Lets email Apple and politely ask for OGG support.
It might seem like nothing, but who knows what can make a difference, and if when some engineer shows X number of emails to his boss it might make him have a second look.
Besides, the competition between audio devices of the iPod type is heating up and I'm sure that soon any technical advantage over a concurrent will be worth more than when competition was cooler.
I think you are not being paranoid enough, actually. Do a google search on the RIAA's new toy, the PIRATE act. You'd end up paying for sueing yourself. What a nice business model...
I don't know how good any measure will be if not implemented by everybody, though. As soon as spammers will notice that it doesn't work with Comsat anymore, they'll move somwhere else, or even outsource their deed. We need to make some more fundamentals change to email to get rid of spammers, IMO.
I'm skeptical about how realistic it is to develop an open source search engine. Wikipedia, although cool, has large gaps in content, and only a few months ago was begging for donations to survive.
Well, Wikipedia did get almost $30K in donations that time and is still getting lots of donations from what I gather, and could easily get a lot more whenever it wanted because lots of people LOVE that project, so that part is successful.
As for the larg gaps in content, it is being worked on everyday. That's the nature of a work in progress, and I'm sure that compared to Wikipedia many other "real" encylopedias have "large gaps in content", shorter articles because of space/price restrictions and, especially, lots of terribly outdated content. And the good part is, if you see something bad, you can actually fix it!
Open source/stuff often looks unfinished compared to proprietary stuff because, well, it is! If you could've seen the "betas" of proprietary encyclopedias and software you'd probably see most of the same failings.
Lack of functionality implies lack of bugs, security or otherwise. Not a very interesting point, but undeniably true.
The functionality is there with OS X, it's just that it's not turned on until you actually used it. It means that probably 95% of OS X users out there don't have unecessary services running because they simply don't use them, not because they are not available to them.
Chances are, in a few years I'll be self-employed in the legal world and, although it's it extremely small scale as far as IT deployment is concerned, I plan on using as much OSS as I can.
I'm sure I won't be able to get away from some proprietary software (office suite?), but at least I'll try to encourage the companies doing good things (ie. Mac workstations but Linux or *BSD servers).
I've always been curious (maybe this should go in a Ask Slashdot post -- hmmm) to know what others are doing in the legal world.
While KDE 3.2 is MUCH MUCH faster than 3.0, it runs about as fast as WinXP.
I'll have to disagree with this.
I have a dual boot of WinXP pro and Slackware (2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2) on an old AMD K6-2 450mhz, 192 megs RAM and KDE is much faster than WinXP (and I've turned off all the graphics extras in Win).
The 2.6.x kernel probably helps with the speed and responsiveness, though. I suggest you try it if you haven't already. (and not to mention Slackware, which is fast as hell)
Umm, why? Why would IBM care if Photoshop runs on Linux? The proportion of desktop or home users who need photoshop is vanishingly small. They happen to be loud and picky, but there is no point in catering to them.
Money would be better spent improving OpenOffice and getting functional Outlook, PowerPoint and Project replacements. That is, if you care about Linux on the average worker's desktop.
I realize that it wouldn't bring a direct benefit to IBM, or even most of the other big corps, but I'm sure the investment (it can't cost millions to do a port) would pay itself back indirectly by making the linux platform a better and more versatile alternative.
The big backers of Linux (IBM, Red Hat, Novell) should fork over a bit of money to either pay Adobe for a Linux port or license the code and port it themselves.
Or someone just has negociate with Adobe the amount of money it'd take to port Photoshop to linux and then set up a www.Donate4PS-Linux.org website where people can make donations.
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Yes, but "ogg" sounds cool and "Vorbis" just sounds like it tries to hard to sound cool and futuristic ;-)
Lets email Apple and politely ask for OGG support.
It might seem like nothing, but who knows what can make a difference, and if when some engineer shows X number of emails to his boss it might make him have a second look.
http://www.apple.com/contact/
Besides, the competition between audio devices of the iPod type is heating up and I'm sure that soon any technical advantage over a concurrent will be worth more than when competition was cooler.
Or am I just being paranoid?
I think you are not being paranoid enough, actually. Do a google search on the RIAA's new toy, the PIRATE act. You'd end up paying for sueing yourself. What a nice business model...
Or to show the RIAA that their business model is outdated.
Good point. Gratitude is the *least* we can do, that and constructive criticism to make good/great projects even better.
And a few donations here and there are cool too, of course.
I don't know how good any measure will be if not implemented by everybody, though. As soon as spammers will notice that it doesn't work with Comsat anymore, they'll move somwhere else, or even outsource their deed. We need to make some more fundamentals change to email to get rid of spammers, IMO.
Well, I'm actually curious.
Can anyone posts here the summary of the article. I just want to see how good that thing is and I don't have a Mac.
I'm skeptical about how realistic it is to develop an open source search engine. Wikipedia, although cool, has large gaps in content, and only a few months ago was begging for donations to survive.
Well, Wikipedia did get almost $30K in donations that time and is still getting lots of donations from what I gather, and could easily get a lot more whenever it wanted because lots of people LOVE that project, so that part is successful.
As for the larg gaps in content, it is being worked on everyday. That's the nature of a work in progress, and I'm sure that compared to Wikipedia many other "real" encylopedias have "large gaps in content", shorter articles because of space/price restrictions and, especially, lots of terribly outdated content. And the good part is, if you see something bad, you can actually fix it!
Open source/stuff often looks unfinished compared to proprietary stuff because, well, it is! If you could've seen the "betas" of proprietary encyclopedias and software you'd probably see most of the same failings.
I think they should make a short version of the change log with a summery of what changed. Does anybody know of such a thing?
KernelTrap.org is fairly close to what you're asking.
Imagine this thing optimized for the opteron: our long-awaited dream of high-end OSX software on cheapo hardware
Opteron is "cheapo hardware"?!
Also, you don't have to turn solar energy into electricity to use it.
Geothermal pumps can heat (and cool in the summer) a house and heat its water while saving you tons on your electricity bill.
A FAQ about geothermal tech can be found here. I think that ALL new houses should be built with this technology.
Now is the good time to encourage movements such as FreeCulture.org; check out their manifesto.
unfortunately, we can't spell for shit.
At least we can do that in more than one language!
Smaller fans = less noise.
Actually, that's not true. Bigger fans move more air per rotation and so spin slower, thus making less noise.
Also, when big fans spin fast, they tend to make a less annoying noise than small fans with their high-pitched whine.
Lack of functionality implies lack of bugs, security or otherwise. Not a very interesting point, but undeniably true.
The functionality is there with OS X, it's just that it's not turned on until you actually used it. It means that probably 95% of OS X users out there don't have unecessary services running because they simply don't use them, not because they are not available to them.
Slackware is indeed a great distro and my personal favourite.
I'll probably recommend Fedora Core 2 (when it's out) to my father since he wants to try Linux.
But Slackware makes for a great server AND desktop (if you put a little work into it).
Chances are, in a few years I'll be self-employed in the legal world and, although it's it extremely small scale as far as IT deployment is concerned, I plan on using as much OSS as I can.
I'm sure I won't be able to get away from some proprietary software (office suite?), but at least I'll try to encourage the companies doing good things (ie. Mac workstations but Linux or *BSD servers).
I've always been curious (maybe this should go in a Ask Slashdot post -- hmmm) to know what others are doing in the legal world.
Google has always been on Linux as far as I know.
While KDE 3.2 is MUCH MUCH faster than 3.0, it runs about as fast as WinXP.
I'll have to disagree with this.
I have a dual boot of WinXP pro and Slackware (2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2) on an old AMD K6-2 450mhz, 192 megs RAM and KDE is much faster than WinXP (and I've turned off all the graphics extras in Win).
The 2.6.x kernel probably helps with the speed and responsiveness, though. I suggest you try it if you haven't already. (and not to mention Slackware, which is fast as hell)
Umm, why? Why would IBM care if Photoshop runs on Linux? The proportion of desktop or home users who need photoshop is vanishingly small. They happen to be loud and picky, but there is no point in catering to them.
Money would be better spent improving OpenOffice and getting functional Outlook, PowerPoint and Project replacements. That is, if you care about Linux on the average worker's desktop.
I realize that it wouldn't bring a direct benefit to IBM, or even most of the other big corps, but I'm sure the investment (it can't cost millions to do a port) would pay itself back indirectly by making the linux platform a better and more versatile alternative.
The big backers of Linux (IBM, Red Hat, Novell) should fork over a bit of money to either pay Adobe for a Linux port or license the code and port it themselves.
Or someone just has negociate with Adobe the amount of money it'd take to port Photoshop to linux and then set up a www.Donate4PS-Linux.org website where people can make donations.
Is this the start of a second technology bubble? Hopefully investors have learned from their mistakes this time...
DOS? I think I remember that. Wasn't that the Microsoft product that rarely crashed?
Well, there was nothing to crash, really.
Yeah, great idea. Lets give the kids computers that are worth a lot more than the thinkpads, that'll solve the problem.
Leave it to a Microsoft spokesman to complain about "closed ecosystems". Heh.