I don't care if the content isn't encoded by Apple. The fact is that they are selling something that isn't good quality. They're supposed to check and ensure that the encoding is as good as possible within the constraints of the codec and compression ratio.
If they don't fix this it is going to be very damaging.
3 screens would take up more space. Now if you had people sitting beside each other and they each had one of those screens then everyone could have 3 desktops. I look at the screen on my left and I see one of my desktops. The person on my left looks at my screen and sees one of their desktops.
Might take a bit of getting used to and the kind of firms that would want everyone using 3 screens probably also want very high quality. It would save a lot of space.
That the judge dismissed this sorry excuse for a lawsuit and put it out of it's misery.
This has been going on for far too long now and it's been clear to everyone for years now that even the broken patent/copyright system won't side with SCO.
They've got nothing and SCO are a joke. Noone even takes this case seriously anymore.
More to the idea of Apple wanting to buy Sony Computer Entertainment I'd have thought that Apple would have been more interested in acquiring Sony Corporation (electronics) or Sony BMG. Apple probably don't really want either but the Playstation is a whole different area for Apple and it would cause internal conflict within Apple just as there is within Sony now.
The Sony brand is still strong in electronics and their product range is good. They make nice laptops. Apple could just as easily do a deal to get iPod docks on Sony stereos (and TVs) and iTS on Walkmen. Sony-Ericsson would be a good partner on mobile phones. Buying that part would go down really badly in Japan.
Sony BMI is a different story though. It's not as core (to the brand) and it's a profitable cash cow. It would be very easy for Sony to sell/spin off Sony BMI if it needed a big pile cash to overcome some temporary crisis. Most of the people who buy Sony laptops, stereos, playstations etc. don't know much about Sony BMI and when most people buy DVDs and CDs they have no idea what label they just bought.
Financially Sony BMI is great for Sony. It's a steady stream of income (that's dried up a little) and it made a lot of sense when Sony were making a fortune on VCRs and CD players (and videos and CDs as a result). Now they are useless at supporting other aspects of the brand. Where were Sony-BMI when UMD was struggling? They were overcharging for UMDs and letting the format (for movies) die.
China mightn't want to become dependent on Windows right at the time that China is cracking down on IP infringement and Microsoft is expanding WGA to make it more of a nuisance.
Photoshop might be effectively free right now but that won't last forever. China has an opportunity to free itself from the Microsoft tax in the future by paying to support Linux now. It looks like really good value too if you consider that sponsoring local Linux will be a boost for Chinese levels of Linux support expertise. There's a lot of money to be made undercutting the opposition both through more efficient Chinese firms (when you have a lower costbase large fixed costs like licensing can really erode the advantage from other areas) and exporting Linux support.
A list of Linux Standard Base compliant distros is available on their site http://www.freestandards.org/en/Products
Asianux 2.0 (which Red Flag is based on) is listed as compliant so it would be reasonable to assume compliance. I've never used Red Flag so YMMV.
I don't think anyone in this thread has defended the Belgian newspapers. I don't think they're in the right to sue Google over something that they could have done using robot.txt instead.
My point was that when I search on Google I want to trust that they will return the results I want. Instead, they have shown that they are willing to manipulate search results to punish sites. Google could have kept the morale high ground by just removing a load of links to the Belgian sites and taking them out of google news. Instead they went much further and purely out of spite they even removed access to the court judgement.
Googles role in search gives them a lot of power. If they remove something from their search results it may as well not be on the internet for a large number (a majority even) of internet users. The more they manipulate search to hurt their enemies the less trustworthy they become. As a result of this I'm now going to have to start using alternative search engines more often just in case Google have decided that they don't want me to see what I'm looking for.
I feel so much safer. I know that only part of this is due to IE and the larger lesson is that you can't even trust websites you know and trust because they could be compromised.
Sure there are places where you'll get attacked often and there are others which are unlikely to be compromised but it's not enough in itself to just avoid places that look suspicious.
I'm with Google over the issue of news.google.com but their behaviour after they lost the court case has really challenged their credibility over their "do no evil" policy.
They could have easily just complied with the court order but instead they had to make a point by petulently removing all links to the relevant newspapers and even making it hard for people to read the judgement. This is manipulating search data for political purposes to suit their own agenda. It raises doubts in my mind about how much I can trust their search engine to try and be accurate, honest and to help me find what I'm looking for.
Now they're just another group of monopolist bullies.
Next business will want money from taxi drivers for delivering customers.
You mean like airports charging taxi drivers both for a license to pick up in the airport and each time they pick up as is the situation in Dublin?
Bussinesses charge based on what they think will get them the most money. The Belgian newspapers are no different. They understand the situation pretty well. It's just that there's money to be made.
For the amount of traffic google news generates they could pressure media to pay them instead ( directing more traffic to sites using adsense ads would be adequate)
Are you serious? Why would you think many iPod owners would want to do that?
iTunes isn't perfect and it's getting more bloated all the time but it's a good full featured player. Sure there are better lightweight music players.
Where M$ would really do well with Zune would be ripping songs from XBox and downloading through XBox Live directly to Zune so that you could simplify things (for XBox owners).
It's Microsoft's only real potential advantage in the accessory market. Target the gamers without computers but with consoles. Sony can (will be able to) do it, Nintendo can do it (through a partner. They won't get into mp3 players) but none of the other current iPod rivals have this as an option.
KOffice works like that already. It's a great idea and I'd love to see it in operation. OOo would be better off IMHO to split so that the applications can be run in a more standalone manner. This would especially be true for the applications that are typically used in conjunction with Writer such as editing equations, references or SVG graphics.
Does it support USB drives, digital cameras, cardreaders, iPods, wireless, DVD burners? You can install drivers for some of these things IF the hardware vendor still does.
Maybe they can run their existing applications but they don't have many options for learning any new tricks with their computers.
Using a suitable Linux distro on old hardware may offer a lot of new functionality for some people. There really is a gap in the market for a distro which makes the process of moving from Win 98 to Linux simple and unintimidating. Little things like showing you that it can open all your existing documents with a Live CD and install itself while preserving your documents so that even if you backup you mightn't have to restore.
Because they're the same size as albums on CD and the industry never really cared all that much about them. CD singles were only useful for occasional songs (e.g. Christmas songs, charity one-offs etc.) and because they needed to have something to base a singles chart on. The album chart was much more slow moving and more important but the singles charts sold albums.
That's why downloads took over on the singles charts almost immediately and now dominate them while online purchases are still dwarfed by CD album sales.
People shouldn't be surprised that lawyers are litigious.
Seriously, I'm not surprised. It's been a controversial idea in Ireland and there's really not much of an ability to defend your reputation without resorting to tougher measures. There was a lot of similar controversy with ratemyteacher.com when some of the allegations made on the site were troubling. In some cases the site was used to make (false) allegations of sexual and/or physical abuse. Teachers were rightly outraged.
To be fair I think that there are many incompetent and/or unscrupulous lawyers who don't do a good job of representing their clients. Many people I know have had problems in this regard. It's a service but it's also something that allows solicitors to bad mouth their rivals.
Actually by nuisance lawsuit I meant any lawsuit filed where the "nuisance" value of defending a lawsuit that you believe you are highly likely to win induces you to settle. It also happens where there is a very large cost associated with losing but significantly less gain in winning and less cost in settling
American spammer files a nuisance lawsuit British company in Illinois for blocking spam
British company is forced to spend a fortune hiring relevant lawyers and defending itself against a lawsuit without any merit. Spamhaus also have to spend another fortune ensuring that it complies with other regions laws
Spamhaus decide that it is easier to remove spammer from list. Other spammers follow suit and Spamhaus suddenly isn't blocking all that much spam.
Alternatively Spamhaus say that since they are operating in England they should be sued under British law. They ignore the judgement and the FUD attacks and keep doing everything their own way.
The spanner in the works is that an Illinois judge on a power trip takes a disliking to a British company refusing to show up even though the case is bogus and the court shouldn't have taken the case in the first place due to juristiction issues. Wild judgement is issued with massive punative damages which does little to harm Spamhaus. It's so large they'll never be able to comply. Instead, it just forces another company to stay outside the US due to an out of touch legal system. Oh and it adds about $11m to the price any American company that buys Spamhaus has to pay.
Slashdot Mirror
Learn Swedish for free
It'll probably be registered by the end of the day
Generally agree except for point 2. Go to here and you can see that the site actually is slashdotted.
If you don't like the Sun why don't you read the story in the Independent http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_techno logy/article1771872.ece Or maybe Xinhua http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/29/conte nt_5155160.htm ?
What about the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5388482.stm ?
If they don't fix this it is going to be very damaging.
I expect you'll still be able to boycott Wal-Mart, download music and support artists all at the same time.
For one thing it actually isn't your mistake. There a difference between Flash and flash. It's an error in the headline.
Might take a bit of getting used to and the kind of firms that would want everyone using 3 screens probably also want very high quality. It would save a lot of space.
I thought that was insightful although I had been thinking that internet cafes might have been better customers for really squeezing people in.
Well you can play Duke Nukem Forever but because there's no record of it you can't prove that you played it or that it's ready.
This has been going on for far too long now and it's been clear to everyone for years now that even the broken patent/copyright system won't side with SCO.
They've got nothing and SCO are a joke. Noone even takes this case seriously anymore.
More to the idea of Apple wanting to buy Sony Computer Entertainment I'd have thought that Apple would have been more interested in acquiring Sony Corporation (electronics) or Sony BMG. Apple probably don't really want either but the Playstation is a whole different area for Apple and it would cause internal conflict within Apple just as there is within Sony now.
The Sony brand is still strong in electronics and their product range is good. They make nice laptops. Apple could just as easily do a deal to get iPod docks on Sony stereos (and TVs) and iTS on Walkmen. Sony-Ericsson would be a good partner on mobile phones. Buying that part would go down really badly in Japan.
Sony BMI is a different story though. It's not as core (to the brand) and it's a profitable cash cow. It would be very easy for Sony to sell/spin off Sony BMI if it needed a big pile cash to overcome some temporary crisis. Most of the people who buy Sony laptops, stereos, playstations etc. don't know much about Sony BMI and when most people buy DVDs and CDs they have no idea what label they just bought.
Financially Sony BMI is great for Sony. It's a steady stream of income (that's dried up a little) and it made a lot of sense when Sony were making a fortune on VCRs and CD players (and videos and CDs as a result). Now they are useless at supporting other aspects of the brand. Where were Sony-BMI when UMD was struggling? They were overcharging for UMDs and letting the format (for movies) die.
Photoshop might be effectively free right now but that won't last forever. China has an opportunity to free itself from the Microsoft tax in the future by paying to support Linux now. It looks like really good value too if you consider that sponsoring local Linux will be a boost for Chinese levels of Linux support expertise. There's a lot of money to be made undercutting the opposition both through more efficient Chinese firms (when you have a lower costbase large fixed costs like licensing can really erode the advantage from other areas) and exporting Linux support.
A list of Linux Standard Base compliant distros is available on their site http://www.freestandards.org/en/Products Asianux 2.0 (which Red Flag is based on) is listed as compliant so it would be reasonable to assume compliance. I've never used Red Flag so YMMV.
My point was that when I search on Google I want to trust that they will return the results I want. Instead, they have shown that they are willing to manipulate search results to punish sites. Google could have kept the morale high ground by just removing a load of links to the Belgian sites and taking them out of google news. Instead they went much further and purely out of spite they even removed access to the court judgement.
Googles role in search gives them a lot of power. If they remove something from their search results it may as well not be on the internet for a large number (a majority even) of internet users. The more they manipulate search to hurt their enemies the less trustworthy they become. As a result of this I'm now going to have to start using alternative search engines more often just in case Google have decided that they don't want me to see what I'm looking for.
Sure there are places where you'll get attacked often and there are others which are unlikely to be compromised but it's not enough in itself to just avoid places that look suspicious.
They could have easily just complied with the court order but instead they had to make a point by petulently removing all links to the relevant newspapers and even making it hard for people to read the judgement. This is manipulating search data for political purposes to suit their own agenda. It raises doubts in my mind about how much I can trust their search engine to try and be accurate, honest and to help me find what I'm looking for.
Now they're just another group of monopolist bullies.
Bussinesses charge based on what they think will get them the most money. The Belgian newspapers are no different. They understand the situation pretty well. It's just that there's money to be made.
For the amount of traffic google news generates they could pressure media to pay them instead ( directing more traffic to sites using adsense ads would be adequate)
Are you serious? Why would you think many iPod owners would want to do that?
iTunes isn't perfect and it's getting more bloated all the time but it's a good full featured player. Sure there are better lightweight music players.
Where M$ would really do well with Zune would be ripping songs from XBox and downloading through XBox Live directly to Zune so that you could simplify things (for XBox owners).
It's Microsoft's only real potential advantage in the accessory market. Target the gamers without computers but with consoles. Sony can (will be able to) do it, Nintendo can do it (through a partner. They won't get into mp3 players) but none of the other current iPod rivals have this as an option.
KOffice works like that already. It's a great idea and I'd love to see it in operation. OOo would be better off IMHO to split so that the applications can be run in a more standalone manner. This would especially be true for the applications that are typically used in conjunction with Writer such as editing equations, references or SVG graphics.
Maybe they can run their existing applications but they don't have many options for learning any new tricks with their computers.
Using a suitable Linux distro on old hardware may offer a lot of new functionality for some people. There really is a gap in the market for a distro which makes the process of moving from Win 98 to Linux simple and unintimidating. Little things like showing you that it can open all your existing documents with a Live CD and install itself while preserving your documents so that even if you backup you mightn't have to restore.
That's why downloads took over on the singles charts almost immediately and now dominate them while online purchases are still dwarfed by CD album sales.
Seriously, I'm not surprised. It's been a controversial idea in Ireland and there's really not much of an ability to defend your reputation without resorting to tougher measures. There was a lot of similar controversy with ratemyteacher.com when some of the allegations made on the site were troubling. In some cases the site was used to make (false) allegations of sexual and/or physical abuse. Teachers were rightly outraged.
To be fair I think that there are many incompetent and/or unscrupulous lawyers who don't do a good job of representing their clients. Many people I know have had problems in this regard. It's a service but it's also something that allows solicitors to bad mouth their rivals.
Sorta like what a patent troll often does.
American spammer files a nuisance lawsuit British company in Illinois for blocking spam
British company is forced to spend a fortune hiring relevant lawyers and defending itself against a lawsuit without any merit. Spamhaus also have to spend another fortune ensuring that it complies with other regions laws
Spamhaus decide that it is easier to remove spammer from list. Other spammers follow suit and Spamhaus suddenly isn't blocking all that much spam.
Alternatively Spamhaus say that since they are operating in England they should be sued under British law. They ignore the judgement and the FUD attacks and keep doing everything their own way.
The spanner in the works is that an Illinois judge on a power trip takes a disliking to a British company refusing to show up even though the case is bogus and the court shouldn't have taken the case in the first place due to juristiction issues. Wild judgement is issued with massive punative damages which does little to harm Spamhaus. It's so large they'll never be able to comply. Instead, it just forces another company to stay outside the US due to an out of touch legal system. Oh and it adds about $11m to the price any American company that buys Spamhaus has to pay.