Man, I bet you have a lot of intelligence information to back up those claims.
Didn't you hear the news? Nobody needs intelligence information to back up anythinhg anymore in the USA. Just go and do whatever, say whatever. And when questions are asked, just keep telling people you're still looking for said intelligence information until it no longer becomes relevant.
was dissapointed that not one of the vendors (including Apple) offered a laptop that even offered a wireless card that was oss friendly, not to mention the mess with graphics cards and the modems on the Intel based laptops.
Another note on this: IBM's thinkpads are pretty OSS friendly. You can order them with 3 different types of integrated wifi (intel centrino/pro2100, cisco aironet, and IBM's a/b/g adapter). I know the Cisco works in linux and I hear the IBM one does too.
I have a thinkpad T40 and linux supports it pretty well. Only the modem and intel wifi don't work, and I could have ordered one without the intel wifi.
It seems like Broadcom and Atheros are dominating the integrated wireless market now
I think intel is dominating the wireless market thanks to their 'Centrino' marketing strategy (that's all Centrino is). Fortunately a linux driver for that is coming along.
what happened to Intersil and the prism54? Did they just show up late and over priced? I don't follow the market any more than knowing what does and doesn't work for me, so I don't know the answer to that. I just remember when the Prism2 was everywhere and life was so much better...
They're still used in access points, PCMCIA cards and PCI cards. I have a lucent orinoco PCMCIA card in addition to my integrated centrino wireless to use in linux... and it has an external antenna connector.
Also good luck getting Linux to run right with the Intel Pro(tected source code) Wireless LAN
Actually there is a driver being developed for the centrino wireless for linux. SuSE 9.1 comes with a beta of it. It doesn't work that well at the moment, but it is something and it is coming along.
I can't recommend the IBM Thinkpads too highly. They're not the cheapest laptops around, but they're really well-made. I have a T40 with an extended-life battery, and I can get nearly eight hours out of it if I'm careful (dim the screen, turn down the CPU clock, use Linux 2.6 laptop mode to keep the disk spun down as much as possible) and around six if I'm not (watching movies on DVD).
I have a T40 with the extended battery too... I agree that this is an excellent laptop and everything, but 8 hours of battery life? I don't think so. IBM themselves only claim up to 7.2 in the specs.
Although the battery life is still good. I usually get around 5 with the big battery under my regular usage pattern (web browsing, ssh/vnc/rdesktop to remote machines, lots of xterms, perl, python & c++ software development, AIM) and the screen dimmed a little.
Incorrect, it is not open source. You cannot distribute modified versions. And 'modified versions' in his case means so much as having the binaries installed in a different location than they would be by building and installing his source distribution... among other things. You can only redistribute a djbdns package if the effects of installing your package on a system are exactly the same as the effects of installing his official source distribution.
Because of it not being open source is why no OS distributions (Linux or otherwise) contain his software. The most you'll see in a distro is a little stub script which will fetch the official djbdns distribution, apply any patches and build & install for you.
I work in a Microsoft Shop, we use.NET on the front end, Java Web Services in the middle tier, and SQL Server/Oracle on the back end. There are 4 developers on my team. The lowest paid one makes 85k a year, the others in the 90k's a year; I make 107k a year as a Lead Developer with 8 years experience. Sysadmins make less than developers because it's an entirely different skillset and less people can be good developers than can be sysadmins.
Less people can be good developers than sysadmins? Forgetting about India?
BTW, these jobs where the least experienced of you makes 85k, where are they located? Are these figures in US dollars?
11. Even though there are commercials on the radio training idiots to do your job, you are an irreplaceable resource.
Well, you're not an irreplacable resource yet. First you have to wait until management brings in the DeVry graduates who set the network up in complete ignorance of RFC1819, make up domain names to use internally which really exist elsewhere, open inbound ports 135 and 139 up in the firewall to allow for some remote windows printing, and then loose a bunch of data because they thought RAID had anything at all to do with backups.
I'm fully aware of that. My point was to point out the condradiction in the post I was replying to - that you can do whatever you want with your ipod, but not for profit.
Wether what Real is doing was for fun or profit is totally irrelevant. The DMCA and its use are wrong, wether it is against a spyware vendor (real) or some lone anonymous hacker.
Not that I like it, but why isn't flash popular? Google can't process it. More and more websites are cookie cutter because if they aren't they can't be found.
Google isn't processing it probably because it does something retarded like uses images of text to get a special font or flash for navigation bars. Or worse yet, nothing but flash.
In most cases I find that if google has trouble making sense out of the site, I can't make sense out of it either because of such idiotic web design.
While it is your right to do what ever you want with your iPod. Such as hack it to get it to play any file format you want. It is not your right to hack it and then turn around and sell that for a profit.
Since when? What law prohibits me from selling my hack but doesn't prohibit me from giving my hack away?
Do you really think Apple would be reacting any differently if this were some anonymous guy or two publishing their stuff on the internet, like decss?
Apple should have been reaping the rewards of its work on every ipod it sells. The deal between Apple and its customers is done. This Real issue does not involve Apple in any way. Real is writing software for owners of ipods. It involves only people who own ipods and real.
Now if apple has been using one of those idiotic buisness models where they give hardware away and then expect people to sign up for some service to compensate, well then they deserve to loose money since it has been prooven time and again that that doesn't work. It isn't the repsonsibility of the government or anyone else to make it work. However given the cost of an ipod I suspect apple is making a profit on the hardware sales alone. So they are reaping the fruits of their labor at that time. If they aren't happy with it then increase the price of impprove the product.
Help me out here: I must have missed the part where Apple told anyone what they can or cannot do with the hardware they've purchased.
Sure I'll help you out: Apple just threatened to use the DMCA against someone for distibuting tools to help people do what they want with the hardware they've purchased. It is just like the decss issue in 1999. DVD-CCA steps in between DVD owners and authors of decss to tell each party what they can and can't do.
Now, whether Apple *supports* whatever people want to do with that hardware is another matter altogether.
Noone needs apple to *support* this, that's totally not the issue. What we want is for apple to not tell owners of ipods what to do and authors of separate software programs what to do.
The consumer can hack their iPod to play Real's files all the consumer wants. It's when Real gets involved that this becomes illegal.
If this turns out to be a DMCA issue, the DMCA says that it is illegal to distribute anything that can be remotely construed as a way to circumvent DRM measures. So sure, you'll be able to make your ipod play anything you want in the same way that you can legally play DVDs in linux.
This is of course if Apple does do the wrong thing and invoke the DMCA against Real.... we'll see.
You want to hack your personal iPod to play everything under the sun? If you can find a way, go for it and godspeed, no one will stop you.
You don't think Apple will stop me the same way they will Real if I come up with a way to play everything (including realmedia) on an ipod and I distribute it?
I noticed a similar phenomenon when buying light bulbs. In comparing the store brand with the name brand (philips I think) I noticed that not only were the packages were almost identical in feel & construction, but the packages had the location of manufacture printed on them. Both brands were manufactured in the same city.
I had a similar experience. I wanted restore CDs for my T40 a few days after I ordered it. I called IBM and got a similar experience to what you did. But the kicker is my thinkpad isn't even new or even manufactured anymore. It is a factory refurb I bought off ebay from an IBM dealer - and they still sent me the restore disks free of charge shipped via airborne overnight.
I'm very impressed with IBM support too, and I let them know so while on the phone. I also told them I very much appreciated that they didn't outsource their support to India and I'm happy to pay more for IBM stuff because of this and the generally excellent support.
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I think the entire point of GENERAL-ed courses was to cover topics NOT related to your major.
Didn't you hear the news? Nobody needs intelligence information to back up anythinhg anymore in the USA. Just go and do whatever, say whatever. And when questions are asked, just keep telling people you're still looking for said intelligence information until it no longer becomes relevant.
Another note on this: IBM's thinkpads are pretty OSS friendly. You can order them with 3 different types of integrated wifi (intel centrino/pro2100, cisco aironet, and IBM's a/b/g adapter). I know the Cisco works in linux and I hear the IBM one does too.
I have a thinkpad T40 and linux supports it pretty well. Only the modem and intel wifi don't work, and I could have ordered one without the intel wifi.
I think intel is dominating the wireless market thanks to their 'Centrino' marketing strategy (that's all Centrino is). Fortunately a linux driver for that is coming along.
They're still used in access points, PCMCIA cards and PCI cards. I have a lucent orinoco PCMCIA card in addition to my integrated centrino wireless to use in linux... and it has an external antenna connector.
Actually there is a driver being developed for the centrino wireless for linux. SuSE 9.1 comes with a beta of it. It doesn't work that well at the moment, but it is something and it is coming along.
I have a T40 with the extended battery too... I agree that this is an excellent laptop and everything, but 8 hours of battery life? I don't think so. IBM themselves only claim up to 7.2 in the specs.
Although the battery life is still good. I usually get around 5 with the big battery under my regular usage pattern (web browsing, ssh/vnc/rdesktop to remote machines, lots of xterms, perl, python & c++ software development, AIM) and the screen dimmed a little.
That's what I meant - the marginal costs are zero. They could sell this particular installation at $5 a copy and they would make a profit.
Sure, close to 100%. I mean its not like it costs Microsoft all that much money to print up those license papers and make a few CDs.
Incorrect, it is not open source. You cannot distribute modified versions. And 'modified versions' in his case means so much as having the binaries installed in a different location than they would be by building and installing his source distribution... among other things. You can only redistribute a djbdns package if the effects of installing your package on a system are exactly the same as the effects of installing his official source distribution.
Because of it not being open source is why no OS distributions (Linux or otherwise) contain his software. The most you'll see in a distro is a little stub script which will fetch the official djbdns distribution, apply any patches and build & install for you.
Less people can be good developers than sysadmins? Forgetting about India?
BTW, these jobs where the least experienced of you makes 85k, where are they located? Are these figures in US dollars?
Well, you're not an irreplacable resource yet. First you have to wait until management brings in the DeVry graduates who set the network up in complete ignorance of RFC1819, make up domain names to use internally which really exist elsewhere, open inbound ports 135 and 139 up in the firewall to allow for some remote windows printing, and then loose a bunch of data because they thought RAID had anything at all to do with backups.
I'm fully aware of that. My point was to point out the condradiction in the post I was replying to - that you can do whatever you want with your ipod, but not for profit.
Wether what Real is doing was for fun or profit is totally irrelevant. The DMCA and its use are wrong, wether it is against a spyware vendor (real) or some lone anonymous hacker.
Google isn't processing it probably because it does something retarded like uses images of text to get a special font or flash for navigation bars. Or worse yet, nothing but flash.
In most cases I find that if google has trouble making sense out of the site, I can't make sense out of it either because of such idiotic web design.
Since when? What law prohibits me from selling my hack but doesn't prohibit me from giving my hack away?
Do you really think Apple would be reacting any differently if this were some anonymous guy or two publishing their stuff on the internet, like decss?
Apple should have been reaping the rewards of its work on every ipod it sells. The deal between Apple and its customers is done. This Real issue does not involve Apple in any way. Real is writing software for owners of ipods. It involves only people who own ipods and real.
Now if apple has been using one of those idiotic buisness models where they give hardware away and then expect people to sign up for some service to compensate, well then they deserve to loose money since it has been prooven time and again that that doesn't work. It isn't the repsonsibility of the government or anyone else to make it work. However given the cost of an ipod I suspect apple is making a profit on the hardware sales alone. So they are reaping the fruits of their labor at that time. If they aren't happy with it then increase the price of impprove the product.
License to reverse engineer? What the hell is that? You don't need a license to reverse engineer your stuff.
Sheesh... what on earth made you accept that we should have a license to dissect and learn about our own property?
Sure I'll help you out: Apple just threatened to use the DMCA against someone for distibuting tools to help people do what they want with the hardware they've purchased. It is just like the decss issue in 1999. DVD-CCA steps in between DVD owners and authors of decss to tell each party what they can and can't do.
Noone needs apple to *support* this, that's totally not the issue. What we want is for apple to not tell owners of ipods what to do and authors of separate software programs what to do.
If this turns out to be a DMCA issue, the DMCA says that it is illegal to distribute anything that can be remotely construed as a way to circumvent DRM measures. So sure, you'll be able to make your ipod play anything you want in the same way that you can legally play DVDs in linux.
This is of course if Apple does do the wrong thing and invoke the DMCA against Real.... we'll see.
You don't like apple using the DMCA? And are you going to give them any (more) of your money so that they can keep on using it?
You don't think Apple will stop me the same way they will Real if I come up with a way to play everything (including realmedia) on an ipod and I distribute it?
T40, model no 2373-XXE
Oh. That's nice.
Driving wrecklessly or while impaired/distracted is explicitly illegal, and that is all that needs to be explicitly illegal.
I noticed a similar phenomenon when buying light bulbs. In comparing the store brand with the name brand (philips I think) I noticed that not only were the packages were almost identical in feel & construction, but the packages had the location of manufacture printed on them. Both brands were manufactured in the same city.
I had a similar experience. I wanted restore CDs for my T40 a few days after I ordered it. I called IBM and got a similar experience to what you did. But the kicker is my thinkpad isn't even new or even manufactured anymore. It is a factory refurb I bought off ebay from an IBM dealer - and they still sent me the restore disks free of charge shipped via airborne overnight.
I'm very impressed with IBM support too, and I let them know so while on the phone. I also told them I very much appreciated that they didn't outsource their support to India and I'm happy to pay more for IBM stuff because of this and the generally excellent support.