Like him, I couldn't care less on the format. I want to play it in my car, on my cd player, on my stereo, on my iPod. Like the author I will no longer spend money on DRM'd music unless I can convert it. Unlike the author I do not consider myself a pirate. I don't sail the seas...
The day I'll start respecting the licenses on music is the day the stop selling it as a product. Choose is it a license or a product? If it's a product stop telling me how it's to be used. If it's a license then I should be able to replace it if it were damaged. If it's too restrictive then it's not worth anything to me.
I don't know what distro you're using but what you described sounds like windows to me.
How do you stop one user from deleting shortcuts from another users start menu on Home edition? Why can't I print out some popup windows? Why does the system slow down as time goes on until I reinstall it? Why doesn't software uninstall when running the uninstall command? How do I copy from a PDF?
These are all questions that regular Windows users ask me to help them with. It's just that some things you come to take for granted. The windows interface is not as consistent as some make it out to be. If you don't believe me give a Windows system to a Mac user and watch them try to figure it out. I seen Windows users reinstall MS Office because they no longer see it in their start menu. Did they delete it? No they moved it.
For hardware and drivers you should stick to those who give good support to more than one OS because you are sure that they have the resources to take care of you, the client.
Still, the "what if the trrist got a bomb with a code and savethechildren" arguments are tough to counter.
What if my aunt had balls? She'd be my uncle...
This is a game that I find stupid because it's easy to counter with; You are the presumed terrorist and someone like Bush believes that you have the code to save the children...and they just torture you until you die because the know you have the code. All you're hopping for is that someone gives you the code so you can just blurt it out.
I guess you believe my uncle is my aunt it's just that she has balls. If you torture me enough I'll just come right out and admit it.
What I like is how you throw "stores selling dirt cheap stolen" in there. You have convicted them before you even started your argument. There is more none commercial content on Youtube than there is "stolen" material.
What gets my goat is that we have Disney who can go and "steal" dirt cheap material and profit from it. What people fail to mention is that all the art which is coming out today is based on societies collective past. Artists are given the right to create work and they should profit from it. Why don't we extend these rights to all. The secretary who created those form letters. The plumber who repaired your house in order for you to sell it. Why do they only get paid once?
I have Peter Pan on VHS. Did I not pay for the license? Why do I need to pay for the full license to the DVD and then again for Blue-Ray and again for HD-DVD? Is it the license or the product that I'm paying for?
We have come to place more value on this abstract stuff than we do our own health. Show me doctors who have amassed similar wealth as some artists.
Our generation has sold our children's heritage. Could you see them creating a Cinderella story which will not be challenged by Disney?
I say, granted I do not have much sway, that if Viacom wishes to retain all, then they need not release it. Another option is to invent it from scratch. The roads, the film, the stories, the language, and everything else they use that others who have come before them created.
We need to roll back copyright to 10 years of protection, or so. You've made your money now let others benefit from your work as you benefited from the work of others.
(X)HTML/CSS were not intended for print. Word with doc "standard" has trouble printing the same document on different printers from the same computer. The closest are Postscript and PDF, but even then you sometimes have font problems, color issues and more minor trouble.
This ISO standardization is supposed to clear up this matter but only seems to bring in more confusion.
NeXT had Display Postcript which rendered close to true but had no interoperability with any other system.
This is not a simple problem that can be resolved with a simple solution. It needs to start with a fully disclosed standard.
Thank you for clarifying that but what was your point and what did you mean? Your guess is that someone guessed? I was under the impression that complaints were filed and open to review as per the article. Your point is that you guess that someone was probably somewhat, or somehow pretending to have complaints?
As per the article the complaints were "detailed" and were filed by "national standards bodies". "I'm certain" that you assumed.
The point is that there is no standard. It is not clearly defined. Microsoft wishes to certify an incomplete standard...They are not publishing it. They just want certification on incomplete documents.
So it's time to stop being irreversably intermeshed with the microsoft file formats or start complaining to Microsoft to change their ways by fully disclosing the formats specs.
I just don't see what people don't get. The problem here is Microsoft and Microsoft has no interest in fixing it.
This is flame bait but I have time to waste....Windows XP is a solid OS which requires anti-virus, anti-spyware with a familiar feel get with the times, you need to upgrade to Vista, and, most importantly, real support from a massive dev team I would like that number because the numbers that I have get me support and not the dev team. What is it as of today? 8 0 day security issues not patched?
Real world users don't care which OS you use. Reminds me of the time when I worked for a major chain of Hotels. They created a budget on Excel and used macros which were only supported on the most current version. They spent weeks denigrating the users before they realized it wasn't the users. Users don't care. If they can get the job done with less time they just don't care. They don't care for anti-virus software. In some cases they don't get paid overtime to wait for the system to finish the scan. If you care about the environment you don't leave your system running. If you don't leave your system running you waste time with the stupid scan./rant
I've never had a user complain that they were lost on a properly configured system, Be it Windows, Mac, Linux, or FreeBSD. I have had complaints that people couldn't open a specific file because they did not have the right software for it and this was regardless of what OS they were using. If you base your operations on standards then you will never have these issues. Defacto is not a standard. Doc is not a standard it doesn't render properly even when using Microsoft products let alone third party products. It's your choice to limit yourself, it's mine not to.
The GPL does not grant additional "freedom" no matter how many people repeat the same tired bullshit. It takes away the freedom to use somebody else's code in your proprietary, for profit, application.
The GPL isn't about freedom. It's about being selfish in the guise of supporting the community.If you aren't going to profit off the code, you don't want anybody else to be able to either.
First and foremost copyright prevents you from distributing work that you have not created and therefore the GPL gives you an additional freedom.
Now could the kettle please stop calling the pot black. Nobody ever said they didn't want to profit from the GPL. Everyone wants to profit. It's just not in cash but in help, support, innovation, improvements....etc. What you seem to be looking for is slave labor. Where you can re-brand someones work and not pay anything for it.
If you want to use someones code ask them for it just as you would with Microsoft. Please don't do as Microsoft, copy code, Windows 2000 TCP/IP stack, and hide the copyright where nobody can see it. have the courtesy to give the author credit. Selfish? Who are you calling selfish?
Yikes man. Somebody forgot to tell me to get out of this business.
Dell is not the cheapest. Most parts come with at least one year warranty and I normally pick up disks form old system and have them replaced for FREE by the manufacturer.
If you are having problems putting a Windows system together then you have a serious problem. Either the system is too old or the supplier has poor support. The trick with Windows is think of it as beta until SP1. Vista is beta. forget what Microsoft says. You will have problems with hardware and software until SP1. Don't believe me? Try to find NEW hardware which has no XP support. 2000 is getting harder, 95/98 is hard and 3.1 is impossible
You are so right...I was high with anticipation when I first heard of it. When I started looking into it I found it to be crippled. I have a hard time with lock in. I have a hard time with supplier imposed limits. The iPhone is broken and it's not even released yet.
You are so right. The last time I bought or recommended a system to a client that didn't have Linux/*BSD support was...I just can't remember. Most systems are Windows but poor third party support limits my choices as well as my clients. Systems have become a commodity. The differences between suppliers are minimal.
The other drawback is that poor driver support for third party OS's tends to mean poor driver support for Windows. If not today then in the future. More than once I found myself at clients location where the client had no idea where the original Windows CDs were let alone the driver CDs. While you can find the generic driver, the one you need has been modified slightly to the suppliers specs and they no longer have the driver available on-line.
I don't have time to fill out surveys all I do is ask do you support Linux and OSS. If the answer is no I don't have time to waste, I find someone who answers YES.
If you are competent enough to use Windows you are competent enough to use Linux. Windows is harder to maintain. Every software needs to be administrator to install. Most commercial software installs unwanted sh17 that average users don't know how to remove. Which results in systems that grind to practically a halt. This idea that Windows users have that Windows is a godsend to computers is just plain nuts. The only thing easy about Windows is that it comes pre-installed on cheap hardware.
If the article is accurate then this process seems to be political in nature and not security oriented. What would it matter if a commie wrote it if it was secure? If the software needs to pass certification by answering questions like "Does the programmers mother wears army boots?" or "What are your political beliefs?" then the process is more of a scam to keep the "IN FOLK" in and all others out. It is very easy to throw out allegations when you can hide behind a veil of secrecy. I would not sleep any better knowing that the main interest in security certification being profit for the "IN FOLK". The certification becomes meaningless from a security point of view.
One last question... aren't the commies our friends and the arabs our enemies? or is it not PC to ask? I have trouble figuring out who to hate.
I'm trying Ubuntu on one system and vowed that I would use it like Windows, no CLI. I have not, to this point, needed to use CLI once.
At the same time I have a Windows system which is used like the Ubuntu systems and it requires moer attention. The only reason people are so awed about Windows is because they are so familliar with it. Once they have a system that has another OS, they start to see Wondows limitations, and there are many. (ie. Why can't the user, on a none infected system, see all the running applications.)
Linux or OS X are not for everyone nor is Windows. I just can't believe how many are willing to pay to fix their system over and over again....
I really don't understand your point here. In the Windows world you have no choice. If the software says it's for XP chances are it won't run on anything else but XP. If you stick with the same option on a Linux distrubution it's even less trouble.
When you compare, compare apples with apples....Windows is the only system where you have no control what the software does on your computer. From a users perspective. For me it's easy money...
The hotel staff do not even know what this is all about. To them it is a necessary evil[expense] in order to compete. If you truly wish this to stop, talk to the GM (General Manager) and simply advise him that you do not appreciate the intrusion into your privacy.
One thing hotels need is their client's trust. If word gets out that a hotel is sharing information on it's clients it could be the end of the establishment at least for the respectable ones. Most pride themselves on their conduct. Filling out a comment card to that effect will have the same results. If you do not receive a call from the GM then, if I were you, I would never stay at that hotel ever again because that is not all that they are selling....
Could you possibly post a solution you would try that would not invalidate the agreements for the client. If I was the client I would not want to pay $500 or more for a retail version of what I already own.
What possible problems could he encounter? It's a satellite office...In a year or two when this hypothetical problem arises he would look at his options. I have yet to see the situation where it became an issue.
Cheap? What is cheap? If the promised controller meets the requirements then it is not cheap. It's priced right! What frustrates me most is when consultants push expensive solutions in order to make their quota or earn a bigger commission.
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Like him, I couldn't care less on the format. I want to play it in my car, on my cd player, on my stereo, on my iPod. Like the author I will no longer spend money on DRM'd music unless I can convert it. Unlike the author I do not consider myself a pirate. I don't sail the seas...
The day I'll start respecting the licenses on music is the day the stop selling it as a product. Choose is it a license or a product? If it's a product stop telling me how it's to be used. If it's a license then I should be able to replace it if it were damaged. If it's too restrictive then it's not worth anything to me.
I don't know what distro you're using but what you described sounds like windows to me.
How do you stop one user from deleting shortcuts from another users start menu on Home edition? Why can't I print out some popup windows? Why does the system slow down as time goes on until I reinstall it? Why doesn't software uninstall when running the uninstall command? How do I copy from a PDF?
These are all questions that regular Windows users ask me to help them with. It's just that some things you come to take for granted. The windows interface is not as consistent as some make it out to be. If you don't believe me give a Windows system to a Mac user and watch them try to figure it out. I seen Windows users reinstall MS Office because they no longer see it in their start menu. Did they delete it? No they moved it.
For hardware and drivers you should stick to those who give good support to more than one OS because you are sure that they have the resources to take care of you, the client.
Yes. They were considered in the article.
That was the articles point that the lifespan of a Mac is longer than the lifespan of a PC.
That with new releases, the Mac hardware improves or maintains it's performance unlike the PC which requires more resources.
Yes that was his point. To be more precise, his point was that there are more people using Macs than the market share reports claim.
It's not a life decision on the Mac because no decision has to be made.
What if my aunt had balls? She'd be my uncle...
This is a game that I find stupid because it's easy to counter with; You are the presumed terrorist and someone like Bush believes that you have the code to save the children...and they just torture you until you die because the know you have the code. All you're hopping for is that someone gives you the code so you can just blurt it out.
I guess you believe my uncle is my aunt it's just that she has balls. If you torture me enough I'll just come right out and admit it.
There's also a chance of a downgrade of the DMCA...people are a little more aware today.
It's called a pawn shop.
What I like is how you throw "stores selling dirt cheap stolen" in there. You have convicted them before you even started your argument. There is more none commercial content on Youtube than there is "stolen" material.
What gets my goat is that we have Disney who can go and "steal" dirt cheap material and profit from it. What people fail to mention is that all the art which is coming out today is based on societies collective past. Artists are given the right to create work and they should profit from it. Why don't we extend these rights to all. The secretary who created those form letters. The plumber who repaired your house in order for you to sell it. Why do they only get paid once?
I have Peter Pan on VHS. Did I not pay for the license? Why do I need to pay for the full license to the DVD and then again for Blue-Ray and again for HD-DVD? Is it the license or the product that I'm paying for?
We have come to place more value on this abstract stuff than we do our own health. Show me doctors who have amassed similar wealth as some artists.
Our generation has sold our children's heritage. Could you see them creating a Cinderella story which will not be challenged by Disney?
I say, granted I do not have much sway, that if Viacom wishes to retain all, then they need not release it. Another option is to invent it from scratch. The roads, the film, the stories, the language, and everything else they use that others who have come before them created.
We need to roll back copyright to 10 years of protection, or so. You've made your money now let others benefit from your work as you benefited from the work of others.
Better, don't buy from either one. It will encourage them and others to change their ways.
(X)HTML/CSS were not intended for print. Word with doc "standard" has trouble printing the same document on different printers from the same computer. The closest are Postscript and PDF, but even then you sometimes have font problems, color issues and more minor trouble.
This ISO standardization is supposed to clear up this matter but only seems to bring in more confusion.
NeXT had Display Postcript which rendered close to true but had no interoperability with any other system.
This is not a simple problem that can be resolved with a simple solution. It needs to start with a fully disclosed standard.
Thank you for clarifying that but what was your point and what did you mean? Your guess is that someone guessed? I was under the impression that complaints were filed and open to review as per the article. Your point is that you guess that someone was probably somewhat, or somehow pretending to have complaints?
As per the article the complaints were "detailed" and were filed by "national standards bodies". "I'm certain" that you assumed.
Everything a computer processes is binary. To assume one format is less efficient than another without making a fair comparison is just plain silly.
The point is that there is no standard. It is not clearly defined. Microsoft wishes to certify an incomplete standard...They are not publishing it. They just want certification on incomplete documents.
So it's time to stop being irreversably intermeshed with the microsoft file formats or start complaining to Microsoft to change their ways by fully disclosing the formats specs.
I just don't see what people don't get. The problem here is Microsoft and Microsoft has no interest in fixing it.
This is flame bait but I have time to waste....Windows XP is a solid OS which requires anti-virus, anti-spyware with a familiar feel get with the times, you need to upgrade to Vista, and, most importantly, real support from a massive dev team I would like that number because the numbers that I have get me support and not the dev team. What is it as of today? 8 0 day security issues not patched?
Real world users don't care which OS you use. Reminds me of the time when I worked for a major chain of Hotels. They created a budget on Excel and used macros which were only supported on the most current version. They spent weeks denigrating the users before they realized it wasn't the users. Users don't care. If they can get the job done with less time they just don't care. They don't care for anti-virus software. In some cases they don't get paid overtime to wait for the system to finish the scan. If you care about the environment you don't leave your system running. If you don't leave your system running you waste time with the stupid scan./rant
I've never had a user complain that they were lost on a properly configured system, Be it Windows, Mac, Linux, or FreeBSD. I have had complaints that people couldn't open a specific file because they did not have the right software for it and this was regardless of what OS they were using. If you base your operations on standards then you will never have these issues. Defacto is not a standard. Doc is not a standard it doesn't render properly even when using Microsoft products let alone third party products. It's your choice to limit yourself, it's mine not to.
The GPL isn't about freedom. It's about being selfish in the guise of supporting the community.If you aren't going to profit off the code, you don't want anybody else to be able to either.
First and foremost copyright prevents you from distributing work that you have not created and therefore the GPL gives you an additional freedom.
Now could the kettle please stop calling the pot black. Nobody ever said they didn't want to profit from the GPL. Everyone wants to profit. It's just not in cash but in help, support, innovation, improvements....etc. What you seem to be looking for is slave labor. Where you can re-brand someones work and not pay anything for it.
If you want to use someones code ask them for it just as you would with Microsoft. Please don't do as Microsoft, copy code, Windows 2000 TCP/IP stack, and hide the copyright where nobody can see it. have the courtesy to give the author credit. Selfish? Who are you calling selfish?
Yikes man. Somebody forgot to tell me to get out of this business.
Dell is not the cheapest. Most parts come with at least one year warranty and I normally pick up disks form old system and have them replaced for FREE by the manufacturer.
If you are having problems putting a Windows system together then you have a serious problem. Either the system is too old or the supplier has poor support. The trick with Windows is think of it as beta until SP1. Vista is beta. forget what Microsoft says. You will have problems with hardware and software until SP1. Don't believe me? Try to find NEW hardware which has no XP support. 2000 is getting harder, 95/98 is hard and 3.1 is impossible
Send the specs. I'll do it.
Better yet render a decision declaring the said patents unenforceable and release them into the public domain.
I don't know where you get your info but my default installations of Firefox never bring up Google.....
You are so right...I was high with anticipation when I first heard of it. When I started looking into it I found it to be crippled. I have a hard time with lock in. I have a hard time with supplier imposed limits. The iPhone is broken and it's not even released yet.
You are so right. The last time I bought or recommended a system to a client that didn't have Linux/*BSD support was...I just can't remember. Most systems are Windows but poor third party support limits my choices as well as my clients. Systems have become a commodity. The differences between suppliers are minimal.
The other drawback is that poor driver support for third party OS's tends to mean poor driver support for Windows. If not today then in the future. More than once I found myself at clients location where the client had no idea where the original Windows CDs were let alone the driver CDs. While you can find the generic driver, the one you need has been modified slightly to the suppliers specs and they no longer have the driver available on-line.
I don't have time to fill out surveys all I do is ask do you support Linux and OSS. If the answer is no I don't have time to waste, I find someone who answers YES.
If you are competent enough to use Windows you are competent enough to use Linux. Windows is harder to maintain. Every software needs to be administrator to install. Most commercial software installs unwanted sh17 that average users don't know how to remove. Which results in systems that grind to practically a halt. This idea that Windows users have that Windows is a godsend to computers is just plain nuts. The only thing easy about Windows is that it comes pre-installed on cheap hardware.
If the article is accurate then this process seems to be political in nature and not security oriented. What would it matter if a commie wrote it if it was secure? If the software needs to pass certification by answering questions like "Does the programmers mother wears army boots?" or "What are your political beliefs?" then the process is more of a scam to keep the "IN FOLK" in and all others out. It is very easy to throw out allegations when you can hide behind a veil of secrecy. I would not sleep any better knowing that the main interest in security certification being profit for the "IN FOLK". The certification becomes meaningless from a security point of view.
One last question... aren't the commies our friends and the arabs our enemies? or is it not PC to ask? I have trouble figuring out who to hate.
I'm trying Ubuntu on one system and vowed that I would use it like Windows, no CLI. I have not, to this point, needed to use CLI once.
At the same time I have a Windows system which is used like the Ubuntu systems and it requires moer attention. The only reason people are so awed about Windows is because they are so familliar with it. Once they have a system that has another OS, they start to see Wondows limitations, and there are many. (ie. Why can't the user, on a none infected system, see all the running applications.)
Linux or OS X are not for everyone nor is Windows. I just can't believe how many are willing to pay to fix their system over and over again....
I really don't understand your point here. In the Windows world you have no choice. If the software says it's for XP chances are it won't run on anything else but XP. If you stick with the same option on a Linux distrubution it's even less trouble.
When you compare, compare apples with apples....Windows is the only system where you have no control what the software does on your computer. From a users perspective. For me it's easy money...
The hotel staff do not even know what this is all about. To them it is a necessary evil[expense] in order to compete. If you truly wish this to stop, talk to the GM (General Manager) and simply advise him that you do not appreciate the intrusion into your privacy.
One thing hotels need is their client's trust. If word gets out that a hotel is sharing information on it's clients it could be the end of the establishment at least for the respectable ones. Most pride themselves on their conduct. Filling out a comment card to that effect will have the same results. If you do not receive a call from the GM then, if I were you, I would never stay at that hotel ever again because that is not all that they are selling....
Yes, but that is not how it is advertised.
Could you possibly post a solution you would try that would not invalidate the agreements for the client. If I was the client I would not want to pay $500 or more for a retail version of what I already own.
What possible problems could he encounter? It's a satellite office...In a year or two when this hypothetical problem arises he would look at his options. I have yet to see the situation where it became an issue.
Cheap? What is cheap? If the promised controller meets the requirements then it is not cheap. It's priced right! What frustrates me most is when consultants push expensive solutions in order to make their quota or earn a bigger commission.