There are two issues here: -- SCO already owns copyright to Unix code ==> This has been rejected by jury -- If SCO doesn't own then Novell is required to transfer based on contract. ==> No jury verdict here.
Direct AC connection? 110-240V? I don't know about you guys, but I ain't gonna put that damn thing on my lap. This is a laptop. I have spilled coffee, juice, other drinks on my laptops. I don't want 240V shock on my private parts. I let my young kids to use laptop too and certainly wouldn't allow this one to them.
Yes, I know this solution, but I didn't have a spare copy of XP. I used Linux with VirtualBox, and it worked but it was too slow (as slow as my old box which was 5.5 years old then). Why would I buy a new box and a copy of XP only to get same performance as my existing box?
IANAL, but I actually read the whole document. The appeals court concluded that the summary judgment granting Unix copyright to Novell was wrong and a trial is required. However, if you read the whole judgment, you will get a feeling that the judge is trying to say that SCO has better claims on Unix copyright than Novell (however, the court didn't have authority to make that decision). So if SCO proceeds with the trial there is a good chance that it might win. Will it get funding to pursue the trial? The judge didn't say anything about it and I hope it doesn't.
The loss is all microsoft's. My company uses Cisco VPN dialer which works on 32 bit Vista but not 64 bit. Year and a half ago, unknowingly, I purchased a new PC with 4 GB RAM and had to return it. I am back to my old PC which already has 2 GB RAM. I am in no mood to buy a new machine if it comes with memory limit which is only 50% more than my 7 year old PC. I will purchase a new PC when my company supports 64 bit Windows (At this point, I am not prepared to totally ditch windows. Too much legacy stuff). If it supported more RAM, I would have purchased a PC 18 months ago and would have been ready to upgrade to Windows-7.
I strongly doubt you can make UDD in any large amount. The laws of QM dictates that electrons cannot reach closer to nuclei than Bohr's radius and hence they cannot cancel out the p-p electrostatic repulsion. In tiny amount, this may occur if somehow you can manage to create some external forces which adds in a right way, but at large scale, you can't do that. This is as bizarre as cold fusion and I refuse to believe it (I will believe it if they can make 0.01 cubic milli-meter of UDD with a mass of 1 gm and is stable for more than 1 sec).
Would Apple get into the business of UMPC/WindowsMobile space by buying PA Semi? They already have a MacOS for Power platform and PA Semi can be used in a small form factor. Other obvious applications could be Apple TV, set top boxes etc. Whatever it is, Apple would want to dive into it with full force to justify a purchase.
I usually don't reply to illogical mails, but sometimes there are exceptions.
1. Are you trying to say, Blu-ray is without pay???? Even if it is pay per view, you can record on DVRs. (didn't I say, hard disk prices are cheap?)
2. Poor selection? No way. Definitely better than Blu-ray.
3. Why not. If I see a show on portable video, would I see again just because it is Blu-ray? Blu-ray would be limited to movies where high-res adds to additional entertainment.
4. Things you can't respond becomes irrelevant, right? Think of it. SACD audio died even though it offered bettered better audio quality.
5. There are more Latino channels then there were English channels when VHS became popular. What is your point?
6. If you own all HD media, then only 1080p lives. Unfortunately you don't. You need to adjust your TV viewing distance based on the lowest resolution that you plan to watch. Have you watched 50" TV from 7-feet with SD content? Based on what human eye can resolve, that is the distance you need to resolve full 1080p content. At 10 feet (for 50" TV), there is no difference between 720p and 1080p (other than your ego).
7. I forgive you here. My DRM comparison was with standard DVD. I can easily copy those on my hard disk. I would prefer standard DVD collection on my hard disk rather than hi-res disks which I have to continuously swap. Except for kids most people view video only once your twice. So owning a DVD is useless. If you are renting, it is pay per view that you have. If it is for kids, having a whole collection on hard disk is better than swapping Blu-ray for slightly better picture.
8. When you lose your brain, this is what you talk.
9. You should do double blind test and see who is blind.
We will meet again on this forum few years later. By that time, the only reason left for purchasing Blu-ray would be its compatibility with standard DVD, CD etc.
Frankly speaking optical media itself is dead now. CD was introduced in 1982 which offered 630 MB of removable storage, something which was totally astonishing. A typical consumer hard disk had capacity of 10 MB and cost was several times more than a CD player. Since then, not much progress has happened in technology. DVD came out 15 years later and offered only 7 times improvement (14 times with double layer). Now 10 years later, Blu-ray is offering 5 times more capacity. Really, this is not enough. Today, on GB basis, HD's are cheaper than Blu-ray. This had never happened, but now that it has happened, I strongly doubt, Blu-ray can become successful. The only reason, why optical media is surviving is due to unwillingness of media giants to adopt alternatives. All technical advantages of optical technologies are gone. A Beatle Anthology would be cheaper to distribute on USB drive today than on CD, but who cares? Here are few technologies which might limit Blu-ray adoption:
1. Movie download. 2. Video On Demand 3. Portable video player (they don't have HD resolution, so no one would care about HD) 4. Huge installed base of standard DVD 5. Few HD channels and TVs 6. Too many formats (720p, 1080i, 1080p) 7. Too much DRM 8. Cheap HD. I copy all my audio, photo, video on HD and have connected media player (which can read from HD) to TV. There is no chance, I will go back to using disks. As soon as I get a disk, my first task is to transfer to HD and then play at my own will. 9. Not much difference in perceived quality over upscaled standard def content. This happens because, in most houses the TVs are kept at a distance so that people can't see interlace lines. At such high distance, your eye cannot fully resolve HD content. So the difference in perceived quality is not high.
Few months ago, I had 5 DVD players at home. 3 stopped working and I haven't replaced any. The only time, I will buy a Blu-ray device when it price becomes comparable to standard def DVD and all my existing DVD players are dead....
There is a circular dependency here. The author assumes that the parallel universe interpretation is correct and then argues that if this interpretation is correct, then we can derive probabilistic nature of quantum of mechanics. All this means is that the parallel universe is a self-consistent theory. Nobody has argued against this for the last 50+ years.
The problem with quantum mechanics interpretation is that as of now, no interpretation exists which is not bizarre in our traditional world view. Parallel universe is just one of them.
most applicants of h1-b visa are indians. the indian companies are better equipped in searching and sorting out the right candidates needed for the job. they also provide extensive in-house training when they can't find a suitable candidate. the end result is that they can find suitable h1-b people while american companies cannot. e.g. infosys has 100k employees in india and has one of the world's largest training center. thus if they have a job requirement in USA, they can easily find a candidate from India who is better qualified than their counterpart in USA and/or is willing to work for lower salary (still meeting the minimum salary requirements for h1-b regulations). A typical American company cannot find an H1-B candidate that easily and it would settle for higher pay OR less qualified American worker.
Same thing happens elsewhere too. Hitachi imports more Japanese consultants then does IBM. SAP USA has more Germans on H1-B than Oracle has.
Read the article. It was no accidental connection. I am sure, he wouldn't have been arrested and convicted if there was any doubt at all that it was an accidental connection. There are some people who habitually steal network or break into other's system. Some do for fun, most do for some monetary gain and very few do by accident.
Is the router authorized to let you connect? I don't think so. It can connect, but it has no authority. It is like a neighbor's electric plug point. It can supply electricity, but that doesn't mean you can use it without neighbor's permission (plug point's permission is not enough).
In most cases, you would know by common sense whether the network is public or the owner is security challenged. Almost all public wi-fi services will require you to register before using the service. You can't use neighbor's water hose to water your garden or use their outdoor plug point to light your porch. I can guarantee, the person knew that he was stealing the network connection. If once in a blue moon, you need to access internet in emergency and use such an open connection, it may be pardoned. But if you are a habitual stealer, then you are no different than a shop-lifter.
I have police officers violating traffic law left and right even when they are not in emergency. E.g. Taking a left turn from the right most lane and vice versa, not making a complete stop at stop sign, taking right turn on red light where sign says that it is not allowed and so on. Since the camera is only for the red light crossing, the police can still violate 95% of the traffic laws without any penalty.
I don't think they can subsidize Zune player. If they want to subsidize, they must have some way of recovering money. What model do they have to recover money? According to Apple, only 22 songs are being purchased for every player. If the figure for Zune is similar, there is no way they can recover any significant amount. Other model would be for them to sign up contract like cell phone providers do. But wait, cell phones are useless without service and hence the service providers can force contract. MP3 players are useful on their own and hence it would be hard to force users into contract. So my feeling is that microsoft may be exploring to subsidize, but it is unlikely to actually do so.
The PDA and smartphones were targeted to the same segments. The people who need PDA are same people who need smartphone and smartphones provides virtually all the functionality of PDA. The price of smartphones with subsidies from phone company was competitive with that of standalone PDA. Hence they killed PDA.
With iPod and iPhone, the target market is not same. People who want iPod does not necessarily want a cell phone. Yes, there is some overlap, but not enough (at least not yet), to kill the iPod. At high end, iPods provide more storage and at low end, iPods are cheaper.
However, if the price of iPhone reduces too much, it is likely, people would start buying iPhone as a replacement of iPod. In fact, I already do something similar. When my contract with Cingular expired and I got a new phone, I converted my old phone into an MP3 player (with 2GB miniSD, AM/FM radio, voice recorder and tiny photo/video camera, it is a great gadget to keep in the car all the time).
There are just too many reasons why the CD sales are falling. Here are some of them: * Digital music sales * Satellite radio * Music channels on Cable TV * CD's last forever or can be archived on computer and once the media goes bad, you can burn again. This means no more replacement sales. In olden days people used to buy same album again because the media didn't last forever. * Lots of DVD/Computer/Games. People are spending their free times on these items instead of listening CD * You only need one CD for the entire family. Earlier, I used to buy multiple copies of same albums (for car, house, office etc). Not anymore. * Just a seasonal fluctuation with not too much of great music release......
If you ask a cosmologist, he/she would say that universe was created from nothing. If you ask Physicist (Quantum mechanics), he/she would say, universe is "nothing" (it is just a perception created by our consciousness). The problem here is that science equations don't work in nothing (because there are no science equations in nothing). Our equations (as they exists today) have relevance only when there is a physical reality (even if that reality is simply a perception). Also, we can't have nothing, since we are inside a physical universe (and "nothing" is outside of it), so the theory cannot be verified.
Hope this clarifies few things, or does it confuse even more?
I was reading this rediff article in which a middle class teen ager is complaining about price of tomato (20 cents a pound) and is carrying USD 400+ cellphone. They sure do have lot of money to buy cell phones.
The author surveyed 379 people of which 26% said they will buy iPhone. That is roughly 100 people, of which 1% said they will pay $500. That is just 1 person. Whoever translates this to 1% is a "statistically challenged" person.
Steve Jobs mentioned that iTunes DRM cannot be shared with others since sharing would compromise the integrity of DRM. The DVD DRM was cracked and now the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are cracked as well. This doesn't mean that DRM is not helping. Even though, the DRMs are cracked, the DMCA protects these cracked DRM systems and prevents commercial products from taking advantage of the cracks. Without the DRMs (even the broken ones) and DMCA, there would have been cheap legal DVD duplicators in the market.
In google search, type, "Where Does Google's Hardware Go to Die?" and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button. No, seriously, do it. You will get the right answer.
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There are two issues here:
-- SCO already owns copyright to Unix code ==> This has been rejected by jury
-- If SCO doesn't own then Novell is required to transfer based on contract. ==> No jury verdict here.
It is the second claim that it is filing.
Direct AC connection? 110-240V? I don't know about you guys, but I ain't gonna put that damn thing on my lap. This is a laptop. I have spilled coffee, juice, other drinks on my laptops. I don't want 240V shock on my private parts. I let my young kids to use laptop too and certainly wouldn't allow this one to them.
Yes, I know this solution, but I didn't have a spare copy of XP. I used Linux with VirtualBox, and it worked but it was too slow (as slow as my old box which was 5.5 years old then). Why would I buy a new box and a copy of XP only to get same performance as my existing box?
IANAL, but I actually read the whole document. The appeals court concluded that the summary judgment granting Unix copyright to Novell was wrong and a trial is required. However, if you read the whole judgment, you will get a feeling that the judge is trying to say that SCO has better claims on Unix copyright than Novell (however, the court didn't have authority to make that decision). So if SCO proceeds with the trial there is a good chance that it might win. Will it get funding to pursue the trial? The judge didn't say anything about it and I hope it doesn't.
The loss is all microsoft's. My company uses Cisco VPN dialer which works on 32 bit Vista but not 64 bit. Year and a half ago, unknowingly, I purchased a new PC with 4 GB RAM and had to return it. I am back to my old PC which already has 2 GB RAM. I am in no mood to buy a new machine if it comes with memory limit which is only 50% more than my 7 year old PC. I will purchase a new PC when my company supports 64 bit Windows (At this point, I am not prepared to totally ditch windows. Too much legacy stuff). If it supported more RAM, I would have purchased a PC 18 months ago and would have been ready to upgrade to Windows-7.
I strongly doubt you can make UDD in any large amount. The laws of QM dictates that electrons cannot reach closer to nuclei than Bohr's radius and hence they cannot cancel out the p-p electrostatic repulsion. In tiny amount, this may occur if somehow you can manage to create some external forces which adds in a right way, but at large scale, you can't do that. This is as bizarre as cold fusion and I refuse to believe it (I will believe it if they can make 0.01 cubic milli-meter of UDD with a mass of 1 gm and is stable for more than 1 sec).
Would Apple get into the business of UMPC/WindowsMobile space by buying PA Semi? They already have a MacOS for Power platform and PA Semi can be used in a small form factor. Other obvious applications could be Apple TV, set top boxes etc. Whatever it is, Apple would want to dive into it with full force to justify a purchase.
I usually don't reply to illogical mails, but sometimes there are exceptions.
1. Are you trying to say, Blu-ray is without pay???? Even if it is pay per view, you can record on DVRs.
(didn't I say, hard disk prices are cheap?)
2. Poor selection? No way. Definitely better than Blu-ray.
3. Why not. If I see a show on portable video, would I see again just because it is Blu-ray?
Blu-ray would be limited to movies where high-res adds to additional entertainment.
4. Things you can't respond becomes irrelevant, right? Think of it. SACD audio died
even though it offered bettered better audio quality.
5. There are more Latino channels then there were English channels when VHS became popular.
What is your point?
6. If you own all HD media, then only 1080p lives. Unfortunately you don't. You need to adjust your TV viewing distance based on the lowest resolution that you plan to watch. Have you watched 50" TV from 7-feet with SD content? Based on what human eye can resolve, that is the distance you need to resolve full 1080p content. At 10 feet (for 50" TV), there is no difference between 720p and 1080p (other than your ego).
7. I forgive you here. My DRM comparison was with standard DVD. I can easily copy those on my hard disk. I would prefer standard DVD collection on my hard disk rather than hi-res disks which I have to continuously swap. Except for kids most people view video only once your twice. So owning a DVD is useless. If you are renting, it is pay per view that you have. If it is for kids, having a whole collection on hard disk is better than swapping Blu-ray for slightly better picture.
8. When you lose your brain, this is what you talk.
9. You should do double blind test and see who is blind.
We will meet again on this forum few years later. By that time, the only reason left for purchasing Blu-ray would be its compatibility with standard DVD, CD etc.
Frankly speaking optical media itself is dead now. CD was introduced in 1982 which offered 630 MB of removable storage, something which was totally astonishing. A typical consumer hard disk had capacity of 10 MB and cost was several times more than a CD player. Since then, not much progress has happened in technology. DVD came out 15 years later and offered only 7 times improvement (14 times with
double layer). Now 10 years later, Blu-ray is offering 5 times more capacity. Really, this is not enough. Today, on GB basis, HD's are cheaper than Blu-ray. This had never happened, but now that it has happened, I strongly doubt, Blu-ray can become successful. The only reason, why optical media is surviving is due to unwillingness of media giants to adopt alternatives. All technical advantages of optical technologies are gone. A Beatle Anthology would be cheaper to distribute on USB drive today than on CD, but who cares? Here are few technologies which might limit Blu-ray adoption:
1. Movie download.
2. Video On Demand
3. Portable video player (they don't have HD resolution, so no one would care about HD)
4. Huge installed base of standard DVD
5. Few HD channels and TVs
6. Too many formats (720p, 1080i, 1080p)
7. Too much DRM
8. Cheap HD. I copy all my audio, photo, video on HD and have connected media player (which can read from HD) to TV. There is no chance, I will go back to using disks. As soon as I get a disk, my first task is to transfer to HD and then play at my own will.
9. Not much difference in perceived quality over upscaled standard def content. This happens because, in most houses the TVs are kept at a distance so that people can't see interlace lines. At such high distance, your eye cannot fully resolve HD content. So the difference in perceived quality is not high.
Few months ago, I had 5 DVD players at home. 3 stopped working and I haven't replaced any. The only time, I will buy a Blu-ray device when it price becomes comparable to standard def DVD and all my existing DVD players are dead....
Toshiba is crying. Now it is time for Sony too.
There is a circular dependency here. The author assumes that the parallel universe interpretation is correct and then argues that if this interpretation is correct, then we can derive probabilistic nature of quantum of mechanics. All this means is that the parallel universe is a self-consistent theory. Nobody has argued against this for the last 50+ years.
The problem with quantum mechanics interpretation is that as of now, no interpretation exists which is not bizarre in our traditional world view. Parallel universe is just one of them.
most applicants of h1-b visa are indians. the indian companies are better equipped in searching and sorting out the right candidates needed for the job. they also provide extensive in-house training when they can't find a suitable candidate. the end result is that they can find suitable h1-b people while american companies cannot. e.g. infosys has 100k employees in india and has one of the world's largest training center. thus if they have a job requirement in USA, they can easily find a candidate from India who is better qualified than their counterpart in USA and/or is willing to work for lower salary (still meeting the minimum salary requirements for h1-b regulations). A typical American company cannot find an H1-B candidate that easily and it would settle for higher pay OR less qualified American worker.
Same thing happens elsewhere too. Hitachi imports more Japanese consultants then does IBM. SAP USA has more Germans on H1-B than Oracle has.
Read the article. It was no accidental connection. I am sure, he wouldn't have been arrested and convicted if there was any doubt at all that it was an accidental connection. There are some people who habitually steal network or break into other's system. Some do for fun, most do for some monetary gain and very few do by accident.
Is the router authorized to let you connect? I don't think so. It can connect, but it has no authority. It is like a neighbor's electric plug point. It can supply electricity, but that doesn't mean you can use it without neighbor's permission (plug point's permission is not enough).
In most cases, you would know by common sense whether the network is public or the owner is security challenged. Almost all public wi-fi services will require you to register before using the service. You can't use neighbor's water hose to water your garden or use their outdoor plug point to light your porch. I can guarantee, the person knew that he was stealing the network connection. If once in a blue moon, you need to access internet in emergency and use such an open connection, it may be pardoned. But if you are a habitual stealer, then you are no different than a shop-lifter.
I have police officers violating traffic law left and right even when they are not in emergency. E.g. Taking a left turn from the right most lane and vice versa, not making a complete stop at stop sign, taking right turn on red light where sign says that it is not allowed and so on. Since the camera is only for the red light crossing, the police can still violate 95% of the traffic laws without any penalty.
I don't think they can subsidize Zune player. If they want to subsidize, they must have some way of recovering money. What model do they have to recover money? According to Apple, only 22 songs are being purchased for every player. If the figure for Zune is similar, there is no way they can recover any significant amount. Other model would be for them to sign up contract like cell phone providers do. But wait, cell phones are useless without service and hence the service providers can force contract. MP3 players are useful on their own and hence it would be hard to force users into contract. So my feeling is that microsoft may be exploring to subsidize, but it is unlikely to actually do so.
The PDA and smartphones were targeted to the same segments. The people who need PDA are same people who need smartphone and smartphones provides virtually all the functionality of PDA. The price of smartphones with subsidies from phone company was competitive with that of standalone PDA. Hence they killed PDA.
With iPod and iPhone, the target market is not same. People who want iPod does not necessarily want a cell phone. Yes, there is some overlap, but not enough (at least not yet), to kill the iPod. At high end, iPods provide more storage and at low end, iPods are cheaper.
However, if the price of iPhone reduces too much, it is likely, people would start buying iPhone as a replacement of iPod. In fact, I already do something similar. When my contract with Cingular expired and I got a new phone, I converted my old phone into an MP3 player (with 2GB miniSD, AM/FM radio, voice recorder and tiny photo/video camera, it is a great gadget to keep in the car all the time).
There are just too many reasons why the CD sales are falling. Here are some of them: .....
* Digital music sales
* Satellite radio
* Music channels on Cable TV
* CD's last forever or can be archived on computer and once the media goes bad, you can burn again. This means no more replacement sales. In olden days people used to buy same album again because the media didn't last forever.
* Lots of DVD/Computer/Games. People are spending their free times on these items instead of listening CD
* You only need one CD for the entire family. Earlier, I used to buy multiple copies of same albums (for car, house, office etc). Not anymore.
* Just a seasonal fluctuation with not too much of great music release.
If you ask a cosmologist, he/she would say that universe was created from nothing. If you ask Physicist (Quantum mechanics), he/she would say, universe is "nothing" (it is just a perception created by our consciousness). The problem here is that science equations don't work in nothing (because there are no science equations in nothing). Our equations (as they exists today) have relevance only when there is a physical reality (even if that reality is simply a perception). Also, we can't have nothing, since we are inside a physical universe (and "nothing" is outside of it), so the theory cannot be verified.
Hope this clarifies few things, or does it confuse even more?
I was reading this rediff article in which a middle class teen ager is complaining about price of tomato (20 cents a pound) and is carrying USD 400+ cellphone. They sure do have lot of money to buy cell phones.
The author surveyed 379 people of which 26% said they will buy iPhone. That is roughly 100 people, of which 1% said they will pay $500. That is just 1 person. Whoever translates this to 1% is a "statistically challenged" person.
Steve Jobs mentioned that iTunes DRM cannot be shared with others since sharing would compromise the integrity of DRM. The DVD DRM was cracked and now the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are cracked as well. This doesn't mean that DRM is not helping. Even though, the DRMs are cracked, the DMCA protects these cracked DRM systems and prevents commercial products from taking advantage of the cracks. Without the DRMs (even the broken ones) and DMCA, there would have been cheap legal DVD duplicators in the market.
i ain't gonna buy till price drops to $99. so 4 me, whichever one sells first for $99, is the winner.
Now, we will see one in 5 Linux non-genuine.
In google search, type, "Where Does Google's Hardware Go to Die?" and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button. No, seriously, do it. You will get the right answer.