Third, since 80% of mp3 players out there today are iPods (which all support AAC) In the USA and other OPEC countries... but not 'out there' as a whole.
'Out there' includes countries like India, China, Indonesia, Brazil etc, where there's a force to be reckoned: the el-cheapo Chinese players. OK, most of them look like/are garbage, but they're cheap as hell, and people buy them. Most of them does support ONLY MP3. And, in China, they're probably veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery worried about MP3 patent problems:P
Don't count MP3 out yet. And even WMA, remember that Microsoft commands 90%+ of the desktop computer market.
But it's not just OS X - any OS that has a GUI equivalent of sudo (which now includes FC2, RHEL, SuSE, among others) is easy enough to spoof with a dialog box. FC2 and RHEL just have some python libraries you import, and you're all set, and you get a userhelper dialog, just like the one displayed by the system utilities (system-config-packages, for example), and off you go.
But there's a conceptual difference between OS X and, say, FC2.
FC2 uses the 'classic' approach: if you need root access, they'll prompt for the root password, and let go. On OS X (and Ubuntu and Knoppix and Knoppix-derived distros, for that matter), if they need root access, will ask for your password, and let go.
Both of them has advantagens and disadvantages, but I still prefer the 'classic' approach, esp in work environments (I don't like to use sudo in work machines).
...it falls on the same old shitty complaining about GNOME 2.6 not being a Windows copycat. Damn, are people really believing that the Windows way to (not to) do stuff is the Only True Way (TM)?
I remember once people on deadly.org praising the fact that GNOME 2.0 (or 2.2? I can't rememeber now) was easily ported to OpenBSD.
It's great that GNOME is easily and quickly portable beyond Linux and Solaris (where people is pouring money on it) - GNOME hackers are on the way to make a truly industry-standard desktop environment. Go GNOME!
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"All Your Base" is pronounced dead several times every day, yet it's 15 minutes of fame continue for some reason...
Wow, a worm to do the work that the sysadmin should have done in the first place. That'll encourage those lazy sysadmins to just sit back and continue to do nothing.
Even better: who needs sysadmins now that the worms can do the job cheaper?:-)
So in that case, you're full of crap. I don't know if I am really qualified to comment on the other case, but doesn't BSD have linux compatibility? And isn't BSD available under a much less restrictive license? They could just adapt that code.
If GPL is invalid because doesn't put restrictions on how many copies of a software you can do, ANY FLOSS license is invalid too, because they all give the copyright holder more or less the same rights. Artistic License, MIT, BSD, Apache, even APSL and N/MPL are invalid too.
If SCO challenged the GPL's prohibition of closing the code, it was another story. Their attack is WAY more wide.
Dashboard is something that has a real potential to be cool, eye-candy-compliant AND useful - it would be REALLY kewl to search for 'heat' and comes your computer's temperature:)/me needs to be less lazy and recompile all that Mono stuff...
The fact that RedHat has to wait for months to get a possible injunction, while SCO & Co keep pumping their stocks and FUD - well.. this is a direct indictment on the way the justice system works(?) in the US.
The worst part (for American citizens, that is) of all the senility of US justice system is that, on the long run, who wants to innovate, or even work? Become a professional suer and you'll be well-done for the rest of your life. Be a Canopy Group-like and you'll be rewarded on the casinos known as NYSE and NASDAQ.
I wonder if eventually PDAs will render laptops obsolete - or, rather, if PDAs and laptops will converge.
I personally believe that PDAs, laptops and cellphones will eventually converge, and I hope that the bad joke called Microsoft Smartphone doesn't stop that.
That's a totally boneheaded analysis if ever I saw one. The RIAA does not have to sue every file trader, they just have to sue that ones with large caches of files (because they can get the biggest bang for the buck there... more files, more damages) and then they have to make a noise about what they are doing.
Even on that case RIAA will have to fight a long time to actually get someone.
It's great that people are turning to e-elections, especially in the Third World, where vote-rigging is more than rampant. Here in Brazil, we have it for some time. The system still has some big problems, but I doubt people will want to ever come back to pen-and-paper elections. I sincerely hope India goes the same route of banishing pen-and-paper elections.
Add to that the fact that Reality TV (TM) is killing off all of the creativity in television
The problem is not reality TV in itself, but the fact that TV pointy-haired bosses and incompetent producers think that it's a substitute for creativity.
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'Out there' includes countries like India, China, Indonesia, Brazil etc, where there's a force to be reckoned: the el-cheapo Chinese players. OK, most of them look like/are garbage, but they're cheap as hell, and people buy them. Most of them does support ONLY MP3. And, in China, they're probably veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery worried about MP3 patent problems
Don't count MP3 out yet. And even WMA, remember that Microsoft commands 90%+ of the desktop computer market.
Hey, at least, they don't use a proprietary protocol to talk to us :P
Isn't there a risk for their company that anything they implement will be replicated by the open source community?
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Yes. And that's good. It's called "competition". Something forgotten on desktop computing world
But it's not just OS X - any OS that has a GUI equivalent of sudo (which now includes FC2, RHEL, SuSE, among others) is easy enough to spoof with a dialog box. FC2 and RHEL just have some python libraries you import, and you're all set, and you get a userhelper dialog, just like the one displayed by the system utilities (system-config-packages, for example), and off you go.
But there's a conceptual difference between OS X and, say, FC2.
FC2 uses the 'classic' approach: if you need root access, they'll prompt for the root password, and let go.
On OS X (and Ubuntu and Knoppix and Knoppix-derived distros, for that matter), if they need root access, will ask for your password, and let go.
Both of them has advantagens and disadvantages, but I still prefer the 'classic' approach, esp in work environments (I don't like to use sudo in work machines).
...it falls on the same old shitty complaining about GNOME 2.6 not being a Windows copycat. Damn, are people really believing that the Windows way to (not to) do stuff is the Only True Way (TM)?
...the FreeBSD LiveCD wasn't mentioned.
It's the older FreeBSD LiveCD around, a project carried by the Brazilian FreeBSD User Group.
Is it that PowerPoint makes us stupid, or that only the stupid use PowerPoint?
The answer, as usual, lies between - - it's that the tool provides an outlet for the stupidity that lies within us all.
Things become worse when you have to do a presentation in 5, 10 minutes.
Our problem is that we want to get rid of Macromedia :)
I'm working on a real big Windows to Linux migration and our biggest headache is Dreamweaver.
:)
Hoping BADLY that Nvu fulfills the promise.
It will be interesting the management development of the Fedora project: FreeBSD-style or Debian-style?
If I understood the paragraph correctly, yes.
Hm, it would be cool for all those living under transparent proxies not to see the Horror itself :)
I remember once people on deadly.org praising the fact that GNOME 2.0 (or 2.2? I can't rememeber now) was easily ported to OpenBSD.
It's great that GNOME is easily and quickly portable beyond Linux and Solaris (where people is pouring money on it) - GNOME hackers are on the way to make a truly industry-standard desktop environment. Go GNOME!
"All Your Base" is pronounced dead several times every day, yet it's 15 minutes of fame continue for some reason...
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Because it's plain fun, maybe
Wow, a worm to do the work that the sysadmin should have done in the first place. That'll encourage those lazy sysadmins to just sit back and continue to do nothing.
:-)
Even better: who needs sysadmins now that the worms can do the job cheaper?
I doubt this is something Sun, Microsoft, or IBM are keen to see happening.
And also Apple, and also a lot of people.
So in that case, you're full of crap. I don't know if I am really qualified to comment on the other case, but doesn't BSD have linux compatibility? And isn't BSD available under a much less restrictive license? They could just adapt that code.
If GPL is invalid because doesn't put restrictions on how many copies of a software you can do, ANY FLOSS license is invalid too, because they all give the copyright holder more or less the same rights. Artistic License, MIT, BSD, Apache, even APSL and N/MPL are invalid too.
If SCO challenged the GPL's prohibition of closing the code, it was another story. Their attack is WAY more wide.
Dashboard is something that has a real potential to be cool, eye-candy-compliant AND useful - it would be REALLY kewl to search for 'heat' and comes your computer's temperature :) /me needs to be less lazy and recompile all that Mono stuff...
The fact that RedHat has to wait for months to get a possible injunction, while SCO & Co keep pumping their stocks and FUD - well.. this is a direct indictment on the way the justice system works(?) in the US.
The worst part (for American citizens, that is) of all the senility of US justice system is that, on the long run, who wants to innovate, or even work? Become a professional suer and you'll be well-done for the rest of your life. Be a Canopy Group-like and you'll be rewarded on the casinos known as NYSE and NASDAQ.
Looks like every USB pendisk nowadays is doubling as a MP3 player.
I wonder if eventually PDAs will render laptops obsolete - or, rather, if PDAs and laptops will converge.
I personally believe that PDAs, laptops and cellphones will eventually converge, and I hope that the bad joke called Microsoft Smartphone doesn't stop that.
...is a proof of courage, silliness or both nowadays, and I personally hope it's a proof of courage. Go AMD!
That's a totally boneheaded analysis if ever I saw one. The RIAA does not have to sue every file trader, they just have to sue that ones with large caches of files (because they can get the biggest bang for the buck there... more files, more damages) and then they have to make a noise about what they are doing.
Even on that case RIAA will have to fight a long time to actually get someone.
It's great that people are turning to e-elections, especially in the Third World, where vote-rigging is more than rampant. Here in Brazil, we have it for some time. The system still has some big problems, but I doubt people will want to ever come back to pen-and-paper elections. I sincerely hope India goes the same route of banishing pen-and-paper elections.
Meanwhile, in Florida...
Add to that the fact that Reality TV (TM) is killing off all of the creativity in television
The problem is not reality TV in itself, but the fact that TV pointy-haired bosses and incompetent producers think that it's a substitute for creativity.