If DRM is on the way out Steve, then open source your DRM so others can implement it in their players so as to maximise compatiblity with already purchased songs.
This is a prime example of big business making out the damage that small scale piracy causes is as serious as murder, drug dealing and physical theft.
Why are people sent to prison for copyright infringement? sure, it can cause lost sales, but the court case should be asked to prove if the accused would have purchased the product otherwise.
When the copyright infringement is on a mass scale, ie. pirate copies duplicated in the thousands and sold, then yes these people have caused damage and should be punished.
While the deal between Microsoft and Novell isn't good, Novell has plenty of patents and Unix rights which could make the life of the Linux community rather hard.
I don't think commercial support is about the number of users, it's more about not wanting their precious IP laid bare to anyone who can download the kernel source (ie. everyone).
Also, in these times of big companies patenting everything the source could reveal infringement.
But it's an operating system, it just launches applications and provides base services, file system, GUi etc..
After bootup the more memory you have available for applications and running programs the better. Are you telling me Microsoft needed to have 1GB of OS application resident in memory all of the time? surely we can have minimalist tasks running that when needed load and unload DLLs to do the work, which saves having them in memory all the time.
On the other hand, there are now people who are putting off buying another phone and are waiting for the iPhone. This has to be good for Apple.
Of course, the wait in the UK for this phone is excessive as ever, we're always behind the US and Japan even though mobile phone ownership here has been ahead of the US as a percentage of the population. In Europe 70% of the population use mobiles, 63% in Canada and in the US 55%.
Microsoft has missed a golden opportunity to release their own Windows Mobile media device, it has everything they needed but instead they create a custom device which does less.
The Zune would have had a wealth of software including GPS.
Comparing IT with medicine isn't a good comparison. You didn't buy your life from a doctor.
As for why IT staff don't always respect their customers, try working in support. Customers threaten you, provide you with no information, blame you for everything.
Writing the code from a good design is easy. It is creating a good accurate design, capturing all the requirements accurately and ensuring the end user's expectations are correct.
Indeed, while medical research does take a lot of time and expense, patents result in very expensive drugs while ultimately result in death and disease.
The drugs cost very little to produce, you're paying for all the research and profits.
You buy an OEM copy of the OS but then find you can't use it. So you then have to go out and buy a full copy.
How many Windows licences are there out there compared to PCs? must be nearly two CDs for every PC running Windows. Many corporations buy PCs with XP Home and wipe that and install XP Professional.
It has been ready for the prime time for years, it is the work force that isn't ready. There's many IT support staff who can't administer Unix systems and therefore they can't administer Linux.
Virtual servers, remote desktop etc is less responsive. Sure, it depends what applications you're using, but anything like Photoshop or video is out of the window as speed is critical.
There's too much electronics in cars already, greatly increasing the chances of a fire in the event of a crash. The last thing we need is Windows in a car.
Apple are progressively upgrading the OS having smaller releases. This is closer to the Linux way of working.
Once you get your basic design right you can gradually improve and alter things. This is where Microsoft failed, their security model was flawed, so with Vista they've fixed it (or so they say).
I remember burning an MP3 to a CD in around 1997 or 1998. This was on an Amiga too. You have to ask yourself under which rock Microsoft have been hiding.
They've repeated the same mistake as Sony, not taking interest in mp3 and instead concentrating on their own format (wma, for Sony it was ATRAC).
People are used to buying a computer and getting free applications. They simply won't be happy getting free hardware and then having a huge bill for software.
Consumers aren't that dumb, they don't like printer ink prices and use alternative brands where possible. So this idea will arouse suspicion.
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If DRM is on the way out Steve, then open source your DRM so others can implement it in their players so as to maximise compatiblity with already purchased songs.
This is a prime example of big business making out the damage that small scale piracy causes is as serious as murder, drug dealing and physical theft.
Why are people sent to prison for copyright infringement? sure, it can cause lost sales, but the court case should be asked to prove if the accused would have purchased the product otherwise.
When the copyright infringement is on a mass scale, ie. pirate copies duplicated in the thousands and sold, then yes these people have caused damage and should be punished.
While the deal between Microsoft and Novell isn't good, Novell has plenty of patents and Unix rights which could make the life of the Linux community rather hard.
They could become another SCO.
I don't think commercial support is about the number of users, it's more about not wanting their precious IP laid bare to anyone who can download the kernel source (ie. everyone).
Also, in these times of big companies patenting everything the source could reveal infringement.
But it's an operating system, it just launches applications and provides base services, file system, GUi etc..
After bootup the more memory you have available for applications and running programs the better. Are you telling me Microsoft needed to have 1GB of OS application resident in memory all of the time? surely we can have minimalist tasks running that when needed load and unload DLLs to do the work, which saves having them in memory all the time.
On the other hand, there are now people who are putting off buying another phone and are waiting for the iPhone. This has to be good for Apple.
Of course, the wait in the UK for this phone is excessive as ever, we're always behind the US and Japan even though mobile phone ownership here has been ahead of the US as a percentage of the population. In Europe 70% of the population use mobiles, 63% in Canada and in the US 55%.
Microsoft has missed a golden opportunity to release their own Windows Mobile media device, it has everything they needed but instead they create a custom device which does less.
The Zune would have had a wealth of software including GPS.
Doh! so what if data is lost in compression? that's why you shoot in RAW format dumbass.
With a 4GB CF card and average RAW image size of about 20MB I don't see any need for JPEG if you have the time to work on the RAW files.
Comparing IT with medicine isn't a good comparison. You didn't buy your life from a doctor.
As for why IT staff don't always respect their customers, try working in support. Customers threaten you, provide you with no information, blame you for everything.
Writing the code from a good design is easy. It is creating a good accurate design, capturing all the requirements accurately and ensuring the end user's expectations are correct.
Indeed, while medical research does take a lot of time and expense, patents result in very expensive drugs while ultimately result in death and disease.
The drugs cost very little to produce, you're paying for all the research and profits.
In these times of obesity and general laziness it's better for people to get their behind off the sofa and do some manual work around the house.
Many years ago when factory and engineering work was a more common occupation then yes, robot assistants would have been good for a tired out worker.
Of course I have no problem with robots assisting the disabled or elderly, so long as they're reliable.
You buy an OEM copy of the OS but then find you can't use it. So you then have to go out and buy a full copy.
How many Windows licences are there out there compared to PCs? must be nearly two CDs for every PC running Windows. Many corporations buy PCs with XP Home and wipe that and install XP Professional.
It has been ready for the prime time for years, it is the work force that isn't ready. There's many IT support staff who can't administer Unix systems and therefore they can't administer Linux.
Virtual servers, remote desktop etc is less responsive. Sure, it depends what applications you're using, but anything like Photoshop or video is out of the window as speed is critical.
There's too much electronics in cars already, greatly increasing the chances of a fire in the event of a crash. The last thing we need is Windows in a car.
Apple are progressively upgrading the OS having smaller releases. This is closer to the Linux way of working.
Once you get your basic design right you can gradually improve and alter things. This is where Microsoft failed, their security model was flawed, so with Vista they've fixed it (or so they say).
Luckily that guy has left now. I think someone vandalised his car and he had a re-think about his life.
I remember burning an MP3 to a CD in around 1997 or 1998. This was on an Amiga too. You have to ask yourself under which rock Microsoft have been hiding.
They've repeated the same mistake as Sony, not taking interest in mp3 and instead concentrating on their own format (wma, for Sony it was ATRAC).
We're heading towards a culture where films cost so much and where it is so hard to get a film into a cinema due to the large films.
Distributers do dodgy deals, so to get the big blockbuster you have to take all their other films. It's just not an open market.
People are used to buying a computer and getting free applications. They simply won't be happy getting free hardware and then having a huge bill for software.
Consumers aren't that dumb, they don't like printer ink prices and use alternative brands where possible. So this idea will arouse suspicion.
Indeed, the best thing you can do is eat well, exercise and get proper amounts of sleep. Sleep is very important in brain performance.
If AMD owned ATI then this might affect certain consoles. Nintendo and Microsoft both have ATI in their consoles.
I had a zip drive and at the time it filled a large gap between the floppy and CD rewriteable (which was very costly).
It was good in my opinion, it just never developed fast enough in terms of capacity.
Canon have improved CMOS dramatically, noise was a problem with CMOS and their sensors are better than CCD for noise now.