I'm waiting for some minor browser vulnerability to get exploited to place a greasemonkey-style script which replaces ads by major ad providers like Google, etc. with some slimy Russian ad network's ads.
I bet there's some really big money to be made that way. Spam in your favorite web page.
As ad revenues go down, many sites are lured into running advertising of a truly questionable nature.
Ars is full of crap on this issue. Annoying and questionable ads didn't come about because of ad blockers. Ad blockers came about to stop the animated "your computer is infected" GIFs and "punch the monkey" Flash ads. Many ad blocker lists specifically avoided blocking text ads because these weren't annoying and borderline illegal.
Ad blocker are a result of evil ads, just like popup blockers were invented to stop annoying pop ups, (not because someone in some tall tower thought that popup blocker might be useful at some future time). Wake up, Ars.
Your Gnome-do problem is probably owing to a network-aware plug-in and some interaction with NetwokManager. Do you get a prompt to unlock your keyring on login?
I prefer DocbarX to a dock. It's rather like the Win7 taskbar -- a combination of a dock and a normal taskbar. Combine with Compiz's window previews to make a wonderful (and small) taskbar.
I certainly don't believe that she was innocently infringing, but I see no reason why her lawyer wasn't allowed to make that argument and for the court to weigh the evidence.
The Great Depression would have killed the trade unions if not for The National Labor Relations Act. I'm pretty anti-government involvement, too, but I think you chose the wrong example there.
Everyone should remember that the next time someone tells you you "wasted your vote" for supporting a third-party candidate. By that reasoning, anyone who didn't vote for the winning candidate wasted a vote.
Point noted although I'm sure people have already noticed that the internet hasn't buggy whipped either TV or radio. Also change even new change doesn't happen overnight.
I've lived in Thailand for five of the last ten years, and this part of the world is famous for having no real comprehension of copyright. Years ago, the government here tried to move toward FOSS in a bid to reduce piracy and improve international relations.
MS came in and offered to legitimize all pirated copies of (IIRC) Win98 and give the government an absurd price on WinXP for its offices, based on an exclusive contract. FOSS wasn't allowed.
So yeah, MS would rather take a short-term loss than have people switch to another platform.
There is a precedent for this. Google disable comments and uploads form S. Korea when Korea introduced a law requiring all accounts to be ties to the national ID number, something Google wasn't set up to do or particularly interested in doing. Google could just turn off the same functions in Italy.
I don't think that there was anyone talking about forcing anyone to do anything. In fact no one forced you to argue via reductio ad absurdum, but you did it, anyway. Isn't freedom nice?:)
More seriously, most people could commute less. Many people could do without a computer (or ten). In fact, that's common in Asia, where gamers don't want to waste a bunch of money upgrading constantly. The game room absorbs the cost over many clients. More people could live in apartments or planned housing, which speaks directly to the AC that said he lives 50 miles from work in order to have a large house and yard. Not everyone needs to be Mr. Blandings.
People get to make that choice: I don't want to let them pretend that they had no choice or were required to buy a house or an SUV, unless they were. Most people just want to keep up with the Jones, even if that means going into massive debt, commuting an hour and a half each way, and getting all the massive stress that goes along with those things.
Me? I'll take a condo, a bike, public transportation, no debt, and two years' living money in the bank. It's better for my health. It's better for my future.
You are an exception. Most people, though, could structure their lives so that they could do without a 160km/day commute. Most could do without cars at all.
It's new to him, apparently. He doesn't want to learn about something that changed in the last two decades. (That point should be obvious since I talk about using LTSP almost ten years ago.)
By the way, I, too, used time sharing at university in the 80s, and it sucked. The mainframe was over-provisioned while hundreds of CS and engineering majors tried to code and solve advanced math problems on it at the same time. The failure of my university (and his, apparently) to do terminals correctly doesn't mean that they can't be done well. Fat_mike needs to figure that out.
Five years ago, I was running twenty clients per 100Mb/s switch and terminal server, and there was no slowdown at all. Sure, a 10Mb/s non-switched environment is going to suck. That's not in any modern setup, though, and if you're going to move to a terminal server arrangement, network modernization is going to be in your budget for the program.
Sorry, but it's you that doesn't know what he's talking about, since you're too "time share" phobic to find out what's really going on.
Give me an enterprise-class machine (disk access, etc., though two machines would be better) of he same caliber as a high-end desktop from today, and I can run 15-20 cheap diskless clients off of it in a Gbit, switched environment, with the same performance of a low-end desktop from today. 3D accelleration. All the desktop apps. Local storage and printer access. How does that work? The performance comes from shared application libraries among different clients and cached memory on the server.
Yeah, I've done this in production environment. I've done it in my business. I'm not a jobless troll. It works. It saves a ton of money. Users have no idea anything's different than a standard desktop, except that booting is five times faster, and when hardware fails, I can rip a client out, put a new one in, and have the client back up and running in 5 minutes. I fix the broken client on my schedule instead of holding up work for it.
You don't do exactly what the project says it does. The project uses diskless system with no ROM OS to boot to a full X session or RDP session. Jim McQuillan basically wrote a system to duplicte what he was doing for hospitals at the time. When I used LTSP often (from 0.9 to 4.0, circa 2000-2004), the process worked like this:
PXE boot to find a kernel
Get DHCP address
load the root file system
Pivot root into the new system
NFS mount/home
Start X session with optional server chooser.
Log in to an X session on the server while still being able to use local sound, printers, and USB drives.
I'd also like to give a big shout out to Eric Harrison, who made the whole system easy to use for schools with K12LTSP (now K12Linux).
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I'm waiting for some minor browser vulnerability to get exploited to place a greasemonkey-style script which replaces ads by major ad providers like Google, etc. with some slimy Russian ad network's ads.
I bet there's some really big money to be made that way. Spam in your favorite web page.
As ad revenues go down, many sites are lured into running advertising of a truly questionable nature.
Ars is full of crap on this issue. Annoying and questionable ads didn't come about because of ad blockers. Ad blockers came about to stop the animated "your computer is infected" GIFs and "punch the monkey" Flash ads. Many ad blocker lists specifically avoided blocking text ads because these weren't annoying and borderline illegal.
Ad blocker are a result of evil ads, just like popup blockers were invented to stop annoying pop ups, (not because someone in some tall tower thought that popup blocker might be useful at some future time). Wake up, Ars.
Your Gnome-do problem is probably owing to a network-aware plug-in and some interaction with NetwokManager. Do you get a prompt to unlock your keyring on login?
I prefer DocbarX to a dock. It's rather like the Win7 taskbar -- a combination of a dock and a normal taskbar. Combine with Compiz's window previews to make a wonderful (and small) taskbar.
I was agreeing with and expanding on the parent post, not arguing its point.
I certainly don't believe that she was innocently infringing, but I see no reason why her lawyer wasn't allowed to make that argument and for the court to weigh the evidence.
The Great Depression would have killed the trade unions if not for The National Labor Relations Act. I'm pretty anti-government involvement, too, but I think you chose the wrong example there.
You obviously didn't read TFA. Internet 2.0 (commercialization) ended in 2009. We're now in Internet 3.0 (government control).
Everyone should remember that the next time someone tells you you "wasted your vote" for supporting a third-party candidate. By that reasoning, anyone who didn't vote for the winning candidate wasted a vote.
Point noted although I'm sure people have already noticed that the internet hasn't buggy whipped either TV or radio. Also change even new change doesn't happen overnight.
Give it time, young Padawan.
Hehe. Good tongue-in-cheek response. Just for the record, though -- I'm American, born and raised. ;)
I've lived in Thailand for five of the last ten years, and this part of the world is famous for having no real comprehension of copyright. Years ago, the government here tried to move toward FOSS in a bid to reduce piracy and improve international relations.
MS came in and offered to legitimize all pirated copies of (IIRC) Win98 and give the government an absurd price on WinXP for its offices, based on an exclusive contract. FOSS wasn't allowed.
So yeah, MS would rather take a short-term loss than have people switch to another platform.
There is a precedent for this. Google disable comments and uploads form S. Korea when Korea introduced a law requiring all accounts to be ties to the national ID number, something Google wasn't set up to do or particularly interested in doing. Google could just turn off the same functions in Italy.
In your analogy, the account holder is the newspaper editor. Google is the delivery company that picks it up and trucks it off.
Yeah, but Adobe is in its fight with Apple and thought "Hey, I know! What we need is more platform-specific games." O_o
I don't think that there was anyone talking about forcing anyone to do anything. In fact no one forced you to argue via reductio ad absurdum, but you did it, anyway. Isn't freedom nice? :)
More seriously, most people could commute less. Many people could do without a computer (or ten). In fact, that's common in Asia, where gamers don't want to waste a bunch of money upgrading constantly. The game room absorbs the cost over many clients. More people could live in apartments or planned housing, which speaks directly to the AC that said he lives 50 miles from work in order to have a large house and yard. Not everyone needs to be Mr. Blandings.
People get to make that choice: I don't want to let them pretend that they had no choice or were required to buy a house or an SUV, unless they were. Most people just want to keep up with the Jones, even if that means going into massive debt, commuting an hour and a half each way, and getting all the massive stress that goes along with those things.
Me? I'll take a condo, a bike, public transportation, no debt, and two years' living money in the bank. It's better for my health. It's better for my future.
You are an exception. Most people, though, could structure their lives so that they could do without a 160km/day commute. Most could do without cars at all.
That's pretty much what I was getting at, yeah.
You aren't by chance a pilot from Austin, TX, are you? ;)
It's probably the same patent issues claimed in 2004: Linux potentially infringes 283 patents.
It's new to him, apparently. He doesn't want to learn about something that changed in the last two decades. (That point should be obvious since I talk about using LTSP almost ten years ago.)
By the way, I, too, used time sharing at university in the 80s, and it sucked. The mainframe was over-provisioned while hundreds of CS and engineering majors tried to code and solve advanced math problems on it at the same time. The failure of my university (and his, apparently) to do terminals correctly doesn't mean that they can't be done well. Fat_mike needs to figure that out.
Five years ago, I was running twenty clients per 100Mb/s switch and terminal server, and there was no slowdown at all. Sure, a 10Mb/s non-switched environment is going to suck. That's not in any modern setup, though, and if you're going to move to a terminal server arrangement, network modernization is going to be in your budget for the program.
You can use LTSP to boot directly from bare metal to an RDP login. Does that count?
It's designed to be used over a local, switched network. Is that normally slow for you? The standard now is 1Gb/s.
Sorry, but it's you that doesn't know what he's talking about, since you're too "time share" phobic to find out what's really going on.
Give me an enterprise-class machine (disk access, etc., though two machines would be better) of he same caliber as a high-end desktop from today, and I can run 15-20 cheap diskless clients off of it in a Gbit, switched environment, with the same performance of a low-end desktop from today. 3D accelleration. All the desktop apps. Local storage and printer access. How does that work? The performance comes from shared application libraries among different clients and cached memory on the server.
Yeah, I've done this in production environment. I've done it in my business. I'm not a jobless troll. It works. It saves a ton of money. Users have no idea anything's different than a standard desktop, except that booting is five times faster, and when hardware fails, I can rip a client out, put a new one in, and have the client back up and running in 5 minutes. I fix the broken client on my schedule instead of holding up work for it.
Stop being afraid and learn some new tech.
You don't do exactly what the project says it does. The project uses diskless system with no ROM OS to boot to a full X session or RDP session. Jim McQuillan basically wrote a system to duplicte what he was doing for hospitals at the time. When I used LTSP often (from 0.9 to 4.0, circa 2000-2004), the process worked like this:
I'd also like to give a big shout out to Eric Harrison, who made the whole system easy to use for schools with K12LTSP (now K12Linux).