it always has and always will be "What are all my friends using".
It also seems a bit silly for Google to be interested in IM. Google's services always revolve around searching (even gmail), something that isn't very useful for IM. They could perhaps make finding buddies or finding past conversations easier, but other than that, I fail to see where google could work their magic.
In the August 6, 2001 National Review, Jonah Goldberg points six key facts.
1. ANWR comprises 19.6 million total acres - the 2,000 acres used for proposed drilling is just 1/100th of one percent of the larger reserve.
2. According to Goldberg, who actually traveled to ANWR (whereas most journalists, environmentalists, and Senators rarely go), there are three large herds of caribou, only one of which roams near the ANWR drilling site and they typically congregate near the pipeline to avoid the large mosquitoes that attack them.
3. Any one working on the reserve can be fired, no questions asked, for even walking out on to the tundra, never mind actually tampering with it.
4. Threatening the animals in any way, even if it's just throwing a rock, is grounds for immediate termination.
5. The entire operation is driven in on wheels by traveling over the ice during the winter months, which preserves the tundra. In addition, with today's innovations in drilling, it is possible to drill over a range of several dozen miles while only making one hole in the ground.
6. The Native American population fully supports this idea because it will bring jobs and income to their struggling communities. The only group opposed to drilling is a group of Eskimos who are hundreds of miles away from the drill site and who stand to not make a dime because there is no oil underneath their land.
The Apache liscense has a similar clause (mostly to protect against SCO-like suits). It will be interesting to see if they are asked to revise their liscense as well.
On the other hand, on my Linux machine, it was just a matter of typing:
apt-get install openoffice.org
Which apt repository did you use? Any distro I've used that had a mechanism like apt (yum, etc.), I had to manually select and enter the server names in a config file before I got anything to work at all. On top of that, editing a config file almost always required me to be root and to select what program I wanted to edit the file with (double clicking the file opened it in konqueror, read-only).
How about another example, installing a video card driver.
On windows, I go to nvidias site and find and download an executable. I download the executable and run it (in windows). Drivers are installed.
Now on linux. I go the nvidia site and find the graphics driver it is a.run package. I type ""sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run". I am presented with an error, "X server must not be running before installation". Now I must figure out how to stop X. Logging out and attemping to login using the "failsafe" mode (console only) fails to fix the problem (X is still running) so I login as my user account again and fire up a browser and point it to google. After sorting through several results I find my answer type "init 3" in a terminal window. Boy was that intuitive. After typing out the long command to install the graphics driver, all goes smoothly and I reboot.
I get lazy when it comes to doing things computers should be doing. If you took the time to install and customize a linux system, this obviously isn't true.
Many, if not most FOSS apps are developed as a way to scratch an "itch" for a developer; a task or problem that isn't solved by current software. The Wine project's itch could logically be construed as the inability to run a Windows program on Linux. What was the app that you couldn't live without; the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back?
Main Entry: piracy Pronunciation: 'pI-r&-sE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -cies Etymology: Medieval Latin piratia, from Late Greek peirateia, from Greek peiratEs pirate 1 : an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery 2 : robbery on the high seas 3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
Main Entry: piracy Pronunciation: 'pI-r&-sE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -cies Etymology: Medieval Latin piratia, from Late Greek peirateia, from Greek peiratEs pirate 1 : an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery 2 : robbery on the high seas 3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
The basic idea set forth by the DMCA is that digital security and protection (for copyrighted material) will always be able to be broken (the nature of digital information), and that a never-ending race between the protections and the cracks is not beneficial to anyone. To keep that from happening, the DMCA says that breaking protections is illegal and that the security does not need to be perfect (impossible to acheive) to protect content. That is quite an admirable goal; freeing content producers to worry about producing content, and not having to focus just on creating stronger and stronger security.
In the physical world, we don't have to secure our houses with bulletproof glass or 2 ton safe doors, we can put up a lock and rest safe knowing that even if the lock is defeatable, the act of breaking into the house is illegal.
The real problem is not with the DMCA making the defeat of such security illegal, but in content producers placing locks where they have no business being, or producing locks that don't have "keys" for alternate OS's (like Linux). The DMCAs most controvertial point is that it also outlaws "gray" material that has both legitimate uses (such as DVD playback on Linux) and illegitimate uses (ripping or copying rented DVDs).
If you want to know the honest truth, its because a linux liveCD isn't worth the investment of programmers time it would take to create. Game companies don't have unlimited time and money, and spending either on something as unrelated to the game as added overhead. Game developers cost a decent amount of money and not one dollar more will be spent than necessary.
Perhaps cable wiring isn't a good example, but motherboard wiring sure is. Routing 4-6 leads is much nicer than the 40 required for the p-ata spec. S-ATA connectors don't have exposed pins that can get bent or broken, and doesn't have the cable at a right angle to the connector allowing closer spacing.
USB mouse support in linux has been as robust or more robust than Windows for quite a while.
Sorry, but it just isn't. Try getting mice with back or forwards buttons to work correctly, chances are they won't, and not on uncommon mice (MS Optical Explorer 5 button).
Sorry, but thats not apple. Apple will never make a move to benefit customers. Apple will make moves that benefit apple and if that has the side-effect of benefitting customers all the better. Thats why you'll never see sub $150 ipods or a x86 version of OSX, they benefit the common man and dilute the elite-ness of owning a mac.
Kevin Rose, what an ass.
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Kevin Rose gives the tech community in general a bad name. He doesn't wash his hair nearly enough and generally appears unkempt despite being on national television. Hint Kevin, grease is never cool.
Things generally head downhill as soon as he opens his mouth. The advice and iformation is almost never useful (unless engaged in illegal activities), and is always much more entertaining for him than the rest of the audience. Most recently, he discussed on air what.nfo files were (NFO files are text files used by warez groups to include information about the stolen software (cdkeys and the like), and are almost never distributed with legitimate files. I have yet to see Kevin offer a tip that can be used positively (his segments rarely involve fixing something and usually involve breaking or cracking something, usually something expensive)
Probably my favorite incident involving Kevin was the episode of screensavers where Yoshi had brought several remote control vehicles to the set. Yoshi was illustrating how good the suspension on on vehichle was by dropping it from chest height. This of course was not enough for Kevin (he didn't get to drop it), so he takes the car from Yoshi and is promptly warned that if he drops it, to make sure it lands wheels down. Of course Kevin the Smart tosses the car up into the air, sending it tumbling towards the ground. Needless to say, the chances of the rotating vehicle landing correct-side-down are slim to none and the $400 car lands hard on the delicate radio and engine parts. Kevin
What do you think needs to be done to ensure that the rights of creators and artists are preserved in the digital age?
Suppose it is determined that a solution that both protects the producer's copyrights and the consumer's fair-use rights is not possible. Which side's rights deserve more protection?
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I think it is an animated gif... Loading in FF did the square loading trick and setting it as my desktop in windows made it render the same way.
it always has and always will be "What are all my friends using".
It also seems a bit silly for Google to be interested in IM. Google's services always revolve around searching (even gmail), something that isn't very useful for IM. They could perhaps make finding buddies or finding past conversations easier, but other than that, I fail to see where google could work their magic.
In the August 6, 2001 National Review, Jonah Goldberg points six key facts.
1. ANWR comprises 19.6 million total acres - the 2,000 acres used for proposed drilling is just 1/100th of one percent of the larger reserve.
2. According to Goldberg, who actually traveled to ANWR (whereas most journalists, environmentalists, and Senators rarely go), there are three large herds of caribou, only one of which roams near the ANWR drilling site and they typically congregate near the pipeline to avoid the large mosquitoes that attack them.
3. Any one working on the reserve can be fired, no questions asked, for even walking out on to the tundra, never mind actually tampering with it.
4. Threatening the animals in any way, even if it's just throwing a rock, is grounds for immediate termination.
5. The entire operation is driven in on wheels by traveling over the ice during the winter months, which preserves the tundra. In addition, with today's innovations in drilling, it is possible to drill over a range of several dozen miles while only making one hole in the ground.
6. The Native American population fully supports this idea because it will bring jobs and income to their struggling communities. The only group opposed to drilling is a group of Eskimos who are hundreds of miles away from the drill site and who stand to not make a dime because there is no oil underneath their land.
why in the hell should they be allowed to pay people to write something I can't have access to?
Talk about a weak argument. Are you equally pissed that the government purchases tanks and jets and you can't use either?
The Apache liscense has a similar clause (mostly to protect against SCO-like suits). It will be interesting to see if they are asked to revise their liscense as well.
Sensorship
Great spelling, cockgobbler.
On the other hand, on my Linux machine, it was just a matter of typing:
.run package. I type ""sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run". I am presented with an error, "X server must not be running before installation". Now I must figure out how to stop X. Logging out and attemping to login using the "failsafe" mode (console only) fails to fix the problem (X is still running) so I login as my user account again and fire up a browser and point it to google. After sorting through several results I find my answer type "init 3" in a terminal window. Boy was that intuitive. After typing out the long command to install the graphics driver, all goes smoothly and I reboot.
apt-get install openoffice.org
Which apt repository did you use? Any distro I've used that had a mechanism like apt (yum, etc.), I had to manually select and enter the server names in a config file before I got anything to work at all. On top of that, editing a config file almost always required me to be root and to select what program I wanted to edit the file with (double clicking the file opened it in konqueror, read-only).
How about another example, installing a video card driver.
On windows, I go to nvidias site and find and download an executable. I download the executable and run it (in windows). Drivers are installed.
Now on linux. I go the nvidia site and find the graphics driver it is a
I get lazy when it comes to doing things computers should be doing.
If you took the time to install and customize a linux system, this obviously isn't true.
how various luminaries react to this. I'd like to hear Stallman's take on this.
Is irony when your contest involves the most user unfriendly language and the prize is the most user friendly computer?
Many, if not most FOSS apps are developed as a way to scratch an "itch" for a developer; a task or problem that isn't solved by current software. The Wine project's itch could logically be construed as the inability to run a Windows program on Linux. What was the app that you couldn't live without; the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back?
hahaha, thats great stuff
but Merriam Webster disagrees.
Main Entry: piracy
Pronunciation: 'pI-r&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Etymology: Medieval Latin piratia, from Late Greek peirateia, from Greek peiratEs pirate
1 : an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery
2 : robbery on the high seas
3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
From Merriam Webster
Main Entry: piracy
Pronunciation: 'pI-r&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Etymology: Medieval Latin piratia, from Late Greek peirateia, from Greek peiratEs pirate
1 : an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery
2 : robbery on the high seas
3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
The basic idea set forth by the DMCA is that digital security and protection (for copyrighted material) will always be able to be broken (the nature of digital information), and that a never-ending race between the protections and the cracks is not beneficial to anyone. To keep that from happening, the DMCA says that breaking protections is illegal and that the security does not need to be perfect (impossible to acheive) to protect content. That is quite an admirable goal; freeing content producers to worry about producing content, and not having to focus just on creating stronger and stronger security.
In the physical world, we don't have to secure our houses with bulletproof glass or 2 ton safe doors, we can put up a lock and rest safe knowing that even if the lock is defeatable, the act of breaking into the house is illegal.
The real problem is not with the DMCA making the defeat of such security illegal, but in content producers placing locks where they have no business being, or producing locks that don't have "keys" for alternate OS's (like Linux). The DMCAs most controvertial point is that it also outlaws "gray" material that has both legitimate uses (such as DVD playback on Linux) and illegitimate uses (ripping or copying rented DVDs).
If you want to know the honest truth, its because a linux liveCD isn't worth the investment of programmers time it would take to create. Game companies don't have unlimited time and money, and spending either on something as unrelated to the game as added overhead. Game developers cost a decent amount of money and not one dollar more will be spent than necessary.
Perhaps cable wiring isn't a good example, but motherboard wiring sure is. Routing 4-6 leads is much nicer than the 40 required for the p-ata spec. S-ATA connectors don't have exposed pins that can get bent or broken, and doesn't have the cable at a right angle to the connector allowing closer spacing.
USB mouse support in linux has been as robust or more robust than Windows for quite a while.
Sorry, but it just isn't. Try getting mice with back or forwards buttons to work correctly, chances are they won't, and not on uncommon mice (MS Optical Explorer 5 button).
A bit off topic, but Today is an awesome song and an oppurtunity to say that never comes up so I needed to comment.
Absolutely not! Would you ask Porsche to fight for market share with Honda and use cheap, generic components?
Apple uses the same components as every single other PC vendor. Apple uses the same "cheap, generic components" and charges you more for them. HTH
Sorry, but thats not apple. Apple will never make a move to benefit customers. Apple will make moves that benefit apple and if that has the side-effect of benefitting customers all the better. Thats why you'll never see sub $150 ipods or a x86 version of OSX, they benefit the common man and dilute the elite-ness of owning a mac.
Kevin Rose gives the tech community in general a bad name. He doesn't wash his hair nearly enough and generally appears unkempt despite being on national television. Hint Kevin, grease is never cool.
.nfo files were (NFO files are text files used by warez groups to include information about the stolen software (cdkeys and the like), and are almost never distributed with legitimate files. I have yet to see Kevin offer a tip that can be used positively (his segments rarely involve fixing something and usually involve breaking or cracking something, usually something expensive)
Things generally head downhill as soon as he opens his mouth. The advice and iformation is almost never useful (unless engaged in illegal activities), and is always much more entertaining for him than the rest of the audience. Most recently, he discussed on air what
Probably my favorite incident involving Kevin was the episode of screensavers where Yoshi had brought several remote control vehicles to the set. Yoshi was illustrating how good the suspension on on vehichle was by dropping it from chest height. This of course was not enough for Kevin (he didn't get to drop it), so he takes the car from Yoshi and is promptly warned that if he drops it, to make sure it lands wheels down. Of course Kevin the Smart tosses the car up into the air, sending it tumbling towards the ground. Needless to say, the chances of the rotating vehicle landing correct-side-down are slim to none and the $400 car lands hard on the delicate radio and engine parts. Kevin
In his case, Request For Cock
And the other side of the coin:
What do you think needs to be done to ensure that the rights of creators and artists are preserved in the digital age?
Suppose it is determined that a solution that both protects the producer's copyrights and the consumer's fair-use rights is not possible. Which side's rights deserve more protection?
Holy shit, that is some terrible photoshopping.