If MS claims they can't remove the application features without preserving the OS features and making the OS unbootable, then they are idiots. Since I know that MS engineers are not idiots
Well, this is true. There is nothing that's really "impossible" there. When they say that something can't be done, they mean that it would be difficult and would involve a lot of time and money, also involving shifting their business plan. That's why it "can't be done." Because it would be hard.
Honestly, this might sound a bit dumb, but I don't see what is so difficult about using gzip, tar and gmake.
I know how to use them fairly well, but I'll usually go for a package instead. Why? Because the work has been done for me already. I don't want to go through a hastle that pretty much is a waste of time if there's a package available. I mean, if you know how to use it, why not go for the package? (Unless there are some compile-time customizations you want to make) I just don't have the time otherwise.
Girls are buying spears albums because they want to be like her, while people listened to beatles/whoever (my personal favorite is PF) because they liked their music, period.
You must have missed all those girls screaming in the audience.;) The Beatles had talent, but they were also very much the boy band of that era, who attracted many fans for attributes which had little to do with music. They too were really selling an image.
Don't CDs have a "copyright" no-duplicate bit? I know my cdda ripper lets me override it. Just how useful has that copyright bit been?
I've seen on a few HDTV advocacy sites which claim that converter boxes will be available allowing you to view HDTV broadcasts on regular TV/VCRs. Is this vaporware, or is there anything to this, and if so, wouldn't this allow you to use your VCRs with HDTV? (Albeit in a lower-quality format)
I feel so dirty saying this, but "Maybe now it's bad enough".
I doubt it. Your average Joe Six-Pack can't even set the time on his VCR. Most likely all he uses it for is to rent movies on VHS, not record shows. That's what my Dad uses his for.
However, the blame, really, belongs on the people who let them get away with this, specifically us. Don't like the MPAA? Don't buy their movies. Don't like the RIAA? Don't buy CD's
Unfortunately, that does nothing other than giving yourself a warm fuzzy feeling. A very small percentage of the population dislikes the MPAA, and a somewhat larger percentage dislikes the RIAA. The majority, however, do not, certainly not enough to do anything about it. It takes a fair number of participants to make a boycott work. You either have to find other ways, or else somehow convince the majority to resist, and the majority has shown that it doesn't want to fight, they are willing to hand over freedoms for the new features, new content, etc. How can you win when most people are willing to hand over the freedom that you and I prize so dearly?
It's probably worst, there are undoubtedly political lobby groups in the US who have managed to get tax revenue to fund their lobbying. e.g. those claiming to represent "oppressed minorities".
Here in California there was a big discussion about a state proposition that would allow people to not have to pay union dues if they disagreed with the political causes the unions gave to (or it went something like that). In many jobs, you don't have a choice -- you have to pay the union.
This is aimed towards Red Hat, mostly because of their 7.0 fiasco. Is Red Hat too big? I think for the user, no, it's just fine, and the author of the article is really nitpicking unfairly, searching for something to criticize. He came close to a really good criticism, but then shied away at the last second to attack "ease of use" (Or maybe he never saw what I'm refering to). Another "choice is bad" pundit. My concern about the distribution is that the larger it grows, the harder it is to maintain. The more pieces you add and the more dependencies you add between pieces, the chance becomes greater that there is a conflict, and the chance that you miss dependencies becomes greater too.
I'll give a concrete RH7.0 example -- tin and metamail. I tested the 7.0 beta, and noticed that when tin ran into a mime-encoded message, it wouldn't ask if I wanted to run metamail. The problem is that metamail has to be installed at compile-time in order for this to work (or it can be forced with a./configure flag), and it didn't. Simply rebuilding the RPM on a machine with metamail installed will fix this, and I logged the bug on Red Hat's bugzilla, where it was soon flagged as fixed. The bug was then re-introduced in the final 7.0 release, so clearly this was a bug that they simply lost track of, and this was functionality that was not tested.
Where am I going with all of this? My concern is that there is just too much in the Red Hat distribution for them to test to make sure it works. Perhaps they just don't have a good-enough tracking system or testing system. But the above tin example is one of many little problems which were the fault of the packager, not the application.
Why do we get nothing but these sorts of rants on this crap ass forum?? You complain that people bash linux without any thought then you bash them with just as little if not less thought. I can officially say I'm sick of this fucking site and I'm not coming back... Only 1% of the people on here actually have an open mind and I'm sick of being in the minority.
Grrr.... this is hardly a Slashdot thing, but why is it that everyone always has to leave with some big huge fanfare and presentation, as if somehow all the rest were supposed to care that they were. Smacks of a lot of chest-thumping. If you're going to leave, then just LEAVE, don't shout from the rooftops "See this? I'm leaving now! Are you looking? Watch me leave! I'm really doing it, I'm leaving!"
Then again, with more conservative (read: law and order, damnit) Justices on the bench, who knows?
The sad thing is that such actions completely go against Republican Conservative principles, yet that is the way that Republicans have leaned in the past two decades. The Republican Party has become completely hypocritical, even more than the Democratic Party, and yet these are the two that Americans flock to? Do Americans thrive on hypocrasy?
I for one am glad that.XXX failed. Why? For a very simple reason: once you have the.XXX subdomain, then you can bet people will try to enforce it, that is, that ANY 'adult' content would have to be under a.XXX domain. And that would be terrible for so many reasons:
One man's picture of "indecency" is another man's picture of a fully clothed woman with her head uncovered. The standards for erotic content vary from person to person.
There are many many sites which feature 'adult' and non-adult content, such as the sites which host multiple users without content restrictions. I'm thinking of artistic sites, mostly. Also, would a picture/drawing of an 'artistic nude' be allowed outside of the.xxx domain? If not, would images of Michelangelo's David be allowed? If so, why? Because it's a classic, and somehow those are different?
For the above reasons and others, the forced classification of a site is itself censorship.
Kindof ironic how his site for True Christians to "take back the net" had a banner ad for an Internet Gambling site at top. Probably not intentional on his part, but humorous anyway.
Around here, the cops don't go around pulling people over... they simply cite for the seatbelt law while they're at it if they pull the driver over for something else. Somehow I doubt the enforcement costs for seat-belt laws are all that high.
Ah, yes of course, the miniscule amount of people who lived because they were "thrown clear" somehow outweighs the much greater number of people who survived because they wore seat belts. Of course.
I think you're overlooking the obvious: clearly you haven't seen how Saddam treats his consoles. When the Red Wings score on his team in NHL2000, or he dies again in Final Fantasy IX, that console goes flying through the window. Hussein stockpoles these things because he goes through them pretty quickly.
The only escape seems to be direct monthly payments. Once again, the porn industry leads the pack. You pay $30 a year and you get to view a block of web sites.
Sounds like my basic cable package. Which STILL has a billion advertisements throughout all the channels.
So first we had a movie called "How Stella Got Her Groove Back". This was about a woman who got lucky for the first time in God knows how long. Now we've got "The Emperor's New Groove". I'm really hoping they've redefined "groove" for this picture...
Coming soon to theaters: "How the Emperor Got His Groove Back"!
And the first thing they do is turn the emperor into a llama?? This movie is more perverted than I thought! Someone alert the ChildCare Action Project immediately!
Let's admit it, quite a few open-source projects are not terribly portable and frequently compile under certain environments that are... not necessarily standard. (did you install the right library? Do you have all the headers for that library? Do you have the right kernel version to compile?)
Frequently I just want to try out a program to see if it would be useful for me, and I don't want to have to fiddle with it to get it to compile. Do you think I'd want to have to compile mozilla every time I get a new nightly release? Of course not! I just don't have time to screw around and tweak with every little piece of software that I might use. Sometimes I really want to get into a program and change it, whatever. Call it the "scratch an itch" syndrome, fine, I do it because it interests me. But most of the time I just want to install something quickly and then use it, not fiddle with it to get it to work right. I don't have the endless free time. That's why pre-compiled binaries are useful to me.
Please, people; some of us want legal Linux DVD players even more than we want DVD ripper software. Can you at least try to look like you care about copyright law?
I believe that having legal DVD rippers is at least as important a fight as having a "legal Linux DVD program." Perhaps more so. The Linux DVD player is about your right to view your property, the legal ripper is about your right to do what you wish with your property, as long as you do not break copyright law.
I've certainly benefited greatly from being able to rip mp3's from my CDs. I can't anticipate the uses of DVD ripping, people rarely can see the benefits of technological advances before they happen.
Disney is being hypocritical, they want to retain ownership of THEIR IP and prevent it from becoming Public Domain but on the other hand they gladly use the Public Domain to get stories for their movies.
Hell, Disney has no problems using other peoples' non-public-domain stories for their movies. Grab a copy of Kimba, the White Lion (I believe that is the title), and compare the similarities to another Disney film...
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Well, this is true. There is nothing that's really "impossible" there. When they say that something can't be done, they mean that it would be difficult and would involve a lot of time and money, also involving shifting their business plan. That's why it "can't be done." Because it would be hard.
I know how to use them fairly well, but I'll usually go for a package instead. Why? Because the work has been done for me already. I don't want to go through a hastle that pretty much is a waste of time if there's a package available. I mean, if you know how to use it, why not go for the package? (Unless there are some compile-time customizations you want to make) I just don't have the time otherwise.
You must have missed all those girls screaming in the audience. ;) The Beatles had talent, but they were also very much the boy band of that era, who attracted many fans for attributes which had little to do with music. They too were really selling an image.
And yet at the same time, those same bands have terrible lead singers. Aaah, the paradox...
It could happen, trust me.
I doubt it. Your average Joe Six-Pack can't even set the time on his VCR. Most likely all he uses it for is to rent movies on VHS, not record shows. That's what my Dad uses his for.
Unfortunately, that does nothing other than giving yourself a warm fuzzy feeling. A very small percentage of the population dislikes the MPAA, and a somewhat larger percentage dislikes the RIAA. The majority, however, do not, certainly not enough to do anything about it. It takes a fair number of participants to make a boycott work. You either have to find other ways, or else somehow convince the majority to resist, and the majority has shown that it doesn't want to fight, they are willing to hand over freedoms for the new features, new content, etc. How can you win when most people are willing to hand over the freedom that you and I prize so dearly?
Here in California there was a big discussion about a state proposition that would allow people to not have to pay union dues if they disagreed with the political causes the unions gave to (or it went something like that). In many jobs, you don't have a choice -- you have to pay the union.
I'll give a concrete RH7.0 example -- tin and metamail. I tested the 7.0 beta, and noticed that when tin ran into a mime-encoded message, it wouldn't ask if I wanted to run metamail. The problem is that metamail has to be installed at compile-time in order for this to work (or it can be forced with a ./configure flag), and it didn't. Simply rebuilding the RPM on a machine with metamail installed will fix this, and I logged the bug on Red Hat's bugzilla, where it was soon flagged as fixed. The bug was then re-introduced in the final 7.0 release, so clearly this was a bug that they simply lost track of, and this was functionality that was not tested.
Where am I going with all of this? My concern is that there is just too much in the Red Hat distribution for them to test to make sure it works. Perhaps they just don't have a good-enough tracking system or testing system. But the above tin example is one of many little problems which were the fault of the packager, not the application.
Grrr.... this is hardly a Slashdot thing, but why is it that everyone always has to leave with some big huge fanfare and presentation, as if somehow all the rest were supposed to care that they were. Smacks of a lot of chest-thumping. If you're going to leave, then just LEAVE, don't shout from the rooftops "See this? I'm leaving now! Are you looking? Watch me leave! I'm really doing it, I'm leaving!"
What, don't you read the quickies?
The sad thing is that such actions completely go against Republican Conservative principles, yet that is the way that Republicans have leaned in the past two decades. The Republican Party has become completely hypocritical, even more than the Democratic Party, and yet these are the two that Americans flock to? Do Americans thrive on hypocrasy?
That's an old Bloom County joke. Boy I miss that strip...
Sounds like my basic cable package. Which STILL has a billion advertisements throughout all the channels.
Coming soon to theaters: "How the Emperor Got His Groove Back"!
And the first thing they do is turn the emperor into a llama?? This movie is more perverted than I thought! Someone alert the ChildCare Action Project immediately!
Frequently I just want to try out a program to see if it would be useful for me, and I don't want to have to fiddle with it to get it to compile. Do you think I'd want to have to compile mozilla every time I get a new nightly release? Of course not! I just don't have time to screw around and tweak with every little piece of software that I might use. Sometimes I really want to get into a program and change it, whatever. Call it the "scratch an itch" syndrome, fine, I do it because it interests me. But most of the time I just want to install something quickly and then use it, not fiddle with it to get it to work right. I don't have the endless free time. That's why pre-compiled binaries are useful to me.
I believe that having legal DVD rippers is at least as important a fight as having a "legal Linux DVD program." Perhaps more so. The Linux DVD player is about your right to view your property, the legal ripper is about your right to do what you wish with your property, as long as you do not break copyright law.
I've certainly benefited greatly from being able to rip mp3's from my CDs. I can't anticipate the uses of DVD ripping, people rarely can see the benefits of technological advances before they happen.
Hell, Disney has no problems using other peoples' non-public-domain stories for their movies. Grab a copy of Kimba, the White Lion (I believe that is the title), and compare the similarities to another Disney film...