"Removing them would result in a slower, much-less user friendly Windows that would be a support nightmare."
Really?!? If your going to tell a lie at least make it believable. No way it would be slower... And support would have to exist before it could become a nightmare.
Microsoft Windows is a support nightmare period. The closed API, the closed specs all across the board mean that error codes are simply, 'it's broke' indicators, not debugging information that can provide a fix.
Less MS windows means more reliability, and more support (from someone other than MS Non-Support).
Apparently the Maxim will have to change... There are Lies, Damn Lies, and Microsoft P.R.
The more near misses I hear about the better I feel. The one that is really going to bug me is that last one that I'll never hear about... The big one that hits.
I design for NS4, NS4, NS4. I don't get fancy, and yes I'd love to do more CSS, BUT. If I design a good workable (read minimum glitz) site to work in NS4, then everything else works too. I cannot do that if I design for IE or NS6. NS4 as a baseline makes good sense.
Great if RF and EM can't be monitored. This is a very useful ELint. tool, but it assumes that line of sight to the LED is practical, and Radio Fequencey & Electro Magnetic methods are unavailable. Reading directly off a users monitors is not practical, as the data may be moving via a non displaying program (ie FTP). I cannot see any 'general case' usage of it however as even shielded TWP sheds RF and can be monitored remotely.
BOZO
Your as much a part of the problem as an open relayer is.
Odds are this Clown/Clone has no idea how much he relayed, but if it was enough to get him multiple blacklist, then it was too much for an "I'm sorry, it's all ok now, trust me".
One of the things I am in life is a photographer, so how could I be opposed to copyright?
Easy, one thing anyone needs to have work sold is to be seen. The more that see it, the more potential for someone to buy it.
Here's what copyright was intended for.
To contain unwanted COMMERCIAL use of a work for profit, without the permission of the owner.
That's all, nothing more. I have no rights to my images beyond commercial use, and even my rights for commercial use require limits for the greater rights of society as whole.
"The missions to the outer planets, I think, are very important and should receive full funding. They may not be very efficient, but travel to the outer planets takes so long and is subject to so many constraints that we really need to get these projects going now. It's a shame that they are being cut."
It's cheaper to send a targeted mission from an orbital way station (maybe the ISS), then it it a dedicated launch for the purpose.
Penny wise and pound foolish to kill/cut the ISS.
The most powerful, self reprogramming computer is still located between two human ears. The most useful manipulation devices, and optical retrieval devices are connected directly to that computer.
Manned flight although expensive, is the most productive per pound than we can expect for at least the next twentyfive years, and longer if we don't have the resources at location to drive the research for improvement.
Cut the budget for research into the suppression of potato eyes, cut the budget for any number of trivial things we waste it on. The space budget has always returned more than we have put into it.
Potato Eye research is the job of market forces, not public paid R&D.
"Neither WindowsME or Windows 98 would install inside LindowsOS on my system."
And it shouldn't! Is the reviewer a total boob?
This isn't a review, it isn't an evaluation. It's just someone who (says) he got ahold of a compy and decided to jerk with it.
Of course on the other hand I'm not to thrilled with the Lindows folks either. Pay to preview (Who else do we know that runs that scam)? Then give my name and information to Microsoft in some sort of legal discovery scam, because I expressed and interest in a vaporware product? Lindows!!! You promised it wouldn't be shared or sold, and then you just hand it over to ''the great satan'' without so much as telling me?!?!
I wouldn't trust this Lindows outfit on an old 286. They've shown who they want to be.
I would try to craft a rationial response...
But this idea brings to mind only one thought,
LAME.
The service providers are really serious about trying to carve new revenue streams out of a system that was never built for it. The only micropayment system for content delivery that could work would destroy the web. That system used/uses per bit or bytes delivered content charges. It works for B2B telecom service....
Did anyone see Code Red attatched to the Apache Server??? The next three months should show if Corp. America has too much money to throw down the IIS hole. (Looking over the horizon for cross platform IIS... nope another mirage) IIS has nothing to offer, I'm biased (and right).
Just an observation. I have been watching the english language versions of the Russian Media for mention of this travesty. I haven't seen it, even at Pravda .
I would have expected it. Is anyone else seeing anything different in Russian?
Lets let the things do _anything_ before we accuse them of copyright violation, much less walking in the shoes of the creator.
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Dmitry Sklyarov is still in jail,
DMCA is still the law,
and Adobe is still a supporter of the DMCA, and the cause of Dmitry being in jail and kept from his family.
I see no reason to call off the boycott, I see every reason to continue with the protest [and more].
The shame of this (DMCA) is not a stain that the Chef's will quietly carry back to the kitchen, we must make the public understand what is being stolen. We must make business and government understand that the paying customers will not tolerate poor service.
Piracy for profit is wrong, evil, and worthy of criminal complaint.
Knowledge, tools, and fair use are not.
I do not blame the FBI, the action was initiated on the complaint that a law was violated (law right, or law wrong? the courts decide that part, not the police).
I really believe that Adobe didn't think that hackles would be raised this loud this fast.
BTW has anyone else noticed how the mainstream press has ignored this case?
This is about a convoluted as logic and get. And wrong. The New License covers the whole distro, not the parts.
Caldera is entitled to do what it wants with it's parts no arguement. It's that parts that are not Caldera that is the problem. I really feel that there's something dirty about not being able to copy this thing without a certificate for each copy.
No don't pin me down, I didn't say it is dirty, I said it feels dirty. License for support OK, License for installation, it just doesn't feel 'Linuxish'.
The business model for Linux is tricky for traditional business, be it supplier, or end user.
It's not 'viral' in the Microsoft sense, but it is non-traditional in the business sense. Red Hat (with it faults) has it right with building a support model to pay for the development arm. Of course we know RH turned a profit, on other investments not RH-Linux, but the direction is there.
In some odd way this reminds me of the PC, Atari, Amiga battles to keep bootcode on floppys a licensed item, even though doing so seemed on the surface to hurt the business model (in accounting).
I would say open mouth insert foot, but in this case Caldera is doing . ..
Open mouth, insert MegaTon Weapon.
Caldera must actually want out of the Linux Desktop business.
Of course I didnt read the license... if this is simply for paid support, it would be a good idea.
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"First of all, companies with web sites are(in most countries) legally required to tell you about what kind of data they collect and what they do with it."
Which countries? What laws?
I'm serious. I'm not aware of any.
Almost ALL grownup webservers do this.
It's a rational requirement for auditing, not for privacy but for functionality and operations.
McNealy was right "You have zero privacy anyway,"... "Get over it.".
It isn't a pleasant thought, but it is reality.
Everyone from the phone company (or cable) to the author of a GeoCities site can get information about you activities to one degree or another.
It's kind of like going to the grocery store and not wanting ANYONE to know you picked up a copy of RedBook magazine. The retailer has to know, and there's no way to keep the person behind you in line from knowing. In that sense you have more privacy on the web than you do in the temporal world.
The author of the CNET article chould have taken one more step in research... and the author of the slashdot article should have verified.
http://www.slashdot.org
Contained a bug from the Open Source Development Network (OSDN.com)
SLASHDOT is part of the OSDN pages by VA Linux.
It's not a 'bug'.
Bugnosis isn't smart enough to tell the difference between a real bug and a simple page counter, and probably can't be. We should really worry about much more important things and stop feeding paranoia.
They shouldn't have been allowed to cross industries. Television is television, and telecom is telecom. I can see AOLTW refusing to run ads for Lay's, Pepsi, Tylenol, whatever... because AOLTW has a stake in a competing product or business. I'm wondering just how much AOLTW has an interest in the publuc interest (remember FCC licences?).
Does nayone have a list of the various components of the AOLTW SuberColumbine.
A.K.A. What do we do for a press release? (recycle this)
I don't have the links... They probably don't exist anymore anyways.
Before AOL/SUN ate Netscape, Netscape Communications had done exactly what this 'press release' said. There was never an anouncement of any deviation from this model either.
The only change was that Sun would take over the server products (and apparently fail at most of them), and pay AOL for browser development. Go figure.
I'd have to check, but what this is probably a flag for is that that contract for browser development is probably coming up on running out and AOL wants to transition the Netscape brand into something it can make money from without looking like AOL.
First the obvious... Which T or soon to be mini T is sueing. Also I would have thought this patent would have belonged to AT&T Labs (Lucent). Or Bell Labs (whoever they are now).
Now the less obvious, this patent actually has roots back to at least 1971 and the switched digital network (ESS). How long should a technology/math patent live? Should the exist at all.
Even less obvious, Micro$oft has unleashed a very expensive new license system in the XP model. T's suit may be an attempt to obtain a more favorable arrangement. MickySoft should prepare for more from other corperations, technology does not operate in a vacuum.
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"Removing them would result in a slower, much-less user friendly Windows that would be a support nightmare."
Really?!? If your going to tell a lie at least make it believable. No way it would be slower...
And support would have to exist before it could become a nightmare.
Microsoft Windows is a support nightmare period.
The closed API, the closed specs all across the board mean that error codes are simply, 'it's broke' indicators, not debugging information that can provide a fix.
Less MS windows means more reliability, and more support (from someone other than MS Non-Support).
Apparently the Maxim will have to change...
There are Lies, Damn Lies, and Microsoft P.R.
The more near misses I hear about the better I feel.
The one that is really going to bug me is that last one that I'll never hear about... The big one that hits.
I suspect that if tracked, this 'idea' probably goes back to Xerox Parc Labs.
Not Microsoft, not Philips, not Disney.
I design for NS4, NS4, NS4. I don't get fancy, and yes I'd love to do more CSS, BUT. If I design a good workable (read minimum glitz) site to work in NS4, then everything else works too. I cannot do that if I design for IE or NS6. NS4 as a baseline makes good sense.
Great if RF and EM can't be monitored.
This is a very useful ELint. tool, but it assumes that line of sight to the LED is practical, and Radio Fequencey & Electro Magnetic methods are unavailable. Reading directly off a users monitors is not practical, as the data may be moving via a non displaying program (ie FTP). I cannot see any 'general case' usage of it however as even shielded TWP sheds RF and can be monitored remotely.
BOZO
Your as much a part of the problem as an open relayer is.
Odds are this Clown/Clone has no idea how much he relayed, but if it was enough to get him multiple blacklist, then it was too much for an "I'm sorry, it's all ok now, trust me".
One of the things I am in life is a photographer, so how could I be opposed to copyright?
Easy, one thing anyone needs to have work sold is to be seen. The more that see it, the more potential for someone to buy it.
Here's what copyright was intended for.
To contain unwanted COMMERCIAL use of a work for profit, without the permission of the owner.
That's all, nothing more. I have no rights to my images beyond commercial use, and even my rights for commercial use require limits for the greater rights of society as whole.
"The missions to the outer planets, I think, are very important and should receive full funding. They may not be very efficient, but travel to the outer planets takes so long and is subject to so many constraints that we really need to get these projects going now. It's a shame that they are being cut."
It's cheaper to send a targeted mission from an orbital way station (maybe the ISS), then it it a dedicated launch for the purpose.
Penny wise and pound foolish to kill/cut the ISS.
The most powerful, self reprogramming computer is still located between two human ears. The most useful manipulation devices, and optical retrieval devices are connected directly to that computer.
Manned flight although expensive, is the most productive per pound than we can expect for at least the next twentyfive years, and longer if we don't have the resources at location to drive the research for improvement.
Cut the budget for research into the suppression of potato eyes, cut the budget for any number of trivial things we waste it on. The space budget has always returned more than we have put into it.
Potato Eye research is the job of market forces, not public paid R&D.
"Neither WindowsME or Windows 98 would install inside LindowsOS on my system."
And it shouldn't! Is the reviewer a total boob?
This isn't a review, it isn't an evaluation. It's just someone who (says) he got ahold of a compy and decided to jerk with it.
Of course on the other hand I'm not to thrilled with the Lindows folks either. Pay to preview (Who else do we know that runs that scam)? Then give my name and information to Microsoft in some sort of legal discovery scam, because I expressed and interest in a vaporware product? Lindows!!! You promised it wouldn't be shared or sold, and then you just hand it over to ''the great satan'' without so much as telling me?!?!
I wouldn't trust this Lindows outfit on an old 286. They've shown who they want to be.
Really, your site does not accept the cross platform corperate browser (Communicator), don't expect sponsorship from the technical community.
USE FORTH - REAL FORTH, not some hack that sits on top of a host OS. FORTH is the OS, the Language, and the File System.
I won't go so far as to say FORTH is God, but I will bet that God uses FORTH.
I would try to craft a rationial response...
....
But this idea brings to mind only one thought,
LAME.
The service providers are really serious about trying to carve new revenue streams out of a system that was never built for it. The only micropayment system for content delivery that could work would destroy the web. That system used/uses per bit or bytes delivered content charges. It works for B2B telecom service
Aw! Nevermind, the idea is just LAME.
Did anyone see Code Red attatched to the Apache Server??? The next three months should show if Corp. America has too much money to throw down the IIS hole. (Looking over the horizon for cross platform IIS... nope another mirage) IIS has nothing to offer, I'm biased (and right).
Just an observation. I have been watching the english language versions of the Russian Media for mention of this travesty.
I haven't seen it, even at Pravda .
I would have expected it.
Is anyone else seeing anything different in Russian?
Lets let the things do _anything_ before we accuse them of copyright violation, much less walking in the shoes of the creator.
Dmitry Sklyarov is still in jail, DMCA is still the law, and Adobe is still a supporter of the DMCA, and the cause of Dmitry being in jail and kept from his family. I see no reason to call off the boycott, I see every reason to continue with the protest [and more]. The shame of this (DMCA) is not a stain that the Chef's will quietly carry back to the kitchen, we must make the public understand what is being stolen. We must make business and government understand that the paying customers will not tolerate poor service. Piracy for profit is wrong, evil, and worthy of criminal complaint. Knowledge, tools, and fair use are not. I do not blame the FBI, the action was initiated on the complaint that a law was violated (law right, or law wrong? the courts decide that part, not the police). I really believe that Adobe didn't think that hackles would be raised this loud this fast. BTW has anyone else noticed how the mainstream press has ignored this case?
This is about a convoluted as logic and get. And wrong. The New License covers the whole distro, not the parts.
Caldera is entitled to do what it wants with it's parts no arguement. It's that parts that are not Caldera that is the problem. I really feel that there's something dirty about not being able to copy this thing without a certificate for each copy.
No don't pin me down, I didn't say it is dirty, I said it feels dirty. License for support OK, License for installation, it just doesn't feel 'Linuxish'.
The business model for Linux is tricky for traditional business, be it supplier, or end user.
It's not 'viral' in the Microsoft sense, but it is non-traditional in the business sense. Red Hat (with it faults) has it right with building a support model to pay for the development arm. Of course we know RH turned a profit, on other investments not RH-Linux, but the direction is there.
In some odd way this reminds me of the PC, Atari, Amiga battles to keep bootcode on floppys a licensed item, even though doing so seemed on the surface to hurt the business model (in accounting).
Ramble Off
I would say open mouth insert foot, but in this case Caldera is doing . .
Open mouth, insert MegaTon Weapon.
Caldera must actually want out of the Linux Desktop business.
Of course I didnt read the license... if this is simply for paid support, it would be a good idea.
"First of all, companies with web sites are(in most countries) legally required to tell you about what kind of data they collect and what they do with it."
Which countries? What laws?
I'm serious. I'm not aware of any.
"There wouldn't be any point in a B/W LCD because it probably wouldn't be any less expensive to produce."
Bingo
You got it right on the nose. An unsellable LCD screen of any colour or size is called Toxic Waste .
More margin is needed just to dispose of the manufacturing cull, which is still quite high (something approximating 20%).
Almost ALL grownup webservers do this.
It's a rational requirement for auditing, not for privacy but for functionality and operations.
McNealy was right "You have zero privacy anyway,"... "Get over it.".
It isn't a pleasant thought, but it is reality.
Everyone from the phone company (or cable) to the author of a GeoCities site can get information about you activities to one degree or another.
It's kind of like going to the grocery store and not wanting ANYONE to know you picked up a copy of RedBook magazine. The retailer has to know, and there's no way to keep the person behind you in line from knowing. In that sense you have more privacy on the web than you do in the temporal world.
The author of the CNET article chould have taken one more step in research... and the author of the slashdot article should have verified.
http://www.slashdot.org
Contained a bug from the Open Source Development Network (OSDN.com)
SLASHDOT is part of the OSDN pages by VA Linux.
It's not a 'bug'.
Bugnosis isn't smart enough to tell the difference between a real bug and a simple page counter, and probably can't be. We should really worry about much more important things and stop feeding paranoia.
They shouldn't have been allowed to cross industries. Television is television, and telecom is telecom. I can see AOLTW refusing to run ads for Lay's, Pepsi, Tylenol, whatever... because AOLTW has a stake in a competing product or business. I'm wondering just how much AOLTW has an interest in the publuc interest (remember FCC licences?).
Does nayone have a list of the various components of the AOLTW SuberColumbine.
A.K.A. What do we do for a press release? (recycle this)
I don't have the links... They probably don't exist anymore anyways.
Before AOL/SUN ate Netscape, Netscape Communications had done exactly what this 'press release' said. There was never an anouncement of any deviation from this model either.
The only change was that Sun would take over the server products (and apparently fail at most of them), and pay AOL for browser development. Go figure.
I'd have to check, but what this is probably a flag for is that that contract for browser development is probably coming up on running out and AOL wants to transition the Netscape brand into something it can make money from without looking like AOL.
First the obvious... Which T or soon to be mini T is sueing. Also I would have thought this patent would have belonged to AT&T Labs (Lucent). Or Bell Labs (whoever they are now).
Now the less obvious, this patent actually has roots back to at least 1971 and the switched digital network (ESS). How long should a technology/math patent live? Should the exist at all.
Even less obvious, Micro$oft has unleashed a very expensive new license system in the XP model. T's suit may be an attempt to obtain a more favorable arrangement. MickySoft should prepare for more from other corperations, technology does not operate in a vacuum.