I use my Win 2003 IPAQ 2215 every day - I am constantly amazed at its flexibility and usefullness - Show me a Palm that I can
Use as a contacts/Calender
Great Picture Viewer
Read the newspaper nd magazines on: isiloX
Watch endless hours of TV/Movies on subway : Betaplayer and 1GB CF and SD Card
Listen to music Podcasts:Gsplayer and 1GB Cf and 1GB SD
Send and Read email: Outlook w/ Bluetooth to my Motorola phone
Read pdfs - including subway maps etc...
Use as GPS Navigator: TomTom plus bluetooth GPS
Listen to FM Radio - FM CF Card adaptor (ok I hardly use it)
Get full internet: Socket CF Wifi Card and NetFront
Use as Skype Phone
Balance Checkbook: Pocket Excel
Loan Calculator
Draw Floor Planss:Pocket PAinter
Stream Music: Gsplayer and Shoutcast or Rescoe Radio
Hold all passwords in encrypted format:Ewallet
Check TV listings: Pocket TV Listings
Use as TV Remote - Nevo
Control my home computer using Logmein Pocket
and Play amazing games including Age of Empires and Virtual Pool
All that and 5-7hrs battery life
Find me a Palm that - albeit w/ maybe a soft reset a day and I'm dropping MS
compete with Pocket PC (yet) for multi-function usability. Okay so in a typical day I use my IPAQ 2215 to
Play music -GSPlayer
Watch TV and Movies - Betaplayer
Read newspapers and magazines - iSiloX
Driving Directions - GPS navigation Bluetooth receiver w/ TomTom
Play Games -Age of Empires
Get restaurant review - Zagats to go
Show pictures of my Daughter - Image Viewer
Check TV listings - PTVL
Draw rough floorplans in field for work - Pocket Painter
Track appointments & Contacts - Agenda Fusion
and if neccessary I can use the wireless card to check email or get on the net and control my desktop remotley and even use Skype.
Be honest their is no Linux setup that can do all these tasks easily.
I agree with all you say EXCEPT - Linux will quickly surpass Windows IF (and only if) mainstream box manufacturers and Big companies start to install desktop Linux on their boxes. If people can buy a pre-installed version for less than Windows at Dell or Hp they might do it; ESPECIALLY if their workplace has gotten them used to the OS. Otherwise I beleive you are right - the average user is not going to spend days installing and tweaking a new and unfamiliar OS.
Macs are too expensive for the true "average" user whose machine was bought for well under $1000 (plus Windows is familar cause thats what they got at work) and Linux doesnt come pre-installed and no matter what anyone says, no "average" user is going to get a Linux distro loaded and configured by themselves.
And in the end Windows does do alot of things real well.
The RIAA and MPAA (and SCO for all intents and purposes) arent companies! MPAA and RIAA are trade associations and they arent suppossed to 'make a profit' additionally the RIAA suits have been HUGELY profitable, given that 99% of the individuals settle w/o so much as filing a single motion.
Additionally you know little about Corporate "legal departments" - they do not want ANY litigation, since litigation is generally a hugely expensive proposition NOT conducted by the Corporate legal dept, but by $600 an hr outside counsels - Some Corporations like to threaten litgation but all are hoping for sttlement before that black hole really starts.
The Europeans dont seem to be rolling over regarding anti-trust. Additionally you ignore the Millions (if not billions) spent in legal fees.
You also ignore that security is a whole new area. MS may not have any liability to users when selling an OS with tons of holes. But with security software they will, especially if you drive all the other companies out of biz by leveraging your monopoly and giving it away free.
Trust me MS would love to give it away free, but they cant or they'll run into even more anti-trust action, especially if their anti-virus, etc.. is as buggy as ie.
No by charging they'll have to compete on a quasi-level playing field. Therefore if their code stinks they will suffer, if its good it will sell and force the industry to improve - this is how competition is SUPPOSSED to work.
Reality is that no Linuix desktop distibution is ready for prime time. There are only two users who can use Linuix destop happilly. The total geek or the total Grandparent (after the Geek sets it up for them).
Loading a distro requires TONS more expertise and has much higher 'failure' rate than a Win install. And once you get it running, if you want to change/install/remove programs Linuix is a nightmare compared to Windoze. Dependencies, Rmp, Kpackage, non-intuitive file systems come on.... Just think about loading Firefox on a windows system - click - run - installed - Linuix requires tons more 'knowledge than that. OSS has to take over Windows 1st and then people will switch b/c they'll be able to buy a computer that has all the things they want (those familiar apps) for less - the OS will be irrellevant except as it comes to cost.
Not Naive at all - 100% correct, the name of the game is convenience - why do people pay for itunes when it is still relatively easy to steal every song offered.
No not b/c people are honest - please 50Million people a day were using Napster
No not b/c they care about quality rips - S/A/A
No not b/c of lawsuits - people still steal cable and sat TV and they've brought many more cases (and easier to prove) over the years
Answer - because i-tunes is convenient (and now it is even hip) - for anyone with an Ipod it couldnt be more simple to FIND music and download it, and for that they are willing to pay 99cents. (more we shall see)
So why are people still stealing music?
Not because they are cheap - people spend $100+ for a concert and $40 for Broadband
Answer = Because if you dont have/want an Ipod or you like to listen in your car or off CD - itunes IS NOT convenient, it is more convenient to download raw MP3s and use them as you wish.
When(IF) the RIAA ever decides to stop with DRM and all the other crap and sell convenience, they will be overwhelmed with the flow of $$$$
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What the RIAA dont get and you point out - is that they dont sell music - they sell convenience
The record was great - but tough to take with you and scratched easily, the 8 track was easier to carry but sounded like crap, the cassette was easy to take w/ you but inconvenient for individual songs and the CD was easier to carry AND easy to get to the songs and now the most popular is MP# which is the easiest to carry AND get to the tracks.
Will people PAY - yes look at i-tunes which still has tons of issues for the consumer better yet look at ALLOFMP#.com which combines CHEAP and easy - for sure you couldnt charge those prices in the US but even at a higher per song cost it would be great to just be able to download the songs I want EASILY and affordably - and for sure the RIAA would make up in volume (Read - 20 Gigs) what they lose in price. And think all theyd save in R&D
I got the NEX IA and it is great - there review is ridiculous - they catagorize the NEX IA as Hard Drive based (bottom of the review) so clearly they bought the player with a microdrive. But in reality the NEX is a FLASH BASED player and as such it is the best! Its battery life is 2.5x what they got (with flash card). It is expandable, and with CF cards, putting music is as simple as drag and drop - WITHOUT loading drivers, software, etc....
They missed the mark with this review
Think about it, the average american family watches 4-6hrs of TV a DAY, so if you multiply that by 30 days and divide by say $50, your talking about 33cents for an hours of entertainment.
Please find me any other form of media that is so cheap.
Assuming (big) that your average slashdotter is watching some of the more esoteric programming on cable (techtv, a&e, National Geographic, etc) this plan will be a disaster. Once an ala-carte system goes into place, the less subscribed channels will get less and less advertising dollars, and therefore , will either have less and less programing or cost more and more to subscribe to.
Yes but his children and grandchildren and great granchildren (and possibly longer) need the money, and the beautiful thing is that not only will they get money from art that they didnt make but they'll be able to pass their money tax free to the next generation thanks to the elimination of estate taxes.
Oh by the way this country is a meritocracy - YEAH SURE
But they dont recongnize this - which is why they are in so much trouble. There was plenty of music before the "record industry" - just not that much "business" - because you only could get music if you played it yourself. So 1st they had sheet music, to make playing it more convenient, then radio, etc..
Each step was fought by the "powers that be" because of fear of copying, and each time despite rampant copying, coffering convenience was the most profitable business model.
How can we legitimatley claim that there is a "morality/value" issue when virtually EVERY state has either lotteries, Horse Racing, Dog racing, Casinos, Riverboats, Jai Lai, etc... (and ore likely your State has more than one of the above) - So if we have no "moral/value" issue with these forms of Gambling what is the basis to preventing other countries from competing on the free market?
What it comes down to is the States dont want to lose this "protected" form of taxation.
Actually I want to see this update - anything that delays Longhorn I'm in favor of. Be honest WinXp runs pretty good now for most of us that are using it - we've had years to figure out which drivers/sofware crashes it and I for one have my XP box humming.
Who wants to go through the typical MS upgrade path with crashes bugs issues etc.... As long as MS keeps issuing XP (and its ilk) the longer they and everyone else will support my box, the longer I can go without having to buy some bloated, buggy piece of crap
The whole notion that an end-user would owe SCO anything (even if it was there code) is ridiculous.
By way of example - if you buy a car and it turns out that it was stolen ( assuming you reasonably had no idea) you have NO LIABILITY - you do have to give the car to its rightful owner (ie stop using it) but you dont owe the real owner the depreciation that occurred while you were using it. Because it would be UNFAIR, since you bought it in good faith.
So if Sco establishes owenrship (which it apparently cant), then users would have to cease to use it. THATs IT - the only possibility (and it isnt really one) is that by notifying users today, some crazy judge could say that from the time you were otified till the time you stopped using it you are liable. Thats not likely because the notice from SCO has provided no details that really provide notice that SCO is the owner.
In addition even if that worse case senario occurred the UPPER limit on damages has been established $149 a year per useage. And even that wouldnt be likely since SCO's pricing is arbitrary
and no Judge would rule 60 lines is worth $149 - unless it was some trade secret - which has been dropped.
The whole end-user thing is a red-herring since no owner of IP is going to sue end-users, for the above reasons and the reason why majority of Software Companies dont offer indemnification, is b/c they dont want the nuisance of every ambulance chaser making a run at their very deep pockets
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" but Ignorance that something is contraband is most definitly an excuse.
BTW - willfull or intentional ignorance is not an excuse either
Sorry Friend, but Mules do KNOW that they are carrying illegal drugs and if they dont they have a defense. In fact that is the defense used in virtually all "courier" cases (as they are called).
The Government must prove that they knew they were carrying illegal drugs, which usually isnt hard to prove circumstantially when they swallow condoms of a white powder.
It becomes more difficult when it is concealled in toy they say that a relative gave them to deliver. - sometimes they slipup other times they walk free. KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED!
Wow! nice job misconstruing that definition, what is hard to understand. The law says that EXPECTATION of receiving something of value is "financial gain" and something of value includes copyrighted works = THEREFORE expectation of receiving copyrighted works IS financial gain. You however took its obvious meaning and attempted to manipulate the definition to serve your poin - nice job counselor - excpet laws are suppossed to be read with their plain meaning in mind and this laws meanin is plain.
As for whether the GPL is "coded" into US copyright no one is saying it is EXPRESSLY written in but obviously definitions such as this establish legal support for the GPL framework.
And your critisim of Linus is humorous since you could be sure that if SCO ever got to court with the arguments against GPL - Linus argument (among many) will be argued by Lawyers making $400 dollars in the time it took me to type this. And if you dont think so then you Counselor have never been in a courtroom!
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I use my Win 2003 IPAQ 2215 every day - I am constantly amazed at its flexibility and usefullness - Show me a Palm that I can Use as a contacts/Calender Great Picture Viewer Read the newspaper nd magazines on: isiloX Watch endless hours of TV/Movies on subway : Betaplayer and 1GB CF and SD Card Listen to music Podcasts:Gsplayer and 1GB Cf and 1GB SD Send and Read email: Outlook w/ Bluetooth to my Motorola phone Read pdfs - including subway maps etc... Use as GPS Navigator: TomTom plus bluetooth GPS Listen to FM Radio - FM CF Card adaptor (ok I hardly use it) Get full internet: Socket CF Wifi Card and NetFront Use as Skype Phone Balance Checkbook: Pocket Excel Loan Calculator Draw Floor Planss :Pocket PAinter
Stream Music: Gsplayer and Shoutcast or Rescoe Radio
Hold all passwords in encrypted format:Ewallet
Check TV listings: Pocket TV Listings
Use as TV Remote - Nevo
Control my home computer using Logmein Pocket
and Play amazing games including Age of Empires and Virtual Pool
All that and 5-7hrs battery life
Find me a Palm that - albeit w/ maybe a soft reset a day and I'm dropping MS
compete with Pocket PC (yet) for multi-function usability. Okay so in a typical day I use my IPAQ 2215 to Play music -GSPlayer Watch TV and Movies - Betaplayer Read newspapers and magazines - iSiloX Driving Directions - GPS navigation Bluetooth receiver w/ TomTom Play Games -Age of Empires Get restaurant review - Zagats to go Show pictures of my Daughter - Image Viewer Check TV listings - PTVL Draw rough floorplans in field for work - Pocket Painter Track appointments & Contacts - Agenda Fusion and if neccessary I can use the wireless card to check email or get on the net and control my desktop remotley and even use Skype. Be honest their is no Linux setup that can do all these tasks easily.
I agree with all you say EXCEPT - Linux will quickly surpass Windows IF (and only if) mainstream box manufacturers and Big companies start to install desktop Linux on their boxes. If people can buy a pre-installed version for less than Windows at Dell or Hp they might do it; ESPECIALLY if their workplace has gotten them used to the OS. Otherwise I beleive you are right - the average user is not going to spend days installing and tweaking a new and unfamiliar OS.
Macs are too expensive for the true "average" user whose machine was bought for well under $1000 (plus Windows is familar cause thats what they got at work)
and Linux doesnt come pre-installed and no matter what anyone says, no "average" user is going to get a Linux distro loaded and configured by themselves.
And in the end Windows does do alot of things real well.
The RIAA and MPAA (and SCO for all intents and purposes) arent companies! MPAA and RIAA are trade associations and they arent suppossed to 'make a profit' additionally the RIAA suits have been HUGELY profitable, given that 99% of the individuals settle w/o so much as filing a single motion.
Additionally you know little about Corporate "legal departments" - they do not want ANY litigation, since litigation is generally a hugely expensive proposition NOT conducted by the Corporate legal dept, but by $600 an hr outside counsels - Some Corporations like to threaten litgation but all are hoping for sttlement before that black hole really starts.
The Europeans dont seem to be rolling over regarding anti-trust. Additionally you ignore the Millions (if not billions) spent in legal fees. You also ignore that security is a whole new area. MS may not have any liability to users when selling an OS with tons of holes. But with security software they will, especially if you drive all the other companies out of biz by leveraging your monopoly and giving it away free.
Trust me MS would love to give it away free, but they cant or they'll run into even more anti-trust action, especially if their anti-virus, etc.. is as buggy as ie. No by charging they'll have to compete on a quasi-level playing field. Therefore if their code stinks they will suffer, if its good it will sell and force the industry to improve - this is how competition is SUPPOSSED to work.
Reality is that no Linuix desktop distibution is ready for prime time. There are only two users who can use Linuix destop happilly. The total geek or the total Grandparent (after the Geek sets it up for them). Loading a distro requires TONS more expertise and has much higher 'failure' rate than a Win install. And once you get it running, if you want to change/install/remove programs Linuix is a nightmare compared to Windoze. Dependencies, Rmp, Kpackage, non-intuitive file systems come on.... Just think about loading Firefox on a windows system - click - run - installed - Linuix requires tons more 'knowledge than that. OSS has to take over Windows 1st and then people will switch b/c they'll be able to buy a computer that has all the things they want (those familiar apps) for less - the OS will be irrellevant except as it comes to cost.
Not Naive at all - 100% correct, the name of the game is convenience - why do people pay for itunes when it is still relatively easy to steal every song offered. No not b/c people are honest - please 50Million people a day were using Napster No not b/c they care about quality rips - S/A/A No not b/c of lawsuits - people still steal cable and sat TV and they've brought many more cases (and easier to prove) over the years Answer - because i-tunes is convenient (and now it is even hip) - for anyone with an Ipod it couldnt be more simple to FIND music and download it, and for that they are willing to pay 99cents. (more we shall see) So why are people still stealing music? Not because they are cheap - people spend $100+ for a concert and $40 for Broadband Answer = Because if you dont have/want an Ipod or you like to listen in your car or off CD - itunes IS NOT convenient, it is more convenient to download raw MP3s and use them as you wish. When(IF) the RIAA ever decides to stop with DRM and all the other crap and sell convenience, they will be overwhelmed with the flow of $$$$ S
What the RIAA dont get and you point out - is that they dont sell music - they sell convenience The record was great - but tough to take with you and scratched easily, the 8 track was easier to carry but sounded like crap, the cassette was easy to take w/ you but inconvenient for individual songs and the CD was easier to carry AND easy to get to the songs and now the most popular is MP# which is the easiest to carry AND get to the tracks. Will people PAY - yes look at i-tunes which still has tons of issues for the consumer better yet look at ALLOFMP#.com which combines CHEAP and easy - for sure you couldnt charge those prices in the US but even at a higher per song cost it would be great to just be able to download the songs I want EASILY and affordably - and for sure the RIAA would make up in volume (Read - 20 Gigs) what they lose in price. And think all theyd save in R&D
I think the hardware manufactures should offer more free software - pretty soon everything will be free
The NEX IA IS a CF player - the review is using a CF drive - stupid review - great product
I got the NEX IA and it is great - there review is ridiculous - they catagorize the NEX IA as Hard Drive based (bottom of the review) so clearly they bought the player with a microdrive. But in reality the NEX is a FLASH BASED player and as such it is the best! Its battery life is 2.5x what they got (with flash card). It is expandable, and with CF cards, putting music is as simple as drag and drop - WITHOUT loading drivers, software, etc.... They missed the mark with this review
Think about it, the average american family watches 4-6hrs of TV a DAY, so if you multiply that by 30 days and divide by say $50, your talking about 33cents for an hours of entertainment. Please find me any other form of media that is so cheap.
Assuming (big) that your average slashdotter is watching some of the more esoteric programming on cable (techtv, a&e, National Geographic, etc) this plan will be a disaster. Once an ala-carte system goes into place, the less subscribed channels will get less and less advertising dollars, and therefore , will either have less and less programing or cost more and more to subscribe to.
Yes but his children and grandchildren and great granchildren (and possibly longer) need the money, and the beautiful thing is that not only will they get money from art that they didnt make but they'll be able to pass their money tax free to the next generation thanks to the elimination of estate taxes. Oh by the way this country is a meritocracy - YEAH SURE
But they dont recongnize this - which is why they are in so much trouble. There was plenty of music before the "record industry" - just not that much "business" - because you only could get music if you played it yourself. So 1st they had sheet music, to make playing it more convenient, then radio, etc.. Each step was fought by the "powers that be" because of fear of copying, and each time despite rampant copying, coffering convenience was the most profitable business model.
How can we legitimatley claim that there is a "morality/value" issue when virtually EVERY state has either lotteries, Horse Racing, Dog racing, Casinos, Riverboats, Jai Lai, etc... (and ore likely your State has more than one of the above) - So if we have no "moral/value" issue with these forms of Gambling what is the basis to preventing other countries from competing on the free market? What it comes down to is the States dont want to lose this "protected" form of taxation.
Actually I want to see this update - anything that delays Longhorn I'm in favor of. Be honest WinXp runs pretty good now for most of us that are using it - we've had years to figure out which drivers/sofware crashes it and I for one have my XP box humming. Who wants to go through the typical MS upgrade path with crashes bugs issues etc.... As long as MS keeps issuing XP (and its ilk) the longer they and everyone else will support my box, the longer I can go without having to buy some bloated, buggy piece of crap
The whole notion that an end-user would owe SCO anything (even if it was there code) is ridiculous. By way of example - if you buy a car and it turns out that it was stolen ( assuming you reasonably had no idea) you have NO LIABILITY - you do have to give the car to its rightful owner (ie stop using it) but you dont owe the real owner the depreciation that occurred while you were using it. Because it would be UNFAIR, since you bought it in good faith. So if Sco establishes owenrship (which it apparently cant), then users would have to cease to use it. THATs IT - the only possibility (and it isnt really one) is that by notifying users today, some crazy judge could say that from the time you were otified till the time you stopped using it you are liable. Thats not likely because the notice from SCO has provided no details that really provide notice that SCO is the owner. In addition even if that worse case senario occurred the UPPER limit on damages has been established $149 a year per useage. And even that wouldnt be likely since SCO's pricing is arbitrary and no Judge would rule 60 lines is worth $149 - unless it was some trade secret - which has been dropped. The whole end-user thing is a red-herring since no owner of IP is going to sue end-users, for the above reasons and the reason why majority of Software Companies dont offer indemnification, is b/c they dont want the nuisance of every ambulance chaser making a run at their very deep pockets
Here is a good mirror for Firebird 8 http://fthefrench.com/FirefoxSetup-0.8.zip
Here is a good mirror for Firebird 8
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" but Ignorance that something is contraband is most definitly an excuse. BTW - willfull or intentional ignorance is not an excuse either
Sorry Friend, but Mules do KNOW that they are carrying illegal drugs and if they dont they have a defense. In fact that is the defense used in virtually all "courier" cases (as they are called). The Government must prove that they knew they were carrying illegal drugs, which usually isnt hard to prove circumstantially when they swallow condoms of a white powder. It becomes more difficult when it is concealled in toy they say that a relative gave them to deliver. - sometimes they slipup other times they walk free. KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED!
Wow! nice job misconstruing that definition, what is hard to understand. The law says that EXPECTATION of receiving something of value is "financial gain" and something of value includes copyrighted works = THEREFORE expectation of receiving copyrighted works IS financial gain. You however took its obvious meaning and attempted to manipulate the definition to serve your poin - nice job counselor - excpet laws are suppossed to be read with their plain meaning in mind and this laws meanin is plain. As for whether the GPL is "coded" into US copyright no one is saying it is EXPRESSLY written in but obviously definitions such as this establish legal support for the GPL framework. And your critisim of Linus is humorous since you could be sure that if SCO ever got to court with the arguments against GPL - Linus argument (among many) will be argued by Lawyers making $400 dollars in the time it took me to type this. And if you dont think so then you Counselor have never been in a courtroom!