Bryan Lee, Corporate VP/CFO, Entertainment and Devices Division clearly states in the interview:
Zune isn't "Plays for Sure" compatible and the DRM-protected music from PFS services likely won't play without the usual burn to CD workaround. Lee's explanation: PFS was established to make sure non-integrated players and services were compatible; because Zune is an integrated environment, it doesn't need PFS. Lee: "We wanted an integrated experience from the beginning.... Our focus is on giving the user one great experience."
Let's not forget the dramatically better security model that's pretty transparent to the desktop user.
Maybe freespire has changed this, but I seem to remember that when Walmart was selling "Lindows" preinstalled on $200 PCs, it booted into root by default with no password. Lindows was also bundling non-free software at the time. Their justification for both was exactly the same as it is today, "But it's easier!"
You may be right about the market having changed since Caldera. Certainly more people know about Linux today, so the potential market might be bigger. But, I've always thought that Caldera's problem with their philosophy was that they did not understand that Linux geeks *care* about freedom. Today, that might no longer be true in the corporate data center, but freespire is going to have to get its momentum from home users. My experience is that linux-in-the-home is found in two places, people who love Linux because they care about freedom, and their friends and relatives.
Didn't a little company called "Caldera" try this marketing strategy once? Hopefully when freespire changes its name again, it won't be changing it to "SCO".
Light bends when it hits a material with a different index of refraction. If the interface is "sharp" such as between air and a pane of glass, then some light is reflected. If the interface is gradual, then there need not be any reflection.
Alpha radiation is easily blocked, but far from harmless. If you breath it in or swallow it, it is much more harmful than beta or gamma radiation because all of the energy is dumped into a tiny sphere of tissue around the particle making it much more likely to cause cancer.
"Do the connections come from the same host or group of hosts?"
It will be several hundred from a single IP address and then the next day, or later in the day it will be several hundred from another.
I have a script that runs a whois on the address and then emails the appropriate contact (or abuse@...) with a notice of illegal activity from their computer. About 1/3 of the time someone gets back to me saying that they are doing something about it.
It's not worth blocking them because they are usually bots and, as I say, that server only allows certificate-based logins.
"Does anyone actually try to brute force passwords from a login prompt?"
I see several hundred a day on my one server running ssh on the standard port. Of course, that ssh server does not allow password-based logins.
No. He's talking about the new PowerDemanding (TM) components They're designed to increase current to meet their power demands. If they can't get their power that way, they're designed to lobby Congress.
Let me help you out here for future news titles.
On slashdot:
Penguin == Linux
Down Under == Australia
pr0n == pornography
l337 == nerds who think they're cool
You're welcome.
Slashdot Mirror
"Do you want to decide which web sites you can surf, or should your ISP make that decision for you?"
Bryan Lee, Corporate VP/CFO, Entertainment and Devices Division clearly states in the interview:
Maybe freespire has changed this, but I seem to remember that when Walmart was selling "Lindows" preinstalled on $200 PCs, it booted into root by default with no password. Lindows was also bundling non-free software at the time. Their justification for both was exactly the same as it is today, "But it's easier!"
You may be right about the market having changed since Caldera. Certainly more people know about Linux today, so the potential market might be bigger. But, I've always thought that Caldera's problem with their philosophy was that they did not understand that Linux geeks *care* about freedom. Today, that might no longer be true in the corporate data center, but freespire is going to have to get its momentum from home users. My experience is that linux-in-the-home is found in two places, people who love Linux because they care about freedom, and their friends and relatives.
What would have been funnier is if he edited it on-air and by the time he refreshed the page, the corrections had already been made!
Didn't a little company called "Caldera" try this marketing strategy once? Hopefully when freespire changes its name again, it won't be changing it to "SCO".
Light bends when it hits a material with a different index of refraction. If the interface is "sharp" such as between air and a pane of glass, then some light is reflected. If the interface is gradual, then there need not be any reflection.
Alpha radiation is easily blocked, but far from harmless. If you breath it in or swallow it, it is much more harmful than beta or gamma radiation because all of the energy is dumped into a tiny sphere of tissue around the particle making it much more likely to cause cancer.
"Do the connections come from the same host or group of hosts?"
It will be several hundred from a single IP address and then the next day, or later in the day it will be several hundred from another.
I have a script that runs a whois on the address and then emails the appropriate contact (or abuse@...) with a notice of illegal activity from their computer. About 1/3 of the time someone gets back to me saying that they are doing something about it.
It's not worth blocking them because they are usually bots and, as I say, that server only allows certificate-based logins.
"Does anyone actually try to brute force passwords from a login prompt?" I see several hundred a day on my one server running ssh on the standard port. Of course, that ssh server does not allow password-based logins.
My copy of IE6 running under WINE has the flaw.
No. He's talking about the new PowerDemanding (TM) components
They're designed to increase current to meet their power demands.
If they can't get their power that way, they're designed to lobby
Congress.
And you get a whopping 68% lower temperature!
Let me help you out here for future news titles. On slashdot: Penguin == Linux Down Under == Australia pr0n == pornography l337 == nerds who think they're cool You're welcome.
JPL Visualization Supercomputer
Or this one.
Oh, really?
So explain this guy (www.top500.org).
"I don't love MS either. But when was the last time you got a BSOD on XP?"
About an hour ago.
"No technology company should make extravagant claims about the capabilities of their product until they have a genuine, working demo."
You don't know much about raising venture capital, do you?
phase velocity with group velocity. Group velocity is c.