Yes, but unlike the nuclear plant up the road you don't have to find somewhere safe to store your waste products and guard them closely lest some 'rogue State' or 'terrorist' should get hold of it.
In any case, it seems from the New Yorker reponses here that the nuclear waste is already in the river;)
Take for example the iPlanet suite that became the Sun ONE suite that became the Sun Java System. The name changes did not necessarily coincide with product update releases - just marketing whims IMHO. On top of that you have the version number debacles and the addition of tags like Standard or Enterprise edition.
Even Sun can't keep up: The "Free Download: Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2" link here (http://wwws.sun.com/software/product_categories/i nternet_ecommerce.html) takes you to a page to download "Sun[tm] ONE Directory Server 5.2" The name change occurred late last year IIRC. Is it any wonder clients get confused?
Searching for any sort of help is an exercise in permutations: (iPlanet OR (Sun ONE) OR (Sun Java System)) AND (Directory OR LDAP) AND Server AND (what you're looking for). SunSolve is not good at complex searches:(
The drugs in marketing must be good because the logic isn't.
...sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the RED book audio on the disk.
The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly.
Apart from the obvious self-contradiction (Red Book audio is uncompressed stereo, while WMA compressed files clearly are not) doesn't this serve as an admission of deceptive trading practices? They are presenting the disc in a form that implies a certain quality level in the reproduction but actually delivering something less: compressed audio.
The funny thing is, the TOS does not specify that you actually must live in Indiana. How on earth are they going to verify that each address is a valid address?
They can eliminate applications from the Rest-of-the-World (you know, that thing outside the U.S. border!) by asking what Hoosier means:)
> Imperial answers after a moments hesitation with: 5280
Of course, Imperial should have answered with, "Which mile and which foot?"
At last count there were several miles: US Statute mile, International mile: a unit of length equal to 1760 yards(5280 international feet). One international mile is precisely equal to 0.999 998 US survey miles. US Survey Mile: 5280 survey feet Nautical Mile, International Nautical Mile: a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters Sea Mile: a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet) Geographical mile, Admiralty mile, Nautical mile(archaic): British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet) Mile: a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km Roman mile: an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
"Why? Every major distro has switched at this point."
When you upgrade from Distro Ver X to Ver Y do you perform a complete reinistall or just upgrade packages? In the upgrade case XFree may well stay, and not be updated, rather than potentially break a working install by replacing it with a wholely new package. After all, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I assume I'm not the only one that visited the original article site and was presented with a pop-up ad for NextTel when they left:)
Expect NexTel to be adding two more "taxes": 1. Coercion Misdirection Levy - for ads served to people after reading an article explaining how the company jacks up profits under the guise of "taxation". 2. Geographic Locale Fee - for ads served to people they can't service (I'm in Australia).
Sony have chosen to try and compete, in a slightly off-target way, with Apple's ITunes Music Store. As numerous others have pointed out, Apple has an impressive lead in this arena. However, Apple have chosen to limit sales of their online tunes offerings to the United States. One would think that Sony would choose to launch a service in their heartland that does not compete with Apple. I have no concrete evidence, but I suspect the majority of the MiniDisc sales are in Japan and Asia. But no, the same artificial borders appear in the Sony offering - they will only sell to residents of the US.
I fear I will be an old man before certain parties realise that there is a world outside of the US.
I reinstalled the whole operating system, from scratch, four times! I poked. I prodded. I tweaked. I FAQed. I How-To-ed. I searched Usenet. Nothing solved the problem.
If there is anything in this this story that truly needs to be dealt with it is this: the automatic reaction of a Windows user is to reinstall the entire OS after 3 minutes looking rather than working the problem in a methodical manner. Unlike the comparison operating systems, Linux, or indeed most UNIX-like operating systems, do not need to be completely reconstructed just to solve a problem. After all, you don't rebuild an entire car when the battery is flat.
Is this reaction of Windows users the fault of Linux. No. However, to coerce Windows users from their world Linux must provide answers in a form that the average Joe Windows user can digest. I suggest that this is the fifteen second sound-bite : reinstall the driver. This facility is not obvious in Linux. Perhaps a packaging method capable of dealing with loading/unloading kernel modules, and guided ALSA config, is in order.
It's also interesting to note that our intrepid Windows trail-blazer didn't try the single most obvious Linux distro - RedHat/Fedorah - which if memory serves have excellent auto-detection systems and is probably the most likely to work in Windows fashion. I can't believe for a moment that he tried the built-from-source Gentoo. Why? If he had he would realise that support for his sound card was present and that any failure to get it going would be his own and not that of the kernel or ALSA drivers. Of course, he may have discovered that suport for his audio hardware was definitely not present, but that would mandate an different rave wouldn't it.
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Been done before I'm afraid. The 'evil monster' in The Fifth Element is Dr. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.
Yes, but unlike the nuclear plant up the road you don't have to find somewhere safe to store your waste products and guard them closely lest some 'rogue State' or 'terrorist' should get hold of it.
;)
In any case, it seems from the New Yorker reponses here that the nuclear waste is already in the river
... Sun also do it with the names.
i nternet_ecommerce.html) takes you to a page to download "Sun[tm] ONE Directory Server 5.2" The name change occurred late last year IIRC. Is it any wonder clients get confused?
:(
Take for example the iPlanet suite that became the Sun ONE suite that became the Sun Java System. The name changes did not necessarily coincide with product update releases - just marketing whims IMHO. On top of that you have the version number debacles and the addition of tags like Standard or Enterprise edition.
Even Sun can't keep up: The "Free Download: Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2" link here (http://wwws.sun.com/software/product_categories/
Searching for any sort of help is an exercise in permutations:
(iPlanet OR (Sun ONE) OR (Sun Java System)) AND (Directory OR LDAP) AND Server AND (what you're looking for).
SunSolve is not good at complex searches
The drugs in marketing must be good because the logic isn't.
The technology does activate a proprietary Macrovision player in order to play the CD on a PC, and that player converts WMA compressed files to audio on the fly.
Apart from the obvious self-contradiction (Red Book audio is uncompressed stereo, while WMA compressed files clearly are not) doesn't this serve as an admission of deceptive trading practices? They are presenting the disc in a form that implies a certain quality level in the reproduction but actually delivering something less: compressed audio.
The funny thing is, the TOS does not specify that you actually must live in Indiana. How on earth are they going to verify that each address is a valid address?
They can eliminate applications from the Rest-of-the-World (you know, that thing outside the U.S. border!) by asking what Hoosier means :)
> Imperial answers after a moments hesitation with: 5280
Of course, Imperial should have answered with, "Which mile and which foot?"
At last count there were several miles:
US Statute mile, International mile: a unit of length equal to 1760 yards(5280 international feet). One international mile is precisely equal to 0.999 998 US survey miles.
US Survey Mile: 5280 survey feet
Nautical Mile, International Nautical Mile: a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
Sea Mile: a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)
Geographical mile, Admiralty mile, Nautical mile(archaic): British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)
Mile: a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
Roman mile: an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
"Why? Every major distro has switched at this point."
When you upgrade from Distro Ver X to Ver Y do you perform a complete reinistall or just upgrade packages? In the upgrade case XFree may well stay, and not be updated, rather than potentially break a working install by replacing it with a wholely new package. After all, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I assume I'm not the only one that visited the original article site and was presented with a pop-up ad for NextTel when they left :)
Expect NexTel to be adding two more "taxes":
1. Coercion Misdirection Levy - for ads served to people after reading an article explaining how the company jacks up profits under the guise of "taxation".
2. Geographic Locale Fee - for ads served to people they can't service (I'm in Australia).
... the rest of the World.
Sony have chosen to try and compete, in a slightly off-target way, with Apple's ITunes Music Store. As numerous others have pointed out, Apple has an impressive lead in this arena. However, Apple have chosen to limit sales of their online tunes offerings to the United States. One would think that Sony would choose to launch a service in their heartland that does not compete with Apple. I have no concrete evidence, but I suspect the majority of the MiniDisc sales are in Japan and Asia. But no, the same artificial borders appear in the Sony offering - they will only sell to residents of the US.
I fear I will be an old man before certain parties realise that there is a world outside of the US.
If there is anything in this this story that truly needs to be dealt with it is this: the automatic reaction of a Windows user is to reinstall the entire OS after 3 minutes looking rather than working the problem in a methodical manner. Unlike the comparison operating systems, Linux, or indeed most UNIX-like operating systems, do not need to be completely reconstructed just to solve a problem. After all, you don't rebuild an entire car when the battery is flat.
Is this reaction of Windows users the fault of Linux. No. However, to coerce Windows users from their world Linux must provide answers in a form that the average Joe Windows user can digest. I suggest that this is the fifteen second sound-bite : reinstall the driver. This facility is not obvious in Linux. Perhaps a packaging method capable of dealing with loading/unloading kernel modules, and guided ALSA config, is in order.
It's also interesting to note that our intrepid Windows trail-blazer didn't try the single most obvious Linux distro - RedHat/Fedorah - which if memory serves have excellent auto-detection systems and is probably the most likely to work in Windows fashion. I can't believe for a moment that he tried the built-from-source Gentoo. Why? If he had he would realise that support for his sound card was present and that any failure to get it going would be his own and not that of the kernel or ALSA drivers. Of course, he may have discovered that suport for his audio hardware was definitely not present, but that would mandate an different rave wouldn't it.