He could have made this never happen by not violating a license agreement that he entered into it... Of course you won't bother looking at the facts since they don't agree with your bias...
I try to avoid "agreements" that prevent me from helping my friends. The people offering them are less than honest and have an ugly tendency to lie about the terms later.
This Internet's like a great big pussy just waiting to get fucked. I should've come here years ago.
Apologies to the worthy script. None are offered to Ed "cuz" he sounds more like a gangster than the leader of one of the world's largest companies. Shame!
What you say is confusing and has the smell of a well crafted lie. Can you set me straight so I can understand why Nvidia is unable to do like Intel and fully co-operate with the free software community?
Given that they make their money off of licensing IP and perhaps selling software (as opposed to selling hardware), this is highly unlikely.
That term, "IP", has confused me. I thought Nvidia made GPUs. What would they lose by telling free software developers how to make their GPUs work?
they own all of the IP for the 2d driver, some parts of the 3d support are licensed from other companies and individuals (who hold the patents). The terms of those licenses forbid nVidia from releasing their code (naturally).
This makes a little more sense, despite that awefull IP term. You are saying it's not Nvida's fault but I'm not sure how that can be true. Nvidia is huge and should be able to set terms better than that. Further, they are releasing binaries, so I'm not sure what Uncle No-No is protecting. Finally, while the free software community may be able to provide some help in convincing Uncle No-No to co-operate, this is something Nvidia could do better.
Nvidia's hostility to free software only hurts their hardware sales. Gamers crave the clean world of free software and will spend more money on cutting edge hardware if their wallets are not bled white by M$. As things stand, upgrading hardware requires a new M$ OS purchase and begging or a cracked version of M$ OS. People like me won't even consider buying a cheap or middle of the line Nvidia card because it won't do much more than heat up the room. The non free drivers are better than that, but they make my system brittle like a M$ system - flaky and harder to upgrade. A system like that is disposable and I might as well buy a Play Station. Nouveau has promise, but the vast majority of GNU/Linux users are going to wait until it's in Debian Testing. You would think they'd want to grow what's going to be a richer market for them.
Now that lawyers are involved, it's pretty clear how Jamie violated their terms.
If that were so, don't you think his lawyer would have told him to take it down?
The only lawyers new to this game are those Jamie Cansdale got. It's safe to assume that Weber and Craig Symonds were bullying, I mean talking to, the M$ staff lawyers from the beginning.
Tomorrow is special. It's the deadline M$ gave him to remove Express support.
Thanks for pointing to the old article. The Dan Fernande's letter is priceless entertainment parodied in the following Power Point Slide:
Please Don't Help Express Users by Dan Fernandez
We've done so much for you, even calling you on the phone - twice in two years.
Most people prefer our no cost version, they are not Professionals and some admit it.
Non Professional users are easily confused, please don't make their life easier with confusing choice.
Back when I programmed in BASIC, I would not have wanted anything else.
I know Professionals who can't code.
Helping people violates our "ethos"
We are going to pick up our toys and go home now and it's all YOUR FAULT.
Why do they try? There's no way for them to win this.
Let's see what happens next! Will they stop issuing Express, remotely disable it and then sue Jamie? Do they leave him alone and let it keep working with... the appropriate apology? Ha!
Unless you write the compilers from scratch, and use it to compile itself, you can never fully trust the end result.
That's what I meant by "toggle switches" - litterally toggle machine code to make the compiler. It's a little over the top to think that the "cat" command could be compromised but there's only one way to be sure. Six decades later, you would have something that you and no one else can trust.
It's not a secret. It's useless information. Given the reaction to many of the same kinds of infractions lately though, poor John Levine will be sent to Guantanamo for the next five years. Mr. Levine's article is to the movie business what the Boston Strangler is to the single woman alone at night - he's a traitor who's violated the DMCA and allowed people unauthorized access to.... utter crap. He'll be lucky if they don't just shoot him.
Some countries in the Americas (including the United States and Canada) use the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands because the 900 and 1800 MHz frequency bands were already allocated.
I seriously doubt anything from M$ has multi frequency capability needed to bridge US and EU networks. I could be wrong, due to advances in digital radio, but I doubt it and but I'm sure your and your wife's phones from 1999 are US only.
I also have my doubts you and your wife have ever left the US, if you even have a wife. You are a troll.
Twitter, read "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [no link provided]. Now. Free software doesn't provide full protection.
Thanks, I have read that before. So what? The point of free software is that you don't have to trust, you can see and verify for yourself. The learning compiler example is disturbing but not very. If you are really paranoid, you can start from scratch and toggle switches yourself. A less crazy method is to cross up distributions. Compile things from one distribution with another. Finally, you can simply trust the people at gnu.org and everyone using the tool chain that has not noticed problems. At the end of the day, free software still wins. You have every ability non free does and many more to validate what you think you have. People in the non free world are stuck trusting people who have violated that trust again and again.
Screw that! I'm not connecting my brain to the company network.
Sooner or later, you won't have a choice. Things will have to be done and you won't be given another way to do it.
What you will want then is a trusted agent between you and the network. If you did not worry about your computer being run by free software that you can trust, you should start now. Now more than ever, what's yours should stay yours.
So, if you take music that cost you next to no effort and sell it for a profit, you are a terrorist? Oh my. Sometimes I wonder if there is anyone at the executive level at Sony/BMG/WarnerBrothers/DisneySoft who can carry a tune or who even listens to the music they sell. Do not equate the efforts of those who make music with those who profit from it.
Inconvenient Fact from the List: Organized criminal gangs and even terrorist groups use the sale of counterfeit CDs to raise revenue and launder money.
Wow, it's a good thing we are fighing in Iraq. I'd hate to see people selling counterfit CDs on my street corner. What this has to do with file sharing is anyone's guess, but it is a terrible fact.
Imagine what would happen if there was universal, unencumbered network access. The price of CDs would collapse and the TERRORISTS would win. Or would they lose? I'm so confused.
To be honest, you might as well say all Windows Mobile based phones are iPhone rivals...
Yes, but this one is an obvious knock off designed to harm the sales of a competitor in another space - desktops. As usual, the M$ PR drones are claiming the HTC is all things iPhone, but it's not.
I like how they put appointments on the default screen. How cool would it be to whip this thing out and show off your next doctor's appointment? Probably as cool as putting your contacts and calendar on a device owned by a company that admits to data mining and selling information about their customers - the telco and M$. Privacy is impossible without free software.
I wonder how many people in Paris are actually using Fahrenheit these days, anyways... aside from American tourists with fake iPhones, that is.;)
A better question is if it will work at all in Paris... or anywhere. The image is an obvious fake for all the reasons you mention and the incompatibility of US / EU phone systems. How about a picture of a real phone?
This is not informative unless you can link to evidence that shows there is a general problem with the product.
As Beavis once told a golfer after stealing his balls, "It's amazing how mass produced objects are so identical as to be virtually indistinguishable." His screen broke, we can expect many more will.
Still, this is only one HTC model and everyone can make a mistake. A far larger mistake is working with M$. There's plenty of evidence about what a bad idea that is, but the Plays for Sure fiasco is best.
It might cross breed with normal seed and terminate it. What you would be left with is nothing but what the friendly multinational has to offer each year. That might not be good for you.
The whole "rape seed" Monsanto insanity is a good primer on these matters. An normal farmer in Canada was forced to destroy his crops because they were contaminated by neighbors using Monsanto seed. The US has pushed these practices onto the Iraqi puppet government, so you can see where they would really like things to go.
There are fundamental problems with seed patents that need to be corrected. The contamination issue is one that makes the whole idea look foolish and economically harmful.
Let me guess, it "squirts" dissapearing conversations and email at people who walk by, but only if they have the same model phone. Microsoft's inability to compete outside the beige box is matched only by their pathetic desperation to do so. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict they name it the phune.
The summary says it all and I'm not going to bother looking at the pictureless article. "emphasis on business applications" is a fine way to say crippling the device with something from M$ robs it of ergonomics, stability, response time and ability. A good email application is not a good excuse for the device to not be able to play music and movies.
But they do make up for entertainment value in the software name, "Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS." What a mindless mouthfull. You have remind people it's for professionals or they won't suffer so willingly. For bling factor, they need to subdivide into versions like "Home", "Business", and a heavy metal extra expensive version like "Platinum" or "DU". I always love it when they have a "Home Professional."
GIMP lacks so basic features such as a usable grid, 16-bit/HDR image support, and requires special plugins with numerical inputs to draw a simple rounded rectangle, let alone something more complex.
That's why you want to use a tool like Inkscape for 2D design work instead of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is better suited to... Image Manipulation. Numerical inputs are a good way to make sure things are correctly proportioned, and any real designer would know that proportion is a necessary evil in any serious work.
I have both OpenOffice and GIMP installed here, next to MS Office and Photoshop.
Real design people use Mac, even at Microsoft, where dog food rules over reason and getting things done. Some may move to free software but none is going to trade a Mac for M$, ever.
It's a shame to see people like the parent being so blindly conditioned to the current backward model of intellectual property. How long will we have to use buggywhips to fly jet planes?
It's an even bigger shame to see people use software from companies that created and perpetuate that "intellectual property" model. Every person trained to use their tools is a vote for their software and model. Scribus, inkscape, GIMP, bluefish and many other tools make good replacements for non free software.
Getting all of it to work on XP is another matter. It there is really something XP has that he needs, dual booting or Parallels should be used. Like all software, free tools are much easier to install and maintain on free software.
as the article points out, this falling trend will reverse itself when back-to-school season starts and people need to upgrade their old machines to keep them running or up-to-date.
The article's optimistic predictions for Vista was that it might make a difference in 2008. A billion dollars a month in marketing might make a few Christmas sales. How long the victims keep Vista is anyone's guess. It's buggy and restrictive and people don't like it.
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He could have made this never happen by not violating a license agreement that he entered into it... Of course you won't bother looking at the facts since they don't agree with your bias...
I try to avoid "agreements" that prevent me from helping my friends. The people offering them are less than honest and have an ugly tendency to lie about the terms later.
I think you misread that sentence. The "they" in that sentence is the companies that nVidia has licensed code from, not nVidia itself.
Ah, so what does that have to do with nvidia again? As I said, you would think nvidia's in charge.
This Internet's like a great big pussy just waiting to get fucked. I should've come here years ago.
Apologies to the worthy script. None are offered to Ed "cuz" he sounds more like a gangster than the leader of one of the world's largest companies. Shame!
What you say is confusing and has the smell of a well crafted lie. Can you set me straight so I can understand why Nvidia is unable to do like Intel and fully co-operate with the free software community?
Given that they make their money off of licensing IP and perhaps selling software (as opposed to selling hardware), this is highly unlikely.
That term, "IP", has confused me. I thought Nvidia made GPUs. What would they lose by telling free software developers how to make their GPUs work?
they own all of the IP for the 2d driver, some parts of the 3d support are licensed from other companies and individuals (who hold the patents). The terms of those licenses forbid nVidia from releasing their code (naturally).
This makes a little more sense, despite that awefull IP term. You are saying it's not Nvida's fault but I'm not sure how that can be true. Nvidia is huge and should be able to set terms better than that. Further, they are releasing binaries, so I'm not sure what Uncle No-No is protecting. Finally, while the free software community may be able to provide some help in convincing Uncle No-No to co-operate, this is something Nvidia could do better.
Nvidia's hostility to free software only hurts their hardware sales. Gamers crave the clean world of free software and will spend more money on cutting edge hardware if their wallets are not bled white by M$. As things stand, upgrading hardware requires a new M$ OS purchase and begging or a cracked version of M$ OS. People like me won't even consider buying a cheap or middle of the line Nvidia card because it won't do much more than heat up the room. The non free drivers are better than that, but they make my system brittle like a M$ system - flaky and harder to upgrade. A system like that is disposable and I might as well buy a Play Station. Nouveau has promise, but the vast majority of GNU/Linux users are going to wait until it's in Debian Testing. You would think they'd want to grow what's going to be a richer market for them.
Now that lawyers are involved, it's pretty clear how Jamie violated their terms.
If that were so, don't you think his lawyer would have told him to take it down?
The only lawyers new to this game are those Jamie Cansdale got. It's safe to assume that Weber and Craig Symonds were bullying, I mean talking to, the M$ staff lawyers from the beginning.
Tomorrow is special. It's the deadline M$ gave him to remove Express support.
Thanks for pointing to the old article. The Dan Fernande's letter is priceless entertainment parodied in the following Power Point Slide:
Please Don't Help Express Users
by Dan Fernandez
Why do they try? There's no way for them to win this.
Let's see what happens next! Will they stop issuing Express, remotely disable it and then sue Jamie? Do they leave him alone and let it keep working with ... the appropriate apology? Ha!
Unless you write the compilers from scratch, and use it to compile itself, you can never fully trust the end result.
That's what I meant by "toggle switches" - litterally toggle machine code to make the compiler. It's a little over the top to think that the "cat" command could be compromised but there's only one way to be sure. Six decades later, you would have something that you and no one else can trust.
I'll stick with GNU.
It's not a secret. It's useless information. Given the reaction to many of the same kinds of infractions lately though, poor John Levine will be sent to Guantanamo for the next five years. Mr. Levine's article is to the movie business what the Boston Strangler is to the single woman alone at night - he's a traitor who's violated the DMCA and allowed people unauthorized access to .... utter crap. He'll be lucky if they don't just shoot him.
I've been using GSM phones in the U.S. since 1999. My wife even longer. If you have no idea what you're talking about, stop talking.
It was a question you refused to answer. I only know what I read [the link you provided, thanks again]:
I seriously doubt anything from M$ has multi frequency capability needed to bridge US and EU networks. I could be wrong, due to advances in digital radio, but I doubt it and but I'm sure your and your wife's phones from 1999 are US only.
I also have my doubts you and your wife have ever left the US, if you even have a wife. You are a troll.
Twitter, read "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [no link provided]. Now. Free software doesn't provide full protection.
Thanks, I have read that before. So what? The point of free software is that you don't have to trust, you can see and verify for yourself. The learning compiler example is disturbing but not very. If you are really paranoid, you can start from scratch and toggle switches yourself. A less crazy method is to cross up distributions. Compile things from one distribution with another. Finally, you can simply trust the people at gnu.org and everyone using the tool chain that has not noticed problems. At the end of the day, free software still wins. You have every ability non free does and many more to validate what you think you have. People in the non free world are stuck trusting people who have violated that trust again and again.
Screw that! I'm not connecting my brain to the company network.
Sooner or later, you won't have a choice. Things will have to be done and you won't be given another way to do it.
What you will want then is a trusted agent between you and the network. If you did not worry about your computer being run by free software that you can trust, you should start now. Now more than ever, what's yours should stay yours.
Great, but what would a US citizen be doing with a GSM phone besides travelling? Despit the Global name, they don't work in the US now do they?
So, if you take music that cost you next to no effort and sell it for a profit, you are a terrorist? Oh my. Sometimes I wonder if there is anyone at the executive level at Sony/BMG/WarnerBrothers/DisneySoft who can carry a tune or who even listens to the music they sell. Do not equate the efforts of those who make music with those who profit from it.
Inconvenient Fact from the List: Organized criminal gangs and even terrorist groups use the sale of counterfeit CDs to raise revenue and launder money.
Wow, it's a good thing we are fighing in Iraq. I'd hate to see people selling counterfit CDs on my street corner. What this has to do with file sharing is anyone's guess, but it is a terrible fact.
Imagine what would happen if there was universal, unencumbered network access. The price of CDs would collapse and the TERRORISTS would win. Or would they lose? I'm so confused.
encourage a lot more herbicide use, which kills off other species of plants by `accident'
This also breeds more resistant weeds, so eventually everyone is forced to use pesticide resistant seed ... owned by a single company!
There is also disturbing evidence of the resistance genes being passed directly into weeds from the crop. The mechanism is not understood.
To be honest, you might as well say all Windows Mobile based phones are iPhone rivals ...
Yes, but this one is an obvious knock off designed to harm the sales of a competitor in another space - desktops. As usual, the M$ PR drones are claiming the HTC is all things iPhone, but it's not.
I like how they put appointments on the default screen. How cool would it be to whip this thing out and show off your next doctor's appointment? Probably as cool as putting your contacts and calendar on a device owned by a company that admits to data mining and selling information about their customers - the telco and M$. Privacy is impossible without free software.
I wonder how many people in Paris are actually using Fahrenheit these days, anyways... aside from American tourists with fake iPhones, that is. ;)
A better question is if it will work at all in Paris ... or anywhere. The image is an obvious fake for all the reasons you mention and the incompatibility of US / EU phone systems. How about a picture of a real phone?
Ah yes, Microsoft innovates some more ideas from Apple.
This is not informative unless you can link to evidence that shows there is a general problem with the product.
As Beavis once told a golfer after stealing his balls, "It's amazing how mass produced objects are so identical as to be virtually indistinguishable." His screen broke, we can expect many more will.
Still, this is only one HTC model and everyone can make a mistake. A far larger mistake is working with M$. There's plenty of evidence about what a bad idea that is, but the Plays for Sure fiasco is best.
It might cross breed with normal seed and terminate it. What you would be left with is nothing but what the friendly multinational has to offer each year. That might not be good for you.
The whole "rape seed" Monsanto insanity is a good primer on these matters. An normal farmer in Canada was forced to destroy his crops because they were contaminated by neighbors using Monsanto seed. The US has pushed these practices onto the Iraqi puppet government, so you can see where they would really like things to go.
There are fundamental problems with seed patents that need to be corrected. The contamination issue is one that makes the whole idea look foolish and economically harmful.
Let me guess, it "squirts" dissapearing conversations and email at people who walk by, but only if they have the same model phone. Microsoft's inability to compete outside the beige box is matched only by their pathetic desperation to do so. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict they name it the phune.
The summary says it all and I'm not going to bother looking at the pictureless article. "emphasis on business applications" is a fine way to say crippling the device with something from M$ robs it of ergonomics, stability, response time and ability. A good email application is not a good excuse for the device to not be able to play music and movies.
But they do make up for entertainment value in the software name, "Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS." What a mindless mouthfull. You have remind people it's for professionals or they won't suffer so willingly. For bling factor, they need to subdivide into versions like "Home", "Business", and a heavy metal extra expensive version like "Platinum" or "DU". I always love it when they have a "Home Professional."
GIMP lacks so basic features such as a usable grid, 16-bit/HDR image support, and requires special plugins with numerical inputs to draw a simple rounded rectangle, let alone something more complex.
That's why you want to use a tool like Inkscape for 2D design work instead of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is better suited to ... Image Manipulation. Numerical inputs are a good way to make sure things are correctly proportioned, and any real designer would know that proportion is a necessary evil in any serious work.
I have both OpenOffice and GIMP installed here, next to MS Office and Photoshop.
Real design people use Mac, even at Microsoft, where dog food rules over reason and getting things done. Some may move to free software but none is going to trade a Mac for M$, ever.
It's a shame to see people like the parent being so blindly conditioned to the current backward model of intellectual property. How long will we have to use buggywhips to fly jet planes?
It's an even bigger shame to see people use software from companies that created and perpetuate that "intellectual property" model. Every person trained to use their tools is a vote for their software and model. Scribus, inkscape, GIMP, bluefish and many other tools make good replacements for non free software.
Getting all of it to work on XP is another matter. It there is really something XP has that he needs, dual booting or Parallels should be used. Like all software, free tools are much easier to install and maintain on free software.
as the article points out, this falling trend will reverse itself when back-to-school season starts and people need to upgrade their old machines to keep them running or up-to-date.
The article's optimistic predictions for Vista was that it might make a difference in 2008. A billion dollars a month in marketing might make a few Christmas sales. How long the victims keep Vista is anyone's guess. It's buggy and restrictive and people don't like it.