I am against any technology that locks you into a content distribution channel. As far as I know, Apple is the biggest offender in this regards. At least I don't have to ask Google for permission to write my own app for my own TV.
I'm glad to know I'm not crazy. I also have to use a mac from time to time at work, and everything about it just seems so unproductive to me. Given that it's touted as the pinnacle of user design, I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me for not being able to see it that way. I especially love the super sleek mouse our designer uses. It's so sleek, symmetrical, and wireless, you can't even tell which way is front until you notice your cursor movement is inverted or not! (I could go on and on with similar examples, but I really should get back to work, rather than diving into a long rant...)
I am no command-line snob. I really appreciate a good UI that stays out of my way and lets me get my job done quickly and efficiently. I am all for the values Apple is going for in their products. I just don't think macs hold up to that standard is all.
Last I checked, the major players in the global financial network have actual power. And most central/federal governments, too.
Only the people have the actual power. Financiers, governments, crackers, drug cartels, religions, etc. exist solely at the will of the people.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
--Noam Chomsky
The will of the people is irrelevant when that will can be shaped through effective propaganda.
The only way to get our power back now is to fight for a free and open internet. The powers that be know this, and will continue to fight against us under the guise of "anti piracy". Do not be fooled, these people are not stupid. They are quite aware that lost sales through piracy is negligible to their bottom line. The real loss to them is the total control over the distribution channels, and thus, control over the national dialog of opinion.
Redesigned is one thing, but the new start menu is less efficient, requiring more clicks and more mouse movement to accomplish the same tasks. So yes, I, and many others, take issue with that.
Source: Typing this message on Windows 8 Consumer Preview
The "modern" Kolibri OS is written in assembly and fits on a floppy. Assembly is the way to go. Just kidding. WHAT do you recommend as a modern language we should all learn?
AC does not know what it talking about. XCode is a joy to use.
I personally can't stand it, but I think it really just comes down to what your used to. I've work with KDevelop, Eclipse, and VS, all of which I find at least tolerable. I just couldn't get used to XCode though. The editor is not as advanced IMHO, with things like text selection, auto formatting, and cursor placement/tabbing while writing code. Code re-factoring also leaves much to be desired. I will concede the "wonky" windowing behavior is just because I'm not used to using a Mac, but at the very least, it seemed more difficult to get custom views and perspectives to work the way you want them to. Eclipse is probably the best for that last one, which is why I usually go with that, provided it has an extension for the language/tooling I'm using at the time.
Not only that, but if you want to develop on iOS, you have the choice of... Obj-C.
That is not at all true, you can use C#, Ruby, Javascript, and other languages also...
Indeed. We develop for iOS in Actionscript even. True story.
Language choice is becoming largely irrelevant. It's all about the end build target these days. IMHO, It's better to build your core architecture in a platform agnostic way, and then extend it into specific UI / hardware implementations as needed.
Anonymous is anyone and everyone, don't label them so quickly.
Yeah... but the culture tends to attract the script kiddies. Most of the "hackers" I know could care less about a totally 1337 circle jerk, like Anonymous tends to identify as on a whole. I think it's pretty safe to say if someone identifies themselves as a "member of Anonymous", they are probably a script kiddie. Real hackers just don't care about labels like that. They are more interested in what they are doing than what people think about what they are doing.
This may be the wrong audience for that argument. I for one, would have a much easier time changing some bits than pulling a rabbit out of my hat. I think it's fair to say that there is no such thing as total security, digital or otherwise.
This was exactly my point (granted, I suppose an unanswered rhetorical question is not the best way to make a point).
The problem is not an engineering one, it's a political one. The development eco system in Linux is much more conducive to a repo than the windows eco system. Developers of proprietary windows apps are used to having full control over their application's deployment, and I think it would be difficult to get them to change, short of an Apple-esque ban hammer on apps loaded from outside a centrally controlled repo. OSx Isn't there yet, but it seems like that's the direction they're going. iOS is already there. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing.
What is stopping people from writing similar software for windows? This is not an engineering problem. Those repositories exist because someone was able to convince a bunch of developers to publish their work on it. The programming is trivial.
Why was parent modded down? I too am someone who has I hard time deriving meaning from a subjective pictograph. Sure , they can be recognized quickly once familiar, but i don't think it is an efficient way to convey information to someone who is not already familiar with it. Regardless, a disagreement of opinion is not grounds for a negative mod... but what do i know, I have a 5 million digit ID, or something like that.
Well then I would call that 50 year old black person a bigot as well (note: I intentionally did not use the word "racist").
Anyways, I'm sure it wasn't your intention to be a bigot. I just thought it was odd that you segmented your population by music choice in order to frame your argument, and I can be a bit snarky after a couple glasses of Scotch. At the very least, it was poor science.
Your argument falls on deaf ears for those who believe a profit model should not be dictated through law, but rather an ability to provide continued value to a target market. Face it, the music distribution business is dead. Only the artists are creating value, and that value will persist with or without copyright. Do not be fooled, only the business to sit between the artist and consumer is dead. Art in itself is very much alive and thriving.
Astroturf? Did you actually read the entire post? Paranoid assholes like you are far worse than any Astroturfer, paid poster, or whatever the fuck gay net-lingo you want to use. Sad too, because for the past 15 years I considered you one of the sane ones around here. Look in the mirror and see the dickhead you've become.
In his defense, it seemed like an a astroturf to me too, and i would consider myself to be a very perceptive person. I think us autistics (although only slightly in my case) are pretty keen on picking up unusual behavioral patterns within a population. At least that is to say, the post indicated a belief that the poster did not in fact believe to be true.
I think the GP made a valid point though. Can you condone piracy while being against printing counterfeit money? It seems like both are victimless crimes on the individual scale, with large consequences to the status quo when carried out in a large scale.
Disclaimer: I am a pirate and against the principle of a copyright, but also like playing devils advocate.
Because you couldn't come up with my sequence of 0s and 1s without me. If you want to break it down that way why should someone get copyright on a book just because it is a sequence of black dots that make up things we recognize as letters. Or paintings because they are just splashes of different pigments on a wall.
Copyright wasn't created to sustain the creation of art. It wasn't (and still isn't) about making sure the artist gets rewarded for the effort. It was, and still is, about rewarding those entrepreneurs who are willing to take the risk of copying those works and distributing the copies. Creating art was never the expensive part. Making copies so that society could enjoy the art was. Today that is no longer true. No one needs an incentive to distribute the works, people will do it for free. Copyright is an anachronism. The behavior, it was created to promote, now happens automatically and without intervention of any kind. Copyright has outlived the purpose for which it was created, and now serves only to prevent the very activity it was supposed to promote. Ask yourself, if there was no copyright, would society as a whole be better off going forward? The answer is absolutely yes. Artists don't create works for money, they create works because they can't help themselves. They will continue to do it even if they are not paid to do so because it is a part of who they are. If you want to do something good for society, figure out how to make sure that artists get the food, shelter, and tools they need to create, and let the internet worry about how to get those finished products into the hands of the people. That will make the world a better place.
-=Geoskd
This is a beautiful and well written comment on the root of the IP property debate. I hope it will be modded higher than 2 when i come back to it and read it again, and again.
No it is pretty obvious that/. is getting astroturfed.
Anytime that you see a first post with the same time stamp as the story it is a shill. The same exact shill, he seems to have a friend on the inside or something.
I didn't want to believe it at first, but this man speaks the truth. There seems to be a lot of shilling going on right now. I don't know if it's always been this way, or if this is a new phenomena, but it's starting to become very apparent and easy to spot. I read differing opinions here all the time, and don't think anything about it, but a shill comment stands out like a blink tag at 4 in the morning. It is just so blatantly obvious that I'm offended at the implication; I am to stupid to know the difference.
Just make sure you don't call one of them out, or you will get modded all to hell (although it may of had to do with the VS bashing I threw on top for comedic effect... meh).
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I am against any technology that locks you into a content distribution channel. As far as I know, Apple is the biggest offender in this regards. At least I don't have to ask Google for permission to write my own app for my own TV.
I'm glad to know I'm not crazy. I also have to use a mac from time to time at work, and everything about it just seems so unproductive to me. Given that it's touted as the pinnacle of user design, I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me for not being able to see it that way. I especially love the super sleek mouse our designer uses. It's so sleek, symmetrical, and wireless, you can't even tell which way is front until you notice your cursor movement is inverted or not! (I could go on and on with similar examples, but I really should get back to work, rather than diving into a long rant...)
I am no command-line snob. I really appreciate a good UI that stays out of my way and lets me get my job done quickly and efficiently. I am all for the values Apple is going for in their products. I just don't think macs hold up to that standard is all.
Because AppleTV has Netflix, Vimeo, Youtube already there?
Yeah... for as long as Apple allows it. The point is, the choice is theirs, not yours.
Last I checked, the major players in the global financial network have actual power. And most central/federal governments, too.
Only the people have the actual power. Financiers, governments, crackers, drug cartels, religions, etc. exist solely at the will of the people.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
--Noam Chomsky
The will of the people is irrelevant when that will can be shaped through effective propaganda.
The only way to get our power back now is to fight for a free and open internet. The powers that be know this, and will continue to fight against us under the guise of "anti piracy". Do not be fooled, these people are not stupid. They are quite aware that lost sales through piracy is negligible to their bottom line. The real loss to them is the total control over the distribution channels, and thus, control over the national dialog of opinion.
Redesigned is one thing, but the new start menu is less efficient, requiring more clicks and more mouse movement to accomplish the same tasks. So yes, I, and many others, take issue with that.
Source: Typing this message on Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Yes, but only to say what IP should be used when resolving a DNS lookup. Unless I'm mistaken, you can't use it for IP routes.
Assembly.
The "modern" Kolibri OS is written in assembly and fits on a floppy. Assembly is the way to go. Just kidding. WHAT do you recommend as a modern language we should all learn?
HTML5! (sarcasm... mixed with a little vomit)
AC does not know what it talking about. XCode is a joy to use.
I personally can't stand it, but I think it really just comes down to what your used to. I've work with KDevelop, Eclipse, and VS, all of which I find at least tolerable. I just couldn't get used to XCode though. The editor is not as advanced IMHO, with things like text selection, auto formatting, and cursor placement/tabbing while writing code. Code re-factoring also leaves much to be desired. I will concede the "wonky" windowing behavior is just because I'm not used to using a Mac, but at the very least, it seemed more difficult to get custom views and perspectives to work the way you want them to. Eclipse is probably the best for that last one, which is why I usually go with that, provided it has an extension for the language/tooling I'm using at the time.
Not only that, but if you want to develop on iOS, you have the choice of... Obj-C.
That is not at all true, you can use C#, Ruby, Javascript, and other languages also...
Indeed. We develop for iOS in Actionscript even. True story.
Language choice is becoming largely irrelevant. It's all about the end build target these days. IMHO, It's better to build your core architecture in a platform agnostic way, and then extend it into specific UI / hardware implementations as needed.
And don't forget to update your hosts file to block their activation / DRM servers. ;)
Anonymous is anyone and everyone, don't label them so quickly.
Yeah... but the culture tends to attract the script kiddies. Most of the "hackers" I know could care less about a totally 1337 circle jerk, like Anonymous tends to identify as on a whole. I think it's pretty safe to say if someone identifies themselves as a "member of Anonymous", they are probably a script kiddie. Real hackers just don't care about labels like that. They are more interested in what they are doing than what people think about what they are doing.
This may be the wrong audience for that argument. I for one, would have a much easier time changing some bits than pulling a rabbit out of my hat. I think it's fair to say that there is no such thing as total security, digital or otherwise.
This was exactly my point (granted, I suppose an unanswered rhetorical question is not the best way to make a point).
The problem is not an engineering one, it's a political one. The development eco system in Linux is much more conducive to a repo than the windows eco system. Developers of proprietary windows apps are used to having full control over their application's deployment, and I think it would be difficult to get them to change, short of an Apple-esque ban hammer on apps loaded from outside a centrally controlled repo. OSx Isn't there yet, but it seems like that's the direction they're going. iOS is already there. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing.
Another option is to use a Shim or a Poly Fill as a transitional to HTML5. It's a bit of a pain, but it helps abstract out the browser support a bit.
What about the webkit and moz prefixes? It's not just MS this time I'm afraid. I curse Adobe for this madness!
What is stopping people from writing similar software for windows? This is not an engineering problem. Those repositories exist because someone was able to convince a bunch of developers to publish their work on it. The programming is trivial.
Why was parent modded down? I too am someone who has I hard time deriving meaning from a subjective pictograph. Sure , they can be recognized quickly once familiar, but i don't think it is an efficient way to convey information to someone who is not already familiar with it. Regardless, a disagreement of opinion is not grounds for a negative mod... but what do i know, I have a 5 million digit ID, or something like that.
Well then I would call that 50 year old black person a bigot as well (note: I intentionally did not use the word "racist").
Anyways, I'm sure it wasn't your intention to be a bigot. I just thought it was odd that you segmented your population by music choice in order to frame your argument, and I can be a bit snarky after a couple glasses of Scotch. At the very least, it was poor science.
Your argument falls on deaf ears for those who believe a profit model should not be dictated through law, but rather an ability to provide continued value to a target market. Face it, the music distribution business is dead. Only the artists are creating value, and that value will persist with or without copyright. Do not be fooled, only the business to sit between the artist and consumer is dead. Art in itself is very much alive and thriving.
I think your argument would carry more weight if it didn't carry the undertones of a bigot. Just sayin'...
Astroturf? Did you actually read the entire post? Paranoid assholes like you are far worse than any Astroturfer, paid poster, or whatever the fuck gay net-lingo you want to use. Sad too, because for the past 15 years I considered you one of the sane ones around here. Look in the mirror and see the dickhead you've become.
In his defense, it seemed like an a astroturf to me too, and i would consider myself to be a very perceptive person. I think us autistics (although only slightly in my case) are pretty keen on picking up unusual behavioral patterns within a population. At least that is to say, the post indicated a belief that the poster did not in fact believe to be true.
I think the GP made a valid point though. Can you condone piracy while being against printing counterfeit money? It seems like both are victimless crimes on the individual scale, with large consequences to the status quo when carried out in a large scale.
Disclaimer: I am a pirate and against the principle of a copyright, but also like playing devils advocate.
Because you couldn't come up with my sequence of 0s and 1s without me. If you want to break it down that way why should someone get copyright on a book just because it is a sequence of black dots that make up things we recognize as letters. Or paintings because they are just splashes of different pigments on a wall.
Copyright wasn't created to sustain the creation of art. It wasn't (and still isn't) about making sure the artist gets rewarded for the effort. It was, and still is, about rewarding those entrepreneurs who are willing to take the risk of copying those works and distributing the copies. Creating art was never the expensive part. Making copies so that society could enjoy the art was. Today that is no longer true. No one needs an incentive to distribute the works, people will do it for free. Copyright is an anachronism. The behavior, it was created to promote, now happens automatically and without intervention of any kind. Copyright has outlived the purpose for which it was created, and now serves only to prevent the very activity it was supposed to promote. Ask yourself, if there was no copyright, would society as a whole be better off going forward? The answer is absolutely yes. Artists don't create works for money, they create works because they can't help themselves. They will continue to do it even if they are not paid to do so because it is a part of who they are. If you want to do something good for society, figure out how to make sure that artists get the food, shelter, and tools they need to create, and let the internet worry about how to get those finished products into the hands of the people. That will make the world a better place.
-=Geoskd
This is a beautiful and well written comment on the root of the IP property debate. I hope it will be modded higher than 2 when i come back to it and read it again, and again.
Those are some mighty specific statistics for someone who has "been to the local AT&T." It sounds more like you're just talking out your ass.
No it is pretty obvious that /. is getting astroturfed.
Anytime that you see a first post with the same time stamp as the story it is a shill. The same exact shill, he seems to have a friend on the inside or something.
I didn't want to believe it at first, but this man speaks the truth. There seems to be a lot of shilling going on right now. I don't know if it's always been this way, or if this is a new phenomena, but it's starting to become very apparent and easy to spot. I read differing opinions here all the time, and don't think anything about it, but a shill comment stands out like a blink tag at 4 in the morning. It is just so blatantly obvious that I'm offended at the implication; I am to stupid to know the difference.
Just make sure you don't call one of them out, or you will get modded all to hell (although it may of had to do with the VS bashing I threw on top for comedic effect... meh).