Photoshop is more like $700 or so, the academic version is $200-250 alone.
That's INSANELY expensive for a high school student, and pretty damn expensive for a college student.
I'd have to say that at least Microsoft is doing better than Adobe in this regard - Their academic discounts are MUCH better than Adobe's.
Adobe Premiere academic is $250 - The full version with a Firewire card is available for $300 from ADS Systems. (Look around on Best Buy's website, the kit is somewhere there. Try searching for 1394)
FoolProof had some vulnerabilities.
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FoolProof's developers trapped the API at a point where it would interfere with MOST applications.
In fact, in the cases of applications where FP was defeatable, only certain parts of that application might bypass FoolProof.
Specifically, back in high school about 6 years ago, I took a BASIC course (easy A:). They used some wacko dialect of Basic called TrueBasic.
Well, FP worked to block file access for TB's normal file open/close functions. (Specifically, the editor open/close)
But anything that you compiled would access files like FoolProof wasn't there.
3 lines of code replaced the FoolProof program with a 0-byte text file.
I tried no less than *two* different PCI WLAN approaches in my desktop. One was a D-Link DWL-520 (Basically identical to Linksys' offering) - 50%+ packet loss under Windows if it even ran at all, 25%+ under Linux. Prism2 based PCI solutions *SUCK* and it's unfair of you to blame that on Linux when it's even more difficult under Windows.
I also tried an Orinoco PCI. Worked flawlessly under Linux with no trouble whatsoever, it NEVER worked under Windows. (98 or 2000, multiple reinstalls of each) It would show 100% signal strength, but never was able to send/receive data.
(I gave up and ran a Cat5 cable downstairs until I found out about the Linksys WET11 a month later)
Under RedHat 7.3 I plugged in my Orinoco card and it just worked. That's it. Nice and simple. It's a different story if you want to use RF Monitor mode (needed only for utilities like Airsnort and Kismet), but since Kismet and Airsnort are by no means "end-user" tools that doesn't really matter.
What's all that crap you're going through with ssh?
I haven't done a *SINGLE* thing to the SSH config on my desktop 7.3 box and I can SSH into it from work with no problem using TeraTerm. The only config issues I had to deal with were port forwarding on my wireless AP/router, but that had absolutely nothing to do with RedHat.
I don't know how you got Score: 5 - It should be -1 Troll.
Even when I had an old Kyo 2035a (Small compared to the 6035), I couldn't stand to put it in my pockets because I already had too damn much in my pocket.
I have a belt clip - My phone could be twice the size and I wouldn't notice it. I also don't have to pull it out of my pocket to check caller ID.
It's not usually visible because I rarely wear shirts that tuck in, so most shirts I wear cover the phone.
Is their GSM coverage anywhere close to their former TDMA coverage?
That's what I mean by "not there yet" Their GSM footprint is probably on par with Sprint's coverage, which is NOTHING compared to AT&T's former TDMA coverage area. (And I believe Cingular's was large too, compared to Spring.)
T-Mobile can't even cover all of New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the nation. If they can't cover all of NJ, I feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to subscribe to their service in the Midwest.
A lot of people think the Kyo 6035 has an even better form factor - You can't dial on the Treo or use it as a phone without lifting the flip, wherease the 6035's keypad is externally accessible and there is no need to open up the phone to use the phone features. PalmOS based just like the Treos, and since it has a greyscale screen it has excellent battery life. (Many of the people on the Smartphone Source boards only put their phone on the charger once a week or so... *8 hours* of battery life for this Danger piece of crap? You have to be kidding me.)
As to the data charges one of the people who replied to the parent commented on: I use Verizon's Mobile Office service, which gives me free "dialup" internet access. The only thing I pay for are my minutes, which are billed the same as voice.
For those who have a 6035 with Verizon: Ditch Mobile Web, just set up a connection with #777 as the number and qnc/qnc as the user/password. (Note: This also works if you're using a Verizon phone with a serial cable as a modem for another PDA or laptop.)
If you absolutely need a color screen, get a Treo (and deal with Sprint's bad coverage) or wait for the Kyocera 7135, due out either this month or next. The 7135 has: 16M RAM PalmOS 4.1 SD memory slot Built-in MP3 capability (Including MP3 ringers) 2.5G Sprint Vision/Verizon Express Network capable Reflective color LCD screen
The Kyocera 6035 is PalmOS-based (i.e. you can run PalmOS apps on it, not just whatever Danger has preinstalled for you. This includes Liberty, AvantGo, any of the hundreds of PQAs out there).
The 6035 has been out for well over a year. In fact, it's being phased out in favor of the next-generation 7135, due out in 1-2 months. In the meantime, you can get 6035s *FREE* with a Sprint service activation from OfficeMax. (While I don't like Sprint, at least they're better than T-Mobile - The US GSM footprint is horrendous.)
The 6035's phone/PDA integration is excellent. (Unlike its predecessor the pdQ, which apparently sucked.)
So why the excitement over a device that costs more and does less than the 6035?
No, I don't work for Kyocera or Verizon. Yes, I have a 6035 and LOVE it. Check out http://www.smartphonesource.com/ for more info.
Unlike some of his other targets, Google can fight back. He's going to get smacked... Hard. What an idiot. He deserves what he's going to get.
Because the RIAA is trying to force it on us.
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The issue is not that the RIAA is trying to DRM all of their products, the issue is that the RIAA is trying to legislatively force EVERYONE to DRM-cripple their products.
I have had no trouble with playing DVDs from my hard drive with both Intervideo WinDVD and Cyberlink PowerDVD.
Same caveat applies: You must decrypt it first. The Mac doesn't have much of an advantage here.
It has plenty of advantages DRM-wise in other arenas though. *coughcoughMSMediaPlayer9coughcough*
Even better: Rip the DVD to local DivX so you can take more than 1-2 on your trip. (I'll take the quality hit for the advantage of being able to store more than 1-2 movies on my HD.)
There have been plenty of other convergence devices released in the past (Handspring Treo, Kyocera 6035).
How is this one special? It's got a proprietary OS (no installing your favorite PalmOS apps), and from the pictures I've seen on the DangerInfo forum, its form factor is horrible. Yet another "PDA first, then phone" like the Samsung I300.
The market has shown that only "Phone first, then PDA" devices succeed as convergence devices, and usually only Palm-based units. (A few Nokias being the exception.)
HipTop - DOA. Good luck taking on the Kyocera 7135, due out in a month or two.
Not sure exactly what you mean with your form factor comment, but other than that, the Kyocera 7135 sounds like what you want. WiFi/bluetooth via SDIO.
If USB-to-go-go-go-go-whatever were based on USB 1.1, you'd have a valid point.
Comparing USB 1.1 and Firewire is like comparing apples and oranges. They have totally different targets, costs, etc.
But USB-to-go-whatever is based on USB 2.0, which is no cheaper than Firewire. Therefore, why not go with Firewire, which is more mature?
USB 2.0 is going to have a long fight ahead of it. Firewire is a better protocol, is more mature, and firmly entrenched in the video market, which is one of the "killer apps" for high-speed serial. And it isn't any more expensive.
USB 1.1 is here to stay and will be around for a long time. For low-bandwidth devices, it's perfect.
I had myopia in the 5-6 diopter range. (Can't remember). I also had REALLY nasty astigmatism.
My astigmatism was severe enough that most of the time, contacts just didn't cut it. They never corrected nearly as well as glasses, and for me were uncomfortable as hell. (Even 3-month disposables - They'd be uncomfortable from Day 1)
The healing process takes a while - If you're a developer you might have a problem for a month or two. And you'll be attached to your bottle of artificial tears for a few months. 1.5 years later, I usually only need tears in the morning (Honestly, I needed them before the surgery, I've always had dry eyes in the morning.). I have 20/20 vision in both eyes, and it's wonderful.
This is great! I hope they fully integrate "Tight" encoding (http://www.tightvnc.com/) back into the main source tree. It's wonderful.
I use VNC a lot at work. My desktop machine (with Outlook - bleh) runs a VNC server so that I can check email and such remotely from the lab I spend large amounts of time in. It is also nice because the rackmount machine I use in the lab for some of my work has a rather badly situated monitor, it's simpler to use a VNC viewer on my laptop 3 feet away.:)
The only annoying thing I've noticed, but haven't been found any documentation on: How does VNC's polling mechanism differ between Windows 2000 and Windows 98? My desktop in the cube runs Win2k and VNC sessions are silky smooth without any performance tweaks to improve VNC performance. The lab machine mentioned before runs '98 and is laggy as anything even with a few performance tweaks (16-bit color depth, etc.) and the fact that it's sitting on the same 100 Mbit hub as the viewer as opposed to traversing the network across the building. The machine hardware is nearly identical between the systems.
Note: I'm running TightVNC in all instances.
My favorite command: 'startx/usr/bin/vncviewer -fullscreen':)
But b) shows that whoever's involved with their purchasing decisions is a fool. Tell him he should read his EULAs more carefully, because he'll find that most commercial software is "as bad as" or worse than open-source/free software in the liability/sue-ability arena.
VNC doesn't just send "bitmaps" - VNC has a LOT of nice compression tricks that greatly reduce bandwidth.
Overall, I've found that VNC is almost universally faster than a remote X11 connection except in a few rare cases. I've tried remote X11, it's painful and laggy (xterm took 20-30 seconds to pop up a window last time I tried it) even over a 10 Mbit connection, but TightVNC (Not classic VNC, Tight seems to have some nice cursor anti-lag features) is silky smooth in the same situations.
Yes, I'm going to be joining in the crowds of the "Windows still sucks despite this". And here's my reason why:
Simply put, as one person commented, a default Linux installation usually defaults to almost all services being turned OFF, whereas many Windows installations default to vulnerable services being ON.
As a result, the percentage of Linux servers that are actually intended to be servers is FAR greater than the percentage of Windows machines with IIS running that someone is actively maintaining.
As a result, more systems get patched sooner.
For a little dose of reality about Slapper: A friend of mine installed a honeypot on his network, waiting for a Slapper hit so he could check out this new, oh-so-uber threat to our wonderful Linux.
After a few days (might've been as long as a week), Slapper finally hit his machine.
Guess what else hit his machine? Code Red, a year-old Windows worm that made headlines *well over a year ago*, a minimum of 12 CR hits per DAY.
Now, given the Netcraft statistics where Apache has 40-50% of the marketshare of web servers on the 'net - Shouldn't Slapper be hitting more often than Code Red?
But it isn't, because Linux installations are more secure out-of-the-box, and are NOT vulnerable out of the box. One of the main reasons so many Windows machines aren't having IIS patches applied is because the user doesn't even know that IIS is running!
His point was that if you put out software that is worth the cost for Linux, Linux users *WILL* buy it. You just happen to have to compete with the open-source developers, so in order to put out a product that Linux users will buy, you have to do a *DAMN GOOD* job.
Linux games are one example - John Carmack is a genius, hence his products tend to blow any open-source effort to compete away. Same for UT and any of the games Loki ported.
Your example of Oracle is another good example - Your company paid $60,000 for it BECAUSE IT WAS WORTH IT.
I think it's best to read what Ballmer says not as, "Linux users don't pay for software", but "Our software is such utter crap that it can't compete with the likes of Abiword and OpenOffice"
Visio for Linux might be nice though. Also, I haven't seen any presentation tools like PowerPoint for Linux that I've really liked. No point in porting Turd, though.
Ximian is a good example of why Ballmer is wrong - Their commercial offerings are Ximian Connector and their commercial version of Ximian Desktop comes with StarOffice, and they seem to be doing well.
(Note, Ximian should complement Connector with MSProxy/ISA Server support. Dante's MSProxy support is unsupported and way out of date, and doesn't work with ISAServer.)
No point in releasing Deceleration Server for Linux either, Squid blows it away. I'd buy Visio though.
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Photoshop is more like $700 or so, the academic version is $200-250 alone.
That's INSANELY expensive for a high school student, and pretty damn expensive for a college student.
I'd have to say that at least Microsoft is doing better than Adobe in this regard - Their academic discounts are MUCH better than Adobe's.
Adobe Premiere academic is $250 - The full version with a Firewire card is available for $300 from ADS Systems. (Look around on Best Buy's website, the kit is somewhere there. Try searching for 1394)
FoolProof's developers trapped the API at a point where it would interfere with MOST applications.
:). They used some wacko dialect of Basic called TrueBasic.
In fact, in the cases of applications where FP was defeatable, only certain parts of that application might bypass FoolProof.
Specifically, back in high school about 6 years ago, I took a BASIC course (easy A
Well, FP worked to block file access for TB's normal file open/close functions. (Specifically, the editor open/close)
But anything that you compiled would access files like FoolProof wasn't there.
3 lines of code replaced the FoolProof program with a 0-byte text file.
Dude, those are a crapshoot even under Windows.
I tried no less than *two* different PCI WLAN approaches in my desktop. One was a D-Link DWL-520 (Basically identical to Linksys' offering) - 50%+ packet loss under Windows if it even ran at all, 25%+ under Linux. Prism2 based PCI solutions *SUCK* and it's unfair of you to blame that on Linux when it's even more difficult under Windows.
I also tried an Orinoco PCI. Worked flawlessly under Linux with no trouble whatsoever, it NEVER worked under Windows. (98 or 2000, multiple reinstalls of each) It would show 100% signal strength, but never was able to send/receive data.
(I gave up and ran a Cat5 cable downstairs until I found out about the Linksys WET11 a month later)
Under RedHat 7.3 I plugged in my Orinoco card and it just worked. That's it. Nice and simple. It's a different story if you want to use RF Monitor mode (needed only for utilities like Airsnort and Kismet), but since Kismet and Airsnort are by no means "end-user" tools that doesn't really matter.
What's all that crap you're going through with ssh?
I haven't done a *SINGLE* thing to the SSH config on my desktop 7.3 box and I can SSH into it from work with no problem using TeraTerm. The only config issues I had to deal with were port forwarding on my wireless AP/router, but that had absolutely nothing to do with RedHat.
I don't know how you got Score: 5 - It should be -1 Troll.
Even when I had an old Kyo 2035a (Small compared to the 6035), I couldn't stand to put it in my pockets because I already had too damn much in my pocket.
I have a belt clip - My phone could be twice the size and I wouldn't notice it. I also don't have to pull it out of my pocket to check caller ID.
It's not usually visible because I rarely wear shirts that tuck in, so most shirts I wear cover the phone.
Is their GSM coverage anywhere close to their former TDMA coverage?
That's what I mean by "not there yet" Their GSM footprint is probably on par with Sprint's coverage, which is NOTHING compared to AT&T's former TDMA coverage area. (And I believe Cingular's was large too, compared to Spring.)
You might want to check the Kino forums somewhere in www.schirmacher.de
I think one or two Kino users have Firewire HDs.
I'm thinking of getting a 120 gig unit in the near future to complement my MiniDV Firewire camcorder.
T-Mobile can't even cover all of New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the nation. If they can't cover all of NJ, I feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to subscribe to their service in the Midwest.
A lot of people think the Kyo 6035 has an even better form factor - You can't dial on the Treo or use it as a phone without lifting the flip, wherease the 6035's keypad is externally accessible and there is no need to open up the phone to use the phone features. PalmOS based just like the Treos, and since it has a greyscale screen it has excellent battery life. (Many of the people on the Smartphone Source boards only put their phone on the charger once a week or so... *8 hours* of battery life for this Danger piece of crap? You have to be kidding me.)
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As to the data charges one of the people who replied to the parent commented on: I use Verizon's Mobile Office service, which gives me free "dialup" internet access. The only thing I pay for are my minutes, which are billed the same as voice.
For those who have a 6035 with Verizon: Ditch Mobile Web, just set up a connection with #777 as the number and qnc/qnc as the user/password. (Note: This also works if you're using a Verizon phone with a serial cable as a modem for another PDA or laptop.)
If you absolutely need a color screen, get a Treo (and deal with Sprint's bad coverage) or wait for the Kyocera 7135, due out either this month or next. The 7135 has:
16M RAM
PalmOS 4.1
SD memory slot
Built-in MP3 capability (Including MP3 ringers)
2.5G Sprint Vision/Verizon Express Network capable
Reflective color LCD screen
Unfortunately it's a StarTac-style flip phone.
Verizon is CDMA, along with Sprint.
MCI used to have wireless service, but they appear to have disappeared. They were CDMA too.
AT&T and Cingular are TDMA although they're beginning a GSM rollout. (But it's "not there yet")
Voicestream (now T-Mobile) is the only current full-blown GSM provider in the US.
Verizon and AT&T. Both have excellent coverage.
Sprint's coverage is pretty skimpy, but even they are far ahead of T-Mobile (formerly Voicestream)
Good luck when you leave the highway.
The Kyocera 6035 is PalmOS-based (i.e. you can run PalmOS apps on it, not just whatever Danger has preinstalled for you. This includes Liberty, AvantGo, any of the hundreds of PQAs out there).
The 6035 has been out for well over a year. In fact, it's being phased out in favor of the next-generation 7135, due out in 1-2 months. In the meantime, you can get 6035s *FREE* with a Sprint service activation from OfficeMax. (While I don't like Sprint, at least they're better than T-Mobile - The US GSM footprint is horrendous.)
The 6035's phone/PDA integration is excellent. (Unlike its predecessor the pdQ, which apparently sucked.)
So why the excitement over a device that costs more and does less than the 6035?
No, I don't work for Kyocera or Verizon. Yes, I have a 6035 and LOVE it. Check out http://www.smartphonesource.com/ for more info.
Can you say countersued into oblivion?
Unlike some of his other targets, Google can fight back. He's going to get smacked... Hard. What an idiot. He deserves what he's going to get.
The issue is not that the RIAA is trying to DRM all of their products, the issue is that the RIAA is trying to legislatively force EVERYONE to DRM-cripple their products.
I have had no trouble with playing DVDs from my hard drive with both Intervideo WinDVD and Cyberlink PowerDVD.
Same caveat applies: You must decrypt it first. The Mac doesn't have much of an advantage here.
It has plenty of advantages DRM-wise in other arenas though. *coughcoughMSMediaPlayer9coughcough*
Even better: Rip the DVD to local DivX so you can take more than 1-2 on your trip. (I'll take the quality hit for the advantage of being able to store more than 1-2 movies on my HD.)
They do integration VERY well.
I have their current offering, the 6035 - It is EXCELLENT and the phone/PDA integration works very well.
http://www.smartphonesource.com/ has excellent discussion boards for 6035 owners. (Who are all drooling over the upcoming 7135)
There have been plenty of other convergence devices released in the past (Handspring Treo, Kyocera 6035).
How is this one special? It's got a proprietary OS (no installing your favorite PalmOS apps), and from the pictures I've seen on the DangerInfo forum, its form factor is horrible. Yet another "PDA first, then phone" like the Samsung I300.
The market has shown that only "Phone first, then PDA" devices succeed as convergence devices, and usually only Palm-based units. (A few Nokias being the exception.)
HipTop - DOA. Good luck taking on the Kyocera 7135, due out in a month or two.
Not sure exactly what you mean with your form factor comment, but other than that, the Kyocera 7135 sounds like what you want. WiFi/bluetooth via SDIO.
If USB-to-go-go-go-go-whatever were based on USB 1.1, you'd have a valid point.
Comparing USB 1.1 and Firewire is like comparing apples and oranges. They have totally different targets, costs, etc.
But USB-to-go-whatever is based on USB 2.0, which is no cheaper than Firewire. Therefore, why not go with Firewire, which is more mature?
USB 2.0 is going to have a long fight ahead of it. Firewire is a better protocol, is more mature, and firmly entrenched in the video market, which is one of the "killer apps" for high-speed serial. And it isn't any more expensive.
USB 1.1 is here to stay and will be around for a long time. For low-bandwidth devices, it's perfect.
I had it done a year and a half ago.
I had myopia in the 5-6 diopter range. (Can't remember). I also had REALLY nasty astigmatism.
My astigmatism was severe enough that most of the time, contacts just didn't cut it. They never corrected nearly as well as glasses, and for me were uncomfortable as hell. (Even 3-month disposables - They'd be uncomfortable from Day 1)
The healing process takes a while - If you're a developer you might have a problem for a month or two. And you'll be attached to your bottle of artificial tears for a few months. 1.5 years later, I usually only need tears in the morning (Honestly, I needed them before the surgery, I've always had dry eyes in the morning.). I have 20/20 vision in both eyes, and it's wonderful.
This is great! I hope they fully integrate "Tight" encoding (http://www.tightvnc.com/) back into the main source tree. It's wonderful.
:)
/usr/bin/vncviewer -fullscreen' :)
I use VNC a lot at work. My desktop machine (with Outlook - bleh) runs a VNC server so that I can check email and such remotely from the lab I spend large amounts of time in. It is also nice because the rackmount machine I use in the lab for some of my work has a rather badly situated monitor, it's simpler to use a VNC viewer on my laptop 3 feet away.
The only annoying thing I've noticed, but haven't been found any documentation on: How does VNC's polling mechanism differ between Windows 2000 and Windows 98? My desktop in the cube runs Win2k and VNC sessions are silky smooth without any performance tweaks to improve VNC performance. The lab machine mentioned before runs '98 and is laggy as anything even with a few performance tweaks (16-bit color depth, etc.) and the fact that it's sitting on the same 100 Mbit hub as the viewer as opposed to traversing the network across the building. The machine hardware is nearly identical between the systems.
Note: I'm running TightVNC in all instances.
My favorite command: 'startx
I see that a) and c) are very valid points.
But b) shows that whoever's involved with their purchasing decisions is a fool. Tell him he should read his EULAs more carefully, because he'll find that most commercial software is "as bad as" or worse than open-source/free software in the liability/sue-ability arena.
VNC doesn't just send "bitmaps" - VNC has a LOT of nice compression tricks that greatly reduce bandwidth.
Overall, I've found that VNC is almost universally faster than a remote X11 connection except in a few rare cases. I've tried remote X11, it's painful and laggy (xterm took 20-30 seconds to pop up a window last time I tried it) even over a 10 Mbit connection, but TightVNC (Not classic VNC, Tight seems to have some nice cursor anti-lag features) is silky smooth in the same situations.
Yes, I'm going to be joining in the crowds of the "Windows still sucks despite this". And here's my reason why:
Simply put, as one person commented, a default Linux installation usually defaults to almost all services being turned OFF, whereas many Windows installations default to vulnerable services being ON.
As a result, the percentage of Linux servers that are actually intended to be servers is FAR greater than the percentage of Windows machines with IIS running that someone is actively maintaining.
As a result, more systems get patched sooner.
For a little dose of reality about Slapper: A friend of mine installed a honeypot on his network, waiting for a Slapper hit so he could check out this new, oh-so-uber threat to our wonderful Linux.
After a few days (might've been as long as a week), Slapper finally hit his machine.
Guess what else hit his machine? Code Red, a year-old Windows worm that made headlines *well over a year ago*, a minimum of 12 CR hits per DAY.
Now, given the Netcraft statistics where Apache has 40-50% of the marketshare of web servers on the 'net - Shouldn't Slapper be hitting more often than Code Red?
But it isn't, because Linux installations are more secure out-of-the-box, and are NOT vulnerable out of the box. One of the main reasons so many Windows machines aren't having IIS patches applied is because the user doesn't even know that IIS is running!
His point was that if you put out software that is worth the cost for Linux, Linux users *WILL* buy it. You just happen to have to compete with the open-source developers, so in order to put out a product that Linux users will buy, you have to do a *DAMN GOOD* job.
Linux games are one example - John Carmack is a genius, hence his products tend to blow any open-source effort to compete away. Same for UT and any of the games Loki ported.
Your example of Oracle is another good example - Your company paid $60,000 for it BECAUSE IT WAS WORTH IT.
I think it's best to read what Ballmer says not as, "Linux users don't pay for software", but "Our software is such utter crap that it can't compete with the likes of Abiword and OpenOffice"
Visio for Linux might be nice though. Also, I haven't seen any presentation tools like PowerPoint for Linux that I've really liked. No point in porting Turd, though.
Ximian is a good example of why Ballmer is wrong - Their commercial offerings are Ximian Connector and their commercial version of Ximian Desktop comes with StarOffice, and they seem to be doing well.
(Note, Ximian should complement Connector with MSProxy/ISA Server support. Dante's MSProxy support is unsupported and way out of date, and doesn't work with ISAServer.)
No point in releasing Deceleration Server for Linux either, Squid blows it away. I'd buy Visio though.