Really? And who is coming up with this standard? The people? I think not - it's 19 Taiwanese companies.
So the powerbase is still in corporate hands. Note that is is not apparently an open-source effort - it is a CORPORATE effort.
Say it with me - CORPORATE.
Sarcasm aside, good for them. It probably won't make it over here, but it would be a good thing if it did. We could separate video DVD's from data DVD's and finally get Hollywood off the consumer's back. It would also be a good consumer-level format.
I would be more worried about the source of the statement. If Symantec is the one saying that Macs aren't immune to virii, I would look very closely when an OS X virus comes out. After all, "who watches the watchmen" and "things get broken,see? Accidents... happen..." and all that.
I would not only look at the source for the Mac virus, I would look at the writer (if he/she is ever found) and possible connections to Symantec.
Maybe I'm just a paranoid overreactor, but it's statements like that of Symantec that make me very suspicious of their intentions.
Actually, I'd recommend a good set of earphones. That way the sound comes from the same direction as the screen and you can carry it around with you conveniently.
I gotta go with a previous poster, though. Get a TV and a decent DVD player. The DVD thing on laptops was devised for bored businessmen on long flights and stuck in hotels.
But you have no right to be disappointed if he has not accepted the role. If one accepts that one is a role model, then fine, but otherwise, you're just applying needless pressure.
So what happens then Role Model refuses to accept the role? You can't force him to accept that job and all the attendant responsibilities without removing the very freedom that the GNU and Open Source communities value so much.
99% of Slashdot readers would be fighting MS execs to be the lead frothers and bitching because MS doesn't know how to froth properly.
There would be an RFC about proper frothing etiquette, and another about frothing efficiently.
30 minutes after the riot started, there'd be at least four schisms within the Slashdot frothing community, each claiming that their froth was better than all the others.
Somebody would start %. so that other frothers could get in the action.
MS would find that the one thing no one really wants is a frother, so they would refuse to embrace and extend frothers.
Frothdotters would get really upset about that and froth even more.
Look, dumbass, it's pretty obvious that the law would apply to people inside the US borders and not those outside the US borders. There's just as big a problem with false registration inside our country as out of it.
So now the ball's in your court to get people in YOUR country to not provide false information, oh, but wait, no one from your country EVER does anything unethical do they?
You absolutely refuse to believe that a company can go under on it's own without any overt help from Microsoft? Microsoft wasn't interested anymore - this instance was not a monopoly power grab on their part.
Sheesh!
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A non-scarcity based economy assumes that there are unlimited resources, a population limited by natural means to a fixed upper limit, or that people are willing to share what resources they have freely, none of which is true.
We don't have unlimited amounts of even the most basic necessary resources (ie., water). Our population continues to expand, usually in regions of the world that can ill afford it in the first place. We've pretty much proven that people are at the least somewhat greedy and will hog resources if they perceive a shortage.
And we have no natural predators.
The non-scarcity based economy will remain a fantasy for Star Trek watchers and pipe-dreamers for some centuries to come.
I'll grant you the second part of your response, I'm one of those that has no particular religious beliefs about the superiority of any operating system.
But, a trend I've noticed, if only because I myself am horribly guilty of it, is that the bulk of the Linux crowd values freedom only so long as it doesn't as it doesn't inconvenience them and as long as it doesn't go outside their own world view, regardless of code usage or any other factor.
I got a spamcall on my cellphone one day (I live in TX). When I told the guy he'd called a cellphone, he apologized profusely and hung up immediately. Apparently, telemarketers can get in a lot of trouble if they call a cellphone.
It also helps that I'm not listed in any directory that I'm aware of, and I have no land line.
You get one system - one install. I made the mistake of registering my box after installation and then did a full reload from zero several times because I was trying to learn the process and didn't know better at the time. I couldn't register that machine again.
Not exactly a newbie-friendly feature. I'm still pissed at RedHat for that one.
As I understand things, a search warrant is only served if there a compelling reason (ie., evidence to suggest that there is other evidence that can help to convict or clear a suspect). For the "fishing license" argument to hold would require several members of a department and/or several judges to work in collusion.
That's not to say it can't happen, but it does make the likelihood very low.
I think the greater problem here is that we are becoming more and more distrustful of EVERYONE and the police are an easy target because they have to do a very visible public task in a manner that is, at the time, unpleasant and confrontational.
Some people care. Only a small percentage are actually vocal and an even smaller percentage of those are actually willing to do something about it.
Let's face it - spam is easy to bitch about because it is an annoyance, but only that. It's like traffic noise - it's there, people bitch about it, but no one really does anything about it, and wouldn't notice it if it was gone.
Everyone has their pet peeve (reasonable and unreasonable) and mine is a stubborn absolute refusal to run Intel processors. Does anyone do an AMD version of the shoebox case or do I just have to sit here and get really pissed off?
Dan Poole comes across as having a bad case of sour grapes. Sure, it's great to see some guy hanging it all out there one the edge, risking his life, etc., but it doesn't necessarily make for a better movie. There are other factors involved such as story, acting, etc.
Since Poole makes his comments without having seen the newest version, I tend to disqualify his commentary as having any validity.
OK, so some Open Sourcer will compile the thing for free, but that's not where the monetary loss comes in. You lose money whenever you allow any advantage to your competition and apparently, Apple fees that Linux is competition.
Be glad that your choice of OS is making people sit up and take notice, but you should not get mad when someone starts treating you like real competition.
However, they might be encouraged to go after people who were dumb enough to make threats (you know SOMEONE would do it) or lump it all under a RICO case for harassment.
If you want to be effective, go after the source of the complaint. More than likely, AGFA went to the lawyers saying they wanted it stopped, and the lawyers have to act in the best interest of their CLIENT.
Submitting Flash to a standards process would slow development while the committee hashed out details. They would also lose whatever edge they have by being able to bring new features to market first.
Standards are fine for widely used protocols based in publicly-funded research, but Flash was developed and updated by privately-owned companies and there is no need to have a committee around to retard development.
I really doubt it's an active conspiracy on Apple's part - the software business is at best a shaky balancing act: R&D vs. ROI.
The return on porting or allowing Quicktime to be ported to Linux would be nil - there aren't enough Linux users who would be willing to BUY the QT player to make it pan out on the R&D end.
Second, the goodwill generated would be short-term at best, since the most vocal Linux users don't want anything to do with commercial software. It's hard to justify providing a product to someone for free when the loudest barking dogs are barking at you.
Then again, it could be a conspiracy - but Apple is under no obligation to provide ANY tools to Linux users, since that could hurt their own bottom line with OSX.
When it comes down to it, Linux on the desktop has yet to prove that it can generate a long-term sustainable business model, except in a few limited instances. Things are going well on the server side, but the desktop is headed in so many directions, it's impossible to tell who's on top and therefore deserves the largest chunk of development money.
For those times when you have to go to the command line in Windows, some of the command names are completely different. If you absolutely must include the command line utils, then I would suggest aliasing or wrapping in a shell script to get the command name and syntax to something more familiar.
The commandline tools in Windows (all versions) are pretty brain-dead, since they are leftovers from DOS.
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Really? And who is coming up with this standard? The people? I think not - it's 19 Taiwanese companies.
So the powerbase is still in corporate hands. Note that is is not apparently an open-source effort - it is a CORPORATE effort.
Say it with me - CORPORATE.
Sarcasm aside, good for them. It probably won't make it over here, but it would be a good thing if it did. We could separate video DVD's from data DVD's and finally get Hollywood off the consumer's back. It would also be a good consumer-level format.
I would be more worried about the source of the statement. If Symantec is the one saying that Macs aren't immune to virii, I would look very closely when an OS X virus comes out. After all, "who watches the watchmen" and "things get broken,see? Accidents ... happen ..." and all that.
I would not only look at the source for the Mac virus, I would look at the writer (if he/she is ever found) and possible connections to Symantec.
Maybe I'm just a paranoid overreactor, but it's statements like that of Symantec that make me very suspicious of their intentions.
Actually, I'd recommend a good set of earphones. That way the sound comes from the same direction as the screen and you can carry it around with you conveniently.
I gotta go with a previous poster, though. Get a TV and a decent DVD player. The DVD thing on laptops was devised for bored businessmen on long flights and stuck in hotels.
But you have no right to be disappointed if he has not accepted the role. If one accepts that one is a role model, then fine, but otherwise, you're just applying needless pressure.
So what happens then Role Model refuses to accept the role? You can't force him to accept that job and all the attendant responsibilities without removing the very freedom that the GNU and Open Source communities value so much.
99% of Slashdot readers would be fighting MS execs to be the lead frothers and bitching because MS doesn't know how to froth properly.
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There would be an RFC about proper frothing etiquette, and another about frothing efficiently.
30 minutes after the riot started, there'd be at least four schisms within the Slashdot frothing community, each claiming that their froth was better than all the others.
Somebody would start %. so that other frothers could get in the action.
MS would find that the one thing no one really wants is a frother, so they would refuse to embrace and extend frothers.
Frothdotters would get really upset about that and froth even more.
Yadda yadda yadda
Look, dumbass, it's pretty obvious that the law would apply to people inside the US borders and not those outside the US borders. There's just as big a problem with false registration inside our country as out of it.
So now the ball's in your court to get people in YOUR country to not provide false information, oh, but wait, no one from your country EVER does anything unethical do they?
You diehard, you!
You absolutely refuse to believe that a company can go under on it's own without any overt help from Microsoft? Microsoft wasn't interested anymore - this instance was not a monopoly power grab on their part.
Sheesh!
A non-scarcity based economy assumes that there are unlimited resources, a population limited by natural means to a fixed upper limit, or that people are willing to share what resources they have freely, none of which is true.
We don't have unlimited amounts of even the most basic necessary resources (ie., water). Our population continues to expand, usually in regions of the world that can ill afford it in the first place. We've pretty much proven that people are at the least somewhat greedy and will hog resources if they perceive a shortage.
And we have no natural predators.
The non-scarcity based economy will remain a fantasy for Star Trek watchers and pipe-dreamers for some centuries to come.
I'll grant you the second part of your response, I'm one of those that has no particular religious beliefs about the superiority of any operating system.
But, a trend I've noticed, if only because I myself am horribly guilty of it, is that the bulk of the Linux crowd values freedom only so long as it doesn't as it doesn't inconvenience them and as long as it doesn't go outside their own world view, regardless of code usage or any other factor.
This is not freedom. This is anarchy.
True. But computer viruses don't kill people.
Yet.
I got a spamcall on my cellphone one day (I live in TX). When I told the guy he'd called a cellphone, he apologized profusely and hung up immediately. Apparently, telemarketers can get in a lot of trouble if they call a cellphone.
It also helps that I'm not listed in any directory that I'm aware of, and I have no land line.
Try living in the U.S. sometime. See how you feel about the rest of the world hating your guts (except UK, NZ, AU, and CA(and I've got my eye on CA)).
You get one system - one install. I made the mistake of registering my box after installation and then did a full reload from zero several times because I was trying to learn the process and didn't know better at the time. I couldn't register that machine again.
Not exactly a newbie-friendly feature. I'm still pissed at RedHat for that one.
Personally, I'm still pondering the wisdom of giving anything to a country that would really like to wipe us off the face of the earth.
As I understand things, a search warrant is only served if there a compelling reason (ie., evidence to suggest that there is other evidence that can help to convict or clear a suspect). For the "fishing license" argument to hold would require several members of a department and/or several judges to work in collusion.
That's not to say it can't happen, but it does make the likelihood very low.
I think the greater problem here is that we are becoming more and more distrustful of EVERYONE and the police are an easy target because they have to do a very visible public task in a manner that is, at the time, unpleasant and confrontational.
Some people care. Only a small percentage are actually vocal and an even smaller percentage of those are actually willing to do something about it.
Let's face it - spam is easy to bitch about because it is an annoyance, but only that. It's like traffic noise - it's there, people bitch about it, but no one really does anything about it, and wouldn't notice it if it was gone.
People like to bitch and spam is an easy target.
Everyone has their pet peeve (reasonable and unreasonable) and mine is a stubborn absolute refusal to run Intel processors. Does anyone do an AMD version of the shoebox case or do I just have to sit here and get really pissed off?
Wait ... you're asking this on Slashdot? That's like asking Palestine to get along with Israel or vice versa.
Dan Poole comes across as having a bad case of sour grapes. Sure, it's great to see some guy hanging it all out there one the edge, risking his life, etc., but it doesn't necessarily make for a better movie. There are other factors involved such as story, acting, etc.
Since Poole makes his comments without having seen the newest version, I tend to disqualify his commentary as having any validity.
OK, so some Open Sourcer will compile the thing for free, but that's not where the monetary loss comes in. You lose money whenever you allow any advantage to your competition and apparently, Apple fees that Linux is competition.
Be glad that your choice of OS is making people sit up and take notice, but you should not get mad when someone starts treating you like real competition.
However, they might be encouraged to go after people who were dumb enough to make threats (you know SOMEONE would do it) or lump it all under a RICO case for harassment.
If you want to be effective, go after the source of the complaint. More than likely, AGFA went to the lawyers saying they wanted it stopped, and the lawyers have to act in the best interest of their CLIENT.
Submitting Flash to a standards process would slow development while the committee hashed out details. They would also lose whatever edge they have by being able to bring new features to market first.
Standards are fine for widely used protocols based in publicly-funded research, but Flash was developed and updated by privately-owned companies and there is no need to have a committee around to retard development.
I really doubt it's an active conspiracy on Apple's part - the software business is at best a shaky balancing act: R&D vs. ROI.
The return on porting or allowing Quicktime to be ported to Linux would be nil - there aren't enough Linux users who would be willing to BUY the QT player to make it pan out on the R&D end.
Second, the goodwill generated would be short-term at best, since the most vocal Linux users don't want anything to do with commercial software. It's hard to justify providing a product to someone for free when the loudest barking dogs are barking at you.
Then again, it could be a conspiracy - but Apple is under no obligation to provide ANY tools to Linux users, since that could hurt their own bottom line with OSX.
When it comes down to it, Linux on the desktop has yet to prove that it can generate a long-term sustainable business model, except in a few limited instances. Things are going well on the server side, but the desktop is headed in so many directions, it's impossible to tell who's on top and therefore deserves the largest chunk of development money.
For those times when you have to go to the command line in Windows, some of the command names are completely different. If you absolutely must include the command line utils, then I would suggest aliasing or wrapping in a shell script to get the command name and syntax to something more familiar.
The commandline tools in Windows (all versions) are pretty brain-dead, since they are leftovers from DOS.