The fools who run the corporate monstrosities will merely use these outbursts to persuade governments to further enshrine their power. The answer in reality is to hit them where it really hurts - financially - don't buy the product!
Oddly enough, in the UK, The Guardian (formerly The Manchester Guardian) is seen as a trendy middle-class pseudo-intellectual broadsheet, remember that when considering the points in the article.
PAL winning in Europe had bugger all to do with VHS machines... they weren't even invented when SECAM kicked off. FWIW PAL is the improved version of NTSC. SECAM (System Essentially Contrary to the American method) was designed as a transmission format, in competition with PAL, for use in countries where multipath problems are severe. As far as I'm aware no studio complex was ever built which ran in SECAM (internally at least(even a mix is impossible to achieve without a decode/encode process)), it's purely a system to get programmes from the transmitter to the aerial.
And yes, a bloody silly system that works for small values of work!
But potentially you might have two identical small configuration files for different s/w packages (I might have , I don't know). I don't want my system deciding which files are identical and which not. The argument regarding hard and soft links is in my opinion specious, what IS important is that I decide (and not the system) when I can symlink something which may be important!
IT's just absolutely fine by me, and, I suspect, many, many others. Animals are for eating and generally using as we se fit.... Personally, I've always wanted to know what Golden Eagle tastes like.... apparently it's a bit like Swan or Giant Panda
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One of the best newspapers in the world? It's not even in the top three on my desk at the moment!
The fools who run the corporate monstrosities will merely use these outbursts to persuade governments to further enshrine their power. The answer in reality is to hit them where it really hurts - financially - don't buy the product!
Oddly enough, in the UK, The Guardian (formerly The Manchester Guardian) is seen as a trendy middle-class pseudo-intellectual broadsheet, remember that when considering the points in the article.
PAL winning in Europe had bugger all to do with VHS machines ... they weren't even invented when SECAM kicked off. FWIW PAL is the improved version of NTSC. SECAM (System Essentially Contrary to the American method) was designed as a transmission format, in competition with PAL, for use in countries where multipath problems are severe. As far as I'm aware no studio complex was ever built which ran in SECAM (internally at least(even a mix is impossible to achieve without a decode/encode process)), it's purely a system to get programmes from the transmitter to the aerial.
And yes, a bloody silly system that works for small values of work!
I'm Ok then - I don't have a "C Drive".
But potentially you might have two identical small configuration files for different s/w packages (I might have , I don't know). I don't want my system deciding which files are identical and which not. The argument regarding hard and soft links is in my opinion specious, what IS important is that I decide (and not the system) when I can symlink something which may be important!
A did read it, the lunch stayed down - but only just :)
Words fail me ..... this is such a revolutionary idea, how come nobody ever thought of it before?
Why when I want to sound sarcastic I fail miserably!
IT's just absolutely fine by me, and, I suspect, many, many others. Animals are for eating and generally using as we se fit .... Personally, I've always wanted to know what Golden Eagle tastes like .... apparently it's a bit like Swan or Giant Panda
Think where we would be if antibiotics hadn't developed...
I suspect in a few years time - we won't have to imagine it