I'm not so sure about that, you are more accurately describing OpenSuSE, certainly more than Ubuntu. I think if you use them both for any serious work for any period of time you will run into the differences, some of which are showstoppers for Ubuntu, particularly for server use but also for desktops.
I don't like what Novell is doing but like most companies the OS they are connected to is far different than the company, the same is true with Apple (Which is one of the most worthless, arrogant, controlling companies in existence).
There are just a lot of things missing in Ubuntu, they have lots of problems to work out, especially in focusing on things that matter. I've seen some things that make me mad flipping through the roadmaps for Ubuntu releases, there was recently a roadmap item for some sort of PS3 integration that was approved, developed and included, while a number of other more important system level components were "deferred" to a later date.
Until Ubuntu and Linux in general stops catering to niche markets and niche uses for the system (like running it on the PS3), they will never be able to compare to other desktop offerings because of wasted time and a lack of direction.
We are talking about virtualizing Vista on top of Vista/Linux, not Linux on top of Linux, so why you have libc and QT/GTK listed *above* vmware I don't know.
In any case, nothing runs "on" QT or GTK, or LibC. And the kernel isn't "some unixlike" kernel, its Linux like you specified.
Heres an accurate stack browser *windows crap* vmware xserver kernel hardware
Over and above that, if you are using hardware virtualization then all the lines are blurred, and you should be if you have any serious need for virtual machines, otherwise stop bitching.
The difference is that however flawed it is, CSS encryption provides legal protection for companies who rent dvds to consumers. There is nothing whatsoever protecting a company renting cds.
It isn't really about piracy, dvd encryption was cracked a long time ago, its about the RIAA making illegal and unreasonable demands against anyone who comes within 10 feet of anything their member companies ever thought about selling.
This story is also missing an important component, there is no reason to stop used CD sales if you aren't going to do the same for all items, because they share similar attributes in that they can't be identified after being stolen.
Barring that, the only reason to stop used CD sales is as an attempt to tighten the profit lines of an arrogant failing industry that refuses to adapt. They would rather destroy innovation and alternate business models, I mean surely we don't expect them risk any remote possibility that they might not retain control over the entire system. I think everyone involved realizes this, and if people do nothing they absolutely deserve what happens.
Yea your right Linux is just not ready for anything serious, surely if I were looking for a mainframe system for a government agency or perhaps a bank, i would naturally look to IBM. Whats that? IBM runs Linux on its mainframes?
Surely thats just complicated tech stuff, it'll never get used in a home device.....er wait....Linksys......Tivo........hmmmmm
By the way, Ubuntu is crap and will be forever if they keep wasting time on worthless parts of the system, like Gnome, or PS3 integration (its in the bugtracker). Redhat has always been crap, but Suse is the closest we have ever come to a finished usable Linux system, and it's relatively new in novel's hands. By the time vista is capable of running itself without screwing up randomly (i've used it extensively), Suse will be matured to the point that it will compete with vista for all but the most niche uses like games (Which are worthless anyway).
It doesn't matter if iTunes itself can do this, there are plenty of easy to use systems for OS X, all of them can encode h264 compliant video usable in anything Apple makes.
All it takes to put that video into the iTunes library is making iTunes scan the disk. That video can then be streamed to an AppleTV or put on an iPod easily.
It no longer matters if its legal, no one cares anymore.
It bothers me when ANYTHING related to Microsoft or Windows affects the upstream hardware being developed in ANY FUCKING WAY.
I swear if *ANYTHING* on that OLPC unit changes to suit Microsoft or people who want to put windows on it, shit is going to start flying...
This is not a consumer PC, it does NOT need to be able to run multiple systems, and you DO NOT need a choice. This is a totally custom, embedded system for children who don't have running water, the fact that it uses standard hardware and the Linux kernel is irrelevant. If we start compromising to allow for sales in the US and other developed countries to use windows, we will have ruined the original idea, which was to make a system that children in 3rd world countries could obtain, use easily, and maintain without any sort of support from the manufacturer.
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What the RIAA, MPAA, and media industry believe no longer matters. I believe I have a right to use my purchased CDs and DVDs any way I choose within my sphere of influence, which includes all property, vehicles and devices I own. The difference is that my belief only affects me (fair use), while their beliefs attempt to affect everyone.
The only thing differentiating DVDs from the CD situation is the encryption, which in truth only provides thin legal protection to the media in question, it has absolutely no effect on preventing copies (we all know what made CSS weak).
Having said all that, I think that none of these groups really intend to stop copying. The artificial barrier to copying is a welcome side effect, however I think its original and continued purpose is to restrict your ability to use media, not your ability to copy it.
I think the media industry is trying to enable a business model wherein you must purchase media rights for each device you intend to use, so called "Viewing Rights". Of course there are a number of executives who want to fight piracy simply for a refusal to admit defeat, but I think a majority of these companies and the officers in charge of them are more interested in maximizing financial return on the products they sell to the public, by changing the business model from a universal media purchase, to one of individual device rights. While the current HD-DVD and Blu-ray systems don't appear to contain this sort of individualization, it is present in every other form of digital media currently in use, and probably will be in any future system from now on.
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they had to do that to avoid the huge exchange rate difference between the US dollar and...everything else. The fact that it takes well over 50% more US dollars to equal an amount in euros or francs, should seriously concern people.
I seem to remember a recent lawsuit where the CSS people sued Kaleidescape, and lost, for enabling their devices to rip DVDs to disk, separating the watchable copy from the physical disk. That was a media server.
Now that the CSS lost the Kaleidescape case, the MPAA now thinks its ok to rip DVDs to disk on a media server.....
Are you saying we should stop now, and not try to make high capacity formats because some random subset of people you don't actually know ("kiddies"), have no use for the disc but pirating movies?
So if i want to use Blu-ray disks to store clean installation disk images for the 15 servers and machines i routinely manage, Am I pirating movies to hand out?
Are you then also saying that any large cache of media in digital format, must be illegal?
I have digital h.264 copies of a good portion of the 240dvds I bought and paid for, so if I want to put those copies on a more reliable format for archival in case the original discs corrode (They do, and they have), should I just stop trying?
No you shouldn't be flamed, you haven't said anything incorrect.
The difference i think is management, which Microsoft has, however flawed, and open source as a general rule, does not. Even within single projects there is useless argument, and forks for ridiculous reasons. In most cases, the required action is for one party to be kicked in the ass, hard. There are RARE cases where the majority of the community sees something going wrong and forks, such is the case with X.org.
Then you have cases like gnome and kde, which each develop totally redundant, sometimes useless ways to do the same thing, sometimes neither one does it well either.
Over and over again i see MAJOR parts of the system literally missing, like a device manager, while other parts, like file managers or office applications (openoffice, gnome office, koffice) are developed 3 or 4 times over in parallel by groups who either refuse to use code from another group simply because it has a G- or a K- in front of its name, or neglect to even look around to see if someone has already coded a similar app that could be used and improved.
In all honesty, gnome and kde have driven me away from linux for everything but core server use, and my next laptop will be a Macbook simply because i'm tired of it all.
The problem with that is, there are companies who obtain patents for the sole purpose of ensuring that the technology is available for people to use. Apple does a bit of this, as do a number of other FOSS related companies. If you enforce patents to be used by their owner, you will actually hurt a number of groups with good intentions who help the community a great deal.
As an example, Novell, IBM, Phillips, Redhat, and Sony formed a company called The Open Invention Network, "The Open Invention Network (OIN) is a company that acquires patents and offer them royalty free "to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux operating system or certain Linux-related applications""
I think a better answer to all of this is to make it MUCH harder to get a patent, and narrow the definition given in the patent as much as possible. That seems to be the real problem, patents are routinely granted that cover things the entity applying for the patent didn't even come up with.
The real problem is the millions of users who blindly use the system without even the most basic understanding of how it works. You would not be surprised at the number of users who can't tell a real windows dialog box from a pop up on the web warning that you "need to scan your hard drive".
As long as people literally refuse to learn anything more than the bare minimum necessary to quickly read their email, nothing will change, especially with totally incompetent systems like windows vista, which is quite possibly the worst operating system I have ever used, save for some various conveniences like the segmented networking settings and file management/organization. Vista is "better than xp", but that is still horrible.
I understand that software should "just work", but at this point in Vista's case, it doesn't. You can either keep refusing to learn, or you can protect yourself. Is it worth it to blindly trust a company that has repeatedly shown they aren't deserving of trust? Or is it worth more to users to take a small amount of time to educate themselves about the system they trust to view banking records.
Its not like theres no difference between police cars and normal cars, the license plates especially are FAR different.
Police cars in a lot of cities don't use real license plates at all, they use a tag in place of the license plate that shows the car number usually along with a color code for the precinct.
Either way I think police should be able to run red lights if they need to, and that includes following suspicious persons on foot or otherwise. They should not be able to just run red lights for ANY reason, but i think they should be careful and try not to do it at high speed, thats where the problems come from.
I agree, they never wanted to STOP piracy, despite their bitching they all know it isn't possible, save for a few half-retarded executives.
However, the purpose of DRM in the industries eyes is 2 things, first it slows piracy by some measurable degree, and by slows i mean relative to a movies release in a theater or on its HDDVD disc, it DOES take some time to get that movie in a distributable form. This delay supposedly allows the theater or stores to make as much money as possible. This xbox hack once again makes that very quick, but on average it takes longer than it would without DRM. This is the same strategy as the mediasentry people and other p2p poisoning companies.
Second, they always wanted to make sure you had as few rights as possible, so that you can do nothing but watch a purchased movie where they want, how they want, at the times they want. They fully intend on setting the ecosystem up so that you must buy back rights you already had.
I think the true value of these DRM hacks is not gaining access to the media (however that is vital as well), but ensuring that we are technically able to get around future systems with much more problematic purposes, like online censorship.
You should at least get the irony of your post...... you say Linux idiots should get their head out of their ass and make it easier to run games on Linux, in a thread about Cedega? Have you even seen Cedega?
Even without Cedega or wine, most of the games that are cult hits, like Unreal, are released for Linux as well as Windows, even the demos, but that leads into the real problems.........
The real problem is the ridiculous state of package management in Linux, which is totally unnecessary and IS in fact an example of Linux programmers (Debian maintainers, Suse maintainers, Redhat maintainers) screwing up the most basic part of the system for years on end. Add to that a systemic obsession with building text apps with gui's on top of them, instead of building an API that both text and gui can use. Those 2 things are the single biggest problems with Linux, with no good reason whatsoever.
Capitalism in the case of the US is in sort of an agreed partitioning scheme, sure you have choice but those choices exist at the top level, each company pretty much stays out of each others way with a few exceptions and mergers.
Free trade however is not fair trade, with the state of foreign manufacturing tariffs and such are necessary to equalize the market, in effect FAIR trade allows for companies to compete on an equal playing field with cost of manufacture and such normalized between foreign and local manufacture in a given market.
Fair trade benefits the consumer, true FREE trade in turn does not benefit the consumer for more than a few years, and if implemented across the board it allows the very jobs people use to fund the goods and services they purchase, to be undercut by their foreign equivalent. Free trade gains public support and works its way into the system by providing cheap foreign goods, and you can pretty much guarantee that the people in charge of pushing free trade also benefit from it, most likely from ties to companys who manufacture overseas at reduced cost.
I try not to be good at diplomacy, means i don't have to try and rewrite what i want to say:D Anyway i was pissed at the time heh
On another note, I'm so proud of Slashdot, if i had said that on Digg i would have gotten buried by 20 posts about how i must hate Linux. Im happy there are intelligent people on Slashdot.
This argument has nothing to do with the background or what gnome looks like morons, it has to do with the way it responds to actions, the way it presents options to the user.
The fact that linus had to take time to submit patches means the gnome developers are doing something incredibly stupid, this isn't a turf war, it means linus is concerned that the kernel he spends shitloads of time on is being trivialized by idiot programmers refusing to accept what the rest of the world wants in the systems they use.
KDE does the same shit, its annoying. I use linux daily but i have to say this is classic linux bullshit, KDE has too much, gnome has too little and no one wants to talk to each other or solve shit because everyone is in their own little camp.
^^^^^^^
Theres a recovery key, which shows you how INSECURE the encryption is in the first place, if one can get at the data without the tpm anyway, the difference being its probably impossible to fake the original tpm linked to a drive, while its not impossible at all to make a good try to crack an ASCII string like a recovery key/password regardless of how long the cipher is.
Since most peoples computers wont have a tpm for a while, the only way to use bitlocker will be by using a small usb drive with the key on it when you start vista, it seems to work just as well like that, and vista will let you put the recovery key on another usb drive to ensure you can access the data later.
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I'm not so sure about that, you are more accurately describing OpenSuSE, certainly more than Ubuntu. I think if you use them both for any serious work for any period of time you will run into the differences, some of which are showstoppers for Ubuntu, particularly for server use but also for desktops.
I don't like what Novell is doing but like most companies the OS they are connected to is far different than the company, the same is true with Apple (Which is one of the most worthless, arrogant, controlling companies in existence).
There are just a lot of things missing in Ubuntu, they have lots of problems to work out, especially in focusing on things that matter. I've seen some things that make me mad flipping through the roadmaps for Ubuntu releases, there was recently a roadmap item for some sort of PS3 integration that was approved, developed and included, while a number of other more important system level components were "deferred" to a later date.
Until Ubuntu and Linux in general stops catering to niche markets and niche uses for the system (like running it on the PS3), they will never be able to compare to other desktop offerings because of wasted time and a lack of direction.
Random chance, if 200 butterflies had flown into a wall 3 years ago it would have been something else.....
We are talking about virtualizing Vista on top of Vista/Linux, not Linux on top of Linux, so why you have libc and QT/GTK listed *above* vmware I don't know.
In any case, nothing runs "on" QT or GTK, or LibC. And the kernel isn't "some unixlike" kernel, its Linux like you specified.
Heres an accurate stack
browser
*windows crap*
vmware
xserver
kernel
hardware
Over and above that, if you are using hardware virtualization then all the lines are blurred, and you should be if you have any serious need for virtual machines, otherwise stop bitching.
The difference is that however flawed it is, CSS encryption provides legal protection for companies who rent dvds to consumers. There is nothing whatsoever protecting a company renting cds.
It isn't really about piracy, dvd encryption was cracked a long time ago, its about the RIAA making illegal and unreasonable demands against anyone who comes within 10 feet of anything their member companies ever thought about selling.
This story is also missing an important component, there is no reason to stop used CD sales if you aren't going to do the same for all items, because they share similar attributes in that they can't be identified after being stolen.
Barring that, the only reason to stop used CD sales is as an attempt to tighten the profit lines of an arrogant failing industry that refuses to adapt. They would rather destroy innovation and alternate business models, I mean surely we don't expect them risk any remote possibility that they might not retain control over the entire system. I think everyone involved realizes this, and if people do nothing they absolutely deserve what happens.
Yea your right Linux is just not ready for anything serious, surely if I were looking for a mainframe system for a government agency or perhaps a bank, i would naturally look to IBM. Whats that? IBM runs Linux on its mainframes?
Surely thats just complicated tech stuff, it'll never get used in a home device.....er wait....Linksys......Tivo........hmmmmm
By the way, Ubuntu is crap and will be forever if they keep wasting time on worthless parts of the system, like Gnome, or PS3 integration (its in the bugtracker). Redhat has always been crap, but Suse is the closest we have ever come to a finished usable Linux system, and it's relatively new in novel's hands. By the time vista is capable of running itself without screwing up randomly (i've used it extensively), Suse will be matured to the point that it will compete with vista for all but the most niche uses like games (Which are worthless anyway).
Yes, but a linux system would presumably come with hardware that works well in linux, a huge problem at this point.
Regardless of the state of software installation at purchase, the fact that its being sold FOR linux is the primary attraction.
It doesn't matter if iTunes itself can do this, there are plenty of easy to use systems for OS X, all of them can encode h264 compliant video usable in anything Apple makes.
All it takes to put that video into the iTunes library is making iTunes scan the disk. That video can then be streamed to an AppleTV or put on an iPod easily.
It no longer matters if its legal, no one cares anymore.
It bothers me when ANYTHING related to Microsoft or Windows affects the upstream hardware being developed in ANY FUCKING WAY.
I swear if *ANYTHING* on that OLPC unit changes to suit Microsoft or people who want to put windows on it, shit is going to start flying...
This is not a consumer PC, it does NOT need to be able to run multiple systems, and you DO NOT need a choice. This is a totally custom, embedded system for children who don't have running water, the fact that it uses standard hardware and the Linux kernel is irrelevant. If we start compromising to allow for sales in the US and other developed countries to use windows, we will have ruined the original idea, which was to make a system that children in 3rd world countries could obtain, use easily, and maintain without any sort of support from the manufacturer.
You and all your media burn in a pit of fire
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What the RIAA, MPAA, and media industry believe no longer matters. I believe I have a right to use my purchased CDs and DVDs any way I choose within my sphere of influence, which includes all property, vehicles and devices I own. The difference is that my belief only affects me (fair use), while their beliefs attempt to affect everyone.
The only thing differentiating DVDs from the CD situation is the encryption, which in truth only provides thin legal protection to the media in question, it has absolutely no effect on preventing copies (we all know what made CSS weak).
Having said all that, I think that none of these groups really intend to stop copying. The artificial barrier to copying is a welcome side effect, however I think its original and continued purpose is to restrict your ability to use media, not your ability to copy it.
I think the media industry is trying to enable a business model wherein you must purchase media rights for each device you intend to use, so called "Viewing Rights". Of course there are a number of executives who want to fight piracy simply for a refusal to admit defeat, but I think a majority of these companies and the officers in charge of them are more interested in maximizing financial return on the products they sell to the public, by changing the business model from a universal media purchase, to one of individual device rights. While the current HD-DVD and Blu-ray systems don't appear to contain this sort of individualization, it is present in every other form of digital media currently in use, and probably will be in any future system from now on.
I stand corrected, laughing :D
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they had to do that to avoid the huge exchange rate difference between the US dollar and...everything else. The fact that it takes well over 50% more US dollars to equal an amount in euros or francs, should seriously concern people.
I seem to remember a recent lawsuit where the CSS people sued Kaleidescape, and lost, for enabling their devices to rip DVDs to disk, separating the watchable copy from the physical disk. That was a media server.
Now that the CSS lost the Kaleidescape case, the MPAA now thinks its ok to rip DVDs to disk on a media server.....
Are you saying we should stop now, and not try to make high capacity formats because some random subset of people you don't actually know ("kiddies"), have no use for the disc but pirating movies?
So if i want to use Blu-ray disks to store clean installation disk images for the 15 servers and machines i routinely manage, Am I pirating movies to hand out?
Are you then also saying that any large cache of media in digital format, must be illegal?
I have digital h.264 copies of a good portion of the 240dvds I bought and paid for, so if I want to put those copies on a more reliable format for archival in case the original discs corrode (They do, and they have), should I just stop trying?
Thats my point, microsoft ends up with a finished product, and FOSS ends up with 12, none of which do it very well.
No you shouldn't be flamed, you haven't said anything incorrect.
The difference i think is management, which Microsoft has, however flawed, and open source as a general rule, does not. Even within single projects there is useless argument, and forks for ridiculous reasons. In most cases, the required action is for one party to be kicked in the ass, hard. There are RARE cases where the majority of the community sees something going wrong and forks, such is the case with X.org.
Then you have cases like gnome and kde, which each develop totally redundant, sometimes useless ways to do the same thing, sometimes neither one does it well either.
Over and over again i see MAJOR parts of the system literally missing, like a device manager, while other parts, like file managers or office applications (openoffice, gnome office, koffice) are developed 3 or 4 times over in parallel by groups who either refuse to use code from another group simply because it has a G- or a K- in front of its name, or neglect to even look around to see if someone has already coded a similar app that could be used and improved.
In all honesty, gnome and kde have driven me away from linux for everything but core server use, and my next laptop will be a Macbook simply because i'm tired of it all.
The problem with that is, there are companies who obtain patents for the sole purpose of ensuring that the technology is available for people to use. Apple does a bit of this, as do a number of other FOSS related companies. If you enforce patents to be used by their owner, you will actually hurt a number of groups with good intentions who help the community a great deal.
As an example, Novell, IBM, Phillips, Redhat, and Sony formed a company called The Open Invention Network, "The Open Invention Network (OIN) is a company that acquires patents and offer them royalty free "to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux operating system or certain Linux-related applications""
I think a better answer to all of this is to make it MUCH harder to get a patent, and narrow the definition given in the patent as much as possible. That seems to be the real problem, patents are routinely granted that cover things the entity applying for the patent didn't even come up with.
The real problem is the millions of users who blindly use the system without even the most basic understanding of how it works. You would not be surprised at the number of users who can't tell a real windows dialog box from a pop up on the web warning that you "need to scan your hard drive".
As long as people literally refuse to learn anything more than the bare minimum necessary to quickly read their email, nothing will change, especially with totally incompetent systems like windows vista, which is quite possibly the worst operating system I have ever used, save for some various conveniences like the segmented networking settings and file management/organization. Vista is "better than xp", but that is still horrible.
I understand that software should "just work", but at this point in Vista's case, it doesn't. You can either keep refusing to learn, or you can protect yourself. Is it worth it to blindly trust a company that has repeatedly shown they aren't deserving of trust? Or is it worth more to users to take a small amount of time to educate themselves about the system they trust to view banking records.
Its not like theres no difference between police cars and normal cars, the license plates especially are FAR different.
Police cars in a lot of cities don't use real license plates at all, they use a tag in place of the license plate that shows the car number usually along with a color code for the precinct.
Either way I think police should be able to run red lights if they need to, and that includes following suspicious persons on foot or otherwise. They should not be able to just run red lights for ANY reason, but i think they should be careful and try not to do it at high speed, thats where the problems come from.
I agree, they never wanted to STOP piracy, despite their bitching they all know it isn't possible, save for a few half-retarded executives.
However, the purpose of DRM in the industries eyes is 2 things, first it slows piracy by some measurable degree, and by slows i mean relative to a movies release in a theater or on its HDDVD disc, it DOES take some time to get that movie in a distributable form. This delay supposedly allows the theater or stores to make as much money as possible. This xbox hack once again makes that very quick, but on average it takes longer than it would without DRM. This is the same strategy as the mediasentry people and other p2p poisoning companies.
Second, they always wanted to make sure you had as few rights as possible, so that you can do nothing but watch a purchased movie where they want, how they want, at the times they want. They fully intend on setting the ecosystem up so that you must buy back rights you already had.
I think the true value of these DRM hacks is not gaining access to the media (however that is vital as well), but ensuring that we are technically able to get around future systems with much more problematic purposes, like online censorship.
You should at least get the irony of your post...... you say Linux idiots should get their head out of their ass and make it easier to run games on Linux, in a thread about Cedega? Have you even seen Cedega?
Even without Cedega or wine, most of the games that are cult hits, like Unreal, are released for Linux as well as Windows, even the demos, but that leads into the real problems.........
The real problem is the ridiculous state of package management in Linux, which is totally unnecessary and IS in fact an example of Linux programmers (Debian maintainers, Suse maintainers, Redhat maintainers) screwing up the most basic part of the system for years on end. Add to that a systemic obsession with building text apps with gui's on top of them, instead of building an API that both text and gui can use. Those 2 things are the single biggest problems with Linux, with no good reason whatsoever.
Capitalism in the case of the US is in sort of an agreed partitioning scheme, sure you have choice but those choices exist at the top level, each company pretty much stays out of each others way with a few exceptions and mergers.
Free trade however is not fair trade, with the state of foreign manufacturing tariffs and such are necessary to equalize the market, in effect FAIR trade allows for companies to compete on an equal playing field with cost of manufacture and such normalized between foreign and local manufacture in a given market.
Fair trade benefits the consumer, true FREE trade in turn does not benefit the consumer for more than a few years, and if implemented across the board it allows the very jobs people use to fund the goods and services they purchase, to be undercut by their foreign equivalent. Free trade gains public support and works its way into the system by providing cheap foreign goods, and you can pretty much guarantee that the people in charge of pushing free trade also benefit from it, most likely from ties to companys who manufacture overseas at reduced cost.
I try not to be good at diplomacy, means i don't have to try and rewrite what i want to say :D Anyway i was pissed at the time heh
:D
On another note, I'm so proud of Slashdot, if i had said that on Digg i would have gotten buried by 20 posts about how i must hate Linux. Im happy there are intelligent people on Slashdot.
This argument has nothing to do with the background or what gnome looks like morons, it has to do with the way it responds to actions, the way it presents options to the user.
The fact that linus had to take time to submit patches means the gnome developers are doing something incredibly stupid, this isn't a turf war, it means linus is concerned that the kernel he spends shitloads of time on is being trivialized by idiot programmers refusing to accept what the rest of the world wants in the systems they use.
KDE does the same shit, its annoying. I use linux daily but i have to say this is classic linux bullshit, KDE has too much, gnome has too little and no one wants to talk to each other or solve shit because everyone is in their own little camp.
Prefixes are gay as well, kstfu, ggbye
^^^^^^^ Theres a recovery key, which shows you how INSECURE the encryption is in the first place, if one can get at the data without the tpm anyway, the difference being its probably impossible to fake the original tpm linked to a drive, while its not impossible at all to make a good try to crack an ASCII string like a recovery key/password regardless of how long the cipher is. Since most peoples computers wont have a tpm for a while, the only way to use bitlocker will be by using a small usb drive with the key on it when you start vista, it seems to work just as well like that, and vista will let you put the recovery key on another usb drive to ensure you can access the data later.