What? Are you saying this new portable will only accept music that I bought AFTER I purchased this thing? Hot damn, I better start selling my CDs then!
It was only if they wanted video conferencing built into the client which is why it hasn't..... until now when the time warner-aol relationship is no more.
When Dos was dying and programs were moving to Windows MS intentionally denied WP the windows sdk. It delayed the mlong enough that by the time Wordperfect got on windows MS Words market share was too great to take back.
What market share did Macromedia have when they came up with Flash? What market share did Sun have when they came up with Java? You gotta start somewhere.
If you want your technology to become popular, one way to do is to force it upon peoples computers. The other is to make something good thats better than the rest and will draw web developers and end users to dl it on their own free will.
um.. you should try uses their newer stuff. The mzr-50 was released in 1997 man!
but in defence of the mz-r50, the mz-r50s battery pack fits a 2 *standard* AA batteries giving you hte choice of using rechargables of your choosing or cheap AA alkalines. Also the mzr-50 was a big power hog because it used a 3v lens. it wa soon replaced, one to half a year later by the mzr-55 which used a 1.5v lens.
The first part of the quote he is talking about how much it would cost him, the second part it is how much it would cost anyone. If I was a government contractor why would I trust his code just because he says its safe? I won't, I'm going to get my own guys to review it. so whether these government contractors use RTOS, Linux or Windows its going to cost the external company close to the same amount.
but like I said earlier, you dont need a special license to see Linux's code.
"It costs us $500 to $1,000 a line to review our source code. It would cost billions of dollars to review Linux."
Hows that any different from if they chose windows? Wouldnt it still cost them just as much? thats assuming they can get access to the windows code. At least with Linux you don't have to pay to get it.
This is why I think copyright law on software should be reduced. That way people who want this stuff can aquire it legally. If the owners can't make money from it then what are they losing when it goes PD? The original developers don't get anything either way but I bet they would rather more people can enjoy their creations. Since copyright law is so lengthy on software which is virtually useless after a few years (unlike copyright on physical items which are still useful/commercially viable for many decades and more) I think most software companies turn a blind eye when their software is pYrated. Protect your interest against rival companies but if you're not making money selling it, what do you lose when people do dl it?
Anyone know when its going to the House of Representatives? It needs a majority of the senate to be in favour of it to pass. Hopefully They will see that extending copyright law a further 25 yrs is a bad thing
Interesting... 32megs on a single floppy... Wouldn't be much use now with Cdrs being so cheap and commonplace now though.
Do you remember what year that slashdot article is from? One thing slashdot needs is to put the year in the dates because with the real old posts its hard to tell when it was posted. =)
ActiveX support has a + and - though. Most exploits into IE get in through ActiveX and that is why Firefox doesn't have oob support for ActiveX. If you want though there is a plugin for Firefox that adds ActiveX support.
install their smaller, faster, free, open-source apps.
you make it sound like its only 'anti-MS geeks', as you put it, that would benefit from this. You are wrong there. Everyone computer user does.
Microsoft knows this thats why they don't give the customer the option to NOT install their programs. And dont even try to argue that IE is not removeable as people have done it with no ill side effects to the OS, so if they can then Microsoft with the source code certainly can too.
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What? Are you saying this new portable will only accept music that I bought AFTER I purchased this thing? Hot damn, I better start selling my CDs then!
It was only if they wanted video conferencing built into the client which is why it hasn't..... until now when the time warner-aol relationship is no more.
When Dos was dying and programs were moving to Windows MS intentionally denied WP the windows sdk. It delayed the mlong enough that by the time Wordperfect got on windows MS Words market share was too great to take back.
What market share did Macromedia have when they came up with Flash? What market share did Sun have when they came up with Java? You gotta start somewhere.
If you want your technology to become popular, one way to do is to force it upon peoples computers. The other is to make something good thats better than the rest and will draw web developers and end users to dl it on their own free will.
Ipod battery dies in a little over 6 months and it's NOT user replaceable.
Why not? The #1 ranking supercomputer is Japanese and they don't make the chips used in it.
It's 'OFF the shelf". And the gp poster said 'too' instead of 'to'. Nitpicky but this sort of thing annoys me.
Anyway back on topic, Tyan boards are manufactured in China so if they do use them, the export laws (if they still exist) do not apply.
so they made it up just so they could search his house. Doesn't seem like a right thing to do to me.
How much roughly would it go up by doing this mod?
If I do this mod I 'd make sure I unplug it before I leave the house. I wouldnt want it connected during a thunderstorm.
um.. you should try uses their newer stuff. The mzr-50 was released in 1997 man!
but in defence of the mz-r50, the mz-r50s battery pack fits a 2 *standard* AA batteries giving you hte choice of using rechargables of your choosing or cheap AA alkalines. Also the mzr-50 was a big power hog because it used a 3v lens. it wa soon replaced, one to half a year later by the mzr-55 which used a 1.5v lens.
Better them than me!
wow I would never have imagined petrol station operators being that generous.
Keep the computer case in the basement... no wait, keep it upstairs!
The first part of the quote he is talking about how much it would cost him, the second part it is how much it would cost anyone.
If I was a government contractor why would I trust his code just because he says its safe? I won't, I'm going to get my own guys to review it. so whether these government contractors use RTOS, Linux or Windows its going to cost the external company close to the same amount.
but like I said earlier, you dont need a special license to see Linux's code.
"It costs us $500 to $1,000 a line to review our source code. It would cost billions of dollars to review Linux."
Hows that any different from if they chose windows? Wouldnt it still cost them just as much? thats assuming they can get access to the windows code. At least with Linux you don't have to pay to get it.
And no the leaked source does not count.
Isn't 50 years what it used to be before copyright laws were extended? Looks like we're been jipped.
I still think 50 years is too long.
This is why I think copyright law on software should be reduced. That way people who want this stuff can aquire it legally. If the owners can't make money from it then what are they losing when it goes PD? The original developers don't get anything either way but I bet they would rather more people can enjoy their creations. Since copyright law is so lengthy on software which is virtually useless after a few years (unlike copyright on physical items which are still useful/commercially viable for many decades and more) I think most software companies turn a blind eye when their software is pYrated. Protect your interest against rival companies but if you're not making money selling it, what do you lose when people do dl it?
I saw it last night on the screen!
session 11
Anyone know when its going to the House of Representatives? It needs a majority of the senate to be in favour of it to pass. Hopefully They will see that extending copyright law a further 25 yrs is a bad thing
Interesting... 32megs on a single floppy... Wouldn't be much use now with Cdrs being so cheap and commonplace now though. Do you remember what year that slashdot article is from? One thing slashdot needs is to put the year in the dates because with the real old posts its hard to tell when it was posted. =)
Before Ghost was bought out by Symantec it was a NZ company so there are probably still NZers working for them.
I've seen the canals with my trusty telescope!
To save on bandwith some of the indie labels host their demos on bittorrent.
ActiveX support has a + and - though. Most exploits into IE get in through ActiveX and that is why Firefox doesn't have oob support for ActiveX. If you want though there is a plugin for Firefox that adds ActiveX support.
install their smaller, faster, free, open-source apps.
you make it sound like its only 'anti-MS geeks', as you put it, that would benefit from this. You are wrong there. Everyone computer user does.
Microsoft knows this thats why they don't give the customer the option to NOT install their programs. And dont even try to argue that IE is not removeable as people have done it with no ill side effects to the OS, so if they can then Microsoft with the source code certainly can too.