If they wanted to ship the best product possible, why wouldn't they just fork Firefox, or Konquerer? At least then they'd have better CSS/standards support, as well as better security.
Tiffs would be hard or impossible to search (i guess it's possible with OCR, although , which would defeat the whole purpose of having the document in electronic format.
Many are available, however, not in paper format. For 2 examples try the J2SE Documentation and the PHP documentation, which comes with user annotated . What you'll also find is that a lot of publishers just put out printouts of the API docs. You can get a 1000 page book on programming in Java, but 700 pages of that will be the API. That's a big waste of paper, especially since the API docs are out of date the moment the new version is release. I think that a good 3rd party programming manual shouldn't contain anything about the API, but other stuff that isn't typically discussed, such as weird pitfalls, and unexpected functionalities in the language.
As convenient as it would be to have electronic documents, I would also like paper copies. There's a lot of times when it's easier to find something on paper than it is to find something in electronic format. Maybe it's just a matter of making better searching technology, but I find that It's often easier to find stuff in a good book, than by searching through electronic documents.
On a related note, I was listening to the CBC the other day, and they had a phonecall of a woman who called into complain about one of the people they had talking on their science show. Anyway, the person on the show was presenting their view that certain cases of autism shouldn't be treated as a disability, but rather just treat it as though they don't have a problem, because autism itself, is not always a problem that has to be treated in all cases. Anyway, the woman was furious that the CBC would put someone with such a viewpoint on the air. I think it's kind of sad to think that they would not put someone on the air, just because they had a differing viewpoint from others. On a science show, I would expect that people would have differing views, and people listening to the show would accept that.
The article is probably right, this is MS' olive branch to vendors who had hoped to roll out the new machines with brand spanking new Vista already installed. It's a PR debacle and nightmare in the making. Fortunately for MS, that would be mostly irrelevant.
I read another article on Google News earlier stating the same thing. A bunch of computer makers are pissed because they think nobody will buy new PCs this holiday season because they're all waiting for Vista. They have certain quotas to meet for the holiday season. Never mind that they'll have higher sales than they've had in 4 years the day Vista is released, they can't wait that long. So they're going to offer free or cheap upgrades to Vista, to everyone who buys a machine with XP now. I think they're banking on the fact that 75% of the people won't bother to updgrade, or will lose their golden ticket, and won't be able to upgrade, and that this will cost MS very little.
Your also forgetting the cost of the CALs on windows. Along with the cost of the database. Redhat includes a database (actually 2, postgres and mysql), Windows server does not include a database. There's also a lot of nice compilers and development environments that you get included when you buy Linux. With windows, none of this is included. With MS, you pretty much get a bare OS, and don't even get unlimited connections. With Linux, you get a tonne of applications, with no artificial limits on the number of connections.
Which is nice, but when I installed SUSE 10.1 the package manager didn't even work, and I couldn't install updates. I'd rather have working package manager than WPA-PSK. Yes, I know it's fixed, but how do you put out a.1 release that doesn't even have the package manager working properly?
DVDs don't have a levy, I think because there are significant non-infringing uses and because CSS is supposed to stop people from copying them. However, there's many places where you can buy CDs for about the cost of the Levy. Even future shop has CDs for 45 cents each, with the levy being about 29 cents, according to this. Which means that about 2/3 of the cost of the blank CD is actually the Levy. Meanwhile, other stores have CDRs for 22 cents each (7 cents less than the levy) I find it hard to believe that anybody is collecting the levy with these prices, even futureshop)
Why don't they just go find an old diesel locomotive and convert that into a generator? Or get a really big diesel truck. A diesel generator isn't much more than a diesel engine. I see opportunities here for new manufacturers.
Maybe they should just x-ray your skull and forget the face altogether. I don't think a lot of people would want to alter the shape of their skull just to avoid detection. They could probably make it safer by using ultrasound instead of xrays or something. I wonder how feasable this is?
Why does Poland need their own protocol? does MSN/Yahoo/Jabber/ICQ-AIM/whatever not support the character set used for their language? I can understand needing a different client that works in their own language, but a completely different protocol seems a little unnecessary.
It makes me think of people who put everything on their stereo in Hall, or Concert, or Jazz mode. I highly doubt that most people can make the music sound better than what some professional audio guy with millions of dollars of equipment. But you say it sounds "cooler" when you put it in Hall mode and hear all the echos. Well, if they had intended for there to be echos, then there would have been echos. It's like my parents putting the surround sound system in a mode that makes all the sounds come out of all the speakers all the time, because they don't hear anything coming from the back. Don't try explaining to them that you're not supposed to hear the guy in front of you from the back. That's the whole point of surround sound.
It's a good thing because it makes it a lot easier to break the DRM. The other methods of audio-out to audio-in and record, or burn to CD and rip are much slower ways, as well as the loss in quality. If you could keep the original M4A, without re-encoding then it's a lot better solution. It's kind of like moving from the point where we were using frame-grabbers, or video out, to copy DVDs, to the point where we can just rip the encryption out of the VOB, without losing any quality, and doing it at much higher speeds.
Well then why don't the minimum wage laws force the employer to pay a living wage? Isn't that the whole point? So that people who are doing an honest day's work don't have to leech off the state?
5 of those top 30 seems to be drugs of some sort. Couldn't all drugs just be grouped together? Even ungrouped they outrank most of the other crimes, think about how much money goes into enforcing it. I think that outlawing them causes more trouble than if you legalized them and then just offered support programs to addicts.
It would be nice to have a silent auction kind of system. You could submit your bid, along with a resume, and they could pick from the person who they think is going to give them the best value for their dollar. They may not always go with the cheapest person, since they may not do the best job.
However, the middle man in this case only sets up work for specific projects. So if I hire a coder from RAC to do project A, and they do a good job, I may just decide to go around RAC and get them to do project B also. I may also decide to hire them full time. I don't really see anything wrong with this, as RAC (from my understanding) is set up to provide coders for specific projects. I don't imagine the coders sign anything saying they are only allowed to get work through RAC, or that the people hiring may not hire someone they've worked with through RAC.
How does this make sense. Home users don't know how to fix anything, so most likely it would be a terrible if stuff stopped working. However, in a corporate environment, you're likely to have backups, so if some update crashes everything you can just role back. Ok, maybe it isn't that easy in the corporate world, but having the system break on a home user can be just as devastating as having things break at a corporation.
I'm not saying the windows model is any better, what I am saying is that I wish distro providers would put software like this into their current release when it happens. I really hope that Mandriva puts firefox 2.0 into 2007, although i'm not sure how it matters with auto-updates. I also don't know how firefox gets updated from my user account when/usr, where it is located isn't writable by my user account. Anyway, I like the way Linux handles everything, I just with the distro maintainers weren't so against upgrading major versions.
Which is why I use Mandriva which can play DVDs and MP3s out of the box. What are the legal implications of Mandriva putting in this functionality? Could they be shut down?
Considering that they were both released today, I highly doubt it. They wouldn't have any time to test it. This is one of my biggest problems with Linux. They release a new version of the distro, and then a major very important piece of software comes out shortly after the distro release. Which means that unless you want to get your software from outside the distro's repository, then you are stuck with the older version. Case in point, if you wanted OO.o 2, on Mandrake up until version 7 came out a little while ago, you had to download it from oo.o (the website), you couldn't just install it using URPMI and the regular sources. They could have released OO.o on urpmi, but most distros shy away from major version changes.
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If they wanted to ship the best product possible, why wouldn't they just fork Firefox, or Konquerer? At least then they'd have better CSS/standards support, as well as better security.
Tiffs would be hard or impossible to search (i guess it's possible with OCR, although , which would defeat the whole purpose of having the document in electronic format.
Many are available, however, not in paper format. For 2 examples try the J2SE Documentation and the PHP documentation, which comes with user annotated . What you'll also find is that a lot of publishers just put out printouts of the API docs. You can get a 1000 page book on programming in Java, but 700 pages of that will be the API. That's a big waste of paper, especially since the API docs are out of date the moment the new version is release. I think that a good 3rd party programming manual shouldn't contain anything about the API, but other stuff that isn't typically discussed, such as weird pitfalls, and unexpected functionalities in the language.
As convenient as it would be to have electronic documents, I would also like paper copies. There's a lot of times when it's easier to find something on paper than it is to find something in electronic format. Maybe it's just a matter of making better searching technology, but I find that It's often easier to find stuff in a good book, than by searching through electronic documents.
On a related note, I was listening to the CBC the other day, and they had a phonecall of a woman who called into complain about one of the people they had talking on their science show. Anyway, the person on the show was presenting their view that certain cases of autism shouldn't be treated as a disability, but rather just treat it as though they don't have a problem, because autism itself, is not always a problem that has to be treated in all cases. Anyway, the woman was furious that the CBC would put someone with such a viewpoint on the air. I think it's kind of sad to think that they would not put someone on the air, just because they had a differing viewpoint from others. On a science show, I would expect that people would have differing views, and people listening to the show would accept that.
Your also forgetting the cost of the CALs on windows. Along with the cost of the database. Redhat includes a database (actually 2, postgres and mysql), Windows server does not include a database. There's also a lot of nice compilers and development environments that you get included when you buy Linux. With windows, none of this is included. With MS, you pretty much get a bare OS, and don't even get unlimited connections. With Linux, you get a tonne of applications, with no artificial limits on the number of connections.
Which is nice, but when I installed SUSE 10.1 the package manager didn't even work, and I couldn't install updates. I'd rather have working package manager than WPA-PSK. Yes, I know it's fixed, but how do you put out a .1 release that doesn't even have the package manager working properly?
DVDs don't have a levy, I think because there are significant non-infringing uses and because CSS is supposed to stop people from copying them. However, there's many places where you can buy CDs for about the cost of the Levy. Even future shop has CDs for 45 cents each, with the levy being about 29 cents, according to this. Which means that about 2/3 of the cost of the blank CD is actually the Levy. Meanwhile, other stores have CDRs for 22 cents each (7 cents less than the levy) I find it hard to believe that anybody is collecting the levy with these prices, even futureshop)
Why don't they just go find an old diesel locomotive and convert that into a generator? Or get a really big diesel truck. A diesel generator isn't much more than a diesel engine. I see opportunities here for new manufacturers.
Maybe they should just x-ray your skull and forget the face altogether. I don't think a lot of people would want to alter the shape of their skull just to avoid detection. They could probably make it safer by using ultrasound instead of xrays or something. I wonder how feasable this is?
Why does Poland need their own protocol? does MSN/Yahoo/Jabber/ICQ-AIM/whatever not support the character set used for their language? I can understand needing a different client that works in their own language, but a completely different protocol seems a little unnecessary.
But under the DMCA you aren't allowed to break the encryption, or you will be arrested, as a criminal offense.
It makes me think of people who put everything on their stereo in Hall, or Concert, or Jazz mode. I highly doubt that most people can make the music sound better than what some professional audio guy with millions of dollars of equipment. But you say it sounds "cooler" when you put it in Hall mode and hear all the echos. Well, if they had intended for there to be echos, then there would have been echos. It's like my parents putting the surround sound system in a mode that makes all the sounds come out of all the speakers all the time, because they don't hear anything coming from the back. Don't try explaining to them that you're not supposed to hear the guy in front of you from the back. That's the whole point of surround sound.
It's a good thing because it makes it a lot easier to break the DRM. The other methods of audio-out to audio-in and record, or burn to CD and rip are much slower ways, as well as the loss in quality. If you could keep the original M4A, without re-encoding then it's a lot better solution. It's kind of like moving from the point where we were using frame-grabbers, or video out, to copy DVDs, to the point where we can just rip the encryption out of the VOB, without losing any quality, and doing it at much higher speeds.
WTF is gadugadu? Seriously, is it yet another instant messaging protocol?
Well then why don't the minimum wage laws force the employer to pay a living wage? Isn't that the whole point? So that people who are doing an honest day's work don't have to leech off the state?
5 of those top 30 seems to be drugs of some sort. Couldn't all drugs just be grouped together? Even ungrouped they outrank most of the other crimes, think about how much money goes into enforcing it. I think that outlawing them causes more trouble than if you legalized them and then just offered support programs to addicts.
It would be nice to have a silent auction kind of system. You could submit your bid, along with a resume, and they could pick from the person who they think is going to give them the best value for their dollar. They may not always go with the cheapest person, since they may not do the best job.
However, the middle man in this case only sets up work for specific projects. So if I hire a coder from RAC to do project A, and they do a good job, I may just decide to go around RAC and get them to do project B also. I may also decide to hire them full time. I don't really see anything wrong with this, as RAC (from my understanding) is set up to provide coders for specific projects. I don't imagine the coders sign anything saying they are only allowed to get work through RAC, or that the people hiring may not hire someone they've worked with through RAC.
How does this make sense. Home users don't know how to fix anything, so most likely it would be a terrible if stuff stopped working. However, in a corporate environment, you're likely to have backups, so if some update crashes everything you can just role back. Ok, maybe it isn't that easy in the corporate world, but having the system break on a home user can be just as devastating as having things break at a corporation.
I'm not saying the windows model is any better, what I am saying is that I wish distro providers would put software like this into their current release when it happens. I really hope that Mandriva puts firefox 2.0 into 2007, although i'm not sure how it matters with auto-updates. I also don't know how firefox gets updated from my user account when /usr, where it is located isn't writable by my user account. Anyway, I like the way Linux handles everything, I just with the distro maintainers weren't so against upgrading major versions.
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Which is why I use Mandriva which can play DVDs and MP3s out of the box. What are the legal implications of Mandriva putting in this functionality? Could they be shut down?
Considering that they were both released today, I highly doubt it. They wouldn't have any time to test it. This is one of my biggest problems with Linux. They release a new version of the distro, and then a major very important piece of software comes out shortly after the distro release. Which means that unless you want to get your software from outside the distro's repository, then you are stuck with the older version. Case in point, if you wanted OO.o 2, on Mandrake up until version 7 came out a little while ago, you had to download it from oo.o (the website), you couldn't just install it using URPMI and the regular sources. They could have released OO.o on urpmi, but most distros shy away from major version changes.