That was a lead-in, not a supporting point. The thrust of the article is that OSS needs to jump on a non-M$ bandwagon that already has momentum. J2EE is that bandwagon.
He was saying that it was a sign of what was to come, and proceeded to explain why that was so.
If you don't think M$ will be able to pull this off, your opinion of their marketing department needs to be re-evaluated. Unfortunately, everything he said was spot-on. It all could happen this way.
Anyway, when the answer is so obvious, so easy and so ready-made, why fight it? Why not hedge your bets? If, in 5 years, Apache is still king and web services go the way of interactive TV, great. If not, hey: good thing we diversified.
That factoid notwithstanding, the original poster basically took the article and asserted each point the author was trying to disprove.
That's a pretty good definition of trolling, is it not?
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The other possibility is to prevent CDROM drives from reading audio CDs. That is not going to happen soon either.
You need to do some reading about Macrovision's latest abomination. It aims to do just that.
There will, of course, be people who crack these protections. But the important thing is the the vast majority of lusers won't know it -- all they'll know is that it won't rip (or even play) when they put it in their CD-ROM drive. So they'll stop putting audio CDs in their CD-ROM drives.
People who get HIV have no morals, it has nothing to do with what they watch.
What?!?! What planet are you from?? People who get HIV may be dumb (condoms are NOT expensive), but how can you say that they are acting immorally?
Newsflash: it only takes one time having unprotected sex with someone who's infected for you to become infected yourself. People who get HIV aren't necessarily promiscuous. They might not even be having sex out of wedlock.
Teach your kid not to have sex, if they do it anyway and get pregnant, and get an STD, its no ones fault but their own[...]
This makes no sense! Why take the moral high-ground here? We're talking about the life and well-being of your child!
Why not just tell them that there are dangers to having sex (period... not 'before marriage' or anything) and that they can avoid these dangers by either not having said sex or by wearing a condom when they do? That makes sense. It's the truth.
What's with all this withholding information that could lead to a decision you yourself might not find desirable? Guess what: abstinence-only "education" doesn't work. Give the kids ALL the facts, then let them make their decision on their own, fully informed.
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Recording copyrighted material is already illegal.
Not when it's a TV program that gets broadcast that you tape for later. That falls under the 'time sharing' provision of fair use. The Supreme Court has ruled it's legal to time shift. End of story.
Besides, do you really want to have to worry about DLing some code or getting some black box to decrypt the signal so you can record it, a right you have now? And just think of the lawsuits this will generate. Another All American use of the DMCA.
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Man, and I thought Linux wasn't supposed to crash.
He was saying that it was a sign of what was to come, and proceeded to explain why that was so.
If you don't think M$ will be able to pull this off, your opinion of their marketing department needs to be re-evaluated. Unfortunately, everything he said was spot-on. It all could happen this way.
Anyway, when the answer is so obvious, so easy and so ready-made, why fight it? Why not hedge your bets? If, in 5 years, Apache is still king and web services go the way of interactive TV, great. If not, hey: good thing we diversified.
That's a pretty good definition of trolling, is it not?
You need to do some reading about Macrovision's latest abomination. It aims to do just that.
There will, of course, be people who crack these protections. But the important thing is the the vast majority of lusers won't know it -- all they'll know is that it won't rip (or even play) when they put it in their CD-ROM drive. So they'll stop putting audio CDs in their CD-ROM drives.
Bingo: the herds have shifted.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,425 344,00.html
What?!?! What planet are you from?? People who get HIV may be dumb (condoms are NOT expensive), but how can you say that they are acting immorally?
Newsflash: it only takes one time having unprotected sex with someone who's infected for you to become infected yourself. People who get HIV aren't necessarily promiscuous. They might not even be having sex out of wedlock.
Teach your kid not to have sex, if they do it anyway and get pregnant, and get an STD, its no ones fault but their own[...]
This makes no sense! Why take the moral high-ground here? We're talking about the life and well-being of your child!
Why not just tell them that there are dangers to having sex (period... not 'before marriage' or anything) and that they can avoid these dangers by either not having said sex or by wearing a condom when they do? That makes sense. It's the truth.
What's with all this withholding information that could lead to a decision you yourself might not find desirable? Guess what: abstinence-only "education" doesn't work. Give the kids ALL the facts, then let them make their decision on their own, fully informed.
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Rot-13 my address to e-mail me.
"So I hurry back to little earth / For another life another birth"
MP3 will never rule unless they rename it -- you can always tell if something's going to be successful by the name.
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Rot-13 my address to e-mail me.
"So I hurry back to little earth / For another life another birth"
link?
Not when it's a TV program that gets broadcast that you tape for later. That falls under the 'time sharing' provision of fair use. The Supreme Court has ruled it's legal to time shift. End of story.
Besides, do you really want to have to worry about DLing some code or getting some black box to decrypt the signal so you can record it, a right you have now? And just think of the lawsuits this will generate. Another All American use of the DMCA.
Probably because that person is Dan Bernstein, the creator of qmail, everyone's favorite sendmail-killer. :-)
... I mean, except the evil influence of M$...
"Raymond in Mountain View, CA"
No way? I live there. Heh...