"The posting attributed to Microsoft said: "We understand that this decision won't be popular among all of our customers, but it allows us to create a better and more stable product..."
The Linux distros must realize (and seems to have realized) that the average desktop user does not care for open source or extra choices. The average user simply wants a productive desktop that is easy to use and works they way they expect it to.
In others words, easy migration. Nothing wrong with people wanting that especially since they have time and money invested in apps and training.
Once they get used to the idea of not having to pay for a license to use the operating system it won't take too that much more to get them to bulk at constantly shelling out for licenses to use the apps, either.
If you keep building it...they will keep coming.
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Moreover, cosmologists say, the laws of physics themselves, as experienced by creatures like ourselves, confined to four dimensions and the energy scales of ordinary life, could evolve differently in different bubble universes
Or what if our bubble universe was just a small bubble trapped in another huge Whammo Bubble universe? Sure hope those giant kids are careful while they are waving their magic bubble wands around......boy wouldn't that just burst ourbubble!
After about 5 years of playing around with Linux and using it more and more, I finally kicked the Windows habit 6 months ago.
Now, when ever I happen to watch a friend browsing with IE I have to wonder how the hell they can put up with all those danged pop-ups ads!
Banners are one thing, sort of like billboards, but with pop-ups is as if some smart-assed sales person jumped right in your face screaming "buy, buy, buy!"
Yeah, it's true you can get pop-up blockers, but you shouldn't have to. The browsers job is to take you the content that you want to see, not to the content that the browser's maker wants you to see.
"Our goal with Wikipedia is to create a free encyclopedia--indeed, the largest encyclopedia in history, both in terms of breadth and depth. We also want Wikipedia to become a reliable resource. It's an ambitious goal, and it will take many years to achieve it." Pretty cool!
If Reuters is found guilty of "hacking" a publicly accesibly URL, what would that mean for all us piss poor typists who enter the wrong address in the location bar and end up somewhere they shouldn't have been?
You will NOT be able to: - access certain parts of the system from that unsigned kernel - access signed content from that unsigned kernel/code in a way that lets you get around the DRM - write unsigned code that has any ability to view signed/protected content that doesn't allow that
A computer that won't let the owner program it? Hardware that the owner can't turn off? That is just plain silly! Who in their right mind would buy such dasterdly beast?
Until I can take my scratched CD back to Best Buy and get a new copy for the cost of media - since I've already purchased a license to listen to the damn thing - then YES i want to be able to make a backup as is my right under the law.
Exactly, but the counter argument you'll hear is "you didn't expect your car to last forever, why do you expect your CD to last forever?", implying that the music contained on the CD is a physical thing that deteriorates over time.
Consider programming, for example. Most programmers are paid to produce something, and very few, if any, receive royalties every time their programs are run...
Let's not forget, this is exactly where Microsoft wants to "take us today" with DRM. It's not enough to change file formats forcing people into a never ending upgrade path...wait 'till you go to boot your computer and get greeted by "Your MS Windows License has expired. Click next to renew and have your credit card handy."
a poll recently uncovered that the majority of Americans think that property rights are still relevent and necessary for a functional civil society.....
I buy a CD, stick it in my CD player on my computer expecting to listen to the music I just payed for, and the damn thing doesn't play. Where is the respect for the $20 worth of my property that I just shelled out for a worthless piece of plastic?
I own three VCRs and have never dubbed a tape. If I like a movie, I buy it. DVDs and VHS tapes sell like crazy, especially new releases. Why do you think that is when they are so easy to copy? Personally, I believe it is because of the perceived value.
For less than $20 you can get a copy of a 2 hour movie that cost upwards of a $100 million to make. The movie itself is a complete whole. Why steal something that is already a bargain to own legally?
Compare that to an audio CD that costs as much as a movie to buy but only a fraction of the cost to produce. Many people are only interested in one or two songs on the disc. They perceive that are paying $20 for ten minutes of entertainment, the rest is just filler as far as they are concerned.
When new technologies come along people who's livelihood depend on the status quo are always affected. Those who find a way to benefit from the advancements will prosper, those who don't will fall by the wayside. Laws restricting the new technology may prolong the process, but eventually it boils down to adapt or die.
Paladium is going to be as much of an answer to copying music as Macrovision was an answer for copying videos.
What they need is a listen and buy it model which is really not much different than they have now.
"However, the copyright office says it has only a very limited scope to define exceptions to the law. In the last round, it carved out just two activities that could be exempted from the law. People could break through encryption onlists of Web sites blocked by Web filtering programs and could break protection on software or other "literary works" in cases where the copy control was obsolete or interfering with the functioning of the program, the office said."
That must make DeCSS legal then because without it a perfectly good DVD player can't play a perfectly good DVD on a Linux box. Same for encrypted CDs because copyprotection interferes with the program functioning in certain environments.
You'd be right if it was a single plane making a wrong turn into a single building I suppose. But this was four planes intentionally piloted by henchman of a madman who declared war on the US and her allies (Norway is a US ally isn't it?).
Much of sowing that the US has done was during a global chessmatch between the East and the West called the Cold War in which both sides used third world countries as pawns. The prize was the disintegration of the Soviet block and a unified democratic Europe.
the Win98 thingee. It's hard to believe that the creators were intelligent enough to write code for a certain amount of memory and a certain amount of processor speed, but they couldn't figure out how to find Allegro or the SDL on the net.
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"The posting attributed to Microsoft said: "We understand that this decision won't be popular among all of our customers, but it allows us to create a better and more stable product..."
and new and improved EULA's, too.
The Linux distros must realize (and seems to have realized) that the average desktop user does not care for open source or extra choices. The average user simply wants a productive desktop that is easy to use and works they way they expect it to.
In others words, easy migration. Nothing wrong with people wanting that especially since they have time and money invested in apps and training.
Once they get used to the idea of not having to pay for a license to use the operating system it won't take too that much more to get them to bulk at constantly shelling out for licenses to use the apps, either.
If you keep building it...they will keep coming.
Moreover, cosmologists say, the laws of physics themselves, as experienced by creatures like ourselves, confined to four dimensions and the energy scales of ordinary life, could evolve differently in different bubble universes
...boy wouldn't that just burst ourbubble!
Or what if our bubble universe was just a small bubble trapped in another huge Whammo Bubble universe? Sure hope those giant kids are careful while they are waving their magic bubble wands around...
Curious, why are you "hacking" your ICQ client?
Same reason people hack anything else, because they can, of course!
After about 5 years of playing around with Linux and using it more and more, I finally kicked the Windows habit 6 months ago.
Now, when ever I happen to watch a friend browsing with IE I have to wonder how the hell they can put up with all those danged pop-ups ads!
Banners are one thing, sort of like billboards, but with pop-ups is as if some smart-assed sales person jumped right in your face screaming "buy, buy, buy!"
Yeah, it's true you can get pop-up blockers, but you shouldn't have to. The browsers job is to take you the content that you want to see, not to the content that the browser's maker wants you to see.
It'd be a shame if WorldCom lost any of those highly trained, extremely creative accountants they've been grooming all these years now, wouldn't it?
"Our goal with Wikipedia is to create a free encyclopedia--indeed, the largest encyclopedia in history, both in terms of breadth and depth. We also want Wikipedia to become a reliable resource. It's an ambitious goal, and it will take many years to achieve it." Pretty cool!
Found this page with plenty of links to public domain images while I was reading about the project.
Microsoft can't have their software being used by competitors now, can they?
If Reuters is found guilty of "hacking" a publicly accesibly URL, what would that mean for all us piss poor typists who enter the wrong address in the location bar and end up somewhere they shouldn't have been?
From parts...been watching this garbage for a while now. Good site btw.
Dig yourself out of your parents basement, shut off your linux b0x, and GO OUTSIDE!!!!
We can assume your Windows machine is in the attic then?
You will NOT be able to:
- access certain parts of the system from that unsigned kernel
- access signed content from that unsigned kernel/code in a way that lets you get around the DRM
- write unsigned code that has any ability to view signed/protected content that doesn't allow that
A computer that won't let the owner program it? Hardware that the owner can't turn off? That is just plain silly! Who in their right mind would buy such dasterdly beast?
28% prefer theirs dehydrated.
Until I can take my scratched CD back to Best Buy and get a new copy for the cost of media - since I've already purchased a license to listen to the damn thing - then YES i want to be able to make a backup as is my right under the law.
Exactly, but the counter argument you'll hear is "you didn't expect your car to last forever, why do you expect your CD to last forever?", implying that the music contained on the CD is a physical thing that deteriorates over time.
Consider programming, for example. Most programmers are paid to produce something, and very few, if any, receive royalties every time their programs are run...
Let's not forget, this is exactly where Microsoft wants to "take us today" with DRM. It's not enough to change file formats forcing people into a never ending upgrade path...wait 'till you go to boot your computer and get greeted by "Your MS Windows License has expired. Click next to renew and have your credit card handy."
a poll recently uncovered that the majority of Americans think that property rights are still relevent and necessary for a functional civil society.....
I buy a CD, stick it in my CD player on my computer expecting to listen to the music I just payed for, and the damn thing doesn't play. Where is the respect for the $20 worth of my property that I just shelled out for a worthless piece of plastic?
I believe you have a choice of installs...x86, 686, PPC, SPARC, and ALPHA.
Still, it does work fine in konq.
I own three VCRs and have never dubbed a tape. If I like a movie, I buy it. DVDs and VHS tapes sell like crazy, especially new releases. Why do you think that is when they are so easy to copy? Personally, I believe it is because of the perceived value.
For less than $20 you can get a copy of a 2 hour movie that cost upwards of a $100 million to make. The movie itself is a complete whole. Why steal something that is already a bargain to own legally?
Compare that to an audio CD that costs as much as a movie to buy but only a fraction of the cost to produce. Many people are only interested in one or two songs on the disc. They perceive that are paying $20 for ten minutes of entertainment, the rest is just filler as far as they are concerned.
When new technologies come along people who's livelihood depend on the status quo are always affected. Those who find a way to benefit from the advancements will prosper, those who don't will fall by the wayside. Laws restricting the new technology may prolong the process, but eventually it boils down to adapt or die.
Paladium is going to be as much of an answer to copying music as Macrovision was an answer for copying videos.
What they need is a listen and buy it model which is really not much different than they have now.
...how long before it will sing and dance on one wheel while serving maritinis http://www.jefbots.com/rosie.html though?
I was thinking this would be some high tech system involving bladder scanners and anal probes. Then I read...
"As envisioned in the patent, the system would be run by a computer that would assign customers a number based on a first-come, first-served basis"
...and realize it's just another "no tickey, no laundry" system...
::sigh::
"However, the copyright office says it has only a very limited scope to define exceptions to the law. In the last round, it carved out just two activities that could be exempted from the law. People could break through encryption onlists of Web sites blocked by Web filtering programs and could break protection on software or other "literary works" in cases where the copy control was obsolete or interfering with the functioning of the program, the office said."
That must make DeCSS legal then because without it a perfectly good DVD player can't play a perfectly good DVD on a Linux box. Same for encrypted CDs because copyprotection interferes with the program functioning in certain environments.
You'd be right if it was a single plane making a wrong turn into a single building I suppose. But this was four planes intentionally piloted by henchman of a madman who declared war on the US and her allies (Norway is a US ally isn't it?).
Much of sowing that the US has done was during a global chessmatch between the East and the West called the Cold War in which both sides used third world countries as pawns. The prize was the disintegration of the Soviet block and a unified democratic Europe.
Ridiculous. Your "inexperienced" grease monkeys just may discover a much more effecient way to repair or maintain your car if the source were open.
the Win98 thingee. It's hard to believe that the creators were intelligent enough to write code for a certain amount of memory and a certain amount of processor speed, but they couldn't figure out how to find Allegro or the SDL on the net.