Ok, ok, I do know the benefits of the RAW format and I do use it from time to time. (D70 owner) However 90% of my shots are done in jpeg high quality mode. I get a boatload more pictures and it doesn't require me to store a bunch of large pictures I have to convert anyway to get anything done.
Sure I could spend hours converting each picture I take in photoshop using a raw format that is quite a bit larger than a jpeg or I could take the picture correctly the first time and just shoot raw when I am trying to do something tricky or I'm going to blow something up really large. Most pros I know shoot jpeg, not RAW. Most ametures shoot RAW because it lets them fix their mistakes (such as white balance) relatively easily.
Cannon does not have a better line up of lenses, Cannon has better *zoom* lenses and their stability technology is better. However, given the shorter focal length lenses and using a tripod, Nikon lenses are superior.
There always has been and always will be a split between Cannon users and Nikon users. It's like Ford trucks vs. Dodge trucks. Good luck trying to persuade the one camp to like the other.
I'd says porn and games are interchangeably #1 and #2. And the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
From this statement I got that given things that consume a lot of bandwidth, aside from Porn and game, "the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material. You then go on a rambling trying to compare the music industry to ice manufacturers which really has nothing to do with the topic at hand. We're not talking about how RIAA is going to adapt (which is the moral if the ice story) but rather this whole topic is the power that the RIAA has to take away the rights we currently have on the internet.
I am saying that the majority of internet media sharing is illegal.
What data do you have to show this? I would venture to say the opposite is true. However my point is that it Doesn't really matter. The RIAA doesn't have the right to take away my rights to do the things I mentioned above. Maybe the majority of your friends share illegal files but that's certainly not the majority of the internet. The internet is a big place and I would be willing to bet most of them are law abiding.
And the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
I guess your right, the MPAA must own the rights to the videos I put up on my website for friends and family. You know, the family video clips I put up, they must own those because they are on the internet.
Even apart from that, many news sites offer video clips of news that they offer, is any of this illegal downloading of copyrighted material?
Also while I don't produce music, what about the copyright owners wanting to distribute their songs?
As much as they wish it were true, all media is not owned by RIAA/MPAA.
And aside from that, I stream my music from home to my computer at work. If I own these songs, isn't that legal? Or did RIAA get their way and I have to buy a copy of each song I listen to for the office, home, car, etc...?
Streaming music, offering home videos, home pictures from my 6MP camera (not small pictures) all take up a lot of bandwidth. It's shortsightedness like yours that lead to stupid laws and restrictions because whatever you don't need must be "clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material."
For the impatient: What do the rating symbols mean? G General Audiences -- All ages admitted. Signifies that the film rated contains nothing most parents will consider offensive for even their youngest children to see or hear. Nudity, sex scenes, and scenes of drug use are absent; violence is minimal; snippets of conversation may go beyond polite conversation but do not go beyond every-day expressions.
PG Parental Guidance Suggested -- Some material may not be suitable for children. Signifies that the film rated may contain some material parents might not like to expose to their young children -- material that will clearly need to be examined or inquired about before children are allowed to attend the film. Explicit sex scenes and scenes of drug use are absent; nudity, if present, is seen only briefly; horror and violence do not exceed moderate levels.
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned -- Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Signifies that the film rated may be inappropriate for pre-teens. Parents should be especially careful about letting their younger children attend. Rough or persistent violence is absent; sexually-oriented nudity is generally absent; some scenes of drug use may be seen; some use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words may be heard.
R Restricted -- Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian (age varies in some jurisdictions). Signifies that the rating board has concluded that the film rated may contain some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their children to see it. An R may be\ assigned due to, among other things, a film's use of language, theme, violence, sensuality, or its portrayal of drug use. Theater owners and film critics are advised as to why the R rating was assigned; parents are therefore urged to contact their local theatres to learn why the rating board chose the R rating.
NC-17 No children under 17 Admitted (age varies in some jurisdictions). Signifies that the rating board would feel that the film rated is patently adult and that children under the age of 17 should not be admitted to it. The film may contain explicit sex scenes, an accumulation of sexually-oriented language, and/or scenes of excessive violence. The NC-17 designation does not, however, signify that the rated film is obscene or pornographic in terms of sex, language, or violence.
Wow, so you mean that things are locked down by default and you have to specifically enable things like letting users burn cds or mount things?
You have to be root to install almost anything. Yes and no, some programs allow you to install to your home directory and then you don't need any permissions. Other than that it's the same for any OS, windows included.... it just happens to be that with windows everyone's usually an admin.
You have to be root to mount a CD-ROM, USB device like a dongle or camera, SMB share or floppy. You have to be root to burn a CD. chmod my friend...
Now, everyone is going to start screaming that the above trollishness is bogus but, it isn't. Sure, you can easily get around most of this stuff and many distros do. How? They get around it by either giving world writable access to the device or by SUID on the application. It's really no different. Actually it is very different and you don't have to give world writable access to the devices in question if you don't want to. Have you ever heard of groups? You could for instance make a cdwriter group and then assign users you want to be able to burn cds to that group. The big difference is that there is no way to really do this in windows. You're either an admin or you're not. Giving someone access to write to a cdrom drive won't allow them to say accidentally install some virus. If they do install some virus, it would be limited to things they have access to.
Oh and it's this way with all Unixes, not just Linux. I for one am glad to see windows is finally catching up to UNIX, hopefully they won't mess it up too badly. This wouldn't be the first time I thought windows was going to do something good, only to find they implemented it wrong or introduced a whole slew of other problems.
Reminds me of a very computer literate person I know was installing something... I think it was MS2003 or Oracle or something and the dialog boxes kept coming up and he just kept on hitting ok and then couldn't figure out why something was happening. He asked me for help and I walked through the install with him. At the point where there were several dialog boxes he just kept hitting enter quickly and I said wait a minute, go back... sure enough he quickly dismissed the option he was looking for under a miriad of other dialog boxes.
I feel this is a problem that most software has, too many unimportant dialog boxes. Give me one page where I can set everything up and then don't show me another box unless there's a serious error that would prevent the application from installing properly. Any unimportant errors can wait until the end. I hate walking away from something that's going to take a while only to have a dilog box saying something like "I'm gonna install the next component ok?" Just friggen do it!
You're using the definition in a somewhat correct way, but the context makes the tone of your comments a little off. "Coerced," as in "compelled," true. But if Apple just threw a dart at the phone book and decided to "coerce" someone into giving them $10k, it wouldn't hold up in court.
Yes but apple doesn't have anything over the random person in the phone book. In this particular case, apple could have taken it as far as they could and get as much as they can out of the offender. Hardly a good comparison.
This settlement stuck because it's the tail end of a process that the twaddle-headed developer started through his own (uncoerced) actions. What happened was the playing-out of his own, freely chosen behavior within a framework that he understood and within which he chose to act.
Yes, it was his own decision to distribute tiger...
There's no coercing there, but rather simple justice. Otherwise, you might argue that when you choose to jump off a building, you are then coerced into hitting the ground. Apple said, "You're going to hit the ground either way, buddy, so say you're sorry, and we'll put out something of a mattress for you."
Wrong, when you jump off a building there is only one outcome... you hit something, usually the ground. However pirating software has multiple outcomes. You could get away scott free or you could get caught. Now this person got caught by apple and now apple controls his fate. In your gravity example, gravity controls the building jumpers fate, not apple. Sure apple can help by providing something soft but ultimately gravity is gonna make him fall. Apple could just let him go with a warning and what's done is done. Apple could also sue him for everything he owns.
Now the developer who leaked the release didn't have to admit guilt, however I'm sure apple leaned on him a little and coerced him to admit guilt with a public apology with the promise of not taking him for everything he owns. I'd call that coercion.
Or someone who can't type. Anyone can type fast and inaccurate but who wants to read 'fkasdjfgh lkgha;fgjksdfg'?
thowsand was probably written by someone who didn't know how to spell the work thousand.
I consider myself a fairly fast typist but I rarely make proximity based errors and when I do I spot them because I'm looking at the screen at what I type and not the keyboard.
Normally I don't feed the trolls either but.... IMHO Java's only useful feature is that it has the best platform portability in computing history (although it isn't perfect). Java apps run about as well on OS X as on Linux as on Windows as on Solaris on their various hardware. That is a wonderful thing. However, Java GUIs pretty much suck on every platform. Yes, java apps run the same on all the platforms but to say their GUIs pretty much suck on every platform means that you are really misinformed or are basing your assumptions on things you've seen years ago. Take the bittorrent client Azureus... it looks just like any other windows program. The eclipse IDE, again looks just like a windows program. They are both written in Java. So if you think they look bad then you think that all programs on said windowing systems look bad.
As for C#, Ballmer had it right when he said Developers! Developers! Developers!. C# has a completely awesome IDE and a consistent and elegant language that hasn't been patched and tinkered with haphazardly a dozen times. And although I think C# is syntactically and semantically more elegant and consistent and well though out, those facts are irrelevant as well. VB didn't take the lion's share of professional software development because people loved the ascetics of the language. It was all about more easy it made a programmers job. You could do in a day in VB what would take you a week with C and the Win32 API and have fewer bugs to boot. How awesome is that. So now we have the wonderful rapid easy development environment of the VBs of yore mixed with the sugary love of consistent syntax and semantics that is the C# language. Personally I love the JDeveloper IDE from Oracle. However eclipse is nice once you get it setup. Visual Studio is ok but it still doesn't make up for the fact that you're still having to write in C# or some other windows bastardization of a language.
That's what Java didn't have and doesn't have, and probably never will Have what a dominace? I dunno, I like what google has done with java and most sites that use Oracle are now starting to use java as well because Oracle is starting to get behind it..NET has what.... Microsoft? Ok so mono ports it to linux but you're still limiting yourself. Java runs on just about anything so if Microsoft and linux both go away tomorrow you don't have to throw away any of your code.
DISCLAMER: My experience is mostly based on running things in windows. I have tried Eclipse and NetBeans as recently as a couple months ago. I'm a fan of Linux and open source and tinker with Debian at home. But, I am an independent software contractor and value my time and Visual Studio kicks ass. I value my time as well, that's why I prefer Linux. No more hunting through countless windows to find the right configuration tab... doh, windows moved it again. I can't remember where a config file in Linux is I can search for it. Can you search for a tab in a window? I work for a very small software company and we briefly considered.Net but it was only a brief thought. With Oracle and JDeveloper it took us very little time to get our stuff up and running. I've used Visial Studio and I really don't see what the big deal is. It's just another IDE that I would put on par with eclipse. However, I still prefer JDeveloper although I will eventually look at some of the plugins for eclipse and it may meet our needs as well. (JDeveloper is free and can be used with other DBs as well so it's not really an issue right now)
Of course as you said, Who cares. I'm not going to convince you to use Java and you're certainly not going to convice me to use.NET so we'll just have to wait and see when Microsoft will decide to stop supporting it and force you to upgrade to.NET2006 and backwards compatibility will kindof work except for any networking features because all the network stuff has been rewritten. (Laugh... that was a joke)
Call forwarding is also listed as a feature.... are they just supposed to know where you are and forward your phone there? No of course not, you have to tell it where to forward your calls to just like you have to tell the 911 dialing feature where you are so it knows what call center to forward your calls to.
Personally a link such as 911 Dialing would cause red flags to go up and I would click on it to see all the details. Of course barring that you'd still see the information while setting it up.
So 911 dialing is just like any other feature like voicemail, call forwarding, etc... that requires you to set it up first so how is it not a standard part of the service?
Sure, you can ditch your old landline, what does that have to do with dialing 911? As long as you setup 911 dialing, you can dial 911. However that still has nothing to do with ditching your landline.
Hey, wait a minute, they do! Ok, but get this. Because it's VOIP, they don't really know where you are so they have no idea what call center to route it to. Ok, say I call 911, where would you route me to? Come on it's an emercency, where are you going to route the call? Ok, so as part of the setup, you can activate 911 dialing and include your location. Now it gets routed to the proper 911 call center.
So how is it vonage's fault that the family never provided their location to activate the 911 dialing feature?
Also cell phones route your call based on the cell tower you are using. So that system is flawed as well because I could be in one town, using a cell tower in another town so my call gets routed to the police station on the other side of said town, while I'm standing outside the police station of my own town.
But of course I guess you know all this because you helped keep the 911 computer system up .
Does it also mention that you need a router in the ads? Does it mention that you need to have an existing internet connection? Does it mention you have to have electricity? Does it mention your calls might not go through if you internet connection is down or if you have no electricity?
If you haven't gone to their website and researched it first (like clicking on the 911 Dialing link on the front page) then by the time you are setting it up you can certainly cancel your service and get a refund. However the people who got shot see a chance for easy money, the lawyers are seeing huge $$$ because we're talking a matter of life or death situation.
People need to start taking responsibility for their own actions.
Really, show me an advert that says they fully support 911 dialing....
Also you are very clearly told that you have to activate 911 dialing when you set it up. Setting it up is *very* easy and you are notified once it is setup. But of course like most slashdot posts you like to read opinion and spew it as fact. The article mostly states what the lawsuit is claiming, not what is fact. But at least you RTFA.
How does Vonage lead them to believe it would work perfectly? From vonage's website there is a little link on the front page entitled 911 dialing. The SECOND section says: 911 Dialing Is Not Automatically Set Up for Use. You Must Pre-Activate 911 Dialing. You May Decline 911 Dialing.
Of course this is America and no one reads the documentation and just expects things to work. Did you also know if you dial 911 with your phone police won't know where you are? Some people were on a boat that started to sink and they dialed 911. They didn't know what lake they were on, what city there were in or the friend's address whom they were visiting. They drowned and died and now their families are suing the police because they couldn't help them.
Sure it would be great if we lived in a world where you could just should 911 and the police would come and save you but we don't. I also don't want to live in a world where lawnmowers need to contain warnings that basically say "don't touch the spinning blades, you could loose a hand" or "don't use this to trim your hedges dumbass" or else the manufacturers get sued. I don't want to live in a world where you have to list warnings in advertisements. My other question is would cell phone companies be required to do the same?
I mean come on, does Microsoft warn you that you might get a virus or that someone could hack into your computer? Of course not, why state the obvious. I have vonage and I certainly knew of it's 911 limitations. I also knew of the cell phone 911 limitations. (Of course the cell phone limitations are starting to change and they can usually track you to your nearest cell tower. Except not all police stations have the updated equipment)
Except Oracle is really pushing Linux. In fact all of Oracle's developers are using Linux.
Really I think MySQL and Oracle are in two different classes. If you are running a blog or a new site or some other smaller less than criticle database, Oracle is really too much. However if you measure the ammount of data you have in Terrabytes instead of Gigabytes then Oracle may be the solution for you instead.
Right now I work for a company that develops a software package that interfaces with Oracle and I hate it. However Oracle seems to be really pushing Java and Linux so it struck me as odd that they are on that panel. Maybe just the odd man out and kindof had to go along. I really like the new stuff in Oracle's JBuilder however setting up their Application Server is a pain. They also have a whole section on using Open Source utilities with Oracle. I think they've realized that open source is here to stay and they need to adapt or die.
You must not be very good at the game of bullshit...
From the Darwine FAQ: Is the Darwin/Mac OS X release of Wine currently able to run Windows executable (.exe)?
No. We are currently working on integrating an x86 emulator in wine in order to run Win32 exe on a PowerPC Box. But on Darwin-x86 a Win32.exe should run within wine.
Also let's clear up a few things: Darwin != OS X Wine != Darwine
Darwin is the open source part of OS X and has been ported to the x86 platform. Darwine is a port of wine to darwin. Darwine will run windows binaries on a x86 system but not a PPC system. Got that?
Sounds like some of the people on slashdot are developing respect for intellectual property. Be careful, our willingness to respect property is what makes it real. If too many people start to respect intellectual property, it will become as real as normal property.
Except this isn't about intellectual property, it is about plagerism. If I make something and you copy it and market it as your own, that's plagerism. Now the GPL allows you to copy it and use it but you still can't claim it as your own or sell it without giving out the source code to anyone who wants it.
Most open source advocates don't tell you to go out and steal software, they may advocate writing your own open source application but they certainly wouldn't recommend stealing someone elses code and claiming it as your own under the GPL.
non standards compliant CSS. (IE that is, Firefox conforms to the standards creating a headache for web developers wanting to maintain a similar look on both platforms)
I would have to agree. At one point Red Hat was a favorite of the open source community. Now with their subscriptions service an all, they are no longer favored.
I don't know if Microsoft was ever really thought of as a respected company. But I think they definately represent what Google has the potential to become, only more so. I mean think of all the data that passes through Google every day. I for one hope they remain moral and ethical and don't decide to sell out.
Also on the integration, I think it can be a good thing. I love my google toolbar in the upper right corner and I love most of the extra services that google is providing besides searching. It will be interesting to see if they integrate them in a non-obtrusive manner.
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Ok, ok, I do know the benefits of the RAW format and I do use it from time to time. (D70 owner) However 90% of my shots are done in jpeg high quality mode. I get a boatload more pictures and it doesn't require me to store a bunch of large pictures I have to convert anyway to get anything done.
Sure I could spend hours converting each picture I take in photoshop using a raw format that is quite a bit larger than a jpeg or I could take the picture correctly the first time and just shoot raw when I am trying to do something tricky or I'm going to blow something up really large. Most pros I know shoot jpeg, not RAW. Most ametures shoot RAW because it lets them fix their mistakes (such as white balance) relatively easily.
Cannon does not have a better line up of lenses, Cannon has better *zoom* lenses and their stability technology is better. However, given the shorter focal length lenses and using a tripod, Nikon lenses are superior.
There always has been and always will be a split between Cannon users and Nikon users. It's like Ford trucks vs. Dodge trucks. Good luck trying to persuade the one camp to like the other.
I'd says porn and games are interchangeably #1 and #2. And the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
From this statement I got that given things that consume a lot of bandwidth, aside from Porn and game, "the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material. You then go on a rambling trying to compare the music industry to ice manufacturers which really has nothing to do with the topic at hand. We're not talking about how RIAA is going to adapt (which is the moral if the ice story) but rather this whole topic is the power that the RIAA has to take away the rights we currently have on the internet.
I am saying that the majority of internet media sharing is illegal.
What data do you have to show this? I would venture to say the opposite is true. However my point is that it Doesn't really matter. The RIAA doesn't have the right to take away my rights to do the things I mentioned above. Maybe the majority of your friends share illegal files but that's certainly not the majority of the internet. The internet is a big place and I would be willing to bet most of them are law abiding.
And the rest is clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
I guess your right, the MPAA must own the rights to the videos I put up on my website for friends and family. You know, the family video clips I put up, they must own those because they are on the internet.
Even apart from that, many news sites offer video clips of news that they offer, is any of this illegal downloading of copyrighted material?
Also while I don't produce music, what about the copyright owners wanting to distribute their songs?
As much as they wish it were true, all media is not owned by RIAA/MPAA.
And aside from that, I stream my music from home to my computer at work. If I own these songs, isn't that legal? Or did RIAA get their way and I have to buy a copy of each song I listen to for the office, home, car, etc...?
Streaming music, offering home videos, home pictures from my 6MP camera (not small pictures) all take up a lot of bandwidth. It's shortsightedness like yours that lead to stupid laws and restrictions because whatever you don't need must be "clearly and unquestionable and overwhelmingly illegal downloading of copyrighted material."
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What do the rating symbols mean?
G General Audiences -- All ages admitted. Signifies that the film rated contains nothing most parents will consider offensive for even their youngest children to see or hear. Nudity, sex scenes, and scenes of drug use are absent; violence is minimal; snippets of conversation may go beyond polite conversation but do not go beyond every-day expressions.
PG Parental Guidance Suggested -- Some material may not be suitable for children. Signifies that the film rated may contain some material parents might not like to expose to their young children -- material that will clearly need to be examined or inquired about before children are allowed to attend the film. Explicit sex scenes and scenes of drug use are absent; nudity, if present, is seen only briefly; horror and violence do not exceed moderate levels.
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned -- Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Signifies that the film rated may be inappropriate for pre-teens. Parents should be especially careful about letting their younger children attend. Rough or persistent violence is absent; sexually-oriented nudity is generally absent; some scenes of drug use may be seen; some use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words may be heard.
R Restricted -- Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian (age varies in some jurisdictions). Signifies that the rating board has concluded that the film rated may contain some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their children to see it. An R may be\ assigned due to, among other things, a film's use of language, theme, violence, sensuality, or its portrayal of drug use. Theater owners and film critics are advised as to why the R rating was assigned; parents are therefore urged to contact their local theatres to learn why the rating board chose the R rating.
NC-17 No children under 17 Admitted (age varies in some jurisdictions). Signifies that the rating board would feel that the film rated is patently adult and that children under the age of 17 should not be admitted to it. The film may contain explicit sex scenes, an accumulation of sexually-oriented language, and/or scenes of excessive violence. The NC-17 designation does not, however, signify that the rated film is obscene or pornographic in terms of sex, language, or violence.
Wow, so you mean that things are locked down by default and you have to specifically enable things like letting users burn cds or mount things?
You have to be root to install almost anything.
Yes and no, some programs allow you to install to your home directory and then you don't need any permissions. Other than that it's the same for any OS, windows included.... it just happens to be that with windows everyone's usually an admin.
You have to be root to mount a CD-ROM, USB device like a dongle or camera, SMB share or floppy.
You have to be root to burn a CD.
chmod my friend...
Now, everyone is going to start screaming that the above trollishness is bogus but, it isn't. Sure, you can easily get around most of this stuff and many distros do. How? They get around it by either giving world writable access to the device or by SUID on the application. It's really no different.
Actually it is very different and you don't have to give world writable access to the devices in question if you don't want to. Have you ever heard of groups? You could for instance make a cdwriter group and then assign users you want to be able to burn cds to that group. The big difference is that there is no way to really do this in windows. You're either an admin or you're not. Giving someone access to write to a cdrom drive won't allow them to say accidentally install some virus. If they do install some virus, it would be limited to things they have access to.
Oh and it's this way with all Unixes, not just Linux. I for one am glad to see windows is finally catching up to UNIX, hopefully they won't mess it up too badly. This wouldn't be the first time I thought windows was going to do something good, only to find they implemented it wrong or introduced a whole slew of other problems.
Reminds me of a very computer literate person I know was installing something... I think it was MS2003 or Oracle or something and the dialog boxes kept coming up and he just kept on hitting ok and then couldn't figure out why something was happening. He asked me for help and I walked through the install with him. At the point where there were several dialog boxes he just kept hitting enter quickly and I said wait a minute, go back... sure enough he quickly dismissed the option he was looking for under a miriad of other dialog boxes.
I feel this is a problem that most software has, too many unimportant dialog boxes. Give me one page where I can set everything up and then don't show me another box unless there's a serious error that would prevent the application from installing properly. Any unimportant errors can wait until the end. I hate walking away from something that's going to take a while only to have a dilog box saying something like "I'm gonna install the next component ok?" Just friggen do it!
that and things you say on slashdot are legally binding.
My reply wasn't based on the ethics of his actions but rather the definition of the word coerced.
You're using the definition in a somewhat correct way, but the context makes the tone of your comments a little off. "Coerced," as in "compelled," true. But if Apple just threw a dart at the phone book and decided to "coerce" someone into giving them $10k, it wouldn't hold up in court.
Yes but apple doesn't have anything over the random person in the phone book. In this particular case, apple could have taken it as far as they could and get as much as they can out of the offender. Hardly a good comparison.
This settlement stuck because it's the tail end of a process that the twaddle-headed developer started through his own (uncoerced) actions. What happened was the playing-out of his own, freely chosen behavior within a framework that he understood and within which he chose to act.
Yes, it was his own decision to distribute tiger...
There's no coercing there, but rather simple justice. Otherwise, you might argue that when you choose to jump off a building, you are then coerced into hitting the ground. Apple said, "You're going to hit the ground either way, buddy, so say you're sorry, and we'll put out something of a mattress for you."
Wrong, when you jump off a building there is only one outcome... you hit something, usually the ground. However pirating software has multiple outcomes. You could get away scott free or you could get caught. Now this person got caught by apple and now apple controls his fate. In your gravity example, gravity controls the building jumpers fate, not apple. Sure apple can help by providing something soft but ultimately gravity is gonna make him fall. Apple could just let him go with a warning and what's done is done. Apple could also sue him for everything he owns.
Now the developer who leaked the release didn't have to admit guilt, however I'm sure apple leaned on him a little and coerced him to admit guilt with a public apology with the promise of not taking him for everything he owns. I'd call that coercion.
Or someone who can't type. Anyone can type fast and inaccurate but who wants to read 'fkasdjfgh lkgha;fgjksdfg'?
thowsand was probably written by someone who didn't know how to spell the work thousand.
I consider myself a fairly fast typist but I rarely make proximity based errors and when I do I spot them because I'm looking at the screen at what I type and not the keyboard.
Normally I don't feed the trolls either but....
.NET has what.... Microsoft? Ok so mono ports it to linux but you're still limiting yourself. Java runs on just about anything so if Microsoft and linux both go away tomorrow you don't have to throw away any of your code.
.Net but it was only a brief thought. With Oracle and JDeveloper it took us very little time to get our stuff up and running. I've used Visial Studio and I really don't see what the big deal is. It's just another IDE that I would put on par with eclipse. However, I still prefer JDeveloper although I will eventually look at some of the plugins for eclipse and it may meet our needs as well. (JDeveloper is free and can be used with other DBs as well so it's not really an issue right now)
.NET so we'll just have to wait and see when Microsoft will decide to stop supporting it and force you to upgrade to .NET2006 and backwards compatibility will kindof work except for any networking features because all the network stuff has been rewritten. (Laugh... that was a joke)
IMHO Java's only useful feature is that it has the best platform portability in computing history (although it isn't perfect). Java apps run about as well on OS X as on Linux as on Windows as on Solaris on their various hardware. That is a wonderful thing. However, Java GUIs pretty much suck on every platform.
Yes, java apps run the same on all the platforms but to say their GUIs pretty much suck on every platform means that you are really misinformed or are basing your assumptions on things you've seen years ago. Take the bittorrent client Azureus... it looks just like any other windows program. The eclipse IDE, again looks just like a windows program. They are both written in Java. So if you think they look bad then you think that all programs on said windowing systems look bad.
As for C#, Ballmer had it right when he said Developers! Developers! Developers!. C# has a completely awesome IDE and a consistent and elegant language that hasn't been patched and tinkered with haphazardly a dozen times. And although I think C# is syntactically and semantically more elegant and consistent and well though out, those facts are irrelevant as well. VB didn't take the lion's share of professional software development because people loved the ascetics of the language. It was all about more easy it made a programmers job. You could do in a day in VB what would take you a week with C and the Win32 API and have fewer bugs to boot. How awesome is that. So now we have the wonderful rapid easy development environment of the VBs of yore mixed with the sugary love of consistent syntax and semantics that is the C# language.
Personally I love the JDeveloper IDE from Oracle. However eclipse is nice once you get it setup. Visual Studio is ok but it still doesn't make up for the fact that you're still having to write in C# or some other windows bastardization of a language.
That's what Java didn't have and doesn't have, and probably never will
Have what a dominace? I dunno, I like what google has done with java and most sites that use Oracle are now starting to use java as well because Oracle is starting to get behind it.
DISCLAMER:
My experience is mostly based on running things in windows. I have tried Eclipse and NetBeans as recently as a couple months ago. I'm a fan of Linux and open source and tinker with Debian at home. But, I am an independent software contractor and value my time and Visual Studio kicks ass.
I value my time as well, that's why I prefer Linux. No more hunting through countless windows to find the right configuration tab... doh, windows moved it again. I can't remember where a config file in Linux is I can search for it. Can you search for a tab in a window? I work for a very small software company and we briefly considered
Of course as you said, Who cares. I'm not going to convince you to use Java and you're certainly not going to convice me to use
Call forwarding is also listed as a feature.... are they just supposed to know where you are and forward your phone there? No of course not, you have to tell it where to forward your calls to just like you have to tell the 911 dialing feature where you are so it knows what call center to forward your calls to.
Personally a link such as 911 Dialing would cause red flags to go up and I would click on it to see all the details. Of course barring that you'd still see the information while setting it up.
So 911 dialing is just like any other feature like voicemail, call forwarding, etc... that requires you to set it up first so how is it not a standard part of the service?
If by bury you mean putting a link on the front page of their website or as a part of the setup procedure then yes, they clearly buried it.
Sure, you can ditch your old landline, what does that have to do with dialing 911? As long as you setup 911 dialing, you can dial 911. However that still has nothing to do with ditching your landline.
Hey, wait a minute, they do! Ok, but get this. Because it's VOIP, they don't really know where you are so they have no idea what call center to route it to. Ok, say I call 911, where would you route me to? Come on it's an emercency, where are you going to route the call? Ok, so as part of the setup, you can activate 911 dialing and include your location. Now it gets routed to the proper 911 call center.
So how is it vonage's fault that the family never provided their location to activate the 911 dialing feature?
Also cell phones route your call based on the cell tower you are using. So that system is flawed as well because I could be in one town, using a cell tower in another town so my call gets routed to the police station on the other side of said town, while I'm standing outside the police station of my own town.
But of course I guess you know all this because you helped keep the 911 computer system up .
Except they probably won't know where you are either unless your local police department has E911. (Enhanced 911) and you phone is relativly new.
Does it also mention that you need a router in the ads? Does it mention that you need to have an existing internet connection? Does it mention you have to have electricity? Does it mention your calls might not go through if you internet connection is down or if you have no electricity?
If you haven't gone to their website and researched it first (like clicking on the 911 Dialing link on the front page) then by the time you are setting it up you can certainly cancel your service and get a refund. However the people who got shot see a chance for easy money, the lawyers are seeing huge $$$ because we're talking a matter of life or death situation.
People need to start taking responsibility for their own actions.
Really, show me an advert that says they fully support 911 dialing....
Also you are very clearly told that you have to activate 911 dialing when you set it up. Setting it up is *very* easy and you are notified once it is setup. But of course like most slashdot posts you like to read opinion and spew it as fact. The article mostly states what the lawsuit is claiming, not what is fact. But at least you RTFA.
How does Vonage lead them to believe it would work perfectly? From vonage's website there is a little link on the front page entitled 911 dialing. The SECOND section says:
911 Dialing Is Not Automatically Set Up for Use. You Must Pre-Activate 911 Dialing. You May Decline 911 Dialing.
Of course this is America and no one reads the documentation and just expects things to work. Did you also know if you dial 911 with your phone police won't know where you are? Some people were on a boat that started to sink and they dialed 911. They didn't know what lake they were on, what city there were in or the friend's address whom they were visiting. They drowned and died and now their families are suing the police because they couldn't help them.
Sure it would be great if we lived in a world where you could just should 911 and the police would come and save you but we don't. I also don't want to live in a world where lawnmowers need to contain warnings that basically say "don't touch the spinning blades, you could loose a hand" or "don't use this to trim your hedges dumbass" or else the manufacturers get sued. I don't want to live in a world where you have to list warnings in advertisements. My other question is would cell phone companies be required to do the same?
I mean come on, does Microsoft warn you that you might get a virus or that someone could hack into your computer? Of course not, why state the obvious. I have vonage and I certainly knew of it's 911 limitations. I also knew of the cell phone 911 limitations. (Of course the cell phone limitations are starting to change and they can usually track you to your nearest cell tower. Except not all police stations have the updated equipment)
Except Oracle is really pushing Linux. In fact all of Oracle's developers are using Linux.
Really I think MySQL and Oracle are in two different classes. If you are running a blog or a new site or some other smaller less than criticle database, Oracle is really too much. However if you measure the ammount of data you have in Terrabytes instead of Gigabytes then Oracle may be the solution for you instead.
Right now I work for a company that develops a software package that interfaces with Oracle and I hate it. However Oracle seems to be really pushing Java and Linux so it struck me as odd that they are on that panel. Maybe just the odd man out and kindof had to go along. I really like the new stuff in Oracle's JBuilder however setting up their Application Server is a pain. They also have a whole section on using Open Source utilities with Oracle. I think they've realized that open source is here to stay and they need to adapt or die.
You must not be very good at the game of bullshit...
.exe should run within wine.
From the Darwine FAQ:
Is the Darwin/Mac OS X release of Wine currently able to run Windows executable (.exe)?
No. We are currently working on integrating an x86 emulator in wine in order to run Win32 exe on a PowerPC Box. But on Darwin-x86 a Win32
Also let's clear up a few things:
Darwin != OS X
Wine != Darwine
Darwin is the open source part of OS X and has been ported to the x86 platform. Darwine is a port of wine to darwin. Darwine will run windows binaries on a x86 system but not a PPC system. Got that?
Sounds like some of the people on slashdot are developing respect for intellectual property. Be careful, our willingness to respect property is what makes it real. If too many people start to respect intellectual property, it will become as real as normal property.
Except this isn't about intellectual property, it is about plagerism. If I make something and you copy it and market it as your own, that's plagerism. Now the GPL allows you to copy it and use it but you still can't claim it as your own or sell it without giving out the source code to anyone who wants it.
Most open source advocates don't tell you to go out and steal software, they may advocate writing your own open source application but they certainly wouldn't recommend stealing someone elses code and claiming it as your own under the GPL.
non standards compliant CSS. (IE that is, Firefox conforms to the standards creating a headache for web developers wanting to maintain a similar look on both platforms)
I would have to agree. At one point Red Hat was a favorite of the open source community. Now with their subscriptions service an all, they are no longer favored.
I don't know if Microsoft was ever really thought of as a respected company. But I think they definately represent what Google has the potential to become, only more so. I mean think of all the data that passes through Google every day. I for one hope they remain moral and ethical and don't decide to sell out.
Also on the integration, I think it can be a good thing. I love my google toolbar in the upper right corner and I love most of the extra services that google is providing besides searching. It will be interesting to see if they integrate them in a non-obtrusive manner.