There are good ISP's who take spam seriously and who deal with spammers on their network fast. They don't get blacklisted. There are average ISP's who who deal with it so and so and only go into action when people have complained really hard and are taking action like blacklisting. Finally there are ISP's who just don't give a damn since SPAM pays and they can count on their other suckers sorry customers to complain bitterly about the unfairness of being blocked.
As someone involved with running some servers I can tell you some facts about these ISP. The first are way more expensive then the last. Strange eh?
Either move to a better ISP or learn to live with the fact the email has freedom. This includes the freedom for me to block you. There is no right to send email to anyone.
Ask yourselve this. Do I gotta open your mail? Do I gotta answer your telephone call? Do I gotta open the door for you? Do I have to answer your question when you approach me in the street? No, no, no and no. So why on earth do you demand that I accept your email?
If you are on SPEWS or another blacklist then your ISP sucks. Get a better one for email (you can still host your site there just requires slightly more skill to setup) alone, shouldn't cost much unless of course you spam.
BUT STOP THINKING THE WORLD HAS A DUTY TO RECEIVE EMAIL FROM EVERY KNOW SPAMHOLE IN THE WORLD.
I am a potential customer. Not a consumer. The first is someone who chooses. The other is a force fed pig.
Anyway guarenteed? Links/Lynx playing full motion full screen video? Like to see that. How about people on say on of those nokia phones with internet access? How about odd ball oses? No not bsd or linux. Apple.
Anyway I think I seen this already. Visited gamespot for insanity reasons. It had some kind of horrid ad for poptarts or something. Talk about targetted advertising. The ad played alright on a linux/opera setup. Tiny little problem. They don't sell them in holland to the best of my knowledge.
Other piece of targetted banners I saw was an ad for UPC (local isp) constantly displayed on the garfield site. I was using UPC connection. Duh.
Get this targgetted stuff right then we will talk about full motion. Until then you are just wasting time.
If MS was smart they would have registered all the similar sounding names. The cost of that including upkeep is small enough for a big company.
So they found someone who found a clever name for their site. Any smart company aware of such things as goodwill and public image would then offer say to take over the domain name and offer a nice settlement so the site can be rebranded. Perhaps if you are american you try to figure out if it is a domain-squatter or if there is a legit site there. Maybe Microsoft doesn't have any way to visit websites. I advice them to install mozilla.
What you do not due is sent the lawyers after some kid. Rule 1 of running a shop. Do not kick the kids of your customers. It is basic lesson but that american companies just can't seem to learn.
To those who going to quote law you are so wrong. Even a million dollar settlement would be peanuts compared to the bad publicity. If this gets picked up then MS will have spend many times more in advertising.
Something similar happened here where a little girl in holland owned a fansite dedicated to harry potter. When the first movie was about to come out she got a letter from the studio claiming she was infringing and she had to hand the site over. Que it being reported on the news and the studio having to backpeddle so fast it wasn't even funny anymore.
I don't think there is anything really wrong with tv programs. There are enough shows I would want to watch except for two tiny little things.
One is to do with the tv schedule. The computer has changed the way I do my entertaining/time wasting. I want it when I want it. It is not really even a want. It is more like I see a program I might like to watch and then totally forget to turn the tv on in time. Of course it doesn't help that were once I had the tv on as background noise I now have to turn it off in disgust when their is some reality show before what I want to watch and even hearing it in the background irritates me. There is at the moment only 1 program that I watch and that is "have I got news for you" on the bbc. Nothing else. Not that I don't wanna watch but I simply forget.
I have been hearing since I was a little kid about on demand tv. First machines I seen used tapes to give you an idea how old it is. Yet it never happened. No demand the networks said. Nope people didn't demand it. I don't demand it. I simply don't watch your product anymore.
There is a group to whom I belong that tv just can't seem to reach anymore. I never liked programs like gameshows but when they where half-shows I could at least tolerate them. If in a group I would watch it with half an eye. Shows like Idols I can't stand. Wich means I have the tv off and won't watch the program I might be intrestted in afterwards since I am now doing something else.
So tv networks can do three things. Whine and die, aim at other groups, win us back. 1 is what they will do, 2 is what they should do, 3 is what they haven't got a chance in hell of doing.
Oh and cutting back on the number of ads wouldn't hurt either. Don't have 10x$1000 ads. Have 1x$100.000 ads. Same money less channel hopping.
Ehm an atmosphere is much much easier to deal with then vacuum. Why? Even a thin atmosphere would stop some of the radiaton and have some heat. The moon you are either baking in direct sunlight or freezing in deep space.
Also mars possibly has water. At least some oxygen. All wich makes a possible base much easier.
I am not talking the old movie hero soldiers. I am talking real soldiers. The ones at the front of the landing barges. You can't tell me these people didn't know they were going to end up gunned down the moment they landed.
Still they went. People have gone on suicide missions before. And this is a little bit more diginified then bleeding to death on some beach or if you made it to die somewhere further along.
Don't mistake the general populace with the trail blazers. There are people out there that are not afraid to die. Personally I would never qualifie but I would volunteer.
Certain dead is not all that scary. It is uncertain death that scares people. Just spend some time around people who in the last stages of a terminal disease.
Reading the judgement makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The judge involved seems to have understood perfectly what this case is really all about.
Restriction of free trade. Sony is free to have the parts made in cheap countries. So why are constumers not allowed to buy in cheap countries?
Right to make a backup. I live in holland were the law allows the samething yet many games activily try to deny this right.
He gets many other points as well. Just read it. I don't know if the text has been humanized but for a legal ruling it is very readable and points out many of the things/. been saying for years. Except this is being said by a judge who has to be listened to.
Oh and as for the question of what this means for other countries. The judge does seem to have taken notice of the australian ruling and a german ruling I never heard off. So the next judge might now take a look at yet another ruling saying that modchips are legal.
If this is a real NFS then this is. ehm let me think about it.
Say a windows shop decides to introduce a *n(i|u)x fileserver. With samba they gotta make sure that any new windows version can talk to samba. Sure new windows versions don't appear every year but still often enough for it to be a concern. Especially with License 6.0 where you pay for the upgrade of windows anyway.
Now if the new windows can just talk for free to the nfs on the unix machine. Hmm, no longer an obstacle to upgrading. Then again no obstacle to using a unix machine either.
Mmmm, I think this may be a case were MS may neither lose nor win.
As for making it free. Did some NFS for windows maker piss of Bill Gates? If this is a good nfs and not one of ms'es standard embrace and break jobs then they are all out of business.
I got three machines at home. Two linux and 1 windows. Linux for work and windows for gaming. Of course I share directories wich means I now got linux running both samba and nfs. Not exactly optimal.
So could this mean I can ditch samba? Since this is version 3.5 there must be people out there who bought the previous versions. Anyone got experience if it is any good?
And exactly what is MS angle here? By including nfs support for free they are making it a lot easier to maintain Unix machines. No need to install samba anymore to allow windows users access to files on unix machines. If anything this makes unix machines more attractive. What am I missing?
Just in case it wasn't and you been in a hole for last year.
This is the new napster. The commercial one, that signed a contract with penn state to take part of the kids fees and give them to the RIAA because madonna is starving to death. Or something like that anyway.
It is legal. Well legal from the RIAA point of view. That of course people with non-ms os (or how about those without a computer? or who don't like riaa music?) have to pay for it yet can't use it is merely one of those boring side effects. (Can you force people to pay for something they can't use?)
It makes money selling iPods not selling music. Well known that iTunes does not make a profit where the iPods do.
So if you buy an iPod and use it only with music from the net, copied from you old gramophones, bootleg tapes, whatever. They don't give a damn. They made their money.
Notice that the iPod does play mp3s perfectly fine.
Your anology to vcr's is not bad like those the money is made on the hardware. Not on the tapes. That is an other industry's worry. You will notice that Betamax is still around as it is the baby brother off professional video equipment. But sony will still sell you a betamax vcr. Oh and no need for betamax vs betamax. There was something called V2000 as well. Never heard of it? Damn I feel old.
Isn't it japanese vs western rpgs? Most of the western ones tend to go for "open" story with lots of optional sidequests. Japanese tend to be more linear with a far stronger story telling element. Put it another way, Baldur Gate has a large number of potential party members you may never even meet or kill before you they offer to join. Final Fantasy has them pre arranged. You choose your sex in Baldurs gate. Your sex and who you fall in love with are pre-arranged in final fantasy.
Then again the very western game Planescape Torment had a small number of party members wich you interacted with strongly and strong story with relativly few subquests. It is widely thought by pc users to be the best rpg ever. Perhaps a happy hybrid could emerge.
So I think for this at least pc and console can exist happily together as long as developers take care to tune the game to the different platforms. So USE the keyboard. USE the HD for easy saving. USE the bloody mouse, yes I am talking to you Final Fantasy. Kotor did it pretty well although the interface graphics were a bit large for a pc monitor. No need for inch tall text thank you very much.
I have no idea what is needed to make a game work on a console as I am a pc snob.
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Perl is a great tool. But it is more of tool to use on files then a tool to create webpages. Using perl to generate html or rather bits of html is like using a fully loaded factory workshop to hammer in a nail. Overkill.
Python. No idea.
C? You gotta be kidding. Compiling each time you make a change to page? C would be like using nanotech to create a new material from wich you can cast a hammer to insert a thumbtack. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe it.
PHP may have gotten big but at its heart it still does the same what it did originally. Make dynamic websites. Sure you can mess with OO a bit and a lot more in 5 but if you don't want you never need to touch it. You don't need to access any database. You don't need to use shared memory to store variables. But you can if you want to.
Perl is often used but approaches it from the other side. Great toolset with web added on. PHP is web with a great toolset added on.
The economy is hurting and Lego is damned expensive. Don't give me crap about value for money or the long live of lego bricks. It is pieces of plastic for crying out load.
Sure lego is a great toy. I loved it when I was young and even like the idea of mindstorm. But even as an adult with a very reasonable income I find lego just a bit to much. What the lego company never seemed to have grasped is economy of scale. Make it as cheap as possible so that as many people will buy it as possible. Instead they charge a premium. This is a fine business tactic until the economy goes down.
Compare premium airlines with the budget ones when the bubble burst. Compare big american cars with japanese car when the fuel crisis hit.
Oh well good luck to them. Maybe if they go bust I can pick up some mindstorm in the bargain basement.
Just as linux people need to realize that for now Windows seems to have won the popularity war on the desktop, BSD people need to realize that linux is way more popular then their OS.
Why? Well posts like the parent are a good indicication. When I was first being introduced to unix it were the linux people who helped (was working on AIX btw) the BSD people just weren't as helpfull. I should replace AIX with BSD, yeah right like that is an option. I should not use FTP or similar despite that is what I been told to use by my boss. (tell people how to secure ftp not suggest meaningless alternatives like scp (can you install extra software on a few hundred office machines just because some BSD clown hates clear text passwords on a closed network?)
Of course since then I met other BSD users and met some asshole linux users as well but for me Linux == Helpfull community with some tosspots, BSD == assholes whining how they were first and how linux dweeds just don't get it with the occasional helpfull person.
If you want BSD to get a bigger following learn from linux. GNU/linux may not be as secure or robuust but it has done something right. What it is I can't tell but I think if you look at the forums for linux and bsd you will at least find a partial answer.
Oh and before you mark me a troll note that the original poster calls his FreeBSD superior but fails to give any evidence. This may be true but he is missing the point. Opensource is as much about the users as it is about the people (without paid support lines the forums and mailing lists are your lifeline). And linux people seem to do it better. Microsoft never took notice of BSD. They are trying to copy the way Linux is being developed. Make of that what you will.
Yeah right. China shoots corrupt officials. America puts them in office. Stop think china is some 3rd world nation. As for human rights issues. Was the west any better a few decades ago? Ask a black american if you don't know the answer. American police killed peace protestors, china killed human right protestors. Big frigging difference (and this is not anti-america the same happened in europe just on a smaller scale as usual)
How china will deal with the GPL and opensource in general remains to be seen. However I think the chinese ain't completly stupid. Making a fork (wich is what happens when you make changes to the kernel and do not submit them back in to the official kernel) means you loose all the advantages off the worldwide development taking place on linux. Each time the official kernel is upgraded you got to update your fork without outside help. This would become very costly to do.
So the question is has China understood what has made linux what it is? So far most of the really really big players have understood it. The US goverment through the SELinux project, IBM, Israel (changes to Open Office are publicly available) and others.
Don't forget that Japan at least has had a long history of opensource with Tron. Granted here the design was opensource not always the code but the idea is the same.
We will have to see. But if you are really really curious. Examine red flag. Its been around long enough. I haven't heard anyone claiming that it is breaking the rules so far.
It was an article on heresy or what we consider heresy in this age. Well these guys said something different from the accepted wisdom and were shunned.
Good to see human kind have progressed so much since the days of Galileo. Kidding ofcourse. They did not have to wait centuries for people to stop trying to burn them at the cross.
Is it illegal or something to scan and alter images of money? I can see the advertising world getting into troubles. It is illegal in holland at least to make reproductions of money so if you print a note you make it an absurd size. No one is gonna mistake a poster for a real a banknote. Or you discolor it or make it an odd amount (27 euro notes)
Point is I have seen and still see plenty of ads in wich bank notes are displayed. So how are you now supposed to make that art?
If this is true and I smell april fool then I think this is a sign of insanity. Criminals won't be stopped by this.
I think we found the one company to get even nastier reactions then SCO. At least people tend to remain polite when telling SCO what to do.
Now I have a dislike for apps like RealOne as much as the next person BUT all the media players do the same thing. WMP and Quicktime all make programs that don't follow interface standards try to make it so that for viewing movies you need different players. (imagine needing different browsers for different sites or different image viewers for different codecs)
Real is accused of phoning home but so did WMP when you played DVD's. WMP has the same bloat.
So considering they are all equally bad why is real getting all the flak? I think that MS does have the winning strategie. People put up with bloat just as long as it comes pre-installed. Quicktime and Real you have to jump through hoops to add to a windows machine (linux to for that matter) and this puts people in a bad mood even before the program is launched. If then even the tiniest mistake like taking over existing extensions is made people will be pissed off wich is reinforced everytime they are forced to launch your program.
Moral, perhaps release a codec only install that simply allows every player to play your movies. Make your money on the creator side and let the player be as unobstrusive as possible. Of course this carries the risk that your name will disappear. Then decision makers will simply presume that MS is the only codec maker and that everyone runs windows, oh wait. They already do that.
You might also notice that those are video players. With the latter being based on MS portable media crap. So considering MS excellent track record with mobile software it is the pmp-100 I be intrestted in. Better come up with an new name for it though.
Simple. Is simpler. A lot simpler. An awfull lot simplet. What would you rather do control the thrust of several rockets to manouver in a possibly very windy enviroment with the ping from hell or drop a tennis ball and watch were it lands?
Perhaps you mean why didn't it land on the chute. Simple. Risk of getting tangled up on the chute. This has proven lethal for people right here on earth you can imagine how much it would suck to have the entire lander wrapper in its own chute. Cutting it loose above ground means the chute would fly away. You notice it isn't in any of the pictures.
Remember starwars and how you knew you were on an alien planet by the two suns?
Can the lander make a shot of an alien sky? Two moons, a really small sun or something like that? That would be amazing to see. Like those shots from the moon of the earth being the moon. Beautifull.
These rocks no matter how amazing are well just rocks.
Surely the really clever thing is in the hardware not the software. That is after all why I buy their expensive pieces of silicon. To offload the work from my cpu to their hardware. If there is anything really intresting going on in the drivers then this means it is done by the cpu.
Second with the pace of development by the time any competitor has taken their opensource drivers and applied it to their own hardware it will have come obsolete. And opensource is not the same as putting it under the gpl. They can make restriction on its use.
I for one hope that soon some company will come out with a modern card that has truly open drivers. I would even settle for a lesser price/performance ratio. Just as long as it bloody works with a new kernel thank you very much. G400 are becoming difficult to find.
Maybe a new company will do it or one of the old ones that needs any help it can get.
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As someone involved with running some servers I can tell you some facts about these ISP. The first are way more expensive then the last. Strange eh?
Either move to a better ISP or learn to live with the fact the email has freedom. This includes the freedom for me to block you. There is no right to send email to anyone.
Ask yourselve this. Do I gotta open your mail? Do I gotta answer your telephone call? Do I gotta open the door for you? Do I have to answer your question when you approach me in the street? No, no, no and no. So why on earth do you demand that I accept your email?
If you are on SPEWS or another blacklist then your ISP sucks. Get a better one for email (you can still host your site there just requires slightly more skill to setup) alone, shouldn't cost much unless of course you spam.
BUT STOP THINKING THE WORLD HAS A DUTY TO RECEIVE EMAIL FROM EVERY KNOW SPAMHOLE IN THE WORLD.
Anyway guarenteed? Links/Lynx playing full motion full screen video? Like to see that. How about people on say on of those nokia phones with internet access? How about odd ball oses? No not bsd or linux. Apple.
Anyway I think I seen this already. Visited gamespot for insanity reasons. It had some kind of horrid ad for poptarts or something. Talk about targetted advertising. The ad played alright on a linux/opera setup. Tiny little problem. They don't sell them in holland to the best of my knowledge.
Other piece of targetted banners I saw was an ad for UPC (local isp) constantly displayed on the garfield site. I was using UPC connection. Duh.
Get this targgetted stuff right then we will talk about full motion. Until then you are just wasting time.
So they found someone who found a clever name for their site. Any smart company aware of such things as goodwill and public image would then offer say to take over the domain name and offer a nice settlement so the site can be rebranded. Perhaps if you are american you try to figure out if it is a domain-squatter or if there is a legit site there. Maybe Microsoft doesn't have any way to visit websites. I advice them to install mozilla.
What you do not due is sent the lawyers after some kid. Rule 1 of running a shop. Do not kick the kids of your customers. It is basic lesson but that american companies just can't seem to learn.
To those who going to quote law you are so wrong. Even a million dollar settlement would be peanuts compared to the bad publicity. If this gets picked up then MS will have spend many times more in advertising.
Something similar happened here where a little girl in holland owned a fansite dedicated to harry potter. When the first movie was about to come out she got a letter from the studio claiming she was infringing and she had to hand the site over. Que it being reported on the news and the studio having to backpeddle so fast it wasn't even funny anymore.
Oh well. Americans eh.
One is to do with the tv schedule. The computer has changed the way I do my entertaining/time wasting. I want it when I want it. It is not really even a want. It is more like I see a program I might like to watch and then totally forget to turn the tv on in time. Of course it doesn't help that were once I had the tv on as background noise I now have to turn it off in disgust when their is some reality show before what I want to watch and even hearing it in the background irritates me. There is at the moment only 1 program that I watch and that is "have I got news for you" on the bbc. Nothing else. Not that I don't wanna watch but I simply forget.
I have been hearing since I was a little kid about on demand tv. First machines I seen used tapes to give you an idea how old it is. Yet it never happened. No demand the networks said. Nope people didn't demand it. I don't demand it. I simply don't watch your product anymore.
There is a group to whom I belong that tv just can't seem to reach anymore. I never liked programs like gameshows but when they where half-shows I could at least tolerate them. If in a group I would watch it with half an eye. Shows like Idols I can't stand. Wich means I have the tv off and won't watch the program I might be intrestted in afterwards since I am now doing something else.
So tv networks can do three things. Whine and die, aim at other groups, win us back. 1 is what they will do, 2 is what they should do, 3 is what they haven't got a chance in hell of doing.
Oh and cutting back on the number of ads wouldn't hurt either. Don't have 10x$1000 ads. Have 1x$100.000 ads. Same money less channel hopping.
Also mars possibly has water. At least some oxygen. All wich makes a possible base much easier.
Still they went. People have gone on suicide missions before. And this is a little bit more diginified then bleeding to death on some beach or if you made it to die somewhere further along.
Don't mistake the general populace with the trail blazers. There are people out there that are not afraid to die. Personally I would never qualifie but I would volunteer.
Certain dead is not all that scary. It is uncertain death that scares people. Just spend some time around people who in the last stages of a terminal disease.
Restriction of free trade. Sony is free to have the parts made in cheap countries. So why are constumers not allowed to buy in cheap countries?
Right to make a backup. I live in holland were the law allows the samething yet many games activily try to deny this right.
He gets many other points as well. Just read it. I don't know if the text has been humanized but for a legal ruling it is very readable and points out many of the things /. been saying for years. Except this is being said by a judge who has to be listened to.
Oh and as for the question of what this means for other countries. The judge does seem to have taken notice of the australian ruling and a german ruling I never heard off. So the next judge might now take a look at yet another ruling saying that modchips are legal.
Great news.
Say a windows shop decides to introduce a *n(i|u)x fileserver. With samba they gotta make sure that any new windows version can talk to samba. Sure new windows versions don't appear every year but still often enough for it to be a concern. Especially with License 6.0 where you pay for the upgrade of windows anyway.
Now if the new windows can just talk for free to the nfs on the unix machine. Hmm, no longer an obstacle to upgrading. Then again no obstacle to using a unix machine either.
Mmmm, I think this may be a case were MS may neither lose nor win.
As for making it free. Did some NFS for windows maker piss of Bill Gates? If this is a good nfs and not one of ms'es standard embrace and break jobs then they are all out of business.
So could this mean I can ditch samba? Since this is version 3.5 there must be people out there who bought the previous versions. Anyone got experience if it is any good?
And exactly what is MS angle here? By including nfs support for free they are making it a lot easier to maintain Unix machines. No need to install samba anymore to allow windows users access to files on unix machines. If anything this makes unix machines more attractive. What am I missing?
Just in case it wasn't and you been in a hole for last year.
This is the new napster. The commercial one, that signed a contract with penn state to take part of the kids fees and give them to the RIAA because madonna is starving to death. Or something like that anyway.
It is legal. Well legal from the RIAA point of view. That of course people with non-ms os (or how about those without a computer? or who don't like riaa music?) have to pay for it yet can't use it is merely one of those boring side effects. (Can you force people to pay for something they can't use?)
If you still don't get it. Watch some tv.
So if you buy an iPod and use it only with music from the net, copied from you old gramophones, bootleg tapes, whatever. They don't give a damn. They made their money.
Notice that the iPod does play mp3s perfectly fine.
Your anology to vcr's is not bad like those the money is made on the hardware. Not on the tapes. That is an other industry's worry. You will notice that Betamax is still around as it is the baby brother off professional video equipment. But sony will still sell you a betamax vcr. Oh and no need for betamax vs betamax. There was something called V2000 as well. Never heard of it? Damn I feel old.
Then again the very western game Planescape Torment had a small number of party members wich you interacted with strongly and strong story with relativly few subquests. It is widely thought by pc users to be the best rpg ever. Perhaps a happy hybrid could emerge.
So I think for this at least pc and console can exist happily together as long as developers take care to tune the game to the different platforms. So USE the keyboard. USE the HD for easy saving. USE the bloody mouse, yes I am talking to you Final Fantasy. Kotor did it pretty well although the interface graphics were a bit large for a pc monitor. No need for inch tall text thank you very much.
I have no idea what is needed to make a game work on a console as I am a pc snob.
Perl is a great tool. But it is more of tool to use on files then a tool to create webpages. Using perl to generate html or rather bits of html is like using a fully loaded factory workshop to hammer in a nail. Overkill.
Python. No idea.
C? You gotta be kidding. Compiling each time you make a change to page? C would be like using nanotech to create a new material from wich you can cast a hammer to insert a thumbtack. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe it.
PHP may have gotten big but at its heart it still does the same what it did originally. Make dynamic websites. Sure you can mess with OO a bit and a lot more in 5 but if you don't want you never need to touch it. You don't need to access any database. You don't need to use shared memory to store variables. But you can if you want to.
Perl is often used but approaches it from the other side. Great toolset with web added on. PHP is web with a great toolset added on.
Of course real web developers know both.
Sure lego is a great toy. I loved it when I was young and even like the idea of mindstorm. But even as an adult with a very reasonable income I find lego just a bit to much. What the lego company never seemed to have grasped is economy of scale. Make it as cheap as possible so that as many people will buy it as possible. Instead they charge a premium. This is a fine business tactic until the economy goes down.
Compare premium airlines with the budget ones when the bubble burst. Compare big american cars with japanese car when the fuel crisis hit.
Oh well good luck to them. Maybe if they go bust I can pick up some mindstorm in the bargain basement.
Why? Well posts like the parent are a good indicication. When I was first being introduced to unix it were the linux people who helped (was working on AIX btw) the BSD people just weren't as helpfull. I should replace AIX with BSD, yeah right like that is an option. I should not use FTP or similar despite that is what I been told to use by my boss. (tell people how to secure ftp not suggest meaningless alternatives like scp (can you install extra software on a few hundred office machines just because some BSD clown hates clear text passwords on a closed network?)
Of course since then I met other BSD users and met some asshole linux users as well but for me Linux == Helpfull community with some tosspots, BSD == assholes whining how they were first and how linux dweeds just don't get it with the occasional helpfull person.
If you want BSD to get a bigger following learn from linux. GNU/linux may not be as secure or robuust but it has done something right. What it is I can't tell but I think if you look at the forums for linux and bsd you will at least find a partial answer.
Oh and before you mark me a troll note that the original poster calls his FreeBSD superior but fails to give any evidence. This may be true but he is missing the point. Opensource is as much about the users as it is about the people (without paid support lines the forums and mailing lists are your lifeline). And linux people seem to do it better. Microsoft never took notice of BSD. They are trying to copy the way Linux is being developed. Make of that what you will.
How china will deal with the GPL and opensource in general remains to be seen. However I think the chinese ain't completly stupid. Making a fork (wich is what happens when you make changes to the kernel and do not submit them back in to the official kernel) means you loose all the advantages off the worldwide development taking place on linux. Each time the official kernel is upgraded you got to update your fork without outside help. This would become very costly to do.
So the question is has China understood what has made linux what it is? So far most of the really really big players have understood it. The US goverment through the SELinux project, IBM, Israel (changes to Open Office are publicly available) and others.
Don't forget that Japan at least has had a long history of opensource with Tron. Granted here the design was opensource not always the code but the idea is the same.
We will have to see. But if you are really really curious. Examine red flag. Its been around long enough. I haven't heard anyone claiming that it is breaking the rules so far.
Sorry, just had to get the RMS joke in. Although I am beginning to understand him more and more.
Good to see human kind have progressed so much since the days of Galileo. Kidding ofcourse. They did not have to wait centuries for people to stop trying to burn them at the cross.
Point is I have seen and still see plenty of ads in wich bank notes are displayed. So how are you now supposed to make that art?
If this is true and I smell april fool then I think this is a sign of insanity. Criminals won't be stopped by this.
Now I have a dislike for apps like RealOne as much as the next person BUT all the media players do the same thing. WMP and Quicktime all make programs that don't follow interface standards try to make it so that for viewing movies you need different players. (imagine needing different browsers for different sites or different image viewers for different codecs)
Real is accused of phoning home but so did WMP when you played DVD's. WMP has the same bloat.
So considering they are all equally bad why is real getting all the flak? I think that MS does have the winning strategie. People put up with bloat just as long as it comes pre-installed. Quicktime and Real you have to jump through hoops to add to a windows machine (linux to for that matter) and this puts people in a bad mood even before the program is launched. If then even the tiniest mistake like taking over existing extensions is made people will be pissed off wich is reinforced everytime they are forced to launch your program.
Moral, perhaps release a codec only install that simply allows every player to play your movies. Make your money on the creator side and let the player be as unobstrusive as possible. Of course this carries the risk that your name will disappear. Then decision makers will simply presume that MS is the only codec maker and that everyone runs windows, oh wait. They already do that.
Never mind.
You might also notice that those are video players. With the latter being based on MS portable media crap. So considering MS excellent track record with mobile software it is the pmp-100 I be intrestted in. Better come up with an new name for it though.
Perhaps you mean why didn't it land on the chute. Simple. Risk of getting tangled up on the chute. This has proven lethal for people right here on earth you can imagine how much it would suck to have the entire lander wrapper in its own chute. Cutting it loose above ground means the chute would fly away. You notice it isn't in any of the pictures.
Can the lander make a shot of an alien sky? Two moons, a really small sun or something like that? That would be amazing to see. Like those shots from the moon of the earth being the moon. Beautifull.
These rocks no matter how amazing are well just rocks.
Second with the pace of development by the time any competitor has taken their opensource drivers and applied it to their own hardware it will have come obsolete. And opensource is not the same as putting it under the gpl. They can make restriction on its use.
I for one hope that soon some company will come out with a modern card that has truly open drivers. I would even settle for a lesser price/performance ratio. Just as long as it bloody works with a new kernel thank you very much. G400 are becoming difficult to find.
Maybe a new company will do it or one of the old ones that needs any help it can get.