There are tons of awesome image management apps and tons of awesome mail clients, most of which are free. Unfortunately (for you), few of these are available on Windows. The problem, as I see it, is your choice of operating systems: the one you're using limits your options. That doesn't mean it's a bad choice for you (for all I know, you're stuck with it due to software otherwise unavailable), but it does mean that, like all of us, you have to make trade-offs in life.
MSDNAA licenses are only valid while you are a student, and only for using as part of your education.
Sorry, but that's patently untrue. You can no longer acquire or activate new licenses, but your existing licensed installations definitely remain valid after you're no longer a student (see the license agreement paragraph 2a "End of Student Status". To quote from there:
b. End of Student Status.
The DreamSpark Direct Subscription is a special offering for students. Once you no longer qualify for the DreamSpark Direct Subscription (due to graduation or otherwise no longer meeting the definition of "you" above), your DreamSpark Direct Subscription will terminate; however, you may continue to use the software you obtained prior to termination of your student status subject to the terms of this agreement.
Of course, the catch is that you're not allowed to use the software for commercial or entertainment purposes but only to "further your education" (i.e., to enlarge Microsoft's mindshare)--but that's the premise of the license in the first place, even while you're a student.
You didn't "get" a copy for $0, they only lent you a license.
Sadly, that's how the proprietary software business has been working for years at this point, by tying the base to online services.
StartSSL certs are not free to commercial entities.
Unfortunately, you are factually wrong. Their Class 1 certs used to be free for commercial purposes up until 2012, but that policy changed back then. See StartCom Certificate Policy & Practice Statements (warning: PDF) section 3.1.2 "Classes of digital X.509 Certificates" paragraph 1. Quoting from there (emphasis mine):
Class 1 Certificates provide modest assurances that the email originated from a sender with the specified email address or that the domain address belongs to the respective server address. These certificates provide no proof of the identity of the subscriber or of the organization.
Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class 2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature, when using high-profile brands and names or if involved in obtaining or relaying sensitive information such as health records, financial details, personal information etc.
Does a new certificate automatically revoke an old one on the same domain, such that you can only have one cert per domain? That would be the question.
Nope, it doesn't. Their interface for non-EV certs simply doesn't let you emit a new certificate if you already have emitted a non-expired non-revoked one for the same CN. You can easily get around this limitation, though, by emitting for another CN within the same domain and adding the old domain as a Subject Alternative Name in the extensions section.
No, they are not, if you're referring to their free Class 1 certificates. They used to be up until 2012, but that policy changed back then. Commercially using their Class 1 certificates is prohibited by StartCom. See StartCom Certificate Policy & Practice Statements (warning: PDF) section 3.1.2 "Classes of digital X.509 Certificates" paragraph 1. Quoting from there (emphasis mine):
Class 1 Certificates provide modest assurances that the email originated from a sender with the specified email address or that the domain address belongs to the respective server address. These certificates provide no proof of the identity of the subscriber or of the organization.
Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class 2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature, when using high-profile brands and names or if involved in obtaining or relaying sensitive information such as health records, financial details, personal information etc.
No idea about trade since I never bother with it, but an account creation cooldown is out of the question: Many ISPs deploy transparent proxies or, worse yet, they NAT tons of their customers through the same public IPv4 address. A cooldown of this type would impact Valve's bottom line *and* piss off customers, so I don't think it can be done.
I completely agree with you that doing complex parsing in the kernel is stupid. And I'll make your day just that little bit worse:
Remember TTF and OTF which evolved into WOFF? Those flexible but very complex font file formats, optionally with bytecode that's actually JITted? That can be embedded into webpages therefore are interpreted by the underlying font rendering services regardless of browser used?
Those patents disclose algorithms. Basically, applied math. Which should have never, ever been allowed as claims in a patent since they are antithetical to the compromise between the inventor's and society's benefit the patent system was designed to facilitate. So, yes, they are pretty much what one would call "software patents".
Whether or not they describe revolutionary ideas, and whether or not they required creative thought to invent is completely beside the point. Patenting algorithms runs against the very worldview that built the research scaffolding which allowed you to come up with these ideas (the old adage about standing on the shoulders of giants--and now imagine a world where those shoulders could only be visited if you paid the piper.) Math isn't invented, it's discovered.
That being said, under no circumstances would I recommend a client to hire you if I caught wind that you owned patents applicable to the field in which you would be working. That simply screams "conflict of interest", "subsequent lawsuit", and "humongous liability."
I.e. DRM doesn't work. Moreover, it has the opposite effect, rather than preventing copying, it encourages more copying!
I actually take issue with your assertion that DRM doesn't work. I posit that DRM works exceptionally well - it's just that most people aren't aware of exactly who DRM mechanisms are mostly aimed at: the distribution channel, the software and hardware vendors. Not the end users.
What amazes me is that those people seriously considered a situation that could have had a devastating economical effect on the US. Things like this cause nations to implode. A bankrupt, non-functional state has time and again led to violent overthrow and civil war. This is what their game of chicken was risking. And when you listen to some of their backers they would welcome this in the hopes to build a different state from the ashes. Only their vision is really frightening.
Indeed it should be, but I hope you're not under the impression that this is anything unprecedented in any way, shape or form. The actions of the Tea Party are perfectly rational given their underpinnings. Here's a thought-provoking (and well-researched) analysis about their origins, motives and strategies: Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the "Newest Right"
Works perfectly fine under Wine, and there's a very active multiplayer community, too - significantly expanding upon the original game. Take a look at Discovery Freelancer.
You're correct, we did read it differently:) I read it as pretty much making fun of Ahonen.
While I wholeheartedly agree that the consequences of Elop's "strategy" were quite obvious, Ahonen did more than speculate - he tried (and, for the most part, succeeded) to back up his statements. He provided hard data, several possible market share collapse forecasts (which turned out to be faily accurate - much closer than the projections issued by any other ratings agency), and several ways to try and fix Nokia's decline.
That's why I was a bit miffed - I dislike other people's actual work to be brushed aside with a shallow joke. I know this kind of belittling "humor" is endemic, but it's representative for the pernicious "bah, big deal, I could've done the same thing if I'd only bothered to work at it" mindset.
Woah, he predicted Windows Phone would not succeed at the level of iPhone and Android? Better tell James Randi to hang it up, because we got a real god damned psychic right here!
Bra-vo, very sarcastic and blasé, but unfortunately it makes you look quite ignorant. Ahonen predicted this in February 2011 right after Elop's announcement. For example:
Free + OSS solution: Local Update Publisher (uses the same official, documented APIs as SCCM)
The enterprise MSIs are patched in sync with the other updates. Managing Chrome via LUP + the Chrome ADMs is a breeze, since if an "uncontrolled" (LocalAppData) Chrome instance starts and there's a MSI on the machine, the uncontrolled instance will respect the GPO settings.
... since carriers love Skype so very much due to its ability to shift their revenue from the extremely profitable voice calls to the much less profitable data transmission channels, and since nobody will believe Microsoft should they claim not to have any plans to integrate Skype's technology in WP7. This is irrespective of whether WP7 has technical merit or not. Carriers make or break a mobile OS - they can simply refuse to subsidize phones running an unwanted OS thus forcing it out of the market.
The VERSION file in mine says 1.0.10. The About box in my client says 1.0.10. You might have stale files laying around - I recommend you close the Dropbox daemon, delete (or safer yet, rename) ~/.dropbox-dist, start the Dropbox daemon again and let it redownload.
The current Dropbox version for Linux is indeed 1.0.10. What you're downloading there is nautilus-dropbox, the Nautilus integration package. The actual Dropbox daemon is proprietary, it will be downloaded into ~/.dropbox-dist the first time you start it.
BS. It probably just formats it using exFAT if it's not formatted already, or when the user formats it. It's not possible to permanently make a card unreadable on other systems - reformatting and/or repartitioning the card will do the trick. Even if that were possible, this would be too blatant a bug to have slipped through QA.
Market share is an iffy thing - it's here one day, gone the next. Unfortunately the Symbian adoption is not only slowing, it's negative (I say unfortunately because you can pry my beloved E72 out of my clammy, dead fingers.) Hopefully Nokia will be able to turn it around.
It can help you avoid SQL Server. Shoehorning SQL Server support into common web apps is... frustrating, to say the least, and SQL Server has a habit of sucking you into an ever-growing cost spiral.
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Yeah, about that... You might want to take a look at /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-sandbox, then.
There are tons of awesome image management apps and tons of awesome mail clients, most of which are free. Unfortunately (for you), few of these are available on Windows. The problem, as I see it, is your choice of operating systems: the one you're using limits your options. That doesn't mean it's a bad choice for you (for all I know, you're stuck with it due to software otherwise unavailable), but it does mean that, like all of us, you have to make trade-offs in life.
MSDNAA licenses are only valid while you are a student, and only for using as part of your education.
Sorry, but that's patently untrue. You can no longer acquire or activate new licenses, but your existing licensed installations definitely remain valid after you're no longer a student (see the license agreement paragraph 2a "End of Student Status". To quote from there:
b. End of Student Status. The DreamSpark Direct Subscription is a special offering for students. Once you no longer qualify for the DreamSpark Direct Subscription (due to graduation or otherwise no longer meeting the definition of "you" above), your DreamSpark Direct Subscription will terminate; however, you may continue to use the software you obtained prior to termination of your student status subject to the terms of this agreement.
Of course, the catch is that you're not allowed to use the software for commercial or entertainment purposes but only to "further your education" (i.e., to enlarge Microsoft's mindshare)--but that's the premise of the license in the first place, even while you're a student.
You didn't "get" a copy for $0, they only lent you a license.
Sadly, that's how the proprietary software business has been working for years at this point, by tying the base to online services.
StartSSL certs are not free to commercial entities.
Unfortunately, you are factually wrong. Their Class 1 certs used to be free for commercial purposes up until 2012, but that policy changed back then. See StartCom Certificate Policy & Practice Statements (warning: PDF) section 3.1.2 "Classes of digital X.509 Certificates" paragraph 1. Quoting from there (emphasis mine):
Class 1 Certificates provide modest assurances that the email originated from a sender with the specified email address or that the domain address belongs to the respective server address. These certificates provide no proof of the identity of the subscriber or of the organization.
Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class 2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature, when using high-profile brands and names or if involved in obtaining or relaying sensitive information such as health records, financial details, personal information etc.
Does a new certificate automatically revoke an old one on the same domain, such that you can only have one cert per domain? That would be the question.
Nope, it doesn't. Their interface for non-EV certs simply doesn't let you emit a new certificate if you already have emitted a non-expired non-revoked one for the same CN. You can easily get around this limitation, though, by emitting for another CN within the same domain and adding the old domain as a Subject Alternative Name in the extensions section.
StartSSL are free for commercial use.
No, they are not, if you're referring to their free Class 1 certificates. They used to be up until 2012, but that policy changed back then. Commercially using their Class 1 certificates is prohibited by StartCom. See StartCom Certificate Policy & Practice Statements (warning: PDF) section 3.1.2 "Classes of digital X.509 Certificates" paragraph 1. Quoting from there (emphasis mine):
Class 1 Certificates provide modest assurances that the email originated from a sender with the specified email address or that the domain address belongs to the respective server address. These certificates provide no proof of the identity of the subscriber or of the organization.
Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class 2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature, when using high-profile brands and names or if involved in obtaining or relaying sensitive information such as health records, financial details, personal information etc.
No idea about trade since I never bother with it, but an account creation cooldown is out of the question: Many ISPs deploy transparent proxies or, worse yet, they NAT tons of their customers through the same public IPv4 address. A cooldown of this type would impact Valve's bottom line *and* piss off customers, so I don't think it can be done.
I completely agree with you that doing complex parsing in the kernel is stupid. And I'll make your day just that little bit worse:
Remember TTF and OTF which evolved into WOFF? Those flexible but very complex font file formats, optionally with bytecode that's actually JITted? That can be embedded into webpages therefore are interpreted by the underlying font rendering services regardless of browser used?
Windows parses them in the kernel.
It's on by default in 2008, 2008R2, Vista, 7. Quoth Enable Kernel Caching (IIS 7):
Note: By default, kernel caching is enabled in IIS 7.
Those patents disclose algorithms. Basically, applied math. Which should have never, ever been allowed as claims in a patent since they are antithetical to the compromise between the inventor's and society's benefit the patent system was designed to facilitate. So, yes, they are pretty much what one would call "software patents".
Whether or not they describe revolutionary ideas, and whether or not they required creative thought to invent is completely beside the point. Patenting algorithms runs against the very worldview that built the research scaffolding which allowed you to come up with these ideas (the old adage about standing on the shoulders of giants--and now imagine a world where those shoulders could only be visited if you paid the piper.) Math isn't invented, it's discovered.
That being said, under no circumstances would I recommend a client to hire you if I caught wind that you owned patents applicable to the field in which you would be working. That simply screams "conflict of interest", "subsequent lawsuit", and "humongous liability."
I.e. DRM doesn't work. Moreover, it has the opposite effect, rather than preventing copying, it encourages more copying!
I actually take issue with your assertion that DRM doesn't work. I posit that DRM works exceptionally well - it's just that most people aren't aware of exactly who DRM mechanisms are mostly aimed at: the distribution channel, the software and hardware vendors. Not the end users.
I urge you to read Ian Hickson's most excellent post on the matter. It's well worth the couple of minutes invested, but if you're impatient, this is the main takeaway:
DRM's purpose is to give content providers control over software and hardware providers, and it is satisfying that purpose well.
What amazes me is that those people seriously considered a situation that could have had a devastating economical effect on the US. Things like this cause nations to implode. A bankrupt, non-functional state has time and again led to violent overthrow and civil war. This is what their game of chicken was risking. And when you listen to some of their backers they would welcome this in the hopes to build a different state from the ashes. Only their vision is really frightening.
Indeed it should be, but I hope you're not under the impression that this is anything unprecedented in any way, shape or form. The actions of the Tea Party are perfectly rational given their underpinnings. Here's a thought-provoking (and well-researched) analysis about their origins, motives and strategies: Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the "Newest Right"
Works perfectly fine under Wine, and there's a very active multiplayer community, too - significantly expanding upon the original game. Take a look at Discovery Freelancer.
You're correct, we did read it differently :) I read it as pretty much making fun of Ahonen.
While I wholeheartedly agree that the consequences of Elop's "strategy" were quite obvious, Ahonen did more than speculate - he tried (and, for the most part, succeeded) to back up his statements. He provided hard data, several possible market share collapse forecasts (which turned out to be faily accurate - much closer than the projections issued by any other ratings agency), and several ways to try and fix Nokia's decline.
That's why I was a bit miffed - I dislike other people's actual work to be brushed aside with a shallow joke. I know this kind of belittling "humor" is endemic, but it's representative for the pernicious "bah, big deal, I could've done the same thing if I'd only bothered to work at it" mindset.
Woah, he predicted Windows Phone would not succeed at the level of iPhone and Android? Better tell James Randi to hang it up, because we got a real god damned psychic right here!
Bra-vo, very sarcastic and blasé, but unfortunately it makes you look quite ignorant. Ahonen predicted this in February 2011 right after Elop's announcement. For example:
The enterprise MSIs are patched in sync with the other updates. Managing Chrome via LUP + the Chrome ADMs is a breeze, since if an "uncontrolled" (LocalAppData) Chrome instance starts and there's a MSI on the machine, the uncontrolled instance will respect the GPO settings.
Look up price elasticity of demand.
... since carriers love Skype so very much due to its ability to shift their revenue from the extremely profitable voice calls to the much less profitable data transmission channels, and since nobody will believe Microsoft should they claim not to have any plans to integrate Skype's technology in WP7. This is irrespective of whether WP7 has technical merit or not. Carriers make or break a mobile OS - they can simply refuse to subsidize phones running an unwanted OS thus forcing it out of the market.
The VERSION file in mine says 1.0.10. The About box in my client says 1.0.10. You might have stale files laying around - I recommend you close the Dropbox daemon, delete (or safer yet, rename) ~/.dropbox-dist, start the Dropbox daemon again and let it redownload.
The current Dropbox version for Linux is indeed 1.0.10. What you're downloading there is nautilus-dropbox, the Nautilus integration package. The actual Dropbox daemon is proprietary, it will be downloaded into ~/.dropbox-dist the first time you start it.
BS. It probably just formats it using exFAT if it's not formatted already, or when the user formats it. It's not possible to permanently make a card unreadable on other systems - reformatting and/or repartitioning the card will do the trick. Even if that were possible, this would be too blatant a bug to have slipped through QA.
Sorry, my bad. I meant developer adoption rate.
Market share is an iffy thing - it's here one day, gone the next. Unfortunately the Symbian adoption is not only slowing, it's negative (I say unfortunately because you can pry my beloved E72 out of my clammy, dead fingers.) Hopefully Nokia will be able to turn it around.
The linking issue is tangential - the real issue is the notion of a derivative work, linking is just an instance of that.
It can help you avoid SQL Server. Shoehorning SQL Server support into common web apps is... frustrating, to say the least, and SQL Server has a habit of sucking you into an ever-growing cost spiral.