Because things expand to fill the available space. Trust me, you'll fill it up.
Dood. That's easy. Give me the drives I'll have them filled in a month.
But WTF should an OS require 1 freakin' terrabyte to, well, operate well?
And you need to 4-6GHz hardware for the operating system to, well, operate the hardware. Insanity.
And ofcourse we got the Microsoft multiplication-rule. Recommended: Will barely run. Double recomended: Will be acceptable. Triple/Quadruple: Will run good.
Applying this rule to these specs and you are working on a pretty much lethal microwave-owen.
I can't seriously believe that any codebloat, not even at Redmond can get this bad. This gotta be a joke some developer has come up with. It better.
When I read comments about how we have all the computing power we need, I think of the cover of PC Magazine in the mid-80's that asked the question "Do you really need a 286?"
Good point, though it doesn't explain how an operating system (for christs sake), a technology present only to enable other tasks usage of machine resources in an orderly fashion, a layer between the hardware and the applications, can require such assine amounts of resources.
I still think XP is bloated like hell. I can't imagime the code rot lying beneath the hood of the OS, but I know it's there. The fact that I use it, is because I have the hardware to do so and still have resources left for the tasks which I'd like to do.
Everyone allways says that "with this I'm leaving MS", but this is it for me. Those insane specs combined with intentional DRM infection...
BSD or Linux. With this there is no other way. (I'll leave the door open for OSX when I got cash thankyou)
You will need a 3ghz processor to read email if microsoft has anything to do with it.
And as soon as Office Longhorn comes out, and the "export to internet (html)" function is set to work, you'll need a 100 MBit net-connection to read a one-page letter.
Not to mention Microsofts new and improved (now with DRM) network layer will require a broadband minimum of 2Mbit to perform pings on your localnet.
Compare this to the article, and it's not that asine?
If they can minimize negative impact upon the wishes of the majority while increasing some ease of use and/or desired content, they can successfully phase it in.
This system allows for tons more of restrictions, and I for once, do not believe these were developed for the sheer fun of it. They will be used.
However you got a point. They will be phased in, just like DVDs have DRM at a light enough treshold not to piss people off. When people have gotten accustomed to that, they will push a little further and so on.
Voila. Perpetual copyright per se, even if there was to be a public domain sanctioned by law.
I don't think they will make it illegal, that would be "to drastic".
Just like making mod-chips for your console is perfectly legal, huh?
And if all those "you're a pirate which only want to freeload"-trolls could shut up for a second, I would enjoy being able to play MP3s, VCDs, SVCDs and homemade DVDs in my PlayStation2.
But I'll need a modchip to enable that functionality. And those are illegal.
And as far as pirating goes, if you need to know, I do only posess lawfully, bought PlayStation games. In fact I find that they have a lot more entertiainment value pr. buck than any CD or DVD i have ever bought. I think these games are worth the money they cost, so I buy them.
Why do I think they are loading the gun to shoot themselves in the foot?
When you don't know you're holding a gun (witch I doubt the arrogant media-industry knows their doing), it's pretty easy to point it in the wrong direction.
I, for once, completely disagree with your statement. I loathe playing games on my computer.
Yes, I got a descent setup, but I haven't bothered to invest any real money on a proper 3d card, and I won't bother any time soon.
You want to know why? Every new game tries to push the graphics harder. Every game is trying so hard to have the best graphics ever, that for every new game release, you'll need to reinvest in new hardware if you want smooth playing. To be fair, these upgrades is maybe just needed on a annual basis, but you get my point.
I have found (in my opinion) that good gameplay often seems to come second to this awesome graphics, and then I really can't care less. If it looks good, but plays like shit, it's shit.
And then there's driver hell, compatability issues and so on... Getting a game to run in Windows almost requires you to be a skilled hacker. I for once want to get the game and then play it.
And this is what a console does. Yes, there are fixed specs which any current PC will beat easily, but on a console you know the game were written for these exact specs, and it will run smoothly, fine and without any problems or configuration. Insert game, play game.
Not to mention that console-games seems to focus more on good gameplay than awesome garphics. If you ask me that's a good priority.
I'll play games on a console rather than a PC anyday.
So Disney did first reap the public domain of ideas, made money of it, and now they have made sure there will never again be a public domain, which others (rightfully) can exploit.
And you are trying to convince me that they deserve their income and the right to reap it foreever? Fuck sake. Fuck that.
I woulnd't touch a Disney-product, if it were given to me as a present. They're immoral, hypochrit asshats and that's it, end of story.
I don't even pirate Disney-products, if anyone thought about that counterattack. They simply disgust me too much.
... even block data pathways potentially deemed "unsafe," such as the traditional analog outputs on a high-definition TV set.
Good luck blocking content that I paid for from my own speakers! That's not going to go over very well at all. The more of such stupidity they try to sell the more they will force people to look somewhere else.
Wow. That's some change in direction! Currently Windows (with it's "secure audio path") disables the digital-output of my soundcard whenever I play DVDs or if I ever were to play DRMed WMA-files.
And now they are going to block the analog output as well? I guess we'll be paying for a service which littaraly ain't worth jack shit.
No, really. I know they won't block both, but this is quite a different move.
Will the digital output be tagged with some DRM-bits, since they are making this total change of course?
First of all:
As I am natively from a country which doesn't have english as it's first, second or third language, and which does not tutor American or English law, I'll bow and stand corrected.
Second:
You did get my point, right? To use your words. Infringement is legaly speaking infringement which is not larceny. Glad we got that cleared up.
Third:
I wasn't arguing any way for or against total abolishment. I was arguing the case of whether "infringement" is "larceny".
Fourth:
Correcting a the spelling and words used, when a person is making an argument, might be considered rude.
Universities very often do provide highspeed connections. In Norway there are at least one. Though they only provide 10Mbit in Norway, I believe the same company offers 100Mbit in Sweden.
And when you start doing enough transfers it's most certainly is the seeking and writing times for your HD which limits the actual speeds, not the network-connection. At least that's my experience.
Also the machine I dumped at my studyroom was the heap of old remains after upgrading my home pc to a p4. So I really like my software as native as possible for my university computer.
As a lot of people futilely have tried to explain to people like you before, stealing a physical item is in it's very nature different than coming up with an idea someone may or may not have had before you did.
Not to be rude, but I sometimes I wonder if the people unable to see this difference get a rise out of accusing others of theft....
Btw. It's called "patent infridgement", not theft. This also applies to copyright violations. Please correct yourself.
But anyway, since people somehow have been allowed to "own" ideas/thoughtpatterns/whateveridontcare, the term stealing is really, well, a steal.
Time is an actual dimension (let's say #4) which we move trough. We move consistantly trough this dimension at the speed of light (more or less, no relativety-zealots please), if I remeber correctly.
Transmitting faster than the speed of light would be moving something faster than we move trough time, thus "faster than the speed of time"
If this doesn't help, maybe relativety-physics wasn't intended for you *smug*
If you really wan't to make this dirty, you could add the insecurity (probability issues) of quantum-physics and the fact that we do exist in the times that have passed.
This is where the nutcases start going beyond anything usefull, but what the hell. If you're interested in these perspectives read up on "The hitchikers guide to the galaxy" with focus on the "probability dimensions" and the "everything everywhere exists"-theory:)
By your logic there are no rules which "always" applies. Noone can claim correctness on anything.
You fail to see that the assumption that something was correct (as in correct enough) is what has driven science further, by alloving new and more correct truths to be established, and bringing humans away from myths and into a more scientific mindset.
But you are right. We are now such am evovled species that's lets ban the word "always" out of any known languages imidiatly. After all there is no legitemate (or perpetually correct) use for it.
Say goodbye to gravity, lightemission and electromagnetic waves. They will be gone by the next century I tell you.
Not to be a Nitpick, but can I download the KDE environment for Win32, so I can compile KMail on my workmachine running Windows XP?
Mozilla might not be perfect, but at least it's platform independent.
And not to nitpick even further, but if there is one thing Outlook is, it is responsive. Still doesn't mean I would use it for anything in the world.
Nothing wrong with tight code, but for some applications speed isn't everything. Mail is probably one of those things where speed really doesn't matter that much.
And putting issues aside, Opera's M2 email-client is very fast as well (yes Opera has issues. For the web I exclusively use Opera, but M2 has protocol flaws).
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Dood. That's easy. Give me the drives I'll have them filled in a month. But WTF should an OS require 1 freakin' terrabyte to, well, operate well?
And you need to 4-6GHz hardware for the operating system to, well, operate the hardware. Insanity.
And ofcourse we got the Microsoft multiplication-rule. Recommended: Will barely run. Double recomended: Will be acceptable. Triple/Quadruple: Will run good.
Applying this rule to these specs and you are working on a pretty much lethal microwave-owen.
I can't seriously believe that any codebloat, not even at Redmond can get this bad. This gotta be a joke some developer has come up with. It better.
Good point, though it doesn't explain how an operating system (for christs sake), a technology present only to enable other tasks usage of machine resources in an orderly fashion, a layer between the hardware and the applications, can require such assine amounts of resources.
I still think XP is bloated like hell. I can't imagime the code rot lying beneath the hood of the OS, but I know it's there. The fact that I use it, is because I have the hardware to do so and still have resources left for the tasks which I'd like to do.
Everyone allways says that "with this I'm leaving MS", but this is it for me. Those insane specs combined with intentional DRM infection...
BSD or Linux. With this there is no other way. (I'll leave the door open for OSX when I got cash thankyou)
And as soon as Office Longhorn comes out, and the "export to internet (html)" function is set to work, you'll need a 100 MBit net-connection to read a one-page letter.
Not to mention Microsofts new and improved (now with DRM) network layer will require a broadband minimum of 2Mbit to perform pings on your localnet.
Compare this to the article, and it's not that asine?
Nope. I'm pretty sure that the new DVDs coming with HDTV-resolution encoded in Windows Media 9 will kill a 1GHz CPU without even trying.
But that's just me.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Longhorn PCs...
Anyone else suspectable to the idea that clustering such bloat might slow down time?
They won't. They'll say "Fuck it. What we got works".
This system allows for tons more of restrictions, and I for once, do not believe these were developed for the sheer fun of it. They will be used.
However you got a point. They will be phased in, just like DVDs have DRM at a light enough treshold not to piss people off. When people have gotten accustomed to that, they will push a little further and so on.
Voila. Perpetual copyright per se, even if there was to be a public domain sanctioned by law.
Just like making mod-chips for your console is perfectly legal, huh?
And if all those "you're a pirate which only want to freeload"-trolls could shut up for a second, I would enjoy being able to play MP3s, VCDs, SVCDs and homemade DVDs in my PlayStation2.
But I'll need a modchip to enable that functionality. And those are illegal.
And as far as pirating goes, if you need to know, I do only posess lawfully, bought PlayStation games. In fact I find that they have a lot more entertiainment value pr. buck than any CD or DVD i have ever bought. I think these games are worth the money they cost, so I buy them.
When you don't know you're holding a gun (witch I doubt the arrogant media-industry knows their doing), it's pretty easy to point it in the wrong direction.
I, for once, completely disagree with your statement. I loathe playing games on my computer.
Yes, I got a descent setup, but I haven't bothered to invest any real money on a proper 3d card, and I won't bother any time soon.
You want to know why? Every new game tries to push the graphics harder. Every game is trying so hard to have the best graphics ever, that for every new game release, you'll need to reinvest in new hardware if you want smooth playing. To be fair, these upgrades is maybe just needed on a annual basis, but you get my point.
I have found (in my opinion) that good gameplay often seems to come second to this awesome graphics, and then I really can't care less. If it looks good, but plays like shit, it's shit.
And then there's driver hell, compatability issues and so on... Getting a game to run in Windows almost requires you to be a skilled hacker. I for once want to get the game and then play it.
And this is what a console does. Yes, there are fixed specs which any current PC will beat easily, but on a console you know the game were written for these exact specs, and it will run smoothly, fine and without any problems or configuration. Insert game, play game.
Not to mention that console-games seems to focus more on good gameplay than awesome garphics. If you ask me that's a good priority.
I'll play games on a console rather than a PC anyday.
So Disney did first reap the public domain of ideas, made money of it, and now they have made sure there will never again be a public domain, which others (rightfully) can exploit.
And you are trying to convince me that they deserve their income and the right to reap it foreever? Fuck sake. Fuck that.
I woulnd't touch a Disney-product, if it were given to me as a present. They're immoral, hypochrit asshats and that's it, end of story.
I don't even pirate Disney-products, if anyone thought about that counterattack. They simply disgust me too much.
Good luck blocking content that I paid for from my own speakers! That's not going to go over very well at all. The more of such stupidity they try to sell the more they will force people to look somewhere else.
Wow. That's some change in direction! Currently Windows (with it's "secure audio path") disables the digital-output of my soundcard whenever I play DVDs or if I ever were to play DRMed WMA-files.
And now they are going to block the analog output as well? I guess we'll be paying for a service which littaraly ain't worth jack shit.
No, really. I know they won't block both, but this is quite a different move.
Will the digital output be tagged with some DRM-bits, since they are making this total change of course?
First of all:
As I am natively from a country which doesn't have english as it's first, second or third language, and which does not tutor American or English law, I'll bow and stand corrected.
Second:
You did get my point, right? To use your words. Infringement is legaly speaking infringement which is not larceny. Glad we got that cleared up.
Third:
I wasn't arguing any way for or against total abolishment. I was arguing the case of whether "infringement" is "larceny".
Fourth:
Correcting a the spelling and words used, when a person is making an argument, might be considered rude.
We can all be friends now?
Universities very often do provide highspeed connections. In Norway there are at least one. Though they only provide 10Mbit in Norway, I believe the same company offers 100Mbit in Sweden.
And when you start doing enough transfers it's most certainly is the seeking and writing times for your HD which limits the actual speeds, not the network-connection. At least that's my experience.
Also the machine I dumped at my studyroom was the heap of old remains after upgrading my home pc to a p4. So I really like my software as native as possible for my university computer.
Might check it out though.
As a lot of people futilely have tried to explain to people like you before, stealing a physical item is in it's very nature different than coming up with an idea someone may or may not have had before you did.
Not to be rude, but I sometimes I wonder if the people unable to see this difference get a rise out of accusing others of theft....
Btw. It's called "patent infridgement", not theft. This also applies to copyright violations. Please correct yourself.
But anyway, since people somehow have been allowed to "own" ideas/thoughtpatterns/whateveridontcare, the term stealing is really, well, a steal.
I mean, just who likes thieves?
You will have to excuse my distrust for bytecode performance, but how well will a Java network-client perform on a 100mbit connection?
My intuitive guess would be a hosed CPU, but that's just me.
True enough, won't argue that. But can you please tell me how copyright infridgement has anything to do with the DMCA?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but having illegaly aquired copyrighted works has nothing to do with "circumevention devices" last time I checked.
Bad spell-checking in the original post aside, I thought that was a pretty obvious joke, but what the hell.
Maybe that was stupid, or maybe you were to stupid to get it. I don't know, I don't care. But 'nuff off-topic siblings.
This is the theory of relativety in practice boy.
A quick, but probably inacurate description:
If this doesn't help, maybe relativety-physics wasn't intended for you *smug*
If you really wan't to make this dirty, you could add the insecurity (probability issues) of quantum-physics and the fact that we do exist in the times that have passed.
This is where the nutcases start going beyond anything usefull, but what the hell. If you're interested in these perspectives read up on "The hitchikers guide to the galaxy" with focus on the "probability dimensions" and the "everything everywhere exists"-theory :)
By your logic there are no rules which "always" applies. Noone can claim correctness on anything.
You fail to see that the assumption that something was correct (as in correct enough) is what has driven science further, by alloving new and more correct truths to be established, and bringing humans away from myths and into a more scientific mindset.
But you are right. We are now such am evovled species that's lets ban the word "always" out of any known languages imidiatly. After all there is no legitemate (or perpetually correct) use for it.
Say goodbye to gravity, lightemission and electromagnetic waves. They will be gone by the next century I tell you.
I am sure your date will go really well if you inform the cute girl that you equal her asking you out, with a "technology preview" of a mail-reader.
*grin*
Not to be a Nitpick, but can I download the KDE environment for Win32, so I can compile KMail on my workmachine running Windows XP?
Mozilla might not be perfect, but at least it's platform independent.
And not to nitpick even further, but if there is one thing Outlook is, it is responsive. Still doesn't mean I would use it for anything in the world.
Nothing wrong with tight code, but for some applications speed isn't everything. Mail is probably one of those things where speed really doesn't matter that much.
And putting issues aside, Opera's M2 email-client is very fast as well (yes Opera has issues. For the web I exclusively use Opera, but M2 has protocol flaws).
But since someone is going to do it, just let's blamce the DMCA and the neo-con's.
At least that's never stopped any karma whores before.
You are saying that European-made and recorded music is not affiliated with the Recording Industry Assosiation of America? You must be joking!
You might have ment the big labels, but I'd still like to point out that's there more in this world than the US. In fact I'm glad there is.