This is absolutely ridiculous. Slashnut is basing how informed a person is by a single question that has little supporting facts and no official research. The only proof is a reprinted birth certificate. No one can find anyone that remembers a baby with a black dad and a white mom being born in the 60s when that would still be highly controversial. Well no one has come forward at least.
So questioning anything obviously makes you "uninformed." Wow! So scientific!
I don't care what answer they come up with. Why can't we ask the question and try to find the answer? Are we just supposed to use the same belief system that works so well for the victims of Bernie Madoff or Enron. Blind faith works so well for you guys doesn't it.
But based on this one opinion on a unanswered question you guys are going to make the claim a group of people are uninformed. It's the same type of polling that helped racism of yesteryears. Keep up the good work Slashbigots!
Well while what your sayings is true for the likes of you and me. It isn't the same truth for the corporations. THAT is the problem. There is two different code of laws. One for the people and one for the corporations. While the peoples laws make sense and have are rational and have a sense of reason. The corporate law codes are a free-for-all upheld by lawsuits. Which is honky dorry when its between two megacorporations worth over 100 billion and can sit in court rooms paying a dozen high powered lawyers $100 an hour. The whole law system hits a brick wall as soon as the people enter the same court room. We don't stand a chance. Therefor we have become merely slaves to the corporations. They can make up any law they want for us and we can't fight them in court. They can be dead wrong about their interpretations, it doesn't matter. All they need to do is out wait us until we go broke and have to abide by our corporate lord and masters.
Politicians concerned for the people? Why? Which lobbyist are you paying for to sit and represent your interests in DC?
Sorry, but ultimately this country doesn't need the people. Just the corporations. Corporations want stronger copyright and patent laws. Thats what they will get since all the people running this country are people they helped put there. You expect anything less you are a hopeless romantic IMHO.
OH I don't know... maybe there is better money in it. No one is the least bit suspicious of big oil companies like BP spending millions of dollars in researching why oil is bad?
Produce less and make more. No one wants to think this could be a scam? We are stuck making houses out of wood. Which cutting trees destroys the planet. Rocks have to be quarreled. Mining is bad. Metal has to be mined and than smelted as well. Or use petroleum products which is destroying the planet as well.
Pretty much we have eliminated all the building block materials as being contributors to the earth dooms-day.
Since we aren't all going to live in caves (even than we would need to heat our caves,) this pretty much means we are forced to buy these commodities but at a premium price as they get the prices driven up higher and higher with the help of doomsday cults.
I'd say a paycheck is a pretty lucrative reason why scientific persons would want to only study one side of the possibilities. The likelihood of the government being a nonpartisan party in scientific research while corporations are spending millions in lobbying (if the government members are not owners of such companies already) is next to nil as well.
SO... there is a very great chance of our results of research being bias.
I reserve a lot of doubt in the study conclusions I hear. If you want to accept the results you hear on faith, that is your right to do so. But there is room to doubt.
What are you talking about? We have already solved the answers to Life, the Universe and Everything. It's 42.
We know everything there is to know about weather, climate, ecology, biology, geographical, and basically all earth sciences. In fact... i'm not even sure why any government is still funding research in these fields. Obviously there isn't a need any more as we have already figured out everything. So much so that it is safe for us to mock all those who dare question.
You think thats funny.. Go to the link and watch the video of the dumb ass attorney telling us how we all won't be poor and jobless if we buy software. So just reading between the lines... sounds like Microsoft is holding the worlds economy hostage till we all paying them a stipend.
If you ask me this is just the BS these software companies are feeding share holders to try to blame for their piss poor performance.
For those who are members of the Church of the FSM, more pirates means that global warming is reversing.
It's a conspiracy!!! Novell is evil and is in league with Microsoft and Men In Black. They want to take over the Earth for the aliens and satan, and Microsoft selling SuSE support is the first step! Quick we need to make some tin foil hats!
I don't think you understand... the journal was peer-reviewed. That means its an amazing breakthrough just like "I can't believe its not butter" means it taste good.
Keep in mind though, that using a no CD crack is pretty much a requirement for running many games in Windows too. All convenience issues aside, SecuROM and other DRM can actually break the games' ability to run in many systems CD or not. To say nothing of various Windows issues you may have due to the DRM. So after you buy the game, you frequently need either a No-CD cracked.exe, or you just pirate the damn thing and leave the unopened game on your shelf.
I'd like to also point out that DRM and all other copy protections in history has been historically known to break for legal owners and lock them out of the game. I've seen a couple of times where the copy protection locks out under Windows with the upgrade of Windows. If a game manufacture wants to maintain copyrights and copy protection on a game than they need to continue selling and be held responsible for making their product functional while they maintain these things. I wonder how long Lucas Arts would maintain copyrights and/or continue to not sell DoTT if we made them responsible to the consumers they so dearly love f-ing over.
No DX10 _IS_ BS. If it was so great why not implement it into XP? To entice people to upgrade to Vista? Why are they working on a new rewrite for Windows 7 if DX10 is so hawt. And by the sound of things you won't be able to get DX11 unless you get Windows 7. Thats not exactly showing a lot of love for their users.
Seems to me all modern day corporations are all just trying to screw over the consumer. Fan boys get it the worst.
As far as prettier in DX10 vs DX9. I don't see it. Yes i've seen the before and after videos. I've stared at lots of jungle leaves. I see a subtle difference but nothing FAR superior. IMHO those who claim they see a night and day difference in DX10 is basically going along with the king's new clothes syndrome. If DX11 has ray-tracing in it than it will be far superior. If its more improved shading on jungle leaves I could give a flying f- less about it.
Actually after reading both sides of the story which was hard to get as there were tons and tons of whiners and only a hand full of people discussing the issues like adults. But after doing my own research into this it seems that 3.0 is more of a beginning step towards the ultimate goals. The progression is not as fast as what the game developers are wanting.
My question for you and this is completely not rhetorical or cynical but legitimately asking because I don't understand is... If say Maya was using OGL 2.X standards and OGL went to this 3.x standard as the gamers want it. Why couldn't Maya just stay with 2.x standards and use 2.x libraries until they have migrated to 3.x at their own leisure. Well thats my problem. I'm not understanding why 3.x road map has to be transitional. Can't you have multiple OGL lib versions on a system at the same time? If not, maybe that problem is what should be addressed in OGL 3.0.
Looks like a rumor mill blog hunter reporting to me. It's fanatical Novell-is-the-devil is amusing reading I will admit.
The article of how Novell is responsible for destroying Olympics for the author because they can't watch NBCOlympics.com under Linux was a good chuckle. "If it were not for Novell, Microsoft would have ported Silverlight to GNU/Linux, for better or for worse."
This by their theory is because they sponsor Mono project. All its missing is some men in black in their theory.
Basically its watching the tinfoil hat people type entertainment.
Nice statistics. Statistics are fun. But all I see more with the people investing into new hardware, is a bunch of people investing in to Mac's. People staying with PC seem to be all switching to Ubuntu.
I realize my perspective is from a small local region of the world and not global websites visited. But I reserve doubt that there are as many bottom feeder computer systems in Net Application stats as you suggest. Someone who couldn't afford $50-100 worth of hardware upgrades, wouldn't seem likely to be able to afford $10 a month for internet. There are a few exceptions but i would bet more like those people CAN afford to upgrade they just don't give a rip. Like a lot of the people who live in my area. They could afford it, but see absolutely no point to having to fork out the cash.
I'm not a big bad anti-Vista basher. To be honest I'm in Vista right now as I'm writing this. It's a alright Windows OS for Windows. I prefer FreeBSD or Solaris, but no accounting for taste. I'm sure A lot of people disagree with me on my favorite OS's. But personally, I haven't really been all that impressed with Windows since NT 4.0 and even that didn't make me do cartwheels. Any ways, as I see it, most people (all those folks who don't read/.) there is no motivation to do anything with their computer at all. Those who do feel compelled to do something are sick of the big PC industry bullying them. For 10 years now its been nothing but. "... now upgrade your software. now upgrade your hardware. now rinse and repeat." Again I know i'm not the big hotshot living in New York or LA, just a local yocal that lives in BFE Oregon. I have no clue or concern on how attitudes change in cities that have a higher per populous of lawyers. But around here the attitude towards the entire PC industry seems to be "Whateva."
I think Cell Processors are a creative design. Ok the headlining project PS3 was a bust. It's because Sony is a dumb ass and didn't put enough memory in their RAM, but they did overkill with the blu-ray and had a 50 GB removable media drive.
But the design of the CPU seems solid. But I do love SPARC's.
This exact thing happened to a friend of mine. He did a byte crack patch to a Silicon & Synapse game Blackthorn to fix their bug in the joystick. They ended up making a "Official" patch that was his byte patch after they said prior to people that the joystick feature is totally and permanently boinked.
Where is the real humorous part to this? Later this company changed their name to Blizzard Entertainment. As far as I know they totally pirated his work as they didn't even give a single shred of credit to my friend for successfully reversing and fixing their bug. Now days they sue you for looking at copies of their software in memory. That is after they steal the parts that fixes their bugs.
Everyone of these hardcore DRM/copy-protection companies are complete hypocrites. If the shoe is on the other foot than its acceptable. All of it can be boiled down to, laws protect the rich.
There is DRM in Vista. DRM isn't supposed to be in your face. Although it sometimes does when your wanting to do something.
But arguing it isn't in Vista is like arguing Apple hasn't use it in iTunes.
Media Center is more worthless than iTunes. iTunes I can buy movies. Media Center I guess i'm supposed to buy a Xbox 360 so I can only rent movies for a ridiculous price and in the process of watching the movie have to call the fire department to put the fire out of the smoldering pile of ash that was a Xbox.
Clearly when it comes to free non-nazi hollywood media Mythbuntu is the way to go.
And look... I have vista Ultimate. It's not that bad for Windows. I'm actually impressed as with the compatibility mode in it I can play old school Dark Reign on Vista 64 bit.
That still doesn't change the fact that Vista is a bomb. A million sells to resellers before it released and than next to nothing in sells to end users is totally a bomb.
Why do you think they are scrambling to get Windows 7 to market? Because Vista is raking in all the jack? Come on. I'm not anti-Vista but it tanked guys. Just like the Zune. And just because "you own one and have never had a problem and its been running 40,000 years without a reboot" doesn't make it not a bomb.
If Vista was making the big bucks they would be kicking back letting all that money roll in for a while.
Honestly, I'm more impressed with the craftsmanship that Linux (and OSS) developers and not all that impressed with Apple or Microsoft lately.
Seems like the big money rollers are producing a lot of amateurish code lately.
KDE 4.x is a huge undertaking. I think a lot of the developers in KDE probably didn't realize how big of a shit sandwich they were going to have to bite into when they started up into it. *IF* they can work through it, they will be light years ahead of everyone else who wasn't willing to take the risk.
I'm confused. What did Novell do? I'm not talking 8 years ago. What did they do today? Signed a sweetheart deal with Microsoft to get some inside poop on Windows tech to deliver some compatibility to Linux. Wow that is horrible. Ya they were trying to do what the EU forced Microsoft to do.
Sun is rotten too... because back in 'Nam... for christ sakes people... get over it. These companies are delivering massive amounts of resources to the OSS community. DO NOT WHINE ABOUT IT! I understand if they do something you feel is morally and/or religiously wrong, by all means do not participate in the matter. But call me a troll but I think its ridiculous and stupid to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Also note: Fanatical fanboys make no difference to the scheme of anything other than everyone's annoyance levels.
I kind of agree with you. But not so much on the get rid of all warnings on self-signed certificates. But there should be a less-secured encryption method available that won't prompt the users with a dialog that translates to most end-users "Warning this site is trying to download all your personal information and post a email to your boss of the porn sites you visit."
I see the validation of the higher secured systems. Two check stops is more secure than one. As three check stops is more secure than two. But there should be a method that would just be for not sending/receiving clear.
Hackable most definitely. But it would take a little more effort than what is needed now for putting together someones entire web transactions with a simple packet snooper.
oookay. How many remember the leak of Doom 3? How many remember how much suckage there was? Unplugged AI's. Sagging performance. etc etc.
I can't believe the game reviewing industry has sunk so far as to give a review of a leaked version. You have NO clue what that version was for. A demo for E3? Proof of concept of a disco ball effect on the pig hunt level for next Tuesday's meeting. It's in extremely poor taste and I review any reviewer that made any kind of official rating of a pre-release a 1 out of 10 in intelligence.
I noticed all the reviewers that are pathetic enough to do this stunt are online game reviewers which is proving the point of a earlier topic posted on Slashdot (originally from PC Magazine I believe) a while back of how the internet and its blogs are dumbing down news. There is no way a professional published game magazine would have done this same cheese ball of a stunt. Maybe write a editorial of their thoughts. But they would make it perfectly clear to everyone that this is not what will be on the shelves. And would totally take in account the faultiness of their news sources. Only one word describes this: Amateurish.
I think it's a neat calculation. We've all lost track of what fast actually means for a modern CPU. Ya well if IBM wants to impress me they need to tell me it can run Crysis with max settings and beat Chuck Norris at arm wrestling.
Why should they pay any more than any one of us. It's not like we got to walk away with our own shiny plastic discs that they had. It's not like they played our requested songs the exact second we requested (with some DJ's, ever.)
This wonderful tactic being performed by the music industry currently can only be called suicide. The thing you want the most is your music being played by DJ's, music tours, friends car, on the radio station, etc etc.... the more people hear a catchy song the more likely they will go out and buy it.
Like right now, I bet there has recently been about 2 million record sells for Rick Astley.:-)
Copyright and patent laws, put as simple as possible avoiding the insane logic, are there so software and entertainment companies can throw themselves to the ground, whine and cry about anything they don't like, like the little babies they are.
You think Australian Parliament would be interested in some Chinese internet technology too? They could have a 1000 dollar fine for anyone posting a blog saying ARIA sucks.
Ya no kidding. Sooner to release doesn't mean the release works. It took them forever to fix service pack 1 for Vista. This "research" was probably had Microsoft advertisements on the lab notes.
In particularly since upgrading to Vista is most likely not going to work unless you happen to have this years technology for hardware. _MOST_ of the problems with Vista i've seen is people with 1 to 2 year old hardware trying to run it. Sometimes a guy gets lucky and has no problems. Other times... it throws itself on the floor in a fit like a 4 year old with ADS. The other issue is trying to run ancient old Windows 95/98 programs and blaming it on x64 if they have the 64 bit version and than if they have the 32 bit version and it doesn't work there than Vista in its entirety is a piece of crap. This is nothing new. Heck I seriously doubt my old copy of ApplixWare Office Suite will run on the modern Linux kernel. Software gets old and it dies if its not GPL. HENSE why there is a open source software movement. Sucks if your company paid Cisco a kings ransom for admintools that runs on Windows 95. If your company didn't budgeted that, in 5 years this investment is fully depreciated and therefor (very conveniently might I add) junk than they are foolish to spend that kind of money for tools they probably really can't afford. AND/OR shouldn't be issuing hardware/OS upgrades. Me personally. I don't get very excited about any OS. It's just a application database to load programs. If I have a good compiler i'm happy.
I have seen Wikipedia very slanted in topics that cover political hot spot entries. It's been discussed here on Slashdot before on how Wikipedia removes counter-information off certain key topics. I have seen it first hand and it seems to me these "higher intellectuals" with their communism have very little interest in democracy. And in cases like China the people are censored from such evil topics as liberty. Perhaps because its trivial?
Communism AKA oligarchy, doesn't liberate it enslaves. The people toil labors for the leadership of the select few. Wikipedia with its tight niche elite group deciding on reality like they are Neo in the Matrix isn't always going to be dropping "trivial" articles. And will include in the deleted trivial list many articles which are inconvenient to their version of reality.
I agree with the ranking system and perhaps if a huge majority says the article is junk than remove it. Absolute power to a select group of people on something that we are going to have kids using it as the educational pool of easy to find facts. VERY VERY dangerous. IMHO
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This is absolutely ridiculous. Slashnut is basing how informed a person is by a single question that has little supporting facts and no official research. The only proof is a reprinted birth certificate. No one can find anyone that remembers a baby with a black dad and a white mom being born in the 60s when that would still be highly controversial. Well no one has come forward at least. So questioning anything obviously makes you "uninformed." Wow! So scientific! I don't care what answer they come up with. Why can't we ask the question and try to find the answer? Are we just supposed to use the same belief system that works so well for the victims of Bernie Madoff or Enron. Blind faith works so well for you guys doesn't it. But based on this one opinion on a unanswered question you guys are going to make the claim a group of people are uninformed. It's the same type of polling that helped racism of yesteryears. Keep up the good work Slashbigots!
Well while what your sayings is true for the likes of you and me. It isn't the same truth for the corporations. THAT is the problem. There is two different code of laws. One for the people and one for the corporations. While the peoples laws make sense and have are rational and have a sense of reason. The corporate law codes are a free-for-all upheld by lawsuits. Which is honky dorry when its between two megacorporations worth over 100 billion and can sit in court rooms paying a dozen high powered lawyers $100 an hour. The whole law system hits a brick wall as soon as the people enter the same court room. We don't stand a chance. Therefor we have become merely slaves to the corporations. They can make up any law they want for us and we can't fight them in court. They can be dead wrong about their interpretations, it doesn't matter. All they need to do is out wait us until we go broke and have to abide by our corporate lord and masters. Politicians concerned for the people? Why? Which lobbyist are you paying for to sit and represent your interests in DC? Sorry, but ultimately this country doesn't need the people. Just the corporations. Corporations want stronger copyright and patent laws. Thats what they will get since all the people running this country are people they helped put there. You expect anything less you are a hopeless romantic IMHO.
OH I don't know... maybe there is better money in it. No one is the least bit suspicious of big oil companies like BP spending millions of dollars in researching why oil is bad? Produce less and make more. No one wants to think this could be a scam? We are stuck making houses out of wood. Which cutting trees destroys the planet. Rocks have to be quarreled. Mining is bad. Metal has to be mined and than smelted as well. Or use petroleum products which is destroying the planet as well. Pretty much we have eliminated all the building block materials as being contributors to the earth dooms-day. Since we aren't all going to live in caves (even than we would need to heat our caves,) this pretty much means we are forced to buy these commodities but at a premium price as they get the prices driven up higher and higher with the help of doomsday cults. I'd say a paycheck is a pretty lucrative reason why scientific persons would want to only study one side of the possibilities. The likelihood of the government being a nonpartisan party in scientific research while corporations are spending millions in lobbying (if the government members are not owners of such companies already) is next to nil as well. SO... there is a very great chance of our results of research being bias. I reserve a lot of doubt in the study conclusions I hear. If you want to accept the results you hear on faith, that is your right to do so. But there is room to doubt.
What are you talking about? We have already solved the answers to Life, the Universe and Everything. It's 42. We know everything there is to know about weather, climate, ecology, biology, geographical, and basically all earth sciences. In fact... i'm not even sure why any government is still funding research in these fields. Obviously there isn't a need any more as we have already figured out everything. So much so that it is safe for us to mock all those who dare question.
You think thats funny.. Go to the link and watch the video of the dumb ass attorney telling us how we all won't be poor and jobless if we buy software. So just reading between the lines... sounds like Microsoft is holding the worlds economy hostage till we all paying them a stipend. If you ask me this is just the BS these software companies are feeding share holders to try to blame for their piss poor performance. For those who are members of the Church of the FSM, more pirates means that global warming is reversing.
It's a conspiracy!!! Novell is evil and is in league with Microsoft and Men In Black. They want to take over the Earth for the aliens and satan, and Microsoft selling SuSE support is the first step! Quick we need to make some tin foil hats!
I don't think you understand... the journal was peer-reviewed. That means its an amazing breakthrough just like "I can't believe its not butter" means it taste good.
Keep in mind though, that using a no CD crack is pretty much a requirement for running many games in Windows too. All convenience issues aside, SecuROM and other DRM can actually break the games' ability to run in many systems CD or not. To say nothing of various Windows issues you may have due to the DRM. So after you buy the game, you frequently need either a No-CD cracked .exe, or you just pirate the damn thing and leave the unopened game on your shelf.
I'd like to also point out that DRM and all other copy protections in history has been historically known to break for legal owners and lock them out of the game. I've seen a couple of times where the copy protection locks out under Windows with the upgrade of Windows. If a game manufacture wants to maintain copyrights and copy protection on a game than they need to continue selling and be held responsible for making their product functional while they maintain these things.
I wonder how long Lucas Arts would maintain copyrights and/or continue to not sell DoTT if we made them responsible to the consumers they so dearly love f-ing over.
No DX10 _IS_ BS. If it was so great why not implement it into XP? To entice people to upgrade to Vista? Why are they working on a new rewrite for Windows 7 if DX10 is so hawt. And by the sound of things you won't be able to get DX11 unless you get Windows 7. Thats not exactly showing a lot of love for their users.
Seems to me all modern day corporations are all just trying to screw over the consumer. Fan boys get it the worst.
As far as prettier in DX10 vs DX9. I don't see it. Yes i've seen the before and after videos. I've stared at lots of jungle leaves. I see a subtle difference but nothing FAR superior. IMHO those who claim they see a night and day difference in DX10 is basically going along with the king's new clothes syndrome. If DX11 has ray-tracing in it than it will be far superior. If its more improved shading on jungle leaves I could give a flying f- less about it.
Actually after reading both sides of the story which was hard to get as there were tons and tons of whiners and only a hand full of people discussing the issues like adults. But after doing my own research into this it seems that 3.0 is more of a beginning step towards the ultimate goals. The progression is not as fast as what the game developers are wanting. My question for you and this is completely not rhetorical or cynical but legitimately asking because I don't understand is... If say Maya was using OGL 2.X standards and OGL went to this 3.x standard as the gamers want it. Why couldn't Maya just stay with 2.x standards and use 2.x libraries until they have migrated to 3.x at their own leisure. Well thats my problem. I'm not understanding why 3.x road map has to be transitional. Can't you have multiple OGL lib versions on a system at the same time? If not, maybe that problem is what should be addressed in OGL 3.0.
Looks like a rumor mill blog hunter reporting to me. It's fanatical Novell-is-the-devil is amusing reading I will admit. The article of how Novell is responsible for destroying Olympics for the author because they can't watch NBCOlympics.com under Linux was a good chuckle. "If it were not for Novell, Microsoft would have ported Silverlight to GNU/Linux, for better or for worse." This by their theory is because they sponsor Mono project. All its missing is some men in black in their theory. Basically its watching the tinfoil hat people type entertainment.
Nice statistics. Statistics are fun. But all I see more with the people investing into new hardware, is a bunch of people investing in to Mac's. People staying with PC seem to be all switching to Ubuntu. I realize my perspective is from a small local region of the world and not global websites visited. But I reserve doubt that there are as many bottom feeder computer systems in Net Application stats as you suggest. Someone who couldn't afford $50-100 worth of hardware upgrades, wouldn't seem likely to be able to afford $10 a month for internet. There are a few exceptions but i would bet more like those people CAN afford to upgrade they just don't give a rip. Like a lot of the people who live in my area. They could afford it, but see absolutely no point to having to fork out the cash. I'm not a big bad anti-Vista basher. To be honest I'm in Vista right now as I'm writing this. It's a alright Windows OS for Windows. I prefer FreeBSD or Solaris, but no accounting for taste. I'm sure A lot of people disagree with me on my favorite OS's. But personally, I haven't really been all that impressed with Windows since NT 4.0 and even that didn't make me do cartwheels. Any ways, as I see it, most people (all those folks who don't read /.) there is no motivation to do anything with their computer at all. Those who do feel compelled to do something are sick of the big PC industry bullying them. For 10 years now its been nothing but. "... now upgrade your software. now upgrade your hardware. now rinse and repeat." Again I know i'm not the big hotshot living in New York or LA, just a local yocal that lives in BFE Oregon. I have no clue or concern on how attitudes change in cities that have a higher per populous of lawyers. But around here the attitude towards the entire PC industry seems to be "Whateva."
I think Cell Processors are a creative design. Ok the headlining project PS3 was a bust. It's because Sony is a dumb ass and didn't put enough memory in their RAM, but they did overkill with the blu-ray and had a 50 GB removable media drive. But the design of the CPU seems solid. But I do love SPARC's.
This exact thing happened to a friend of mine. He did a byte crack patch to a Silicon & Synapse game Blackthorn to fix their bug in the joystick. They ended up making a "Official" patch that was his byte patch after they said prior to people that the joystick feature is totally and permanently boinked. Where is the real humorous part to this? Later this company changed their name to Blizzard Entertainment. As far as I know they totally pirated his work as they didn't even give a single shred of credit to my friend for successfully reversing and fixing their bug. Now days they sue you for looking at copies of their software in memory. That is after they steal the parts that fixes their bugs. Everyone of these hardcore DRM/copy-protection companies are complete hypocrites. If the shoe is on the other foot than its acceptable. All of it can be boiled down to, laws protect the rich.
There is DRM in Vista. DRM isn't supposed to be in your face. Although it sometimes does when your wanting to do something. But arguing it isn't in Vista is like arguing Apple hasn't use it in iTunes. Media Center is more worthless than iTunes. iTunes I can buy movies. Media Center I guess i'm supposed to buy a Xbox 360 so I can only rent movies for a ridiculous price and in the process of watching the movie have to call the fire department to put the fire out of the smoldering pile of ash that was a Xbox. Clearly when it comes to free non-nazi hollywood media Mythbuntu is the way to go. And look... I have vista Ultimate. It's not that bad for Windows. I'm actually impressed as with the compatibility mode in it I can play old school Dark Reign on Vista 64 bit. That still doesn't change the fact that Vista is a bomb. A million sells to resellers before it released and than next to nothing in sells to end users is totally a bomb. Why do you think they are scrambling to get Windows 7 to market? Because Vista is raking in all the jack? Come on. I'm not anti-Vista but it tanked guys. Just like the Zune. And just because "you own one and have never had a problem and its been running 40,000 years without a reboot" doesn't make it not a bomb. If Vista was making the big bucks they would be kicking back letting all that money roll in for a while. Honestly, I'm more impressed with the craftsmanship that Linux (and OSS) developers and not all that impressed with Apple or Microsoft lately. Seems like the big money rollers are producing a lot of amateurish code lately. KDE 4.x is a huge undertaking. I think a lot of the developers in KDE probably didn't realize how big of a shit sandwich they were going to have to bite into when they started up into it. *IF* they can work through it, they will be light years ahead of everyone else who wasn't willing to take the risk.
I'm confused. What did Novell do? I'm not talking 8 years ago. What did they do today? Signed a sweetheart deal with Microsoft to get some inside poop on Windows tech to deliver some compatibility to Linux. Wow that is horrible. Ya they were trying to do what the EU forced Microsoft to do. Sun is rotten too... because back in 'Nam ... for christ sakes people ... get over it. These companies are delivering massive amounts of resources to the OSS community. DO NOT WHINE ABOUT IT! I understand if they do something you feel is morally and/or religiously wrong, by all means do not participate in the matter. But call me a troll but I think its ridiculous and stupid to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Also note: Fanatical fanboys make no difference to the scheme of anything other than everyone's annoyance levels.
I kind of agree with you. But not so much on the get rid of all warnings on self-signed certificates. But there should be a less-secured encryption method available that won't prompt the users with a dialog that translates to most end-users "Warning this site is trying to download all your personal information and post a email to your boss of the porn sites you visit." I see the validation of the higher secured systems. Two check stops is more secure than one. As three check stops is more secure than two. But there should be a method that would just be for not sending/receiving clear. Hackable most definitely. But it would take a little more effort than what is needed now for putting together someones entire web transactions with a simple packet snooper.
oookay. How many remember the leak of Doom 3? How many remember how much suckage there was? Unplugged AI's. Sagging performance. etc etc. I can't believe the game reviewing industry has sunk so far as to give a review of a leaked version. You have NO clue what that version was for. A demo for E3? Proof of concept of a disco ball effect on the pig hunt level for next Tuesday's meeting. It's in extremely poor taste and I review any reviewer that made any kind of official rating of a pre-release a 1 out of 10 in intelligence. I noticed all the reviewers that are pathetic enough to do this stunt are online game reviewers which is proving the point of a earlier topic posted on Slashdot (originally from PC Magazine I believe) a while back of how the internet and its blogs are dumbing down news. There is no way a professional published game magazine would have done this same cheese ball of a stunt. Maybe write a editorial of their thoughts. But they would make it perfectly clear to everyone that this is not what will be on the shelves. And would totally take in account the faultiness of their news sources. Only one word describes this: Amateurish.
Why should they pay any more than any one of us. It's not like we got to walk away with our own shiny plastic discs that they had. It's not like they played our requested songs the exact second we requested (with some DJ's, ever.) This wonderful tactic being performed by the music industry currently can only be called suicide. The thing you want the most is your music being played by DJ's, music tours, friends car, on the radio station, etc etc.... the more people hear a catchy song the more likely they will go out and buy it. Like right now, I bet there has recently been about 2 million record sells for Rick Astley. :-)
Copyright and patent laws, put as simple as possible avoiding the insane logic, are there so software and entertainment companies can throw themselves to the ground, whine and cry about anything they don't like, like the little babies they are.
You think Australian Parliament would be interested in some Chinese internet technology too? They could have a 1000 dollar fine for anyone posting a blog saying ARIA sucks.
Ya no kidding. Sooner to release doesn't mean the release works. It took them forever to fix service pack 1 for Vista. This "research" was probably had Microsoft advertisements on the lab notes.
In particularly since upgrading to Vista is most likely not going to work unless you happen to have this years technology for hardware. _MOST_ of the problems with Vista i've seen is people with 1 to 2 year old hardware trying to run it. Sometimes a guy gets lucky and has no problems. Other times... it throws itself on the floor in a fit like a 4 year old with ADS. The other issue is trying to run ancient old Windows 95/98 programs and blaming it on x64 if they have the 64 bit version and than if they have the 32 bit version and it doesn't work there than Vista in its entirety is a piece of crap. This is nothing new. Heck I seriously doubt my old copy of ApplixWare Office Suite will run on the modern Linux kernel. Software gets old and it dies if its not GPL. HENSE why there is a open source software movement. Sucks if your company paid Cisco a kings ransom for admintools that runs on Windows 95. If your company didn't budgeted that, in 5 years this investment is fully depreciated and therefor (very conveniently might I add) junk than they are foolish to spend that kind of money for tools they probably really can't afford. AND/OR shouldn't be issuing hardware/OS upgrades. Me personally. I don't get very excited about any OS. It's just a application database to load programs. If I have a good compiler i'm happy.
I have seen Wikipedia very slanted in topics that cover political hot spot entries. It's been discussed here on Slashdot before on how Wikipedia removes counter-information off certain key topics. I have seen it first hand and it seems to me these "higher intellectuals" with their communism have very little interest in democracy. And in cases like China the people are censored from such evil topics as liberty. Perhaps because its trivial? Communism AKA oligarchy, doesn't liberate it enslaves. The people toil labors for the leadership of the select few. Wikipedia with its tight niche elite group deciding on reality like they are Neo in the Matrix isn't always going to be dropping "trivial" articles. And will include in the deleted trivial list many articles which are inconvenient to their version of reality. I agree with the ranking system and perhaps if a huge majority says the article is junk than remove it. Absolute power to a select group of people on something that we are going to have kids using it as the educational pool of easy to find facts. VERY VERY dangerous. IMHO