You may be write but it's not that easy. If keeping the Ipod Mac OS only reaps 1000 new Imac sales will that make more money than selling 10,000 Ipods to Windows users?
Unless you have some inside information from Apple, about their profit margins and sales numbers and, the ability to interpret them I don't think the answer is at all obvious.
So, the real question is what will make them more money? Selling more Ibooks and Imacs to those who chose to buy one in order to have an Ipod or, selling many Ipods to those who own PCs.
When you click on some links, it doesn't go to the destination.. and it just displays a picture off of the current page! Hit Refresh and you finally go on your way.
If you are using a proxy like junkbusters then This will solve your problem:
10.3. I'm using a transparent proxy (such as Junkbuster) and I'm having weird browsing problems. What's happening?
Some transparent proxies (including some versions of Junkbuster) do not handle HTTP/1.1 properly. The first thing to try is to go to Edit | Preferences | Advanced | HTTP Networking and select 'Use HTTP 1.0'.
The government's productive alliance with private enterprise is also relevant particularly when its decision to use GPL source code would inherently turn away many of its traditional partners. Security, as well as other impracticalities make GPL open source very unattractive to companies concerned about intellectual property rights. In effect, the government's use of GPL source code could inevitably shut out the intellectual property based sector.
The Government must choose software to maximize national security and minimize government expenditure. It owes absolutely nothing to the "IP-based sector" or any other corporation. What was it I said before? Oh, yes: "Tough. Adapt or die."
It seems to me that many corporations are complaining about loosing their ability to make a profit. They expect the government to legislate things to help them. The author hints to this here but, let me add to it:
Running a business is a privilege granted by the people (business/vendor license). There are no rights, promises, or guarantees that running a business will earn any profit.
This is good news. The CAD choices for linux are pretty bad but getting better. However, what about a lite version for those of us that just want to design our own desk and home office space? I've tried some of the open source projects out there and they are pretty bad. The simpliest concepts like scaling your drawing to fit on a paper printout are missing. VariCad is another commercial offering but again, it's too expensive for home use. I tried their demo but it wouldn't let me save my work.
"Another security concern is that the primary distribution channel for GPL open source is the Internet. As opposed to proprietary vendors, open source is freely downloaded. However, software in the public domain could contain a critical problem, a backdoor or worse, a dangerous virus."
And how is this more dangerous than a propietary vendor discovering a flaw in there product, keeping quite and not fixing it because it costs too much money?
I think the key here is to try and have common tools for all your systems. Shells vary from system to system. Even tools vary. GNU grep is different than Solaris grep as is tar. Remembering the various differences can be time consuming.
I think if you were to ensure that all of your systems had the same shell installed or the same version of perl and selected modules you'd save alot of time.
I assume he is in the US. When I used to work in the automotive industry, alot of our customers were in the US (I'm in Canada). I found that the term engineer was so overused. It was used as a job title just like manager.
So if someone claims to be an engineer that may be his/her title not necessarily his trade/education.
From the CNET article: " Beyond its skins and pop-up-killing abilities, however, Mozilla 1.0 doesn't do much more for the average Web surfer than Internet Explorer does. For one thing, Mozilla doesn't always render Web pages the same way IE does. Why does that matter? Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla. For example, we struggled with sites that use a technology called positioning to put ads on their pages. In IE, those ads temporarily hide part of the page, then go away. But in our Mozilla tests, the ads sometimes permanently blocked part of the page, and we had to reload the page until we got a different, regular, nonpositioning ad."
I seriously doubt this has anything to do with Mozilla. More likely, the web designer used the broken standards of IE and never bothered to test it with other browsers.
The UN could never afford it until certain countries pay their UN dues.
Sarcasm aside, an international consortium is really the way to go. However, given the lack luster success of the ISS so far one has to wonder if such an project would survive the red tape and squabbling.
I've never used Napster. There I said it. I did try Audiogalaxy briefly but all that searching and downloading was just to much trouble. In the end, if I did find the track I wanted the chances where good that the quality was bad.
It's much easier for me to buy the CD I like and rip it to my computer. Hopefully, I will still be able to do this in the future.
That being said, I haven't bought a CD priced over $12 (cdn) in over 3 years. Why should I pay almost $20 for a CD when according to most reports the performer (note I did not use the word artist) is only receiving about a dollar? I'm buying the CD because I like the performer's music not because I think Sony Music rocks.
As it's been said a thousand times. If you begrudge the price of CDs:
Ever try an make a non technical user to create a good password. They can never remember it. I either end up having them create a new password or I find their password written on a post-it note near their monitor.
Wouldn't the investors have a contract with the patent holder? "I, the investor, give you money and you, the inventor, give me a return on my investment within 5 years."
I just had a ShadowRun flashback: Yes Mr Johnson, we can make your "package" disappear.
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You could start by shortening the time period in which the IP owerner owns the material. The rate at which technology advances these days, having a patent for to long can only be of benifit to the owner and not the people.
Get your patent, make your money, loose your patent all in a shortened period of time.
It's just like the automotive industry. Unless Dell, HPQ, Gateway and other big PC sellers come together as a group to negotiate with MS it will never change.
Individually the resellers are weak but, together they would have the power against MS.
It's been my experience that the financial decision makers can think of all kinds of ways to save money as long as it doesn't affect them. Some people have no problem giving someone a desktop when what they really need is a laptop. Sure, send the tech guy on a 28 hour day with a redeye flight to and from his destination. It saves money. Buy towers instead of rack mounts. It's cheaper and they can't see the cramped server room.
Now, offer to save them thousands buy installing open source software. A full distribution and only $60 (vs $700 or so for an MS workstation) a seat. As soon as you mention they, personally, will have to have some retraining the idea is canned...
There are some interesting links here about orbital vehicles and other programs.
The biggest problem is people don't want to pay for it. Most people have no idea the kind of impact the space programs of the world have had on everyday life. Freeze dried foods, powdered drinks, plastics, computers, digital cameras, compsite materials, GPS, cell phones, long distance phone calls, satellite TV... The list goes on and on.
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You may be write but it's not that easy. If keeping the Ipod Mac OS only reaps 1000 new Imac sales will that make more money than selling 10,000 Ipods to Windows users?
Unless you have some inside information from Apple, about their profit margins and sales numbers and, the ability to interpret them I don't think the answer is at all obvious.
So, the real question is what will make them more money? Selling more Ibooks and Imacs to those who chose to buy one in order to have an Ipod or, selling many Ipods to those who own PCs.
If you are using a proxy like junkbusters then This will solve your problem:
10.3. I'm using a transparent proxy (such as Junkbuster) and I'm having weird browsing problems. What's happening?
Some transparent proxies (including some versions of Junkbuster) do not handle HTTP/1.1 properly. The first thing to try is to go to Edit | Preferences | Advanced | HTTP Networking and select 'Use HTTP 1.0'.
The government's productive alliance with private enterprise is also relevant particularly when its decision to use GPL source code would inherently turn away many of its traditional partners. Security, as well as other impracticalities make GPL open source very unattractive to companies concerned about intellectual property rights. In effect, the government's use of GPL source code could inevitably shut out the intellectual property based sector.
The Government must choose software to maximize national security and minimize government expenditure. It owes absolutely nothing to the "IP-based sector" or any other corporation. What was it I said before? Oh, yes: "Tough. Adapt or die."
It seems to me that many corporations are complaining about loosing their ability to make a profit. They expect the government to legislate things to help them. The author hints to this here but, let me add to it:
Running a business is a privilege granted by the people (business/vendor license). There are no rights, promises, or guarantees that running a business will earn any profit.
This is good news. The CAD choices for linux are pretty bad but getting better. However, what about a lite version for those of us that just want to design our own desk and home office space? I've tried some of the open source projects out there and they are pretty bad. The simpliest concepts like scaling your drawing to fit on a paper printout are missing. VariCad is another commercial offering but again, it's too expensive for home use. I tried their demo but it wouldn't let me save my work.
And how is this more dangerous than a propietary vendor discovering a flaw in there product, keeping quite and not fixing it because it costs too much money?
I think if you were to ensure that all of your systems had the same shell installed or the same version of perl and selected modules you'd save alot of time.
Would MS publish this standard? How long before they sould stop publishing it in order force people to use IE?
So if someone claims to be an engineer that may be his/her title not necessarily his trade/education.
" Beyond its skins and pop-up-killing abilities, however, Mozilla 1.0 doesn't do much more for the average Web surfer than Internet Explorer does. For one thing, Mozilla doesn't always render Web pages the same way IE does. Why does that matter? Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla. For example, we struggled with sites that use a technology called positioning to put ads on their pages. In IE, those ads temporarily hide part of the page, then go away. But in our Mozilla tests, the ads sometimes permanently blocked part of the page, and we had to reload the page until we got a different, regular, nonpositioning ad."
I seriously doubt this has anything to do with Mozilla. More likely, the web designer used the broken standards of IE and never bothered to test it with other browsers.
Sarcasm aside, an international consortium is really the way to go. However, given the lack luster success of the ISS so far one has to wonder if such an project would survive the red tape and squabbling.
If anyone, Caldear should know that a per seat license model cannot work. SCO Unix used that model and Caldera ended up buying them on the cheap.
It's much easier for me to buy the CD I like and rip it to my computer. Hopefully, I will still be able to do this in the future.
That being said, I haven't bought a CD priced over $12 (cdn) in over 3 years. Why should I pay almost $20 for a CD when according to most reports the performer (note I did not use the word artist) is only receiving about a dollar? I'm buying the CD because I like the performer's music not because I think Sony Music rocks.
As it's been said a thousand times. If you begrudge the price of CDs:
Don't Buy Them
In the end, you get what you pay for.
Ever try an make a non technical user to create a good password. They can never remember it. I either end up having them create a new password or I find their password written on a post-it note near their monitor.
Wouldn't the investors have a contract with the patent holder? "I, the investor, give you money and you, the inventor, give me a return on my investment within 5 years."
I just had a ShadowRun flashback: Yes Mr Johnson, we can make your "package" disappear.
Get your patent, make your money, loose your patent all in a shortened period of time.
Individually the resellers are weak but, together they would have the power against MS.
It's been my experience that the financial decision makers can think of all kinds of ways to save money as long as it doesn't affect them. Some people have no problem giving someone a desktop when what they really need is a laptop. Sure, send the tech guy on a 28 hour day with a redeye flight to and from his destination. It saves money. Buy towers instead of rack mounts. It's cheaper and they can't see the cramped server room.
Now, offer to save them thousands buy installing open source software. A full distribution and only $60 (vs $700 or so for an MS workstation) a seat. As soon as you mention they, personally, will have to have some retraining the idea is canned...
There were a few ideas on the go:
There are some interesting links here about orbital vehicles and other programs.
The biggest problem is people don't want to pay for it. Most people have no idea the kind of impact the space programs of the world have had on everyday life. Freeze dried foods, powdered drinks, plastics, computers, digital cameras, compsite materials, GPS, cell phones, long distance phone calls, satellite TV... The list goes on and on.
I know hydroponic shops around here are booming.
Can I use say, HP's DVD+RW drive on my linux box?
For the price of seeing a movie in a theatre these days I want big sound and big visuals.