I've got pictures in my wallet that were printed almost 8 years ago and they're still fresh. Done on a Lexmark, which I still have.
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The Empeg URL is still up, but the company's long gone (wonder where Hugo went).
Empeg did just that: build a formal DIN sized Linux system that had as main aim playing MP3s. The platform was basically overengineered (well done;-) so it should have had plenty spare capacity to add features or, alternatively, maybe time for a hardware upgrade to bring it out again. It worked, and I was personally quite sad to see it go.
If anything, THAT's the kind of stuff I'd like to see in kit form;-).
I have had a time where I had to work with computers set up in either AZERTY or QWERTY, and due to some, um, less intelligent KVM setup it wasn't necessarily true that the system with QWERTY was actually configured for QWERTY either.
You get used to all of that, takes a couple of weeks. Getting used to Windows, on the other hand.
Hmm, I don't have a problem with that service - I have some domains that auto-renew and some I want to think about. Works for me, and has for years...
I think your point is that they don't make it terribly obvious, but you get a reminder telling you what's going to happen 90, 60 and 30 days before it actually takes place so what more can they do?;-)
Do a Google on "Cutter" and "Orwell school" - they've been smart because for some apps you need Windows - all the rest is done via Terminal Servers (note to OpenOffice: why is your memory footprint so much larger than StarOffice?).
There is far, far more happening out there than the UK Government seems to know - I wonder when they finally try and spend some money efficiently and emulate what the Spanish did. Could be a new concept: actual *efficient* use of tax money...
The fine is not the biggest part of the profit made by Governments. Insurance companies *LOVE* speeding fines because it allows them to charge you more for what is principally not an increased risk (your rate of accidents is actually a more reliable indicator).
Who wins? The insurance company as well as the government because a part of that increase is tax.
That's why speeding fines and abuse of the system is here to stay.
Compare the ease of use of a standard Linux logon in, say, KDE and the way that interacts with root level with the mess that you get with a low privilege account under Windows and it doesn't surprise me nobody uses it.
You can let your granny loose on KDE with little instruction, to set her up as LUE under Windows would invoke such a barrage of support calls it would be a simply insane choice.
I guess it's another one for the "Gut the facts" campaign..
I find the assumption that the act of copying a DVD is automatically a deed of piracy a little bit far fetched, however much it's implied in press statements.
There's more to making a backup of your favourite movie (I'm assuming it's yours here) - it's also taking care of the classic high speed technology evolution.
Think about the first CDROM drives, they were single speed. Then double, quad and higher speeds came out, I think at present 52x appears to be the most common. DVD drives are already following that same ramp up.
Now picture what is happening to your CD collection - old games you bought in the 2x..4x speed era will be spun round at speeds well in excess of what the disk was rated at. Result: the CD will shatter through centrifugal forces (it happened to me - how d'you think I found out ?;-).
There is no reason to suspect that DVD drives won't go the same route, especially since they are also used as a data medium, so you will need to copy them to preserve your existing investment.
I like the whole idea, but for a whlly different reason.
The next time you find out your kids have been fed crap (as witnessed in the UK recently by the fights celebrity cook Jamie Oliver had to put up to get decent food introduced) you have a nice, clean, court admissable track record.
Ah, liability. That school obviously still has a *lot* to learn about tracking - it cuts both ways.
(and no, I would never track my child - how else can you teach what trust is about?)
I mean, how is this providing a consistent cell phone service across the US? It's IMHO a consumers' nightmare because instead of open competition you simple have multiple lock-ins to choose from.
That's not real choice IMHO, but then again I don't live there. Maybe there's some hidden benefit that I don't see?
They could have said "reaches saturation point", but that doesn't make a sellable/clickable headline.
Let's not forget that is
a) 80 million, only assisted with a single ad and word of mouth b) 80 million, DESPITE a pre-installed, um, "alternative" c) 80 million that saw those features first that may or may not make it into IE7. Note that IE had been going stale for lack of competition - natural consequence of the MS approach to, um, "innovation". d) 80 million that are not exposed to the bad and insecure excuse for a coding platform that is ActiveX. e) 80 million that don't care on which platform they browse, which together with OpenOffice represents a good 90% of the end user community.
Now, the last one is where the threat to MS resides. Usability is very rapidly dissappearing as a distinguishing factor.
Just think about it: to which extend can you abuse consumers? To the point where they discover they don't like the product.
At that point the bottom will fall out of the market.
Proof: see what DVD players sell best: those with zone restrictions or those without. The irony is that that does not happen because of piracy (pirated DVD appear to be generally set to zone 0 so zone selection is irrelevant) but because of legitimate purchases made elsewhere in the world.
So, in summary, let them progress down this route. Eventually the market will die as alternatives pick up the revenue.
As an example: how many of you buy protected contents or media in non-Open formats?
I have looked at pirated DVDs and they are indeed not worth the money - if you're in a country with sane media prices. If they really, really, really wanted to address piracy all they need to do is become more sensible with the prices, that has already proved to work (hello MS, are you listening?). The increase in revenue more than offsets the expenditure they have to put in on lobbying, researching formats that don't work or get broken in a rainy weekend by a couple of bored teenagers.
Hell, it'll probably even keep them in cocaine and limos.
There isn't a heaving hope in hell I'll ever agree to an approach that is based on labelling me a criminal and trying to curtail what I do accordingly.
I buy CDs. I borrow CDs but don't keep a copy because I fundamentally disagree with theft - simply because I agree that the creator should get paid. It's especially that reason that pushes me towards buying MP3s because it prevents certain vendors locking market access to creators as with CDs and DVDs.
But by spending the money I acquire the right to listen, and I should be left with the choice through which medium. MP3 and other open formats allow that - DRM won't. And I most certainly don't want any vendor putting an arbitrary timebomb under my paid collection. What is the DRM core key fails? What if the DRM provider goes bust and the keys time out? How would I get compensated? Somehow I don't see any insurance covering such a loss.
As long as I have been looking at Trusted Computing it's been too much focused on Distrusted Clients. I can't invest any "Trust" in something I don't control.
BTW, it's also the only way to reconcile an enforced corporate suffering of/barf/ Outlook and more sane programs like Evolution (slooow) and kmail (not quite as pretty) or pine (good for SSH on slow dialups;-).
With an IMAP backend you can try it all without tying yourself into one format - that's Open Standards for you!
I've been looking on the Microsoft site to get an idea of security accreditations, but it's impossible to find. Does anyone have a link to what version of MS has passed which accreditation (and in what way, because I'm not impressed with the NT C2 rating)"
I know this may look like a strange jump, bear with me;-)
(1) the IDN "bug" isn't actually a bug - it's an abuse of multilingual facilities although I'd have to ask why a new character ID should be used for something that looks identical to something in English. But I digress.
(2) that IE isn't sensitve to the problem is bacsue it's behind in standards compliance. Not an unusual situation for MS when it comes to standards that aren't theirs, it just sits lower on their priority list. Now pay attention because this where it gets interesting.
(3) given that support for IDN at MS is still in its infancy, doesn't that imply that Windows code in general is a bit ignorant about the non-English world "out there"? Or, read in a different way, that MS code is actually incapable of rendering some international URLs correctly?
In summary - if MS can't really handle other languages it implies their search engine is unlikely to act differently - it implies the search engine wouldn't even be able to handle or present URLs in other charactersets, and presto, that part of the wordl doesn't exist according to MS.
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I've got pictures in my wallet that were printed almost 8 years ago and they're still fresh. Done on a Lexmark, which I still have.
The Empeg URL is still up, but the company's long gone (wonder where Hugo went).
;-) so it should have had plenty spare capacity to add features or, alternatively, maybe time for a hardware upgrade to bring it out again. It worked, and I was personally quite sad to see it go.
;-).
Empeg did just that: build a formal DIN sized Linux system that had as main aim playing MP3s. The platform was basically overengineered (well done
If anything, THAT's the kind of stuff I'd like to see in kit form
that should have ended with {grin}, but the anti HTML filter stripped it ..
I have had a time where I had to work with computers set up in either AZERTY or QWERTY, and due to some, um, less intelligent KVM setup it wasn't necessarily true that the system with QWERTY was actually configured for QWERTY either.
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You get used to all of that, takes a couple of weeks. Getting used to Windows, on the other hand
Hmm, I don't have a problem with that service - I have some domains that auto-renew and some I want to think about. Works for me, and has for years...
;-)
I think your point is that they don't make it terribly obvious, but you get a reminder telling you what's going to happen 90, 60 and 30 days before it actually takes place so what more can they do?
Do a Google on "Cutter" and "Orwell school" - they've been smart because for some apps you need Windows - all the rest is done via Terminal Servers (note to OpenOffice: why is your memory footprint so much larger than StarOffice?).
The Ubuntu lot have a link into the SchoolTool efforts of Mark Shuttleworth, and anyone who's followed the FLOSS in Government trails will know about the fantastic work that has taken place in the Extramadura region in Spain. Link to all the presentations.
There is far, far more happening out there than the UK Government seems to know - I wonder when they finally try and spend some money efficiently and emulate what the Spanish did. Could be a new concept: actual *efficient* use of tax money...
That looks like good points for the US here, but AFAIK not valid for the UK and the EU. Anyone else any insight?
The fine is not the biggest part of the profit made by Governments. Insurance companies *LOVE* speeding fines because it allows them to charge you more for what is principally not an increased risk (your rate of accidents is actually a more reliable indicator).
Who wins? The insurance company as well as the government because a part of that increase is tax.
That's why speeding fines and abuse of the system is here to stay.
Compare the ease of use of a standard Linux logon in, say, KDE and the way that interacts with root level with the mess that you get with a low privilege account under Windows and it doesn't surprise me nobody uses it.
You can let your granny loose on KDE with little instruction, to set her up as LUE under Windows would invoke such a barrage of support calls it would be a simply insane choice.
I guess it's another one for the "Gut the facts" campaign..
I find the assumption that the act of copying a DVD is automatically a deed of piracy a little bit far fetched, however much it's implied in press statements.
;-).
There's more to making a backup of your favourite movie (I'm assuming it's yours here) - it's also taking care of the classic high speed technology evolution.
Think about the first CDROM drives, they were single speed. Then double, quad and higher speeds came out, I think at present 52x appears to be the most common. DVD drives are already following that same ramp up.
Now picture what is happening to your CD collection - old games you bought in the 2x..4x speed era will be spun round at speeds well in excess of what the disk was rated at. Result: the CD will shatter through centrifugal forces (it happened to me - how d'you think I found out ?
There is no reason to suspect that DVD drives won't go the same route, especially since they are also used as a data medium, so you will need to copy them to preserve your existing investment.
Now tell me what is illegal about that.
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I like the whole idea, but for a whlly different reason.
The next time you find out your kids have been fed crap (as witnessed in the UK recently by the fights celebrity cook Jamie Oliver had to put up to get decent food introduced) you have a nice, clean, court admissable track record.
Ah, liability. That school obviously still has a *lot* to learn about tracking - it cuts both ways.
(and no, I would never track my child - how else can you teach what trust is about?)
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I mean, how is this providing a consistent cell phone service across the US? It's IMHO a consumers' nightmare because instead of open competition you simple have multiple lock-ins to choose from.
That's not real choice IMHO, but then again I don't live there. Maybe there's some hidden benefit that I don't see?
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So, I partially agree with you (quite a bit costs money) - and am actually busy doing something about it.
Give me two more months and there will be much fun to be had - do not underestimate the power of your own voice.
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They could have said "reaches saturation point", but that doesn't make a sellable/clickable headline.
Let's not forget that is
a) 80 million, only assisted with a single ad and word of mouth
b) 80 million, DESPITE a pre-installed, um, "alternative"
c) 80 million that saw those features first that may or may not make it into IE7. Note that IE had been going stale for lack of competition - natural consequence of the MS approach to, um, "innovation".
d) 80 million that are not exposed to the bad and insecure excuse for a coding platform that is ActiveX.
e) 80 million that don't care on which platform they browse, which together with OpenOffice represents a good 90% of the end user community.
Now, the last one is where the threat to MS resides. Usability is very rapidly dissappearing as a distinguishing factor.
Thanks, that was *really* funny ;-).
'nuf said ;-)
.. or any other medication for conditions that alter the sound of your voice.
Yawn. Move along, just another dotcom idea lying on teh floor, nothing to see..
Just think about it: to which extend can you abuse consumers? To the point where they discover they don't like the product.
At that point the bottom will fall out of the market.
Proof: see what DVD players sell best: those with zone restrictions or those without. The irony is that that does not happen because of piracy (pirated DVD appear to be generally set to zone 0 so zone selection is irrelevant) but because of legitimate purchases made elsewhere in the world.
So, in summary, let them progress down this route. Eventually the market will die as alternatives pick up the revenue.
As an example: how many of you buy protected contents or media in non-Open formats?
I have looked at pirated DVDs and they are indeed not worth the money - if you're in a country with sane media prices. If they really, really, really wanted to address piracy all they need to do is become more sensible with the prices, that has already proved to work (hello MS, are you listening?). The increase in revenue more than offsets the expenditure they have to put in on lobbying, researching formats that don't work or get broken in a rainy weekend by a couple of bored teenagers.
Hell, it'll probably even keep them in cocaine and limos.
I'll forward it to some people I know at IBM - good question IMHO.
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Yes - got one. Honest. And it keeps growing and stuff, all by itself. No reboot required. ;-)
There isn't a heaving hope in hell I'll ever agree to an approach that is based on labelling me a criminal and trying to curtail what I do accordingly.
;-).
I buy CDs. I borrow CDs but don't keep a copy because I fundamentally disagree with theft - simply because I agree that the creator should get paid. It's especially that reason that pushes me towards buying MP3s because it prevents certain vendors locking market access to creators as with CDs and DVDs.
But by spending the money I acquire the right to listen, and I should be left with the choice through which medium. MP3 and other open formats allow that - DRM won't. And I most certainly don't want any vendor putting an arbitrary timebomb under my paid collection. What is the DRM core key fails? What if the DRM provider goes bust and the keys time out? How would I get compensated? Somehow I don't see any insurance covering such a loss.
As long as I have been looking at Trusted Computing it's been too much focused on Distrusted Clients. I can't invest any "Trust" in something I don't control.
EOR (End Of Rant
BTW, it's also the only way to reconcile an enforced corporate suffering of /barf/ Outlook and more sane programs like Evolution (slooow) and kmail (not quite as pretty) or pine (good for SSH on slow dialups ;-).
With an IMAP backend you can try it all without tying yourself into one format - that's Open Standards for you!
It means I'll be playing that tune all the time, for anyone to hear.
Some people have just *way* too much time and money..
I've been looking on the Microsoft site to get an idea of security accreditations, but it's impossible to find. Does anyone have a link to what version of MS has passed which accreditation (and in what way, because I'm not impressed with the NT C2 rating)"
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I know this may look like a strange jump, bear with me ;-)
;-).
(1) the IDN "bug" isn't actually a bug - it's an abuse of multilingual facilities although I'd have to ask why a new character ID should be used for something that looks identical to something in English. But I digress.
(2) that IE isn't sensitve to the problem is bacsue it's behind in standards compliance. Not an unusual situation for MS when it comes to standards that aren't theirs, it just sits lower on their priority list. Now pay attention because this where it gets interesting.
(3) given that support for IDN at MS is still in its infancy, doesn't that imply that Windows code in general is a bit ignorant about the non-English world "out there"? Or, read in a different way, that MS code is actually incapable of rendering some international URLs correctly?
In summary - if MS can't really handle other languages it implies their search engine is unlikely to act differently - it implies the search engine wouldn't even be able to handle or present URLs in other charactersets, and presto, that part of the wordl doesn't exist according to MS.
Just an idea - tell me where I've gone wrong
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