It's hard to see the Mac OS and the iPhone coming out of the same design-by-committee process that produced Microsoft Vista or Dell's Pocket DJ music player. Likewise, had Apple opened its iTunes-iPod juggernaut to outside developers, the company would have risked turning its uniquely integrated service into a hodgepodge of independent applications kind of like the rest of the Internet, come to think of it.
They don't understand the problems because they are completely wrong. Microsoft Vista and Dell's Pocket DJ and the Zune may have been designed by comittee but the parts that suck were pushed from on high. Apple is only the king of cool because the commercial alternatives suck so badly.
Free software designs consistently trounce commercial offerings. Package management on free systems is nearly flawless and free systems come with everything needed. People on Mac are insulted with popups that ask for money when they run into what should be common features. Windows victims walk on eggshells around their OS, backing up binary files and terrified of installing or removing programs. Then there are things like Amarok and MythTV which simply kill iTunes and Tivo respectively. Where free software developers successfully reverse engineer hardware drivers, the result is rock solid stability that commercial makers can only achieve with drastic hardware choice limitations.
In a less evil world every hardware company would join the free software community and leave both Microsoft and Apple chains in the trash.
The record of dissaster you quote is also endless resurgence. The 4 big music companies on the other hand have been crapping out 15% every year. File sharing and the rise of independent music producers are linked by more than temporal coincidence.
but you won't find those opinions reflected in broadcast news. Try fitting this or this into the "just like the tories" box. Want to bet neither of those two bloggers ever show up in blews? Blews, like broadcast media before it, represents nothing but the will of it's corporate masters. Readers are spoon fed shallow "stories" and false choices that drive public policy in favor of those pulling the strings.
This is a substitute for analysis like a big mac is a substitute for food. The world is far more intersting than a three column spreadsheet and there are always more than two ways to look at any issue. Trusting Microsoft's choice of events and opinions is a sure way to remain ignorant and be guided like sheep to the traditional media slaughter.
Google does a much better job by scraping titles and sentences coherently. Especially important is their people involved feedback. Trying to force all of that into "Democrat" and "Republican" is worse than useless, it's misleading and that's why Google never did it.
This is reinforcing old patterns by selective presentation of opinions, just like traditional media. Such simplification looks stale when you look around for yourself because no real issue can be pie charted so easily. Trying to stuff every issue into a single page with three columns and an emotion depth is almost as dumb as trying to wrap the world up into a 15 minute CNN loop. It can only give an illusion of knowing something to the most ignorant and opinionated of people.
This new project highlights the absurdity of our two party system and past media inadequacies. The whole world is reduced to two schools of thought "conservative" and "liberal" with an additional dimension for "emotion". This is perfect for the manufactured consent way of doing things where issues are displayed without depth and championed by more or less annoying, emotional "experts". Rational thought is completely cut off, because anything outside of the "mainstream" represented by the extremes is automatically smeared as the unworkable product of starry eyed idealists or terrorists. So, the complexity of the real world is eliminated and policy is made by those controlling the media. The correct opinion for the good little sheeple will be found right in the middle of the pretty, Vista style chart.
No thanks, Microsoft, I'll keep reading blogs and thinking for myself. MSNBC never showed me where the good ones were and I doubt they will in the future. You can't run an honest search engine, so there's no way in hell I'll trust your company to tell me how to vote.
You must have slept through the whole P2P block attack and congressional response. Bandwith is worthless if it can't be used the way you want.
The Collaps of At Home and DSL providers that has lead to the sad current state also saw a decrease in bandwith. The entertainment and telco dominated companies immediately established caps and port blocks.
That pushes the trend you are looking for back about nine years. In that time you have gotten some very minor improvements that far outweigh the restrictions put in place. The US has sank to 26th place in the world for network availability and international watchdogs rate the US as a chronic surveillance state.
"Light regulation" has provided the worst of all worlds. Both real regulation and real freedom would have provided fiber to the house by now, as it has elsewhere. Fake regulation has given you fake bandwith that mostly works to put money into MAFIAA pockets. Look for fake regulations to give you all of the freedom of broadcast TV in the near future.
So, basically this is what I imagined. I trust you can open that box and replace the tape recorder and the rest of the device will function well. That should be cheap and easy, unless all of the innards are closely guarded company secrets. If that's the case, and the instrumentation recording also has to be replaced, your company has the ability to rape the flying public that I worried about.
When everyone can get $40 mp3 players with 8 hour playback time on next to no power, you would thing this is going to be the cheapest thing ever. Even general purpose data recorders should be cheap when GB worth are so commonly available. Then you run into qualifications and secrets. Watch these boxes run into the thousands of dollars per aircraft and weep for the paying public.
Trying to run non free software on Linux eliminates a lot of the advantages of running free software. Who wants to go back to the world of driver hunting? Sure, it can be done, there are distributions that make it easier and there's a lot of cool gaming that can be had but it still takes effort, almost as much as it does to keep up a Windows box.
The market is growing and now is a better time than ever. The death of XP has a lot of gamers looking at Linux. They are going to be trying. Distributions like PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu are going to make them very happy for a while. If the card makers come out with free drivers that work well in the next year or so, those new users will never look back.
Then Linux or Windows7 will emerge as the winner. If Vista can't do PC gaming, something else will but it won't be XP. With ATI, Nvidia and Intel on the Linux bandwagon, the likely winner is Linux.
Gaming cards traditionally follow workstation cards in time.
What's significant here is that Windows has lost it's graphics crown. DRM and bloat or industry defection for the same reasons, we all know the root cause. Free software is simply cleaner and works better. If the ability to run DirectX 9 under Wine was not enough to move gamers to Linux, this is. Things can only go downhill for Microsoft now. Free drivers will be even cleaner and the performance gap will widen.
Atom's performance in shipping hardware isn't something we've been able to test, yet, but given the architecture's simple, in-order nature, you shouldn't expect Atom to match even a Pentium M in raw performance.
People who know the truth and are sure of themselves don't have to use insults like you do. Blame shifting and malice are for the desperate:
There is no "Microsoft bugs and malice" involved in an interface specification and any bugs occuring [sic] would be solely the domain of either poor implementation of NDIS or by bugs explicitely [sic] in the vendor-provided network driver. You're a complete tool to suggest otherwise. There is no "firmware game", and these network cards aren't braindead - you are.
If I'm a braindead tool, Microsoft is in big trouble because anyone can verify what I did. Firmware, like this, is loaded in Windows with software that's nothing more than SDK parts provided by MickeySoft. Bugs come from the clowns who play, the malice is all from Redmond. The game is painfully obvious.
Almost all current wireless cards and USB devices either require binary firmware loaded by a free software driver, or require the use of Windows drivers via a free software emulation layer (Ndiswrapper). Ndiswrapper is an inefficient use of processor cycles. The binary drivers it requires are often of poor quality, which can lead to stability problems and support headaches.
The usual problems with proprietary software apply. Bugs in the proprietary drivers can result in a security vulnerability in the system itself that cannot be corrected without vendor intervention. Bugs noticed by the community can take months to be fixedif they are fixed at all. Vendors regularly ignore the concerns of users who have already purchased their product. For instance, in the specific case of the binary NVidia drivers, there have been several high-profile security vulnerabilities that remained unpatched for far too long.
Hardware that requires binary firmware with a free software wrapper simply circumvents the issue by moving all intelligence into a black box that the user cannot open. This is merely smoke and mirrorsit creates the illusion that the hardware vendor respects freedom while the concerns of the community remain marginalized.
But the dam has given way. Hardware that sucks does not sell, regardless of who's really at fault. Companies playing the Microsoft game are having trouble but people selling software that works with free software are doing well. Things are not perfect by a long shot but Vista's failure to generate substantial income for Microsoft's partners has changed the game forever. Here's the winner:
By making the recommended changes in any or all of these five areas (free software drivers, proprietary BIOS locks, free BIOS support, the Microsoft Tax, Digital Restrictions Management) hardware vendors will help establish a mutually beneficial relationship with the free software community. Vendors will realize increased sales, and the free software community will have hardware that meets its ethical requirements.
The Free Software Foundation is eager to assist hardware vendors interested in making the changes recommended in this paper. Vendors should not hesitate to take advantage of this largely unexplored opportunity.
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL was added... To clarify the ambiguous legal ground on which non-GPL (particularly proprietary) modules lie. [and]... To allow choice for developers who wish, for their own reasons, to contribute code which cannot be used by proprietary modules. Just as a developer has the right to distribute code under a proprietary licence, so too may a developer distribute code under an anti-proprietary licence (i.e. strict GPL).
Loading a non GPL kernel module makes the whole kernel non GPL and hard to debug because it's a monolithic program. Check out the Linuxant controversy of 2001.
Linus won't keep you from making and loading non free modules but he's not going to be responsible when changes break your module. If others would cooperate, this would not be an issue. The NDIS wrapper people will have to reimplement functions written by GPL strict coders. That kind of sucks for them but they can do it. If Linus were to piss off the GPL strict coders, NDIS wrapper still would not work because those coders would quit contributing. A project as large as the kernel demands give and take. GPLONLY was a nice compromise.
NDIS wrapper has never been a great idea. It puts you at the mercy of Microsoft bugs and malice all for the benefit of a $30 network card. The kind of card that needs NDIS wrapper is usually worst of class and should be shunned. It's brain dead much like a winmodem and the "firmware" game is intentional. The card maker wants to be Windows only so don't buy it. Sooner or later hardware vendors will have to come around.
Cable, telco and banks and apparel vendors all have young people in their sites. Predatory lending credit cards, special internet "deals" with students and massive advertising budgets that should make the companies involved blush, are aimed at people ages 14 to 25.
Why? because that's where the money is.
Why do the theives use ActiveX exploits? Because they can.
Sheep, meet Mr. Slaughter. Mr. Slaughter.... gross!
Why dick around touring Cuba when you could go to China? Everythings bigger and badder there. China is positively booming with US trade, so it should be more fun to visit - especially if you have a lot of money like Bill Gates. Shoot, what's Cuba got? Biomed, underperforming sugar cane and orchards, fishing and PBS backed artists? China's got toxic PC production and "recycling", every good geek's dream vacation. If you look up WHO health statistics, you will see that Cuba has edged the US out of several categories and China is at the bottom where statistics can be collected. Healthy is the opposite of fun, so you have the obvious ranking China, US, Cuba. Why go to such a boring old place?
What's more, you have to have respect for China. They have got nukes out the yin-yang and submarines that can deliver them when they don't sink. They are all into African and Mid East oil and are becoming a real economic and military force. Cuba? Ha! It's been thirty years since they could field a good army in Angola. The Soviets were never very good to them and now that sugar daddy is gone. Poor old Raul would have a hard time fighting his way out of a paper bag.
Given all of that, who would you rather give your money to? That's what I thought any good American would say.
It's a good thing the US Treasury department is helping US Citizens do the right thing. Thanks George, don't let that pesky first amendment get in the way of your fight against real tyranny. Every dollar spent by bleeding liberals in Cuba is one dollar less that won't be able to make its way through Walmart to China.
There's more than one camera that point into people's houses, and traffic cameras are becoming a universal problem but that's the least of the real worries. Your smart new cellphone can record and text index your conversations while "off". Your ISP is practically required to monitor your email and web browsing and the FBI or CIA can duplicate that work when they feel like it. I wonder if ChoicePoint has all that integrated that into their database, along with your GPS whereabouts and credit card records of everything you buy. Total Information Awareness was more than a catchy phrase, it's big brother's way to gloat, "We know you better than you do." Google's records are nothing next to that even if you use them for everything. Their camera program is trivial and done better by others, as you noted.
Free software can only eliminate part of this, the rest has to come from telco, banking and medical regulations that work. The information should not be stored or traded without a search warrant.
I love the brag. The Industry Conclusion is correct, though not the way they want it to be.
Conclusion:
The campaign will live beyond the event as the Web sites will remain live, and students
will be reminded by the giveaways to Break the Chain of harmful of harmful events that
can result from counterfeiting.
They are going to have a hard time living this one down. Fake blogs, with more than 300 myspace friends, including Justin Timberlake! What they have managed to do is indelibly link their brands to fake. Hyped, expensive fake regardless of real quality. How do they expect anyone to trust them again? Their stuff is better why? Because they spend money on BS like this? Because the "real" stuff comes from a sweat shop with a sharper whip? It's hard to imagine a better example of the harm imaginary property does and they festering pile of lies that supports it.
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They don't understand the problems because they are completely wrong. Microsoft Vista and Dell's Pocket DJ and the Zune may have been designed by comittee but the parts that suck were pushed from on high. Apple is only the king of cool because the commercial alternatives suck so badly.
Free software designs consistently trounce commercial offerings. Package management on free systems is nearly flawless and free systems come with everything needed. People on Mac are insulted with popups that ask for money when they run into what should be common features. Windows victims walk on eggshells around their OS, backing up binary files and terrified of installing or removing programs. Then there are things like Amarok and MythTV which simply kill iTunes and Tivo respectively. Where free software developers successfully reverse engineer hardware drivers, the result is rock solid stability that commercial makers can only achieve with drastic hardware choice limitations.
In a less evil world every hardware company would join the free software community and leave both Microsoft and Apple chains in the trash.
The record of dissaster you quote is also endless resurgence. The 4 big music companies on the other hand have been crapping out 15% every year. File sharing and the rise of independent music producers are linked by more than temporal coincidence.
but you won't find those opinions reflected in broadcast news. Try fitting this or this into the "just like the tories" box. Want to bet neither of those two bloggers ever show up in blews? Blews, like broadcast media before it, represents nothing but the will of it's corporate masters. Readers are spoon fed shallow "stories" and false choices that drive public policy in favor of those pulling the strings.
This is a substitute for analysis like a big mac is a substitute for food. The world is far more intersting than a three column spreadsheet and there are always more than two ways to look at any issue. Trusting Microsoft's choice of events and opinions is a sure way to remain ignorant and be guided like sheep to the traditional media slaughter.
Google does a much better job by scraping titles and sentences coherently. Especially important is their people involved feedback. Trying to force all of that into "Democrat" and "Republican" is worse than useless, it's misleading and that's why Google never did it.
This is reinforcing old patterns by selective presentation of opinions, just like traditional media. Such simplification looks stale when you look around for yourself because no real issue can be pie charted so easily. Trying to stuff every issue into a single page with three columns and an emotion depth is almost as dumb as trying to wrap the world up into a 15 minute CNN loop. It can only give an illusion of knowing something to the most ignorant and opinionated of people.
buy Vista, vote for Bill, extend copyright, and just trust us because we make the world so simple for you.
This new project highlights the absurdity of our two party system and past media inadequacies. The whole world is reduced to two schools of thought "conservative" and "liberal" with an additional dimension for "emotion". This is perfect for the manufactured consent way of doing things where issues are displayed without depth and championed by more or less annoying, emotional "experts". Rational thought is completely cut off, because anything outside of the "mainstream" represented by the extremes is automatically smeared as the unworkable product of starry eyed idealists or terrorists. So, the complexity of the real world is eliminated and policy is made by those controlling the media. The correct opinion for the good little sheeple will be found right in the middle of the pretty, Vista style chart.
No thanks, Microsoft, I'll keep reading blogs and thinking for myself. MSNBC never showed me where the good ones were and I doubt they will in the future. You can't run an honest search engine, so there's no way in hell I'll trust your company to tell me how to vote.
You must have slept through the whole P2P block attack and congressional response. Bandwith is worthless if it can't be used the way you want.
The Collaps of At Home and DSL providers that has lead to the sad current state also saw a decrease in bandwith. The entertainment and telco dominated companies immediately established caps and port blocks.
That pushes the trend you are looking for back about nine years. In that time you have gotten some very minor improvements that far outweigh the restrictions put in place. The US has sank to 26th place in the world for network availability and international watchdogs rate the US as a chronic surveillance state.
"Light regulation" has provided the worst of all worlds. Both real regulation and real freedom would have provided fiber to the house by now, as it has elsewhere. Fake regulation has given you fake bandwith that mostly works to put money into MAFIAA pockets. Look for fake regulations to give you all of the freedom of broadcast TV in the near future.
So, basically this is what I imagined. I trust you can open that box and replace the tape recorder and the rest of the device will function well. That should be cheap and easy, unless all of the innards are closely guarded company secrets. If that's the case, and the instrumentation recording also has to be replaced, your company has the ability to rape the flying public that I worried about.
When everyone can get $40 mp3 players with 8 hour playback time on next to no power, you would thing this is going to be the cheapest thing ever. Even general purpose data recorders should be cheap when GB worth are so commonly available. Then you run into qualifications and secrets. Watch these boxes run into the thousands of dollars per aircraft and weep for the paying public.
rucs_hack is the other end of the horse.
This story does not add up, except as a part of a smear. If Merkey had the emails, he would have posted them. You just can't do some people a favor.
Trying to run non free software on Linux eliminates a lot of the advantages of running free software. Who wants to go back to the world of driver hunting? Sure, it can be done, there are distributions that make it easier and there's a lot of cool gaming that can be had but it still takes effort, almost as much as it does to keep up a Windows box.
The market is growing and now is a better time than ever. The death of XP has a lot of gamers looking at Linux. They are going to be trying. Distributions like PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu are going to make them very happy for a while. If the card makers come out with free drivers that work well in the next year or so, those new users will never look back.
Then Linux or Windows7 will emerge as the winner. If Vista can't do PC gaming, something else will but it won't be XP. With ATI, Nvidia and Intel on the Linux bandwagon, the likely winner is Linux.
XP is over. Sooner than you would like, new graphics cards are going to come with nothing but Vista drivers or Vista and Linux drivers.
Gaming cards traditionally follow workstation cards in time.
What's significant here is that Windows has lost it's graphics crown. DRM and bloat or industry defection for the same reasons, we all know the root cause. Free software is simply cleaner and works better. If the ability to run DirectX 9 under Wine was not enough to move gamers to Linux, this is. Things can only go downhill for Microsoft now. Free drivers will be even cleaner and the performance gap will widen.
AMD is supposed to feel threatened by that?
People who know the truth and are sure of themselves don't have to use insults like you do. Blame shifting and malice are for the desperate:
There is no "Microsoft bugs and malice" involved in an interface specification and any bugs occuring [sic] would be solely the domain of either poor implementation of NDIS or by bugs explicitely [sic] in the vendor-provided network driver. You're a complete tool to suggest otherwise. There is no "firmware game", and these network cards aren't braindead - you are.
If I'm a braindead tool, Microsoft is in big trouble because anyone can verify what I did. Firmware, like this, is loaded in Windows with software that's nothing more than SDK parts provided by MickeySoft. Bugs come from the clowns who play, the malice is all from Redmond. The game is painfully obvious.
But the dam has given way. Hardware that sucks does not sell, regardless of who's really at fault. Companies playing the Microsoft game are having trouble but people selling software that works with free software are doing well. Things are not perfect by a long shot but Vista's failure to generate substantial income for Microsoft's partners has changed the game forever. Here's the winner:
NDIS wrapper might itself be GPL but a kernel that uses it is not because the kernel is monolithic. Linus is actually giving everyone what they want.
What is this about GPLONLY symbols?.
Loading a non GPL kernel module makes the whole kernel non GPL and hard to debug because it's a monolithic program. Check out the Linuxant controversy of 2001.
Linus won't keep you from making and loading non free modules but he's not going to be responsible when changes break your module. If others would cooperate, this would not be an issue. The NDIS wrapper people will have to reimplement functions written by GPL strict coders. That kind of sucks for them but they can do it. If Linus were to piss off the GPL strict coders, NDIS wrapper still would not work because those coders would quit contributing. A project as large as the kernel demands give and take. GPLONLY was a nice compromise.
NDIS wrapper has never been a great idea. It puts you at the mercy of Microsoft bugs and malice all for the benefit of a $30 network card. The kind of card that needs NDIS wrapper is usually worst of class and should be shunned. It's brain dead much like a winmodem and the "firmware" game is intentional. The card maker wants to be Windows only so don't buy it. Sooner or later hardware vendors will have to come around.
Cable, telco and banks and apparel vendors all have young people in their sites. Predatory lending credit cards, special internet "deals" with students and massive advertising budgets that should make the companies involved blush, are aimed at people ages 14 to 25.
Why? because that's where the money is.
Why do the theives use ActiveX exploits? Because they can.
Sheep, meet Mr. Slaughter. Mr. Slaughter .... gross!
Why dick around touring Cuba when you could go to China? Everythings bigger and badder there. China is positively booming with US trade, so it should be more fun to visit - especially if you have a lot of money like Bill Gates. Shoot, what's Cuba got? Biomed, underperforming sugar cane and orchards, fishing and PBS backed artists? China's got toxic PC production and "recycling", every good geek's dream vacation. If you look up WHO health statistics, you will see that Cuba has edged the US out of several categories and China is at the bottom where statistics can be collected. Healthy is the opposite of fun, so you have the obvious ranking China, US, Cuba. Why go to such a boring old place?
What's more, you have to have respect for China. They have got nukes out the yin-yang and submarines that can deliver them when they don't sink. They are all into African and Mid East oil and are becoming a real economic and military force. Cuba? Ha! It's been thirty years since they could field a good army in Angola. The Soviets were never very good to them and now that sugar daddy is gone. Poor old Raul would have a hard time fighting his way out of a paper bag.
Given all of that, who would you rather give your money to? That's what I thought any good American would say.
It's a good thing the US Treasury department is helping US Citizens do the right thing. Thanks George, don't let that pesky first amendment get in the way of your fight against real tyranny. Every dollar spent by bleeding liberals in Cuba is one dollar less that won't be able to make its way through Walmart to China.
There's more than one camera that point into people's houses, and traffic cameras are becoming a universal problem but that's the least of the real worries. Your smart new cellphone can record and text index your conversations while "off". Your ISP is practically required to monitor your email and web browsing and the FBI or CIA can duplicate that work when they feel like it. I wonder if ChoicePoint has all that integrated that into their database, along with your GPS whereabouts and credit card records of everything you buy. Total Information Awareness was more than a catchy phrase, it's big brother's way to gloat, "We know you better than you do." Google's records are nothing next to that even if you use them for everything. Their camera program is trivial and done better by others, as you noted.
Free software can only eliminate part of this, the rest has to come from telco, banking and medical regulations that work. The information should not be stored or traded without a search warrant.
I love the brag. The Industry Conclusion is correct, though not the way they want it to be.
Conclusion:
The campaign will live beyond the event as the Web sites will remain live, and students will be reminded by the giveaways to Break the Chain of harmful of harmful events that can result from counterfeiting.
They are going to have a hard time living this one down. Fake blogs, with more than 300 myspace friends, including Justin Timberlake! What they have managed to do is indelibly link their brands to fake. Hyped, expensive fake regardless of real quality. How do they expect anyone to trust them again? Their stuff is better why? Because they spend money on BS like this? Because the "real" stuff comes from a sweat shop with a sharper whip? It's hard to imagine a better example of the harm imaginary property does and they festering pile of lies that supports it.
Has Yahoo moved to Server 2007 or something? Weird.
Infoworld still has the original article, but I can understand wanting to pull a story like that.