The Standard version's ToS had prominent "This is beta software and comes with no guarantees" clauses. The premium version has service guarantees, liability, and no beta clause.
According to an Internet survey conducted by Record of the Day of 3,000 people, about one-third of people who downloaded the album paid nothing, with the average price paid being £4. -- Wikipedia
...so that doesn't take into account all the people that pirated it.
You can't pirate an album if it's legally available for download for free. What are you talking about?
Pre-release sales were more profitable than the total money from sales of Hail to the Thief. The week of its retail release, In Rainbows peaked at number one on the UK Album Chart, with first week sales of 44,602 copies. The record sold 122,000 copies in the United States in its first week of official release.In October 2008, the band's publisher Warner Chappell Music Publishing revealed that the album had sold three million copies (including digital and physical format sales) since the album's physical release in January. The vinyl edition of In Rainbows was the top selling vinyl album of 2008.
The Radiohead experiment taught us that large numbers of people will pay for a physical copy even if the download is legally available for free. There are also a large number of people who will pay a reasonable price for the download even when paying isn't required.
We learned that a large number of people wanted this experiment to succeed, indicating that they care about the RIAA's business tactics.
You bring up a good point. Since animation has been brought into the pedophile arena, what happens to teen coming-of-age films? Is it now illegal to show actors (who are over 18) as high-school kids learning about sex?
There's far too much shit wrong in the real world to be heading down the "perceived impropriety" road.
Adultery is illegal here in South Korea. Ok So-ri was given an eight-month suspended sentence for it. Saying something bad about the royal family in Thailand is illegal, even if what you say is true or false but written about fictional characters in fiction.
My point? The law is the law. What it defines as illegal is, by definition, illegal. How that law is interpreted also changes over time and depends on the people determining guilt.
It sucks, and I wish that your "life, liberty of pursuit of happiness" mandate would actually work -- life, liberty, and happiness are difficult to define, after all.
I mean, it's written in Java and although it has a slower index time its search time, index size and relevancy are impressive.
In the "benchmark," it wasn't just impressive in those areas: it had the lowest search time, the smallest index, and the highest relevance. That makes top honors, in my book.
Do you know anything about SELinux? IT's not retrofitting. It's in the kernel. There's no getting around it.
Vista was much more secure than XP, and Win7 is secure, as well, but Win7 already has an exploit in UAC that can't reasonably be fixed, and Win7's not even out yet.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. If you offered facts instead of hand waving and attempted Jedi mind tricks, people might take you more seriously.
Defacing a poorly written PHP app on Apache is just the same as hacking the same app on IIS. That's got nothing to do with the web server, and certainly nothing to do with the kind of exploit we're talking about here.
the poor security practices in the platform are beginning to be exploited...
That's actually what I like about Ubuntu's version of Gnome. It gets out of my way and lets me do the task I'm interested in, instead of fucking with how the desktop environment's developer thinks I should be working. It has sane defaults.[1]
- applications like Beagle are suboptimal mono infection[2]
# Ubuntu doesn't ship with Beagle. It uses Tracker, which is written in C. It's not on by default in Natilius, either.[3]
See how I got to that? It doesn't really matter, though, because Beagle isn't part of Gnome, either. Take a look at the Wikipedia page for Gnome and see what apps were added in what development cycle.
As to the browser... well... you said that LXDE does everything you need so I said that it doesn't include a browser, meaning that you'd have to add that if you wanted to visit the WWW.
I still don't get the Tomboy porting comment, unless you're talking about GNote in a very roundabout way, nor the community governance since LXDE has a foundation and board of directors.
Again, I like LXDE. It's a great minimal desktop. I've been promoting it for a year on my blog, and created a Debian Lenny pre-seed disk for it in my project pages last year. I just don't think that you thought your comment through completely.
Naver is a portal and search engine, despite what IamtheRealMike said. I've been living here in Korea for 5 1/2 years. Naver handles search, shopping, forums, maps, publics information like bus routes, and just about everything else in Korea.
It is so dominant that the number one search on Google in Korea for 2008 was "Naver" (in Hangul). That's right! Koreans only visited Google on accident and immediately went to Naver. If they didn't know the URL, they searched Google for it. What was the second-highest searched term? Daum, another Korean portal.
Not only do Koreans not use Google, they don't use MS OFfice much, either, favoring Hangul Office (.hwp files).
If you follow the blogs, there are several people who give positive reviews to Linux distros. The Hardware blog is always talking about it. The Education blog guy is trying to put Ubuntu thin clients in his school. Jeremy Allison (a.k.a. The Samba Guy) also blogs for them, so he's definitely pro-OSS. I think there are several bloggers with open minds there. They don't always like what they see, but they give things a fair shake.
There's the other group of ZDNet bloggers, though, who are and always have been very pro-MS. They don't use anything else. They generate their income from Windows and the ecosystem. They have closed minds and refuse to even accept Macs as alternatives. ZDNet balances these guys out with a pro-SunRay blogger and a pro-Mac blogger. Overall, I think the blogs are fairly even-handed.
Don't read the comments, though. You ears will bleed. The user comments make Digg's look educated.
An interestingly large number of bloggers on Planet Ubuntu don't use Ubuntu as their day-to-day operating system. The main ZDNet Open Source blogger (Dana) hadn't even tried Linux until late last year, and his machines are all Windows.
What am I doing wrong that I've been using Linux as my main OS since 1997-8? Everyone else seems to agree that it's not possible.
Mac? There's no dock in Gnome, either, so I don't see that it's particularly Mac-ish.
LXDE is GTK, too, so it doesn't do global menus without the globalmenu package, either.
Looks? Gnome uses GTK, just like LXDE, so the themes are the same. If you don't like Gnome's looks, then you don't like LXDE's, either.
Memory? 192MB RAM use for a fully loaded desktop isn't much these days, though it's certainly not LXDE's 48MB.
Ubuntu has Tomboy by default, which includes Mono, but it's easy to remove, doesn't remove anything else, and isn't a part of the default Gnome desktop.
Ubuntu doesn't ship with Beagle. It uses Tracker, which is written in C. It's not on by default in Natilius, either.
Gnome has looked and acted nearly the same for six years. It gets assaulted for that. That's vision. It also has a strict HIG.
The Gnome Foundation has elections. That's not community governance?
LXDE does virtually nothing. That's why it's fast. Don't pretend that Image Viewer has the same features that EOG does, or that LXDE has a document viewer, or a video player, or any of the hundred other things that Gnome has that LXDE doesn't. Deskbar? Heck, LXDE doesn't even have a browser.
If LXDE on Debian does everything you want, you must not want to do much. Either that, or you install a bunch of extra stuff to make up the difference.
And, yes, I know what I'm talking about. I use LXDE (on Sid) at home and Gnome (via Ubuntu 9.04) at work.
The reviewers were all about taking an appliance and complaining that it didn't have video or image editing software or play the right kind of games. I hate tech reviewers for things like this. They're doing it again with smartbooks.
OEMs get to choose what hardware they use. They shouldn't have to hack into Linux because they could have chosen components that just worked. They didn't. Why? That's the $20K question.
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The Standard version's ToS had prominent "This is beta software and comes with no guarantees" clauses. The premium version has service guarantees, liability, and no beta clause.
According to an Internet survey conducted by Record of the Day of 3,000 people, about one-third of people who downloaded the album paid nothing, with the average price paid being £4. -- Wikipedia
...so that doesn't take into account all the people that pirated it.
You can't pirate an album if it's legally available for download for free. What are you talking about?
Pre-release sales were more profitable than the total money from sales of Hail to the Thief. The week of its retail release, In Rainbows peaked at number one on the UK Album Chart, with first week sales of 44,602 copies. The record sold 122,000 copies in the United States in its first week of official release.In October 2008, the band's publisher Warner Chappell Music Publishing revealed that the album had sold three million copies (including digital and physical format sales) since the album's physical release in January. The vinyl edition of In Rainbows was the top selling vinyl album of 2008.
The Radiohead experiment taught us that large numbers of people will pay for a physical copy even if the download is legally available for free. There are also a large number of people who will pay a reasonable price for the download even when paying isn't required.
We learned that a large number of people wanted this experiment to succeed, indicating that they care about the RIAA's business tactics.
Only 8% of people even know what a browser is, much less a user agent string.
You bring up a good point. Since animation has been brought into the pedophile arena, what happens to teen coming-of-age films? Is it now illegal to show actors (who are over 18) as high-school kids learning about sex?
There's far too much shit wrong in the real world to be heading down the "perceived impropriety" road.
Adultery is illegal here in South Korea. Ok So-ri was given an eight-month suspended sentence for it. Saying something bad about the royal family in Thailand is illegal, even if what you say is true or false but written about fictional characters in fiction.
My point? The law is the law. What it defines as illegal is, by definition, illegal. How that law is interpreted also changes over time and depends on the people determining guilt.
It sucks, and I wish that your "life, liberty of pursuit of happiness" mandate would actually work -- life, liberty, and happiness are difficult to define, after all.
I mean, it's written in Java and although it has a slower index time its search time, index size and relevancy are impressive.
In the "benchmark," it wasn't just impressive in those areas: it had the lowest search time, the smallest index, and the highest relevance. That makes top honors, in my book.
Since 95% of drivers are idiots, I can't wait for computer-controlled cars.
Do you know anything about SELinux? IT's not retrofitting. It's in the kernel. There's no getting around it.
Vista was much more secure than XP, and Win7 is secure, as well, but Win7 already has an exploit in UAC that can't reasonably be fixed, and Win7's not even out yet.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. If you offered facts instead of hand waving and attempted Jedi mind tricks, people might take you more seriously.
Defacing a poorly written PHP app on Apache is just the same as hacking the same app on IIS. That's got nothing to do with the web server, and certainly nothing to do with the kind of exploit we're talking about here.
the poor security practices in the platform are beginning to be exploited...
Oh, yeah. Apache in a chroot, SELinux, and AppArmor make for poor security practices. Friggin' swiss chesse, that is!
Good luck doing anything further than exploiting the code in the web app. You're stuck serving drive-by downloads to unaware WinXP users.
I want to know how Softmaker gets an 8 for value and OO.o only gets a 9. It's free (and Free). If the scores are so close, shouldn't OO.o get a 10?
"Redundant" or "Overrated" are more common these days since they don't get meta-moderated.
That's actually what I like about Ubuntu's version of Gnome. It gets out of my way and lets me do the task I'm interested in, instead of fucking with how the desktop environment's developer thinks I should be working. It has sane defaults.[1]
- applications like Beagle are suboptimal mono infection[2]
# Ubuntu doesn't ship with Beagle. It uses Tracker, which is written in C. It's not on by default in Natilius, either.[3]
See how I got to that? It doesn't really matter, though, because Beagle isn't part of Gnome, either. Take a look at the Wikipedia page for Gnome and see what apps were added in what development cycle.
As to the browser ... well ... you said that LXDE does everything you need so I said that it doesn't include a browser, meaning that you'd have to add that if you wanted to visit the WWW.
I still don't get the Tomboy porting comment, unless you're talking about GNote in a very roundabout way, nor the community governance since LXDE has a foundation and board of directors.
Again, I like LXDE. It's a great minimal desktop. I've been promoting it for a year on my blog, and created a Debian Lenny pre-seed disk for it in my project pages last year. I just don't think that you thought your comment through completely.
It was a partly informational and partly joking comment. The linked article is titled "YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine "
Naver is a portal and search engine, despite what IamtheRealMike said. I've been living here in Korea for 5 1/2 years. Naver handles search, shopping, forums, maps, publics information like bus routes, and just about everything else in Korea.
It is so dominant that the number one search on Google in Korea for 2008 was "Naver" (in Hangul). That's right! Koreans only visited Google on accident and immediately went to Naver. If they didn't know the URL, they searched Google for it. What was the second-highest searched term? Daum, another Korean portal.
Not only do Koreans not use Google, they don't use MS OFfice much, either, favoring Hangul Office (.hwp files).
YouTube is the #2 search engine.
Agreed that they aren't too useful for me, but Boxee does torrents and runs on Linux, so it's really my only choice of the three.
If you follow the blogs, there are several people who give positive reviews to Linux distros. The Hardware blog is always talking about it. The Education blog guy is trying to put Ubuntu thin clients in his school. Jeremy Allison (a.k.a. The Samba Guy) also blogs for them, so he's definitely pro-OSS. I think there are several bloggers with open minds there. They don't always like what they see, but they give things a fair shake.
There's the other group of ZDNet bloggers, though, who are and always have been very pro-MS. They don't use anything else. They generate their income from Windows and the ecosystem. They have closed minds and refuse to even accept Macs as alternatives. ZDNet balances these guys out with a pro-SunRay blogger and a pro-Mac blogger. Overall, I think the blogs are fairly even-handed.
Don't read the comments, though. You ears will bleed. The user comments make Digg's look educated.
An interestingly large number of bloggers on Planet Ubuntu don't use Ubuntu as their day-to-day operating system. The main ZDNet Open Source blogger (Dana) hadn't even tried Linux until late last year, and his machines are all Windows.
What am I doing wrong that I've been using Linux as my main OS since 1997-8? Everyone else seems to agree that it's not possible.
Keep in mind that this is a government project. Not really known for coming in on time and under budget, are they?
My guess is that it could have been handled better, but they look to be over the hump.
Can we get like a panel of hardware engineers to have a discussion with this guy and can I get some popcorn?
Slashdotters might want to take a look at the details of the Google servers to see what Heiliger is looking for. There's also a video tour.
You joke, but that's what we actually did in the late 70's / early 80s.
Wow.
LXDE does virtually nothing. That's why it's fast. Don't pretend that Image Viewer has the same features that EOG does, or that LXDE has a document viewer, or a video player, or any of the hundred other things that Gnome has that LXDE doesn't. Deskbar? Heck, LXDE doesn't even have a browser.
If LXDE on Debian does everything you want, you must not want to do much. Either that, or you install a bunch of extra stuff to make up the difference.
And, yes, I know what I'm talking about. I use LXDE (on Sid) at home and Gnome (via Ubuntu 9.04) at work.
The reviewers were all about taking an appliance and complaining that it didn't have video or image editing software or play the right kind of games. I hate tech reviewers for things like this. They're doing it again with smartbooks.
OEMs get to choose what hardware they use. They shouldn't have to hack into Linux because they could have chosen components that just worked. They didn't. Why? That's the $20K question.
I want to know how Asus pulling the Seadragon-based netbook from Computex after the first day fits into this "smoking gun" theory.