
Actually, the RIAA is a combination of several recording companies and those companies are usually the copyright holders. I'm not sure where you read that artists have copyright ownership - they usually sign that away unless they carry lots of weight... and I mean lots.
-N
If the other filesystem has no way to store metadata, then perhaps someone will write a sort of add-on for that filesystem that attaches an XML file to something.mp3 that is called something.mp3.meta that will contain the metadata and because that person is running the "patched" filesystem, nothing will be lost.
As for SSH, that's just one of the tools I spoke of - the tools will have to implement the features of the filesystems - it's not up to the filesystems. If a filesystem addon like I specified above becomes common enough, then perhaps it too will become supported in various tools.
Ultimately, the point remains that the tools will support newer filesystem features and do their best to operate as translators from one filesystem to another. If one filesystem really just can't support the data on another, then something will have to be lost, but if that's the case, then perhaps it's time to upgrade the older filesystem.
-N
I would think that would be prevented by the filesystem implementation. A filesystem's features are only as good as the implementation. So if you have fs metadata and are transferring it to another filesystem, whatever tool you are using to move the files, whether it be at a BASH prompt or drag and drop in Konqueror, should figure some way of properly translating data from one system to another without losing anything. Moreover, the tool should be able to do it without knowing any particulars about the actual types of filesystems in use. It's all in the implentation.
-N
At least take the whole quote. It does taint the kernel and that is an important point to make because to some it makes a difference. Clearly, the majority probably won't be bothered by this, hence "but what the heck."
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That product was a flop, but I believe it was for people who still wanted to have a phone when they swapped in other springboard modules - the VisorPhone won't work alone.
As for the rest of your points, mostly preference I guess. I will say this - color screens have far exceeded the Prism's, even with a lower color depth. Accept that from a Prism owner jeaous of every b/w screen in the sunlight. You already know the new features available, the new OS being the biggest. The new Treo 600 having PalmOS 5.2, which means multitasking and speed far quicker than other versions, without a loss of usefulness.
-N
Ummm... I love my VisorPhone Prism. They did this and everyone said it sucked. They released a Sprint PCS version of it too. They started with a great PDA, the Visor line, and then they added a phone and it flopped.
As for being barely usable, it's not. And these Treos are even more useful. Handspring has never crammed a PDA into a phone - that's why their products are better than the phones out there will built in PDA functions.
-N