"In either case, the indies will be getting a *huge* increase in power, wealth and the ability to remain flexible to meet market demand and handle new distribution opportunities."
I disagree. I think the RIAA is trying to keep online music sales fragmented between different proprietary sellers. (i.e. Music Service X can only work with MP3 player X) OR use the rental music option (where you pay $X/month to get music but you dont own it). As long as the RIAA can remain the monopoly power behind music indies will still have a hard time...
What really needs to happen to give indies a boost is to have a music service which has an iTunes like model but can work with a wide array of music players. That way indies would sign up with one or two online music stores and then be assured that a large percentage of customers could purchase their music.
Two questions for anyone who might know:
1. Can Apple sell music independatly w/out going through the RIAA. (i.e. Can I sell my music on the store w/out the RIAA being involved)
2. Is there anything from stopping Apple from licensing their music store technology so that if I sold mp3 players I could make my players for with the Apple music store for some fee?
I figured that I couldn't be the only one who is still using Galeon 1.2.x. The 1.3.x version is far from ready but Epiphany sucks even more than both of them....
Has anyone been able to mount samba shares at all? Our Mac has had a HORRIBLE time trying to load a Samba share off our E-smith (E-smith.org - Redhat 8.0 based) Linux Machine.
It's able to view/browser files just fine, but copying them goes about as slow as a 56k modem and sometimes crashes the finder...
I'm not sure that activation bothers me as much as price. On their website it's going to cost $400 for Dreamweaver and $300 for Fireworks. That's $700 (ok, well it's actually $698) for just those two programs. That doesn't even include a Manual or a CD. You have to pay extra if you want those luxuries.
that Google will become another Netscape is if Microsoft abuses their desktop monopoly to force them out of business.
The real question here is if the DOJ will make MS allow other search engines to be used in Windows in place of MSN sort of like what they are supposed to be doing with web browsers, etc. in Windows right now.
Good idea... They ought to make it so that they can tunnel the head somewhere in the winter... Those things can probably spit out a lot of heat when you add it all up
Kudos to the Lindows people on starting this project. They seem to bring a certain polish to OSS project which makes them easy for the masses to use. I think this will turn out well for them.
I hope that more companies follow the example that Apple (and others I'm sure) set when they helped create a commercial project (Safari) and improve a OSS project (KTHML) all at the same time...
Actually you can't run IE on Linux. That's because IE isn't a product anymore, it's actually an operating system (IE == Windows). You'll have to get VMWARE to run Windows on Linux... sorry...
p.s. just kidding eh
They don't care if you do it or not, they already got that 50 Million dollar investment just a bit ago (most likely from Microsoft) and other money from Microsoft before that.... They have already made 50+ Million even w/out selling any pieces of paper...
Has anyone seen nutch? It looks pretty interesting. "Nutch provides a transparent alternative to commercial web search engines. Only open source search results can be fully trusted to be without bias. (Or at least their bias is public.)"
especially for legal content... bitTorrent has made it so that you can get all sorts of legal content like game demos, linux distros, etc. off p2p without having to be on horribly slow ftp servers.
Montana went through 'de-regulation' a little while ago. After de-regulation commercial power rates went through the roof causing many businesses to go bankrupt. Residential power rates have been raised over 50% since then as well. All these rate hikes have happened despite the fact that Montana ships nearly 1/2 of our energy out of state.
In addition to this Montana's largest power supplier sold all of their power plants to an out of state business. The business that bought them is on the verge of going bankrupt and our governor who started all of this wants to bail them out...
Overall de-regulation has had a very negative impact on Montana.
Not that your ideas is possible under the GPL license, but that is a really funny idea. Do to SCO exactly what they are doing to the rest of the Linux community.. HA!
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"In either case, the indies will be getting a *huge* increase in power, wealth and the ability to remain flexible to meet market demand and handle new distribution opportunities." I disagree. I think the RIAA is trying to keep online music sales fragmented between different proprietary sellers. (i.e. Music Service X can only work with MP3 player X) OR use the rental music option (where you pay $X/month to get music but you dont own it). As long as the RIAA can remain the monopoly power behind music indies will still have a hard time... What really needs to happen to give indies a boost is to have a music service which has an iTunes like model but can work with a wide array of music players. That way indies would sign up with one or two online music stores and then be assured that a large percentage of customers could purchase their music. Two questions for anyone who might know: 1. Can Apple sell music independatly w/out going through the RIAA. (i.e. Can I sell my music on the store w/out the RIAA being involved) 2. Is there anything from stopping Apple from licensing their music store technology so that if I sold mp3 players I could make my players for with the Apple music store for some fee?
For the part where Agent Linux burns Bills eyes out and then he finally can see all the Linux everywhere...
I figured that I couldn't be the only one who is still using Galeon 1.2.x. The 1.3.x version is far from ready but Epiphany sucks even more than both of them....
I did upgrade my machine to Samba 3. I'll try tinkering some more and see what happens. Thanks for the tip.
Has anyone been able to mount samba shares at all? Our Mac has had a HORRIBLE time trying to load a Samba share off our E-smith (E-smith.org - Redhat 8.0 based) Linux Machine.
It's able to view/browser files just fine, but copying them goes about as slow as a 56k modem and sometimes crashes the finder...
I agree that you could do that, but if you only need those two programs it really sucks.
I'm not sure that activation bothers me as much as price. On their website it's going to cost $400 for Dreamweaver and $300 for Fireworks. That's $700 (ok, well it's actually $698) for just those two programs. That doesn't even include a Manual or a CD. You have to pay extra if you want those luxuries.
that Google will become another Netscape is if Microsoft abuses their desktop monopoly to force them out of business.
The real question here is if the DOJ will make MS allow other search engines to be used in Windows in place of MSN sort of like what they are supposed to be doing with web browsers, etc. in Windows right now.
Good idea... They ought to make it so that they can tunnel the head somewhere in the winter... Those things can probably spit out a lot of heat when you add it all up
Kudos to the Lindows people on starting this project. They seem to bring a certain polish to OSS project which makes them easy for the masses to use. I think this will turn out well for them.
I hope that more companies follow the example that Apple (and others I'm sure) set when they helped create a commercial project (Safari) and improve a OSS project (KTHML) all at the same time...
I can't wait to try Nvu out!
Actually you can't run IE on Linux. That's because IE isn't a product anymore, it's actually an operating system (IE == Windows). You'll have to get VMWARE to run Windows on Linux... sorry...
p.s. just kidding eh
I can't belive that could be illegal. All they are doing is putting up robots.txt files, not changing the information or anything.
They don't care if you do it or not, they already got that 50 Million dollar investment just a bit ago (most likely from Microsoft) and other money from Microsoft before that.... They have already made 50+ Million even w/out selling any pieces of paper...
Has anyone seen nutch? It looks pretty interesting. "Nutch provides a transparent alternative to commercial web search engines. Only open source search results can be fully trusted to be without bias. (Or at least their bias is public.)"
Take a look here: here
true, but BT is pretty new. I can imagine it being tied into a Kazaa type system ... Give it some time to evolve...
especially for legal content... bitTorrent has made it so that you can get all sorts of legal content like game demos, linux distros, etc. off p2p without having to be on horribly slow ftp servers.
report a neighbor!
You are correct. Ebay allows the trading of Online Magic the Gathering cards which only exist in cyberspace.
I always imagined that this product was vaporware. I'm willing to bet that FWB was just trying to get MS to pay them to not produce the product.
I calculated it in gnumeric 1.0.13 and it came out to be -4.
Bad movies aren't doing poorly because they suck, but because people are now able to tell more people that they suck...
I usually look at Rotten Tomatoes before I watch a movie, if it scores too poorly I am less likely to watch it.
Montana went through 'de-regulation' a little while ago. After de-regulation commercial power rates went through the roof causing many businesses to go bankrupt. Residential power rates have been raised over 50% since then as well. All these rate hikes have happened despite the fact that Montana ships nearly 1/2 of our energy out of state. In addition to this Montana's largest power supplier sold all of their power plants to an out of state business. The business that bought them is on the verge of going bankrupt and our governor who started all of this wants to bail them out... Overall de-regulation has had a very negative impact on Montana.
Actually it was the Amish laughing... don't you read fark? see this article
Not that your ideas is possible under the GPL license, but that is a really funny idea. Do to SCO exactly what they are doing to the rest of the Linux community.. HA!
Sleepcat might be something to look into. It works well in some situations. [license info]