I run Netscape Messaging Server on a Windows NT 4 Server. Its been running for six years straight now and only averages about two reboots a year. One of those is usally a Service Pack install. Haven't even had to upgrade the hardware, it just plods along. It's not the OS, it's how you configure it and the software running on it.
Red Hat puts out a product, so does Mandrake, so does Slackware. If you think that Red Hat's is a stinkpile of doo-doo don't use it. Try Debian, try Slackware. That is the whole point here. They are doing everything they can to fix the problem. Loyal Red Hat users will stick behind them and many will help to solve the problems.
Just about anything that ever comes out about the Star Wars movies is going to be a rumor. I don't think one rumor yet has been accurate. Look how many names were thrown around as a sure "lock" and "confirmed" to play Anakin. That is why sites like Dark Horizons CHECK THEIR FACTS.
I said Napster facilitates the transfer. And I agree with you that the users should be gone after. And it just might work out that way in the end. I hope that in subsequent court dates that Napster can prove they are providing a service that people are abusing. But I still don't think they should be allowed to continue providing the their service until they can figure out a way to get rid of the 99%.
You are incorrect about concerts. Smaller bands can maybe afford to pay their own concerts, but mid to large sized bands don't have the captital to pay for a tour. They rely on the record companies would have substantialy more cash to put up the money for the tours. If the tour is successful enough, the band can pay the record company back and still make some money off it. Otherwise they are just as screwed. And I am not personally try to irritate you, but I would like to know why you don't thing it is stealing. I get your point and I agree with it. I don't want to drop $13-20 to buy a CD for one or two songs either, but unfortunately we are in the minority on this. I agree that it is nice to hear an album before you buy it, but most of the people want the free music and that is it.
One of the few things I remember from Statistics was that you can come up with research data to prove anything. Alot of the record sales figures can be contributed to this generation of girl/boy bands who have had incredible success because the buying power of todays youth is much greater than it has even been. I absolutely love music. I'm listening to Uncle Tupelo right now. But it is still stealing.
You are comparing apples and oranges. This is in no way about free speech and I wish people would figure that out. Napster facilitates in the transfer of CD quality copyrighted works. Like many others have said, if it is about free speech, why hasn't Jon Katz put his book up on the web. Sure, the current state of copyrights and tradewarks sucks, but that doesn't give anyone the right to steal somebody elses work. If you spent 3 months in a recording studio and then 12 months on the road touring to promote your album would you want someone to just burn copies of it and give it away for free. These artists work hard to get their music produced and even harder to get their name out. Hell, when Pearl Jam released Ten they spent 18 months on the road promoting it. The problem is people want things for free, if they don't get it they whine about it.
Good point. I would like someone to explain how the root of this problem isn't theft without talking about taking away our right or they'll ban all file sharing, Microsoft's netowrk does it so they should be sued. It is all freakin BS. The only reason Napster fought back is that the venture capitalists were afraid they were going to lose all the money they sank into napster in the first place. I guarantee that kid and his dad could care less because they get to laugh all the way to the bank. The world moves on a sea of $$$'s.
The injuction did not say that couldn't distribute music. It said they couldn't distribute copyrighted music. I guarantee in the long run that the only way they can stay in business is to drop the copyrighted stuff.
Damn straight. I live in a large city and my apartment complex is an island in a sea of DSL and cable modems. It is not offered and not planned on being available for awhile still. So anything that makes my USR (sorry, 3com) modem quicker is fine by me. I just hope the ISPs' in this area support it eventually.
I totally agree with you, but software companies always have to factor in that people are dumb and they have to make their system as easy to use as possible. Corel is trying to make money. That is it, end of story. In order for their product to appeal to the masses it has to be as close to what they are familiar with as possible. Matt
Of course there will be problems. Corel is trying to make a product that is easy for the end user to understand. Like the line in the article about making their distribution look as much like Win95 as possible. There is nothing wrong with this. I do think that Corel should not be sending 100+ asthetics(sp?) issues to KDE. I also don't think that there is anything wrong with Corel trying to "dumb down" their distribution. There are plenty of distributions that are fairly hard to install and use unless you've had unix experience. Some people don't care how the video card and the x server communicate, they just want it to work.
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Those are two of my favorite SCI-FI books. The technology described is fascinating.
Has anyone else been having trouble getting to Nvidia's site? I'm getting errors about the hostname not being valid. It's been like this since at least yesterday.
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Didn't Katz just write about Corporatism?
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Doesn't this article contradict your last article about the world slow becoming Corporatized? Make up your mind.
So is Quicktime not Apples product? So in other words an email campaign to Apple may not really do anything. Also, is it against the license to use a Win/Mac machine to play the stream, record it to VHS, and then recapture it as an MPEG or something else?
Does anybody else get the feeling that the folks in Redmond are starting to panic a bit. We've had vaporware after vaporware touted for the last three years and it looks like the only thing Microsoft is really making money on is Office and their developer tools. Product announcements are now coming out years before the product will be ready. Windows 2000 was hyped up quite a bit, but since its release there has been much talk about. I think Microsoft has had some big financial losses with MSN, Windows 2000 development, and them also beginning to lose the internet server market. What does Microsoft really have besides Office and their development tools - a huge, bloated OS that looks like it is going to turn into one of the biggest money pits of all time. I personally have nothing against Microsoft other than their marketing practices, but they appear to me like a dinosaur fighting extinction. I mean who really anounces a product almost two years before it comes out.
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That is freakin' classic. I needed a laugh this morning. Thanks.
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I run Netscape Messaging Server on a Windows NT 4 Server. Its been running for six years straight now and only averages about two reboots a year. One of those is usally a Service Pack install. Haven't even had to upgrade the hardware, it just plods along. It's not the OS, it's how you configure it and the software running on it.
It seemed even sillier when I purchased shares that day for $237 and they are now at $3.26. At least I learned my lesson
Now I can finally go to my boss and say, "See, Shell is using it to find oil. I think we'll be safe running our webserver on it."
Hey, now that they are using a free OS maybe gas prices will finally go down.
Red Hat puts out a product, so does Mandrake, so does Slackware. If you think that Red Hat's is a stinkpile of doo-doo don't use it. Try Debian, try Slackware. That is the whole point here. They are doing everything they can to fix the problem. Loyal Red Hat users will stick behind them and many will help to solve the problems.
At least we have a choice in OS's
That was Douglas Adams. They had him come in to help with an annotation system in word. I believe there is an article about that on his web site.
Matt
Just about anything that ever comes out about the Star Wars movies is going to be a rumor. I don't think one rumor yet has been accurate. Look how many names were thrown around as a sure "lock" and "confirmed" to play Anakin. That is why sites like Dark Horizons CHECK THEIR FACTS.
I said Napster facilitates the transfer. And I agree with you that the users should be gone after. And it just might work out that way in the end. I hope that in subsequent court dates that Napster can prove they are providing a service that people are abusing. But I still don't think they should be allowed to continue providing the their service until they can figure out a way to get rid of the 99%.
You are incorrect about concerts. Smaller bands can maybe afford to pay their own concerts, but mid to large sized bands don't have the captital to pay for a tour. They rely on the record companies would have substantialy more cash to put up the money for the tours. If the tour is successful enough, the band can pay the record company back and still make some money off it. Otherwise they are just as screwed. And I am not personally try to irritate you, but I would like to know why you don't thing it is stealing. I get your point and I agree with it. I don't want to drop $13-20 to buy a CD for one or two songs either, but unfortunately we are in the minority on this. I agree that it is nice to hear an album before you buy it, but most of the people want the free music and that is it.
One of the few things I remember from Statistics was that you can come up with research data to prove anything. Alot of the record sales figures can be contributed to this generation of girl/boy bands who have had incredible success because the buying power of todays youth is much greater than it has even been. I absolutely love music. I'm listening to Uncle Tupelo right now. But it is still stealing.
You are comparing apples and oranges. This is in no way about free speech and I wish people would figure that out. Napster facilitates in the transfer of CD quality copyrighted works. Like many others have said, if it is about free speech, why hasn't Jon Katz put his book up on the web. Sure, the current state of copyrights and tradewarks sucks, but that doesn't give anyone the right to steal somebody elses work. If you spent 3 months in a recording studio and then 12 months on the road touring to promote your album would you want someone to just burn copies of it and give it away for free. These artists work hard to get their music produced and even harder to get their name out. Hell, when Pearl Jam released Ten they spent 18 months on the road promoting it. The problem is people want things for free, if they don't get it they whine about it.
Good point. I would like someone to explain how the root of this problem isn't theft without talking about taking away our right or they'll ban all file sharing, Microsoft's netowrk does it so they should be sued. It is all freakin BS. The only reason Napster fought back is that the venture capitalists were afraid they were going to lose all the money they sank into napster in the first place. I guarantee that kid and his dad could care less because they get to laugh all the way to the bank. The world moves on a sea of $$$'s.
Well at least he is consistent and determined. I gotta tell you the first time I saw the infamous penis bird I laughed my ass off.
The injuction did not say that couldn't distribute music. It said they couldn't distribute copyrighted music. I guarantee in the long run that the only way they can stay in business is to drop the copyrighted stuff.
Damn straight. I live in a large city and my apartment complex is an island in a sea of DSL and cable modems. It is not offered and not planned on being available for awhile still. So anything that makes my USR (sorry, 3com) modem quicker is fine by me. I just hope the ISPs' in this area support it eventually.
Checkout this from last week's quickies. Click on Sporty's link. He built a pretty cool cabinet relatively cheaply.
Matt
I totally agree with you, but software companies always have to factor in that people are dumb and they have to make their system as easy to use as possible. Corel is trying to make money. That is it, end of story. In order for their product to appeal to the masses it has to be as close to what they are familiar with as possible. Matt
Of course there will be problems. Corel is trying to make a product that is easy for the end user to understand. Like the line in the article about making their distribution look as much like Win95 as possible. There is nothing wrong with this. I do think that Corel should not be sending 100+ asthetics(sp?) issues to KDE.
I also don't think that there is anything wrong with Corel trying to "dumb down" their distribution. There are plenty of distributions that are fairly hard to install and use unless you've had unix experience. Some people don't care how the video card and the x server communicate, they just want it to work.
Those are two of my favorite SCI-FI books. The technology described is fascinating.
Has anyone else been having trouble getting to Nvidia's site? I'm getting errors about the hostname not being valid. It's been like this since at least yesterday.
matt
Doesn't this article contradict your last article about the world slow becoming Corporatized? Make up your mind.
So is Quicktime not Apples product? So in other words an email campaign to Apple may not really do anything. Also, is it against the license to use a Win/Mac machine to play the stream, record it to VHS, and then recapture it as an MPEG or something else?
I've read the book, but I'm not sure if it was based on a true story or not. The book is pretty creepy.
Matt
I thought it was from all the lead paint in the house he lived in on the island he was exiled to.
Talk about a run-on sentence. Whew.
Matt
Does anybody else get the feeling that the folks in Redmond are starting to panic a bit. We've had vaporware after vaporware touted for the last three years and it looks like the only thing Microsoft is really making money on is Office and their developer tools. Product announcements are now coming out years before the product will be ready. Windows 2000 was hyped up quite a bit, but since its release there has been much talk about. I think Microsoft has had some big financial losses with MSN, Windows 2000 development, and them also beginning to lose the internet server market. What does Microsoft really have besides Office and their development tools - a huge, bloated OS that looks like it is going to turn into one of the biggest money pits of all time. I personally have nothing against Microsoft other than their marketing practices, but they appear to me like a dinosaur fighting extinction. I mean who really anounces a product almost two years before it comes out.
Matt