I don't think they can go after the makers of BitTorrent clients, especially since some of the big media companies have deals with some of the makers. Did you know that cars are used to smuggle illegal goods across country borders? Some people - criminals, that is - have cars entirely for the purpose of smuggling!
I know pirates. They don't do it only because it's convenient. For example, one network-tech I know bought an Xbox 360, and he modded it the moment he got it. He's making fat cash, yet he doesn't want to pay for a single fucking game. Meanwhile, I have bought every game for my 360 (a lot of arcade titles), and I don't even have time to play the ones I could afford. That's no small pile, mind you.
Another person I know isn't much into games, but can he scrounge up cash for a less-than-$100 invoice program? No fucking way! It's not about convenience. Some people just don't think software is worth paying for, and movies likewise.
P-bay and the like are nice for sampling the entertainment out there, and it's the only option for people outside the US. The nice online viewing services are entirely US-centric (or UK-centric, for the BBC's iPlayer). Getting international ad-revenue shouldn't be hard, as I've been seeing an explosion of Google text-ads for local products/services in the past year. Somebody must have the tech to know where I visit from!
The WebKit CSS extensions added in Mobile Safari are interesting. I wish for people to agree on a version of this for all browsers, as it would replace Flash in at least some areas.
DirectX 4-6 problematic? There was a certain terror named DirectX 2 which I seem to recall Microsoft dropped real fast. It was barely better than what existed for Win3.x, with new and interesting problems.
The second generation of iPod touch has the option to plug in a headset with a microphone, and it also has a speaker. Who cares about the old thing you still lug around?:P
What's wrong with making the middle finger the primary finger for clicking? After all, it's the finger people use the most while driving.
Most people I know aren't even aware of the numeric keypad, and more people have moved completely to laptops without any numpad at all. Their passwords are very often unimaginative dictionary words, though.
You get Ubuntu on CD or DVD, and one or more office packages is included on either.
With even the CD, you can get full OpenOffice and development tools, so there's at least that in Ubuntu's favour. Windows is a gigantic installation which gives you a notepad, some casual games and a file manager, more or less.
Microsoft made admin-mode annoying, so that the users would complain to the makers of the software that annoys them, rather than demanding MS to fix things;)
I wish more people knew the difference between sales in IT and actual IT jobs. Specifically those making job listings, because it isn't much fun going through open positions and finding 90% to be sales, punching in data (come on - this isn't any more IT than a delivery job is a Formula 1 job, just because the vehicle has wheels) or director of sales.
I'm an IT janitor. I fix things. No formal training in most fields (but a few certs I feel have some meaning, and some Mirosoft certs I feel are meaningless), but I still do everything (except maybe DBA-type stuff and art). People with all sorts of levels of competence say I should be able to get jobs with Big Name Companies. This I've tried, skillfully avoiding open source-unfriendly companies (not so many anymore, thank fuck). I rarely hear anything back, so I guess the market is either quite full of people like me, or somebody somewhere is spreading crap about me.
So I said "Fuck it!" and have sort of started on my own, doing the usual things. Helping friends and family here and there (different rates for the stupidly rich!), making webpages (being no designer, I'm happy to work with people who do the design with me before I make the magic happen) and thinking up THE iPhone app everybody will want. I'll get back to you when I figure that out:P
A note about those "available positions": I know for a fact that many of them are fake. Sorry, guys. The big companies are being assholes. They are required by law to post all open positions and take in people for interviews in some countries, but they have really writen some of the positions with specific employees already in mind. It's a frickin' scam. I know IBM did it, I know the ISPs sometimes do it (and enjoy temps they can easily shed, rather than actual employees).
To hell with all that! No boss hanging over me now, and I can sleep till noon before I code away/spit out some hawt CSS/fix somebody's printer. Not getting rich yet, but I have some backup money until luck turns.
iTunes has this feature where it can play other computers' music collection, so I guess that is why it needs Bonjour.
But yes, the Windows ports of iTunes and QuickTime are indeed *terrible*. I'd love it if they actually coded it over as a plugin-based architecture. No need to include the whole stack of protocols from Darwin.
At least Bonjour is open source. Maybe you can code up a stub API which does nothing;)
If the axe-heads and whatever (they say "tools", plural, so I assume there was more) have holes roughly appropriate for a handle, they have a good chance of being actual tools. The article was lacking in pictures, though.
I don't understand the hatred for Bonjour. It's a discovery protocol, used by Macs for ages. All it does is to make it possible to find other computers. Adobe seem to be using it in their latest products, so you'll be seeing it more. It's not as if Windows programs historically have been satisfied with just one version of a DLL, anyway;)
Oblivion? Are you sure? The only protection is on-disc, and I've reinstalled every time there was an OS install/upgrade. Maybe you're thinking of BioShock?
No Bethesda games have been annoying in the DRM sense. Fallout 3 doesn't even need the disc. It just crashes randomly:)
Ogg Vorbis HAS succeeded. An enormous number of games use the codec for all sound. It's the default format in major projects like the Unreal Engine, and many equally large and smaller ones.
That could be just like the YouTube viewer on the iPhone OS, if they did it. The browser isn't involved at all, you just browse the content with a special player which gets movie streams instead of Flash.
There's already Netflix on the 360. Still no web browser (and frankly, with an iPod touch, a laptop and several desktop computers, I think the house is browser-saturated).
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I don't think they can go after the makers of BitTorrent clients, especially since some of the big media companies have deals with some of the makers. Did you know that cars are used to smuggle illegal goods across country borders? Some people - criminals, that is - have cars entirely for the purpose of smuggling!
Shitty car-analogy quota fulfilled :P
I know pirates. They don't do it only because it's convenient. For example, one network-tech I know bought an Xbox 360, and he modded it the moment he got it. He's making fat cash, yet he doesn't want to pay for a single fucking game. Meanwhile, I have bought every game for my 360 (a lot of arcade titles), and I don't even have time to play the ones I could afford. That's no small pile, mind you.
Another person I know isn't much into games, but can he scrounge up cash for a less-than-$100 invoice program? No fucking way! It's not about convenience. Some people just don't think software is worth paying for, and movies likewise.
P-bay and the like are nice for sampling the entertainment out there, and it's the only option for people outside the US. The nice online viewing services are entirely US-centric (or UK-centric, for the BBC's iPlayer). Getting international ad-revenue shouldn't be hard, as I've been seeing an explosion of Google text-ads for local products/services in the past year. Somebody must have the tech to know where I visit from!
18 months is more than a computer lifetime these days! (At least warranty-wise ;)
The WebKit CSS extensions added in Mobile Safari are interesting. I wish for people to agree on a version of this for all browsers, as it would replace Flash in at least some areas.
http://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/
DirectX 4-6 problematic? There was a certain terror named DirectX 2 which I seem to recall Microsoft dropped real fast. It was barely better than what existed for Win3.x, with new and interesting problems.
The second generation of iPod touch has the option to plug in a headset with a microphone, and it also has a speaker. Who cares about the old thing you still lug around? :P
What's wrong with making the middle finger the primary finger for clicking? After all, it's the finger people use the most while driving.
Most people I know aren't even aware of the numeric keypad, and more people have moved completely to laptops without any numpad at all. Their passwords are very often unimaginative dictionary words, though.
I know someone who is a leftie and uses the mouse with the left hand. But that kid is not normal; I can't find any porn when I fix his computer.
Your phone does IM? I have to use a VoIP client AND a Jabber-compatible client :(
You get Ubuntu on CD or DVD, and one or more office packages is included on either.
With even the CD, you can get full OpenOffice and development tools, so there's at least that in Ubuntu's favour. Windows is a gigantic installation which gives you a notepad, some casual games and a file manager, more or less.
Microsoft made admin-mode annoying, so that the users would complain to the makers of the software that annoys them, rather than demanding MS to fix things ;)
I wish more people knew the difference between sales in IT and actual IT jobs. Specifically those making job listings, because it isn't much fun going through open positions and finding 90% to be sales, punching in data (come on - this isn't any more IT than a delivery job is a Formula 1 job, just because the vehicle has wheels) or director of sales.
I know the feeling, except that of being 38 ;)
I'm an IT janitor. I fix things. No formal training in most fields (but a few certs I feel have some meaning, and some Mirosoft certs I feel are meaningless), but I still do everything (except maybe DBA-type stuff and art). People with all sorts of levels of competence say I should be able to get jobs with Big Name Companies. This I've tried, skillfully avoiding open source-unfriendly companies (not so many anymore, thank fuck). I rarely hear anything back, so I guess the market is either quite full of people like me, or somebody somewhere is spreading crap about me.
So I said "Fuck it!" and have sort of started on my own, doing the usual things. Helping friends and family here and there (different rates for the stupidly rich!), making webpages (being no designer, I'm happy to work with people who do the design with me before I make the magic happen) and thinking up THE iPhone app everybody will want. I'll get back to you when I figure that out :P
A note about those "available positions": I know for a fact that many of them are fake. Sorry, guys. The big companies are being assholes. They are required by law to post all open positions and take in people for interviews in some countries, but they have really writen some of the positions with specific employees already in mind. It's a frickin' scam. I know IBM did it, I know the ISPs sometimes do it (and enjoy temps they can easily shed, rather than actual employees).
To hell with all that! No boss hanging over me now, and I can sleep till noon before I code away/spit out some hawt CSS/fix somebody's printer. Not getting rich yet, but I have some backup money until luck turns.
iTunes has this feature where it can play other computers' music collection, so I guess that is why it needs Bonjour.
But yes, the Windows ports of iTunes and QuickTime are indeed *terrible*. I'd love it if they actually coded it over as a plugin-based architecture. No need to include the whole stack of protocols from Darwin.
At least Bonjour is open source. Maybe you can code up a stub API which does nothing ;)
If the axe-heads and whatever (they say "tools", plural, so I assume there was more) have holes roughly appropriate for a handle, they have a good chance of being actual tools. The article was lacking in pictures, though.
That's side-effects of meds talking, not science fiction.
Why am I getting ads for biblical Hebrew on this one?
I don't understand the hatred for Bonjour. It's a discovery protocol, used by Macs for ages. All it does is to make it possible to find other computers. Adobe seem to be using it in their latest products, so you'll be seeing it more. It's not as if Windows programs historically have been satisfied with just one version of a DLL, anyway ;)
Oblivion? Are you sure? The only protection is on-disc, and I've reinstalled every time there was an OS install/upgrade. Maybe you're thinking of BioShock?
No Bethesda games have been annoying in the DRM sense. Fallout 3 doesn't even need the disc. It just crashes randomly :)
The first one doesn't need manufacturing, so it's a clear winner :)
Wait...what? Hemp *lube*? I need to lie down while pondering the possibilities!
Ogg Vorbis HAS succeeded. An enormous number of games use the codec for all sound. It's the default format in major projects like the Unreal Engine, and many equally large and smaller ones.
That could be just like the YouTube viewer on the iPhone OS, if they did it. The browser isn't involved at all, you just browse the content with a special player which gets movie streams instead of Flash.
There's already Netflix on the 360. Still no web browser (and frankly, with an iPod touch, a laptop and several desktop computers, I think the house is browser-saturated).
Is your window open? You may have missed a wooshing sound in all the noise from outside ;)
I only noticed the new favicon yesterday. I only noticed the previous one a month ago! I should file that as a cache problem in the browser :)
The new logo is just plain yuk. Took me a while to register what it was, too. I was reaching or my phishing filters, actually.
Not to mention Apple.