The average person, who has little technical skill, will only switch to linux when linux gives them a reason to switch that benefits them. People switch to Mac because the interface is nicer and it's easier to use than windows (among other reasons). Linux has no such positive.
To the average user, the linux interface is inconsistent, the documentation is poor, and setting up hardware is a major chore. There is no consistent way to set up drivers that doesn't require editing config files and browsing through man pages. Applications also don't play well together. Things that should be easy are not easy. In short, the community doesn't really have standard ways to do things, everyone does their own thing.
Some of the reasons people switch to linux because its a stable operating system, or a better server platform, or because there are many more developer friendly tools. All of these are good reasons for technical people, none of these are good reasons for the average person.
In the old game Alone in the Dark, you interact with a book (read it), and afterwards your sanity level drops (you go nuts, start spinning around and scream). Doesn't that qualify as prior art?
What if Matt Groening decides to convert some of the characters from earlier episodes to CGI, with the help of Stephen Speilberg and George Lucas?
If George Lucas is involved then they will change it so Mr. Burns will have fired the first bullet when Maggie shoots him in the Who shot Mr. Burns episode.
Yea except these are the idiots that will also sue Google and try to take them down because of their own mistakes. If you're in some sort of struggle with an idiot, you'll be ok, but may God help you if that idiot has a halfway decent lawyer.
Anyone suing Google over this would lose for the same reason you can't sue a rental car company if you left your credit card sitting face up on the dashboard of the car for all to see when you parked it.
My feeling is that if it's a *FREE* service (meaning you don't pay Google anything to use Gmail) then no, you shouldn't be free to use whatever third party software you choose.
It's NOT a free service at all. Gmail is an ad supported service, which means you agree to get ads thrown at you in exchange for using their service. It is exactly the same thing as paying for it, except a third party (the advertiser) is paying your fee to Google so it can throw those ads at you.
Either way Google is getting money from you for their service, which means you should have the same rights as if you paid them directly.
One thing I *do* know is that as good as Stargate SG-1 is, it pisses me off that Stargate gets 8 seasons and counting *AND* a spinoff while Farscape got three years and change with an abrupt axing without doing the characters justice in the "ending".
Stargate SG1 gets the best ratings the SCI-FI network has ever gotten, and is still breaking it's own records, whereas the original Farscape wasn't getting very good ratings, despite the fact that there is a very devoted fanbase for it. I might also want to note that they are continuing Farscape (and hence correcting their own mistake).
That was enough to tick me off originally. But then Sci-Fi made it worse by continuing with that idiot John Edwards who "talks to stupid people"... oh - and supposedly their dead loved ones too (*cough* cold read *cough*). And then they had those two retarded "dream experts" that made everything in their show about *sex*. Sci-Fi is turning into the fucking LifeTime network. Then that terrible "Taken" by Spielberg (or lucas - I can't seperate the two anymore) and then that attrocious three hour guerilla marketing (disguised as a documentary) for The Village which investigated how M. Night Shyamalan is really some sort of voodoo shaman kind of guy with magical powers really did me in for good.
However much you might not like that 'idiot' John Edwards, he gets ratings so they show him. If noone watched it, they wouldn't be playing it.
Like any cable network owned by a large company (and thats basically all of them), the #1 thing they are concerned about is ratings (and hence the ad dollars that result from ratings). All of the tv networks are guilty of cancelling shows before they had a chance to really get started. That is unfortunately the way things work. If you don't like it that way, lobby your congressmen to force a breakup of large media companies, because thats the only way to reverse what is happening now...
Maybe it's just me, but I believe cloudscape is primarily used inside Websphere to ease development of ejbs by making the database local. I can't see it being incredibly useful outside of that... only as development, not as anything deployed. i could be wrong....
Embedded databases are very useful for applications that are intended for a small number of users or a small database (just look at Microsoft's Jet Engine as an example, that is used all over the place). There are many instances where you want the use of a database for a stand-alone application, but don't want to have to install a stand alone database. Imaging creating a CD-Catalog program and telling the user they have to download mysql just to use it. With cloudscape (or any of the other embedded databases) you don't have to do that.
The professor later threatened to sue me for "libel, slander and defamation" because of the "publication of our confidential and private e-mail conversations", even though there was no disclaimer or even an assumption of privacy.
Let's take a look at this:
1. Libel - The act of posting a false publication (hmm this doesn't work, hes posting an email the person actually sent)
2. Slander - A false or misleading statement (This doesn't work either, again, he just posted a verbatum email sent to him)
3. defamation - The acting of injuring someone by slanderous communication (This applies to statements a person made, not statements that someone else made that you printed)
Fact is, unless you sign something ahead of time, such as a Non-Disclosure agreement, stating that all emails you recieve are confidential, you have every legal right to post anything either mail or email (or phone call, or smoke signal) that someone sends you. By sending information to someone, your essentially giving them the rights to that information. It doesn't matter what kind of disclaimer they put on it, because you didn't sign anything ahead of time.
There is a reason they don't go after these people in criminal courts. ITS NOT PIRACY. It is civil copyright infringement. The RIAA calls them pirates to make it sound a lot more insidious.
Yes but on a per song basis, your still overpaying alot by spending 99c. If I go and buy 14 songs on iTunes, I'm still paying the same as would cost for a CD, and not getting any of the value of a CD.
If you want to listen to a certain song, you currently have several LEGAL options: A. Buy the album (or single if available) on CD.
Hmm, lets overpay for music, knowing the artist won't get any of the money anyway, and buy 13 songs I don't want to get one I do.
B. Purchase the song from an online distributor like iTunes.
This is overpaying even more than a CD, you pay the same price as a CD costs for the music, but get no CD, booklet, or Case, and you get many more restrictions on use.
C. Listen to it on the radio.
Most of the good music isn't on the radio. thank you Clear Channel and friends.
You realize at $.99 they are charging you just as much as a cd in the store (which I might add is still way overpriced), but you get many more restrictions and no extra benefits? I really don't understand why people think that the $.99 price point was ever fair. It only seems fair because the cartels have kept the prices of music so high for so long.
When CD's originally came out they were priced much higher than tapes, despite the fact that they were much cheaper to produce. How is this any different?
Linux will never be a user friendly desktop until you don't have to recompile the kernel to get your hardware to work. Every time I try to use linux I run into this.
Download speeds for files as large as full games and video are still too slow. Video download services are going to be a niche market until that can be improved. I hope netflix isn't staking their near term future on this.
Do you really think that the artist is getting any money from sales of music at iTunes? Artists make money from concerts, the recording companies make money from the sale of CD's and digital music.
You don't need to ship a laptop anywhere unless you need something very customized. Most chain stores and computer stores keep a number of different laptops in stock right at the store. You can buy one right there and they will hand it to you. If it's a name brand laptop (like Sony, HP, etc) you can usually get tech support anywhere in the world that supports that brand.
It always starts like this, something small. They take away part of your freedoms, and so you say "it's only under certain conditions". Then they gradually start adding conditions, until you look up and all your freedoms are gone.
When your rights are concerned you can never give an inch.
I like many other people would gladly be using OSX now if I didn't have to buy Mac hardware to run it (I spend enough money already on the pcs I have). They are squandering a huge resource by not letting x86 users run it. It is certainly alot more user friendly than Linux.
David Weber gives all his books for free on his website (or most of them) and it hasn't hurt his sales one bit. If anything it has helped him tremendously by getting new people to read and buy his books.
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The average person, who has little technical skill, will only switch to linux when linux gives them a reason to switch that benefits them. People switch to Mac because the interface is nicer and it's easier to use than windows (among other reasons). Linux has no such positive.
To the average user, the linux interface is inconsistent, the documentation is poor, and setting up hardware is a major chore. There is no consistent way to set up drivers that doesn't require editing config files and browsing through man pages. Applications also don't play well together. Things that should be easy are not easy. In short, the community doesn't really have standard ways to do things, everyone does their own thing.
Some of the reasons people switch to linux because its a stable operating system, or a better server platform, or because there are many more developer friendly tools. All of these are good reasons for technical people, none of these are good reasons for the average person.
In the old game Alone in the Dark, you interact with a book (read it), and afterwards your sanity level drops (you go nuts, start spinning around and scream). Doesn't that qualify as prior art?
move your stuff to the next "permanent" media
Yeah get your data imprinted on cd's made of titanium.
If George Lucas is involved then they will change it so Mr. Burns will have fired the first bullet when Maggie shoots him in the Who shot Mr. Burns episode.
Yea except these are the idiots that will also sue Google and try to take them down because of their own mistakes. If you're in some sort of struggle with an idiot, you'll be ok, but may God help you if that idiot has a halfway decent lawyer.
Anyone suing Google over this would lose for the same reason you can't sue a rental car company if you left your credit card sitting face up on the dashboard of the car for all to see when you parked it.
My feeling is that if it's a *FREE* service (meaning you don't pay Google anything to use Gmail) then no, you shouldn't be free to use whatever third party software you choose.
It's NOT a free service at all. Gmail is an ad supported service, which means you agree to get ads thrown at you in exchange for using their service. It is exactly the same thing as paying for it, except a third party (the advertiser) is paying your fee to Google so it can throw those ads at you.
Either way Google is getting money from you for their service, which means you should have the same rights as if you paid them directly.
Stargate SG1 gets the best ratings the SCI-FI network has ever gotten, and is still breaking it's own records, whereas the original Farscape wasn't getting very good ratings, despite the fact that there is a very devoted fanbase for it. I might also want to note that they are continuing Farscape (and hence correcting their own mistake).
However much you might not like that 'idiot' John Edwards, he gets ratings so they show him. If noone watched it, they wouldn't be playing it.
Like any cable network owned by a large company (and thats basically all of them), the #1 thing they are concerned about is ratings (and hence the ad dollars that result from ratings). All of the tv networks are guilty of cancelling shows before they had a chance to really get started. That is unfortunately the way things work. If you don't like it that way, lobby your congressmen to force a breakup of large media companies, because thats the only way to reverse what is happening now...
Maybe it's just me, but I believe cloudscape is primarily used inside Websphere to ease development of ejbs by making the database local. I can't see it being incredibly useful outside of that... only as development, not as anything deployed. i could be wrong....
Embedded databases are very useful for applications that are intended for a small number of users or a small database (just look at Microsoft's Jet Engine as an example, that is used all over the place). There are many instances where you want the use of a database for a stand-alone application, but don't want to have to install a stand alone database. Imaging creating a CD-Catalog program and telling the user they have to download mysql just to use it. With cloudscape (or any of the other embedded databases) you don't have to do that.
The professor later threatened to sue me for "libel, slander and defamation" because of the "publication of our confidential and private e-mail conversations", even though there was no disclaimer or even an assumption of privacy.
Let's take a look at this:
1. Libel - The act of posting a false publication (hmm this doesn't work, hes posting an email the person actually sent)
2. Slander - A false or misleading statement (This doesn't work either, again, he just posted a verbatum email sent to him)
3. defamation - The acting of injuring someone by slanderous communication (This applies to statements a person made, not statements that someone else made that you printed)
Fact is, unless you sign something ahead of time, such as a Non-Disclosure agreement, stating that all emails you recieve are confidential, you have every legal right to post anything either mail or email (or phone call, or smoke signal) that someone sends you. By sending information to someone, your essentially giving them the rights to that information. It doesn't matter what kind of disclaimer they put on it, because you didn't sign anything ahead of time.
There is a reason they don't go after these people in criminal courts. ITS NOT PIRACY. It is civil copyright infringement. The RIAA calls them pirates to make it sound a lot more insidious.
Finally jumped the shark.
Yes but on a per song basis, your still overpaying alot by spending 99c. If I go and buy 14 songs on iTunes, I'm still paying the same as would cost for a CD, and not getting any of the value of a CD.
Lets take a good look at those options...
If you want to listen to a certain song, you currently have several LEGAL options:
A. Buy the album (or single if available) on CD.
Hmm, lets overpay for music, knowing the artist won't get any of the money anyway, and buy 13 songs I don't want to get one I do.
B. Purchase the song from an online distributor like iTunes.
This is overpaying even more than a CD, you pay the same price as a CD costs for the music, but get no CD, booklet, or Case, and you get many more restrictions on use.
C. Listen to it on the radio.
Most of the good music isn't on the radio. thank you Clear Channel and friends.
Now What???
You realize at $.99 they are charging you just as much as a cd in the store (which I might add is still way overpriced), but you get many more restrictions and no extra benefits? I really don't understand why people think that the $.99 price point was ever fair. It only seems fair because the cartels have kept the prices of music so high for so long.
When CD's originally came out they were priced much higher than tapes, despite the fact that they were much cheaper to produce. How is this any different?
Only took numerous voting irregularities and complete admission of guilt. Glad to see our swift democracy in action.
No agreement you sign can force you to give up your constitutional rights. We have the federal government for that.
CNS allows them to automatically restrict or cut off Internet access for alleged infringers on notice from a record label or movie studio.
It's nice to see no trial is necessary to make every student guilty. Guess that constitution thing doesn't apply unless your a corporate executive.
Which isn't to say fluorine is pleasant stuff, but it's not going to destroy the ozone layer.
No Just You.
Linux will never be a user friendly desktop until you don't have to recompile the kernel to get your hardware to work. Every time I try to use linux I run into this.
Download speeds for files as large as full games and video are still too slow. Video download services are going to be a niche market until that can be improved. I hope netflix isn't staking their near term future on this.
Do you really think that the artist is getting any money from sales of music at iTunes? Artists make money from concerts, the recording companies make money from the sale of CD's and digital music.
You don't need to ship a laptop anywhere unless you need something very customized. Most chain stores and computer stores keep a number of different laptops in stock right at the store. You can buy one right there and they will hand it to you. If it's a name brand laptop (like Sony, HP, etc) you can usually get tech support anywhere in the world that supports that brand.
It always starts like this, something small. They take away part of your freedoms, and so you say "it's only under certain conditions". Then they gradually start adding conditions, until you look up and all your freedoms are gone. When your rights are concerned you can never give an inch.
I like many other people would gladly be using OSX now if I didn't have to buy Mac hardware to run it (I spend enough money already on the pcs I have). They are squandering a huge resource by not letting x86 users run it. It is certainly alot more user friendly than Linux.
David Weber gives all his books for free on his website (or most of them) and it hasn't hurt his sales one bit. If anything it has helped him tremendously by getting new people to read and buy his books.