Funny how its the left who continually bitch about being "censored," yet they're quite willing to squelch anyone else's speech who they consider apostate.
Maybe, but I also think that they're pushing iTunes as a future moneymaker as well. Again, this is a very formative time. Apple is in the lead (selling more downloads than anyone else) and its going to want to protect the leverage that comes with that lead. License to Real and Real can still pull this "we'll undercut you" stuff. This is *great* for users, but is no good for Apple. They want to be able to get to the point that they can dictate terms with the records labels / industry.
Probably because Apple see that in the future the store (more importantly FairPlay) *will* be the profit center. They want to leverage the best selling MP3 player (their iPod) into establishing FairPlay'ed ACC files as a standard. Set the standard, pocket a few cents from every tune sold. This is why Apple just did a deal with Moto. on iTunes and cell phones.
There's a much better article about this that was published a few weeks ago, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
In SciFi is there any other kind? I'm still waiting for Manhattan to be turned into a maximum security prison. They're about 7 years behind schedule./snark
I did my CS work (ADA and C) at WVU on a VAX shell circa 92ish. Also worked a year at one of the computer labs tearing print jobs off of the printer. Kinda miss that old system.
Ahh, those were the days. That was when USENET = Internet for most people and "the Web" was an appendix in an O'Reiley book.
Funny you mention that: I've got two small "stars" in them from rocks. Them sombitches are soft as hell (not to mention the window's at a steeper angle) and bloody expensive. My friend has a Cooper, had a windshield shatter (granted, his wife hit a fiberglass toll booth arm, but those things are light as hell and designed to bounce off of windshields) and has had to have it replaced 3 different times. The local MINI dealership's fubared them ever time they've installed.
I'm a bit of a wonk when it comes to gas milage: I keep track of all of my gas purchases.
I used to have a standard 96 Ford Escort (no AC) that regularly got around 30-35 MPG in about a 60/40 Highway to "City" split. I can't remember what the EPA numbers were for that model, but I remember that I was around or slightly above them.
I now have a MINI Cooper S (fun f**king car). Under the same driving conditions I was getting about 23-24 MPG, which was lower than EPA. I have since moved and the drive is now 30/70 HW vs City and it has dropped to the 21-22 MPG range.
They may still have the website, but the label went tits up a while ago. I guess those Sean Lennon albums didn't sell so well.
Considering their only album that wasn't mediocre wasn't really even a Beastie Boys album (Paul's Boutique is a Dust Brothers album with the Beasties rapping on top of it), frankly, I could care less.
Funny that they are the ones announcing BayStar putting the pinch on them. Guess they want to put the "positive spin" on it, just like everything else...
That, and I suspect that if any insiders dumped a bunch of stock today without announcing it would be eligable for a perp walk.
According to an article on The Street one analyst didn't think BayStar would have much of a chance of getting their money back but this would make it incredibly difficult for SCO to raise any more money (not that they had anyone beating down their door to loan them money lately). By publicly asking for redemption over a broken clause I see this as BayStar's big, giant "FUCK YOU" to SCO.
The article brings up lots of good point that in general I don't have too many problems with, but frankly I don't see how most of these are FOSS specific. For every issue he highlights I can point to just as much closed source software that exhibits the same problems. I think the basic arguement behind all of this is a profit margin helps fix these problems, when in reality they don't. There's pleanty of closed source software that's counter intuitive, badly documented, bloated and doesn't do exactly what I want it to do, and there are examples in the FOSS world where the developers actually do care about the above issues.
I actually think these are exellent points to bring up about *all* software, as most, regardless of development methodology, suffer from one or more of these issues.
Like I said, that's an economic issue. As much as everyone shoots (somewhat deserved) arrows at the x86 arch. it continues to exist because of the legacy programs out there. Whether or not a lot of the problems are more percieved than actual as both AMD (much to their delight) and Intel (much to their chagrin) are finding the marketplace wants the 64 bit cludge to the x86 arch. not something totally different, regardless of how good it may be.
{cough cough cough} Itanium. And look how well that turned out.
There are options out there my friend (Power, Sparc, ARM... I happen to adore my power based macs). Its not like anyone is shoving the X86 arch. down our throat. Intel, in fact, has been trying to shove the good ship Itanic down the high end's throat and the high end told him to piss off. Face facts, technology doesn't always trump economics. Get over it (and go buy a Mac if you hate the x86 so much).
I got mine during the HSN sale for less than $200, which was about the price I said "ok, its worth buying." I dig mine a lot, but admittedly don't use it much as a planner/organizer. Its great for surfing the net / checking mail / on the spot administration on the road with the WiFi card without lugging a laptop around. Also, its great for playing solitaire while on the pot.
Things I wish were better:
"Today" that worked newest Sharp rom
Mail app that allowed me to set the "mail folder" for my iMap account (defaulting to the root folder creates all kinds of problems)
Better looking interface (yeah, its picky, but I'll admit the newer Palms and PPCs just look better)
And, no, I'm not going to upgrade to OPIE. a) I don't have a compact flash memory card to do it, b) I don't know how well it syncs to outlook (which is a deal breaker for me).
How in the heck do they get those kinds of per person figures?
Easy, you forget that Wal Mart opperates in places like England, Japan and (I believe) China. Not to mention they own Sam's Club where small business shop.
My dad used to work in the contracts office in the Air Force and you couldn't accept anything that could be considered a gift. (IIRC there may have been a monetary cap on what you could accept but it was really low; even legitimate things like Christmas baskets or company tchotskes were frowned upon, which kind of weirded out suppliers the first time they dealt with the military since it could come across as rude when an Airman tells you to take your fruit basket home with you). Violation of this was taken very seriously. As big and established as MS is -- not to mention the fact they've dealt with the gov't on a contractual level for over 20 years -- this is a pretty boneheaded move. They should have known better and whoever authorized this should get shit-canned.
Simple reason - the quality of video games is consistently improving, and the quality of television material is consisently regressing.
I don't know if I quite buy that, at least on the TV side. People have a tendency to look back at the past as some "golden era." TV today is just as good/crap as it was before. And while games have been getting technically better I remember wasting A LOT of time back in the 80s on my friend's Atari 2600. By today's standard technically crap, but we were still glued to it.
So what's driving the change? Shifting demographics: children of the "video game age" (i.e. the 80s) are now adults, and have continued to play. There's still good TV out there (and I TiVo it to watch when convenient), but just as often than not if I have an hour to kill I'll do it killing Haitians (oops.. whatever they're being called now) on GTA:VC.
You know you're no longer a snotty nosed geek when you can remember Canter & Siegel. Back in the days when you said "the internet" most people thought "Usenet", not "the Web." I think I still have an old O'Reiley book Using the Internet or some such thing were mention of the "World Wide Web" was relegated to an Appendix.
Despite the FUD and the lawsuits and the dupe of the media, Linux is still being enhanced and improved. And most importantly, it's still being adopted.
Not only that, but the memo is 5 months old and as far as I can tell SCO hasn't gotten any more significant money from Microsoft (maybe, just maybe EV1 was somehow tied into MS "you pay SCO a licensing fee, we'll discout your W2K server licenses by the same amount" but that's a bit too much tin-foil-hat thinking). This is telling me MS probably knows their cash to SCO isn't getting the kind of 'returns' it was looking for and has cut off the supply.
The lawsuits kind of point in this direction as well. SCO had gone a year "threatning" to sue, without actually doing it. If their threats actually worked MS would probably still be funneling cash to them one way or another and there would be no need to spend any money actually suing someone. Assuming the e-mail is real it looks like the gravy train stopped and now they actually have to find money on their own.
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Funny how its the left who continually bitch about being "censored," yet they're quite willing to squelch anyone else's speech who they consider apostate.
Maybe, but I also think that they're pushing iTunes as a future moneymaker as well. Again, this is a very formative time. Apple is in the lead (selling more downloads than anyone else) and its going to want to protect the leverage that comes with that lead. License to Real and Real can still pull this "we'll undercut you" stuff. This is *great* for users, but is no good for Apple. They want to be able to get to the point that they can dictate terms with the records labels / industry.
Probably because Apple see that in the future the store (more importantly FairPlay) *will* be the profit center. They want to leverage the best selling MP3 player (their iPod) into establishing FairPlay'ed ACC files as a standard. Set the standard, pocket a few cents from every tune sold. This is why Apple just did a deal with Moto. on iTunes and cell phones.
There's a much better article about this that was published a few weeks ago, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
And, it's very very hard to say they have a 'monopoly' position, especially coming from RECORD LABEL.
VirginMega isn't a record lable. You're confusing Virgin Records, which was sold to EMI a long time ago, with the rest of the Virgin Group.
Set in a dystopian future America...
/snark
In SciFi is there any other kind? I'm still waiting for Manhattan to be turned into a maximum security prison. They're about 7 years behind schedule.
I did my CS work (ADA and C) at WVU on a VAX shell circa 92ish. Also worked a year at one of the computer labs tearing print jobs off of the printer. Kinda miss that old system.
Ahh, those were the days. That was when USENET = Internet for most people and "the Web" was an appendix in an O'Reiley book.
In no particular order:
Regularly:
- Reason
- Linux Journal
- Linux Magazine
- Economist
- FP
If I happen to be in a bookstore and think about it:
- Q
- Fortune / Forbes / Money
- Liberty
BTW, I hope your windshield is holding up...
Funny you mention that: I've got two small "stars" in them from rocks. Them sombitches are soft as hell (not to mention the window's at a steeper angle) and bloody expensive. My friend has a Cooper, had a windshield shatter (granted, his wife hit a fiberglass toll booth arm, but those things are light as hell and designed to bounce off of windshields) and has had to have it replaced 3 different times. The local MINI dealership's fubared them ever time they've installed.
I'm a bit of a wonk when it comes to gas milage: I keep track of all of my gas purchases.
I used to have a standard 96 Ford Escort (no AC) that regularly got around 30-35 MPG in about a 60/40 Highway to "City" split. I can't remember what the EPA numbers were for that model, but I remember that I was around or slightly above them.
I now have a MINI Cooper S (fun f**king car). Under the same driving conditions I was getting about 23-24 MPG, which was lower than EPA. I have since moved and the drive is now 30/70 HW vs City and it has dropped to the 21-22 MPG range.
They may still have the website, but the label went tits up a while ago. I guess those Sean Lennon albums didn't sell so well.
Considering their only album that wasn't mediocre wasn't really even a Beastie Boys album (Paul's Boutique is a Dust Brothers album with the Beasties rapping on top of it), frankly, I could care less.
I play the change machine personally. Play a dollar, hit four quarters every time.
Funny that they are the ones announcing BayStar putting the pinch on them. Guess they want to put the "positive spin" on it, just like everything else...
That, and I suspect that if any insiders dumped a bunch of stock today without announcing it would be eligable for a perp walk.
According to an article on The Street one analyst didn't think BayStar would have much of a chance of getting their money back but this would make it incredibly difficult for SCO to raise any more money (not that they had anyone beating down their door to loan them money lately). By publicly asking for redemption over a broken clause I see this as BayStar's big, giant "FUCK YOU" to SCO.
The article brings up lots of good point that in general I don't have too many problems with, but frankly I don't see how most of these are FOSS specific. For every issue he highlights I can point to just as much closed source software that exhibits the same problems. I think the basic arguement behind all of this is a profit margin helps fix these problems, when in reality they don't. There's pleanty of closed source software that's counter intuitive, badly documented, bloated and doesn't do exactly what I want it to do, and there are examples in the FOSS world where the developers actually do care about the above issues.
I actually think these are exellent points to bring up about *all* software, as most, regardless of development methodology, suffer from one or more of these issues.
Like I said, that's an economic issue. As much as everyone shoots (somewhat deserved) arrows at the x86 arch. it continues to exist because of the legacy programs out there. Whether or not a lot of the problems are more percieved than actual as both AMD (much to their delight) and Intel (much to their chagrin) are finding the marketplace wants the 64 bit cludge to the x86 arch. not something totally different, regardless of how good it may be.
{cough cough cough} Itanium. And look how well that turned out.
There are options out there my friend (Power, Sparc, ARM... I happen to adore my power based macs). Its not like anyone is shoving the X86 arch. down our throat. Intel, in fact, has been trying to shove the good ship Itanic down the high end's throat and the high end told him to piss off. Face facts, technology doesn't always trump economics. Get over it (and go buy a Mac if you hate the x86 so much).
- "Today" that worked newest Sharp rom
- Mail app that allowed me to set the "mail folder" for my iMap account (defaulting to the root folder creates all kinds of problems)
- Better looking interface (yeah, its picky, but I'll admit the newer Palms and PPCs just look better)
And, no, I'm not going to upgrade to OPIE. a) I don't have a compact flash memory card to do it, b) I don't know how well it syncs to outlook (which is a deal breaker for me).How in the heck do they get those kinds of per person figures?
Easy, you forget that Wal Mart opperates in places like England, Japan and (I believe) China. Not to mention they own Sam's Club where small business shop.
My dad used to work in the contracts office in the Air Force and you couldn't accept anything that could be considered a gift. (IIRC there may have been a monetary cap on what you could accept but it was really low; even legitimate things like Christmas baskets or company tchotskes were frowned upon, which kind of weirded out suppliers the first time they dealt with the military since it could come across as rude when an Airman tells you to take your fruit basket home with you). Violation of this was taken very seriously. As big and established as MS is -- not to mention the fact they've dealt with the gov't on a contractual level for over 20 years -- this is a pretty boneheaded move. They should have known better and whoever authorized this should get shit-canned.
And don't forget the VCR.
Simple reason - the quality of video games is consistently improving, and the quality of television material is consisently regressing.
I don't know if I quite buy that, at least on the TV side. People have a tendency to look back at the past as some "golden era." TV today is just as good/crap as it was before. And while games have been getting technically better I remember wasting A LOT of time back in the 80s on my friend's Atari 2600. By today's standard technically crap, but we were still glued to it.
So what's driving the change? Shifting demographics: children of the "video game age" (i.e. the 80s) are now adults, and have continued to play. There's still good TV out there (and I TiVo it to watch when convenient), but just as often than not if I have an hour to kill I'll do it killing Haitians (oops.. whatever they're being called now) on GTA:VC.
"the September that never ended."
THAT'S IT... (you know you're getting old when you start forgetting crap)
I'm old enough to have coined the phrase "the world's biggest secret club" many years ago.
Most excellent.
Speaking of phrases, you're a (internet) codger if you remember what "Now it's August all year round"
ment.
AOL hitting Usenet... even worse than C&S spam incident.
Ah, those were the days.
You know you're no longer a snotty nosed geek when you can remember Canter & Siegel. Back in the days when you said "the internet" most people thought "Usenet", not "the Web." I think I still have an old O'Reiley book Using the Internet or some such thing were mention of the "World Wide Web" was relegated to an Appendix.
Despite the FUD and the lawsuits and the dupe of the media, Linux is still being enhanced and improved. And most importantly, it's still being adopted.
Not only that, but the memo is 5 months old and as far as I can tell SCO hasn't gotten any more significant money from Microsoft (maybe, just maybe EV1 was somehow tied into MS "you pay SCO a licensing fee, we'll discout your W2K server licenses by the same amount" but that's a bit too much tin-foil-hat thinking). This is telling me MS probably knows their cash to SCO isn't getting the kind of 'returns' it was looking for and has cut off the supply.
The lawsuits kind of point in this direction as well. SCO had gone a year "threatning" to sue, without actually doing it. If their threats actually worked MS would probably still be funneling cash to them one way or another and there would be no need to spend any money actually suing someone. Assuming the e-mail is real it looks like the gravy train stopped and now they actually have to find money on their own.