The thing is though, that when the kernel version increased, it improved on things. In certain versions of windows (ex: ME) stuff went downhill instead of an improvement.
Another point is that the updates aren't fixing bugs, they are creating them, in a way. The security holes that, for the most part, have been plugged by other methods, that are being fixed may end up breaking a number of other programs. That's not a good reason to update your software. You should update software to make it work better with all the other software, not necessarily just to update. If your 0.0.1 kernel works for everything you need to do then you have no reason to upgrade.
I think that its good that MS is fixing the security bugs, but they should not fix them if it breaks other programs. That would force other companies to adapt to rewriting the software (can you say monopoly?). That's akin to changing the roads to rails and expecting the people to get their cars adapted or whatever. It's not the best analogy, but it's close.
Unfortunately, we may have no choice but to accept their updates and patches and hope that they are smart enough to not break too many other programs, or at least provide work arounds.
Forgive my obscurity, I meant to say that they should've been charged $50 per butterfly and that would make the money cost only slightly more significant. Once again, reiterating the point you made, M$ has more money than God, so it wouldn't matter.
But, the vandalism fine is $50 per butterfly. I didn't count how many there were, but we all know that money is no object to M$, so I don't think the fines will do anything. It is making a lot of discussion here, so whether or not it was legal or it costs them more money than they had initially planned, they are still getting publicity over it. If we REALLY want to hurt M$ we should not talk about it.
Hey, look over there, it's a decoy! :P
You read the article, right? Some anonymouse coward posted it, but it might be below your threshold, look for "courtesy of the NYTimes fake login generator" as the title
From the article:
The law, Section 19-138 of the New York City administrative code, states: "It shall be unlawful for any person to deface any street by painting, printing or writing thereon, or attaching thereto, in any manner, any advertisement or other printed matter."
They broke the law, plain and simple. Microsoft implied that they had a "Permit" for it("There are permits for everything," said Colleen Lacter of Waggener Edstrom, a public relations firm representing Microsoft), but the source was not identified in the article...suspicious? ( But she would not tell a reporter what agency had issued the permits. After a brief huddle with two people whom she identified as being from McCann-Erickson, the advertising firm handling the account, Ms. Lacter said: "There's nothing else to say. They didn't want to get into a discussion about the details."
) It wasn't the people going nuts down the street. It was the gobs of butterflies they spewed all over a part of NYC.
from the release notes:
The ata(4) driver now has support for the Sil 0680 and VIA 8233/8235 controllers
from the Changelog for at kernel.org
(02/03/29 1.307)
[PATCH] Update the VIA driver to support the vt8233a
This is the example that would apply to me. I have this chipset, and I've been using Linux, since before it had support, and it was moderately annoying because I couldn't use the ATA133 that my drives and chipset supported.
PS: I'm surprised that I got modded down for that other post. I was trying to be funny:(
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Incredibly well developed updating system the entire source heirarchy, if need be
Check out SourceMage. This is a linux distro that, with a little work, is always the most up to date Linux distro Ever. You get the source from many different locations, and it's the latest stable version. It also has a nifty theme to it, Magic. You "cast"(install) "spells"(programs) and it downloads the source and compiles and installs it, and creates logs of all that happens. You can "dispel"(uninstall) it. you can "gaze" into the "grimoire"(list of spells). Even if you only get it because you can cast xfree86 or cast linux itself, its fun!
It seems to me, from reading the release notes, that FreeBSD is running behind Linux on the support side. I am seeing things that are being released for FreeBSD that have been released for Linux, in the stable environment, for quite a while now (unfortunately I cannot provide exact dates.) I'm just wondering what the major benefit of using FreeBSD is. Linux has been the most stable OS I have yet to use. I haven't tried FreeBSD, yet. Perhaps I'll put this new distro on one of my junky PIIs or something.
I have heard (rumors) that FreeBSD is the most amazing OS to exist; that it's much more stable than Linux will ever be. Just curious if it's for the Uber-Geek people. I put myself in that category and am wondering if I need it to complete my Uber-Geekness.:)
This is the heart of the issue. We are not listening to what the RIAA wants us to listen to. Pop culture will eventually die. Perhaps that will eventually produce a generally more diverse populous.
Image the changes: fashon would be based on a different idol (instead of britney spears, n-sink, etc. not sure if that's better or not), the music industry would become much more diverse. The changes to culture would be huge. I wonder what the effect on things like MTV and VH1 would be....
True, for analogy's sake though, consider that the copying methods were just as simple as it is to copy a cd. You put the book in the microwave, set it on 2 minutes, if you have a 24x microwave, and when it dings at you the door opens and you have the original and a copy.
Then I would have copies of all my books. The next problem is finding a book wallet that holds 40 books and fits on the visor of my car...:)
The only problem with your statement is that this technology isn't wireless, its Optical. As far as I'm aware there aren't too many commercial uses for optical, with the exception of stereo systems and computers. This stuff isn't quite ready for commercial use. Also, one of the big things with the quantum keys is that the key is "programmed" to be a certain number once it reaches its location. If it is intercepted before it reaches there, it will change the state of the photon, therefore changing the state of the key and you will not be able to unencrypt the message. Also you'd have to get the message first, which would change the state of the message and change the encryption key to who-knows-what.
I'm not too good at this quantum physics stuff, so I may be wrong, if so then please flame with excessive flamage, I will not be offended. But you'd better be correct, with appropriate backup information, of course.:)
This is what the world needs. To adapt to the new media, not to try and force the world to their standards. The RIAA is alarmed that we are not buying their music and so wants to stop the spread of other music. I agree that it can be bad for certain artists, but I believe that the spread of digital media is overall good for all.
Secondly, I really don't want DRM cancelling my ability to keep copies of my CDs and other digital media. If I had a printing press I'd make copies of some of my favorite books. I've lost one of them, and I'm really wishing I had a copy.
Bills like this are ones I expect to see almost all Slashdotters supporting!
...of having an OS on top of a browser. That seems a little strange to me. Why not just make an OS that has the features of the browser that you want? True, it might be more efficient to use mozilla's code to enhance the OS, but to run it on top of....I'm not sure this is wise. I think I'll stick with KDE for now.
After thought...
can you run Mozilla inside this OS, then run the OS again on top of Mozilla, then run Mozilla inside that OS, etc.
The worlds only recursive Operating System!:P
You can purchase many more kinds of game pads for the computer than you can for any console. Most likely, there are more controllers available for the PC than all consoles combined. For example:
Joystick (ForceFeedback included)
Gamepad (ForceFeedback included)
Steering wheel with pedals (ForceFeedback still included)
Those nifty uber-controllers with lots of extra buttons (I don't know what they're called and couldn't find one for an example) They're usually used with the non dominant hand and just have lots of buttons for adding to a flight game, I think
Mouse (big plus esp. for FPS)
Finally, the keyboard
I think all those available items will more than make up for the lack of only a controller to use. There are certain games that are much easier to play with a controller, so I went out and spent $20 (the average cost of any console controller) and use it. The good thing is, if I upgrade my video card to play those better games, I don't have to purchase a new controller.
There's yet another OpenSource IM client that can do AIM, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and Yahoo. EveryBuddy. It's the one I've been using for a while not. Not quite as good as Trillian, but it runs on my Linux OS. When I load into windows to play games, I use Trillian. I haven't tried Trillian Pro yet, only because I've yet to download it. In any case, Everybuddy has been my choice IM prog for as long as I've used linux. Which, isn't too long, unfortunately.
That's my opinion and I'm stickin to it!
I'm really hoping that this new project will stack up as well as or better than Evolution. I run SourceMage Linux and its a lot of crap to install when you use kde and want to use Evolution. That's the best (by best I mean user friendliest[sp?]) mail manager out there, for linux at least. If it is all nicely integrated, I believe that this project will be very nifty. But it all depends on how much they emulate M$. There should be limited emulation on how things work, the process, but when it comes to customization and nifty features, they should follow Evolution's path. At least that's what I think they should do.
If this were being used by a company, in theory, it would work very well. You would be able to look at what you're working on and see quickly what it affects. But the image size would have to be much, MUCH bigger, and on paper. We have similar tools at work, Database Diagrams, and they are quite handy, at times.
According to the theory of Black Holes, we'd never actually see the internet get sucked into that black hole. The internet would get held just above the event horizon, from our view. I think we're safe...for now.
So, making a backup copy of your cd should not be allowed? Hypothetical: You drop your cd as your walking to your car and accidentally it falls into a storm drain. Now what? Go pay up to $16.99 for a new one? I don't know about you but that seems like a waste of money to me.
I'm personally hoping that Rio will make a flash update for OggVorbis for the SP250. They've released an update that gives it a different visualizaion, hopefully they'll be nice and add Ogg support. Since the codec is out they shouldn't have too much trouble doing it. It's a matter of demand. So, if you own a Rio Volt SP250 contact SonicBlue or directly at their customer support page (for the sp250)
Thanks
In my opinion, the RIAA doesn't care whether or not they make more money on record sales, its where they're making their money. Record sales have gone up, but not where they wanted them to go up. The sales have become much more diverse. I purchase almost no 'mainstream' music anymore. I get the techno stuff that is imported and small names and recording industries, because I heard them through Napster, WinMX, or Gnutella and liked that much more than the 'pop' that the RIAA promotes mostly. I think that it's not because we're not buying cds, it's because we're not buying the right cds.
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The thing is though, that when the kernel version increased, it improved on things. In certain versions of windows (ex: ME) stuff went downhill instead of an improvement.
Another point is that the updates aren't fixing bugs, they are creating them, in a way. The security holes that, for the most part, have been plugged by other methods, that are being fixed may end up breaking a number of other programs. That's not a good reason to update your software. You should update software to make it work better with all the other software, not necessarily just to update. If your 0.0.1 kernel works for everything you need to do then you have no reason to upgrade.
I think that its good that MS is fixing the security bugs, but they should not fix them if it breaks other programs. That would force other companies to adapt to rewriting the software (can you say monopoly?). That's akin to changing the roads to rails and expecting the people to get their cars adapted or whatever. It's not the best analogy, but it's close.
Unfortunately, we may have no choice but to accept their updates and patches and hope that they are smart enough to not break too many other programs, or at least provide work arounds.
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Forgive my obscurity, I meant to say that they should've been charged $50 per butterfly and that would make the money cost only slightly more significant. Once again, reiterating the point you made, M$ has more money than God, so it wouldn't matter.
But, the vandalism fine is $50 per butterfly. I didn't count how many there were, but we all know that money is no object to M$, so I don't think the fines will do anything. It is making a lot of discussion here, so whether or not it was legal or it costs them more money than they had initially planned, they are still getting publicity over it. If we REALLY want to hurt M$ we should not talk about it.
:P
Hey, look over there, it's a decoy!
You read the article, right? Some anonymouse coward posted it, but it might be below your threshold, look for "courtesy of the NYTimes fake login generator" as the title
From the article: The law, Section 19-138 of the New York City administrative code, states: "It shall be unlawful for any person to deface any street by painting, printing or writing thereon, or attaching thereto, in any manner, any advertisement or other printed matter."
They broke the law, plain and simple. Microsoft implied that they had a "Permit" for it("There are permits for everything," said Colleen Lacter of Waggener Edstrom, a public relations firm representing Microsoft), but the source was not identified in the article...suspicious? ( But she would not tell a reporter what agency had issued the permits. After a brief huddle with two people whom she identified as being from McCann-Erickson, the advertising firm handling the account, Ms. Lacter said: "There's nothing else to say. They didn't want to get into a discussion about the details." ) It wasn't the people going nuts down the street. It was the gobs of butterflies they spewed all over a part of NYC.
The ata(4) driver now has support for the Sil 0680 and VIA 8233/8235 controllers
from the Changelog for at kernel.org
(02/03/29 1.307) [PATCH] Update the VIA driver to support the vt8233a
This is the example that would apply to me. I have this chipset, and I've been using Linux, since before it had support, and it was moderately annoying because I couldn't use the ATA133 that my drives and chipset supported.
PS: I'm surprised that I got modded down for that other post. I was trying to be funny :(
Superbeast (Rob Zombie) - "Hell yeah! I'm the one that you wanted!
Hell yeah! I'm the UberGeek!"
the entire source heirarchy, if need be
Check out SourceMage. This is a linux distro that, with a little work, is always the most up to date Linux distro Ever. You get the source from many different locations, and it's the latest stable version. It also has a nifty theme to it, Magic. You "cast"(install) "spells"(programs) and it downloads the source and compiles and installs it, and creates logs of all that happens. You can "dispel"(uninstall) it. you can "gaze" into the "grimoire"(list of spells). Even if you only get it because you can cast xfree86 or cast linux itself, its fun!
ok made my monthly advertising requirement... :P
It seems to me, from reading the release notes, that FreeBSD is running behind Linux on the support side. I am seeing things that are being released for FreeBSD that have been released for Linux, in the stable environment, for quite a while now (unfortunately I cannot provide exact dates.) I'm just wondering what the major benefit of using FreeBSD is. Linux has been the most stable OS I have yet to use. I haven't tried FreeBSD, yet. Perhaps I'll put this new distro on one of my junky PIIs or something.
:)
I have heard (rumors) that FreeBSD is the most amazing OS to exist; that it's much more stable than Linux will ever be. Just curious if it's for the Uber-Geek people. I put myself in that category and am wondering if I need it to complete my Uber-Geekness.
This is the heart of the issue. We are not listening to what the RIAA wants us to listen to. Pop culture will eventually die. Perhaps that will eventually produce a generally more diverse populous.
Image the changes: fashon would be based on a different idol (instead of britney spears, n-sink, etc. not sure if that's better or not), the music industry would become much more diverse. The changes to culture would be huge. I wonder what the effect on things like MTV and VH1 would be....
Is there a possiblity that we could get a "Winux?"
Sluggy Freelance
True, for analogy's sake though, consider that the copying methods were just as simple as it is to copy a cd. You put the book in the microwave, set it on 2 minutes, if you have a 24x microwave, and when it dings at you the door opens and you have the original and a copy.
:)
Then I would have copies of all my books. The next problem is finding a book wallet that holds 40 books and fits on the visor of my car...
The only problem with your statement is that this technology isn't wireless, its Optical. As far as I'm aware there aren't too many commercial uses for optical, with the exception of stereo systems and computers. This stuff isn't quite ready for commercial use. Also, one of the big things with the quantum keys is that the key is "programmed" to be a certain number once it reaches its location. If it is intercepted before it reaches there, it will change the state of the photon, therefore changing the state of the key and you will not be able to unencrypt the message. Also you'd have to get the message first, which would change the state of the message and change the encryption key to who-knows-what. :)
I'm not too good at this quantum physics stuff, so I may be wrong, if so then please flame with excessive flamage, I will not be offended. But you'd better be correct, with appropriate backup information, of course.
This is what the world needs. To adapt to the new media, not to try and force the world to their standards. The RIAA is alarmed that we are not buying their music and so wants to stop the spread of other music. I agree that it can be bad for certain artists, but I believe that the spread of digital media is overall good for all.
Secondly, I really don't want DRM cancelling my ability to keep copies of my CDs and other digital media. If I had a printing press I'd make copies of some of my favorite books. I've lost one of them, and I'm really wishing I had a copy.
Bills like this are ones I expect to see almost all Slashdotters supporting!
Go digital media!
...of having an OS on top of a browser. That seems a little strange to me. Why not just make an OS that has the features of the browser that you want? True, it might be more efficient to use mozilla's code to enhance the OS, but to run it on top of....I'm not sure this is wise. I think I'll stick with KDE for now.
:P
After thought...
can you run Mozilla inside this OS, then run the OS again on top of Mozilla, then run Mozilla inside that OS, etc.
The worlds only recursive Operating System!
"Finally" as in last but not least. I couldn't play any FPS without the keyboard, either.
I didn't make myself clear enough, I apologize
I think all those available items will more than make up for the lack of only a controller to use. There are certain games that are much easier to play with a controller, so I went out and spent $20 (the average cost of any console controller) and use it. The good thing is, if I upgrade my video card to play those better games, I don't have to purchase a new controller.
There's yet another OpenSource IM client that can do AIM, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and Yahoo. EveryBuddy. It's the one I've been using for a while not. Not quite as good as Trillian, but it runs on my Linux OS. When I load into windows to play games, I use Trillian. I haven't tried Trillian Pro yet, only because I've yet to download it. In any case, Everybuddy has been my choice IM prog for as long as I've used linux. Which, isn't too long, unfortunately.
That's my opinion and I'm stickin to it!
I'm really hoping that this new project will stack up as well as or better than Evolution. I run SourceMage Linux and its a lot of crap to install when you use kde and want to use Evolution. That's the best (by best I mean user friendliest[sp?]) mail manager out there, for linux at least. If it is all nicely integrated, I believe that this project will be very nifty. But it all depends on how much they emulate M$. There should be limited emulation on how things work, the process, but when it comes to customization and nifty features, they should follow Evolution's path. At least that's what I think they should do.
If this were being used by a company, in theory, it would work very well. You would be able to look at what you're working on and see quickly what it affects. But the image size would have to be much, MUCH bigger, and on paper. We have similar tools at work, Database Diagrams, and they are quite handy, at times.
According to the theory of Black Holes, we'd never actually see the internet get sucked into that black hole. The internet would get held just above the event horizon, from our view. I think we're safe...for now.
You only get the 1500 hours for 45 days, so you'd have to be online 33.3333 hours a day...
but there's never been a better time than now to join!!! :)
or by benefit of stupidity use cat and pipe it :)
So, making a backup copy of your cd should not be allowed? Hypothetical: You drop your cd as your walking to your car and accidentally it falls into a storm drain. Now what? Go pay up to $16.99 for a new one? I don't know about you but that seems like a waste of money to me.
I'm personally hoping that Rio will make a flash update for OggVorbis for the SP250. They've released an update that gives it a different visualizaion, hopefully they'll be nice and add Ogg support. Since the codec is out they shouldn't have too much trouble doing it. It's a matter of demand. So, if you own a Rio Volt SP250 contact SonicBlue or directly at their customer support page (for the sp250)
Thanks
In my opinion, the RIAA doesn't care whether or not they make more money on record sales, its where they're making their money. Record sales have gone up, but not where they wanted them to go up. The sales have become much more diverse. I purchase almost no 'mainstream' music anymore. I get the techno stuff that is imported and small names and recording industries, because I heard them through Napster, WinMX, or Gnutella and liked that much more than the 'pop' that the RIAA promotes mostly. I think that it's not because we're not buying cds, it's because we're not buying the right cds.