The faults of X are grossly overblown and mostly made moot by modern systems that are vastly more powerful than what existed when X was first created.
People like to whine about X but it's by no means the worst thing out there.
Infact, Apple is a great example of a GUI that actually sucks more when put to use rather than just held up as some academic ideal dissasociated from the real world.
It's more accurate to say that Unix and MacOS don't have well established culture of applications that do bad stuff on your behalf automatically and without your consent. It's not really the OS so much as it is braindead userland code. Microsoft's attempt to be "easy and usable" has led to the line between coded and data being blurred and the wrong stuff being automated by default.
Even in the age of boot sector viruses, a manually run trojan isn't a terribly effective means of spreading malware.
...except you still get viruses and other nonsense from "walled gardens" and legitimate sales channels.
Sometimes the pirated version of a game is actually cleaner than the retail version.
No. All corporate walled gardens do is keep out the Free Software do-gooders. They eliminate most of the people that would provide legitimate stuff for free. So the bottom side of the market that includes freeware ends up replaced with adware or worse. The "bottom" has many more bottom feeders that aren't much better than bot.net operators.
...and after having read that article, the CCIE's remarks sound like a bad episode of Law & Order.
It sound pretty clear that the prosecution was trying to stretch legal definitions in the law in order to cast a far wider net than what the law was intended for.
We should stand up for principles regardless of who they are being applied to.
The ban against "cruel and unusual punishment" is one of those.
People tend to forget that all of this "criminal coddling" stuff isn't just some crazy new idea cooked up by pinko liberals. It is THE LAW. Not only is it THE LAW but it is the SUPREME law and is supposed to have supremacy over everything else....it's not just a good/bad idea, it's the law.
It's really quite bizzare. People don't seem to grasp that standards of this kind can be turned and used against them any time the state decides to. They live in this sort of disconnected fantasy land where actions and consequences only ever happen to "other people" and the stupid things they tolerate or even clamour for can never be used against them....almost pathological to go in the DSM-IV.
Beats the mindset that blindly believes whatever lies the prosecution comes up with.
You see, we have this little rule about presuming that a guy like Childs is innocent. Of course a guy like you doesn't really care about the rules at all.
This is what this conflict ultimately boils down to.
Of course those of us that have been there find Childs' claims very plausible. Many of us have been put in similar situations.
Yes. The "well this is only for drooling morons and not really for you" argument only goes so far. Stuff still needs to be useful and usable even for the drooling moron crowd. Unity isn't that. It's someone's HID fetish run amok with perhaps a little unwarranted Apple worship thrown in for good measure.
Yeah... important data like your Oracle databases.
Now, since Linux has an open development model people have always been free to live dangerously. You always have the option of being an early adopter and you can get burned by that. However, that's not a Linux failing. That is trolls trying to use the openness of Linux against it.
We have BluRay players, Tivos and the HDTVs themselves and you're trying to crow about how "PCs are better, really they are".
Clearly in this case they are not.
Netflix has put great effort into "being everywhere". So at least for Netflix, a PC is irrelevant. You can even get a dedicated Netflix device for dirt cheap.
This is a good thing since Netflix decided to dis' Linux.
...after being ad free for over 10 years now, I can't even consider using Hulu. It's just not something I'm willing to go back to.
Plus, they don't put the commercials in the right places. TV is paced for the commercial breaks. Commercials that ignore those breakpoints are even more jarring than regular ones.
That's silly. If you are watching the same thing over and over again then it is rather absurd to keep on hammering the network when you could just be playing a DVD. Never mind more sophisticated options like iTunes or a Media Server or even a PVR.
Stuff you're going to watch is the single least compelling use case for streaming. Wasteful too.
I think the important thing here is the fact that Netflix has a snailmail service that they can fall back to. They aren't a streaming-only operation. Infact, I think if they ever did go streaming-only then they would put themselves in a very vulnerable position. A physical copy of a movie is personal property and as such the owner has certain rights that don't exist with "bits from the ether". That's an important point that bears repeating.
Creative works as property are really a very new thing. That manifests in the public being so willing to pirate as well as media cartels being able to abuse the law to their benefit. They can get away with things that would not go over well with other forms of property that have a much longer and more established history.
If it is off peak time, it might not matter so much.
The caching code might even take that into account and try to optimize for "cost" where different bandwidth costs exist for different times of the day or week.
There are already a large number of Linux devices that already support Netflix.
They just aren't desktops.
An OS that can "just chug" along is a very handy thing when it comes to the living room. People were never conditioned to their TVs being as unreliable as a Windows desktop machine.
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The faults of X are grossly overblown and mostly made moot by modern systems that are vastly more powerful than what existed when X was first created.
People like to whine about X but it's by no means the worst thing out there.
Infact, Apple is a great example of a GUI that actually sucks more when put to use rather than just held up as some academic ideal dissasociated from the real world.
It's more accurate to say that Unix and MacOS don't have well established culture of applications that do bad stuff on your behalf automatically and without your consent. It's not really the OS so much as it is braindead userland code. Microsoft's attempt to be "easy and usable" has led to the line between coded and data being blurred and the wrong stuff being automated by default.
Even in the age of boot sector viruses, a manually run trojan isn't a terribly effective means of spreading malware.
...except you still get viruses and other nonsense from "walled gardens" and legitimate sales channels.
Sometimes the pirated version of a game is actually cleaner than the retail version.
No. All corporate walled gardens do is keep out the Free Software do-gooders. They eliminate most of the people that would provide legitimate stuff for free. So the bottom side of the market that includes freeware ends up replaced with adware or worse. The "bottom" has many more bottom feeders that aren't much better than bot.net operators.
It all depends on your site.
Once upon a time, an AppleTV would have been thought of as very respectable machine to host a web server on.
It's been done already. This has already been tried with larger "gun" style laser scanners. Apparently it didn't catch on.
Not sure this will fare any better.
This sort of thing seems to go over a lot like 3-D movies.
...and after having read that article, the CCIE's remarks sound like a bad episode of Law & Order.
It sound pretty clear that the prosecution was trying to stretch legal definitions in the law in order to cast a far wider net than what the law was intended for.
We should stand up for principles regardless of who they are being applied to.
The ban against "cruel and unusual punishment" is one of those.
People tend to forget that all of this "criminal coddling" stuff isn't just some crazy new idea cooked up by pinko liberals. It is THE LAW. Not only is it THE LAW but it is the SUPREME law and is supposed to have supremacy over everything else. ...it's not just a good/bad idea, it's the law.
You're joking.
A plea bargain is no "middle ground".
A plea bargain is simply some poor schmuck trying to play the prisoner's dilemma because he knows there's no real justice.
It's really quite bizzare. People don't seem to grasp that standards of this kind can be turned and used against them any time the state decides to. They live in this sort of disconnected fantasy land where actions and consequences only ever happen to "other people" and the stupid things they tolerate or even clamour for can never be used against them. ...almost pathological to go in the DSM-IV.
Beats the mindset that blindly believes whatever lies the prosecution comes up with.
You see, we have this little rule about presuming that a guy like Childs is innocent. Of course a guy like you doesn't really care about the rules at all.
This is what this conflict ultimately boils down to.
Of course those of us that have been there find Childs' claims very plausible. Many of us have been put in similar situations.
Yes. The "well this is only for drooling morons and not really for you" argument only goes so far. Stuff still needs to be useful and usable even for the drooling moron crowd. Unity isn't that. It's someone's HID fetish run amok with perhaps a little unwarranted Apple worship thrown in for good measure.
Yeah... important data like your Oracle databases.
Now, since Linux has an open development model people have always been free to live dangerously. You always have the option of being an early adopter and you can get burned by that. However, that's not a Linux failing. That is trolls trying to use the openness of Linux against it.
> Well, how else do you explain Linux' obsession with having a filesystem that nobody else can use?
This is just FUD and nonsense.
ANYONE ELSE can use a Linux file system. It's Free Software
The idea that Linux filesystems are any less robust than alternatives is also just FUD and nonsense.
Many of us have been abusing Linux for a good number of years without significant incident or any incidents at all.
In truth, the streams could be completely DRM free and nearly no one would notice.
There would be more people in Hollywood paying attention than even people in the Torrent swarms.
Most people simply would not care or bother.
Are you kidding? A movie like that? A "visual movie"? You want to use crappy Netflix streaming for that?
Don't get me wrong. Netflix is a nice and convenient way to cheaply get a variety of content. ...but "pretty" it is not.
Any new release worth getting excited about is better experienced on BluRay or even DVD.
It's Windows. It never "just worked".
How Windows 7 doesn't like to "play nice" with other versions of Windows is a great example of this. This can be a major pain with MCE in particular.
We have BluRay players, Tivos and the HDTVs themselves and you're trying to crow about how "PCs are better, really they are".
Clearly in this case they are not.
Netflix has put great effort into "being everywhere". So at least for Netflix, a PC is irrelevant. You can even get a dedicated Netflix device for dirt cheap.
This is a good thing since Netflix decided to dis' Linux.
...after being ad free for over 10 years now, I can't even consider using Hulu. It's just not something I'm willing to go back to.
Plus, they don't put the commercials in the right places. TV is paced for the commercial breaks. Commercials that ignore those breakpoints are even more jarring than regular ones.
That's silly. If you are watching the same thing over and over again then it is rather absurd to keep on hammering the network when you could just be playing a DVD. Never mind more sophisticated options like iTunes or a Media Server or even a PVR.
Stuff you're going to watch is the single least compelling use case for streaming. Wasteful too.
An obvious abuse of the ICC does not negate a situation where it obviously applies.
Not allowing interstate tariffs is pretty much very basic "fleeing from the articles of confederation" territory.
...that's about it too.
I think the important thing here is the fact that Netflix has a snailmail service that they can fall back to. They aren't a streaming-only operation. Infact, I think if they ever did go streaming-only then they would put themselves in a very vulnerable position. A physical copy of a movie is personal property and as such the owner has certain rights that don't exist with "bits from the ether". That's an important point that bears repeating.
Creative works as property are really a very new thing. That manifests in the public being so willing to pirate as well as media cartels being able to abuse the law to their benefit. They can get away with things that would not go over well with other forms of property that have a much longer and more established history.
If it is off peak time, it might not matter so much.
The caching code might even take that into account and try to optimize for "cost" where different bandwidth costs exist for different times of the day or week.
The beauty of Netflix is also that it keeps track of what you watch and can make reasonable guesses about what you will want next.
It's pretty simply really once you have the tracking data. I made a similar hack for MythTV. Although there's nothing to download/stream.
There are already a large number of Linux devices that already support Netflix.
They just aren't desktops.
An OS that can "just chug" along is a very handy thing when it comes to the living room. People were never conditioned to their TVs being as unreliable as a Windows desktop machine.