People always suffer major licensor regret asspain. The Castle folks had a commericial company repackage their core libraries with a fancy mapping GUI for a couple of hundred bucks.
Course in this case, the GUI was totally worth it and I bought a copy, but they did have a bit of a cry how it wasn't in the spirit of the license. (Even though it totally was).
A long time ago some arrogant fucker decided that he would release a bunch of code under a license which valued his initial scratchings at "Everything ever based on this code". These poor guys have accepted that cost.
These "contributions" are payment for the code they are using. No tshirts for them.
Still, I'm hardly a "typical" apple customer. The tiny amount of people that want OSX on different hardware would probably be overwhelmed by the extra sales Apple gets by the percieved exclusivity "But only Apple hardware is powerful enough" kinda crap.
I used to work with a mac fanboi that was convinced the chip in the otherwise standard graphics card that prevented you using a generic one was there to increase performance (as if in some way Nvidia was withholding its fastest tech from 99% of the market to make Apple users happy).:P
Yeah that kinda shits me. Even if the menu/desktop presenting the "union" of the two folders would allow a "soft delete" and stored it as a "yo, actually don't display this shizzle" file.
Why are you trying to perform admin tasks with a non-elevated explorer instance? Of course its going to have to prompt you for each atomic operation on the filesystem which you don't have permission to access.
Yeah I guess I could've phrased "customer wants it" better.
Customer expects to be able to buy a Bluray disk at Walmart and have it work in their Mac's Bluray drive. If it works in their PS3 and not in their Mac they will get angry at Apple.
Revoked is a pretty charged word for "no longer encrypting the title key with your player's key". Thats all.
If your key is blacklisted you can keep playing your existing disks - your player is not bricked. You just can't play new releases.
You are then equally fucked (and yes that word is appropriate) as someone using Linux. You are fucked because you have to break the law to play new releases. I agree the law is complete and utter bullshit, but I prefer not to be in the situation where I am breaking the law over some triviality like playing a movie.
How about they dislike it but the customers want it?
Think the average user gives two shits about DRM beyond getting the latest disc/download with Mandatory Hollywood Protection Version 50 on it, and having the damn thing just play?
By "thinks" you mean "notices the entire damn file is encrypted and has metadata attached saying that PVP is required", then yes, yes it will ensure that the path is PVP before playback, and ask the kernel for a protected stream to the graphics card.
The MPAA, of course, is nowhere near your system. Their sole role is to be sweet-talked by MS/Apple who say "hey, we have a protected path to the graphics card in our OS, can we has key now?". The vendor will then give them one of the many revocable keys.
The worst they can do to you is no longer support your particular playback software's key on newly pressed disks.
Linux, of course, is fucked, as nobody can be bothered writing a player that would comply (and it certainly wouldnt be open source). Fear of the PVP path is completely unfounded, but a nice convenient target for noobs to blame any Vista woes on.
Remember corrupt gifs and mp3 glitching. Thats what we call "it works, or it doesnt, or it half-works" - and that was after the (shitty) 16 bit checksum.
Digital TV is a wonderful example of how you can get a mangled signal.
So yes, with crap cables, you could reduce the quality of your digital video. Chances are you'd need really really crap cables, and it would be a razor's edge between flawless and not negotiating the key exchange at all.
I love the phrasing that a "search of the car" uncovered a "jack russell terrier". Finding a dog in a car. Good work! Some top forensics experts mustve been involved in that case.
seinfeld: So Linus, your kernel is used all over the world, whats next? An elk running Linux? stallman: ITS GNU/LINUS!! seinfeld: Give me a sign... * linus kicks stallman in the nuts seinfeld: Sweet.
And completely correct. They have to maintain their own fork and keep pulling upstream forever.
This is why I have no trouble with any corporate legal depts contributing back to a BSD project. The decision process is simple "Do we need to capture the IP in this patch?" (generally no) - and the license is clear cut "We're just giving it away - the maintainers will look after further work on it".
Trying to roll a BSD project into GPL is only going to be worth it if you enjoy maintaining your own fork, asstard.
Yeah I'm in the middle of a huge truck of agile fail at the moment. Its good for people like me - the sort of contractor who is called in to "save the project" when its too damn late.
People seem to think you can easily refactor a completely broken domain model for a complex system. Requirement capture via user stories is only going to work when you have a clearly defined problem domain and precise terminology. If at 90% into the project timeline you are still having trouble getting questions answered like "Is a system point a participant in a route, or metadata attached to a participant in a route?", or "So, you thought you'd just go and agile in all the redundancy and clustering later hey?" then you are going to have to get quite agile with your sphincter for the angry client.
I haven't used a virus scanner and have also detected zero infections. Avast & AVG both score the usual 80-90% of new threats, which is why I can't be bothered running them.
Yeah it would be like selling a car and including a jack and wheelbrace. Or providing a repair service for your phone in case you drop it.
Or wait... I know... Microsoft could just plug this hole by preventing users from getting admin privileges at all! Also from now on, all data should carry the NOEX bit - wherever it exists - which would be a trivial modification to IP/HDDs/etc. Sucks for anyone that wants to use a compiler - but you just can't be too safe.
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Pity Redhat posts a below average ROI for the industry. Guess you should be fired for not motivating the community enough :P
People always suffer major licensor regret asspain. The Castle folks had a commericial company repackage their core libraries with a fancy mapping GUI for a couple of hundred bucks.
Course in this case, the GUI was totally worth it and I bought a copy, but they did have a bit of a cry how it wasn't in the spirit of the license. (Even though it totally was).
Just what commercial package isn't avaliable cheaply to learn on?
To get started as a .Net/win32 coder: OEM windows licence ($15) + Visual Studio Express (Free)
Fifteen bucks. Hardly an insurmoutable barrier.
Similar shit goes on with companies like Adobe / Autodesk / etc / etc. Theres always the "educational" version, which is cheap as hell/free.
A long time ago some arrogant fucker decided that he would release a bunch of code under a license which valued his initial scratchings at "Everything ever based on this code". These poor guys have accepted that cost.
These "contributions" are payment for the code they are using. No tshirts for them.
Or you could post jokes that don't suck.
OH NO! KARMA GOES WRONG WAY!
Yeah I wouldnt mind trying OSX out in a VM.
Still, I'm hardly a "typical" apple customer. The tiny amount of people that want OSX on different hardware would probably be overwhelmed by the extra sales Apple gets by the percieved exclusivity "But only Apple hardware is powerful enough" kinda crap.
I used to work with a mac fanboi that was convinced the chip in the otherwise standard graphics card that prevented you using a generic one was there to increase performance (as if in some way Nvidia was withholding its fastest tech from 99% of the market to make Apple users happy). :P
Yeah that kinda shits me. Even if the menu/desktop presenting the "union" of the two folders would allow a "soft delete" and stored it as a "yo, actually don't display this shizzle" file.
Why are you trying to perform admin tasks with a non-elevated explorer instance? Of course its going to have to prompt you for each atomic operation on the filesystem which you don't have permission to access.
PEBKAC
Clicked homepage to see what you were kicking up a big fuss over. Couple of lines of text, link to resume and a pic. Moved on.
Unless you are getting into some really serious stalking, I'm assuming you pored thru her resume to get all the extra info.
* Skimmed someones resume because they are female and put a picture online.
FAIL
Yeah I guess I could've phrased "customer wants it" better.
Customer expects to be able to buy a Bluray disk at Walmart and have it work in their Mac's Bluray drive. If it works in their PS3 and not in their Mac they will get angry at Apple.
Apple dislikes DRM, but wants happy customers.
Revoked is a pretty charged word for "no longer encrypting the title key with your player's key". Thats all.
If your key is blacklisted you can keep playing your existing disks - your player is not bricked. You just can't play new releases.
You are then equally fucked (and yes that word is appropriate) as someone using Linux. You are fucked because you have to break the law to play new releases. I agree the law is complete and utter bullshit, but I prefer not to be in the situation where I am breaking the law over some triviality like playing a movie.
Probably due to all the politicians venting off a bunch of hot air. What is the thermal density of rhetoric and impotent american outrage?
So can "stewardess sex great 4 ass wart state testers". I don't think it counts because its... using multiple words.
Linux has DRM. It has several commercial DVD playback applications that enable legal playback of CSS protected DVDs.
How about they dislike it but the customers want it?
Think the average user gives two shits about DRM beyond getting the latest disc/download with Mandatory Hollywood Protection Version 50 on it, and having the damn thing just play?
Fixed.
By "thinks" you mean "notices the entire damn file is encrypted and has metadata attached saying that PVP is required", then yes, yes it will ensure that the path is PVP before playback, and ask the kernel for a protected stream to the graphics card.
The MPAA, of course, is nowhere near your system. Their sole role is to be sweet-talked by MS/Apple who say "hey, we have a protected path to the graphics card in our OS, can we has key now?". The vendor will then give them one of the many revocable keys.
The worst they can do to you is no longer support your particular playback software's key on newly pressed disks.
Linux, of course, is fucked, as nobody can be bothered writing a player that would comply (and it certainly wouldnt be open source). Fear of the PVP path is completely unfounded, but a nice convenient target for noobs to blame any Vista woes on.
Remember corrupt gifs and mp3 glitching. Thats what we call "it works, or it doesnt, or it half-works" - and that was after the (shitty) 16 bit checksum.
Digital TV is a wonderful example of how you can get a mangled signal.
So yes, with crap cables, you could reduce the quality of your digital video. Chances are you'd need really really crap cables, and it would be a razor's edge between flawless and not negotiating the key exchange at all.
I love the phrasing that a "search of the car" uncovered a "jack russell terrier". Finding a dog in a car. Good work! Some top forensics experts mustve been involved in that case.
Stallman wears shoes? With that beard?
seinfeld: So Linus, your kernel is used all over the world, whats next? An elk running Linux?
stallman: ITS GNU/LINUS!!
seinfeld: Give me a sign...
* linus kicks stallman in the nuts
seinfeld: Sweet.
And completely correct. They have to maintain their own fork and keep pulling upstream forever.
This is why I have no trouble with any corporate legal depts contributing back to a BSD project. The decision process is simple "Do we need to capture the IP in this patch?" (generally no) - and the license is clear cut "We're just giving it away - the maintainers will look after further work on it".
Trying to roll a BSD project into GPL is only going to be worth it if you enjoy maintaining your own fork, asstard.
Yeah I'm in the middle of a huge truck of agile fail at the moment. Its good for people like me - the sort of contractor who is called in to "save the project" when its too damn late.
People seem to think you can easily refactor a completely broken domain model for a complex system. Requirement capture via user stories is only going to work when you have a clearly defined problem domain and precise terminology. If at 90% into the project timeline you are still having trouble getting questions answered like "Is a system point a participant in a route, or metadata attached to a participant in a route?", or "So, you thought you'd just go and agile in all the redundancy and clustering later hey?" then you are going to have to get quite agile with your sphincter for the angry client.
I haven't used a virus scanner and have also detected zero infections. Avast & AVG both score the usual 80-90% of new threats, which is why I can't be bothered running them.
Yeah it would be like selling a car and including a jack and wheelbrace. Or providing a repair service for your phone in case you drop it.
Or wait... I know... Microsoft could just plug this hole by preventing users from getting admin privileges at all! Also from now on, all data should carry the NOEX bit - wherever it exists - which would be a trivial modification to IP/HDDs/etc. Sucks for anyone that wants to use a compiler - but you just can't be too safe.