Really? Who stole anything? If I want music for free, there are far easier and more legal ways than to go into my local store, grab a CD, stick it under my coat and walk out.
Oh, you mean copyright infringement. Why didn't you say so?
Author Matt Hartley writes, "Now, for the biggest question: do high numbers mean that Ubuntu is the best distribution out there? (...)" Put in a different light, the answer seems obvious.
"Now, for the biggest question: do high numbers mean that Windows is the best OS out there? (...)" (Disclaimer: I am NOT bashing Ubuntu, but I do not believe popularity is necessarily an indication of quality.)
Exactly. Yes, dark roast has less caffeine than light roast, and yes, one serving of espresso has less caffeine than one serving of coffee - what he is forgetting is that one serving of coffee is 6-8 ounces, where one serving of espresso is 1 ounce - thus, it has 3-4 times MORE caffeine, if we are talking in terms of per ounce - which is really the only accurate way to talk about it.
It should also be noted that there is not a recorded case of a fatal dose of caffeine being delivered from a beverage, so if you don't drink slowly, you might break ground right before you, err, break ground...
So when various companies set up honeypots to catch crackers, that's cool.
But the MPAA sets up a honeypot to catch thieves, that's bad? What did this have to do with theives? This was a (very poor) attempt to catch people copying specific bits. Copying bits from one place to another has nothing to do with theft...
And don't moralize to me about "sharing" of content. "Don't moralize to me..." (Insert moralizing to reader right after)
See any irony here? Mmmhmm...
The law of the land says you can't do it. Until the law is changed, that's the way it is. Yes, and the law is ALWAYS morally sound, of course. Business interests would NEVER enter into it.
This is just plain dumb. The ONLY time I have EVER heard of Linux harming hardware in any way was a kernel bug a long time ago that would accidentally kill USB thumbdrives by working them constantly.
Have you ever considered that if the operating system is taking so much of the focus of what you are doing on your PC versus what you are doing with applications you are running on top of it, you might just possibly be doing something wrong, or at the very lest the supplier of that P(OS) might be doing something horribly wrong. I did not say or mean that it takes my focus off my work.
I mean, really, the OS should be virtually an invisible delivery system for your applications, it should take up virtually none of your time and very little of your consciousness, is should just work, rather than barely work. It should use the least amount possible of your hardware resources to give you the maximum performance for your applications. I don't believe that is true. If it were, why would people make such a fuss over which OS they used? I agree it should just work.
As for 'pretty' software, man, I am no even going to bother to go their, yeah, big issue in my computing life a pretty (P)OS, Noticing how good an OS looks whenever you open the lid and being taken back by it every time is a very good thing. The same can be accomplished with other OS's, however.
forget speed, reliability, security, stability I said it was fast. It has minor reliability issues, but so does every OS that should really be called public beta. Security and stability are indeed issues.
idiot (FU)DRM issues, I hate that as well.
pretty is what I am looking for in an OS. Obviously prettiness isn't the major factor in choosing your OS. For me, the major factor is that things actually work. Hardware support for Linux on this computer is quite bad. Wifi disconnects every few minutes by itself. Dual-monitor support worth anything requires a driver to be installed which will make the OS not boot anymore without reinstalling the driver in text-only mode, taking about 5 minutes every boot, because for some reason it decides to overwrite the X module for it every boot. Suspend to disk and ram are extremely unreliable. Closing the lid and chucking it in a bag knowing it will be fine when I reopen it isn't even an option. And if it does fail and I need it again, I have to go through a driver reinstallation in text mode to get it to work again. On my old computer, most of that worked perfectly in Linux (minus multimonitor support which wasn't an issue because the video card couldn't drive the external monitor anyway), and it was my main OS. I think you misunderstand me; I AM choosing an OS that just works. When Linux works with all my hardware and Eclipse's CDT improves (I think the improvements I want are already in beta), I will likely switch back.
If an Intel Quadcore overclocked to 4GHz with 4Mb RAM and twin nVidia 8800 GTX cards are not enough to run Areo then Microsoft have a problem. If that machine doesn't make Vista scream, there's something wrong with either it, the crapware that came with it, or the Vista install.
My laptop, 2GHz Core2 with 1GB of ram and a GeFore Go 7600 runs Vista smooth as silk, Flip3D is completely fluid, most programs start almost instantly, and it's the prettiest OS I have ever seen (externally), even beating Mac OS X. With the windows set to be as transparent as possible with a good wallpaper it is amazing looking. I never thought I would give a Microsoft OS so much praise - and I seem to be one of the only people on Earth who like Vista - but it really is excellent, beyond the file copy issue, IE scrolling slowly, low battery life (BAFFLINGLY low - over an hour less than Linux even without Aero turned on. Odd...) and that dirty feeling you get from running Windows.
By the way, you are indeed running Aero, but not with all options turned on. You should go into Window Color and Appearance and make sure "Enable transparency" is checked.
If I was microsoft and was looking for a way to consign linux back to being a hobbyist toy this is exactly what I'd do. If you were Microsoft, you would create a license that more strictly helps the software to succeed? I like your vision of Microsoft. Please take it over.
For years the claims that the GPL is viral has been dismissed as fud but now the same people are claiming that because Microsoft didn't put an expiry date on the Novel vouchers they will have to be bound by the terms of a license not written yet and have to give up patents? The "viral" aspect of the license has no relation to the licensing on the coupons. If Novell's latest SuSE comes with software under the GPLv3, then Microsoft distributing coupons for it is by definition distributing coupons for GPLv3 software. Nothing to do with the "virus" aspect. If an OEM got 30,000 coupons to distribute that were good for "the latest version of Windows" at the date of redemption, would you expect the license to be different from the boxed version? Would you say it was unfair, because the license changed?
If that doesn't have the corporates running for the hills I don't know what will. People will look at tivo being ****ed because of the license terms being changed and will think twice about investing serious money because of potential nastys in future version of the GPL. The spirit of the GPL doesn't change, period. There are no commercial interests which will cause it to change. Adhere to the spirit of it, and you'll be fine, right up to the time GPLv4,297 goes into effect. Don't adhere to the spirit of it, IE exploit loopholes in it to violate that spirit, and... Well, you'll end up like our friends at TiVO.
Might I add that all they have to do to come into compliance is let you run custom versions of Linux on the TiVO. Not exactly a hard thing to do.
Linux needs the big companies using it to keep money in the system Again, big companies are free to use it as long as they comply with the terms of the license. It's no different than proprietary software.
That bill was just created recently and has not been put into law. I very highly doubt it will be. If it does, how is that possibly "punishment fitting the crime"? You get more jailtime for rearranging magnetic charges on your hard drive in a certain way than you do for raping someone?!?!?!?! What the heck?
"The group is headed by Patrick Ross, a former senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a strongly free-market think tank. Ross has written about IP issues for years, and in a 2005 opinion piece claimed that he was 'looking for anyone who wants to join me in seeking that elusive middle ground.'"
"Backed by organizations like the MPAA, NBC, News Corp., Disney, Time Warner, the Business Software Alliance, Microsoft, ASCAP, the NBA, and others,"
They're seeking middle ground, and yet have some of the biggest copyright trolls in existance behind them?
"the Alliance is dedicated to 'strengthening copyright law'"
Ah, there we go. So by "balance" you mean "tip even further in the wrong direction", and by "Progress & Freedom Foundation" you mean "Stale Business Plan Protecting & Restriction Foundation".
Great, just wanted to make sure I knew what the terms meant.
"Perhaps, because artists create for the joy of creating?"
If artists create for the joy of creating, why do we need a copyright system to "promote Progress of (...) the useful Arts"?
"Also, the assumption that just because we "force" an artist to produce more, we will be better off, is faulty. Some authors can write books almost as fast as they can type them. Others are notorious for missing deadlines. Should we really value the churn-em-out author more?"
No, we should value whoever can produce the best material the quickest. If I write 2 excellent books and 1 mediocre book in 5 years, then I can expect to make a decent amount of money from the two decent books and less from the mediocre book. If I churn out 20 terrible books in those same 5 years, I can expect to make little money.
I'm not so sure of this. The other purpose of the GPL is to make sure people cannot make derivitive versions of the software and make it proprietary. Copyright has nothing to do with whether the source code is provided or not, so binary blobs are proprietary, regardless of whether you are allowed to redistribute it freely or not.
I had been using a Lexmark of some kind for a long time. Ink cost came to about $50-75 a month. The cartridges would get clogged up constantly, requiring constant test pages. Eventually, the printer would print everything streaky, nomatter how many times it was cleaned or the carts were replaced. Time for a new one.
I bought an Epson CX3810. It was a few clicks away from Just Working in Ubuntu. It is slow, but I like the fact that it has seperate ink cartridges for all the colors. What I really like is the amount of ink the carts hold - enough to print around 500 pages of normal quality black text on a single black cart. I found third-party carts, and have over the 9 months I have owned it printed over 1,000 pages on them. They work great, and ink cost works out to around $0.01 a page. I now print off 100 page documents with barely a thought given to it.
Had I gone with the manufacturer's cartridges, it would likely have been around 5 times that.
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Really? Who stole anything? If I want music for free, there are far easier and more legal ways than to go into my local store, grab a CD, stick it under my coat and walk out.
Oh, you mean copyright infringement. Why didn't you say so?
...has a lot of accidents.
...I give it two weeks tops.
Exactly. Yes, dark roast has less caffeine than light roast, and yes, one serving of espresso has less caffeine than one serving of coffee - what he is forgetting is that one serving of coffee is 6-8 ounces, where one serving of espresso is 1 ounce - thus, it has 3-4 times MORE caffeine, if we are talking in terms of per ounce - which is really the only accurate way to talk about it.
It should also be noted that there is not a recorded case of a fatal dose of caffeine being delivered from a beverage, so if you don't drink slowly, you might break ground right before you, err, break ground...
But the MPAA sets up a honeypot to catch thieves, that's bad? What did this have to do with theives? This was a (very poor) attempt to catch people copying specific bits. Copying bits from one place to another has nothing to do with theft... And don't moralize to me about "sharing" of content. "Don't moralize to me..." (Insert moralizing to reader right after)
See any irony here? Mmmhmm... The law of the land says you can't do it. Until the law is changed, that's the way it is. Yes, and the law is ALWAYS morally sound, of course. Business interests would NEVER enter into it.
DRM for plants. Amazing.
This is just plain dumb. The ONLY time I have EVER heard of Linux harming hardware in any way was a kernel bug a long time ago that would accidentally kill USB thumbdrives by working them constantly.
My laptop, 2GHz Core2 with 1GB of ram and a GeFore Go 7600 runs Vista smooth as silk, Flip3D is completely fluid, most programs start almost instantly, and it's the prettiest OS I have ever seen (externally), even beating Mac OS X. With the windows set to be as transparent as possible with a good wallpaper it is amazing looking. I never thought I would give a Microsoft OS so much praise - and I seem to be one of the only people on Earth who like Vista - but it really is excellent, beyond the file copy issue, IE scrolling slowly, low battery life (BAFFLINGLY low - over an hour less than Linux even without Aero turned on. Odd...) and that dirty feeling you get from running Windows.
By the way, you are indeed running Aero, but not with all options turned on. You should go into Window Color and Appearance and make sure "Enable transparency" is checked.
Might I add that all they have to do to come into compliance is let you run custom versions of Linux on the TiVO. Not exactly a hard thing to do. Linux needs the big companies using it to keep money in the system Again, big companies are free to use it as long as they comply with the terms of the license. It's no different than proprietary software.
Really? Gosh, that's a surprise.
Let them suffer. They've been leeching off of work never intended for them in a proprietary fashion for far too long.
That bill was just created recently and has not been put into law. I very highly doubt it will be. If it does, how is that possibly "punishment fitting the crime"? You get more jailtime for rearranging magnetic charges on your hard drive in a certain way than you do for raping someone?!?!?!?! What the heck?
"The group is headed by Patrick Ross, a former senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a strongly free-market think tank. Ross has written about IP issues for years, and in a 2005 opinion piece claimed that he was 'looking for anyone who wants to join me in seeking that elusive middle ground.'" "Backed by organizations like the MPAA, NBC, News Corp., Disney, Time Warner, the Business Software Alliance, Microsoft, ASCAP, the NBA, and others," They're seeking middle ground, and yet have some of the biggest copyright trolls in existance behind them? "the Alliance is dedicated to 'strengthening copyright law'" Ah, there we go. So by "balance" you mean "tip even further in the wrong direction", and by "Progress & Freedom Foundation" you mean "Stale Business Plan Protecting & Restriction Foundation". Great, just wanted to make sure I knew what the terms meant.
"Perhaps, because artists create for the joy of creating?"
If artists create for the joy of creating, why do we need a copyright system to "promote Progress of (...) the useful Arts"?
"Also, the assumption that just because we "force" an artist to produce more, we will be better off, is faulty. Some authors can write books almost as fast as they can type them. Others are notorious for missing deadlines. Should we really value the churn-em-out author more?"
No, we should value whoever can produce the best material the quickest. If I write 2 excellent books and 1 mediocre book in 5 years, then I can expect to make a decent amount of money from the two decent books and less from the mediocre book. If I churn out 20 terrible books in those same 5 years, I can expect to make little money.
The lowest edition I could get with my new laptop was Home Premium.
I'm not so sure of this. The other purpose of the GPL is to make sure people cannot make derivitive versions of the software and make it proprietary. Copyright has nothing to do with whether the source code is provided or not, so binary blobs are proprietary, regardless of whether you are allowed to redistribute it freely or not.
We've had this in games for years! It's called visibility checking...
I had been using a Lexmark of some kind for a long time. Ink cost came to about $50-75 a month. The cartridges would get clogged up constantly, requiring constant test pages. Eventually, the printer would print everything streaky, nomatter how many times it was cleaned or the carts were replaced. Time for a new one. I bought an Epson CX3810. It was a few clicks away from Just Working in Ubuntu. It is slow, but I like the fact that it has seperate ink cartridges for all the colors. What I really like is the amount of ink the carts hold - enough to print around 500 pages of normal quality black text on a single black cart. I found third-party carts, and have over the 9 months I have owned it printed over 1,000 pages on them. They work great, and ink cost works out to around $0.01 a page. I now print off 100 page documents with barely a thought given to it. Had I gone with the manufacturer's cartridges, it would likely have been around 5 times that.