It's more accurate to state that practical considerations make enforcement actions against your own personal usage unlikely. If you are quietly using someone's stuff at home, no one is going to know you are "stealing" from them.
The minute you start re-distributing stuff, you become visible. Any interested party can examine what you are doing and determine if you are "stealing" from them.
Yup. I have been calling the BSD license "glorified public domain" for years.
This really does come off like some kid with no experience thinking that he re-invented the wheel. "Do what you want" licenses already exist. There's also a reason that copyleft exists and it's not just to "stick it to the man".
That guy already tried the "do what you want" approach and got burned. His contributors screamed bloody murder when some commercial entity exploited their work.
It doesn't matter if it's "usual" or not. Absurdly wasteful is still absurdly wasteful. PC developers and Microsoft are just lazy and wasteful because they think that they can get away with it.
At least the likes of EA has some excuse. Their releases usually include significant multi-media assets. That sort of stuff takes up a lot of space regardless of what the context is.
Microsoft has the rest of the small computing industry held hostage making 3rd party products. However, that is not something that directly relates to how bloated and wasteful Windows is once it is installed on your hard drive.
Buy it from Amazon or Walmart and you won't be losing anything. You tell them that the Samsung product is a pile of crap that ate itself. Your merchant will give you your money back without incident.
Caching and compression with X is much more effective.
While X haters were busy repeating 20 year old arguments, the rest of the world caught up with Unix. Now if you gut remote desktop access, you will just be making Linux look like it's 20 years behind.
You've got to bake this stuff in. You can't just ignore it. There's really no way around it. Otherwise you end up with stuff like what Mac users are stuck with.
With my 80G phone, my collection will be everywhere I go regardless of how well I am connected to the grid. Besides just network performance and availability, I also never have to worry about roaming charges and bandwidth caps.
I could also attach a 128G or 256G thumb drive to my phone for added fun. Plus I can access anything. I don't have to be limited to what's in the Apple company store.
The bias against spinny storage is just mindless iCult nonsense. Reality was revised by the Ministry of Truth so that the masses don't realize that they're being conned.
More storage on a 10 year device from the same company?
An Ultrabook can do far more in that area. It can do everything a tablet can do plus all of the services that may not have an "app", or those services that may need Flash (or even Silverlight), and it can handle all of the formats that an iPad can't.
HELL. You could use that Ultrabook as an AirVideo or Plex server to make your iPad less lame.
Or rather, the US is not some sort of Soviet style hegemony.
Saying that gambling is legal in the US is much like saying it's legal in Europe or Africa. People tend to forget that the "States" part of "The United States" actually are distinct political entities.
In some regards they are even more independent than the members of the EU (ironically enough).
If the feds tried to impose upon the States what Bonn wants to impose upon Spain or Greece, there would be another civil war.
That's not even getting into the whole VICE aspect of the situation.
Given the nature of the modern global conglomerate, this may already be the case. Once you bother to look at the situation, you may find that there are fewer American parent companies to take advantage of here.
On the other hand, switching from current Photoshop to ancient Photoshop is going to going to have much of the same issues. You're still attempting Herculean feats just to avoid learning a different app to manipulate data in an open format.
You're creating a house of cards just to avoid running a native tool.
Microsoft is just crap. They've been a monopoly vendor too long. Being immune from market pressures has dulled their engineering skills. They got lazy because they could.
Actually, Linux was doing it first. If anything, it's Windows that's copying Linux. There's a lot of things like that. People just assume that the 800lb gorilla is the originator. It's some sort of consumer "hyena law".
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It's more accurate to state that practical considerations make enforcement actions against your own personal usage unlikely. If you are quietly using someone's stuff at home, no one is going to know you are "stealing" from them.
The minute you start re-distributing stuff, you become visible. Any interested party can examine what you are doing and determine if you are "stealing" from them.
Yup. I have been calling the BSD license "glorified public domain" for years.
This really does come off like some kid with no experience thinking that he re-invented the wheel. "Do what you want" licenses already exist. There's also a reason that copyleft exists and it's not just to "stick it to the man".
That guy already tried the "do what you want" approach and got burned. His contributors screamed bloody murder when some commercial entity exploited their work.
It doesn't matter if it's "usual" or not. Absurdly wasteful is still absurdly wasteful. PC developers and Microsoft are just lazy and wasteful because they think that they can get away with it.
At least the likes of EA has some excuse. Their releases usually include significant multi-media assets. That sort of stuff takes up a lot of space regardless of what the context is.
Microsoft has the rest of the small computing industry held hostage making 3rd party products. However, that is not something that directly relates to how bloated and wasteful Windows is once it is installed on your hard drive.
The "need" for msoffice is and always has been grossly overblown.
So is the rest of your FUD.
There's no need to be sick.
Just upgrade your storage. Add another 32G or 64G to it.
Buy it from Amazon or Walmart and you won't be losing anything. You tell them that the Samsung product is a pile of crap that ate itself. Your merchant will give you your money back without incident.
Non-problem solved.
Are you trying to be intentionally funny?
If not, I suggest re-reading my post SLOWLY this time.
pppppfffff!
My Archos 5 has 500GB of storage.
That doesn't make it a "serious" device.
Ultrabook schm-ultrabook. None of the jokers being held up as paragons here have yet to catch up to my Archos yet. All of your overhyped crap is lame.
Use VNC?
That's funny.
VNC is a pig even on a LAN.
Caching and compression with X is much more effective.
While X haters were busy repeating 20 year old arguments, the rest of the world caught up with Unix. Now if you gut remote desktop access, you will just be making Linux look like it's 20 years behind.
You've got to bake this stuff in. You can't just ignore it. There's really no way around it. Otherwise you end up with stuff like what Mac users are stuck with.
With my 80G phone, my collection will be everywhere I go regardless of how well I am connected to the grid. Besides just network performance and availability, I also never have to worry about roaming charges and bandwidth caps.
I could also attach a 128G or 256G thumb drive to my phone for added fun. Plus I can access anything. I don't have to be limited to what's in the Apple company store.
iTunes can't match what iTunes doesn't sell.
Wireless is SLOW.
Some server on the other side of your home router is even slower.
You're dining on dirt but just too stupid to realize it.
You really have no taste. Throwing money around doesn't give you taste or class.
I have an iPod2 that refuses to die.
The bias against spinny storage is just mindless iCult nonsense. Reality was revised by the Ministry of Truth so that the masses don't realize that they're being conned.
More storage on a 10 year device from the same company?
double plus unpossible!
> Besides content consumption, that is...
Are you joking?
An Ultrabook can do far more in that area. It can do everything a tablet can do plus all of the services that may not have an "app", or those services that may need Flash (or even Silverlight), and it can handle all of the formats that an iPad can't.
HELL. You could use that Ultrabook as an AirVideo or Plex server to make your iPad less lame.
It is not "very easy". Nor is it terribly efficient.
It's only even remotely comparable only if you've gotten beyond "hunt and peck" with a real keyboard.
No. Never mind the streaming. Print physical copies of stuff. Then sell those with the rest of the trinkets all of those islands try to sell you.
Wives can go to the jewelry shops and husbands can go to the Antiguan version of Virgin Megastore.
The US doesn't have to "own" the hurricane.
They can just sit back and let nature do it's thing and then ignore Antigua afterwards.
Except gambling is illegal in the US.
Or rather, the US is not some sort of Soviet style hegemony.
Saying that gambling is legal in the US is much like saying it's legal in Europe or Africa. People tend to forget that the "States" part of "The United States" actually are distinct political entities.
In some regards they are even more independent than the members of the EU (ironically enough).
If the feds tried to impose upon the States what Bonn wants to impose upon Spain or Greece, there would be another civil war.
That's not even getting into the whole VICE aspect of the situation.
Given the nature of the modern global conglomerate, this may already be the case. Once you bother to look at the situation, you may find that there are fewer American parent companies to take advantage of here.
Yeah. It sounds like we've been at war since the mid-90s.
Not really.
Although it does say something about people that like to pretend that they are Photoshop users.
I am sure that the professional artists that actually use Photoshop and don't just talk about Photoshop aren't nearly as thick.
On the other hand, switching from current Photoshop to ancient Photoshop is going to going to have much of the same issues. You're still attempting Herculean feats just to avoid learning a different app to manipulate data in an open format.
You're creating a house of cards just to avoid running a native tool.
Linux can do likewise.
Microsoft is just crap. They've been a monopoly vendor too long. Being immune from market pressures has dulled their engineering skills. They got lazy because they could.
Actually, Linux was doing it first. If anything, it's Windows that's copying Linux. There's a lot of things like that. People just assume that the 800lb gorilla is the originator. It's some sort of consumer "hyena law".
It doesn't matter what nonsense that you try to come up with to make touch sound better. It simply lacks precision or control.
It really is the Fisher Price of interfaces.