The opinions of those who can't be bothered to walk down the street to vote should not be heard. If somebody can't pry their ass off the sofa for fifteen minutes to elect our leaders, why should we care what they think?
Not everyone needs to make that distinction. Miss Suzy Q. User doesn't care or need to know if it's a virus, worm, or trojan. It's all malware. As unfortunate as it is that "virus" got chosen as the catch-all term, there's just no compelling reason to differentiate.
Plus, this way people like yourself get to feel smart pointing out which ones aren't actually viruses.
From the terms and conditions: "You acknowledge that Products contain security technology that limits your usage of Products to the following Usage Rules, and you agree to use Products in compliance with such Usage Rules"
and
"You agree that you will not attempt to, or encourage or assist any other person to, circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Service or used to administer the Usage Rules"
If you want to do whatever you want with your music, buy CDs.
Football (n): A sport in which the USA's largest and stupidest steroid users line up, collide with each-other, then run around a field with a little ball.
Oh, that'll show them. I can just see China's head of information management saying to himself "I never thought it would come to this! Black weblogs! Damn those clever bastards!"
Webloggers have always had a hugely inflated sense of self-importance, but this is just ridiculous.
You, as a slashdot reader, are more likely to notice, pay attention to, and remember every Linux story on CNN or in the newspapers. If you were to ask the average joe on the street what Linux is, I highly doubt a significant percentage could tell you. Any non-technical person (read: most people) is totally clueless regarding Linux.
Most people can't tell you what version of Windows they're running.
Maybe there's something I'm just not getting here, but why would this be an ideal method for distributing Linux? First off, Linux is something that maybe one in ten thousand people has heard of, much less is interested in. So you've got a machine that spits out a product almost nobody understands. I don't think Starbucks is going to be very interested in this.
Secondly, it seems to be that it would be more in the spirit of open source guerilla tactics to build a nice display full of Linux CDs and take it to your local indy coffee shop for free distribution rather than charge for them at the mega-chains.
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That's pretty much my entire rebuttal.
Nobody in their right mind is going to establish a music download service where they make less than 10 cents per track.
Your entire justification for copyright violation is beyond absurd.
When a program is threatening Apple's business, that may be well enough for you, but not for them.
That means I have to spend tonight removing them, lest they damage my important data!
Scotts does a tidy business in toxic chemicals. Got to keep the money coming in once the lawn is planted, eh?
Fugu is a fantastic open source SFTP client.
Personally, I think Transmit was worth the $25.
The opinions of those who can't be bothered to walk down the street to vote should not be heard. If somebody can't pry their ass off the sofa for fifteen minutes to elect our leaders, why should we care what they think?
Not everyone needs to make that distinction. Miss Suzy Q. User doesn't care or need to know if it's a virus, worm, or trojan. It's all malware. As unfortunate as it is that "virus" got chosen as the catch-all term, there's just no compelling reason to differentiate.
Plus, this way people like yourself get to feel smart pointing out which ones aren't actually viruses.
You knew it was DRM protected when you bought it.
From the terms and conditions:
"You acknowledge that Products contain security technology that limits your usage of Products to the following Usage Rules, and you agree to use Products in compliance with such Usage Rules"
and
"You agree that you will not attempt to, or encourage or assist any other person to, circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Service or used to administer the Usage Rules"
If you want to do whatever you want with your music, buy CDs.
Football (n): A sport in which the USA's largest and stupidest steroid users line up, collide with each-other, then run around a field with a little ball.
What would you have us call it?
Bitch to whoever decided that that app should have an installer.
If MS Office can be a drag and drop install, almost anything can.
Their litigation has helped fight spam. Good Thing.
Oh, that'll show them. I can just see China's head of information management saying to himself "I never thought it would come to this! Black weblogs! Damn those clever bastards!"
Webloggers have always had a hugely inflated sense of self-importance, but this is just ridiculous.
See this article for info on changing the default search engine. It's kind of a drag to have to do it every time Safari is updated.
Their "Unix" version was a Solaris binary. Good luck getting that to run on OS X.
It never ran on OS X.
Windows or Solaris only.
but I am going to try that on the next female I come in contact with.
Macs have included text-to-speech for quite some time. What they're offering is a completely spoken user interface.
Oh, and at NO ADDITIONAL COST.
You, as a slashdot reader, are more likely to notice, pay attention to, and remember every Linux story on CNN or in the newspapers. If you were to ask the average joe on the street what Linux is, I highly doubt a significant percentage could tell you. Any non-technical person (read: most people) is totally clueless regarding Linux.
Most people can't tell you what version of Windows they're running.
Maybe there's something I'm just not getting here, but why would this be an ideal method for distributing Linux? First off, Linux is something that maybe one in ten thousand people has heard of, much less is interested in. So you've got a machine that spits out a product almost nobody understands. I don't think Starbucks is going to be very interested in this.
Secondly, it seems to be that it would be more in the spirit of open source guerilla tactics to build a nice display full of Linux CDs and take it to your local indy coffee shop for free distribution rather than charge for them at the mega-chains.
Why do you allow your users to install software?
Dreamweaver MX has a stability problem on all platforms, so I don't think Wine is to blame.
Les Nessman was the nerd.
Venus Flytrap was the black guy, and he was cool as hell.
I'm sure a bunch of half-baked ideas from random yahoos would get them much further than anything their silly engineers could come up with.
Zelda and Final Fantasy on the NES are two of the best RPGs I've ever played, and they don't have anything close to rich graphics.
Tech specs, features, quality, et cetera mean nothing to you? You limit your spending to products with commercials you enjoy?