This isn't your typical Simple Gnome vs Flexible KDE debate.
For lack of a better analogy, this is like comparing Apple's transition to OSX with Windows' NT-2K-XP-Vista transitions.
Windows has been mostly successful at maintaining backwards compatibility, but it is starting to resemble a millstone hung from the neck. It's holding them back and getting in the way.
Meanwhile, Apple broke backwards compatibility and now are not encumbered by obsolete paradigms.
...line. It is disorienting for the people that don't always read the subject line (almost everybody). And capitalizing the first word of the body text when the word takes place in the middle of the sentence doesn't help, either.
...share just $1,000 worth of software or music with your friends, and you're liable to face criminal charges. You could hit this threshold just by distributing a few copies of Adobe software, or just one copy of a high-end vertical market application, like specialized CAD/CAM software.
Yes, if we go by value (as opposed to retail price), sharing a Vista ISO once will give you plenty of... credit, for lack of a better word.
More seriously, how is this $1000 counted? Torrenting CS4 to the world? Or seeding a $10 movie until you reach a share ratio of 100.0?
I wish CAPTCHAs came with more detailed directions. Specifically, is the system case sensitive? Are the tall ovals without a line running through them (or a dot) a zero or an O? Are capital I s visually distinct from lowercase L s?
It's like taking a car apart down to each individual piece, fabricating new pieces, and handing those individual parts out to random people that ask for it.
I think they may have come to the conclusion that the high bandwidth cost of file sharing is less expensive and time consuming than being responsible for their customers' copyright infringement.
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Email notifications work for me.
This is why I love Firefox's AwsomeBar. I start typing "comments" ("co" is more than enough), and my /. comments page is the top result.
both projects feed off each other
Care to elaborate?
Yes, because we all know you have to throw out the baby with the bathwater every 5 years to "innovate". Uh huh.
Not every five years, just whenever it becomes easier to redesign and rebuild rather than tack on.
This isn't your typical Simple Gnome vs Flexible KDE debate.
For lack of a better analogy, this is like comparing Apple's transition to OSX with Windows' NT-2K-XP-Vista transitions.
Windows has been mostly successful at maintaining backwards compatibility, but it is starting to resemble a millstone hung from the neck. It's holding them back and getting in the way.
Meanwhile, Apple broke backwards compatibility and now are not encumbered by obsolete paradigms.
are you enabling someone to download or find pirated content?
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
-- Linus Torvalds
I'm making an offsite backup. One such backup may not be available when I need it, so I better make many dozens.
...line. It is disorienting for the people that don't always read the subject line (almost everybody). And capitalizing the first word of the body text when the word takes place in the middle of the sentence doesn't help, either.
a private citizen being able to fly to space with nothing but money is no longer newsworthy
I think its newsworthy. I thought that you needed to bring oxygen, too.
...share just $1,000 worth of software or music with your friends, and you're liable to face criminal charges. You could hit this threshold just by distributing a few copies of Adobe software, or just one copy of a high-end vertical market application, like specialized CAD/CAM software.
Yes, if we go by value (as opposed to retail price), sharing a Vista ISO once will give you plenty of... credit, for lack of a better word.
More seriously, how is this $1000 counted? Torrenting CS4 to the world? Or seeding a $10 movie until you reach a share ratio of 100.0?
This is the *only* sensible course of action.
I disagree. We could always nuke the site from orbit.
0.818181818?
Korea, at least.
And if that hadn't been successful, thereafter the UN might have been about as potent as the League of Nations.
Maybe software (Adobe CS4?) licenses, because those graphic design students still need it.
-- People who claim we can't influence climate should be locked up in a garage with a running engine.
I fail to see how locking them in with a catapult will prove any points about global warming, anyways.
Does that question interest you?
but then that would be bad for the whole industry for IBM to own an enterprise Linux distro.
You do realize that there isn't much preventing IBM from spinning their own, right?
I speak of 2D text CAPTCHAs.
Oh please no. Not everyone can see those things.
Do you wish that i cant pass a captcha it really is sad what they learn the truth?
I wish CAPTCHAs came with more detailed directions. Specifically, is the system case sensitive? Are the tall ovals without a line running through them (or a dot) a zero or an O? Are capital I s visually distinct from lowercase L s?
I've been having a hard time getting CAPTCHA to work the first time.
And the secondtime . And the third time. And the fourth. And the....
Either Microsoft or vacuum cleaners.
It's like taking a car apart down to each individual piece, fabricating new pieces, and handing those individual parts out to random people that ask for it.
I think they may have come to the conclusion that the high bandwidth cost of file sharing is less expensive and time consuming than being responsible for their customers' copyright infringement.
(Score:1, Troll)
Stupid mods...