The far bigger problem is one of profiting from someone else's copyright where one may upload a piece of a Family Guy episode or the Chronic of Narnia and then derive some profit from the ads before it.
Such an idea is fine and dandy when you are talking about owner generated content, but given how many use YouTube, this just wouldn't work and open up many different people to litigation.
I disagree, most users are not very bright and as such when their PC stops working they'll do just about anything to make it work... whether it be plunk down 100-300 bucks for a copy of windows or even 300-500 for a new Windows based PC.
Sure... they could go to Linux or other open source based systems but the fact that most have never heard of it and just want their PC to work exactly as it did before basically precludes this possibility.
Shame this is a dupe from many months ago and a non-issue.
When it comes to electronic devices such as dvd players, routers, WAP's/etc most people do not care what is under the hood, if it does it's job and does it well then that is all that maters as is the case here.
Apparently you don't know much about print spooling... in short print spoolers tend to play to the lowest common denominator between printers in such a way that images spooled on the desktop end up getting dithered a few times before heading to the printer unless there is some decent software on the system that is designed specially for the printer... and this software isn't always free.
So... rather than force each printer manufacturer to have to build their own high end interface to the PC, Microsoft builds a standard and allows hardware and software makers to target it... kinda sounds like the evil that is DirectX doesn't it? You know, that evil thing that makes games so incompatible with different hardware and configuring your system a nightmare when you change hardware devices, IRQ's or games? Oh right, that doesn't really exist with DirectX anymore... that's how it was before we had a common standard for such applications.
You can really summarize the difference and reason for XPS as the difference between analog or digital... say in display devices. In VGA the monitor is told "this pixel is about this color" while in DVI it is told "this pixel is exactly this color". While in both cases it is up to the end device to decide exactly what will be drawn to the screen and how, DVI is at least providing far more detailed (and more abundant) information with which the display can do it's job.
Which kind of precision would you like to have in your printer?
What you should be questioning is why XPS exists at all.
Those of us who know exactly what XPS is do not question it at all because it is quite clear... despite the lack of seeming malicious intent from Microsoft.
Maybe you too should do some reading on the topic or watch a video.
To follow up on my previous post, if reading to learn more about what XPS isn't your style, take a look at this Channel 9 video from August last year which walked through all of this... maybe then you'll have at least some factual information from which to make a judgment.
Before griping too much, why don't you spend some time and look into what XPS really is and see that while being similar to PDF from a regular unskilled user perspective, the options and features it supplies are widely applicable to many different levels and applications.
How many printers do you know that ship today or will be out within a year allow you to send a raw PDF file to it and have it print as is without any kind of client spooling and image degradation? XPS lets you do that.
Who feels a little... jibbed that after buying one of the larger packages when HL2 came out that they are trying to get you to pay another $20 for Episode 1? Granted I'd love to get it for free, I'm kind of let down that they wont even cut you a deal for it... so I suppose I'll wait until all 3 Episodes are out and hope that they'll have a special package deal for them that doesn't involve buying another copy of HL2.
If you believe that then I await the court cases involving your say... threatening the life of the president, or causing a stampede in a crowded room due to yelling "fire."
You would be free to claim whatever justification you want for it however in the end you would be convicted and said conviction would be upheld on every appeal.
Back in the 2600 case over the DeCSS source code the courts said that it was effectively illegal to link to something illegal.
Since then I've been wondering when the major search engines were going to be sued because they link to illegal content such as child porn and pirated software.
It'll be interesting to see how this pans out and if Google does lose you can surly expect to see others joining in against them and others due to the precedent it sets.
Good God!/.ers today are about as ignorant about politics today as the Diggers were a few days back when most thought it was legal for a US national to travel over seas with the intent of having sex with a minor.
Democratic regime? What are you smoking? The United States is a Federalist Republic... nothing like a democratic system, don't believe me? Think of this... if this country was truly a democracy in any way back in 2000 then Al Gore would have won the presidential election, not George W Bush.
I said at the beginning some of the appropriate channels. The big one is Congress.
Funny thing about Congress... certain members have been kept up to date on these operations since they were first created and yet several of them (most notably Nancy Pelosi) have expressed their outrage about finding out about these programs despite the fact that many knew since late 2001!
You realize that you immediately lost any credibility you might have had by calling me a 'Karl Rovian apologist'.
Gotta love name calling. Tell me though... are you really that sort of hard core left leaner who feels the need to stoop to such a level when you feel that you've got no other option?
That's a nice idea but shouldn't they say... go through more appropriate channels first? If that fails then perhaps leaking would be a little more appropriate.
I guess this means my recently granted patent on "a method of maintaining a patent portfolio for the purpose of litigation and licensing" is never going to work out too well given I won't be able to the sort of injunctions I'd want against my targeted patent houses.
While it would be nice if there was a test or three that a person was required to take in order to do anything online... the fact that anyone is able to buy a PC and plug it into the internet means that there are a lot of... uninformed people out there.
It's the same group that replies to spam messages asking to be removed, purchase from spammers and leaves their PC's connected 24/7 without spending anytime to patch it.
So long as these people exist, nothing should be a surprise as to the effectiveness of phishing and other such areas.
You don't think that NX support within the CPU could help at all?
Sure it's not a complete solution, it is at least another layer of protection to keep users safe and is more than what they had with PPC's... provided they are using it today.
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I knew they were evil.
The far bigger problem is one of profiting from someone else's copyright where one may upload a piece of a Family Guy episode or the Chronic of Narnia and then derive some profit from the ads before it.
Such an idea is fine and dandy when you are talking about owner generated content, but given how many use YouTube, this just wouldn't work and open up many different people to litigation.
I disagree, most users are not very bright and as such when their PC stops working they'll do just about anything to make it work... whether it be plunk down 100-300 bucks for a copy of windows or even 300-500 for a new Windows based PC.
Sure... they could go to Linux or other open source based systems but the fact that most have never heard of it and just want their PC to work exactly as it did before basically precludes this possibility.
Shame this is a dupe from many months ago and a non-issue.
When it comes to electronic devices such as dvd players, routers, WAP's/etc most people do not care what is under the hood, if it does it's job and does it well then that is all that maters as is the case here.
Apparently you don't know much about print spooling... in short print spoolers tend to play to the lowest common denominator between printers in such a way that images spooled on the desktop end up getting dithered a few times before heading to the printer unless there is some decent software on the system that is designed specially for the printer... and this software isn't always free.
So... rather than force each printer manufacturer to have to build their own high end interface to the PC, Microsoft builds a standard and allows hardware and software makers to target it... kinda sounds like the evil that is DirectX doesn't it? You know, that evil thing that makes games so incompatible with different hardware and configuring your system a nightmare when you change hardware devices, IRQ's or games? Oh right, that doesn't really exist with DirectX anymore... that's how it was before we had a common standard for such applications.
You can really summarize the difference and reason for XPS as the difference between analog or digital... say in display devices. In VGA the monitor is told "this pixel is about this color" while in DVI it is told "this pixel is exactly this color". While in both cases it is up to the end device to decide exactly what will be drawn to the screen and how, DVI is at least providing far more detailed (and more abundant) information with which the display can do it's job.
Which kind of precision would you like to have in your printer?
PDF is an open format? That explains why Adobe doesn't fancy the idea of Microsoft including PDF exporting functionality into Office 12!
As for the openness of the XPS... why don't you hop on into the site linked to above and visit the Licensing Overview page.
What you should be questioning is why XPS exists at all.
Those of us who know exactly what XPS is do not question it at all because it is quite clear... despite the lack of seeming malicious intent from Microsoft.
Maybe you too should do some reading on the topic or watch a video.
To follow up on my previous post, if reading to learn more about what XPS isn't your style, take a look at this Channel 9 video from August last year which walked through all of this... maybe then you'll have at least some factual information from which to make a judgment.
Before griping too much, why don't you spend some time and look into what XPS really is and see that while being similar to PDF from a regular unskilled user perspective, the options and features it supplies are widely applicable to many different levels and applications.
How many printers do you know that ship today or will be out within a year allow you to send a raw PDF file to it and have it print as is without any kind of client spooling and image degradation? XPS lets you do that.
Who feels a little... jibbed that after buying one of the larger packages when HL2 came out that they are trying to get you to pay another $20 for Episode 1? Granted I'd love to get it for free, I'm kind of let down that they wont even cut you a deal for it... so I suppose I'll wait until all 3 Episodes are out and hope that they'll have a special package deal for them that doesn't involve buying another copy of HL2.
Now maybe there can be at last a truly powerful seti accelerator!
Just how fast would a virtualized Linux instance running inside of a virtualized Linux instance running on hardware be?
If you believe that then I await the court cases involving your say... threatening the life of the president, or causing a stampede in a crowded room due to yelling "fire."
You would be free to claim whatever justification you want for it however in the end you would be convicted and said conviction would be upheld on every appeal.
Back in the 2600 case over the DeCSS source code the courts said that it was effectively illegal to link to something illegal.
Since then I've been wondering when the major search engines were going to be sued because they link to illegal content such as child porn and pirated software.
It'll be interesting to see how this pans out and if Google does lose you can surly expect to see others joining in against them and others due to the precedent it sets.
Good God! /.ers today are about as ignorant about politics today as the Diggers were a few days back when most thought it was legal for a US national to travel over seas with the intent of having sex with a minor.
Democratic regime? What are you smoking? The United States is a Federalist Republic... nothing like a democratic system, don't believe me? Think of this... if this country was truly a democracy in any way back in 2000 then Al Gore would have won the presidential election, not George W Bush.
I said at the beginning some of the appropriate channels. The big one is Congress.
Funny thing about Congress... certain members have been kept up to date on these operations since they were first created and yet several of them (most notably Nancy Pelosi) have expressed their outrage about finding out about these programs despite the fact that many knew since late 2001!
You realize that you immediately lost any credibility you might have had by calling me a 'Karl Rovian apologist'.
Gotta love name calling. Tell me though... are you really that sort of hard core left leaner who feels the need to stoop to such a level when you feel that you've got no other option?
That's a nice idea but shouldn't they say... go through more appropriate channels first? If that fails then perhaps leaking would be a little more appropriate.
Whistleblowers go to the authorities (police, management, congress, etc).
Leakers go to the media.
And yes kiddies, that means that the so called Whistleblower in the Nixon case who was named for a porn flick was in fact simply a leaker.
Sadly the same goes the same for most of the NSA and intelligence leaks that have occurred over the last few years in the US.
Americans? This is the UK gov at work you fool.
Any evidence of a 747 hitting the pentagon would be quite a surprise and likely fake given that Flight 77 was a 757.
I guess this means my recently granted patent on "a method of maintaining a patent portfolio for the purpose of litigation and licensing" is never going to work out too well given I won't be able to the sort of injunctions I'd want against my targeted patent houses.
Well... back to the drawing board.
Bah! What good is any talk about E3 without showing Booth Babes?
I for one would like to see a comparison between those of yore and those of today.
Who knows what has changed since.
While it would be nice if there was a test or three that a person was required to take in order to do anything online... the fact that anyone is able to buy a PC and plug it into the internet means that there are a lot of... uninformed people out there.
It's the same group that replies to spam messages asking to be removed, purchase from spammers and leaves their PC's connected 24/7 without spending anytime to patch it.
So long as these people exist, nothing should be a surprise as to the effectiveness of phishing and other such areas.
You don't think that NX support within the CPU could help at all?
Sure it's not a complete solution, it is at least another layer of protection to keep users safe and is more than what they had with PPC's... provided they are using it today.