Well probably all they were talking about was Linux. I mean this is LinuxPlanet we're talking about. I'm pretty sure all that guy talks about is Linux no matter where he goes.
. Opening the source is bound to get a few people grabbing it and learning however I'm not too sure that the sort of big business providers will be that interested.
They won't be. Why? They get most of the source already.
No company is very alike and all their software must be customized. Companies like SAP and Solomon (I don't know about BAAN) Basically provide the source and allow for rewrites and tweaking to fit certain business models. Now most companies don't have people who can read it so it doesn't matter anyway. But in its own way it is open. When we deal with Solomon we have our own people writing modules along with Solomon people. This makes for a happier experience all the way around I will tell you:).
In an organization with 500+ employees that ships hundreds of products a day, you can't give everyone Excel and say keep track of this stuff and leave a copy on the file server for everyone else to look at, like you can with a business of 10 to 20 people. ERP products allow for centralized administration as well as data tracking. Not to mention extreme uptime etc.
I know there is tons of stuff for AS/400/S/36/NT. Maybe opening this would allow someone to make something for Linux (I don't know if there is one now) THis could be very helpful if people want to put Linux in the enterprise as anything but a web server.
BAAN supplies a set of ERP tools that are an across the board solution for accounting/manufacturing/distribution etc. This is similar to software such as SAP or Solomon. These software packages control all levels of accounting and distribution in an enterprise environment. This is no small feat. One of my clients is converting to SAP just for accounting/distribution. They have spent about 8 million dollars so far, it's been almost a year since they started, and they have about 20 fulltime people working on the conversion from SAP.
IBM at the moment is doing an SAP conversion, and I can't get Netfinity servers. Not because they don't have the parts, but because they are having SAP problems and can't ship anything.
If you have a piece of code with no license attached to it, you can do whatever you want with it. That's the problem. If the entire GPL is struck down, then any software released under it has no license. What's to stop me from distributing it, selling it, bundling it into my apps? Nothing, there is no license.
I think we would have to worry more about loopholes being found. But can you reapply a license to software that's already been released under a license? I think that is probably the biggest worry here. Not, can we fix it if there's a problem, but what will happen to everything that's been released already. And Courts quite often follow decisions of other courts, that what precedent is for after all.
Does anyone here honestly think the GPL won't stand up in court, though??
No but I can think of a major software house that does. This worries me because you may have a group that will come and point out any and all flaws that may exist in the GPL. But if they do at least they will be able to write a new version that is more viable.
But the question becomes, how captive are they? Not to mention the fact you've been able to use your own browser for a long time now. Then you have the AOL cliest minimized and you don't even see it. As for junk, why aren't these people suing the users that spam them when they are in chatrooms? I recall chatting one evening and getting about 35 emails in an hour from spammers. That's much more annoying than popup ads.
How is popping up an ad and making you click it abuse? AOL can do whatever it wants. People have choices in online services. In 1994 There was AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy and others. These people need to stop whining.
. "If you have kids and they read slowly, or they read each ad, that time adds up,"
Does anyone else think that's ridiculous?
If you ask me, this whole thing sounds like a weak attempt by the people who are pissed at the unlimited rate plan. I read an article a few months ago in Wired about how the volunteers who patrol chatrooms and the such are suing AOL for back wages!! They claimed that since they don't get free hours anymore they should be paid. I guess they forgot what Volunteer means.
Hell, I'm willing to bet that in ten years, people are going to start talking about file formats that produce better than CD quality.
***Headline from 2010***
Scientists at Xerox/Parc this week announced they have created a better than CD Audio format.
"We are very excited about this, it should revolutionize music as we see it." Said one bubbling scientist. This new format, tentatively called V.I.N.Y.L. produces audio at an astounding rate and volume. "The only problem we see, is the format is about 3 times as large as CD's."
I'd saya a better analogy would be an uncompressed image and a jpg both viewed through a stained-glass window. Maybe my car has loud road noise, but I can't tell the difference between a mp3 and a cd in it.
Most MP3s encoded anywhere below 192 kbps distort the high end of the music. The low frequencies also lose the "ooomph". If you turn the volume up above 3, you can hear this. It is not noticeable on crappy speakers, true, but on any quality system it sounds horrid.
Try this experiment,
Go buy a copy of Fishbone's new album "Psychotic Friends Nuttwerk".
Encode the first song "Shaky Ground" at 128kbps/44000Hz.
Listen to them both in your car with the volume at a reasonabe level. Slowly increase the volume.
As a person who spends a lot of time in his car, I can see the value in this. Maybe I am an audiophile, but I can hardly listen to tapes in my car. When I burn a bunch of MP3's that I downloaded off of Napster on to a disc, You can definitely hear the difference. Even at high bitrates. The reason for this is that since you have more background noise, you tend to turn things up louder, and at high volumes is when you really hear the difference between lossy MP3 and CD audio.
A good analogy would be JPG to an uncompressed image. From a distance they look the same. But as you zoom in it looks like crap.
If there had been a significant (sudden) rise in demand I would agree. However in Feb. we were at the lowest prices ever for ram. That would seemingly indicate a large supply. Did I miss a rash of computer sales? I don't think so. I really think this is a manufactured shortage.
In order to meet a demand, that demand must be anticipated. It is only good business practice that chip manufs. are expecting this surge around September.
That I understand, a little price-gouging is to be expected, however to claim that there is a shortage and that prices will significantly rise now sounds more like an exaggeration(sp) to take advantage of a booming market.
However the market has been growing rapidly for the last few years. There is a huge business in analysis of trends and predicting sales. I severely doubt that they have all woken up this week and said, "Gee what do you know, a whole bunch of people are buying computers all of a sudden, Wow didn't see that one coming."
A year ago they were fine. Excepting the earthquakes everything has been dandy. There have not been any significant changes to the market place besides steady growth. They had no problems meeting supply a month ago, therefore I would not be surprised if this is just a little exaggerated.
AICE expects the situation to continue for 12 to 18 months, with peaks during the back-to-school and Christmas seasons.
Ok big shock. Extreme shortages around times when people are buying more, allowing for increased prices.
Does this sound fishy to anyone else? It sounds to me like the hardware industry is taking advantage of the record number of computers and other devices that will be sold this year.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid but this isn't the only "shortage" we're having. Gotten gas lately?
Why wouldn't it be? There are more than 60 MILLION people online in the states. Most other countries in the world don't even have that many people! Let's not forget to mention that the US controls the world. Everywhere you go you see examples of US culture. Even "behind the red wall" people are selling Levi's and Tommy Hilfiger clothing (OK it's fake but that's besides the point). Who is the watchdog of the world? US. Who keeps the peace when your back-asswards countries invade each other? US. Who financially bails countries out when their commie systems (rightfully) fail? US. The internet is US centric because the WORLD is US centric. Get over it.
Yes but don't forget that laws in the US aren't even uniform, they vary from state to state. (e.g. Online Escrow services need a certain license to operate in California) This is not a small endeavor. I think it's great that someone is making this effort at all. It's a lofty goal.
Maybe I've just been lucky, but working for a smaller company, we have a few coders and we've all been together for a long time, and we all have a vested interest in our software succeeding. Maybe this is different than other places, but I will trust the people I've worked with and known for years over some hacker I've never seen. Maybe s/he is a better coder, maybe not, I wouldn't want to take that risk. Then again I am probably being paranoid as we design Phone System software and aren't quite as worried about security.
You saw Phantom Menace online before you it was out in theatres? Seriously though, this ruling applies to films that are released on the web before they are shown in theatres. It does not affect digital films. (That's quite the oxymoron isn't it `;^) Since the ruling also affects made for TV and cable I don't think this is such a big deal. Think about it. There are already 80 gazillion awards shows out there, for every possible medium. If the time comes that all movies are released only on the web (and I doubt that) or when broadband is so pervasive that web-released films becomes a viable business you will see either 1. A new category at the Oscars or 2. A web only version of the oscars ( the webbies or the Bernies-Lee-ies or something inane) -Marc
Where is this price difference? The Dell Dimension XPS T with a 700mhz PIII is 1797 with nt 4 and 1737 with RH 6.1. The only difference is a network card.
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Well probably all they were talking about was Linux. I mean this is LinuxPlanet we're talking about. I'm pretty sure all that guy talks about is Linux no matter where he goes.
They won't be. Why? They get most of the source already.
No company is very alike and all their software must be customized. Companies like SAP and Solomon (I don't know about BAAN) Basically provide the source and allow for rewrites and tweaking to fit certain business models. Now most companies don't have people who can read it so it doesn't matter anyway. But in its own way it is open. When we deal with Solomon we have our own people writing modules along with Solomon people. This makes for a happier experience all the way around I will tell you :).
Marc
In an organization with 500+ employees that ships hundreds of products a day, you can't give everyone Excel and say keep track of this stuff and leave a copy on the file server for everyone else to look at, like you can with a business of 10 to 20 people. ERP products allow for centralized administration as well as data tracking. Not to mention extreme uptime etc.
I know there is tons of stuff for AS/400/S/36/NT. Maybe opening this would allow someone to make something for Linux (I don't know if there is one now) THis could be very helpful if people want to put Linux in the enterprise as anything but a web server.
Marc
IBM at the moment is doing an SAP conversion, and I can't get Netfinity servers. Not because they don't have the parts, but because they are having SAP problems and can't ship anything.
In short ERP is pretty important.
Marc
To copyleft a program, first we copyright it; then we add distribution terms
The GPL is the copyright.
Frightening concept.
I think we would have to worry more about loopholes being found. But can you reapply a license to software that's already been released under a license? I think that is probably the biggest worry here. Not, can we fix it if there's a problem, but what will happen to everything that's been released already. And Courts quite often follow decisions of other courts, that what precedent is for after all.
No but I can think of a major software house that does. This worries me because you may have a group that will come and point out any and all flaws that may exist in the GPL. But if they do at least they will be able to write a new version that is more viable.
But the question becomes, how captive are they? Not to mention the fact you've been able to use your own browser for a long time now. Then you have the AOL cliest minimized and you don't even see it. As for junk, why aren't these people suing the users that spam them when they are in chatrooms? I recall chatting one evening and getting about 35 emails in an hour from spammers. That's much more annoying than popup ads.
How is popping up an ad and making you click it abuse? AOL can do whatever it wants. People have choices in online services. In 1994 There was AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy and others. These people need to stop whining.
Does anyone else think that's ridiculous?
If you ask me, this whole thing sounds like a weak attempt by the people who are pissed at the unlimited rate plan. I read an article a few months ago in Wired about how the volunteers who patrol chatrooms and the such are suing AOL for back wages!! They claimed that since they don't get free hours anymore they should be paid. I guess they forgot what Volunteer means.
***Headline from 2010***
Scientists at Xerox/Parc this week announced they have created a better than CD Audio format.
"We are very excited about this, it should revolutionize music as we see it." Said one bubbling scientist. This new format, tentatively called V.I.N.Y.L. produces audio at an astounding rate and volume. "The only problem we see, is the format is about 3 times as large as CD's."
Ok that was stupid.
Most MP3s encoded anywhere below 192 kbps distort the high end of the music. The low frequencies also lose the "ooomph". If you turn the volume up above 3, you can hear this. It is not noticeable on crappy speakers, true, but on any quality system it sounds horrid.
Try this experiment,
Go buy a copy of Fishbone's new album "Psychotic Friends Nuttwerk".
Encode the first song "Shaky Ground" at 128kbps/44000Hz.
Listen to them both in your car with the volume at a reasonabe level. Slowly increase the volume.
I guarantee you will hear the difference.
A good analogy would be JPG to an uncompressed image. From a distance they look the same. But as you zoom in it looks like crap.
I am also happy I beefed up my ram last month :^)
That I understand, a little price-gouging is to be expected, however to claim that there is a shortage and that prices will significantly rise now sounds more like an exaggeration(sp) to take advantage of a booming market.
A year ago they were fine. Excepting the earthquakes everything has been dandy. There have not been any significant changes to the market place besides steady growth. They had no problems meeting supply a month ago, therefore I would not be surprised if this is just a little exaggerated.
Ok big shock. Extreme shortages around times when people are buying more, allowing for increased prices.
Does this sound fishy to anyone else? It sounds to me like the hardware industry is taking advantage of the record number of computers and other devices that will be sold this year.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid but this isn't the only "shortage" we're having. Gotten gas lately?
People may be getting a little more greedy....
This story is not ubteresting in the least. Ub fact, this is just as disubteresting as all the Lubux stories they keep postubg.
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Why wouldn't it be?
There are more than 60 MILLION people online in the states. Most other countries in the world don't even have that many people!
Let's not forget to mention that the US controls the world. Everywhere you go you see examples of US culture. Even "behind the red wall" people are selling Levi's and Tommy Hilfiger clothing (OK it's fake but that's besides the point).
Who is the watchdog of the world? US.
Who keeps the peace when your back-asswards countries invade each other? US.
Who financially bails countries out when their commie systems (rightfully) fail? US.
The internet is US centric because the WORLD is US centric.
Get over it.
Yes but don't forget that laws in the US aren't even uniform, they vary from state to state. (e.g. Online Escrow services need a certain license to operate in California) This is not a small endeavor. I think it's great that someone is making this effort at all. It's a lofty goal.
Maybe I've just been lucky, but working for a smaller company, we have a few coders and we've all been together for a long time, and we all have a vested interest in our software succeeding. Maybe this is different than other places, but I will trust the people I've worked with and known for years over some hacker I've never seen. Maybe s/he is a better coder, maybe not, I wouldn't want to take that risk.
Then again I am probably being paranoid as we design Phone System software and aren't quite as worried about security.
You saw Phantom Menace online before you it was out in theatres?
Seriously though, this ruling applies to films that are released on the web before they are shown in theatres. It does not affect digital films. (That's quite the oxymoron isn't it `;^)
Since the ruling also affects made for TV and cable I don't think this is such a big deal. Think about it.
There are already 80 gazillion awards shows out there, for every possible medium. If the time comes that all movies are released only on the web (and I doubt that) or when broadband is so pervasive that web-released films becomes a viable business you will see either
1. A new category at the Oscars
or
2. A web only version of the oscars ( the webbies or the Bernies-Lee-ies or something inane)
-Marc
Where is this price difference? The Dell Dimension XPS T with a 700mhz PIII is 1797 with nt 4 and 1737 with RH 6.1. The only difference is a network card.