If there was a carmaker that wired a lock on the gas cap that would only open when it read a coded pulse from gas pumps at Exxon stations, the carmaker would go out of business quickly.
Yet, when it comes to software, instead of people refusing to do business with a company like Microsoft they just buy the software anyway if they can get around the restrictions.
Consumers need to grow a pair if they want things to change.
Sure, that's one way to look at it. But on the other hand, we shouldn't ever have to put our reliance on corporations to do the right thing for us. If you ask me, having the freedom to mod and hack a solution that works better for your purposes is far more valuable than having vendors that do the right thing.
I may not like that $Vendor has implemented something stupidly, and would prefer that they do things differently, but I love the fact that I have the capability to put things right if I want to, to my satisfaction, without having to convince them to change their policies. It's far more expedient to hack a product than to lobby for policy by writing letters and voting with my pocketbook; I pretty much do that, but in a more pragmatic sense -- I'll spend my money on the closest fit solution and then tailor to my exact fit where I can. It's far more realistic than building something from whole cloth to my exact specifications, or hoping that somewhere, some company will know exactly what I want and give it to me in the exact right way that respects my rights and serves my needs 100%.
Digital RESTRICTIONS Management -- it does sod-all for my rights
The "rights" referred to in DRM are those of the copyright holder, not the end user. The end user does have rights, as well, and these ARE ignored/infringed upon by DRM technologies.
...because when I install XP, the first thing I do to pimp it out is turn off all the Fischer Price stuff in order to make it look more like Windows 2000.
That's the point of this stunt -- by bringing the issue home to the Bush family, they'll start to look at things from the perspective of the consumer, rather than automatically siding with Big Business as they normally would. Unless *they're* hypocrites (which of course, they are, so I don't know that this will really accomplish anything), this should get them to start thinking that copyright reform is needed and that Fair Use provisions need to be protected and reinforced so that they cannot be taken away.
I wouldn't argue that it's not nice to have a working printer right at your desk for when you do need it. However, I took it as a challenge to see if I could live without it, and found that I could. Moreover, if I counted the number of times I was really glad that I had a printer right there vs. how many times I was pissed off that the printer was malfunctioning in some way and I'd have to spend hours pulling it apart, cleaning it, etc., I found that I came out ahead in the game by not having it. I liken it to abandoning television watching. You don't really miss it once you fill your hours with more meaningful, beneficial activities.
I don't own a printer at home, and don't want one. They're too expensive to operate and maintain. I find that I can do nearly everything I want to do electronically. When I do need to print something out, I'll go to a place like Kinko's and do it there. This has the added benefit of forcing me to really think about whether I truly need a paper copy, and most often I find I can do without. The overhead of having a non-shitty printer at home that I have to take care of just isn't worth it for me.
If the only way that Mozilla can survive is for Apple (and whoever else wants to toss their hat in the ring) to refrain from building a browser, then Mozilla doesn't deserve to survive.
But the good news is, Mozilla can survive, and it will, if it is good enough to compete against Safari and IE and Opera (and whoever else wants to toss their hat into the ring.) And presently, it is that good. I don't foresee that changing anytime soon. And if and when it does, I'll gladly adopt whatever the best browser is on that day, just as I've ditched Netscape 1.x through 4.7, IE 3 through 6, and all the rest I've tried over the years. Right now I like Firefox.
"Rockstar's Manhunt 2 has been banned in the U.K. for what the British Board of Film Classification calls its 'unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying.'
Plus, everyone knows that millimeters are REALLY thin. If it was thickness they were measuring, rather than thinness, they'd give measurements in inches. The USS Missouri, for example, has armor that is 12 inches thick. You can't measure thickness like that in millimeters. Not in America.
...maybe 500,000 installs (seeing as how they probably had a lot of duplicate downloads due to the bugfix release)
???,000 installs. 1 download != 1 installation.
???,000 switchers. Probably most people installed it to try it, not to immediately and forever switch. How many will adapt it as their default browser? Perhaps a very small number, considering the quality of the competition and the bugginess of the beta.
Also, didn't Steve Jobs announce in the WWDC 07 keynote that they now had something like 900,000 developers? Wouldn't that seem to imply that about that many might need to download Safari for development and testing?
1 million in 2 days sounds like a lot, but let's look at real web usage statistics (hard as they may be to come by, given user agent spoofing), and not get caught up with the number of times the installer has been downloaded.
So, then, should we just ban talking in cars? If you're still unable to drive safely with a bluetooth thing in your ear, maybe you should be allowed to die just to help get rid of the scum in the gene pool.
Yeah, but if the general public thinks of it as such, then it could potentially screw the public's perception of Apple. That said, it's a frickin' beta, and people should (but may well not) understand the concept of betas not being stable.
All that said, they still have a long way to go. Firefox is my browser, not because it's faster, but because it's open, extensible, customizeable. I like standards compliance and stability as well, and it's good on those counts for the most part, also. Yeah it leaks memory, yeah it's not the fastest with all the plugins that I run, but it's got all the features I want, the way I want, and it'll take a lot for me to switch to something else.
We didn't have any of these fancy "electrons", either. We actually had to go to the library in a car. Only we didn't have cars, so we had to capture horses and ride them. Or if we didn't have horses around, we sometimes rode on turtles. And if the turtles starved, as they often did during the famine, we'd have to walk. Some of the more fancy kids started digging in the ground and collecting bits of iron ore, which they'd take in their pockets to the smelter, which was up hill, and pay him a nickel to smelt the ore down, and when they saved up enough of that, they'd take it to a blacksmith and he'd charge you a dollar to forge it into parts, and then after all that, they'd have a rudimentary car, only it didn't have an engine, so we had to push it for them. And we loved it.
We just had one of our photographers come to us with a 4GB CF card that had failed between removal from the camera and insertion into a card reader. An entire day's worth of shots was lost. Thousands of dollars worth of event preparation, etc. and no documentation for posterity, and a lot of red faces. If we'd had something like this, we could have been beaming the images over to a portable system and made backups.
TOS aside, you still can't trust your ISP. They may be gagged, or commandeered by the law (or illegally for that matter). Think Echelon, Carnivore, etc. Trustno1 is not just a password, my friend!
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Sure, that's one way to look at it. But on the other hand, we shouldn't ever have to put our reliance on corporations to do the right thing for us. If you ask me, having the freedom to mod and hack a solution that works better for your purposes is far more valuable than having vendors that do the right thing.
I may not like that $Vendor has implemented something stupidly, and would prefer that they do things differently, but I love the fact that I have the capability to put things right if I want to, to my satisfaction, without having to convince them to change their policies. It's far more expedient to hack a product than to lobby for policy by writing letters and voting with my pocketbook; I pretty much do that, but in a more pragmatic sense -- I'll spend my money on the closest fit solution and then tailor to my exact fit where I can. It's far more realistic than building something from whole cloth to my exact specifications, or hoping that somewhere, some company will know exactly what I want and give it to me in the exact right way that respects my rights and serves my needs 100%.
The "rights" referred to in DRM are those of the copyright holder, not the end user. The end user does have rights, as well, and these ARE ignored/infringed upon by DRM technologies.
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Press select before you press start, and you can get 30 free books for your friend, too.
...because when I install XP, the first thing I do to pimp it out is turn off all the Fischer Price stuff in order to make it look more like Windows 2000.
That's the point of this stunt -- by bringing the issue home to the Bush family, they'll start to look at things from the perspective of the consumer, rather than automatically siding with Big Business as they normally would. Unless *they're* hypocrites (which of course, they are, so I don't know that this will really accomplish anything), this should get them to start thinking that copyright reform is needed and that Fair Use provisions need to be protected and reinforced so that they cannot be taken away.
I wouldn't argue that it's not nice to have a working printer right at your desk for when you do need it. However, I took it as a challenge to see if I could live without it, and found that I could. Moreover, if I counted the number of times I was really glad that I had a printer right there vs. how many times I was pissed off that the printer was malfunctioning in some way and I'd have to spend hours pulling it apart, cleaning it, etc., I found that I came out ahead in the game by not having it. I liken it to abandoning television watching. You don't really miss it once you fill your hours with more meaningful, beneficial activities.
I don't own a printer at home, and don't want one. They're too expensive to operate and maintain. I find that I can do nearly everything I want to do electronically. When I do need to print something out, I'll go to a place like Kinko's and do it there. This has the added benefit of forcing me to really think about whether I truly need a paper copy, and most often I find I can do without. The overhead of having a non-shitty printer at home that I have to take care of just isn't worth it for me.
If the only way that Mozilla can survive is for Apple (and whoever else wants to toss their hat in the ring) to refrain from building a browser, then Mozilla doesn't deserve to survive.
But the good news is, Mozilla can survive, and it will, if it is good enough to compete against Safari and IE and Opera (and whoever else wants to toss their hat into the ring.) And presently, it is that good. I don't foresee that changing anytime soon. And if and when it does, I'll gladly adopt whatever the best browser is on that day, just as I've ditched Netscape 1.x through 4.7, IE 3 through 6, and all the rest I've tried over the years. Right now I like Firefox.
But that's what makes it FUN!
Plus, everyone knows that millimeters are REALLY thin. If it was thickness they were measuring, rather than thinness, they'd give measurements in inches. The USS Missouri, for example, has armor that is 12 inches thick. You can't measure thickness like that in millimeters. Not in America.
Screw that, this is Apple we're talking about. Why aren't they giving us sheet diamond?
Not true; you might also hear that mentioned on www.smalldick.com.
Oh, you can complain. Just don't expect anything to be done about it.
Well, OK that's not entirely fair... you'll get modded to 5, but that's about it.
And when the daughterboard meets someone, and has offspring of her own, it'll certainly be a chip off the old block.
...maybe 500,000 installs (seeing as how they probably had a lot of duplicate downloads due to the bugfix release)
???,000 installs. 1 download != 1 installation.
???,000 switchers. Probably most people installed it to try it, not to immediately and forever switch. How many will adapt it as their default browser? Perhaps a very small number, considering the quality of the competition and the bugginess of the beta.
Also, didn't Steve Jobs announce in the WWDC 07 keynote that they now had something like 900,000 developers? Wouldn't that seem to imply that about that many might need to download Safari for development and testing?
1 million in 2 days sounds like a lot, but let's look at real web usage statistics (hard as they may be to come by, given user agent spoofing), and not get caught up with the number of times the installer has been downloaded.
So, then, should we just ban talking in cars? If you're still unable to drive safely with a bluetooth thing in your ear, maybe you should be allowed to die just to help get rid of the scum in the gene pool.
This thing cannot fly; it can only run. It is the Chocobo.
Yeah, but if the general public thinks of it as such, then it could potentially screw the public's perception of Apple. That said, it's a frickin' beta, and people should (but may well not) understand the concept of betas not being stable.
All that said, they still have a long way to go. Firefox is my browser, not because it's faster, but because it's open, extensible, customizeable. I like standards compliance and stability as well, and it's good on those counts for the most part, also. Yeah it leaks memory, yeah it's not the fastest with all the plugins that I run, but it's got all the features I want, the way I want, and it'll take a lot for me to switch to something else.
We didn't have any of these fancy "electrons", either. We actually had to go to the library in a car. Only we didn't have cars, so we had to capture horses and ride them. Or if we didn't have horses around, we sometimes rode on turtles. And if the turtles starved, as they often did during the famine, we'd have to walk. Some of the more fancy kids started digging in the ground and collecting bits of iron ore, which they'd take in their pockets to the smelter, which was up hill, and pay him a nickel to smelt the ore down, and when they saved up enough of that, they'd take it to a blacksmith and he'd charge you a dollar to forge it into parts, and then after all that, they'd have a rudimentary car, only it didn't have an engine, so we had to push it for them. And we loved it.
Back in MY day, we had to go to a thing called the LIBRARY, and hope that the dirty homeless guy was there the day we visited, or we'd get NO PORN!
We just had one of our photographers come to us with a 4GB CF card that had failed between removal from the camera and insertion into a card reader. An entire day's worth of shots was lost. Thousands of dollars worth of event preparation, etc. and no documentation for posterity, and a lot of red faces. If we'd had something like this, we could have been beaming the images over to a portable system and made backups.
TOS aside, you still can't trust your ISP. They may be gagged, or commandeered by the law (or illegally for that matter). Think Echelon, Carnivore, etc. Trustno1 is not just a password, my friend!
Right on. But, we won't even have a decently useable Earth until version 3.1 is out.
Oh fuck!!
NO CARRIER