At work, it's the fact that it's easier for me to stick to a single machine at the office for things like web-browsing, and despite the fact that my boss is very open about me bringing my RedHat laptop into the office, and even connecting it to the network, all of my "real" work is on the company's Win2k box (availability of ColdFusion Studio being one of the main deciding-points). I've gotten to the point where I ssh into the laptop with Cygwin from the company box to do my "personal" browsing and such, but only if I remember to do so (just laziness there, I guess).
At home, it's the fact that the laptop's internal WinModem isn't recognized by RedHat (yet; at least as far as I know). We've got a Win98 box (almost exclusively used by wife and daughter now) that had linux on it until I needed to cannibalize the machine for the second hard-drive it had, but I was the only one to use the linux installation.
Partially (at home), I'm spoiled by the T-1 at the office, and really can't imagine going back to dial-up without serious painkillers;
Partially (at home) it's because I'm not the main user of the currently-Win98 box, and don't know that we could replace it with a linux installation without seriously cramping computer-use;
I suspect my daughter wouldn't care what the OS was on the home-machine, as long as she could play her games on it - but as far as I'm aware, "Putt Putt Joins the Circus" (and other toddler/preschooler games that are a mainstay for her) won't run under WINE, and have no linux equivalents.
For the sake of a peaceful household, I tolerate the Win98 box, but that's about it...
As the download page said: "Did you read the license?"
1. (item 2) Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA. Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.
In response to an issue brought forth by a software developer, Agfa Monotype has released the following statement detailing the company's position on installable embedding of fonts...
If this is the actual corresponding/relevant issue from Monotype's side of the issue (which isn't specified), it sounds like they have an issue with allowing embedding with any priviledges higher than viewing/printing. Looks like it applies (mostly) to TrueType fonts, though...
If you have air conditioning on a hot day, thank Von Linde and the beer-drinking habits of Germans. Actually, I suppose credit for the concept of the air conditioner rightly goes to John Goerie from Florida who developed it (and built a primitive but working model) to "cure" patients suffering from malaria, though it may have been developed elsewhere later...
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Who's going to guarantee that this won't be encouraging (or even forcing) people to give up essential liberties? Until that call is made, it's still a potential threat (and not just to Open Source).
Maybe the problem lies in the record companies' attitudes towards their customers:
[Jim] Urie (president of Universal Music and Video Distribution) says his company doesn't heavily research consumer attitude, noting, "We tend to ask how can we make more money and sell more product, not deal with consumer gripes."
If he wants to spend the money to send spam, let him. I see banning it as against the first amendment (speech).
Bzzzt. Thank you for playing!
The First Amendment (as common interpretation seems to hold these days, at least), was intended to protect a number of things, but the "free speech" aspect of it as relates to commercial purposes enjoys only qualified protection (at best). There are a number of areas that First Amendment protection has been tried on and denied with respect to commercial-vs.-political/artistic expression.
Current thought would seem to fall along the lines of certain commercial speech is not entitled to protection.
Those guys at Microsoft are just playing the scary-announcement thing: to scare people before they make the next move. Then make them wait, then provide them a lot of useless marketing, then -before they will realize it- they have been embraced. And the empire extends itself.
OK. Given.
But if it works, that's a toehold, a foot in the door, a step towards the (assumed) end-goal of eradicating Open Source software. How many steps will it take to make that happen? How many more steps can they afford to finance and/or cram down the suggestible public's throats?
The item I found interesting (relating to the TCPA) was:
Once the machine is in this state, Fritz can prove it to third parties: for example, he will do an authentication protocol with Disney to prove that his machine is a suitable recipient of `Snow White'. The Disney server then sends encrypted data, with a key that Fritz will use to unseal it. Fritz makes the key available only so long as the environment remains `trustworthy'.
The question, it seems to me, then becomes "So how far does this 'trust' extend?" If a trusted machine downloads 'Snow White,' and then serves it out to a hundred 'untrusted' machines, how trustworthy is the initial trusted machine? How much code is a new machine going to be saddled with just to prove it? Or can it be proven at all (to the degree that'd be required for the TCPA to work the way it's supposed to...), short of essentially having to pay Disney (in this example) to have someone come out and certify a machine as "trustworthy" (potentially every time a download is initiated)?
The protocol, which is part of Message Queuing, contains a coding mistake that would threaten the security of enterprise systems using it if it were disclosed, Allchin said.
Considering that we'be been living with the (after)effects of the Little Ice Age for the past couple of centuries, I find it difficult to be concerned... Climate fluctuation's been around longer than our race, and will continue after we're dead or fled from the planet. Deserts form, mass extinctions occur, with or without our "help."
Note: The Justice Department, nine of 18 states and Microsoft cut a deal last month in the landmark antitrust case against the company. The settlement is going through a 60-day period of public comment as required by the Tunney Act.
So, how are we supposed to comment? Anyone know of an address (e- or snail-mail) or website where comments can/should be sent?
Besides, switching your OS because the spell checker doesn't know the correct spelling of "web site" (which was the example the article gave) is ridiculous. Especially if you are the web master. Geez, if your webmaster doesn't know how to spell web site, then you truly are screwed.
Somehow, I think the issue wasn't whether or not the worker/webmaster in question knew how to spell [web site | website], but rather that if the available spelling-checkers can't get that one right, what else is it gonna bollix up.
If you have to spell-check the spell-checker, what use is the thing?
If you're really serious about helping Habitat For Humanity, find the local affiliate closest to you, and call them to offer your help in migrating away from Windows. I'd bet that they need people who'd to come in and do the work, not just talk about it...
What do you expect, people? What proportion of the populace-at-large is on Prozac, Ritalin, or some other mood-altering(?) drug? And that's just the legal prescription crap! Here's s little hint - it's a substantial chunk below a certain age-level. Here's another little hint - people get older.
I'm waiting for the MPAA to sue the parent corporation of one of their member companies any day now... All it would take would be one comment/complaint to hotline@mpaa.org
Now if only there was a link from mpaa.org to Warner Brothers, and so on up the ladder, they'd be illegal themselves...
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In my case, it varies a bit:
At work, it's the fact that it's easier for me to stick to a single machine at the office for things like web-browsing, and despite the fact that my boss is very open about me bringing my RedHat laptop into the office, and even connecting it to the network, all of my "real" work is on the company's Win2k box (availability of ColdFusion Studio being one of the main deciding-points). I've gotten to the point where I ssh into the laptop with Cygwin from the company box to do my "personal" browsing and such, but only if I remember to do so (just laziness there, I guess).
At home, it's the fact that the laptop's internal WinModem isn't recognized by RedHat (yet; at least as far as I know). We've got a Win98 box (almost exclusively used by wife and daughter now) that had linux on it until I needed to cannibalize the machine for the second hard-drive it had, but I was the only one to use the linux installation.
Partially (at home), I'm spoiled by the T-1 at the office, and really can't imagine going back to dial-up without serious painkillers;
Partially (at home) it's because I'm not the main user of the currently-Win98 box, and don't know that we could replace it with a linux installation without seriously cramping computer-use;
I suspect my daughter wouldn't care what the OS was on the home-machine, as long as she could play her games on it - but as far as I'm aware, "Putt Putt Joins the Circus" (and other toddler/preschooler games that are a mainstay for her) won't run under WINE, and have no linux equivalents.
For the sake of a peaceful household, I tolerate the Win98 box, but that's about it...
As the download page said: "Did you read the license?"
1. (item 2) Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA. Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.
I shoulda checked the date on that... Disregard...
In response to an issue brought forth by a software developer, Agfa Monotype has released the following statement detailing the company's position on installable embedding of fonts...
If this is the actual corresponding/relevant issue from Monotype's side of the issue (which isn't specified), it sounds like they have an issue with allowing embedding with any priviledges higher than viewing/printing. Looks like it applies (mostly) to TrueType fonts, though...
If you have air conditioning on a hot day, thank Von Linde and the beer-drinking habits of Germans. Actually, I suppose credit for the concept of the air conditioner rightly goes to John Goerie from Florida who developed it (and built a primitive but working model) to "cure" patients suffering from malaria, though it may have been developed elsewhere later...
Caveat: There are a lot of constraints on carbon dating, but none of them relate (at least not directly) to whether something was alive or not...
Heh... Even with IE 4.0 or later there's still an error-message
Maybe the problem lies in the record companies' attitudes towards their customers:
[Jim] Urie (president of Universal Music and Video Distribution) says his company doesn't heavily research consumer attitude, noting, "We tend to ask how can we make more money and sell more product, not deal with consumer gripes."
Can you say "Duh!" Mr. Urie?
If he wants to spend the money to send spam, let him. I see banning it as against the first amendment (speech).
Bzzzt. Thank you for playing!
The First Amendment (as common interpretation seems to hold these days, at least), was intended to protect a number of things, but the "free speech" aspect of it as relates to commercial purposes enjoys only qualified protection (at best). There are a number of areas that First Amendment protection has been tried on and denied with respect to commercial-vs.-political/artistic expression. Current thought would seem to fall along the lines of certain commercial speech is not entitled to protection.
Those guys at Microsoft are just playing the scary-announcement thing: to scare people before they make the next move. Then make them wait, then provide them a lot of useless marketing, then -before they will realize it- they have been embraced. And the empire extends itself.
OK. Given.
But if it works, that's a toehold, a foot in the door, a step towards the (assumed) end-goal of eradicating Open Source software. How many steps will it take to make that happen? How many more steps can they afford to finance and/or cram down the suggestible public's throats?
The item I found interesting (relating to the TCPA) was:
Once the machine is in this state, Fritz can prove it to third parties: for example, he will do an authentication protocol with Disney to prove that his machine is a suitable recipient of `Snow White'. The Disney server then sends encrypted data, with a key that Fritz will use to unseal it. Fritz makes the key available only so long as the environment remains `trustworthy'.
The question, it seems to me, then becomes "So how far does this 'trust' extend?" If a trusted machine downloads 'Snow White,' and then serves it out to a hundred 'untrusted' machines, how trustworthy is the initial trusted machine? How much code is a new machine going to be saddled with just to prove it? Or can it be proven at all (to the degree that'd be required for the TCPA to work the way it's supposed to...), short of essentially having to pay Disney (in this example) to have someone come out and certify a machine as "trustworthy" (potentially every time a download is initiated)?
Sounds like a boneheaded plan to me...
(OK, so I missed this the first time it was posted... still...)
I can see the stories now... "Riots at OfficeMax as thousands buy out markers..."
Glad I bought that box of Sharpies last week...
The protocol, which is part of Message Queuing, contains a coding mistake that would threaten the security of enterprise systems using it if it were disclosed, Allchin said.
And this is/was verified by...?
...after all they say that the BSA is calling a Truce. You have one month to get legal.
..."most non-Microsoft server operating systems only run on specialized microprocessors..."
I wonder what exactly constitutes a non-Microsoft server operating system in his eyes?
- Win. 98;
- Win. 98 2nd Ed.;
- Win. NT;
- Win. 2k;
- Win. ME; and
- Win. XP?
Is six too many versions?Considering that we'be been living with the (after)effects of the Little Ice Age for the past couple of centuries, I find it difficult to be concerned... Climate fluctuation's been around longer than our race, and will continue after we're dead or fled from the planet. Deserts form, mass extinctions occur, with or without our "help."
Nevermind... the addresses can be found here:
E-mail: microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov
In the Subject line of the e-mail, type Microsoft Settlement.
Fax: 1-202-307-1454 or 1-202-616-9937
Mail:
Renata B. Hesse
Antitrust Division
U.S. Department of Justice
601 D Street NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Fax or e-mail are suggested...
Note: The Justice Department, nine of 18 states and Microsoft cut a deal last month in the landmark antitrust case against the company. The settlement is going through a 60-day period of public comment as required by the Tunney Act.
So, how are we supposed to comment? Anyone know of an address (e- or snail-mail) or website where comments can/should be sent?
Besides, switching your OS because the spell checker doesn't know the correct spelling of "web site" (which was the example the article gave) is ridiculous. Especially if you are the web master. Geez, if your webmaster doesn't know how to spell web site, then you truly are screwed.
Somehow, I think the issue wasn't whether or not the worker/webmaster in question knew how to spell [web site | website], but rather that if the available spelling-checkers can't get that one right, what else is it gonna bollix up.
If you have to spell-check the spell-checker, what use is the thing?
If you're really serious about helping Habitat For Humanity, find the local affiliate closest to you, and call them to offer your help in migrating away from Windows. I'd bet that they need people who'd to come in and do the work, not just talk about it...
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What do you expect, people? What proportion of the populace-at-large is on Prozac, Ritalin, or some other mood-altering(?) drug? And that's just the legal prescription crap! Here's s little hint - it's a substantial chunk below a certain age-level. Here's another little hint - people get older.
Do the math...
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Yeah, I saw it too, after my post, but it doesn't look like it goes "...on up the ladder..." Too bad...
Gotta wonder...
So... AOL's illegal? Am I missing anything here?
I'm waiting for the MPAA to sue the parent corporation of one of their member companies any day now... All it would take would be one comment/complaint to hotline@mpaa.org
Now if only there was a link from mpaa.org to Warner Brothers, and so on up the ladder, they'd be illegal themselves...