By the same logic? Are you on acid? He says copying != stealing. He never said copying != crime. The simple minded goes "oh well what's the difference." The difference is that it has been very unclear for entire societies how to handle these cases in their courts, and that associating the word copy with the word steal helps tip the scale.
No the question is: by the time HTML5 is fully used, how long will it take until Theora is equal to H.264? If it becomes such a standard the project will be in the interest of many. Those of you that understand the process of developing FOSS have already concluded that Theora is the best choice and that it's only a matter of time.
Haha what? You're talking about the move of a huge corporation from a consumers angle. No they didn't buy it because they thought it was "better". They bought it because they considered it profitable.
The reason why patents, such as this fine example, exist is simple. It's so fucking retarded that whenever you want to argue against it you don't even know where to begin. Mark my words, soon you'll read a/. article saying that breathing oxygen has been patented, and that you'll have to pay royalties in order to exercise it.
You can't be seroius, how about a bit more realistic tests? Such as dropping the phone from your hands? I have never in my life, nor anybody I know for that matter, had my phone damaged in a way that would be equal, or even close to, an elephant walking on it. I've sometimes dropped it, and on occasion on one of its edges. If I want a sturdy phone I'd look for a sturdy display, casing and edges that can handle a 2 meter drop. I can live with a 0.0000000001% chance of getting an immense and even pressure on it such as if an elephant walked on it.
But then again you're free to tell me if you've ever had any of the experiences mentioned above, or even any scenario related. All except the liquid scenario that is the only one that makes sense, as I clearly stated.
... the S1 would still work after being stepped on by an elephant, run over by a Land Rover, dropped from a second-story window, buried in mud, soaked in a pint of beer, and roasted in an oven at 150 degrees centigrade.
Am I the only one who finds this severely retarded? Who the fuck has their phone run over by an elephant so often that he feels the need to have a fool proof solution for it? Or even have it run over by a car, buried in mud or roasted in a fucking oven? I can see the beer scenario, or any other liquid drink for that matter, but the rest of the tests are just fucking absurd.
-Hey us guys here at Tampax have just created a new sturdy tampon that can handle the strain of space shuttle launch g-forces. -Just what I need.
You have to be fair, Blizzard is a struggling company. They barely make ends meet with the low income on such titles as World of Warcraft. They need more money! People please heed their call! Donate whatever you can, be it money, cars or even your first born child. This is an honest company struggling in the harsh brutal economic reality.
I don't mean to be condescending, but if the information you ask of is of any value to you, why don't you read the license? If you're lazy you can just read the summary of the wikipedia entry about GPL.
Oh and if you're thinking "bah why bother", the vast majority of OSSs are licensed to GPL and it remains the same. Next time you stumble upon one you'd know what you're allowed to do or not do with it, unlike the regular EULAs that keep changing from software to software. Nobody cares to read those unless there's a big interest, usually based on financial interest. Don't treat the widely used licenses such as GPL the same way as another whatever-software license.
Unfortunately you're as biased as the next guy. I grew up during the DOS/Win 3.1 era and have been using PCs all my life. Around the year 2000 I started experimenting with Linux, I'm saying experimenting because I didn't fully use it until a few years later, and for some reason I had no troubles what goes for the usability. Nowadays I use Ubuntu and there's nothing as simple to use as Ubuntu. I'm saying this because today I was in a recording studio that belongs to a friend of mine, and [un]naturally he uses Mac for his audio mixing. When I sat down to play around I was lost. I'm not saying I couldn't adapt to it given enough time, but the natural human-computer interaction you speak of does not exist. Humans aren't built to understand computers, it is, just as any language we speak, taught to us. We adapt to a certain language and improve at using it the same way as we do with operating systems. This might sound paradoxal since I just claimed that Ubuntu was the easiest, however given that the hardware you have is fully supported by Windows, OS X and Ubuntu, the procedure going from installing the software to opening your browser and visiting google is by far most logical and easiest in Ubuntu than any of the others above, this of course doesn't mean that a person with no computer experience can just hop in and drive. I'm not saying that the others require an astrophysicist, and that they are even difficult enough for this to even be relevant, but the argument persists. The problem isn't that these OSs aren't easy enough, the problem is that people ask for the impossible - just as impossible as learning a new language in one day. Some people claim that we should dumb things down, I claim the we should smarten people up. After all if we all here in/. can do it so easily, I refuse to believe that others can't, given enough time to practice. And if someone thinks that we here are some sort of an elite that someone is nothing but arrogant.
On the other hand you don't need to emigrate to a country with english as official language. Almost everybody in Sweden speaks English and you can do anything with just English here. Everything from filing your taxes to asking for directions.
No here's the trick. When they teach you something listen to what they say and remember that for next time instead of asking it over and over and over again. IT employees aren't more lazy than others, so if you listen instead of being lazy yourself when they're teaching you something you'd generally get a lot more done. People rely on the IT as being the local Merlin, and instead of learning the simple things they tend to take advantage of their position of "not knowing". I don't take that bullshit and I have far better things to do than to babysit someones ass.
Oh and one more thing, READ THE FUCKING ERROR MESSAGE. IT'S THERE FOR A REASON.
It could be the fact that Microsoft is a pretty large and widely used producer of software that it's a common example. The topic at hand was about epic IT failures, and the parent presented an example from Microsoft. You however are fanboying under the AC sig simply because he referred to an MS product with critisism. It seems like you're the douche here, but then again you knew that before you clicked "Post as anonymous."
Good lord, are computers with 512MB of RAM even capable of running Vista? My laptop with 2GB could barely hack that... it was more like walking Vista, not running it.
Windows 7 is much, much better.
Compared to your description of Vista I'd say that being better isn't exactly an achievement.
Really now? This is the last post as this is getting tiresome.
1. The point of a sentence is not defined by the percentage of its contents. 2. I say that some words were irrelevant to the subject, but relevant to how I chose to deliver my point. 3. This thread is not about burning down buildings. The AC misunderstood and I quickly pointed him to the subject. If you read my response I drop the irrelevant focus on arson and try to explain to said idiot further:
The point was not to burn the building down, but I accept your short sighted ignorance for now. The point was that the service providers sell a product. You as a consumer buy that product. Not a similar product. When the service provider goes "oops, we promised too much, we weren't exactly expecting you to use the capacity you purchased", you just sit there and take it up the ass. I don't.
4. You then persist to bring the focus back on arson when I've already explained that this wasn't the point of my thread. Any idiot that has ever used the word "fuck" in a sentence regarding anything else than fornicating would understand me, appearantly you don't. Ergo you posted offtopic. 5. There's not a single contradiction in my posts. These are your empty words. 6. I'm guessing that AC was you. Nobody takes someone elses battle that far. 7. Welcome to slashdot.
Wow you really focus on the arson part, don't you? Please go ahead and disregard the entire point of my comment. Because it's better to focus on irrelevant words and not discuss the topic at hand when in a forum.
P.S. I'm not a resident of the UK. Would it not have been wise to use the AC tag yourself when posting offtopic?
Ah but this will hit "the clueless idiots" where it hurts. If the other ISPs advertise that you can get BBC iPlayer with them but not with BT I imagine that there will be quite an effect.
Very true. But by allowing BT to open this box of Pandora you never know what's next. This time it's iPlayer, what happens when you have to choose an ISP based on a package of 100+ services? How is such a zombie consumer supposed to know the "right" choice? We both know what happens. Whatever is more convenient will be the choice, mimicing what the Telecom industry has become and killing anything even related to net neutrality, shifting the power to control internet to the corps. Nobody gives a rats ass about the rates anymore, it's about having to lift as few fingers as possible. We take phones for granted, and we're very close to have the same mentality towards internet.
In this matter I'd sacrifice freedom of choice for total freedom. Besides ISPs would only be shooting themselves in the foot as they will have a hard fucking time trying to keep up with internet, harming only one party: the consumer. Today it's iPlayer, who knows where tomorrows traffic goes?
I see nothing good come out of this. And when I see nothing good I see no reason to adopt it. I don't know if it's just me but that's just how my logic works.
Kiddie? And you're supposed to be a big boy behind the AC sig? No you clearly misunderstood me. The point was not to burn the building down, but I accept your short sighted ignorance for now. The point was that the service providers sell a product. You as a consumer buy that product. Not a similar product. When the service provider goes "oops, we promised too much, we weren't exactly expecting you to use the capacity you purchased", you just sit there and take it up the ass. I don't.
Boycott them financially instead. It makes more sense. Money is your weapon.
Try to tell that to a nation (= any nation) full of clueless idiots that don't understand the meaning of consumer.
Still my statement was merely symbolic. I do agree that civilised behaviour is better. Though I'm more pissed off at the people than the mafia corps. Mindless fucking zombies walking around eating this kind of shit without ever even knowing what hit them. Serves them right for being so ignorant, but then again it affects those that aren't as such.
These motherfuckers make me see red. You pay for a service and you're not supposed to use it!? Burn down the entire fucking BT HQ, because this mafia behaviour is really, really getting on my fucking nerves.
Sure, if that's the only purpose of it. I don't know what they're trying to pull here. Perhaps they'll copy the entire sourceforge concept, or perhaps they understand how useless that would be and have other plans in mind. The description is somewhat abstract so I guess time will tell what will come of this. I won't hold my breath but I won't condemn it either.
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By the same logic? Are you on acid? He says copying != stealing. He never said copying != crime. The simple minded goes "oh well what's the difference." The difference is that it has been very unclear for entire societies how to handle these cases in their courts, and that associating the word copy with the word steal helps tip the scale.
No the question is: by the time HTML5 is fully used, how long will it take until Theora is equal to H.264? If it becomes such a standard the project will be in the interest of many. Those of you that understand the process of developing FOSS have already concluded that Theora is the best choice and that it's only a matter of time.
Haha what? You're talking about the move of a huge corporation from a consumers angle. No they didn't buy it because they thought it was "better". They bought it because they considered it profitable.
The reason why patents, such as this fine example, exist is simple. It's so fucking retarded that whenever you want to argue against it you don't even know where to begin. Mark my words, soon you'll read a /. article saying that breathing oxygen has been patented, and that you'll have to pay royalties in order to exercise it.
You can't be seroius, how about a bit more realistic tests? Such as dropping the phone from your hands? I have never in my life, nor anybody I know for that matter, had my phone damaged in a way that would be equal, or even close to, an elephant walking on it. I've sometimes dropped it, and on occasion on one of its edges. If I want a sturdy phone I'd look for a sturdy display, casing and edges that can handle a 2 meter drop. I can live with a 0.0000000001% chance of getting an immense and even pressure on it such as if an elephant walked on it.
But then again you're free to tell me if you've ever had any of the experiences mentioned above, or even any scenario related. All except the liquid scenario that is the only one that makes sense, as I clearly stated.
... the S1 would still work after being stepped on by an elephant, run over by a Land Rover, dropped from a second-story window, buried in mud, soaked in a pint of beer, and roasted in an oven at 150 degrees centigrade.
Am I the only one who finds this severely retarded? Who the fuck has their phone run over by an elephant so often that he feels the need to have a fool proof solution for it? Or even have it run over by a car, buried in mud or roasted in a fucking oven? I can see the beer scenario, or any other liquid drink for that matter, but the rest of the tests are just fucking absurd.
-Hey us guys here at Tampax have just created a new sturdy tampon that can handle the strain of space shuttle launch g-forces.
-Just what I need.
I almost forgot.
You have to be fair, Blizzard is a struggling company. They barely make ends meet with the low income on such titles as World of Warcraft. They need more money! People please heed their call! Donate whatever you can, be it money, cars or even your first born child. This is an honest company struggling in the harsh brutal economic reality.
I don't mean to be condescending, but if the information you ask of is of any value to you, why don't you read the license? If you're lazy you can just read the summary of the wikipedia entry about GPL.
Oh and if you're thinking "bah why bother", the vast majority of OSSs are licensed to GPL and it remains the same. Next time you stumble upon one you'd know what you're allowed to do or not do with it, unlike the regular EULAs that keep changing from software to software. Nobody cares to read those unless there's a big interest, usually based on financial interest. Don't treat the widely used licenses such as GPL the same way as another whatever-software license.
Unfortunately you're as biased as the next guy. I grew up during the DOS/Win 3.1 era and have been using PCs all my life. Around the year 2000 I started experimenting with Linux, I'm saying experimenting because I didn't fully use it until a few years later, and for some reason I had no troubles what goes for the usability. Nowadays I use Ubuntu and there's nothing as simple to use as Ubuntu. I'm saying this because today I was in a recording studio that belongs to a friend of mine, and [un]naturally he uses Mac for his audio mixing. When I sat down to play around I was lost. I'm not saying I couldn't adapt to it given enough time, but the natural human-computer interaction you speak of does not exist. Humans aren't built to understand computers, it is, just as any language we speak, taught to us. We adapt to a certain language and improve at using it the same way as we do with operating systems. This might sound paradoxal since I just claimed that Ubuntu was the easiest, however given that the hardware you have is fully supported by Windows, OS X and Ubuntu, the procedure going from installing the software to opening your browser and visiting google is by far most logical and easiest in Ubuntu than any of the others above, this of course doesn't mean that a person with no computer experience can just hop in and drive. I'm not saying that the others require an astrophysicist, and that they are even difficult enough for this to even be relevant, but the argument persists. The problem isn't that these OSs aren't easy enough, the problem is that people ask for the impossible - just as impossible as learning a new language in one day. Some people claim that we should dumb things down, I claim the we should smarten people up. After all if we all here in /. can do it so easily, I refuse to believe that others can't, given enough time to practice. And if someone thinks that we here are some sort of an elite that someone is nothing but arrogant.
On the other hand you don't need to emigrate to a country with english as official language. Almost everybody in Sweden speaks English and you can do anything with just English here. Everything from filing your taxes to asking for directions.
Pretty sure brain cancer gives headaches.
No here's the trick. When they teach you something listen to what they say and remember that for next time instead of asking it over and over and over again. IT employees aren't more lazy than others, so if you listen instead of being lazy yourself when they're teaching you something you'd generally get a lot more done. People rely on the IT as being the local Merlin, and instead of learning the simple things they tend to take advantage of their position of "not knowing". I don't take that bullshit and I have far better things to do than to babysit someones ass.
Oh and one more thing, READ THE FUCKING ERROR MESSAGE. IT'S THERE FOR A REASON.
Sorry for caps.
Old fashion screwing has helped 99%* of the population achieve this goal through the history of mankind.
*DISCLAIMER: Yes I pulled this number out of my ass. Wanna fight about it?
It could be the fact that Microsoft is a pretty large and widely used producer of software that it's a common example. The topic at hand was about epic IT failures, and the parent presented an example from Microsoft. You however are fanboying under the AC sig simply because he referred to an MS product with critisism. It seems like you're the douche here, but then again you knew that before you clicked "Post as anonymous."
Good lord, are computers with 512MB of RAM even capable of running Vista? My laptop with 2GB could barely hack that... it was more like walking Vista, not running it. Windows 7 is much, much better.
Compared to your description of Vista I'd say that being better isn't exactly an achievement.
Actually it's petaFLOPS as it's an abbreviation.
1. The point of a sentence is not defined by the percentage of its contents.
2. I say that some words were irrelevant to the subject, but relevant to how I chose to deliver my point.
3. This thread is not about burning down buildings. The AC misunderstood and I quickly pointed him to the subject. If you read my response I drop the irrelevant focus on arson and try to explain to said idiot further:
The point was not to burn the building down, but I accept your short sighted ignorance for now. The point was that the service providers sell a product. You as a consumer buy that product. Not a similar product. When the service provider goes "oops, we promised too much, we weren't exactly expecting you to use the capacity you purchased", you just sit there and take it up the ass. I don't.
4. You then persist to bring the focus back on arson when I've already explained that this wasn't the point of my thread. Any idiot that has ever used the word "fuck" in a sentence regarding anything else than fornicating would understand me, appearantly you don't. Ergo you posted offtopic.
5. There's not a single contradiction in my posts. These are your empty words.
6. I'm guessing that AC was you. Nobody takes someone elses battle that far.
7. Welcome to slashdot.
Wow you really focus on the arson part, don't you? Please go ahead and disregard the entire point of my comment. Because it's better to focus on irrelevant words and not discuss the topic at hand when in a forum.
P.S. I'm not a resident of the UK. Would it not have been wise to use the AC tag yourself when posting offtopic?
Ah but this will hit "the clueless idiots" where it hurts. If the other ISPs advertise that you can get BBC iPlayer with them but not with BT I imagine that there will be quite an effect.
Very true. But by allowing BT to open this box of Pandora you never know what's next. This time it's iPlayer, what happens when you have to choose an ISP based on a package of 100+ services? How is such a zombie consumer supposed to know the "right" choice? We both know what happens. Whatever is more convenient will be the choice, mimicing what the Telecom industry has become and killing anything even related to net neutrality, shifting the power to control internet to the corps. Nobody gives a rats ass about the rates anymore, it's about having to lift as few fingers as possible. We take phones for granted, and we're very close to have the same mentality towards internet.
In this matter I'd sacrifice freedom of choice for total freedom. Besides ISPs would only be shooting themselves in the foot as they will have a hard fucking time trying to keep up with internet, harming only one party: the consumer. Today it's iPlayer, who knows where tomorrows traffic goes?
I see nothing good come out of this. And when I see nothing good I see no reason to adopt it. I don't know if it's just me but that's just how my logic works.
Kiddie? And you're supposed to be a big boy behind the AC sig? No you clearly misunderstood me. The point was not to burn the building down, but I accept your short sighted ignorance for now. The point was that the service providers sell a product. You as a consumer buy that product. Not a similar product. When the service provider goes "oops, we promised too much, we weren't exactly expecting you to use the capacity you purchased", you just sit there and take it up the ass. I don't.
I have yet to hear about an 18-year-old european that had to diagnose her/himself. I don't know what that proves. I'm just saying.
Boycott them financially instead. It makes more sense. Money is your weapon.
Try to tell that to a nation (= any nation) full of clueless idiots that don't understand the meaning of consumer.
Still my statement was merely symbolic. I do agree that civilised behaviour is better. Though I'm more pissed off at the people than the mafia corps. Mindless fucking zombies walking around eating this kind of shit without ever even knowing what hit them. Serves them right for being so ignorant, but then again it affects those that aren't as such.
These motherfuckers make me see red. You pay for a service and you're not supposed to use it!? Burn down the entire fucking BT HQ, because this mafia behaviour is really, really getting on my fucking nerves.
Sure, if that's the only purpose of it. I don't know what they're trying to pull here. Perhaps they'll copy the entire sourceforge concept, or perhaps they understand how useless that would be and have other plans in mind. The description is somewhat abstract so I guess time will tell what will come of this. I won't hold my breath but I won't condemn it either.