In my mind, the former and latter companies are getting nothing but bad press.
We only read about M. Roberson always wining to the press. Taking the fight to Microsoft and being bullied. A simple name change would have sufficed, I think he expected the suit in the first place if only to get free press. Now, the naming schema, is too similar to Apple's.
Are we going to see plain white Linspire computers with a single button-mouse and an LSuperDrive? No matter how "good" this company gets, in my mind its becoming nothing but a rip-off of other work. I'm never going to buy anything from them. IMO, there's enough good work going on with Fedora that LinSpire doesn't deserve any press.
Don't forget to give your used books that you're no longer reading to your local library. I've given quite a few Linux ones which I hope will be put to good use with others.
Too bad I can't collect some royalties from overdue fines!
If they find they aren't making enough money off it to begin with, then why did they allow Itunes, Napster and others to sell for $0.99/song?
To me, this seems to be a trick to get the ball rolling on on-line music purchasing. Once enough people buy, they figure they can jack up the price since people - as they seem to think - enjoy the benefit.
Personally, speaking - I used to listen to albums where there were one hit wonders. I'm in my twenties now and kind of grew out of the Top Chart muisc. I'd much rather listen to (as examples) a G&R, AC&DC, Hendrix, or other CD as opposed to some new rock band CD that I can't attest to the quality of the whole track.
iTunes and co. won't work for me... I usually sample the first few tracks on an album from Amazon and make a descision from there. I'm strongly considering buying a subscription to a commerical free digital radio provider.
RIAA and labels - wake up already! People still want to buy music but they want value for their money.
Maybe, to get an acutal working system after the billions spent, taxpayers should scare the IRS employees responsible the same way when they audit people. That should get action done!
Lets say the average teenager/youg adult (who downloads music) spends $200 a year on CDs. That's give or take 10 to 15 CDs a year.
A $3000 suit would be about 15 years' worth of CD buying. This doesn't take into account revenue from advertising on MTV, posters, fan clubs, concerts etc.
In the long run, I think its in the record companie's interests to settle other ways or find new ways to distribute music. Ticking off you fan base for 15 years is not worth it.
Would be nice to see one of these boards with dual on-board NICS. Combined with a CD-ROM or Flash memory storage, would make a nice small Firewall system.
This nerd is going places, esp if he pursues a career as a consultant or to get an IPO:
1) He knows how to get free media exposure 2) He's drawn the attention - and scared - the government and public into panic. Perfect for introducing over-budget solutions.
As a university student, many colleague's ink jets would run out/low on ink when trying to print a report or term paper. On a time crunch, this is not a good thing. They would also usually some would go through about 3 or 4 ink tanks in a semester.
I've recommended a laser printer countless times and have had a few converts. I've only replaced my laser toner once in 4 years and I print quite a bit. Of course, it doesn't print colour, but most people don't need colour.
This is nitpicking but interestingly if you search for Y Windows Y MSN Gives you this and Google Gives you this. Google finds it without problems.
I've tried a few other terms like Microsoft loses lawsuit and they don't seem to be filtering results. Interestingly searching for Microsoft Warez IS being manipulated pointing to microsoft.com/piracy. Don't blame them. Just interesting to compare the results with other search engines.
While I can possibly see this as some form of censorship, especially when searching for Xfee86, what I'd like to know is what other terms they have manipulated which might be interpreted as a conflict of interest. What would happen if the US government had a Goolge like search engine - what kind of censorship would occur on their site? At what point will NBC (of MSNBC) become involved - if ever - to filter out searches whose results are not in their favor. Does CNN, the BBC the CBC and other media do the same thing on Internet searches on their websites?
My question is - How can *I* easily setup a printer in Linux? Without the easier GUI offered by KDE or GNOME, I've found CUPS and other printing systems virtually impossible to configure. I have an HP5L printer. I'm really happy to see ESR write about this.
I'm a fairly adept technical user. I prefer to use Slackware and a bare minimum Window Manager ie Window Maker. KDE and GNOME offer nice GUIs to configure CUPS but its overkill to install either to setup a printer.
I've been planning on switching all my essay writing to Linux for practical reasons. One of the only reasons I'm using Windows to do work on is that printing is really hard to setup on 'Nix. I'm not using a lot of fancy fonts - mostly Times - but I do all my writing in either OO or AbiWord. My understanding is that of the older printer daemons don't work/output.
From the MS website:
"These actions include communicating both directly and indirectly with those who possess or seek to possess, post, download or share the illegally disclosed source code."
IANAL, but what is this supposed to mean? What is insinuated by communnicating directly or indiectly with those who possessing the code?
Would simply searching for - but not downloading - the code be a violation (is it considered intent or just curiosity)? Is it a violation to simply look at the file comments posted in the code as has already been posted on the Net?
I think on IBM's part they've used risk analysis to weight the cost benefit ratio of doing a recall vs lawsuits and other expesnses. Whereas in the automotives industry, you can issue a recall by replacing a defective part, HDDs need to be completly replaced. I guess IBM might have seen this as being cheaper; if so, they might be wrong.
I've read of many other industries that participate in these practices.... lawn mower , childrens' toys, mattresses, automotive manufacturers the list is endless. It won't come to an end any time soon.
Seeing that the company is lawsuit-happy I'm suprised the industry hasn't completely underwritten them by now. Unless Rambus signed some huge or long term contracts with the motherboard makers, then simply stopping production of boards supporting their memory would bankrupt them quickly.
I trust they won't be part of the JEDEC and its meetings now.
Incidentally, Rambus is one of the few tech companies where when you type in the company name in a search engine you get the company website.. and.. then a whole slew of news reports on lawsuits and questioning the company's practices. Speaks volumes of Rambus.
The machine size is a factor as well. Pacman and the other old-school games were the size of a regular cabinet.
Newer games have larger cabinets. They're either 4 player games, simulators (cars, etc) or the boxing simulator (think its on the 3rd page... that machine is huge).
Even with higher fees to play, the machine size alone means less machines in the arcade. With lower attendance, your revenue per sq/ft has plummetted.
Everyone seems to be talking about which distro will be "King".
OTOH, I like seeing what kind of distros people are making with Linux. Let's see:
1) Firewalls/Server 2) Desktop 3) Server 4) Embedded 5) Live Distros 6) Source compiled 7) Mini-CD sized 8) Recovery/Diagnostics
It would be interesting to see which of these categories become dominant and get more developer resources put behind them. Already I find myself using several of these either for practical or hobbiest purposes.
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If you look at a lot of TV shows out there, they are ment for mass consumption - Fraiser, Friends, the Simpsons, sports, etc. Its harder for advertisers to know exactly who their audience is.
With Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel (funny they're all WB?) the audience is much more focused so they can better target advertising. This IS what advertisers want. With this in mind, I'm baffled that they can't get enough money from the advertisers to cover production costs - or at least enough to make a heathly profit from.
You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until you see his reaction when he sees his bandwidth bill after getting a/.'ing;)
On a separate note, I'm a 3rd year university student. I think anyone can attest that they've had good & bad professors.
I think this site may well be valuable to students. This site is certainly prone to slandering. I would have loved to have read reviews of teachers before taking a class. In university you don't always know students who'd taken a class. It's easy to miss a class from a good professor and equally easy to sign up with a bad professor. I think some amount of review should be made of the reviews and perhaps proof of enrollment. I don't advocate censorship but this would at least remove slanderous or untrue accounts.
Admittedly, determining what qualities make a good or bad professor is subjective. On the other hand, universities should be more forthcoming about the results of teacher reviews. They discard the reviews as if they never happened. Students cannot find out from the faculty or administration which teachers are performing well and which are not.
This goes back to the security vs obscurity argument.
My understanding is that Google searches for keywords within text & PDF documents and possibly Word documents.
Lets say I sent a friend a link to/www/private/secretfile.txt - bad idea right (even if I rely on blocking Google w/ robot.txt)? What if I rename the file to secretfile.zip (so its still a text file) or - better yet - I actually make the file a compressed archive.
While the contents are *still* unsafe, would this at least stop google from publishing what's *inside* the document? In this context, who cares if the file name shows up on searches after you remove the file, its the contents you don't want showing up. So on a temporary basis, is this what you could recommend someone to do?
Australia is having some problems in adapting to globalization, specifically with technology development.
Granted, Australia is a faily isolated island, but many industrialized countries are using Internet and telephone as though they are commodities. Last time I looked at pricing for such services in Australia the costs were astronomous.
With the possible adoption of this DMCA type legislation - which has slowed some technology research in the US - I don't see this helping Australia to modernize its economy. Unless of course, the free trade is really beneficial. While Canada and Mexico might have benefitted from NAFTA, it was only because the US knew it was to its advantage to use it. Now, Australia will be used too.
Too justify their jobs and the amount of work they do, beaurocrats can probably increase the font to 15 point without much notice. This makes the document longer, ensuring job security by showing how much work they do. Consultants, pay attention here! You can make more money, with less work.
What high school, college or university student hasn't heard of this trick before?
Actually, I don't care if they get rid of the serial ports, it would be a great thing. In the process though, they will probably get rid of the parallel port. While it can be a pain, there are awesome printers out there that are parallel port only. The USB adapters are a fortune. The old HP series printers models 4 through 5, the toners last a long time, are fairly speedy and dirt cheap - and they last a long time. *This* is why I don't want the parallel port gone. I have two such printers.
The BTX standard is emphasizing getting rid of serial and parallel ports and "legacy" hardware.
Given this, I'm wondering if I will still be able to use my full tower ATX case on the BTX boards. I know there are standard BTX cases as well as the smaller form factors. The holes on the "back pannel" previously reserved for the serial ports and PCI cards are sure to give a lot of problems mounting BTX boards if the locations of the ports changes.
Using the standard BTX format (and not the mini-BTX), I have a few questions: Will I be able to use my case on an ATX board? Will the mounting holes be located in the same location. Will AGP be on the BTX boards (specs I remember seeing emphasize PCI xpress).
It would be a total waste if I (and many others) would need to throw away a good case. I hope AGP will still be on the BTX boards. I want to upgrade within the next year and my ATI 9600 pro would go to waste as well.
Since MS will be peeved at the EU if they decide to levey $100 million in fines which is a sizeable amount, couldn't they decide to increase contact costs within the EU and/or charge more for support costs? Though risky, businesses don't have much of a choice *but* to use MS software (namely, for MS Office compatability) which *requires* MS OSes.
All seriousness aside: Isn't $100 million Bill's hourly wage?
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In my mind, the former and latter companies are getting nothing but bad press.
We only read about M. Roberson always wining to the press. Taking the fight to Microsoft and being bullied. A simple name change would have sufficed, I think he expected the suit in the first place if only to get free press. Now, the naming schema, is too similar to Apple's.
Are we going to see plain white Linspire computers with a single button-mouse and an LSuperDrive? No matter how "good" this company gets, in my mind its becoming nothing but a rip-off of other work. I'm never going to buy anything from them. IMO, there's enough good work going on with Fedora that LinSpire doesn't deserve any press.
Don't forget to give your used books that you're no longer reading to your local library. I've given quite a few Linux ones which I hope will be put to good use with others.
Too bad I can't collect some royalties from overdue fines!
If they find they aren't making enough money off it to begin with, then why did they allow Itunes, Napster and others to sell for $0.99 /song?
... I usually sample the first few tracks on an album from Amazon and make a descision from there. I'm strongly considering buying a subscription to a commerical free digital radio provider.
To me, this seems to be a trick to get the ball rolling on on-line music purchasing. Once enough people buy, they figure they can jack up the price since people - as they seem to think - enjoy the benefit.
Personally, speaking - I used to listen to albums where there were one hit wonders. I'm in my twenties now and kind of grew out of the Top Chart muisc. I'd much rather listen to (as examples) a G&R, AC&DC, Hendrix, or other CD as opposed to some new rock band CD that I can't attest to the quality of the whole track.
iTunes and co. won't work for me
RIAA and labels - wake up already! People still want to buy music but they want value for their money.
Ironic how the IRS itself needs auditing!!
Maybe, to get an acutal working system after the billions spent, taxpayers should scare the IRS employees responsible the same way when they audit people. That should get action done!
Lets say the average teenager/youg adult (who downloads music) spends $200 a year on CDs. That's give or take 10 to 15 CDs a year.
A $3000 suit would be about 15 years' worth of CD buying. This doesn't take into account revenue from advertising on MTV, posters, fan clubs, concerts etc.
In the long run, I think its in the record companie's interests to settle other ways or find new ways to distribute music. Ticking off you fan base for 15 years is not worth it.
Would be nice to see one of these boards with dual on-board NICS. Combined with a CD-ROM or Flash memory storage, would make a nice small Firewall system.
Just out of curiosity, what is the MTBF on these drives (and similarly the iPod) ones and how does it compare with most 3.5" HDDs?
This nerd is going places, esp if he pursues a career as a consultant or to get an IPO:
1) He knows how to get free media exposure
2) He's drawn the attention - and scared - the government and public into panic. Perfect for introducing over-budget solutions.
If the Symbiot runs their software on their server, will they consider the sudden rush of visitors from /. a DDos and lauch a DDos against /. readers?
I agree, laser printers are much better.
As a university student, many colleague's ink jets would run out/low on ink when trying to print a report or term paper. On a time crunch, this is not a good thing. They would also usually some would go through about 3 or 4 ink tanks in a semester.
I've recommended a laser printer countless times and have had a few converts. I've only replaced my laser toner once in 4 years and I print quite a bit. Of course, it doesn't print colour, but most people don't need colour.
This is nitpicking but interestingly if you search for Y Windows Y MSN Gives you this and Google Gives you this. Google finds it without problems.
I've tried a few other terms like Microsoft loses lawsuit and they don't seem to be filtering results. Interestingly searching for Microsoft Warez IS being manipulated pointing to microsoft.com/piracy. Don't blame them. Just interesting to compare the results with other search engines.
While I can possibly see this as some form of censorship, especially when searching for Xfee86, what I'd like to know is what other terms they have manipulated which might be interpreted as a conflict of interest. What would happen if the US government had a Goolge like search engine - what kind of censorship would occur on their site? At what point will NBC (of MSNBC) become involved - if ever - to filter out searches whose results are not in their favor. Does CNN, the BBC the CBC and other media do the same thing on Internet searches on their websites?
My question is - How can *I* easily setup a printer in Linux? Without the easier GUI offered by KDE or GNOME, I've found CUPS and other printing systems virtually impossible to configure. I have an HP5L printer. I'm really happy to see ESR write about this.
I'm a fairly adept technical user. I prefer to use Slackware and a bare minimum Window Manager ie Window Maker. KDE and GNOME offer nice GUIs to configure CUPS but its overkill to install either to setup a printer.
I've been planning on switching all my essay writing to Linux for practical reasons. One of the only reasons I'm using Windows to do work on is that printing is really hard to setup on 'Nix. I'm not using a lot of fancy fonts - mostly Times - but I do all my writing in either OO or AbiWord. My understanding is that of the older printer daemons don't work/output.
What options do I have?
From the MS website: "These actions include communicating both directly and indirectly with those who possess or seek to possess, post, download or share the illegally disclosed source code." IANAL, but what is this supposed to mean? What is insinuated by communnicating directly or indiectly with those who possessing the code? Would simply searching for - but not downloading - the code be a violation (is it considered intent or just curiosity)? Is it a violation to simply look at the file comments posted in the code as has already been posted on the Net?
I think on IBM's part they've used risk analysis to weight the cost benefit ratio of doing a recall vs lawsuits and other expesnses. Whereas in the automotives industry, you can issue a recall by replacing a defective part, HDDs need to be completly replaced. I guess IBM might have seen this as being cheaper; if so, they might be wrong.
.... lawn mower , childrens' toys, mattresses, automotive manufacturers the list is endless. It won't come to an end any time soon.
I've read of many other industries that participate in these practices
Seeing that the company is lawsuit-happy I'm suprised the industry hasn't completely underwritten them by now. Unless Rambus signed some huge or long term contracts with the motherboard makers, then simply stopping production of boards supporting their memory would bankrupt them quickly.
.. and .. then a whole slew of news reports on lawsuits and questioning the company's practices.
I trust they won't be part of the JEDEC and its meetings now.
Incidentally, Rambus is one of the few tech companies where when you type in the company name in a search engine you get the company website
Speaks volumes of Rambus.
The machine size is a factor as well. Pacman and the other old-school games were the size of a regular cabinet.
... that machine is huge).
Newer games have larger cabinets. They're either 4 player games, simulators (cars, etc) or the boxing simulator (think its on the 3rd page
Even with higher fees to play, the machine size alone means less machines in the arcade. With lower attendance, your revenue per sq/ft has plummetted.
Everyone seems to be talking about which distro will be "King".
OTOH, I like seeing what kind of distros people are making with Linux. Let's see:
1) Firewalls/Server
2) Desktop
3) Server
4) Embedded
5) Live Distros
6) Source compiled
7) Mini-CD sized
8) Recovery/Diagnostics
It would be interesting to see which of these categories become dominant and get more developer resources put behind them. Already I find myself using several of these either for practical or hobbiest purposes.
If you look at a lot of TV shows out there, they are ment for mass consumption - Fraiser, Friends, the Simpsons, sports, etc. Its harder for advertisers to know exactly who their audience is.
With Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel (funny they're all WB?) the audience is much more focused so they can better target advertising. This IS what advertisers want. With this in mind, I'm baffled that they can't get enough money from the advertisers to cover production costs - or at least enough to make a heathly profit from.
You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until you see his reaction when he sees his bandwidth bill after getting a /.'ing ;)
On a separate note, I'm a 3rd year university student. I think anyone can attest that they've had good & bad professors.
I think this site may well be valuable to students. This site is certainly prone to slandering. I would have loved to have read reviews of teachers before taking a class. In university you don't always know students who'd taken a class. It's easy to miss a class from a good professor and equally easy to sign up with a bad professor. I think some amount of review should be made of the reviews and perhaps proof of enrollment. I don't advocate censorship but this would at least remove slanderous or untrue accounts.
Admittedly, determining what qualities make a good or bad professor is subjective. On the other hand, universities should be more forthcoming about the results of teacher reviews. They discard the reviews as if they never happened. Students cannot find out from the faculty or administration which teachers are performing well and which are not.
This goes back to the security vs obscurity argument.
/www/private/secretfile.txt - bad idea right (even if I rely on blocking Google w/ robot.txt)? What if I rename the file to secretfile.zip (so its still a text file) or - better yet - I actually make the file a compressed archive.
My understanding is that Google searches for keywords within text & PDF documents and possibly Word documents.
Lets say I sent a friend a link to
While the contents are *still* unsafe, would this at least stop google from publishing what's *inside* the document? In this context, who cares if the file name shows up on searches after you remove the file, its the contents you don't want showing up. So on a temporary basis, is this what you could recommend someone to do?
Australia is having some problems in adapting to globalization, specifically with technology development.
Granted, Australia is a faily isolated island, but many industrialized countries are using Internet and telephone as though they are commodities. Last time I looked at pricing for such services in Australia the costs were astronomous.
With the possible adoption of this DMCA type legislation - which has slowed some technology research in the US - I don't see this helping Australia to modernize its economy. Unless of course, the free trade is really beneficial. While Canada and Mexico might have benefitted from NAFTA, it was only because the US knew it was to its advantage to use it. Now, Australia will be used too.
Too justify their jobs and the amount of work they do, beaurocrats can probably increase the font to 15 point without much notice. This makes the document longer, ensuring job security by showing how much work they do. Consultants, pay attention here! You can make more money, with less work.
What high school, college or university student hasn't heard of this trick before?
Actually, I don't care if they get rid of the serial ports, it would be a great thing. In the process though, they will probably get rid of the parallel port. While it can be a pain, there are awesome printers out there that are parallel port only. The USB adapters are a fortune. The old HP series printers models 4 through 5, the toners last a long time, are fairly speedy and dirt cheap - and they last a long time. *This* is why I don't want the parallel port gone. I have two such printers.
The BTX standard is emphasizing getting rid of serial and parallel ports and "legacy" hardware.
Given this, I'm wondering if I will still be able to use my full tower ATX case on the BTX boards. I know there are standard BTX cases as well as the smaller form factors. The holes on the "back pannel" previously reserved for the serial ports and PCI cards are sure to give a lot of problems mounting BTX boards if the locations of the ports changes.
Using the standard BTX format (and not the mini-BTX), I have a few questions:
Will I be able to use my case on an ATX board? Will the mounting holes be located in the same location. Will AGP be on the BTX boards (specs I remember seeing emphasize PCI xpress).
It would be a total waste if I (and many others) would need to throw away a good case. I hope AGP will still be on the BTX boards. I want to upgrade within the next year and my ATI 9600 pro would go to waste as well.
Since MS will be peeved at the EU if they decide to levey $100 million in fines which is a sizeable amount, couldn't they decide to increase contact costs within the EU and/or charge more for support costs?
Though risky, businesses don't have much of a choice *but* to use MS software (namely, for MS Office compatability) which *requires* MS OSes.
All seriousness aside: Isn't $100 million Bill's hourly wage?