LOL!!!
Ya know, I wish I was born 30 years earlier... I would have LOVED the 60's... Get drunk, spend a fortune at the casino and go home in an Aston Martin DB5 and shag the babe...
*ringing sound*
back to reality...
Audiobooks... I can't figure out what the problem is with reading...
Anyway, this would seem to be an appropriate use of DRM technology. Of course I would imagine that with an audiobook the quality of the sounds is not as important as with music so someone really bent on keeping a copy would either burn it to cd if their system could do that and otherwise simply record from the audio output of their pc...
I wouldn't but then again, I would never get an audiobook... I prefer to read.
it's oogling us! Beware the gimp ain't asleep...
other than that I love it when an article has a "Mr. Bond" my imagine runs wild and I can just see Sean Connery holding a sheet of paper into the light and saying "well I'll just get this off to Q, now get me another vodka-martini, shaken, not stirred.."
BTW vodka martini shaken is absolutely delicious! Just make sure you get dry martini!
hrmmm *thinking* it's friday, my pal the bartender is working tonight... yep.. time to don the white dinner jacket and light up a cuban...
*mumbling* nobody does it better....
It's interesting because in the hayday of it (gees sound like an old fart..) "geeks" and "hackers" got these jobs and no-one asked a question because, well frankly they didn't know what to ask...
By establishing certification programs it was supposed to be easier for employers to be able to guage what kind of meat they had in the kitchen, alas most certification programs are lacking in their implementation. What these guys have lined up for BSD however, looks pretty good. But then again, the current install base for BSD is such that line managers should be fairly competent at recruiting candidates without the need for certificates. This fact leads me to believe that BSD gremmies are poised to make a severe foray into the corporate market and view this lack of certificates as a weakness they need to overcome.
I guess it depends... if the judge considers google's software to be analagous to p2p networks then the case might fly. Just as a p2p allows individual offenders to distribute their ill gotten gains, so does google allow pornthieves to spread their smutloads to willing viewers...
This is not my POV but merely an alternative view to the matter than what you posted.
Welcome to the dark ages where: - Creationism is more important than Darwin - More money is spent globally on the sex industry than on development and environment - Dubbya is POTUS - Pat Robertson thinks he's god - Fidel Castro is STILL AROUND!! - Gays and Lesbians are treated as second class citizens - Abortion is a crime - Feminism is seen as a root of all evil
What's next folks? Slashdot headlines about scientific breakthrough in craniology? Blacks is dummer than whites?
Well actually those of us using System 7.5 referred to windows 85 as "Macintosh 87" since all the features mentioned in the win95 promo were already there on the mac...
I don't have the boxes and promo docs anymore but I do recall that you could pretty much tick off each of the "selling" points from both sets.. Nonetheless I had my PC (which was standing next my trusty 1990 MacLC) dual boot OS/2 and win 95 just to see what was causing all the flap. This failed miserably until late 1996 when I discovered that what had caused all the flap was something else altogether.. It was (to me) known as RedHat...
Apple is still a PPC vendor and will be for some time.. Don't expect IntelMac to roll out on jan 06 and wipe out the G5...
I actually think that linux on PPC G5/IBMPower5 will become a more important player in the high end market. Customers will appreciate the amazing technology and thanks to IBM's continued support to OpenSource they will actually be able to benefit rapidly.
Whether YDL will be at the forefront of this is of course a different matter altogether. In the high end PPC segment I expect RedHat to move quickly and provide support. Currently AMD64 is the mainstream Linux 64 bit platform but I cannot imagine RedHat not taking advantage of the IBM Power5. This being said, anything RedHat does will be availabel for YDL to implement and hence it will be a marketing question.
I expect to ride Apple PPC until they are obsolete at which point I will asses the performance of IntelMac's versus IBMPower5 systems bearing the cost factor in mind, but I am a private user and so my needs are not nearly as high performance oriented as the professional market.
Considering that much Open Source work involves trying to figure out what the other guys are doing I would expect that Redmond is interested in knowing 1) how much OSDL has learned about their products. 2) what has OSDL learned about Redmond's competitors...
3) what methods does OSDL use..
In essence, industrial espionage...
Sun's approach is an intriguing one. Obviously Sun has a significant customer base in corporate America and as such needs to provide soultions they will use. In the DRM market all the cards have been played and all the systems have been worked out. Except Open DRM... very clever of them to see this. OpenDRM is not the first or perhaps even the best idea in terms of efficacity but it may very well become the biggest, by nature of it being open.
We shall see whether the open model continues to do it's magic and provide content producers with a good product.
Interesting, I was under the impression that when they said freebsd services they had taken it that much closer..
I stand corrected.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/
YMMV??
TCO is imho very dependant on usage. If we are talking about 500 webservers the answer is simple, Linux -hands down- , if we are talking about application servers and network security, I am in my experience inclined to argue for Linux as well but I can appreciate that for an organisation with an existing windows infrastructure the migration costs could be significant.
Of course these rational and salient arguments and hence off-topic for miss DilDo...
It was a joke, it's been on the internet for soooo long.....
*giggle*
Although some of the funnier stuff on blue-screen crew are even better.. just google for the monkey dance...
Well I agree with the tendancy your post highlights, I guess the answer lies in the same trend. It's legal if your company is big enough and has more lawyers than the other guy..
This is hilarious! In the EU abusing the law like this is punishable under law, sorta like contempt.
Dang, man, Silly Billy's wife musta been right about the origins of the company name... dude... these folks have small man syndrome and in a big way...
But was the Ipod marketed before the MS patent? If not it would seem like industrial espionage.
In any case if I were Apple I would let MS go to court because no sane judge would allow this to pass.
This is just so obvious in its purpose to do harm, it's mallicious and detrimental to the activity that patents are supposed (by proponents) engender...
I balance myself out, visiting the same sites with both IE & Firefox
You mean you actually go back and re-browse to negate your IE'ness? Sheesh what a waste of bandwith! That's like saying you will go on your bicycle to the supermarket to make up for the polution your car left behind after you did your shopping!
I hope you didn't do what I think you did.. that would really be silly.
Ok so what of the academic ideals of spreading knowledge and learning? This is a result of american school industry.. It is unfortunate that learning has become a profit commodity for a privileged few in what is supposed to be a land of equality and opportunity for all...
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't think windows was allowed for life-supporting applications.
Heck if it's friday and I am dire need of a drink and the weekend, I am sure I could manage 6 times..
LOL!!! Ya know, I wish I was born 30 years earlier... I would have LOVED the 60's... Get drunk, spend a fortune at the casino and go home in an Aston Martin DB5 and shag the babe... *ringing sound* back to reality...
Audiobooks... I can't figure out what the problem is with reading...
Anyway, this would seem to be an appropriate use of DRM technology. Of course I would imagine that with an audiobook the quality of the sounds is not as important as with music so someone really bent on keeping a copy would either burn it to cd if their system could do that and otherwise simply record from the audio output of their pc...
I wouldn't but then again, I would never get an audiobook... I prefer to read.
it's oogling us! Beware the gimp ain't asleep... other than that I love it when an article has a "Mr. Bond" my imagine runs wild and I can just see Sean Connery holding a sheet of paper into the light and saying "well I'll just get this off to Q, now get me another vodka-martini, shaken, not stirred.." BTW vodka martini shaken is absolutely delicious! Just make sure you get dry martini! hrmmm *thinking* it's friday, my pal the bartender is working tonight... yep.. time to don the white dinner jacket and light up a cuban... *mumbling* nobody does it better....
It's interesting because in the hayday of it (gees sound like an old fart..) "geeks" and "hackers" got these jobs and no-one asked a question because, well frankly they didn't know what to ask... By establishing certification programs it was supposed to be easier for employers to be able to guage what kind of meat they had in the kitchen, alas most certification programs are lacking in their implementation. What these guys have lined up for BSD however, looks pretty good. But then again, the current install base for BSD is such that line managers should be fairly competent at recruiting candidates without the need for certificates. This fact leads me to believe that BSD gremmies are poised to make a severe foray into the corporate market and view this lack of certificates as a weakness they need to overcome.
I guess it depends... if the judge considers google's software to be analagous to p2p networks then the case might fly. Just as a p2p allows individual offenders to distribute their ill gotten gains, so does google allow pornthieves to spread their smutloads to willing viewers...
This is not my POV but merely an alternative view to the matter than what you posted.
Welcome to the dark ages where:
- Creationism is more important than Darwin
- More money is spent globally on the sex industry than on development and environment
- Dubbya is POTUS
- Pat Robertson thinks he's god
- Fidel Castro is STILL AROUND!!
- Gays and Lesbians are treated as second class citizens
- Abortion is a crime
- Feminism is seen as a root of all evil
What's next folks? Slashdot headlines about scientific breakthrough in craniology? Blacks is dummer than whites?
The real headline reads...
"Science is dead"
LOL! Thats windows 95 of course.. not 85!! Whoaha
Well actually those of us using System 7.5 referred to windows 85 as "Macintosh 87" since all the features mentioned in the win95 promo were already there on the mac...
I don't have the boxes and promo docs anymore but I do recall that you could pretty much tick off each of the "selling" points from both sets.. Nonetheless I had my PC (which was standing next my trusty 1990 MacLC) dual boot OS/2 and win 95 just to see what was causing all the flap. This failed miserably until late 1996 when I discovered that what had caused all the flap was something else altogether.. It was (to me) known as RedHat...
Yes you are correct. However a number of projects at OSDL are reverse enginered and this process and related tools will be of interest to MS I expect.
Apple is still a PPC vendor and will be for some time.. Don't expect IntelMac to roll out on jan 06 and wipe out the G5...
I actually think that linux on PPC G5/IBMPower5 will become a more important player in the high end market. Customers will appreciate the amazing technology and thanks to IBM's continued support to OpenSource they will actually be able to benefit rapidly.
Whether YDL will be at the forefront of this is of course a different matter altogether. In the high end PPC segment I expect RedHat to move quickly and provide support. Currently AMD64 is the mainstream Linux 64 bit platform but I cannot imagine RedHat not taking advantage of the IBM Power5. This being said, anything RedHat does will be availabel for YDL to implement and hence it will be a marketing question.
I expect to ride Apple PPC until they are obsolete at which point I will asses the performance of IntelMac's versus IBMPower5 systems bearing the cost factor in mind, but I am a private user and so my needs are not nearly as high performance oriented as the professional market.
Considering that much Open Source work involves trying to figure out what the other guys are doing I would expect that Redmond is interested in knowing 1) how much OSDL has learned about their products. 2) what has OSDL learned about Redmond's competitors... 3) what methods does OSDL use.. In essence, industrial espionage...
Sun's approach is an intriguing one. Obviously Sun has a significant customer base in corporate America and as such needs to provide soultions they will use. In the DRM market all the cards have been played and all the systems have been worked out. Except Open DRM... very clever of them to see this. OpenDRM is not the first or perhaps even the best idea in terms of efficacity but it may very well become the biggest, by nature of it being open.
We shall see whether the open model continues to do it's magic and provide content producers with a good product.
Interesting, I was under the impression that when they said freebsd services they had taken it that much closer.. I stand corrected. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/
LOL!
Of course there is still life in BSD! Not everything is run on Win/Tux!!
And don't forget MacOSX is a BSD at heart.
YMMV?? TCO is imho very dependant on usage. If we are talking about 500 webservers the answer is simple, Linux -hands down- , if we are talking about application servers and network security, I am in my experience inclined to argue for Linux as well but I can appreciate that for an organisation with an existing windows infrastructure the migration costs could be significant. Of course these rational and salient arguments and hence off-topic for miss DilDo...
I beleive the terms she uses to describe linux users and contributors are "hippie communists".
I am very surprised to learn from Ms. DilDO that RedHat, Novell and IBM are bastions of pot smoking longhaired beatniks....
Why is this even posted on slashdot? Did we miss a post? "Slashdot bought out by Microsoft in a historical deal totalling XXXXbillion$"
It was a joke, it's been on the internet for soooo long..... *giggle* Although some of the funnier stuff on blue-screen crew are even better.. just google for the monkey dance...
Well I agree with the tendancy your post highlights, I guess the answer lies in the same trend. It's legal if your company is big enough and has more lawyers than the other guy..
This is hilarious! In the EU abusing the law like this is punishable under law, sorta like contempt. Dang, man, Silly Billy's wife musta been right about the origins of the company name... dude... these folks have small man syndrome and in a big way...
But was the Ipod marketed before the MS patent? If not it would seem like industrial espionage.
In any case if I were Apple I would let MS go to court because no sane judge would allow this to pass.
This is just so obvious in its purpose to do harm, it's mallicious and detrimental to the activity that patents are supposed (by proponents) engender...
You mean you actually go back and re-browse to negate your IE'ness? Sheesh what a waste of bandwith! That's like saying you will go on your bicycle to the supermarket to make up for the polution your car left behind after you did your shopping!
I hope you didn't do what I think you did.. that would really be silly.
I am impressed that the scttish police have been using computers! Oh wee laddie, is that a compuuutaah or er ye just happy to see meee!
Cops and Microsoft.. *bliss* a match made in heaven
Ok so what of the academic ideals of spreading knowledge and learning? This is a result of american school industry.. It is unfortunate that learning has become a profit commodity for a privileged few in what is supposed to be a land of equality and opportunity for all...
Sad sad sad...