whenever I'd see something like the grainy videophone footage we got used to in Gulf War 1.0, that looked like it was shot with a QuickCam using the Sony Pantycam(tm) image enhancement.
As someone else pointed out, there's enough bandwith for better pictures. Oh dear, that's an AC and might be a troll. Anyone who remembers "satilite broadcasts" on CNN from the last Gulf war might think pictures could be clear. Surely capacity has not decreased since?
Grainy pictures, however, are a nice Product Placement.
This really looks like a fundamental misunderstanding of the GPL and the nature of source code in general. If someone uses GPL code, they have to make their mods to it available now, not after earning some supposed amount of money. Now if companies want to release their own code that works with free code, wonderful! But what's the point? Selling binaries is a dead end. Free software will always end up doing the same thing better if it does not do it first. Grab the code, use it, make it better, give it back, this is the future and all else is looking back.
Good for HP supporting both Red Hat and Debian. I hope they fund the Free Software Society too. Only someone lost in the strange paranoid world of closed source would think it's strange. The days of competing binary file formats, binary executables that you don't own and paying through the nose for software you already bought are over. Those who view the world in a way that supports garbage like that are in for a rude awakening.
Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet, and anyone who jokes about it is just showing their ignorance. (sorry timothy)
Let's examine dates, shall we? Ask the tree himself what he did. Well, it's a little dishonest, Gore dropped out of law school, but the dates are hard to refute.
When the internet was "invented" in 1969, Al Gore was acting as a combat reporter in Vietnam. Comendable enough, but the Senator's son had it much better than most. We can imagine his grasp of computing was about as broad as his expressed interst in such things at the time and for years to come, ZERO.
In the next five years he failed as a farmer, priest and lawyer. No biggie, lots of nice people fail at many things and the effort is commendable if not exceptional. Yet, where is the interest in computing while Unix is being created?
In 1976, Gore started his long and unbroken career as a politician. According to this empasioned defense Al Gore made his first concrete contribution to what we know of as the internet with, "High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991." Not bad, he beat Bill Gates to caring, but it's hardly the kind of stuff you could call "instrumental".
Clearly, however, he suffered from his associations with one of the most agresivly dishonest administrations in US history. We can give credit to Al Gore for the 1996 Telecomunications Act, which failed, and the DMCA. It's a mixed record by someone who's writing proves a deep ignorance of many important technical matter. It's right to distinguish between people who understand technical details and those who pretend to know. It would be one thing if he stood on his record honestly. His agradizing and pretenses were blatant enough for people who wanted him elected to notice. The New York Times, the Washington Post and other paper called him on this.
I can only imagine that Apple thinks Gore has some influence to wield in shcool and government computer purchases. It's inconcievable they hired him for technical reasons.
Yes it was, and Gore liked to take credit for all things "technological". You know, filling two 747s with reporters for an all Africa "Environmental" tour, stuff like that. I'll never forget Bill Clinton's words when he signed that stupid law into existence, "Just because it's easy to do, that does not make it right." It's amazing that the people who say GWB has no brain, and he might not you know, generally don't see what idiots Clinton and Gore were.
What this reeks of is influence peddling. The same administration that thought it could stifle the widening Paula Jones sex scandal by forcing an intern on a private company might also offer public school computer sales for a price. Al Gore's ability to deliver those sales may be as fictional as Bill's ability to get Monica a sinecure at a large cosemetics company, but that would not keep him from offering the service.
what happens when Yahoo decides that mydomain.com is a spam domain and sends a bounce message for each of your spliners? The only solution is what yahoo is supposed to stand for, "You Always Have Other Options". So, if Yahoo is obnoxing you it's time to learn not to do anything with yahoo and tell your friends.
Do people who make this mistake think it is the suggested reading direction?
Who said a person made this mistake? How do you know it was not the auto-correct feature of M$ Word? Be glad the M$ meat heads don't give books foreskins instead.
Foreskin - a protective collection of words at the start of a book. Some people think of them as superflous, others call them Introductions.
How's that for forward of me?
Ever heard of a book so up front?
The direction depends on it's state.
OK, I'm going to stop mow, my wife is punching me.
I agree, the article is a snow job. The reason rhetoric from the AAs and "DRM advocats" does not match their actions is because they are being dishonest about their goal. The goal is to have pay per play, no share media for all works. From that perspective, it is obvious that all steps will be taken to make the technology "bullet proof" and pervert the law into a protectionist scheme for consolidated publishers. They may zig, zag and obfuscate, but the end game is the same.
DRM is very simple. If there is a file on your machine that others can read and write but you can not, then someone else owns your machine. If all machines are owned in this manner and the law supports it, the law has violated the first amendment gaurntee of free press. If I can't make one of these or an anyonymous handbill equivalent with my own equipment the way I chose, then there is no free press. That is a much greater threat than the colapse of the pulp music sheet industry and it's illegitimate vinyl and radio broadcasting heirs.
DRM is the largest threat to the free flow of information ever. It has the ability to undo not just the digital revolution, but the benifits of mechinized paper publication as well. Once books were chained to their shelves in libraries and only a privaledged few could look at them. DRM chains are stronger than any steel.
You say, "1. To distract anyone considering OSS and make them feel like there is a viable alternative from a single accountable entity. (Something that most OSS has a little trouble providing)" and the rest of your post is blather, half promotion of M$ BS, all distraction. I'll pay attention to the one half reasonable thing you said.
If you think M$ is accountable for anything, you must have missed item 6 and 7 varients of which which appear in ALL of their EULAs:
6. That the Software comes "as is", with no warranties. None whatsoever. This means no express, implied or statutory warranty, including without limitation, warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any warranty of title or non-infringement....
7. That neither Microsoft nor its suppliers will be liable for any of those types of damages known as indirect, special, consequential, or incidental related to the Software or this license, to the maximum extent the law permits, no matter what legal theory it's based on....
I just love the arrogance of it. They have demonstrated again and again they don't care about the law, but that "no matter what legal theory it's based on." takes the cake.
This is a pretty big step for Microsoft. They are, to a legal extent, relinquishing complete control of the source. Now you can maintain a private fork of the SSL source.
Secure Socket Layer fork? Didn't they just get all their stuff from BSD to begin with? - end joke.
No rights are granted. Item #13 says, " 13. That this license contains the only rights associated with the Software and Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this license." Items one through twelve tell you what you can not do. What a typical M$ con job. I agree whole heartedly with the poster who thinks that this license is simply "buzword complient" and designed to confuse.
Anti-Microsoft bias? Sure, if you call having a memory and using it a bias.
Okay Stallman... You can have this gift I bought for you, but you must allow everyone else that right as well. If anything prevents others from using it, you cannot make use of it either.
If you have food, water, shelter and warmth like that, please give me some so that I might share it. In the mean time, you can use all the RMS code you like and so can I despite your best wishes. You have your wishes and I have mine.
I hope someone nice is around when you turn all that hate inward towards it's source.
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2) Because transferring data between Macs and PCs, despite Mac OS X, can still be a pain. VPC makes it easy to read files without great pains if you have the software.
That's true for any OS and M$, and that's why I don't run M$. Why do you run M$?
3) Because some people need an environment where they can test matters without forking over additional cash.
You are shitting me? This cheaper than having an ugly M$ box?
4) Cables suck. KVMs work, but suck. Multiple keyboards suck. Multiple anything with computers generally suck.
That's why God created X and SSH. Six boxes, one keyboard, one mouse, no problems. Wanna play some Quake?
What could be better? I think MS would be crazy to kill it off. So that leaves only better support for the product and smoother operation (we hope)... Macs and Windows will finally start to get along.
Right. Isn't that what Corel and SCO thought of their M$ cash infusions? They get along fine now. No more competing word processor or comercial OS for Intel. So smooth without competition.
,i> So, driving to work in my Lincoln Navigator while smoking dope and listening to my pirated copy of Rage Against the Machine was probably not the best way to start the day?
Yeah, that car your momie bought you will eat enough oil to buy armored vehicle. Continue on into the haze, Milo, the world will still be there when you crawl out of the punishing little environment you are making for yourself. You might not be able to hear it so well and your lungs won't work but the world will be there.
Who needs paper? The 1024 byte tag contains a URL, so you knew the terms, unilaterally changeable of course, all along. Also, making compatible items or modifying or removing the chip will violate the DMCA. Cut the tag out? What are you, some kind of hacker?
84. Prior to the SCO lawsuit, SCO was the software equivalent of a bicycle. After the SCO lawsuit, SCO was the software equivalent of a bicycle. No value added.
If you don't let your integrity get in the way of making a living, what the hell is your integrity worth?
And what does it say about the computer industry and Microsoft if losing the opportunity to work at Microsoft has to be considered a serious problem by someone?
My comment was sarcastic. I'd no more do something that violated my sense of efforts for a job than I'd rob a bank or sell myself on the street. The parent poster said that he would have kissed ass had he know that other jobs would not be available. It was sad that he thought that being well paid at an unethical company surrounded by "smart people" was worth being dishonest. I tried to mouth that opinion in a way that was sure to be seen as wrong.
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As someone else pointed out, there's enough bandwith for better pictures. Oh dear, that's an AC and might be a troll. Anyone who remembers "satilite broadcasts" on CNN from the last Gulf war might think pictures could be clear. Surely capacity has not decreased since?
Grainy pictures, however, are a nice Product Placement.
This really looks like a fundamental misunderstanding of the GPL and the nature of source code in general. If someone uses GPL code, they have to make their mods to it available now, not after earning some supposed amount of money. Now if companies want to release their own code that works with free code, wonderful! But what's the point? Selling binaries is a dead end. Free software will always end up doing the same thing better if it does not do it first. Grab the code, use it, make it better, give it back, this is the future and all else is looking back.
Shoot, HP might just turn around and dump Alphas! Now that would be cool. They are beholden to themselves before Intel.
Good for HP supporting both Red Hat and Debian. I hope they fund the Free Software Society too. Only someone lost in the strange paranoid world of closed source would think it's strange. The days of competing binary file formats, binary executables that you don't own and paying through the nose for software you already bought are over. Those who view the world in a way that supports garbage like that are in for a rude awakening.
Let's examine dates, shall we? Ask the tree himself what he did. Well, it's a little dishonest, Gore dropped out of law school, but the dates are hard to refute.
When the internet was "invented" in 1969, Al Gore was acting as a combat reporter in Vietnam. Comendable enough, but the Senator's son had it much better than most. We can imagine his grasp of computing was about as broad as his expressed interst in such things at the time and for years to come, ZERO.
In the next five years he failed as a farmer, priest and lawyer. No biggie, lots of nice people fail at many things and the effort is commendable if not exceptional. Yet, where is the interest in computing while Unix is being created?
In 1976, Gore started his long and unbroken career as a politician. According to this empasioned defense Al Gore made his first concrete contribution to what we know of as the internet with, "High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991." Not bad, he beat Bill Gates to caring, but it's hardly the kind of stuff you could call "instrumental".
Clearly, however, he suffered from his associations with one of the most agresivly dishonest administrations in US history. We can give credit to Al Gore for the 1996 Telecomunications Act, which failed, and the DMCA. It's a mixed record by someone who's writing proves a deep ignorance of many important technical matter. It's right to distinguish between people who understand technical details and those who pretend to know. It would be one thing if he stood on his record honestly. His agradizing and pretenses were blatant enough for people who wanted him elected to notice. The New York Times, the Washington Post and other paper called him on this.
I can only imagine that Apple thinks Gore has some influence to wield in shcool and government computer purchases. It's inconcievable they hired him for technical reasons.
What this reeks of is influence peddling. The same administration that thought it could stifle the widening Paula Jones sex scandal by forcing an intern on a private company might also offer public school computer sales for a price. Al Gore's ability to deliver those sales may be as fictional as Bill's ability to get Monica a sinecure at a large cosemetics company, but that would not keep him from offering the service.
Those bounces will be forwarded back to them, so whatever floats the spammers boat, they can have fun with it.
I detect recursion of a sort that might quicly eat all of your bandwith.
what happens when Yahoo decides that mydomain.com is a spam domain and sends a bounce message for each of your spliners? The only solution is what yahoo is supposed to stand for, "You Always Have Other Options". So, if Yahoo is obnoxing you it's time to learn not to do anything with yahoo and tell your friends.
Who said a person made this mistake? How do you know it was not the auto-correct feature of M$ Word? Be glad the M$ meat heads don't give books foreskins instead.
Foreskin - a protective collection of words at the start of a book. Some people think of them as superflous, others call them Introductions.
How's that for forward of me?
Ever heard of a book so up front?
The direction depends on it's state.
OK, I'm going to stop mow, my wife is punching me.
DRM is very simple. If there is a file on your machine that others can read and write but you can not, then someone else owns your machine. If all machines are owned in this manner and the law supports it, the law has violated the first amendment gaurntee of free press. If I can't make one of these or an anyonymous handbill equivalent with my own equipment the way I chose, then there is no free press. That is a much greater threat than the colapse of the pulp music sheet industry and it's illegitimate vinyl and radio broadcasting heirs.
DRM is the largest threat to the free flow of information ever. It has the ability to undo not just the digital revolution, but the benifits of mechinized paper publication as well. Once books were chained to their shelves in libraries and only a privaledged few could look at them. DRM chains are stronger than any steel.
If you think M$ is accountable for anything, you must have missed item 6 and 7 varients of which which appear in ALL of their EULAs:
6. That the Software comes "as is", with no warranties. None whatsoever. This means no express, implied or statutory warranty, including without limitation, warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any warranty of title or non-infringement. ...
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7. That neither Microsoft nor its suppliers will be liable for any of those types of damages known as indirect, special, consequential, or incidental related to the Software or this license, to the maximum extent the law permits, no matter what legal theory it's based on.
I just love the arrogance of it. They have demonstrated again and again they don't care about the law, but that "no matter what legal theory it's based on." takes the cake.
No rights were granted
Secure Socket Layer fork? Didn't they just get all their stuff from BSD to begin with? - end joke.
No rights were granted.
Anti-Microsoft bias? Sure, if you call having a memory and using it a bias.
Happy Birthday, Richard!
If you have food, water, shelter and warmth like that, please give me some so that I might share it. In the mean time, you can use all the RMS code you like and so can I despite your best wishes. You have your wishes and I have mine.
I hope someone nice is around when you turn all that hate inward towards it's source.
That's true for any OS and M$, and that's why I don't run M$. Why do you run M$?
3) Because some people need an environment where they can test matters without forking over additional cash.
You are shitting me? This cheaper than having an ugly M$ box?
4) Cables suck. KVMs work, but suck. Multiple keyboards suck. Multiple anything with computers generally suck.
That's why God created X and SSH. Six boxes, one keyboard, one mouse, no problems. Wanna play some Quake?
Right. Isn't that what Corel and SCO thought of their M$ cash infusions? They get along fine now. No more competing word processor or comercial OS for Intel. So smooth without competition.
You just described Cuba! Don't forget the experiments to prove there is no God, such as watering one plant and praying for another.
Thoughtcrime.
Yeah, that car your momie bought you will eat enough oil to buy armored vehicle. Continue on into the haze, Milo, the world will still be there when you crawl out of the punishing little environment you are making for yourself. You might not be able to hear it so well and your lungs won't work but the world will be there.
Who needs paper? The 1024 byte tag contains a URL, so you knew the terms, unilaterally changeable of course, all along. Also, making compatible items or modifying or removing the chip will violate the DMCA. Cut the tag out? What are you, some kind of hacker?
84. Prior to the SCO lawsuit, SCO was the software equivalent of a bicycle. After the SCO lawsuit, SCO was the software equivalent of a bicycle. No value added.
My comment was sarcastic. I'd no more do something that violated my sense of efforts for a job than I'd rob a bank or sell myself on the street. The parent poster said that he would have kissed ass had he know that other jobs would not be available. It was sad that he thought that being well paid at an unethical company surrounded by "smart people" was worth being dishonest. I tried to mouth that opinion in a way that was sure to be seen as wrong.
He he, you don't remember because it did not tell you. Filesharing gets set up as part of other software installs without telling you. Nice eh?