People already try to cheat and crack the game systems as it is now. Imagine the craziness that will go on if items can legitimately be bought and sold for money. You'd have every game cracked in a week.
Also, this could open up game publishers to liability issues for lost or stolen items... sure you could exclude everything under the sun in a EULA, but not everything in a EULA is guaranteed to stand up in court. After the sex.com case, domain names are now "property" aren't they?
Probably the worst thing to come out of judgements like this is, that for every Slashdotter who condemns the result, there are another 1000 people somewhere out there who is inspired to try to do the same thing.
both are pretty much all advertising supported (at least in my neck of the woods). At the same time, many cable networks are doing quite well. My point is that there are a lot of people with a lot of different priorities in life. Some will pay for content on the web, particularly if it's important to them, while the majority won't (for any particular site). That's OK, you don't need to serve EVERYONE to make a buck. The magic of the Internet is that all of a sudden, niche markets are a lot bigger and easier to reach. My bet is that many content sites will eventually be profitable, especially as 'net advertising moves toward brand building rather than "click throughs".
I haven't gotten myself a USB drive yet, but I used to carry around my bookmarks list on my school work floppy. Quite useful, slightly less so now that Google is around...
Well, I'm sure for the right price, Novell would be willing to support just about anything. Doesn't stop them from effectively pushing everyone to upgrade...
Dear IT manager,
Renewing your current support contract for your Netware 5 licenses for 12 months will cost $1,000,000. Alternatively, you can upgrade to Netware 7 Linux for $25,000.
Please contact your sales associate when you are ready purchase your upgrade.
Well put. My Dad's a realtor, and I've met a lot of his realtor friends. You're right, the vast majority of realtors have minimal use for IT. Especially the smaller guys - they make do with an email address and a sometimes a token "buisness card" website. That, plus access to the local realtors database is all they really need with the Net. The bigger guys will do more, but in absolute numbers, there aren't really that many.
Whatever happened to that 12 ft (or so) plane they found in Iraq that was supposed to be a potential "weapon of mass destruction". You know, that little remote controlled plane that was supposed to carry biological weapons in a aerosole spray can or something... Must have saw that video a dozen times on CNN before they got bored of it.
I get the distinct feeling that this is a PR stunt. Maybe even a "gain Google PR" (page rank) stunt, what better way to get your penis enlargement site to show up higher on search engines than to get Slashdot, Wired and half a million other sites to link to you?
I suspect many here are reading far too much into this news. Nat. Semi. was trying to sell this unit to shed costs, i.e. it probably wasn't (very) profitable. Thus, the asking price probably wasn't for very much cash. Who knows, they might even have gotten stock instead. Details weren't disclosed today, so there's no way to prove this either way, yet.
In contrast, with Geode under AMD's control, there's a reasonable amount of overlap with AMD's Alchemy unit. They will be able to shed a lot of overhead in salaries and facilities. So maybe the Geode group breaks even or makes a small profit for AMD.
Overall though, it's probably not an earth shattering development. Now if it had been Transmeta, it might be a different story... fast-tracked ultra-low power x86-64 laptops and blades... hmmmm.
I had a PR200+ too. When MP3's became important to me for background music, I ended up 'upgrading' to a 2nd hand Pentium 166 MMX CPU. It was moderately slower for office and web, but at least playing an MP3 only cost 10% CPU. So it netted out to be a better system.
Unfortunately, I've got unpleasant memories of that PC, but that was mostly the motherboards fault - a PC Chips special. =) Last time I ever let the store pick the parts!
I was under the impression that the patent treaties granted an automatic "reservation" for a patent, but no patent itself. This allows one to get "patent pending" type status in many countries at once without too much trouble. But before you can enforce any rights, you have to file all the paperwork (and pay the fees!) of each coutry in which you want to get a "real" patent.
I looked into this a few years ago, and there's a very good chance that I'm flat out wrong. Someone please correct me if I am.
I've got a direct link to the Patent Cooperation Treaty that someone else mentioned here. Unfortunately, it's in legalese and there's no FAQ. =)
Like a couple others have already posted, there is no actual product being launched for the end user!
This seems to provide a good reference platform and development tools for groups looking to create their own non-Palm, non-MS handhelds. If no manufacturers pick up the designs, we may never see this "OpenPDA" platform in use. On the other hand, if just a handful of firms decide to base a product on the platform, we might see a standardized Linux based palm top platform develop to compete with Palm and MS PocketPC.
I've never seen a Zaurus first hand, so I have no idea how it compares to "OpenPDA" in the grand scheme of things...
I might add that with bigger projects, it's not an individual "buying Linux", but a team "hiring IBM" or some other consultants to implement whatever project they're working on. Since IBM footed the bill for getting SUSE this certification, we can only assume that they'll be offering it in a lot of their proposals in the future. So, if problems arise, you can yell at IBM... thus, it's all the same to the end user.
I can't count the number of times I've tried to read a man page to get the basic usage of a tool, only to get frustrated by endless pages of options and no examples. Inevitably, I end up searching Google Groups, or Google...
The article mentions a little bit more than just running Photoshop with WINE. It talks about Disney moving it's animation workstations from an SGI platform to Linux.
Lets see, history or something resembling it, from Civilization. Physics and cause and effect from The Incredible Machine. Strategy from all sorts of other games. And of course, the benefits of good backups from Leisure Suit Larry. =)
Ah.. perhaps we should just ban 3D shooters from kids. That'll teach 'em. =)
Oddly of all things to cap, Usenet probably makes the least sense. At least news server traffic is (generally) local to the ISP, i.e. they don't need to pay for any external bandwidth. Other stuff is relatively bandwidth friendly too: Web traffic can be transparently proxied and cached to save a pretty large percentage of its bandwidth, email isn't time sensitive, and IM (text) has minimal total bandwidth. If anything, ISP's should push people away from P2P. Weird.
Overall though, I generally accept bandwidth caps. For the amount of money I pay, I can't really expect someone to provide me a 24x7 >1Mbit connection.
I think it's called Microsoft Messenger (people are always getting it confused with MSN messenger, maybe because it's the same UI). I'd say that within an company IM provides another option to get a hold of people. For me, it's probably proven most useful when trying to get a quick but non-urgent reply from folks who get loads of email. All IM messages are from inside the company, so it effectively cuts in line in front of the spam and other email.
Sheesh... I guess I can't complain about ACCPAC.
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And to think, just last week I was complaining about some weird issues with reading the AccPac database with ODBC...I guess my problems don't seem to big anymore. =)
Losing ACCOUNTING data when multiple people are in the same module! That's awful... I'm assuming you've checked what other PeachTree users are doing for this? You can't be the only one with this problem...
I'm not entirely sure that a popup is going to be that effective. What happens when you close the popup and forget 20 minutes later? Perhaps a "better" solution is the one many others have said, use a standard IM clients. Jabber has a Windows server version now (though I haven't tried it personally). Then again, the easiest choice would be to get everyone on ICQ or whatever you prefer, though that opens up a whole lot of security issues.
If you're dead set on stop gap solutions, might I suggest more frequent backups? I'm not sure if PeachTree runs on a DB or a file system, but whichever it is, schedule a backup to another workstation every 15 minutes. Might salvage some of the lost time...
Too bad there won't be any 64 bit Mac OSX to go with it. (Granted Windows for x86-64 isn't out yet either)
Is there a 64bit Linux distro for Macs?
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Fact 1: A lot of Novell installations are still out there. I would hazard a guess that a disproportionate number of the larger corporate networks are Novell.
Fact 2: Linux is slowing making it's way into corporate networks, but realistically very few companies will completely switch over.
Given this, we see that more so than ever before, it's a mixed network future, Linux + MS + Novell (sometimes) + Whatever. Something people haven't mentioned too much is that Novell Directory Services has add-ons to make it cross-platform, Microsofts AD does NOT. So, if you want to make your spiffy new mixed network run smoothly with less administrative work the choice is clear now, run Novell NDS - possibly even if you don't have Novell servers at all!
Good deal for all involved... all makes sense to me at least.
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People already try to cheat and crack the game systems as it is now. Imagine the craziness that will go on if items can legitimately be bought and sold for money. You'd have every game cracked in a week.
Also, this could open up game publishers to liability issues for lost or stolen items... sure you could exclude everything under the sun in a EULA, but not everything in a EULA is guaranteed to stand up in court. After the sex.com case, domain names are now "property" aren't they?
Probably the worst thing to come out of judgements like this is, that for every Slashdotter who condemns the result, there are another 1000 people somewhere out there who is inspired to try to do the same thing.
Interesting. Sounds like a Patent Cold War to me.
In contrast, don't all the hardware guys have cross-licenses to avoid all of these issues?
both are pretty much all advertising supported (at least in my neck of the woods). At the same time, many cable networks are doing quite well. My point is that there are a lot of people with a lot of different priorities in life. Some will pay for content on the web, particularly if it's important to them, while the majority won't (for any particular site). That's OK, you don't need to serve EVERYONE to make a buck. The magic of the Internet is that all of a sudden, niche markets are a lot bigger and easier to reach. My bet is that many content sites will eventually be profitable, especially as 'net advertising moves toward brand building rather than "click throughs".
Something like That, or how about Garlic.
Hmm, somehow I don't think that very many people will get that joke. Ah well, I've already typed this far, might as well hit submit.
I haven't gotten myself a USB drive yet, but I used to carry around my bookmarks list on my school work floppy. Quite useful, slightly less so now that Google is around...
if we would even have noticed if he worked at John's Diner rather than Intel.
Well put. My Dad's a realtor, and I've met a lot of his realtor friends. You're right, the vast majority of realtors have minimal use for IT. Especially the smaller guys - they make do with an email address and a sometimes a token "buisness card" website. That, plus access to the local realtors database is all they really need with the Net. The bigger guys will do more, but in absolute numbers, there aren't really that many.
Whatever happened to that 12 ft (or so) plane they found in Iraq that was supposed to be a potential "weapon of mass destruction". You know, that little remote controlled plane that was supposed to carry biological weapons in a aerosole spray can or something... Must have saw that video a dozen times on CNN before they got bored of it.
I get the distinct feeling that this is a PR stunt. Maybe even a "gain Google PR" (page rank) stunt, what better way to get your penis enlargement site to show up higher on search engines than to get Slashdot, Wired and half a million other sites to link to you?
I suspect many here are reading far too much into this news. Nat. Semi. was trying to sell this unit to shed costs, i.e. it probably wasn't (very) profitable. Thus, the asking price probably wasn't for very much cash. Who knows, they might even have gotten stock instead. Details weren't disclosed today, so there's no way to prove this either way, yet.
In contrast, with Geode under AMD's control, there's a reasonable amount of overlap with AMD's Alchemy unit. They will be able to shed a lot of overhead in salaries and facilities. So maybe the Geode group breaks even or makes a small profit for AMD.
Overall though, it's probably not an earth shattering development. Now if it had been Transmeta, it might be a different story... fast-tracked ultra-low power x86-64 laptops and blades... hmmmm.
I had a PR200+ too. When MP3's became important to me for background music, I ended up 'upgrading' to a 2nd hand Pentium 166 MMX CPU. It was moderately slower for office and web, but at least playing an MP3 only cost 10% CPU. So it netted out to be a better system.
Unfortunately, I've got unpleasant memories of that PC, but that was mostly the motherboards fault - a PC Chips special. =) Last time I ever let the store pick the parts!
I was under the impression that the patent treaties granted an automatic "reservation" for a patent, but no patent itself. This allows one to get "patent pending" type status in many countries at once without too much trouble. But before you can enforce any rights, you have to file all the paperwork (and pay the fees!) of each coutry in which you want to get a "real" patent.
I looked into this a few years ago, and there's a very good chance that I'm flat out wrong. Someone please correct me if I am.
I've got a direct link to the Patent Cooperation Treaty that someone else mentioned here. Unfortunately, it's in legalese and there's no FAQ. =)
Like a couple others have already posted, there is no actual product being launched for the end user! This seems to provide a good reference platform and development tools for groups looking to create their own non-Palm, non-MS handhelds. If no manufacturers pick up the designs, we may never see this "OpenPDA" platform in use. On the other hand, if just a handful of firms decide to base a product on the platform, we might see a standardized Linux based palm top platform develop to compete with Palm and MS PocketPC.
I've never seen a Zaurus first hand, so I have no idea how it compares to "OpenPDA" in the grand scheme of things...
I might add that with bigger projects, it's not an individual "buying Linux", but a team "hiring IBM" or some other consultants to implement whatever project they're working on. Since IBM footed the bill for getting SUSE this certification, we can only assume that they'll be offering it in a lot of their proposals in the future. So, if problems arise, you can yell at IBM... thus, it's all the same to the end user.
I can't count the number of times I've tried to read a man page to get the basic usage of a tool, only to get frustrated by endless pages of options and no examples. Inevitably, I end up searching Google Groups, or Google...
The article mentions a little bit more than just running Photoshop with WINE. It talks about Disney moving it's animation workstations from an SGI platform to Linux.
Does Photoshop even have a IRIX version?
Lets see, history or something resembling it, from Civilization. Physics and cause and effect from The Incredible Machine. Strategy from all sorts of other games. And of course, the benefits of good backups from Leisure Suit Larry. =)
Ah.. perhaps we should just ban 3D shooters from kids. That'll teach 'em. =)
Oddly of all things to cap, Usenet probably makes the least sense. At least news server traffic is (generally) local to the ISP, i.e. they don't need to pay for any external bandwidth. Other stuff is relatively bandwidth friendly too: Web traffic can be transparently proxied and cached to save a pretty large percentage of its bandwidth, email isn't time sensitive, and IM (text) has minimal total bandwidth. If anything, ISP's should push people away from P2P. Weird.
Overall though, I generally accept bandwidth caps. For the amount of money I pay, I can't really expect someone to provide me a 24x7 >1Mbit connection.
I think it's called Microsoft Messenger (people are always getting it confused with MSN messenger, maybe because it's the same UI). I'd say that within an company IM provides another option to get a hold of people. For me, it's probably proven most useful when trying to get a quick but non-urgent reply from folks who get loads of email. All IM messages are from inside the company, so it effectively cuts in line in front of the spam and other email.
And to think, just last week I was complaining about some weird issues with reading the AccPac database with ODBC...I guess my problems don't seem to big anymore. =)
Losing ACCOUNTING data when multiple people are in the same module! That's awful... I'm assuming you've checked what other PeachTree users are doing for this? You can't be the only one with this problem...
I'm not entirely sure that a popup is going to be that effective. What happens when you close the popup and forget 20 minutes later? Perhaps a "better" solution is the one many others have said, use a standard IM clients. Jabber has a Windows server version now (though I haven't tried it personally). Then again, the easiest choice would be to get everyone on ICQ or whatever you prefer, though that opens up a whole lot of security issues.
If you're dead set on stop gap solutions, might I suggest more frequent backups? I'm not sure if PeachTree runs on a DB or a file system, but whichever it is, schedule a backup to another workstation every 15 minutes. Might salvage some of the lost time...
Too bad there won't be any 64 bit Mac OSX to go with it. (Granted Windows for x86-64 isn't out yet either)
Is there a 64bit Linux distro for Macs?
Fact 1: A lot of Novell installations are still out there. I would hazard a guess that a disproportionate number of the larger corporate networks are Novell.
Fact 2: Linux is slowing making it's way into corporate networks, but realistically very few companies will completely switch over.
Given this, we see that more so than ever before, it's a mixed network future, Linux + MS + Novell (sometimes) + Whatever. Something people haven't mentioned too much is that Novell Directory Services has add-ons to make it cross-platform, Microsofts AD does NOT. So, if you want to make your spiffy new mixed network run smoothly with less administrative work the choice is clear now, run Novell NDS - possibly even if you don't have Novell servers at all!
Good deal for all involved... all makes sense to me at least.
Yeah, it was late. I meant to type "North American or European". As a Canadian, myself, I will now go give myself beats.