"I think Mozilla should be able to stop someone taking their source, adding a whole bunch of unstable "improvements" as patches and calling it Firefox. It would damage a brand..."
Exactly. Without a way to protect your brand you could be exposing yourself to all sorts of litigation or liability. You mention a branded unstable Firefox scenario but there could also be flat-out misuse (other software using your brand, inappropriate products using the brand) or even purely malicious misuse like branding malware or inferior builds to undermine the product.
Anything can be obstructive, but if the free software movement had decided they wanted to challenge trademark they probably wouldn't have needed a PC World article to clue them in on it.
I think it's disingenuous to call Vista a good operating system that is plagued by a stigma. It's an ok operating system which was released with some significant problems which earned it a large amount of bad press. Some of these issues have seen some improvement, others it is presumed we will ignore (or disable).
But the truth of the matter is that slowly the market is making a change to being a competitive market place. In this regard even XP can be seen as a competitor to Vista and users are becoming increasingly aware of the differences between competing products and therefore a products features and/or performance.
Journalism is entertainment. Using a single source with no fact checking is probably the norm, and why not? A head-line and a few choice sound-bytes is all we expect anyway.
You can't close frames, you can only provide a link which will redirect so if the user navigates though pages from within a frame they'll be redirect to where ever your close link points (presumably the first page which was framed).
I use framing on a toolbar style search site I created (a free too for music, it's not nearly a irritating as it sounds) and originally I'd hoped I could add a real close button because I don't think locking someone into frames is cool, I was a bit disappointed when I found you really cant.
Dutch citizens test Dutch lawmakers sewage water and household garbage for signs of drugs or illegal activity. Citizens say they are not breaking the law because the samples can be taken without entering the building.
The only reason we get to gloat after Vista is because of the media shit-storm it caused. Windows 7 will be what comes pre-installed and it will be a little bit new and a little bit shiney. The VM for simple XP compatibility is just a good idea that takes backwards compatibility out of new os architecture.
Before they became the Microsoft/SCO turd? The installer let you play Tetris while you waited...so the first thing I did was was literally a little gaming.;-)
Backing up digital media from the drive is possible even with digital distribution methods (like Steam). I don't believe one is more crippled then the other.
The game rental business is the one with the nails going into it's coffin. Remind me again why you'd need a physical disk? And with theft, loss and damage Gamefly is living proof (so to speak) that A) there's a market for game rental B) renting *physical* media is costly and logistically complicated.
Their probably worried that this might signify the mainstreaming of DVD (media) ripping. Which, if it was to be considered common place, could wreck all sorts of havoc on their game-plan as people began to take interest in their right to media they (presumably) own.
was supposed to be the answer. And lets not forget about state government, which is a joke today, but that's our fault. The regionless, all-seeing, all-knowing federal government is a mistake we live with today and it's bankrupting our country with a never-ending power struggle which sucks for people like you and me, who work to sustain it.
Maybe it should be a little bit of both. Online play *could* theoretically be expanded to be more then just a copy of a basic set of game styles created ages ago now. Not a lot of innovation in MP really, so it might make sense that eventually someone will take initiative and see how we like something new.
Systems (political systems), because they're created by man are inherently corruptible (thanks to that man is not perfect dictum). Which is why in the US for instance the old conservatives used to argue for small government, and the founders tried to limit the federal government.
Politicians blow, they lie for career, power, money and we let them get away with it. But calling Israelis 'lying sneaky deceitful skunks and jerks' is kind of general. There are probably some people there that arent.
Ya, I listen to a lot of dubstep and myspace is manageable enough a lot of the artists use/promote their pages so it's become a sort of necessary evil. I'd hoped Virb or someone would have created something better, Soundcloud might be about the closest to useful I've seen, but it's still not as cool.
Even better, they allowed artists without the help of a label to create a presence. Even sell their own CD's (I've still got about a dozen) when you wanted higher quality copies to listen to.
Is this how a truly free market corrects itself? We talk about the market place and we talk about business interests within the market as if the two forces are the only concrete forces at play.
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I think someones been drinking the aquarium water.
"I think Mozilla should be able to stop someone taking their source, adding a whole bunch of unstable "improvements" as patches and calling it Firefox. It would damage a brand..."
Exactly. Without a way to protect your brand you could be exposing yourself to all sorts of litigation or liability. You mention a branded unstable Firefox scenario but there could also be flat-out misuse (other software using your brand, inappropriate products using the brand) or even purely malicious misuse like branding malware or inferior builds to undermine the product.
Anything can be obstructive, but if the free software movement had decided they wanted to challenge trademark they probably wouldn't have needed a PC World article to clue them in on it.
I think it's disingenuous to call Vista a good operating system that is plagued by a stigma. It's an ok operating system which was released with some significant problems which earned it a large amount of bad press. Some of these issues have seen some improvement, others it is presumed we will ignore (or disable).
But the truth of the matter is that slowly the market is making a change to being a competitive market place. In this regard even XP can be seen as a competitor to Vista and users are becoming increasingly aware of the differences between competing products and therefore a products features and/or performance.
Vista simply isn't a great product.
I just thought this was funny, but saying 2 out of every 10 times and calling that seldom seems a little...wrong. ;-)
Please don't drink and moderate.
Journalism is entertainment. Using a single source with no fact checking is probably the norm, and why not? A head-line and a few choice sound-bytes is all we expect anyway.
Take a look at Puttycyg for a somewhat more humane terminal (DOS style terminals are retarded).
You can't close frames, you can only provide a link which will redirect so if the user navigates though pages from within a frame they'll be redirect to where ever your close link points (presumably the first page which was framed).
I use framing on a toolbar style search site I created (a free too for music, it's not nearly a irritating as it sounds) and originally I'd hoped I could add a real close button because I don't think locking someone into frames is cool, I was a bit disappointed when I found you really cant.
Bolivia, happiest place on earth.
Dutch citizens test Dutch lawmakers sewage water and household garbage for signs of drugs or illegal activity. Citizens say they are not breaking the law because the samples can be taken without entering the building.
The only reason we get to gloat after Vista is because of the media shit-storm it caused. Windows 7 will be what comes pre-installed and it will be a little bit new and a little bit shiney. The VM for simple XP compatibility is just a good idea that takes backwards compatibility out of new os architecture.
Before they became the Microsoft/SCO turd? The installer let you play Tetris while you waited...so the first thing I did was was literally a little gaming. ;-)
Backing up digital media from the drive is possible even with digital distribution methods (like Steam). I don't believe one is more crippled then the other.
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The game rental business is the one with the nails going into it's coffin. Remind me again why you'd need a physical disk? And with theft, loss and damage Gamefly is living proof (so to speak) that A) there's a market for game rental B) renting *physical* media is costly and logistically complicated.
Their probably worried that this might signify the mainstreaming of DVD (media) ripping. Which, if it was to be considered common place, could wreck all sorts of havoc on their game-plan as people began to take interest in their right to media they (presumably) own.
was supposed to be the answer. And lets not forget about state government, which is a joke today, but that's our fault. The regionless, all-seeing, all-knowing federal government is a mistake we live with today and it's bankrupting our country with a never-ending power struggle which sucks for people like you and me, who work to sustain it.
Without something to fear we might become interested in domestic politics or worse, thinking.
Maybe it should be a little bit of both. Online play *could* theoretically be expanded to be more then just a copy of a basic set of game styles created ages ago now. Not a lot of innovation in MP really, so it might make sense that eventually someone will take initiative and see how we like something new.
Systems (political systems), because they're created by man are inherently corruptible (thanks to that man is not perfect dictum). Which is why in the US for instance the old conservatives used to argue for small government, and the founders tried to limit the federal government.
Politicians blow, they lie for career, power, money and we let them get away with it. But calling Israelis 'lying sneaky deceitful skunks and jerks' is kind of general. There are probably some people there that arent.
Ya, I listen to a lot of dubstep and myspace is manageable enough a lot of the artists use/promote their pages so it's become a sort of necessary evil. I'd hoped Virb or someone would have created something better, Soundcloud might be about the closest to useful I've seen, but it's still not as cool.
Heh. Ya, I don't know (you're probably right). Still, haven't found anything as good since. MySpace is a terrible stand-in.
Even better, they allowed artists without the help of a label to create a presence. Even sell their own CD's (I've still got about a dozen) when you wanted higher quality copies to listen to.
Is this how a truly free market corrects itself? We talk about the market place and we talk about business interests within the market as if the two forces are the only concrete forces at play.
'Nature abhors a vacuum' - Aristotle