Wow, crazy anonymous coward declares it should be removed. While I agree this isn't anywhere close to news, as it's just a link to the work in progress of the press release and that it's no way official at all. But maybe if you ASK, instead of commanding? maybe?
The big happy lawyers for the RIAA got the olga (on-line guitar archive) hosed a few years ago. Actually IIRC it was only one record label, but it was enough. They got pissy because people wanted to know how the play the songs on the cds that they bought (no one had any idea what mp3s were back then, and cdrs still cost a lot, if you wanted cd quality audio, you bought a cd). They used the same old brain-dead reasons, "they're violating our intellectual property. we have to protect that sweet innocent IP from bad bad men who want to play it on their guitars." Legally they had every right to do what they did, but just because something is legal doesn't mean it's right. But that's America for you, "got money, will sue".
Sure it was legally right, but was it morally right? What harm did the lyrics server do to the record companies? My guess is that 99% of the people who went to that site either A) owned a cd that didn't come with lyrics and wanted to sing along, or B) had no intention of buying a cd just so they could get the lyrics to one song and wanted to sing along with the radio. In both situations the records companies lost no money. In A they already sold the cd, in B they were never going to.
Go to your local YYY store and buy all the copies of any microsoft product that you can afford. Go home, open the shrink wrap on the box, BUT NOT THE CD. Go back to the store and tell them that you don't agree to the EULA and that you want your money back. Since the EULA doesn't say anything about the condition of the product you might want to try damaging the software in such a way that it could not simply be re-shrink-wrapped and resold. I think this would certainly make a point. I'm also fairly certain that microsoft would not be able to change the EULA to indicate that you cannot get a refund because that would almost certainly invalidate it.
I really don't think of anyway that part of the EULA could be upheld in court by that interpretation of it. It implies that no computer can be sold without windoze. And by buying a computer pre-installed with windows you cannot remove it. I really hate software, no other industry has this kinda crap associated with it. When I buy a vcr there is no license agreement saying I can only use it w/ brand X tvs or that I can only buy tapes from Y company or that I can't open it up and play w/ it (well most of the time that kills the waranty, but have you ever actually tried to return a product that died while under waranty? See http://www.op.net/~mstocum/ for my personal problems with JVC.)
I really don't see how that actually can be legal. To buy product A, you must also purchase product B. To me that's like saying to buy a 2 liter bottle of coca-cola you must also buy a glass. I dunno, I hate the way the legal system works in the US anyway. I wish all the lawyers / judges would go to hell, especially judge judy.
Actually IIRC journalling filesystems still require fscks. The process is just supposed to take a very short time. Besides, if you weren't supposed to run chkdsk on ntfs, why would they give it to you? And if ntfs is a journalling fs, why did it take 3 days? MS is obviously doing something (else) wrong.
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IIRC laser discs have analog sound tracks, and dvds allow either dolby digital, or uncompressed PCM, or mpeg-2 audio.
Looks at himself in a mirror: long brown hair, flannel shirt, t-shirt, cords that are way too big and purple, 2 year old "all-terain-sneaker" (i didn't know what it meant then and i don't now), and a really messy looking goatee(sp). Yah, I guess "Slashdot Longhair" adequatle describes me. I didn't earn the nickname dirty by being a clean cut preppy type. Slashdot Longhair: it's a generalization, but sometimes it fits.
When was the most recent issue of archie published anyway? I thought it was a long time ago, atleast a decade. Not to mention I don't see how you can trademark a name. Is someone going to trademark Matt and sue me everytime I put my name on something? Once again, I think we should kill all of the lawyers. This country would be a much better place if NO ONE had a lawyer. That way huge corporations would have just as good of a chance at mudling their way through a court case that joe shmoe would have. I just hope that the parents don't cave for fear of a lawsuit which, while they would win, would probally cost them a fortune.
Excuse me but do you have any clue what you are talking about? Microsoft programming products are god awful and are not for real programmers. People who think point-n-click coding is real programming obviously have never done any real programming. There is a reason why most of us slam anything Microsoft realated, it's crap. And the fact that the entire win32 api is crap is made quite evident by the cygwin project.
I always use the same.config and just run "make oldconfig" (make oldconfig reads.config and scans through the config process and only prompts you for new options)
That would definately be a plus, speaking of the Dxr2, has anyone gotten the start at a driver (http://www.rpi.edu/~veliaa/linux-dvd/) working with 2.2.0-preXX. Every time I try to use it I get an oops. I'm still in the process of debuging it. (Slow cuz it needs a reboot just about everytime I make a change to the driver).
wonders if he should even respond to such dribbel(sp?). First off most bands don't make that much money. It's the record companies who make the money. I don't even want to ask how one open source's music.
I have to say that that is 100% wrong! What intel should do instead is just modify the cpus so that they have an easily machine-readable "recommended" cpu speed on the cpu. The bios could then probe this value and if the speed that the system is running at does not match a warning could be printed. Intel is NOT conserned about the end user but about their own profit margin. They are doing no one a favor but themselves. They have realised that people finally figured out that they market the exact same cpus at different clock speeds and prices. They've been doing this atleast since the 486. It really pisses me off that they even think that they have the right to tell me how I use MY cpu.
I REALLY hate to encourage this kind of crap but... I feel the need to defend KDE. It is not in the slightest bit broken, I've been using it since last feb. with very few problems. It's not the greatest desktop, at the time I started using it, it seemed like the only one. It works however. It provides the end user with an easy to use desktop and many tools that all have the same "look and feel". Gnome is more broken only in the sense that it has less maturity than KDE. I feel Gnome is a very nice desktop, but I don't use it as much. It is far more aesthetically pleasing than kde is, however. If you don't mind mr. smith tell me one thing that's "broken" about kde (other than the QT license).
I always wondered how ext2fs compared to HPFS. Also, what features are planned for the 2.3 version of ext2fs? I remember hearing that there were some neat toys in store.
And there is a good reason for this. Microsoft has a history of unfair business practices and abuse of its monopoly. Microsoft also is well known for making proprietary standards to keep other companies out, and bastardizing existing standards to keep other companies out. With Linux this situation cannot occur. If someone writes a home automation protocol for Linux but refuses to document it the solution is simple. Read the source and document it yourself. If you feel the need to extend said protocol, do it, the source is there for you to modify/break in anyway you want. If you (and others) feel that your changes are good, they become part of the standard. It's a very nice system. With Microsoft you have to wait for them to improve the protocol, for them to document the protocol, for them to charge you $100 for the privlage of using their protocol, for them to charge you for protocol 2000 to fix the bugs in protocol 98. Microsoft deserves our hate. The day Microsoft starts caring about the customer, instead of soley about $$$ is the day that we should reconsider our position of hate towards Microsoft. Until then, Microsoft will be nothing more than a ruthless company that will stop at nothing to shove its broken products and protocols down the throats of consumers. Viva Linux.
Actually I think using NAT or ipmasq or whatever else you want to call it is the exact way to go. We really don't need to polute the planet with an endless ammount of ip addresses. Also, NAT provides additional security. I don't want the outside world being able to access my appliances. What if someone who really hates me decides to hack my water heater and set the hot water temperature to 500degrees C. Next time I step into the shower it would most likely result in my death. Or do you want people being able to teardrop your fridge so all of your food spoils? I do think some kind of outside access is desireable, ie turning off an appliance you left on, however that could be done automatically. (One of my friend's house is already setup basically like this. Accept he designed the system around a comodore 64, and later upgraded to a 386. All of the space heaters in the house are set to turn off every hour on the hour so you can never forget to turn it off.) I really don't think direct access to everything in your house should be granted to the world, however.
actually IIRC they have made it public that they do NOT plan to do this. I've even heard rumors that once the disc goes out of production it will not be playable at all (i think "gold" discs are exempt from this, but it still seems like the consumer is getting a raw deal).
I think part of the attitude of Linux/FSF/etc... is that if you don't like the way it's done, instead of raising a huge stink about it, go out and do it yourself in the way you want. People seem to think now that they are entitled to commercial grade free software without any hitches, yet they don't want to do anything themselves. The number of people who cried when corel wanted you to register wp8 to use it beyond 90 days was insane. I registered as soon as I got it; the entire process took maybe a minute. Why did I register? Because corel wanted me to and I figured they were doing a great thing by providing a comerical word processor for free. Yet 90% of the reactions were bad, complaining about libc5 or registering, or the fonts. Grow up! I really hate to use cliches but, if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all. Not that constructive critism isn't good, but angry hatred with no real destination is awful. If you don't like wine and think it's evil, tough crap. Don't use it. There are plenty of people out there who will use it. If you don't like the fact that it only runs on x86, tough crap. Impliment your own x86 emulator and hack wine so it can use it.
Basically what I'm saying is that free software is a gift, treat it like one. You are entitled to nothing. Don't complain when you have to register something. And don't act like just because you want xyz program to have abc feature that by acting like a 6 year old who can't have any ice cream that you will get that feature added. And please STOP complaining and giving the editors of slashdot hell for some of the articles that they post. Keep in mind that they are doing us a great service and that a lot of hard work has been put into slashdot so we can have a truely great service. If you don't like the articles, go out and find better ones and submit them.
As much as it sucks the world is ruled by money. It happens. It's the concept that the world works upon. People need to eat, they need to buy stuff, they need some source of income. Deal with it. Stop hating and start helping.
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Wow, crazy anonymous coward declares it should be removed. While I agree this isn't anywhere close to news, as it's just a link to the work in progress of the press release and that it's no way official at all. But maybe if you ASK, instead of commanding? maybe?
The big happy lawyers for the RIAA got the olga (on-line guitar archive) hosed a few years ago. Actually IIRC it was only one record label, but it was enough. They got pissy because people wanted to know how the play the songs on the cds that they bought (no one had any idea what mp3s were back then, and cdrs still cost a lot, if you wanted cd quality audio, you bought a cd). They used the same old brain-dead reasons, "they're violating our intellectual property. we have to protect that sweet innocent IP from bad bad men who want to play it on their guitars." Legally they had every right to do what they did, but just because something is legal doesn't mean it's right. But that's America for you, "got money, will sue".
Sure it was legally right, but was it morally right? What harm did the lyrics server do to the record companies? My guess is that 99% of the people who went to that site either A) owned a cd that didn't come with lyrics and wanted to sing along, or B) had no intention of buying a cd just so they could get the lyrics to one song and wanted to sing along with the radio. In both situations the records companies lost no money. In A they already sold the cd, in B they were never going to.
Go to your local YYY store and buy all the copies of any microsoft product that you can afford. Go home, open the shrink wrap on the box, BUT NOT THE CD. Go back to the store and tell them that you don't agree to the EULA and that you want your money back. Since the EULA doesn't say anything about the condition of the product you might want to try damaging the software in such a way that it could not simply be re-shrink-wrapped and resold. I think this would certainly make a point. I'm also fairly certain that microsoft would not be able to change the EULA to indicate that you cannot get a refund because that would almost certainly invalidate it.
I really don't think of anyway that part of the EULA could be upheld in court by that interpretation of it. It implies that no computer can be sold without windoze. And by buying a computer pre-installed with windows you cannot remove it. I really hate software, no other industry has this kinda crap associated with it. When I buy a vcr there is no license agreement saying I can only use it w/ brand X tvs or that I can only buy tapes from Y company or that I can't open it up and play w/ it (well most of the time that kills the waranty, but have you ever actually tried to return a product that died while under waranty? See http://www.op.net/~mstocum/ for my personal problems with JVC.)
I really don't see how that actually can be legal. To buy product A, you must also purchase product B. To me that's like saying to buy a 2 liter bottle of coca-cola you must also buy a glass. I dunno, I hate the way the legal system works in the US anyway. I wish all the lawyers / judges would go to hell, especially judge judy.
Actually IIRC journalling filesystems still require fscks. The process is just supposed to take a very short time. Besides, if you weren't supposed to run chkdsk on ntfs, why would they give it to you? And if ntfs is a journalling fs, why did it take 3 days? MS is obviously doing something (else) wrong.
IIRC laser discs have analog sound tracks, and dvds allow either dolby digital, or uncompressed PCM, or mpeg-2 audio.
Looks at himself in a mirror: long brown hair, flannel shirt, t-shirt, cords that are way too big and purple, 2 year old "all-terain-sneaker" (i didn't know what it meant then and i don't now), and a really messy looking goatee(sp). Yah, I guess "Slashdot Longhair" adequatle describes me. I didn't earn the nickname dirty by being a clean cut preppy type. Slashdot Longhair: it's a generalization, but sometimes it fits.
When was the most recent issue of archie published anyway? I thought it was a long time ago, atleast a decade. Not to mention I don't see how you can trademark a name. Is someone going to trademark Matt and sue me everytime I put my name on something? Once again, I think we should kill all of the lawyers. This country would be a much better place if NO ONE had a lawyer. That way huge corporations would have just as good of a chance at mudling their way through a court case that joe shmoe would have. I just hope that the parents don't cave for fear of a lawsuit which, while they would win, would probally cost them a fortune.
Excuse me but do you have any clue what you are talking about? Microsoft programming products are god awful and are not for real programmers. People who think point-n-click coding is real programming obviously have never done any real programming. There is a reason why most of us slam anything Microsoft realated, it's crap. And the fact that the entire win32 api is crap is made quite evident by the cygwin project.
I always use the same .config and just run "make oldconfig" (make oldconfig reads .config and scans through the config process and only prompts you for new options)
That would definately be a plus, speaking of the Dxr2, has anyone gotten the start at a driver (http://www.rpi.edu/~veliaa/linux-dvd/) working with 2.2.0-preXX. Every time I try to use it I get an oops. I'm still in the process of debuging it. (Slow cuz it needs a reboot just about everytime I make a change to the driver).
wonders if he should even respond to such dribbel(sp?). First off most bands don't make that much money. It's the record companies who make the money. I don't even want to ask how one open source's music.
I have to say that that is 100% wrong! What intel should do instead is just modify the cpus so that they have an easily machine-readable "recommended" cpu speed on the cpu. The bios could then probe this value and if the speed that the system is running at does not match a warning could be printed. Intel is NOT conserned about the end user but about their own profit margin. They are doing no one a favor but themselves. They have realised that people finally figured out that they market the exact same cpus at different clock speeds and prices. They've been doing this atleast since the 486. It really pisses me off that they even think that they have the right to tell me how I use MY cpu.
I REALLY hate to encourage this kind of crap but... I feel the need to defend KDE. It is not in the slightest bit broken, I've been using it since last feb. with very few problems. It's not the greatest desktop, at the time I started using it, it seemed like the only one. It works however. It provides the end user with an easy to use desktop and many tools that all have the same "look and feel". Gnome is more broken only in the sense that it has less maturity than KDE. I feel Gnome is a very nice desktop, but I don't use it as much. It is far more aesthetically pleasing than kde is, however. If you don't mind mr. smith tell me one thing that's "broken" about kde (other than the QT license).
they have. just not as corel. it seems they hired another company to do most of the work. i forget the name though.
I always wondered how ext2fs compared to HPFS. Also, what features are planned for the 2.3 version of ext2fs? I remember hearing that there were some neat toys in store.
And there is a good reason for this. Microsoft has a history of unfair business practices and abuse of its monopoly. Microsoft also is well known for making proprietary standards to keep other companies out, and bastardizing existing standards to keep other companies out. With Linux this situation cannot occur. If someone writes a home automation protocol for Linux but refuses to document it the solution is simple. Read the source and document it yourself. If you feel the need to extend said protocol, do it, the source is there for you to modify/break in anyway you want. If you (and others) feel that your changes are good, they become part of the standard. It's a very nice system. With Microsoft you have to wait for them to improve the protocol, for them to document the protocol, for them to charge you $100 for the privlage of using their protocol, for them to charge you for protocol 2000 to fix the bugs in protocol 98. Microsoft deserves our hate. The day Microsoft starts caring about the customer, instead of soley about $$$ is the day that we should reconsider our position of hate towards Microsoft. Until then, Microsoft will be nothing more than a ruthless company that will stop at nothing to shove its broken products and protocols down the throats of consumers. Viva Linux.
Actually I think using NAT or ipmasq or whatever else you want to call it is the exact way to go. We really don't need to polute the planet with an endless ammount of ip addresses. Also, NAT provides additional security. I don't want the outside world being able to access my appliances. What if someone who really hates me decides to hack my water heater and set the hot water temperature to 500degrees C. Next time I step into the shower it would most likely result in my death. Or do you want people being able to teardrop your fridge so all of your food spoils? I do think some kind of outside access is desireable, ie turning off an appliance you left on, however that could be done automatically. (One of my friend's house is already setup basically like this. Accept he designed the system around a comodore 64, and later upgraded to a 386. All of the space heaters in the house are set to turn off every hour on the hour so you can never forget to turn it off.) I really don't think direct access to everything in your house should be granted to the world, however.
actually IIRC they have made it public that they do NOT plan to do this. I've even heard rumors that once the disc goes out of production it will not be playable at all (i think "gold" discs are exempt from this, but it still seems like the consumer is getting a raw deal).
I think part of the attitude of Linux/FSF/etc... is that if you don't like the way it's done, instead of raising a huge stink about it, go out and do it yourself in the way you want. People seem to think now that they are entitled to commercial grade free software without any hitches, yet they don't want to do anything themselves. The number of people who cried when corel wanted you to register wp8 to use it beyond 90 days was insane. I registered as soon as I got it; the entire process took maybe a minute. Why did I register? Because corel wanted me to and I figured they were doing a great thing by providing a comerical word processor for free. Yet 90% of the reactions were bad, complaining about libc5 or registering, or the fonts. Grow up! I really hate to use cliches but, if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all. Not that constructive critism isn't good, but angry hatred with no real destination is awful. If you don't like wine and think it's evil, tough crap. Don't use it. There are plenty of people out there who will use it. If you don't like the fact that it only runs on x86, tough crap. Impliment your own x86 emulator and hack wine so it can use it.
Basically what I'm saying is that free software is a gift, treat it like one. You are entitled to nothing. Don't complain when you have to register something. And don't act like just because you want xyz program to have abc feature that by acting like a 6 year old who can't have any ice cream that you will get that feature added. And please STOP complaining and giving the editors of slashdot hell for some of the articles that they post. Keep in mind that they are doing us a great service and that a lot of hard work has been put into slashdot so we can have a truely great service. If you don't like the articles, go out and find better ones and submit them.
As much as it sucks the world is ruled by money. It happens. It's the concept that the world works upon. People need to eat, they need to buy stuff, they need some source of income. Deal with it. Stop hating and start helping.