Unfortunately, ASUS quickly figured out that there are plenty of people with more disposable dollars than sense when it comes to pricing of small, personal electronics. Still, I remember when simple calculators cost a *lot* of money -- eventually, the same value drop will have to occur with mini puters. I hope.
I doubt Joe the Layman knows what Linux is, assuming he has even heard of it.
Heh, just last month I was helping a friend get her Linux box to work with ATT DSL's email and had to call ATT support for info on the server settings. The first-level support droid, after I explained what info I needed actually told me "well you need to call Linux about that then"! Fortunately, the slightly more human-like entity the next level up had the answers I needed.
To run most OS X software in Linux, the GUI would have to be ported from aqua to either GTK, QT, tcl, or whatever can run on x-windows. Also, OS X is not really known for its "must have" apps, unless you want to count multimedia stuff -- and that requires way more than just portng a GUI (core video, core audio, etc).
Plain old "musicians" rarely recieve royalties; royalties are generally
paid to songwriters and publishers. Of course usually those royalties end
up getting paid to the Big Media companies that manage to obtain ownership
of the copyrights and publishing, not to the artists. But "think of the poor, aging artists!"
probably elicits a bit more sympathy than "think of the record companies!".
Glad to see someone else gets that -- FISA in its current incarnation is far from a "single issue", and the apologists for both sides are dead wrong. We could hardly ask for a more clear indicator of utter disrespect for the rights of the people. It doesn't even matter whether a person leans left or right; if you care about the freedoms our founders envisioned then neither major party candidate represents an appropriate choice. Let's try to re-secure our inalienable rights first, and quarrel over fine-tuning left vs right later. Any other response at this point may prove fatal to the principals of personal liberty this nation (at least theoretically) was founded upon.
Okay, you can mod me OT if you want, but as the submitter chose
to call himself Vote McCain in 2008! I'm taking license here.
Apologies to those who still find it OT...
I hear one definition of insanity is repeating the same action while
expecting a different result each time. How many times have we thrown
our votes away on the major party candidates only to get the same
old status quo, regardless of the promises made? It's high time we the
people just say no to the corrupt two party system. It's time we
got off our lazy asses and learn about the alternatives available
outside the corporate-approved "choice" spoon-fed to us by Big
Media. Oh sure, probably we'll get either McCain or Obama this time,
but if enough people vote outside the box it will encourage others to
do the same. Maybe we can even take back our government at some point.
But it'll never happen by voting for one of the two "approved"
candidates. We need a new meme -- don't throw your vote away.
Don't waste your vote on the Republicrats!
/soapbox rant
Market forces only work if 100% unregulated. If anyone with, say, a bus, can start driving people around in a town, and they're allowed to charge whatever they want for the service, and to drive from and to wherever they want, over time you'll have different bus companies competing over the same or similar lines on both quality and price.
They actually have that in some parts of the world, and it's a disaster -- visit Calcutta, Bangkok, or Mexico City to see it in action for yourself. What you "free market" people fail to understand is that what "free market" really means is if I want your head on my mantle and I have enough money I can get that . Doesn't exactly sound like utopia now, does it?
You know, like, cold fusion, quantum computers, immersive VR. Stuff like that. I read somewhere all that and more is coming in the next five to twenty years. Oh, and that 110 MPG Mustang that goes from 0-60 MPH in 3 seconds flat. Should be a crowd pleaser.
I think that when companies decide not to support their old software anymore they should have the choice -- release it under an open source license (which might allow them to maintain some small degree of control), or allow it to enter the public domain. I'm aware that under current IP law that can become hellishly complicated, but IMO it ought not be that way.
The story's a bit amusing, but for me it does raise kind of a serious question. Maybe slightly OT, but I've always
wondered why it is that abandonware doesn't automatically become public domain. Many people were really upset
when Apple killed the "Classic" OS, just as many will feel the sting of XP support being abruptly withdrawn soon.
Seems to me it would be a fair enough rule that software with a sizeable installed base that is abandoned by its
creators should be opened to the community, so it can live on or die on its own merits. Personally, I'd love to
see what the community might have made of the old Apple UNIX, and even Win2K and XP might be made into something
really cool with a community-based effort.
TFS liks to a blog post which itself links to part of a letter (page two, so we don't even get to see the whole letter).
The video link tells us simply that a company called Lamperd Less Lethal would love to sell these devices to a government agency.
There is absolutely no evidence presented that would justify the claim that "the DHS wants to replace your boarding pass with a
GPS-enabled shock bracelet". Why did this fake story even get posted?
I guess what I'm saying is, as nice as these Fair Use guidelines are, they're only as good as the lawyers that fight for them and the deep pockets that will fund them.
Quite right.
And don't forget also: only as good as the judges before whom the cases are presented.
I wasn't implying anything desparaging, just stating facts. Yes, I'm a grumpy old bat but you mustn't take it personally. Anyway, I doubt very much they teach this stuff in most schools (it's "ancient history" now), but you can read a little about it here, here, and here.
Thanks, you have illustrated my point well. The day may well come when someone with no understanding of today's internet potential will say, "People have download only accounts (or accounts with tiny upload caps) because they have little desire to upload. Oddly enough, most people who want an uploading account can just go buy one (they may have to fiddle about a little to legally use it)."
The people didn't worry when the same thing happened with electricity, they didn't worry when it happened with telephone service. They didn't even worry when a "radio set" came to mean just a receiver. The wild and wooly "early days of the internet" will be over in just a few years, and few will really care. Relish these times we live in, pity those who come later...
After reading the linked story, I'm not so sure the parent is trolling. It does some raise interesting concerns about virtual worlds and security, albeit rather colorfully. At least this sort of thing almost never happens in teleconferencing.
You must be the most stupid person on/.
Your whole "point" was your incorrect contention that "AVG is not spamming the web with deceptive traffic". But by making the default config of their crapware do precisely that, it was an idiotic statement, because that is precisely what AVG has done. Now, you misogynist dickhead asswipe, you may insert the final (and no doubt laughably wrong) word. Buh-bye!
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Unfortunately, ASUS quickly figured out that there are plenty of people with more disposable dollars than sense when it comes to pricing of small, personal electronics. Still, I remember when simple calculators cost a *lot* of money -- eventually, the same value drop will have to occur with mini puters. I hope.
Looks like Gayaplex is what they call their forthcoming social networking/educational "portal": http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:6V7GNDpoU-YJ:www.gdium.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/gdium_announcement-en.pdf+Gayaplex&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
Heh, just last month I was helping a friend get her Linux box to work with ATT DSL's email and had to call ATT support for info on the server settings. The first-level support droid, after I explained what info I needed actually told me "well you need to call Linux about that then"! Fortunately, the slightly more human-like entity the next level up had the answers I needed.
To run most OS X software in Linux, the GUI would have to be ported from aqua to either GTK, QT, tcl, or whatever can run on x-windows. Also, OS X is not really known for its "must have" apps, unless you want to count multimedia stuff -- and that requires way more than just portng a GUI (core video, core audio, etc).
Plain old "musicians" rarely recieve royalties; royalties are generally paid to songwriters and publishers. Of course usually those royalties end up getting paid to the Big Media companies that manage to obtain ownership of the copyrights and publishing, not to the artists. But "think of the poor, aging artists!" probably elicits a bit more sympathy than "think of the record companies!".
Glad to see someone else gets that -- FISA in its current incarnation is far from a "single issue", and the apologists for both sides are dead wrong. We could hardly ask for a more clear indicator of utter disrespect for the rights of the people. It doesn't even matter whether a person leans left or right; if you care about the freedoms our founders envisioned then neither major party candidate represents an appropriate choice. Let's try to re-secure our inalienable rights first, and quarrel over fine-tuning left vs right later. Any other response at this point may prove fatal to the principals of personal liberty this nation (at least theoretically) was founded upon.
Okay, you can mod me OT if you want, but as the submitter chose to call himself Vote McCain in 2008! I'm taking license here. Apologies to those who still find it OT...
/soapbox rant
I hear one definition of insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result each time. How many times have we thrown our votes away on the major party candidates only to get the same old status quo, regardless of the promises made? It's high time we the people just say no to the corrupt two party system. It's time we got off our lazy asses and learn about the alternatives available outside the corporate-approved "choice" spoon-fed to us by Big Media. Oh sure, probably we'll get either McCain or Obama this time, but if enough people vote outside the box it will encourage others to do the same. Maybe we can even take back our government at some point. But it'll never happen by voting for one of the two "approved" candidates. We need a new meme -- don't throw your vote away. Don't waste your vote on the Republicrats!
Ah, so it is -- thanks!
They actually have that in some parts of the world, and it's a disaster -- visit Calcutta, Bangkok, or Mexico City to see it in action for yourself. What you "free market" people fail to understand is that what "free market" really means is if I want your head on my mantle and I have enough money I can get that . Doesn't exactly sound like utopia now, does it?
Yes, but I think you'll still have to disable the aero if you want to get DNF to work right.
You know, like, cold fusion, quantum computers, immersive VR. Stuff like that. I read somewhere all that and more is coming in the next five to twenty years. Oh, and that 110 MPG Mustang that goes from 0-60 MPH in 3 seconds flat. Should be a crowd pleaser.
Straw man. The kernel is already GPL'd, anyone can fork it anytime for any reason.
I think that when companies decide not to support their old software anymore they should have the choice -- release it under an open source license (which might allow them to maintain some small degree of control), or allow it to enter the public domain. I'm aware that under current IP law that can become hellishly complicated, but IMO it ought not be that way.
The story's a bit amusing, but for me it does raise kind of a serious question. Maybe slightly OT, but I've always wondered why it is that abandonware doesn't automatically become public domain. Many people were really upset when Apple killed the "Classic" OS, just as many will feel the sting of XP support being abruptly withdrawn soon. Seems to me it would be a fair enough rule that software with a sizeable installed base that is abandoned by its creators should be opened to the community, so it can live on or die on its own merits. Personally, I'd love to see what the community might have made of the old Apple UNIX, and even Win2K and XP might be made into something really cool with a community-based effort.
Yooz furrnerz jes caint git it, kinya?
:)
...some businesses have a dress code. Shocking!
TFS liks to a blog post which itself links to part of a letter (page two, so we don't even get to see the whole letter). The video link tells us simply that a company called Lamperd Less Lethal would love to sell these devices to a government agency. There is absolutely no evidence presented that would justify the claim that "the DHS wants to replace your boarding pass with a GPS-enabled shock bracelet". Why did this fake story even get posted?
Look, can we just leave Mohammed out of this, please? Also, you left out ????.
Quite right. And don't forget also: only as good as the judges before whom the cases are presented.
I wasn't implying anything desparaging, just stating facts. Yes, I'm a grumpy old bat but you mustn't take it personally. Anyway, I doubt very much they teach this stuff in most schools (it's "ancient history" now), but you can read a little about it here, here, and here.
Thanks, you have illustrated my point well. The day may well come when someone with no understanding of today's internet potential will say, "People have download only accounts (or accounts with tiny upload caps) because they have little desire to upload. Oddly enough, most people who want an uploading account can just go buy one (they may have to fiddle about a little to legally use it)."
Then get the fuck off it and stop clogging our tubes, Ebeneezer!
The people didn't worry when the same thing happened with electricity, they didn't worry when it happened with telephone service. They didn't even worry when a "radio set" came to mean just a receiver. The wild and wooly "early days of the internet" will be over in just a few years, and few will really care. Relish these times we live in, pity those who come later...
After reading the linked story, I'm not so sure the parent is trolling. It does some raise interesting concerns about virtual worlds and security, albeit rather colorfully. At least this sort of thing almost never happens in teleconferencing.
You must be the most stupid person on /.
Your whole "point" was your incorrect contention that "AVG is not spamming the web with deceptive traffic". But by making the default config of their crapware do precisely that , it was an idiotic statement, because that is precisely what AVG has done . Now, you misogynist dickhead asswipe, you may insert the final (and no doubt laughably wrong) word. Buh-bye!