How does stuff like this get modded +5 insightful? Are you people really that uninformed? Give me a break. I thought this was "News for Nerds". As if drivers for one SCSI card will work with another SCSI card from some other vendor? PCI is PCI regardless of the platform? That's the funniest crap I've read all day.
Corporations can basically pay to have just about anything enacted into law if they have enough money to throw at the issue and it's not so egregious as to piss off Joe Sixpack. There's no way the large ISP's will go for this. Look at who some of these large ISP's are. We're talking about large media conglomerates and cable and telecommunications companies. This would probably cost them a lot of time and money to setup and maintain so there's no way they'll go for it and they'll spend a lot of cash to defeat it. They'll score points with the privacy advocates for fighting it and it will benefit them in terms of profitability. It's a win - win for them. This will never happen.
Daily Google Story Alert... Daily Google Story Alert! Seriously people, is a story about Google a day necessary, even if it's not newsworthy in the least?
I'm loving the tactics the *PAA uses. Pay off the politicians in one country to extended copyright length. Then lobby other coutnries to do the same so copyright lengths can be "in sync". Then, repeat the process over and over again until the whole premiss of limited copyright and public domain are out the door.
What native OS/2 programs? The parallels really don't work. Apple has a pretty thriving developer community. OSX runs natively most Linux software. Apple has commitments from Adobe/Macromedia and Microsoft. Apple right now produces most of the best software on the Mac, many of which is as good if not better than PC equivalents. (Well Google's Picaso is better than iPhoto at the moment - although I prefer iPhoto) There are also a lot of excellent Mac only developers. This is a big opportunity for them, even if the altivec programmers are griping up a storm at the moment. The only losers may be game companies. And even there I say maybe. Further the OSX game situation never was that great. And I think the consoles are where the real game action is anyway.
Exactly! The OS/2 vs. Windows debate totally went in Microsoft's favor because there was no compelling reason to run OS/2. There are a ton of compelling reasons to run OS X, security and usability being at the top of the list. The second is the Apple only software. The iLife applications simply rock! There are a ton of really cool OS X only applications out there. OS X has a lot going for it, and there's only one thing really holding it back and that's compatibility with Windows only applications.
That's why moving to Intel at this moment is such a great move. Things are different this time around than they were when it was OS/2 vs Windows and here's why. People are sick and tired of the Windows and are looking for an alternative. The only thing holding them back are various Windows only applications that they depend on. People didn't have that mindset when it was OS/2 vs. Windows. People weren't fed up with Microsoft. OS/2 vs Windows was bascially a "which shell are we going to run on top of DOS" question. That is a fundamentally differnt issue than what customers are facing today. Now it's a "one platform versus the other issue". You've got one platform that people are sick of but tied to and another platform that is up and coming, new, secure and interesting with some really great software of it's own.
Enter OS X on Intel. People like me who are tied to Windows only app's (for me it's mostly games) but are fed up can dual boot, run Virtual PC or run the app's under Wine. All the while we're learning the ins and outs of OS X. The next time a fried or family member asks what system we'd recommend buying, we point to Apple. Price is an issue? We point to the Mac Mini. If they need to run some legacy Windows apps I recommend the above solutions. If they don't want to spend the extra money of another copy of Windows and/or Virtual PC, we explain to them how much time and money they'll save when Windows doesn't need to be reinstalled every 6 months. Plus we explain that since we won't be using any new version of Windows released after XP, we won't be able to help them if they have problems in the future and they'll have to pay to get things fixed.
The RIAA and MPAA basically own Congress. How long before a piece of legislation mandating the broadcast flag is attached as a rider to some totally unrelated bill, thus allowing it to slide through and be signed into law before we know what hit us? It'll happen sooner or later, trust me.
Does this have built-in trusted computing/DRM technology like the newest Intel chips?
No.... However early adopters are required to turn over their first born sun or daughter to the RIAA / MPAA to be brainwashed and trained as an intellectual property lawyer.
In addition, the software's admin tool has been completely revamped, and will allow Web-based remote administration utilising SSL.
Which, somehow, will still be easily hackable rendering the other security improvments useless because every script kiddie and their sister will be able to get remote admin access.
Beware the BSAA (Brains Scanners Association of America) whose member companies look for unique personalities, get them to sign a contract for $$$ that allows them to live out their lives, but the BSAA member company owns the copyright to the brainscan and DNA which allows them to make nearly unlimited copies of the individual at will and charge a boatload of money for the copies, all the while denying the original donor their fare share but claiming to protect the donor's "rights".
I'm sure I'll take heat for admitting this on Slashdot, but I'm a fiscally conservative voter who listens to Rush Limbaugh because I tend to agree with him on those matters. Don't agree a thing with the right's social agenda, but couldn't agree more when it comes to conservative ideas on fiscal policy and limited government. No lectures on the shortcomings of the current Republicans, most of them are RINO's (Republican In Name Only) when it comes to fiscal policy and the idea of limited government. Anyway, Rush announced recently that in early June he'll make podcasts of his program available to subscribers. Love him, or hate him, he is the biggest name in talk radio and when he does something, others are sure to follow suite.
On a similar note, I'm also a Tom Leykis fan, and since I live in a suburb of Detroit (and the only radio station that carried him moved the broadcast time to 3 am), I use replay radio to record a stream of a station in Seattle that carries him live in the afternoons. I think this whole pod casting thing is here to stay. There are a boat load of great radio programs out there that for one reason or another, I'd like to listen to all or part of but can't always do so.
You should stay for as long as you said you would stay. If he does withhold your final paycheck for any reason, take him to court. You'll win, and he'll have to pay your legal fees.
I'm concrete, your glue, everything bounces off me and sticks to you! Bendable Concrete? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of concrete? Further, what does this do to the metaphor? No more concrete ideas. I need to go rethink my life.
6.83293589346945600 seconds later I feld the need to respond with a question. What ever happend to 5 and a half years later? Or, over five years later? Perhaps, nearly 6 years later? Using demcial points when talking about years is so slashdot:-)
... those who would found an empire on a single concept rather than develop new ones often enough to stay afloat.
It also says a little something about the average consumer. Consumers could put the kibosh on this rather fast if they stopped paying money for the same regurgitated crap day after day. Perhaps if consumers demanded more new, original material consistently then corporation would actually be motivated to produce it. We get remake after remake, remix after remix, tired concept after tired concept because the vast majority of consumers are stupid enough to keep paying over and over for the same "repackaged" concept.
I've got a 40 GB iPod that I take with me when I'm planning on taking a long trip, but I don't carry it with me everywhere I go because I'd have to put it in my pocket and I don't want it to get damanged. If this thing is priced right, I'd buy it and use it as a second mp3 player. It would always be with me because I always carry my cell phone. For long trips, I'd grab the iPod, otherwise I could just plug into the phone.
Lack of anything better to do with their time. Honestly, I don't have time to care what software somebody else uses, unless I'm getting paid to do so. There's too much to do in this world and not nearly enough time to do it all.
Nobody uses MSN search anyway. Most computer users I know use Google, and they range from geeks, to casual users, all the way down to those who think the Internet Explorer icon is "the Internet". MSN search is irrelevant and this is just another example of why it will continue to be well into the future.
This administration never ceases to amaze me. What kind of administration would actually stoop to the level of sending only supporters to advocate its position at an international conference? I mean, what's next, the president appointing supporters and like minded individuals to cabinet level positions? Oh, the horror! When will this madness end?
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How does stuff like this get modded +5 insightful? Are you people really that uninformed? Give me a break. I thought this was "News for Nerds". As if drivers for one SCSI card will work with another SCSI card from some other vendor? PCI is PCI regardless of the platform? That's the funniest crap I've read all day.
Given that this is slashdot, land of unfounded rumor, take an educated guess :-)
Are we talking about Linux, or Microsoft? :-)
Corporations can basically pay to have just about anything enacted into law if they have enough money to throw at the issue and it's not so egregious as to piss off Joe Sixpack. There's no way the large ISP's will go for this. Look at who some of these large ISP's are. We're talking about large media conglomerates and cable and telecommunications companies. This would probably cost them a lot of time and money to setup and maintain so there's no way they'll go for it and they'll spend a lot of cash to defeat it. They'll score points with the privacy advocates for fighting it and it will benefit them in terms of profitability. It's a win - win for them. This will never happen.
Daily Google Story Alert ... Daily Google Story Alert! Seriously people, is a story about Google a day necessary, even if it's not newsworthy in the least?
Further, does it support Ogg? Er, nevermind.
I'm loving the tactics the *PAA uses. Pay off the politicians in one country to extended copyright length. Then lobby other coutnries to do the same so copyright lengths can be "in sync". Then, repeat the process over and over again until the whole premiss of limited copyright and public domain are out the door.
Exactly! The OS/2 vs. Windows debate totally went in Microsoft's favor because there was no compelling reason to run OS/2. There are a ton of compelling reasons to run OS X, security and usability being at the top of the list. The second is the Apple only software. The iLife applications simply rock! There are a ton of really cool OS X only applications out there. OS X has a lot going for it, and there's only one thing really holding it back and that's compatibility with Windows only applications.
That's why moving to Intel at this moment is such a great move. Things are different this time around than they were when it was OS/2 vs Windows and here's why. People are sick and tired of the Windows and are looking for an alternative. The only thing holding them back are various Windows only applications that they depend on. People didn't have that mindset when it was OS/2 vs. Windows. People weren't fed up with Microsoft. OS/2 vs Windows was bascially a "which shell are we going to run on top of DOS" question. That is a fundamentally differnt issue than what customers are facing today. Now it's a "one platform versus the other issue". You've got one platform that people are sick of but tied to and another platform that is up and coming, new, secure and interesting with some really great software of it's own.
Enter OS X on Intel. People like me who are tied to Windows only app's (for me it's mostly games) but are fed up can dual boot, run Virtual PC or run the app's under Wine. All the while we're learning the ins and outs of OS X. The next time a fried or family member asks what system we'd recommend buying, we point to Apple. Price is an issue? We point to the Mac Mini. If they need to run some legacy Windows apps I recommend the above solutions. If they don't want to spend the extra money of another copy of Windows and/or Virtual PC, we explain to them how much time and money they'll save when Windows doesn't need to be reinstalled every 6 months. Plus we explain that since we won't be using any new version of Windows released after XP, we won't be able to help them if they have problems in the future and they'll have to pay to get things fixed.
The Liberal British Broadcasting Network. Flame on ...
For the love of god, we get some acurate information posted on Slashdot and what happens? Nothing ...
The RIAA and MPAA basically own Congress. How long before a piece of legislation mandating the broadcast flag is attached as a rider to some totally unrelated bill, thus allowing it to slide through and be signed into law before we know what hit us? It'll happen sooner or later, trust me.
No .... However early adopters are required to turn over their first born sun or daughter to the RIAA / MPAA to be brainwashed and trained as an intellectual property lawyer.
Which, somehow, will still be easily hackable rendering the other security improvments useless because every script kiddie and their sister will be able to get remote admin access.
Beware the BSAA (Brains Scanners Association of America) whose member companies look for unique personalities, get them to sign a contract for $$$ that allows them to live out their lives, but the BSAA member company owns the copyright to the brainscan and DNA which allows them to make nearly unlimited copies of the individual at will and charge a boatload of money for the copies, all the while denying the original donor their fare share but claiming to protect the donor's "rights".
I'm sure I'll take heat for admitting this on Slashdot, but I'm a fiscally conservative voter who listens to Rush Limbaugh because I tend to agree with him on those matters. Don't agree a thing with the right's social agenda, but couldn't agree more when it comes to conservative ideas on fiscal policy and limited government. No lectures on the shortcomings of the current Republicans, most of them are RINO's (Republican In Name Only) when it comes to fiscal policy and the idea of limited government. Anyway, Rush announced recently that in early June he'll make podcasts of his program available to subscribers. Love him, or hate him, he is the biggest name in talk radio and when he does something, others are sure to follow suite.
On a similar note, I'm also a Tom Leykis fan, and since I live in a suburb of Detroit (and the only radio station that carried him moved the broadcast time to 3 am), I use replay radio to record a stream of a station in Seattle that carries him live in the afternoons. I think this whole pod casting thing is here to stay. There are a boat load of great radio programs out there that for one reason or another, I'd like to listen to all or part of but can't always do so.
You should stay for as long as you said you would stay. If he does withhold your final paycheck for any reason, take him to court. You'll win, and he'll have to pay your legal fees.
I'm concrete, your glue, everything bounces off me and sticks to you! Bendable Concrete? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of concrete? Further, what does this do to the metaphor? No more concrete ideas. I need to go rethink my life.
6.83293589346945600 seconds later I feld the need to respond with a question. What ever happend to 5 and a half years later? Or, over five years later? Perhaps, nearly 6 years later? Using demcial points when talking about years is so slashdot :-)
It also says a little something about the average consumer. Consumers could put the kibosh on this rather fast if they stopped paying money for the same regurgitated crap day after day. Perhaps if consumers demanded more new, original material consistently then corporation would actually be motivated to produce it. We get remake after remake, remix after remix, tired concept after tired concept because the vast majority of consumers are stupid enough to keep paying over and over for the same "repackaged" concept.
If I had a dollar for every dire prediction this blow hard made, I'd be a millionaire.
This town need an enema!
I've got a 40 GB iPod that I take with me when I'm planning on taking a long trip, but I don't carry it with me everywhere I go because I'd have to put it in my pocket and I don't want it to get damanged. If this thing is priced right, I'd buy it and use it as a second mp3 player. It would always be with me because I always carry my cell phone. For long trips, I'd grab the iPod, otherwise I could just plug into the phone.
Lack of anything better to do with their time. Honestly, I don't have time to care what software somebody else uses, unless I'm getting paid to do so. There's too much to do in this world and not nearly enough time to do it all.
Nobody uses MSN search anyway. Most computer users I know use Google, and they range from geeks, to casual users, all the way down to those who think the Internet Explorer icon is "the Internet". MSN search is irrelevant and this is just another example of why it will continue to be well into the future.
This administration never ceases to amaze me. What kind of administration would actually stoop to the level of sending only supporters to advocate its position at an international conference? I mean, what's next, the president appointing supporters and like minded individuals to cabinet level positions? Oh, the horror! When will this madness end?