I think Ogg is just so unpopular because most people don't like the name (it sounds just like odd) but it would definitely be better for the market. Now every manufacturer has to pay royalties to Fraunhofer Institute at some point for the MP3 decoder. I wonder if it's really all because of the name or because MP3 is such a trademark.
Then I do apologize for taking you for one of these people. Lately I had to defend obvious points of argument against these guys that no reasonable human being would have ever questioned. Your post definitely read like an apologetic message saying "It's always been like that, why are you so mad, just accept it, it will always be this way."
Mea culpa, nevermind.
Are you so inept at fixing a pc that you think wiping the entire OS is some sort of monumental task? Is troubleshooting for 3 hours better than wiping your OS clean in 30 minutes? (you have your home directory on a separate partition, right?)
Thank you, finally someone with some sense. It's really really easy to fuck up a Linux installation if you are a twiddler, like say, add the wrong repository to your update manager and then have some beta packages installed whose version numbers are hard-coded into each other and disappear after a few hours. What fun.
Wiping windows is a pain but a necessity -everybody seems to have accepted that.
Wiping Linux is a breeze but you have to know how to properly do it to save time -fewer people seem to have gotten that far.
Wikipedia Foundation is pushing OGG and Theora in Firefox 3.1 as a new way of streaming content w/o Adobes crap flash.
I have some problems with Flash but most of the applications run surprisingly well on Linux and compared to the windows media or quicktime plugins watching flash video is a treat.
He even said it himself in his article:
"It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system."
Adobe's two biggest cash cows are Windows and Mac users. Why should anyone that earns such a lot of money and has close ties to the aforementioned companies be interested in supporting the Open Source community. As we all now, that's communist bullshit and kills the software industry. Right? Right?
It's another typical example of how so called standards are used to limit the degree of freedom in a market and why big companies are so particularly bad for human evolution (I consider technological innovation and knowledge culture evolutionary traits).
This is only in the spotlight because it matters to anti-MS geeks.
I feel addressed by this statement because I only became a Linux user because MSs business decisions became truly unbearable after decades of semi-assholy behavior.
At least we "anti-MS geeks" are a lobby group of some sorts. The regular "I don't know Jack and don't give a crap"-user doesn't have a lobby at all. No one drags their body bags into the light for them so apparently nobody cares.
What you should be complaining about is that this shit has been going on for years and nobody cared. What you are trying to make as a point here is that you feel underrepresented by your non-existant "I don't care"-lobby.
Screw you! Quite honestly, I am sick of people like you that are more likely to accept corruption and idiocy as a given fact than fight for a better future. And you even go a step further and try to DEFEND corruption against the arguments of people that think this should not happen. How low can one go just to save one's warped sense of reality?
Just because there has -always- been rape, murder and torture nobody would be so stupid to use that as an argument to accept it. And in fact that is what Evolution is about, just because something has -always- been a certain way it doesn't mean it's particularly good or desirable. Sometimes traditions are crap and one has to get rid of them. So is the ISO.
And this time it's literally a fight for a better future of document standards and market regularity not just a figure of speech.
Being a German I can tell you it's not exactly true that they have to "buy" the packaging back. The government simply forced the stores to take all the packaging back if you don't want it. Obviously the stores refused to keep tons of garbage around and recycle it on their own money so they basically forced the manufacturers to either pay for the waste removal or to reduce the packaging to begin with. Anyway around it seems to have worked. Unfortunately I still pay way too much for unnecessary packaging when I buy groceries and online shopping and transport packaging is an entirely different book. But a small step is a step nonetheless.
At least I know of the Linux4Africa project from a very positive news report on a fairly popular computer show on TV here in Germany. The project has already shipped several containers of fully functional donated computers to schools and institutions in Africa. http://www.linux4afrika.de/
I can't help with any international footage. Those who do speak German can check out the rather old video online:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/Linux_fuer_Afrika/219376
Or anyone dare to run this site through an online translator:
http://www.3sat.de/neues/sendungen/magazin/112048/index.html
I think one of the main reasons why there is such a ruckus about sending free computers to Africa is that the major nations are afraid of even more dirt cheap labor. Right now China and India are sucking huge amounts of resources into their boom and we can hardly keep up with our tiny countries. If someone started that Genesis device of economy in Africa with a kick of free technology this global system would surely collapse. At least what we know of it's power distribution right now.
The problem with encryption and GPG\PGP is that most people are already totally overwhelmed by the flood of passwords they have to remember and in order for encryption you need long passphrases. Mine are 20+ characters and not even hi-security but I can't expect any user to remember such awkward combinations. I guess there will be no real encryption in email or IM until all computer users feel a personal urge to secure their privacy and make the sacrifice of remembering secure passkeys.
Maybe Google should make encryption of emails and key management an integral part of their email service. But wait, it's an American company... will never happen.
And take with you who you can. Refuse to conduct his stupid plan and quit. These people never learn out of discussions. The only valuable lesson you can teach this guy is that when you are a dick people don't want to work with you. I know it's hard but the best thing would be to get his business to a halt. But that's just my rebellious currently unemployed ass saying that (but it works).
At first I was shocked to read that also but then I looked at it and you gotta realize that they simply EXTENDED the period in which they could hold terror-suspects in what they call "pre-charge" arrest. So as horrible as that number sounds the headline should read:
UK Can Now Hold People 14 Days Longer Without Charge
Hmm these guys can spend 700.000.000.000 dollars a year on troops fighting an invisible enemy abroad but they won't fund the research on invisible elements at home?
No wonder they're going down.
God, I could shoot all of you "this and that doesn't work properly"-crybabies. It's OPENSOURCE... you don't like the way it works... change it.
VLC is the first player that I didn't need a ridiculous codec pack for. It was the only software that properly played DVDs from different regions for me. And god damnit it's free as in "you're free to leave if you don't like it". Now I use Linux and there are good alternatives. For Windows on the other hand... not so much. I'd still rely solely on VLC for playing back everything just because I don't want to infest my system with dozens of outdated decryption routines and scrap codecs that corrupt my registry.
This app is in version 0.8.6 for years now. And when was the last time a pre-1.0 version got such a broad user base? You're all nerds here and if you complain about VLC then grab your reference books and start coding to make it work the way it should. What are you waiting for? For Rupert Murdoch to buy it as his next step toward a unified replay solution? Screw you guys, start hacking for a change.
Anyone remember Windows 95 B or whatever it was called? I think I even have one of the installation discs lying around somewhere. That "milestone" was so brilliant that they had to make and sell an updated version of it. Not even service pack, new subversion.
Just stop doing business with Microsoft, Mkay?
I can't believe these dinosaurs still run the business. Why should anyone of us that grew up with digital copies pay for such an incoherent and utterly useless attempt to lock us into a cage again? Screw that, I say keep pirating until all the major labels are dead, every last movie studio shut down and all A&Rs out of a job. Then we can start over and do things properly for a change.
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how can something that dies from overheating be good for the environment? They were never supposed to, show me the comparison with computer parts... there's a disaster you can focus on.
And please get off my balls Greenpeace, you're still pissing on the Wii for micrograms of some chemical compound and do not acknowledge that the thing needs 10 times less power under full load than both it's competitors. Is some hidden toxin really the biggest problem?
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Do NOT eat electronics components, Thank you.
will help you remember their names.
This is one of the weirdest ideas I've heard in a long time. While the triangulation itself stimulates my nerdvous system the other aspects make me think you're creating the next fascist superpower. Tracking everything you own so you can scold your spouse or kids for moving something? Say, do you work for the recording industry?
He doesn't talk to the adult person he wants to adress (who holds a responsible position in a big company) and instead tries to work it out behind his back talking to his mommy? Can one be any more disrespectful? Can one make himself look any more retarded? If he actually had a point his arguments should be able to last through a face-to-face discussion with those concerned. Instead he behaves like the fucking sunday school teacher he is and tries to abuse parental authority. Jeez, when does this idiot Thompson die? I'm just asking, he's pretty old already.
The band that tried to sue Napster into oblivion?.... hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha.
Not in a million years would I buy a record from these jackasses. Not even download it for free. The bits on my harddisc mean more to me than any of these phoney attempts to live up to reality.
*continues frantic laughter*
My personal preference is white/very light-grey on a very dark grey. But since everyone perceives colors a little bit differently my guess is as good as any. I like books with slightly brownish pages and sleek dark letters, seems to tire my eyes less than bold black on pure white. If you find some common ground on how we "should" set our screens I'm ready to try it (at least for 5 minutes).
Then they are really f-ing stupid. No one buys hi-bandwidth lines to check emails or go to stinking youtube. Cut your customers access to filesharing and you'll lose the foundation of your business. Save money on what? Not that many customers buy into that Triple Pay model they usually offer. Who wants that. Besides, if some ISPs block that traffic other, specialized, ISPs will come up. That's what I would do, build a high bandwidth, high throughput network were the customer gets what he wants. This is the free market right?
This P2P crackdown is all a bunch of pretentious bullshit. How would you be able to know what's inside the traffic of random, encrypted BitTorrent packets? There's no way to tell what the person is downloading, even if you got all the pieces for a torrent file you still wouldn't know how to asssemble them like the client does. This is all scare tactics to usher flatheads into buying more "Old-School" moron industry products. Ever see a guy realize that what he has done for the last 50 years is no longer needed... desperate measures -that's what you get.
If you don't keep the data for more than 24hrs and don't cooperate with law enforcement then were did they get all the fingerprint data to match? Maybe they found a disc with fingerprints of millions of citizens lying around. Wouldn't be all too surprised from what I've heard from the UK lately. Brits apparently are the better Nazis as it turns out.
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I think Ogg is just so unpopular because most people don't like the name (it sounds just like odd) but it would definitely be better for the market. Now every manufacturer has to pay royalties to Fraunhofer Institute at some point for the MP3 decoder. I wonder if it's really all because of the name or because MP3 is such a trademark.
Then I do apologize for taking you for one of these people. Lately I had to defend obvious points of argument against these guys that no reasonable human being would have ever questioned. Your post definitely read like an apologetic message saying "It's always been like that, why are you so mad, just accept it, it will always be this way." Mea culpa, nevermind.
Are you so inept at fixing a pc that you think wiping the entire OS is some sort of monumental task? Is troubleshooting for 3 hours better than wiping your OS clean in 30 minutes? (you have your home directory on a separate partition, right?)
Thank you, finally someone with some sense. It's really really easy to fuck up a Linux installation if you are a twiddler, like say, add the wrong repository to your update manager and then have some beta packages installed whose version numbers are hard-coded into each other and disappear after a few hours. What fun.
Wiping windows is a pain but a necessity -everybody seems to have accepted that.
Wiping Linux is a breeze but you have to know how to properly do it to save time -fewer people seem to have gotten that far.
Separate Home partition ftw!
Wikipedia Foundation is pushing OGG and Theora in Firefox 3.1 as a new way of streaming content w/o Adobes crap flash. I have some problems with Flash but most of the applications run surprisingly well on Linux and compared to the windows media or quicktime plugins watching flash video is a treat.
He even said it himself in his article: "It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system." Adobe's two biggest cash cows are Windows and Mac users. Why should anyone that earns such a lot of money and has close ties to the aforementioned companies be interested in supporting the Open Source community. As we all now, that's communist bullshit and kills the software industry. Right? Right? It's another typical example of how so called standards are used to limit the degree of freedom in a market and why big companies are so particularly bad for human evolution (I consider technological innovation and knowledge culture evolutionary traits).
This is only in the spotlight because it matters to anti-MS geeks.
I feel addressed by this statement because I only became a Linux user because MSs business decisions became truly unbearable after decades of semi-assholy behavior.
At least we "anti-MS geeks" are a lobby group of some sorts. The regular "I don't know Jack and don't give a crap"-user doesn't have a lobby at all. No one drags their body bags into the light for them so apparently nobody cares.
What you should be complaining about is that this shit has been going on for years and nobody cared. What you are trying to make as a point here is that you feel underrepresented by your non-existant "I don't care"-lobby.
Screw you! Quite honestly, I am sick of people like you that are more likely to accept corruption and idiocy as a given fact than fight for a better future. And you even go a step further and try to DEFEND corruption against the arguments of people that think this should not happen. How low can one go just to save one's warped sense of reality?
Just because there has -always- been rape, murder and torture nobody would be so stupid to use that as an argument to accept it. And in fact that is what Evolution is about, just because something has -always- been a certain way it doesn't mean it's particularly good or desirable. Sometimes traditions are crap and one has to get rid of them. So is the ISO. And this time it's literally a fight for a better future of document standards and market regularity not just a figure of speech.
Being a German I can tell you it's not exactly true that they have to "buy" the packaging back. The government simply forced the stores to take all the packaging back if you don't want it. Obviously the stores refused to keep tons of garbage around and recycle it on their own money so they basically forced the manufacturers to either pay for the waste removal or to reduce the packaging to begin with. Anyway around it seems to have worked. Unfortunately I still pay way too much for unnecessary packaging when I buy groceries and online shopping and transport packaging is an entirely different book. But a small step is a step nonetheless.
At least I know of the Linux4Africa project from a very positive news report on a fairly popular computer show on TV here in Germany. The project has already shipped several containers of fully functional donated computers to schools and institutions in Africa. http://www.linux4afrika.de/ I can't help with any international footage. Those who do speak German can check out the rather old video online: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/Linux_fuer_Afrika/219376 Or anyone dare to run this site through an online translator: http://www.3sat.de/neues/sendungen/magazin/112048/index.html I think one of the main reasons why there is such a ruckus about sending free computers to Africa is that the major nations are afraid of even more dirt cheap labor. Right now China and India are sucking huge amounts of resources into their boom and we can hardly keep up with our tiny countries. If someone started that Genesis device of economy in Africa with a kick of free technology this global system would surely collapse. At least what we know of it's power distribution right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnylJ2scVU
The problem with encryption and GPG\PGP is that most people are already totally overwhelmed by the flood of passwords they have to remember and in order for encryption you need long passphrases. Mine are 20+ characters and not even hi-security but I can't expect any user to remember such awkward combinations. I guess there will be no real encryption in email or IM until all computer users feel a personal urge to secure their privacy and make the sacrifice of remembering secure passkeys. Maybe Google should make encryption of emails and key management an integral part of their email service. But wait, it's an American company ... will never happen.
And take with you who you can. Refuse to conduct his stupid plan and quit. These people never learn out of discussions. The only valuable lesson you can teach this guy is that when you are a dick people don't want to work with you. I know it's hard but the best thing would be to get his business to a halt. But that's just my rebellious currently unemployed ass saying that (but it works).
At first I was shocked to read that also but then I looked at it and you gotta realize that they simply EXTENDED the period in which they could hold terror-suspects in what they call "pre-charge" arrest. So as horrible as that number sounds the headline should read: UK Can Now Hold People 14 Days Longer Without Charge
Hmm these guys can spend 700.000.000.000 dollars a year on troops fighting an invisible enemy abroad but they won't fund the research on invisible elements at home? No wonder they're going down.
God, I could shoot all of you "this and that doesn't work properly"-crybabies. It's OPENSOURCE ... you don't like the way it works ... change it.
VLC is the first player that I didn't need a ridiculous codec pack for. It was the only software that properly played DVDs from different regions for me. And god damnit it's free as in "you're free to leave if you don't like it". Now I use Linux and there are good alternatives. For Windows on the other hand ... not so much. I'd still rely solely on VLC for playing back everything just because I don't want to infest my system with dozens of outdated decryption routines and scrap codecs that corrupt my registry.
This app is in version 0.8.6 for years now. And when was the last time a pre-1.0 version got such a broad user base? You're all nerds here and if you complain about VLC then grab your reference books and start coding to make it work the way it should. What are you waiting for? For Rupert Murdoch to buy it as his next step toward a unified replay solution? Screw you guys, start hacking for a change.
Anyone remember Windows 95 B or whatever it was called? I think I even have one of the installation discs lying around somewhere. That "milestone" was so brilliant that they had to make and sell an updated version of it. Not even service pack, new subversion. Just stop doing business with Microsoft, Mkay?
I can't believe these dinosaurs still run the business. Why should anyone of us that grew up with digital copies pay for such an incoherent and utterly useless attempt to lock us into a cage again? Screw that, I say keep pirating until all the major labels are dead, every last movie studio shut down and all A&Rs out of a job. Then we can start over and do things properly for a change.
... how can something that dies from overheating be good for the environment? They were never supposed to, show me the comparison with computer parts ... there's a disaster you can focus on.
And please get off my balls Greenpeace, you're still pissing on the Wii for micrograms of some chemical compound and do not acknowledge that the thing needs 10 times less power under full load than both it's competitors. Is some hidden toxin really the biggest problem?
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Do NOT eat electronics components, Thank you.
will help you remember their names. This is one of the weirdest ideas I've heard in a long time. While the triangulation itself stimulates my nerdvous system the other aspects make me think you're creating the next fascist superpower. Tracking everything you own so you can scold your spouse or kids for moving something? Say, do you work for the recording industry?
This is the end ...
He doesn't talk to the adult person he wants to adress (who holds a responsible position in a big company) and instead tries to work it out behind his back talking to his mommy? Can one be any more disrespectful? Can one make himself look any more retarded? If he actually had a point his arguments should be able to last through a face-to-face discussion with those concerned. Instead he behaves like the fucking sunday school teacher he is and tries to abuse parental authority. Jeez, when does this idiot Thompson die? I'm just asking, he's pretty old already.
The band that tried to sue Napster into oblivion? .... hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha.
Not in a million years would I buy a record from these jackasses. Not even download it for free. The bits on my harddisc mean more to me than any of these phoney attempts to live up to reality.
*continues frantic laughter*
My personal preference is white/very light-grey on a very dark grey. But since everyone perceives colors a little bit differently my guess is as good as any. I like books with slightly brownish pages and sleek dark letters, seems to tire my eyes less than bold black on pure white. If you find some common ground on how we "should" set our screens I'm ready to try it (at least for 5 minutes).
Then they are really f-ing stupid. No one buys hi-bandwidth lines to check emails or go to stinking youtube. Cut your customers access to filesharing and you'll lose the foundation of your business. Save money on what? Not that many customers buy into that Triple Pay model they usually offer. Who wants that. Besides, if some ISPs block that traffic other, specialized, ISPs will come up. That's what I would do, build a high bandwidth, high throughput network were the customer gets what he wants. This is the free market right?
... desperate measures -that's what you get.
This P2P crackdown is all a bunch of pretentious bullshit. How would you be able to know what's inside the traffic of random, encrypted BitTorrent packets? There's no way to tell what the person is downloading, even if you got all the pieces for a torrent file you still wouldn't know how to asssemble them like the client does. This is all scare tactics to usher flatheads into buying more "Old-School" moron industry products. Ever see a guy realize that what he has done for the last 50 years is no longer needed
Fuck the MPAA, RIAA and all other AAs
If you don't keep the data for more than 24hrs and don't cooperate with law enforcement then were did they get all the fingerprint data to match? Maybe they found a disc with fingerprints of millions of citizens lying around. Wouldn't be all too surprised from what I've heard from the UK lately. Brits apparently are the better Nazis as it turns out.
I'll wait until the first and final press conference.