I would have agreed with you up until the point I tried a recent release of Mandrake. I don't think installation and configuration could have been easier.
but, this competition isn't particularily harmful - many publish their tools under the GPL to give back to the community, just as they all will use pretty much the same software underneath the packaging.
Some very smart people warned in the 1920s that the entertaiment industry would become, due to media concentration, too powerful, and could get laws changed to their favor. Of course, hardly anyone took them seriously. We had only some movie industry in Hollywood and the big competitor the German UFA was still alive and kicking. So the advised regulation law got passed. After WWII when it became clear that they were right, all proposals in this direction were stomped by Senator McCarthy as "Communist Agitation" - that why the big ones in the movie industry supported him. And later, well, it was too late. Which leads in the end to such things as the DCMA.
Always act preventativly or it will be all too late.
The study shows that usage of P2P networks known to be heavily monitored by RIAA is down. This makes perfect sense to both the RIAA and to me, but the WHY is what makes all the difference. To admit why the traffic is really down would show that RIAA is hopelessly sliding into the abyss. It is so much easier for them to lie to their shareholders and say they are crushing the P2P threat to their business model.
But the P2P coin has many sides.
RIAA is largely blind to the activity going on in the other networks, most of which are much harder to quickly traverse than GNUtella or KaZaa. Also, I imagine that no one has written a spidering program for them yet.
The other networks are flourishing right now. Without naming networks, the server count for my favorite P2P network is much higher than normal, as is the user count and the download speed. No one has gotten a warning letter or sued yet for activity on this network.
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In every Communist society I've seen planned and/or implemented, there has been a very strong tendency towards centralization and I would imagine software development would be no exception.
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I would have agreed with you up until the point I tried a recent release of Mandrake. I don't think installation and configuration could have been easier.
but, this competition isn't particularily harmful - many publish their tools under the GPL to give back to the community, just as they all will use pretty much the same software underneath the packaging.
Some very smart people warned in the 1920s that the entertaiment industry would become, due to media concentration, too powerful, and could get laws changed to their favor. Of course, hardly anyone took them seriously. We had only some movie industry in Hollywood and the big competitor the German UFA was still alive and kicking. So the advised regulation law got passed. After WWII when it became clear that they were right, all proposals in this direction were stomped by Senator McCarthy as "Communist Agitation" - that why the big ones in the movie industry supported him. And later, well, it was too late. Which leads in the end to such things as the DCMA.
Always act preventativly or it will be all too late.
don't buy it.
architectures be compatible? If they aren't, that could be quite a hassle
The study shows that usage of P2P networks known to be heavily monitored by RIAA is down. This makes perfect sense to both the RIAA and to me, but the WHY is what makes all the difference. To admit why the traffic is really down would show that RIAA is hopelessly sliding into the abyss. It is so much easier for them to lie to their shareholders and say they are crushing the P2P threat to their business model.
But the P2P coin has many sides.
RIAA is largely blind to the activity going on in the other networks, most of which are much harder to quickly traverse than GNUtella or KaZaa. Also, I imagine that no one has written a spidering program for them yet.
The other networks are flourishing right now. Without naming networks, the server count for my favorite P2P network is much higher than normal, as is the user count and the download speed. No one has gotten a warning letter or sued yet for activity on this network.
"Was this made in Israel?"
Speeding tickets on horses :(
AT&T Worldnet (dialup) started doing that around a year ago -- probably ATTBI before the Comcast merger too.
that was nowhere near 581%.
just as a turnkey network file server, it would be great. Unfortunately for geeks it would still be cheaper to use an old PC running Linux
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You are right and have helped me adjust my understanding of the situation. I was wrong, and I thank you for pointing this out to me.
In every Communist society I've seen planned and/or implemented, there has been a very strong tendency towards centralization and I would imagine software development would be no exception.
Open Source as we know it wouldn't be possible in a (big-c) Communistic society. Are we really willing to give this up for the proletariat?
Linux doesn't protect users from being idiots. Nothing can.
do we even call these "worms"? The only thing they exploit is idiots running random executables. It's a disgrace to the real worms out there.
Another example of Microsoft bloat
when Mozilla will be able to run as fast as Internet Explorer?
I used to tobogan on one. Once the topsoil is in place, it's nice and clean (except for all of the methane being expelled! Well it -looks- clean.).
is deprecated
According to http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html leap seconds compensate for changes in the earths rotational speed not the earths orbital speed.
Driving with headphones on, in Manitoba anyways, is illegal!
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Piss?
If so, it probably `crashed`!