There will be plentiful disclaimers that the manufacturer can point to in those cases. Take a look at the legal disclaimers on average household appliances. I can imaging they'll be even more amusing for medical devices.
If your logic held true, we wouldn't have electronic blood sugar meters either.
A better analogy would be someone who is stuck in the stone age on dialup and wants to have broadband. You aren't seriously suggesting that people buy the iPhone now and then buy another in a few months?
I think the point you are trying to make is that open source existed prior to that, but not Open Source(tm). Yes it was just a 'name', but it did help drive what is now a thriving industry.
I haven't been interested in anything Tom's has had to say in a long, long time. Their methodology is often shoddy at best, and their opinion is oft swayed by whatever company is giving them the most schwag in any given month.
Sure, but that won't help the other 99.9% of the population who won't know or care.
There will always be ways around any copy protection or DRM. Heck, we could make our own CPU's for sure that would handle anything we wanted. Again, 99.9% of the population wouldn't know or care.
You laugh, and while I agree he is an idiot, if they built DRM into CPU microcode we're fucked. They are already laying the foundations with crap like TPM and the like.
That's a distinction not many people seem to make. If I had mod points I'd mod you up as insightful. How many Slashdoters have read both the Koran and the Bible I wonder? I have, and I'll tell you now that one advocates violence against people not of the faith and the other does not (thought both advocate some archaic forms of punishment such as stoning for adultery, etc.)
"It's totally unacceptable to crash airplanes into buildings and commit suicide bombings," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards innocent people and should be openly condemned by all Muslims immediately."'"
Karma be damned. Most people would post this as an AC, but I am totally sick of the bullshit. They've RIOTED AND KILLED PEOPLE over posting images of their Prophet already. I'm tired of seeing people kowtow to this so called 'Religion of Peace' out of fear of 'offending' them. I applaud Wikipedia for their stand on this.
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Same here. I am 41 and I can hear tones that are higher pitched than my wife's 27 year old coworker or my 17 year old daughter.
If I were to hear this tone in a store I would certainly complain and then vote with my wallet.
Oh it doesn't piss me off. I was just making a point that you helped me make :)
I use Firefox btw.
How come when there's a security hole in an MS product it gets the 'haha' tag, but if it's an OSS project it doesn't?
What he's accomplished so far will make him a lot more influential in Congress. While he never won a primary, he got enough votes to get noticed.
MS bid $31. Yahoo counters with "Not a penny under $40". MS counters with $35 or just does a hostile takeover.
There will be plentiful disclaimers that the manufacturer can point to in those cases. Take a look at the legal disclaimers on average household appliances. I can imaging they'll be even more amusing for medical devices.
If your logic held true, we wouldn't have electronic blood sugar meters either.
I think the exact words were "by any means necessary", so yes, I'd expect a hostile takeover at this point.
Excellent. Have your people call my people and we'll discuss the potential ramifications of these developments over sushi.
I think what you're saying is we need to leverage a new paradigm in order to take things to the next level. Am I right?
A better analogy would be someone who is stuck in the stone age on dialup and wants to have broadband. You aren't seriously suggesting that people buy the iPhone now and then buy another in a few months?
I think the point you are trying to make is that open source existed prior to that, but not Open Source(tm). Yes it was just a 'name', but it did help drive what is now a thriving industry.
I haven't been interested in anything Tom's has had to say in a long, long time. Their methodology is often shoddy at best, and their opinion is oft swayed by whatever company is giving them the most schwag in any given month.
That's ok, you didn't get first post anyways.
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(I did the same thing once btw, don't feel bad
When they are modded as flamebait because their opinion is unpopular then they are not the trolls; the mods are.
And within a month, someone will figure out a way to crack it. It's inevitable.
Subject says it all. I'm so glad I fired them over a year ago.
Sure, but that won't help the other 99.9% of the population who won't know or care.
There will always be ways around any copy protection or DRM. Heck, we could make our own CPU's for sure that would handle anything we wanted. Again, 99.9% of the population wouldn't know or care.
You don't actually expect competence from PC World do you?
That's another arguement and I might even agree. That isn't what we're talking about here though.
You laugh, and while I agree he is an idiot, if they built DRM into CPU microcode we're fucked. They are already laying the foundations with crap like TPM and the like.
That's a distinction not many people seem to make. If I had mod points I'd mod you up as insightful. How many Slashdoters have read both the Koran and the Bible I wonder? I have, and I'll tell you now that one advocates violence against people not of the faith and the other does not (thought both advocate some archaic forms of punishment such as stoning for adultery, etc.)
"It's totally unacceptable to crash airplanes into buildings and commit suicide bombings," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards innocent people and should be openly condemned by all Muslims immediately."'"
Karma be damned. Most people would post this as an AC, but I am totally sick of the bullshit. They've RIOTED AND KILLED PEOPLE over posting images of their Prophet already. I'm tired of seeing people kowtow to this so called 'Religion of Peace' out of fear of 'offending' them. I applaud Wikipedia for their stand on this.
Which part of his need to burn DVD's did you miss?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Panasonic Toughbook, personally.
Is it just me, or is Captain Obvious striking on Slashdot more and more frequently lately?
Anything Anti-Microsoft is on topic in any Slashdot discussion. You should know that!