I think Google should fill these removal requests. The movies studios were the authors of most, if not all, of DMCA, so why not show them how awful the law truly is? I've never seen CBS' “How I Met Your Mother,” because most television shows made today are pedantic, except for Adventure Time, but it's been out for awhile, right? Something like the main page for the show no longer able to be found seems like it would be painful for the studio. After the eventual request for reinstatement of the URL, Google should drag it's feet, or better yet, have the studio bring it up in court.
According to the DMCA, Google is protected by the safe harbor amendment as long as they comply with all lawful requests. Google, I assume, would not put itself anywhere near being in breech of the law and ignore the request just because they were asked nicely. Do it! Take the pages down. Let's see how they feel when the shoe is on the other foot.
For those of us who write, there just isn't a good FLOSS solution. Personally, I use Scrivener even though it's commercial software, but at least they are taking a step in the right direction and making a Linux version.
My issue is with the GNU/Linux vs Linux debate. Call it George for all I care. The OS we have today is greater than the sum of any one part and the energy we have wasted on this trivial debate could be better spent fixing crackling sounds using pulseaudio with some sound cards or working towards a full desktop system that uses very little CPU time and boots in a few seconds, as two examples.
You've apparently never heard him then. He's walked out of interviews because people called it Linux and not GNU/Linux. Open source, free software -- I don't care what we call it, as long as it's safe, secure and peer reviewed (i.e. the source is freely available).
I, for one, wouldn't like to type a term paper or play Guild Wars 2 on an iPad. Tablet-style computers are a fancy toy until one of them comes up with an input that doesn't require the use of a keyboard, virtual or physical. My vision for the future would require heavy research into handwriting and voice recognition. It would be much easier to use something that stores your own handwriting like digital paper, but still searchable like pure text. I'm just thinking from the perspective of ease of use by older people.
There are too many issues with cloud storage, from privacy issues, control over your own data and connectivity, just to name a few. Read some of the current EULAs we have and you come across Adobe writing that use of their basic online Photoshop gives them full royalty rights to your images. Cloud storage is useless if your internet is down.
Part of the problem with this is that WINE was updated to allow the mouse / keyboard to remotely control a Wine app across the network. Part of the problem with WINE and the greater *nix community is that small, specialized cases becomes the standard for everyone.
This is something we have needed for a long time. Reducing overhead in OpenGL could trickle down to Windows users as well and may give other development houses an incentive to drop Direct3D. The fact that Valve was able to get AMD, Nvidia and Intel to work towards better graphic drivers is almost Herculean.
The more telling factoid is that Gabe Newell worked at Microsoft for 13 years on 3 releases of Windows. If any of us, he has a better chance of understanding the inner workings of Windows. It makes one wonder what soured him to Microsoft in the first place.
Even though I am waiting for more and more games to come to Linux, a small part of me thinks it would be funny if they just Rickroll'd everyone, considering how much hype they generated. At least they would go down in the history books as one of the larger internet pranks.:p
Yes, Steam can be set to run in Offline Mode once your game is downloaded and installed. That's also a useful feature if you just want to play a single person game on an internet connection with bandwidth caps.
It's good that they are thinking of the future like that. My brother in law buys all his games from the Playstation Store directly from his PS3 and I asked him what he's going to do if they ever shut that down. I can still pull out my Dreamcast and not rely on a Sega server to play games.
They may have changed the functionality by now, but I was just going by what I experienced with the Unity bar the first day it was released. I gave it a good hour to put it through its paces and that was enough for me.
They could take a page from Linux Mint's book and pop up a welcome menu with an option "Take a tour of your Ubuntu system", or something along those lines. That would go a long way towards what we all want -- getting more users to try Linux and decide to keep it on their computer.
I am afraid that we are at a disagreement about the "pretty good for power users and developers" bit. In one of my tests with Ubuntu 12.04, I opened Firefox, minimized it and clicked the pinned icon, assuming it would bring the window back into focus. Instead of maximizing it, Unity opened a new instance and tried to reload the tabs I had opened. The expected operation would be for Firefox to have the ability to remember the text on the web page and not reload it every time it is brought back into focus. This basically restricts you to using one application at a time.
Now, please try to connected to a bookmarked SSH connection to another computer on your network in 2 clicks, without touching the keyboard, other than typing in the password. Yes I know that you can use terminal, but I am talking from the aspect of a newish user without all the command fu. Try to get to terminal in less than 2 clicks on Unity. It's impossible. The major flaw with the interface is that users must know the name of the software they wish to run before they run it. For example, how is a new user / recent Windows convert supposed to know that Totem is used to play media files and Nautilus is "Windows Explorer"?
It doesn't help matters either that the developers refuse to take any patches or suggestions from their "Lusers"... It also doesn't help that Shuttworth has publicly said about the Unity detractors, "There is going to be a crowd that is just too cool to use something that looks really slick and there is nothing we can do for them". I'll be the first to admit, I love epeen bling on my computer, but it still must serve the basic purpose -- allow me to do what I want and stay out of my way. (I'm looking at you, peek-a-boo Unity bar...)
Mate, as far as Linux Mint 13 is concerned, ships with two versions of the menu. You have the regular Mate menu, but also have the option to have the good ol' Gnome 2 menu.
Oh, no! Tactics like that would lose me as a customer. If an IVR does not have the dual ability to use the keypad, it's generally very difficult for me to use their systems. I have a moderate Southern accent and the IVRs have a difficult time distinguishing between the phonemes I use. (Think more like DeForrest Kelley's softened Southern accent and less like Dolly Parton.) Most of the IVRs I've encountered build their language processing phoneme database using General American, which is pretty much a made up account like Perceived British Pronunciation, or "BBC English". They discount the number of regional accents in the US and lead me to believe that native people from the Bronx or Boston would have similar issues.
They are so horrible that if I say something like "Billing", I fully expect the systems to go full on Family Guy and come back with: "You have selected, 300..."
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Why not redirect them to a page with the big US Federal Government graphic saying this page contains illegal content?
I think Google should fill these removal requests. The movies studios were the authors of most, if not all, of DMCA, so why not show them how awful the law truly is? I've never seen CBS' “How I Met Your Mother,” because most television shows made today are pedantic, except for Adventure Time, but it's been out for awhile, right? Something like the main page for the show no longer able to be found seems like it would be painful for the studio. After the eventual request for reinstatement of the URL, Google should drag it's feet, or better yet, have the studio bring it up in court.
According to the DMCA, Google is protected by the safe harbor amendment as long as they comply with all lawful requests. Google, I assume, would not put itself anywhere near being in breech of the law and ignore the request just because they were asked nicely. Do it! Take the pages down. Let's see how they feel when the shoe is on the other foot.
For those of us who write, there just isn't a good FLOSS solution. Personally, I use Scrivener even though it's commercial software, but at least they are taking a step in the right direction and making a Linux version.
I've used vim long enough to realize I don't like it. My console editor of choice will always be nano.
Your last sentence makes me wish ./ had a feature to favorite comments.
My issue is with the GNU/Linux vs Linux debate. Call it George for all I care. The OS we have today is greater than the sum of any one part and the energy we have wasted on this trivial debate could be better spent fixing crackling sounds using pulseaudio with some sound cards or working towards a full desktop system that uses very little CPU time and boots in a few seconds, as two examples.
You've apparently never heard him then. He's walked out of interviews because people called it Linux and not GNU/Linux. Open source, free software -- I don't care what we call it, as long as it's safe, secure and peer reviewed (i.e. the source is freely available).
I, for one, wouldn't like to type a term paper or play Guild Wars 2 on an iPad. Tablet-style computers are a fancy toy until one of them comes up with an input that doesn't require the use of a keyboard, virtual or physical. My vision for the future would require heavy research into handwriting and voice recognition. It would be much easier to use something that stores your own handwriting like digital paper, but still searchable like pure text. I'm just thinking from the perspective of ease of use by older people. There are too many issues with cloud storage, from privacy issues, control over your own data and connectivity, just to name a few. Read some of the current EULAs we have and you come across Adobe writing that use of their basic online Photoshop gives them full royalty rights to your images. Cloud storage is useless if your internet is down.
Part of the problem with this is that WINE was updated to allow the mouse / keyboard to remotely control a Wine app across the network. Part of the problem with WINE and the greater *nix community is that small, specialized cases becomes the standard for everyone.
Has anyone else had the same feeling when you're waiting by the phone for your bf / gf to call? :p
This is something we have needed for a long time. Reducing overhead in OpenGL could trickle down to Windows users as well and may give other development houses an incentive to drop Direct3D. The fact that Valve was able to get AMD, Nvidia and Intel to work towards better graphic drivers is almost Herculean.
The more telling factoid is that Gabe Newell worked at Microsoft for 13 years on 3 releases of Windows. If any of us, he has a better chance of understanding the inner workings of Windows. It makes one wonder what soured him to Microsoft in the first place.
I thought Eternal was how long it takes to install some of the larger software suites in Wine..
Even though I am waiting for more and more games to come to Linux, a small part of me thinks it would be funny if they just Rickroll'd everyone, considering how much hype they generated. At least they would go down in the history books as one of the larger internet pranks. :p
I want to install that too. lol
Yes, Steam can be set to run in Offline Mode once your game is downloaded and installed. That's also a useful feature if you just want to play a single person game on an internet connection with bandwidth caps.
Never forget the addictive value of achievements...
It's good that they are thinking of the future like that. My brother in law buys all his games from the Playstation Store directly from his PS3 and I asked him what he's going to do if they ever shut that down. I can still pull out my Dreamcast and not rely on a Sega server to play games.
They may have changed the functionality by now, but I was just going by what I experienced with the Unity bar the first day it was released. I gave it a good hour to put it through its paces and that was enough for me.
They could take a page from Linux Mint's book and pop up a welcome menu with an option "Take a tour of your Ubuntu system", or something along those lines. That would go a long way towards what we all want -- getting more users to try Linux and decide to keep it on their computer.
I am afraid that we are at a disagreement about the "pretty good for power users and developers" bit. In one of my tests with Ubuntu 12.04, I opened Firefox, minimized it and clicked the pinned icon, assuming it would bring the window back into focus. Instead of maximizing it, Unity opened a new instance and tried to reload the tabs I had opened. The expected operation would be for Firefox to have the ability to remember the text on the web page and not reload it every time it is brought back into focus. This basically restricts you to using one application at a time.
Now, please try to connected to a bookmarked SSH connection to another computer on your network in 2 clicks, without touching the keyboard, other than typing in the password. Yes I know that you can use terminal, but I am talking from the aspect of a newish user without all the command fu. Try to get to terminal in less than 2 clicks on Unity. It's impossible. The major flaw with the interface is that users must know the name of the software they wish to run before they run it. For example, how is a new user / recent Windows convert supposed to know that Totem is used to play media files and Nautilus is "Windows Explorer"?
It doesn't help matters either that the developers refuse to take any patches or suggestions from their "Lusers"... It also doesn't help that Shuttworth has publicly said about the Unity detractors, "There is going to be a crowd that is just too cool to use something that looks really slick and there is nothing we can do for them". I'll be the first to admit, I love epeen bling on my computer, but it still must serve the basic purpose -- allow me to do what I want and stay out of my way. (I'm looking at you, peek-a-boo Unity bar...)
Mate, as far as Linux Mint 13 is concerned, ships with two versions of the menu. You have the regular Mate menu, but also have the option to have the good ol' Gnome 2 menu.
Jeez.. try to make one little crack at Ancient Aliens and I get modded down as a troll.. pfft
... but it was aliens...
Oh, no! Tactics like that would lose me as a customer. If an IVR does not have the dual ability to use the keypad, it's generally very difficult for me to use their systems. I have a moderate Southern accent and the IVRs have a difficult time distinguishing between the phonemes I use. (Think more like DeForrest Kelley's softened Southern accent and less like Dolly Parton.) Most of the IVRs I've encountered build their language processing phoneme database using General American, which is pretty much a made up account like Perceived British Pronunciation, or "BBC English". They discount the number of regional accents in the US and lead me to believe that native people from the Bronx or Boston would have similar issues.
They are so horrible that if I say something like "Billing", I fully expect the systems to go full on Family Guy and come back with: "You have selected, 300..."
There are some systems out there that offer to call you back in the event of long hold times. All companies should think of implementing this!