Didn't we just set a bunch of foreign nationals free because they were wrongly imprisoned? I think they also had some young children imprisoned. This report indicates 88 of the 100 people transfered out of Getmo were released to be freed (the other 12 remaining in detention in their home nations).
It would be one thing if these were prisoners of war being held until the war ended, as per the Geneva Convention, but this is an ongoing 'war against terror' (except Iraq, the terrorists followed us there) basically giving Bush the ability to hold these people indefinitely. Besides 'Mission Accomplished' has already been declared in Iraq and there are plenty of Iraqis in the camps.
Now, it would be one thing if there was any accuracy at all in the determination that the detained people are terrorists or terrorist supporting individuals. And noone is asking to 'open the floodgates' and let em all run free and noone would be complaining if all of these people were dangerous. But we've already seen plenty of cases where people were improperly detained and without any representation at all bad things happen to good people... 88 of them so far and counting.
I went to a top 50 college and majored in 'Mathematical Computer Science' getting a Math minor along the way... I'm still at the job I interned at during college -- and it's not because I like it. There are people I graduated with (2 years ago) that are still unemployed and many more that settled for webby, sysadminy scripting jobs. Not to say anything bad about those jobs however they don't exactly take advantage of a mathematical background.
You can bitch all you want about these damn kids nowdays not getting their math and admittedly, there are CS programs that completely underexpose their students to math (to say nothing of non-applied math diciplines) but correlation != causation. The jobs aren't there for the appropriately trained.
Noone has ever claimed they have an absolute monopoly but they DO have enough of a lock on the market that it gives them an unfair advantage over the competition. That's water under the bridge, established, proven, done... and completely irrelavent to the Media Player discussion. If the choice was purely OS vs OS then yes, the 'choose another OS' argument works but not here.
The problem here is that they are again abusing their near monopoly on the OS to push out competitors in another market, namely the media player market. These charges should've been levied during the browser wars.
The best analogy I can come up with is this: What if you move to a new house and require electical service. Your options are AmerenUE, solar panels, or a fuel generator. Well, AmerenUE obviously doesn't have an absolute monopoly, you could choose the generator or solar panels... but that would be more effort, require a bit of research, time, permits, etc. so you go with the power company. They come out and flick the switch and say 'oh, by the way... here are special TV power converters that only work with our POS-TV. You can buy other power converters but you'll have to find them, install them, and even then our power converters work better with our power because we know special power-converting secrets we don't tell competitors... by the way, even if you do go with other converters and TV there is still some content that only shows on our POS-TV'.
All I want is a player that 1) Doesn't try to do any stupid skinning crap. I have yet to find a way to show just the video in the window... no menus, buttons, bars, or other assorted crap. Almost every media player I've used (PowerDVD, MPC, Mplayer, Xine, Ogle, WinDVD) let you hide the GUI and show the damn movie... 2) Doesn't 'phone home' constantly. The damn thing is always connecting to the internet for something, be it the opening web page, codec downloads, rights management, etc. The only thing it should be getting from the internet is media and only when I say so.
While it may be the case that you can turn off all skinning, codec downloading, rights management, web page loading crap in Media Player I haven't been able to do these things to my satisfaction. Even if I could find all the necessary buttons and switches I would still be suspicious that the thing is telling someone about something I'm doing with my media. The complete disregards the fact the Joe User will never even realize his player is doing these things or how green the grass is on the other side and happily give MS complete control over his media 'experience.'
I prefer Media Player Classic if I'm forced to use windows or MPlayer under Linux. I'm fairly confident the people behind these softwares aren't colluding to rip me off, stab me in the back, or take control of my machine. BTW, both play Quicktime and Real media.
The summary failed to mention that they will be forced to release a version of Windows without Media Player and 'encourage' the use of other media players. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
That's an excellent point... except 1 small niggle. It's not JUST the brainless call-center, code jockey jobs that are moving. That's the problem. The 'real' programming jobs, the skilled jobs are moving as well. They're cutting out the entry level to get to those designer and lead coder jobs. It's graduates that just spent 40k on college that can't find work now. Before long, as trained, skilled programmers find 'other jobs to fill the gap', there will be no up and coming skill to fill those lead jobs... guess where that skill will come from.
And, I guess that's all fine and good. The 'move on and find another job' attitude is fine with me. I'm fairly ok with my software and games being made over seas and I'll look for other employment when my time comes. All I'm asking is that something is done to slow the fall. Give the unemployed a chance.
So you have a Linux box and a Windows box sitting right next to each other. Ya'll get haxored and then blame the Linux box? Odd...
Did you put that Mandrake box in the DMZ or forward ports to it? What version of Mandrake? The worst this vuln does is DOS and crash. I installed Mandrake on my laptop a couple days ago and, since I use SSH, it's running 24/7 no problems. If I had to guess, I'd say it's somewhere between a thousand and a bazillion times more likely that, if the computers were haxored at all, it was the Windows box.
Were the boxes fuxored or just an 'I can't get to the internet' type of thing. When my Windows box got infected with MSBlast (gotta love Blast, don't have to do anything to get it!) it freaked out my router, maybe you're looking at something like that.
I hate to give away information the promotes piracy but you're doing linux a disservice. MLDonkey can connect to the Kazaa network (as well as eDonkey, gnutella, etc.) and Divx ships with most distros.
Something new wasn't as easy to use as something you've been using for years?! *Shock*!!! *Awe*!!! There's a reason people who try Linux stick with it. For adults it's not because they want to feel better about themselves or to brag to their friends. It's because it is a truely a useful and powerful OS.
"I'm lazy, "...true "because there's no reason I shouldn't be."...false
On another note; if you're setting up a wireless network and don't know what an ESSID or WEP is... you shouldn't be doing it regardless of OS.
??? I think you are missing the point. That's one of the major draws of a Linux oriented gaming distro and the modularity of Linux in general. You can strip it down as far as you like. Keep what's good for gaming, get rid of the rest. It's unfair to call it business oriented as there are various flavors of Linux in everything from PDAs to TiVos, gaming devices, computers... etc.
And if you're calling Windows/DirectX a 'thin' layer, I think there are some misconceptions there.
Well, the burgeoning trade deficit and national debt will ensure the USD is practically worthless before the next recession, so I guess it's a lose-lose situation. But be damn-sure those 200k+ salaries will be well protected in our current 'political environment'.
Almost every digital camera made in the past 2 years are USB mass storage class devices that appear as removable drives and windows and are easily mountable under linux. Either you bought a crap camera or you're using a stone-age distro.
The problem isn't outsourcing per-se. We all know free trade is Good Thing(tm) and putting up trade barriers will only make things worse in the long run but crap man, could you at least give the programmers a second to find a new vocation.
That's what's got us all pissed off. We spent thousands, often tens of thousands of dollars on a top notch education in a field that everyone said was the wave of the future only to lose our jobs a few years later. At least when manufacturing and textile jobs started to slide America bucked up and tried ebb the flow. Now there's a 'well, it's happened before and it turned out ok... so fuck off' attitude.
I'm not so worried about myself. I'm stable and satisified enough in my career but there are still a ton of college kids that got into the field either because it was still decently hot a few years ago or because of *gasp* a sincere interest in computers who are going to be quite screwed come graduation day. It would be nice for those fellas to have something to look forward to and hopefully the generation below them won't be stupid enough to go into something as unimportant to America as technology.
Warner Bros takes Billy to court over using the name Reloaded.
And, after seeing the successful result of that trial, Metallica sues Warner over the 'Reloaded' subtitle thus propogating the constantly regurgitating cycle of crap!
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Or Fox, who covers all of the anti-Republican news stories just like the rest of the media... just in their own way.
Yeah, that was meant to be a joke.
Didn't we just set a bunch of foreign nationals free because they were wrongly imprisoned? I think they also had some young children imprisoned. This report indicates 88 of the 100 people transfered out of Getmo were released to be freed (the other 12 remaining in detention in their home nations).
It would be one thing if these were prisoners of war being held until the war ended, as per the Geneva Convention, but this is an ongoing 'war against terror' (except Iraq, the terrorists followed us there) basically giving Bush the ability to hold these people indefinitely. Besides 'Mission Accomplished' has already been declared in Iraq and there are plenty of Iraqis in the camps.
Now, it would be one thing if there was any accuracy at all in the determination that the detained people are terrorists or terrorist supporting individuals. And noone is asking to 'open the floodgates' and let em all run free and noone would be complaining if all of these people were dangerous. But we've already seen plenty of cases where people were improperly detained and without any representation at all bad things happen to good people... 88 of them so far and counting.
I went to a top 50 college and majored in 'Mathematical Computer Science' getting a Math minor along the way... I'm still at the job I interned at during college -- and it's not because I like it. There are people I graduated with (2 years ago) that are still unemployed and many more that settled for webby, sysadminy scripting jobs. Not to say anything bad about those jobs however they don't exactly take advantage of a mathematical background.
You can bitch all you want about these damn kids nowdays not getting their math and admittedly, there are CS programs that completely underexpose their students to math (to say nothing of non-applied math diciplines) but correlation != causation. The jobs aren't there for the appropriately trained.
Noone has ever claimed they have an absolute monopoly but they DO have enough of a lock on the market that it gives them an unfair advantage over the competition. That's water under the bridge, established, proven, done... and completely irrelavent to the Media Player discussion. If the choice was purely OS vs OS then yes, the 'choose another OS' argument works but not here.
The problem here is that they are again abusing their near monopoly on the OS to push out competitors in another market, namely the media player market. These charges should've been levied during the browser wars.
The best analogy I can come up with is this: What if you move to a new house and require electical service. Your options are AmerenUE, solar panels, or a fuel generator. Well, AmerenUE obviously doesn't have an absolute monopoly, you could choose the generator or solar panels... but that would be more effort, require a bit of research, time, permits, etc. so you go with the power company. They come out and flick the switch and say 'oh, by the way... here are special TV power converters that only work with our POS-TV. You can buy other power converters but you'll have to find them, install them, and even then our power converters work better with our power because we know special power-converting secrets we don't tell competitors... by the way, even if you do go with other converters and TV there is still some content that only shows on our POS-TV'.
That's monopoly abuse.
All I want is a player that 1) Doesn't try to do any stupid skinning crap. I have yet to find a way to show just the video in the window... no menus, buttons, bars, or other assorted crap. Almost every media player I've used (PowerDVD, MPC, Mplayer, Xine, Ogle, WinDVD) let you hide the GUI and show the damn movie... 2) Doesn't 'phone home' constantly. The damn thing is always connecting to the internet for something, be it the opening web page, codec downloads, rights management, etc. The only thing it should be getting from the internet is media and only when I say so.
While it may be the case that you can turn off all skinning, codec downloading, rights management, web page loading crap in Media Player I haven't been able to do these things to my satisfaction. Even if I could find all the necessary buttons and switches I would still be suspicious that the thing is telling someone about something I'm doing with my media. The complete disregards the fact the Joe User will never even realize his player is doing these things or how green the grass is on the other side and happily give MS complete control over his media 'experience.'
I prefer Media Player Classic if I'm forced to use windows or MPlayer under Linux. I'm fairly confident the people behind these softwares aren't colluding to rip me off, stab me in the back, or take control of my machine. BTW, both play Quicktime and Real media.
Media Player Classic isn't actually an old version of MS Media Player. IMO, it's about as close to mplayer as you're going to get in Windows.
The summary failed to mention that they will be forced to release a version of Windows without Media Player and 'encourage' the use of other media players. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
It's unfortunate yet brutally honest that 'anti-American sentiment' and 'outsourcing' are both on the list.
That's an excellent point... except 1 small niggle. It's not JUST the brainless call-center, code jockey jobs that are moving. That's the problem. The 'real' programming jobs, the skilled jobs are moving as well. They're cutting out the entry level to get to those designer and lead coder jobs. It's graduates that just spent 40k on college that can't find work now. Before long, as trained, skilled programmers find 'other jobs to fill the gap', there will be no up and coming skill to fill those lead jobs... guess where that skill will come from.
And, I guess that's all fine and good. The 'move on and find another job' attitude is fine with me. I'm fairly ok with my software and games being made over seas and I'll look for other employment when my time comes. All I'm asking is that something is done to slow the fall. Give the unemployed a chance.
So you have a Linux box and a Windows box sitting right next to each other. Ya'll get haxored and then blame the Linux box? Odd...
Did you put that Mandrake box in the DMZ or forward ports to it? What version of Mandrake? The worst this vuln does is DOS and crash. I installed Mandrake on my laptop a couple days ago and, since I use SSH, it's running 24/7 no problems. If I had to guess, I'd say it's somewhere between a thousand and a bazillion times more likely that, if the computers were haxored at all, it was the Windows box.
Were the boxes fuxored or just an 'I can't get to the internet' type of thing. When my Windows box got infected with MSBlast (gotta love Blast, don't have to do anything to get it!) it freaked out my router, maybe you're looking at something like that.
It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools.
That being said, I'm forced to write in PowerBuilder all day. I'm a very, very bad craftsman.
What is this "Excel" you speak of?
Because without competition they'll have no bucks against closing up both protocols.
While not 'cracks' per-se I download no-cd patches quite often. It's the only way you can get some games to play under Wine.
I bet you could haggle with him and get next year's Super Bowl winner, too.
Screw that... can he give us next year's halftime show?
I hate to give away information the promotes piracy but you're doing linux a disservice. MLDonkey can connect to the Kazaa network (as well as eDonkey, gnutella, etc.) and Divx ships with most distros.
Something new wasn't as easy to use as something you've been using for years?! *Shock*!!! *Awe*!!! There's a reason people who try Linux stick with it. For adults it's not because they want to feel better about themselves or to brag to their friends. It's because it is a truely a useful and powerful OS.
...true ...false
"I'm lazy, "
"because there's no reason I shouldn't be."
On another note; if you're setting up a wireless network and don't know what an ESSID or WEP is... you shouldn't be doing it regardless of OS.
You're in luck.
??? I think you are missing the point. That's one of the major draws of a Linux oriented gaming distro and the modularity of Linux in general. You can strip it down as far as you like. Keep what's good for gaming, get rid of the rest. It's unfair to call it business oriented as there are various flavors of Linux in everything from PDAs to TiVos, gaming devices, computers... etc.
And if you're calling Windows/DirectX a 'thin' layer, I think there are some misconceptions there.
Well, the burgeoning trade deficit and national debt will ensure the USD is practically worthless before the next recession, so I guess it's a lose-lose situation. But be damn-sure those 200k+ salaries will be well protected in our current 'political environment'.
Almost every digital camera made in the past 2 years are USB mass storage class devices that appear as removable drives and windows and are easily mountable under linux. Either you bought a crap camera or you're using a stone-age distro.
urpmi and apt.
Yes, parent is right. Corporations are doing great! It's the people that are suffering.
The problem isn't outsourcing per-se. We all know free trade is Good Thing(tm) and putting up trade barriers will only make things worse in the long run but crap man, could you at least give the programmers a second to find a new vocation.
That's what's got us all pissed off. We spent thousands, often tens of thousands of dollars on a top notch education in a field that everyone said was the wave of the future only to lose our jobs a few years later. At least when manufacturing and textile jobs started to slide America bucked up and tried ebb the flow. Now there's a 'well, it's happened before and it turned out ok... so fuck off' attitude.
I'm not so worried about myself. I'm stable and satisified enough in my career but there are still a ton of college kids that got into the field either because it was still decently hot a few years ago or because of *gasp* a sincere interest in computers who are going to be quite screwed come graduation day. It would be nice for those fellas to have something to look forward to and hopefully the generation below them won't be stupid enough to go into something as unimportant to America as technology.
Warner Bros takes Billy to court over using the name Reloaded.
And, after seeing the successful result of that trial, Metallica sues Warner over the 'Reloaded' subtitle thus propogating the constantly regurgitating cycle of crap!