Yeah, I mean who'd want to take stuff out of and put stuff into a Library of all things. I keep hearing how great that apple's stuff is, and how it just works, but frankly the combination of iTunes + iPod + Windows is a dog, and most of it apple's fault.
I know you are joking, but a CLI is still just a User Interface. One that is sadly neglected, and whose architecture (or lack thereof) frankly could do with a bit of an overhaul.
Probably a dumb question, but why is it that the higher and therefore less crowded you go the more restricted it is? Or is it more crowded the higher you go? What do most commercial passenger planes fly at?
I don't think it's all that uncommon though as people get older they lose ability to hear higher frequencies. I think most people ignore it because it's outside of the range that they are "listening to" and makes up the background noise.
I don't see how much they spend is relevant to the worth of the patent. It is just an indication of the size of the business opportunity to be gained by getting there first. They also make billions because of the patents they have been granted.
I don't believe for one minute that they are concerned about the level of investment in medical research. They are concerned about the level of profit to be gained from that investment in medical research. A legitimate concern for a business, and an important one in a capitalist society, but not the only one to be considered.
If you don't have a business of your own there is no benefit from cross licencing. If you have a business that actually does useful stuff you are at risk of infringing other people's patents. Far better to just come up with ideas and sue people. Better yet, just buy people's unused ideas and sue people.
Not that cross licencing is wonderful either. It's just a way to artificially keep smaller more efficient players out of your nicely carved up market.
Couldn't they find that the patent and copyright laws, as implemented by the other branches of government, or individual patents for that matter, are not constitutional because they don't meet the aims set out in the US constitution? Not that I believe for an instant that they would decide so...
Yes, but nobody has anything insightful to say about that, so we talk about something more interesting. All the article generated was about five +3 informative comments saying the exact same thing as yours.
I've found that the DOS support is pretty ok, but that the support for the few Windows 95 or 98 applicaitons I tried was not so hot. I wonder is this because the DOS support must by now be pretty much completely emulated, whereas Win95 might still be somehow "native", but with the newer implementations breaking stuff. I tried changing the compatability mode of the apps, but to no benefit.
As people have written, your FOSS pc has no DRM licensed from anybody. It can't even legally play DVDs for heaven's sake. What's more, your free analogue TV is going to disappear. Like CDs, like DVDs. Next generation DRM might still be flawed, but it won't be half so flawed as the current generation.
Like it or not that is an issue for mass market penetration, since you can't download King Kong "to own" without the DRM system. I'm quite aware that this is quite irrelevant (today) for hobbyists, and quite irrelevant in an "ideal world", but in the real world of average consumers and draconian IP rights enforcement, the ability to get content legally from the majors is a make or break issue. You can bet that Microsoft will be on the winning side when it comes to money changing hands.
The only reason we upgraded to XP at the company I work was because the service desk can no longer reliably support Windows 2000. There was no "business reason" to do so as such. Everyone was happy to continue with Win2k so long as it was supported. Indeed there was open hostility to the upgrade. This is a 40,000 seat company, so basically lots of guarenteed free cash for microsoft once they EOL any OS. There is no business reason for us to upgrade from XP either, though I'm perfectly sure that in 4 years or so we will all be doing so. Well, it must be nice to be microsoft is all I can say.
It's not just a lack of people who can answer the questions. It's also a lack of reasonable answers for some questions. Some things are just not possible on Linux. Sure "something equivalent" is possible if you had different hardware, and different data than you actually do have to work with, not to mention a whole lot of spare time on your hands. But you buy a printer with fancy modern software for Windows and Mac, you just can't use it on Linux. The day they start to include "fancy modern software for windows, mac AND linux" on the 90% of the CDs is the day you can use it. I'll be ice skating in Hell when that day comes.
I don't mean to be anti open source here, I use many open source tools in my job. I couldn't get by without them. I recognise there are many important issues that Free Software is the only justifiable solution for. However, here's the thing: I'm a software engineer. 99.9% of the world isn't.
It's nice you have it, but from the page you linked:
this file system type is not yet fully supported (read: it doesn't work) and using it may, in fact, destroy data on your system. use at your own risk. beware of dog. slippery when wet.
Seems to me that this is the way everything should be automatically done, not some broken add on.
same result for my desktop, though you can add in a non functional network card. It's a shame that linux still struggles with these issues. I would like to use it, but really, having a mixture of the same hassles every time I try over the last ten years kills the enthusiasm somewhat.
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Actually I was thinking of buying a mac... until I got an iPod. Don't get me wrong, it's basically a nice product, but my goodness the software (under windows) is a piece of shit. Why is my iPod not recognised by iTunes until I remap it to an unused drive letter? Can't it just pick an unused one itself like every single other product I have ever plugged into my PC? Why does it even need a drive letter? My phone and camera don't!
There is the issue that the end user doesn't know what sandbox to allow things into, so they just click okokok until it works. The alternative is to require digital signing of all code by a "trusted" party (microsoft), but I'm sure there are many who for very good reasons don't want to even think about going down that route.
Yeah right, nobody had any fear of the Communist global revolution until Stalin entered the picture. Dream on. 6m+ people died under Lenin's misrule. The only person he looks good in comparison to is Stalin.
As for Trotsky, he was the one who transformed the Red Army from a ragtag bunch into an efficient fighting machine with the same top down structure as any other modern army. He had special units created to gun down people ("the workers", remember them?) retreating. The only reason people have sympathy for him is becasue he was assinated by a bad guy (and therefore must be good). I'm sure his premanent revolution would have been fun to live under.
The Hauppauge windows stuff is lousy though. I have to use it pretty much every day for my job. It took me as you say about 2 hours to get it "basically" set up. It took me a couple of months to find all the registry tweaks to make it actually work in some kind of approaching to sensible way. The UI for it is some of the most appalling software I have ever experienced on Windows.
This is just bitching about Hauppauge. I won't claim it's any better on Linux. My Linux experiences with just about anything have all been bad, so I can well believe that it was a nightmare.
Look, every regional company office has to obey the laws of the contries that they do business in. They don't have a choice in the matter beyond not doing business in that country. Ignoring Google's motives for a moment, do you think that the (ordinary) people of China are better off with Google operating an office in their country or not? Rabid anti-corporatism aside, I think most people would still answer "yes", even with the censorship. Of course it's disappointing that Google didn't stick it to the PRC, but they would very quickly find their Chinese offices closed, and IP adresses on the wrong side of the great firewall.
Why not have a -1 Meta moderation that doesn't affect Karma? People who want to see the meta discussion can change it to 0 or +1 in their preferences. Since it doesn't affect karma people won't (legitimately) complain about you supressing meta discussion.
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Yeah, I mean who'd want to take stuff out of and put stuff into a Library of all things. I keep hearing how great that apple's stuff is, and how it just works, but frankly the combination of iTunes + iPod + Windows is a dog, and most of it apple's fault.
I know you are joking, but a CLI is still just a User Interface. One that is sadly neglected, and whose architecture (or lack thereof) frankly could do with a bit of an overhaul.
Probably a dumb question, but why is it that the higher and therefore less crowded you go the more restricted it is? Or is it more crowded the higher you go? What do most commercial passenger planes fly at?
I don't think it's all that uncommon though as people get older they lose ability to hear higher frequencies. I think most people ignore it because it's outside of the range that they are "listening to" and makes up the background noise.
I don't see how much they spend is relevant to the worth of the patent. It is just an indication of the size of the business opportunity to be gained by getting there first. They also make billions because of the patents they have been granted.
I don't believe for one minute that they are concerned about the level of investment in medical research. They are concerned about the level of profit to be gained from that investment in medical research. A legitimate concern for a business, and an important one in a capitalist society, but not the only one to be considered.
If you don't have a business of your own there is no benefit from cross licencing. If you have a business that actually does useful stuff you are at risk of infringing other people's patents. Far better to just come up with ideas and sue people. Better yet, just buy people's unused ideas and sue people.
Not that cross licencing is wonderful either. It's just a way to artificially keep smaller more efficient players out of your nicely carved up market.
Couldn't they find that the patent and copyright laws, as implemented by the other branches of government, or individual patents for that matter, are not constitutional because they don't meet the aims set out in the US constitution? Not that I believe for an instant that they would decide so...
Yes, but nobody has anything insightful to say about that, so we talk about something more interesting.
All the article generated was about five +3 informative comments saying the exact same thing as yours.
I've found that the DOS support is pretty ok, but that the support for the few Windows 95 or 98 applicaitons I tried was not so hot. I wonder is this because the DOS support must by now be pretty much completely emulated, whereas Win95 might still be somehow "native", but with the newer implementations breaking stuff. I tried changing the compatability mode of the apps, but to no benefit.
Ah, the good old days!
As people have written, your FOSS pc has no DRM licensed from anybody. It can't even legally play DVDs for heaven's sake. What's more, your free analogue TV is going to disappear. Like CDs, like DVDs. Next generation DRM might still be flawed, but it won't be half so flawed as the current generation.
Like it or not that is an issue for mass market penetration, since you can't download King Kong "to own" without the DRM system. I'm quite aware that this is quite irrelevant (today) for hobbyists, and quite irrelevant in an "ideal world", but in the real world of average consumers and draconian IP rights enforcement, the ability to get content legally from the majors is a make or break issue. You can bet that Microsoft will be on the winning side when it comes to money changing hands.
The only reason we upgraded to XP at the company I work was because the service desk can no longer reliably support Windows 2000. There was no "business reason" to do so as such. Everyone was happy to continue with Win2k so long as it was supported. Indeed there was open hostility to the upgrade. This is a 40,000 seat company, so basically lots of guarenteed free cash for microsoft once they EOL any OS. There is no business reason for us to upgrade from XP either, though I'm perfectly sure that in 4 years or so we will all be doing so. Well, it must be nice to be microsoft is all I can say.
It's not just a lack of people who can answer the questions. It's also a lack of reasonable answers for some questions. Some things are just not possible on Linux. Sure "something equivalent" is possible if you had different hardware, and different data than you actually do have to work with, not to mention a whole lot of spare time on your hands. But you buy a printer with fancy modern software for Windows and Mac, you just can't use it on Linux. The day they start to include "fancy modern software for windows, mac AND linux" on the 90% of the CDs is the day you can use it. I'll be ice skating in Hell when that day comes.
I don't mean to be anti open source here, I use many open source tools in my job. I couldn't get by without them. I recognise there are many important issues that Free Software is the only justifiable solution for. However, here's the thing: I'm a software engineer. 99.9% of the world isn't.
Look, nobody would use it, just like they don't use it now. Just like they didn't use MacOS when apple allowed clones.
It's nice you have it, but from the page you linked:
this file system type is not yet fully supported (read: it doesn't work)
and using it may, in fact, destroy data on your system. use at your own
risk. beware of dog. slippery when wet.
Seems to me that this is the way everything should be automatically done, not some broken add on.
personally I'd go for 2x the RAM and 2x the HDD space.
That's a legal requirement.
Having never heard anyone say it, I always thought it was C-Hash myself, though reading it now, the C-Sharp makes more obvious sense :)
same result for my desktop, though you can add in a non functional network card. It's a shame that linux still struggles with these issues. I would like to use it, but really, having a mixture of the same hassles every time I try over the last ten years kills the enthusiasm somewhat.
Actually I was thinking of buying a mac ... until I got an iPod. Don't get me wrong, it's basically a nice product, but my goodness the software (under windows) is a piece of shit. Why is my iPod not recognised by iTunes until I remap it to an unused drive letter? Can't it just pick an unused one itself like every single other product I have ever plugged into my PC? Why does it even need a drive letter? My phone and camera don't!
There is the issue that the end user doesn't know what sandbox to allow things into, so they just click okokok until it works. The alternative is to require digital signing of all code by a "trusted" party (microsoft), but I'm sure there are many who for very good reasons don't want to even think about going down that route.
Yeah right, nobody had any fear of the Communist global revolution until Stalin entered the picture. Dream on. 6m+ people died under Lenin's misrule. The only person he looks good in comparison to is Stalin.
As for Trotsky, he was the one who transformed the Red Army from a ragtag bunch into an efficient fighting machine with the same top down structure as any other modern army. He had special units created to gun down people ("the workers", remember them?) retreating. The only reason people have sympathy for him is becasue he was assinated by a bad guy (and therefore must be good). I'm sure his premanent revolution would have been fun to live under.
The Hauppauge windows stuff is lousy though. I have to use it pretty much every day for my job. It took me as you say about 2 hours to get it "basically" set up. It took me a couple of months to find all the registry tweaks to make it actually work in some kind of approaching to sensible way. The UI for it is some of the most appalling software I have ever experienced on Windows.
This is just bitching about Hauppauge. I won't claim it's any better on Linux. My Linux experiences with just about anything have all been bad, so I can well believe that it was a nightmare.
Look, every regional company office has to obey the laws of the contries that they do business in. They don't have a choice in the matter beyond not doing business in that country. Ignoring Google's motives for a moment, do you think that the (ordinary) people of China are better off with Google operating an office in their country or not? Rabid anti-corporatism aside, I think most people would still answer "yes", even with the censorship. Of course it's disappointing that Google didn't stick it to the PRC, but they would very quickly find their Chinese offices closed, and IP adresses on the wrong side of the great firewall.
Why not have a -1 Meta moderation that doesn't affect Karma? People who want to see the meta discussion can change it to 0 or +1 in their preferences. Since it doesn't affect karma people won't (legitimately) complain about you supressing meta discussion.