You don't really make any sense... You didn't choose divx because it required additional software, so you chose wmv? Wmv can ONLY be played in windows, and I think it requires a fairly new version at that. And now you're switching to Quicktime?? WMP can't play quicktime, everyone hates the quicktime player, and it's hardly supported anywhere! Now you've gone from a more or less open standard, to a rather closed standard which requires a special player. What was wrong with divx again? Or the open XviD for that matter...
Top poster:" I just remembered reading this [linuxjournal.com] article in Linux Journal about Dreamworks running Photoshop via VMWare."
We are very much talking about VMware.
"And decreasing the competitive advantage of a monopolist is good for the market."
Not really... With VMware you still need a windows license, so microsoft is still sitting comfortable on top. So what if you're running linux, you still need the microsoft software to get the programs to work!
Do you ever look at that little disclaimer on the box (or in the beginning of the movie, I forget) stating that it isn't allowed to publicly display, or copy or rent this movie? Also for rental special copies are purchased so the copyright owners get their money - they don't use the same DVD license that you use for home usage.
"You could SCO them. Assuming of course you can prove the code was stolen."
What does those two things have to do with eachother? SCO never proved anything;).
For my local area, the real killer for Word Perfect was that everyone related the name Word Perfect with the dull blue screen of 5.1... While we, at my school, still sat and watched that screen in dispair, I happily used Word Perfect 6.0 at home, way before my school converted to Word for Windows (which looked surprisingly much like WP6). Later when I kept using Word Perfect, people would stare at me in chock, because they thought it still had that blue interface, even though I used a WYSIWYG Word Perfect long before they switched to Word. I guess I blame my schools for jumping on the Word wagon, rather than sticking to Word Perfect, which I still find superior.
We're not stealing... We try it... We like it = we buy it! Now that iw what RIAA fail to comprehend. I have bought many cds which I wouldn't have even heard of, if it wasn't for the illegal distribution of music. Because the radio won't let me listen to alternative music, I can only find out about it on the internet (Or rarely on special shows in the middle of the night). But I have no doubt, that I will be sued and condemned by RIAA if they should ever catch me doing something nasty, because they can't fathom why on earth I would want to buy the CD if I already had the music on my computer.
"A proper karma whore would have posted the question, waited to score a couple of 'Interesting' mods, then posted the answer to collect on the 'Informative'."
Or perhaps post the question, answer the question, thus harvesting double fruit, and then later score another one by posting a witty remark. Then wait for someone to lure this devious trick, and make a witty comeback at that, thus getting a baffling four high scoring comments.
Uhm... He is a robot. There's a whole series of Arnolds out there (T800 Model 101), that's why he could come back in T2 as a good guy. Guess what! The same goes for T3!
In other news iRiver released their newest flash based mp3 player, the iFP-300... The Craft[iRiver.com]. The player is flashable, and probably capable of Ogg Vorbis support (don't ask... Please... It's very strange). It comes in a sleek design too:)
The old saying of "Free software is only free if you put no value on your time" applies here.
Fun... I always heard it as: "... if your time is worthless", but I guess your way is in some aspect a nicer way to say it... Or just a bit less clear.
I think that says more about the creek than it does the waste.
This is what I'd typically expect from the spoiled youth of today, who think that what the water they drink is either synthetically created from pure Hydrogen and Oxygen, or at least have never been anywhere near anything even resembling filth. So when they hear that people are purifying waste and putting it on the hill side (which probably isn't too sterile as it is), or... say... Watch Dune, where people use a suit to purify their own bodilly waste products for drinking, they go "eeeeew! Gross!". Well, FYI, your water has been on this planet for millions of years! Just about every species that have lived on this planet has crapped in your water, and then it's been through natural followed by artificial purification... What the ski resort is doing is just the same, and they only put it onto the hills... Wake up and smell the water!
True, but based on the Lindows vs. Micosoft case I'd say the mozilla crew stood pretty strong (actually my guess would be stronger, but IANAL either..)
BIOS "computing" and browser "computing" doesn't have too much in common... I think mozilla would win, would it go to trial, but that's probably not something they'd like to do...
When making these files available on a filesharing network it's resonable to believe that the intend is to share them. That is illegal. 1) These guys are not the copyright holders
These guys represent the copyright holders and thus have a standing to demand payment. 2) They have no proof that these are illegal copies.
No, but still, the users are probably illegally sharing the files (Nothing about that in linux you can disable the read flag, so no one can touch them. And as mentioned elsewhere the files may be fakes).
What APG is doing is the same thing they have always done: They try to scare the users. They go after the weak, who think APG has a case against them. What they're sent isn't a bill, it's a settlement offer. Often for without telling the person what he will be sued for - you have illegal copies on your computer. Settle for this amount or we'll sue. AFAIK APG hasn't won one single case in court yet.
Because farscape is an extremely expensive series to produce. Although Scifi gets lots of viewers for farscape, they can make more money, producing a cheap, low-quality show which attracts half the audience. Unfortunately, with this strategy, we get a lot of boring cheap television, which no one really likes, rather than exciting visually stunning television, that everyone likes (or at least a large group of people).
Dammit, all news about security issues with microsoft products should be rated reduntant... I know I'm losing interest by now... There's just a limit to how often you can get amazed by a new security hole in the same company's products.:P
Nobody cares! I care. You care. Some amount of slashdot readers care, but that's about it. The normal consumer (if there ever was one) couldn't care less. He wants what's easiest, and when he's got a pre-installed ms-pdf-clone, that's what he'll use.
So.... You prove your point (that ie isn't the only insecure browser) by linking to a page, that lists ONE hole in mozilla and related, which is FIXED? Actually, if that page speaks the ultimate truth, mozilla isn't insecure, since they fixed their one bug.
Besides. The same page shows that IE has 16 unpatched vulnerabilities!! And about 15 patched ones. How can you even begin to think that that comparison speaks in favour of anything than mozilla and it's offspring?
Being Danish myself, I am surprised by this ruling. 99.999% of the time the Danes are the ones with a clear head about all things. There are ignorants everywhere. People with no insight into computers usually don't use them, and are therefore the ones who sit in high places (like judges and lawyers), and also the ones who makes the grand decisions. In Denmark (at least) we have these everywhere! In the congress (or whatever... Folketinget), in the courtrooms... Everywhere! And they are the ones who keep screwing it up for us (or for the record industry in some cases). I know plenty of danes who don't know anything about computers. I guess it's all about what crowd you are in.
Well, they *are* only human, perhaps this judge has some, ah, non-Danish lineage. This would explain this temporary lapse of judgement. As I said, we have a lot of non-geeks in Denmark. Not many computer literates would be content as a judge, and not many judges understands how even their keyboards work. We could pick judges who know about this, but those people usually have an oppinion from the start, and then they aren't qualified. IMO all bad rulings are made because either the prosecutor or the defender hasn't been good enough at convincing the judge, or understanding the case. The judge ought to know as little as possible about the subject from the start.
One of the recent feature requests on the mailing list was support for CVS, so that daring, bleeding-edgers could use portage to install CVS versions of their software.
What I meant was that they the packages distributed so fast, that there's hardly any time for testing if it's stable enough. I hope that clarifies my (misunderstood) comment.
I used gentoo about a month ago (still have it on a computer I never use), and I didn't have problems with the mirrors. I only had to choose a local one, and I was up and running again.
I DID have the problem that the gentoo-XFS-kernel was broken, so I couldn't use modules. Fixed this by getting my own kernel and patching it, but it was annoying.
My reason for trying out gentoo was, initially, curiosity. I would have liked the speed boost people keeps goind on about, but I got nothing. So it takes a longer time to install packages and I gain nothing except more control of my programs, which I don't have the time to use (the control).
About the stability. Debian patch a lot of their programs to gain stability and security. I may have excagerated on the way, sorry about that, but my debian STILL is more stable.
Bottom line must be, that you can get a stable, yet a bit old distribution, which does a couple of things for you (I like the menugeneration), or you can get a do-it-yourself distribution, which is faster and has newer packages, but is a bit more unstable.
That's my experience, anyway, maybe a bit less biased this time...
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You don't really make any sense... You didn't choose divx because it required additional software, so you chose wmv? Wmv can ONLY be played in windows, and I think it requires a fairly new version at that. And now you're switching to Quicktime?? WMP can't play quicktime, everyone hates the quicktime player, and it's hardly supported anywhere! Now you've gone from a more or less open standard, to a rather closed standard which requires a special player. What was wrong with divx again? Or the open XviD for that matter...
Top poster:" I just remembered reading this [linuxjournal.com] article in Linux Journal about Dreamworks running Photoshop via VMWare."
We are very much talking about VMware.
"And decreasing the competitive advantage of a monopolist is good for the market." Not really... With VMware you still need a windows license, so microsoft is still sitting comfortable on top. So what if you're running linux, you still need the microsoft software to get the programs to work!
Do you ever look at that little disclaimer on the box (or in the beginning of the movie, I forget) stating that it isn't allowed to publicly display, or copy or rent this movie? Also for rental special copies are purchased so the copyright owners get their money - they don't use the same DVD license that you use for home usage.
No, that means that your library pays enormous fees to be allowed to hand over those DVDs and VHS'.
"You could SCO them. Assuming of course you can prove the code was stolen." ;).
What does those two things have to do with eachother? SCO never proved anything
You think ms lost money? Corel stopped developing for linux didn't they? I think ms got exactly what they wanted for their money...
For my local area, the real killer for Word Perfect was that everyone related the name Word Perfect with the dull blue screen of 5.1... While we, at my school, still sat and watched that screen in dispair, I happily used Word Perfect 6.0 at home, way before my school converted to Word for Windows (which looked surprisingly much like WP6). Later when I kept using Word Perfect, people would stare at me in chock, because they thought it still had that blue interface, even though I used a WYSIWYG Word Perfect long before they switched to Word. I guess I blame my schools for jumping on the Word wagon, rather than sticking to Word Perfect, which I still find superior.
We're not stealing... We try it... We like it = we buy it! Now that iw what RIAA fail to comprehend. I have bought many cds which I wouldn't have even heard of, if it wasn't for the illegal distribution of music. Because the radio won't let me listen to alternative music, I can only find out about it on the internet (Or rarely on special shows in the middle of the night). But I have no doubt, that I will be sued and condemned by RIAA if they should ever catch me doing something nasty, because they can't fathom why on earth I would want to buy the CD if I already had the music on my computer.
Nono, you got it all wrong.
Al Gore invented the Incas, the Incas invented the Internet, SCO bought Al Gore and now claims they own the Internet.
"A proper karma whore would have posted the question, waited to score a couple of 'Interesting' mods, then posted the answer to collect on the 'Informative'."
Or perhaps post the question, answer the question, thus harvesting double fruit, and then later score another one by posting a witty remark. Then wait for someone to lure this devious trick, and make a witty comeback at that, thus getting a baffling four high scoring comments.
Uhm... He is a robot. There's a whole series of Arnolds out there (T800 Model 101), that's why he could come back in T2 as a good guy. Guess what! The same goes for T3!
In other news iRiver released their newest flash based mp3 player, the iFP-300... The Craft[iRiver.com]. The player is flashable, and probably capable of Ogg Vorbis support (don't ask... Please... It's very strange). It comes in a sleek design too :)
I mean own a licensed copy of Windows. ;)
No, you own a license. The license gives you the rights to use the copy, but you certainly don't own it.
The old saying of "Free software is only free if you put no value on your time" applies here.
Fun... I always heard it as: "... if your time is worthless", but I guess your way is in some aspect a nicer way to say it... Or just a bit less clear.
I think that says more about the creek than it does the waste.
This is what I'd typically expect from the spoiled youth of today, who think that what the water they drink is either synthetically created from pure Hydrogen and Oxygen, or at least have never been anywhere near anything even resembling filth. So when they hear that people are purifying waste and putting it on the hill side (which probably isn't too sterile as it is), or... say... Watch Dune, where people use a suit to purify their own bodilly waste products for drinking, they go "eeeeew! Gross!". Well, FYI, your water has been on this planet for millions of years! Just about every species that have lived on this planet has crapped in your water, and then it's been through natural followed by artificial purification... What the ski resort is doing is just the same, and they only put it onto the hills... Wake up and smell the water!
True, but based on the Lindows vs. Micosoft case I'd say the mozilla crew stood pretty strong (actually my guess would be stronger, but IANAL either..)
BIOS "computing" and browser "computing" doesn't have too much in common... I think mozilla would win, would it go to trial, but that's probably not something they'd like to do...
When making these files available on a filesharing network it's resonable to believe that the intend is to share them. That is illegal.
1) These guys are not the copyright holders
These guys represent the copyright holders and thus have a standing to demand payment.
2) They have no proof that these are illegal copies.
No, but still, the users are probably illegally sharing the files (Nothing about that in linux you can disable the read flag, so no one can touch them. And as mentioned elsewhere the files may be fakes).
What APG is doing is the same thing they have always done: They try to scare the users. They go after the weak, who think APG has a case against them. What they're sent isn't a bill, it's a settlement offer. Often for without telling the person what he will be sued for - you have illegal copies on your computer. Settle for this amount or we'll sue. AFAIK APG hasn't won one single case in court yet.
Because farscape is an extremely expensive series to produce. Although Scifi gets lots of viewers for farscape, they can make more money, producing a cheap, low-quality show which attracts half the audience. Unfortunately, with this strategy, we get a lot of boring cheap television, which no one really likes, rather than exciting visually stunning television, that everyone likes (or at least a large group of people).
Dammit, all news about security issues with microsoft products should be rated reduntant... I know I'm losing interest by now... There's just a limit to how often you can get amazed by a new security hole in the same company's products. :P
Nobody cares! I care. You care. Some amount of slashdot readers care, but that's about it. The normal consumer (if there ever was one) couldn't care less. He wants what's easiest, and when he's got a pre-installed ms-pdf-clone, that's what he'll use.
So.... You prove your point (that ie isn't the only insecure browser) by linking to a page, that lists ONE hole in mozilla and related, which is FIXED? Actually, if that page speaks the ultimate truth, mozilla isn't insecure, since they fixed their one bug.
Besides. The same page shows that IE has 16 unpatched vulnerabilities!! And about 15 patched ones. How can you even begin to think that that comparison speaks in favour of anything than mozilla and it's offspring?
Being Danish myself, I am surprised by this ruling. 99.999% of the time the Danes are the ones with a clear head about all things.
There are ignorants everywhere. People with no insight into computers usually don't use them, and are therefore the ones who sit in high places (like judges and lawyers), and also the ones who makes the grand decisions. In Denmark (at least) we have these everywhere! In the congress (or whatever... Folketinget), in the courtrooms... Everywhere! And they are the ones who keep screwing it up for us (or for the record industry in some cases).
I know plenty of danes who don't know anything about computers. I guess it's all about what crowd you are in.
Well, they *are* only human, perhaps this judge has some, ah, non-Danish lineage. This would explain this temporary lapse of judgement.
As I said, we have a lot of non-geeks in Denmark. Not many computer literates would be content as a judge, and not many judges understands how even their keyboards work. We could pick judges who know about this, but those people usually have an oppinion from the start, and then they aren't qualified.
IMO all bad rulings are made because either the prosecutor or the defender hasn't been good enough at convincing the judge, or understanding the case. The judge ought to know as little as possible about the subject from the start.
One of the recent feature requests on the mailing list was support for CVS, so that daring, bleeding-edgers could use portage to install CVS versions of their software.
What I meant was that they the packages distributed so fast, that there's hardly any time for testing if it's stable enough. I hope that clarifies my (misunderstood) comment.
I used gentoo about a month ago (still have it on a computer I never use), and I didn't have problems with the mirrors. I only had to choose a local one, and I was up and running again.
I DID have the problem that the gentoo-XFS-kernel was broken, so I couldn't use modules. Fixed this by getting my own kernel and patching it, but it was annoying.
My reason for trying out gentoo was, initially, curiosity. I would have liked the speed boost people keeps goind on about, but I got nothing. So it takes a longer time to install packages and I gain nothing except more control of my programs, which I don't have the time to use (the control).
About the stability. Debian patch a lot of their programs to gain stability and security. I may have excagerated on the way, sorry about that, but my debian STILL is more stable.
Bottom line must be, that you can get a stable, yet a bit old distribution, which does a couple of things for you (I like the menugeneration), or you can get a do-it-yourself distribution, which is faster and has newer packages, but is a bit more unstable.
That's my experience, anyway, maybe a bit less biased this time...