How about a decent board where you can plug in one or more (up to some number) of compute modules? Something with a single power supply. A network switch built in. Something that makes it easy to play with building clusters. A single board you can plug in 4, 8 or 16 compute modules.
Yes. That. And let's not talk about marriage. Let's talk about far more basic things like whether homosexuals should be allowed to have employment. Or be allowed to rent an apartment. The fact is, that disagreement usually does equal hate. Usually enough that the exception is so rare that you could just say it does equal.
The only difference is whether it's a short term rental, like 48 hours or somesuch, or a long term rental for a few years until: "we are discontinuing our DRM servers". Or try this: "our licensing with the content provider has changed, and what you bought, you can no longer watch.".
Unless you can download a DRM free copy that you can play on any of your devices, then you didn't really BUY anything.
And if you did buy a downloadable DRM free copy, then you already don't have any problem with your immediate household members being able to 'access' the content.
Will people ever learn. There was Microsoft's "Plays For Sure". Which was then discontinued, and everyone's 'purchased' content became locked to their devices -- which probably don't work any longer. Then there was Zune, and the same fate for all of your 'purchased' content. Certain Disney content on Amazon which people had purchased became unplayable because Disney had new exclusive licensing for some of that content that people had previously purchased. And Amazon has 'disappeared' content from devices before, in one instance because Amazon realized that they didn't have a license to 'sell' it to you in the first place.
If you're gonna make a malware app, and if you're gonna make it pretend to be three things, then why not change what three things it pretends to, and simply call your app GooFaceTwit.
When the Fire Phone was announced, I watched the presentation video live. I thought the tech was interesting. But then I began to notice something as they demoed more and more features of the phone.
Everything about the phone is designed to sell me something. Constantly. Always. In my face.
Hey, Amazon. Here's a free clue. From a customer who actually likes to purchase things through Amazon.
The reason I buy a smart phone and a tablet: TO IMPROVE MY QUALITY OF LIFE.
NOT to serve as your advertising billboard.
Here is a follow on problem that develops from that. Since I therefore use Android, not fire phone, since the purpose of a smartphone is to improve my life, I naturally have a number of video apps. Netflix. Hulu. HBO. PBS. Others. And . . . I have Prime Video with Starz.
BUT . . . in an anticompetitive move, Amazon won't put its video as an Android app in the Google Play store. So I can watch it on my Roku. But not on much else.
I also own a Chromecast. When Amazon introduced the Fire Stick, Amazon stopped selling Chromecasts. And since Amazon Video doesn't have an app on Android, it also doesn't work on Chromecast. This is a strong disincentive for me to pay for Amazon Prime video or Starz. Amazon: you've ruined my trust in order to try to sell me a Fire Stick that I don't need, don't want, and all the while, I am *already* a subscriber to Prime video and Starz. What a dumb move. Make me lose trust in your entire business in order to boost the Fire Stick? Really?
Surely you mean that Microsoft is actually doing this to bolder Google Hangouts Video?
That is what I started using when Skype was acquired by Microsoft. Skype support on Linux was already 2nd rate. Hangouts has first class video call support on Linux, Android and other platforms I use.
The artists will only get a share if it is negative. It is a cost that artists must help fund. If it is positive, then it will be eaten up by "fees" called "Hollywood Accounting" and the artists get nothing.
Caldera would seem to be irrelevant. Someone wrote the header files long before Caldera or the Canopy group ever existed. Who wrote the original header files would be the moment copyright existed. (Although I believe copyright law was revised, IIRC, in 1978? And that is when copyright became automatic at the moment of creation?) I'm not sure how publishing a copyrighted API, or even a complete implementation of the API would make copyright go away. Especially in the eyes of copyright owners and courts today where copyright seems to trump everything else, free speech, due process, the 4th, 5th and other constitutional amendments, and maybe even international law.
I think it is a shame that Microsoft did not buy Yahoo back in 2008.
The technical clash would have been one thing. (Would Microsoft insist they use all IIS and Windows OS for the servers? What about Exchange for handling email?)
But the cultural clash would have been something else entirely. Something we would still be talking about today if it had happened.
And yes, it would likely have destroyed Microsoft, and also not fixed any of Yahoo's actual problems.
Who would have ever thought that re-implementing an API would be copyright infringement.
Question: how many times has the Standard C Library API been implemented? How many different implementations?
Another thought . . .
Who owns the copyright on the API to the Standard C Library? Oh, wait. He's dead Jim.
But did he assign the copyright rights to anyone? Nope. Why? Because at that time nobody ever believe we would live in a world insane enough for anyone to even hint that copyright should apply to APIs.
So his estate must own the copyright to the Standard C Library API. Oh, I think I smell money and lawsuits! Hey, Lawyers, look over here!
Oracle just got slapped by the same Judge Alsup who smacked down SCO. BTW, SCO vs IBM started in March 6, 2003 is still ongoing, in a walking zombie sort of way.
Add sugary additive features that make certain things become super easy. And particularly if they can somehow tie you in to Microsoft's prison camp, or "walled garden" in other ways.
Then, the marketing . . .
Use new Microsoft FreeBSD which has been fully EMBRACED by Microsoft. Unlike all those other inferior FreeBSD's, Microsoft's FreeBSD has been EXTENDED with super duper extra addictively delicious features. Our product is so good and so popular that it will EXTINGUISH the competition. Try it today! The first hit is FREE!
Redmond is not keeping its work on FreeBSD to itself: Anderson says "the MAJORITY of the investments we make at the kernel level to enable network and storage performance were up-streamed into the FreeBSD 10.3 release, so anyone who downloads a FreeBSD 10.3 image from the FreeBSD Foundation will get those investments from Microsoft built in to the OS."
Do you see that big word MAJORITY in there? That means there are parts of the kernel that Microsoft is keeping closed source to themselves.
That is the classic, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. We're to the Extend part right now. It has been extended with proprietary extensions that are not given back to the community.
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How about a decent board where you can plug in one or more (up to some number) of compute modules? Something with a single power supply. A network switch built in. Something that makes it easy to play with building clusters. A single board you can plug in 4, 8 or 16 compute modules.
Decisions, decisions.
I could vote for:
1. the candidate with the biggest balls
or
2. the wimpy candidate who is a proven liar
I think I'll vote for the candidate with the biggest balls because, the alternative of voting for Trump is unacceptable.
> Plus she has shown her vagina in magazines for money.
Owwwwww! My eyes! It hurts! It burns! I don't want to see that!
Forget the toupee. The real trick is to use the right spray on tan so that you look like Cheeto Face himself.
Yes. That. And let's not talk about marriage. Let's talk about far more basic things like whether homosexuals should be allowed to have employment. Or be allowed to rent an apartment. The fact is, that disagreement usually does equal hate. Usually enough that the exception is so rare that you could just say it does equal.
Quite a few comments that nobody would want to run along side Trump. And they are all right.
But there's another thing.
Trump wouldn't want to run with anyone who might be able to moderate his inflamatory style and firehose of insults.
It is a RENTAL. Period.
The only difference is whether it's a short term rental, like 48 hours or somesuch, or a long term rental for a few years until: "we are discontinuing our DRM servers". Or try this: "our licensing with the content provider has changed, and what you bought, you can no longer watch.".
Unless you can download a DRM free copy that you can play on any of your devices, then you didn't really BUY anything.
And if you did buy a downloadable DRM free copy, then you already don't have any problem with your immediate household members being able to 'access' the content.
Will people ever learn. There was Microsoft's "Plays For Sure". Which was then discontinued, and everyone's 'purchased' content became locked to their devices -- which probably don't work any longer. Then there was Zune, and the same fate for all of your 'purchased' content. Certain Disney content on Amazon which people had purchased became unplayable because Disney had new exclusive licensing for some of that content that people had previously purchased. And Amazon has 'disappeared' content from devices before, in one instance because Amazon realized that they didn't have a license to 'sell' it to you in the first place.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-...
This explains it perfectly.
Who knew?
(and even if I had known, who cares?)
If you're gonna make a malware app, and if you're gonna make it pretend to be three things, then why not change what three things it pretends to, and simply call your app GooFaceTwit.
When the Fire Phone was announced, I watched the presentation video live. I thought the tech was interesting. But then I began to notice something as they demoed more and more features of the phone.
Everything about the phone is designed to sell me something. Constantly. Always. In my face.
Hey, Amazon. Here's a free clue. From a customer who actually likes to purchase things through Amazon.
The reason I buy a smart phone and a tablet: TO IMPROVE MY QUALITY OF LIFE.
NOT to serve as your advertising billboard.
Here is a follow on problem that develops from that. Since I therefore use Android, not fire phone, since the purpose of a smartphone is to improve my life, I naturally have a number of video apps. Netflix. Hulu. HBO. PBS. Others. And . . . I have Prime Video with Starz.
BUT . . . in an anticompetitive move, Amazon won't put its video as an Android app in the Google Play store. So I can watch it on my Roku. But not on much else.
I also own a Chromecast. When Amazon introduced the Fire Stick, Amazon stopped selling Chromecasts. And since Amazon Video doesn't have an app on Android, it also doesn't work on Chromecast. This is a strong disincentive for me to pay for Amazon Prime video or Starz. Amazon: you've ruined my trust in order to try to sell me a Fire Stick that I don't need, don't want, and all the while, I am *already* a subscriber to Prime video and Starz. What a dumb move. Make me lose trust in your entire business in order to boost the Fire Stick? Really?
BTW, I hate monopolists or wannabe monopolists.
To Bolster Skype?
Surely you mean that Microsoft is actually doing this to bolder Google Hangouts Video?
That is what I started using when Skype was acquired by Microsoft. Skype support on Linux was already 2nd rate. Hangouts has first class video call support on Linux, Android and other platforms I use.
I find myself skeptical. What about Microsoft's "forced install" culture?
It might just be all about money. Apple has it. They want some.
Patent trolling works both ways? Who knew!
The artists will only get a share if it is negative. It is a cost that artists must help fund. If it is positive, then it will be eaten up by "fees" called "Hollywood Accounting" and the artists get nothing.
Executive says: Facebook will be a waste of time in five years.
(but isn't it already?)
Caldera would seem to be irrelevant. Someone wrote the header files long before Caldera or the Canopy group ever existed. Who wrote the original header files would be the moment copyright existed. (Although I believe copyright law was revised, IIRC, in 1978? And that is when copyright became automatic at the moment of creation?) I'm not sure how publishing a copyrighted API, or even a complete implementation of the API would make copyright go away. Especially in the eyes of copyright owners and courts today where copyright seems to trump everything else, free speech, due process, the 4th, 5th and other constitutional amendments, and maybe even international law.
I think it is a shame that Microsoft did not buy Yahoo back in 2008.
The technical clash would have been one thing. (Would Microsoft insist they use all IIS and Windows OS for the servers? What about Exchange for handling email?)
But the cultural clash would have been something else entirely. Something we would still be talking about today if it had happened.
And yes, it would likely have destroyed Microsoft, and also not fixed any of Yahoo's actual problems.
I must respectfully disagree with you about the stability of Microsoft Windows.
I think a Windows-based box would be able to remain running for at least long enough to start nagging you to upgrade to Windows 10!
then I could have agreed with you. If the copy is not readable, then nobody can enjoy it.
Who would have ever thought that re-implementing an API would be copyright infringement.
Question: how many times has the Standard C Library API been implemented? How many different implementations?
Another thought . . .
Who owns the copyright on the API to the Standard C Library? Oh, wait. He's dead Jim.
But did he assign the copyright rights to anyone? Nope. Why? Because at that time nobody ever believe we would live in a world insane enough for anyone to even hint that copyright should apply to APIs.
So his estate must own the copyright to the Standard C Library API. Oh, I think I smell money and lawsuits! Hey, Lawyers, look over here!
Oracle just got slapped by the same Judge Alsup who smacked down SCO. BTW, SCO vs IBM started in March 6, 2003 is still ongoing, in a walking zombie sort of way.
Here's how.
Add sugary additive features that make certain things become super easy. And particularly if they can somehow tie you in to Microsoft's prison camp, or "walled garden" in other ways.
Then, the marketing . . .
Use new Microsoft FreeBSD which has been fully EMBRACED by Microsoft. Unlike all those other inferior FreeBSD's, Microsoft's FreeBSD has been EXTENDED with super duper extra addictively delicious features. Our product is so good and so popular that it will EXTINGUISH the competition. Try it today! The first hit is FREE!
What if the kids were only using it to hook up with people in order to do homework together?
Do you see that big word MAJORITY in there? That means there are parts of the kernel that Microsoft is keeping closed source to themselves.
That is the classic, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. We're to the Extend part right now. It has been extended with proprietary extensions that are not given back to the community.