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Obama's "ZuneGate"
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Obama is an iPod user and someone lent him a Zune. Shame, that was not was not spotted before Slashdot was used as another Wintel advertisement vehicle for the very failed Zune players. Knowing M$, they had W.E. slip him one so they could splash the story around for Christmas. Sorry, Steve, it won't work.
People looking for a music player should buy a used iPod and install Rockbox. You keep good quality hardware out of a landfill and get software freedom for a better price than a Zune that way.
M$ dies both ways, by devaluation and loss of extortion threat. You think M$'s patent portfolio is "chump change"? It could be, after all their research costs are primarily advertising and product acquisition. Just the same, it's good for freedom and competition that M$'s attempt to threaten commercial users of free software have aborted. Non free software can't compete in a competitive market and M$ just lost tens of thousands of patents, not chump change even if you are M$. 10E4x10E4=10E8, if you are right but the FUD removal factor is priceless.
it's an issue of punishing the guy for the computer tresspass [sic] etc..
We all know what a big issue that is to both the German and American public. I'm sure that everyone will sleep better at night knowing that game companies are being protected from evil trespass. Money well spent, bravo FBI.
This joke would be funny if it had not cost so much already.
It's true that sharing is good but the non free nature of cell phones today contradicts the stated goal. This information is already collected without user consent or knowledge. The purpose of the project is really to make people comfortable with that kind of control and monitoring. If cell phones ran free software and their users were really their owners, voluntary programs with high moral incentives would make sense.
The real question is how M$ turned Asus around so fast. There was no Windows version when these things were introduced and sold like hot cakes. Asus revenues and profits are down since they started making versions no one wants. What did they hold over Asus to make them do this to themselves?
People are not at all used to media that "just works". That's what this conversation is all about. BBC has wasted billions on non free crap that did not work on anything but Windows and not well there. Real freedom would be a welcome change for everyone.
Multiplicity of platform is not a problem for free software, so I'm confused. Every distro is able to use xorg, for example, and people who want to help out go there not to a distribution. If BBC releases free software, everyone else will be able to use it. It's nice of them to dive deeper, but if the backend work to totem is free, I expect it to turn up in my favorite distribution soon. They seem to understand this:
The whole stack is free software - from URIplay through to Totem, the media player. Some codecs will involve a download, and in some territories (mainly outside the UK) may be restricted, but the underlying framework is free and open.
The question then, is why they worked with a specific distro rather than upstream. The Totem plugin says it uses Dirac, that's cool.
We import bright people from around the world to do it for us. At least we used to. Many of them have gone back home to compete on fair terms. Others work at research centers funded by US multinationals like GE, Microsoft and IBM. Why the US seeks to restrict what foreign people make in foreign countries is as much a mystery as the IP Empire that claims ownership to the fundamental ideas involved. Less and less of this stuff is home grown and made.
This is why Windows 7 is stripped of nicer applications. M$ is once again trying to make an all Windows world. Too bad no one in their right mind is going to leave tried and true LAMP and desktop OS that work. RMS, once again, was right, doubly so in this case, the user surrenders their software freedom and their data when they use Windows 7 in the M$ Vapor.
The Mini 12 is one of the few [netbook] systems to run Windows Vista Basic, which will be the only choice for operating systems at this time. Windows XP will be available when the unit ships in the U.S., with an Ubuntu Linux configuration to follow at the end of the year. The Vista system starts at $550.
It's hard to tell which of these prices is right, but I know which one will sell when they deliver it with a worth while OS. Here's what Chris Prillo had to say about what's wrong with every beautiful new computer these days. Really, see for yourself, everyone hates Vista. You also have to hate how they crammed in all of those extra windows keys so you'll always miss the alt and ctrl keys.
You would have done better with Google. This little pump and dump exercise is going to be a good time to make that conversion. Advertising will sruvive a recession/depression, the non free desktop and office suit business model from the 1980s won't. No, they won't be saved by Xbox or Zune. Greedy restrictions systems are going to bite the dust sooner than later.
Let's apply the critical lens to the author, shall we?
Communication skills, poor - lots of words, not a lot of content.
Lack of creativity and insight. She collected some facts but failed to understand or explain them.
Complete lack of sympathy. That's OK, because Career Builder has little to offer anyone anyway.
Fuck You and your company, Jennifer. Crap websites like Career Builder and Monster.com account for less than five percent of hires. Your M$ based and centric forms suck life. You sell people's details to the highest bidder, or just plain loses those details to hackers. If putting details of your life into Facebook is a mistake, Career Builder is worse because it brings no benefit. In exchange for these dubious benefits you expect people to restrict their personal lives and who they have as friends? Get real. The bottom line that there is a recession, bordering on depression. Your company feeds of the desperation of new graduates the way casinos prey on the old and lonely. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Reports of flaming power supplies and red rings of death have been enough to ensure the overwhelming success of Wii and PS3.
Registering to vote via non free software is a bad idea, matched only by non free software being used to count votes. The now admitted Ohio vote losses are the tip of a corruption and vote fixing scandal that will sink this practice.
I'm much happier running Etch on my PII. I admit my PIII works better but it's a shame people are not getting what they can out of their hardware. I'm thinking Lenny might make the old laptop run a little better but I know XP and Vista would never work on it even if I could stand looking at such ugly GUIs.
We're talking about McCain's aid and a respected businessman. The allegation is serious enough to warrent an investigation regardless of who reported it - you can figure out what software does impartially. When it's someone from the side that won, there's all the more reason to look. Some people put principles like one man one vote before the good of their party. As politicians are fond of saying, millions of people have died defending those principles.
The only reason to dismiss these charges is if you think Spoonamore has an axe to grind. Chances are, he will soon face smears of that nature but they don't hold up. The Bush adiministration has shown a willingess to punish those who say things that make them look bad. Spoonamore has much to lose and nothing to gain but everyone's freedom. His act is selfless and commendable.
M$ is counting on it's usual game to work but they have pushed too far. The usual game is to get "consumers" to use the OS and demand it at work to pressure it in. At the peak of their influence they could get schools and government agencies to push their new OS right away, but those days are long gone, so they are forced onto their older game. But that's not going to work either because no business in it's right mind is going to deploy a system with Vista's level of DRM, indexing and encrypted communications to the mothership.
The breadth of this is stunning. Do Firefox or ad blockers and other privacy protecting, free software also interfere with a user's M$ contract (EULA)? How about software that replaces software when you buy a new computer? This can be interpreted in a way that threatens your control over your computer and other's ability to help you do that.
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Obama is an iPod user and someone lent him a Zune. Shame, that was not was not spotted before Slashdot was used as another Wintel advertisement vehicle for the very failed Zune players. Knowing M$, they had W.E. slip him one so they could splash the story around for Christmas. Sorry, Steve, it won't work.
People looking for a music player should buy a used iPod and install Rockbox. You keep good quality hardware out of a landfill and get software freedom for a better price than a Zune that way.
M$ dies both ways, by devaluation and loss of extortion threat. You think M$'s patent portfolio is "chump change"? It could be, after all their research costs are primarily advertising and product acquisition. Just the same, it's good for freedom and competition that M$'s attempt to threaten commercial users of free software have aborted. Non free software can't compete in a competitive market and M$ just lost tens of thousands of patents, not chump change even if you are M$. 10E4x10E4=10E8, if you are right but the FUD removal factor is priceless.
What? Is it Windows 7?
That's both deadly and vaporware at the same time.
I hope they make this free software. That's where the supercomputer market is, so non free releases don't make sense.
it's an issue of punishing the guy for the computer tresspass [sic] etc..
We all know what a big issue that is to both the German and American public. I'm sure that everyone will sleep better at night knowing that game companies are being protected from evil trespass. Money well spent, bravo FBI.
This joke would be funny if it had not cost so much already.
It's true that sharing is good but the non free nature of cell phones today contradicts the stated goal. This information is already collected without user consent or knowledge. The purpose of the project is really to make people comfortable with that kind of control and monitoring. If cell phones ran free software and their users were really their owners, voluntary programs with high moral incentives would make sense.
Sales ratios were not mentioned. The submitter was right to wonder and so should we all.
The real question is how M$ turned Asus around so fast. There was no Windows version when these things were introduced and sold like hot cakes. Asus revenues and profits are down since they started making versions no one wants. What did they hold over Asus to make them do this to themselves?
People are not at all used to media that "just works". That's what this conversation is all about. BBC has wasted billions on non free crap that did not work on anything but Windows and not well there. Real freedom would be a welcome change for everyone.
Multiplicity of platform is not a problem for free software, so I'm confused. Every distro is able to use xorg, for example, and people who want to help out go there not to a distribution. If BBC releases free software, everyone else will be able to use it. It's nice of them to dive deeper, but if the backend work to totem is free, I expect it to turn up in my favorite distribution soon. They seem to understand this:
The question then, is why they worked with a specific distro rather than upstream. The Totem plugin says it uses Dirac, that's cool.
Failure.
So goes the patent shake down. What does that leave them with?
We import bright people from around the world to do it for us. At least we used to. Many of them have gone back home to compete on fair terms. Others work at research centers funded by US multinationals like GE, Microsoft and IBM. Why the US seeks to restrict what foreign people make in foreign countries is as much a mystery as the IP Empire that claims ownership to the fundamental ideas involved. Less and less of this stuff is home grown and made.
This is why Windows 7 is stripped of nicer applications. M$ is once again trying to make an all Windows world. Too bad no one in their right mind is going to leave tried and true LAMP and desktop OS that work. RMS, once again, was right, doubly so in this case, the user surrenders their software freedom and their data when they use Windows 7 in the M$ Vapor.
PC Magazine says the systems start at $550.
It's hard to tell which of these prices is right, but I know which one will sell when they deliver it with a worth while OS. Here's what Chris Prillo had to say about what's wrong with every beautiful new computer these days. Really, see for yourself, everyone hates Vista. You also have to hate how they crammed in all of those extra windows keys so you'll always miss the alt and ctrl keys.
I agree, these fucktards have pissed on this site for a long, long time.
You would have done better with Google. This little pump and dump exercise is going to be a good time to make that conversion. Advertising will sruvive a recession/depression, the non free desktop and office suit business model from the 1980s won't. No, they won't be saved by Xbox or Zune. Greedy restrictions systems are going to bite the dust sooner than later.
I hope you put your money where your mouth is instead. MSTF, Static price and falling to true market value of zero.
Let's apply the critical lens to the author, shall we?
Fuck You and your company, Jennifer. Crap websites like Career Builder and Monster.com account for less than five percent of hires. Your M$ based and centric forms suck life. You sell people's details to the highest bidder, or just plain loses those details to hackers. If putting details of your life into Facebook is a mistake, Career Builder is worse because it brings no benefit. In exchange for these dubious benefits you expect people to restrict their personal lives and who they have as friends? Get real. The bottom line that there is a recession, bordering on depression. Your company feeds of the desperation of new graduates the way casinos prey on the old and lonely. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Are we clear now? Have a nice day.
Reports of flaming power supplies and red rings of death have been enough to ensure the overwhelming success of Wii and PS3.
Registering to vote via non free software is a bad idea, matched only by non free software being used to count votes. The now admitted Ohio vote losses are the tip of a corruption and vote fixing scandal that will sink this practice.
I'm much happier running Etch on my PII. I admit my PIII works better but it's a shame people are not getting what they can out of their hardware. I'm thinking Lenny might make the old laptop run a little better but I know XP and Vista would never work on it even if I could stand looking at such ugly GUIs.
Every good citizen should pay the price for this, as he has nothing to hide! While you are at it use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without, and don't ask for a raise.
Wiretaping and DPI are expensive.
Yes, I'm sure you are kidding but those charges are related:
We're talking about McCain's aid and a respected businessman. The allegation is serious enough to warrent an investigation regardless of who reported it - you can figure out what software does impartially. When it's someone from the side that won, there's all the more reason to look. Some people put principles like one man one vote before the good of their party. As politicians are fond of saying, millions of people have died defending those principles.
The only reason to dismiss these charges is if you think Spoonamore has an axe to grind. Chances are, he will soon face smears of that nature but they don't hold up. The Bush adiministration has shown a willingess to punish those who say things that make them look bad. Spoonamore has much to lose and nothing to gain but everyone's freedom. His act is selfless and commendable.
Yes! If not, an Open Office download is still worth a lot more than a $400 Office CD.
M$ is counting on it's usual game to work but they have pushed too far. The usual game is to get "consumers" to use the OS and demand it at work to pressure it in. At the peak of their influence they could get schools and government agencies to push their new OS right away, but those days are long gone, so they are forced onto their older game. But that's not going to work either because no business in it's right mind is going to deploy a system with Vista's level of DRM, indexing and encrypted communications to the mothership.
The breadth of this is stunning. Do Firefox or ad blockers and other privacy protecting, free software also interfere with a user's M$ contract (EULA)? How about software that replaces software when you buy a new computer? This can be interpreted in a way that threatens your control over your computer and other's ability to help you do that.