I wonder if any of the current laptops will be able to run Doom3... I'm considering buying a laptop with a GF4go as the Radeon7500 based ones seems to be slower... I wonder if its really worth it to go from 32 megs to 64 megs of ram?
The main question that I would have is.. How long will it take for the distributors to sell their stock of "expensive" chips befores cutting there prices too and as a consequence how long will it take for those price reductions to reach us? And it is much shorter for companies like Dell? Anyone in the industry would know?
The odd thing from the price cuts is that a 2.2 MHz P4 Xeon Prestonia, w/ 512KB L2 cache, now costs $32 less than a 1.4GHz PIII Tualatin w/ 512KB L2 cache. Both of these chips are intended (by Intel) for servers/high end workstation.
What worries me is that its availability will discourage people from making a good free eplacement.. That's how he is taking away my freedom...
Where does the concept change? Now it's just people not giving you software that they never wrote. Furthermore, it's not like anyone owes you this unwritten software. How is that freedom?
Well, its freedom because I can't do what I want to do with my computer without giving up my freedom. This is like saying, you are allowed freedom of speech, except that, you will not be allowed to work if you exercise your freedom. That's not freedom... That a parody of Freedom!
But that was NOT the main point of my post, the main point was that he complains about the GPL while doing exactly what the GPL wants to prevent. So the GPL is working 100% correctly in that case.
How is he removing them freedom? He gives the people that buy his software the source code. If you don't buy his software, you don't get it.
He hasn't taken away any freedom. He just hasn't given you anything.
He is taking away the freedom of his users to user/modify/share the software. This is clearly opposite to the way the FSF sees the world. He is clearly doing something that the Free Software community thinks is wrong and that the GPL was written to prevent. So he shouldnt complain that the GPL is making is life harder because that's exactly what is was written to do. Make as much code Free as possible.
His software is useless to me.. I dont want it. What worries me is that its availability will discourage people from making a good free replacement.. That's how he is taking away my freedom...
My main point is that his business model is exactly what the GPL is there to prevent, so its normal that he doesnt like it... But many people dont seem to get that. The FSF wants all proprietary software to away! And yes, that will piss off proprietary software vendors!
This guy has a business that tries to give user funtionality while removing them freedom. Just like Microsoft! He doesnt get that Free Software is about Freedom. And then he comes whining the we, the Free Software community, we are interested in Freedom and want to defend it... He may be part of the KDE community.. Maybe the OpenSource community (I doubt that.. he stuff is not open source).. But he is definitely not part of the Free Software community. We can even consider him a parasite that tries to suck the Freedom out of our free desktops.
He says Gnome is supported by companies, but these companies respect our freedom and release their software in a way that respects us... They are welcomed! We dont need people like you sir! Go away! We want freedom, not your crappy software!
Why the heck would I want to subsidise a for-profit company? If they want money, they should issue more stock. This is a for PROFIT company. They seem to be trying to get money from people without having to dilute their stock... They are a publicly traded company (on some french micro-market). RedHat issued stock twice in a very succesful IPO and post-IPO offering. Why can't they do the same? If I give them money, I want to share the profits if there ever are any.
This is not a charity! If you want to help Free Software, give to the FSF or SPI (www.spi-inc.org aka the debian foundation).. They will even give you tax deduction.
Giving Mandrake Inc. money is just throwing it out of the window! If they can't make money as a for-profit company, well they should and they deserve to go bankrupt. At least, its all free software and someone else can maybe pick it up and make a business with a serious business model.
Please stop that non-sense! If you want to give, give to a charity!
I'm studying software engineering right now in Quebec and when my group finishes, if I dont fail too many courses, I should be among the first software engineers in Quebec. I think Ontario and other other provine are 1 or 2 years ahead. That menas that by 2002 there should be Software Engineers(tm) in Canada.. Btw, at least in my province, you cannot state that you are an eng. if you are not official eng. so MCSE's have to have a different name and everything. They are definetely not engineers.
But right now, the only privilige that software engineers will have here is to be able to sign with a eng. at the end of their name.. Our names;)
Good luck to my American coleagues!
Tester
Student in Software Engineering at Polytechnical School of Montreal
I'd really like to switch from pine to a Free mail reader. But I dont see any mail reader that has the following features:
- Be text based
- Support IMAP and POP
- Allow me to have multiple profiles (more than one email address, but from the same mailboxes)
- Allow me to store the config remotely, so I can have the same config on more than one machine
- Allow me to store the address book remotely
- Be text based so it runs throughs ssh (telnet)
- Be Free Software
If there is any other mail reader that has all of those features, I'll switch today.
I dont think mutt lets me remotely store configs and addresses, but I may be wrong... Any mutter can help me on that?
Having the same config for a text and graphical frontend would be even better, that would my killer feature...
In Quebec and Ontario, for high speed access we basicly have a choice between two monopolies, the cable and telephoen monopolies. There is only one isp on cable.. and for ADSL, well, you can get another isp, excep that Bell Canada sells its isp service (inclusing the line) for less than just the line without service..
But, in Quebec, where I live, the cable company (Videotron) sells its service for $CAN 30.. which is $US 20.. That's for cable service... even tho it goes down quite often (lets say I see on average one hour of downtime per month.. maybe per week).. At that price, I believe I still get an excellent service... The ADSL servie is somethins liek 35$/month...
So yes, we are stuck with monopolies, but at least they are monopolies competing very vigorously...
I saw in the gnucash source tree that there have been some attempts at OFX (XML-based Online Financial eXchange format), are they still alive and is anyone active on them? Is there any work being done on online banking and how important are they to the gnucash developers? What/When should we expect to see something come from these efforts and how far along are you?
Real is correct, it would be nicer if we had a nice standard compliant Mpeg 4 streaming player, but we dont have one yet. So I'll settle for Real, even if its not free, first because its available on all of the platform that end-user use (those being Mac, Linux and Win).. and it does work quite well...
While we're on the topic of not paying for the TV. I'm searching for software that would let me descramble the scrambled TV.... On linux normally...
I've tried FsckTV, but it doesnt seem to work with all cards. Is there any 100%-software way to do it?
I'm in Canada, so its NTSC...
Is it possible to do it all in software, or is there something missing?...
Well... quite an open question.. I know.. Can I do it?
Maybe that will force the auto makers to stop making cars that can go a 120 mph and work on other more important aspects like security that are less efficient at selling cars. Because I see no good reason to make a car that can go over 60 mph, this is purely a marketing thing, as nobody ever goes faster than 60 mph. So if they are forced to have this thing, maybe it will get smaller engines and safers cars. Not only will it help save human lives, but it will also help protect the environnement by reducing the ammount of gaz wasted by cars. So I believe that this developpement is fundamentally good and that some peopel who are against any government intervention
But this feels like Allaire Forums, which was a forum application written with ColdFusion. Forums was full of bugs and basicly never supported. It was basicly a marketting attempt by Allaire to make derived products from CF, without any success. I think it was later abandoned.
I have used CF, PHP, Perl, python, etc.. And I can tell you that CF really sucks. First, it is veyr expensive, not very reliable. It is also a disgusting language that favorises mixing the logic and the design. I would really advise using general purpose languages or PHP. I also really like Zope, their system is really nice, but I still have doubts about its ability to scale.
The solution is democracy in the form of government control.
This should never have been let in the hands of a private organisation. The US gov should take its responsabilities. Domain names are a public service and they should have a fair system. They would control the root servers and would control registration, at a flat fee, no reselling, no transfer allowed. This would just eliminate this ridiculous market of names.
In quebec, the cablemodem based high speed internet is $CAN 30 per month... that is $US 20... I believe that it is the cheapest in America (if not it in the world)...
Well to get a 30$ rate you need to have cableTV (which has a 70% market penetration) and to buy the modem (for 120$). or its 35$ if I rent the modem (but have cable TV). For the few users who dont have cable and fell like renting it, the maximum is 50$....
ADSL by Bell Canada (ex phone monopoly) is a flat 40$CAN per month for all users..
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I wonder if any of the current laptops will be able to run Doom3... I'm considering buying a laptop with a GF4go as the Radeon7500 based ones seems to be slower... I wonder if its really worth it to go from 32 megs to 64 megs of ram?
The main question that I would have is.. How long will it take for the distributors to sell their stock of "expensive" chips befores cutting there prices too and as a consequence how long will it take for those price reductions to reach us? And it is much shorter for companies like Dell?
Anyone in the industry would know?
The odd thing from the price cuts is that a 2.2 MHz P4 Xeon Prestonia, w/ 512KB L2 cache, now costs $32 less than a 1.4GHz PIII Tualatin w/ 512KB L2 cache. Both of these chips are intended (by Intel) for servers/high end workstation.
Maybe intel is trying to phase out P3's...
The number 53% is for some mobile chip that dropper from 600$ to 300$...
>No they can't. Blizzard is owned by sony. This was a memo that went out to all companies under Sony's umbrella
They are owned by Videndi-Universal, not Sony... Not that VU is any better than Sony.
This is almost as original as fm.NET... !
APRIL FOOLS!!!
What worries me is that its availability will discourage people from making a good free eplacement.. That's how he is taking away my freedom...
Where does the concept change? Now it's just people not giving you software that they never wrote. Furthermore, it's not like anyone owes you this unwritten software. How is that freedom?
Well, its freedom because I can't do what I want to do with my computer without giving up my freedom. This is like saying, you are allowed freedom of speech, except that, you will not be allowed to work if you exercise your freedom. That's not freedom... That a parody of Freedom!
But that was NOT the main point of my post, the main point was that he complains about the GPL while doing exactly what the GPL wants to prevent. So the GPL is working 100% correctly in that case.
How is he removing them freedom? He gives the people that buy his software the source code. If you don't buy his software, you don't get it. He hasn't taken away any freedom. He just hasn't given you anything.
He is taking away the freedom of his users to user/modify/share the software. This is clearly opposite to the way the FSF sees the world. He is clearly doing something that the Free Software community thinks is wrong and that the GPL was written to prevent. So he shouldnt complain that the GPL is making is life harder because that's exactly what is was written to do. Make as much code Free as possible. His software is useless to me.. I dont want it. What worries me is that its availability will discourage people from making a good free replacement.. That's how he is taking away my freedom...
My main point is that his business model is exactly what the GPL is there to prevent, so its normal that he doesnt like it... But many people dont seem to get that. The FSF wants all proprietary software to away! And yes, that will piss off proprietary software vendors!
This guy has a business that tries to give user funtionality while removing them freedom. Just like Microsoft! He doesnt get that Free Software is about Freedom. And then he comes whining the we, the Free Software community, we are interested in Freedom and want to defend it... He may be part of the KDE community.. Maybe the OpenSource community (I doubt that.. he stuff is not open source).. But he is definitely not part of the Free Software community. We can even consider him a parasite that tries to suck the Freedom out of our free desktops.
He says Gnome is supported by companies, but these companies respect our freedom and release their software in a way that respects us... They are welcomed! We dont need people like you sir! Go away! We want freedom, not your crappy software!
Why the heck would I want to subsidise a for-profit company? If they want money, they should issue more stock. This is a for PROFIT company. They seem to be trying to get money from people without having to dilute their stock... They are a publicly traded company (on some french micro-market). RedHat issued stock twice in a very succesful IPO and post-IPO offering. Why can't they do the same? If I give them money, I want to share the profits if there ever are any.
This is not a charity! If you want to help Free Software, give to the FSF or SPI (www.spi-inc.org aka the debian foundation).. They will even give you tax deduction.
Giving Mandrake Inc. money is just throwing it out of the window! If they can't make money as a for-profit company, well they should and they deserve to go bankrupt. At least, its all free software and someone else can maybe pick it up and make a business with a serious business model.
Please stop that non-sense! If you want to give, give to a charity!
Sorry..
it was the
Conservative-Reformist Alliance Party
I'm studying software engineering right now in Quebec and when my group finishes, if I dont fail too many courses, I should be among the first software engineers in Quebec. I think Ontario and other other provine are 1 or 2 years ahead. That menas that by 2002 there should be Software Engineers(tm) in Canada.. Btw, at least in my province, you cannot state that you are an eng. if you are not official eng. so MCSE's have to have a different name and everything. They are definetely not engineers.
;)
But right now, the only privilige that software engineers will have here is to be able to sign with a eng. at the end of their name.. Our names
Good luck to my American coleagues!
Tester
Student in Software Engineering at Polytechnical School of Montreal
Well, actually, on the use of fetchmail I kinda agree because I now use it and I only use IMAP with pine ;)...
I'd really like to switch from pine to a Free mail reader. But I dont see any mail reader that has the following features:
- Be text based
- Support IMAP and POP
- Allow me to have multiple profiles (more than one email address, but from the same mailboxes)
- Allow me to store the config remotely, so I can have the same config on more than one machine
- Allow me to store the address book remotely
- Be text based so it runs throughs ssh (telnet)
- Be Free Software
If there is any other mail reader that has all of those features, I'll switch today.
I dont think mutt lets me remotely store configs and addresses, but I may be wrong... Any mutter can help me on that?
Having the same config for a text and graphical frontend would be even better, that would my killer feature...
In Quebec and Ontario, for high speed access we basicly have a choice between two monopolies, the cable and telephoen monopolies. There is only one isp on cable.. and for ADSL, well, you can get another isp, excep that Bell Canada sells its isp service (inclusing the line) for less than just the line without service..
.. which is $US 20.. That's for cable service... even tho it goes down quite often (lets say I see on average one hour of downtime per month.. maybe per week).. At that price, I believe I still get an excellent service... The ADSL servie is somethins liek 35$/month...
But, in Quebec, where I live, the cable company (Videotron) sells its service for $CAN 30
So yes, we are stuck with monopolies, but at least they are monopolies competing very vigorously...
I saw in the gnucash source tree that there have been some attempts at OFX (XML-based Online Financial eXchange format), are they still alive and is anyone active on them? Is there any work being done on online banking and how important are they to the gnucash developers? What/When should we expect to see something come from these efforts and how far along are you?
Real is correct, it would be nicer if we had a nice standard compliant Mpeg 4 streaming player, but we dont have one yet. So I'll settle for Real, even if its not free, first because its available on all of the platform that end-user use (those being Mac, Linux and Win).. and it does work quite well...
DivX is not a hacked M$ codec, its a modified mpeg 4 codec.. Check your facts..
Hmm, I'd like to know from Ximian when they are planning to make a release that includes Gnome 1.4?
Will such a release include Bonobo?
Or will RedHat 7.1 be out before such a Ximian release....
While we're on the topic of not paying for the TV. I'm searching for software that would let me descramble the scrambled TV.... On linux normally...
I've tried FsckTV, but it doesnt seem to work with all cards. Is there any 100%-software way to do it?
I'm in Canada, so its NTSC...
Is it possible to do it all in software, or is there something missing?...
Well... quite an open question.. I know.. Can I do it?
Maybe that will force the auto makers to stop making cars that can go a 120 mph and work on other more important aspects like security that are less efficient at selling cars. Because I see no good reason to make a car that can go over 60 mph, this is purely a marketing thing, as nobody ever goes faster than 60 mph. So if they are forced to have this thing, maybe it will get smaller engines and safers cars. Not only will it help save human lives, but it will also help protect the environnement by reducing the ammount of gaz wasted by cars. So I believe that this developpement is fundamentally good and that some peopel who are against any government intervention
First, I have never used iHTML...
But this feels like Allaire Forums, which was a forum application written with ColdFusion. Forums was full of bugs and basicly never supported. It was basicly a marketting attempt by Allaire to make derived products from CF, without any success. I think it was later abandoned.
I have used CF, PHP, Perl, python, etc.. And I can tell you that CF really sucks. First, it is veyr expensive, not very reliable. It is also a disgusting language that favorises mixing the logic and the design. I would really advise using general purpose languages or PHP. I also really like Zope, their system is really nice, but I still have doubts about its ability to scale.
The solution is democracy in the form of government control.
This should never have been let in the hands of a private organisation. The US gov should take its responsabilities. Domain names are a public service and they should have a fair system. They would control the root servers and would control registration, at a flat fee, no reselling, no transfer allowed. This would just eliminate this ridiculous market of names.
The market is NOT the answer to everything.
In Quebec, Videotron, the cable company charhes $CAN 30 /month©©© that's $US 20/month for full cable access© I havent seen anywhere with cheaper service yet© There would be NO tv in Canada, if it was not for the CRTC and other governmental investments© Pure market for telecoms only works if you have a very large market© In Europe, most countries have only one private TV network or maybe two©
In quebec, the cablemodem based high speed internet is $CAN 30 per month... that is $US 20... I believe that it is the cheapest in America (if not it in the world)...
Well to get a 30$ rate you need to have cableTV (which has a 70% market penetration) and to buy the modem (for 120$). or its 35$ if I rent the modem (but have cable TV). For the few users who dont have cable and fell like renting it, the maximum is 50$....
ADSL by Bell Canada (ex phone monopoly) is a flat 40$CAN per month for all users..
Internet is cheap in Canada...