I could swear I saw an article on a similar product recently, but the company was working on both rollable displays and paint on screens to use as customizeable wall paper (hmm...I'm in a mauve flower mood today...). trying to find the link but it was a few weeks ago and it was one of those middle-of-the-night, can't-sleep, random walks through the internet.
Reading the article I found it interesting to note that in the penalties section a heavy fine was expected but the media player issue was preceded by "may". In other words, pay us a bunch of money and we will let the whole media player issue slide.
Also, not sure if anyone noticed this, but in the first section they threw in the word "servers" as one of the embedded systems that has broken the cometition laws. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention the last time I rebuilt my 2000 or XP boxes, but I could have sworn all the servers were optional installs, I mean if they weren't why would Apache have more installs than IIS...?
And on the IE issue, I still remember hacking the CSS file for windows explorer several years ago to put a little lemming in the top left of my windows explorer pages...Sure they could just not include the IE icon in the system, but removing all things IE from the system would require a rewrite of a lot of the GUI which is currently based on CSS and HTML, something that I think is actually a nifty idea, no matter who is doing it.
And last, and more specifically, Media Player. Those of you who have problems with it grabbing file associations and popping up on it's own and such, err, to bad. I have no pity for you. I haven't seen Windows media player since I last reinstalled me windows boxes. I did nothing special that I am aware of, I'm by no means a Systems expert, I just associated the files to other programs. Took a couple minutes. Oh the pain. Maybe your confusing Windows Media Player with Real Player, the spyware posing as media crap.
Honestly, if this isn't a joint effort of the RIAA and SCO to make Linux users and P2P users both seem even more unreasonable in the news then they are probably kicking themselves for not having thought it up first. I wish people weren't offering so many positive responses to this because all it will do is cast negative images on both the Linux and file sharing community...
I read through the article and it seems like the judge is asking for it to be reworded rather than stricken, and the piece in quesiton is only the expert advice portion, not the pre-existing portion concerning materials/resources.
So while the people who are jumping up and down for joy about pieces being over-ruled may have to wait for a while, I'm personally happy that we are looking at suggested corrections. I don't by any means think the patriot act is perfect, but I much prefer people trying to improve on it rather than just throw it aay all together.
I find it very odd that "openness" and "cost"" were valued over business viability. I'm not questioning the decision (yet), but it looks odd to me that all points in the article lead to Linux. In my mind I always believed OEMs were after business viability first (they can always overcharge later).
In all seriousness, I think it's rather insutling to both countries you have nmentioned to think that switching measurement systems would solve all of their problems. Minimizing current tensions much?
I do agree on the communications issue though. But taken from a differant angle this is exactly what many of us have to deal with everyday with software and design and development projects, except when we are slightly off in our communications with the customer we can't hold a ruler up to it...
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I could swear I saw an article on a similar product recently, but the company was working on both rollable displays and paint on screens to use as customizeable wall paper (hmm...I'm in a mauve flower mood today...). trying to find the link but it was a few weeks ago and it was one of those middle-of-the-night, can't-sleep, random walks through the internet.
I'm with the cash grab people on this one.
Reading the article I found it interesting to note that in the penalties section a heavy fine was expected but the media player issue was preceded by "may". In other words, pay us a bunch of money and we will let the whole media player issue slide.
Also, not sure if anyone noticed this, but in the first section they threw in the word "servers" as one of the embedded systems that has broken the cometition laws. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention the last time I rebuilt my 2000 or XP boxes, but I could have sworn all the servers were optional installs, I mean if they weren't why would Apache have more installs than IIS...?
And on the IE issue, I still remember hacking the CSS file for windows explorer several years ago to put a little lemming in the top left of my windows explorer pages...Sure they could just not include the IE icon in the system, but removing all things IE from the system would require a rewrite of a lot of the GUI which is currently based on CSS and HTML, something that I think is actually a nifty idea, no matter who is doing it.
And last, and more specifically, Media Player. Those of you who have problems with it grabbing file associations and popping up on it's own and such, err, to bad. I have no pity for you. I haven't seen Windows media player since I last reinstalled me windows boxes. I did nothing special that I am aware of, I'm by no means a Systems expert, I just associated the files to other programs. Took a couple minutes. Oh the pain. Maybe your confusing Windows Media Player with Real Player, the spyware posing as media crap.
Honestly, if this isn't a joint effort of the RIAA and SCO to make Linux users and P2P users both seem even more unreasonable in the news then they are probably kicking themselves for not having thought it up first.
I wish people weren't offering so many positive responses to this because all it will do is cast negative images on both the Linux and file sharing community...
By the way I drive a Ford Taurus SHO :)
Well that explains your dislike
I read through the article and it seems like the judge is asking for it to be reworded rather than stricken, and the piece in quesiton is only the expert advice portion, not the pre-existing portion concerning materials/resources.
So while the people who are jumping up and down for joy about pieces being over-ruled may have to wait for a while, I'm personally happy that we are looking at suggested corrections. I don't by any means think the patriot act is perfect, but I much prefer people trying to improve on it rather than just throw it aay all together.
I find it very odd that "openness" and "cost"" were valued over business viability. I'm not questioning the decision (yet), but it looks odd to me that all points in the article lead to Linux. In my mind I always believed OEMs were after business viability first (they can always overcharge later).
Errr....riiiight.
In all seriousness, I think it's rather insutling to both countries you have nmentioned to think that switching measurement systems would solve all of their problems. Minimizing current tensions much?
I do agree on the communications issue though. But taken from a differant angle this is exactly what many of us have to deal with everyday with software and design and development projects, except when we are slightly off in our communications with the customer we can't hold a ruler up to it...