Imagine what a kid that watched the news every night might do. Fuck, let's ban everything at let our wonderful leaders decide over what can and can not do. I personally think that Blizzard should sue the parents for not raising their son properly and then suing them and defiling their name (or rather give them great publicity "heard of that game the kid died from? Gotta try that one out!").
Digital TV doesn't take that much spectrum because of they compress the shit out of digital television. If there is such magical abundance of bandwidth, why can't we get 100Mbit/s transmitions with perfect full HD resolution and great sound (DD is far from great, it's actually crap)? Seriously, this isn't making one bit of sense at all.
Besides, we're getting the same transition over here in Sweden, and it pisses me off that people care more about getting to watch TV than budget cuts in healthcare, the police, the fire brigade, [long list cut]. If people can't afford a basic TV set to watch basic TV (there are TV that is useful, for instance during disasters and to issue weather warnings. Even though radio does it just as well), isn't there something much more seriously wrong?
The movies are _already_ out there, DVD quality and all. Stop worry, ok? Every bleeding single copy you can sell online is one more "kaching", ok? If they copy that file, or some other file with the _same_ movie, what is the big difference? Put the money into 1. Making it easy to use 2. Giving as many as possible a chance to buy 3. Marketing. Do no care if people can pirate, because... they already can and do!
Why is it a good idea to develop something that will only add to the mountains of _CRAP_ in the world? This should be stopped simply because we only have one single earth to live on. Shouldn't we really go for downloadable movies/tv series as this would cut _down_ on the number of plastic discs that we don't know how to take care of when people don't want them anymore.
So now I will have two browsers I don't use if I buy one of their computers... I am not impressed at all I'm afraid. I personally run Firefox (wouldn't touch anything Netscape has done thank you very much I don't want AOL stuff installed) and I know others who run Opera.
Those comments just _SHOWS_ that they are indeed greedy. The fact that they want a cut out of _everything_ shows what kind of bastards they are. We need new "record" companies that don't give a damn about CDs, high prices, unfair payment (bling bling to a few choice artists and the rest gets the shaft), and simply sell music on the net. Maybe we could start getting some _quality_ music going again...
In the imortal words of "That guy that is big in Germany": "I'm looking for freedom"
Seriously, what the MONOMENTAL failures that lies behind FBI, shouldn't they try to spend a little more time doing something about that instead of chasing pr0n that offends certain _religions_?
Seriously, if someone has trouble with certain kinds of content on the web they can either 1. Not go there 2. Whitelist the sites that they allow their kids to go to 3. Take an interest in their kinds lives and maybe surf with them, building up nice whitelists...
What's next, webpages that doesn't paraise Christ enough?
We simply need better labels, preferably who sell all their music online, that tries to _sell_ the music for a resonable price. I can't imagine how the artists could loose from that since most of the money goes to people I don't _care_ if they loose their jobs. I won't buy music until the formats are free of patents and DRM, and I urge everyone else to act the same.
Ehm, company being forced by other companies to comply... sounds nasty nasty nasty to me. Sounds like perfect grounds for a large number of (money hungry) people to sue said other companies:)
...there has been no security audit that found this flaw....everybody's computers won't be automatically updated just because there is a patch that all total geeks love....the source haven't been read by all who uses it, and the flaw wasn't found.
Let's face it, going through code isn't that much fun, and only big projects find stuff because many people are activly changing the code (and thus forced to read parts of it since the documentation isn't there(proper documentation, not a shabby man page and some out of date howto)). Which is probably why we've got new programming languages which do their best to avoid "security flaw by programming language":)
If you buy the phone, and then hack it (which I am sure is illegal anyway) you still tell the phonecompany "Please do this again" or to get closer to the truth "I like it when you screw me, please please do it again".
Drive the market with your money, don't get a phone that is crippled, don't get a phone which you have to hack to make normal use of (hack for the sake of hacking is always a different story). Let's face it, it is not hard to make the phones without these restrictions, and you can bet that no phone company would refuse to make them if the market demands them. But if you buy these infernal phones...
Look at how quickly Plasma/LCD has dropped in price. Soon LCD-TVs will significantly outsell CRTs and HDTV LCDs will be far more common than HDTV CRTs after all. Not to mention that the price for a projector has plumeth. As soon as the ad companies have decided that a new TV must have an "HDTV" sticker it will be hard to sell anything without it.
Besides, since 720p PS3/XBox 360 games will look so much nicer, I'm sure gamers will buy a new TV anyway. What I do wonder is, who will buy the more and more expensive games? (My guess is around $100 here in Sweden (800SEK)...)
Exactly. People who want a different browser/mediaplayer/whatever is going to get it anyway. Those who don't give a shit about these things (lets face it, they aren't computergeeks such as we are) are only going to say "why the fuck can't I play videos now?" and don't care at all that there are other players out there.
People wants the bundled stuff, they are just happy that they don't have to call their computer geek friends to read email or watch some porn^H^H^H^Hmovies. This is just a pain to normal users, and doesn't change windows. Tax payers money badly spent, again. Could have spent all that money on, let's say, universities that could have produced free software...
Samba isn't especially great to begin with, regardless if we are talking about the protocol or the software. Why not simply make something WAY better (zeroconfig might play a role in it as well) and make that compatible with windows. Turn the table around, and start inventing instead of trying to be compatible with windows. Remember OS/2?
It's something that always bothered my quite a lot in the states. The price next to do the product is not what you pay. Taxes should be included in the price. Doesn't matter how that you know they will add it, it still makes it look cheaper than it is (why else would anything cost $9.99 instead of $10?).
Music is great on the go, heck, I carry my ears with me wherever I go and headphones fills them up with sound. But a tiny tiny puny mini-screen like on the PSP is doing absolutely nothing for me visually. Heck, TVs are getting bigger and bigger, projectors are getting affordable to more and more people. When are they going to release _high quality_ downloadable TV series and movies?
The is after all one of the four points with downloading, the quality. The other three is convenience (see when I want to, without stupid commercials for products I don't buy anyways), getting it before it comes to the horrible Swedish channels, and last price. They can't compete with price (because let's face it, it's a no cost:)) so they have to make it better and easier.
"*Approximate figures based on CD-quality WMA (64 Kbps)"
Am I the only one who don't think 64kbps WMA is "CD quality", or is it because the quality of todays recordings on CDs are quite a lot worse than they used to be, of could I just be insane?
Make me doubt one fact, and I'll start doubting all facts...
Isn't it really time for some improvements in the bios area? Most OSes today don't use much of what is there, and the BIOS only function is to set up a number of parameters most non-overclockers/non-nerds could care less about.
What about making something more useful than what is there now? Something that could have more features, such as replacing grub all together? (as in be able to boot any of your OSes on any any kind of bootable hardware) Maybe even have it run *gasp* in 32/64-bit mode and leave all the old horrors of x86 BIOSes behind, and maybe even make it possible to tailer it to other kinds of hardware (not x86).
If they want people to support this, they really need to add some value to the whole thing, as many do care less about holier-than-thou hippiness.
My normal usage patterns at work might very well be exactly the usage patterns that someone unautorized would use. So what is the actual point of such an excercise? Surely it must be impossible to predict what I need to use the computer for, and if someone else is using it for the same thing?
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Imagine what a kid that watched the news every night might do. Fuck, let's ban everything at let our wonderful leaders decide over what can and can not do. I personally think that Blizzard should sue the parents for not raising their son properly and then suing them and defiling their name (or rather give them great publicity "heard of that game the kid died from? Gotta try that one out!").
Digital TV doesn't take that much spectrum because of they compress the shit out of digital television. If there is such magical abundance of bandwidth, why can't we get 100Mbit/s transmitions with perfect full HD resolution and great sound (DD is far from great, it's actually crap)? Seriously, this isn't making one bit of sense at all.
Besides, we're getting the same transition over here in Sweden, and it pisses me off that people care more about getting to watch TV than budget cuts in healthcare, the police, the fire brigade, [long list cut]. If people can't afford a basic TV set to watch basic TV (there are TV that is useful, for instance during disasters and to issue weather warnings. Even though radio does it just as well), isn't there something much more seriously wrong?
The movies are _already_ out there, DVD quality and all. Stop worry, ok? Every bleeding single copy you can sell online is one more "kaching", ok? If they copy that file, or some other file with the _same_ movie, what is the big difference? Put the money into 1. Making it easy to use 2. Giving as many as possible a chance to buy 3. Marketing. Do no care if people can pirate, because... they already can and do!
Why is it a good idea to develop something that will only add to the mountains of _CRAP_ in the world? This should be stopped simply because we only have one single earth to live on. Shouldn't we really go for downloadable movies/tv series as this would cut _down_ on the number of plastic discs that we don't know how to take care of when people don't want them anymore.
So now I will have two browsers I don't use if I buy one of their computers... I am not impressed at all I'm afraid. I personally run Firefox (wouldn't touch anything Netscape has done thank you very much I don't want AOL stuff installed) and I know others who run Opera.
Those comments just _SHOWS_ that they are indeed greedy. The fact that they want a cut out of _everything_ shows what kind of bastards they are. We need new "record" companies that don't give a damn about CDs, high prices, unfair payment (bling bling to a few choice artists and the rest gets the shaft), and simply sell music on the net. Maybe we could start getting some _quality_ music going again...
In the imortal words of "That guy that is big in Germany": "I'm looking for freedom"
Seriously, what the MONOMENTAL failures that lies behind FBI, shouldn't they try to spend a little more time doing something about that instead of chasing pr0n that offends certain _religions_?
Seriously, if someone has trouble with certain kinds of content on the web they can either 1. Not go there 2. Whitelist the sites that they allow their kids to go to 3. Take an interest in their kinds lives and maybe surf with them, building up nice whitelists...
What's next, webpages that doesn't paraise Christ enough?
We simply need better labels, preferably who sell all their music online, that tries to _sell_ the music for a resonable price. I can't imagine how the artists could loose from that since most of the money goes to people I don't _care_ if they loose their jobs. I won't buy music until the formats are free of patents and DRM, and I urge everyone else to act the same.
Ehm, company being forced by other companies to comply... sounds nasty nasty nasty to me. Sounds like perfect grounds for a large number of (money hungry) people to sue said other companies :)
...there has been no security audit that found this flaw. ...everybody's computers won't be automatically updated just because there is a patch that all total geeks love. ...the source haven't been read by all who uses it, and the flaw wasn't found.
:)
Let's face it, going through code isn't that much fun, and only big projects find stuff because many people are activly changing the code (and thus forced to read parts of it since the documentation isn't there(proper documentation, not a shabby man page and some out of date howto)). Which is probably why we've got new programming languages which do their best to avoid "security flaw by programming language"
If you buy the phone, and then hack it (which I am sure is illegal anyway) you still tell the phonecompany "Please do this again" or to get closer to the truth "I like it when you screw me, please please do it again".
Drive the market with your money, don't get a phone that is crippled, don't get a phone which you have to hack to make normal use of (hack for the sake of hacking is always a different story). Let's face it, it is not hard to make the phones without these restrictions, and you can bet that no phone company would refuse to make them if the market demands them.
But if you buy these infernal phones...
Look at how quickly Plasma/LCD has dropped in price. Soon LCD-TVs will significantly outsell CRTs and HDTV LCDs will be far more common than HDTV CRTs after all. Not to mention that the price for a projector has plumeth. As soon as the ad companies have decided that a new TV must have an "HDTV" sticker it will be hard to sell anything without it.
Besides, since 720p PS3/XBox 360 games will look so much nicer, I'm sure gamers will buy a new TV anyway. What I do wonder is, who will buy the more and more expensive games? (My guess is around $100 here in Sweden (800SEK)...)
Exactly. People who want a different browser/mediaplayer/whatever is going to get it anyway. Those who don't give a shit about these things (lets face it, they aren't computergeeks such as we are) are only going to say "why the fuck can't I play videos now?" and don't care at all that there are other players out there.
People wants the bundled stuff, they are just happy that they don't have to call their computer geek friends to read email or watch some porn^H^H^H^Hmovies. This is just a pain to normal users, and doesn't change windows. Tax payers money badly spent, again. Could have spent all that money on, let's say, universities that could have produced free software...
It is time to kill of patents as they are today, because they do not work as they intended. If something has failed, you have to replace it.
Add to that that Microsoft wants to hire good engineers. I don't think they hired him because of his OSS involvement, but because of his skills.
Samba isn't especially great to begin with, regardless if we are talking about the protocol or the software. Why not simply make something WAY better (zeroconfig might play a role in it as well) and make that compatible with windows. Turn the table around, and start inventing instead of trying to be compatible with windows. Remember OS/2?
First of all, shouldn't it be "what Java did for C++", and second of all the answer to the question in the subject is:
"Fuck it up."
It's something that always bothered my quite a lot in the states. The price next to do the product is not what you pay. Taxes should be included in the price. Doesn't matter how that you know they will add it, it still makes it look cheaper than it is (why else would anything cost $9.99 instead of $10?).
Music is great on the go, heck, I carry my ears with me wherever I go and headphones fills them up with sound. But a tiny tiny puny mini-screen like on the PSP is doing absolutely nothing for me visually. Heck, TVs are getting bigger and bigger, projectors are getting affordable to more and more people. When are they going to release _high quality_ downloadable TV series and movies?
The is after all one of the four points with downloading, the quality. The other three is convenience (see when I want to, without stupid commercials for products I don't buy anyways), getting it before it comes to the horrible Swedish channels, and last price. They can't compete with price (because let's face it, it's a no cost:)) so they have to make it better and easier.
You are only one person, but there are other who agree with you. Like me for instance.
From the article:
"*Approximate figures based on CD-quality WMA (64 Kbps)"
Am I the only one who don't think 64kbps WMA is "CD quality", or is it because the quality of todays recordings on CDs are quite a lot worse than they used to be, of could I just be insane?
Make me doubt one fact, and I'll start doubting all facts...
Isn't it really time for some improvements in the bios area? Most OSes today don't use much of what is there, and the BIOS only function is to set up a number of parameters most non-overclockers/non-nerds could care less about.
What about making something more useful than what is there now? Something that could have more features, such as replacing grub all together? (as in be able to boot any of your OSes on any any kind of bootable hardware) Maybe even have it run *gasp* in 32/64-bit mode and leave all the old horrors of x86 BIOSes behind, and maybe even make it possible to tailer it to other kinds of hardware (not x86).
If they want people to support this, they really need to add some value to the whole thing, as many do care less about holier-than-thou hippiness.
My normal usage patterns at work might very well be exactly the usage patterns that someone unautorized would use. So what is the actual point of such an excercise? Surely it must be impossible to predict what I need to use the computer for, and if someone else is using it for the same thing?
I hope there is a poll with the best suggestions, could be fun to see what slashdotters guess :)
Willfully aiding torrentists... Off to Cuba with them, good bye...