I partially agree with him - I think that there should be a single installer format that all modern Linux distros support. For Linux to gain mass-market acceptance, that sort of thing is a must. (Whether it is necessary or desirable for linux to gain mass-market acceptance is another question entirely)
However, there should be nothing stopping someone from compiling (or unpacking) and running an app anywhere they choose. There is no such restriction on Windows - yes, there is a central installer service. No, programs are not forced to use it (witness the multitude of third-party installers), or indeed to use any installer (Eclispe for one can be just unzipped to the dir of your choosing and run from there). If nothing else, I should not be forced to package up and install the software I'm writing just to test it!
He's wishing for something that isn't the case on Windows, based on the difference between Windows and Linux...
Most people understand that P2P will increase record sales and concert attendance manyfold.
So people here keep saying; the one thing they always forget to do is provide any statistics to back that up. Sure, plenty of anecdotal evidence, but that's not good enough I'm afraid.
So: please, support your assertion that P2P will increase record sales and concert attendance manyfold.
(Note that I'm neither disputing nor agreeing with you, but I really would like to see some actual evidence one way or another)
In most cases, those services you mention should never have been exposed to the internet in the first place. IM services, in contrast, generally have to be to be of any use; you can't just hide them behind a firewall.
Not forgetting that even if the insurers *do* pay out, it's quite likely that the company's premiums will go up. In fact, claim too often and you'll generally find it very hard to get insurance.
As you say, insurance companies *hate* paying out.
I strongly suspect that covert installation of software is itself illegal in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act. They're also opening themselves up to the possibility of being sued for at least negligence if anyone exploits the rootkit to do (even) more nefarious things; it's a pretty obvious security hole, and they've clearly chosen to ignore the potential consequences of introducing it to other people's computers.
Doom 3 had me feeling reluctant to go on at times, but only System Shock 2 (so far) has actually, properly unnerved me.
I was playing it late at night one time, and eventually gave in to the lateness of the hour. Before going to bed, I popped downstairs to grab a drink. Standing in the kitchen, looking out into the pitch dark of the wee small hours of the morning, I couldn't shake the feeling that any moment now, a hybrid was going to smash its way in through the glass door, muttering "Silence the discord..."
Other games have made me nervous while I've been playing them, but only Shock 2 has kept it up after the PC has powered down. If only there was a chance of a third.
While we're on the subject, I really liked that aspect of other people being constantly just out of reach too. As you say, it helped to emphasise your solitude - if you could just get through the next area a little faster, maybe you could catch up...
The headline is supplied by the submitter of the story. Of course, Zonk chose to post this one (presumably more than one was submitted) and is free to edit the submissions he posts for factual accuracy and the like*, so at least some criticism is justified.
[* yeah, I know, sorry]
(What's with the lack of "supN" characters and "small" tags?)
What would happen if you just said "Fuck you!" and release it on the Net - jail you? The cat's already out of the bag.
Of course they'd jail you, that's generally what happens when you break a law and the crime is serious enough to warrant jail time. It's exceedingly rare that people are jailed before committing a crime...
You can do that in Eclipse and JBuilder (and probably most other Java IDEs) in most circumstances. You can't do it when your code is deployed as a war file or similarly out of the control of the IDE, but otherwise it works just fine.
Do you think a law degree or a medical degree is so lucrative compared to a good engineering degree?
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK I have the distinct impression that a top lawyer will be earning more than a top engineer could ever hope to. For example, I've never heard of a programmer charging more than about £1000/day, while I have heard of lawyers charging £1750/hour. (Of course they won't be pulling that in 8 hours/day, but even 1 hour/day gives them 75% more than the programmer, plus potentially a boat-load of free time)
It's amazing to me that real piracy, where huge profits are made, is ignored while file sharing between friends is hammered.
Real piracy is hammered, often by men bursting in and arresting people at gun point. Slashdot just doesn't bother to report on it as it's not really tech news.
As for "sharing between friends", that's an outright lie and you know it. P2P apps (other than the more niche ones like direct connect) do not work like that.
That's true, but it may also put the dampener on the groups if the individuals recieving the screeners are more reluctant to supply them/rips in case they do get fingered.
If a rip was easily tracable back to me if the group stuffed up stripping out the watermark (or just lied about intending to do it), I'd think long and hard about taking the risk.
I was using what I thought of as the commonly accepted definition of a contract.
The commonly-accepted definition of a term is often not the same as the strict legal definition, and it's generally that that matters if you start suing people (or being sued).
You can download and use GPL software without agreeing to any part of the GPL whatsoever.
Of course you are correct, but I have downloaded some software that requires you to agree with the GPL on install. The most recent offender was Squirrel SQL client, an otherwise excellent Java database client. It requires you to agree to the LGPL during the installation process.
That's not a fault of the licence, of course, but the blanket statement you made, whilst legally true, is not factually true in all cases.
Do you really think that the sort of traffic the BBC gets will be affected that much by a slashdotting? Or do you not notice the half a dozen or so links a month from here to there?
Make no mistake, slashdot is big traffic-wise, but the BBC is much, much bigger (especially if you consider the whole bbc.co.uk domain, and not just news.bbc.co.uk)
The only reason it's an issue is because web sites like this one are heavily infiltrated by astro-turfers that will try to make it an issue so their masters can then squeal about 'linux zealots.'
That's funny, because I actually know a few 'linux zealots' and some of them really do say things like that. Now it may be that there really are a few people paid/encouraged to come here and act up, but I think it's much more likely that actually, most of the people acting like that just are like that. It would certainly bear out my real-life experiences.
Also, think about how many users slashdot has. Do you really think that all the idiots are paid to be idiots?
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It is morally questionable. If that highschool kid likes his buddy's album that much, he really ought to pay the asking price for it. That's the morally right thing to do - compensate the creator for the time and effort spent creating it.
Furthermore it does not follow ANY guidelines regarding buttons, neither kdes nor gnomes.
That's one of the major valid complaints left about Linux - there are too many damn widget sets. No third party developer is ever going to be able to make their product fit in perfectly with every users' desktop.
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I don't recall QUake 3 being hard, but I remember UT being an absolute bitch. I had to install stuff from CPAN using some arcane command line perl shell.
Thankfully, installations have gotten jsut a tad better since then...
Entertainment is simply entertainment and is not productive in any aspect.
Man cannot live by bread alone, and certainly not by work alone. Entertainment is one of the things that help make life worth living, and a live devoid of entertainment would be that much poorer.
Not to mention modern pop music is pure CRAP.
Ah; you don't like it, therefore it is worthless, therefore
a) it should not be produced b) it should not be paid for
Different people have different tastes. I don't like pop music either, but I recognise that it still has value. Besides, what makes you think that pop music is all that's being created? There is a wealth of music in other styles and genres being created all the time.
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I partially agree with him - I think that there should be a single installer format that all modern Linux distros support. For Linux to gain mass-market acceptance, that sort of thing is a must. (Whether it is necessary or desirable for linux to gain mass-market acceptance is another question entirely)
However, there should be nothing stopping someone from compiling (or unpacking) and running an app anywhere they choose. There is no such restriction on Windows - yes, there is a central installer service. No, programs are not forced to use it (witness the multitude of third-party installers), or indeed to use any installer (Eclispe for one can be just unzipped to the dir of your choosing and run from there). If nothing else, I should not be forced to package up and install the software I'm writing just to test it!
He's wishing for something that isn't the case on Windows, based on the difference between Windows and Linux...
Most people understand that P2P will increase record sales and concert attendance manyfold.
So people here keep saying; the one thing they always forget to do is provide any statistics to back that up. Sure, plenty of anecdotal evidence, but that's not good enough I'm afraid.
So: please, support your assertion that P2P will increase record sales and concert attendance manyfold.
(Note that I'm neither disputing nor agreeing with you, but I really would like to see some actual evidence one way or another)
In most cases, those services you mention should never have been exposed to the internet in the first place. IM services, in contrast, generally have to be to be of any use; you can't just hide them behind a firewall.
Not forgetting that even if the insurers *do* pay out, it's quite likely that the company's premiums will go up. In fact, claim too often and you'll generally find it very hard to get insurance.
As you say, insurance companies *hate* paying out.
I was considering buying a console, and had been somewhat torn between an XBox360 or a PS3. Thanks for making my choice for me, Sony!
I strongly suspect that covert installation of software is itself illegal in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act. They're also opening themselves up to the possibility of being sued for at least negligence if anyone exploits the rootkit to do (even) more nefarious things; it's a pretty obvious security hole, and they've clearly chosen to ignore the potential consequences of introducing it to other people's computers.
Doom 3 had me feeling reluctant to go on at times, but only System Shock 2 (so far) has actually, properly unnerved me.
I was playing it late at night one time, and eventually gave in to the lateness of the hour. Before going to bed, I popped downstairs to grab a drink. Standing in the kitchen, looking out into the pitch dark of the wee small hours of the morning, I couldn't shake the feeling that any moment now, a hybrid was going to smash its way in through the glass door, muttering "Silence the discord..."
Other games have made me nervous while I've been playing them, but only Shock 2 has kept it up after the PC has powered down. If only there was a chance of a third.
While we're on the subject, I really liked that aspect of other people being constantly just out of reach too. As you say, it helped to emphasise your solitude - if you could just get through the next area a little faster, maybe you could catch up...
The headline is supplied by the submitter of the story. Of course, Zonk chose to post this one (presumably more than one was submitted) and is free to edit the submissions he posts for factual accuracy and the like*, so at least some criticism is justified.
[* yeah, I know, sorry]
(What's with the lack of "supN" characters and "small" tags?)
Is Microsoft going to disable these betas now that the final products are (soon to be) shipping?
Yes, as was clearly stated at the time.
What would happen if you just said "Fuck you!" and release it on the Net - jail you? The cat's already out of the bag.
Of course they'd jail you, that's generally what happens when you break a law and the crime is serious enough to warrant jail time. It's exceedingly rare that people are jailed before committing a crime...
You can do that in Eclipse and JBuilder (and probably most other Java IDEs) in most circumstances. You can't do it when your code is deployed as a war file or similarly out of the control of the IDE, but otherwise it works just fine.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Do you think a law degree or a medical degree is so lucrative compared to a good engineering degree?
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK I have the distinct impression that a top lawyer will be earning more than a top engineer could ever hope to. For example, I've never heard of a programmer charging more than about £1000/day, while I have heard of lawyers charging £1750/hour. (Of course they won't be pulling that in 8 hours/day, but even 1 hour/day gives them 75% more than the programmer, plus potentially a boat-load of free time)
It's amazing to me that real piracy, where huge profits are made, is ignored while file sharing between friends is hammered.
Real piracy is hammered, often by men bursting in and arresting people at gun point. Slashdot just doesn't bother to report on it as it's not really tech news.
As for "sharing between friends", that's an outright lie and you know it. P2P apps (other than the more niche ones like direct connect) do not work like that.
How do you know Hong Kong copyright law allows you to make backups? If it doesn't, then backup or not they're still infringing.
That's true, but it may also put the dampener on the groups if the individuals recieving the screeners are more reluctant to supply them/rips in case they do get fingered.
If a rip was easily tracable back to me if the group stuffed up stripping out the watermark (or just lied about intending to do it), I'd think long and hard about taking the risk.
I was using what I thought of as the commonly accepted definition of a contract.
The commonly-accepted definition of a term is often not the same as the strict legal definition, and it's generally that that matters if you start suing people (or being sued).
You can download and use GPL software without agreeing to any part of the GPL whatsoever.
Of course you are correct, but I have downloaded some software that requires you to agree with the GPL on install. The most recent offender was Squirrel SQL client, an otherwise excellent Java database client. It requires you to agree to the LGPL during the installation process.
That's not a fault of the licence, of course, but the blanket statement you made, whilst legally true, is not factually true in all cases.
Do you really think that the sort of traffic the BBC gets will be affected that much by a slashdotting? Or do you not notice the half a dozen or so links a month from here to there?
Make no mistake, slashdot is big traffic-wise, but the BBC is much, much bigger (especially if you consider the whole bbc.co.uk domain, and not just news.bbc.co.uk)
The only reason it's an issue is because web sites like this one are heavily infiltrated by astro-turfers that will try to make it an issue so their masters can then squeal about 'linux zealots.'
That's funny, because I actually know a few 'linux zealots' and some of them really do say things like that. Now it may be that there really are a few people paid/encouraged to come here and act up, but I think it's much more likely that actually, most of the people acting like that just are like that. It would certainly bear out my real-life experiences.
Also, think about how many users slashdot has. Do you really think that all the idiots are paid to be idiots?
It is morally questionable. If that highschool kid likes his buddy's album that much, he really ought to pay the asking price for it. That's the morally right thing to do - compensate the creator for the time and effort spent creating it.
Furthermore it does not follow ANY guidelines regarding buttons, neither kdes nor gnomes.
That's one of the major valid complaints left about Linux - there are too many damn widget sets. No third party developer is ever going to be able to make their product fit in perfectly with every users' desktop.
I don't recall QUake 3 being hard, but I remember UT being an absolute bitch. I had to install stuff from CPAN using some arcane command line perl shell.
Thankfully, installations have gotten jsut a tad better since then...
Even though its not productive to society,
It keeps millions of people in gainful employment and generates billions of dollars in revenue yearly, and you think it's not productive?
Your standards are a little too high, I think.
Entertainment is simply entertainment and is not productive in any aspect.
Man cannot live by bread alone, and certainly not by work alone. Entertainment is one of the things that help make life worth living, and a live devoid of entertainment would be that much poorer.
Not to mention modern pop music is pure CRAP.
Ah; you don't like it, therefore it is worthless, therefore
a) it should not be produced
b) it should not be paid for
Different people have different tastes. I don't like pop music either, but I recognise that it still has value. Besides, what makes you think that pop music is all that's being created? There is a wealth of music in other styles and genres being created all the time.