Your not far off the mark, but you forgot the ever aggravatig pigeons and pigeon shit covering the benches not to mention the ever present bum asking you for money. I also just love the pychotic homeless person who starts staring at you and unexplicably begins screaming a steady stream of profanities at you for no particular reason. I guess that's life in the big city. Yeah thanks, but I think I'll stay home to surf the net.
What it all boils down to is that no one wants a global monopolist and foriegn nationals forcing propeitary software dependence down thier throat...even when MS is trying give away windows. Meanwhile here in the US, the Bush Republicans are actively helping MS shove their PC dictatorship down americans throats....so much for liberty and justice for all. MS knows it really can't compete with linux, and it shows with Palladium. It feels like the IT business is going back in time.. not forward, when will people realize that the MS monopoly does not nothing for innovation and no good for IT business in general?
(f ) Reverse Engineering.--(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of
subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to
use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure
that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program
for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the
program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an
independently created computer program with other programs, and that
have not previously been
readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the
extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute
infringement under this title.
I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that the case should be thrown out.
Not if MS has it's way with Palladium. Hopefully, companies like IBM will adopt open source bioses for their own PCs and propagate it among it's many BPs and VARs....otherwise we're screwed by Microsoft and the Republican twits that are encouraging their global monopoly.
Well duh! Of course people use PDS, especially the business professionals that have small databases the size of a small telephone book....try lugging all that paper with you and updating it easily.
Exactly....unenforceable and assinine to boot. I don't owe any webmaster a living unless I sign an agreement to do so! Any site which implies you must or forces you to view thier pop-ups should be boycotted. This also goes for sites that force you to use only one browser....the site dosen't have to support all browsers but it should support at least two. Those pitiful site promoting pop-ups are costing the viewer extra bandwith....usually so the webmaster can try and sell you something....incredible isn't it? The WEBMASTER should be charged for wasting your time and bandwidth, NOT the other way around.
Problem 1: PC/MAC lifespan is too short. Why not make computers so easy to upgrade that any grandma could do it without feeling intimidated. We're almost at that point now, why not promote this as a way to to reduce computing costs? Guess what?...most people aren't gamers and they don't want to fiddle too much with the hardware, but if they were convinced that it was easy and cheap to upgrade their current computer they probably would.
Problem 2: Computer manufaucters should be responsible for making computers more recycle friendly. Start an organization that makes computer product recycling standards and promote those eco friendly products.
Problem 3: Software that is not upgrade friendly (you know...those guys from Redmond). Boycott software manufacturers that aren't upgrade friendly or won't let you legally move your existing software from one machine to another.
These mini boxes are cheaper, field upgradeable, use standard parts, can have up to 2 Gig of memory, 4X AGP, up to 2 hard drives......and whatta you know it takes up very little space.
Laptops have non-standard parts, most of which are not field replaceable. Laptop parts and repair costs are very expensive. Laptops also have very limited upgrade posibilities and the keyboards are itty bitty. And let's face it, laptops are plugged into an outlet most of the time.
Think of the mini box as space saving computer that's easy on the wallet as it is on the eyes.
an love fest for open standards that might jeopardize their business? In case you haven't noticed they have huge share in the office software business! Hell, I wouldn't join either. Why should they pander to competitors...to be nice?
I especially like where Crichton's fantasies give way to falsehoods when he is relating to current events. This is one of Crichton's failings that irritates me In his book "Rising Sun" he said that the microphotolithography equipment manufacturers (there was only one) were extinct in the US.....Bzzt wrong. OK, I know this because I used to work for the company he was relating to and although we were almost dead we wern't dead at the time his book was published.
I think high speed in CA is a great idea that will serve that state well... it makes perfect sense to me to prepare for future/present transportation needs.
The monorail project in Seattle is good idea also, but I think the cost per mile is going to be a little steep for taxpayers. As long as they remember to save some money to keep up the roads, keep the buses running, and maintain the bridges I think they'll be OK. Seattle has had some trouble keeping up it's infrastructure...or so I've heard.
I know some people will be upset at this, but Red Hat has more staying power than all of the other Linuxes combined (other than Debian and Mandrake). I don't have anything against the other linuxes, but let's face it what easily sets RH apart is that they have the most clout with major businesses here in the US and abroad. I think even Linus still uses RH! No other Linux has that kind of credibility factor going for it. With RH 8.0, the look and feel of the desktop seems professional and appears to be striving towards some type of consistent feel, look etc....and this is where linux IMHO is really lacking. A business linux on the on the server and even more importantly on desktops has to have some level of consistency. I hope RH understands this concept. What I think the linux distributors really need to do is to get together and finally decide on a standard configuration for/etc and init scripts....the resulting linuxes then can be called standard linux. That doesn't mean there can't be non standard linuxes, but I think it would go a long way in getting linux accepted. It's clear to me that RH knows they are on the way to being the standards leader for linux and they don't have much competition.
of collisions, because eventually it WILL happen. If it happens, it happens. I probably have a beter chance of winning the lottery than people have of averting or deflecting such such a collision with asteroids. I know this may sound a little whacked, but the best way to improve mankinds chances of survival is interplanetary colonization. That way if earth gets hit you still have your colony on mars.
There is still some room to grow left in the semiconductor business....but not much. Now that chip makers are near the limit in the "how small can I shrink it race", the goal now is to fit more die on single silicon wafer. As the "need for speed becomes more critical I think optical computing breakthroughs will become more common place as soon as the semiconductor business and research community start to move away from silicon semiconductors. When the focus on optic technology becomes dominant silicon chips won't go away, but they won't be as high tech.
Legos can be wonderful teaching tools that can demostrate mathematics and art (in the case of Escher) in way that can make difficult abstract ideas more tangible. Lego takes the designing and building of models which meant to represent buldings, machinery and so on seriously that they actually hire engineers to design and build the Lego structures for thier showrooms and projects like Mindstorm.
http://mindstorms.lego.com
I agree that the "secure" definition seems very unclear. It also seems to me that security ratings are very subjective. Is web server being run, is there a firewall installed, do I have virus protection, and are service packs installed are typical questions that part of security program . If properly configured Windows or most any OS can be secure. In the same vein: If improperly or not well configured any OS can have a security problem waiting to be exploited.
Actually, your are incorrect. The fact that you can't buy linux on Dell's or Gateway's systems is because they force OEMs to install windows and insist by force that consumers buy it that way. Either way( whether windows is installed or not), you end up paying a MS tax. If this tax is not the work of tyrants, then I don't know what is. The OEM install price of WindowsXP is around $35-$45 but retail is $300?....this is absurdity on the highest scale. And by the way your jewelry comparison only serves to prove my point exactly.....DeBeers is a world monopolist as well because they too preserve artificially high and absurd prices for jewelry (diamonds)!
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How do know "download" is not some code word for sex? The two Alices in this conversation were wanting to "download" something, just not each other.
Who wants to do buseiness with thugs? MS's own VARs and BPs either fear/loathe them and are pretty much do nothing, the rest of avoid them (if possible) as though they were the plague! Of course they piss europeans off, their monopoly in the US and around the world was certainly not gained using gentlemanly business tactics. They can't last long if they keep up this pace, and if they do thier demise is well deserved. By the way, I don't hate MS but I do loathe the way they do business lately.
I know this offtopic but why didn't Apple provide compatiblity with X in their GUI? I think they would have at least doubled the amount of apllications that could be run on their platform and herded some developers over to their camp as well. I thought X was bloated, but OSX is relatively slow on my Titanium laptop and I have 768M of Ram...Even using the X Fink provides is faster!
I agree. Maybe there's a reason why didn't Apple make an X compatible GUI in OSX? I think promoting some kind of standard might have helped them as well as the Linux/Unix community.
I don't why this post didn't score at least 1 point. I guess the truth hurts. Developers like developing for Windows and Microsoft knows that in the future that this will be the key to holding on to thier marketshare. The web is not as standardized as most would like it, and with.NET probably even less so. I like using Mozilla, but I can't visit some sites because they are geared specifically towards the Windows user. As much as it sucks, MS Office is still king in the business world. Linux may someday really overtake MS in the desktop world, but only if business and the public care about standards that benefit everyone
"Two monopolies merge, there is still the same amount of competition: i.e. none. AT&T And Comcast dont really compete right now. Joing them does not eliminate competition."
No, but it sure will reduce it by quite a bit, because they do operate in majors cities throughout the nation. I have never had a choice of cable providers and I lived all over the country, but I do have choice of satellite providers no matter where I live...as long as can get good reception. Choice is the key to competition and the discerning factor in what a monopoly is. As far as I am concerned this merger was bought and paid for.
That give's a new meaning to being "Bush" -whacked. I guess that's how Republicans put the passion in "compassionate conservatism"....damn that's nasty!
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Your not far off the mark, but you forgot the ever aggravatig pigeons and pigeon shit covering the benches not to mention the ever present bum asking you for money. I also just love the pychotic homeless person who starts staring at you and unexplicably begins screaming a steady stream of profanities at you for no particular reason. I guess that's life in the big city. Yeah thanks, but I think I'll stay home to surf the net.
What it all boils down to is that no one wants a global monopolist and foriegn nationals forcing propeitary software dependence down thier throat...even when MS is trying give away windows. Meanwhile here in the US, the Bush Republicans are actively helping MS shove their PC dictatorship down americans throats....so much for liberty and justice for all. MS knows it really can't compete with linux, and it shows with Palladium. It feels like the IT business is going back in time.. not forward, when will people realize that the MS monopoly does not nothing for innovation and no good for IT business in general?
Not according to DCMA:
(f ) Reverse Engineering.--(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that the case should be thrown out.
Not if MS has it's way with Palladium. Hopefully, companies like IBM will adopt open source bioses for their own PCs and propagate it among it's many BPs and VARs ....otherwise we're screwed by Microsoft and the Republican twits that are encouraging their global monopoly.
Well duh! Of course people use PDS, especially the business professionals that have small databases the size of a small telephone book....try lugging all that paper with you and updating it easily.
Exactly....unenforceable and assinine to boot. I don't owe any webmaster a living unless I sign an agreement to do so! Any site which implies you must or forces you to view thier pop-ups should be boycotted. This also goes for sites that force you to use only one browser....the site dosen't have to support all browsers but it should support at least two. Those pitiful site promoting pop-ups are costing the viewer extra bandwith....usually so the webmaster can try and sell you something....incredible isn't it? The WEBMASTER should be charged for wasting your time and bandwidth, NOT the other way around.
Problem 1: PC/MAC lifespan is too short. Why not make computers so easy to upgrade that any grandma could do it without feeling intimidated. We're almost at that point now, why not promote this as a way to to reduce computing costs? Guess what?...most people aren't gamers and they don't want to fiddle too much with the hardware, but if they were convinced that it was easy and cheap to upgrade their current computer they probably would.
Problem 2: Computer manufaucters should be responsible for making computers more recycle friendly. Start an organization that makes computer product recycling standards and promote those eco friendly products.
Problem 3: Software that is not upgrade friendly (you know...those guys from Redmond). Boycott software manufacturers that aren't upgrade friendly or won't let you legally move your existing software from one machine to another.
These mini boxes are cheaper, field upgradeable, use standard parts, can have up to 2 Gig of memory, 4X AGP, up to 2 hard drives......and whatta you know it takes up very little space.
Laptops have non-standard parts, most of which are not field replaceable. Laptop parts and repair costs are very expensive. Laptops also have very limited upgrade posibilities and the keyboards are itty bitty. And let's face it, laptops are plugged into an outlet most of the time.
Think of the mini box as space saving computer that's easy on the wallet as it is on the eyes.
an love fest for open standards that might jeopardize their business? In case you haven't noticed they have huge share in the office software business! Hell, I wouldn't join either. Why should they pander to competitors...to be nice?
I especially like where Crichton's fantasies give way to falsehoods when he is relating to current events. This is one of Crichton's failings that irritates me In his book "Rising Sun" he said that the microphotolithography equipment manufacturers (there was only one) were extinct in the US.....Bzzt wrong. OK, I know this because I used to work for the company he was relating to and although we were almost dead we wern't dead at the time his book was published.
I think high speed in CA is a great idea that will serve that state well... it makes perfect sense to me to prepare for future/present transportation needs.
The monorail project in Seattle is good idea also, but I think the cost per mile is going to be a little steep for taxpayers. As long as they remember to save some money to keep up the roads, keep the buses running, and maintain the bridges I think they'll be OK. Seattle has had some trouble keeping up it's infrastructure...or so I've heard.
I know some people will be upset at this, but Red Hat has more staying power than all of the other Linuxes combined (other than Debian and Mandrake). I don't have anything against the other linuxes, but let's face it what easily sets RH apart is that they have the most clout with major businesses here in the US and abroad. I think even Linus still uses RH! No other Linux has that kind of credibility factor going for it. With RH 8.0, the look and feel of the desktop seems professional and appears to be striving towards some type of consistent feel, look etc....and this is where linux IMHO is really lacking. A business linux on the on the server and even more importantly on desktops has to have some level of consistency. I hope RH understands this concept. What I think the linux distributors really need to do is to get together and finally decide on a standard configuration for /etc and init scripts....the resulting linuxes then can be called standard linux. That doesn't mean there can't be non standard linuxes, but I think it would go a long way in getting linux accepted. It's clear to me that RH knows they are on the way to being the standards leader for linux and they don't have much competition.
of collisions, because eventually it WILL happen. If it happens, it happens. I probably have a beter chance of winning the lottery than people have of averting or deflecting such such a collision with asteroids. I know this may sound a little whacked, but the best way to improve mankinds chances of survival is interplanetary colonization. That way if earth gets hit you still have your colony on mars.
There is still some room to grow left in the semiconductor business....but not much. Now that chip makers are near the limit in the "how small can I shrink it race", the goal now is to fit more die on single silicon wafer. As the "need for speed becomes more critical I think optical computing breakthroughs will become more common place as soon as the semiconductor business and research community start to move away from silicon semiconductors. When the focus on optic technology becomes dominant silicon chips won't go away, but they won't be as high tech.
Legos can be wonderful teaching tools that can demostrate mathematics and art (in the case of Escher) in way that can make difficult abstract ideas more tangible. Lego takes the designing and building of models which meant to represent buldings, machinery and so on seriously that they actually hire engineers to design and build the Lego structures for thier showrooms and projects like Mindstorm. http://mindstorms.lego.com
I agree that the "secure" definition seems very unclear. It also seems to me that security ratings are very subjective. Is web server being run, is there a firewall installed, do I have virus protection, and are service packs installed are typical questions that part of security program . If properly configured Windows or most any OS can be secure. In the same vein: If improperly or not well configured any OS can have a security problem waiting to be exploited.
Actually, your are incorrect. The fact that you can't buy linux on Dell's or Gateway's systems is because they force OEMs to install windows and insist by force that consumers buy it that way. Either way( whether windows is installed or not), you end up paying a MS tax. If this tax is not the work of tyrants, then I don't know what is. The OEM install price of WindowsXP is around $35-$45 but retail is $300?....this is absurdity on the highest scale. And by the way your jewelry comparison only serves to prove my point exactly.....DeBeers is a world monopolist as well because they too preserve artificially high and absurd prices for jewelry (diamonds)!
How do know "download" is not some code word for sex? The two Alices in this conversation were wanting to "download" something, just not each other.
Who wants to do buseiness with thugs? MS's own VARs and BPs either fear/loathe them and are pretty much do nothing, the rest of avoid them (if possible) as though they were the plague! Of course they piss europeans off, their monopoly in the US and around the world was certainly not gained using gentlemanly business tactics. They can't last long if they keep up this pace, and if they do thier demise is well deserved. By the way, I don't hate MS but I do loathe the way they do business lately.
I know this offtopic but why didn't Apple provide compatiblity with X in their GUI? I think they would have at least doubled the amount of apllications that could be run on their platform and herded some developers over to their camp as well. I thought X was bloated, but OSX is relatively slow on my Titanium laptop and I have 768M of Ram...Even using the X Fink provides is faster!
I agree. Maybe there's a reason why didn't Apple make an X compatible GUI in OSX? I think promoting some kind of standard might have helped them as well as the Linux/Unix community.
I don't why this post didn't score at least 1 point. I guess the truth hurts. Developers like developing for Windows and Microsoft knows that in the future that this will be the key to holding on to thier marketshare. The web is not as standardized as most would like it, and with .NET probably even less so. I like using Mozilla, but I can't visit some sites because they are geared specifically towards the Windows user. As much as it sucks, MS Office is still king in the business world. Linux may someday really overtake MS in the desktop world, but only if business and the public care about standards that benefit everyone
"Two monopolies merge, there is still the same amount of competition: i.e. none. AT&T And Comcast dont really compete right now. Joing them does not eliminate competition." No, but it sure will reduce it by quite a bit, because they do operate in majors cities throughout the nation. I have never had a choice of cable providers and I lived all over the country, but I do have choice of satellite providers no matter where I live ...as long as can get good reception. Choice is the key to competition and the discerning factor in what a monopoly is. As far as I am concerned this merger was bought and paid for.
That give's a new meaning to being "Bush" -whacked. I guess that's how Republicans put the passion in "compassionate conservatism"....damn that's nasty!
Blah!OK, I'm completely off topic but that's the way I saw the title at first.