By a 24% drop in revenue, but this is nothing new. They have always jumped on things others do, claim to be friends and then do everything possible to claim all the revenue and good will. Real transparency will include:
Use of real standards.
Elimination of all DRM.
Liberation of their source code.
No promise they make means anything if you don't have the four software freedoms on their platform.
I could start a list of IE holes but you would be 95 before I finished. The easy place to start is the current article, where M$ claims people can remotely execute things on your computer. If M$ is not good enough a source, there are a variety of AV vendors with lots of good information on line. I think we both have better things to do.
I don't see any of that here. They told the story for as broad an audience as possible and they claimed measurable losses.
Revision3 has made the right choice already. Silence only helps the abuser to commit more crimes. They had to tell the story to satisfy their own customers. They are working with the FBI for criminal charges and will surely try to get the money lost over the weekend in civil court.
That's the threat here. If Google can't keep copyright crap off their site no one can. The time has come to decide between free a free press an antiquated notions of copyright. My vote is for free press, so that you can start your own YouTube to share whatever you like with your friends tomorrow.
CPU: Pentium 3 â" 600 MHz, Memory: 256 MB. That's a reasonable computer and he should have been able to run regular Debian on it. Etch and Lenny boot quickly these days. If you plan to use the laptop for years and want maximum package flexibility, Debian is a good bet. If you are looking for something quick and dirty for web browsing, these other distributions can save you some install time and might run a little faster. If things seem a little slow especially for multitasking, more RAM might help.
The question was how to build a media PC with mono. The answer is you can't and that the purpose is better filled with MythTV, a mature project, than it is trying to rewrite it in.NET. Vista's DRM makes media a headache. There is no way M$ will share enough information, keys or patents for Mono to work even that well. Just skip the whole mess and learn to modify the thing that works and does not listen to the broadcast flag.
Copyright has not done much for the arts. It has made a very few artists money but now works for big publishers who want to control your press. People who make paintings get no benefit from copyright because their work can not be mass produced, but the world is full of them. Patronage is nice, but most are independent and sell their works directly to the public through galleries. People were singing and dancing before copyright and will do so after copyright because they like to entertain each other. The ability to mass produce music and movies cheaply and then distribute them freely will make the world a much richer place than it is today. If top 40 music is enough for you, copyright is enough for you. The rich world of free music was well explained here and you can find something close here. There's more good music there than you can listen to in a life time, just like there's more good painting you can look at and more good plays than you can watch and so on and so forth.
If you can't buy a law, buy a treaty. This one would force software patents on the EU. I am ashamed of my country for pushing things like this and I'm amazed we try given our excessive petrolium consumption, excessive pollution and a war of aggression. Is this GWB's way of getting as much done as he can before leaving office or have all of the world's government become this much less democratic?
I wonder if infamy would have value in your infinite energy paradise.
Please avoid the propaganda phrase intellectual property, it is a very bad idea. It only makes sense to talk about specific laws, copyright, patents, trademark and trade secret. The IP phrase implies that ideas are property, can be owned forever and society must expend resources to guard that ownership. This is the opposite of what you want.
Physical limitations have forced us to make collective bargains for creative works and inventions. Even confined to Earth, we have limitless mass. What we lack is the means to make it useful. That cruel limitation is solved by useful invention, so society strives to reward inventors and give them an incentive to share their creativity through patents. Society is also relieved from it's toils by stories, songs, movies and other entertainment. These expressions are encouraged by copyright, an exclusive right to distribute creative expressions. Society must always balance this encouragement with it's costs. Both the created rights of copyright and patents must be time limited for society to gain the most benefit and this is why the term "intellectual property" is evil.
People who use this phrase try to cover themselves in the legitmacy of the law and traditions they seek to destroy. Ideas should never be owned and none of the bargains society makes should be forever. Trademarks, which are designed to protect trade names so that reputations can be built, are something of an exception but even those might be limited based on a company's owners or the way a thing is made. Trade secrets have no value for society and deserve no collective protection at all. They are what patents were designed to destroy but trade secrets have gained legal protection through the lie of intellectual property. The confusion of the phrase has also led to copyrights that last longer than a generation and patents for business methods, which are ideas not inventions.
I play this game because others tried to silence me. They modbombed my account so that I can only post once a day at -1. That's not good enough for me or you, so I have used some of the same tactics the trolls do.
The difference between me and them is that they work to disrupt useful conversation and I attempt to have one. There are a number of anti-slashdot sites, which I won't promote by mention, that confess to this kind of behavior and unsuccessfully encourage others to it. Ben Franklin had conversations with himself in his and other publications and it's a legitimate way to explore an issue, so this never bothered me on it's own. When it's used to game the moderation system, censor users, spam and promote filth like this, it's a problem. Yeah, M$ hates this site and would like to turn it into a collection of goatse and advertisements for their crap.
There's not much dishonest about what I'm doing. twitter itself, obviously, is a pen name. Back in 2004, I announced my intentions to make more accounts. No, I'm not going to tell you what those accounts are. You are just going to have to keep guessing and looking like an ass when you keep getting it wrong.
Of course, AC, you know all of this. You read all of my journal articles, posts and those you think I write. It must be exhausting because you think so many people are me. There's no bigger fan of mine than you. Keep reading, you might learn something even if you are paid not to.
Personal and verbatim, non commercial copy should be allowed. The denial of service angle is one of many things most lawyers miss when trying to bend paper based copyright law to electronic publications. In their zeal to preserve the publishing industry as it exists, they overlook the unexplored benefits of electronic publications. Lessig has managed to balance freedom with changing technology but I don't think even he saw the DoS problem. Things are easier when you break it down to moral terms. Is it wrong for me to give you a copy of a paper for research? I don't think so. How about a song or movie? That might bother you because of the expectations current movie makers operate under, but those expectations should not be a barrier to change. If things changed tomorrow, movie makers would know the deal and everyone would be comfortable with that. An industry that has extended copyright several times does not deserve such consideration, but we should not stoop to their level. When you consider the whole problem, the natural right to free speech must trump the created rights of copyright. If we blindly persue industry interests, we will eliminate freedom of press. We must all be allowed to share what we have because only the most draconian measures will preserve copyright in a digital world.
I wonder how he defines a business and how many of those businesses are exercising their "downgrade rights". There are a lot more small businesses than big ones. Small business has far less choice and sometimes it's cheaper to buy retail. Even big business may get a better deal when offered computers with Vista that did not sell in retail channels - M$ can make any deal it wants. The bottom line for big business is that Vista has single didgit deployment and many companies are talking about skipping Vista.
I doubt more than one person wrote this offtopic, flamebait thread. I know because I have been playing the dreadfully easy, multiple account game. It would not surprise me to learn that you work for M$ or some kind of PR firm under their hire but it does not matter. No one here cares or listens, except to reflect, "Yeah, that's what M$ does to people who bad mouth them."
I'm happy to make you and your employer angry. I do it by showing up M$ BS and running around your censorship and insults. Sooner or later your employer will realize you are a waste of money.
The bottom line is that you are worse than ineffective, you are counter productive. You are on the losing side the free software battle and making things worse for yourself. Insult and disruption are empty. At the end of the day, you have nothing - not even a censored or upset victim. Worse, your work won't make the product your employer needs to survive. It just creates animosity towards them. The more you spam, the more people hate you.
I'll be here when you are gone. I'll be talking about all of the same things people like to talk about now - but the discussion will be much nicer without M$ shitting on those things and the conversation.
Secure ftp, like rsync? If all you have to do is snyc the data base, rsync is the tool for you.
Physical media is not a good idea because it's obsolete by the time it gets there. You will also have to keep up a stream of CDs to obscure the one with real information.
Punishment can come later. By closing off entertainment, they have less to watch. In the aftermath, they can take advantage of community spirit to purge dissenters of all stripes.
It's not up to Bill Gates and Adobe to decide what people need or should have either, but they do just that with software that can't be modified and federally proven anti-competitive practices. Only free software gives people the ability to really chose what they want or to make what they need.
But your little flame ignores the point - free software like the Firefox, GIMP and Open Office are much better than what most hapless windows users get. This is not a big deal because people are learning to escape.
It looks like you are trying to scream. Ah, I see you have a lacerated spine and punctured femoral artery. The gas tank is on fire. Would you like to hear some groovy RIAA music?
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By a 24% drop in revenue, but this is nothing new. They have always jumped on things others do, claim to be friends and then do everything possible to claim all the revenue and good will. Real transparency will include:
No promise they make means anything if you don't have the four software freedoms on their platform.
I could start a list of IE holes but you would be 95 before I finished. The easy place to start is the current article, where M$ claims people can remotely execute things on your computer. If M$ is not good enough a source, there are a variety of AV vendors with lots of good information on line. I think we both have better things to do.
You will have to turn it around, but it's your form factor.
I don't see any of that here. They told the story for as broad an audience as possible and they claimed measurable losses.
Revision3 has made the right choice already. Silence only helps the abuser to commit more crimes. They had to tell the story to satisfy their own customers. They are working with the FBI for criminal charges and will surely try to get the money lost over the weekend in civil court.
Better go back to the original.
That's the threat here. If Google can't keep copyright crap off their site no one can. The time has come to decide between free a free press an antiquated notions of copyright. My vote is for free press, so that you can start your own YouTube to share whatever you like with your friends tomorrow.
CPU: Pentium 3 â" 600 MHz, Memory: 256 MB. That's a reasonable computer and he should have been able to run regular Debian on it. Etch and Lenny boot quickly these days. If you plan to use the laptop for years and want maximum package flexibility, Debian is a good bet. If you are looking for something quick and dirty for web browsing, these other distributions can save you some install time and might run a little faster. If things seem a little slow especially for multitasking, more RAM might help.
The question was how to build a media PC with mono. The answer is you can't and that the purpose is better filled with MythTV, a mature project, than it is trying to rewrite it in .NET. Vista's DRM makes media a headache. There is no way M$ will share enough information, keys or patents for Mono to work even that well. Just skip the whole mess and learn to modify the thing that works and does not listen to the broadcast flag.
Copyright has not done much for the arts. It has made a very few artists money but now works for big publishers who want to control your press. People who make paintings get no benefit from copyright because their work can not be mass produced, but the world is full of them. Patronage is nice, but most are independent and sell their works directly to the public through galleries. People were singing and dancing before copyright and will do so after copyright because they like to entertain each other. The ability to mass produce music and movies cheaply and then distribute them freely will make the world a much richer place than it is today. If top 40 music is enough for you, copyright is enough for you. The rich world of free music was well explained here and you can find something close here. There's more good music there than you can listen to in a life time, just like there's more good painting you can look at and more good plays than you can watch and so on and so forth.
If you can't buy a law, buy a treaty. This one would force software patents on the EU. I am ashamed of my country for pushing things like this and I'm amazed we try given our excessive petrolium consumption, excessive pollution and a war of aggression. Is this GWB's way of getting as much done as he can before leaving office or have all of the world's government become this much less democratic?
I wonder if infamy would have value in your infinite energy paradise.
Please avoid the propaganda phrase intellectual property, it is a very bad idea. It only makes sense to talk about specific laws, copyright, patents, trademark and trade secret. The IP phrase implies that ideas are property, can be owned forever and society must expend resources to guard that ownership. This is the opposite of what you want.
Physical limitations have forced us to make collective bargains for creative works and inventions. Even confined to Earth, we have limitless mass. What we lack is the means to make it useful. That cruel limitation is solved by useful invention, so society strives to reward inventors and give them an incentive to share their creativity through patents. Society is also relieved from it's toils by stories, songs, movies and other entertainment. These expressions are encouraged by copyright, an exclusive right to distribute creative expressions. Society must always balance this encouragement with it's costs. Both the created rights of copyright and patents must be time limited for society to gain the most benefit and this is why the term "intellectual property" is evil.
People who use this phrase try to cover themselves in the legitmacy of the law and traditions they seek to destroy. Ideas should never be owned and none of the bargains society makes should be forever. Trademarks, which are designed to protect trade names so that reputations can be built, are something of an exception but even those might be limited based on a company's owners or the way a thing is made. Trade secrets have no value for society and deserve no collective protection at all. They are what patents were designed to destroy but trade secrets have gained legal protection through the lie of intellectual property. The confusion of the phrase has also led to copyrights that last longer than a generation and patents for business methods, which are ideas not inventions.
I play this game because others tried to silence me. They modbombed my account so that I can only post once a day at -1. That's not good enough for me or you, so I have used some of the same tactics the trolls do.
The difference between me and them is that they work to disrupt useful conversation and I attempt to have one. There are a number of anti-slashdot sites, which I won't promote by mention, that confess to this kind of behavior and unsuccessfully encourage others to it. Ben Franklin had conversations with himself in his and other publications and it's a legitimate way to explore an issue, so this never bothered me on it's own. When it's used to game the moderation system, censor users, spam and promote filth like this, it's a problem. Yeah, M$ hates this site and would like to turn it into a collection of goatse and advertisements for their crap.
There's not much dishonest about what I'm doing. twitter itself, obviously, is a pen name. Back in 2004, I announced my intentions to make more accounts. No, I'm not going to tell you what those accounts are. You are just going to have to keep guessing and looking like an ass when you keep getting it wrong.
Of course, AC, you know all of this. You read all of my journal articles, posts and those you think I write. It must be exhausting because you think so many people are me. There's no bigger fan of mine than you. Keep reading, you might learn something even if you are paid not to.
Personal and verbatim, non commercial copy should be allowed. The denial of service angle is one of many things most lawyers miss when trying to bend paper based copyright law to electronic publications. In their zeal to preserve the publishing industry as it exists, they overlook the unexplored benefits of electronic publications. Lessig has managed to balance freedom with changing technology but I don't think even he saw the DoS problem. Things are easier when you break it down to moral terms. Is it wrong for me to give you a copy of a paper for research? I don't think so. How about a song or movie? That might bother you because of the expectations current movie makers operate under, but those expectations should not be a barrier to change. If things changed tomorrow, movie makers would know the deal and everyone would be comfortable with that. An industry that has extended copyright several times does not deserve such consideration, but we should not stoop to their level. When you consider the whole problem, the natural right to free speech must trump the created rights of copyright. If we blindly persue industry interests, we will eliminate freedom of press. We must all be allowed to share what we have because only the most draconian measures will preserve copyright in a digital world.
I'm happy he noticed the PC World article, but there are so many other informed opinions out there
. There's hardly an IT Magazine or major vendor that's not part of the Vista Sucks Chorus.Go ahead and mark the poor guy as one of my sock puppets. Be sure to mark Jim "buy a Mac" Alchin, Louderback, PC World, PC Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Eweek, ITWeek, the Independent, Dvorak, CNet and everyone else. As much as I'd like to say that Slashdot influenced those people with good information, most of them came to their opinions by independent observation.
I wonder how he defines a business and how many of those businesses are exercising their "downgrade rights". There are a lot more small businesses than big ones. Small business has far less choice and sometimes it's cheaper to buy retail. Even big business may get a better deal when offered computers with Vista that did not sell in retail channels - M$ can make any deal it wants. The bottom line for big business is that Vista has single didgit deployment and many companies are talking about skipping Vista.
I doubt more than one person wrote this offtopic, flamebait thread. I know because I have been playing the dreadfully easy, multiple account game. It would not surprise me to learn that you work for M$ or some kind of PR firm under their hire but it does not matter. No one here cares or listens, except to reflect, "Yeah, that's what M$ does to people who bad mouth them."
I'm happy to make you and your employer angry. I do it by showing up M$ BS and running around your censorship and insults. Sooner or later your employer will realize you are a waste of money.
The bottom line is that you are worse than ineffective, you are counter productive. You are on the losing side the free software battle and making things worse for yourself. Insult and disruption are empty. At the end of the day, you have nothing - not even a censored or upset victim. Worse, your work won't make the product your employer needs to survive. It just creates animosity towards them. The more you spam, the more people hate you.
I'll be here when you are gone. I'll be talking about all of the same things people like to talk about now - but the discussion will be much nicer without M$ shitting on those things and the conversation.
He managed to keep South Africa from using ODF. He thinks they have a problem benefiting from free software and he'd like to keep it that way.
Good for South Africa to nail M$XML. They might be learning faster than he can bribe his way out of it.
Secure ftp, like rsync? If all you have to do is snyc the data base, rsync is the tool for you.
Physical media is not a good idea because it's obsolete by the time it gets there. You will also have to keep up a stream of CDs to obscure the one with real information.
They have yielded this little bit because they have to but it is too little too late.
You might avoid the problem by not running windows and other non free software in the first place.
Have you tried anything but Winblows for that transfer? If you have not, you don't know if Tivo or M$ prevents it.
Punishment can come later. By closing off entertainment, they have less to watch. In the aftermath, they can take advantage of community spirit to purge dissenters of all stripes.
Chicago is already there.
It's not up to Bill Gates and Adobe to decide what people need or should have either, but they do just that with software that can't be modified and federally proven anti-competitive practices. Only free software gives people the ability to really chose what they want or to make what they need.
But your little flame ignores the point - free software like the Firefox, GIMP and Open Office are much better than what most hapless windows users get. This is not a big deal because people are learning to escape.
It looks like you are trying to scream. Ah, I see you have a lacerated spine and punctured femoral artery. The gas tank is on fire. Would you like to hear some groovy RIAA music?