Sorry to reply to this thread like this, but I wanted to talk to you about your submission today, and can't find an email address - any chance you can drop me one?
Not to burst anyone's bubble here, but I'm thinking that those sites probably would have still been busted even if they stuck to free to air content.
How many TV torrents still contain the original advertisements they aired with? I'm thinking in the region of.. hmm... zero? Now, how is all this "free to air" television subsidised? Oh? Advertisements?
CONSUMER: We demand this new open file format - it allows us more choice and prevents us from being locked down to one Word Processor exclusively.
OPENOFFICE: Okay, we've included it. Now you can read and write to this new open format!
MICROSOFT: We've just added support for the new format too. You can read all open format Word Processor documents in Word. We didn't include a function to write to an open document - our users don't want that kind of complication.
OPENOFFICE: Let's sit back and wait for this open file format to kick start the OpenOffice adoption!
CONSUMER: Microsoft just offered us Office free for 5 years when they found out we were considering an open source alternative to our operating system. Word can even read all these open format files we have created in OpenOffice - let the migration begin!
It's all very well having an open document system, but let's look at this in detail:
For this system to work, every office app needs to adopt this file format. That way, companies can theoretically switch between vendors. Why would Microsoft, who already have the lion's share of the office market include this format? That would surely be shooting themselves in the feet.
If there were, say, three competing office suites each with 33% of the market share, then you could understand them wanting to include support for this format - companies would demand that the app supported them or switch to an alternative. However, when one office suite controls anything in the region of up to 96% of the market share, it'll take a lot more than a common open file format to persuade the average business to move away from a program that is pretty much the standard, whether we like it or not.
Shareaza has support for Gnutella, Gnutella 2, Edonkey and Bittorrent. As it provides a "bridge" between these networks, it means I am able to search for torrents from the two Gnutella networks, and edk. When I have this torrent, I can open it using the bittorrent part of Shareaza, and if that torrent is down, Shareaza will still hash the torrent and attempt to download the appropriate files from the Gnutella and eDonkey neworks. It's a nice idea, and really unites all the various p2p methods, using each method's strength to give an all round solid result.
I'm surprised that it's taken Azureus this long to catch up, and I'm sure we'll start to see a lot more bittorrent clients either offering their own solutions to this issue, or as in the case of Shareaza, using existing p2p networks to give backup to the Bittorrent protocol.
Why exactly are Ubuntu attempting to recreate the wheel here?
This has already been done by Specifix / Foresight Linux (www.foresightlinux.com)
These distros use a system called Conary, developed in part by the guy behind RPM, and the idea of Conary is to offer distro independent management.
Troves can be shadowed between distros, so you can create a distro easily by shadowing a "parent" distro and picking and choosing your updates.
It stores source code and changesets, so all you Gentoo ricers can do an emerge from conary, and the rest of us sane people can just pull up the changesets that give the system instructions on what to change to install package "xyz". The other beauty of changesets is that it gives a degree of distro neutrality.
Bizarre that Ubuntu want to reinvent the wheel rather than contributing to something that already exists.
There is nothing remotely funny or challenging about giving a new user an unfamiliar command to wipe his disk clean.
This example differs from TFA, as the user was the one instigating the hostile action, and therefore was receving poetic justice. However, in your example, you've just been unecessarily obnoxious. And now you come onto a geek wesbite to brag about it. Wow!
I'd suggest you put all that energy into trying to get laid instead.
Isn't Knoppix primarily a KDE live CD? Isn't it Gnome that has inspired this user to want to try Linux? If this is so, why would he want to try something based around KDE?
Seriously, I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but I end up frequently lining up to use my home bank's ATMs. The last thing I need is some idiot stood there for 10 minutes logging on to check that his electricity bill was paid this month.
Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't they essentially the same kernel, with Embedded being a stripped down version?
Either way, I wouldn't be the house on the kernel and networking components of XP being free from holes and possible exploits, Embedded or otherwise...
making their hardware only able to purchase tracks from their own online store
I'm not talking about ripping a CD and making an mp3 of it, or downloading from Kazaa here. I'm talking about freedom to buy music from an online store other than iTunes. There is none of that with the iPod, and that's why the iTunes store is being investigated for price fixing by the European Union.
Believe it or not, just like Apple, Microsoft also used to have an army of fanboys for whom MS could do no wrong. I remember the fevered launch of Windows 95, with them all lining up outside stores at midnight to be the first to own a copy - I don't think even the Apple fanboys have got this bad yet!
However, for all the blind loyalty, slowly but surely people started to hate Microsoft. I can see Apple going exactly the same way. Why? Because like Microsoft, they have started to screw the average Joe around and act anti-competitively.
When they make their cute little computers, they can pretty much get away with charging at a premium, as they have total lock-in and nobody else can make a compatible, yet cheaper device (and competition is one of the main things that commerce is founded on). However, with, for example, the iPod and iTunes store, a lot of other companies have been able to produce alternatives that are cheaper, and do the job just as well, but better. What's the Apple answer? Lower the costs? Make their products (Fairplay DRM I'm looking at you) more attractive to consumers? Nope. Instead they try to stifle the competition by making their hardware only able to purchase tracks from their own online store (which kind of feels like a car manufacturer only allowing their cars to be used with their own brand gas), and taking legal action against any competitor that tries to provide tracks that can be made to work with Apple's hardware.
If that isn't anti-competitive, and the Microsoft way, then I don't know what is.
Time maybe, but then again, I have just returned from a month's voluntary stint out there.
Re money: I loved the Clerks animated series, for example. I'd dearly love to see a return to our screens. However, I'd rather donate towards a worthwhile cause, than a full page newspaper ad requesting this.
Ummm maybe geeks are a whole lot more sheltered than I credited them for, but it may interest the geek community to know that there was this REALLY big wave that killed hundreds of thousands of people, and destroyed many more lives. These people could probably have put the money raised towards that ad to a lot better use than a newspaper that will run an ad begging for a fantasy show to be continued, that had no practical application, and was cancelled in the first place because NOBODY WANTED TO WATCH IT and thefore was not even financially viable enough to run.
Well with Linux, I can play pretty much any game I want, from the native port of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, through the catalogue of Windows games that run through WineX. Sure, it isn't pretty, but it's better than nothing. Or trying to build a good games catalogue on a Mac.
Cute. Except that when you install Debian, you're installing over 500 additional apps. 51 bug fixes for 500+ apps isn't that bad to be honest. 13 bug fixes for Windows, Internet explorer, Media Player and Office is atrocious. Especially when you consider that Microsoft take on average 1-2 months to fix a single bug.
Okay so the ratings plain suck. With this in mind, why are the fans trying to raise money to keep it on the air? The viewing public have voted with their feet, so why make an attempt to force the show onto people?
I just don't understand how you can have a group of people that dig a show, yet cannot accept that they are in a minority, and are about the only people in the planet that want to continue watching it.
Assuming they did raise the cash, what would they expect? That everyone in America would suddenly turn on their sets, declare how stupid they'd been and start watching it every week? Ludicrous.
RTFA. It doesn't block access to the sites, but merely automatically disables, javascript, ActiveX and all the other components that could be exploited by a nasty webpage. It also flashes up a warning dialog box.
All in all, this really could shape up to be a killer feature. I'd feel a lot safer leaving my parents surfing on NS 8 with this feature enabled, than I would with Firefox, and I LOVE Firefox - I just feel that less experienced users need their hands held more, and if Netscape are willing to do that, I'll send over newbies to them.
The iPod process is seriously too weak to run ogg? That's bizarre. My less expensive iRiver plays ogg, and has a battery life that is on average about 25% longer than that of an iPod.
Could the profit margins on iPods be WAY higher than we're lead to believe?
Nice. Your disustingly obscene fees are just giving the fatcats yet another statistic - "We had to spent xxx thousands of dollars per hour to defend against these criminals!"
Maybe you should try actually talking to your esteemed clients, and suggesting to them that if, quoting the music industry as an example, they didn't want to make $8 of PURE PROFIT on a CD, whilst giving artists a 50 cents share that they may be able to reduce prices, and make the cost of a CD lower to the point that it becomes less attractive to download music than to buy an inexpensive plastic disc. But then you might be actually making a difference and changing things for the better, and I guess if you wanted to do that, you wouldn't be an attorney.
When I was much much younger, I used to purchase a magazine - Micro User for my BBC Micro. For about 10+ years, this published code listings ever month. You typed in 500ish lines of code, and were rewarded with a game or a useful little utility.
It was very frustrating to enter all of the code and not have the program run. Therefore, they introduced a checksum program. This ran on the code and gave you a string of digits back, which you could compare with the digits issued in the magazine. This was active from 1984 onwards, and most likely even before that.
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Sorry to reply to this thread like this, but I wanted to talk to you about your submission today, and can't find an email address - any chance you can drop me one?
Thanks!
Not to burst anyone's bubble here, but I'm thinking that those sites probably would have still been busted even if they stuck to free to air content.
How many TV torrents still contain the original advertisements they aired with? I'm thinking in the region of.. hmm... zero? Now, how is all this "free to air" television subsidised? Oh? Advertisements?
Do you see now?
CONSUMER: We demand this new open file format - it allows us more choice and prevents us from being locked down to one Word Processor exclusively.
OPENOFFICE: Okay, we've included it. Now you can read and write to this new open format!
MICROSOFT: We've just added support for the new format too. You can read all open format Word Processor documents in Word. We didn't include a function to write to an open document - our users don't want that kind of complication.
OPENOFFICE: Let's sit back and wait for this open file format to kick start the OpenOffice adoption!
CONSUMER: Microsoft just offered us Office free for 5 years when they found out we were considering an open source alternative to our operating system. Word can even read all these open format files we have created in OpenOffice - let the migration begin!
OPENOFFICE: Oh dear.
It's all very well having an open document system, but let's look at this in detail:
For this system to work, every office app needs to adopt this file format. That way, companies can theoretically switch between vendors. Why would Microsoft, who already have the lion's share of the office market include this format? That would surely be shooting themselves in the feet.
If there were, say, three competing office suites each with 33% of the market share, then you could understand them wanting to include support for this format - companies would demand that the app supported them or switch to an alternative. However, when one office suite controls anything in the region of up to 96% of the market share, it'll take a lot more than a common open file format to persuade the average business to move away from a program that is pretty much the standard, whether we like it or not.
It's been rock solid for me using Foresight Linux + Wine - 72 hours so far and counting :)
Perhaps the stability issues are related more to the operating system it's used on, and how that operating system handles network sockets?
This is a little like Shareaza.
Shareaza has support for Gnutella, Gnutella 2, Edonkey and Bittorrent. As it provides a "bridge" between these networks, it means I am able to search for torrents from the two Gnutella networks, and edk. When I have this torrent, I can open it using the bittorrent part of Shareaza, and if that torrent is down, Shareaza will still hash the torrent and attempt to download the appropriate files from the Gnutella and eDonkey neworks. It's a nice idea, and really unites all the various p2p methods, using each method's strength to give an all round solid result.
I'm surprised that it's taken Azureus this long to catch up, and I'm sure we'll start to see a lot more bittorrent clients either offering their own solutions to this issue, or as in the case of Shareaza, using existing p2p networks to give backup to the Bittorrent protocol.
Why exactly are Ubuntu attempting to recreate the wheel here?
This has already been done by Specifix / Foresight Linux (www.foresightlinux.com)
These distros use a system called Conary, developed in part by the guy behind RPM, and the idea of Conary is to offer distro independent management.
Troves can be shadowed between distros, so you can create a distro easily by shadowing a "parent" distro and picking and choosing your updates.
It stores source code and changesets, so all you Gentoo ricers can do an emerge from conary, and the rest of us sane people can just pull up the changesets that give the system instructions on what to change to install package "xyz". The other beauty of changesets is that it gives a degree of distro neutrality.
Bizarre that Ubuntu want to reinvent the wheel rather than contributing to something that already exists.
Actually, this just makes you sound like a dick.
There is nothing remotely funny or challenging about giving a new user an unfamiliar command to wipe his disk clean.
This example differs from TFA, as the user was the one instigating the hostile action, and therefore was receving poetic justice. However, in your example, you've just been unecessarily obnoxious. And now you come onto a geek wesbite to brag about it. Wow!
I'd suggest you put all that energy into trying to get laid instead.
You can also read it here:
http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=62#more-62
I prefer "KDE trolls are just as bad as Apple fanboys"
Isn't Knoppix primarily a KDE live CD? Isn't it Gnome that has inspired this user to want to try Linux? If this is so, why would he want to try something based around KDE?
Seriously, I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but I end up frequently lining up to use my home bank's ATMs. The last thing I need is some idiot stood there for 10 minutes logging on to check that his electricity bill was paid this month.
Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't they essentially the same kernel, with Embedded being a stripped down version?
Either way, I wouldn't be the house on the kernel and networking components of XP being free from holes and possible exploits, Embedded or otherwise...
making their hardware only able to purchase tracks from their own online store
I'm not talking about ripping a CD and making an mp3 of it, or downloading from Kazaa here. I'm talking about freedom to buy music from an online store other than iTunes. There is none of that with the iPod, and that's why the iTunes store is being investigated for price fixing by the European Union.
Believe it or not, just like Apple, Microsoft also used to have an army of fanboys for whom MS could do no wrong. I remember the fevered launch of Windows 95, with them all lining up outside stores at midnight to be the first to own a copy - I don't think even the Apple fanboys have got this bad yet!
However, for all the blind loyalty, slowly but surely people started to hate Microsoft. I can see Apple going exactly the same way. Why? Because like Microsoft, they have started to screw the average Joe around and act anti-competitively.
When they make their cute little computers, they can pretty much get away with charging at a premium, as they have total lock-in and nobody else can make a compatible, yet cheaper device (and competition is one of the main things that commerce is founded on). However, with, for example, the iPod and iTunes store, a lot of other companies have been able to produce alternatives that are cheaper, and do the job just as well, but better. What's the Apple answer? Lower the costs? Make their products (Fairplay DRM I'm looking at you) more attractive to consumers? Nope. Instead they try to stifle the competition by making their hardware only able to purchase tracks from their own online store (which kind of feels like a car manufacturer only allowing their cars to be used with their own brand gas), and taking legal action against any competitor that tries to provide tracks that can be made to work with Apple's hardware.
If that isn't anti-competitive, and the Microsoft way, then I don't know what is.
Time maybe, but then again, I have just returned from a month's voluntary stint out there.
Re money: I loved the Clerks animated series, for example. I'd dearly love to see a return to our screens. However, I'd rather donate towards a worthwhile cause, than a full page newspaper ad requesting this.
Ummm maybe geeks are a whole lot more sheltered than I credited them for, but it may interest the geek community to know that there was this REALLY big wave that killed hundreds of thousands of people, and destroyed many more lives. These people could probably have put the money raised towards that ad to a lot better use than a newspaper that will run an ad begging for a fantasy show to be continued, that had no practical application, and was cancelled in the first place because NOBODY WANTED TO WATCH IT and thefore was not even financially viable enough to run.
Well with Linux, I can play pretty much any game I want, from the native port of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, through the catalogue of Windows games that run through WineX. Sure, it isn't pretty, but it's better than nothing. Or trying to build a good games catalogue on a Mac.
Cute. Except that when you install Debian, you're installing over 500 additional apps. 51 bug fixes for 500+ apps isn't that bad to be honest. 13 bug fixes for Windows, Internet explorer, Media Player and Office is atrocious. Especially when you consider that Microsoft take on average 1-2 months to fix a single bug.
Okay so the ratings plain suck. With this in mind, why are the fans trying to raise money to keep it on the air? The viewing public have voted with their feet, so why make an attempt to force the show onto people?
I just don't understand how you can have a group of people that dig a show, yet cannot accept that they are in a minority, and are about the only people in the planet that want to continue watching it.
Assuming they did raise the cash, what would they expect? That everyone in America would suddenly turn on their sets, declare how stupid they'd been and start watching it every week? Ludicrous.
RTFA. It doesn't block access to the sites, but merely automatically disables, javascript, ActiveX and all the other components that could be exploited by a nasty webpage. It also flashes up a warning dialog box.
All in all, this really could shape up to be a killer feature. I'd feel a lot safer leaving my parents surfing on NS 8 with this feature enabled, than I would with Firefox, and I LOVE Firefox - I just feel that less experienced users need their hands held more, and if Netscape are willing to do that, I'll send over newbies to them.
The iPod process is seriously too weak to run ogg? That's bizarre. My less expensive iRiver plays ogg, and has a battery life that is on average about 25% longer than that of an iPod.
Could the profit margins on iPods be WAY higher than we're lead to believe?
Nice. Your disustingly obscene fees are just giving the fatcats yet another statistic - "We had to spent xxx thousands of dollars per hour to defend against these criminals!"
Maybe you should try actually talking to your esteemed clients, and suggesting to them that if, quoting the music industry as an example, they didn't want to make $8 of PURE PROFIT on a CD, whilst giving artists a 50 cents share that they may be able to reduce prices, and make the cost of a CD lower to the point that it becomes less attractive to download music than to buy an inexpensive plastic disc. But then you might be actually making a difference and changing things for the better, and I guess if you wanted to do that, you wouldn't be an attorney.
When I was much much younger, I used to purchase a magazine - Micro User for my BBC Micro. For about 10+ years, this published code listings ever month. You typed in 500ish lines of code, and were rewarded with a game or a useful little utility.
It was very frustrating to enter all of the code and not have the program run. Therefore, they introduced a checksum program. This ran on the code and gave you a string of digits back, which you could compare with the digits issued in the magazine. This was active from 1984 onwards, and most likely even before that.
Prior art?
You were looking for this:
www.e-buyonline.com