Why not just have the browser automatically DOS any popup window and the site which popped it up? Then putting up the ads starts costing much more bandwidth and they start getting false statistics.
Java wouldn't be quite so bad if you initiated a policy to only run signed applets whose certificates were also on a whitelist. Only idiots would accept the thing to run, and the rest of us wouldn't be affected.
I wonder if this still applies in countries where the Government have been convinced that game machine mod chips are only for getting around copy protection.
The real problem with DVD software is, when you buy a DVD drive, you generally get a free[gratis] copy of a DVD player. In my case it was Cyberlink PowerDVD. So Mac users obviously aren't the only ones getting the free stuff.
Now, this is all well and good, but if you're a Linux user like me, you can't use the copy of PowerDVD you got given. So you have a legally-obtained OS, a legally-obtained DVD drive, a legally-obtained piece of DVD software, and a legally-obtained DVD, but you still need to use libdvdcss or an equivalent in order to play the DVD.
I figure if Cyberlink or someone started selling Mplayer and/or Xine codecs (it would need to support both to be fair), and started giving those away with DVD drives, then people wouldn't even need to use libdvdcss (but of course we still would, because it's free[libre] and it's the whole principle of the thing which really matters.)
By running Turbo Media Player you won't (technically) be breaking the law, like you probably are with Mplayer. Sad but true. Why don't people just use open media formats to avoid these problems in the first place, though?
As an Australian, at the moment I'm more worried that running Mplayer (or any media player which might hook into Windows DLLs) might technically count as violating the FTA by enabling me to play WMV files without buying Windows.
If you have a player which can't play a certain type of DRM'd file, you would be unlikely to download a DRM'd version of that file, and more likely to download the MP3. That's the way I work, anyway.
Because Super Mario Advance 2 is much smoother than any emulated game would be.
The real problem is that the only way you can run these SNES emulators is with a flash cartridge, and if you own a flash cartridge then you can just flash Super Mario Advance 2 to it. This is what originally made Nintendo sue Lik Sang (despite the fact that these carts were the only way to do homebrew stuff on the GBA.
If you ran something like PogoShell on your GBA it would be a relatively trivial case to set up the menu to automatically turn on overclocking when entering the SNES emulator, and to leave it off for everything else.
Of course this is also a prod to anyone who has a flash cartridge and doesn't run PogoShell yet. Try it, like it, and if you don't like it, the source is there for hacking (I've just started a bit of hacking on mine to change the way a few things work.)
I guess though this is where the training thing really does come in. You would have to train all these macro writers to write in the new language.
Then again if you write macros more than 10 lines long you probably deserve what you get.
And as for OpenOffice.org taking more than 10 seconds longer than Microsoft Office to open a Word document, I wonder why they didn't test how long it takes for Microsoft Office to open an OpenOffice.org document.
Microsoft are calling a piece of software Avalon? I hope their lawyers are ready to take on the Apache Software Foundation, who had the name long before them...
I wasn't aware that Microsoft provided a medical dictionary at all. But I guess they make a lot more stuff than anyone can really keep track of, being such a big company.
As for Microsoft not disclosing its formats, you might not be aware that the schema used by Office 2003 is actually downloadable from Microsoft. Not to mention that with a few dozen example documents you could just run all the documents through an XML schema generator to generate a fair approximation of the real thing.
Ouch. $340/desktop * 150 desktops = $51,000. So as long as it takes a $51K/yr migration engineer less than twelve months to do the migration, OpenOffice is cheaper.
I think the bigger problem is that people who use open source software think they're so smart that when they do have a problem they would rather not contact technical support, but prefer bitching on their weblog.
Afterall, it's not there is a shortage of people offering commercial support for open source products. In fact, didn't Sun themselves start offering support for {Open,Star}Office a while back?
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Why not just have the browser automatically DOS any popup window and the site which popped it up? Then putting up the ads starts costing much more bandwidth and they start getting false statistics.
Java wouldn't be quite so bad if you initiated a policy to only run signed applets whose certificates were also on a whitelist. Only idiots would accept the thing to run, and the rest of us wouldn't be affected.
I wonder if this still applies in countries where the Government have been convinced that game machine mod chips are only for getting around copy protection.
The real problem with DVD software is, when you buy a DVD drive, you generally get a free[gratis] copy of a DVD player. In my case it was Cyberlink PowerDVD. So Mac users obviously aren't the only ones getting the free stuff.
Now, this is all well and good, but if you're a Linux user like me, you can't use the copy of PowerDVD you got given. So you have a legally-obtained OS, a legally-obtained DVD drive, a legally-obtained piece of DVD software, and a legally-obtained DVD, but you still need to use libdvdcss or an equivalent in order to play the DVD.
I figure if Cyberlink or someone started selling Mplayer and/or Xine codecs (it would need to support both to be fair), and started giving those away with DVD drives, then people wouldn't even need to use libdvdcss (but of course we still would, because it's free[libre] and it's the whole principle of the thing which really matters.)
By running Turbo Media Player you won't (technically) be breaking the law, like you probably are with Mplayer. Sad but true. Why don't people just use open media formats to avoid these problems in the first place, though?
As an Australian, at the moment I'm more worried that running Mplayer (or any media player which might hook into Windows DLLs) might technically count as violating the FTA by enabling me to play WMV files without buying Windows.
If you have a player which can't play a certain type of DRM'd file, you would be unlikely to download a DRM'd version of that file, and more likely to download the MP3. That's the way I work, anyway.
Quite a few people fancy porn though.
If that's what they think about Fedora, imagine what they think about Debian!
Yeah, but "irregardless" is in the dictionary. So really, they're all trolls.
I think you just did, but most people just modded you funny instead of noticing that irregardless is, in fact, a word. :-)
"Just remember, ....RealPlayer's not open-source, but its availability certainly enhances the value of our Java Desktop System."
Um... yeah. In the same way installing Gator enhances the value of a Windows system.
You mean GNU/pissed.
I think it's called MUC.
Because Super Mario Advance 2 is much smoother than any emulated game would be.
The real problem is that the only way you can run these SNES emulators is with a flash cartridge, and if you own a flash cartridge then you can just flash Super Mario Advance 2 to it. This is what originally made Nintendo sue Lik Sang (despite the fact that these carts were the only way to do homebrew stuff on the GBA.
Or perhaps you could carry around a SNES and hook it up to the GBA via the video input adapter. X-D
Long live the Zodiac.
If you ran something like PogoShell on your GBA it would be a relatively trivial case to set up the menu to automatically turn on overclocking when entering the SNES emulator, and to leave it off for everything else.
Of course this is also a prod to anyone who has a flash cartridge and doesn't run PogoShell yet. Try it, like it, and if you don't like it, the source is there for hacking (I've just started a bit of hacking on mine to change the way a few things work.)
Wouldn't Python be more powerful than VB, though?
I guess though this is where the training thing really does come in. You would have to train all these macro writers to write in the new language.
Then again if you write macros more than 10 lines long you probably deserve what you get.
And as for OpenOffice.org taking more than 10 seconds longer than Microsoft Office to open a Word document, I wonder why they didn't test how long it takes for Microsoft Office to open an OpenOffice.org document.
Microsoft are calling a piece of software Avalon? I hope their lawyers are ready to take on the Apache Software Foundation, who had the name long before them...
I wasn't aware that Microsoft provided a medical dictionary at all. But I guess they make a lot more stuff than anyone can really keep track of, being such a big company.
As for Microsoft not disclosing its formats, you might not be aware that the schema used by Office 2003 is actually downloadable from Microsoft. Not to mention that with a few dozen example documents you could just run all the documents through an XML schema generator to generate a fair approximation of the real thing.
And people wonder why there are bugs in Word which were there in Word 97 and still haven't been fixed.
Ouch. $340/desktop * 150 desktops = $51,000. So as long as it takes a $51K/yr migration engineer less than twelve months to do the migration, OpenOffice is cheaper.
I think the bigger problem is that people who use open source software think they're so smart that when they do have a problem they would rather not contact technical support, but prefer bitching on their weblog.
Afterall, it's not there is a shortage of people offering commercial support for open source products. In fact, didn't Sun themselves start offering support for {Open,Star}Office a while back?
Meh... if the secretary isn't good enough to prove herself better than a robot, maybe she needs to work harder. (Or blow harder.)