Having backpacked for extended periods of a time with a laptop and other gear, my two pieces of advice. 1. Get Renter's Insurance. Covers you the world over, its dirt cheap and generally don't even need a police report. So if all your stuff gets ripped off, like your backpack, you can get it covered (it only does it in one shot though, so if you just lose a dig camera, not generally worth filing). 2. Ditch the laptop and use cafes or other devices unless you have a really good reason for the laptop. I brought mine because I was still doing the occasional work, but honestly, I wanted to ditch it. You'll feel freer, both of weight and peace of mind, without it. 3. Get a big fat ipod, running low on music sucks. Have a shuffle as a backup, battery lasts forever and when your main ipod dies you'll still have some music.
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Geez, I mean according to this guy.. if I buy a bunch of pc parts and put them together, I don't have a computer, but I will if I purchase one pre built from Apple, Compaq, or Dell.
Unix is like the modular/build your own OS of today. I feel it's like buying a computer, I can either build it from the ground up, grabbing that, leaving that, using this program, downloading this windows manager, etc, or I can go out and get some dist/ver with everything already set up. MacOS and Windows are the cheap websurfers you can buy that will only do a limited amount and will only let you use what they have (until they are hacked of course). I figure Apple and MS should go the way of Unix, build a core OS, and let everyone else make dists, versions, designs etc (like LiteStep), and then maybe someone like MS could finally get a stable, working OS. Of course, with OS X Apple is doing this very thing.
Stupid columnist.. I say someone go put linux on his computer
My complaint with Redhat, and the only reason why I ever compare them with MS, is that they release everything TOO early and TOO Buggy! Look at Debian! Look at Mandrake.. Sure, they don't come out as fast, but there are a hell of a lot less problems.
Don't get me wrong.. I started with Redhat, and there are certainly things I like about Redhat, but too often it seems that the "gee-whiz" gizmos and ideas are getting in the way of stability and functionality.
Unlike Sun and MS, Redhat is on the ball, does release fixes, and generally stays on top of things, but I wouldn't mind if they just held off releasing versions with beta software and so many bugs. Have more Betas! Get more of us linux freaks out here to test your releases, take a bit more time, hire more testers. What you have now isn't working well enough.
Until then.. I've decided to move to debian myself.. tired of things breaking just because I upgrade my version of redhat. Otherwise, I'll still be passing it onto friends who are just getting started with linux, I figure it is still one of the easier dists to use.
Read the article again. It's not slamming Coremetrics for using web bugs, it's slamming them and their clients for unclear privacy statements.
Just because they are associates, doesn't mean it's a shameless plug. If your trying to trash slashdot's image, your gonna have to try harder than that.
I actually use pike in a work environment, since we run Roxen as our webserver. In general, I've liked it, as well as its integration with roxen. Here are my few good and bad points about it
Good Points
The manual is pretty decent. I'd hope for more short examples of code for some of the different functions, but in general, it has been a real asset (Roxen's manuals on the other hand, I've found to be rather lacking and frustrating. A downside to an otherwise good webserver).
Easy interpreted language for c/c++/java programmers to pick up. Most of my previous programming knowledge being from school, Pike was a LOT easier to pick up and use compared to working and learning perl.
Bad points
One complaint I've had, is how it returns the NULL values from a mySQL database. It likes to return it as a 0, instead of just being a null value, which has caused a few problems.
Nonetheless, I've liked it so far and most of my problems have been the lack of good documentation for Roxen, compared to problems with Pike itself. I'm not really the best to evaulate languges(give me some time though), but if you know c/c++, it's a good interpeted language to move too.
Hhhhmm..the only thing I noticed that I THOUGHT was wrong in the movie, and I've yet to verify it, was when he buried his wife and child? Weren't they more likely to burn their dead? Am I wrong/right?
Either way, I believe your right about the pila though, because if you've read Harry Turtledove's fantasy novels about the Roman Legion lost in a different world, it makes a lot of the same historical references (I see that your asking yourself why one would take the word of a fantasy writer for historical references, but Harry Turtledove is a historian, so he mixes the two.)
Or so she claims? I know that long ago, they had their little AppleTalk, which, plainly sucked, but they couldn't possibly of created Local Area Networking? Right? Can someone clarify this?
I agree that it seems hard to prove who is who on napster and if they could even block all the people on that list (possibly the people with static ips, but then they'll just get another).
My question, and I feel it's something that should certainly be investigated before napster instigates any actions, is just HOW were they collecting information? Sure, they say they've got some "AI Program" doing the search of 5,000 individuals, but that doesn't mean their searches were successful. Are they looking for every mp3 that has metallica in the title? Or has some reference to a Metallica song title? How are they even sure that these mp3s are even Metallica mp3s without downloading and listening to them (Can't you see it, NetPD sued as largest pirate of illegal mp3s *grin*)? Then, the question is, is it illegal to have an mp3 with Metallica in the title, but the actual music isn't Metallica?
I think NetPD needs to be saying a lot more about it's "AI Program" before anybody (slashdotters, lawyers, napster, etc) take their results seriously. In the meantime, I vote we (as in slashdotters), make a rather annoying song about how Metallica sucks and flood napster with tons of these with Metallica titles. How about it? Of course, we'll want to change spellings, titles, file size, etc to throw their "AI Program" off.
Note: I have heard of a company that is developing software that can identify/pattern match music based on properties within the file. So maybe NetPD is using something like this, but they should certainly be able to prove their results are accurate.
I agree with you somewhat, but all relationships are different, and I don't believe this was a "failed" relationship as much as him using her. Yeah, I could believe he's sincere and he might not of used her, but I don't. It happens, and he used her, and unless you happen to be close to either of them and know what happened, I don't really think you can say much about it, can you? So I disagree with you, I certainly believe there are "predators" out there, men and women who use others for sex, money, weird senses of power they have over others. Human nature also states that predators go for weak and sick prey, and Cheryl was most certainly vunerable. You have been lucky if you haven't been preyed upon, or used, but your probably a lot stronger than Cheryl was. I'm consider myself pretty strong, and I've been used.
I realize it's offtopic and probably most unreasonable, because I'll never give the prick a chance, but I don't care. It's a failing I'm willing to live with. I lost someone very dear to me, and even if she hadn't committed suicide, I'd still be angry at him. Just maybe not as much as I am now.
Never the less, you said you were in a certain situation. Maybe you were used, maybe you weren't, but you could handle what happened, but Cheryl most certainly wasn't. Who knows why the person did what she/he did to you, but I believe "icee" used Cheryl, because she was weak, therefore he "preyed" on her. On top of all this, all people are different, so you can hardly judge other relationships to be just like yours, because it sounds like a similar experience.
I happen to have been a friend of Cheryl's and I know this, for a fact, is true. Essentially the story goes like this
They meet on #depression
they fall in love (She REALLY fell for him)
Brings her to cali from Hawaii
He becomes her "first" (And for Cheryl, this was a MAJOR ordeal/moment in her life).
She goes home, happy, and absolutely in love.
A few days later, he tells her that he is still in love with his ex, and is getting back with her.
Her, being the emotional wreck and depressive girl she is, can't cope and ends up killing herself by throwing herself out th 17th story window of her apartment building
Needless to say, I have the problems with the man, and I distrusted and disliked him during the brief time she was with him, when I got to talk to her, and I believe he truly did use her and preyed on her weaknesses. She had her problems, but Cheryl was truly a special girl, and I'm still angry for what she did to herself. I don't blame him so much for her suicide, but for his preying upon her.
Nonetheless, I don't think I've ever hated someone as much as I hate "icee", and I've got no problem discrediting and ruining this predator. I just can't believe I've run into him again, now in the media... it makes my skin crawl. Nothing can repay for what he did to Cheryl.
Is it me, or is this link not working? They couldn't of gotten slashdotted THAT fast, could they? (yes, this is really irrelevant). Sounds pretty cool anyways, a lot better than most handheld gaming units out.
I've seen an alarming trend within GNOME and other linux (GUI)programs/window managers to design their programs after other OS-based programs (mainly windows).
I don't mean to say just because it's linux, it should be different than any other OS/program design out there, or that there aren't some good ideas out there ripe to steal. Rather, it seems that a lot of the time, we're stealing the design, and not putting much thought in how to IMPROVE upon those designs (for example, take the GNOME PIM! Looks EXACTLY like the Outlook calendar).
For example, within MS Outlook, I like the function I can e-mail a calendar invite out, and people can accept/refuse from right within the e-mail, without the recipient having to add the invite manually. On the other hand, I'm continually irritated by the lack of being able to sort and view all incoming mail the way I want to (This would take WAY too long to explain how exactly it's irritating)
Besides Eazel and Helix (two projects I have high hopes for, and I've already been impressed with Helix), how much work/thought has been put into the user interface? Is there anybody out there currently, specifically working on the UI for GNOME and programs for GNOME? We're also talking about more than just pretty graphics, but actual design of the interface, making it more intuitive (aka, easy enough so the novice user can figure it out, but still robust enough the expert can still do what (s)he wants).
On top of that, I wonder how versatility is being worked on as well? I remember reading one time, that a major complaint against Microsoft Office, was that it had grown to such massive proportions, that it was currently designing how office operations work (memo's, docs, meetings, etc.), instead of being designed towards how businesses are run (if that makes sense). In my mind, it'd be better to have an office suite you can configure towards your business model, instead of changing your business model to fit with your software (via plug-ins, modules, configuration, etc. of buzzwords)
I go on the net and LOOK for porn. Spam just gets sent to me whether I want it or not. I hate porn spam as much as I hate "get rich quick" spam.
It has nothing to do with censorship, it's the question of why should I deal with shit I didn't ask for, nor wanted. When I go out, I expect to see advertisements, I expect to see ads in the magazines I read, the webpages I visit. I'm fine with that. I have a problem with people invading my space without my consent and who are definitely not wanted. Junk mail included
Q Why does MS release Office for the Mac but not Linux
A Hardware platform competition. Look at IE. It was released for Mac, HP-UX, and Solaris. Not Solaris x86, but for the Sparc Architecture. As it stands now, Linux competes with Windows for the x86 architecture, and therefore, Microsoft won't even give linux one small advantage for the x86, because it realizes that the control of the OS is what gives them their advantage in the first place.
This might lead you to ask why office wasn't ported to HP-UX and Solaris. Well.. what company do you know that is going to buy an employee a Sparc or HP-UX workstation just so he or she can write some documents and fill out a spreadsheet? The Macintosh is a desktop computer, HP-UX and Solaris aren't. Linux still doesn't have a strong desktop market, so even besides the platform competition, there's another reason to not port Office. Might as well ask why they haven't ported to BeOS.
Excuse me, but what a ridiculous arguement! Name branding is different than advertisement space. iCraveTV was selling adspace, not advertising it's OWN SERVICE! There is obviously a difference! If iCraveTV had a banner saying "Hey, We're iCraveTV. Thanks for watching!", and wasn't selling any banners, I doubt there would be such a big fuss made.
So, if this is correct, I should be able to copy my daily newspaper, sell advertisements around the border, and give it away for free (exactly what iCraveTV did). I'm sure that's perfectly reasonable. Your correct that my cd analogy is wrong, but I'm sure that most free newspapers would be pissed if you were using their content and making money off it. That's still technically stealing.
As an artist myself, I don't mind people using my scripts and performing them, if they like them, as long as I get credit. I do have a problem if someone takes some of my work, and decides to make a buck off it, without giving me due credit or compensation.
As for a SONY or RCA Tv, that's a brand name on a product, like the Gateway or Sony on top of your monitor. They aren't making money off that title for something they didn't do. If all iCraveTV had was a banner saying "Hey, we're iCraveTV", then there shouldn't have been a problem.
So what if someone mirrored your website, and started selling banner spaces at the top and making mucho bucks. What about your free underground zine? Your band's free demo tape? Yeah, it's public domain, but that doesn't not give anyone an excuse to steal it and make money of it.
As for cable television, at least in the states, you PAY for that service, and they pay for the content and right to re-broadcast it. Your not really paying for cable access to see the public stations, and that's not what they are making they're money off of. They are providing the service of the OTHER stations that aren't public. The public stations are just a bonus, so you don't have to switch between cable and the antenna. If iCraveTV was MAINLY offering other services, and making their money off that, and just offering the PUBLIC broadcasts as a bonus, then it'd be a different issue.
It seems some people are missing the point here, and are very quick to jump on the ol' bandwagon to beat down on big media. Not that I don't think we should (especially concerning DeCSS), but this time, iCraveTV is in the wrong
iCraveTV could of legally rebroadcast PUBLIC television (aka, anything you can get off public airwaves, which obviously, isn't CABLE) as long as they didn't alter any of the content. As far as I understand, they didn't alter the content, but we're forcing users to look at banners, which aren't part of the broadcast, and weren't paying for the right to post those banner ads. This is equivalent to copying a cd and selling it at full price, without ever giving any revenue back to the recording company or artist. "Hey, I'll just take your content, make money off it, and you'll NEVER see a penny of it". That's stealing.
Nothing is stopping anyone from streaming PUBLIC television, so go ahead. Grab that video encoder, run your antenna into it, and start streaming out over those ADSL and cable modems. Just don't expect to make any money off it.
There needs to be more choices, as in interfaces for the ignorant user (if there is a drive to move linux to the desktop and small business arenas) and power users. It's like in windows (Excuse the analogy), where you can just do the typical/standard/defaul install, or if you know what your doing, you can do the custom install.
I figure the future of all software/interfacing, is the ability of software to give some users less choices, because they don't want/need them and would only be confused by it, but if you'd like to get into the nitty gritty, optimizing, changing, etc, you can. So I like the idea of standarizations, but more along the idea of EVERYTHING being configurable. So every programmer will have their default gui design, but the user (if they want), can change it around. Does it matter where the close, minimize, and maximize buttons are? It does, in a design/logical sense of the matter, but everyone is different, and to enforce the idea that everyone will want to work with ONE design is ridiculuous (sp).
Excuse my rambling, but it just reminds me of my general thoughts on Feature-Rich BloatWare and Small programs working Together (or something.. can't remember the term).
How often has Microsoft made a deal with a company, only to turn around a year later and compete directly with them (successfully and unsuccessfully). MS seems to have the policy of getting all buddy-buddy with a company, checking out their operation, their ideas, their software, and then turning around the next year and slamming them to the ground. Just ask Netscape, AOL, and Real about that.
So I'm just waiting to see when Microsoft turns around with a product to directly compete against Inprise's product, and suffocate them with their already powerful stranglehold on the market.
Normally I'd agree with this view, except for the fact that Microsoft was AWARE of the loophole. They took the chance, so sure of themselves that it wouldn't be used in such a matter(I won't say it was abuse, because it obviously wasn't). If that's how they want to operate, then there isn't ANY reason that consumers in OR and CA shouldn't take advantage of it.
If in fact, it was a loophole they weren't aware of, then yes, I would agree with you. It should of been reported.
In response to someone else's comment about how it hurts the people who invested in the company. Their "economic safety" within the company is not the public's concern or responsibility. When you invest with a company, you invest in their product, in belief they will make the best choices in securing a market and profit.
No offense, but I hate how everytime something good (like donations from/. readers) or bad (Columbine shooting), gives people the feeling they can use these events toward their own causes.
/. reader's should be praised for helping such a cause! (Admittedly, the article I'm responding to, isn't that harsh, fortunately). The thing is, when things like this happen, and people start getting involved, it's one step further to getting more involved. It's possible one/. reader will really get into this cause, and maybe in doing so, might learn more about other causes, and get more involved. Either way, there are ton's of problems in the world, and every person can only put so much time to a few of them! We choose certain political causes, but not others (OSS, DVDCA?, Censorship), and we'll do the same for other causes. Other people will put their time, money, and energy toward other causes/. would skip over.
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Having backpacked for extended periods of a time with a laptop and other gear, my two pieces of advice.
1. Get Renter's Insurance. Covers you the world over, its dirt cheap and generally don't even need a police report. So if all your stuff gets ripped off, like your backpack, you can get it covered (it only does it in one shot though, so if you just lose a dig camera, not generally worth filing).
2. Ditch the laptop and use cafes or other devices unless you have a really good reason for the laptop. I brought mine because I was still doing the occasional work, but honestly, I wanted to ditch it. You'll feel freer, both of weight and peace of mind, without it.
3. Get a big fat ipod, running low on music sucks. Have a shuffle as a backup, battery lasts forever and when your main ipod dies you'll still have some music.
Geez, I mean according to this guy.. if I buy a bunch of pc parts and put them together, I don't have a computer, but I will if I purchase one pre built from Apple, Compaq, or Dell.
Unix is like the modular/build your own OS of today. I feel it's like buying a computer, I can either build it from the ground up, grabbing that, leaving that, using this program, downloading this windows manager, etc, or I can go out and get some dist/ver with everything already set up. MacOS and Windows are the cheap websurfers you can buy that will only do a limited amount and will only let you use what they have (until they are hacked of course). I figure Apple and MS should go the way of Unix, build a core OS, and let everyone else make dists, versions, designs etc (like LiteStep), and then maybe someone like MS could finally get a stable, working OS. Of course, with OS X Apple is doing this very thing.
Stupid columnist.. I say someone go put linux on his computer
Don't get me wrong.. I started with Redhat, and there are certainly things I like about Redhat, but too often it seems that the "gee-whiz" gizmos and ideas are getting in the way of stability and functionality.
Unlike Sun and MS, Redhat is on the ball, does release fixes, and generally stays on top of things, but I wouldn't mind if they just held off releasing versions with beta software and so many bugs. Have more Betas! Get more of us linux freaks out here to test your releases, take a bit more time, hire more testers. What you have now isn't working well enough.
Until then.. I've decided to move to debian myself.. tired of things breaking just because I upgrade my version of redhat. Otherwise, I'll still be passing it onto friends who are just getting started with linux, I figure it is still one of the easier dists to use.
About TIME!
Read the article again. It's not slamming Coremetrics for using web bugs, it's slamming them and their clients for unclear privacy statements.
Just because they are associates, doesn't mean it's a shameless plug. If your trying to trash slashdot's image, your gonna have to try harder than that.
As the net has helped independant and amateur filmmakers succeed, the Academy does their best to shut them down and only let the big boys play.
Yet another example of the large conglomerate shutting down the small independants (RIAA, MPAA, etc).
I actually use pike in a work environment, since we run Roxen as our webserver. In general, I've liked it, as well as its integration with roxen. Here are my few good and bad points about it
Nonetheless, I've liked it so far and most of my problems have been the lack of good documentation for Roxen, compared to problems with Pike itself. I'm not really the best to evaulate languges(give me some time though), but if you know c/c++, it's a good interpeted language to move too.
Hhhhmm..the only thing I noticed that I THOUGHT was wrong in the movie, and I've yet to verify it, was when he buried his wife and child? Weren't they more likely to burn their dead? Am I wrong/right?
Either way, I believe your right about the pila though, because if you've read Harry Turtledove's fantasy novels about the Roman Legion lost in a different world, it makes a lot of the same historical references (I see that your asking yourself why one would take the word of a fantasy writer for historical references, but Harry Turtledove is a historian, so he mixes the two.)
Or so she claims? I know that long ago, they had their little AppleTalk, which, plainly sucked, but they couldn't possibly of created Local Area Networking? Right? Can someone clarify this?
I agree that it seems hard to prove who is who on napster and if they could even block all the people on that list (possibly the people with static ips, but then they'll just get another).
My question, and I feel it's something that should certainly be investigated before napster instigates any actions, is just HOW were they collecting information? Sure, they say they've got some "AI Program" doing the search of 5,000 individuals, but that doesn't mean their searches were successful. Are they looking for every mp3 that has metallica in the title? Or has some reference to a Metallica song title? How are they even sure that these mp3s are even Metallica mp3s without downloading and listening to them (Can't you see it, NetPD sued as largest pirate of illegal mp3s *grin*)? Then, the question is, is it illegal to have an mp3 with Metallica in the title, but the actual music isn't Metallica?
I think NetPD needs to be saying a lot more about it's "AI Program" before anybody (slashdotters, lawyers, napster, etc) take their results seriously. In the meantime, I vote we (as in slashdotters), make a rather annoying song about how Metallica sucks and flood napster with tons of these with Metallica titles. How about it? Of course, we'll want to change spellings, titles, file size, etc to throw their "AI Program" off.
Note: I have heard of a company that is developing software that can identify/pattern match music based on properties within the file. So maybe NetPD is using something like this, but they should certainly be able to prove their results are accurate.
I agree with you somewhat, but all relationships are different, and I don't believe this was a "failed" relationship as much as him using her. Yeah, I could believe he's sincere and he might not of used her, but I don't. It happens, and he used her, and unless you happen to be close to either of them and know what happened, I don't really think you can say much about it, can you? So I disagree with you, I certainly believe there are "predators" out there, men and women who use others for sex, money, weird senses of power they have over others. Human nature also states that predators go for weak and sick prey, and Cheryl was most certainly vunerable. You have been lucky if you haven't been preyed upon, or used, but your probably a lot stronger than Cheryl was. I'm consider myself pretty strong, and I've been used.
I realize it's offtopic and probably most unreasonable, because I'll never give the prick a chance, but I don't care. It's a failing I'm willing to live with. I lost someone very dear to me, and even if she hadn't committed suicide, I'd still be angry at him. Just maybe not as much as I am now.
Never the less, you said you were in a certain situation. Maybe you were used, maybe you weren't, but you could handle what happened, but Cheryl most certainly wasn't. Who knows why the person did what she/he did to you, but I believe "icee" used Cheryl, because she was weak, therefore he "preyed" on her. On top of all this, all people are different, so you can hardly judge other relationships to be just like yours, because it sounds like a similar experience.
I won't anonymous coward this
I happen to have been a friend of Cheryl's and I know this, for a fact, is true. Essentially the story goes like this
Needless to say, I have the problems with the man, and I distrusted and disliked him during the brief time she was with him, when I got to talk to her, and I believe he truly did use her and preyed on her weaknesses. She had her problems, but Cheryl was truly a special girl, and I'm still angry for what she did to herself. I don't blame him so much for her suicide, but for his preying upon her.
Nonetheless, I don't think I've ever hated someone as much as I hate "icee", and I've got no problem discrediting and ruining this predator. I just can't believe I've run into him again, now in the media... it makes my skin crawl. Nothing can repay for what he did to Cheryl.
Is it me, or is this link not working? They couldn't of gotten slashdotted THAT fast, could they? (yes, this is really irrelevant). Sounds pretty cool anyways, a lot better than most handheld gaming units out.
I've seen an alarming trend within GNOME and other linux (GUI)programs/window managers to design their programs after other OS-based programs (mainly windows).
I don't mean to say just because it's linux, it should be different than any other OS/program design out there, or that there aren't some good ideas out there ripe to steal. Rather, it seems that a lot of the time, we're stealing the design, and not putting much thought in how to IMPROVE upon those designs (for example, take the GNOME PIM! Looks EXACTLY like the Outlook calendar).
For example, within MS Outlook, I like the function I can e-mail a calendar invite out, and people can accept/refuse from right within the e-mail, without the recipient having to add the invite manually. On the other hand, I'm continually irritated by the lack of being able to sort and view all incoming mail the way I want to (This would take WAY too long to explain how exactly it's irritating)
Besides Eazel and Helix (two projects I have high hopes for, and I've already been impressed with Helix), how much work/thought has been put into the user interface? Is there anybody out there currently, specifically working on the UI for GNOME and programs for GNOME? We're also talking about more than just pretty graphics, but actual design of the interface, making it more intuitive (aka, easy enough so the novice user can figure it out, but still robust enough the expert can still do what (s)he wants).
On top of that, I wonder how versatility is being worked on as well? I remember reading one time, that a major complaint against Microsoft Office, was that it had grown to such massive proportions, that it was currently designing how office operations work (memo's, docs, meetings, etc.), instead of being designed towards how businesses are run (if that makes sense). In my mind, it'd be better to have an office suite you can configure towards your business model, instead of changing your business model to fit with your software (via plug-ins, modules, configuration, etc. of buzzwords)
I go on the net and LOOK for porn. Spam just gets sent to me whether I want it or not. I hate porn spam as much as I hate "get rich quick" spam.
It has nothing to do with censorship, it's the question of why should I deal with shit I didn't ask for, nor wanted. When I go out, I expect to see advertisements, I expect to see ads in the magazines I read, the webpages I visit. I'm fine with that. I have a problem with people invading my space without my consent and who are definitely not wanted. Junk mail included
A Hardware platform competition. Look at IE. It was released for Mac, HP-UX, and Solaris. Not Solaris x86, but for the Sparc Architecture. As it stands now, Linux competes with Windows for the x86 architecture, and therefore, Microsoft won't even give linux one small advantage for the x86, because it realizes that the control of the OS is what gives them their advantage in the first place.
This might lead you to ask why office wasn't ported to HP-UX and Solaris. Well.. what company do you know that is going to buy an employee a Sparc or HP-UX workstation just so he or she can write some documents and fill out a spreadsheet? The Macintosh is a desktop computer, HP-UX and Solaris aren't. Linux still doesn't have a strong desktop market, so even besides the platform competition, there's another reason to not port Office. Might as well ask why they haven't ported to BeOS.
Excuse me, but what a ridiculous arguement! Name branding is different than advertisement space. iCraveTV was selling adspace, not advertising it's OWN SERVICE! There is obviously a difference! If iCraveTV had a banner saying "Hey, We're iCraveTV. Thanks for watching!", and wasn't selling any banners, I doubt there would be such a big fuss made.
So, if this is correct, I should be able to copy my daily newspaper, sell advertisements around the border, and give it away for free (exactly what iCraveTV did). I'm sure that's perfectly reasonable. Your correct that my cd analogy is wrong, but I'm sure that most free newspapers would be pissed if you were using their content and making money off it. That's still technically stealing.
As an artist myself, I don't mind people using my scripts and performing them, if they like them, as long as I get credit. I do have a problem if someone takes some of my work, and decides to make a buck off it, without giving me due credit or compensation.
As for a SONY or RCA Tv, that's a brand name on a product, like the Gateway or Sony on top of your monitor. They aren't making money off that title for something they didn't do. If all iCraveTV had was a banner saying "Hey, we're iCraveTV", then there shouldn't have been a problem.
So what if someone mirrored your website, and started selling banner spaces at the top and making mucho bucks. What about your free underground zine? Your band's free demo tape? Yeah, it's public domain, but that doesn't not give anyone an excuse to steal it and make money of it.
As for cable television, at least in the states, you PAY for that service, and they pay for the content and right to re-broadcast it. Your not really paying for cable access to see the public stations, and that's not what they are making they're money off of. They are providing the service of the OTHER stations that aren't public. The public stations are just a bonus, so you don't have to switch between cable and the antenna. If iCraveTV was MAINLY offering other services, and making their money off that, and just offering the PUBLIC broadcasts as a bonus, then it'd be a different issue.
It seems some people are missing the point here, and are very quick to jump on the ol' bandwagon to beat down on big media. Not that I don't think we should (especially concerning DeCSS), but this time, iCraveTV is in the wrong
iCraveTV could of legally rebroadcast PUBLIC television (aka, anything you can get off public airwaves, which obviously, isn't CABLE) as long as they didn't alter any of the content. As far as I understand, they didn't alter the content, but we're forcing users to look at banners, which aren't part of the broadcast, and weren't paying for the right to post those banner ads. This is equivalent to copying a cd and selling it at full price, without ever giving any revenue back to the recording company or artist. "Hey, I'll just take your content, make money off it, and you'll NEVER see a penny of it". That's stealing.
Nothing is stopping anyone from streaming PUBLIC television, so go ahead. Grab that video encoder, run your antenna into it, and start streaming out over those ADSL and cable modems. Just don't expect to make any money off it.
There needs to be more choices, as in interfaces for the ignorant user (if there is a drive to move linux to the desktop and small business arenas) and power users. It's like in windows (Excuse the analogy), where you can just do the typical/standard/defaul install, or if you know what your doing, you can do the custom install.
I figure the future of all software/interfacing, is the ability of software to give some users less choices, because they don't want/need them and would only be confused by it, but if you'd like to get into the nitty gritty, optimizing, changing, etc, you can. So I like the idea of standarizations, but more along the idea of EVERYTHING being configurable. So every programmer will have their default gui design, but the user (if they want), can change it around. Does it matter where the close, minimize, and maximize buttons are? It does, in a design/logical sense of the matter, but everyone is different, and to enforce the idea that everyone will want to work with ONE design is ridiculuous (sp).
Excuse my rambling, but it just reminds me of my general thoughts on Feature-Rich BloatWare and Small programs working Together (or something.. can't remember the term).
So I'm just waiting to see when Microsoft turns around with a product to directly compete against Inprise's product, and suffocate them with their already powerful stranglehold on the market.
Why don't you try this for the base URL.
Now I gotta sit here and figure out who is who in the pics. AS if I didn't have enough time to waste at work today.
www.scentofawoman.com could be one of the largest fetish sites, including sister sites
stinkysocks.com
wornundies.com
sweatyjockstraps.com
unshavedpits.com
..and it gets worse from there
Normally I'd agree with this view, except for the fact that Microsoft was AWARE of the loophole. They took the chance, so sure of themselves that it wouldn't be used in such a matter(I won't say it was abuse, because it obviously wasn't). If that's how they want to operate, then there isn't ANY reason that consumers in OR and CA shouldn't take advantage of it.
If in fact, it was a loophole they weren't aware of, then yes, I would agree with you. It should of been reported.
In response to someone else's comment about how it hurts the people who invested in the company. Their "economic safety" within the company is not the public's concern or responsibility. When you invest with a company, you invest in their product, in belief they will make the best choices in securing a market and profit.
Machina
Never turn down a free lunch!
No offense, but I hate how everytime something good (like donations from /. readers) or bad (Columbine shooting), gives people the feeling they can use these events toward their own causes.
/. reader's should be praised for helping such a cause! (Admittedly, the article I'm responding to, isn't that harsh, fortunately). The thing is, when things like this happen, and people start getting involved, it's one step further to getting more involved. It's possible one /. reader will really get into this cause, and maybe in doing so, might learn more about other causes, and get more involved. Either way, there are ton's of problems in the world, and every person can only put so much time to a few of them! We choose certain political causes, but not others (OSS, DVDCA?, Censorship), and we'll do the same for other causes. Other people will put their time, money, and energy toward other causes /. would skip over.
Just my $0.02