There are people who do not really care if their search results are added to the collection that is released. If Google had an opt-in option for data that they were going to release to academic researchers, I would opt-in. I imagine that there are other people who do not care who is looking at their searches. Something that companies might consider if they wanted to release search results is the option for the users to see what information gets released.
My uncle is on CD Baby, but he also has his music on EricHermanMusic.com, his own website. I often talk to him about music sales and distribution and have learned that artists actually make more money from CD Baby sales than a lot of other avenues, but the place where the independent artists makes the most is their own website or the one that they link to on their website.
He tells me that he sells on Amazon, but makes so little there that it is hard to even justify doing that.
Perhaps you have never exchanged money. If you go to airports to exchange money, you might notice that the exchange rate for travelers checks is better than the rate for cash.
Photoshop is covered by a nice pile of patents. Everytime you start up, you see the list of patents. Gimp on the other hand, tries hard to compete, without violating any of the patents. There are many features that are not included in Gimp because they are covered by patents. An example of a recent feature that was added to Gimp was the GIF support. I am pretty sure that Gimp would do a lot better competing against Photoshop if it were allowed to use all of the patented ideas.
I fail to see how this can be considered "a nail in the coffin"? Not even the article really talked about what Novell releasing this would do, and why. Am I missing something?
So was slavery, but finally we began to see the light. We have overcome our narrow mindedness. Many of us still have a dream where inventors and developers can invent and develop together without fear of litigation.
It seems to me that the Japanese would resort to a stylus before a 7000+ key keyboard. Maybe, our handwriting recognition software would be better then. If the Japanese had used a 7000+ key keyboard instead, we would probably all be using unicode now instead of the current mixed mess we are in. If we did have these hugh keyboards, I would recommend that anyone wanting to learn Japanese start with the 7000+ key keyboard. Since that is not an option, I would recommend they instead install Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts and get their input all figured out. Maybe, they could still get a stylus, and write the kanji recognition software. I imagine anyone who takes the time to write software to recognise kanji would also learn Japanese.
I work at a University and have found that many students and faculty do not know the difference between Windows and Linux. We have decided to convert all of the kiosk machines that are only being used for web browsing to Linux. They will probably never know. It makes conversion and freedom one step closer.
I found that when I am programming, having a large monitor helps me organize code. I am able to program better and quicker. I have also noticed that the virtual desktops really help me get more done at once.
Sometimes these studies seem like a bunch of people getting together to study what the programmers already consider to be common sense. You have to wonder if someone decided that they could get money if they did a study that they already knew the results of.
The high costs of such a two-pronged approach would make it difficult to compete. "You have to ask yourself this: is there an advantage to having a proprietary standard in your country?" he added.
Since when has an OS with Linux as the base been proprietary?
The important thing about XML is not the end users. As an end user I could care less about the formation of the document as long as I knew I would always have an application that could read the document.
With XML documents, if the file format is well known, there will be filters for it. Major Office Suites will support well known file formats. If the file format is not as well known, but it is simple XML, there are high chances that smaller applications will also have filters for it.
I like to write web software and I was discouraged when I discovered that I could not find a Perl library to create OpenOffice.org files, so I created one of my own. Granted it is not the best library, and is probably full of bugs, but it was easy to create and the research was painless. It does the job I made it for and I use it.
Compare that to the time when at work my boss asked me to take a Pick Basic binary datebase file and extract the data from it. I had to play around a while to figure out which bytes meant what and how to get the information out.
XML not only makes creation easy, but makes reverse engineering trivial. XML is not for the end users, it is for the developers why do not have the time to sit and read the 500 pages of the file format spec.
Now all we need is an Open Source Hex Filing System that can be used by anyone. Just split it into 16 categories with lots of sub-categories. All libraries could use this system without any problems. You could have two parts to the number, the category and the specific publication. You could even incorporate the ISBN number as part of the larger number, but the people searching through the library would only need to see the category part. If you had enough bits you could record everything everyone ever wrote.
The biggest problems would be building the initial list, and picking the person to maintain the list. It would be a problem if someone decided to fork the project though.
Perhaps not criminally illegal, but I believe the owner could certainly be held liable for damages. Imagine if a virus writer put a destructive virus on a stack of floppies and left them precariously around a public computer lab. When the program on one of those disks gets run by some curious person, don't you feel that the virus writer is at least somewhat liable, even though he didn't "pull the trigger"?
I agree with you, but at the same time I also believe the issue is not the same. The machine with Outlook installed is what Microsoft provided. Using your arguments you could argue that installing Outlook on a machine is the same thing as putting a destructive virus on a floppy and leaving it in public place. Wouldn't the creator of the software/virus be held liable?
It was a wonderful commercial. I realized almost immediately that this commercial is not trying to sell Linux. I got the feeling that IBM already knows Linux is growing quickly and wants to advertise support. IBM wants people who have never heard of Linux to tie Linux and IBM together. If people think of IBM when they hear of Linux then they will remember where to go to get their copy and support. I believe this was a very good move for IBM. I also believe this is a very good ad for Linux.
It is sometimes fun to leave a job. It can even be exciting. A new future and a new line of work. I say new line of work because that what is likely to happen if you get in the habit of leaving jobs. In this economy you cannot be sure you will find something else in your field.
OpenOffice.org is nice for large papers unless you want to do numbered sections and chapters. I found that I can create large papers using OpenOffice.org and even use things like a table of contents, but it is rough.
On the positive side, the PDF generated from OpenOffice.org is easy to read while a PDF generated by the latex, dvipdf combination is hard to read unless you print it.
I would stick to LaTeX for anything with seperate chapters in the future. I still have not found a match for the power of LaTeX.
I always liked the point of view that Linus gave. He always seems cool and relaxed and seems to be able to step back and see this from a relaxing point of view. The SCO issue has some people really blowing a lot of hot air and has caused a lot of worry. It is good to have someone well known who can tell everyone to not worry about this thing. Telling everyone it will pass.
I believe the real issue holding the States back is the price of a modem connection. In Japan you have to pay for local calls at about 10cents every 3 minutes. This is then added to the price of the Internet connection.
With Japanese cell phones you can also get connected to the Internet. This attracts more people to the Internet in the first place. Everyone sends email to their friends and they receive email. For those who can stand the small screens this is okay, but for many, this is not enough. The Japanese people as a whole like to spend money, but are only interested in the latest and greatest features. The 12Mbps connections are now on the low end of the connection speeds and these do not cost local phone rates. I find people advertising in stores and even offering to sign you up for a few free months at 56Mbps or even 100Mbps if you have a house and not an apartment. All you need to do is pay the price of installation.
For those interested in the Internet 12Mbps is a good speed to start at and they know they can just move you up in a year or two anyway. It is only a matter of time before the culture as a whole will decide 12Mbps is out and 100Mbps is the in thing.
The country moves up because of peer pressure and the corporations nurturing of that trend pressure for business.
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There are people who do not really care if their search results are added to the collection that is released. If Google had an opt-in option for data that they were going to release to academic researchers, I would opt-in. I imagine that there are other people who do not care who is looking at their searches. Something that companies might consider if they wanted to release search results is the option for the users to see what information gets released.
My uncle is on CD Baby, but he also has his music on EricHermanMusic.com, his own website. I often talk to him about music sales and distribution and have learned that artists actually make more money from CD Baby sales than a lot of other avenues, but the place where the independent artists makes the most is their own website or the one that they link to on their website. He tells me that he sells on Amazon, but makes so little there that it is hard to even justify doing that.
Isn't all money the same?
Perhaps you have never exchanged money. If you go to airports to exchange money, you might notice that the exchange rate for travelers checks is better than the rate for cash.
Photoshop is covered by a nice pile of patents. Everytime you start up, you see the list of patents. Gimp on the other hand, tries hard to compete, without violating any of the patents. There are many features that are not included in Gimp because they are covered by patents. An example of a recent feature that was added to Gimp was the GIF support. I am pretty sure that Gimp would do a lot better competing against Photoshop if it were allowed to use all of the patented ideas.
I fail to see how this can be considered "a nail in the coffin"? Not even the article really talked about what Novell releasing this would do, and why. Am I missing something?
So was slavery, but finally we began to see the light. We have overcome our narrow mindedness. Many of us still have a dream where inventors and developers can invent and develop together without fear of litigation.
The underlying OS just happens to be Linux. I think it is Red Hat 7.x or something like that.
It seems to me that the Japanese would resort to a stylus before a 7000+ key keyboard. Maybe, our handwriting recognition software would be better then. If the Japanese had used a 7000+ key keyboard instead, we would probably all be using unicode now instead of the current mixed mess we are in. If we did have these hugh keyboards, I would recommend that anyone wanting to learn Japanese start with the 7000+ key keyboard. Since that is not an option, I would recommend they instead install Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts and get their input all figured out. Maybe, they could still get a stylus, and write the kanji recognition software. I imagine anyone who takes the time to write software to recognise kanji would also learn Japanese.
I work at a University and have found that many students and faculty do not know the difference between Windows and Linux. We have decided to convert all of the kiosk machines that are only being used for web browsing to Linux. They will probably never know. It makes conversion and freedom one step closer.
Here is an article about a Xfree86 fork.
Sometimes these studies seem like a bunch of people getting together to study what the programmers already consider to be common sense. You have to wonder if someone decided that they could get money if they did a study that they already knew the results of.
The high costs of such a two-pronged approach would make it difficult to compete. "You have to ask yourself this: is there an advantage to having a proprietary standard in your country?" he added.
Since when has an OS with Linux as the base been proprietary?
With XML documents, if the file format is well known, there will be filters for it. Major Office Suites will support well known file formats. If the file format is not as well known, but it is simple XML, there are high chances that smaller applications will also have filters for it.
I like to write web software and I was discouraged when I discovered that I could not find a Perl library to create OpenOffice.org files, so I created one of my own. Granted it is not the best library, and is probably full of bugs, but it was easy to create and the research was painless. It does the job I made it for and I use it.
Compare that to the time when at work my boss asked me to take a Pick Basic binary datebase file and extract the data from it. I had to play around a while to figure out which bytes meant what and how to get the information out.
XML not only makes creation easy, but makes reverse engineering trivial. XML is not for the end users, it is for the developers why do not have the time to sit and read the 500 pages of the file format spec.
The biggest problems would be building the initial list, and picking the person to maintain the list. It would be a problem if someone decided to fork the project though.
I agree with you, but at the same time I also believe the issue is not the same. The machine with Outlook installed is what Microsoft provided. Using your arguments you could argue that installing Outlook on a machine is the same thing as putting a destructive virus on a floppy and leaving it in public place. Wouldn't the creator of the software/virus be held liable?
It was a wonderful commercial. I realized almost immediately that this commercial is not trying to sell Linux. I got the feeling that IBM already knows Linux is growing quickly and wants to advertise support. IBM wants people who have never heard of Linux to tie Linux and IBM together. If people think of IBM when they hear of Linux then they will remember where to go to get their copy and support. I believe this was a very good move for IBM. I also believe this is a very good ad for Linux.
Here in Japan it gets so humid that sometimes it rains without any clouds in the sky. I have always thought that was interesting.
...because they are trying to escape software patents.
It is sometimes fun to leave a job. It can even be exciting. A new future and a new line of work. I say new line of work because that what is likely to happen if you get in the habit of leaving jobs. In this economy you cannot be sure you will find something else in your field.
Names tend to not use the i on the end of some colors. Try these Linux distros:
- Aka Linux - Red Linux
- Kuro Linux - Black Linux
- Ao Linux - Blue Linux
- Shiro Linux - White Linux
- Murasaki Linux - Purple Linux
- Kiiro Linux - Yellow Linux
- Chairo Linux - Brown Linux
Murasaki and Midori are exceptions.OpenOffice.org is nice for large papers unless you want to do numbered sections and chapters. I found that I can create large papers using OpenOffice.org and even use things like a table of contents, but it is rough.
On the positive side, the PDF generated from OpenOffice.org is easy to read while a PDF generated by the latex, dvipdf combination is hard to read unless you print it.
I would stick to LaTeX for anything with seperate chapters in the future. I still have not found a match for the power of LaTeX.
I always liked the point of view that Linus gave. He always seems cool and relaxed and seems to be able to step back and see this from a relaxing point of view. The SCO issue has some people really blowing a lot of hot air and has caused a lot of worry. It is good to have someone well known who can tell everyone to not worry about this thing. Telling everyone it will pass.
With Japanese cell phones you can also get connected to the Internet. This attracts more people to the Internet in the first place. Everyone sends email to their friends and they receive email. For those who can stand the small screens this is okay, but for many, this is not enough. The Japanese people as a whole like to spend money, but are only interested in the latest and greatest features. The 12Mbps connections are now on the low end of the connection speeds and these do not cost local phone rates. I find people advertising in stores and even offering to sign you up for a few free months at 56Mbps or even 100Mbps if you have a house and not an apartment. All you need to do is pay the price of installation.
For those interested in the Internet 12Mbps is a good speed to start at and they know they can just move you up in a year or two anyway. It is only a matter of time before the culture as a whole will decide 12Mbps is out and 100Mbps is the in thing.
The country moves up because of peer pressure and the corporations nurturing of that trend pressure for business.
Does anyone know if there is a Quest for Glory remake. What about a qg0 or qg6?
Sounds a little bit like SCO to me.