Why not instead get rid of the government granted monopolies instead? Yet one more example of how government loves to 'fix' the unintended consequences of its intervention in the free market with an endless spiral of further intervention.
It encourages making money via artificial monopolies instead of what honest participants in a real free market need to do: competitively provide products and services that consumers want.
There are some really simple CMSs, compared to those this CMS looks really complicated... but simplicity standards in software are rather low this days:(
The ever growing security circus humiliation that we are forced to perform every time we want to board a plane certainly doesn't make anyone more secure other than the police-state-industrial-complex.
They would abolish the patent system, it is a failed experiment that has been shown to be counterproductive and stifle innovation and progress by turning the process of invention and technological improvement into a bureaucratic race to the bottom.
> - OOXML is the worst of all. You simply can't open/read OOXML documents generated by Microsoft Office programmatically - sometimes they won't even pass an XML parser
And don't forget that even if/when the XML is valid, XML has no semantics and making sense of it is not necessarily any easier than making sense of any random bunch of bits, and can be harder because you need to deal with the overhead of the XML representation.
XML doesn't really add any value to the format other than bloat and complexity.
Is more people to speak up and point out that most software sucks.
In all projects most developers know that what they are working on is a huge mountain of garbage, but few dare to point this out to management, of course this might get you fired, but you don't want to spend your life working for a company like that, as it will suck your soul and you will end up feeling like you wasted your life.
If the problem is "Apple's adherence to local copyright and licensing laws", maybe Apple should spend some pocket change to lobby to have such stupid 'intellectual property' laws abolished. But given how much Apple loves to abuse such laws for its own benefit I'm not holding my breath.
This a very good point. It is the programmers that are important, not so much the languages, but languages do bias what kinds of programmers will use them.
See also why Linus' Torvalds prefers C to C++, it has not so much to do with the language itself but with the kind of programmers that use the language.
> This is stupid, idiotic, and removes the right that you "own" a device.
Exactly!
The harder they try to crack down on copyright infringement, the more they illustrate that so called "intellectual property" is inherently incompatible with real physical property.
The US is paying an extremely heavy price for the DMCA, and instead of fixing things it now wants to pull everyone down into the same nightmare, and now Canada is willfully following down that same path:(
I'm sure that next the US will start exporting the Patriot Act and the TSA.
And more than ten years ago the folks that created Unix and C figured out a really innovative, efficient, and reliable way to archive snapshots and do backups to other media.
It is sad to see that no other operating system has learned anything from all this great work done at Bell Labs.
And no, zfs and Apple's "time machine" have not learned anything.
> An analogy: "why have marijuana-sniffing dogs in airports since it can be grown in the US?"
Except that, as others have pointed out, this is going to be even more useless than the War on Drugs is at stopping people from taking drugs, or the airport security circus is at fighting terrorism.
How many times do we need to explain that the net treats censorship as damage and routes around it? And screaming "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" is not going to to make any difference.
> The company has argued that the.xxx internet domain should be approved for porn site use, allowing parents and businesses to easily configure browsers or filters to automatically block sites that carry the domain."
This is a ridiculous idea, there are mountains of porn all over the web, and specially if it is known they are going to be filtered.xxx domains will constitute an insignificant percentage of the porn online, and I'm certain all of it will be available outside the.xxx namespace.
Yet one more aspect of the domain system that turns out to be a scam, what a surprise!
And ICANN are the first to be a bunch of corrupt incompetent idiots.
The net needs badly an alternative DNS root that is run competently and honestly.
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George Carlin must be rolling in his grave at close to the speed of light. Will the pussyfication of America never end? political correctness is going to destroy the world!
Is the rc shell by Tom Duff, incredibly simple, elegant and powerful. And you don't need anymore to use obscure operating systems to enjoy its bliss.
I have used it to build a whole content management system, and has turned out to be as close to perfect as any piece of software could be.
The semantic web is another w3c scam, just like the huge XML scam. But fortunately this time nobody is really buying into it.
Will it support Google Go? ;)
Of course, if Apple allowed writing apps for the iPhone in Go, I might even going through the appstore kafkian bureaucracy. ;P
When people tries to use antitrust legislation to fix what is the result of government granted monopolies.
Why not instead get rid of the government granted monopolies instead? Yet one more example of how government loves to 'fix' the unintended consequences of its intervention in the free market with an endless spiral of further intervention.
> Unfortunately, Slackware hasn't carried GNOME since 2005.
Not packaging GNOME is a feature, not a bug.
Why anyone would want to use such a ridiculously bloated mess is beyond me.
All patents, which are basically government granted monopolies, are extremely damaging.
Biology patents, like software patents, are just a particularly egregious example, but the same is true of patents in other fields.
Before we recognize that the patent system harms innovation and society as a whole?
It encourages making money via artificial monopolies instead of what honest participants in a real free market need to do: competitively provide products and services that consumers want.
I really wish someone would sue the TSA for producing "child pornography" with its new scanners.
Lets see how they square the circle of the unopposable force of terrorism paranoia vs. the unmovable object of "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" hysteria.
Before we recognize that the patent system is insane?
There are some really simple CMSs, compared to those this CMS looks really complicated... but simplicity standards in software are rather low this days :(
The ever growing security circus humiliation that we are forced to perform every time we want to board a plane certainly doesn't make anyone more secure other than the police-state-industrial-complex.
They would abolish the patent system, it is a failed experiment that has been shown to be counterproductive and stifle innovation and progress by turning the process of invention and technological improvement into a bureaucratic race to the bottom.
> - OOXML is the worst of all. You simply can't open/read OOXML documents generated by Microsoft Office programmatically - sometimes they won't even pass an XML parser
And don't forget that even if/when the XML is valid, XML has no semantics and making sense of it is not necessarily any easier than making sense of any random bunch of bits, and can be harder because you need to deal with the overhead of the XML representation.
XML doesn't really add any value to the format other than bloat and complexity.
My keys are safely and conveniently stored away in my secstore!
Oh? You don't mean cryptographic keys? Then nevermind =)
Is more people to speak up and point out that most software sucks.
In all projects most developers know that what they are working on is a huge mountain of garbage, but few dare to point this out to management, of course this might get you fired, but you don't want to spend your life working for a company like that, as it will suck your soul and you will end up feeling like you wasted your life.
If the problem is "Apple's adherence to local copyright and licensing laws", maybe Apple should spend some pocket change to lobby to have such stupid 'intellectual property' laws abolished. But given how much Apple loves to abuse such laws for its own benefit I'm not holding my breath.
The best way to solve this problem is to end the system of government granted monopolies that is the patent system.
Or at the very least for the US to join the rest of the civilized world and abolish software patents.
This a very good point. It is the programmers that are important, not so much the languages, but languages do bias what kinds of programmers will use them.
See also why Linus' Torvalds prefers C to C++, it has not so much to do with the language itself but with the kind of programmers that use the language.
> This is stupid, idiotic, and removes the right that you "own" a device.
Exactly!
The harder they try to crack down on copyright infringement, the more they illustrate that so called "intellectual property" is inherently incompatible with real physical property.
The US is paying an extremely heavy price for the DMCA, and instead of fixing things it now wants to pull everyone down into the same nightmare, and now Canada is willfully following down that same path :(
I'm sure that next the US will start exporting the Patriot Act and the TSA.
Plan 9 had a rock solid automagic snapshot backups system working twenty years ago.
And more than ten years ago the folks that created Unix and C figured out a really innovative, efficient, and reliable way to archive snapshots and do backups to other media.
It is sad to see that no other operating system has learned anything from all this great work done at Bell Labs.
And no, zfs and Apple's "time machine" have not learned anything.
Where did I say that one is better than the other? Apple and Adobe are equally 'evil', and have the same interest in control.
If anything is good about this whole situation is how two of the most restrictive platforms around are trying strangle each other.
> An analogy: "why have marijuana-sniffing dogs in airports since it can be grown in the US?"
Except that, as others have pointed out, this is going to be even more useless than the War on Drugs is at stopping people from taking drugs, or the airport security circus is at fighting terrorism.
How many times do we need to explain that the net treats censorship as damage and routes around it? And screaming "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" is not going to to make any difference.
You didn't write what I read. This is not about video, and it is not About flash, it is about Apple's control.
Adobe are the same regarding Flash: they try to control its users and developers.
Just because Flash is a turd doesn't mean Apple's policies are any less evil.
> The company has argued that the .xxx internet domain should be approved for porn site use, allowing parents and businesses to easily configure browsers or filters to automatically block sites that carry the domain."
This is a ridiculous idea, there are mountains of porn all over the web, and specially if it is known they are going to be filtered .xxx domains will constitute an insignificant percentage of the porn online, and I'm certain all of it will be available outside the .xxx namespace.
Yet one more aspect of the domain system that turns out to be a scam, what a surprise!
And ICANN are the first to be a bunch of corrupt incompetent idiots.
The net needs badly an alternative DNS root that is run competently and honestly.