I'd dare say that the amount of material that is supposed to be public domain by now because of copyright expiry, had it not been extended to the admittedly absurd lengths that it is does not comprise a majority of pirated works.
So? They moved the goal posts first. Why should we be the ones obligated to abide by agreements the other parties have abrogated their part of?
I'll be quite happy to show respect to copyright when Big Media starts showing respect for it--until I'll fly the jolly roger for as long as I can as often as I can.
Calling someone's mom and telling them their son has been making rape threats and harassing women on the internet is not doxxing.
Only if it's demonstrably true. Something...something....cried...wolf... Sorry if I find the current crop of doxxers lacking in veracity. Something..ethics..journalism.. comes to mind but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Putting someone's phone number on the internet to invite[..] rape threats and harassment is doxxing.
Agreed. Which is why no one should be posting someone else's information and using harassment as a silencing tactic.
The Surface will never be a useful device so long as Microsoft insists on blocking installs of other systems via Secure Boot. If I buy the product I should have the right to install anything I want on it; if I'm merely renting I demand much better terms for the lease. They don't get to have it both ways.
Otherwise I was very much intrigued by the Surface as I've been impressed with Microsoft's hardware in the past but not at the expense of having to run their operating system to use the device.
If I'm Facebook, trying to put ads in front of buyers, college kids are a waste of my time. I want baby boomers.
Yes, and once those Baby Boomers with their cemented and ossified spending habits and preferences die off and the young college kids are making more money but have already had their buying habits shaped and controlled by the competition who spent their dollars planning for the long term, what then?
Not saying that this is right or that you're wrong but there's a little more involved than straight dollars to dollars here...
First, since you seem to be the big apologist for the travesty that Gnome has become, allow me to say 'Fuck you.'
Secondly...
Everbody bitches about what's gone, but not what we've added or improved.
Maybe this is because what's been added isn't an improvement? Maybe what was there before needed not to be removed or rewritten, but to have the bugs fixed? Oh that's right I forgot, you guys think chasing the new shiney is more important than fixing bugs or servicing an existing userbase. I guess that brings me back to point one....
It's been an open secret for years now that the branches of the federal government tend to "bury" their budget inside of other allocations to hide them from outsiders, supposedly explaining the existence of $500 hammers and $1,000 toilets. Is the NSA also doing this, but with bandwidth rather than dollars? It might explain how suddenly the various ISPs are up in arms about bandwidth hogs and how a small percent are using up the majority of the bandwidth available on the network....
Because none of that other UI desktop stuff exists on the Ubuntu repos. Nope, not at all. You're not allowed to install them even if they do.
You mean like Gnome 2.xx? Go ahead and try, see how far you get. Even trying to install the MATE fork results in a multitude of breakage all over the system, because of dependencies related to the increasingly ironic "Unity" desktop.
I've been looking for a replacement to Ubuntu for a while now and have begun moving on to Debian as a result with frequent stops here and there to try out other distros to see if any come close to working as well for me as earlier versions of Ubuntu did. So far the only one which does is Debian and even then there's all sorts of stuff that I have to relearn while missing the way Ubuntu used to handle it...
So yeah, 'forced' is an apt description. I (and many others) have been forced to make a decision between keeping our Gnome 2.xx desktop and Ubuntu. Sadly unlike those who still cling to Windows XP those of us who use Linux are unable to simply use the older versions because of how quickly bitrot sets in and how difficult it becomes to install applications.
Apple should offer legacy support back to Classic, at least, with full 68K/PPC support - there's a tremendous amount of excellent software that was never brought to OSX
Basilisk II does a really great job of supporting Classic MacOS 68k from MacOS 0.x to MacOS 8.1 and Sheepshaver is capable of supporting PPC MacOS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4. If you want, there's even the vMac project and its more portable and actively developed spin off Mini vMac which allow you to emulate the old Apple Macintosh Plus...
MATE has been upgrade to 1.6, which saw many old and deprecated packages replaced with newer technologies
oh no! things were removed! Better fork MATE so I can have it be exactly the same as a previous version!
I know you're just being snarky, but really why is it so hard to keep my desktop the same while still getting security updates for the over all system and new versions of my apps when they upgrade? Why?
I hate to give Microsoft credit for anything, but at least they had enough insight to keep the option to switch back to the previous version of the desktop available for many many releases afterwards. Up until fairly recently it was pretty easy to go back to your preferred work space in Windows. From Win95--Windows 2000 you could still get Progman.exe to run. You could still revert the taskbar and themes from Fisherprice to the 'standard' look that carried over from Win95 all the way through Windows XP to Windows 7.
Why is it so unreasonable to expect the same in Linux?
Oh and I'm one of those people who prefer MATE over the mess that Gnome 3.0 has become with its intentional breaking of the system to prevent people from keeping what they had before, but if these changes actually ruin the desktop you can be sure that people will indeed fork MATE.
Looks like the anti-MS shills are spamming Slashdot's comment section again.
Who needs shills when your competition has been diligently chumming the water in which they live for a decade or two? Microsoft has earned its hatred in this industry, one pissed off user at a time. To pretend this entirely predictable reaction is the work of shills only betrays your own allegiance and paid for status...
With Orson Scott Card's emphatically homophobic world view, I refuse to help finance any of his works.
Awesome. It's certainly your right to choose to not read any of the man's books or watch any media based on them. You're absolutely free to do without the enjoyment that comes from reading one of his books or watching this movie which from the trailer looks to be quite fun.
What you're not free to do is get in the faces of those of us who are planning to continue enjoying his work and seek to ruin it for us.
You all remember OUYA, don't you? The 'Android console' destined to be a failure because Microsoft and SONY were going to crush them completely...remember? Only now SONY and Microsoft have begun having a contest to see which one of them can completely tank their console sales the best and Microsoft just took a major lead in the competition... Not that I can really blame SONY as they're still smarting over how badly they got spanked when they removed OtherOS from the PS3. Meanwhile with this latest salvo, Microsoft announcing a requirement for always on internet connectivity just to play the game, it looks like those triple A titles the fanboys were moaning about not being available on OUYA is a good thing. Instead of Planned Obsolesce games, the OUYA will offer games that will work darn near forever--and emulators will be available so you can still play all those old games you fell in love with gaming for in the first place! Makes a nice HTPC with XBMC too I hear....what's not to love?
The difference between your Martin Niemoller reference and what I am saying is that what they are going after, is that in Niemoller's case, the people "they came for" may have, at worst, been considered the fringes of society, but they weren't necessarily doing anything that was previously against the law. Copyright infringement actually *IS* illegal, and has been for quite a long time.
I'll take copyright infringement seriously the day that Big Media starts taking the public domain seriously, and not one second before. They thought they could play this game of indefinitely extending the length of copyright terms, effectively stealing from the public domain and all of humanity without there being unforeseen consequences? Guess what? People now take copyrights about as seriously as Big Media does, i.e. not at all.
Most set top boxes have that somewhere in the settings.
Yeah, and then once you've hidden the junk channels (seriously how many home shopping channels are there? who the hell watches\buys this crap??) the company takes great pleasure in moving the channels around, making you have to head back into the settings and figure out which numbers now need to be unblocked...
Gets especially painful at my Dad's house because he expects me to fix it for him and doesn't seem to understand why channels disappear from one set top box to the other, despite me explaining to him repeatedly that he has the HD package, but the set top box in his bedroom is still his old non-HD receiver, so different channels are available on different numbers depending on whether or not the channel is broadcast in HD. At the time he had an old SDTV in the bedroom, so I understand not wanting to pay more for definition he couldn't see, but he has a new HDTV in there now and still doesn't get that he's still using the SD receiver.
So yeah, while technically it's possible to just hide unused channels in practice it turns into a game of catch the wandering channel.
Although recently we've seen a few of those used for stupid things (death star) as well as being flat out trampled on a few times with responses that basically said "we don't feel like telling you that", it would still be nice to see it out there.
You're confusing cause and effect here. The reason there has been so much success in getting stupid things voted up to the top of the list on the 'We the People' site is because of the lack of real responses and the sheer mindfuckery that is having the head of the organization the petition requests disband reply to said petition.
If the government doesn't seem to take the site any more seriously than an 'American Idol' poll or even a poll to name a new soft drink flavor, why should the rest of us?
They're free to fork it if they want. If google doesn't like it then tough.
Actually, if Google doesn't like it, Samsung will be forbidden to call it Android. This already happened once with Acer. What makes you think Google won't spank Samsung too if necessary?
Or could it be that the people complaining about Unity doesn't know how to change to to Xubuntu, Kubuntu and so on? A lot of the comments are "Unity is crap" bla bla. I just don't get it, If you don't like Unity, just use Xubuntu or whatever.
The complaints are usually being made by people who don't have anywhere to go. For someone who has used and has learned to love the Gnome 2.xx desktop moving to XFCE or KDE is simply not an option, and Gnome 3.0 is not a way forward. Where do those people go?
This is why you see so much hate for Unity. Not just because it represents a decision by Canonical to double down on pushing their renamed "Netbook Remix" on people under the guise of offering an alternative desktop to Gnome 3, but because these people feel they have no place to go.
MATE may be an answer some day, as long as its project continues to be worked on but for now all that exists is a few distros still shipping with Gnome 2.xx and of those most of them are rapidly approaching an end to their supported by dates and no longer seeing any application updates.
For all that it is a feature of Linux distros to have all their applications available from one repository, it is also a huge flaw because it requires that the user always upgrade if they wish to continue using applications. That is why there are so many people angry. They have less choice now than they've ever had with their computers and seemingly no where left to go with a future.
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XBMC is dead, there is now only Kodi.
So? They moved the goal posts first. Why should we be the ones obligated to abide by agreements the other parties have abrogated their part of?
I'll be quite happy to show respect to copyright when Big Media starts showing respect for it--until I'll fly the jolly roger for as long as I can as often as I can.
The MAFIAA can go suck it for all I care.
Only if it's demonstrably true. Something...something....cried...wolf... Sorry if I find the current crop of doxxers lacking in veracity. Something..ethics..journalism.. comes to mind but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Agreed. Which is why no one should be posting someone else's information and using harassment as a silencing tactic.
The Surface will never be a useful device so long as Microsoft insists on blocking installs of other systems via Secure Boot. If I buy the product I should have the right to install anything I want on it; if I'm merely renting I demand much better terms for the lease. They don't get to have it both ways.
Otherwise I was very much intrigued by the Surface as I've been impressed with Microsoft's hardware in the past but not at the expense of having to run their operating system to use the device.
Don't you mean Gawker Media? Why are we giving these scum any attention whatsoever?
Yes, and once those Baby Boomers with their cemented and ossified spending habits and preferences die off and the young college kids are making more money but have already had their buying habits shaped and controlled by the competition who spent their dollars planning for the long term, what then?
Not saying that this is right or that you're wrong but there's a little more involved than straight dollars to dollars here...
Don't laugh. The Global Corporate Congress is exactly who is getting to vote here.
sigh I miss America...
He's white.
Anyone think we're going to see Obama weighing in on this one?
Secondly...
Maybe this is because what's been added isn't an improvement? Maybe what was there before needed not to be removed or rewritten, but to have the bugs fixed? Oh that's right I forgot, you guys think chasing the new shiney is more important than fixing bugs or servicing an existing userbase. I guess that brings me back to point one....
Your roomate has a time machine? Why was\is s\he looking for work? Does s\he simply lack imagination?
It's been an open secret for years now that the branches of the federal government tend to "bury" their budget inside of other allocations to hide them from outsiders, supposedly explaining the existence of $500 hammers and $1,000 toilets. Is the NSA also doing this, but with bandwidth rather than dollars? It might explain how suddenly the various ISPs are up in arms about bandwidth hogs and how a small percent are using up the majority of the bandwidth available on the network....
You mean like Gnome 2.xx? Go ahead and try, see how far you get. Even trying to install the MATE fork results in a multitude of breakage all over the system, because of dependencies related to the increasingly ironic "Unity" desktop.
I've been looking for a replacement to Ubuntu for a while now and have begun moving on to Debian as a result with frequent stops here and there to try out other distros to see if any come close to working as well for me as earlier versions of Ubuntu did. So far the only one which does is Debian and even then there's all sorts of stuff that I have to relearn while missing the way Ubuntu used to handle it...
So yeah, 'forced' is an apt description. I (and many others) have been forced to make a decision between keeping our Gnome 2.xx desktop and Ubuntu. Sadly unlike those who still cling to Windows XP those of us who use Linux are unable to simply use the older versions because of how quickly bitrot sets in and how difficult it becomes to install applications.
You mean, The Last Action Hero?
/me ducks
Basilisk II does a really great job of supporting Classic MacOS 68k from MacOS 0.x to MacOS 8.1 and Sheepshaver is capable of supporting PPC MacOS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4. If you want, there's even the vMac project and its more portable and actively developed spin off Mini vMac which allow you to emulate the old Apple Macintosh Plus...
What exactly is it you think is missing?
I know you're just being snarky, but really why is it so hard to keep my desktop the same while still getting security updates for the over all system and new versions of my apps when they upgrade? Why?
I hate to give Microsoft credit for anything, but at least they had enough insight to keep the option to switch back to the previous version of the desktop available for many many releases afterwards. Up until fairly recently it was pretty easy to go back to your preferred work space in Windows. From Win95--Windows 2000 you could still get Progman.exe to run. You could still revert the taskbar and themes from Fisherprice to the 'standard' look that carried over from Win95 all the way through Windows XP to Windows 7.
Why is it so unreasonable to expect the same in Linux?
Oh and I'm one of those people who prefer MATE over the mess that Gnome 3.0 has become with its intentional breaking of the system to prevent people from keeping what they had before, but if these changes actually ruin the desktop you can be sure that people will indeed fork MATE.
Who needs shills when your competition has been diligently chumming the water in which they live for a decade or two? Microsoft has earned its hatred in this industry, one pissed off user at a time. To pretend this entirely predictable reaction is the work of shills only betrays your own allegiance and paid for status...
Awesome. It's certainly your right to choose to not read any of the man's books or watch any media based on them. You're absolutely free to do without the enjoyment that comes from reading one of his books or watching this movie which from the trailer looks to be quite fun.
What you're not free to do is get in the faces of those of us who are planning to continue enjoying his work and seek to ruin it for us.
You all remember OUYA, don't you? The 'Android console' destined to be a failure because Microsoft and SONY were going to crush them completely...remember?
Only now SONY and Microsoft have begun having a contest to see which one of them can completely tank their console sales the best and Microsoft just took a major lead in the competition... Not that I can really blame SONY as they're still smarting over how badly they got spanked when they removed OtherOS from the PS3.
Meanwhile with this latest salvo, Microsoft announcing a requirement for always on internet connectivity just to play the game, it looks like those triple A titles the fanboys were moaning about not being available on OUYA is a good thing. Instead of Planned Obsolesce games, the OUYA will offer games that will work darn near forever--and emulators will be available so you can still play all those old games you fell in love with gaming for in the first place!
Makes a nice HTPC with XBMC too I hear....what's not to love?
Errr...actually it's less. A lot less. As a matter of fact would you believe the real number stands at slightly less than 2%?
Don't worry, almost no one in America gets this one right...
I'll take copyright infringement seriously the day that Big Media starts taking the public domain seriously, and not one second before. They thought they could play this game of indefinitely extending the length of copyright terms, effectively stealing from the public domain and all of humanity without there being unforeseen consequences? Guess what? People now take copyrights about as seriously as Big Media does, i.e. not at all.
Fuck your copyrights.
Yeah, and then once you've hidden the junk channels (seriously how many home shopping channels are there? who the hell watches\buys this crap??) the company takes great pleasure in moving the channels around, making you have to head back into the settings and figure out which numbers now need to be unblocked...
Gets especially painful at my Dad's house because he expects me to fix it for him and doesn't seem to understand why channels disappear from one set top box to the other, despite me explaining to him repeatedly that he has the HD package, but the set top box in his bedroom is still his old non-HD receiver, so different channels are available on different numbers depending on whether or not the channel is broadcast in HD. At the time he had an old SDTV in the bedroom, so I understand not wanting to pay more for definition he couldn't see, but he has a new HDTV in there now and still doesn't get that he's still using the SD receiver.
So yeah, while technically it's possible to just hide unused channels in practice it turns into a game of catch the wandering channel.
You're confusing cause and effect here. The reason there has been so much success in getting stupid things voted up to the top of the list on the 'We the People' site is because of the lack of real responses and the sheer mindfuckery that is having the head of the organization the petition requests disband reply to said petition.
If the government doesn't seem to take the site any more seriously than an 'American Idol' poll or even a poll to name a new soft drink flavor, why should the rest of us?
Actually, if Google doesn't like it, Samsung will be forbidden to call it Android. This already happened once with Acer. What makes you think Google won't spank Samsung too if necessary?
Damn you, warn people if you're going to send them to TVTropes!
The complaints are usually being made by people who don't have anywhere to go. For someone who has used and has learned to love the Gnome 2.xx desktop moving to XFCE or KDE is simply not an option, and Gnome 3.0 is not a way forward. Where do those people go?
This is why you see so much hate for Unity. Not just because it represents a decision by Canonical to double down on pushing their renamed "Netbook Remix" on people under the guise of offering an alternative desktop to Gnome 3, but because these people feel they have no place to go.
MATE may be an answer some day, as long as its project continues to be worked on but for now all that exists is a few distros still shipping with Gnome 2.xx and of those most of them are rapidly approaching an end to their supported by dates and no longer seeing any application updates.
For all that it is a feature of Linux distros to have all their applications available from one repository, it is also a huge flaw because it requires that the user always upgrade if they wish to continue using applications. That is why there are so many people angry. They have less choice now than they've ever had with their computers and seemingly no where left to go with a future.