If the French have such a problem with P2P why don't they just block it at the ISP level? Why go after the FOSS developers who just write a program? Because you can't possibly blame the citizens who breach copyright.
It's worse than that. We have just passed a law to stop internet access for citizens sharing a file.
For my part I'm happy they sued: I just hope the courts will be intelligent and just throw the case away.
Right, nice, but when will they include linux drivers for their Sideview implementation, ScreenDUO ? For now, people buying motherboards with this addon tiny screen are left with a non-working gizmo, unless they run Vista or XP.
I still would like to see the USA withdraw all troops from Europe and the middle east, and let those people get their own oil, for the things Chirac said. I'd like to see that too. I'm pretty sure TOTAL is very able to get oil on its own in Africa (hint: it already does).
F--- those people. Excellent. That makes you really superior to these Chinese suckers.
We have our fair share of modern-day oppression. I know it's a beaten horse, but Iraq is the perfect example. We may justify our actions differently, but the end result is very similar.
Note that in both cases, the French people (I'm one of them) have been "boycotted" for having stated the obvious. I wonder why that's specifically us ?
I wonder how gamers think it will fare better than the MPAA and RIAA. This association will promote antipiracy laws, outlaw P2P and favor big editors. Mark my works.
I know that one ! (My stepfather used to work in that field) Spinal cord injuries may be repaired (even self heal) when you're harmed in the higher part of the spinal cord, near the brain. Counterintuitively, when it's cut near the bottom, it's nearly always definitive. Why ? Because the irrigation system is way more fragile in the lower part, and that's often where the problem is. When part of the spinal cord doesn't receive blood anymore, necrosis happens fast and then you can't do anything anymore.
While there is nothing to do to stop it. Having Linux run on Low End systems may not be good overall.
Wrong. That's how Windows got its foothold: it started taking the lower-end of the workstation market. In fact that's often how a newcomer wins into any market: by being cheaper.
I think Microsoft should be afraid.
Don't take it bad, but it seems that the USA has peaked as a "nice" country. Nowadays obscurantism looks like it 's gaining. In this case it's in the name of "freedom of speech", but it looks like that freedom is less and less respected too.
Now, I've never been to there and that's all from an very external point of view. I'd really like someone shows me I'm wrong, as USA are still the most powerful on earth (the rounded species).
Sure, the platform will be open for the partners, but not for the developers.
First, look at the guys forming the "alliance": Broadcom, NVIDIA, Wind River, who are all acting towards closing linux (Wind River was even a vocal opponent to linux some times ago).
Furthermore, look at why they choose Android's licence:
Why did you pick the Apache v2 open source license?
Apache is a commercial-friendly open-source license. The Apache license allows manufacturers and mobile operators to innovate using the platform without the requirement to contribute those innovations back to the open-source community. Because these innovations and differentiated features can be kept proprietary, manufacturers and mobile operators are protected from the "viral infection" problem often associated with other licenses.
There. You can dream all you want about an open platform, like your traditional Fedora or Ubuntu desktop, but that won't be it. Go for Openmoko instead.
Aplix (www.aplixcorp.com), Ascender Corporation (www.ascendercorp.com), Audience (www.audience.com), Broadcom (www.broadcom.com), China Mobile (www.chinamobile.com), eBay (www.ebay.com), Esmertec (www.esmertec.com), Google (www.google.com), HTC (www.htc.com), Intel (www.intel.com), KDDI (www.kddi.com), Living Image (www.livingimage.jp), LG (www.lge.com), Marvell (www.marvell.com), Motorola (www.motorola.com), NMS Communications (www.nmscommunications.com), Noser (www.noser.com), NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (www.nttdocomo.com), Nuance (www.nuance.com), Nvidia (www.nvidia.com), PacketVideo (www.packetvideo.com), Qualcomm (www.qualcomm.com), Samsung (www.samsung.com), SiRF (www.sirf.com), SkyPop (www.skypop.com), SONiVOX (www.sonivoxrocks.com), Sprint Nextel (www.sprint.com), Synaptics (www.synaptics.com), TAT - The Astonishing Tribe (www.tat.se), Telecom Italia (www.telecomitalia.com), Telefónica (www.telefonica.es), Texas Instruments (www.ti.com), T-Mobile (www.t-mobile.com), Wind River (www.windriver.com)
Some of them, e.g. Broadcom, Wind River or NVIDIA, are known for being hostile towards a fully open Linux. I don't know what this platform will look like hardware-wise, but these people don't make it bode well for the software side.
Hey/., you surely want to give the winner the Best Prize Ever ? Not just a lousy "DeCSS" T-shirt or an USB frying pan ? Something that will make them happy, something they will brag about ? Well, I've got it:
There's always a few nuts around that will believe crap. The existence of those nuts doesn't mean something is controversial. If anything I'd say it's the percentage of the nuts in the general populace. Even for homeopathy, I'd say that percentage is quite low.
How lucky you are. Right there in France, we have a big lab called "Boiron" that's leader in homeopathy, makes regular mess in the media and have a *lot* of the population believe in its lies.
Not only does it work exactely like you wish, but you wan also try Wubi which does the same thing for Ubuntu without even repartitioning your drive ! The linux system simply lives on your NTFS partition.
Isn't life wonderful ?
This is human nature as it applies to media: a vocal minority shouts about anything, and every media (/. being the first of the pack) has big titles to transform the non-event into planetary trollfest.
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What they need to overcome is called the Bus Factor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
If the French have such a problem with P2P why don't they just block it at the ISP level? Why go after the FOSS developers who just write a program? Because you can't possibly blame the citizens who breach copyright.
It's worse than that. We have just passed a law to stop internet access for citizens sharing a file.
For my part I'm happy they sued: I just hope the courts will be intelligent and just throw the case away.
You can already buy them for 1€ in France: http://www.rueducommerce.fr/home/index.cfm/les1euros/page_home_1euro.html?utm_source=banniere&utm_medium=bloc&utm_campaign=les1euros-2008-10-29-blocHG
Vista is rock solid on new hardware*
*disregarding the problems from vendor added crapware, but that'll affect you even if you buy an XP machine. Install a clean version of Vista.
Yeah, examples of crapware include graphic drivers. Beware, do not install those under Vista !
Right, nice, but when will they include linux drivers for their Sideview implementation, ScreenDUO ? For now, people buying motherboards with this addon tiny screen are left with a non-working gizmo, unless they run Vista or XP.
We have our fair share of modern-day oppression. I know it's a beaten horse, but Iraq is the perfect example. We may justify our actions differently, but the end result is very similar.
Note that in both cases, the French people (I'm one of them) have been "boycotted" for having stated the obvious. I wonder why that's specifically us ?Nice but ... can it fly ?
Robots for president !!
I wonder how gamers think it will fare better than the MPAA and RIAA. This association will promote antipiracy laws, outlaw P2P and favor big editors. Mark my works.
I know that one ! (My stepfather used to work in that field)
Spinal cord injuries may be repaired (even self heal) when you're harmed in the higher part of the spinal cord, near the brain. Counterintuitively, when it's cut near the bottom, it's nearly always definitive. Why ? Because the irrigation system is way more fragile in the lower part, and that's often where the problem is. When part of the spinal cord doesn't receive blood anymore, necrosis happens fast and then you can't do anything anymore.
In /., Soviet Russia posts mod *you* !
Wrong. That's how Windows got its foothold: it started taking the lower-end of the workstation market. In fact that's often how a newcomer wins into any market: by being cheaper.
I think Microsoft should be afraid.
Somebody please tell Americans that other people are humans too.
Don't take it bad, but it seems that the USA has peaked as a "nice" country. Nowadays obscurantism looks like it 's gaining. In this case it's in the name of "freedom of speech", but it looks like that freedom is less and less respected too. Now, I've never been to there and that's all from an very external point of view. I'd really like someone shows me I'm wrong, as USA are still the most powerful on earth (the rounded species).
First, look at the guys forming the "alliance": Broadcom, NVIDIA, Wind River, who are all acting towards closing linux (Wind River was even a vocal opponent to linux some times ago). Furthermore, look at why they choose Android's licence:
Why did you pick the Apache v2 open source license? Apache is a commercial-friendly open-source license. The Apache license allows manufacturers and mobile operators to innovate using the platform without the requirement to contribute those innovations back to the open-source community. Because these innovations and differentiated features can be kept proprietary, manufacturers and mobile operators are protected from the "viral infection" problem often associated with other licenses.
There. You can dream all you want about an open platform, like your traditional Fedora or Ubuntu desktop, but that won't be it. Go for Openmoko instead.
Look at the actual partners list:
Aplix (www.aplixcorp.com), Ascender Corporation (www.ascendercorp.com), Audience (www.audience.com), Broadcom (www.broadcom.com), China Mobile (www.chinamobile.com), eBay (www.ebay.com), Esmertec (www.esmertec.com), Google (www.google.com), HTC (www.htc.com), Intel (www.intel.com), KDDI (www.kddi.com), Living Image (www.livingimage.jp), LG (www.lge.com), Marvell (www.marvell.com), Motorola (www.motorola.com), NMS Communications (www.nmscommunications.com), Noser (www.noser.com), NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (www.nttdocomo.com), Nuance (www.nuance.com), Nvidia (www.nvidia.com), PacketVideo (www.packetvideo.com), Qualcomm (www.qualcomm.com), Samsung (www.samsung.com), SiRF (www.sirf.com), SkyPop (www.skypop.com), SONiVOX (www.sonivoxrocks.com), Sprint Nextel (www.sprint.com), Synaptics (www.synaptics.com), TAT - The Astonishing Tribe (www.tat.se), Telecom Italia (www.telecomitalia.com), Telefónica (www.telefonica.es), Texas Instruments (www.ti.com), T-Mobile (www.t-mobile.com), Wind River (www.windriver.com)
Some of them, e.g. Broadcom, Wind River or NVIDIA, are known for being hostile towards a fully open Linux. I don't know what this platform will look like hardware-wise, but these people don't make it bode well for the software side.
Thanks.
It's the frontend's backend. What's hard to understand here ?
Hey /., you surely want to give the winner the Best Prize Ever ? Not just a lousy "DeCSS" T-shirt or an USB frying pan ? Something that will make them happy, something they will brag about ? Well, I've got it:
give them a 1-digit ID.
That's all.
Parent shouldn't be moderated "funny". This thing should work through walls if it wants to go in most houses.
Not only does it work exactely like you wish, but you wan also try Wubi which does the same thing for Ubuntu without even repartitioning your drive ! The linux system simply lives on your NTFS partition. Isn't life wonderful ?
This is human nature as it applies to media: a vocal minority shouts about anything, and every media (/. being the first of the pack) has big titles to transform the non-event into planetary trollfest.