Well, as far as clients go it's very much standard. What isn't standard is the fact that there are two "isolated" islands talking the same protocol.
It's like email. Imagine only gmail users could email gmail users and hotmail users could only email hotmail users, despite both talking the same protocol.
Ok, chose some poor examples there, that I admit. I was trying to drive a point across.:p
But I maintain that dates are the least interesting thing about history. Does it matter that the US Civil war occured 1859 or 1862? Isn't it more important to ask why it happened? That's what I mean with "boring" - hard facts that don't say much of anything by themselves.Exact dates are not as important as the hows and whys, even though they do matter.
But most so-called "education" today is about making people ready to enter the workforce.
Sure, an education is all well and good. But many of the methods today are outdated and built for a world that existed 50 years ago. Take history. The things you learn from it in school are not the important lessons - Why was it a bad thing that Hitler and Stalin put lots of people in concentration camps? Why did metric get invented, and why do we use it over imperials? What was the founding fathers prime ideals in stating the US constitution? Instead we learn the boring stuff, like birth and death of Napoleon, when the American civil war was etc.
We are taught to consume, not criticise, at a time where we need to start criticising the most. No wonder people can't see that the US essentially is a one-party system.
I'm also a long-time Ubuntu user - and I feel the opposite way. Unity does have a few warts (just like 4.10 had;)) but I haven't found any huge showstoppers, interface-wise. In fact, Unity does a great thing for me; it gets out of my way until I need it, and when I need it it's just a Desktop key away (aka windows key). That's my idea of how a desktop should behave.
There are UI warts for sure - we need something to indicate the global menu for one thing - but I like where this is going.:)
It *is* a hassle of keeping track of those five remotes for your TV, sound system, DVD, VCR and HTPC... If you've ever been part of a family, chances are you have to spend ten minutes looking for that dang DVD remote since some family member has put it in the most improbable place possible.
But I feel the solution isn't gestures, but rather having a TV with a built-in harddrive and codecs so you have a single HTPC+screen.
They weren't "Partially" open sourced - You can get the full source code no questions asked.
They did however keep content licensed. So the games weren't freely given away, either. If you look at history, Id Software did the same thing with Quake and Doom engines.
Everyone who read Tolkien did not pay for the Lord of the Rings. In fact, I suspect over 50% of those are old copies people lent, borrowed, inherited or even purchased from someone else. None of these were any profits to the publisher.
Just because someone read a book you wrote, does not automaticly make him your customer. But the more readers you have, the more customers you'll get. Same with everything else, be it games, music or movies.
Wait, let me see if I understand your rationalizations:
I have a blu-ray player, but I run Linux. Playing Blu-ray in linux is difficult and error prone.
So, you bought the hardware, but your OS of choice doesn't suffice, which leads to:
So I download the movies instead
Because you believe you're entitled to be entertained?
It's not entitlement of being entertained (which is a basic human right IMO, though I don't have to watch that specific movie), but rather *entitlement of using your hardware in any way which you so choose*. If I have a BluRay Reader hooked up to my computer, why must I run a specific OS and a specific software to watch a movie I legitimately bought?
As for me personally, I try to download as much as possible legally. That means I use a lot of free software and watch/listen to quite a few CC-licensed movies and music. I avoid piracy, not because I find it morally repulsive, but because I support the content industries by pirating. And I'd rather not do that.
The biggest problem isn't that the downloading will get out of hand.
Either MAFIAA do a major copyright reform right about, well, now...
Or the people will say "Nah SCREW IT" and start listening to freely licensed content (CC and the like). It has already begun. What are they going to do? Oh, right, could do this:
"I'm sorry sir, you can't release that music you created all by yourself for free." "Excuse me?" "Yeah, we own all music everywhere." "... So you mean you're depriving me of my legal right, the copyright you yourselves defend so much?" "That's right. Now bend over and take it like a man." "But I'm a transexual!" "Oh. Even better!" *Rest of post has been censored to protect sensitive viewers*
I think that has more to do with the US being the largest unified market in the world. The EMU region has a bit left to go with regards to that... Especially now that the Euro is failing big time because most member states thought it was a good idea to fuck up their economies.
Well, looks like I was wrong there. Thought I had read somewhere that WP7 supported Intel CPUs. Oh well.
Still, hardware fragmentation will occur. It *always* does when there is more than one manufacturer involved. Atleast with iPhone there will only be one model, maybe two or three at worst that you have to adapt to. It's managable and they mostly don't differ at all in terms of software. With WP7, no such guarantees.
The baseline is rather strict, yes, BUT, not half as strict as Apple. Hardware fragmentation will occur, same as the PC market and/or netbook markets. The most glaring example here is Intel vs ARM-based phones, though others may also apply...
Is that it has all the vendor lock in of Apple (Closed Source, one App store) with all the (hardware) fragmentation of Android. Atleast Android and iOS has one of two bad things; WP7 has both.
Not really, no. It's not as if you have an entitlement to play that particular title on an unauthorized system.
However, it is bad customer service. The invasive DRM increases the pressure for a free gaming platform. Google TV might be it. Or it might not be. Time will tell.
There is actually already a few things implemented here, have a look at XMPP and more specifically it's pubsub mechanism.
You want to have multiple accounts for a single user, because a single account for everyone is bad. Sometimes you want to be anonymous, sometimes you need to have two roles, one for your professional life and one for your private life. You should be able to have that option.
the user@domain.org style that email invented is great actually for unique addresses, all you need besides that is some way to relay messages (say your primary address is john.doe@foo.org but you want to communicate as if you're really john@foobar.com). That will show up eventually me thinks...
But the problem isn't years away. It's months away. ARIN (North America + some islands) will run out in about 8 months. APNIC (Asia) isn't that far behind and might even run out earlier, since the chinese eat through current adresses at a horrifying pace. RIPE comes third and is maybe a year off. After those three run out, one of two things will happen;
1. We don't switch to IPv6. Many companies will migrate to Africa and South America where IPv4 addresses are still aplenty. 2. We're already at IPv6 and business will keep on as usual.
Knowing the MAC address, which is as good as globally unique, has severe privacy leaks. If I know your MAC-address, and the MAC-address is a part of your IP address, then I can see exactly which networks you have visited with that device.
Law enforcement and criminals alike will have a field day with those. I can think of a dozen ways to abuse it.
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It won't ever be threatened with Gnome 3.0. Unity OTOH...
Well, as far as clients go it's very much standard. What isn't standard is the fact that there are two "isolated" islands talking the same protocol.
It's like email. Imagine only gmail users could email gmail users and hotmail users could only email hotmail users, despite both talking the same protocol.
Incidentally, you can talk Facebook Chat directly with any XMPP client, which is very useful.
There, fixed that for you. Oh, and if you're still into good ol' legacy networks like MSN, there's always XMPP + transports. :)
Ok, chose some poor examples there, that I admit. I was trying to drive a point across. :p
But I maintain that dates are the least interesting thing about history. Does it matter that the US Civil war occured 1859 or 1862? Isn't it more important to ask why it happened? That's what I mean with "boring" - hard facts that don't say much of anything by themselves.Exact dates are not as important as the hows and whys, even though they do matter.
But most so-called "education" today is about making people ready to enter the workforce.
Sure, an education is all well and good. But many of the methods today are outdated and built for a world that existed 50 years ago. Take history. The things you learn from it in school are not the important lessons - Why was it a bad thing that Hitler and Stalin put lots of people in concentration camps? Why did metric get invented, and why do we use it over imperials? What was the founding fathers prime ideals in stating the US constitution? Instead we learn the boring stuff, like birth and death of Napoleon, when the American civil war was etc.
We are taught to consume, not criticise, at a time where we need to start criticising the most. No wonder people can't see that the US essentially is a one-party system.
Every major company that launches a music service is a step closer to a meltdown of the copyright monopoly.
I'm also a long-time Ubuntu user - and I feel the opposite way. Unity does have a few warts (just like 4.10 had ;)) but I haven't found any huge showstoppers, interface-wise. In fact, Unity does a great thing for me; it gets out of my way until I need it, and when I need it it's just a Desktop key away (aka windows key). That's my idea of how a desktop should behave.
There are UI warts for sure - we need something to indicate the global menu for one thing - but I like where this is going. :)
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/The-state-of-Mac-and-Linux-gaming
Explains it all, 'nuff said.
It *is* a hassle of keeping track of those five remotes for your TV, sound system, DVD, VCR and HTPC... If you've ever been part of a family, chances are you have to spend ten minutes looking for that dang DVD remote since some family member has put it in the most improbable place possible.
But I feel the solution isn't gestures, but rather having a TV with a built-in harddrive and codecs so you have a single HTPC+screen.
Android is as much a Linux distribution as OSX is a BSD distribution.
They weren't "Partially" open sourced - You can get the full source code no questions asked.
They did however keep content licensed. So the games weren't freely given away, either. If you look at history, Id Software did the same thing with Quake and Doom engines.
Everyone who read Tolkien did not pay for the Lord of the Rings. In fact, I suspect over 50% of those are old copies people lent, borrowed, inherited or even purchased from someone else. None of these were any profits to the publisher.
Just because someone read a book you wrote, does not automaticly make him your customer. But the more readers you have, the more customers you'll get. Same with everything else, be it games, music or movies.
Wait, let me see if I understand your rationalizations:
So, you bought the hardware, but your OS of choice doesn't suffice, which leads to:
Because you believe you're entitled to be entertained?
It's not entitlement of being entertained (which is a basic human right IMO, though I don't have to watch that specific movie), but rather *entitlement of using your hardware in any way which you so choose*. If I have a BluRay Reader hooked up to my computer, why must I run a specific OS and a specific software to watch a movie I legitimately bought?
XKCD sums up the argument pretty well: http://xkcd.com/488/
As for me personally, I try to download as much as possible legally. That means I use a lot of free software and watch/listen to quite a few CC-licensed movies and music. I avoid piracy, not because I find it morally repulsive, but because I support the content industries by pirating. And I'd rather not do that.
The biggest problem isn't that the downloading will get out of hand.
Either MAFIAA do a major copyright reform right about, well, now...
Or the people will say "Nah SCREW IT" and start listening to freely licensed content (CC and the like). It has already begun. What are they going to do? Oh, right, could do this:
"I'm sorry sir, you can't release that music you created all by yourself for free."
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah, we own all music everywhere."
"... So you mean you're depriving me of my legal right, the copyright you yourselves defend so much?"
"That's right. Now bend over and take it like a man."
"But I'm a transexual!"
"Oh. Even better!"
*Rest of post has been censored to protect sensitive viewers*
I think that has more to do with the US being the largest unified market in the world. The EMU region has a bit left to go with regards to that... Especially now that the Euro is failing big time because most member states thought it was a good idea to fuck up their economies.
Well, looks like I was wrong there. Thought I had read somewhere that WP7 supported Intel CPUs. Oh well.
Still, hardware fragmentation will occur. It *always* does when there is more than one manufacturer involved. Atleast with iPhone there will only be one model, maybe two or three at worst that you have to adapt to. It's managable and they mostly don't differ at all in terms of software. With WP7, no such guarantees.
The baseline is rather strict, yes, BUT, not half as strict as Apple. Hardware fragmentation will occur, same as the PC market and/or netbook markets. The most glaring example here is Intel vs ARM-based phones, though others may also apply...
Is that it has all the vendor lock in of Apple (Closed Source, one App store) with all the (hardware) fragmentation of Android. Atleast Android and iOS has one of two bad things; WP7 has both.
You are aware that BSD is a Unix flavor, yes?
Not really, no. It's not as if you have an entitlement to play that particular title on an unauthorized system.
However, it is bad customer service. The invasive DRM increases the pressure for a free gaming platform. Google TV might be it. Or it might not be. Time will tell.
There is actually already a few things implemented here, have a look at XMPP and more specifically it's pubsub mechanism.
You want to have multiple accounts for a single user, because a single account for everyone is bad. Sometimes you want to be anonymous, sometimes you need to have two roles, one for your professional life and one for your private life. You should be able to have that option.
the user@domain.org style that email invented is great actually for unique addresses, all you need besides that is some way to relay messages (say your primary address is john.doe@foo.org but you want to communicate as if you're really john@foobar.com). That will show up eventually me thinks...
But the problem isn't years away. It's months away. ARIN (North America + some islands) will run out in about 8 months. APNIC (Asia) isn't that far behind and might even run out earlier, since the chinese eat through current adresses at a horrifying pace. RIPE comes third and is maybe a year off. After those three run out, one of two things will happen;
1. We don't switch to IPv6. Many companies will migrate to Africa and South America where IPv4 addresses are still aplenty.
2. We're already at IPv6 and business will keep on as usual.
I know which one I'd rather happen.
Knowing the MAC address, which is as good as globally unique, has severe privacy leaks. If I know your MAC-address, and the MAC-address is a part of your IP address, then I can see exactly which networks you have visited with that device.
Law enforcement and criminals alike will have a field day with those. I can think of a dozen ways to abuse it.
Then how about this?
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1896663
It's a common myth that NAT scales indefinitely, while in reality you start to slam into performance bottlenecks at around 40-50 concurrent users.
Private networks isn't the answer. IPv6 is. And the sooner we migrate, the better.