""These organizations now, for the very first time, have an alternative to the historical Microsoft-desktop paradigm," he said."
They've had that for a while--Macintosh. And you don't have to rent the software per month, nor pay the MS tax that you'll still be paying if you convert your PCs.
Why are are good distro reviews so few and far between?
Well, since everybody says every other distro than the one they use sucks, doesn't that mean they all suck and therefore there can't be any good reviews???
I've been using it on my PowerBook for months since my mail client of choice (Mailsmith) doesn't do IMAP and having the PB do IMAP is the easiest way to avoid synch problems.
That being said, up to and including a nightly from Friday, it still can't handle a mailto: link passed to it from another application. Silly--and sloppy.
Really, I don't disagree with the reviewer. They are legitimate points, but the majority of the problems are simply related to the Mac install.
Well, that was the thrust of his article, why the GIMP won't be replacing Photoshop on the Mac any time soon. And I agree with him.
Personally, I think the Gimp might be good enough for the Linux crowd...but no one does serious graphics design work on Linux. No, not flamebait, but an indictment of no color matching, piss poor font support, and our friend X.
Really, I don't disagree with the reviewer. They are legitimate points, but the majority of the problems are simply related to the Mac install Really, I don't disagree with the reviewer. They are legitimate points, but the majority of the problems are simply related to the Mac install...
It's a shame that the designers of KDE and Gnome and many of the apps that run under them shamlessly rip off Windows, but the one that that should be mimicked (Photoshop's UI) isn't. It's a strange world...
I download the sourceforge one-click GIMP 2 (after using GIMP1.0x years ago), and promptly went and hugged my Photoshop 7 for OS X.
....to this tripe, a Spamcop user can disclose their email addresses if they so desire.
If they haven't, tough shit to OptInRealBig. That doesn't make SpamCop liable. No one is forcing users to submit spam to them, and no one is forcing ISPs to subscribe to their blacklist. As a matter of fact, everyone is exercising personal choice--except for the poor shlumps being spammed.
I hope they lose and get bankrupted by the lawyers' fees.
Ugh, that's way worse than me first populating my Apple II 1mb RAM card at about $100 per 128k with those silly bank of 8 chips. I was forever bending those little feet. I almost got a woody when Macs with SIMMS came along.:)
...I'd have just updated it from the Windows box. I guess I'm not enough of a linux geek to want to do everything the hard way just to do it the hard way. [shakes head]
The actual situation is a little different. Paint with a broader brush: It's "I won't honor someone else's rights or licenses, but how DARE someone violate mine." The business model doesn't have to be identical for their to be parallels.
...but I sit here wondering how many of the people with their panties in a bunch over this (excepting Linus, of course) have a hard drive full of MP3's of dubious origin? This ain't flamebait, but a rather trenchant commentary on the hypocrisy that I see.
Somehow I suspect it would not prevent file sharing via that sort of method, but there are simpler methods out there. If you're sending it to a friend, why not just PGP encrypt the file and send it to them?
In the article, they said that it looked into email and would/could blocked encrypted transfers. I took that to mean that they'd also block PGP-encrypted mails (rash assumption, but how could they tell anything other than the mail's size?). That really torques me, if that interpretation is correct. I'm anti-P2P generally, but too many dolphins can get caught in their tuna net.
Who cares what the content is? Is it the act of spamming that they're prohibiting or what? Is getting a 419 scam spam worse than one from Freddy's Home Improvement, but not as bad as Zelda's House of Whips? It's all garbage. They shouldn't be trying to qualify what's worse. 1st spam offense gets you x; the 2nd y and the 3rd z. That's it.
That's not the California law. The law requires that the camcorder operator demonstrate an intent to copy the movie. I don't quite see how you can accidently aim a camcorder at the movie screen and turn it on. Somebody "caught in the act" is clearly demonstrating intent, while somebody who has the camcorder off an in their backpack is clearly not.
No movie theatre employee would be searching me, that's for sure.
It's bad enough having the ring and the semi-shouted conversations, but the freaking "over" beep just kills me. People have no class at all using them in a restaurant. People wouldn't bring a CB radio...this is different?
VirtualPC... which (surprise!) lets you run several OSes concurrently on Windows.
It doesn't allow concurrency with the primary OS. All of the guest OSs run as applications under the control of the host OS. Not even close to being the same thing as this.
Otherwise, you'd be right. There'd be no difference between this, Virtual PC, or VMWare.
Whaddya bet that MS changes their EULA to make running another OS concurrently a violation of said EULA? I can see that happening judging by their history.
"99 cents a song is a pricing model designed to protect CD sales, and not one designed to move people into a new digital music marketplace," senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Fred Lohmann told us recently. "If an iPod has room for 4,000, does Apple think people are getting to spend $4,000 filling it with music?"
Why is the EFF even asking a question like that? That's economics....that's business....that's marketing. That has nothing to do with My Rights Online.
(Yes, I'm an EFF contributor, but they shouldn't be worrying about how much a music track should cost...)
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""These organizations now, for the very first time, have an alternative to the historical Microsoft-desktop paradigm," he said."
They've had that for a while--Macintosh. And you don't have to rent the software per month, nor pay the MS tax that you'll still be paying if you convert your PCs.
Why are are good distro reviews so few and far between?
Well, since everybody says every other distro than the one they use sucks, doesn't that mean they all suck and therefore there can't be any good reviews???
Information wants to be free.
Oh? Since when did information acquire free will and self-determination?
I've been using it on my PowerBook for months since my mail client of choice (Mailsmith) doesn't do IMAP and having the PB do IMAP is the easiest way to avoid synch problems.
That being said, up to and including a nightly from Friday, it still can't handle a mailto: link passed to it from another application.
Silly--and sloppy.
...if they go to the Bronx or Harlem, they can play Defender. :-)
Really, I don't disagree with the reviewer. They are legitimate points, but the majority of the problems are simply related to the Mac install.
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Well, that was the thrust of his article, why the GIMP won't be replacing Photoshop on the Mac any time soon. And I agree with him.
Personally, I think the Gimp might be good enough for the Linux crowd...but no one does serious graphics design work on Linux. No, not flamebait, but an indictment of no color matching, piss poor font support, and our friend X.
Really, I don't disagree with the reviewer. They are legitimate points, but the majority of the problems are simply related to the Mac install Really, I don't disagree with the reviewer. They are legitimate points, but the majority of the problems are simply related to the Mac install.
It's a shame that the designers of KDE and Gnome and many of the apps that run under them shamlessly rip off Windows, but the one that that should be mimicked (Photoshop's UI) isn't. It's a strange world...
I download the sourceforge one-click GIMP 2 (after using GIMP1.0x years ago), and promptly went and hugged my Photoshop 7 for OS X.
....to this tripe, a Spamcop user can disclose their email addresses if they so desire.
If they haven't, tough shit to OptInRealBig. That doesn't make SpamCop liable. No one is forcing users to submit spam to them, and no one is forcing ISPs to subscribe to their blacklist. As a matter of fact, everyone is exercising personal choice--except for the poor shlumps being spammed.
I hope they lose and get bankrupted by the lawyers' fees.
n 1980, I spent $269 for 16k RAM for my TRS-80.
:)
Ugh, that's way worse than me first populating my Apple II 1mb RAM card at about $100 per 128k with those silly bank of 8 chips. I was forever bending those little feet. I almost got a woody when Macs with SIMMS came along.
I live on Diet Pepsi and never saw even one cap in Northern VA.
...I'd have just updated it from the Windows box. I guess I'm not enough of a linux geek to want to do everything the hard way just to do it the hard way. [shakes head]
No doubt these are the same guys who want to sell me "OEM software" really cheap...with OEM being their definition of pirated.
The actual situation is a little different. Paint with a broader brush: It's "I won't honor someone else's rights or licenses, but how DARE someone violate mine." The business model doesn't have to be identical for their to be parallels.
...but I sit here wondering how many of the people with their panties in a bunch over this (excepting Linus, of course) have a hard drive full of MP3's of dubious origin?
This ain't flamebait, but a rather trenchant commentary on the hypocrisy that I see.
Somehow I suspect it would not prevent file sharing via that sort of method, but there are simpler methods out there. If you're sending it to a friend, why not just PGP encrypt the file and send it to them?
In the article, they said that it looked into email and would/could blocked encrypted transfers. I took that to mean that they'd also block PGP-encrypted mails (rash assumption, but how could they tell anything other than the mail's size?). That really torques me, if that interpretation is correct.
I'm anti-P2P generally, but too many dolphins can get caught in their tuna net.
Who cares what the content is? Is it the act of spamming that they're prohibiting or what? Is getting a 419 scam spam worse than one from Freddy's Home Improvement, but not as bad as Zelda's House of Whips?
It's all garbage. They shouldn't be trying to qualify what's worse.
1st spam offense gets you x; the 2nd y and the 3rd z. That's it.
BayStar's letter did not provide specific information regarding SCO's alleged breaches of the Exchange Agreement
Talk about being hoist on your own petard! Hah! Show the infringing lines of the agreement, 'kay?
I'd submitted the original AZ Star story on this scam, but after reading this new article, all I can say is, "Now THIS is journalism!"
Very impressive, City Paper.
That's not the California law. The law requires that the camcorder operator demonstrate an intent to copy the movie. I don't quite see how you can accidently aim a camcorder at the movie screen and turn it on. Somebody "caught in the act" is clearly demonstrating intent, while somebody who has the camcorder off an in their backpack is clearly not.
No movie theatre employee would be searching me, that's for sure.
Actually, yes it is your content. The GPL only covers distribution. As long as you don't distribute the code you are not bound by the GPL.
Same with Fair Use. Once you distribute a song in toto Fair Use doesn't apply.
It's bad enough having the ring and the semi-shouted conversations, but the freaking "over" beep just kills me. People have no class at all using them in a restaurant. People wouldn't bring a CB radio...this is different?
Well, first they'd have to stop selling this:
... which (surprise!) lets you run several OSes concurrently on Windows.
VirtualPC
It doesn't allow concurrency with the primary OS. All of the guest OSs run as applications under the control of the host OS. Not even close to being the same thing as this.
Otherwise, you'd be right. There'd be no difference between this, Virtual PC, or VMWare.
Whaddya bet that MS changes their EULA to make running another OS concurrently a violation of said EULA? I can see that happening judging by their history.
Whatever you say, newbie.
I've been waiting for that....:-)
"99 cents a song is a pricing model designed to protect CD sales, and not one designed to move people into a new digital music marketplace," senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Fred Lohmann told us recently. "If an iPod has room for 4,000, does Apple think people are getting to spend $4,000 filling it with music?"
Why is the EFF even asking a question like that? That's economics....that's business....that's marketing. That has nothing to do with My Rights Online.
(Yes, I'm an EFF contributor, but they shouldn't be worrying about how much a music track should cost...)
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