Since I stopped using anything with scents or dyes in it, I've become really aware of anything with perfumes.
I have been sensitive to the poisons used to make perfumes for about 20 years now. My bowels frequently activate if I breathe while close to someone wearing that crap.
None of what you posted is relevant to this case, though. The copyright owner did not tweet it; someone else did.
That said, this judgment is highly flawed, and made by someone who apparently has zero knowledge of how the Web works (or, apparently, the Internet itself). Here is a common scenario ignored by the judge:
1) Someone posts something on the Web, and the entire posting is Copyright clean. 2) Someone else links to the posting. 3) The original someone subsequently alters the original Web page to include infringing content. This could happen immediately, ten years later, or a hundred fifty years later. 4) The person in (2) can now be sued for copyright infringement. Or even stupider, this person's as-of-yet unborn great grandchildren could be sued for copyright infringement a hundred years after the fact for something they weren't even alive for at the time, and for which their great grandparents used due diligence at the time.
I loved win7, but if you want to play the latest games, and run the latest CPUs youre screwed.
I got rid of Windows in 1999 and went 100% Linux. I missed being able to play the latest games, but then I found more interesting hobbies, and stopped missing games. A few years later, I bought a PS2, and then a Wii, then a few PS3's. I missed the keyboard/mouse combination at first, but proficiency with the controller came soon enough. I had all the games I could reasonably play. Problem solved.
I have never worried about CPU support under Linux. I buy it, and Linux runs it. Installing Windows from scratch, on the other hand, has sometimes been a nightmare of finding the right drivers for the various parts of the CPU+motherboard.
Besides, this article is a non-story. Every version of Windows has always shipped with a few annoying default settings, go in and turn that crap off - problem solved.
Kubuntu shipped with a default setting for GTK apps that made the tool tips essentially white on a different shade of white. That's an annoying default setting.
Windows 10 is installing addtional spyware on computers without the owner's knowledge or consent*. That's not an "annoying setting"; it's an unconscionable, unauthorized computer intrusion that should have Microsoft executives pulled into criminal court. And that's on top of Windows 10 itself being the biggest, most prolific piece of spyware ever written.
* An EULA that you "agree" to, that you can't understand without a law degree and a spare 3000 hours of your valuable time, does not count as "consent".
They way I see it, you don't have to use Chrome...
That is completely right. Long gone is the era of the browser monopoly. I can choose to use Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Konqueror, etc. as I see fit. As it stands, Firefox has regained my preferred-browser status with the Quantum release. I had only preferred Chrome for Netflix viewing, since Firefox pre-Quantum was too sluggish. With its recent performance improvements, it is at least as good as (if not better than) Chrome for that purpose.
So it matters not one whit how Google plans to have Chrome handle ads. If its ad-blocking abilities are intended as a poor replacement for proper ad blocking, then users are free to use a different browser if they so choose.
If you are going to do this and hope to get away with it, at least don't profit from it.
The other way to get away with it is to incorporate, and make so much money that you can tie up the courts for years with legal maneuvering while you launder the money. This is what The SCO Group did to steal Novell's money and property.
What we have now isn't even remotely close to anything even remotely close to resembling intelligence. We have fast, efficient number crunching. Nothing more.
What we are witnessing at this moment is the invention of the wheel claiming to be interstellar travel. It hasn't even risen to the depths of being laughable.
Unfortunately for a lot of people, their jobs require little more than number crunching.
[The PS2] was a good system with a great game library.
The PS2 was an awesome console with the best game library. My kids do just about everything with the PS3, but recently talked me into reconnecting my old PS2 because the PS3 kept crashing (both of my PS3's have been unstable crashing monsters from the beginning when they were brand new); but I discovered that the DVD drive died. Fortunately, a local used game store had one, so I bought it for about $50.
After my kids were done it, I played some of my old games. It was at that point that I realized the best console games I have ever played were made for the PS2. Even the sequels of these games that were made for the PS3 were worse than their predecessors on the PS2.
Unless Pornhub links to the Christian Coalition, the referrer field will be blank. The "referer" field only gets set when you click on a link. Just typing in the new address on the address bar doesn't do it.
Bitcoin's actual value is under a dollar. Until its price crashes down to that level, it is vastly overvalued. The word, "bubble" doesn't even come close to describing Bitcoin's current price.
Snaps are useful for sampling pre-release software. I was curious about the current state of Kdenlive, as the last version I used was horribly unstable, and saw that they offered a Snap. I downloaded the Snap and ran it, and got to test drive Kdenlive without having to install (and potentially uninstall) the program.
But that's about the extent to which I like Snaps.
My experience has been that it tends to crash pretty often with those.
In the many years I've been using OO.o and LibreOffice on Linux, I have never experienced a crash while reading or writing MS Office documents -- old or new.
It's a a better than solid option even if you do get MS Office.
I have been using LibreOffice at works for years, and have yet to run into a problem. I have, though, used Calc to show that Microsoft Excel does not excel at math.
If you could just order a car directly from Ford, what's to stop you from visiting a dealership, taking a test-drive, wasting the sales clerk's time, then leaving and buying your car on ford.com?
Nothing, but I think that's the way it SHOULD be. I think the entire car sales model should change to that exact experience. Car manufacturers should be required to have test drive facilities in every city from which a car can be ordered online, where the employees of that facility are paid by the car manufacturer, and exist SOLELY to facilitate test drives and to make repairs. Then the buyer goes online and orders the car directly from the manufacturer.
Car dealerships suck, and we would all be better off if they were relegated to the history book.
...but it's definitely not some David-beats-Goliath scenario where some kid in a garage takes down the big-bad using the magic of open standards.
That depends on how far back you look. Open standards are the foundation for most of what will go into the new CODEC's being developed. Daala and VP10 are direct descendants of the CODEC's developed by Xiph.org, which was essentially a smart kid working in his garage when compared to the MPEG goliath.
The primary difference here is that David partnered with Goliath's other victims rather than going it alone.
This is another in a long line of idiotic articles. If we limit ourselves to technology companies, there remains only one company that really needs to be broken up: Microsoft.
None of the companies listed impose any barriers to entry that are under their direct control, and eliminating stupid patents would also eliminate all of those barriers (money is not a significant barrier) in the fields dominated by the companies listed in the article. Every single one of those companies has viable alternatives to everything they produce.
Microsoft is the only technology company in existence that has barriers to entry under its direct, monopolistic control; and is therefore the only technology company that needs to be broken up. This is as true now as it was back in 1999.
..but rather from the smaller but commercial outfits making products like Sketch and the Affinity suite.
And then what happens when those proprietary companies make the same decision as the current crop or proprietary companies? Changing masters does nothing to solve the slavery problem.
...and make no bones about it, we HAVE to spend....
No, you don't. You CHOOSE to spend it, which is your prerogative. You CHOOSE to remain in your vendor-owned workflow, probably out of fear, but you're actually in a great position. You have the resources to absorb the additional hit to your business while you play with options for migrating away from it.
Major software vendors are still in the early phases of owning your business, and you still have options. If you stay with them, though, you willingly throw away your options and surrender yourself to them. In that case, you might as well start planning for shutting down your business, because you will eventually be paying all of your revenues to software licenses. They may seem cheap now, but I'm sure boiling lobsters think the same thing about the water temperature in the beginning.
Slashdot Mirror
Since I stopped using anything with scents or dyes in it, I've become really aware of anything with perfumes.
I have been sensitive to the poisons used to make perfumes for about 20 years now. My bowels frequently activate if I breathe while close to someone wearing that crap.
[Terms of Service Snipped]
None of what you posted is relevant to this case, though. The copyright owner did not tweet it; someone else did.
That said, this judgment is highly flawed, and made by someone who apparently has zero knowledge of how the Web works (or, apparently, the Internet itself). Here is a common scenario ignored by the judge:
1) Someone posts something on the Web, and the entire posting is Copyright clean.
2) Someone else links to the posting.
3) The original someone subsequently alters the original Web page to include infringing content. This could happen immediately, ten years later, or a hundred fifty years later.
4) The person in (2) can now be sued for copyright infringement. Or even stupider, this person's as-of-yet unborn great grandchildren could be sued for copyright infringement a hundred years after the fact for something they weren't even alive for at the time, and for which their great grandparents used due diligence at the time.
This judgment is simply idiotic.
I loved win7, but if you want to play the latest games, and run the latest CPUs youre screwed.
I got rid of Windows in 1999 and went 100% Linux. I missed being able to play the latest games, but then I found more interesting hobbies, and stopped missing games. A few years later, I bought a PS2, and then a Wii, then a few PS3's. I missed the keyboard/mouse combination at first, but proficiency with the controller came soon enough. I had all the games I could reasonably play. Problem solved.
I have never worried about CPU support under Linux. I buy it, and Linux runs it. Installing Windows from scratch, on the other hand, has sometimes been a nightmare of finding the right drivers for the various parts of the CPU+motherboard.
Besides, this article is a non-story. Every version of Windows has always shipped with a few annoying default settings, go in and turn that crap off - problem solved.
Kubuntu shipped with a default setting for GTK apps that made the tool tips essentially white on a different shade of white. That's an annoying default setting.
Windows 10 is installing addtional spyware on computers without the owner's knowledge or consent*. That's not an "annoying setting"; it's an unconscionable, unauthorized computer intrusion that should have Microsoft executives pulled into criminal court. And that's on top of Windows 10 itself being the biggest, most prolific piece of spyware ever written.
* An EULA that you "agree" to, that you can't understand without a law degree and a spare 3000 hours of your valuable time, does not count as "consent".
What is this debate all about?
It's largely about nothing. You can safely ignore it, and choose the distribution that works for you.
They way I see it, you don't have to use Chrome...
That is completely right. Long gone is the era of the browser monopoly. I can choose to use Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Konqueror, etc. as I see fit. As it stands, Firefox has regained my preferred-browser status with the Quantum release. I had only preferred Chrome for Netflix viewing, since Firefox pre-Quantum was too sluggish. With its recent performance improvements, it is at least as good as (if not better than) Chrome for that purpose.
So it matters not one whit how Google plans to have Chrome handle ads. If its ad-blocking abilities are intended as a poor replacement for proper ad blocking, then users are free to use a different browser if they so choose.
...Linux is sorely lacking in decent, productivity oriented multimedia editing software.
I use Kdenlive+Blender for this purpose.
If you are going to do this and hope to get away with it, at least don't profit from it.
The other way to get away with it is to incorporate, and make so much money that you can tie up the courts for years with legal maneuvering while you launder the money. This is what The SCO Group did to steal Novell's money and property.
What we have now isn't even remotely close to anything even remotely close to resembling intelligence. We have fast, efficient number crunching. Nothing more.
What we are witnessing at this moment is the invention of the wheel claiming to be interstellar travel. It hasn't even risen to the depths of being laughable.
Unfortunately for a lot of people, their jobs require little more than number crunching.
[The PS2] was a good system with a great game library.
The PS2 was an awesome console with the best game library. My kids do just about everything with the PS3, but recently talked me into reconnecting my old PS2 because the PS3 kept crashing (both of my PS3's have been unstable crashing monsters from the beginning when they were brand new); but I discovered that the DVD drive died. Fortunately, a local used game store had one, so I bought it for about $50.
After my kids were done it, I played some of my old games. It was at that point that I realized the best console games I have ever played were made for the PS2. Even the sequels of these games that were made for the PS3 were worse than their predecessors on the PS2.
Unless Pornhub links to the Christian Coalition, the referrer field will be blank. The "referer" field only gets set when you click on a link. Just typing in the new address on the address bar doesn't do it.
Bitcoin's actual value is under a dollar. Until its price crashes down to that level, it is vastly overvalued. The word, "bubble" doesn't even come close to describing Bitcoin's current price.
...instead of just updating the system library...
Snaps are useful for sampling pre-release software. I was curious about the current state of Kdenlive, as the last version I used was horribly unstable, and saw that they offered a Snap. I downloaded the Snap and ran it, and got to test drive Kdenlive without having to install (and potentially uninstall) the program.
But that's about the extent to which I like Snaps.
...just like in 2014 when XP went EOL, and there was no huge uptick in desktop Linux.
I agree. That just proved the Einstein quote to be correct.
My experience has been that it tends to crash pretty often with those.
In the many years I've been using OO.o and LibreOffice on Linux, I have never experienced a crash while reading or writing MS Office documents -- old or new.
My monthly fees are going to pile up it's going to make the decision to seek open source alternatives and simple choice.
The longer you wait, the more painful the transition. Get off the fence and start now, while you still have a business.
It's a a better than solid option even if you do get MS Office.
I have been using LibreOffice at works for years, and have yet to run into a problem. I have, though, used Calc to show that Microsoft Excel does not excel at math.
If you could just order a car directly from Ford, what's to stop you from visiting a dealership, taking a test-drive, wasting the sales clerk's time, then leaving and buying your car on ford.com?
Nothing, but I think that's the way it SHOULD be. I think the entire car sales model should change to that exact experience. Car manufacturers should be required to have test drive facilities in every city from which a car can be ordered online, where the employees of that facility are paid by the car manufacturer, and exist SOLELY to facilitate test drives and to make repairs. Then the buyer goes online and orders the car directly from the manufacturer.
Car dealerships suck, and we would all be better off if they were relegated to the history book.
...but it's definitely not some David-beats-Goliath scenario where some kid in a garage takes down the big-bad using the magic of open standards.
That depends on how far back you look. Open standards are the foundation for most of what will go into the new CODEC's being developed. Daala and VP10 are direct descendants of the CODEC's developed by Xiph.org, which was essentially a smart kid working in his garage when compared to the MPEG goliath.
The primary difference here is that David partnered with Goliath's other victims rather than going it alone.
Jobs would of....
My eyes. They burn.
What does Microsoft have a monopoly on?
Microsoft still has an abusive monopoly on desktop operating systems.
This is another in a long line of idiotic articles. If we limit ourselves to technology companies, there remains only one company that really needs to be broken up: Microsoft.
None of the companies listed impose any barriers to entry that are under their direct control, and eliminating stupid patents would also eliminate all of those barriers (money is not a significant barrier) in the fields dominated by the companies listed in the article. Every single one of those companies has viable alternatives to everything they produce.
Microsoft is the only technology company in existence that has barriers to entry under its direct, monopolistic control; and is therefore the only technology company that needs to be broken up. This is as true now as it was back in 1999.
But it also served Apple's interests....
Yes, so I eagerly await the $1.2B fine against Apple for participating in the plot.
..but rather from the smaller but commercial outfits making products like Sketch and the Affinity suite.
And then what happens when those proprietary companies make the same decision as the current crop or proprietary companies? Changing masters does nothing to solve the slavery problem.
...and make no bones about it, we HAVE to spend....
No, you don't. You CHOOSE to spend it, which is your prerogative. You CHOOSE to remain in your vendor-owned workflow, probably out of fear, but you're actually in a great position. You have the resources to absorb the additional hit to your business while you play with options for migrating away from it.
Major software vendors are still in the early phases of owning your business, and you still have options. If you stay with them, though, you willingly throw away your options and surrender yourself to them. In that case, you might as well start planning for shutting down your business, because you will eventually be paying all of your revenues to software licenses. They may seem cheap now, but I'm sure boiling lobsters think the same thing about the water temperature in the beginning.