Commercials as programs will be the only way to advert sponsor fund programs when NBC and friends are just another site on the internet (as they should be) and copyright law has been reformed for digital freedom. Will anyone watch? I doubt it. Every highschool and college in the world makes plays - these will be transformed into regular programming and distributed for free over the liberated spectrum.
They hope to make people feel less stupid by micropayment. See, it's only a little here and a little there like an AOL subscription but it's your text editor and... security. Tiny payments for tiny use. Microtards offer something that's just a little paytarded. Or you could look at it like a Casino does. The smaller the bet the more money the customer will lose in any given time. That would make this plan a maximized, continuous service demanded only by the most paytarded.
I don't like to blame the victim but who clicks a link in an email? Really. Any site that makes it hard for me to get things done from their front page does not deserve my business, so I'll never follow the phish. The reason people still fall for this stuff is because copyright warriors and other IPtards make browsers and sites more complex than they need to be.
If Iceweasel and Konqueror are not on their "safe" list, I won't be able to use them even if I want to. Either the EWeek author or PayPal is clearly clueless because they used the words "safe" and "IE" in the same sentence, so their elimination of safe OS would not be a surprise. The world won't really be safe until insecure OS and the spam they generate are eliminated. Even then there will be a stuff that trickles through.
Blind people work, spend money and pay taxes too. If you deserve a publication, blind people deserve a publication too. If you throw away that market, someone else will take it.
Klaus Knopper is working on a distribution for his blind wife. It will surely use the best of class techniques and should be seen as a model worth catering too instead of whatever Bill Gates thinks is "good enough".
RCA and other American TV makers used to run commercials like Verizon's, where an army of support people followed the user around to fix problems. I remember one where they showed an airlift of a fixed TV to someone's house. Sony kicker their ass by making solid state TVs that did not break and need repair. The "support" issue always cracks me up because of this.
The Asus EEE PC works because Asus fixed things to work with free software. This is all the "support" free software needs. The EEE PC comes with everything the average user needs and it's all click and drool simple. Running one is easier than any M$ PC because the user does not have to install anything else.
It's only faster until they decide to shake down your favorite site or service. Then you might as well have dial up.
Their brazen admission of these practices is not better than alleged shameful practices. Both are wrong and both lead to the same place if the other companies are determined to rip everyone off. The practice can't be hidden for long, so what you have is a choice between ignorant leadership that may be evil or plain evil. Both suck.
Sorry but pollution and bee decline don't coincide. Bee decline is recent but air pollution has been a problem for more than a century. You need to look for recent changes like pesticides, GM or a virus. My bet is on GM crops because some countries that banned GM seeds don't have a bee problem.
Why bother with the fancy TV and all that other stuff when all you need is a projector and a few commodity PCs with good software like MythTV? The separation between front and back ends makes it possible to play your media on anything, including a picture frame or PDA. A nice projector should give you a large, theater quality image. Is there something besides "trusted path" and other digital restrictions that I'm missing here?
You might do better with ski jump instructions or methods of arranging sails for maneuver on the high seas. A maneuver in space is still just a maneuver and a patent on that looks silly when you take it out of the heavens and put it into situations most of us are familiar with.
By reading this comment, you agree that 10% of your gross income belongs to Twitter. I know that you did not ask for this but you will be one of the first few to read it and that, by your own argument, is worth more than your freedom. Be glad I don't ask for more, but Moses once argued that a happy slave is more productive than a hungry one so this works out for both of us.
Seriously, it's that bad. If the MAFIAA was not happy with people selling their crappy little promo copy, they could simply strike those people off the promo list. That's easier and cheaper than filing a laughably stupid lawsuit. The only explanation for the suit is that the MAFIAA needs the DJs more than the DJs need the MAFIAA and the only way to make the DJs do as they are told is to harass them with lawsuits. Let's hope the MAFIAA loses this one and has to pay cost and damages.
At this point it is clear that no one should order anything from Microsoft. Only a bribed or ignorant administrator could be convinced there's an overall technical benefits to the platform M$ insists on. The botnet menace and the general low quality of M$ code is enough to cancel any particular advantage such as accelerated graphics. What's more important, M$'s recent assault on the ISO shows that the monopoly is in full force. Anyone dumb enough to buy into M$ today for "legacy" reasons faces an imperfect migration to Vista/M$XML, which will force the entire population along, and more of the same in the next decade. Free and open systems provide far more friendly service. Even a simple move to Open Office on legacy M$ platforms promises to save billions that are better spent elsewhere. Liberating government and business from Windows' horrible security and update malice will save even more.
The problem really boils down to a large scale version of the problem you and I have if you buy a new computer and want to work with me. Because of M$'s anti-competitive practices, your new computer will come with Vista and Office 2007. If we want to work together, I could buy a new computer or you could download Open Office. The easier and more polite option is obvious and governments must never do the rude and hard thing. It would waste tax dollars twice, first when governments don't take advantage of their size to get the cheapest and best technical solution and second when the wrong choice forces everyone who would work with their government to go out an buy new computers.
You can claim people really like Windoze when they have a fair choice of OS when they buy their computer. Even someone like you can understand people don't have a choice when other OS are only offered on a limited range of hardware at higher costs than M$ crap. Of course, it's not just me that wants this choice - Dell's Idea Storm is good documentation of people clamoring for choice if the combined effort of the free software community is not convincing enough.
What you say is not true for Windows networks. Being a Windows network administrator requires herculean effort, every day and it's never enough. Other networks require vigilance and intrusion detection but might not be a lot of work.
Free software would be better for both you and the equipment maker. Talk to them about what you need. The company might not be able to deliver it but you will never get it if you don't ask and look around.
Nothing gives you better hardware control, performance and lower cost than GNU/Linux for device development now. Just imagine trying to work around Vista's insane issues. Other versions of Windows have lesser issues and non can compete with a nice clean GNU/Linux install. It happens but instrumentation that demands direct PCI access is rather rare. Most such equipment hooks up to a big fat bundle of wires and those kinds of cards are abominations best replaced with SCSI, Firewire, USB or some other standard interface and smart equipment on the other end. Modularity makes for longer lasting equipment and a better reputation.
On your side you get all of the above performance, cost and reliability then something more important for a scientist - verification of your processes. A system for commercial work can be certified and put into production but any real research demands transparency and flexibility.
Does Windows XP Professional get the same extension? No. The business version of XP, which includes remote access tools, significantly beefed-up network support and much more sophisticated file and folder access controls than the home edition does, still goes away on the dates Microsoft has already set for ending sales.
Translation:
Mobile PC network access will be crippled, only sync of files will be allowed and you will have to treat it like a big PDA. We already know the EEE PC comes with "Works" instead of office. The difference, it seems, is not a matter of storage space or processing power, it's a matter of defective by design.
This is supposed to compete with free software which has all of that and more? What kind of vendor is "clammoring" for software that intentionally cripples their hardware and what kind of customer is going to buy it?
It does not matter how you arrange your secrets or hide the way you break your competitor's work, malice is what makes Windows suck and what gets M$ in legal trouble. The author is amazingly defensive about all of this and anyone who believes what M$ tells them will be because they are living very large and obvious lies.
It's obvious there will be some benefit to removing a fundamental limit. Editing a movie that's larger than 4GB springs to mind and high definition cameras can make those quickly. Scientific users broke out of 32 bits long ago but home users could have used the same years ago.
What's funny is how long non free software systems are taking to get there. 64 bit computing is old hat in the free software world, arriving shortly after the first widely available 64 bit processors like DEC Alpha ten years ago. The only problem free software users have is with non free software like Adobe Flash, which is only released for i386. There are ways of running that but non free software is just a drag.
iPod users can and do acquire their music from many sources, including CDs they own.
So, what happens when the CD vendors go out of business, Steve? Do iPod users get to ask you for permission to copy their music? Will you let them? Why should you be in that position when I pay for music? If I pay for something but can't move it around and you can delete it, do I really own it?
Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music from others, primarily the "big four" music companies: Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI. These four companies control the distribution of over 70% of the world's music.... Apple was able to negotiate landmark usage rights at the time, which include allowing users to play their DRM protected music on up to 5 computers and on an unlimited number of iPods.
Oh, I see, someone else owns it. Steve is just the messenger, even if you talked back a little.
It's nice that Steve talked back a little but he's still the SOB making and selling DRM. I don't want music that can evaporate because I can't back it up and play it with any software I chose. Restrictions suck and cooperating with evil only promotes more evil.
The DMCA may not have been pushed to fight "terrorism" but it was a bad law and it's successor and enforcer is being justified by "terrorism". The spirit of the DMCA is that you can't help your neighbor even if you know how. That's much worse for society than economic loss by any given industry. People will work for a living no mater what industries live or die. The kinds of things the DMCA prevents are things that would enrich all of us far more than the protected obsolete businesses the DMCA protects. The DMCA is a violation of your rights, fucking tyranny, and that must always be enforced brutally. All of the other reductions of your rights follow from the first - you can't give up a little of your liberty.
There is no difference between the Republicans and Democrats now. They both represent the same interests and are both corrupt. It will be good to remove the Republicans to disrupt well worn channels of corruption but Democrats do not promise fundamental change and they will not deliver it. Both of them will send us to war in Iraq and both of them will continue the crazy attack on your liberty. Nader an other third parties offer some hope but he will be powerless without a well built and successfully elected party.
There's not much difference between this hate fest and the last few. There are more, but it's all the same, just go look at the accounts attributed for me and look at the history. Each posting is followed by the same sock puppet accounts venting their frustration at not being able to control Slashdot conversation. I've escaped their censorship and it makes them angry. That's funny because I'm just one person with some spare time and they are obviously something more "professional." They are paid to read and comment on things they hate and have lots of other things in common with whores. All of these conversations are off topic and should be obliterated. What's important is the news, not me.
I'll be news when someone gets a class action lawsuit up against these assholes and firmly nails Microsoft for over zealous investigation, libel, slander, computer vandalism and all the other crimes committed to bring you the hate fest and other conversation disruption. Slashdot could help with that, but I'm afraid M$ has PR proxies who use botnets for what they do and tracing it all back will be next to impossible. This kind of records keeping they have on private and public citizens should have come out in anti-trust trials but it is clearly well hidden and only comes out by accident.
Of course, what they have to say about me is complete bullshit. Carry on and enjoy conversation 2 with it's wonderful ability to collapse crap flooded threads. You can continue to ignore my stories and comments if you don't like them. Just mark me as an enemy or friend and modify your account to raise or lower me. I'll be here, pointing out the good things free software does and how non free software is evil.
Apache is GPL3 compatible and Slashdot would not be possible without many supporting GNU utilities. If you posted from Firefox (80% of Slashdot users) or a Mac and most BSD, you got here by way of GCC compiled software. If all the GPL3 software were to vanish or somehow be taxed tomorrow, the US and world economy would collapse.
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Only software freedom can protect you from impositions.
Yes, I just hijacked this insulting thread with something useful. Eat it trollboys.
The problem you should have is the waste of spectrum on broadcast. Real change must come sooner or later.
Commercials as programs will be the only way to advert sponsor fund programs when NBC and friends are just another site on the internet (as they should be) and copyright law has been reformed for digital freedom. Will anyone watch? I doubt it. Every highschool and college in the world makes plays - these will be transformed into regular programming and distributed for free over the liberated spectrum.
They hope to make people feel less stupid by micropayment. See, it's only a little here and a little there like an AOL subscription but it's your text editor and ... security. Tiny payments for tiny use. Microtards offer something that's just a little paytarded. Or you could look at it like a Casino does. The smaller the bet the more money the customer will lose in any given time. That would make this plan a maximized, continuous service demanded only by the most paytarded.
I don't like to blame the victim but who clicks a link in an email? Really. Any site that makes it hard for me to get things done from their front page does not deserve my business, so I'll never follow the phish. The reason people still fall for this stuff is because copyright warriors and other IPtards make browsers and sites more complex than they need to be.
If Iceweasel and Konqueror are not on their "safe" list, I won't be able to use them even if I want to. Either the EWeek author or PayPal is clearly clueless because they used the words "safe" and "IE" in the same sentence, so their elimination of safe OS would not be a surprise. The world won't really be safe until insecure OS and the spam they generate are eliminated. Even then there will be a stuff that trickles through.
Blind people work, spend money and pay taxes too. If you deserve a publication, blind people deserve a publication too. If you throw away that market, someone else will take it.
Klaus Knopper is working on a distribution for his blind wife. It will surely use the best of class techniques and should be seen as a model worth catering too instead of whatever Bill Gates thinks is "good enough".
RCA and other American TV makers used to run commercials like Verizon's, where an army of support people followed the user around to fix problems. I remember one where they showed an airlift of a fixed TV to someone's house. Sony kicker their ass by making solid state TVs that did not break and need repair. The "support" issue always cracks me up because of this.
The Asus EEE PC works because Asus fixed things to work with free software. This is all the "support" free software needs. The EEE PC comes with everything the average user needs and it's all click and drool simple. Running one is easier than any M$ PC because the user does not have to install anything else.
It's only faster until they decide to shake down your favorite site or service. Then you might as well have dial up.
Their brazen admission of these practices is not better than alleged shameful practices. Both are wrong and both lead to the same place if the other companies are determined to rip everyone off. The practice can't be hidden for long, so what you have is a choice between ignorant leadership that may be evil or plain evil. Both suck.
Sorry but pollution and bee decline don't coincide. Bee decline is recent but air pollution has been a problem for more than a century. You need to look for recent changes like pesticides, GM or a virus. My bet is on GM crops because some countries that banned GM seeds don't have a bee problem.
It's a shame he's thinking of stripping NASA for money instead of just ending the war of aggression in Iraq.
Why bother with the fancy TV and all that other stuff when all you need is a projector and a few commodity PCs with good software like MythTV? The separation between front and back ends makes it possible to play your media on anything, including a picture frame or PDA. A nice projector should give you a large, theater quality image. Is there something besides "trusted path" and other digital restrictions that I'm missing here?
You might do better with ski jump instructions or methods of arranging sails for maneuver on the high seas. A maneuver in space is still just a maneuver and a patent on that looks silly when you take it out of the heavens and put it into situations most of us are familiar with.
By reading this comment, you agree that 10% of your gross income belongs to Twitter. I know that you did not ask for this but you will be one of the first few to read it and that, by your own argument, is worth more than your freedom. Be glad I don't ask for more, but Moses once argued that a happy slave is more productive than a hungry one so this works out for both of us.
Seriously, it's that bad. If the MAFIAA was not happy with people selling their crappy little promo copy, they could simply strike those people off the promo list. That's easier and cheaper than filing a laughably stupid lawsuit. The only explanation for the suit is that the MAFIAA needs the DJs more than the DJs need the MAFIAA and the only way to make the DJs do as they are told is to harass them with lawsuits. Let's hope the MAFIAA loses this one and has to pay cost and damages.
At this point it is clear that no one should order anything from Microsoft. Only a bribed or ignorant administrator could be convinced there's an overall technical benefits to the platform M$ insists on. The botnet menace and the general low quality of M$ code is enough to cancel any particular advantage such as accelerated graphics. What's more important, M$'s recent assault on the ISO shows that the monopoly is in full force. Anyone dumb enough to buy into M$ today for "legacy" reasons faces an imperfect migration to Vista/M$XML, which will force the entire population along, and more of the same in the next decade. Free and open systems provide far more friendly service. Even a simple move to Open Office on legacy M$ platforms promises to save billions that are better spent elsewhere. Liberating government and business from Windows' horrible security and update malice will save even more.
The problem really boils down to a large scale version of the problem you and I have if you buy a new computer and want to work with me. Because of M$'s anti-competitive practices, your new computer will come with Vista and Office 2007. If we want to work together, I could buy a new computer or you could download Open Office. The easier and more polite option is obvious and governments must never do the rude and hard thing. It would waste tax dollars twice, first when governments don't take advantage of their size to get the cheapest and best technical solution and second when the wrong choice forces everyone who would work with their government to go out an buy new computers.
You can claim people really like Windoze when they have a fair choice of OS when they buy their computer. Even someone like you can understand people don't have a choice when other OS are only offered on a limited range of hardware at higher costs than M$ crap. Of course, it's not just me that wants this choice - Dell's Idea Storm is good documentation of people clamoring for choice if the combined effort of the free software community is not convincing enough.
What you say is not true for Windows networks. Being a Windows network administrator requires herculean effort, every day and it's never enough. Other networks require vigilance and intrusion detection but might not be a lot of work.
Free software would be better for both you and the equipment maker. Talk to them about what you need. The company might not be able to deliver it but you will never get it if you don't ask and look around.
Nothing gives you better hardware control, performance and lower cost than GNU/Linux for device development now. Just imagine trying to work around Vista's insane issues. Other versions of Windows have lesser issues and non can compete with a nice clean GNU/Linux install. It happens but instrumentation that demands direct PCI access is rather rare. Most such equipment hooks up to a big fat bundle of wires and those kinds of cards are abominations best replaced with SCSI, Firewire, USB or some other standard interface and smart equipment on the other end. Modularity makes for longer lasting equipment and a better reputation.
On your side you get all of the above performance, cost and reliability then something more important for a scientist - verification of your processes. A system for commercial work can be certified and put into production but any real research demands transparency and flexibility.
Good luck.
XP Death Warrant Translation
Does Windows XP Professional get the same extension? No. The business version of XP, which includes remote access tools, significantly beefed-up network support and much more sophisticated file and folder access controls than the home edition does, still goes away on the dates Microsoft has already set for ending sales.Translation:
Mobile PC network access will be crippled, only sync of files will be allowed and you will have to treat it like a big PDA. We already know the EEE PC comes with "Works" instead of office. The difference, it seems, is not a matter of storage space or processing power, it's a matter of defective by design.
This is supposed to compete with free software which has all of that and more? What kind of vendor is "clammoring" for software that intentionally cripples their hardware and what kind of customer is going to buy it?
but they had better hurry. There are very few tasks where there's already not a piece of software that does the same thing.
It does not matter how you arrange your secrets or hide the way you break your competitor's work, malice is what makes Windows suck and what gets M$ in legal trouble. The author is amazingly defensive about all of this and anyone who believes what M$ tells them will be because they are living very large and obvious lies.
It's obvious there will be some benefit to removing a fundamental limit. Editing a movie that's larger than 4GB springs to mind and high definition cameras can make those quickly. Scientific users broke out of 32 bits long ago but home users could have used the same years ago.
What's funny is how long non free software systems are taking to get there. 64 bit computing is old hat in the free software world, arriving shortly after the first widely available 64 bit processors like DEC Alpha ten years ago. The only problem free software users have is with non free software like Adobe Flash, which is only released for i386. There are ways of running that but non free software is just a drag.
From your link to Steve Jobs opinion:
iPod users can and do acquire their music from many sources, including CDs they own.
So, what happens when the CD vendors go out of business, Steve? Do iPod users get to ask you for permission to copy their music? Will you let them? Why should you be in that position when I pay for music? If I pay for something but can't move it around and you can delete it, do I really own it?
Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music from others, primarily the "big four" music companies: Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI. These four companies control the distribution of over 70% of the world's music. ... Apple was able to negotiate landmark usage rights at the time, which include allowing users to play their DRM protected music on up to 5 computers and on an unlimited number of iPods.
Oh, I see, someone else owns it. Steve is just the messenger, even if you talked back a little.
It's nice that Steve talked back a little but he's still the SOB making and selling DRM. I don't want music that can evaporate because I can't back it up and play it with any software I chose. Restrictions suck and cooperating with evil only promotes more evil.
This is a dark day.
The DMCA may not have been pushed to fight "terrorism" but it was a bad law and it's successor and enforcer is being justified by "terrorism". The spirit of the DMCA is that you can't help your neighbor even if you know how. That's much worse for society than economic loss by any given industry. People will work for a living no mater what industries live or die. The kinds of things the DMCA prevents are things that would enrich all of us far more than the protected obsolete businesses the DMCA protects. The DMCA is a violation of your rights, fucking tyranny, and that must always be enforced brutally. All of the other reductions of your rights follow from the first - you can't give up a little of your liberty.
There is no difference between the Republicans and Democrats now. They both represent the same interests and are both corrupt. It will be good to remove the Republicans to disrupt well worn channels of corruption but Democrats do not promise fundamental change and they will not deliver it. Both of them will send us to war in Iraq and both of them will continue the crazy attack on your liberty. Nader an other third parties offer some hope but he will be powerless without a well built and successfully elected party.
There's not much difference between this hate fest and the last few. There are more, but it's all the same, just go look at the accounts attributed for me and look at the history. Each posting is followed by the same sock puppet accounts venting their frustration at not being able to control Slashdot conversation. I've escaped their censorship and it makes them angry. That's funny because I'm just one person with some spare time and they are obviously something more "professional." They are paid to read and comment on things they hate and have lots of other things in common with whores. All of these conversations are off topic and should be obliterated. What's important is the news, not me.
I'll be news when someone gets a class action lawsuit up against these assholes and firmly nails Microsoft for over zealous investigation, libel, slander, computer vandalism and all the other crimes committed to bring you the hate fest and other conversation disruption. Slashdot could help with that, but I'm afraid M$ has PR proxies who use botnets for what they do and tracing it all back will be next to impossible. This kind of records keeping they have on private and public citizens should have come out in anti-trust trials but it is clearly well hidden and only comes out by accident.
Of course, what they have to say about me is complete bullshit. Carry on and enjoy conversation 2 with it's wonderful ability to collapse crap flooded threads. You can continue to ignore my stories and comments if you don't like them. Just mark me as an enemy or friend and modify your account to raise or lower me. I'll be here, pointing out the good things free software does and how non free software is evil.
Apache is GPL3 compatible and Slashdot would not be possible without many supporting GNU utilities. If you posted from Firefox (80% of Slashdot users) or a Mac and most BSD, you got here by way of GCC compiled software. If all the GPL3 software were to vanish or somehow be taxed tomorrow, the US and world economy would collapse.