So what you're saying is that you've never connected a Windows machine to the Internet.
I know that it is hard to believe, but it is possible to have a Windows machine connected to the internet without ever getting a virus. I've never had a virus infect my work PC, which has been connected to the internet since 1997. It's a matter of using common sense: Don't open email from people you don't know (mostly spam). Don't open email in a reader that will automagicly execute whatever it opens (ie: unpatched outlook). Download files from trusted sources, don't run every app that comes your way, keep up to date on the patches, and run your computer behind a firewall. If you do that, you might not even need to have a virus scanner running all the time. (Though I don't recommend this if your running any sort of business, or routinely let unknown computers connect to your network)
At home I don't have a virus scanner installed on any of my computers. Every once in a while, I'll download the latest dats from mcafee and run the command line scanner, but so far its been a waste of time, as it hasn't caught anything yet. At work, I have the corporate mandated Norton, and have yet to receive an infected file, but the risk at work is more then at home, so it makes sense.
I do fully realize that I am running a risk at home, and with the latest round of viruses, I am tempted to get a virus checker going on the old home PCs, just to be on the safe side. Like most people I'm a firm believer in it can't happen to me;)
You want a share of the profit? Buy yourself $1000 (roughly the cost of a descent modern day home pc) worth of stock in pharmacutical companies, and then donate your cpu cycles to the project. You'll be doing your part to increase the price of the stock, which will then become your share of the profits.
The only problem with this is that you never know what machine that the end user is going to run. Sure, I donate a K6-233 for folding@home, but I don't kid myself in thinking that it is speeding up the project any, not when it takes a week to do a set of data. A research project with no known answer can afford time (within reason), and every little bit helps.
A commercial project with a deadline isn't going to want to depend on peoples goodwill. In fact, I can see a distributed rendering project for a movie really screwing up the time tables. You might get it done fast if everyone donates their 3GHz P4, but what if everyone donates their beater P133's? In addition, you know that people will hack the clients to output the image that you just rendered to your hard drive. And then get a distributed client to assemble the movie over the internet, where you can get all the rendered scenes, and you know the studios won't allow that.
So if they don't renegotiate the contract, then Apple computer can distribute music, and Apple Corps will have to sue them, and as Apple Computer has always marketed their product as the "iTunes Music Store" and not "the Apple Music Store", there is the very good chance that a judge will say "There is no confusion in these matters, case dismissed."
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As the old saying goes: "You don't get to be rich by giving all your money away."
Some legalees will save Apple computer...
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I'd bet iTunes is not in violation of the agreement. The agreement was written long before the Internet became known outside academia, and the agreement was probably written using terms such as: LP, CD, Physical Media and the like, as in Apple said: "We will never distribute music on LP, 8-Track or Cassette, or any other media."
The "other media" will be contended, but Apple computer will point out the other media in question is physical media, and therefore the agreement only covers physical media. Apple records will of course say, no way. It's going to be who is more charismatic, and my money is on Apple computer.
The flaw for Blaster was found and patched about a month before Blaster took hold, but many people failed to apply the patch in a timely matter.
You had about 3 days after it was announced before the hole was actively being exploited in the wild.
3 days, what fantasy world do you live in? Try more like 3 weeks:
Blaster takes advantage of the flaw MS acknowledge here (Bulletin MS03-026), which is dated July 16, 2003. Blaster itself made its appearance August 11th, 2003, nearly a month later.
The relevance of military strength (or lack there-of) is that in the 16, 17 and 1800's, various powers of Europe ruled the seas (and by extention, all trade to and from wherever they decieded was profitable at the time), and no country had the technology to wipe out all of humanity in minutes.
If you tried something like today (IE: Parking your warships outside the US Virgin Islands, preventing the US from trading with its "colony", for example), your navy would be destroyed. Unless you have a military that is strong enough to challenge the US's (like China). In which case, everybody's navy would be destroyed, ruining any chance of economic development for quite some time.
The point the original poster was trying to make (I think), was that, in the past, this could have caused war. Today, it would be suicidal to go to war over something mundane, like software. Something useful, like oil on the other hand...
Did you know that Microsoft makes a Remote Desktop Client for Macs? It might have helped you out in this case, as you could then connect to their terminal server without having to resort to VNC.
For those not wanting to read through the whole thing, the thread starter got his Linux box to encrypt everything except the boot partition. (IE: If you boot off of floppy, you could have your entire hard drive encrypted, including the swap and root partitions) There was also some discussion on how much of a performance hit there was, and while no tests were published, the general conclusion was that it wasn't noticable on modern computers. Take that for what you will.
Find out what a tourist would need in the ways of computers on vacation. Email, web surfing, Instant Messaging are probably the biggest needs, but what about that past-time that only the vacationer loves: Taking (and then sharing) Vacation Photos?
Set up a system that the tourists can either email their pictures to themselves, or burn the pictures to CD. You could also rent the camera to the people (Getting their credit card # before you lend them the camera, of course) Works great for the tourist that didn't take along enough memory.
Check out Almost Perfect. It tells the story of Wordperfect Corp as seen by Pete Peterson (Minority owner of WP when it was a private company) The seeds for destruction were sown when the 2 majority owners decieded it was time to take WP (the company) public.
Sure, they were late on the GUI, and they took some risks on other platforms, but they had the momentum to change their technological mistakes, if they could have survived the changes the VC imposed on them, I think that they would have had a good chance of still being the dominate Word Processing company.
This sounds good to me. I remember at one point, Microsoft tried to buy Quickbooks from Intuit. They were going to give a good chunck of change, plus MS Money to Intuit, and then the Justice department stepped in and said NO! After that, there was an attempt to make MS Money a better product, but they never put their resources into trying to take out Intuit.
I have a feeling that you couldn't envision anything like a browser 10 years ago.
Why would you want something so primative as a web browser when you had Hypercard? If Apple had included the ability to link to and run Hypercard stacks from the Internet back in the 80's, the World Wide Web may have been a very different place today.
Of course it's hard to blame Apple for this little shortcoming, as the Internet wasn't even known to anyone outside of academia when Hypercard was being activly developed.
The point is that if it is important enough for the copyright owner to fill out the paperwork, then it stands to reason that they expect to make money off of it in the future. As it is right now, all a publishing company has to do is say: "Hey, we published it in 1930, therefore we own the copyright, want to take us to court to prove it?" Which, of course, is enough to keep people from entertaining the idea of publishing a derivative work.
With this system, one would be able to go to a web site, and enter "HP Lovecraft" and find out not only if the works are in the public domain, but who actually owns the copyright. I could see it extended so that the copyright owner can even say: You can base some stuff off of my work, Ala Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos.
As an individual, all the MS products that I've tried had a 30 day activation window. As long as you don't wait til the last minute, you have plenty of time to work around the temporary glitches that might occur.
And large corporations wouldn't be effected as Microsofts Select program includes utilities for large key deployment and activation (without user intervention.)
Another possibility is: The iTunes store has 500,000 sales each week, of which 45% are albums. Or in other words: They are selling about 225,000 albums and and 275,000 singles each week.
Phil Hendrie, Bill O'Reilly, Coast to Coast AM, the Savage Nation, Dan Patrick, Tony Kornheiser, Pardon the Interuption, Rush Liambaugh, Mike and Mike in the Morning (on ESPN Radio), etc.
None of which are anything like: Suspense, Escape, Light's Out Everybody, The Strange Dr. Wierd, The Great Gildersleeve, Burns and Allen, Dimension X, X Minus One, Johnny Dollar, I Love a Mystery, Lux Radio Theater, The Shadow, The Six Shooter, The Black Museum, etc.
There's lots of good programming on the radio these days
I'm not familiar with all the shows that you listed, but the ones I am familiar with are talk shows, or talk/variatey shows, which is fine but not diverse. If modern radio were as diverse as radio of the past, I would be more likely to a) listen to the radio, and b) buy this device. As it is, I don't like talk shows much, so there isn't very much good programming on the radio.
Microsoft only has to offer these deep discounts to those companies that are serious. I mean do you think that a Fortune 500 company is going to say to Microsoft: "No thanks, we're going to switch all all desktop to Linux and OpenOffice", without actually devoting resources to looking into the feasability of such a project?
The only way to get MS to give you discounts is to actually mean it. Go into a meeting with Steve, and say: We've done the research, OSS will cost us X to switch, and Y to support each year. After Z years, the OSS solution pays for itself, and after that, we're running a profit in the IT division. Now we really don't want to switch, the short term headaches will be a bitch, what deals are you going to make for us Mr. Ballmar?
What if the company didn't do this research or actaully make a comitment to change if the response is: "Screw you, You'll take what we give and like it."? What is the company going to do?
The point? You can't use OSS as leverage unless you actually plan on going through with it. Kudos for the German goverment for playing the hard ball game, but this only becomes meaningful once this is in operation.
Another thing is the media industry is talking out both sides of there mouth. They tell the goverment that they loose money to pirates, so everything digital needs to be locked up airtight, and then they turn around and tell the public that they own the video/music whatever in question.
Don't believe me? Watch a commercial for videos/music. You'll hear the words: Order your copy now! Buy it today! Own your copy today! Supplies are limited. Now watch a commercial for something like "The Amazing Pasta Cooker": Buy today! Own it now! Supplies are limited!
People know that if they buy the pasta cooker, they can do whatever they want with it, so they assume that they can do whatever they want with the music they buy. The advertisers use the same language, so the rights must be the same? Right??
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While it can take 2 to 3 days (or more for a slow computer) to install Gentoo, do you really lose 2 or 3 days of your life? Seriously, do you just sit in front of the computer and watch the screen as the compiler messages goe by? When I install Gentoo, I start the process, go do something else, check on it to see if it needs my attention every once in a while and get on with my life. I don't feel that I've lost 2 days.
Upgrading major packages like KDE also is in the "No time lost" category. Even if it takes a week to compile KDE, you can still use the computer. Heck you can still use KDE. I've done, and again I don't feel like I've lost any time over it.
It is just a matter of perception, but people who try Gentoo already have a good idea of how long it is going take to install, and they're willing to give it a try anyway. Those that continue using it have decieded that the benifiets of Gentoo outway the compilation times.
And, as an afterthought. If you use a binary based distribution, you are still waiting on the compile time, it is just a hidden quantity, generally paid for only once per upgrade (of any given package) cycle.
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I know that it is hard to believe, but it is possible to have a Windows machine connected to the internet without ever getting a virus. I've never had a virus infect my work PC, which has been connected to the internet since 1997. It's a matter of using common sense: Don't open email from people you don't know (mostly spam). Don't open email in a reader that will automagicly execute whatever it opens (ie: unpatched outlook). Download files from trusted sources, don't run every app that comes your way, keep up to date on the patches, and run your computer behind a firewall. If you do that, you might not even need to have a virus scanner running all the time. (Though I don't recommend this if your running any sort of business, or routinely let unknown computers connect to your network)
At home I don't have a virus scanner installed on any of my computers. Every once in a while, I'll download the latest dats from mcafee and run the command line scanner, but so far its been a waste of time, as it hasn't caught anything yet. At work, I have the corporate mandated Norton, and have yet to receive an infected file, but the risk at work is more then at home, so it makes sense.
I do fully realize that I am running a risk at home, and with the latest round of viruses, I am tempted to get a virus checker going on the old home PCs, just to be on the safe side. Like most people I'm a firm believer in it can't happen to me
So the point is you just want to bitch? I can live with that.
I've been running folding@home on a K6-233, and it takes about a week to do one work unit. Could be what you're looking for.
You want a share of the profit? Buy yourself $1000 (roughly the cost of a descent modern day home pc) worth of stock in pharmacutical companies, and then donate your cpu cycles to the project. You'll be doing your part to increase the price of the stock, which will then become your share of the profits.
The only problem with this is that you never know what machine that the end user is going to run. Sure, I donate a K6-233 for folding@home, but I don't kid myself in thinking that it is speeding up the project any, not when it takes a week to do a set of data. A research project with no known answer can afford time (within reason), and every little bit helps.
A commercial project with a deadline isn't going to want to depend on peoples goodwill. In fact, I can see a distributed rendering project for a movie really screwing up the time tables. You might get it done fast if everyone donates their 3GHz P4, but what if everyone donates their beater P133's? In addition, you know that people will hack the clients to output the image that you just rendered to your hard drive. And then get a distributed client to assemble the movie over the internet, where you can get all the rendered scenes, and you know the studios won't allow that.
So if they don't renegotiate the contract, then Apple computer can distribute music, and Apple Corps will have to sue them, and as Apple Computer has always marketed their product as the "iTunes Music Store" and not "the Apple Music Store", there is the very good chance that a judge will say "There is no confusion in these matters, case dismissed."
As the old saying goes: "You don't get to be rich by giving all your money away."
I'd bet iTunes is not in violation of the agreement. The agreement was written long before the Internet became known outside academia, and the agreement was probably written using terms such as: LP, CD, Physical Media and the like, as in Apple said: "We will never distribute music on LP, 8-Track or Cassette, or any other media."
The "other media" will be contended, but Apple computer will point out the other media in question is physical media, and therefore the agreement only covers physical media. Apple records will of course say, no way. It's going to be who is more charismatic, and my money is on Apple computer.
The flaw for Blaster was found and patched about a month before Blaster took hold, but many people failed to apply the patch in a timely matter.
You had about 3 days after it was announced before the hole was actively being exploited in the wild.
3 days, what fantasy world do you live in? Try more like 3 weeks:
Blaster takes advantage of the flaw MS acknowledge here (Bulletin MS03-026), which is dated July 16, 2003. Blaster itself made its appearance August 11th, 2003, nearly a month later.
The relevance of military strength (or lack there-of) is that in the 16, 17 and 1800's, various powers of Europe ruled the seas (and by extention, all trade to and from wherever they decieded was profitable at the time), and no country had the technology to wipe out all of humanity in minutes.
If you tried something like today (IE: Parking your warships outside the US Virgin Islands, preventing the US from trading with its "colony", for example), your navy would be destroyed. Unless you have a military that is strong enough to challenge the US's (like China). In which case, everybody's navy would be destroyed, ruining any chance of economic development for quite some time.
The point the original poster was trying to make (I think), was that, in the past, this could have caused war. Today, it would be suicidal to go to war over something mundane, like software. Something useful, like oil on the other hand...
Did you know that Microsoft makes a Remote Desktop Client for Macs? It might have helped you out in this case, as you could then connect to their terminal server without having to resort to VNC.
According to this thread, it doesn't.
For those not wanting to read through the whole thing, the thread starter got his Linux box to encrypt everything except the boot partition. (IE: If you boot off of floppy, you could have your entire hard drive encrypted, including the swap and root partitions) There was also some discussion on how much of a performance hit there was, and while no tests were published, the general conclusion was that it wasn't noticable on modern computers. Take that for what you will.
Find out what a tourist would need in the ways of computers on vacation. Email, web surfing, Instant Messaging are probably the biggest needs, but what about that past-time that only the vacationer loves: Taking (and then sharing) Vacation Photos?
Set up a system that the tourists can either email their pictures to themselves, or burn the pictures to CD. You could also rent the camera to the people (Getting their credit card # before you lend them the camera, of course)
Works great for the tourist that didn't take along enough memory.
Sure, they were late on the GUI, and they took some risks on other platforms, but they had the momentum to change their technological mistakes, if they could have survived the changes the VC imposed on them, I think that they would have had a good chance of still being the dominate Word Processing company.
Source: Justice Sues to Block Microsoft Acquisition.
Why would you want something so primative as a web browser when you had Hypercard? If Apple had included the ability to link to and run Hypercard stacks from the Internet back in the 80's, the World Wide Web may have been a very different place today.
Of course it's hard to blame Apple for this little shortcoming, as the Internet wasn't even known to anyone outside of academia when Hypercard was being activly developed.
With this system, one would be able to go to a web site, and enter "HP Lovecraft" and find out not only if the works are in the public domain, but who actually owns the copyright. I could see it extended so that the copyright owner can even say: You can base some stuff off of my work, Ala Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos.
As an individual, all the MS products that I've tried had a 30 day activation window. As long as you don't wait til the last minute, you have plenty of time to work around the temporary glitches that might occur.
And large corporations wouldn't be effected as Microsofts Select program includes utilities for large key deployment and activation (without user intervention.)
Another possibility is: The iTunes store has 500,000 sales each week, of which 45% are albums. Or in other words: They are selling about 225,000 albums and and 275,000 singles each week.
Microsoft only has to offer these deep discounts to those companies that are serious. I mean do you think that a Fortune 500 company is going to say to Microsoft: "No thanks, we're going to switch all all desktop to Linux and OpenOffice", without actually devoting resources to looking into the feasability of such a project? The only way to get MS to give you discounts is to actually mean it. Go into a meeting with Steve, and say: We've done the research, OSS will cost us X to switch, and Y to support each year. After Z years, the OSS solution pays for itself, and after that, we're running a profit in the IT division. Now we really don't want to switch, the short term headaches will be a bitch, what deals are you going to make for us Mr. Ballmar? What if the company didn't do this research or actaully make a comitment to change if the response is: "Screw you, You'll take what we give and like it."? What is the company going to do? The point? You can't use OSS as leverage unless you actually plan on going through with it. Kudos for the German goverment for playing the hard ball game, but this only becomes meaningful once this is in operation.
Another thing is the media industry is talking out both sides of there mouth. They tell the goverment that they loose money to pirates, so everything digital needs to be locked up airtight, and then they turn around and tell the public that they own the video/music whatever in question. Don't believe me? Watch a commercial for videos/music. You'll hear the words: Order your copy now! Buy it today! Own your copy today! Supplies are limited. Now watch a commercial for something like "The Amazing Pasta Cooker": Buy today! Own it now! Supplies are limited! People know that if they buy the pasta cooker, they can do whatever they want with it, so they assume that they can do whatever they want with the music they buy. The advertisers use the same language, so the rights must be the same? Right??
They're a hack.
While it can take 2 to 3 days (or more for a slow computer) to install Gentoo, do you really lose 2 or 3 days of your life? Seriously, do you just sit in front of the computer and watch the screen as the compiler messages goe by? When I install Gentoo, I start the process, go do something else, check on it to see if it needs my attention every once in a while and get on with my life. I don't feel that I've lost 2 days.
Upgrading major packages like KDE also is in the "No time lost" category. Even if it takes a week to compile KDE, you can still use the computer. Heck you can still use KDE. I've done, and again I don't feel like I've lost any time over it.
It is just a matter of perception, but people who try Gentoo already have a good idea of how long it is going take to install, and they're willing to give it a try anyway. Those that continue using it have decieded that the benifiets of Gentoo outway the compilation times.
And, as an afterthought. If you use a binary based distribution, you are still waiting on the compile time, it is just a hidden quantity, generally paid for only once per upgrade (of any given package) cycle.