How is that different from "Shut down"? Seriously, why does that matter? I use Win2k on my gaming box and I love it. The system is by far the most stable OS Microsoft has ever put out. It looks like Whistler is building on 2k so I have no qualms with that. I just wish they would kill off that damned Win9x line so they can quit kicking themselves in the nads by selling such a piss-poor crash-prone product.:-) I'll still use Linux, Solaris, and OpenBSD for "real" work but Win2k is fine for gaming and browsing the web when you're just in the mood to zone out and watch flashy animations and crap.
Not to mention that Microsoft software is some of the most highly pirated in existence. Gates isn't stupid now and he wasn't stupid then. He is above all else an excellent businessman.. one of the best in the entire world, if not THE best. This was an old argument we used to have... does Bill REALLY want to see all piracy stop? Of course not! People pirating Microsoft products means people USING Microsoft products which means they're more likely to use and even buy Microsoft products in the future once they're locked into the system. It is the old drug dealer trick of giving out free samples to the kiddies so they can hook the next generation. It's a business write-off.. a cost of doing business in the high tech world if you will.
The problem with that is, after a year or two of installing applications from tarballs you have shit strewn all over your box, incompatible library versions, and generally no version control system. It's a mess. At home on a personal system that you don't care about it is fine.. you can always wipe the system and reinstall every year or so, but on a production system you need more control over your packaging.
In the dark days prior to his inventing the Internet, mish-mash of connected networks were just chaos. Very early on Senator Gore established the Committe on Name Service Resolution compromised of Mark Painter, David Riggle, Douglas Terry, and Songnian Zhou. It is through the hard work of these men and a generous government grant from a bill authored by non other than Senator Al gore that established BIND (Beaurocratic Internet Name Daemon) as the leading DNS server. Thank you Mr. Gore. And God bless the United States of America.
It also doesn't say anything about other people copying those works. In fact, it doesn't say much at all. That's the wonderful thing about the Constititution. It's written in such vague language you need the Supreme Court to ultimately decide which of the 10 gazillion interpretations of that sentence is the true binding one.
What do you expect? They got caught with their pants down and now they need to save face. Can any of you seriously believe that if this hadn't been so widely publicized that they would have ever even considered refunding any money? Or for that matter, how many of these "experiments" have they done in the past without anyone ever noticing?
It is easy to find it online. Just go to www.google.com and search for DeCSS. There are hundreds of sites out there with the full source code on it. The MPAA should just accept that this thing is out there and is basically public domain at this point. They don't want to admit it but they should just go back to the drawing board and redo their encryption scheme with something halfway secure. Then release it as DVD 2.0 and phase out the old players by only release new movies after some cutoff date to players that support DVD v2.0. Maybe have manufacturers offer an upgrade option on the boxes.
Sorry, but Napster is nothing like Samba or FTP. The client may perform similar functions but Napster as a company and a service provider equate more to a search engine like Google or Yahoo than to a file server. NO illegal copyrighted material is stored on their servers. It would be like you searching for any other illegal material on a search engine.. they just happen to organize and present it to you in an easier to view fashion catering to your tastes. Unfortunately the old world media and the courts are too obsolete to see this... or actually more likely, the old media knows this but uses the court's lack of technological prowess to trick them into believing anything they tell them. The average jury isn't going to understand file sharing protocols or search engines.. they're just going to see the prosecution lawyer bring up the napster client, search for a song, download it (from some other client) and then listen to this copyrighted material. To them this is damning for Napster because they don't understand what is going on. My mother at first for example had no idea how a search engine worked, she just knew if she typed in a query, "Netscape" would provide a bunch of pages she could choose to view.
This reminds me of that Onion article where all the corporations merged into one. Let's see.. who are the big players left with dominate positions domestically: SBC, Verizon, AOL, Worldcom, Sprint, and AT&T. OK, Worldcom and Sprint tried to merge already so we see that coming. Wouldn't it just be the ultimate in ironies if all these companies merged back into AT&T by 2004? Heh.
But the RIAA would like nothing better than to force you to pay everytime you listen to a song. Think about it then... if what you say is true, then why was MP3.com sued? They offered a service where if you could prove you owned the CD you could listen to it on the net without needing to drag your CD around. If you do indeed own a license to listen to the music on that CD, how can they say it is illegal?
No more so than shutting down Napster because its users use it to pirate music. We might as well shut the Internet down as well then. I mean, what other use can there be for a global network of interconnected networks?? Obviously the intent by the original inventors were to distribute porn and pirate music.. it must be stopped. BAN THE INTERNET!;-)
Just use Gnutella. I'd be really interested to see how the establishment and the entertainment industry is going to stop it. You can't legislate this. You can't monopolize it out of existance. You can try and fight it but you cannot stop it. We're dealing with technology that the world really doesn't understand or know how to deal with. The old establishment will need to learn to coexist with it. If people want to share information, music, naked pictures of men having sex with sheep, or warez you're just going to have to accept it. The old walls are crumbling and you missed the bus. Welcome to the 21st century old media. You're obsolete.
It is just flamebait. I wouldn't let it bother you. On the other hand, Win2000 works perfectly well in what Microsoft SHOULD be marketing it as. A nice replacement for Win98 and the crappy legacy Win9x line on home systems. It is great for all the games I've tried while still being stable. Now, I wouldn't run a server on it of course but it works perfectly well as a desktop environment. In fact, it is wonderful for that!
The UN peacekeepers don't seem to be a military organization.. they are a peacekeeping force. If you start saying they are a military force then you are going to get the militia around here very nervous. Oh no! Was that a black unmarked helicopter I just saw flying by.. honey where's my foil hat.. where's my damned foil hat! They're reading my mind with their tempest system as we speak!!! No, keep.mil for the US military and save us all the headaches. Besides, when's the last time you saw UN "peacekeepers" go into a war zone and establish peace? It's usually NATO or the US going at it alone that MAKES the peace in the area and then they send in some blue helmetted guys from Bangledesh to sit around watching for snipers and shuttling food back and forth from the airfields to Sally Strothers' hut. What a demeaning job.
There lies the problem. Try finding a tech-savy enough judge and jury to explain that to in their simple-minded terms. Napster doesn't store pirated mp3's. Napster doesn't condone sharing pirated mp3's. Napster doesn't even know WHAT mp3's you're sharing. They sure don't have a couple hundred thousand employees sitting around listening to all the mp3 files that get traded daily. You sure can't take the title and artist name as concrete evidence that that is what the song is. It could be blips and white noise for all you know. If you're going to rule Napster is illegal then so are all the other forms of online file sharing including FTP, the Web, IRC's DCC, ICQ/AOL file transfers, and basically any other kind of connection between two computers that transmits bits. Hell, who knows what evil you'll use TCP sockets for! You could set up some kind of proprietary streaming system and start streaming your CD's. Gotta ban TCP/IP now too.;-)
I've had exactly the opposite results. With Windows95, the best I could get with my POS 10 year old Leading Technology piece of junk monitor was 800x600x32 bit color. Under XFree86 it supports 1024x768 just fine in interlaced mode.. unfortunately Windows has no way to "tweak" the settings to get it to work.. it either does or doesn't. Granted, the monitor is a piece of shit and sits in my closet now, but at the time it was all I had.;-)
Stub ISP's do and SHOULD block any traffic egressing from their networks that does not originate from their address space (obviously not backbone peer providers). The only reason traffic like that would be going out is if it was spoofed. It shouldn't just be something to suggest they implement, it should be mandatory.
What does that have to do with restricting your "online rights"? The Internet is a priviledge if you haven't realized that yet, as is your local POTS phone network. You have no "right" to use it. You can buy service to use it and if you keep your account in good standing you may continue to use it as long as your provider agrees to offer it to you. As long as they have a good reason to disconnect you there's nothing you can do about it. Are you going to sue your ISP for disconnecting your line because you were spamming or attacking other machines on the Internet using spoofed addresses? Come on.
I've only used the spreadsheet, powerpoint-clone and word processor bits of it. They are more than sufficient for my needs. I can read all the MS Office proprietary documents I get sent (did I mention my company loves to exchange 4 line text messages as Word document attachments to email?). So yes, compared to booting up VMware to read these idiotic documents, staroffice is great. I certainly haven't seen anything else that beats it out there for the same price (free). As for databases, I assume you're kidding. If you're worried about performance and a large number of records you wouldn't be using Access either. Even MySQL can outperform Access!
I love Staroffice. Hopefully the first things that could be done would be to seperate the apps from that ugly desktop! 99% of the time I just want to run the word processor. It'd be nice to be able to pass it a command line switch to just start the word processor without the other 75% of the bloated package starting up as well (think Netscape Communicator x 20). That and working on the Word filters would make it one of the killer office apps for me. There would be no more starting up MS Office in VMware anymore.
Try checking out http://www.sunhelp.org or http://docs.sun.com. There is a wealth of knowledge out there.. you just have to search for it.. like with Linux. On the plus side, if you ARE an Enterprise customer willing to pay you can get excellent help from Sun tech support directly via the phone. Also, there is a ton of documentation that comes on both CD and in print format with a new Sun and a copy of Solaris these days. I'd be very suprised if the answers to almost anything related to the platform itself (and not a third party application) is not handled by the included documentation or the stuff on the CD's.
No you're not the only one. In fact it really annoys me. Even MS Office doesn't use such a hair-brained interface. 95% of the time I only want to use the word processor part of Staroffice yet I don't really see any option to ONLY install the word processor. It assumes you want the spreadsheet, database, presentation tool, etc, etc. It is a fine program and can deal with most simple documents I throw at it, but when I start getting the complex god-awful Word docs with macros and checkboxes, etc. it starts to puke out on me.:-)
Mir? Though seriously, why is price a problem? If a joint international venture did something like this to clear dead satellites out of the useful orbits for use by new ones why not just bill the companies/agencies that put up the dead satellites in the first place? It seems like they're the ones that left their space junk floating around.. why shouldn't they be liable for the bill to clean it up?
"Contract prices for the standard 64-MB chip, now at $6, will rise about a dime"
MB=MEGABYTE Mb=MEGABIT
CNET quoted it as $6 for 64 MEGABYTE chip. If you have a qualm with it, don't bitch at some slashdot user, tell CNET to correct their article.
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Would your cellphone interrupt your call with an ad or would you have to be happening to look at it at the moment it pops up an ad?? I don't go driving around looking at the display on my cell phone very often. In fact, I rarely even look at it. Hit the stored number I want and dial it up and talk, then hang up and throw the cell phone back in the glove compartment.
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How is that different from "Shut down"? Seriously, why does that matter? I use Win2k on my gaming box and I love it. The system is by far the most stable OS Microsoft has ever put out. It looks like Whistler is building on 2k so I have no qualms with that. I just wish they would kill off that damned Win9x line so they can quit kicking themselves in the nads by selling such a piss-poor crash-prone product. :-) I'll still use Linux, Solaris, and OpenBSD for "real" work but Win2k is fine for gaming and browsing the web when you're just in the mood to zone out and watch flashy animations and crap.
Not to mention that Microsoft software is some of the most highly pirated in existence. Gates isn't stupid now and he wasn't stupid then. He is above all else an excellent businessman.. one of the best in the entire world, if not THE best. This was an old argument we used to have... does Bill REALLY want to see all piracy stop? Of course not! People pirating Microsoft products means people USING Microsoft products which means they're more likely to use and even buy Microsoft products in the future once they're locked into the system. It is the old drug dealer trick of giving out free samples to the kiddies so they can hook the next generation. It's a business write-off.. a cost of doing business in the high tech world if you will.
Wow that is pretty cheap. My electricity bill alone in my apartment is $1200/year. Maybe I should shut down some of these damned computers. :-)
The problem with that is, after a year or two of installing applications from tarballs you have shit strewn all over your box, incompatible library versions, and generally no version control system. It's a mess. At home on a personal system that you don't care about it is fine.. you can always wipe the system and reinstall every year or so, but on a production system you need more control over your packaging.
In the dark days prior to his inventing the Internet, mish-mash of connected networks were just chaos. Very early on Senator Gore established the Committe on Name Service Resolution compromised of Mark Painter, David Riggle, Douglas Terry, and Songnian Zhou. It is through the hard work of these men and a generous government grant from a bill authored by non other than Senator Al gore that established BIND (Beaurocratic Internet Name Daemon) as the leading DNS server. Thank you Mr. Gore. And God bless the United States of America.
It also doesn't say anything about other people copying those works. In fact, it doesn't say much at all. That's the wonderful thing about the Constititution. It's written in such vague language you need the Supreme Court to ultimately decide which of the 10 gazillion interpretations of that sentence is the true binding one.
What do you expect? They got caught with their pants down and now they need to save face. Can any of you seriously believe that if this hadn't been so widely publicized that they would have ever even considered refunding any money? Or for that matter, how many of these "experiments" have they done in the past without anyone ever noticing?
It is easy to find it online. Just go to www.google.com and search for DeCSS. There are hundreds of sites out there with the full source code on it. The MPAA should just accept that this thing is out there and is basically public domain at this point. They don't want to admit it but they should just go back to the drawing board and redo their encryption scheme with something halfway secure. Then release it as DVD 2.0 and phase out the old players by only release new movies after some cutoff date to players that support DVD v2.0. Maybe have manufacturers offer an upgrade option on the boxes.
Sorry, but Napster is nothing like Samba or FTP. The client may perform similar functions but Napster as a company and a service provider equate more to a search engine like Google or Yahoo than to a file server. NO illegal copyrighted material is stored on their servers. It would be like you searching for any other illegal material on a search engine.. they just happen to organize and present it to you in an easier to view fashion catering to your tastes. Unfortunately the old world media and the courts are too obsolete to see this... or actually more likely, the old media knows this but uses the court's lack of technological prowess to trick them into believing anything they tell them. The average jury isn't going to understand file sharing protocols or search engines.. they're just going to see the prosecution lawyer bring up the napster client, search for a song, download it (from some other client) and then listen to this copyrighted material. To them this is damning for Napster because they don't understand what is going on. My mother at first for example had no idea how a search engine worked, she just knew if she typed in a query, "Netscape" would provide a bunch of pages she could choose to view.
This reminds me of that Onion article where all the corporations merged into one. Let's see.. who are the big players left with dominate positions domestically: SBC, Verizon, AOL, Worldcom, Sprint, and AT&T. OK, Worldcom and Sprint tried to merge already so we see that coming. Wouldn't it just be the ultimate in ironies if all these companies merged back into AT&T by 2004? Heh.
But the RIAA would like nothing better than to force you to pay everytime you listen to a song. Think about it then... if what you say is true, then why was MP3.com sued? They offered a service where if you could prove you owned the CD you could listen to it on the net without needing to drag your CD around. If you do indeed own a license to listen to the music on that CD, how can they say it is illegal?
No more so than shutting down Napster because its users use it to pirate music. We might as well shut the Internet down as well then. I mean, what other use can there be for a global network of interconnected networks?? Obviously the intent by the original inventors were to distribute porn and pirate music.. it must be stopped. BAN THE INTERNET! ;-)
Just use Gnutella. I'd be really interested to see how the establishment and the entertainment industry is going to stop it. You can't legislate this. You can't monopolize it out of existance. You can try and fight it but you cannot stop it. We're dealing with technology that the world really doesn't understand or know how to deal with. The old establishment will need to learn to coexist with it. If people want to share information, music, naked pictures of men having sex with sheep, or warez you're just going to have to accept it. The old walls are crumbling and you missed the bus. Welcome to the 21st century old media. You're obsolete.
It is just flamebait. I wouldn't let it bother you. On the other hand, Win2000 works perfectly well in what Microsoft SHOULD be marketing it as. A nice replacement for Win98 and the crappy legacy Win9x line on home systems. It is great for all the games I've tried while still being stable. Now, I wouldn't run a server on it of course but it works perfectly well as a desktop environment. In fact, it is wonderful for that!
The UN peacekeepers don't seem to be a military organization.. they are a peacekeeping force. If you start saying they are a military force then you are going to get the militia around here very nervous. Oh no! Was that a black unmarked helicopter I just saw flying by.. honey where's my foil hat.. where's my damned foil hat! They're reading my mind with their tempest system as we speak!!! No, keep .mil for the US military and save us all the headaches. Besides, when's the last time you saw UN "peacekeepers" go into a war zone and establish peace? It's usually NATO or the US going at it alone that MAKES the peace in the area and then they send in some blue helmetted guys from Bangledesh to sit around watching for snipers and shuttling food back and forth from the airfields to Sally Strothers' hut. What a demeaning job.
There lies the problem. Try finding a tech-savy enough judge and jury to explain that to in their simple-minded terms. Napster doesn't store pirated mp3's. Napster doesn't condone sharing pirated mp3's. Napster doesn't even know WHAT mp3's you're sharing. They sure don't have a couple hundred thousand employees sitting around listening to all the mp3 files that get traded daily. You sure can't take the title and artist name as concrete evidence that that is what the song is. It could be blips and white noise for all you know. If you're going to rule Napster is illegal then so are all the other forms of online file sharing including FTP, the Web, IRC's DCC, ICQ/AOL file transfers, and basically any other kind of connection between two computers that transmits bits. Hell, who knows what evil you'll use TCP sockets for! You could set up some kind of proprietary streaming system and start streaming your CD's. Gotta ban TCP/IP now too. ;-)
I've had exactly the opposite results. With Windows95, the best I could get with my POS 10 year old Leading Technology piece of junk monitor was 800x600x32 bit color. Under XFree86 it supports 1024x768 just fine in interlaced mode.. unfortunately Windows has no way to "tweak" the settings to get it to work.. it either does or doesn't. Granted, the monitor is a piece of shit and sits in my closet now, but at the time it was all I had. ;-)
What does that have to do with restricting your "online rights"? The Internet is a priviledge if you haven't realized that yet, as is your local POTS phone network. You have no "right" to use it. You can buy service to use it and if you keep your account in good standing you may continue to use it as long as your provider agrees to offer it to you. As long as they have a good reason to disconnect you there's nothing you can do about it. Are you going to sue your ISP for disconnecting your line because you were spamming or attacking other machines on the Internet using spoofed addresses? Come on.
I've only used the spreadsheet, powerpoint-clone and word processor bits of it. They are more than sufficient for my needs. I can read all the MS Office proprietary documents I get sent (did I mention my company loves to exchange 4 line text messages as Word document attachments to email?). So yes, compared to booting up VMware to read these idiotic documents, staroffice is great. I certainly haven't seen anything else that beats it out there for the same price (free).
As for databases, I assume you're kidding. If you're worried about performance and a large number of records you wouldn't be using Access either. Even MySQL can outperform Access!
I love Staroffice. Hopefully the first things that could be done would be to seperate the apps from that ugly desktop! 99% of the time I just want to run the word processor. It'd be nice to be able to pass it a command line switch to just start the word processor without the other 75% of the bloated package starting up as well (think Netscape Communicator x 20). That and working on the Word filters would make it one of the killer office apps for me. There would be no more starting up MS Office in VMware anymore.
Try checking out http://www.sunhelp.org or http://docs.sun.com. There is a wealth of knowledge out there.. you just have to search for it.. like with Linux. On the plus side, if you ARE an Enterprise customer willing to pay you can get excellent help from Sun tech support directly via the phone. Also, there is a ton of documentation that comes on both CD and in print format with a new Sun and a copy of Solaris these days. I'd be very suprised if the answers to almost anything related to the platform itself (and not a third party application) is not handled by the included documentation or the stuff on the CD's.
No you're not the only one. In fact it really annoys me. Even MS Office doesn't use such a hair-brained interface. 95% of the time I only want to use the word processor part of Staroffice yet I don't really see any option to ONLY install the word processor. It assumes you want the spreadsheet, database, presentation tool, etc, etc. It is a fine program and can deal with most simple documents I throw at it, but when I start getting the complex god-awful Word docs with macros and checkboxes, etc. it starts to puke out on me. :-)
Mir? Though seriously, why is price a problem? If a joint international venture did something like this to clear dead satellites out of the useful orbits for use by new ones why not just bill the companies/agencies that put up the dead satellites in the first place? It seems like they're the ones that left their space junk floating around.. why shouldn't they be liable for the bill to clean it up?
"Contract prices for the standard 64-MB chip, now at $6, will rise about a dime"
MB=MEGABYTE
Mb=MEGABIT
CNET quoted it as $6 for 64 MEGABYTE chip. If you have a qualm with it, don't bitch at some slashdot user, tell CNET to correct their article.
Would your cellphone interrupt your call with an ad or would you have to be happening to look at it at the moment it pops up an ad?? I don't go driving around looking at the display on my cell phone very often. In fact, I rarely even look at it. Hit the stored number I want and dial it up and talk, then hang up and throw the cell phone back in the glove compartment.