If people use it at work, they will use it at home eventually.
The home is not the office. The home is where you escape the locked down corporate desktop through media play, games, chat, digital photography, home video, crafts and hobbies of every sort.
When I set my parents up with gaim, they kept asking "so I don't have AIM anymore?
You might have begun by asking yourself "Why I am replacing a program my folks have been using for years with one they won't understand, haven't asked for, and don't particularly want or need?"
Edison was building "pre-fab" concrete homes in 1907. But his ultimate design was singularly ugly and dispiriting even as low-income housing. The simplest of household repairs and remodeling were a nightmare. Why Dolores Chumsky Hates Thomas Edison
I have several Linux boxes at our mid sized facility. I can say with confidence that our management does not know. Not that I am trying to keep a secret but they are running
But they may find out if something breaks down and you are not around to fix it. Expect your successor to be kept on a very tight leash.
Keep in mind, while medium sized businesses may "comprise the bulk of American business", this is only the current situation. As smaller businesses grow, there will be an influx of Linux based organizations in the medium-sized business world.
Where is your evidence that any significant number of smaller businesses with the potential for growth are currently Linux based?
The point is the major studios are looking over the precipice of irrelevance. Who cares if major studios take their ball and go home?
It does not take $millions to produce amazing animation or produce, edit, and distribute high quality content anymore. Therefore, the studios are also losing their monopoly on producing high quality content.
Home Theater doesn't lower the bar for entry, it raises it.
If you have $2K to $50K invested in video projection and sound your new reference standard for animation is "The Incredibles," which can be purchased anywhere for under $20.
this will help change the perception for average joes and janes that linux is indeed user friendly and works as well as ms stuff
Joe and Jane might be forgiven for asking that since this is simply a reverse-engineered MSN codec, what are you giving them that they don't already have?
We've all recorded songs off the radio and movies off the TV. The above case meant that the makers of our radio/casette players and (specifically) VCRs could not be sued for our actions. I can't see how the current case is different.
The difference is that the consumer electronics of the late '70s and '80s were useless for unlicensed redistribution on any significant scale. A P2P network that can feed content to hundreds of thousands of users presents a much bigger problem.
The *government* are not the masses. They choose to opt for a cheaper solution, whats the problem?
The Ministry wants to government-stamp a Linux distribution for the poor. Imagine the howls of rage from the tinfoil hatted, middle-class, Slashdot Geek if the government were to back with all it's power a standard Linux distro for everyone.
And if the president's top technology adviser gets his way, the program may end up offering computers with only free software, including the operating system, handpicked by the government instead of giving consumers the option of paying more for, say, a basic edition of Microsoft Windows
Isn't it strange, for all the talk of an anarchic, libertarian, freedom on Slashdot, that it is a paternalistic government's choice of O/S and software for the poor that is being applauded here? That the masses cannot be allowed to make their own choices, because their choices might include Microsoft?
The market share of Microsoft Windows on desktop PCs might be still relatively high but viruses, spyware, and stable and secure OSes like Linux are already making Windows absolete and possibly extinct within the next two years.
"Relatively high" as in 90% of the desktop market, with XP's share growing at a rate of 1% a month, or ten times the growth of Linux. Operating Platform Statistics
yes, because ILM was much more than just a render farm. Teams of talented artists, model makers and engineers have kept them relevent
This looks to be a good survey of visual F/X oriented films currently in production or pre-production: Upcoming Effects Films "Jarhead" is based on a sniper's experience in the Gulf War, and a change of pace for ILM.
I strongly suspect, but can't prove, that more vulnerabilities are reported for Linux because more eyes are able to see them. I always took it as a matter of faith that problems were patched much faster in Linux than Windows.
If you really take as gospel truth everything you believe about Linux, without demanding proof, why are you worrying about whatever trick makes the Windows numbers look good?
Then after a good long break (several years) let's give Gene Roddenberry's real - as in worthy - successor, Michael Piller, a shot at the Star Trek franchise. At least Piller understood what Roddenberry was trying to do!
I would welcome a new, shamelessly retro, space opera that was as adventurous, optimistic, playful and fun as Star Trek in its prime, but I think after forty years we have seen the limits of Roddenberry's vision.
This criminal prosecution is just taken to far: congress was even attempting to pass a bill that would make copyright violation a criminal offense in the US! (I dont think it passed though..)
The No Electronic Theft Act signed in 1997 removed the profit motive as a necessary element in a criminal prosecution for copyright indringement: Criminal Intellectual Property Laws.
The solution was simple - memorize the local police/fire/ambulance phone numbers. They didn't have any location function then either. All you need to do is provide them with your location.
If you can. I remember choking on a bit of plastic and being unable to speak to the 911 dispatcher, or to the paramedic who arrived in double-quick time.
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You get nowhere arguing that a crime against property cannot be reported to the property owner or his agent.
Tell that to Wal-Mart. Cleetus and Maude made them the richest and most powerful retail chain on the planet.
The home is not the office. The home is where you escape the locked down corporate desktop through media play, games, chat, digital photography, home video, crafts and hobbies of every sort.
Check your mailbox or your metro Sunday papers. Wal-Mart doesn't spend a dime marketing Linux at retail.
There is no need for bribery or threats if a university wants to control costs, reduce it's legal exposure and reserve I2 for legitimate research.
You might have begun by asking yourself "Why I am replacing a program my folks have been using for years with one they won't understand, haven't asked for, and don't particularly want or need?"
Edison was building "pre-fab" concrete homes in 1907. But his ultimate design was singularly ugly and dispiriting even as low-income housing. The simplest of household repairs and remodeling were a nightmare. Why Dolores Chumsky Hates Thomas Edison
But they may find out if something breaks down and you are not around to fix it.
Expect your successor to be kept on a very tight leash.
Where is your evidence that any significant number of smaller businesses with the potential for growth are currently Linux based?
It does not take $millions to produce amazing animation or produce, edit, and distribute high quality content anymore. Therefore, the studios are also losing their monopoly on producing high quality content.
Home Theater doesn't lower the bar for entry, it raises it.
If you have $2K to $50K invested in video projection and sound your new reference standard for animation is "The Incredibles," which can be purchased anywhere for under $20.
Joe and Jane might be forgiven for asking that since this is simply a reverse-engineered MSN codec, what are you giving them that they don't already have?
Twenty bucks a year, actually. MSN - Video Downloads
The difference is that the consumer electronics of the late '70s and '80s were useless for unlicensed redistribution on any significant scale. A P2P network that can feed content to hundreds of thousands of users presents a much bigger problem.
The Ministry wants to government-stamp a Linux distribution for the poor.
Imagine the howls of rage from the tinfoil hatted, middle-class, Slashdot Geek if the government were to back with all it's power a standard Linux distro for everyone.
Isn't it strange, for all the talk of an anarchic, libertarian, freedom on Slashdot, that it is a paternalistic government's choice of O/S and software for the poor that is being applauded here? That the masses cannot be allowed to make their own choices, because their choices might include Microsoft?
"Relatively high" as in 90% of the desktop market, with XP's share growing at a rate of 1% a month, or ten times the growth of Linux. Operating Platform Statistics
This looks to be a good survey of visual F/X oriented films currently in production or pre-production: Upcoming Effects Films
"Jarhead" is based on a sniper's experience in the Gulf War, and a change of pace for ILM.
If you really take as gospel truth everything you believe about Linux, without demanding proof, why are you worrying about whatever trick makes the Windows numbers look good?
I would welcome a new, shamelessly retro, space opera that was as adventurous, optimistic, playful and fun as Star Trek in its prime, but I think after forty years we have seen the limits of Roddenberry's vision.
Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Rick Causey of Enron won't be going to trial until January of next year. Ex-Enron CEO may follow Ebbers
The No Electronic Theft Act signed in 1997 removed the profit motive as a necessary element in a criminal prosecution for copyright indringement: Criminal Intellectual Property Laws.
Would you agree that the second is of a lesser degree.
This is the classic Robin Hood defense, and under American law, essentially worthless in court.
So do those convicted of non-violent. white-collar crimes, like Martha Stewart.
But it is a big minus for your company when you hire a guy you know can't be trusted.
If you can. I remember choking on a bit of plastic and being unable to speak to the 911 dispatcher, or to the paramedic who arrived in double-quick time.