The battery was never intended to be a servicable part. Instead it was intended to last the entire lifetime of the machine.
I won't buy durable hardware products from a company that plans a defined lifetime for them. That would be like letting Microsoft say 'throw the computer away, it no longer is powerful enough to read email with' because they've retired support for Outlook Express on Windows 95.
In spite of the main focus of a lot of online denizens, there is more to the world than The Internet. The 'market share' of Web Servers, for instance, is not defined by the number of them that Netcraft can access. Some of the most important web servers are on intranets and totally inaccessable to the public. Some of the most important servers are internal to businesses and unreachable on the Internet.
Really, except for companies that do most of their business in ecommerce (still a real minority) it's only the throw-away boxes that are facing outward.
I just installed 1.6.1 on my four-way PPro box (IBM PC Server 704) but have discovered I'm going to need to build NetBSD-current to get SMP support for it. I was hoping they'd finally merged SMP into the release branch, but maybe that's a 1.7 thing. This is a minor incremental release.
Being as I have a well-maintained near-complete mirror of the 'distfiles' source tarballs for the Pkgsrc tree local now ('make mirror-distfile' is your friend for overnight bandwidth burning), I can't see ever moving to any other OS for main use. I have all the source for everything for almost any type of box I put into service.
The only way that a DRM'd AAC file could 'die' as you say, is if Apple went out of business, noone acquired their authorization scheme and music store, and you wanted/had to move the song file for some reason.
Or Apple's business plan changes. Remember the way they left the Mac cloners hung out to dry?
I seldom like the songs that I thought I'd like the most on an album. I buy a collection of tunes, make a committment to it, and end up liking stuff I never would have considered otherwise.
Your approach to music reminds me of the crappy 'Greatest Hits' albums sold on low-budget TV commercials. I guess if you like mostly one-hit artists it's the way to go, though.
I'm less than a mile from a small-town downtown, and it's a downtown with a 'major' small private college in it, not some backwater. And we don't have cable on this side of city limits.
Not really a 'Power Company'. Just a weasely subdivision of a power company that's gonna be trying to get the linemen and regular joes within the power company to now maintain this twinky service that 1-4% of their customers are using.
Yikes. Maybe it's me. I have a UNIX license because I registered for the free Solaris 7/8/9 dealie. (but don't have any Linux boxes at present- just NetBSD)
It isn't a matter of the court looking at a company ideology. It's that an 'Information Wants To Be Free' company would present such a lame arguement in court.
Did that shoot right over your head? Or did you just grab eagerly at the opportunity to ridicule the US legal system?
Actually, it's debatable if a Selectric is a 'real typewriter.' My mom had a 'real typewriter.' An IBM Standard Electric, one of those big bemouths with the heavy sliding carriage that makes the whole machine jump on the table when the Carriage Return is hit. Selectrics are way-cool, but newer than 'Real Typewriters.'
Of course they don't have to give it away for free. They just have to give the source code to anybody else who wants to give it away for free.
The logic of Open Source advocates sometimes is befuddling. I enjoy and benefit from lots of software developed under an Open Source process. I'm not that keen on companies 'Open Sourcing' previously closed products. It gets tedious with everybody using 'Open Sourceing' like a verb.
What would be the benefit to the people who own the Wordperfect code base to gain market share at zero dollars per unit sold? 'Socking it to Microsoft' is only a valid business goal when there's renumeration available for the product sold.
I know, I know. Let's hear some preaching about the benefits of giving it all away for free.
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The battery was never intended to be a servicable part. Instead it was intended to last the entire lifetime of the machine.
I won't buy durable hardware products from a company that plans a defined lifetime for them. That would be like letting Microsoft say 'throw the computer away, it no longer is powerful enough to read email with' because they've retired support for Outlook Express on Windows 95.
You're probably thinking of the Compaq Portable III.
They're listed on eBay pretty often. Right now there's even one listed with Windows 1 installed on it.
Damned slow machines.
The Toshiba 2100 series of 486 laptops are damned solid as well. I have four of them now.
Apple sued Orange Computer and ran them out of business in the 80's. They were one of those dastardly cloners that Jobs hates.
The word is 'drivel' and... uh... thanks for your contribution. Come again!
I've known 3 women who've been stalked by obsessive morons,
I see a pattern here.
*rim-shot*
In spite of the main focus of a lot of online denizens, there is more to the world than The Internet. The 'market share' of Web Servers, for instance, is not defined by the number of them that Netcraft can access. Some of the most important web servers are on intranets and totally inaccessable to the public. Some of the most important servers are internal to businesses and unreachable on the Internet.
Really, except for companies that do most of their business in ecommerce (still a real minority) it's only the throw-away boxes that are facing outward.
I just installed 1.6.1 on my four-way PPro box (IBM PC Server 704) but have discovered I'm going to need to build NetBSD-current to get SMP support for it. I was hoping they'd finally merged SMP into the release branch, but maybe that's a 1.7 thing. This is a minor incremental release.
Being as I have a well-maintained near-complete mirror of the 'distfiles' source tarballs for the Pkgsrc tree local now ('make mirror-distfile' is your friend for overnight bandwidth burning), I can't see ever moving to any other OS for main use. I have all the source for everything for almost any type of box I put into service.
The only way that a DRM'd AAC file could 'die' as you say, is if Apple went out of business, noone acquired their authorization scheme and music store, and you wanted/had to move the song file for some reason.
Or Apple's business plan changes. Remember the way they left the Mac cloners hung out to dry?
I seldom like the songs that I thought I'd like the most on an album. I buy a collection of tunes, make a committment to it, and end up liking stuff I never would have considered otherwise.
Your approach to music reminds me of the crappy 'Greatest Hits' albums sold on low-budget TV commercials. I guess if you like mostly one-hit artists it's the way to go, though.
I'm less than a mile from a small-town downtown, and it's a downtown with a 'major' small private college in it, not some backwater. And we don't have cable on this side of city limits.
Not really a 'Power Company'. Just a weasely subdivision of a power company that's gonna be trying to get the linemen and regular joes within the power company to now maintain this twinky service that 1-4% of their customers are using.
We're all supposed to hold hands and sing John Lennon songs.
What's unbelievably obscure about it?
Dinkumware isn't that obscure. Unless you're not involved with C or coding.
Well, the free P.R. might not be hurting.
Yikes. Maybe it's me. I have a UNIX license because I registered for the free Solaris 7/8/9 dealie. (but don't have any Linux boxes at present- just NetBSD)
'Free' as in 'Bring up it's equivalence to mandatory bundles of Windows at Compaq and get modded down by the Apple fanboys.'
It isn't a matter of the court looking at a company ideology. It's that an 'Information Wants To Be Free' company would present such a lame arguement in court.
Did that shoot right over your head? Or did you just grab eagerly at the opportunity to ridicule the US legal system?
Actually, it's debatable if a Selectric is a 'real typewriter.' My mom had a 'real typewriter.' An IBM Standard Electric, one of those big bemouths with the heavy sliding carriage that makes the whole machine jump on the table when the Carriage Return is hit. Selectrics are way-cool, but newer than 'Real Typewriters.'
Of course they don't have to give it away for free. They just have to give the source code to anybody else who wants to give it away for free.
The logic of Open Source advocates sometimes is befuddling. I enjoy and benefit from lots of software developed under an Open Source process. I'm not that keen on companies 'Open Sourcing' previously closed products. It gets tedious with everybody using 'Open Sourceing' like a verb.
My Pentium III is from 1999.
Do I look like a fool? Windows XP?
All my CPU's right now are five years or older. So in five years, I'll be using the CPUs from today. They don't refuse to play non-DRM mp3s, do they?
What would be the benefit to the people who own the Wordperfect code base to gain market share at zero dollars per unit sold? 'Socking it to Microsoft' is only a valid business goal when there's renumeration available for the product sold.
I know, I know. Let's hear some preaching about the benefits of giving it all away for free.
My question would be 'why bother' when the tradition with WordPerfect toward the end was for it to be bundled with odd hardware you might buy.
My copy is 'WordPerfect Suite 8' on a CDR that I must have picked up in an auction lot or something.
That would be the 80's calling.
In the 70's the choice was Electric Pencil, loaded off a cassette tape, or the Selectric.