As a resident in Birmingham UK (The West Midlands) i might add that people world wide probably don't really need to worry to much. Birmingham has quite high crime rates and a lot of rich boroughs surrounding it - people are prime targets. People need only remember the shootings that took place over new years eve last year.
Has any one contemplated the concept that Microsoft might actually be taking the time to make better products? I realise its taboo on slashdot to show any support to Microsoft, but the fact is that they are not stupid! Do you honestly believe they would just decide, hey, lets let linux + competitors get a foothold in our markets whilst we jack about! WRONG!
One thing anyone in the IT business should learn is to never ever under estimate microsoft.
Enough with these stupid stories already!!!!! Seriously : i know this appeals to the slashdot audience (posting linux advocacy stories) but the reality is completely different. The day that the community focuses on real ways to reduce microsoft's monopoly will be the day that linux becomes sucessful.
People were writing these stories 3 years ago. Nothing has changed.
Exactly. Sad as i am to believe it, a big company (read microsoft) needs to instigate something that is going to change it. Some kind of unique id / trusted system is the answer. And i fear it is going to lead to the commericalisation of email.
No - you dont. If you buy a TV to watch broadcasted television from BBC / ITV / SKY you must have a license, otherwise you are breaking the law. If you buy a TV simply to watch DVDs then you do not have to get a license. However, License inspectors would be highly sceptical if they were to find an aerial lying around....
Whats new. Microsoft buy of people all the time. Its not just Microsoft either. Most American business engage in dubious practices to sell their products. IBM got burned for bribing officials in Asia lately - just because other companies haven't had their dodgy dealings uncovered doesn't mean it doesn't go on.
To the poster (here) who talked about how Google has done one thing, and done it well - yes- that is very correct. However, that was back in 2000. Searching is something Google is undoubtedly "the daddy" off. They have moved on - groups, image search, directory, news - they are all at the top of their respective content leagues in terms of quality and service.
Whether or not the NYT article is correct or not doesn't really matter. The plain fact is that Google faces increases competition, and they need to offer more services to maintain their position as number 1. A Google email service is A) cool B) useful for people. As posters before has said, it would probably come quite feature laden, and thus be popular.
Even Adam Smith 200 years ago realised that companies control important objects of society was a poor idea; the incentive for profit and exploiting the system for the benifit of the companies and their shareholders is just too much.
If it were up to me, i'd give it to a UN body. The last people i'd want to give it to is the US government, not because i'm anti US, but because i don't think one country should have control of such a multi-national object. The arguement that "we made it" doesn't hold any water.
Regarding the people that are suggesteing that the BBC are making "unfounded claims" - this shows a complete ignorance of Hutton, and many of the aspects of the British (*note british*) case for war.
The BBC is a world wide independent organisation that reports on things like this. Under European Human Rights Law the BBC is quite entitled to make "unfounded claims" whether they are true or not; clearly they wont do it intentionaly but there is not case for liable here.
And come on guys. Lets be honest here. Do you honestly not believe that this has nothing to do with Linux or someone from the Linux community? Please. Wake up and smell the cheese.
This guy isn't sorry. Sticking in things like this merely give the virus more media attention, and diverts attention from the real issue here : insecurity, and user failure to patch up.
to the man who said they will never win; what a foolish thing to say. If you have learnt one thing over the past few years it should be to never ever attempt to pre-judge the american (or for that matter any) legal system. The fact is that these trials have a strange habbit of coming out in favour of the group you least expect.
I wish kazaa the best of luck. I hope it gives the studios a wake up call to the real world.
Doesn't this mean now that the RIAA only has to download one program when they want to find file swappers and what not?
Morpheus always seemed to look a bit dated aswell..
Is this poster crazy?! To suggest that the sudden surge in web usage was down to CGI is frankly ludicrous! There is no way you can say, "right, that technology lead to the boom in the web". Its not possible! And even if you could pin it down to one thing, it would be something Many, many, many technologies have helped it along the way.
Further, perl is not the only scripting language on the internet; furthermore i doubt it is the most popular. PHP, ASP, Java; all popular and equally efficient languages.
Sure, it's nice to have corporate support, but is anyone else a little worried about big businesses real interests in Linux? We live in a capitalist society : the interest is money and profit. Just makes you wonder what kind of support linux is going to need from these boys in the future, and how dependent they are going to be.
Appologies... it would appear a full-stop missed the final cut.
Microsoft filed suit against the website>>. Michael Robertson, owner of Lindows and a strong anti-Microsoft voice, will undoubtedly be disappointed with the ruling.
If any admins read this, please could you add it in?
As an IBM Microdrive owner, they are brilliant. I have the 1 gig model for a Compaq Ipaq that i have, and its worked very, very well for the best part of a year.
The only annoyance is their slighly prohibitive cost, but as with all new technology of this kind it is to be expected.
SCO has gone to far now to simply back off, or admit they were wrong. They have invested their whole business in this, and have no option but to go forward and proceed with litigation. If they back of now they loose face and the business will probably crash. If they loose in court, they have the same situation, except they lost alot of money on lawyers instead.
HOWEVER, if they win in the quirky US legal system, who knows. They might make alot of money, and keep on putting out super duper products:S
Apple has much to gain from this. HP is effectivly giving them a bigger audience to the Itunes music store, in a similar fashion that MS Windows has given Aol via putting links to AOL on the desktop of all new PCs. The strategy is tried and tested; more importantly, it works.
HP also gains by getting a neat bit of kit which they can brand, allowing them to compete against Dell's new musical offering. Seeing as almost everyone is getting in on the act these days, it would seem foolish for HP not too; and why not do it with the best thing that there currently is on the market? Who knows, they might even intergrate it better with the PC? They might even bring the price down a bit. Who know- whatever happens, i'm sure it will be good for music lovers.
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As a resident in Birmingham UK (The West Midlands) i might add that people world wide probably don't really need to worry to much. Birmingham has quite high crime rates and a lot of rich boroughs surrounding it - people are prime targets. People need only remember the shootings that took place over new years eve last year.
I hear its got 20% more zilla too!
I'm not sure that Google has killed thousands of people, extorted money from collonies, and levered social unbalance accross massive continents!
Has any one contemplated the concept that Microsoft might actually be taking the time to make better products? I realise its taboo on slashdot to show any support to Microsoft, but the fact is that they are not stupid! Do you honestly believe they would just decide, hey, lets let linux + competitors get a foothold in our markets whilst we jack about! WRONG!
One thing anyone in the IT business should learn is to never ever under estimate microsoft.
I might note that it is the inquirer, not the register. Some editors might take offense ;)
Enough with these stupid stories already!!!!! Seriously : i know this appeals to the slashdot audience (posting linux advocacy stories) but the reality is completely different. The day that the community focuses on real ways to reduce microsoft's monopoly will be the day that linux becomes sucessful.
People were writing these stories 3 years ago. Nothing has changed.
Exactly. Sad as i am to believe it, a big company (read microsoft) needs to instigate something that is going to change it. Some kind of unique id / trusted system is the answer. And i fear it is going to lead to the commericalisation of email.
Indeed! How slashdot duped its readers into thinking this one hadn't already been showed!!!!!!!!!
What makes me think that various recording associations might have a little conern with ati releasing this "moins" any form of DRM....
No - you dont. If you buy a TV to watch broadcasted television from BBC / ITV / SKY you must have a license, otherwise you are breaking the law. If you buy a TV simply to watch DVDs then you do not have to get a license. However, License inspectors would be highly sceptical if they were to find an aerial lying around....
Surely intel could profit aswell?!
Whats new. Microsoft buy of people all the time. Its not just Microsoft either. Most American business engage in dubious practices to sell their products. IBM got burned for bribing officials in Asia lately - just because other companies haven't had their dodgy dealings uncovered doesn't mean it doesn't go on.
To the poster (here) who talked about how Google has done one thing, and done it well - yes- that is very correct. However, that was back in 2000. Searching is something Google is undoubtedly "the daddy" off. They have moved on - groups, image search, directory, news - they are all at the top of their respective content leagues in terms of quality and service.
Whether or not the NYT article is correct or not doesn't really matter. The plain fact is that Google faces increases competition, and they need to offer more services to maintain their position as number 1. A Google email service is A) cool B) useful for people. As posters before has said, it would probably come quite feature laden, and thus be popular.
Even Adam Smith 200 years ago realised that companies control important objects of society was a poor idea; the incentive for profit and exploiting the system for the benifit of the companies and their shareholders is just too much.
If it were up to me, i'd give it to a UN body. The last people i'd want to give it to is the US government, not because i'm anti US, but because i don't think one country should have control of such a multi-national object. The arguement that "we made it" doesn't hold any water.
Regarding the people that are suggesteing that the BBC are making "unfounded claims" - this shows a complete ignorance of Hutton, and many of the aspects of the British (*note british*) case for war.
The BBC is a world wide independent organisation that reports on things like this. Under European Human Rights Law the BBC is quite entitled to make "unfounded claims" whether they are true or not; clearly they wont do it intentionaly but there is not case for liable here.
And come on guys. Lets be honest here. Do you honestly not believe that this has nothing to do with Linux or someone from the Linux community? Please. Wake up and smell the cheese.
This guy isn't sorry. Sticking in things like this merely give the virus more media attention, and diverts attention from the real issue here : insecurity, and user failure to patch up.
to the man who said they will never win; what a foolish thing to say. If you have learnt one thing over the past few years it should be to never ever attempt to pre-judge the american (or for that matter any) legal system. The fact is that these trials have a strange habbit of coming out in favour of the group you least expect.
I wish kazaa the best of luck. I hope it gives the studios a wake up call to the real world.
Doesn't this mean now that the RIAA only has to download one program when they want to find file swappers and what not?
Morpheus always seemed to look a bit dated aswell..
Is this poster crazy?! To suggest that the sudden surge in web usage was down to CGI is frankly ludicrous! There is no way you can say, "right, that technology lead to the boom in the web". Its not possible! And even if you could pin it down to one thing, it would be something Many, many, many technologies have helped it along the way.
Further, perl is not the only scripting language on the internet; furthermore i doubt it is the most popular. PHP, ASP, Java; all popular and equally efficient languages.
Sure, it's nice to have corporate support, but is anyone else a little worried about big businesses real interests in Linux? We live in a capitalist society : the interest is money and profit. Just makes you wonder what kind of support linux is going to need from these boys in the future, and how dependent they are going to be.
Prices are pretty steep. its about 39 /month (about say $65) for a 1mbits cable modem; its cheaper tho for adsl = its about 27/month for 512k.
Appologies... it would appear a full-stop missed the final cut. Microsoft filed suit against the website>>. Michael Robertson, owner of Lindows and a strong anti-Microsoft voice, will undoubtedly be disappointed with the ruling. If any admins read this, please could you add it in?
As an IBM Microdrive owner, they are brilliant. I have the 1 gig model for a Compaq Ipaq that i have, and its worked very, very well for the best part of a year.
The only annoyance is their slighly prohibitive cost, but as with all new technology of this kind it is to be expected.
SCO has gone to far now to simply back off, or admit they were wrong. They have invested their whole business in this, and have no option but to go forward and proceed with litigation. If they back of now they loose face and the business will probably crash. If they loose in court, they have the same situation, except they lost alot of money on lawyers instead.
:S
HOWEVER, if they win in the quirky US legal system, who knows. They might make alot of money, and keep on putting out super duper products
Apple has much to gain from this. HP is effectivly giving them a bigger audience to the Itunes music store, in a similar fashion that MS Windows has given Aol via putting links to AOL on the desktop of all new PCs. The strategy is tried and tested; more importantly, it works.
HP also gains by getting a neat bit of kit which they can brand, allowing them to compete against Dell's new musical offering. Seeing as almost everyone is getting in on the act these days, it would seem foolish for HP not too; and why not do it with the best thing that there currently is on the market? Who knows, they might even intergrate it better with the PC? They might even bring the price down a bit. Who know- whatever happens, i'm sure it will be good for music lovers.