It would be a real slap in the face for Michael Dell if after all the support for linux installed computers was shown on the ideas website, and the company taking steps to do so, and then find out there isn't really a demand for them.
Who said anything about consumer sales?
Dell is interested in certifying Linux for its corporate clients. The purchase order for 500 units, the custom factory install.
"The laptop loaded with Windows XP [dell.com] costs $699, while the same laptop and configuration loaded with no operating system [dell.com] costs $747.
So it seems that Windows has a negative price tag as far as Dell is concerned! That's hardy Linux friendly or even consumer friendly. It's downright rotten,"
What it means --- and all that it means --- is that the mass-market laptop running Windows sells in big numbers and the bare bones laptop sans Windows sells in small numbers.
Which is why OEM Linux disappears from Walmart.com.
There is a often forgotten law concerning copyrights, patents and trademarks. If you don't defend them, you lose them. So the point is simple, if the linux community says show the code, M$ only has one chance, to show the code, or give up their rights to any such code. Why is this concept so hard for ppl to grok?
because you haven't the foggiest notion of the difference between a copyright, a patent, and a trademark?
He doesn't even honestly talk about the draconian nightmarish DRM infections in Vista. No way am I going to relinquish my computer rights to Microsoft and the pathetic content providers. I want less of Microsoft entwined in my system; not more.
maybe he doesn't talk about it because he can't hear you over the music or the movie he's playing.
maybe he doesn't talk about it because to him a computer as a source of popular entertainment is nothing more than a household appliance. like a console video game. the XM radio. the set-top box.
Considering that these people are really no threat to society at all why waste their time and taxpayers money (in two countries in this case) locking them up in the first place?
How precious.
Prison for the hacker or the infringer is wrong.
But prison for other white collar criminals --- as the Geek defines them --- is right.
The Geek is ever the hanging judge when the Microsoft exec is in the dock. But never when it is one of his own.
I'm more concerned that ONE COUNT of copyright infringement plus conspiracy to commit same can get you more time in prison than if you'd committed any number of violent crimes, up to and including some instances of first degree murder...
Then make the complaint to your state legislature.
--- because ordinary crimes of violence are almost never prosecuted under the federal system in the United States.
Total 193,466 Weapons, Explosives, Arson: 25,330 (14.2 %)
Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses: 5,539 (3.1 %)
Sex Offenses: 4,161 (2.3 %)
There are 42 federal inmates on death row. In the state of Texas alone, 389. Offenders on Death Row
Not that the violent offender in the federal system gets off lightly. To be sentenced in a federal court is pretty much a guarantee that you will be doing hard time:
Wikipedia setting up a website is like a paper company giving paper to a newspaper company. You sue the newspaper, not the paper company.
I suspect that to a judge the Wikipedia is going to look a lot more like a publisher than a paper company. "Letters to the Editor" can still expose a newspaper to a suit for libel.
Wouldn't it be easier for ESRB to consult with the designers and director to know the game's details beforehand? A thorough coverage can be done through a small Q&A.
Trust in the developer was the first casualty of Hot Coffee, which Rockstar tried to pass off as a third-party mod. Not content that was burnt into every PC and console pressing of the game.
Think of the shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho. Would you understand it's full impact on an audience if all you had to go on was a script and a storyboard?
With options like that, it doesn't matter what they do, as they are always going to be wrong.
The difference is that in your second scenario the people howling the loudest will be on the "libertarian" political fringe --- left and right --- and have been "crying wolf" since the day they were born.
God forbid if a terrorist has a enough money to charter private flights
Have you priced a 747 charter? Fully fueled and manned for a non-stop flight from Boston to Los Angeles? Not cheap. Not easily done outside ordinary channels or without attracting unwanted attention.
You won't be doing much damage if all you can get your hands on is a Cessna 172.
This is one guy, but! Over the last few years, I have seen much more Linux and Unix devotees switch to Macs than Ubuntu.
Well, if true, that would seem to sum up the problem.
There has been no mass migration from Windows, and, despite all the BadVista posts to Slashdot, none is in sight. The Mac offers a vision of an upscale urban lifestyle and a *NIX OS unencumbered with FOSS politics and ideology.
Let me fulfil the Godwin law by reminding that NSDAP came to power in a representative democracy, and Hitler sure was a politician who "stood for something"! At least when it is direct democracy, you can say that people get what they asked for; whereas representative democracy inevitably ends up being a veiled oligarchy.
If a hacker invades your privacy and reads your e-mail that's terrible; unless he suspects you're a child molester, in which case he's a "hero".
The hacker may be a hero in his own eyes.
But, to a judge, the only question is whether his evidence is relevant and admissible.
Private citizens aren't held to the same standards as the police.
One of the funniest, most well adjusted people I know was molested at six; it doesn't scar you for life, a savage beating from bullies just might though. Why do we practically encourage bullying but go to any lengths to stop child molesters?
You present a string of false dilemmas and you generalize through use of a single example.
That said, the molester may be uniquely corrupting and dangerous because he operates from a position of authority within the family or in society. He is the doctor, the priest, the teacher, the policeman.
Not to mention having access to 3000 other innocent people's systems including police and military personal.
While his actions are most likely altruistic, he should be punished for his deeds and then be enlisted by some the Canadian police and do it legally.
Two thoughts.
First. That your definition of altruistic isn't mine.
Second. That this is a guy my boss doesn't want to see on campus much less on the job.
When he needs a thief, he hires a thief, when he needs a cop, he hires a cop. He does not make the one into the other.
With TV, www etc, you can find out everything you want to know about pretty much any issue immediately. So, why have representatives and parliments?
There is something to be said for distance and perspective, knowledge and experience. There is in the American political system an elemental distrust of the mob. Capricious, irresponsible, living in the moment.
I have never voted. No party respects the values of equality, freedom and democracy that I have.
Then organize your own party. Run for an election. Prove that you have something worthwhile to offer.
But forgive me for suspecting that you are altogether too prissy to survive in the down-and-dirty world of politics and compromise.
If all the non-voters came out, they would boost the slightly-progressive vote considerably, and perhaps prevent the worst excesses of the craziest parties.
The ever-elusive "silent majority" claimed by both the left and the right. But to be progressive implies at least some slight willingness to take the initiative, and not just sit on your hands.
For one thing: The United States does not have a national election.
The American election is a social experience that helps draw a community together.
Last November our village firehall had a voting booth for kids, and a Girl Scouts' bake sale. Turn-out was excellent and the opportunity for everyone of every age to participate added interest and excitement to the process.
All that the HD formats really have to offer is that a small percentage of the consumers can view movies at a higher resolution than they could with DVD
50 GB disks now, 100-200 GB disks down the road.
9 hours of MPEG-4 HD video, 23 hours of MPEG-4 standard video. Blu-Ray Disc The boxed set shrinks to a single disk.
The Geek may fret. But features like "mandatory managed copy" will be marketable.
In fact, UAC is the most complained-about new feature of Vista, and most people are disabling it as soon as possible
Interesting.
Consumer Vista has been in general release for less than one month. But the Geek knows that most people are disabling the UAC. The Geek knows how users will respond to all the changes in Vista.
He doesn't need a crystal ball. He only needs to read what other Geeks are posting to their blogs.
But did you look at what hardware was being provided? It sucked -- bad. Nobody wants a $200 computer that is hideously outdated already. 128MB of Ram sucks. I am a happy customer and reseller of Linspire, and that has been their plague -- cheapo crap computers.
Butt ugly, too, but that's another story.
Even with Walmart's enormous purchasing power, OEM Linux systems with arguably decent specs were not significantly cheaper than Windows.
Conspicuously lacking were attractive system bundles. The matching monitor. The multifunction printer. Free home delivery, in-home service under warranty, etc., etc.
But the most telling and inescapable problem was when Skype, WINE and Caldega began to be touted as reasons for choosing the Linux box. Pretty much an admission that the home user wasn't going to abandon his favorite Windows apps and that there were serious gaps in the Linux "catalog."
People do the same things with their computers today as they did 15 (even 20) years ago: play games, print, e-mail, read, write, collect media.
Print isn't dot-matrix text.
Print is an 8x10 digital color photograph edited in Paint Shop Pro.
Media isn't FM MIDI synthesis.
Media is data compressed MPEG4 wide screen HD-video with multichannel theater sound.
The Geek can be playing Oblivion in the foreground, downloading Ghost Rider in the background and feeding Superman Returns to the X-Box in the basement---
and still find time to complain that his system demands more resources than his Dad's Apple II.
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The National Enquirer at least pretends to be a newspaper. IT-Enquirer seems to publish nothing but lightly edited PR handouts.
and this comes as a surprise?
Yorktown was the prototype Smart Ship, a test bed. But Yorktown's career did not begin or end in September of 1997. USS Yorktown (CG 48)
The Geek clings to these old anecdotes like Linus to his blanket. But they have worn thin.
Who said anything about consumer sales?
Dell is interested in certifying Linux for its corporate clients. The purchase order for 500 units, the custom factory install.
So it seems that Windows has a negative price tag as far as Dell is concerned! That's hardy Linux friendly or even consumer friendly. It's downright rotten,"
What it means --- and all that it means --- is that the mass-market laptop running Windows sells in big numbers and the bare bones laptop sans Windows sells in small numbers.
Which is why OEM Linux disappears from Walmart.com.
because you haven't the foggiest notion of the difference between a copyright, a patent, and a trademark?
maybe he doesn't talk about it because he can't hear you over the music or the movie he's playing.
maybe he doesn't talk about it because to him a computer as a source of popular entertainment is nothing more than a household appliance. like a console video game. the XM radio. the set-top box.
How precious.
Prison for the hacker or the infringer is wrong.
But prison for other white collar criminals --- as the Geek defines them --- is right.
The Geek is ever the hanging judge when the Microsoft exec is in the dock. But never when it is one of his own.
Then make the complaint to your state legislature.
--- because ordinary crimes of violence are almost never prosecuted under the federal system in the United States.
Quick Facts About the Bureau of Prisons [Last Updated: Saturday, 27 January 2007]
Inmate Population
Total 193,466
Weapons, Explosives, Arson: 25,330 (14.2 %)
Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses: 5,539 (3.1 %)
Sex Offenses: 4,161 (2.3 %)
There are 42 federal inmates on death row. In the state of Texas alone, 389. Offenders on Death Row
Not that the violent offender in the federal system gets off lightly. To be sentenced in a federal court is pretty much a guarantee that you will be doing hard time:
Sentence Inposed
5--10 years: 52,869 (29.6 %)
10-15 years: 33,871 (19.0 %)
15-20 years: 15,515 (8.7 %)
More than 20 years: 17,020 (9.5 %)
Life: 5,611 (3.1 %)
I suspect that to a judge the Wikipedia is going to look a lot more like a publisher than a paper company. "Letters to the Editor" can still expose a newspaper to a suit for libel.
Trust in the developer was the first casualty of Hot Coffee, which Rockstar tried to pass off as a third-party mod. Not content that was burnt into every PC and console pressing of the game.
Think of the shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho. Would you understand it's full impact on an audience if all you had to go on was a script and a storyboard?
The difference is that in your second scenario the people howling the loudest will be on the "libertarian" political fringe --- left and right --- and have been "crying wolf" since the day they were born.
Have you priced a 747 charter? Fully fueled and manned for a non-stop flight from Boston to Los Angeles? Not cheap. Not easily done outside ordinary channels or without attracting unwanted attention.
You won't be doing much damage if all you can get your hands on is a Cessna 172.
Well, if true, that would seem to sum up the problem.
There has been no mass migration from Windows, and, despite all the BadVista posts to Slashdot, none is in sight. The Mac offers a vision of an upscale urban lifestyle and a *NIX OS unencumbered with FOSS politics and ideology.
There is not much room for Linux in that picture.
The uncomfortable truth is that the German voter got exactly what he asked for. Handouts From Hitler: Götz Aly's "Hitler's Beneficiaries" [NYT Book Review]
The hacker may be a hero in his own eyes.
But, to a judge, the only question is whether his evidence is relevant and admissible.
Private citizens aren't held to the same standards as the police.
One of the funniest, most well adjusted people I know was molested at six; it doesn't scar you for life, a savage beating from bullies just might though. Why do we practically encourage bullying but go to any lengths to stop child molesters?
You present a string of false dilemmas and you generalize through use of a single example.
That said, the molester may be uniquely corrupting and dangerous because he operates from a position of authority within the family or in society. He is the doctor, the priest, the teacher, the policeman.
While his actions are most likely altruistic, he should be punished for his deeds and then be enlisted by some the Canadian police and do it legally.
Two thoughts.
First. That your definition of altruistic isn't mine.
Second. That this is a guy my boss doesn't want to see on campus much less on the job.
When he needs a thief, he hires a thief, when he needs a cop, he hires a cop. He does not make the one into the other.
Plato? Democratic?
Plato's Republic rests in the hands of a philosopher-king who alone has the insight and understanding to rule.
The entire structure of the state is designed to insure that his authority and that of the governing elite can never be effectively questioned.
There is something to be said for distance and perspective, knowledge and experience. There is in the American political system an elemental distrust of the mob. Capricious, irresponsible, living in the moment.
Then organize your own party. Run for an election. Prove that you have something worthwhile to offer. But forgive me for suspecting that you are altogether too prissy to survive in the down-and-dirty world of politics and compromise.
If all the non-voters came out, they would boost the slightly-progressive vote considerably, and perhaps prevent the worst excesses of the craziest parties.
The ever-elusive "silent majority" claimed by both the left and the right. But to be progressive implies at least some slight willingness to take the initiative, and not just sit on your hands.
The American election is a social experience that helps draw a community together.
Last November our village firehall had a voting booth for kids, and a Girl Scouts' bake sale. Turn-out was excellent and the opportunity for everyone of every age to participate added interest and excitement to the process.
But perhaps not so much as you might think. Fourth Quarter 2006 HDTV Sales Doubled Previous Year's Total
All that the HD formats really have to offer is that a small percentage of the consumers can view movies at a higher resolution than they could with DVD
50 GB disks now, 100-200 GB disks down the road.
9 hours of MPEG-4 HD video, 23 hours of MPEG-4 standard video. Blu-Ray Disc The boxed set shrinks to a single disk.
The Geek may fret. But features like "mandatory managed copy" will be marketable.
Interesting.
Consumer Vista has been in general release for less than one month. But the Geek knows that most people are disabling the UAC. The Geek knows how users will respond to all the changes in Vista.
He doesn't need a crystal ball. He only needs to read what other Geeks are posting to their blogs.
Butt ugly, too, but that's another story.
Even with Walmart's enormous purchasing power, OEM Linux systems with arguably decent specs were not significantly cheaper than Windows.
Conspicuously lacking were attractive system bundles. The matching monitor. The multifunction printer. Free home delivery, in-home service under warranty, etc., etc.
But the most telling and inescapable problem was when Skype, WINE and Caldega began to be touted as reasons for choosing the Linux box. Pretty much an admission that the home user wasn't going to abandon his favorite Windows apps and that there were serious gaps in the Linux "catalog."
Print isn't dot-matrix text.
Print is an 8x10 digital color photograph edited in Paint Shop Pro.
Media isn't FM MIDI synthesis.
Media is data compressed MPEG4 wide screen HD-video with multichannel theater sound.
The Geek can be playing Oblivion in the foreground, downloading Ghost Rider in the background and feeding Superman Returns to the X-Box in the basement---
and still find time to complain that his system demands more resources than his Dad's Apple II.