Here's the real problem - there is no such thing as a free market of TV. ESPN and MTV can claim millions of viewers, but they have millions more (like me) who pay for the channel via cable but never watch it. Yea, like I really wanted to fund Pat Robertson's family channel..I mean Fox Family..I mean ABC family. And yes, I really like funding Fox News, don't you?
The only choice I have is to either get those channels I don't watch, or go without what I would consider quality TV (TLC, Discovery, BBC America, and so on).
I'd pay the same amount now that I pay for cable for 1/2 the available channels if I could choose what channels they were.
This seems to work for the HBO/Showtime/Cinemax channels, and they even get in a good deal of original programming as well, so there's proof a method like this would work.
The ROM upgrade has fixed it, and porting apps to the Z (at least console apps) is dead easy. I'm not a developer, but I ported LPRng and a2ps to the Z in about 2 hours, and most of the time was spent figuring out what files I needed for the packages.
The base apps that come with the Z do need some work, but there are plenty of replacements that work pretty well.
I have a rather small kitchen, but love cooking. The downside is that I have a lot of gear all over the place, usually because I really need it. What would you recommend as a "required list" of tools (utensils/appliances) that people should have in their kitchen?
I also don't feel like paying $5000 for an HDTV-ready Tivo. And I doubt Tivo wants to spend the $$ on technology noone wants. Or can agree to. or understand. or....
Yea, I'm sure. The house was built in 1940 as a summer cottage. The heating system is an octopus-style coal furnace converted to oil which used to be gravity-fed for circulation of air. The reason the house can be listed as "forced hot air" is because some ingenious individual put a fan inside an upside-down (metal) trash can.
Why are programmable thermostats better? Because you don't have to set them. There's a lot of waste when you forget to set the termostat before you leave. Or you walk in the house, realize how cold it is, and crank the thermostat, then realize it's too hot. Oh, and no worries about setting the thermostat before I go to bed.
I bought one for my house when I moved in 4 years ago. It's real nice to have the heater kick on about an hour before you wake up. Even though we have forced hot air, we're not using a lot of oil (soon gas) to stay warm through the winter.
In some states, the power company will give you an instant rebate on flourescent bulbs, making them pretty darned cheap. They're now putting out a better spectrum of light, making them look more like incandesants. But they still don't work with X10 gear.
This forces you to keep a stock of ink on hand in case you run out. So odds are you'll have at least one extra ink cartridge when you decide to toss the old printer in favor of a new one. Guess what? You've just bought something you're not going to use!
It's the same idea as debit cards (not the ones linked to your bank account, but like "Disney Dollars" or "D&B cards"). Odds are that you will never extingush the amount on those cards, and just get rid of it while it still has some "value" to it. After 60 days or whatever of non-use, the card expires, and the company gets that value. It's not much, but over thousands of customers, it adds up nicely. (Yes, you can replenish some of these cards, but the idea is still the same).
Well, you'd certainly be able to give 3 thumbs down to Fox's "When Bachelorretes in Alaska attack Cops II". That information gets sent back to Tivo (at least, probably Replay too).
Strange thing is, the networks/stations are missing out on an incredible opportunity here, and one that should get Neilsen scared. Tivo makes no bones about the fact that they know what you watch and record. And that's great! Why? Because Tivo finds out that many of the shows I watch are not on broadcast TV (aside from Simpsons and Futurama), but on cable channels. Finally, a more accurate measurement of what shows we're watching. What would be thought of in ABC when they find out I'm more apt to watch "Good Eats" on FoodTV than "Drew Carey"? "Junkyard Wars" instead of "Crap we made up because we know you'll watch it - what else will you watch?". Wow.
Well, the real question is what the status of the patent was when JPEG was created. Is this a RAMBUS-style tactic, where the patent was known as the standards were being set, or did the original company (Compression Tech?) make a deal with the JPEG group? If there was a deal, what did it entail? The deal should still be valid through the length of the contract/patent.
Otherwise, it would be like me buying your mortgage and announcing I'm raising the APR to 15% and changing many details of the mortgage. You can't do that.
..given that some of us have been doing this exact thing for 10 years. I went and bought Caldera because it had WordPerfect for Linux. I bought Civ III for Linux from Loki. A LOT has changed since 1992, when vendors would stare blankly at you and say "Linux?". Anyone remember the fights with Diamond and ATI over releasing specs? How about the vendors that were distributing binary-only drivers until we reverse-engineered the hardware and made it work anyway? Here we are now at the point of vendors going out of their way to tell us it works with Linux, or runs Linux.
Is Linux ready for the commercial desktop? You bet. The apps are there, the OS is solid, and net admins can easily manage large installations.
Is it ready for the home desktop? No way. The home apps aren't there (read: games). Not everyone is or wants to be a system administrator. Look at the zillion unpatched windows boxes out there and think what would happen if they all had a [Apache|OpenSSH|ftp] vulnerability? What if the vulnerability was in something more obscure, like snmp? RedHat and Ximian (and others) have made great strides in getting there, but there's a lot of work remaining to be done.
So go out, do the things you do, and spread the word. Write documentation, submit bug reports, fix bugs, buy software, register hardware and tell them you use Linux.
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Here's the real problem - there is no such thing as a free market of TV. ESPN and MTV can claim millions of viewers, but they have millions more (like me) who pay for the channel via cable but never watch it. Yea, like I really wanted to fund Pat Robertson's family channel..I mean Fox Family..I mean ABC family. And yes, I really like funding Fox News, don't you?
The only choice I have is to either get those channels I don't watch, or go without what I would consider quality TV (TLC, Discovery, BBC America, and so on).
I'd pay the same amount now that I pay for cable for 1/2 the available channels if I could choose what channels they were.
This seems to work for the HBO/Showtime/Cinemax channels, and they even get in a good deal of original programming as well, so there's proof a method like this would work.
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Bah.
The ROM upgrade has fixed it, and porting apps to the Z (at least console apps) is dead easy. I'm not a developer, but I ported LPRng and a2ps to the Z in about 2 hours, and most of the time was spent figuring out what files I needed for the packages.
The base apps that come with the Z do need some work, but there are plenty of replacements that work pretty well.
What happens when they get to RenderPrimordialOoze?
The submission process for "Ask Slashdot" should include the warning:
Have you searched google for this answer yet?
This question is kinda silly, but at least it isn't one where the answer can be easily found on google.
Does this mean that MSFT still gets their piece of silver (aka license) for a FreeDOS machine?
One of his shows (or maybe it was the book) went over this. IIRC, a larger portion of the tongue is dedicated to sensing salt.
I have a rather small kitchen, but love cooking. The downside is that I have a lot of gear all over the place, usually because I really need it. What would you recommend as a "required list" of tools (utensils/appliances) that people should have in their kitchen?
She starts college too this year. *pounds fist*
I also don't feel like paying $5000 for an HDTV-ready Tivo. And I doubt Tivo wants to spend the $$ on technology noone wants. Or can agree to. or understand. or....
Right. So let me get this straight.
The MPAA says they may not be able to show edited, commercial-ridden movies over the airwaves. Where's the problem?
Yea, I'm sure. The house was built in 1940 as a summer cottage. The heating system is an octopus-style coal furnace converted to oil which used to be gravity-fed for circulation of air. The reason the house can be listed as "forced hot air" is because some ingenious individual put a fan inside an upside-down (metal) trash can.
Why are programmable thermostats better? Because you don't have to set them. There's a lot of waste when you forget to set the termostat before you leave. Or you walk in the house, realize how cold it is, and crank the thermostat, then realize it's too hot. Oh, and no worries about setting the thermostat before I go to bed.
I bought one for my house when I moved in 4 years ago. It's real nice to have the heater kick on about an hour before you wake up. Even though we have forced hot air, we're not using a lot of oil (soon gas) to stay warm through the winter.
In some states, the power company will give you an instant rebate on flourescent bulbs, making them pretty darned cheap. They're now putting out a better spectrum of light, making them look more like incandesants. But they still don't work with X10 gear.
My SMC Barricade does have a MAC filter on it to prevent that from occuring. It was in a recent firmware upgrade. It's turned off by default.
No.
Yes it does. But I don't think any of the vulernabilities that affect OSSL will affect OSSH.
This forces you to keep a stock of ink on hand in case you run out. So odds are you'll have at least one extra ink cartridge when you decide to toss the old printer in favor of a new one. Guess what? You've just bought something you're not going to use!
It's the same idea as debit cards (not the ones linked to your bank account, but like "Disney Dollars" or "D&B cards"). Odds are that you will never extingush the amount on those cards, and just get rid of it while it still has some "value" to it. After 60 days or whatever of non-use, the card expires, and the company gets that value. It's not much, but over thousands of customers, it adds up nicely. (Yes, you can replenish some of these cards, but the idea is still the same).
Then most of the others will not listen to you.
Well, you'd certainly be able to give 3 thumbs down to Fox's "When Bachelorretes in Alaska attack Cops II". That information gets sent back to Tivo (at least, probably Replay too).
Strange thing is, the networks/stations are missing out on an incredible opportunity here, and one that should get Neilsen scared. Tivo makes no bones about the fact that they know what you watch and record. And that's great! Why? Because Tivo finds out that many of the shows I watch are not on broadcast TV (aside from Simpsons and Futurama), but on cable channels. Finally, a more accurate measurement of what shows we're watching. What would be thought of in ABC when they find out I'm more apt to watch "Good Eats" on FoodTV than "Drew Carey"? "Junkyard Wars" instead of "Crap we made up because we know you'll watch it - what else will you watch?". Wow.
Well, the real question is what the status of the patent was when JPEG was created. Is this a RAMBUS-style tactic, where the patent was known as the standards were being set, or did the original company (Compression Tech?) make a deal with the JPEG group? If there was a deal, what did it entail? The deal should still be valid through the length of the contract/patent.
Otherwise, it would be like me buying your mortgage and announcing I'm raising the APR to 15% and changing many details of the mortgage. You can't do that.
Some radio stations will requests, then air the request just as the song shows up on the playlist.
Not sure about all-request shows though.
Whoops. Meant Civ II: Call to Power.
Haven't played Civ III yet.
..given that some of us have been doing this exact thing for 10 years. I went and bought Caldera because it had WordPerfect for Linux. I bought Civ III for Linux from Loki. A LOT has changed since 1992, when vendors would stare blankly at you and say "Linux?". Anyone remember the fights with Diamond and ATI over releasing specs? How about the vendors that were distributing binary-only drivers until we reverse-engineered the hardware and made it work anyway? Here we are now at the point of vendors going out of their way to tell us it works with Linux, or runs Linux.
Is Linux ready for the commercial desktop? You bet. The apps are there, the OS is solid, and net admins can easily manage large installations.
Is it ready for the home desktop? No way. The home apps aren't there (read: games). Not everyone is or wants to be a system administrator. Look at the zillion unpatched windows boxes out there and think what would happen if they all had a [Apache|OpenSSH|ftp] vulnerability? What if the vulnerability was in something more obscure, like snmp? RedHat and Ximian (and others) have made great strides in getting there, but there's a lot of work remaining to be done.
So go out, do the things you do, and spread the word. Write documentation, submit bug reports, fix bugs, buy software, register hardware and tell them you use Linux.
You mean like the ads you get inside the cable bill, the mortgage bill, the phone bill, and the credit card bill?
Good thing I pay most of them online. I just review the charges, make the payment and be done with it.
I get BBC America, so I get all that and Father Ted too.
It might kill Linux on the Desktop, but certainly not the server, where Linux has a clear advantage over MS on the 'net.