Something I've noticed with the whole Google talk thing is that even the people I know who are hardcore Linux geeks say "How is this better than AIM?"
I must say this is somewhat surprising... one of the tenets of the greatness of Linux is the openness and freedom to innovate - why does nobody care about the fact that IM has had almost no innovations lately?
Google promoting Jabber could be a great thing, assuming they will enable the server to server support. IM could become more of an open service where people actually CAN innovate, rather than a closed protocol run on some corporation's servers.
So, even if you are afraid of Google becoming powerful, or if you think that IM innovation is dead, I'm willing to carry at least some hope that getting Jabber into wider use could be a big deal in evolving how IM works. Just a thought...
That's very nice of you, but if you don't like the game, wouldn't it be a better gesture to donate the money to an open source project? id has plenty of money... a game purchase is a drop in the bucket to them compared to people working on Free software.
This would probably be a more practical gesture if you want to support open source. (Which, I can't tell if you do or not - but still, just a thought.)
Perhaps using the 5 million to hire an external company to audit and fix all the security holes they can find in Windows and other MS software would help prevent crime in a more useful way?
Of course they would say they are surprised that Internet Explorer would work under these conditions. Remember that one of the claims in the antitrust trial was that due to the architecture of the system, it basically wasn't possible to remove IE from the OS.
Maybe this will give AMD a good chance to kick Intel down a notch. If people dislike the DRM, there has to be money to be made selling components/systems without it...
3. "Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of violation
of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct
and preferable term." --Abbott.
1913 Webster
You can't really claim it's public if they don't tell anyone about it, and you have to have a secret code "guest ID" to get in. The fact that you have to receive a confirmation that can take a day or two sounds as if they aren't planning on giving it to EVERYONE, either.
Perhaps rathering than figuring out how to make files with the same hash, they just figured out how to tell everyone on the network that their client has a file with that hash, when really the file doesn't? That's a far more trivial feat.
The problem is, the mathematics and economics of this just don't make sense for most people. Say you do have 12 old Pentiums laying around. 12x133 MHz each, that's only the equivalent of 1600 MHz. You can buy an Athlon XP for $60 that will obliterate this, not even considering that it will have much faster RAM. Seeing that nobody normal would actually have 12 old Pentiums, it would cost less to build a new, better performing, computer. (And be lot less of time investment as well.)
I really doubt it will pressure GNOME to do much of anything. The market share of slackware is small enough that it really wouldn't mean much to the GNOME project people.
The problem with the idea of the spam bubble bursting is that spammers don't have the same economic situation that most companies do. Sending out spam to a million people doesn't cost much more than it does to send it to 10,000 - you can increase the number of customers you get without having to increase your "advertising" fees much at all, or having to hire more employees, etc.
This all means that spammers can be far less successful than any other business, yet still remain in business.
I don't mean to start any flamewars here, but I must wonder (out loud, naturally) - what kind of modern linux distribution doesn't include GNOME? Can it really even be considered a complete distribution?
They already are so much more than their digital counterparts. And personally, even though I am a super-techno-gearhead-whatever, I don't really care to mess with the internals of my digital camera as long as I can get the pictures off of it.
They removed unnecessary eye candy... ok, cool. But the package highlights list includes Superkaramba?
Hmm.. ok... from the Superkaramba website: "SuperKaramba is, in simple terms, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on your KDE desktop."
I guess that makes it necessary eye-candy? These guys seem to have a pretty confused goal...
It's true, Tor does work well. The thing is - Freenet works well too. But Freenet is it's OWN network - not a gateway to browse the standard WWW. The two have almost nothing to do with each other.
I think that you basically just described gaim, other than possibly point 2. (Of course, point 2 is moot if your wonderful linux distribution does it for you...)
Still not really seeing any benefit gained by paying for a different client, when all of your points are met by gaim.
Parent should have probably been marked funny rather than insightful... sheesh.
The thousands of people using Gmail don't care that it has a little tiny word "beta" at the top. They've got mail in there that probably shouldn't be seen by other people. (Personal communications, private chats, possibly much more.)
It IS a real problem for anyone who doesn't want their email being read by others.
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Yet, they aren't worried about this happening with Blockbuster rentals or Netflix? Give me a break.
Seems to me that labelling anything as a cooperative act between peers leads to mad content owners.
It's picked up and cast down into the bowels of /usr/bin instead!
Noooo!
Something I've noticed with the whole Google talk thing is that even the people I know who are hardcore Linux geeks say "How is this better than AIM?"
I must say this is somewhat surprising... one of the tenets of the greatness of Linux is the openness and freedom to innovate - why does nobody care about the fact that IM has had almost no innovations lately?
Google promoting Jabber could be a great thing, assuming they will enable the server to server support. IM could become more of an open service where people actually CAN innovate, rather than a closed protocol run on some corporation's servers.
So, even if you are afraid of Google becoming powerful, or if you think that IM innovation is dead, I'm willing to carry at least some hope that getting Jabber into wider use could be a big deal in evolving how IM works. Just a thought...
It would be, except it's not a shockwave animation - it's flash.
;)
As long as we're posting three year old flash clips, you don't expect an accurate description too, do you?
That's very nice of you, but if you don't like the game, wouldn't it be a better gesture to donate the money to an open source project? id has plenty of money... a game purchase is a drop in the bucket to them compared to people working on Free software.
This would probably be a more practical gesture if you want to support open source. (Which, I can't tell if you do or not - but still, just a thought.)
Perhaps using the 5 million to hire an external company to audit and fix all the security holes they can find in Windows and other MS software would help prevent crime in a more useful way?
Now, Slashdot does often have grammar of dubious quality, but, give me a break!
No offense, but you really shouldn't post articles written by people that write like small children without at least glancing over them.
Of course they would say they are surprised that Internet Explorer would work under these conditions. Remember that one of the claims in the antitrust trial was that due to the architecture of the system, it basically wasn't possible to remove IE from the OS.
I really wouldn't give these guys the publicity at this point.
They haven't explained what the problem really is, to us, or even filed a report with Microsoft.
They also claim that any OS is vulnerable, though it's only been tested with Windows drivers.
The whole thing just stinks of someone wanting publicity or setting up to try to sell some protection software.
Maybe this will give AMD a good chance to kick Intel down a notch. If people dislike the DRM, there has to be money to be made selling components/systems without it...
It's a ratio that happens to be an irrational number. What's wrong with that? The two have nothing to do with each other.
Well, Webster has a different view...
3. "Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of violation
of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct
and preferable term." --Abbott.
1913 Webster
You can't really claim it's public if they don't tell anyone about it, and you have to have a secret code "guest ID" to get in. The fact that you have to receive a confirmation that can take a day or two sounds as if they aren't planning on giving it to EVERYONE, either.
Perhaps rathering than figuring out how to make files with the same hash, they just figured out how to tell everyone on the network that their client has a file with that hash, when really the file doesn't? That's a far more trivial feat.
The problem is, the mathematics and economics of this just don't make sense for most people. Say you do have 12 old Pentiums laying around. 12x133 MHz each, that's only the equivalent of 1600 MHz. You can buy an Athlon XP for $60 that will obliterate this, not even considering that it will have much faster RAM. Seeing that nobody normal would actually have 12 old Pentiums, it would cost less to build a new, better performing, computer. (And be lot less of time investment as well.)
I really doubt it will pressure GNOME to do much of anything. The market share of slackware is small enough that it really wouldn't mean much to the GNOME project people.
The problem with the idea of the spam bubble bursting is that spammers don't have the same economic situation that most companies do. Sending out spam to a million people doesn't cost much more than it does to send it to 10,000 - you can increase the number of customers you get without having to increase your "advertising" fees much at all, or having to hire more employees, etc.
This all means that spammers can be far less successful than any other business, yet still remain in business.
I don't mean to start any flamewars here, but I must wonder (out loud, naturally) - what kind of modern linux distribution doesn't include GNOME? Can it really even be considered a complete distribution?
Er, film-based counterparts, I meant.
They already are so much more than their digital counterparts. And personally, even though I am a super-techno-gearhead-whatever, I don't really care to mess with the internals of my digital camera as long as I can get the pictures off of it.
They removed unnecessary eye candy... ok, cool. But the package highlights list includes Superkaramba?
Hmm.. ok... from the Superkaramba website:
"SuperKaramba is, in simple terms, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on your KDE desktop."
I guess that makes it necessary eye-candy? These guys seem to have a pretty confused goal...
You're not the only one old enough to remember old bulletin boards, just the only one who still considers it cool to brag about remembering it. ;)
It's true, Tor does work well. The thing is - Freenet works well too. But Freenet is it's OWN network - not a gateway to browse the standard WWW. The two have almost nothing to do with each other.
I think that you basically just described gaim, other than possibly point 2.
(Of course, point 2 is moot if your wonderful linux distribution does it for you...)
Still not really seeing any benefit gained by paying for a different client, when all of your points are met by gaim.
Parent should have probably been marked funny rather than insightful... sheesh.
The thousands of people using Gmail don't care that it has a little tiny word "beta" at the top. They've got mail in there that probably shouldn't be seen by other people. (Personal communications, private chats, possibly much more.)
It IS a real problem for anyone who doesn't want their email being read by others.