It happens. One day you find you have someone worth asking, and then you do it. You've asked and the good answer has been given. Be happy, and remember that the romance does not end witht he vows, it only gets better and better.
There may be those who poo-poo this for being on/. They only do this because they do not have someone to ask the question.
I have worked with Linux for the last seven years. I ran a company that used only Linux, once, but mostly there has always been a mix of platforms in the work place. Most sane people understand that. You claim, due to a single "stringie little guy" that all people who use Linux don't use multiple platforms. Well that does not sounds like sane words. So you hired a fool. Fire him, and maybe that will remove his stupid smile.
Your story could just have been about someone coming back and having Linux removed from their Laptop machine and finding W2K. The same thing would have happened. Something which was easy to do in Linux would be lost and replaced by a different application from MS which did not function as well.
So, I don't see your problem. This is just a complaint about a kid that should never have been hired right? Please speak with his boss and the people in HR. If that doesn't work print out a resume, like the rest of us.
Some of these songs might not be played for good reason. Judgement should be used by the DJ. This list is weird. Like it was generated by work search program and not any human.
I don't like Neil Diamond, but banning a stiring song about how great our country is, how we are the fantasic nexus of the world's people and cultures.
What the fucking hell do these anti-american morons think they are doing. Next week they'll be going to court to protect their 1st amendment rights to play a song about killing a cop.
Sorry. it's earily and this stuff in the morning does not sit well with me. Hell, I never listen to the damned radio anymore anyways. Maybe crappy companies like this are the reason.
I am not an expert. You could just the channeling this meaning from thin air. But assuming that your are 100% correct, that does not sound good.
I would like to be free from having my tax money spent on spying on me.
Really I'd like "to" have freedom and liberty. Doubt that anyone who penned the constution thought that government should be unduely watchful of innocent people.
They placed safeguards in it for that reason. If they saw what was happening today I doubt they'd be happy.
These people lost many many lives, some willingly ad some not, to create this nation and to attian a level of freedom. Do we still have that level of freedom, that level that our founder thoght that "good enough"?
They knew the cost of freedom. It's lives. It's our safity. That is often the cost.
Are we losing too much freedom? Our we losing too many lives? Which is better to have?
I have been somewhat safe all my life. I was never in the army. I doubt not at all that I would give me life to protect freedom. It's something far far far greater than any of us.
But then there is that odd problem. What are we free from. Freedom has a baord meaning, but is not the normal 2001 lawyer language. It's a word. A lawyer will ask where the list of freedoms are? Does being free mean freesom from being spit on? A lawyer would tell you that just being given freedom is too vague.
We've lost that much of a concept of what it is. We have polificos and lawyers and others who do not instunctively know the meaning of that word.
Many people died suporting that dream of freedom. During the revolution, WWI, WWII, and in other conflicts around the world. Did these people die for nothing. Did the people die in the attack on the WTC so that we could lose the dream of freedom? I hope not.
I was planning on being in NY that day. Luckily I put off that trip. I don't know of anyone I know having been there when the attack happened. But I was saddened. I always watch the news in the morning over coffee, and I cought the events as they happened.
Did I see people die only so that the people in their lives, whom they left behind, would suffer more?
I love the USA. Not as a counrty, but as a location. We are not like countries around the word with a single group of people and a single church. In that way we are not a country. We are a location where people can live their dreams. We are an amazing nexus of the world.
Let's get 'em, but let's not also get us too.
PS: I'd like to thank/. for covering news and links.
Two tuners!? This might exist in some TV VCR combo boxes, but I know for sure that it exists in many homes. Sure it's two boxes, or one tuner per box, but we've all watched something while the VCR has taped something else. The logical extension was to place two tuners in a box.
I like my government stupid, sure, just not stupid AND powerful.
Allchin went on to say that he was offended by the roads in the US. "They should have been built, nobody would argue with that, but then they should have been turned over to private interests who know how to take care of roads and protect them." He further clairified his position saying "It's unamerican. I'm an american and I'm not for this 'public use of roads' so it must be unamerican! Damn fucking commie roads...commies...get me my meds."
This is something that is more part of the "American way" than anything Microsoft can come up with.
I think the idea of change is hard for Microsoft, which is also the "American way." We do things different here, and that is what makes this land great. We bow to no kings!
I really have nothing thrilling or insightful to add, except this comes on the heals of Bill's letter bitchslapping all of open source and the people pitching it.
I have alway said "Use Linux if it makes sense to you, if not use a Mac or Windows, or what ever makes you productive."
Here is a company which has done just that. They are using what make sense for them, and it's Linux. That is gratifiying. I have had a small role in Linux's past (very small), but I was using it to run my company in 1994 (an ISP). I am really glad to see it working for others.
People of open source love to party. One more Linux adoption is as good as reason as any. We are not pressured and thus enjoy a good time. Bill did not see this in his letter, scolding us for celebrating our 5 percent. I say celebrate!
I've read about Bill's past, as a single dimentsional person skilled in manipulation and a coding session or two. So, not partying for Bill, even when he is on top. What a loser.
Have fun, party. Use Linux or don't. Don't be sore if all of the people happy to use Linux, debug it, code it, or just cheering for it, party the night away. We might just have the secret of how to live a good life, something Bill does not have.
+15,000 more Linux boxes out there. Is that more or less than TiVO? I don't know, but still I'll drink a beer or many more at the bar, rasing each glass to a Pengiun named Tux, a kid name Linus, and to the rest of us "Long live us! Long live the good times!"
Brinn claims in his letter that US rich give more rather than let the government take is when they die. Sounds about right to me. I have not checked or ask for his source, but I think that is reasonable and true.
I wonder though it his position that the choice is better, the choice you make while you are alive. That is the important part. If the governement was not going to take the money then people might not give?
Maybe there are other reasons that US rich give more than the rich in other countries?
Also an other question? Why not just take the top three percent of the rich's money for "national defence"? After all we take lives in that cause, why not take a little money.
After all we cold use it to cure AIDS and cancer. Why let those people die. That sure does beat letting people make libraries in thier name.
If the slope is slippery, let's slide down it. When is it ok to take people's money? Only after they are dead? Think about it.
I care. I don't want to have to be a minor victem in the market. They are finding it easier and easier to drop segments of that market.
If regions were really used I would not be able to get movies produced and distributed in Hungry and play them here, without getting more than one DVD player.
What would happen if I wanted other movies that never made it to the US. I guess that would only be the less import, like me, that would be effected.
I feel sorry for people getting slammed. The companies claim, often, that it was not indented.
My first case of being slammed was kind of funny. It was in 1995. I ordered a fractional T1(384kb) for my business(a dailup provider, my 56kb was maxed out). Then one day I get werd extra charges on the T1. I ask our acountant what was goin on. He didn't know. Looking at the bill I noticed that we had been charged for a change of long distance carrier, twice. Once out T1 was switch to AT&T, then MCI, for "long distance" calls.
I explained this to the Pacific Bell billing people. I had a T1, which would not make long distance calls. They only said, will then wy did you switch carriers.
All people working for phone company seem not to "get it". Must be something in the water.
So, slamming is bad, but phone companies' billing paractices are worse.
I ordered a "Centrex" interoffice package from Pacific Bell in San Francisco back in earily 1995. Centrex is a group of business numbers which can call each other without any cost. They must all terminate at the same switch. This product was created to replace small office PBX systems.
Well I got Centrex ISDN lines. Centrex lines don't have to terminate at the same address. So I had many Centrex ISDN lines terminate at customer sites. Ta-ta, 128kb ISDN 24 hours a day with only the $29 a month bill.
I was an ISP, and this was gravy. Or so I thought. Little did I know that the Pacific Bell was holding a blade against my neck, and was cutting.
They somehow forgot that we had unmetered lines, there was a bug in the system. The bills came in to my customers not at $29, but at the metered rate. Pacific Bell, in our first month offering ISDN, overcharged us $38,000.00.
This continued. They even made us pay the bill. We could only speak to "our" customer service rep, who was out in training for 29 out of 30 days of the month it seemed.
When we did get refunds they did not indicate what they were refunding. Our customers got fed up after about six months and the billing nightmare continued.
We quite. Or rather, my partners did. I had no choice. We were the first in our area to offer what people can only get now via DSL. I can't think that is was just a bug in the system. I can't prove anything either.
In the end we sold the customers to other companies and moved on. I was glad to no longer have to spend my entire day on the phone with Pacific Bell.
Anonymous free speach, is free speach. The founders of the States believed that is was a much needed right. They did not call out "anonymous", but they did speak about it that way, as I recall.
I will need to do some digging to get specifics though.
The idea was that people could express an opinion, even an unpopular one, without having any harm or respisal. Unless people are completely free to express themselves then they will not.
Remember that each and every person within the USA is a member of the government. The idea was a self governing social order. I wonder how that plays into the whole thing also. Basically the "people" are the top governing body.
Well who has not wanted to spy on their bosses email. We've all been tempted, but most have resisted.
Being able to speak one's mind while remaining anonymous is one the the many tentant of our government. Collecting this information will not limit with thoughts we will be willing to express to our own private groups of friends.
Should be not let the guilty party go unmonitored, and thus protect the rights of the public to not be monitored, to in fact have some liberty?
(In my case I will premote having server to server communication encrypted, using a thrid party key sytem such as SSL)
These are two things on my top 10 list. Flat panels will remove bulky monitors and real 3d will bring human/computer interaction to new levels.
There are so many areas with we could use computers better if we had 3d. I assume there would be many many medical uses for such a thing(assuming someone has not patented the use of 3d for medical use).
Right now though there is a great deal going on with the LCD and other flat panels. The iPaq, flat panel displays, and so on.
If and when someone breaks into the market with 3d it will change a great number of things that we do.
I hope this is not vaper. I have not heard of something this good in a long time.
Ok, this is a lame post. I'm just all for it. 3d gives me a woody(not really, just quoting a Doom developer who was speaking about Linux).
Apple computers is a type of computer. Like the Intel based PC market. Not really someone can compair to brands of shoes. That is far to simple and example.
Compairing a Dell PC vs a Compaq PC would make more sense. Apples are in the own catagory. So, they are alone in that market and do suffer from it.
My message was not flamebait as someone has tagged it.
I like Apple, I'd like to be a customer again. They have in no way pulled me from the Intel PC market, or Intel based server market.
The 1-click thing is just simple example of odd marketting. Why place that as the main item you are crowing about. They are a computer company. I for one would like to see them crow about a computer.
Apple has been doing poorly as far as market share. I'm sure we can all see that. This may upset some people. One might assume that one of those people upset my Apple's poor preformace marketed my message as flamebait. No matter.
If my comments are seen by some as such, it cannot be helped. People often look for personal attack where none exists.
I had some person experience that makes me more than a little careful when it comes to purchasing from some comanies. One of these companies is Apple. They have not alway been open and friendly to thrid party operating systems.
I did not purchase Diamond video cards at the time they were not open to the XFree86 people. They just did not want to share. Ok, that's fine. I like computer parts that can be used in a way that I choose.
To a lesser degree Apple wants you to use their computers in a certain way. They want you using Apple's OS and applications. In short they wish to control the playing field.
I have had many good experiences with Apple software and computers, but I have had many more bad ones. People like me have come to be somewhat jaded about Apple. Things like the 1-click item, are just one more Apple mistake, in my book.
I like them. I grew up on them. I don't give them much hope.
I own that idea. In fact in order to do anything which has been done before, or is something we all know how to do, but failed to leave a good paper trail on, you owe me. So your subject line should have been licensed through me. You owe me money!
We need to have open and accessable documents standardizing TV broadcasting, two-way communication, and the viewing devices.
By "we" I mean the people of the net, the global people of the net. We want to recieve broadcasts and do what we will with them. We'd like device/broadcast interoperation.
Personally I think we need to craft a standard for the world. Something global, so that there might be more products and a larger market.
I don't want to have a cable box on every device. I'd like to have my picture within a picture work! I need a tunner that will work on it's own for every channel I'm paying for.
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It happens. One day you find you have someone worth asking, and then you do it. You've asked and the good answer has been given. Be happy, and remember that the romance does not end witht he vows, it only gets better and better.
There may be those who poo-poo this for being on
Take care.
-- James Dornan
Others ask "Why?" I ask "Why not?"
There are many people who might have asked Linus why
he continued with his work when Sun was making an
exceptable OS.
Then there are people who claim not to reboot often.
So what. Other people dual-boot.
To all those that say something like an animated LILO or Linux should not be create, I say "It is most likely you which should not have been created."
Russ,
I have worked with Linux for the last seven years. I ran a company that used only Linux, once, but mostly there has always been a mix of platforms in the work place. Most sane people understand that. You claim, due to a single "stringie little guy" that all people who use Linux don't use multiple platforms. Well that does not sounds like sane words. So you hired a fool. Fire him, and maybe that will remove his stupid smile.
Your story could just have been about someone coming back and having Linux removed from their Laptop machine and finding W2K. The same thing would have happened. Something which was easy to do in Linux would be lost and replaced by a different application from MS which did not function as well.
So, I don't see your problem. This is just a complaint about a kid that should never have been hired right? Please speak with his boss and the people in HR. If that doesn't work print out a resume, like the rest of us.
-- James Dornan
Neil Diamond "America"
Some of these songs might not be played for good reason. Judgement should be used by the DJ. This list is weird. Like it was generated by work search program and not any human.
I don't like Neil Diamond, but banning a stiring song about how great our country is, how we are the fantasic nexus of the world's people and cultures.
What the fucking hell do these anti-american morons think they are doing. Next week they'll be going to court to protect their 1st amendment rights to play a song about killing a cop.
Sorry. it's earily and this stuff in the morning does not sit well with me. Hell, I never listen to the damned radio anymore anyways. Maybe crappy companies like this are the reason.
Take care, and be safe.
-- James Dornan
I do see the differance.
I am not an expert. You could just the channeling this meaning from thin air. But assuming that your are 100% correct, that does not sound good.
I would like to be free from having my tax money spent on spying on me.
Really I'd like "to" have freedom and liberty. Doubt that anyone who penned the constution thought that government should be unduely watchful of innocent people.
They placed safeguards in it for that reason. If they saw what was happening today I doubt they'd be happy.
These people lost many many lives, some willingly ad some not, to create this nation and to attian a level of freedom. Do we still have that level of freedom, that level that our founder thoght that "good enough"?
They knew the cost of freedom. It's lives. It's our safity. That is often the cost.
Are we losing too much freedom? Our we losing too many lives? Which is better to have?
I have been somewhat safe all my life. I was never in the army. I doubt not at all that I would give me life to protect freedom. It's something far far far greater than any of us.
Take care, and be well.
-- James Dornan
Freedom and liberty are what we are about.
/. for covering news and links.
But then there is that odd problem. What are we free from. Freedom has a baord meaning, but is not the normal 2001 lawyer language. It's a word. A lawyer will ask where the list of freedoms are? Does being free mean freesom from being spit on? A lawyer would tell you that just being given freedom is too vague.
We've lost that much of a concept of what it is. We have polificos and lawyers and others who do not instunctively know the meaning of that word.
Many people died suporting that dream of freedom. During the revolution, WWI, WWII, and in other conflicts around the world. Did these people die for nothing. Did the people die in the attack on the WTC so that we could lose the dream of freedom? I hope not.
I was planning on being in NY that day. Luckily I put off that trip. I don't know of anyone I know having been there when the attack happened. But I was saddened. I always watch the news in the morning over coffee, and I cought the events as they happened.
Did I see people die only so that the people in their lives, whom they left behind, would suffer more?
I love the USA. Not as a counrty, but as a location. We are not like countries around the word with a single group of people and a single church. In that way we are not a country. We are a location where people can live their dreams. We are an amazing nexus of the world.
Let's get 'em, but let's not also get us too.
PS: I'd like to thank
-- James Dornan
Two tuners!? This might exist in some TV VCR combo boxes, but I know for sure that it exists in many homes. Sure it's two boxes, or one tuner per box, but we've all watched something while the VCR has taped something else. The logical extension was to place two tuners in a box. I like my government stupid, sure, just not stupid AND powerful.
Allchin went on to say that he was offended by the roads in the US. "They should have been built, nobody would argue with that, but then they should have been turned over to private interests who know how to take care of roads and protect them." He further clairified his position saying "It's unamerican. I'm an american and I'm not for this 'public use of roads' so it must be unamerican! Damn fucking commie roads...commies...get me my meds."
-- James Dornan
This is something that is more part of the "American way" than anything Microsoft can come up with.
I think the idea of change is hard for Microsoft, which is also the "American way." We do things different here, and that is what makes this land great. We bow to no kings!
-- James Dornan AKA Tiger Smile
Yes, it should be a song. I did not think of that when I wrote it, but yes it should be.
I am damn sorry I forgot to add the sunscreen part. A good start and finish to any rambling speech.
I really have nothing thrilling or insightful to add, except this comes on the heals of Bill's letter bitchslapping all of open source and the people pitching it.
I have alway said "Use Linux if it makes sense to you, if not use a Mac or Windows, or what ever makes you productive."
Here is a company which has done just that. They are using what make sense for them, and it's Linux. That is gratifiying. I have had a small role in Linux's past (very small), but I was using it to run my company in 1994 (an ISP). I am really glad to see it working for others.
People of open source love to party. One more Linux adoption is as good as reason as any. We are not pressured and thus enjoy a good time. Bill did not see this in his letter, scolding us for celebrating our 5 percent. I say celebrate!
I've read about Bill's past, as a single dimentsional person skilled in manipulation and a coding session or two. So, not partying for Bill, even when he is on top. What a loser.
Have fun, party. Use Linux or don't. Don't be sore if all of the people happy to use Linux, debug it, code it, or just cheering for it, party the night away. We might just have the secret of how to live a good life, something Bill does not have.
+15,000 more Linux boxes out there. Is that more or less than TiVO? I don't know, but still I'll drink a beer or many more at the bar, rasing each glass to a Pengiun named Tux, a kid name Linus, and to the rest of us "Long live us! Long live the good times!"
Brinn claims in his letter that US rich give more rather than let the government take is when they die. Sounds about right to me. I have not checked or ask for his source, but I think that is reasonable and true.
I wonder though it his position that the choice is better, the choice you make while you are alive. That is the important part. If the governement was not going to take the money then people might not give?
Maybe there are other reasons that US rich give more than the rich in other countries?
Also an other question? Why not just take the top three percent of the rich's money for "national defence"? After all we take lives in that cause, why not take a little money.
After all we cold use it to cure AIDS and cancer. Why let those people die. That sure does beat letting people make libraries in thier name.
If the slope is slippery, let's slide down it. When is it ok to take people's money? Only after they are dead? Think about it.
I care. I don't want to have to be a minor victem in the market. They are finding it easier and easier to drop segments of that market.
If regions were really used I would not be able to get movies produced and distributed in Hungry and play them here, without getting more than one DVD player.
What would happen if I wanted other movies that never made it to the US. I guess that would only be the less import, like me, that would be effected.
-- James
I feel sorry for people getting slammed. The companies claim, often, that it was not indented.
My first case of being slammed was kind of funny. It was in 1995. I ordered a fractional T1(384kb) for my business(a dailup provider, my 56kb was maxed out). Then one day I get werd extra charges on the T1. I ask our acountant what was goin on. He didn't know. Looking at the bill I noticed that we had been charged for a change of long distance carrier, twice. Once out T1 was switch to AT&T, then MCI, for "long distance" calls.
I explained this to the Pacific Bell billing people. I had a T1, which would not make long distance calls. They only said, will then wy did you switch carriers.
All people working for phone company seem not to "get it". Must be something in the water.
So, slamming is bad, but phone companies' billing paractices are worse.
I ordered a "Centrex" interoffice package from Pacific Bell in San Francisco back in earily 1995. Centrex is a group of business numbers which can call each other without any cost. They must all terminate at the same switch. This product was created to replace small office PBX systems.
Well I got Centrex ISDN lines. Centrex lines don't have to terminate at the same address. So I had many Centrex ISDN lines terminate at customer sites. Ta-ta, 128kb ISDN 24 hours a day with only the $29 a month bill.
I was an ISP, and this was gravy. Or so I thought. Little did I know that the Pacific Bell was holding a blade against my neck, and was cutting.
They somehow forgot that we had unmetered lines, there was a bug in the system. The bills came in to my customers not at $29, but at the metered rate. Pacific Bell, in our first month offering ISDN, overcharged us $38,000.00.
This continued. They even made us pay the bill. We could only speak to "our" customer service rep, who was out in training for 29 out of 30 days of the month it seemed.
When we did get refunds they did not indicate what they were refunding. Our customers got fed up after about six months and the billing nightmare continued.
We quite. Or rather, my partners did. I had no choice. We were the first in our area to offer what people can only get now via DSL. I can't think that is was just a bug in the system. I can't prove anything either.
In the end we sold the customers to other companies and moved on. I was glad to no longer have to spend my entire day on the phone with Pacific Bell.
So, slamming it seems is just par for the course.
Be seeing you.
Anonymous free speach, is free speach. The founders of the States believed that is was a much needed right. They did not call out "anonymous", but they did speak about it that way, as I recall.
I will need to do some digging to get specifics though.
The idea was that people could express an opinion, even an unpopular one, without having any harm or respisal. Unless people are completely free to express themselves then they will not.
Remember that each and every person within the USA is a member of the government. The idea was a self governing social order. I wonder how that plays into the whole thing also. Basically the "people" are the top governing body.
Well who has not wanted to spy on their bosses email. We've all been tempted, but most have resisted.
I hope the FBI resists.
Be seeing you.
Good point! This is the best question so far, I second it.
Being able to speak one's mind while remaining anonymous is one the the many tentant of our government. Collecting this information will not limit with thoughts we will be willing to express to our own private groups of friends.
Should be not let the guilty party go unmonitored, and thus protect the rights of the public to not be monitored, to in fact have some liberty?
(In my case I will premote having server to server communication encrypted, using a thrid party key sytem such as SSL)
Be seeing you.
These are two things on my top 10 list. Flat panels will remove bulky monitors and real 3d will bring human/computer interaction to new levels.
There are so many areas with we could use computers better if we had 3d. I assume there would be many many medical uses for such a thing(assuming someone has not patented the use of 3d for medical use).
Right now though there is a great deal going on with the LCD and other flat panels. The iPaq, flat panel displays, and so on.
If and when someone breaks into the market with 3d it will change a great number of things that we do.
I hope this is not vaper. I have not heard of something this good in a long time.
Ok, this is a lame post. I'm just all for it. 3d gives me a woody(not really, just quoting a Doom developer who was speaking about Linux).
Be seeing you.
Back before we all locked our boxes down, people often used cvs to place web pages and other item into a site.
This was done, for some parts, of HotWired back in the day.
I'm sure that some places are still doing that using CVS over SSH.
This should be an easy one to beat if there is even a need to beat it.
How will they deffend their patent vs peeople who have been doing the same thing for longer than their patent has been around?
These things make me sick, but I'm glad that Slashdot posts them. Some bad news needs to be looked into.
Be seeing you.
Apple computers is a type of computer. Like the Intel based PC market. Not really someone can compair to brands of shoes. That is far to simple and example.
Compairing a Dell PC vs a Compaq PC would make more sense. Apples are in the own catagory. So, they are alone in that market and do suffer from it.
My message was not flamebait as someone has tagged it.
I like Apple, I'd like to be a customer again. They have in no way pulled me from the Intel PC market, or Intel based server market.
The 1-click thing is just simple example of odd marketting. Why place that as the main item you are crowing about. They are a computer company. I for one would like to see them crow about a computer.
Apple has been doing poorly as far as market share. I'm sure we can all see that. This may upset some people. One might assume that one of those people upset my Apple's poor preformace marketed my message as flamebait. No matter.
If my comments are seen by some as such, it cannot be helped. People often look for personal attack where none exists.
I had some person experience that makes me more than a little careful when it comes to purchasing from some comanies. One of these companies is Apple. They have not alway been open and friendly to thrid party operating systems.
I did not purchase Diamond video cards at the time they were not open to the XFree86 people. They just did not want to share. Ok, that's fine. I like computer parts that can be used in a way that I choose.
To a lesser degree Apple wants you to use their computers in a certain way. They want you using Apple's OS and applications. In short they wish to control the playing field.
I have had many good experiences with Apple software and computers, but I have had many more bad ones. People like me have come to be somewhat jaded about Apple. Things like the 1-click item, are just one more Apple mistake, in my book.
I like them. I grew up on them. I don't give them much hope.
Be seeing you.
I do oddly. You might find it odd, as do I, but the fact remains.
At this point it looks like over 1200 offices will be getting IBM thin clients connecting to NT "Terminal services" and/or acting as XTerminals.
No room for Apple there.
Be seeing you.
I own that idea. In fact in order to do anything which has been done before, or is something we all know how to do, but failed to leave a good paper trail on, you owe me. So your subject line should have been licensed through me. You owe me money!
What will I patent next? Human hair? I think so.
Is this the same company which also licensed the work "Classic" from coke for the Mac Classic.
I should change my name to Mac or Apple and then collect tons of fear money from them.
We need to have open and accessable documents standardizing TV broadcasting, two-way communication, and the viewing devices.
By "we" I mean the people of the net, the global people of the net. We want to recieve broadcasts and do what we will with them. We'd like device/broadcast interoperation.
Personally I think we need to craft a standard for the world. Something global, so that there might be more products and a larger market.
I don't want to have a cable box on every device. I'd like to have my picture within a picture work! I need a tunner that will work on it's own for every channel I'm paying for.
Who else wants this?
Is the MPAA a monopoly? Is DVD a form of price fixing? Does their control prevent small players from entering the market?
Is yes, then why not prove they are a monopoly, and collect money from the with class-action legal wrangling?
This is the important question. After that legal action has started I'm sure that there will be many DVD players for Linux.
Does anyone have any comments?
-- James