It works both ways. I've been using KDE for so long now, that on the two occaisions I had the chance to use XP, I was confused and found XP to be difficult because things didn't work exactly like I expected. Truth be told, on the three occaisions I've had to use OSX - I was also confused by it as well for the same reasons.
I think for the most part, "useability" is 90% familiarity. If you make a person use any system for 6 months, they will get used to it and it will, at least to an extent, "make sense".
If businesses get in on this game - how long till the government. Sure officer, you can search my house because yes, I own a television. Please check the make/model/serial number against your list of TVs stolen last night. Thank you for your trouble... no problem, search for anything else as well. I'm not worried - I would only refuse if I was (but then, you could just shoot me on site so I probably would just give up)...
Pretty soon, Americans are going to be hoping someone can step in to liberate us!
Excellent parsing of the sentiments SCO may engender in more militant penguins. With people getting jail time for linking to bomb making sites, I wonder how many people have restrained themselves from saying what they'd really like to see happen to SCO.
One other thing, 100 years ago, America was practically 3rd world in terms of labor conditions. There were labor riots, slave labor conditions, factories that burned down with the workers inside (fire escapes doors locked to prevent the workers from sneaking off), etc. etc. As economic prosperity increased, workers took it on themselves to see they got a share. We aren't talking about converting to communism (though certainly there were red groups), we're talking about fair labor standards, 40 hour work weeks, overtime laws etc. etc.
Also interesting, is that even though America started out as a handful of colonies - think plantations, export of raw materials on the cheap, cheap manufacturing (3d world style) - it eventually built itself into a first world economy. And interestingly, England's economy has remained first world all along. Truth is, a strong economy in the US, or Australia, or any other of England's colonies has not destroyed it at all.
In other words, if living/working conditions improve in China - it won't drive us back into the 3d world. In fact, the greatest hope for peace really is a rising standard of living in China. The majority of wealthy nations have relatively open governments and significant amounts of freedom for their citizens. This type of stability is bought only through the existance of a significant middle class. Desperate and impoverished people are far less likely to be peacable. Relatively well off people usually refuse to tolerate highly oppressive governments. This chip will be good for China, and for everyone else in many direct and indirect ways.
I've used Linux exclusively for a long time now and I've become pretty darn accustomed to KDE. Case in point: I was at a friend's house recently and tried out his Macintosh. I was mystified at how to recall a minimized window - I had to ask him to show me. This was a bit embarrasing as I'm supposed to know a bit about computers, and my friend can't tell the difference between between the end of his phone cord and an ethernet cable. Besides - Macs are for the computer dunces right?
I even had trouble with XP the single time I tried using it. Nothing in XP matched with what I've come to expect, i.e., KDE. So like you say, Linux is simply different, not more difficult. And two weeks is not enough time to really become acclimated to a system. 6 months would be a much fairer test, and the problems on reverting would be interesting to read about
"About 150 of the subpoenas were addressed to Verizon Communications Inc., which said Friday that it will release the names and addresses only after exhausting all legal challenges. Comcast, which did not say how many subpoenas it had received, plans to comply fully with the requests, a spokeswoman said."
Ever since Comcast bought out AT&T, my Spam rate went from 3/yr to 3/day. It also seems like it just blithely kisses RIAA ass. I don't watch TV and so I don't have cable TV - but I hear their cable TV sucks too.
I just wish I could figure out some alternative broadband - I don't think I like comcast.
The referenced article mentions some college kid getting hit for downloading some songs. I think there is some validity to your argument when applied to those advertising music - but not when applied to those downloading.
No matter what, RIAA sucks and I won't ever buy an RIAA backed cd again - unless it is used.
If this thing tops $500, won't people start just looking at a laptop?
It's neat and all in a gadgety way, but PDAs need to be small and light so they fit in your pocket. The problem of course, is that when they are tiny, data input is a bear - and it always will be till voice recognition/mind plugs replace grafiti and thumboards.
Here's an off the cuff response, without any real research - not even a RTFA. For what it's worth, the Federal Gov't (i.e., WA DC) has the power to regulate interstate commerce (note that that here, "interstate" refers to trade between states of the US - this is a different usage than one sometimes finds in international law where "countries" can be called "states"). Sometime, somewhere, someone is going to argue that the DMCA is a law which regulates interstate commerce, that as a result, states have no power to legislate in that realm, and S. Carolina's law in particular is therefore invalid and unenforceable.
Personally, I think the whole ink/toner cartridge scam sucks, I'm just pointing out an argument I'd bet will be made - and without the benefit of any facts!;-)
You are being confused by the label the media attributes to leftists. Leftists are not liberals. See for example, the endless discussions on how hackers aren't crackers, despite media characterizations.
I think the prior poster was worried about having no control over distribution of his writings. And it sure looks like this vulnerability makes Adobe NOT do what Adobe says - that's like false advertising. Here's a quote from the report:
However, using the vulnerability described above, the plug-in with
forged signature can perform virtually everything, including but not
limited to:
- removing or modifying any restrictions (from copying text to
Clipboard, printing etc) from the documents loaded into Adobe
Acrobat or Adobe Reader; - remove any DRM (Digital Rights Management) schemes from PDF
documents, regardless the encryption handler used -- WebBuy,
InterTrust DocBox, Adobe DRM (EBX) etc;
- modify or remove digital signatures used within a PDF document;
- affect any/all other aspects of a document's confidentiality,
integrity and authenticity.
There are lots of comments about software patents, but that is really a seperate issue. The issue here is with patenting "ideas". Imagine you want to create a service that uses Apache and MySQL to serve some sort of content based on user form input. I'll bet you a quarter you'll find patents describing this process, granted to people who had nothing to do with either software program. Could it be more insane to grant a patent to someone who describes a way to use software? We're not talking about the developer, we're talking about using the software - in essence, these patent whores inhibit the adoption of existing works that they did not create. That's BS.
And say all you want about prior art invalidating the patent. That's only valid if the small-business person can afford the fight.
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True - but it takes a little longer for it to feel "natural" and for other methods to feel "odd". That's all I'm saying.
It works both ways. I've been using KDE for so long now, that on the two occaisions I had the chance to use XP, I was confused and found XP to be difficult because things didn't work exactly like I expected. Truth be told, on the three occaisions I've had to use OSX - I was also confused by it as well for the same reasons.
I think for the most part, "useability" is 90% familiarity. If you make a person use any system for 6 months, they will get used to it and it will, at least to an extent, "make sense".
If businesses get in on this game - how long till the government. Sure officer, you can search my house because yes, I own a television. Please check the make/model/serial number against your list of TVs stolen last night. Thank you for your trouble ... no problem, search for anything else as well. I'm not worried - I would only refuse if I was (but then, you could just shoot me on site so I probably would just give up) ...
Pretty soon, Americans are going to be hoping someone can step in to liberate us!
Hey man, save this one for the next SCO article. The only reason you aren't +5 funny is because you're not in the first 150 posts. Brilliant!
Excellent parsing of the sentiments SCO may engender in more militant penguins. With people getting jail time for linking to bomb making sites, I wonder how many people have restrained themselves from saying what they'd really like to see happen to SCO.
favorable business laws
"For more information please e-mail opensourcenow@redhat.com" from redhat
I say great! Now where can I go to donate $30 to the fund? Not much but better than complaining. Hmmm ... perhaps I'll RTFA.
aaahhh ... "reveal codes"
How I miss that!
Hell, with OO.org, he could just save it as html. That would have been less annoying (won't do anything for the contents though).
One other thing, 100 years ago, America was practically 3rd world in terms of labor conditions. There were labor riots, slave labor conditions, factories that burned down with the workers inside (fire escapes doors locked to prevent the workers from sneaking off), etc. etc. As economic prosperity increased, workers took it on themselves to see they got a share. We aren't talking about converting to communism (though certainly there were red groups), we're talking about fair labor standards, 40 hour work weeks, overtime laws etc. etc.
Also interesting, is that even though America started out as a handful of colonies - think plantations, export of raw materials on the cheap, cheap manufacturing (3d world style) - it eventually built itself into a first world economy. And interestingly, England's economy has remained first world all along. Truth is, a strong economy in the US, or Australia, or any other of England's colonies has not destroyed it at all.
In other words, if living/working conditions improve in China - it won't drive us back into the 3d world. In fact, the greatest hope for peace really is a rising standard of living in China. The majority of wealthy nations have relatively open governments and significant amounts of freedom for their citizens. This type of stability is bought only through the existance of a significant middle class. Desperate and impoverished people are far less likely to be peacable. Relatively well off people usually refuse to tolerate highly oppressive governments. This chip will be good for China, and for everyone else in many direct and indirect ways.
Hear Hear
I've used Linux exclusively for a long time now and I've become pretty darn accustomed to KDE. Case in point: I was at a friend's house recently and tried out his Macintosh. I was mystified at how to recall a minimized window - I had to ask him to show me. This was a bit embarrasing as I'm supposed to know a bit about computers, and my friend can't tell the difference between between the end of his phone cord and an ethernet cable. Besides - Macs are for the computer dunces right?
I even had trouble with XP the single time I tried using it. Nothing in XP matched with what I've come to expect, i.e., KDE. So like you say, Linux is simply different, not more difficult. And two weeks is not enough time to really become acclimated to a system. 6 months would be a much fairer test, and the problems on reverting would be interesting to read about
"About 150 of the subpoenas were addressed to Verizon Communications Inc., which said Friday that it will release the names and addresses only after exhausting all legal challenges. Comcast, which did not say how many subpoenas it had received, plans to comply fully with the requests, a spokeswoman said."
Ever since Comcast bought out AT&T, my Spam rate went from 3/yr to 3/day. It also seems like it just blithely kisses RIAA ass. I don't watch TV and so I don't have cable TV - but I hear their cable TV sucks too.
I just wish I could figure out some alternative broadband - I don't think I like comcast.
The referenced article mentions some college kid getting hit for downloading some songs. I think there is some validity to your argument when applied to those advertising music - but not when applied to those downloading.
No matter what, RIAA sucks and I won't ever buy an RIAA backed cd again - unless it is used.
Sorry - guess I ought to read to the end.
biru = beer
"No need to pay a computer geek to work his magic on your broken Windows box."
I had no idea Windows machines could be unbroken.
Brilliant. But why stop at the President, how about his cronies that helped orchestrate it as well?
If this thing tops $500, won't people start just looking at a laptop?
It's neat and all in a gadgety way, but PDAs need to be small and light so they fit in your pocket. The problem of course, is that when they are tiny, data input is a bear - and it always will be till voice recognition/mind plugs replace grafiti and thumboards.
Here's an off the cuff response, without any real research - not even a RTFA. For what it's worth, the Federal Gov't (i.e., WA DC) has the power to regulate interstate commerce (note that that here, "interstate" refers to trade between states of the US - this is a different usage than one sometimes finds in international law where "countries" can be called "states"). Sometime, somewhere, someone is going to argue that the DMCA is a law which regulates interstate commerce, that as a result, states have no power to legislate in that realm, and S. Carolina's law in particular is therefore invalid and unenforceable.
;-)
Personally, I think the whole ink/toner cartridge scam sucks, I'm just pointing out an argument I'd bet will be made - and without the benefit of any facts!
Might I suggest your local public library? The price is better, and you don't even have to keep them hanging around once you've heard them.
You are being confused by the label the media attributes to leftists. Leftists are not liberals. See for example, the endless discussions on how hackers aren't crackers, despite media characterizations.
Actually, it is leftist conservatives and rightist conservatives who oppose freedom. Liberals promote freedom (think "liberty").
I think the prior poster was worried about having no control over distribution of his writings. And it sure looks like this vulnerability makes Adobe NOT do what Adobe says - that's like false advertising. Here's a quote from the report:
However, using the vulnerability described above, the plug-in with forged signature can perform virtually everything, including but not limited to:
- removing or modifying any restrictions (from copying text to Clipboard, printing etc) from the documents loaded into Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader;
- remove any DRM (Digital Rights Management) schemes from PDF documents, regardless the encryption handler used -- WebBuy, InterTrust DocBox, Adobe DRM (EBX) etc;
- modify or remove digital signatures used within a PDF document;
- affect any/all other aspects of a document's confidentiality, integrity and authenticity.
There are lots of comments about software patents, but that is really a seperate issue. The issue here is with patenting "ideas". Imagine you want to create a service that uses Apache and MySQL to serve some sort of content based on user form input. I'll bet you a quarter you'll find patents describing this process, granted to people who had nothing to do with either software program. Could it be more insane to grant a patent to someone who describes a way to use software? We're not talking about the developer, we're talking about using the software - in essence, these patent whores inhibit the adoption of existing works that they did not create. That's BS.
And say all you want about prior art invalidating the patent. That's only valid if the small-business person can afford the fight.