CD recorders took a great leap forward when burnproof was released. New drives most certainly do have a way to understand positioning, that is how they pause the burn process and resume it. They waste a little cdr real estate in the process though.
However, having the key on the label does one little good when it is asked for during installation, because you have to eject the CD to read it or copy it down beforehand, both of which are more work than looking at a label on a CD sleeve or case.
Somehow, I think the pirates are willing to put in that little extra effort.
The Xbox has had internet connectivity planned since the beginning and will soon be available at retail. With the great reputation that MS has for security, crackers will probably be able to scan for Xboxen and scarf credit card and other personal info from the "closed" box.
"It could not be immediately determined if Stallman or the Free Software Foundation intended to take any further action in connection with the plan "UnitedLinux" has announced."
It seems that you are much more confident than RMS and the FSF on how the GPL will be viewed on this matter. Especially considering this:
"The FSF has been watching developments in "UnitedLinux" and is "very concerned with how they are proceeding."
I hope this is settled quickly and without causing a rift in the Linux community
You skillfully sidestepped the issue that RMS is really complaining about. You are correct in asserting that the "...GPL should protect the GPL'd software just fine." That isn't the issue. The issue is the per-seat licensing and the server only (no desktop) configuration they are moving towards. The GPL'd software does indeed restrict this type of behaviour and RMS is encouraging open source authors to adopt the GPL if they can. I assume that the LGPL allows the per-seat licensing that they are moving to, but I haven't found out for sure since IANAL.
I didn't mean to throw flames towards JWZ with my original comment. When I met Jamie at Duke during LinuxExpo, he was very cool and talkative about mozilla just a few months after the netscape code release. I didn't use words like asshole or hypocrite because they don't apply. I do think he has a large ego, but he is a great programmer and has some great accomplishments to his credit. I also assume that JWZ and the Mozilla team are still pretty tight since the boogie bash is at the DNA Lounge.
JWZ resigned in a very public manner from the Mozilla project and now the official release party is at the DNALounge, the club that JWZ started? Irony abounds..
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The speeds in the flash demo are wrong. The 56k modem 'demo' is almost 50% finished when the cable/T1 1.5Mbps bar finishes. Someone is either FoS or has no real idea how the data rates relate to each other.
Well, they knew about this in November, they just spent the entire month of February 'fixing bugs'. Yet this still exists in a fully patched IE6. Hmmmmm. Not very effective, were they?
Maybe the "Act" they performed was mostly theatrical.
Why? Are you afraid someone is going to find out you look at porn? You are not hiding any plans to destroy the USA are you? Then why the fuck do you care?
Why the fuck don't you care? I use windows when necessary for work and to stay familiar with 'technology'. I also have a strong computing security background and don't like taking more risks than necessary.
When I use windows, there is no question in my mind that I don't want to use IE. I am using mozilla 0.9.9 right now and only use IE when there is no other choice. Lately, that has meant about every two weeks.
I have been using Mandrake for a couple of years now and just made my first donation ( besides buying the McMillian boxed copy).
The Mandrake crew ( like many others) are turning out terrific software and asking those that appreciate the work to compensate the makers so they can continue working on their distribution. If you don't want to donate, then just close your hole and stop trying to convince others to ignore the request for help.
If people are intelligent enough to earn enough to support themselves and have some left over that they have to decide how to spend, then they just may also be intelligent enough to spend it wisely.
I'm not so tight that I begrudge these people a bit of support for their work. I also bought RedHat and Caldera boxed Linux when I was running them, it dosen't bother me to pay for quality software, how about you?
I misread the first part of the story. They are changing their position away from willfully allowing royalties on standards. But they don't really have a method for enforcing the 'no royalties' stance either.
So patented, royalty producing material can be freely incorporated into web standards now and it is completely endorsed by W3? How long before web browsers have a meter built-in that shows you how much the current website you are visiting is charging you to park there?
This may just be business, but its starting to smell like a garbage dump to me.
They probably don't want to open themselves up to be liable or responsible for providing info that could be the ticket to getting them kidnapped or murdered. I bet you couldn't buy info on most public people, government or otherwise. It could be suicide for the company if one information puchase could be linked directly to some terrible event.
They could sell my information to Lorraine Bobbit or the KKK and if I ended up dead, they wouldn't have news reporters beating on their door.
If companies knew how to, and were willing to, price products equitably and correctly in the absence of competition, we wouldn't need a free market for any goods. The fact is that no company knows the correct pricing of their products without competition, and, furthermore, they would be violating their fiduciary duty to their stockholders if they priced them as if there were competition.
Companies know how to set prices based upon their cost to create products or provide services. They then add a reasonable profit and you suddenly have a price. Then that product will either sell or not sell at that price. Your definition seems to imply that a company needs competition to take care of determining the prices the market will tolerate. The consumer is the actual tarket. A company can provide excellent product/service directly to a consumer without any competition at all. The consumer decides if the company has provided a compelling reason to part with their money.
Now, the willingness to do this is usually lacking, but it is indeed possible. During my time in this industry, I have seen MS on both sides of this issue. They have a strong faction at their core that always wants maximum profit/market leverage/power regardless of what may be best or reasonable at any given time. This may make a strong company but consumers will resent the dictator. The mentality cannot endure, they will have to find a balance or spend most of their time strengthening the dictatorship and ignoring or limiting the time needed to make the products and services that will keep the consumer happy and willing to pay them.
MS actually used the free market to their advantage and grew their monopoly by carving it into a dictatorship. The largest consumer of their product are resellers. Dell and Gateway down to the small retail shop buy the MS product and resell it. MS played them against each other to strengthen themselves. The individual actually using the MS product didn't negotiate with MS to get what they wanted. Most of the windows users I have seen have always wanted stability above features. MS has had the ability to provide stability, but that would have limited the compulsion to upgrade once windows met the users computing needs.
Excellent explanation, thanks for pointing us to reference information too.
Even with this mathmatical expression of a monopoly, I can imagine instances where a defined monopoly could co-exist with their competitors. If said monopoly dosen't use their market leverage to squash or to create artificial barriers to market entry then they are allowing competition and would most probably be relying on the strengths of their products to maintain market share.
If you are Gulliver, then you must take care not to squash the Lilliputians. But if a dozen Lilliputians are found flattened in Gullivers footsteps, don't expect people to believe that a gust of wind flattened them. Being a giant comes with tremendous responsibilities that the midgets probably don't even have to consider.
Why do companies play these games? You can look at the cool products that they sell in Japan or Europe but they won't import them. Do they sell them for more with the exclusivity factored in? Bah... I didn't want anyway, nope wouldn't take one if they gave it to me now. Yeah, maybe if we don't want them, imports will start right away.
Ogg sounds better, but I can't go to walmart and buy a portable Ogg player. Hopefully this will change with some reprogrammable units. Anything like this on the horizon?
The reality is that the linux systems weren't setup to take advantage of the available resources. If you had to wait for fsck to run, then you weren't using any of the available journaling filesystems. If you had X crashing, then what was the cause? It dosen't crash on my system, but when things crash on linux, it is because of a fairly finite reason. Windows can crash with random and difficult to track errors.
Also, system admins, please do not just install linux for a non-technical user and walk away. They will be lost and hate both you and linux. Linux can be wonderful for non-technical user if they know their way around. The above account is an example of how *not* to approach a migration.
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CD recorders took a great leap forward when burnproof was released. New drives most certainly do have a way to understand positioning, that is how they pause the burn process and resume it. They waste a little cdr real estate in the process though.
Somehow, I think the pirates are willing to put in that little extra effort.
The Xbox has had internet connectivity planned since the beginning and will soon be available at retail. With the great reputation that MS has for security, crackers will probably be able to scan for Xboxen and scarf credit card and other personal info from the "closed" box.
It seems that you are much more confident than RMS and the FSF on how the GPL will be viewed on this matter. Especially considering this:
I hope this is settled quickly and without causing a rift in the Linux community
You skillfully sidestepped the issue that RMS is really complaining about. You are correct in asserting that the "...GPL should protect the GPL'd software just fine." That isn't the issue. The issue is the per-seat licensing and the server only (no desktop) configuration they are moving towards. The GPL'd software does indeed restrict this type of behaviour and RMS is encouraging open source authors to adopt the GPL if they can. I assume that the LGPL allows the per-seat licensing that they are moving to, but I haven't found out for sure since IANAL.
I didn't mean to throw flames towards JWZ with my original comment. When I met Jamie at Duke during LinuxExpo, he was very cool and talkative about mozilla just a few months after the netscape code release. I didn't use words like asshole or hypocrite because they don't apply. I do think he has a large ego, but he is a great programmer and has some great accomplishments to his credit. I also assume that JWZ and the Mozilla team are still pretty tight since the boogie bash is at the DNA Lounge.
I hope my point has now been made complete.
JWZ resigned in a very public manner from the Mozilla project and now the official release party is at the DNALounge, the club that JWZ started? Irony abounds..
The speeds in the flash demo are wrong. The 56k modem 'demo' is almost 50% finished when the cable/T1 1.5Mbps bar finishes. Someone is either FoS or has no real idea how the data rates relate to each other.
Thanks dude! I remembered that I hadn't played minesweeper in months! Well, atleast since I installed WinXP(erimental).
You don't have win2k installed on drive c:.
Maybe the "Act" they performed was mostly theatrical.
Why the fuck don't you care? I use windows when necessary for work and to stay familiar with 'technology'. I also have a strong computing security background and don't like taking more risks than necessary.
Major security holes just aren't my cup of fur.
Some of the best info that has been posted about the ways this fan *can* be effecient and quiet.
I have been using Mandrake for a couple of years now and just made my first donation ( besides buying the McMillian boxed copy).
The Mandrake crew ( like many others) are turning out terrific software and asking those that appreciate the work to compensate the makers so they can continue working on their distribution. If you don't want to donate, then just close your hole and stop trying to convince others to ignore the request for help.
If people are intelligent enough to earn enough to support themselves and have some left over that they have to decide how to spend, then they just may also be intelligent enough to spend it wisely.
I'm not so tight that I begrudge these people a bit of support for their work. I also bought RedHat and Caldera boxed Linux when I was running them, it dosen't bother me to pay for quality software, how about you?
I misread the first part of the story. They are changing their position away from willfully allowing royalties on standards. But they don't really have a method for enforcing the 'no royalties' stance either.
So patented, royalty producing material can be freely incorporated into web standards now and it is completely endorsed by W3? How long before web browsers have a meter built-in that shows you how much the current website you are visiting is charging you to park there?
This may just be business, but its starting to smell like a garbage dump to me.
They probably don't want to open themselves up to be liable or responsible for providing info that could be the ticket to getting them kidnapped or murdered. I bet you couldn't buy info on most public people, government or otherwise. It could be suicide for the company if one information puchase could be linked directly to some terrible event.
They could sell my information to Lorraine Bobbit or the KKK and if I ended up dead, they wouldn't have news reporters beating on their door.
It is great to now understand that Microsoft finds no potential trademark or consumer confusion problems with names like:
alt.binaries.warez.nt
alt.binaries.warez.win2000
alt.binaries.warez.win95
alt.binaries.warez.win-me
alt.binaries.warez.windows31
alt.binaries.ms-windows
alt.os.windows95.crash.crash.crash
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
They haven't filed any lawsuits to wipe out this unauthorized trademark infringment ( that I could find on google anyway).
Given Microsofts implied endorsment for the above naming conventions, I propose a new name for Lindows:
alt.windows.that.works
Companies know how to set prices based upon their cost to create products or provide services. They then add a reasonable profit and you suddenly have a price. Then that product will either sell or not sell at that price. Your definition seems to imply that a company needs competition to take care of determining the prices the market will tolerate. The consumer is the actual tarket. A company can provide excellent product/service directly to a consumer without any competition at all. The consumer decides if the company has provided a compelling reason to part with their money.
Now, the willingness to do this is usually lacking, but it is indeed possible. During my time in this industry, I have seen MS on both sides of this issue. They have a strong faction at their core that always wants maximum profit/market leverage/power regardless of what may be best or reasonable at any given time. This may make a strong company but consumers will resent the dictator. The mentality cannot endure, they will have to find a balance or spend most of their time strengthening the dictatorship and ignoring or limiting the time needed to make the products and services that will keep the consumer happy and willing to pay them.
MS actually used the free market to their advantage and grew their monopoly by carving it into a dictatorship. The largest consumer of their product are resellers. Dell and Gateway down to the small retail shop buy the MS product and resell it. MS played them against each other to strengthen themselves. The individual actually using the MS product didn't negotiate with MS to get what they wanted. Most of the windows users I have seen have always wanted stability above features. MS has had the ability to provide stability, but that would have limited the compulsion to upgrade once windows met the users computing needs.
Excellent explanation, thanks for pointing us to reference information too.
Even with this mathmatical expression of a monopoly, I can imagine instances where a defined monopoly could co-exist with their competitors. If said monopoly dosen't use their market leverage to squash or to create artificial barriers to market entry then they are allowing competition and would most probably be relying on the strengths of their products to maintain market share.
If you are Gulliver, then you must take care not to squash the Lilliputians. But if a dozen Lilliputians are found flattened in Gullivers footsteps, don't expect people to believe that a gust of wind flattened them. Being a giant comes with tremendous responsibilities that the midgets probably don't even have to consider.
Why do companies play these games? You can look at the cool products that they sell in Japan or Europe but they won't import them. Do they sell them for more with the exclusivity factored in? Bah... I didn't want anyway, nope wouldn't take one if they gave it to me now. Yeah, maybe if we don't want them, imports will start right away.
I read the article last night and thought this was pretty funny.
Ogg sounds better, but I can't go to walmart and buy a portable Ogg player. Hopefully this will change with some reprogrammable units. Anything like this on the horizon?
The reality is that the linux systems weren't setup to take advantage of the available resources. If you had to wait for fsck to run, then you weren't using any of the available journaling filesystems. If you had X crashing, then what was the cause? It dosen't crash on my system, but when things crash on linux, it is because of a fairly finite reason. Windows can crash with random and difficult to track errors.
Also, system admins, please do not just install linux for a non-technical user and walk away. They will be lost and hate both you and linux. Linux can be wonderful for non-technical user if they know their way around. The above account is an example of how *not* to approach a migration.