is a distribution that has newbie as one of the configure options. The Newbie option should have only a few choices, Gnome or KDE desktop, no questions about partitioning, it should assume the user wants to keep a Windows partition for now. How many Windoze users know what a partition is? The configuration shouldn't include any programing tools, or half a dozen test editors. It should include OO.org for wordprocessing, etc. User name and root user and passwords should be explained and chosen, additional users can be added later.
Once its configured the password box appears, user is prompted and printer, modem, and email configuration is done. A minimum of printed documentation should be included, explaining what to do if something doesn't work. The documentation should list resources included with the distribution and how to access it, and use it. Hopefully with a desktop icon. The browser should include useful links to useful linux sites.
Also a problem with users is using weak passwords, not changing them regularily (even in work envvironment), and writing them down somewhere accessable by others. Some even leave thier systems logged-in when they leave thier area, "for a few minutes." I've tried to explain how to generate a pseudorandom password from an easily remembered passphrase of thier own choosing (using the first letter of each word of the phrase as the password) they don't get it, or can't be bothered.
Mac OS X actually has three levels, user, admin, and root. Admin can install programs but can't make critical changes to OS; that is reserves for root and is turned off by default.
My tastes are wide ranging, I prefer listening to small label and local musicians. The city I live in (Oshkosh, WI) has many very good musicians and the best little coffee shop in the USA; The New Moon. Steve Smith and Buddies Buddys recently toured there. These guys are internationally known jazz musicians, Howard levy, and Avishai Cohen, are others in the same class that have performed there. They like playing there, the audience appreciates them performing, they sell CDs at thier performances. The New Moon can only hold about 70 people, the worst seat there is only 50 feet from the stage, the acoustics are great. At the break the audience are able to buy CDs and get them autographed by the musicians, and perhaps talk with them awhile, some of the local musicians discuss musical techniques with the performers. Other less known national, regional, and local musicians perform there also.
All the musicians that perform there make most of thier income by performing and selling CDs at the performances. Most make very little income from sales through store outlets like Walmart, Target, etc. Even a musicstore with a comprehensive listing would be hard pressed to have some of the excellent CDs I have acquired on inventory, or even listed.
Many musicians have CDs locally produced and sold locally, on thier own website, or on other music related websites.
I believe the BigLabels are dying, they are being disintermediated, they are struggling for survival, and will lose. What I see happening is tiers of websites, individual, regional, national, and international, that will distribute music. At the lower tiers are unknown musicians that need to be heard, at the top, well known (at least in thier genre) musicians that perform internationally. And most musicians will still make most of thier income by performing, (touring) and selling CDs at performances.
I wouldn't be surprised if advertisers worked out a deal with the movie studios to allow insertion of banner ads within the movie itself; for example, a placed ad that appears on a billboard in a chase scene in the movie, or window ads in street scenes. Inserting the ads digitally after production wouldn't be all that difficult. They coulld even customize ad placement for geographical or demographical populations.
When you first read the patent application it states 'multimedia asset player. It isn't until you get to paragraph the it expands the description with 'portable, pocket-sized' descriptor. Paragraph also includeds 'home interface' in the working description below.
13. In a portable, pocket-sized multimedia asset player, a method of selecting and playing an multi media asset from a group of multimedia assets stored therein, comprising: displaying at a home interface, a playlist list item corresponding to a number of playlists stored in the multimedia asset player, wherein each playlist is a user customizable group of multimedia assets, an artists item corresponding to all of a number of artists each of which is associated with at least one of the stored multimedia assets, and a songs list item associated with each of the stored multimedia assets; highlighting a desired one of the playlist list item, the artists item, or the songs list item; receiving a selection of the highlighted item; and automatically transitioning to a second interface based upon the selected item.
Apple blew it when they added 'pocket-sized' to the description, it the patent had been granted as just a 'multimedia asset player' it could possibly be applied to notebooks. As it is could this be applied to PDAs? and does the patent also apply to the "home interface'?
ESR writes"They never exerted the mental effort to forget what they know and sit down at the system like a dumb user who's never seen it before -- and they never watched a dumb user in action!" I'll volunteer!:-)
Apple will only license Mac OS X as an exit strategy. Believe it or not Apple is a hardware company. They produce software to support hardware sales. You have to buy a computer (with associated hardware) from Apple to get OS X. Apple already has X86 versions of OS X. Apple would lose its market if it did license OS X for X86. Consumers would buy X86 Computers running OS X because of cheaper platform costs.
Seems to me what Novell is trying to do is take the best attributes of Gnome and KDE and integrate them into the Ximian desktop. Novell knows that the Linux/OpenSource community wil never agree on a single standard for a desktop. I think Novell wants to do with Linux what Apple did with BSD; create a standard platform for developers. The desktop that Novell develops will bring a certain ligitimacy to potential software developers.
I have never replied to the OPT-OUT listed in any spam email. If you do reply to a spam email they know the address is valid. Further once a spammer knows an email address is valid, they may put the address on lists to sell to others. There were organizations with websites that collected spam forwarded to them for the purpose of tracing the spam for lists so ISPs could block the spammers, (anyone know of one currently?)
Go to your respective corners and take a time-out! KDE this!...Gnome that!... How about a compromise, Free User Linux for Gnome, and Commercial User Linux for KDE. List the advantages of each and let the developer and/or end user choose, they will anyway. Two different default distributions for two different markets. Now someone get me some aspirin:-)
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
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is a distribution that has newbie as one of the configure options. The Newbie option should have only a few choices, Gnome or KDE desktop, no questions about partitioning, it should assume the user wants to keep a Windows partition for now. How many Windoze users know what a partition is? The configuration shouldn't include any programing tools, or half a dozen test editors. It should include OO.org for wordprocessing, etc. User name and root user and passwords should be explained and chosen, additional users can be added later.
Once its configured the password box appears, user is prompted and printer, modem, and email configuration is done. A minimum of printed documentation should be included, explaining what to do if something doesn't work. The documentation should list resources included with the distribution and how to access it, and use it. Hopefully with a desktop icon. The browser should include useful links to useful linux sites.
Also a problem with users is using weak passwords, not changing them regularily (even in work envvironment), and writing them down somewhere accessable by others. Some even leave thier systems logged-in when they leave thier area, "for a few minutes." I've tried to explain how to generate a pseudorandom password from an easily remembered passphrase of thier own choosing (using the first letter of each word of the phrase as the password) they don't get it, or can't be bothered.
Mac OS X actually has three levels, user, admin, and root. Admin can install programs but can't make critical changes to OS; that is reserves for root and is turned off by default.
My tastes are wide ranging, I prefer listening to small label and local musicians. The city I live in (Oshkosh, WI) has many very good musicians and the best little coffee shop in the USA; The New Moon. Steve Smith and Buddies Buddys recently toured there. These guys are internationally known jazz musicians, Howard levy, and Avishai Cohen, are others in the same class that have performed there. They like playing there, the audience appreciates them performing, they sell CDs at thier performances. The New Moon can only hold about 70 people, the worst seat there is only 50 feet from the stage, the acoustics are great. At the break the audience are able to buy CDs and get them autographed by the musicians, and perhaps talk with them awhile, some of the local musicians discuss musical techniques with the performers. Other less known national, regional, and local musicians perform there also.
All the musicians that perform there make most of thier income by performing and selling CDs at the performances. Most make very little income from sales through store outlets like Walmart, Target, etc. Even a musicstore with a comprehensive listing would be hard pressed to have some of the excellent CDs I have acquired on inventory, or even listed.
Many musicians have CDs locally produced and sold locally, on thier own website, or on other music related websites.
I believe the BigLabels are dying, they are being disintermediated, they are struggling for survival, and will lose. What I see happening is tiers of websites, individual, regional, national, and international, that will distribute music. At the lower tiers are unknown musicians that need to be heard, at the top, well known (at least in thier genre) musicians that perform internationally. And most musicians will still make most of thier income by performing, (touring) and selling CDs at performances.
Oh yeah, I don't listen to PopTarts!
I wouldn't be surprised if advertisers worked out a deal with the movie studios to allow insertion of banner ads within the movie itself; for example, a placed ad that appears on a billboard in a chase scene in the movie, or window ads in street scenes. Inserting the ads digitally after production wouldn't be all that difficult. They coulld even customize ad placement for geographical or demographical populations.
When you first read the patent application it states 'multimedia asset player. It isn't until you get to paragraph the it expands the description with 'portable, pocket-sized' descriptor. Paragraph also includeds 'home interface' in the working description below.
13. In a portable, pocket-sized multimedia asset player, a method of selecting and playing an multi media asset from a group of multimedia assets stored therein, comprising: displaying at a home interface, a playlist list item corresponding to a number of playlists stored in the multimedia asset player, wherein each playlist is a user customizable group of multimedia assets, an artists item corresponding to all of a number of artists each of which is associated with at least one of the stored multimedia assets, and a songs list item associated with each of the stored multimedia assets; highlighting a desired one of the playlist list item, the artists item, or the songs list item; receiving a selection of the highlighted item; and automatically transitioning to a second interface based upon the selected item.
Apple blew it when they added 'pocket-sized' to the description, it the patent had been granted as just a 'multimedia asset player' it could possibly be applied to notebooks. As it is could this be applied to PDAs? and does the patent also apply to the "home interface'?
Does OO have an office assistant like Clippy, (or Office Bob?) If not, I guess MS wins the office assistant category, everyone loves Clippy, right? ;-)
Shouldn't be too hard for SpamHaus to come up with an alternate variation that isn't taken.
ESR writes"They never exerted the mental effort to forget what they know and sit down at the system like a dumb user who's never seen it before -- and they never watched a dumb user in action!" :-)
I'll volunteer!
If SpamHaus really wants to do this, they don't have to wait for a .mail TLD. They can use .mail.com now.
Apple will only license Mac OS X as an exit strategy. Believe it or not Apple is a hardware company. They produce software to support hardware sales. You have to buy a computer (with associated hardware) from Apple to get OS X. Apple already has X86 versions of OS X. Apple would lose its market if it did license OS X for X86. Consumers would buy X86 Computers running OS X because of cheaper platform costs.
Seems to me what Novell is trying to do is take the best attributes of Gnome and KDE and integrate them into the Ximian desktop. Novell knows that the Linux/OpenSource community wil never agree on a single standard for a desktop. I think Novell wants to do with Linux what Apple did with BSD; create a standard platform for developers. The desktop that Novell develops will bring a certain ligitimacy to potential software developers.
I have never replied to the OPT-OUT listed in any spam email. If you do reply to a spam email they know the address is valid. Further once a spammer knows an email address is valid, they may put the address on lists to sell to others. There were organizations with websites that collected spam forwarded to them for the purpose of tracing the spam for lists so ISPs could block the spammers, (anyone know of one currently?)
Go to your respective corners and take a time-out! KDE this!...Gnome that!... How about a compromise, Free User Linux for Gnome, and Commercial User Linux for KDE. List the advantages of each and let the developer and/or end user choose, they will anyway. Two different default distributions for two different markets. Now someone get me some aspirin :-)
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi