I, too, use a double-edge razor; I used to be a Mach3 guy but all the razor bumps on my neck, plus paying almost 50c a shave (which is what I pay now for the double-edge blades that last a week) became too much to handle.
For a couple years now I've had an HTPC hooked up to my TV that is pretty much silent... it has a TV tuner, DVD player, various information services, a thingamajig for showing photos and playing music from my Macs. Oh, and did I mention that it runs Linux?
If Ray Ozzie is the man behind Lotus Notes, he definitely speaks from experience when he cries out against complexity. I've never been able to get Notes to run quickly and reliably, on anything from an Apple iBook to a Dell Dimension, regardless of the specs.
A couple years back, I took an introductory C++ course at a public metropolitan university in the American Midwest. While there was no way the instructor of the course could determine what we were using to edit our code, in both the course and the optional lab we were first instructed to use our choice of either pico or vim, and were later encouraged to exclusively use vim.
By about halfway through the course, I was using Apple Xcode -- initially more or less as a text editor, but I did use it as a build environment with a proper project file and such for my honors project at the end, which spanned several files.
I'd venture to guess that RMS just wants some extra money for the FSF. In the article he says he wants to be compensated for the time it takes to sign and pose -- a fair request, I dare say.
Price discrimination -- such as between daytime and nighttime users -- requires prevention of arbitrage (buying low and selling high), which is essentially what this device executes. Therefore, widespread adoption of something like this will just bring up night rates and maybe bring day rates down a bit, eliminating much of the benefit.
Today it's a breakout box that has been leaked; tomorrow, it might be something on which secrecy gives a far greater advantage over their competition. Hence the leak must be found, dismissed, and probably make an example of in court.
What's really needed is a UNIX-based operating system developed by a hardware supplier to be easy to use (including configuration and, most importantly, software installation) while still retaining the power of its UNIX underpinnings. This OS would ideally be able to run MS Word and Lotus Notes native.
Oh...wait....
It'll definitely run on Linux -- so if you can cope with a quick reboot to get at your virtualization software, VMware GSX can certainly run on an XP box.
The acquisition seems to be following the Apple/NeXT pattern; in that buyout, Apple bought NeXT, but NeXT management (e.g, Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian) found itself seated in control of Apple. This appears to be happening again at Disney -- John Lasseter is now in control of animation at Disney, and Steve Jobs (who turns up once again) is the plurality shareholder and sits on the board. While in the management changes following the Apple buyout of NeXT, Jobs was more significant than Tevanian due to the need for a CEO capable of effecting a good turnaround, in Disney's acquisiton of Pixar, John Lasseter is the more significant; Bob Iger is doing reasonably well, though he could do better, and the problem at Disney is products, not management.
According to FSF's own definition of free software, for software to be considered free, users must have the "freedom to run the program, for any purpose," and "to adapt it to [said user's] needs."
If users are not free to use GPL3 software as or adapt it for use as a component of a digital rights management system, it is not free software.
Frankly, I don't expect GPL3 to catch on; GPL2 really doesn't have serious problems, and the provisions of BSD-type licenses are much easier to understand.
Welcome to the 20th century in both Canada and the US. Ever heard of a show on public TV called "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"? It featured (features, in fact, as I believe it is still in rerun) segments not unlike this, though the narration is targeted at the show's preschool audience.
There are lots of global philanthropists out there -- not like Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Paul Hewson are the only ones -- so I don't see them as closely connected enough to share the cover. So how about this: either Bill and Melinda OR Bono. Much more dramatic cover shot without three people on it, and less cluttered idea.
Alternatively, one could bear in mind that Bono is doing a lot of his stuff with Band Aid, Make Poverty History/Live 8, et cetera; that is, in collaboration with Bob Geldof. If they want Bono on the cover but don't think he can hold it alone, stick Geldof in there -- he's done a lot on this front, albeit somewhat controversially. Or just let the Gateses stand by themselves, without the dilution of the "Person of the Year" brand resultant from a triple award.
The real problem, if I recall, was a heavy load of grinding on most professions, making the game less enjoyable to casual players, because hunting or mining expeditions took a lot of time. This was a bit better on, for example, the Entertainer profession, but few people tipped the musicians in the bars and they could not easily progress in the economic system, which was quite ingenious with an eBay-like long-run auction system integrated.
So after a few months, I quit and put my subscription fee towards TiVo instead. My thought was "this game is kind of cool, but is it really as valuable as pausing live television and actually being able to program the VCR?"
It may work on other platforms, but they are targeting Unix; few people use BeOS or Syllable, compared to BSD (including Mac OS) and Linux, much less Windows.
"Unix" would have probably been a better headline here; remember that a plurality of Unix users are specifically using Mac OS X, and that's probably the market Real after which Real wants to go with this action.
Open source perhaps -- but remember that FSF is the Free Software Foundation; wouldn't it undermine the free standing of the software to not permit anyone to use it for any purpose? The source can be open, but the software isn't free if the Microsoft Corporation or anyone else is forbidden to make use of it.
And of course, NBC is mostly blowing hot air -- remember that cassette deck manufacturers don't need permission to manufacture and sell their hardware products from every radio network from Westwood 1 on down or every station owner from Clear Channel to the Podunk Public Schools.
This is sort of like the Brand X fountain pens you find that sometimes cost more than one from a respectable brand; the nib imprint reads "Iridium Point Germany" and I understand them to be rather hit-and-miss in terms of nib quality. This inscription makes two claims -- firstly, that the point is hardened with iridium (which is often taken within the context of writing instruments to actually and somewhat confusingly entail ruthenium or various alloys that may not contain iridium in the first place), and secondly, that the nib was made in Germany.
Often, neither of these claims is true -- I've heard tale of untipped IPGs, with no iridium or anything else on the end, and the nibs tend to be made in China. Note that it doesn't say "Made in Germany," just "Iridium Point Germany."
This sounds like a good excuse for the federal government (or whatever state(s) would have jurisdiction) to see if the courts will go for eminent domain on intellectual property.
Can't really blame anyone but Hollywood special interest lobbyists for the law in question -- the 1998 DMCA passed by a Republican-controlled congress and happily signed by a Democrat president. "Passed by the Bush administration" my ass.
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I, too, use a double-edge razor; I used to be a Mach3 guy but all the razor bumps on my neck, plus paying almost 50c a shave (which is what I pay now for the double-edge blades that last a week) became too much to handle.
For a couple years now I've had an HTPC hooked up to my TV that is pretty much silent ... it has a TV tuner, DVD player, various information services, a thingamajig for showing photos and playing music from my Macs. Oh, and did I mention that it runs Linux?
If Ray Ozzie is the man behind Lotus Notes, he definitely speaks from experience when he cries out against complexity. I've never been able to get Notes to run quickly and reliably, on anything from an Apple iBook to a Dell Dimension, regardless of the specs.
A couple years back, I took an introductory C++ course at a public metropolitan university in the American Midwest. While there was no way the instructor of the course could determine what we were using to edit our code, in both the course and the optional lab we were first instructed to use our choice of either pico or vim, and were later encouraged to exclusively use vim.
By about halfway through the course, I was using Apple Xcode -- initially more or less as a text editor, but I did use it as a build environment with a proper project file and such for my honors project at the end, which spanned several files.
I'd venture to guess that RMS just wants some extra money for the FSF. In the article he says he wants to be compensated for the time it takes to sign and pose -- a fair request, I dare say.
Price discrimination -- such as between daytime and nighttime users -- requires prevention of arbitrage (buying low and selling high), which is essentially what this device executes. Therefore, widespread adoption of something like this will just bring up night rates and maybe bring day rates down a bit, eliminating much of the benefit.
Today it's a breakout box that has been leaked; tomorrow, it might be something on which secrecy gives a far greater advantage over their competition. Hence the leak must be found, dismissed, and probably make an example of in court.
What's really needed is a UNIX-based operating system developed by a hardware supplier to be easy to use (including configuration and, most importantly, software installation) while still retaining the power of its UNIX underpinnings. This OS would ideally be able to run MS Word and Lotus Notes native. Oh...wait....
It'll definitely run on Linux -- so if you can cope with a quick reboot to get at your virtualization software, VMware GSX can certainly run on an XP box.
The acquisition seems to be following the Apple/NeXT pattern; in that buyout, Apple bought NeXT, but NeXT management (e.g, Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian) found itself seated in control of Apple. This appears to be happening again at Disney -- John Lasseter is now in control of animation at Disney, and Steve Jobs (who turns up once again) is the plurality shareholder and sits on the board. While in the management changes following the Apple buyout of NeXT, Jobs was more significant than Tevanian due to the need for a CEO capable of effecting a good turnaround, in Disney's acquisiton of Pixar, John Lasseter is the more significant; Bob Iger is doing reasonably well, though he could do better, and the problem at Disney is products, not management.
According to FSF's own definition of free software, for software to be considered free, users must have the "freedom to run the program, for any purpose," and "to adapt it to [said user's] needs."
If users are not free to use GPL3 software as or adapt it for use as a component of a digital rights management system, it is not free software.
Frankly, I don't expect GPL3 to catch on; GPL2 really doesn't have serious problems, and the provisions of BSD-type licenses are much easier to understand.
I'm pretty sure .dmg is just a standard disk image -- but a gzipped tarball runs on OS X, at any rate, so StuffIt shouldn't pose a problem.
Nevertheless, this GPL almost looks like it imposes so many restrictions that it ceases to be promoting freedom.
The Powerbook name had nothing to do with PowerPC (early models were 68K) -- but after well over a decade, it's easily tired.
Welcome to the 20th century in both Canada and the US. Ever heard of a show on public TV called "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"? It featured (features, in fact, as I believe it is still in rerun) segments not unlike this, though the narration is targeted at the show's preschool audience.
There are lots of global philanthropists out there -- not like Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Paul Hewson are the only ones -- so I don't see them as closely connected enough to share the cover. So how about this: either Bill and Melinda OR Bono. Much more dramatic cover shot without three people on it, and less cluttered idea. Alternatively, one could bear in mind that Bono is doing a lot of his stuff with Band Aid, Make Poverty History/Live 8, et cetera; that is, in collaboration with Bob Geldof. If they want Bono on the cover but don't think he can hold it alone, stick Geldof in there -- he's done a lot on this front, albeit somewhat controversially. Or just let the Gateses stand by themselves, without the dilution of the "Person of the Year" brand resultant from a triple award.
Perhaps they were sacked?
The real problem, if I recall, was a heavy load of grinding on most professions, making the game less enjoyable to casual players, because hunting or mining expeditions took a lot of time. This was a bit better on, for example, the Entertainer profession, but few people tipped the musicians in the bars and they could not easily progress in the economic system, which was quite ingenious with an eBay-like long-run auction system integrated.
So after a few months, I quit and put my subscription fee towards TiVo instead. My thought was "this game is kind of cool, but is it really as valuable as pausing live television and actually being able to program the VCR?"
It may work on other platforms, but they are targeting Unix; few people use BeOS or Syllable, compared to BSD (including Mac OS) and Linux, much less Windows.
"Unix" would have probably been a better headline here; remember that a plurality of Unix users are specifically using Mac OS X, and that's probably the market Real after which Real wants to go with this action.
Open source perhaps -- but remember that FSF is the Free Software Foundation; wouldn't it undermine the free standing of the software to not permit anyone to use it for any purpose? The source can be open, but the software isn't free if the Microsoft Corporation or anyone else is forbidden to make use of it.
Free software that can't be forked freely is no longer free. What's wrong with a fork, anyhow, especially if both forks are free anyhow?
And of course, NBC is mostly blowing hot air -- remember that cassette deck manufacturers don't need permission to manufacture and sell their hardware products from every radio network from Westwood 1 on down or every station owner from Clear Channel to the Podunk Public Schools.
(IANAL)
This is sort of like the Brand X fountain pens you find that sometimes cost more than one from a respectable brand; the nib imprint reads "Iridium Point Germany" and I understand them to be rather hit-and-miss in terms of nib quality. This inscription makes two claims -- firstly, that the point is hardened with iridium (which is often taken within the context of writing instruments to actually and somewhat confusingly entail ruthenium or various alloys that may not contain iridium in the first place), and secondly, that the nib was made in Germany. Often, neither of these claims is true -- I've heard tale of untipped IPGs, with no iridium or anything else on the end, and the nibs tend to be made in China. Note that it doesn't say "Made in Germany," just "Iridium Point Germany."
This sounds like a good excuse for the federal government (or whatever state(s) would have jurisdiction) to see if the courts will go for eminent domain on intellectual property.
Can't really blame anyone but Hollywood special interest lobbyists for the law in question -- the 1998 DMCA passed by a Republican-controlled congress and happily signed by a Democrat president. "Passed by the Bush administration" my ass.