Well, you do realise in most countries outside of the US, patents can't be granted on software ?
Don't confuse patents with copyright - programs can and are copyrighted automatically by the author(s). However, in most countries you can't patent a software method. So for example, the one-click patent wouldn't stand outside of the US.
However, certain large corporations are lobbying the EU to introduce software patents. And guess who would be the only ones to benefit from this ? Yes, that's right, those same large corporations.
Meta Group analyst Steve Kleynahans said that Microsoft made the decision to put in the copy protection fairly far along in the development of Windows XP Media Center Edition.
"I know this wasn't in the product all along," he said. "I think it was Microsoft being overcautious. I really think it's unfortunate because it does hamper the functionality and usability of the platform."
I wonder what HP's response was, when Microsoft told them they were going to cripple the machine ?
Who the hell would be dumb enough to buy one of these? Not people... companies?
Why would companies want multi-media PC's? Most places I've worked in, company PC's dont even have sound cards, let alone the rest of it. Even media companies wouldn't buy these, they're probably already using Mac's for this kind of thing.
No I'd say they are definately targetted at home users, look at the timing - they're coming out in time for the holiday season.
I still think they'll fail though - I can see two types of people buying these - parents for their kids, and non technical people who spend money on audio/video equipment. The kids will be disappointed when they can't use kazaa or whatever to share their CD's with their friends; and the audio buffs, well I would say it depends heavily on product reviews, given the price point, a few mediocre reviews will probably put them off.
I know it's tempting and sometimes necessary to change the browser string, but in the end it's counter-productive. It just lowers the apparent percentage of mozilla users on the net, and provides less of an incentive for websites to accomodate mozilla.
If you must do it, the least you could do is email the site and let them know they are losing potential customers. At least then there is a chance that they will fix the markup and so next mozilla user to come along won't have to change their UA string.
by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
Seems pretty clear to me. The act of modifying the program, or distributing it, and the act of agreeing to the license are one and the same. In other words, you can do what you like with the software, but if you distribute or modify it, then you have already agreed to be bound by the terms of the GPL. You might imagine that you hadn't agreed to the license, but how else would a court determine whether you had agreed to it or not ?
I fail to see how slagging of Microsoft is supposed to be "journalism".
I didnt' notice any slagging off. Just some factual information about WMP 9, and a couple of MS bugs. Where was the slagging off ?
Besides, it's funny how this doesn't mention anything like, the OpenSSL trojan/crack, or the fact Konquerer was affected by the same SSL bug as IE some times ago and why not mention the recent Apache bugs as well?
Why would it ? Those stories have been covered already, and the bugs have been fixed. This is about a new bug, an SSL exploit in IIS, not just in IE as was previously reported.
Hardware doesn't crash, software does. So your point is invalid.
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OK, so if there was a bug in Mozilla's HTTP pipelining which caused your OS to crash, who would you blame - the Mozilla team, or those 'morons' who switched on HTTP pipelining ?
Honestly, I think the part many are missing is the fact that most people still need their music to reside on a physical piece of CD media before they can enjoy listening to it.
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Now, that *is* amusing ;-)
Please give me an example of where a software patent benefits anyone except a large corporation. I have never heard of such a case.
Don't confuse patents with copyright - programs can and are copyrighted automatically by the author(s). However, in most countries you can't patent a software method. So for example, the one-click patent wouldn't stand outside of the US.
However, certain large corporations are lobbying the EU to introduce software patents. And guess who would be the only ones to benefit from this ? Yes, that's right, those same large corporations.
For more information. check out eurolinux.org
If you are in Europe, you could contact eurolinux.org. They run an extensive campaign against software patents.
"I know this wasn't in the product all along," he said. "I think it was Microsoft being overcautious. I really think it's unfortunate because it does hamper the functionality and usability of the platform."
I wonder what HP's response was, when Microsoft told them they were going to cripple the machine ?
Why would companies want multi-media PC's? Most places I've worked in, company PC's dont even have sound cards, let alone the rest of it. Even media companies wouldn't buy these, they're probably already using Mac's for this kind of thing.
No I'd say they are definately targetted at home users, look at the timing - they're coming out in time for the holiday season.
I still think they'll fail though - I can see two types of people buying these - parents for their kids, and non technical people who spend money on audio/video equipment. The kids will be disappointed when they can't use kazaa or whatever to share their CD's with their friends; and the audio buffs, well I would say it depends heavily on product reviews, given the price point, a few mediocre reviews will probably put them off.
I think this sentence says it all, really:"There's not that much more new you can do with your PC that you're not already doing."
I tend to agree with you.
What do you mean, an African or European low flying craft ?
(Sorry, couldn't resist that one.)
"Excuse me sir, is this your vehicle ?"
"This is not the car you are looking for"
"This is not the car we are looking for. Move along."
That way at least the site registers one time that a mozilla user was there. But I find that 99.9 % of sites work just fine with moz.
Quite a few languages are supported, though maybe not in the very latest version. Here's mozilla's language page
mozilla is not intended for end-users, only for developers
If you must do it, the least you could do is email the site and let them know they are losing potential customers. At least then there is a chance that they will fix the markup and so next mozilla user to come along won't have to change their UA string.
Netscape 6 was based on mozilla 0.9.4 which is pretty old now.
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
the Program or works based on it.
Seems pretty clear to me. The act of modifying the program, or distributing it, and the act of agreeing to the license are one and the same. In other words, you can do what you like with the software, but if you distribute or modify it, then you have already agreed to be bound by the terms of the GPL. You might imagine that you hadn't agreed to the license, but how else would a court determine whether you had agreed to it or not ?
Ogg streams are supposedly better than wma at the same bitrate. You can test for yourself here.
But there are at least 18 operations where XP connects to microsoft.com
And they say Linux is hard to install.
I didnt' notice any slagging off. Just some factual information about WMP 9, and a couple of MS bugs. Where was the slagging off ?
Besides, it's funny how this doesn't mention anything like, the OpenSSL trojan/crack, or the fact Konquerer was affected by the same SSL bug as IE some times ago and why not mention the recent Apache bugs as well?
Why would it ? Those stories have been covered already, and the bugs have been fixed. This is about a new bug, an SSL exploit in IIS, not just in IE as was previously reported.
Hardware doesn't crash, software does. So your point is invalid.
OK, so if there was a bug in Mozilla's HTTP pipelining which caused your OS to crash, who would you blame - the Mozilla team, or those 'morons' who switched on HTTP pipelining ?
Have you done any tests of Real streaming versus ogg streaming ? I'd be interested to know the results.
How hard is it to burn wav files onto a CD ?
This is the notes *client*. Why would you have 20 - 30 users sharing the same desktop machine simultaneously ?