Actually the more salient point is that it is being done while defence spending cuts are being considered. Propaganda is a common method to make sure some one else's project gets cancelled and not yours.
Until some president thinks that he just might be able to get away with starting a nuclear war. Then it will all be all collateral damage. The cold war ugly as it is, has kept the peace better than any thing else we have come up with so far.
I would feel a lot better about this if so many American politicians weren't chomping at the bit start more and more wars and the citizens didn't keep voting for them.
What a load of bunk. If they thought they could be competitive they would be in there grabbing the cash with both hands. The fact is that they have done it internal reviews and concluded they would get slaughtered in that market. "We chose not to" just sounds better.
What they are doing is pushing aside a company that has done huge things to support Linux and open source in general in favour of a company that is all about closed proprietary formats and killing off Linux. How long till they start to take the money to force Silverlight down your throat as well?
Of course you aren't ever allowed to say any thing wrong about Ubuntu or Canonical after all the times they have virtually claimed to have invented Linux from scratch.
It has every thing to do with licensing. It is unreasonable to expect a nonprofit group to fork out millions of dollars to give you a free product. If you want to start paying for FireFox maybe they can do some thing for you.
Audio and video are the only arrows left in the quiver of the proprietary companies. I think once companies start to realize that it is safe to do HTML5 you will see companies that say screw it we don't feel like paying these fat fees any more when we can use some thing free instead. Up until now they really didn't have much of a choice they were stuck with Flash. Now they have options It is simple business that if some one does some thing that lowers their costs you have to do some thing to lower yours. So as companies start moving towards lower cost and free codecs the others are going to have to follow them.
I do have to say that things are going to get interesting for Google going forward. They have been at war with Microsoft, they have already started a war with Apple and they are ramping up the war with the open standards and open source communities. Soon they aren't going to have any friends left.
Have to agree. If you think a country is in violation of the WTO obligations then you take your case to the WTO, not act unilaterally. Why any country would bother signing any agreement with the US any more is way beyond me. They never hold up their end of any agreement any more. Every day I dread ACTA more and more and more.
You mean like how it was killing the coral reefs but then it wasn't, and it was warming the top of Kilimanjaro but then it wasn't, like it had caused the glaciers in the Himalayas to retreat massively but then they weren't, like....
There is a third problem. No one is going to risk their business on Monty's fork or sign over their patches because the risk is so great that he will sell every one out again. The fact that he is fully in bed with Microsoft on this makes it even more likely. Fool us once shame on you, fool us twice shame on us.
I'm surprised no one has ever heard of InterPol, it is on every video casette, dvd and Bd you ever owned. The problem is countries other than the US have rights. No one is going to surrender those rights to allow a bunch of gun toting Americans cart blanch to fire at will.
Because no forum has ever had terms of service right? If the Gnome people want to spit on GNU then they really shouldn't be using GNU's site. If they feel that strongly maybe they shouldn't be using GNU software at all. I hope they do move and find some place to wither in their own loathing. When they are no longer able to wrap them selves in the GNU flag and claim we are more open than any one else there really won't be any reason for any of the distributions to promote it over any other desk top. Any relevance they once had is really gone at this point. Other than momentum what is the compelling part of Gnome these days?
Being entered into evidence no doubt will be transcripts of the RIAA companies swearing before numerous judges in the US that the value of a song is really $40,000 or what ever the number is. That is what makes this sooooo juicy. They are going to have to tell the just that we were full of sh_t when we said that.
Except for the fact that this university is the co-ordinating site for many other centers and many of them got their facts and calculations from CRU. So CRU is about to drag a bunch of other universities down with it.
Who modded this guy up??? They work great if you use an OS that is a couple of years behind the curve and don't care about kernel mode settings or freedom. But run a cutting edge distro and their crappy driver only works for the second half of the release cycle. I got so sick of loosing my graphics that I swore off all things NVidia and ATI/AMD gets all my buisness now.
I am usually the first to bash the CRTC but this time I think they got it right. You could go into super detail but then any one can find a loop hole they can exploit. Or you can just put out a blanket statement that says knock it off and then the CRTC who are law maker as well as judge and jury can then interpret it any way they want.
Agreed. I don't remember what movie it is from but I like the quote "After 10 years in the majors I don't try out." If you can't read a resume why did I write it?
>"Oh wait, not the entire world... the U.S. is a hold-out... is the U.S. the *last* hold-out? (I dunno)" I believe North Korea or Libya is the only other not to have moved to the metric system.
If I had mod points I am not sure if I would mod this up for funny or down for failing to understand what a local exploit is? Good thing I don't have mod points.
I don't see the big fuss in this the British had them beat when their government decided to start putting cameras in peoples houses. As for whether they need this of course they do. How else are they going to keep people from sharing the cost of a PPV. The UFC will be all over this.
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Actually the more salient point is that it is being done while defence spending cuts are being considered. Propaganda is a common method to make sure some one else's project gets cancelled and not yours.
Until some president thinks that he just might be able to get away with starting a nuclear war. Then it will all be all collateral damage. The cold war ugly as it is, has kept the peace better than any thing else we have come up with so far.
I would feel a lot better about this if so many American politicians weren't chomping at the bit start more and more wars and the citizens didn't keep voting for them.
What a load of bunk. If they thought they could be competitive they would be in there grabbing the cash with both hands. The fact is that they have done it internal reviews and concluded they would get slaughtered in that market. "We chose not to" just sounds better.
Well at least now they know how the rest of the world feels when the US is trying to force their standards upon the rest of the world.
I thought my rusting chebby was acting like a battery.
Isn't the RIAA a terrorist organization?
What they are doing is pushing aside a company that has done huge things to support Linux and open source in general in favour of a company that is all about closed proprietary formats and killing off Linux. How long till they start to take the money to force Silverlight down your throat as well?
Of course you aren't ever allowed to say any thing wrong about Ubuntu or Canonical after all the times they have virtually claimed to have invented Linux from scratch.
It has every thing to do with licensing. It is unreasonable to expect a nonprofit group to fork out millions of dollars to give you a free product. If you want to start paying for FireFox maybe they can do some thing for you.
Audio and video are the only arrows left in the quiver of the proprietary companies. I think once companies start to realize that it is safe to do HTML5 you will see companies that say screw it we don't feel like paying these fat fees any more when we can use some thing free instead. Up until now they really didn't have much of a choice they were stuck with Flash. Now they have options It is simple business that if some one does some thing that lowers their costs you have to do some thing to lower yours. So as companies start moving towards lower cost and free codecs the others are going to have to follow them.
I do have to say that things are going to get interesting for Google going forward. They have been at war with Microsoft, they have already started a war with Apple and they are ramping up the war with the open standards and open source communities. Soon they aren't going to have any friends left.
Have to agree. If you think a country is in violation of the WTO obligations then you take your case to the WTO, not act unilaterally. Why any country would bother signing any agreement with the US any more is way beyond me. They never hold up their end of any agreement any more. Every day I dread ACTA more and more and more.
How long till Gaspar Llamazares ends up on the no fly lst because of this?
You mean like how it was killing the coral reefs but then it wasn't, and it was warming the top of Kilimanjaro but then it wasn't, like it had caused the glaciers in the Himalayas to retreat massively but then they weren't, like ....
There is a third problem. No one is going to risk their business on Monty's fork or sign over their patches because the risk is so great that he will sell every one out again. The fact that he is fully in bed with Microsoft on this makes it even more likely. Fool us once shame on you, fool us twice shame on us.
There is absolutely nothing new here. The US has been requiring this since 9/11.
I'm surprised no one has ever heard of InterPol, it is on every video casette, dvd and Bd you ever owned. The problem is countries other than the US have rights. No one is going to surrender those rights to allow a bunch of gun toting Americans cart blanch to fire at will.
How in the world did this post get modded as funny? Every thing about this post is true. The /. of today sure isn't the /. I originally joined.
Because no forum has ever had terms of service right? If the Gnome people want to spit on GNU then they really shouldn't be using GNU's site. If they feel that strongly maybe they shouldn't be using GNU software at all. I hope they do move and find some place to wither in their own loathing. When they are no longer able to wrap them selves in the GNU flag and claim we are more open than any one else there really won't be any reason for any of the distributions to promote it over any other desk top. Any relevance they once had is really gone at this point. Other than momentum what is the compelling part of Gnome these days?
Being entered into evidence no doubt will be transcripts of the RIAA companies swearing before numerous judges in the US that the value of a song is really $40,000 or what ever the number is. That is what makes this sooooo juicy. They are going to have to tell the just that we were full of sh_t when we said that.
Except for the fact that this university is the co-ordinating site for many other centers and many of them got their facts and calculations from CRU. So CRU is about to drag a bunch of other universities down with it.
Who modded this guy up??? They work great if you use an OS that is a couple of years behind the curve and don't care about kernel mode settings or freedom. But run a cutting edge distro and their crappy driver only works for the second half of the release cycle. I got so sick of loosing my graphics that I swore off all things NVidia and ATI/AMD gets all my buisness now.
I am usually the first to bash the CRTC but this time I think they got it right. You could go into super detail but then any one can find a loop hole they can exploit. Or you can just put out a blanket statement that says knock it off and then the CRTC who are law maker as well as judge and jury can then interpret it any way they want.
Agreed. I don't remember what movie it is from but I like the quote "After 10 years in the majors I don't try out."
If you can't read a resume why did I write it?
>"Oh wait, not the entire world... the U.S. is a hold-out... is the U.S. the *last* hold-out? (I dunno)"
I believe North Korea or Libya is the only other not to have moved to the metric system.
Just what I was thinking.
If I had mod points I am not sure if I would mod this up for funny or down for failing to understand what a local exploit is? Good thing I don't have mod points.
I don't see the big fuss in this the British had them beat when their government decided to start putting cameras in peoples houses. As for whether they need this of course they do. How else are they going to keep people from sharing the cost of a PPV. The UFC will be all over this.