"Closed source software, on the other hand, is safe, secure, promotes capitalism, whitens teeth, burns calories, promotes hair growth, feeds and grooms your pets, vaccuums your living room, cures cancer, and fights terrorists."
Grog: Grog stick made with new flint technology. Oog should get new flint sharpened stick, it very pointy.
Oog: Oog wish, but Oog's wife Ooma yell at Oog for upgrading to fire hardened stick without asking... Ooma no buy story of Oog needing it to hunt better, say stick is stick and stone ground stick just as good as fire hardened. Ooma not know what she talk about.
Grog: Grog feel Oog pain. Come, we go hunt, Grog let Oog use Grog stick later.
Why can't other businesses compete like this? When these guys compete, they make their products better, when other companies compete, they cut corners.
So what does the RIAA do? They try to kill it by forcing Apple to increase the price until it is as expensive as a CD.
You mean more expensive than a cd. This doesn't really surprise me, we know they hate online retailer because the consumer gets to pick which songs they buy, instead of the RIAA marketing people. They want to go back to retail sales where they decide what you want to listen to.
They're trying to kill legit online music so they can go back to CD sales in stores, their favorite way of doing business. Then they can work on squishing file trading online, and go back to their tried and true anal ra... business model.
Nah, it'll come with a 14" LCD on a hinge, 85 buttons, a touch pad, 40gig hd, ultra fast main and graphics processors, massive amounts of memory (and the feature of upgrading!), DVD writer drive ($50 for a remote if you want to play dvds, $100 for dvd creation plugins), special square perhiperal ports, and a 2hour batterypack! You'll just have to ignore the flimsy x-box stick placed over the scratched out "dell" words and logos (it's a manufacturing flaw, really...)
The cheapest thinclient for windows terminal services and/or citrix, that I can find, is $200 without monitor/keyboard/speakers.
The ones my clients use (not my decision) are around $400-500 a pop, and are the bare minimum to support terminal services. And that's just for the client, not including the massive server licensing requirements. As I stated in a previous post, you can build a driveless 1ghz mini-itx machine for $300, use PXE booting as was pointed out earlier, and pool the leftover processing power for use on another project (pointed out earlier as well).
As with all art you can't just look at the very basics. Wether the artwork includes a cloth medium or not is a big factor, as is the total amount of material used for the sculpture. Too much, and you go from breath taking to nauseating.
With a 1ghz mini-itx board, case, and 256meg memory being around $300 retail (not looking harder than a quick search), this is a damn good idea.
This is temping for an internet cafe type of setup. With 50 of these clients, you could sell the pooled processing time to people wanting to do video rendering or anything else big.
Damnit, why do I have to be so money-challenged...
If they make a live-cd client (maybe live floppy), I'll be mucho happy. I'd love to be able to offer customers a cheaper alternative to the overprices winterm dummy terminals out there.
Mini-itx board, small case, single drive, live-cd client, run this on the server with OO.org, mozilla, etc... Heck of a lot cheaper than Win2k advanced server + terminal serviced + licenses + office and licenses...
Forget that, remember the wifi locator bracelets they're giving to kids in legoland? Using these things you could pinpoint your kid's exact location.
Would also work if you compared triangulation data of two of these against a map of wireless authorized zones, then just send security after every client not in an approved zone.
With the high speed directional capabilities it claims to have, you could set two of these up at a known distance apart and use them to quickly triangulate every wi-fi client within range. That would be one hell of a security measure, alerting security to the exact location of every wi-fi client not in a known approved area.
What about LAMD? Of course the windows and intel people would pronounce it "LAME-D" and use their massive budgets to get that out as the standard pronounciation...
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"This is the lord, your god. I have decreed that you may save 15% or more on your car insurance by switching to Geico!"
it's in the best interests of the companies to please consumers
Well, if you listen to their PR departments... In reality, companies do whatever they can to maximize profits. If that means pissing off a percentage of their consumerbase to save some money, so be it, as long as the net result is profit. You ever see those memos from automotive companies where they say it's financially easier for them to pay off the families of the deceased instead of improve the safety of their products?
If they disable analog audio inputs because they can potentially be used to circumvent their DRM scheme, they'll be preventing things such as voice chat and independent music recordings (garage bands).
Sure the RIAA and others would love to get rid of analog inputs (unless you pay for a subscription to a trusted voicechat/recording program, of course), but this will quickly die due to the large numbers of corporations who would get mighty pissy if they suddenly had to pay a $10000 "tusted audio recording" fee just to use voip they're already paying for (either internally or to a 3rd party).
Computers are too complicated to force a DRM scheme on everyone, and there's not enough bandwidth/user available yet to divide trusted computers from untrusted ones (the trusted ones would have to encrypt their communications to prevent the evil linux pirate hooligans from defiling their pure microsoft/dell/disney/riaa approved internet). It would take a massive mandate from all the worlds goverments to force DRM, and even then it'd take ~10-20 years for it to be implimented to the fullest. I think we can still fight off DRM.
Slashdot Mirror
From the /. article in that last link:
"It's little suprise that this group takes money from Microsoft."
I'd say that explains it all...
"Closed source software, on the other hand, is safe, secure, promotes capitalism, whitens teeth, burns calories, promotes hair growth, feeds and grooms your pets, vaccuums your living room, cures cancer, and fights terrorists."
Oog: Grog stick very pointy.
Grog: Grog stick made with new flint technology. Oog should get new flint sharpened stick, it very pointy.
Oog: Oog wish, but Oog's wife Ooma yell at Oog for upgrading to fire hardened stick without asking... Ooma no buy story of Oog needing it to hunt better, say stick is stick and stone ground stick just as good as fire hardened. Ooma not know what she talk about.
Grog: Grog feel Oog pain. Come, we go hunt, Grog let Oog use Grog stick later.
I'll have problems sleeping when these guys make the top of the threat matrix.
Until then, I'm just gonna sleep normally, and wait for next year when the guy who started the chain-overreaction is out of office.
Will they be ill-tempered?
Ya gotta get at the roots, not just the stalk.
Weedkiller.
Yeah, but they replaced them with pit vipers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H lawyers. So until now they haven't had a net loss of employees.
I guess the litigation business model is failing them.
Why can't other businesses compete like this?
When these guys compete, they make their products better, when other companies compete, they cut corners.
Give it time, as more games come out with linux ports, they'll have to pay more attention to linux drivers if they want to compete with nvidia.
So what does the RIAA do? They try to kill it by forcing Apple to increase the price until it is as expensive as a CD.
You mean more expensive than a cd.
This doesn't really surprise me, we know they hate online retailer because the consumer gets to pick which songs they buy, instead of the RIAA marketing people.
They want to go back to retail sales where they decide what you want to listen to.
They're trying to kill legit online music so they can go back to CD sales in stores, their favorite way of doing business. Then they can work on squishing file trading online, and go back to their tried and true anal ra... business model.
Nah, it'll come with a 14" LCD on a hinge, 85 buttons, a touch pad, 40gig hd, ultra fast main and graphics processors, massive amounts of memory (and the feature of upgrading!), DVD writer drive ($50 for a remote if you want to play dvds, $100 for dvd creation plugins), special square perhiperal ports, and a 2hour batterypack!
You'll just have to ignore the flimsy x-box stick placed over the scratched out "dell" words and logos (it's a manufacturing flaw, really...)
Only $1300 too!
The cheapest thinclient for windows terminal services and/or citrix, that I can find, is $200 without monitor/keyboard/speakers.
The ones my clients use (not my decision) are around $400-500 a pop, and are the bare minimum to support terminal services. And that's just for the client, not including the massive server licensing requirements.
As I stated in a previous post, you can build a driveless 1ghz mini-itx machine for $300, use PXE booting as was pointed out earlier, and pool the leftover processing power for use on another project (pointed out earlier as well).
As with all art you can't just look at the very basics.
Wether the artwork includes a cloth medium or not is a big factor, as is the total amount of material used for the sculpture. Too much, and you go from breath taking to nauseating.
With a 1ghz mini-itx board, case, and 256meg memory being around $300 retail (not looking harder than a quick search), this is a damn good idea.
This is temping for an internet cafe type of setup. With 50 of these clients, you could sell the pooled processing time to people wanting to do video rendering or anything else big.
Damnit, why do I have to be so money-challenged...
ATM machine
If they make a live-cd client (maybe live floppy), I'll be mucho happy.
I'd love to be able to offer customers a cheaper alternative to the overprices winterm dummy terminals out there.
Mini-itx board, small case, single drive, live-cd client, run this on the server with OO.org, mozilla, etc...
Heck of a lot cheaper than Win2k advanced server + terminal serviced + licenses + office and licenses...
It looks like a rack of florescent lights to me...
Forget that, remember the wifi locator bracelets they're giving to kids in legoland? Using these things you could pinpoint your kid's exact location.
Would also work if you compared triangulation data of two of these against a map of wireless authorized zones, then just send security after every client not in an approved zone.
With the high speed directional capabilities it claims to have, you could set two of these up at a known distance apart and use them to quickly triangulate every wi-fi client within range.
That would be one hell of a security measure, alerting security to the exact location of every wi-fi client not in a known approved area.
What about LAMD?
Of course the windows and intel people would pronounce it "LAME-D" and use their massive budgets to get that out as the standard pronounciation...
"This is the lord, your god. I have decreed that you may save 15% or more on your car insurance by switching to Geico!"
it's in the best interests of the companies to please consumers
Well, if you listen to their PR departments...
In reality, companies do whatever they can to maximize profits. If that means pissing off a percentage of their consumerbase to save some money, so be it, as long as the net result is profit.
You ever see those memos from automotive companies where they say it's financially easier for them to pay off the families of the deceased instead of improve the safety of their products?
If they disable analog audio inputs because they can potentially be used to circumvent their DRM scheme, they'll be preventing things such as voice chat and independent music recordings (garage bands).
Sure the RIAA and others would love to get rid of analog inputs (unless you pay for a subscription to a trusted voicechat/recording program, of course), but this will quickly die due to the large numbers of corporations who would get mighty pissy if they suddenly had to pay a $10000 "tusted audio recording" fee just to use voip they're already paying for (either internally or to a 3rd party).
Computers are too complicated to force a DRM scheme on everyone, and there's not enough bandwidth/user available yet to divide trusted computers from untrusted ones (the trusted ones would have to encrypt their communications to prevent the evil linux pirate hooligans from defiling their pure microsoft/dell/disney/riaa approved internet).
It would take a massive mandate from all the worlds goverments to force DRM, and even then it'd take ~10-20 years for it to be implimented to the fullest. I think we can still fight off DRM.
Robo in Travel Mode
Robo is the "World's Largest Transformer". Robo converts to a street legal Semi-Trailer for travel on the nations highways.
Duuude, it's Optimus Prime's trailer!
No wonder we never saw Grimlock and Prime's trailer at the same time...