This strips everything you've said before of any real meaning.
there are some theoretical issues with valid patents related to MP3
Home users are not system builders. OEMS and big-box retail will not touch a gray or black market codec. End of story.
people conflate the iTunes Music Store with iPods
This will only get worse if ITunes expands to include rental and subscription services. Welcome to the world of one-stop shopping and the online media mall for Windows and the Mac.
Like they say on the TV cop shows: Follow the monry and the truth will be revealed.
Sun funds and staffs OpenOffice.org., wohich serves Sun's corporate interests. Following your logic. anyone who posts so much as a word in favor of OpenOffice must be on Sun's payroll.
Such a simplistic view purposefully rejects the effect on the user; which is precisely why we should discuss and pursue user's freedoms to run, inspect, share, and modify published software.
"Inspect and modify" has meaning only if you are a programmer or can employ a programmer. That excludes the home market and huge chunks of other markets.
If you're talking about the RIAA busting down your door and asking you to prove that you have a legally purchased copy of any of those CD-Rs with "their IP" on them, then I think you can be safe knowing they have to prove that it is more likely than not that those are the result of infringement.
The RIAA will most likely be knocking at your door (not busting it down) because it traced hundreds of downloads or thousands of uploads to your account. Klamath Falls man downloads $4,500 music file fine (August 7, 2006)
The situation changes, of course, if your jeweled case CD-Rs begin turning up in flea-market sales with photoshoped alblum art.
For everything fun, there's gonna be some idiot with a (D) or an (R) beside his or her name telling you not to do it. Fuck 'em all.
Politicians like Mrs Clinton who can forge links bewtween the inner city and the suburbs get the win when it matters. Rockstar has been tamed. "Bully" won't be the game it might have been before Hot Coffee.
He just said that he has no experiences with them and he just doesn't see any reason to use them for himself. And this shouldn't be even his job - there should be other people focusing on comparing competitor's products in RedHat.
The lead developer is expected to make decisions, to be aware of the alternatives. The take-up of Linux is strong on the server and weak on the desktop. It is important to understand why.
I stand by my original question:
Why the double standard, why is tunnel vision acceptable in the development of Fedora and Red Hat but not in Windows or OSX?
If you're going to do it for violent or racier games, then I expect to see every unrated, family safe Disney game get the same treatment before release.
Disney has been in publishing and the toy business for eighty years without making politically-charged headlines in The Daily News and The Miami Herald.
ZCMI, the Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institution. Founded by Brigham Young in 1868, and generally regarded as the first american department store. The Mormon Church held 51% of the stock when the store was sold to the May chain in 1999.
The problem is that it appears that Thompson managed to influence one of the larger companies in the States towards his agenda.
The problem is that Walmart had to pull product off its shelves. The problem is that pissing off the world's largest retailer was not good business for Take Two and Rockstar.
They're paying shitloads of money for those tickets anyway,
The airlines aren't making shitloads of money these days and the infrastructure for sattelite broadband is expensive. It isn't difficult to imagine a more or less permanent ban on carry-on laptops on the northeast coriddor and North Atlantic runs.
I wonder if there are some licensing issues (agreements with Microsoft) that have made them do this, or whether it's customers like me.
The OEM system install has been the gold standard for non-technical end users (aka mass market sales) for over twenty-five years. The Windows install for fourteen years. Live with it.
Linux is consumer friendly, what isn't is DRM. Can I get an iPod w/ DRM? Will "Zune" be available without DRM? The consumer needs to be educated about DRM. All DRM does is rob the consumer of his or her fairuse rights. It allows those the mandate it to steal from the unedcuated consumer over and over.
The uneducated consumer may decide that rental and subscription services works for him. That a one click download of a Rhapsody playlist is a better use of his time than spending hours trolling BT and the P2P nets,
Certainly, children are not at all sexual and have no sexual thoughts or desires until the day they turn 18!
Child Pornography is the sexual exploitation of a child...the rape of a child...for the sexual entertainment of an adult. There is no consent, there is no pleasure for the child.
dosen't it make M$ seem even greedier to not have something like this for XP and Office? Imagine how many pirated copies would disappear if they had a $199 family 5-pack of XP Home
Dell's entry level XP Home system is on sale for $279 with a !7" CRT, Word Perfect, and a one year warranty included. Dimension B110. XP Home has been the default OEM install for five years.
Retail boxed, MS Office Home (AKA Student-Teacher Edition) lists for $150 with a three-seat license
Thats a cool thing with open source...If someone finds a bug or flaw, it doesn't take someone else very long to fix it. Now when it comes to corporations, they have to wait to bill you for the next release, and you pay it too because the fix of bugs alone justifies buying the new version.
Last I heard, Sun was still providing the money, manpower, leadership, and material resources going into the development of OpenOffice.org. That contributions from outsiders were trivial, given the scale and complexity of the project.
"If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck..."
Just maybe an open source license and free distribution doesn't change things much internally from the way they are done in Redmund.
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This strips everything you've said before of any real meaning.
there are some theoretical issues with valid patents related to MP3
Home users are not system builders. OEMS and big-box retail will not touch a gray or black market codec. End of story.
people conflate the iTunes Music Store with iPods
This will only get worse if ITunes expands to include rental and subscription services. Welcome to the world of one-stop shopping and the online media mall for Windows and the Mac.
Sun funds and staffs OpenOffice.org., wohich serves Sun's corporate interests. Following your logic. anyone who posts so much as a word in favor of OpenOffice must be on Sun's payroll.
"Inspect and modify" has meaning only if you are a programmer or can employ a programmer. That excludes the home market and huge chunks of other markets.
This is not been true of any commercial society in the modern era. It wasn't true in ancient Samaria. The Origins of Value
The RIAA will most likely be knocking at your door (not busting it down) because it traced hundreds of downloads or thousands of uploads to your account. Klamath Falls man downloads $4,500 music file fine (August 7, 2006)
The situation changes, of course, if your jeweled case CD-Rs begin turning up in flea-market sales with photoshoped alblum art.
Politicians like Mrs Clinton who can forge links bewtween the inner city and the suburbs get the win when it matters. Rockstar has been tamed. "Bully" won't be the game it might have been before Hot Coffee.
Carmegeddon had all the reality of the Coyote and the Roadrunner cartoons.
You lose credibility outside the gaming community when you build your defense on patently false and misleading analogies.
The lead developer is expected to make decisions, to be aware of the alternatives. The take-up of Linux is strong on the server and weak on the desktop. It is important to understand why.
I stand by my original question:
Why the double standard, why is tunnel vision acceptable in the development of Fedora and Red Hat but not in Windows or OSX?
Theoretical perfection is of little consequence if users continue to chose the alternative OS.
Disney has been in publishing and the toy business for eighty years without making politically-charged headlines in The Daily News and The Miami Herald.
ZCMI, the Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institution.
Founded by Brigham Young in 1868, and generally regarded as the first american department store. The Mormon Church held 51% of the stock when the store was sold to the May chain in 1999.
The problem is that Walmart had to pull product off its shelves.
The problem is that pissing off the world's largest retailer was not good business for Take Two and Rockstar.
The airlines aren't making shitloads of money these days and the infrastructure for sattelite broadband is expensive. It isn't difficult to imagine a more or less permanent ban on carry-on laptops on the northeast coriddor and North Atlantic runs.
So tell me why Fedora's lead developer wears blinders when it comes to Microsoft and Vista or Apple and OSX.
The OEM system install has been the gold standard for non-technical end users (aka mass market sales) for over twenty-five years. The Windows install for fourteen years. Live with it.
The uneducated consumer may decide that rental and subscription services works for him. That a one click download of a Rhapsody playlist is a better use of his time than spending hours trolling BT and the P2P nets,
Granny is not a system builder.
Granny buys the PC with the OEM system install.
The purpose of copyright is to encourage and reward creativity and ambition. It is not to make of the public domain a refuge for the second-rate.
I see posts almost daily on Slashdot complaining that there is nothing new in movies or music or games.
But when the Geek produces his homemade own sci-fi epic, it is, quite predictatively, an anal-rententive remake of Star Trek: The Original Series.
Name five, other than iD. Console-only does not count.
The Sims has been pure Soap Opera from day one.
Child Pornography is the sexual exploitation of a child...the rape of a child...for the sexual entertainment of an adult. There is no consent, there is no pleasure for the child.
Recent arrests, the victims including infants and toddlers: Polk County man arrested for possession of child pornography June 9th, 27 charged in child porn sting March 16th "molestation on demand."
Dell's entry level XP Home system is on sale for $279 with a !7" CRT, Word Perfect, and a one year warranty included. Dimension B110. XP Home has been the default OEM install for five years.
Retail boxed, MS Office Home (AKA Student-Teacher Edition) lists for $150 with a three-seat license
$99 gets your game on an XBox. Windows XP is free.
It isn't the masses who misunderstand and misquote Asimov or Gandhi at every opportunity, it is the Geek.
Last I heard, Sun was still providing the money, manpower, leadership, and material resources going into the development of OpenOffice.org. That contributions from outsiders were trivial, given the scale and complexity of the project.
"If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck..."
Just maybe an open source license and free distribution doesn't change things much internally from the way they are done in Redmund.