it the fact that what the Universities and Federal agencies are selling is funded with my tax money. Essentially all U.S. Tax payers have already payed for this software, and nobody want to turn around and pay M$ or some othe company for it again.
Now if the University want to give up all public funds... It can do whatever it wants, but as long as they're using my tax money, I want my software:)
It would seem that Amazons records of what you do extend way beyond what information you actually type in. Amazon is one of the few companies that *really* take advantage of tracking buyers habits.
This personal information is how Amazon is aboe to pop up that message saying stuff like "People who bought this book also liked X" and "This book is popular at X Corp, and in Iowa"
Amazon has put all you clicks and such to good use which is really just good business. However this also makes the information much more valuable.
Let's face it... Data is a commodity, and it makes business sense to treat it as such.
On the other hand, sense Amazon seems to attempt to compete with everybody else in the world, why would they want to sell off there competitive advantage.
It does anger me however if a company can just change such statement at will. That is what agrivates me the most!
Mac's color matching (ColorSync) works with various hardware and is pretty much right on. As someone who works with lot's of photography and digital imaging I can tell you that no matter how hard you try, ICC profiles are far from perfect.
Keep in mind that color matching goes far beyond a single monitor and printer. (And even that is a pain to get acceptable results on Windows). Color matching needs to work from Scanner to Screen to Printer to Service Burough to press to web and all point in between. An ability that windows clearly lacks (and is even worse on Linux).
If you ask me Linux is a threat to windows (especially NT) but it really isn't a threat to Macs at all. Mac users use Macs because they are able to do things *better* then other OS's. And many of these things Linux is worse at then Windows.
I think Pixar also uses SGIs for rendering, but they use Macs for everything else.
Actually, there was an article written back when Toy Story was first created which described the set up. While textures and backgrounds and such were done on Mac's The Final rendering process is (well... was when the article was written) done by 30+ clustered Sparcs. (It took about 36 hours to render each frame in the original Toy Story!)
...is that while some fruit-cake wakko's can suggest such stupid ideas. Others can collect enough $ to collect about 10,000 copies of The Wave and a small plane, fly over the NC Capitol building and pelt it with the books (Hopefully knocking some sense into the idiots below). It called freedom and can work both way's. BTW While the US Constitution protects freedom, it say's nothing about privacy!
The numbers talked about in the ZD article don't reflect the CD's in the back of books. (Which are often *not* Mandrake, but are often (really) Red Hat or Caldera).
Macmillan Software is a seperate entity from Macmillan Computer Publishing (Which comprises of two seperate entities Sams & Que).
Macmillan Software did distribute Red Hat up to version 5.2, but then Red Hat didn't want Macmillan Selling there product less then they themselves where planning on selling it (Note the large proce increase for RH 5.2 -> 6.0). As a result Macmillan Software Worked out a deal with Mandrake.
BTW Macmillan Software also distributes other Linux Software such as Quake, Quake II, and Civilization II.
errr... The article said that Macmillan wasn't making money off of support, It did't say there wasn't support provided. Quite the contrary, it mentioned that Macmillan had contracted Linuxcare to provide support.
(Perhapse getting all the facts before you post your FUD would be helpful).
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it the fact that what the Universities and Federal agencies are selling is funded with my tax money. Essentially all U.S. Tax payers have already payed for this software, and nobody want to turn around and pay M$ or some othe company for it again.
:)
Now if the University want to give up all public funds... It can do whatever it wants, but as long as they're using my tax money, I want my software
It would seem that Amazons records of what you do extend way beyond what information you actually type in. Amazon is one of the few companies that *really* take advantage of tracking buyers habits.
This personal information is how Amazon is aboe to pop up that message saying stuff like "People who bought this book also liked X" and "This book is popular at X Corp, and in Iowa"
Amazon has put all you clicks and such to good use which is really just good business. However this also makes the information much more valuable.
Let's face it... Data is a commodity, and it makes business sense to treat it as such.
On the other hand, sense Amazon seems to attempt to compete with everybody else in the world, why would they want to sell off there competitive advantage.
It does anger me however if a company can just change such statement at will. That is what agrivates me the most!
Mac's color matching (ColorSync) works with various hardware and is pretty much right on. As someone who works with lot's of photography and digital imaging I can tell you that no matter how hard you try, ICC profiles are far from perfect.
Keep in mind that color matching goes far beyond a single monitor and printer. (And even that is a pain to get acceptable results on Windows). Color matching needs to work from Scanner to Screen to Printer to Service Burough to press to web and all point in between. An ability that windows clearly lacks (and is even worse on Linux).
If you ask me Linux is a threat to windows (especially NT) but it really isn't a threat to Macs at all. Mac users use Macs because they are able to do things *better* then other OS's. And many of these things Linux is worse at then Windows.
That would be an interesting merger considering Microsoft has already merged with the Devil... (Or is it run by the devil???)
I think Pixar also uses SGIs for rendering, but they use Macs for everything else.
Actually, there was an article written back when Toy Story was first created which described the set up. While textures and backgrounds and such were done on Mac's The Final rendering process is (well... was when the article was written) done by 30+ clustered Sparcs. (It took about 36 hours to render each frame in the original Toy Story!)
...is that while some fruit-cake wakko's can suggest such stupid ideas. Others can collect enough $ to collect about 10,000 copies of The Wave and a small plane, fly over the NC Capitol building and pelt it with the books (Hopefully knocking some sense into the idiots below). It called freedom and can work both way's. BTW While the US Constitution protects freedom, it say's nothing about privacy!
Chinese Space Agency That is.
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The numbers talked about in the ZD article don't reflect the CD's in the back of books. (Which are often *not* Mandrake, but are often (really) Red Hat or Caldera).
Macmillan Software is a seperate entity from Macmillan Computer Publishing (Which comprises of two seperate entities Sams & Que).
Macmillan Software did distribute Red Hat up to version 5.2, but then Red Hat didn't want Macmillan Selling there product less then they themselves where planning on selling it (Note the large proce increase for RH 5.2 -> 6.0). As a result Macmillan Software Worked out a deal with Mandrake.
BTW Macmillan Software also distributes other Linux Software such as Quake, Quake II, and Civilization II.
-S.
errr... The article said that Macmillan wasn't making money off of support, It did't say there wasn't support provided. Quite the contrary, it mentioned that Macmillan had contracted Linuxcare to provide support.
(Perhapse getting all the facts before you post your FUD would be helpful).
-S.