Welcome to following behind the curve of THE REST OF THE WORLD!
I for one welcome our new Spanish UnderLords. Now make sure your kids only get blue collar work. It's a perfect system we're working on here in America under the DCMA. You should also really dumb down education while you're at it. That's a sure-fire way to stay ahead of the pack.
Yee-Haaawww! Spanish and Cowboys to the back of the line!
I'm using Tor as a plugin in Firefox. Everybody should. I don't notice MUCH of a speed difference, and if everyone was using Tor all the time, well, we'd really truly have a free internet.
You stated a regime change. I didn't really consider Clinton a regime, though, since Kennedy, pretty much every president has been a regime, really.
I like how we're bombing the shit out of desert countries to promote "freedom". Slap me if I'm wrong, but doesn't freedom mean elections and such? How would anyone consider our current system as anything close to real elections?
You missed part of the dream! The part where they think they can get you to pay ANYTHING for yet another jenifer aniston flick you don't really care to see anyway, when you can download it via mininova and bittorrent and shareaza for FREE.
Seriously, corporations make very poor artists, and if the MPAA/RIAA or any of their members think they are going to continue making huge profits on absolutely formulaic drek forever, well, that's a significant part of the "dream", and these people don't often wake up apparently.
And yeah, why would anybody buy either one of these crap formats? They aren't big improvements, they're too expensive, they have too much DRM, and there's no standard due to the format war.
You'd have better luck reselling classic films on classic formats than this!
I'd agree with this whole heartedly. In fact the main article is wrong on one of it's central premises:
Firefox has over 185 million downloads because it's GOOD. Not because they ran some ad. I'm sure the ad helped, but how could it have anything remotely to do with the popularity of the project over it's simple interface, intuitive ease of use, and overall superior design to other available products?
If I could count the number of times somebody has MADE me install MS office, DESPITE security risks, I'd be a really good counter.
Open Office is just WAY WAY behind a lot of other vastly superior FOSS apps.
There are a LOT of great FOSS products out there, and sorry for the flame, but it's warranted: OO isn't one of them.
In fact, the fact that not every FOSS project lives up to the quality of those mentioned kind of hurts the whole movement. Maybe we should have more stringent standards on what it takes to be 1.0. My opinion on OO.org: It's at about.8. Useful, but slow and lacking key features. Not for "real" business yet.
Any ad at this point is going to hurt more than help. Hell, I might just scrub the whole oo.org name etc. and try to clean it up a bit and rebrand it. Open Office is kind of a dumb name anyway. Even Abiword is a better name, and that's not great.
As a matter of fact, why doesn't somebody break OO.org up into pieces and fix them one at a time? Or at least make abiword ready for primetime, since it seems closer and obviously doesn't have all the bloat (although, to be fair, that wierd bug on windows boxes where it doesn't display text properly is a deal breaker, and it ALSO should not be called 1.0 yet)?
FOSS needs to get small things done right, one at a time. The whole concept of OO.org is flawed. Until each piece (calc, writer, etc) is superior to the industry standard (MS Office, unfortunately), don't bother packaging them into a big bloated app.
I don't think the common definition of DRM has anything to do with passwords. You have several mixed arguments there, and that one is semantic. I don't think any computer expert would argue about passwords for banking etc.. I don't think anybody considers that "DRM". Same for cell phones, etc.
As for software piracy, that shouldn't be an issue because you should be using FOSS. It's not just an ethical decision, but overall the software seems superior and less buggy, and helps foster software innovation, and therefore all of us collectively.
Have you ever installed Acrobat? Why anybody would even CONSIDER using an Adobe product is really confusing to me. You may just as well submerge your machine in a bucket of water and give it power. Some people will argue "blah, blah, photoshop, blah, blah", but first of all photoshop is grossly over priced, secondly The Gimp is almost as good for nearly all of the same uses, and thirdly, I'm going to mention Acrobat again so that Adobe gets the black eye it well and truly deserves.
Well, once we have nanotech molecular screens, our resolution will be pretty much inimaginable by todays standards. Of course, I doubt we use CCDs by then.
Everybody knows you can't trust ghz ratings. I mean, a 3.2 ghz athlon is clearly a bit faster than the 3.2 ghz pentium. Right? Oh, wait, you said.5 TERAHERTZ?!?! Oh, yeah, then I'll take one of those please. And that big ass freezer, thanks.
See I disagree altogether. DRMS is not good. Didn't you hear my AIDS comments above? Those weren't a troll. I think that the ends don't always justify the means, and DRM is a good example of that.
You make cogent points. However, you're kind of making the case that software is similar to material goods. This is a dangerous area to tread in as it's a mixed metaphor. Information is not Material Property. It's important we draw philosophical distinctions and try not to draw lines based on the pretext of either type of "property". It is my fundamental belief, and indeed there is much scientific evidence, that knowledge and open standards for all help society, individuals, and all human relationships. Knowledge is power, and the more impowered we are as individuals the better we can strive for self enhancement as a species, and hopefully as a collective ecosystem as we begin exporting ourselves and our ecologies to other planets and steller or interstellar bodies.
In fact there are a great many human values we should openly discuss wanting to take with us on this journey.
I for one welcome our new GPL overlords, and await a ticket on any one of the colony ships, if not for me, than at least for some of my DNA be it personal or through progeny.
I'm also a big fan of other human values like kindness and scientific curiosity. I bet most slashdotters are, as well as most people.
Now I sound all preachy and lame, thanks for pulling me out of my endless documentary bit torrent regime.
Now see, I had mod points today, and unfortunately there isn't a mod "wrong", otherwise I'd have used it right away.
DRM IS WRONG. In any form ever for anything. It stifles the advance of human progress, be it technologically, in the arts, or even politically. Advocating DRM ever for anything is like advocating AIDS ever for anything. Sure occasionally some real fucktard like Dick Cheney might get AIDS and that would be great. However, AIDS itself still sucks, and I'd advocate taking him out another way.
Specifically in this case prison time for purjury and election rigging until his pace maker gives out. Over all AIDS is still bad. Just like DRM.
Produce the same or better "ipods" with lower prices, and then avoid any and all attempts at DRM.
Whether they do this or somebody else does, this is what's going to replace itunes and be the industry standard. How much do you wanna bet MS isn't smart enough to be first to market on this, any more than Apple or Sony will be.
As soon as wimax is ratified and in the wild, why pay anyone for net service? Somebody somewhere will be offering it for free within 5 miles. I'll probably be one of them. I do see this infrastructure as inevitably heading towards free. Our economy would be boosted even more if the government mandated a prgram now to foster this, like the way they built the freeways in the 50s. Not likely to happen though, given the awesomeness of our government these days. Regardless though, I do see broadband wimax eventually reaching zero with or without the help of big government and their corporate masters.
My band makes $10 a CD on cdbaby, or at the live shows, and we sell an entire album on itunes for less than $6.40. Admittedly, we don't have to pay to make more CDs, but it IS less money, even including manufacturing and shipping costs.
That being said, I'd still prefer people buy our music in any form, at any price, as often as possible.:)
How the FUCK is it rushing when it's been almost a decade? Fuck those crackheads. Seriously. Put the crack pipe down and finish the game already, idiots.
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Welcome to following behind the curve of THE REST OF THE WORLD!
I for one welcome our new Spanish UnderLords. Now make sure your kids only get blue collar work. It's a perfect system we're working on here in America under the DCMA. You should also really dumb down education while you're at it. That's a sure-fire way to stay ahead of the pack.
Yee-Haaawww! Spanish and Cowboys to the back of the line!
I'm using Tor as a plugin in Firefox. Everybody should. I don't notice MUCH of a speed difference, and if everyone was using Tor all the time, well, we'd really truly have a free internet.
rhY
You stated a regime change. I didn't really consider Clinton a regime, though, since Kennedy, pretty much every president has been a regime, really.
I like how we're bombing the shit out of desert countries to promote "freedom". Slap me if I'm wrong, but doesn't freedom mean elections and such? How would anyone consider our current system as anything close to real elections?
We Love Diebold.
rhY
Is there anyway I can get a copy of that database? Anyone? Bueller?
rhY
You missed part of the dream! The part where they think they can get you to pay ANYTHING for yet another jenifer aniston flick you don't really care to see anyway, when you can download it via mininova and bittorrent and shareaza for FREE.
Seriously, corporations make very poor artists, and if the MPAA/RIAA or any of their members think they are going to continue making huge profits on absolutely formulaic drek forever, well, that's a significant part of the "dream", and these people don't often wake up apparently.
And yeah, why would anybody buy either one of these crap formats? They aren't big improvements, they're too expensive, they have too much DRM, and there's no standard due to the format war.
You'd have better luck reselling classic films on classic formats than this!
I'd agree with this whole heartedly. In fact the main article is wrong on one of it's central premises:
.8. Useful, but slow and lacking key features. Not for "real" business yet.
Firefox has over 185 million downloads because it's GOOD. Not because they ran some ad. I'm sure the ad helped, but how could it have anything remotely to do with the popularity of the project over it's simple interface, intuitive ease of use, and overall superior design to other available products?
If I could count the number of times somebody has MADE me install MS office, DESPITE security risks, I'd be a really good counter.
Open Office is just WAY WAY behind a lot of other vastly superior FOSS apps.
Firefox
Gimp
Audacity
cdex
shareaza
thunderbird
Alien Arena
Nexuiz
Speex
Gaim
There are a LOT of great FOSS products out there, and sorry for the flame, but it's warranted: OO isn't one of them.
In fact, the fact that not every FOSS project lives up to the quality of those mentioned kind of hurts the whole movement. Maybe we should have more stringent standards on what it takes to be 1.0. My opinion on OO.org: It's at about
Any ad at this point is going to hurt more than help. Hell, I might just scrub the whole oo.org name etc. and try to clean it up a bit and rebrand it. Open Office is kind of a dumb name anyway. Even Abiword is a better name, and that's not great.
As a matter of fact, why doesn't somebody break OO.org up into pieces and fix them one at a time? Or at least make abiword ready for primetime, since it seems closer and obviously doesn't have all the bloat (although, to be fair, that wierd bug on windows boxes where it doesn't display text properly is a deal breaker, and it ALSO should not be called 1.0 yet)?
FOSS needs to get small things done right, one at a time. The whole concept of OO.org is flawed. Until each piece (calc, writer, etc) is superior to the industry standard (MS Office, unfortunately), don't bother packaging them into a big bloated app.
rhY
I don't think the common definition of DRM has anything to do with passwords. You have several mixed arguments there, and that one is semantic. I don't think any computer expert would argue about passwords for banking etc.. I don't think anybody considers that "DRM". Same for cell phones, etc.
As for software piracy, that shouldn't be an issue because you should be using FOSS. It's not just an ethical decision, but overall the software seems superior and less buggy, and helps foster software innovation, and therefore all of us collectively.
Have you ever installed Acrobat? Why anybody would even CONSIDER using an Adobe product is really confusing to me. You may just as well submerge your machine in a bucket of water and give it power. Some people will argue "blah, blah, photoshop, blah, blah", but first of all photoshop is grossly over priced, secondly The Gimp is almost as good for nearly all of the same uses, and thirdly, I'm going to mention Acrobat again so that Adobe gets the black eye it well and truly deserves.
rhY
Anybody I know who' serious about security is not going to forget to install firefox first thing.
Well, once we have nanotech molecular screens, our resolution will be pretty much inimaginable by todays standards. Of course, I doubt we use CCDs by then.
rhY
What quality were you using on the jpg? Standard Gimp 85, or 100? There's a big difference there.
Is that SERIOUSLY what you look for in a mistress? Her ability to use a vacuum? I don't think you get the point of a mistress..
Why not a NUDIST colony? That'd be a heck of a lot more fun, and history would look back at us fondly.
Um, sticky shit on the floor is not gonna help bone and muscle atrophy.....
rhY
I have a number on my curb and a guy used it to find my house and rape me! SHOOT THE GUY PAINTING CURBS, QUICK!
Everybody knows you can't trust ghz ratings. I mean, a 3.2 ghz athlon is clearly a bit faster than the 3.2 ghz pentium. Right? Oh, wait, you said .5 TERAHERTZ?!?! Oh, yeah, then I'll take one of those please. And that big ass freezer, thanks.
See I disagree altogether. DRMS is not good. Didn't you hear my AIDS comments above? Those weren't a troll. I think that the ends don't always justify the means, and DRM is a good example of that.
rhY
You make cogent points. However, you're kind of making the case that software is similar to material goods. This is a dangerous area to tread in as it's a mixed metaphor. Information is not Material Property. It's important we draw philosophical distinctions and try not to draw lines based on the pretext of either type of "property". It is my fundamental belief, and indeed there is much scientific evidence, that knowledge and open standards for all help society, individuals, and all human relationships. Knowledge is power, and the more impowered we are as individuals the better we can strive for self enhancement as a species, and hopefully as a collective ecosystem as we begin exporting ourselves and our ecologies to other planets and steller or interstellar bodies.
In fact there are a great many human values we should openly discuss wanting to take with us on this journey.
I for one welcome our new GPL overlords, and await a ticket on any one of the colony ships, if not for me, than at least for some of my DNA be it personal or through progeny.
I'm also a big fan of other human values like kindness and scientific curiosity. I bet most slashdotters are, as well as most people.
Now I sound all preachy and lame, thanks for pulling me out of my endless documentary bit torrent regime.
rhY
That's basically what SAMP is. ;)
Now see, I had mod points today, and unfortunately there isn't a mod "wrong", otherwise I'd have used it right away.
DRM IS WRONG. In any form ever for anything. It stifles the advance of human progress, be it technologically, in the arts, or even politically. Advocating DRM ever for anything is like advocating AIDS ever for anything. Sure occasionally some real fucktard like Dick Cheney might get AIDS and that would be great. However, AIDS itself still sucks, and I'd advocate taking him out another way.
Specifically in this case prison time for purjury and election rigging until his pace maker gives out. Over all AIDS is still bad. Just like DRM.
I've got a way for them to win for sure:
Produce the same or better "ipods" with lower prices, and then avoid any and all attempts at DRM.
Whether they do this or somebody else does, this is what's going to replace itunes and be the industry standard. How much do you wanna bet MS isn't smart enough to be first to market on this, any more than Apple or Sony will be.
Anyone got some startup capital?
rhY
the engine is beautiful. Now let's see them catch up with SAMP for the next game:
http://www.sa-mp.com/
rhY
As soon as wimax is ratified and in the wild, why pay anyone for net service? Somebody somewhere will be offering it for free within 5 miles. I'll probably be one of them. I do see this infrastructure as inevitably heading towards free. Our economy would be boosted even more if the government mandated a prgram now to foster this, like the way they built the freeways in the 50s. Not likely to happen though, given the awesomeness of our government these days. Regardless though, I do see broadband wimax eventually reaching zero with or without the help of big government and their corporate masters.
rhY
The more lord vader tightens his grip, the more star systems will slip through his fingers!
Technology progresses as the will of the people. Nobody will ever put this genie all the way back in the bottle, nor should they.
rhY
My band makes $10 a CD on cdbaby, or at the live shows, and we sell an entire album on itunes for less than $6.40. Admittedly, we don't have to pay to make more CDs, but it IS less money, even including manufacturing and shipping costs.
:)
That being said, I'd still prefer people buy our music in any form, at any price, as often as possible.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/leperkhanz
rhY
How the FUCK is it rushing when it's been almost a decade? Fuck those crackheads. Seriously. Put the crack pipe down and finish the game already, idiots.