I started an interesting discussion on this over at Joel on Software. Go through the thread, there are some really good insights there. I'd like to hear what the/. crowd thinks about it.
If I could use WMA on my car mp3-cd player, I would.
...and then when you put in the MP3 compilation CD you made out of your own legally-purchased CDs, it would say, "You have inserted a CD containing copyrighted music. This is not authorized by Microsoft WMA Digital Rights Management. Access Denied."
BTW, i have a neat case.. esac statement to set the color and then a PROMPT_COMMAND to check the result of the last command you typed, and print out the result code, unless it's been printed before (i.e. if you type "ls asdfasdf" and then hit enter three times, it only prints it once)
I'd love to paste the code, it's pretty neat, but apparant Slashdot's braindead filters thinks it's too lame.
If you're interested, email me. Here's a screenshot: [~]$ true
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It's times like this that i ask myself, why are we limited to just the ANSI colors in our xterms?
Why not extend the terminal standard to support full RGB? The syntax could look like:
\033[33;155;255R
Then, for example, you could have a different colored prompt for each of your boxes. Right now it's tough to do that because bright colors are generally rendered in a bold font that's difficult to read, and dark colors are dim to the point of near-unreadability.
What do you all think? Am i dumb or is this something you would use?
emacs is an SUV: big and powerful enough to take off-road, even though you never will
vi is a Honda Accord: reliable but dull and clunky; it'll get you to and from work but luxurious it ain't
pico is a Volkswagen Bug: car enthusiasts will laugh at you, but you like it because it's cute
Of course, i often find myself on production systems that don't have SUVs or Beetles, and i'm forced to use "cat >" and mouse-2. I call this approach "cat and paste".
You misunderstood the analogy -- the human equivalent to this is getting ground effects or neon license plate frames. Chicks go crazy over that stuff. It must be true; i read about it on The Onion.
Yeah, i don't use their crappy email, just their dialup. But the reason i submitted the story is that it shows how Microsoft can shove.NET down consumers' throats whether it makes their lives better or not. And it's yet another example of how they leverage one monopoly to gain another.
Monopoly on OS -> They can dictate terms to OEMs -> People who buy computers find a year of MSN bundled with them
Monopoly on OS -> They can make the system pre-configured to guide the user right to MSN, while keeping all other icons, like AOL, off the desktop
Next come instant messaging and multimedia. I say MS controls both by this time next year.
If anyone else -- NBCi, Mozilla, anyone else (except maybe AOL) did it, it would be a feature that the user would have to download explicitly and turn on.
When Microsoft bundles it with their monopoly browser which is bunded with their monopoly OS, moms and grandfathers end up using it without understanding the true source of the links. Yes, it's "turned off" by default, but i won't be at all surprised to see a popup on the MSIE install screen that says, "SmartTags are this wonderful innovative technology that blah blah blah, would you like to activate them? [ OK ] [Cancel]" and everyone will blindly click OK.
And suddenly SmartTags are the new standard despite the fact that most of the population doesn't understand them, and out of the remainer, most of them don't like them.
And you can only do this sort of thing if you have a monopoly to leverage.
I think the reason people are more apt to further describe Linux as GNU/Linux is not because it uses GNU apps, but because it is released under the GNU Public License
I hate Microsoft as much as any other red-blooded American, but there's no story here except Brock Meeks' shameful hyperbole. It's a standard buffer-overflow problem, plain and simple. It's happened a million times before and will happen a million times again.
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The editor used compression on the story.
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...and then when you put in the MP3 compilation CD you made out of your own legally-purchased CDs, it would say, "You have inserted a CD containing copyrighted music. This is not authorized by Microsoft WMA Digital Rights Management. Access Denied."
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Well, yes, that's exactly what i was planning on doing.
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BTW, i have a neat case
I'd love to paste the code, it's pretty neat, but apparant Slashdot's braindead filters thinks it's too lame.
If you're interested, email me. Here's a screenshot:
[~]$ true
[~]$
[~]$
[~]$ false
[~] (1) $
[~]$
[~]$
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Why not extend the terminal standard to support full RGB? The syntax could look like:
\033[33;155;255R
Then, for example, you could have a different colored prompt for each of your boxes. Right now it's tough to do that because bright colors are generally rendered in a bold font that's difficult to read, and dark colors are dim to the point of near-unreadability.
What do you all think? Am i dumb or is this something you would use?
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Just out of curiosity, what's missing that you need?
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What the heck does "world+dog" mean?
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vi is a Honda Accord: reliable but dull and clunky; it'll get you to and from work but luxurious it ain't
pico is a Volkswagen Bug: car enthusiasts will laugh at you, but you like it because it's cute
Of course, i often find myself on production systems that don't have SUVs or Beetles, and i'm forced to use "cat >" and mouse-2. I call this approach "cat and paste".
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Monopoly on OS -> They can dictate terms to OEMs -> People who buy computers find a year of MSN bundled with them
Monopoly on OS -> They can make the system pre-configured to guide the user right to MSN, while keeping all other icons, like AOL, off the desktop
Next come instant messaging and multimedia. I say MS controls both by this time next year.
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int main (int argc, char ** argv)
or at the very least,
int main (void)
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When Microsoft bundles it with their monopoly browser which is bunded with their monopoly OS, moms and grandfathers end up using it without understanding the true source of the links. Yes, it's "turned off" by default, but i won't be at all surprised to see a popup on the MSIE install screen that says, "SmartTags are this wonderful innovative technology that blah blah blah, would you like to activate them? [ OK ] [Cancel]" and everyone will blindly click OK.
And suddenly SmartTags are the new standard despite the fact that most of the population doesn't understand them, and out of the remainer, most of them don't like them.
And you can only do this sort of thing if you have a monopoly to leverage.
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Except that's not what GPL stands for.
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(Don't call me a karma whore; i'm already at 50)
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