Never really saw the point in playing music or movies with my computer anyway. I have a perfectly good iPod for music, and even though I've got CPU cycles to spare, I don't wanna waste 'em on a music player when I'm working.
Most people don't buy computers for work, they buy them for pleasure. If the CPU isn't wasting cycles playing games, music, and movies then it really serves them no purpose.
Remember, you're talking about the company whose EULA states that your right to use the operating system that you paid for when you bought your computer ends when you no longer own the hardware. Ain't no way they'd back anything like this bill.
...it'll only play in your CD player, because that's what the authorization says. You can make a copy and give it away, but your friend can't play it in his player...
So not only can't I play music that I paid for in my friends player, but also that I can only listen to it on just one of my players too. That's just plain ridiculous.
The Linux community did "police" itself, that's how the trojan was discovered. Besides, most commercial softwares have a "not responsible for anything" clause in their EULAs.
"The trick is to find something nobody else can produce, so you can set the price where you want it."
Microsoft's "trick" seems to be finding something that somebody else is already producing, then put the competitor out of business and repackage it as their own complete with a shiney brand new EULA that prohibits others from doing the same.
" is the fact that Oracle won't allow benchmarks to be published without their written consent, and of course your not going to get their consent unless your benchmark shows them in a favorable light.
Of course it's not just only Oracle with restrictions on publishing benchmarks. MS, Sun, McAfee and many others have similar clauses in their EULA's.
Just think of the possibilities if this trend was extended to other industries. If Kia doesn't like the results of crash safety tests they could prohibit those results from being published.
Though certainly bandwidth may be an issue, it is interesting that your college shut down P2P so soon after this article about RIAA/MPAA warnings appeared.
" NO! Open source is all about _other_ people being able to make their changes. It by no means means that those changes have to be accepted back: the license basically only boils down to that I must be _able_ to accept them back.
But the really important thing, the thing that really makes a difference, is that you, your dog, and your company can make your OWN changes."
"This shootdown shifts the paradigm for defensive capabilities. We've shown that even an artillery projectile hurtling through the air at supersonic speed is no match for a laser," said Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Cosumano, head of the missile defense command.
Now if they can just stop those pesky spies from stealing our tech, poisoning our water supplies, blowing up our factories, and planting thermonuclear devices we can be the first to reach Alpha Centauri!
Only sad if you don't consider all the benefits that have come from space technology. Some examples:
*Biotech:
"Brain tumors can be one of the most difficult types of cancer to treat. Improvements by Wisconsin-based Quantum Devices, Inc., in the Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) developed for ASTROCULTURE(TM) have helped advanceScientist with Light-emitting diode photodynamic therapy. ASTROCULTURE(TM) is a commercial plant research facility developed by the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, a Commercial Space Center."
*Manufacturing:
Brush Wellman Incorporated successfully produced the world's largest aluminum-beryllium casting with the assistance of ground-based casting data and computational models developed by the Solidification Design Center, a Commercial Space Center. This alloy is very lightweight, making it useful in a number of aerospace applications. This work is helping advance manufacturing technology relating to the material.
*Agriculture:
Seed production is an essential part of crop production: without a good supply of seeds, farmers can not plant their fields. In 1996, the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics (WCSAR), a Commercial Space Center, and Pioneer Hi-Bred International launched a research effort to accelerate plant growth so that new seeds could be produced in the shortest possible amount of time. This research was done using the Commercial Plant Biotechnology Facility, designed for space-based research and featuring a totally enclosed and precisely controlled environment, and was able to reduce plant growth cycles. An example of this was reducing the soybean growth cycle from an average of 110 days to an average of 62 days a significant improvement. This was made possible through the advanced software and related technologies, and the use of ASTROCULTURE(TM) technologies that have been proven on the Shuttle.
Besides, it sures beats spending money on trying t kill each other down here.
the point is, that to most shareholders, telling them that their company made something to give away for free sounds bad. just how it is.
Aren't we talking about a driver here though? Few people would buy hardware if there wasn't software to make the device work. Wouldn't the shareholders be more pissed off if no one bought the hardware because the company didn't provide free drivers so people could actually use the dang thing?
Let's say company A and company B both sell device X for $50. Both devices perform their functions equally well. Company A provides the specifications for writing a driver for the device so that it can used in 100% of all the computers on the market. Company B decides to keep their specifications private and provides drivers only for the top 90% of all the computers on the market.
Which company is in a better position to sell more of device X, company A or company B.
"Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers."
"An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has postponed an appeal hearing on behalf of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of adultery. Safiya Husaini's lawyers had been seeking to overturn the conviction on the grounds that she was raped. But she now says that the baby at the centre of the case was fathered by her former husband. "
Exactly why again are my fellow "liberals" so concerned with maintaining stability in countries that violate human rights we take for granted every day? When did it become okay to persecute and discriminate against people because that is their cultures way of doing things?
Agreed...my '90 Bonneville hit 186,000 miles before the ABS system went out. Only reason I junked it was the cost of repair was more than the thing was worth.
Do a google for Microsoft security flaws and perhaps you'll have your answer? I can see the disclaimers now: "This patch fixes a vulnerability found in the Outlook API, and as such is considered secure code as per the DOJ/MS settlement."
Easy enough to say, but from the looks of things Pallidium is going to be a requirement on the manufacturers. DRM and security are specifically mentioned exceptions in the ruling.
As for them losing support: that's how the free market works! If you don't like MS as a consumer, buy from other companies and promote them. For competitors, the solution is to build a better product and promote. Don't whine to the government, do something about it.
Okay sure, we'll buy from someone else then. Let's go on down to Best Buy and see what our choices are...hmmm, we have a Compaq with MS Windows on it, we have an E-Machines with MS Windows on it, we have a Sony with MS Windows on it...plenty of choices aren't there?
Except for Apple, there still is really is no easy way for the average consumer to "vote" against Microsoft, and there won't be until machines pre-configured with Linux, BSD, and other alternative OS's are on the shelves.
I sure do...first new car I bought was in '78 and had nothing but trouble with from day 1. The service department breathed a sigh of relief when the thing hit 12000 miles and went out of warranty. I didn't buy another American made car until the '90. I recall the truism in those days was never buy a car built on Monday because the workers were hung over, nor one built on Friday because they were rushing to get to the bar.
Of course it all was really due to managements philosophy of sacrificing quality for profits and get people to "uprade" to a new car every year or two. The automotive industry learned their lesson, I wonder how long it will take for some of the software producers whose business model depends on a constant upgrade cycle to learn theirs as well?
Funny, but not really that far fetched. Increasingly greedier EULA's and Digital Rights Management WinTel based software companies only increase the digital divide between rich and poor nations.
Yes, there are many projects working on being able to play all Quicktime movies, but none that I am aware of have yet accomplished this goal. Codeweavers Crossover Plug-in does by integrating the Windows platform viewer with the Linux environment.
The company itself also contributes code to Wine project, and provides decent support for it's products. It's fine that you don't want to pay money for their product, but there is nothing wrong with those who do.
"The ultimate goal, the thing that we at Intel are working for -- and let me take a stretch and say the things I think that all of us in the industry should be working for -- is really bringing computing to everyone anytime, anyplace in the world."
Ummm...no it's not, or if it is they sure have a funny way of going about achieving this goal. How does hardware that restricts the use of software and data increase the availability of computing to people who can neither afford the hardware nor the software?
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Never really saw the point in playing music or movies with my computer anyway. I have a perfectly good iPod for music, and even though I've got CPU cycles to spare, I don't wanna waste 'em on a music player when I'm working.
Most people don't buy computers for work, they buy them for pleasure. If the CPU isn't wasting cycles playing games, music, and movies then it really serves them no purpose.
Remember, you're talking about the company whose EULA states that your right to use the operating system that you paid for when you bought your computer ends when you no longer own the hardware. Ain't no way they'd back anything like this bill.
...it'll only play in your CD player, because that's what the authorization says. You can make a copy and give it away, but your friend can't play it in his player...
So not only can't I play music that I paid for in my friends player, but also that I can only listen to it on just one of my players too. That's just plain ridiculous.
The Linux community did "police" itself, that's how the trojan was discovered. Besides, most commercial softwares have a "not responsible for anything" clause in their EULAs.
Doesn't the HLUG, who were in fact scrutinizing the code when they discovered the trojan qualify as an independent body of volunteers in your book?
"The trick is to find something nobody else can produce, so you can set the price where you want it."
Microsoft's "trick" seems to be finding something that somebody else is already producing, then put the competitor out of business and repackage it as their own complete with a shiney brand new EULA that prohibits others from doing the same.
And all this time I thought it was Mighty Mouse, go figure.
" is the fact that Oracle won't allow benchmarks to be published without their written consent, and of course your not going to get their consent unless your benchmark shows them in a favorable light.
Of course it's not just only Oracle with restrictions on publishing benchmarks. MS, Sun, McAfee and many others have similar clauses in their EULA's.
Just think of the possibilities if this trend was extended to other industries. If Kia doesn't like the results of crash safety tests they could prohibit those results from being published.
Though certainly bandwidth may be an issue, it is interesting that your college shut down P2P so soon after this article about RIAA/MPAA warnings appeared.
He answered that very question with this:
" NO! Open source is all about _other_ people being able to make their changes. It by no means means that those changes have to be accepted
back: the license basically only boils down to that I must be _able_ to accept them back.
But the really important thing, the thing that really makes a difference, is that you, your dog, and your company can make your OWN changes."
"This shootdown shifts the paradigm for defensive capabilities. We've shown that even an artillery projectile hurtling through the air at supersonic speed is no match for a laser," said Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Cosumano, head of the missile defense command.
Now if they can just stop those pesky spies from stealing our tech, poisoning our water supplies, blowing up our factories, and planting thermonuclear devices we can be the first to reach Alpha Centauri!
Only sad if you don't consider all the benefits that have come from space technology. Some examples:
*Biotech:
"Brain tumors can be one of the most difficult types of cancer to treat. Improvements by Wisconsin-based Quantum Devices, Inc., in the Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) developed for ASTROCULTURE(TM) have helped advanceScientist with Light-emitting diode photodynamic therapy. ASTROCULTURE(TM) is a commercial plant research facility developed by the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, a Commercial Space Center."
*Manufacturing:
Brush Wellman Incorporated successfully produced the world's largest aluminum-beryllium casting with the assistance of ground-based casting data and computational models developed by the Solidification Design Center, a Commercial Space Center. This alloy is very lightweight, making it useful in a number of aerospace applications. This work is helping advance manufacturing technology relating to the material.
*Agriculture:
Seed production is an essential part of crop production: without a good supply of seeds, farmers can not plant their fields. In 1996, the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics (WCSAR), a Commercial Space Center, and Pioneer Hi-Bred International launched a research effort to accelerate plant growth so that new seeds could be produced in the shortest possible amount of time. This research was done using the Commercial Plant Biotechnology Facility, designed for space-based research and featuring a totally enclosed and precisely controlled environment, and was able to reduce plant growth cycles. An example of this was reducing the soybean growth cycle from an average of 110 days to an average of 62 days a significant improvement. This was made possible through the advanced software and related technologies, and the use of ASTROCULTURE(TM) technologies that have been proven on the Shuttle.
Besides, it sures beats spending money on trying t kill each other down here.
Agreed on Iran, the people seem well on their way to democracy despite their fundamentalist leaders.
the point is, that to most shareholders, telling them that their company made something to give away for free sounds bad. just how it is.
Aren't we talking about a driver here though? Few people would buy hardware if there wasn't software to make the device work. Wouldn't the shareholders be more pissed off if no one bought the hardware because the company didn't provide free drivers so people could actually use the dang thing?
Let's say company A and company B both sell device X for $50. Both devices perform their functions equally well. Company A provides the specifications for writing a driver for the device so that it can used in 100% of all the computers on the market. Company B decides to keep their specifications private and provides drivers only for the top 90% of all the computers on the market.
Which company is in a better position to sell more of device X, company A or company B.
...that an article about freedom being off topic is off topic?
Arab states like this one need to fall.
"Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers."
As do other extremist Islamic states like this one.
"An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has postponed an appeal hearing on behalf of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of adultery. Safiya Husaini's lawyers had been seeking to overturn the conviction on the grounds that she was raped. But she now says that the baby at the centre of the case was fathered by her former husband. "
Exactly why again are my fellow "liberals" so concerned with maintaining stability in countries that violate human rights we take for granted every day? When did it become okay to persecute and discriminate against people because that is their cultures way of doing things?
Absolutely hilarious!Is it GFDL'd?
Agreed...my '90 Bonneville hit 186,000 miles before the ABS system went out. Only reason I junked it was the cost of repair was more than the thing was worth.
Do a google for Microsoft security flaws and perhaps you'll have your answer? I can see the disclaimers now: "This patch fixes a vulnerability found in the Outlook API, and as such is considered secure code as per the DOJ/MS settlement."
Don't buy it?
Easy enough to say, but from the looks of things Pallidium is going to be a requirement on the manufacturers. DRM and security are specifically mentioned exceptions in the ruling.
As for them losing support: that's how the free market works! If you don't like MS as a consumer, buy from other companies and promote them. For competitors, the solution is to build a better product and promote. Don't whine to the government, do something about it.
Okay sure, we'll buy from someone else then. Let's go on down to Best Buy and see what our choices are...hmmm, we have a Compaq with MS Windows on it, we have an E-Machines with MS Windows on it, we have a Sony with MS Windows on it...plenty of choices aren't there?
Except for Apple, there still is really is no easy way for the average consumer to "vote" against Microsoft, and there won't be until machines pre-configured with Linux, BSD, and other alternative OS's are on the shelves.
I sure do...first new car I bought was in '78 and had nothing but trouble with from day 1. The service department breathed a sigh of relief when the thing hit 12000 miles and went out of warranty. I didn't buy another American made car until the '90. I recall the truism in those days was never buy a car built on Monday because the workers were hung over, nor one built on Friday because they were rushing to get to the bar.
Of course it all was really due to managements philosophy of sacrificing quality for profits and get people to "uprade" to a new car every year or two. The automotive industry learned their lesson, I wonder how long it will take for some of the software producers whose business model depends on a constant upgrade cycle to learn theirs as well?
Funny, but not really that far fetched. Increasingly greedier EULA's and Digital Rights Management WinTel based software companies only increase the digital divide between rich and poor nations.
Yes, there are many projects working on being able to play all Quicktime movies, but none that I am aware of have yet accomplished this goal. Codeweavers Crossover Plug-in does by integrating the Windows platform viewer with the Linux environment.
The company itself also contributes code to Wine project, and provides decent support for it's products. It's fine that you don't want to pay money for their product, but there is nothing wrong with those who do.
"The ultimate goal, the thing that we at Intel are working for -- and let me take a stretch and say the things I think that all of us in the industry should be working for -- is really bringing computing to everyone anytime, anyplace in the world."
Ummm...no it's not, or if it is they sure have a funny way of going about achieving this goal. How does hardware that restricts the use of software and data increase the availability of computing to people who can neither afford the hardware nor the software?