Really? Every single business people with a palm I've met so far have made the effort. Some lady I know even enters text using graffiti using her finely manicured pinky fingernail rather than a stylus. Somehow she makes it look both classy and easy.
And because humans are much more adaptable than computers, the latter approach worked so much better, and the Pilot was a huge success wereas the Newton was derided by most. Everybody was making fun of the Newton's incorrectly recognized words.
There is progress in there. With current technology handwriting recognition doesn't work, so a bunch of engineers found a workable solution.
I'm not an admirer of Microsoft, but I'll say this: MS research team is top-notch. Not development: research. They have very good people and very good working conditions, similar to Xerox-Parc or better, definitely competitive with IBM. Look up their awards page. I wish my research institution had one tenth of this: Marr prize, Wolf prize, Japan prize, Turing award, MacArthur fellowships. It's unbelievable.
Now research can take a long time to bear fruits. If it doesn't show up yet in Microsoft's product it doesn't mean it's bad.
I think you forgot to factor that one doesn't become president too young either. Assuming no president will be younger than 40 and not older than 80, each of these 60M youngersts only have 10 chances to become president, and a majority of presidents actually do 2 terms. Suddently the Oregonians don't seem so wrong after all.
Very often, it is not desirable that the root user on a client machine is also treated as root when accessing files on the NFS server. To this end, uid 0 is normally mapped to a different id: the so-called anonymous or nobody uid. This mode of operation (called `root squashing') is the default, and can be turned off with no_root_squash
Hi, thanks for the reply. Your initial email implied that you were complaining of the lack of client software, not that your problem was drivers.
I've gone through all that too. Funnilly enough I also had a Radeon 7000 before switching to a gf4-mx.
The problem is still patents. The reason why TV out doesn't work easily with your Radeon is that ATI won't release the specs of the tv output chip. The reason for this is the copy-protection scheme: the stupid hardware trick that makes copying the TV output to a VCR impossible. With an open-source driver it would be trivial to turn off and ATI is afraid of the litigation.
Now that you've sweated through all these initial issues you may find that the multimedia scene in Linux is actually OK. Look up on mplayer and mencoder, avidemux for simple movie editing and all the sound editors. It's fairly easy to setup a PVR box with Linux tools only.
I do all my multimedia work under Linux and when I go back to XP I generally don't like it, for repetitive work it pays to script, and XP software is usually click click click to death. There are some nice GUI movie editors though.
Second if everyone was forced to buy the software before it could even be evaluated it wouldn't even sell. Many people swear by Photoshop, if they had to pay the $700 for it every time and for every new release I think you'd see far fewer criticisms of the GIMP.
Third in the West many people pirate when they are young and have no money, in third-world country they pirate because they have no money. Notice the money theme? I note with interest that in order to try and curb piracy in Thailand Microsoft has tried to propose a *really* low cost version of Windows.
Fourth corporations do pay licences. The altenatives are expensive audits and those were well publicized some years ago. Notice how we don't hear from them anymore? The message got through and everyone who can afford it is fully licenced now, and that's only fair.
If the BSA wants to shoot itself in the foot they should certainly continue the strong-armed tactics of spot audits and uncircumventable DRM systems. This is pushing people in the arms of Free Software.
Conclusion: those who can afford the huge price of software are fully licensed and paid up, or very nearly so. Those who can't pay do pirate, but still wouldn't pay if they were forced to, because they can't. The result would be a lesser market penetration for all players involved for little or no financial gain.
And best of all, making "pay up!" noises is great for OSS. Nothing that the BSA does has any significant impact on the bottom line, except if somehow they would succeed in making Free Software illegal. This is not going to happen.
BSA is facing a reckoning in a few year's time. Software is becoming commoditized everywhere. Soon Windows will have to be given up for free or very nearly so (as it is now in Thailand), and the rest will follow suit. Look forward to either a full version of Photoshop for $25 or equivalently a fully featured GIMP as good as photoshop is today for $0, and not only that, but the quality of software will go up across the board. Notice how Windows is slowly getting more secure and feature rich? The alternative is oblivion for Microsoft.
BSA members have become super-rich by gouging the public. People who use Free software are seeing through their game: great software doesn't have to come at the price of an arm and a leg. How can Microsoft justify its $40B in the bank? In a properly functionning market where people have a choice, these sorts of insane margins cannot exist. Slowly and surely, the end of these practices is coming, and not a moment too soon.
> the Free Software community would be swamped with > freeloaders damanding top quality software and > giving nothing back.
The FOSS community is already swamped by these. I was just replying to some people complaining that Fedora doesn't come with a pre-installed DVD player, that it's too hard to install one by hand.
Legal software DVD players are supposed to be licensed, and that costs money. So these people wanted RedHat to license some DVD player software so that users could get it for free.
Repeat after me: patents. Redhat doesn't want to get sued into oblivion for the sake of their free distribution. RedHat is the largest target in the Linux world should the patent holders decide to collect their due. Redhat doesn't have any choice.
You do know, don't you, that in order to play DVDs you are supposed to use a licensed piece of software, and unless the developers particularly want to dig themselves into a financial hole, they've got to charge for their own software.
So your comments would be fair for a distribution for which you would have to pay money, but FC2 is both Free and free, so you have to do your own multimedia software installation, and this is not going to change unless somehow the patent system gets a huge rap on their knuckles.
You can't legally have a company redistributing an MP3 player without paying a license fee to Fraunhoffer Institute. If Fedora is to remain free-as-in-beer there is just no way this is going to happen.
Please install your own MP3 decoding library at your own risk or use Ogg instead. End of story.
FC1 was excellent from day one, it has little to do with all the upgrades, which are security focussed anyway (not that this is a bad thing).
FC1 was excellent because it was only evolutionary on RH9. Mostly same kernel, same glibc, only one minor version up on KDE and GNOME, added yum and automated updates, etc. If RH9 was 8.1, FC1 was 8.2, e.g stable like 7.3 was.
On top of this community involvment made FC1 really worthwhile with easily installable extra software like mplayer, xine, mp3 codecs, nvidia drivers that RedHat doesn't want to get involved with.
FC2 is a different kettle of fish with big changes: new kernel, new glibc, new gnome. KDE is more or less the same, it has a few bugs fixed and a few new shiny ones, and lots of stuff have been added.
The whole version behind trick doesn't work with RedHat software. It would have been a big mistake to stay with RH7.2 when 7.3 came out, it was really a whole lot better. RH8 was not good, RH9 corrected lots of mistakes, so staying with RH8 was not a good idea.
FC2 is not as stable as FC1, that's because of the big changes. FC3 will probably be an improvement.
Right now if you want to have Redhat safe and working software you've got to buy RHEL 3.0 or use WhiteBox, say, or indeed stay with FC1.
Chess grandmasters create wonderful chess, just the same as a great painter creates wonderful art. There is no fundamental difference.
Do we ask of great actors, writers, painters and musicians, or for that matter tennis people or rock stars to be good at anything else outside of their own area of competency?
Because you may not appreciate it doesn't mean it's worthless.
Well there is disagreement and there is terrorism. The two are not the same.
Even with a no-fly zone it would still be relatively easy to take down the elevator, think missile.
More probably the first elevator will probably be extremely expensive but within a few decades it will come within the reach or more nations and maybe even corporations and amateurs, like we are seeing now with rocket-based space access (well the amateurs aren't there yet but they are certainly trying).
During the conference there was an article about the toxicology of carbon nanotube. Apparently they induce brain damage in fish and mice, so the idea of the reef may not work out.
Oh yes RedHat the Company is still manipulating Fedora. Community support has started to work a little bit, but RedHat is still to offer CVS access to its packages to people outside.
On the positive side, RedHat has pushed a very aggressive timeline to get a 2.6 distribution out that mostly works. It's not all bad.
Did you use the feature that lets you verify the content of the CD-ROMs before installation? That question comes up automatically from the first CD when you first install. Almost certainly you had an incorrectly burned CD.
The Fedora installer craps out if it finds a single uninstallable RPM file. It doesn't try to soldier on, because the philosophy goes that an unstable system is worse than an uninstalled system. You can argue that point with RedHat if you want.
I have been burned with the same issue (mine was a faulty CDROM drive, but the result was the same). Since then I take the time to checksum the CDs before installation.
Gentoo is not a one-off compile. These guys are compiling stuff *all* *the* *time*. New releases, bug fixes, whatnot. I know a gentoo zealot and his machine is perpetually 100% busy compiling stuff. At least his CPU is getting some work done, that's for sure.
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Really? Every single business people with a palm I've met so far have made the effort. Some lady I know even enters text using graffiti using her finely manicured pinky fingernail rather than a stylus. Somehow she makes it look both classy and easy.
People usually find predicting the past pretty easy, but often they are wrong.
And because humans are much more adaptable than computers, the latter approach worked so much better, and the Pilot was a huge success wereas the Newton was derided by most. Everybody was making fun of the Newton's incorrectly recognized words.
There is progress in there. With current technology handwriting recognition doesn't work, so a bunch of engineers found a workable solution.
The story of the world.
Not to nitpick but 4M:1 is not an order of magnitude better than 10M:1 , other than that I agree with your post.
I'm not an admirer of Microsoft, but I'll say this: MS research team is top-notch. Not development: research. They have very good people and very good working conditions, similar to Xerox-Parc or better, definitely competitive with IBM. Look up their awards page. I wish my research institution had one tenth of this: Marr prize, Wolf prize, Japan prize, Turing award, MacArthur fellowships. It's unbelievable.
Now research can take a long time to bear fruits. If it doesn't show up yet in Microsoft's product it doesn't mean it's bad.
This is very interesting
I think you forgot to factor that one doesn't become president too young either. Assuming no president will be younger than 40 and not older than 80, each of these 60M youngersts only have 10 chances to become president, and a majority of presidents actually do 2 terms. Suddently the Oregonians don't seem so wrong after all.
Not if the files you need to change are owned by root.
With root_squash on, the only way to edit those files would be as root on the server.
Hi, thanks for the reply. Your initial email implied that you were complaining of the lack of client software, not that your problem was drivers.
I've gone through all that too. Funnilly enough I also had a Radeon 7000 before switching to a gf4-mx.
The problem is still patents. The reason why TV out doesn't work easily with your Radeon is that ATI won't release the specs of the tv output chip. The reason for this is the copy-protection scheme: the stupid hardware trick that makes copying the TV output to a VCR impossible. With an open-source driver it would be trivial to turn off and ATI is afraid of the litigation.
Now that you've sweated through all these initial issues you may find that the multimedia scene in Linux is actually OK. Look up on mplayer and mencoder, avidemux for simple movie editing and all the sound editors. It's fairly easy to setup a PVR box with Linux tools only.
I do all my multimedia work under Linux and when I go back to XP I generally don't like it, for repetitive work it pays to script, and XP software is usually click click click to death. There are some nice GUI movie editors though.
No penguins at the North pole?
First these figures are completely made up.
Second if everyone was forced to buy the software before it could even be evaluated it wouldn't even sell. Many people swear by Photoshop, if they had to pay the $700 for it every time and for every new release I think you'd see far fewer criticisms of the GIMP.
Third in the West many people pirate when they are young and have no money, in third-world country they pirate because they have no money. Notice the money theme? I note with interest that in order to try and curb piracy in Thailand Microsoft has tried to propose a *really* low cost version of Windows.
Fourth corporations do pay licences. The altenatives are expensive audits and those were well publicized some years ago. Notice how we don't hear from them anymore? The message got through and everyone who can afford it is fully licenced now, and that's only fair.
If the BSA wants to shoot itself in the foot they should certainly continue the strong-armed tactics of spot audits and uncircumventable DRM systems. This is pushing people in the arms of Free Software.
Conclusion: those who can afford the huge price of software are fully licensed and paid up, or very nearly so. Those who can't pay do pirate, but still wouldn't pay if they were forced to, because they can't. The result would be a lesser market penetration for all players involved for little or no financial gain.
And best of all, making "pay up!" noises is great for OSS. Nothing that the BSA does has any significant impact on the bottom line, except if somehow they would succeed in making Free Software illegal. This is not going to happen.
BSA is facing a reckoning in a few year's time. Software is becoming commoditized everywhere. Soon Windows will have to be given up for free or very nearly so (as it is now in Thailand), and the rest will follow suit. Look forward to either a full version of Photoshop for $25 or equivalently a fully featured GIMP as good as photoshop is today for $0, and not only that, but the quality of software will go up across the board. Notice how Windows is slowly getting more secure and feature rich? The alternative is oblivion for Microsoft.
BSA members have become super-rich by gouging the public. People who use Free software are seeing through their game: great software doesn't have to come at the price of an arm and a leg. How can Microsoft justify its $40B in the bank? In a properly functionning market where people have a choice, these sorts of insane margins cannot exist. Slowly and surely, the end of these practices is coming, and not a moment too soon.
> the Free Software community would be swamped with
> freeloaders damanding top quality software and
> giving nothing back.
The FOSS community is already swamped by these. I was just replying to some people complaining that Fedora doesn't come with a pre-installed DVD player, that it's too hard to install one by hand.
Legal software DVD players are supposed to be licensed, and that costs money. So these people wanted RedHat to license some DVD player software so that users could get it for free.
The mind boggles.
Kernel 2.6.x still has a number of outstanding issues, like ACPI and Firewire. If those are a concern stay with kernel 2.4.x based distros.
Repeat after me: patents. Redhat doesn't want to get sued into oblivion for the sake of their free distribution. RedHat is the largest target in the Linux world should the patent holders decide to collect their due. Redhat doesn't have any choice.
You do know, don't you, that in order to play DVDs you are supposed to use a licensed piece of software, and unless the developers particularly want to dig themselves into a financial hole, they've got to charge for their own software.
So your comments would be fair for a distribution for which you would have to pay money, but FC2 is both Free and free, so you have to do your own multimedia software installation, and this is not going to change unless somehow the patent system gets a huge rap on their knuckles.
Fedora has a minimum install option, I haven't tried it but logic would dictate it would all fit on the first CD.
Does Slackware have a 2.6.x kernel that fits on a floppy? With all the required drivers? I'm curious.
You can't legally have a company redistributing an MP3 player without paying a license fee to Fraunhoffer Institute. If Fedora is to remain free-as-in-beer there is just no way this is going to happen.
Please install your own MP3 decoding library at your own risk or use Ogg instead. End of story.
FC1 was excellent from day one, it has little to do with all the upgrades, which are security focussed anyway (not that this is a bad thing).
FC1 was excellent because it was only evolutionary on RH9. Mostly same kernel, same glibc, only one minor version up on KDE and GNOME, added yum and automated updates, etc. If RH9 was 8.1, FC1 was 8.2, e.g stable like 7.3 was.
On top of this community involvment made FC1 really worthwhile with easily installable extra software like mplayer, xine, mp3 codecs, nvidia drivers that RedHat doesn't want to get involved with.
FC2 is a different kettle of fish with big changes: new kernel, new glibc, new gnome. KDE is more or less the same, it has a few bugs fixed and a few new shiny ones, and lots of stuff have been added.
The whole version behind trick doesn't work with RedHat software. It would have been a big mistake to stay with RH7.2 when 7.3 came out, it was really a whole lot better. RH8 was not good, RH9 corrected lots of mistakes, so staying with RH8 was not a good idea.
FC2 is not as stable as FC1, that's because of the big changes. FC3 will probably be an improvement.
Right now if you want to have Redhat safe and working software you've got to buy RHEL 3.0 or use WhiteBox, say, or indeed stay with FC1.
Chess grandmasters create wonderful chess, just the same as a great painter creates wonderful art. There is no fundamental difference.
Do we ask of great actors, writers, painters and musicians, or for that matter tennis people or rock stars to be good at anything else outside of their own area of competency?
Because you may not appreciate it doesn't mean it's worthless.
Well there is disagreement and there is terrorism. The two are not the same.
Even with a no-fly zone it would still be relatively easy to take down the elevator, think missile.
More probably the first elevator will probably be extremely expensive but within a few decades it will come within the reach or more nations and maybe even corporations and amateurs, like we are seeing now with rocket-based space access (well the amateurs aren't there yet but they are certainly trying).
During the conference there was an article about the toxicology of carbon nanotube. Apparently they induce brain damage in fish and mice, so the idea of the reef may not work out.
Oh yes RedHat the Company is still manipulating Fedora. Community support has started to work a little bit, but RedHat is still to offer CVS access to its packages to people outside.
On the positive side, RedHat has pushed a very aggressive timeline to get a 2.6 distribution out that mostly works. It's not all bad.
Did you use the feature that lets you verify the content of the CD-ROMs before installation? That question comes up automatically from the first CD when you first install. Almost certainly you had an incorrectly burned CD.
The Fedora installer craps out if it finds a single uninstallable RPM file. It doesn't try to soldier on, because the philosophy goes that an unstable system is worse than an uninstalled system. You can argue that point with RedHat if you want.
I have been burned with the same issue (mine was a faulty CDROM drive, but the result was the same). Since then I take the time to checksum the CDs before installation.
How are you managing the updates? Do you have a SuSE subscription?
Gentoo is not a one-off compile. These guys are compiling stuff *all* *the* *time*. New releases, bug fixes, whatnot. I know a gentoo zealot and his machine is perpetually 100% busy compiling stuff. At least his CPU is getting some work done, that's for sure.