MS ended up paying 750 million to AOL. Thats a pretty hefty penalty even for a company as large as Microsoft considering it was just over a web browser. While I agree MS did some (and still does) anti competitive behavior, I also think Netscape got lazy at the time and stopped putting out products that were as good.
Back on topic, Real is in the same situation. They offer no advantages over Quicktime or MS media player. A lot of techies view them negatively because of the history of violating customer privacy, and installing additional spyware.
But.. how can half of a 2 way process be illegal? It seems to me this is similiar to it being legal to buy something but illegal for someone to sell it to you. Im probably missing an obvious example of this but I cant think of any now.
I think lawyers do stuff like this on purpose to increase the demand for themselves.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000275 They have 32 and 64 bit apache benchmarks along with some others compared against single and dual xeons.
SCO has been on the decline for a long time. There market is small and medium x86 unix machines which linux is replacing.
I think this is a scheme by the executives to pump the stock and make some money. There is also the remote possiblity that they could get a verdict against IBM and get lucky and have it stand up on appeal. Given todays legal system and the lawsuit happy environment we are in the odds are probably worth taking, especially for a dying company.
If there was any merit to SCO's accusations Im sure we would have seen something by now. After this is over, assuming they lose, I think they should be investigated for fraud.
Its way to complicated and its only free if your time is worth nothing.
Given a choice of Windows 95 and the latest and greatest GNU/LuniX distribution I would take Windows 95 anyday. Microsoft makes it much easier for the average user to configure the system as well as for the developer to make a high quality application.
I use RDC from work to home over my cable modem, which only has a 20K/sec upload rate and it works great. A network packet capture would probably show plenty of excess bandwidth.
RDC is great for checking email or web browsing, in my experience much better than anything else. I doubt any "remote desktop" type software is going to handle multimedia well.
The problem is a 1000 dollar remote monitor. Why not just buy a cheap laptop and get more functionality. You can even get a decent compaq centrino laptop with a 15.2 inch screen for 1200. It doesnt even have a weight advantage, at 6 pounds its just as much or more then most laptops.
Second you have to hope the server is working at a decent speed and doesnt have a bunch of leechs. Or if its a torrent the tracker has to be working and you have to hope for a lot of users to get decent speed.
Finally download and hope for no timeouts or having the source go away and then burn it to a CD.
Of course the quality is not going to be as good as a DVD, a lot of people want the 5.1 sound and the good picture. Why else pay for a nice TV and sound system?
For music I like, its not worth the hassle to me to pirate it. Now a movie I can rent for a few bucks, or waste all this time downloading for an inferior product.
When its as easy as kazaa and you can get almost instant gratification then the MPAA will have a problem. For now, to most people its just not worth the hassle.
*Of course Im not refering to people that pirate for money. How do you figure piracy helps the distro channels and studios?
You just need an IDS product that will dynamically build ACL's if it detects a problem. Cisco sells a product and I think other IDS vendors have some support for doing this.
If the software detects an intrusion, trojan, wirus, whatever, it can be configured to update routers ACL's to block the traffic.
You can still run a lot of dos programs on XP which is just about the same timeline your talking about. Stupidly written applications that dont follow the standard API are generally the only ones that break.
Compare a 18 year old unix graphical app to a current one then you have a fair comparison.
Is netscape or gmail or kmail of whatever going to run on your old unix system? No.
Im really confused why people pay so much to own a legal tivo. Personally I think they should just buy a ati all in wonder card and steal a NAS from work. You can have all of this for under 150, this definately beats paying for a tivo.
Slashdot Mirror
and whats SSH?
just curious
They originally paid about 2 Billion, yes with a B for the company and basically have nothing to show for it.
MS ended up paying 750 million to AOL. Thats a pretty hefty penalty even for a company as large as Microsoft considering it was just over a web browser. While I agree MS did some (and still does) anti competitive behavior, I also think Netscape got lazy at the time and stopped putting out products that were as good.
Back on topic, Real is in the same situation. They offer no advantages over Quicktime or MS media player. A lot of techies view them negatively because of the history of violating customer privacy, and installing additional spyware.
Well a back door is essentially the same thing.
But.. how can half of a 2 way process be illegal? It seems to me this is similiar to it being legal to buy something but illegal for someone to sell it to you. Im probably missing an obvious example of this but I cant think of any now.
I think lawyers do stuff like this on purpose to increase the demand for themselves.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000275
They have 32 and 64 bit apache benchmarks along with some others compared against single and dual xeons.
SCO has been on the decline for a long time. There market is small and medium x86 unix machines which linux is replacing.
I think this is a scheme by the executives to pump the stock and make some money. There is also the remote possiblity that they could get a verdict against IBM and get lucky and have it stand up on appeal. Given todays legal system and the lawsuit happy environment we are in the odds are probably worth taking, especially for a dying company.
If there was any merit to SCO's accusations Im sure we would have seen something by now. After this is over, assuming they lose, I think they should be investigated for fraud.
Yes
*Installing new apps from the command line
.DLL hell but certainly library hell
*Missing packages and circular dependencies - a wont install without b, b wont install without c, c wont install without a.
*Maybe no
*Plug and play works ok during the initial setup but not very well after that. Try changing your video card after already doing the initial install.
*Cut and paste doesnt work most of the time.
*Crappy fonts - most web pages look like crap, even slashdot. I dont consider stealing fonts from windows a fix to this problem.
*X and Gnome and Kde are just as bloated as XP.
*Everything is a beta. Wheres all the version 1.0+ software?
Its way to complicated and its only free if your time is worth nothing.
Given a choice of Windows 95 and the latest and greatest GNU/LuniX distribution I would take Windows 95 anyday. Microsoft makes it much easier for the average user to configure the system as well as for the developer to make a high quality application.
Maybe GNU could learn something from VB.
I use RDC from work to home over my cable modem, which only has a 20K/sec upload rate and it works great. A network packet capture would probably show plenty of excess bandwidth.
RDC is great for checking email or web browsing, in my experience much better than anything else. I doubt any "remote desktop" type software is going to handle multimedia well.
The problem is a 1000 dollar remote monitor. Why not just buy a cheap laptop and get more functionality. You can even get a decent compaq centrino laptop with a 15.2 inch screen for 1200. It doesnt even have a weight advantage, at 6 pounds its just as much or more then most laptops.
First you have to find the movie you want.
Second you have to hope the server is working at a decent speed and doesnt have a bunch of leechs. Or if its a torrent the tracker has to be working and you have to hope for a lot of users to get decent speed.
Finally download and hope for no timeouts or having the source go away and then burn it to a CD.
Of course the quality is not going to be as good as a DVD, a lot of people want the 5.1 sound and the good picture. Why else pay for a nice TV and sound system?
For music I like, its not worth the hassle to me to pirate it. Now a movie I can rent for a few bucks, or waste all this time downloading for an inferior product.
When its as easy as kazaa and you can get almost instant gratification then the MPAA will have a problem. For now, to most people its just not worth the hassle.
*Of course Im not refering to people that pirate for money. How do you figure piracy helps the distro channels and studios?
Arent these the same twits making the voting machines?
A sniffer will pick up mac addresses and most network cards will let you change the mac address on them.
You just need an IDS product that will dynamically build ACL's if it detects a problem. Cisco sells a product and I think other IDS vendors have some support for doing this.
If the software detects an intrusion, trojan, wirus, whatever, it can be configured to update routers ACL's to block the traffic.
The only reason people use bittorrent is to pirate stuff.
Its crappy software anyway.
Apple is currently licensing "1-click" buying and Amazon sued Barnes and Noble over the patent.
They should have stopped with it. The second was ok, but I thought the last one was a let down.
You can still run a lot of dos programs on XP which is just about the same timeline your talking about. Stupidly written applications that dont follow the standard API are generally the only ones that break.
Compare a 18 year old unix graphical app to a current one then you have a fair comparison.
Is netscape or gmail or kmail of whatever going to run on your old unix system? No.
First off sun still has about 5 billion in reserves.
The real problem in the story is generating license keys which you dont have to do with java.
If sun was to vanish tomorrow the SDK's and run time environments wouldnt stop working. All the open source and commercial libraries would still work.
But does it run java?
Im really confused why people pay so much to own a legal tivo. Personally I think they should just buy a ati all in wonder card and steal a NAS from work. You can have all of this for under 150, this definately beats paying for a tivo.
The truth is that cpus are only rated for a certain number of caculations. The exact number varies among processors but its really high.
So yes running number crunching will use more of those calculations and will wear your cpu out quicker.
Check out barefeats.com A single P4 still makes a dual G5 2ghz look bad in some benchmarks. Also a slower dual xeon also wins other tests.
Now the athlon fx beats the 3.2 p4 EE (2 meg of cache), Im sure it will smoke the G5 at 2ghz. In a dual config there is no doubt.
Its not vaporware, athlon fx chips are already readily available and high quantity, even in compusa stores unlike all the backordered G5's.