Ok, from gnu.org: "Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software." I'm wondering when these six freedoms were made up. TiVo has been around for a while and this is the first I have heard of them. I doubt these freedoms have been around for more than a few years.
BTW, here is a link to your freedom files. Also, regarding the GPL the agreement is the agreement. I think it is important to keep a careful balance between the GPL and private business. Otherwise private business will just use something else and Linux will stagnate. I also completely agree with what TiVo has done. The fact that they are still around after about 7-years in business was not easy for them to do.
Well, I think you are confusing transfer speed vs total monthly transfer. Verizon is very clear on their transfer speed and they set customer expectations well in this regard. They do not make claims of unlimited transfer speed and customers even know the speed may vary. They do, however, make claims of unlimited monthly transfer and then go back on their word in the fine print. This is deceptive.
Let's use a metaphor for the intertubes. I go to a car rental agency. I rent a Ferrari that was advertised as having a governor that limits the speed to 128 MPH. I know, poor Ferrari... The same car is advertised to allow unlimited miles on it that month. Let's say I drive the hell out of the car by entering the Cannon Ball Run 2007 contest. If said rental agency then told me at the end of the month that I had driven over my 5,000 mile limit and that my account was to be terminated I would be pissed. So would you and they would have a lawsuit on them so fast their heads would spin. Fine print or no fine print. That is what I would call deceptive advertising.
Do I honestly expect unlimited when I sign up with an ISP? No I'm not so naive. I will say that I don't know why they are getting a free pass on this. If the fine print directly conflicts the advertising then it's deceptive advertising. In this case, I think any seven year old could understand and tell you the claims are deceptive. Just because we see it in other places doesn't make it acceptable. The fine print should be there to further explain any mis-communications that may arise. Not to completely redefine their stated claims.
It's not like stating monthly transfer rates is data plans is unheard of either. You see it all the time with PDA data plans and PC data plans alike. Here is a link to six Cingular plans with monthly transfer limits from 5 MB, 10 MB, 20 MB, 50 MB, all the way up to "Unlimited". So I don't think you can say I'm being pedantic. Anyone knows what the word unlimited means and anyone knows that Verizon is being deceptive. Verizon's marketing does a bad job of setting customer expectations, and they should change their data plans so that their customers are not alienated with an unclear data plan.
Yeah, it is all down to a definition. Unlimited means without limit. If there is a limit then it is not unlimited. The reason we have human language is to communicate ideas. If there is a limit it needs to be stated. To say something is unlimited and then limit you to 5 GB is just a plain lie. I don't give a shit about the fine print. If I say someone is a nice guy and then mumble he is a bastard asshole underneath my breath I'm being a two faced disingenuous asshole liar. No one would say otherwise either. I don't see why fine print is given a pass on this.
Anyway, if they don't like the words we have in the English language then they need to make up a new word. A word that conveys that their Internet access is limited to 5 GB. Maybe... Verizon EVDO now with Pentimited Internet Access!
Sorry I have to disagree with the inflation claim. If you lookup inflation on Wikipedia and follow some inflation calculators you will see that we have been in the ~3% range for the last 6-years.
3% / year X 6 years = 18%
That's very good. As a comparison, Venezuela's annual inflation rose to 18.4% last month.
No I didn't read the article. The summary was good enough for me to realize that it is the stupidest article I have seen posted on here in a long time. If there was some sort of "Shitty Award" that Slashdot gave out I nominate this article. How many ways can people jump on the bandwagon and bash Vista? Hey if you are going to bash it at least have some decent ammo. Why not blame the MPAA for ramming HDCP down our throats?
For the record, you would not know how many people are being tortured and killed in North Korea. In addition, why are these people being killed? For dissention? To be experimented on as the article mentions?
On forced labor camps, how is that equivalent to the ghetto at all? The ghetto is the ghetto because of a lack of jobs in that community. So its more like an anti-labor camp. So I think the comparison between the two is totally off base.
We are at war in Iraq so of course there are going to be casualties caused by that. There may be more or may be less than North Korea, but name one other country that spends millions of dollars on one bomb to blow up a mud shack with our enemies in it. We could easily carpet bomb, nuke, or use chemical warfare (as Hussein and Chemical Ali did) the city and it would be way cheaper, but we don't. Why do we do it? Because we're the United States of America and we have the technology, money, and humanity to try and limit collateral damage to civilian populations.
In the US you do have the right to free speech, and you have clearly exercised that right. You also have a right to a free press and I don't think you are exercising that right enough (do more research on your claims). If you truly feel President Bush and our government is equivalent to, or maybe even more evil than North Korea, I challenge you to move there and see how different they really are.
I second that. I have six games for my DS and overall Mario Kart DS is hands down the most fun to play. The multiplayer over WiFi and even over the Internet have me playing this game over and over.
Whatever man. Package means software package. If you can't infer that then I'm surprised you are even here. Etch is the codename for the next Debian release. If you spent half a second and typed in "Debian Etch" into Google you might be able to see that. Turn of WoW and learn something new instead of bitching from your grandmas basement about how she doesn't know what a package is...
In order to write good drivers for an OS you have to have intimate details of how the hardware works. In an ideal world MS might write all of the drivers. In the real world, nVidia and others are not going to allow them to see too much for fear that their trade secrets would go out the door.
I agree with the broken podcast functionality in 7.0. I had serious problems getting a reliable podcast that would sync with my iPod. The damn podcasts would download and when I synced they simply would not show up on my iPod. Or I would sync and they would be greyed out in iTunes. With 7.02 the functionality is better. I still get the greyed out error every once in a while, but it is better.
In addition, I run as non-admin in WinXP and running iTunes 7.x as non-admin is less than desirable. I keep getting errors about account information not being stored correctly and sometimes it will try to start and then rollback with an installation error. I should not have to run as admin to run iTunes and I refuse to do it. I kinda wish I was still in the 6.x days. Those were simple, reliable and painless days.
Dude. He is getting money out of this. If Google + YouTube succeeds it means that Yahoo + Broadcast.com did not, or at least they can edge ahead. As the article states Mark and company sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo,
"He sold his Internet radio broadcast company, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo! (YHOO) for more than $5 billion in 1999 and is reportedly worth well over a billion dollars."
So Mark Cuban bitching about Microsoft is like Bill Gates bitching about Linux.
Should the differences in the House and Senate versions be reconciled and this anti-American is signed into law. I hope to God that the Supreme Court gives them the biggest smackdown in US history. Our country is strong because of it has ***three*** branches of government, and I wish the Executive Branch would learn that.
My podcasts got all screwed up starting with 7.0. That sucks because I listen to them every day on the way to work to take me away from the mindless dribble that is talk radio in the mornings.
Anyway, I upgraded to 7.0.1 last night in hopes that they would have addressed my issue, but I'm still having the problem. I also did a restore on my iPod this morning, but I'm still not getting all of my podcasts. I only get a few on my iPod. I'm not sure why either. I'll keep looking into this, but it really is a pain in the butt. I knew I should have listened to that voice in the back of my head telling me to hold off while they fixed the bugs.
I also run my machine as a Limited User in Windows XP and iTunes 7.0 doesn't like that (iTunes 6.x was fine with it). ITunes still runs though, but pretends to install something new every time I run the app and gives me some dialog about how it can't write iTunes store information. Maybe the problems are related. Unless I'm using a software development program, I don't like running as Administrator all the time. I shouldn't have to either.
Well it sounds to me like the person that posted the "debit" comment isn't a native English speaker. So maybe you should just lay off. You your cheetos and your cat might think its funny to rag on people, but to the rest of us you look like an asshole.
I'll use the 160-watts as a good starting number even though the PS3 is supposed to be more powerful than the XBox360. In Dallas, TX the main energy provider TXU is charging $0.151 / kw-hr. This comes out to $17.40 per 30-day month and $211 per 365-day year. Or basically a Nintendo Wii per year... hehe.
Yeah, I thought the same thing at first too. However, the problem was no outside libraries. I assumed from this no outside code, but maybe that was wrong. If I was in an interview like this and they only said no outside libraries I would definitely use any socket code I could get my hands on and then compile it into one big binary. From there I would implement the simplest web server possible.
Dammit.. I should have hit preview... I'm sure grandparent understands what I meant though. His / Her superior intellect could probably even translate this entire thread into eight different languages.
DVDs were just being adopted in masse in 1999 - 2000 area. The technology to do HD would not have been possible for a reasonable price as the DVDs were still a few hundred dollars.
That bubble you speak of was the result of criminal laws passed in Congress by neocon Republicans and Globalists (both Republicans and pseudo-democrats) together with criminal malfeasance by accounting firms (who have since changed their corporate names in shame), energy firms and Wall Street investment firms, many of whom were given pittance penalties for their nefarious criminal activities.
The bubble was caused by the Internet and the hype surrounding it. The "emptying of the national treasury" was used as a fiscal stimulus to help get the economy back on its feet and it worked. Federal spending on domestic programs, including war, to stimulate the economy has been used by every President since The New Deal which was signed into law by a Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.
You should learn about History, Economics and what happened during the last recession before spouting off a bunch of ignorant buzzword infested gibberish. Blaming everything that goes wrong on Bush just sounds childish and makes you look like a fool. If you can post some coherent non comma punctuated run-on sentences about how the stock market bubble was a result of neocon's and their legislation I'm all ears.
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Ok, from gnu.org: "Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software." I'm wondering when these six freedoms were made up. TiVo has been around for a while and this is the first I have heard of them. I doubt these freedoms have been around for more than a few years.
BTW, here is a link to your freedom files. Also, regarding the GPL the agreement is the agreement. I think it is important to keep a careful balance between the GPL and private business. Otherwise private business will just use something else and Linux will stagnate. I also completely agree with what TiVo has done. The fact that they are still around after about 7-years in business was not easy for them to do.
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Well, I think you are confusing transfer speed vs total monthly transfer. Verizon is very clear on their transfer speed and they set customer expectations well in this regard. They do not make claims of unlimited transfer speed and customers even know the speed may vary. They do, however, make claims of unlimited monthly transfer and then go back on their word in the fine print. This is deceptive.
Let's use a metaphor for the intertubes. I go to a car rental agency. I rent a Ferrari that was advertised as having a governor that limits the speed to 128 MPH. I know, poor Ferrari... The same car is advertised to allow unlimited miles on it that month. Let's say I drive the hell out of the car by entering the Cannon Ball Run 2007 contest. If said rental agency then told me at the end of the month that I had driven over my 5,000 mile limit and that my account was to be terminated I would be pissed. So would you and they would have a lawsuit on them so fast their heads would spin. Fine print or no fine print. That is what I would call deceptive advertising.
Do I honestly expect unlimited when I sign up with an ISP? No I'm not so naive. I will say that I don't know why they are getting a free pass on this. If the fine print directly conflicts the advertising then it's deceptive advertising. In this case, I think any seven year old could understand and tell you the claims are deceptive. Just because we see it in other places doesn't make it acceptable. The fine print should be there to further explain any mis-communications that may arise. Not to completely redefine their stated claims.
It's not like stating monthly transfer rates is data plans is unheard of either. You see it all the time with PDA data plans and PC data plans alike. Here is a link to six Cingular plans with monthly transfer limits from 5 MB, 10 MB, 20 MB, 50 MB, all the way up to "Unlimited". So I don't think you can say I'm being pedantic. Anyone knows what the word unlimited means and anyone knows that Verizon is being deceptive. Verizon's marketing does a bad job of setting customer expectations, and they should change their data plans so that their customers are not alienated with an unclear data plan.
JOhn
Yeah, it is all down to a definition. Unlimited means without limit. If there is a limit then it is not unlimited. The reason we have human language is to communicate ideas. If there is a limit it needs to be stated. To say something is unlimited and then limit you to 5 GB is just a plain lie. I don't give a shit about the fine print. If I say someone is a nice guy and then mumble he is a bastard asshole underneath my breath I'm being a two faced disingenuous asshole liar. No one would say otherwise either. I don't see why fine print is given a pass on this.
Anyway, if they don't like the words we have in the English language then they need to make up a new word. A word that conveys that their Internet access is limited to 5 GB. Maybe... Verizon EVDO now with Pentimited Internet Access!
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Could you be more specific?
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Sorry I have to disagree with the inflation claim. If you lookup inflation on Wikipedia and follow some inflation calculators you will see that we have been in the ~3% range for the last 6-years.
3% / year X 6 years = 18%
That's very good. As a comparison, Venezuela's annual inflation rose to 18.4% last month.
JOhn
No I didn't read the article. The summary was good enough for me to realize that it is the stupidest article I have seen posted on here in a long time. If there was some sort of "Shitty Award" that Slashdot gave out I nominate this article. How many ways can people jump on the bandwagon and bash Vista? Hey if you are going to bash it at least have some decent ammo. Why not blame the MPAA for ramming HDCP down our throats?
JOhn
For the record, you would not know how many people are being tortured and killed in North Korea. In addition, why are these people being killed? For dissention? To be experimented on as the article mentions?
On forced labor camps, how is that equivalent to the ghetto at all? The ghetto is the ghetto because of a lack of jobs in that community. So its more like an anti-labor camp. So I think the comparison between the two is totally off base.
We are at war in Iraq so of course there are going to be casualties caused by that. There may be more or may be less than North Korea, but name one other country that spends millions of dollars on one bomb to blow up a mud shack with our enemies in it. We could easily carpet bomb, nuke, or use chemical warfare (as Hussein and Chemical Ali did) the city and it would be way cheaper, but we don't. Why do we do it? Because we're the United States of America and we have the technology, money, and humanity to try and limit collateral damage to civilian populations.
In the US you do have the right to free speech, and you have clearly exercised that right. You also have a right to a free press and I don't think you are exercising that right enough (do more research on your claims). If you truly feel President Bush and our government is equivalent to, or maybe even more evil than North Korea, I challenge you to move there and see how different they really are.
I was a little confused on the distinction between a Representative Democracy and a Republic. They seem kinda close in definition. Wikipedia and Encarta are confused too as Encarta calls the United States a Representative Democracy and Wikipedia calls the United States a Republic. So please feel free to enlighten me on the distinction.
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I second that. I have six games for my DS and overall Mario Kart DS is hands down the most fun to play. The multiplayer over WiFi and even over the Internet have me playing this game over and over.
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Whatever man. Package means software package. If you can't infer that then I'm surprised you are even here. Etch is the codename for the next Debian release. If you spent half a second and typed in "Debian Etch" into Google you might be able to see that. Turn of WoW and learn something new instead of bitching from your grandmas basement about how she doesn't know what a package is...
JOhn
In order to write good drivers for an OS you have to have intimate details of how the hardware works. In an ideal world MS might write all of the drivers. In the real world, nVidia and others are not going to allow them to see too much for fear that their trade secrets would go out the door.
JOhn
I agree with the broken podcast functionality in 7.0. I had serious problems getting a reliable podcast that would sync with my iPod. The damn podcasts would download and when I synced they simply would not show up on my iPod. Or I would sync and they would be greyed out in iTunes. With 7.02 the functionality is better. I still get the greyed out error every once in a while, but it is better.
In addition, I run as non-admin in WinXP and running iTunes 7.x as non-admin is less than desirable. I keep getting errors about account information not being stored correctly and sometimes it will try to start and then rollback with an installation error. I should not have to run as admin to run iTunes and I refuse to do it. I kinda wish I was still in the 6.x days. Those were simple, reliable and painless days.
JOhn
Dude. He is getting money out of this. If Google + YouTube succeeds it means that Yahoo + Broadcast.com did not, or at least they can edge ahead. As the article states Mark and company sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo,
"He sold his Internet radio broadcast company, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo! (YHOO) for more than $5 billion in 1999 and is reportedly worth well over a billion dollars."
So Mark Cuban bitching about Microsoft is like Bill Gates bitching about Linux.
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Yeah, but there is a "me" if you re-arrange the letters a little ;)
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I think that is a bit rash. Surely the RIAA and the MPAA are not a good reason to move out of a country.
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Should the differences in the House and Senate versions be reconciled and this anti-American is signed into law. I hope to God that the Supreme Court gives them the biggest smackdown in US history. Our country is strong because of it has ***three*** branches of government, and I wish the Executive Branch would learn that.
JOhn
My podcasts got all screwed up starting with 7.0. That sucks because I listen to them every day on the way to work to take me away from the mindless dribble that is talk radio in the mornings.
Anyway, I upgraded to 7.0.1 last night in hopes that they would have addressed my issue, but I'm still having the problem. I also did a restore on my iPod this morning, but I'm still not getting all of my podcasts. I only get a few on my iPod. I'm not sure why either. I'll keep looking into this, but it really is a pain in the butt. I knew I should have listened to that voice in the back of my head telling me to hold off while they fixed the bugs.
I also run my machine as a Limited User in Windows XP and iTunes 7.0 doesn't like that (iTunes 6.x was fine with it). ITunes still runs though, but pretends to install something new every time I run the app and gives me some dialog about how it can't write iTunes store information. Maybe the problems are related. Unless I'm using a software development program, I don't like running as Administrator all the time. I shouldn't have to either.
JOhn
Well it sounds to me like the person that posted the "debit" comment isn't a native English speaker. So maybe you should just lay off. You your cheetos and your cat might think its funny to rag on people, but to the rest of us you look like an asshole.
JOhn
I'll use the 160-watts as a good starting number even though the PS3 is supposed to be more powerful than the XBox360. In Dallas, TX the main energy provider TXU is charging $0.151 / kw-hr. This comes out to $17.40 per 30-day month and $211 per 365-day year. Or basically a Nintendo Wii per year... hehe.
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Good point!
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Yeah, I thought the same thing at first too. However, the problem was no outside libraries. I assumed from this no outside code, but maybe that was wrong. If I was in an interview like this and they only said no outside libraries I would definitely use any socket code I could get my hands on and then compile it into one big binary. From there I would implement the simplest web server possible.
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There is no HD-DVD player in a XBox 360...
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Dammit.. I should have hit preview... I'm sure grandparent understands what I meant though. His / Her superior intellect could probably even translate this entire thread into eight different languages.
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Wow... You I bet you really like the smell of your own farts.
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DVDs were just being adopted in masse in 1999 - 2000 area. The technology to do HD would not have been possible for a reasonable price as the DVDs were still a few hundred dollars.
JOhn
That bubble you speak of was the result of criminal laws passed in Congress by neocon Republicans and Globalists (both Republicans and pseudo-democrats) together with criminal malfeasance by accounting firms (who have since changed their corporate names in shame), energy firms and Wall Street investment firms, many of whom were given pittance penalties for their nefarious criminal activities.
The bubble was caused by the Internet and the hype surrounding it. The "emptying of the national treasury" was used as a fiscal stimulus to help get the economy back on its feet and it worked. Federal spending on domestic programs, including war, to stimulate the economy has been used by every President since The New Deal which was signed into law by a Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.
You should learn about History, Economics and what happened during the last recession before spouting off a bunch of ignorant buzzword infested gibberish. Blaming everything that goes wrong on Bush just sounds childish and makes you look like a fool. If you can post some coherent non comma punctuated run-on sentences about how the stock market bubble was a result of neocon's and their legislation I'm all ears.
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