May I ask what you find so bad about JuK? Aside from the crappy playlist setup (which is, I should note, slated for improvement) it's a pretty decent media player.
Agreed... KDE3.2 is a lot snappier than 3.1. ARTs, for example, skips significantly less. (Though it's still buggy that I wish they'd just replace it already! Yeah, I know this is nontrivial, but it's really crappy)
Delegation. Delegate management of chunks of the list based on, say, plugin functionality, and make it clear that any "commercial compromises" (eg, you pay us $X, we slip your spyware onto the list) will result in that organization being permanently blacklisted.
Yes! I love that feature. Interestingly, it also makes keyboard-navigating the menus (typing the first few letters of each option) so much easier... Because, with that turned on, 90% of them don't start with 'k' or 'g' anymore.
Yes, Firefox is safe. Or, rather, as safe as it can be reasonably expected to get. Plugins and skins can only be installed by whitelisted servers, and must prompt the user before installation.
That's what I was thinking too, but I could've sworn that it sounded like they were talking about getting full-colour with just two projectors. I don't know enough about the physics involved to even guess if that's possible.
1) "What's wrong with it?" they say. They weren't saying that there was something wrong with the AAC one. Rather, they were telling you that they couldn't tell the difference, and asking you to explain why the second sample was somehow "wrong".
2) Codecs are not changing very rapidly - there's just a lot of them. Also, something you seem incapable of understanding is that codecs are software, not hardware. Assuming you're intelligent and are using a digital music player instead of burning your stuff to CD, you can almost always add as many codec plugins as you want. So just because a new format's offered doesn't mean you have to unplug and throw away your old codec, nor does it mean you can no longer listen to the music bought with it. (Assuming that the files don't try to call home every time they're played, which iTMS files don't)
3) Again, why are you buirning things to CD-R? That's a very stupid way to store them, unless you need temporary storage for something like a car's CD player.
4) Ever heard of a hard disk? Digital files are trivial to back up, especially since they take up less physical space than things stored on a CD.
5 & 6 are conceedable points.
7) What the hell are you talking about? iTMS generally has lower prices and better file quality than any other store.
Well, they mention in the article that they're not even trying to get colours with a single projector. Instead, they're investiating using two in parallel for that. I'm not quite sure how two would work though - would it try to use interference to create colour or what? Wouldn't you need three projectors for colour schemes?
Actually, the cost is likely to be quite a lot lower than anything involving optics. Making lenses is hard work. Making lasers is easy. And from what they say in the article, I gather that the hardware for the image production bit is pretty easy to make too. What's complicated are the algorithms they use in the background.
... Holy cow. Apple must have some really, really good engineers, and some abso-frigging-lutely brilliant designers, to come up with something like that. I knew about the first part, but his detailed analysis of feature differences just drives home the point. Looks like the Konfabulator developers aren't whining over Apple stealing their idea. They're whining because Apple looked at it, looked at the original source, and said "Good idea, but we can do it better."
Never mind the collossal risk posed by an asteroid strike. Sure, the chances of a species-killer are pretty low, but the downsides are enourmous. Better to start on contingency plans as soon as we can.
1 is possible, yes. But complaints about scumware tend to spread rather fast, so I'd think any company abusing it's place on the list would get smacked down quite quickly.
2 is no more of a problem than it is now, and actually, a whitelist solution provides an excellent defense here. After all, if the scumware is something users would want to install, then there's no reason not to put it on the whitelist. And if it isn't... Why should the software author allow the user to be forced to install it?
I suppose they could be sued for refusing to include otherwise desirable software bundled with scumware, in the same way that maintainers of blackhole lists get sued. But it seems to me that they've got a good defense there, too - the whitelist isn't hard-coded, so the user can expand it if he wants. Of course, this also opens it to attacks by trojans and other scumware, but until the US gets a sane criminal code relating to this - something they'll never do if Microsoft and the *IAAs have their way, as it would kill Palladium and DRM dead in the water - there's nothing more a software author can do.
Of course, this is just more verification that Microsoft's never actually invented anything. Just taken ideas from other companies and then crushed them to try and make the world forget who really innovates.
Yes, and you know what? He's still wrong. The gap between the two kernels will not continue to narrow, Linux will continue to move ahead. Never mind the fundamental architectural differences between the two, or all the crap NT requires one put in kernelspace...
What's really amazing is how well KDE follows all of these guidelines while still providing an (often) more coherent and intuitive experience than Windows, AND provides more features on top of that.
Even better. Then sell all the Jukeboxes on E-Bay at less than market price - thus depriving Dell of sales - and put the resulting money towards new, working iPods. Heck, Apple could even use this to give a discount on servicing costs - send the old iPod to Dell, sell the Jukebox, use cash as refund on iPod repair.
In short, really dumb move by Dell. But who's surprised? Dude, you're getting a bankruptcy!
Except they didn't donate to Gore's election campaign. Can you not read? And whether it's legal has no bearing whatsoever on whether it was moral or right.
Got news for you - scumware authors have already tried to target Firefox and Mozilla. The developers' reaction? Implement a "whitelist" system that only allows extensions to come from a small, fixed set of official servers.
The numeric address space belongs to NAC, a domain name (if registered) belongs to the plaintiff.
Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple. Network Solutions and ICAN'T have both claimed that they own domain names (no matter which registrar sold them) and, thus, can reallocate them whenever they feel it to be necessary. (Such as when resolving trademark disputes) However, in all other ways, they treat it like the customer's property - for example, when recovering a stolen domain name.
Actually, what happened was that the developers arbitrarily decided that Qute wasn't "good enough" anymore and that it had "license problems". They then didn't even try to talk to the author, but simply decided to replace it. The author, as soon as he found out, made it known that he was willing to accomodate the license changes they wanted, but the developers told him, very rudely, to go away and stop boterhing them because his contribution wasn't wanted.
So yes, the venom the devs got WAS warranted, because they were being asses. And I hope they KEEP getting it until they change back to Qute.
Yes, it's such a shame that Apple "ripped off" an idea that they developed in the first place! Talk about bad apples on the part of the Konfabulator folks. They rip off Apple, hope no-one calls them on it, then flip out when Apple puts the functionality back into their OS because they discovered that people found it useful.
To the Konfabulator folks: deal. Or innovate. Don't rip off an idea a company implemented over ten years ago and complain when they implement it again.
It's worth nothing that the only remotely successful criticism I've seen of Moore's facts and presentation of them in this movie has been to point to "Bowling for Columbine" and scream "But he's fundamentally dishonest because he used questionable editing techniques once!" at the top of one's lungs. That should say something about the film.
The problem with this law is that it adds criminal penalties for what was formerly a civil offense. The civil penalties were in line with severity of a crime. This law has mandatory 10-year penalties for repeat offenders - those that have already spent 10-20 years in prison under this law.
That's more than serial rapists, murderers, or people who embezzle billions. That's more than most drug-related crime laws.
The problem isn't the enforcement but, rather, that the penalty is hideously out of whack with the severity of the crime.
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May I ask what you find so bad about JuK? Aside from the crappy playlist setup (which is, I should note, slated for improvement) it's a pretty decent media player.
Agreed... KDE3.2 is a lot snappier than 3.1. ARTs, for example, skips significantly less. (Though it's still buggy that I wish they'd just replace it already! Yeah, I know this is nontrivial, but it's really crappy)
Delegation. Delegate management of chunks of the list based on, say, plugin functionality, and make it clear that any "commercial compromises" (eg, you pay us $X, we slip your spyware onto the list) will result in that organization being permanently blacklisted.
Yes! I love that feature. Interestingly, it also makes keyboard-navigating the menus (typing the first few letters of each option) so much easier... Because, with that turned on, 90% of them don't start with 'k' or 'g' anymore.
And there is no telnetd in Linux. There's one in GNU/Linux, but you can uninstall it trivially.
Yes, Firefox is safe. Or, rather, as safe as it can be reasonably expected to get. Plugins and skins can only be installed by whitelisted servers, and must prompt the user before installation.
That's what I was thinking too, but I could've sworn that it sounded like they were talking about getting full-colour with just two projectors. I don't know enough about the physics involved to even guess if that's possible.
1) "What's wrong with it?" they say. They weren't saying that there was something wrong with the AAC one. Rather, they were telling you that they couldn't tell the difference, and asking you to explain why the second sample was somehow "wrong".
2) Codecs are not changing very rapidly - there's just a lot of them. Also, something you seem incapable of understanding is that codecs are software, not hardware. Assuming you're intelligent and are using a digital music player instead of burning your stuff to CD, you can almost always add as many codec plugins as you want. So just because a new format's offered doesn't mean you have to unplug and throw away your old codec, nor does it mean you can no longer listen to the music bought with it. (Assuming that the files don't try to call home every time they're played, which iTMS files don't)
3) Again, why are you buirning things to CD-R? That's a very stupid way to store them, unless you need temporary storage for something like a car's CD player.
4) Ever heard of a hard disk? Digital files are trivial to back up, especially since they take up less physical space than things stored on a CD.
5 & 6 are conceedable points.
7) What the hell are you talking about? iTMS generally has lower prices and better file quality than any other store.
Well, they mention in the article that they're not even trying to get colours with a single projector. Instead, they're investiating using two in parallel for that. I'm not quite sure how two would work though - would it try to use interference to create colour or what? Wouldn't you need three projectors for colour schemes?
Actually, the cost is likely to be quite a lot lower than anything involving optics. Making lenses is hard work. Making lasers is easy. And from what they say in the article, I gather that the hardware for the image production bit is pretty easy to make too. What's complicated are the algorithms they use in the background.
... Holy cow. Apple must have some really, really good engineers, and some abso-frigging-lutely brilliant designers, to come up with something like that. I knew about the first part, but his detailed analysis of feature differences just drives home the point. Looks like the Konfabulator developers aren't whining over Apple stealing their idea. They're whining because Apple looked at it, looked at the original source, and said "Good idea, but we can do it better."
Never mind the collossal risk posed by an asteroid strike. Sure, the chances of a species-killer are pretty low, but the downsides are enourmous. Better to start on contingency plans as soon as we can.
1 is possible, yes. But complaints about scumware tend to spread rather fast, so I'd think any company abusing it's place on the list would get smacked down quite quickly.
2 is no more of a problem than it is now, and actually, a whitelist solution provides an excellent defense here. After all, if the scumware is something users would want to install, then there's no reason not to put it on the whitelist. And if it isn't... Why should the software author allow the user to be forced to install it?
I suppose they could be sued for refusing to include otherwise desirable software bundled with scumware, in the same way that maintainers of blackhole lists get sued. But it seems to me that they've got a good defense there, too - the whitelist isn't hard-coded, so the user can expand it if he wants. Of course, this also opens it to attacks by trojans and other scumware, but until the US gets a sane criminal code relating to this - something they'll never do if Microsoft and the *IAAs have their way, as it would kill Palladium and DRM dead in the water - there's nothing more a software author can do.
Yes, and BeOS had it in 1999.
Last time I checked, 1999 was before 2000.
Of course, this is just more verification that Microsoft's never actually invented anything. Just taken ideas from other companies and then crushed them to try and make the world forget who really innovates.
Yes, and you know what? He's still wrong. The gap between the two kernels will not continue to narrow, Linux will continue to move ahead. Never mind the fundamental architectural differences between the two, or all the crap NT requires one put in kernelspace...
What's really amazing is how well KDE follows all of these guidelines while still providing an (often) more coherent and intuitive experience than Windows, AND provides more features on top of that.
Never mind what OS X manages...
Even better. Then sell all the Jukeboxes on E-Bay at less than market price - thus depriving Dell of sales - and put the resulting money towards new, working iPods. Heck, Apple could even use this to give a discount on servicing costs - send the old iPod to Dell, sell the Jukebox, use cash as refund on iPod repair.
In short, really dumb move by Dell. But who's surprised? Dude, you're getting a bankruptcy!
Except they didn't donate to Gore's election campaign. Can you not read? And whether it's legal has no bearing whatsoever on whether it was moral or right.
Got news for you - scumware authors have already tried to target Firefox and Mozilla. The developers' reaction? Implement a "whitelist" system that only allows extensions to come from a small, fixed set of official servers.
The numeric address space belongs to NAC, a domain name (if registered) belongs to the plaintiff.
Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple. Network Solutions and ICAN'T have both claimed that they own domain names (no matter which registrar sold them) and, thus, can reallocate them whenever they feel it to be necessary. (Such as when resolving trademark disputes) However, in all other ways, they treat it like the customer's property - for example, when recovering a stolen domain name.
Actually, what happened was that the developers arbitrarily decided that Qute wasn't "good enough" anymore and that it had "license problems". They then didn't even try to talk to the author, but simply decided to replace it. The author, as soon as he found out, made it known that he was willing to accomodate the license changes they wanted, but the developers told him, very rudely, to go away and stop boterhing them because his contribution wasn't wanted.
So yes, the venom the devs got WAS warranted, because they were being asses. And I hope they KEEP getting it until they change back to Qute.
Yes, it's such a shame that Apple "ripped off" an idea that they developed in the first place! Talk about bad apples on the part of the Konfabulator folks. They rip off Apple, hope no-one calls them on it, then flip out when Apple puts the functionality back into their OS because they discovered that people found it useful.
To the Konfabulator folks: deal. Or innovate. Don't rip off an idea a company implemented over ten years ago and complain when they implement it again.
It's worth nothing that the only remotely successful criticism I've seen of Moore's facts and presentation of them in this movie has been to point to "Bowling for Columbine" and scream "But he's fundamentally dishonest because he used questionable editing techniques once!" at the top of one's lungs. That should say something about the film.
*cough* BULLSHIT *cough*
The problem with this law is that it adds criminal penalties for what was formerly a civil offense. The civil penalties were in line with severity of a crime. This law has mandatory 10-year penalties for repeat offenders - those that have already spent 10-20 years in prison under this law.
That's more than serial rapists, murderers, or people who embezzle billions. That's more than most drug-related crime laws.
The problem isn't the enforcement but, rather, that the penalty is hideously out of whack with the severity of the crime.
Intent.