A completely inaccurate analogy, a more accurate one would be:
"McDonalds refuses to let their proprietary "bread" to be consumed by Burger King customers. Even customers who want to purchase their "bread" at grocery stores are turned down because they are "marked" as Burger King customers."
The problem is, this is exactly how the general public thinks. Even those in IT related fields.
I was having a conversation with my sister who works tech support call center for ~6 months. She told me that XP was the best operatins system. I asked her why she thought this, and her response:
"Because Me and 98 are buggy and vista still has problems"
I may have ranted just a wee bit here.
I don't think alot of "online content producers" are going to even think about support for other os's. Especially if MS makes a "development kit" or something and makes it cheaper than macromedia software.
You made two off the wall estimates, both could range hugely (ie. What if Turbotax is more like ~30% of the general public?), and you ended up with a value less than half of an order of magnitude more than the servers are able to handle?
I hope you don't do this kind of estimates at your job.
ps. It is true that TurboTax should have accurate values for both of these, so they should have been ready.
I emailed my MP about the previous version of this bill, and this was his response:
Dear Mr. Locklin,
Thank you for your letter regarding Copyright Reform.
I supported C-60 I would do so again if a similar Bill
is reintroduced in the House of Commons. Bill C-60 only
made it to the First Reading stage and subsequently fell
off the Orders for debate.
With any amendment that is put forth to a Government Bill,
whether through the debate stage or committee stage, it
must be balanced in such a way that it doesn't make the
legislation appear to be too ambiguous. I as a Member of
Parliament I would need to see the how Digital Rights
Management (DRM) component of any new legislation would
affect not only the industry but also the consumer and
whether individual privacy rights would be affected?
There has yet to be any new Copyright legislation to come
before the House of Commons in this session. I will note
your concerns if it eventually does.
Sincerely,
Hon. Andrew Telegdi, P.C., M.P.
Kitchener-Waterloo
I still don't understand why this industry tries to force this crap on people.
Why don't they *try* puting adds on regular streaming videos first and see if people watch them? I guarentee there will be more effort to crack this form of DRM just because it's forced.
They might be surprised that people realy don't care that much about commercials. Plenty of people watch commercials on TV when they could mute them or do something else. But as soon as you try to *force* someone to watch something, they sure as hell are not going to think favorably about you, and just might find a way around it.
I always wondered if someone were to host their show/movie on a bittorrent site with a couple commercials in it. Would people go to the trouble of remastering the video, removing the commercials, and post a new torrent? or would they just watch it as is? It would be a currious experiment.
Gooogle's customers are not web users. Thier customers are the purchasers of add space.
If you are looking to purchase advertising space and there is only one main company you can go to on the internet to see large numbers of hits, then yes, they can abuse you royally.
As much as I like to see Google do well, and detest MS buisiness strategy, I have to agree with them on this. They should not be allowed to develop a monopoly by purchasing major compeditors.
Apple Delays anything [several months]= I'm glad they're taking the time to make it better.
Microsoft delays Vista [several years]= Microsoft sucks!
*lines reversed
The servers will still be producing most of the heat, this would *hypothetically* just increase the rate of heat transfer to the outside of the machine.
Without removing the heat from the room, you're still going to end up with environmental heat buildup.
Funny how the previous article contains a discussion about the "intelligent" comments posted on/. then the following article has half the people thinking who don't even read the summary, let alone the article.
This is very different from copyright enforcement. This is about attribution. Huge difference.
Most graduate students would be more than happy to have thousands of people read their thesis. The problem arises when they don't get credited, or someone else claims ownership.
This is very different from students wanting $20 from you to read their paper.
Just recently I have been porting an older C++ application to C#. I have the source code for each application on each screen, way faster than trying to flip between them on a single screen.
I do that all the time: Ctrl x + 3 in Emacs.
second monitors are great for having a reference open all the time, but for re-writing or referencing code, a second monitor is too far away and too slow to scroll. They need to be right side by side and it should be just as easy to scroll your reference window as your working code.
The beuty of this would be the ability to load unsigned hardware drivers for things like video cards and sound cards; effectely circumventing the DRM mechanisms in Vista.
Basically, this means that in the near future, anyone ripping HD content will be able to use this type of exploit, and the DRM bs will only negatively effect the legitimate users.
Anyone hazard a guess as to what the joke about "windows vista" will be a decade from now?
You want a "single comprehensive distribution" of an operating system, might I suggest Ms. Windows. You want choice, pick something from distrowatch.
Obviously the optimal solution is somewhere in between the extremes being argued. But it becomes rather tiring hearing how "Linux will be mainstream when everything merges." Gnome and KDE are both great because they have pushed each other (and copied each other) over the years. The same goes with Debian and RH.
Competition and Choice are good! (sometimes we have too much, but its better than having none)
Generally, most curriculums do no include social sciences. I would assume, highschool faculty would be much more helpfull to students engaging in natural or (to a lesser extent) life sciences.
I don't see a problem with that. IMHO it is best to learn the old, well established sciences before engaging in younger, more volatile science diciplines.
I'm getting sick of the "your only being mean because its Microsoft, if it was Apple or Google, you would forgive" argument.
You ever stop to think that there is a reason/. types generally are harder on MS? maybe its because we've all spent years working in an industry where innovation and freedom has been supressed by a criminal company.
If you didn't like Apple or Google, you could easily go the rest of the year without touching one of their products. But I guarentee you can't do that with MS.
By the way, the rest of this comment is attached as a MS word doc.
I had the same problem as my "movies" directory spans a couple hundred movies. It was taking upwards of 5 minutes to scan them every time I tried to browse.
The problem is not the database, however, it is that myth defaults to try to "find" information for each and every file -utilizing major bandwidth/cpu cycles. You can turn off the setting and there is no longer a problematic delay. Look for a setting that says "this may significantly slow down loading" when you highlight it.
The MS tax doesnt apply to large purchasers 1. any OEM will sell you blank PC's if you buy in quantity 2. governments/corporations usually have site licences (not OEM licences), so it doesnt matter if it's MS or Redhat
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A completely inaccurate analogy, a more accurate one would be:
"McDonalds refuses to let their proprietary "bread" to be consumed by Burger King customers. Even customers who want to purchase their "bread" at grocery stores are turned down because they are "marked" as Burger King customers."
The problem is, this is exactly how the general public thinks. Even those in IT related fields.
I was having a conversation with my sister who works tech support call center for ~6 months. She told me that XP was the best operatins system. I asked her why she thought this, and her response:
"Because Me and 98 are buggy and vista still has problems"
I may have ranted just a wee bit here.
I don't think alot of "online content producers" are going to even think about support for other os's. Especially if MS makes a "development kit" or something and makes it cheaper than macromedia software.
You made two off the wall estimates, both could range hugely (ie. What if Turbotax is more like ~30% of the general public?), and you ended up with a value less than half of an order of magnitude more than the servers are able to handle?
I hope you don't do this kind of estimates at your job.
ps. It is true that TurboTax should have accurate values for both of these, so they should have been ready.
Dear Mr. Locklin,
Thank you for your letter regarding Copyright Reform.
I supported C-60 I would do so again if a similar Bill is reintroduced in the House of Commons. Bill C-60 only made it to the First Reading stage and subsequently fell off the Orders for debate.
With any amendment that is put forth to a Government Bill, whether through the debate stage or committee stage, it must be balanced in such a way that it doesn't make the legislation appear to be too ambiguous. I as a Member of Parliament I would need to see the how Digital Rights Management (DRM) component of any new legislation would affect not only the industry but also the consumer and whether individual privacy rights would be affected?
There has yet to be any new Copyright legislation to come before the House of Commons in this session. I will note your concerns if it eventually does.
Sincerely,
Hon. Andrew Telegdi, P.C., M.P.
Kitchener-Waterloo
I still don't understand why this industry tries to force this crap on people.
Why don't they *try* puting adds on regular streaming videos first and see if people watch them? I guarentee there will be more effort to crack this form of DRM just because it's forced.
They might be surprised that people realy don't care that much about commercials. Plenty of people watch commercials on TV when they could mute them or do something else. But as soon as you try to *force* someone to watch something, they sure as hell are not going to think favorably about you, and just might find a way around it.
I always wondered if someone were to host their show/movie on a bittorrent site with a couple commercials in it. Would people go to the trouble of remastering the video, removing the commercials, and post a new torrent? or would they just watch it as is? It would be a currious experiment.
Gooogle's customers are not web users. Thier customers are the purchasers of add space.
If you are looking to purchase advertising space and there is only one main company you can go to on the internet to see large numbers of hits, then yes, they can abuse you royally.
As much as I like to see Google do well, and detest MS buisiness strategy, I have to agree with them on this. They should not be allowed to develop a monopoly by purchasing major compeditors.
Microsoft delays Vista [several years]= Microsoft sucks!
*lines reversed
Makes sense to me:
Billions of dollars *lost* to the U.S. in in-tangible products == Billions of dollars *gained* by the Chinese economy.
The servers will still be producing most of the heat, this would *hypothetically* just increase the rate of heat transfer to the outside of the machine.
Without removing the heat from the room, you're still going to end up with environmental heat buildup.
Funny how the previous article contains a discussion about the "intelligent" comments posted on /. then the following article has half the people thinking who don't even read the summary, let alone the article.
Attribution != copyright
This is very different from copyright enforcement. This is about attribution. Huge difference.
Most graduate students would be more than happy to have thousands of people read their thesis. The problem arises when they don't get credited, or someone else claims ownership.
This is very different from students wanting $20 from you to read their paper.
I do that all the time: Ctrl x + 3 in Emacs.
second monitors are great for having a reference open all the time, but for re-writing or referencing code, a second monitor is too far away and too slow to scroll. They need to be right side by side and it should be just as easy to scroll your reference window as your working code.
The beuty of this would be the ability to load unsigned hardware drivers for things like video cards and sound cards; effectely circumventing the DRM mechanisms in Vista.
Basically, this means that in the near future, anyone ripping HD content will be able to use this type of exploit, and the DRM bs will only negatively effect the legitimate users.
Anyone hazard a guess as to what the joke about "windows vista" will be a decade from now?
You want a "single comprehensive distribution" of an operating system, might I suggest Ms. Windows. You want choice, pick something from distrowatch.
Obviously the optimal solution is somewhere in between the extremes being argued. But it becomes rather tiring hearing how "Linux will be mainstream when everything merges." Gnome and KDE are both great because they have pushed each other (and copied each other) over the years. The same goes with Debian and RH.
Competition and Choice are good! (sometimes we have too much, but its better than having none)
You would rather use an "Internet" made by the Chinese government? Sure, that will be MUCH less intrusive.
Oldest excuse in the book: "Its just a problem of distribution."
I was in the grocery store today, and all the grapes were from South Africa.
Sounds like distribution is *too* easy.
Real freedom always has one restriction -you are not free to infringe on other people's freedom.
Thats the only restriction the GPL(v2 or v3) sets out to enforce.
I'm prety sure that "chmod +x attachment" is not required on systems that are vulnerable to .vbs attachments.
Generally, most curriculums do no include social sciences. I would assume, highschool faculty would be much more helpfull to students engaging in natural or (to a lesser extent) life sciences. I don't see a problem with that. IMHO it is best to learn the old, well established sciences before engaging in younger, more volatile science diciplines.
I'm getting sick of the "your only being mean because its Microsoft, if it was Apple or Google, you would forgive" argument.
/. types generally are harder on MS? maybe its because we've all spent years working in an industry where innovation and freedom has been supressed by a criminal company.
You ever stop to think that there is a reason
If you didn't like Apple or Google, you could easily go the rest of the year without touching one of their products. But I guarentee you can't do that with MS.
By the way, the rest of this comment is attached as a MS word doc.
Don't worry, the server is running RHEL with XGL! It has PLENTY of free resources to serve up all those screenshots.
I had the same problem as my "movies" directory spans a couple hundred movies. It was taking upwards of 5 minutes to scan them every time I tried to browse.
The problem is not the database, however, it is that myth defaults to try to "find" information for each and every file -utilizing major bandwidth/cpu cycles. You can turn off the setting and there is no longer a problematic delay. Look for a setting that says "this may significantly slow down loading" when you highlight it.
96,000 / 65,000 = 1.48 != 10
You run a business?
The MS tax doesnt apply to large purchasers
1. any OEM will sell you blank PC's if you buy in quantity
2. governments/corporations usually have site licences (not OEM licences), so it doesnt matter if it's MS or Redhat
I guess I'll have to download all my shows from piratebay then.