there's no way for a user to get to just the browser. And itunes uses slightly different markup so it won't work with normal browsers. But you are technically correct, it's it an implementation of Webkit displaying the iTunes Store.
but much like other issues where Apple uses Open Source software, they don't share the spotlight!!! That's what this is about. Firefox has more users than Safari... to slight them in front of web developers that know better is a slap in the face.
Apple has this decidedly anti-free thing going on. The best offence for Apple at this time would be to show how many free projects like apache, samba, BSD, KHTML they are involved in.. or share interoperability of open standards. Instead Apple is totally silent about anybody BUT Apple.
Apple needs to show a market with 3-4 players in order to really grow. To be taken seriously, they need to show how they are at the top of the ecology of the "everybody-but-Microsoft" crowd. They should be reaching out a hand to Sun, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.. because by limiting themselves to hardware only, they automatically cut out large groups of software users that have existing hardware, or that Apple hardware doesn't meet the needs of. They should be quietly building a front against the big player. Instead they're worrying about what laptop a Samba developer will use at a presentation. They're totally out of line... totally thinking like a second-place company content to be second place because they can poke fun at the big dog and not get bitten.
IN this particular case, it's disingenuous for them not to include Konquerer, Opera, Firefox in any chart of web browsers because they COULD be working as a team with open standards. They could have shown that there are half a dozen standards-ready browsers out there that it's not just an Apple-only thing to develop for Safari. But instead they want ALL the limelight. So to the majority of corporate developers, it's still business as usuall.. Microsoft versus Apple.. the entire point being lost.
except those people are long retired. This is about govt being held to it's agreements over the long term. If IBM allowed this every local bond issue would be contested after the 10 or so years to maturity... it'd be a mess and no business would deal with districts. No kids would get deals from businesses on stuff schools need if the schools don't pay their bills.
That said, these poor administrators are screwed. But they are supposed to be done paying back another loan to the state (notice the STATE didn't let them off the hook, yet expects a private company to!) They made a settlement 14 years ago... this is why we can't let people spend our kids' money... when the piper comes they get screwed.
for me, she's overreaching her "place" in history. All the facts are for her. She graduated better than Bill and practiced law longer, she's got no scandal in the closets since having to deal with that when Bill was President. For me, it's just that she's TOO ambitious... She's going after it, not being "pushed" into it by others... and that's sort of a red flag to a lot of people to watch out. She's probably the most politically qualified female candidate out there.
Unfortunately, this next election needs to be about issues and she doesn't deliver something we haven't already seen in the last 16 years. I'd rather see Dean, Paul, Obama, Gore... hell if this scandal situation gets worse we may need Carter to come back to fix the republican mess again!!!
If you look at the last 50 years or so of US history, the govt is most efficient and protects freedoms best when there is a Democrat president and small majority Republican Congress. It makes it harder to pass any laws and that's always a Good thing!! As soon as Republicans get the hot seat they spend like drunken sailors... even worse than what they claim Democrats do. Republicans only hold their ideals when it's not their man in the White House... witness the last 6 years of highly un-republican laws being passed with hardly a reading!
a better option for the school would be to hold the line on the blanket contract and allow installing of Parallels or Wine on everything! If Microsoft is requiring license for all the computers, then their software should run on all the computers if technologically possible. In most European countries, they don't hold to the same licensing loopholes the USA does.. tying your software to a particular OS install is definately one thing would be fun to see made null in court.
the issue is that the telcos want more than just one monopoly. They didn't sacrafice many profits to build out their networks, there are still federal and state taxes collected to PAY them to actually fulfill building out the "monopoly" they were granted. The real issue with FiOS is that they are not trying to build JUST a new telco structure... they are trying to do it outside the established rules about information freedom that they operated under as a telco. They want a monopoly on the physical connection AND on the content over that wire... that's why it's wrong. What they've been doing for the last 15 years is to take the "benefits" from the govt to roll out the new stuff, but not roll it out until they change the rules to fund their new monopolies. Things like unequal upstream is a direct attempt to sabotage the internet peering agreements that allow the smaller players to "cancel out" high bandwidth costs because in a balanced system the number of users should have relatively even amount of up and down bandwidth in their systems... The telcos manipulate this to use their near monopoly on home users to overprice business users and other competitors.
and that's why software patents fail. These guys had no "product" so they didn't actually reveal their invention to the industry. The industry moved in a direction and they just happened to make a guess about how something would work out. That's the problem with the "totality" of software patents... many people that were never exposed to the inventors or there product are now at fault for doing something that came thru the natural order of things... evolution if you will.
this isn't even about necessarily playing "protected" media, but playing your software on their "protected" hardware. OF course once you open the system up to ANY software, it's trivial to run the software designed for it, but piracy is sideways in the case of something like XBMC where the purpose is to use different "IP" not associated with the Manufacture in any way. Just to find a new purpose for what the hardware can do outside its bounds. At a basic level it's a property rights thing... the physical hardware is YOUR property, "IP" in terms of only running "verified" software on a device is not a "natural" right, nor recognized by copyright law.. but the DMCA is an attempt to change that.
it's a trust thing.. Apple is trusting you with somebody else's music file, they expect you to take care of that data file by putting your personal info inside the file. There's nothing "wrong" going on here. They expect you to protect that info that they sell for you to have the same as your own personal info... it's a CONTRACT you made when you paid money and downloaded the song.. even without DRM. No DRM does not mean no personal responsibility.
which are their more of.. people "hacking" to run DeCSS and rip to iPods or people blowing things up? There's not really too many genuine terrorists out there, not enough to justify bugging every single citizen.. the govt will have to look busy with all those shiny troops and technology... that's when people that are "inconvenient" for businesses get put to the head of the "troublemaker" line. After all, the WTC was only a few Billion dollars in damage one time... the RIAA Claims to be loosing multiple times that PER YEAR.. So yes, geeks are the bigger threat...I'm afraid of that.
no, that's EXACTLY how the hardware pairing is supposed to function. That's why in the beginning, it was only OEMS that were going to make the systems. The structure is DESIGNED to be brittle and byzantine. Microsoft and friends want this stuff soldered down, they don't want you to "upgrade" things anymore... it's too much hassle for their plans. If it doesn't work the first time, you, the customer or field tech, are supposed to send it back and get another.. only "manufacturing" is supposed to mess with keys and such. Besides, there's no money in windows on desktops anyway.. M$ wants the sales from cable companies and locked down hardware, so they're making a token effort that no sane person will put up with.
it's not about compressing the DATA... they purposefully mess with the sound to make it more "radio" and "professional". I think most live bands I've heard have a very bad balance... you can't hear vocals.. coming from playing in school band, the balance of the instruments is key to it sounding like music and not just a bunch of people playing instruments. In a band or orchestra, there's no "sound engineer" to fix the balance.. you have to listen to the people around you.... but that's not what this is about.
I notice it in radio because certain women voices I simply can't hear. I have the radio so loud my ears hurt, but I can't hear what the woman is saying. That "radio voice" is tuned for a man's dynamic range, a womans and they sound terrible over the air, and you only get woman DJs that can sound "good" with those horrible conditions... none of the woman DJs sound like what a woman with a very good speaking voice would sound like. If you watch the YouTube they've squished the minute parts of what we intrepet as speech and it's hardly intelligible. In radio, they do that because we all listen with crappy speakers anyway. Most of the time you won't notice it when your moving around, but it also increases the "quality" of the broadcast by "compressing" the frequencies to fill the spectrum...and at the same time letting them make "clear edges" to account for frequency drift and interference. Unfortunately, they started mastering all the CDs that way because that's what people are told is "right" on radio and TV audio. They whole push against this really started after 9/11 when broadcast stations made the switch to more spoken word for news and it sounded terrible... it came to light how badly they were mangling the music and they backed off some, but a lot more people started paying attention to their ears.
the whole problem is that the GM companies aren't factoring in "life" into the mix. The goal of GM should be to enhance the natural order.. what these guys do is smash it to pieces. The focus of GM should change to speeding up eugenics, an almost mandatory requirement should be "do no harm" and "reproduce after it's kind". If the organism can't do that, then it's environmentally toxic waste. Sure, it means we'll slow down food production some. If it's destroying varieties that are "wild" or "organic" then these people are committing the gravest of crimes and the whole country will pay with mass starvation someday.
He used the free Express version to develop a plug-in for the free Express version. He didn't have access to "steal" anything beyond what Microsoft made freely available on their site and other public forums. Unfortunately for Microsoft the program he developed with the free version is a feature of only the highest version of the very expensive studio package... released by a kid for free!! OUCH!
One of my co workers was trying to get Microsoft licensing to explain how those wonderful bundled packages (those OEM with 5 cals everybody sells) that come with machine tools/hardware would work with our existing Microsoft license (it was standard versus enterprise and unlocked versus cals... and how does a machine with a server and SQL get licensed.. to the OEM or to the company? and who's rules control CALs) and the Microsoft guy would not actually point to a license line and say how it should work. He finally got the guy to email "something" solid as to the minimum licenses we needed to buy to use the software one of Microsoft's resellers sold us and stay legal. They're trained to point to the website.. but the EULA states the website can always change...so they won't actually quote it. great answer!!!
Microsoft is trying to rewrite the license to what they WANT it to say without actually posting that it needed to be changed. If you were to check the version right now, you'd surely find the hole closed. But Microsoft keeps no version control of back versions so you can state on date x I was allowed to do this... they only deal with one right now, in the vein of Orwell and rewriting "history" as needed for the lawyers. Microsoft doesn't like the program, but knows they don't have an actual case. They're arguing the rules, without actually showing the rules.. then arguing the only way he could write the software is to break the rules they won't tell him. They're trying to force him to prove a double negative and he didn't take the bait.
Lately the FCC is pretty good (with the prez approval) about keeping big deals that benefit mega corps quite (posted in a lavatory in the basement of city hall for us plebs.. but the dept head goes out of his way to meet the big players for lunch about the deal) The FCC is VERY anti-little-guy right now, and even guys like Google are still "new money".. another term for little guys that can momentarily out spend you for a new toy. The effort is making sure the deals are even made in public up front in time for companies that want in to make a strategy.
I like the idea of several national channels as well... That would really help somebody like Google to roll out cool services.
exactly, the two groups, phone and cable choose to "not compete" while looking like it on paper. Generally you have one or the other and the late company to the game in your area simply won't upgrade the equipment.. even if they advertise nationally or state-wide. Hopefully the FCC will crack open the books on the REAL roll out data so the public can put dots on a map and show just how poor the service really is from these guys. Maybe they'll do this AFTER they sell the "next big thing" to the already existing big players so they can kill it!
free from hackers and supported are two entirely different things!!!
I've tried 2 or 3 of these and even the writers of the programs state there are gaping holes in support the EXT2/3 file readers available on MS Windows. There is only 1 true one that is a "real" Windows file system, but because of the highly restrictive/expensive license it's kind of expensive and can never be free even if the company that made it wanted it to be. It boils down that the rest don't have the kind of kernel level access you need to mount them where programs can get at the files reliably. Installing Programs to such an imported drive is not supported, and even using as a storage drive is out of the question as programs don't always know how to access the mapped drive. It's really only useful for "drop-in" support... pulling files from a drive for interoperability, not much more.
File systems is one area the OS itself must have the support, you simply can't hack it on later without source code level access to kernel code.. and in the windows world that will never happen. In the Mac world it's slightly better because Darwin is open source... Apple just chose not to distribute the parts that weren't theres, but at least it can be added back in more easily.
exactly, I have one of those cards too and it's really cool... But the manufactures got "stuck" with SD for quite a while. Because the SD DRM features were so seldom used, many of the Taiwan guys have been using MMC chips for some time in SD cards.. much to the ire of those who are looking to flip the DRM switch.. to find out half the cheap cards on the market don't actually support it!! Go Taiwan. This is just a move to standardize something and save on costs and USB/MMC is the magic combo in 90% of devices on the market right now. The only hold out is Olympus and Sony and maybe a few companies stuck with CF, but that's MORE compatible for a different purpose. Note: somebody is also trying to change the SD spec again for the new "HD" cards with more than 4GB of memory... new sockets, new devices, MORE PROFIT... sounds like the Taiwanese don't want to play this round. Asia is the new US for rapid technology development because companies are more interested in making stuff like crazy than defending their little plots of market turf.
It's not even that severe because Tivo can continue to use and modify the versions they already distribute under the old terms. But they'll have to do security and feature updates on their own or from a community of GPL2 only developers. The GPL isn't retroactive to the already published code.. the change won't take anything AWAY from them that they already have. once the change happens, they won't be able to use NEW updated code unless they agree to the new terms of distrbution. Kind of like how they won't trade out my old series 1 system for a new shiny version 3 with HD for free, under the same monthly terms of service, without more money being paid to them. How rude of them to make their products so not-free!
And when Tivo adopted use of GPL software instead of writing their own from scratch, or using BSD, or buying it from somebody, they accepted restrictions of the license with their distribution of the software they got for Free as in dollars! This is where the BSD guys miss the boat. Many people are free NOT to use GPL'd software in their projects, just like you're free not to copy version of microsoft windows without paying for it! If you get stuff from the "club" for free, you have to play by the rules of the "club". Software like Microsoft windows comes with sever restrictions on USERS of the software... developers are nearly completely cut out technologically and legally. The most trouble you can get in for GPL is to modify and redistribute, what SOMEBODY ELSE created for FREE, with the restriction that you share too. If you don't like that one restriction, don't use their work.. for free.. without expectation of payment... in your business.
BSD isn't always free for USERS... that is what GPL was designed to address, not developers. The history of GPL was created expressly because manufacturers began the practice 20+ years ago of locking developers out of their OWN programming on mainframes and devices by enforcing "secret" software and making developers pay for access to make devices continue to work with new systems, or to get you code from one proprietary system to another. The original catalyst for GPL was printer drivers. Those used to be freely available specs to make your purchase work with any system you might need to use... then some company refused to allow a collage professor to use their printer with one more new system...he didn't require them to do any work, just provide info so he could update his system. instead of buying a new one at a high price... GPL is a stab against software things like "vendor lock-in" and marketing "planned obsolesence" that's so common now to buy a whole new device for "one more feature" that should be a free software update we don't even protest it anymore. BSD allows manufactures to continue the practice, with code developed for free, while GPL does not. It's the focus of who the software is FREE for.. I know if I put work out there for free, I'd mean it to stay free.. If you don't like that, you're free not to use it!!!
I think there in lies the problem with "fair and balanced" game play. Realize that 99% of the real world lives on 1% of the scraps. Unfortunately, telling players that they'll create 9 characters that never reach past level 10 and have to kill boars all day won't gain very many people looking for a fun time if you only allow 1% of the characters to reach level 60 for example. The traditional real space model of "I have and you don't" doesn't work. Nor does the "let everybody have everything" because there's no reward for hard work. The solution is to attract players to positions that would "lose" but make the situation a "win" for them. That's for game designers to get the big bucks for... or they'll lose their real money as another notch on a millionaire's belt!!!
If the supply of money is severely restricted thru fixed number of things to score on times players then it could be interesting to allow all sorts of cheating and stealing... isn't that the point of a MMORPG to really have NO RULES? I could agree that players with too close connection to devs could be a conflict of interest, but like other posters said, if it gets to bad "vote with your feet" and play another game. I've proposed the same kind of thing for other games with big gold farming problems. That's the natural world.. if you have a lot of resources you have to fight to keep them. Silly ideas like nobody taking "my" points in a game show people aren't thinking outside the box to make games that push the boundaries of HOW you think and what you value in game and not just monster grind. Coups, backstabbing and stealing IN THE GAME CONTEXT should be encouraged!!!
the goal then is to build a MMORPG system that forces you to play in character to get ahead, and punishes you for doing things based on outside influence (friends, guilds, etc) that wouldn't be in-line for your game character. You have to make players assume duties of the stock NPCs and find a reward system to put in place. example: IF you have much gold, you should have to hire (and manage) newbies as a quest to protect you. Frankly, I thought the Sims or Uru could have been that game but then they turned around and allowed outside advertising, money exchange, and messaging between real people and ruined that.
you mean as opposed to AT&T resurrection of undead Ma Bell? With Google you have some choice to go to their site or not... how about ATT? They control the physical wire to your house, or the website, or the fiber in between!!!! and seem to have no issue at all with selling you out to the highest bidder (the whole NSA thing was just a bribe to get the FTC to look the other way in that HUGE merger) Where was the FTC championing our rights then? Really FTC, the Google/Doubleclick merger is silly. Or how about that Microsoft Web site that 95% of computers connect to by default.. your computer sends home god-knows-what to Bill's home office... nobody worries about THAT.
This just shows Google hasn't learned to bribe the right people yet. For all these mega corps cry about govt "interference", the largest squealers are pulling the strings to stop this merger. It's not in any interest of the "little guy" just big companies upset that Google has pulled the TIA card quicker than 30 & 90 year old companies that have been plotting for ages.
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there's no way for a user to get to just the browser. And itunes uses slightly different markup so it won't work with normal browsers. But you are technically correct, it's it an implementation of Webkit displaying the iTunes Store.
Apple has this decidedly anti-free thing going on. The best offence for Apple at this time would be to show how many free projects like apache, samba, BSD, KHTML they are involved in.. or share interoperability of open standards. Instead Apple is totally silent about anybody BUT Apple.
Apple needs to show a market with 3-4 players in order to really grow. To be taken seriously, they need to show how they are at the top of the ecology of the "everybody-but-Microsoft" crowd. They should be reaching out a hand to Sun, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.. because by limiting themselves to hardware only, they automatically cut out large groups of software users that have existing hardware, or that Apple hardware doesn't meet the needs of. They should be quietly building a front against the big player. Instead they're worrying about what laptop a Samba developer will use at a presentation. They're totally out of line... totally thinking like a second-place company content to be second place because they can poke fun at the big dog and not get bitten.
IN this particular case, it's disingenuous for them not to include Konquerer, Opera, Firefox in any chart of web browsers because they COULD be working as a team with open standards. They could have shown that there are half a dozen standards-ready browsers out there that it's not just an Apple-only thing to develop for Safari. But instead they want ALL the limelight. So to the majority of corporate developers, it's still business as usuall.. Microsoft versus Apple.. the entire point being lost.
That said, these poor administrators are screwed. But they are supposed to be done paying back another loan to the state (notice the STATE didn't let them off the hook, yet expects a private company to!) They made a settlement 14 years ago... this is why we can't let people spend our kids' money... when the piper comes they get screwed.
for me, she's overreaching her "place" in history. All the facts are for her. She graduated better than Bill and practiced law longer, she's got no scandal in the closets since having to deal with that when Bill was President. For me, it's just that she's TOO ambitious... She's going after it, not being "pushed" into it by others... and that's sort of a red flag to a lot of people to watch out. She's probably the most politically qualified female candidate out there. Unfortunately, this next election needs to be about issues and she doesn't deliver something we haven't already seen in the last 16 years. I'd rather see Dean, Paul, Obama, Gore... hell if this scandal situation gets worse we may need Carter to come back to fix the republican mess again!!! If you look at the last 50 years or so of US history, the govt is most efficient and protects freedoms best when there is a Democrat president and small majority Republican Congress. It makes it harder to pass any laws and that's always a Good thing!! As soon as Republicans get the hot seat they spend like drunken sailors... even worse than what they claim Democrats do. Republicans only hold their ideals when it's not their man in the White House... witness the last 6 years of highly un-republican laws being passed with hardly a reading!
a better option for the school would be to hold the line on the blanket contract and allow installing of Parallels or Wine on everything! If Microsoft is requiring license for all the computers, then their software should run on all the computers if technologically possible. In most European countries, they don't hold to the same licensing loopholes the USA does.. tying your software to a particular OS install is definately one thing would be fun to see made null in court.
the issue is that the telcos want more than just one monopoly. They didn't sacrafice many profits to build out their networks, there are still federal and state taxes collected to PAY them to actually fulfill building out the "monopoly" they were granted. The real issue with FiOS is that they are not trying to build JUST a new telco structure... they are trying to do it outside the established rules about information freedom that they operated under as a telco. They want a monopoly on the physical connection AND on the content over that wire... that's why it's wrong. What they've been doing for the last 15 years is to take the "benefits" from the govt to roll out the new stuff, but not roll it out until they change the rules to fund their new monopolies. Things like unequal upstream is a direct attempt to sabotage the internet peering agreements that allow the smaller players to "cancel out" high bandwidth costs because in a balanced system the number of users should have relatively even amount of up and down bandwidth in their systems... The telcos manipulate this to use their near monopoly on home users to overprice business users and other competitors.
and that's why software patents fail. These guys had no "product" so they didn't actually reveal their invention to the industry. The industry moved in a direction and they just happened to make a guess about how something would work out. That's the problem with the "totality" of software patents... many people that were never exposed to the inventors or there product are now at fault for doing something that came thru the natural order of things... evolution if you will.
this isn't even about necessarily playing "protected" media, but playing your software on their "protected" hardware. OF course once you open the system up to ANY software, it's trivial to run the software designed for it, but piracy is sideways in the case of something like XBMC where the purpose is to use different "IP" not associated with the Manufacture in any way. Just to find a new purpose for what the hardware can do outside its bounds. At a basic level it's a property rights thing... the physical hardware is YOUR property, "IP" in terms of only running "verified" software on a device is not a "natural" right, nor recognized by copyright law.. but the DMCA is an attempt to change that.
it's a trust thing.. Apple is trusting you with somebody else's music file, they expect you to take care of that data file by putting your personal info inside the file. There's nothing "wrong" going on here. They expect you to protect that info that they sell for you to have the same as your own personal info... it's a CONTRACT you made when you paid money and downloaded the song.. even without DRM. No DRM does not mean no personal responsibility.
which are their more of.. people "hacking" to run DeCSS and rip to iPods or people blowing things up? There's not really too many genuine terrorists out there, not enough to justify bugging every single citizen.. the govt will have to look busy with all those shiny troops and technology... that's when people that are "inconvenient" for businesses get put to the head of the "troublemaker" line. After all, the WTC was only a few Billion dollars in damage one time... the RIAA Claims to be loosing multiple times that PER YEAR.. So yes, geeks are the bigger threat...I'm afraid of that.
no, that's EXACTLY how the hardware pairing is supposed to function. That's why in the beginning, it was only OEMS that were going to make the systems. The structure is DESIGNED to be brittle and byzantine. Microsoft and friends want this stuff soldered down, they don't want you to "upgrade" things anymore... it's too much hassle for their plans. If it doesn't work the first time, you, the customer or field tech, are supposed to send it back and get another.. only "manufacturing" is supposed to mess with keys and such. Besides, there's no money in windows on desktops anyway.. M$ wants the sales from cable companies and locked down hardware, so they're making a token effort that no sane person will put up with.
Save the ears!!!! The ears are taking a beating as everything is LOUDER... but we still can't hear it.
I notice it in radio because certain women voices I simply can't hear. I have the radio so loud my ears hurt, but I can't hear what the woman is saying. That "radio voice" is tuned for a man's dynamic range, a womans and they sound terrible over the air, and you only get woman DJs that can sound "good" with those horrible conditions... none of the woman DJs sound like what a woman with a very good speaking voice would sound like. If you watch the YouTube they've squished the minute parts of what we intrepet as speech and it's hardly intelligible. In radio, they do that because we all listen with crappy speakers anyway. Most of the time you won't notice it when your moving around, but it also increases the "quality" of the broadcast by "compressing" the frequencies to fill the spectrum...and at the same time letting them make "clear edges" to account for frequency drift and interference. Unfortunately, they started mastering all the CDs that way because that's what people are told is "right" on radio and TV audio. They whole push against this really started after 9/11 when broadcast stations made the switch to more spoken word for news and it sounded terrible... it came to light how badly they were mangling the music and they backed off some, but a lot more people started paying attention to their ears.
the whole problem is that the GM companies aren't factoring in "life" into the mix. The goal of GM should be to enhance the natural order .. what these guys do is smash it to pieces. The focus of GM should change to speeding up eugenics, an almost mandatory requirement should be "do no harm" and "reproduce after it's kind". If the organism can't do that, then it's environmentally toxic waste. Sure, it means we'll slow down food production some. If it's destroying varieties that are "wild" or "organic" then these people are committing the gravest of crimes and the whole country will pay with mass starvation someday.
One of my co workers was trying to get Microsoft licensing to explain how those wonderful bundled packages (those OEM with 5 cals everybody sells) that come with machine tools/hardware would work with our existing Microsoft license (it was standard versus enterprise and unlocked versus cals... and how does a machine with a server and SQL get licensed.. to the OEM or to the company? and who's rules control CALs) and the Microsoft guy would not actually point to a license line and say how it should work. He finally got the guy to email "something" solid as to the minimum licenses we needed to buy to use the software one of Microsoft's resellers sold us and stay legal. They're trained to point to the website.. but the EULA states the website can always change...so they won't actually quote it. great answer!!!
Microsoft is trying to rewrite the license to what they WANT it to say without actually posting that it needed to be changed. If you were to check the version right now, you'd surely find the hole closed. But Microsoft keeps no version control of back versions so you can state on date x I was allowed to do this... they only deal with one right now, in the vein of Orwell and rewriting "history" as needed for the lawyers. Microsoft doesn't like the program, but knows they don't have an actual case. They're arguing the rules, without actually showing the rules.. then arguing the only way he could write the software is to break the rules they won't tell him. They're trying to force him to prove a double negative and he didn't take the bait.
Lately the FCC is pretty good (with the prez approval) about keeping big deals that benefit mega corps quite (posted in a lavatory in the basement of city hall for us plebs.. but the dept head goes out of his way to meet the big players for lunch about the deal) The FCC is VERY anti-little-guy right now, and even guys like Google are still "new money".. another term for little guys that can momentarily out spend you for a new toy. The effort is making sure the deals are even made in public up front in time for companies that want in to make a strategy.
I like the idea of several national channels as well... That would really help somebody like Google to roll out cool services.
exactly, the two groups, phone and cable choose to "not compete" while looking like it on paper. Generally you have one or the other and the late company to the game in your area simply won't upgrade the equipment.. even if they advertise nationally or state-wide. Hopefully the FCC will crack open the books on the REAL roll out data so the public can put dots on a map and show just how poor the service really is from these guys. Maybe they'll do this AFTER they sell the "next big thing" to the already existing big players so they can kill it!
I've tried 2 or 3 of these and even the writers of the programs state there are gaping holes in support the EXT2/3 file readers available on MS Windows. There is only 1 true one that is a "real" Windows file system, but because of the highly restrictive/expensive license it's kind of expensive and can never be free even if the company that made it wanted it to be. It boils down that the rest don't have the kind of kernel level access you need to mount them where programs can get at the files reliably. Installing Programs to such an imported drive is not supported, and even using as a storage drive is out of the question as programs don't always know how to access the mapped drive. It's really only useful for "drop-in" support... pulling files from a drive for interoperability, not much more.
File systems is one area the OS itself must have the support, you simply can't hack it on later without source code level access to kernel code.. and in the windows world that will never happen. In the Mac world it's slightly better because Darwin is open source... Apple just chose not to distribute the parts that weren't theres, but at least it can be added back in more easily.
exactly, I have one of those cards too and it's really cool... But the manufactures got "stuck" with SD for quite a while. Because the SD DRM features were so seldom used, many of the Taiwan guys have been using MMC chips for some time in SD cards.. much to the ire of those who are looking to flip the DRM switch.. to find out half the cheap cards on the market don't actually support it!! Go Taiwan. This is just a move to standardize something and save on costs and USB/MMC is the magic combo in 90% of devices on the market right now. The only hold out is Olympus and Sony and maybe a few companies stuck with CF, but that's MORE compatible for a different purpose. Note: somebody is also trying to change the SD spec again for the new "HD" cards with more than 4GB of memory... new sockets, new devices, MORE PROFIT... sounds like the Taiwanese don't want to play this round. Asia is the new US for rapid technology development because companies are more interested in making stuff like crazy than defending their little plots of market turf.
It's not even that severe because Tivo can continue to use and modify the versions they already distribute under the old terms. But they'll have to do security and feature updates on their own or from a community of GPL2 only developers. The GPL isn't retroactive to the already published code.. the change won't take anything AWAY from them that they already have. once the change happens, they won't be able to use NEW updated code unless they agree to the new terms of distrbution. Kind of like how they won't trade out my old series 1 system for a new shiny version 3 with HD for free, under the same monthly terms of service, without more money being paid to them. How rude of them to make their products so not-free!
BSD isn't always free for USERS... that is what GPL was designed to address, not developers. The history of GPL was created expressly because manufacturers began the practice 20+ years ago of locking developers out of their OWN programming on mainframes and devices by enforcing "secret" software and making developers pay for access to make devices continue to work with new systems, or to get you code from one proprietary system to another. The original catalyst for GPL was printer drivers. Those used to be freely available specs to make your purchase work with any system you might need to use... then some company refused to allow a collage professor to use their printer with one more new system...he didn't require them to do any work, just provide info so he could update his system. instead of buying a new one at a high price... GPL is a stab against software things like "vendor lock-in" and marketing "planned obsolesence" that's so common now to buy a whole new device for "one more feature" that should be a free software update we don't even protest it anymore. BSD allows manufactures to continue the practice, with code developed for free, while GPL does not. It's the focus of who the software is FREE for.. I know if I put work out there for free, I'd mean it to stay free.. If you don't like that, you're free not to use it!!!
I think there in lies the problem with "fair and balanced" game play. Realize that 99% of the real world lives on 1% of the scraps. Unfortunately, telling players that they'll create 9 characters that never reach past level 10 and have to kill boars all day won't gain very many people looking for a fun time if you only allow 1% of the characters to reach level 60 for example. The traditional real space model of "I have and you don't" doesn't work. Nor does the "let everybody have everything" because there's no reward for hard work. The solution is to attract players to positions that would "lose" but make the situation a "win" for them. That's for game designers to get the big bucks for... or they'll lose their real money as another notch on a millionaire's belt!!!
the goal then is to build a MMORPG system that forces you to play in character to get ahead, and punishes you for doing things based on outside influence (friends, guilds, etc) that wouldn't be in-line for your game character. You have to make players assume duties of the stock NPCs and find a reward system to put in place. example: IF you have much gold, you should have to hire (and manage) newbies as a quest to protect you. Frankly, I thought the Sims or Uru could have been that game but then they turned around and allowed outside advertising, money exchange, and messaging between real people and ruined that.
This just shows Google hasn't learned to bribe the right people yet. For all these mega corps cry about govt "interference", the largest squealers are pulling the strings to stop this merger. It's not in any interest of the "little guy" just big companies upset that Google has pulled the TIA card quicker than 30 & 90 year old companies that have been plotting for ages.
notice that schools (even elementary) have become crazy about all the students displaying their school IDs... they're planning ahead.