Well... It seems to me that if it contributes to the spread of Real's official player it's a bad thing. Real's formats don't seem to me to have any technical advantage, so spreading them is a bad thing in my eyes, especially since I'm not really a fan of the idea of DRM at all.
They presumably didn't go with LinDOS because they wanted the legal fight to end. If MS was going after them for Lin---s, which they were, I'm sure the technical meaning of DOS wouldn't stop them from trying to shut down LinDOS. I mean, hey, Lin---s removes D, O, and W, whereas LinDOS only takes out the W.
"Microsoft actually thingks they can claim the rights to "Lin---s"? Talk about power hungry."
Well, they probably don't think they can claim the rights to it so much as they think their lawyers can beat up Lindows' lawyers. And Lindows seems to agree. Yay capitalism, where even the law is privatized.
Of COURSE we can learn communications from chimps. Didn't you see Planet of the Apes? Wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... That was OUR planet! And you blew it up! DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!
On the off chance you're still reading this, you don't get it at all.
I'm not a loyal Windows user, and I'm not looking for a subject to bitch about. I'm aware of Lexmark's role in the lack of a Linux driver.
It's true I bought it because it was cheap. VERY cheap. The cheapest Epson's, in fact, were about twice what I paid for this one because I got a deal. I'm not bitching about Linux, hell, I don't print from it anyway. The POINT is that bosses don't give a shit about that. If they have a printer, they want it to work. They don't want to have to plan ahead, and with Windows they don't have to. The fact that it's Lexmark's fault never enters their mind.
At McMaster in Hamilton, Ont., it costs $15 for a full day of parking. If you park off campus, a ticket is apparently $12. And sometimes that'll get you closer to class.
Hey, I'm not complaining about Lexmark, Linux, or anyone else really. The printer does what I need it to do very well (print Word documents, and it works perfectly from XP if you're wondering). I never have needed to print from Linux since I bought the Lexmark. I'm just saying that for those that care about ease of printer installation, Linux is not the way to go, at least not for any of the printer/distro combinations I've tried.
1. While I realize the reasons for the lack of a driver, they don't mean much to someone who is exclusively concerned with convenience, say, a boss. Also, while you and I obviously would prefer Lexmark to make one, it might not be fair to say it's Lexmark's fault, since Linux obviously doesn't have Windows' marketshare.
2. While I don't vouch for Lexmark, and from what I've read would probably have some problems with their philosophy on ink cartridges, I could not be much happier than I am with the quality of my particular printer.
The article mentions that the most popular members are invariably attractive females whose pictures show them scantily clad and in sexy poses.
Seeing as this "buying nothing" idea is a capitalist's dream, I think it's only a matter of time before these attractive females rise up above their alleged vapidity to realize that they can control the world. As much as I hate to admit it, think about it: who would you vote for between George W. and Britney Spears?
I understood you perfectly. It's just an odd time to be saying that you feel safe behind a firewall, after a worm comes out that's infected a lot of machines behind firewalls.
I still think that's a terrible idea. Aside from the cost to legitimate users, there's also the fact that snail mail spam survives, and at a much higher cost per attempt. This means the e-mail spam people can probably afford their much worse success to attempt ratio.
It's more fundamental than that the open source developers haven't found revenue. It's a disagreement about what the very rules of the game are.
I am not proposing that OSS developers get special treatment, I am proposing that nobody has to pay for such tech. Make the standards open, and everyone can code their own interface. If CSS can do it better, let them do so at that point, which will not inconvenience the consumer who wants free software and interoperability.
The real reason that companies fight to keep control of this tech is because they want revenue from it, they want a monopoly on it. My suggestion removes their capacity to have a monopoly based on widespread distribution of their OS. Yours doesn't.
Further, I'm not suggesting requiring CSS developers to maintain documentation. I'm suggesting requiring them to open the code that relates to interoperability. And I'm not asking the court to do things for the benefit of OSS coders (not directly, anyway), I'm asking the court to do things for the benefit of the consumer - me.
Well, I guess that explains their success... But I still feel that mplayer blows away the other three. And my original point is that Antitrust law should protect exactly that kind of use, rather than possibly requiring payment. So you haven't really burst my bubble.
Without wanting to wade into the tomato dispute itself, I'd like to state that evolutionary classification schemes are vastly more important than "common sense" to many.
What is common sense anyway? Something that most people believe? What the hell good is THAT?
At the very least, tradition is NOT a good reason to believe something when presented with conflicting evidence.
Funny, I didn't care about the tomato thing at all until you brought it up.
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Well... It seems to me that if it contributes to the spread of Real's official player it's a bad thing. Real's formats don't seem to me to have any technical advantage, so spreading them is a bad thing in my eyes, especially since I'm not really a fan of the idea of DRM at all.
...but as a consumer I'd probably view an alliance with Real as a negative.
On a just-barely-related note, for those who like portage, but hate compiling, I recommend Arch Linux. Very nice.
They presumably didn't go with LinDOS because they wanted the legal fight to end. If MS was going after them for Lin---s, which they were, I'm sure the technical meaning of DOS wouldn't stop them from trying to shut down LinDOS. I mean, hey, Lin---s removes D, O, and W, whereas LinDOS only takes out the W.
"Microsoft actually thingks they can claim the rights to "Lin---s"? Talk about power hungry."
Well, they probably don't think they can claim the rights to it so much as they think their lawyers can beat up Lindows' lawyers. And Lindows seems to agree. Yay capitalism, where even the law is privatized.
Of COURSE we can learn communications from chimps. Didn't you see Planet of the Apes? Wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... That was OUR planet! And you blew it up! DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!
I'll bet it stays smooth on turns. :P
On the off chance you're still reading this, you don't get it at all.
I'm not a loyal Windows user, and I'm not looking for a subject to bitch about. I'm aware of Lexmark's role in the lack of a Linux driver.
It's true I bought it because it was cheap. VERY cheap. The cheapest Epson's, in fact, were about twice what I paid for this one because I got a deal. I'm not bitching about Linux, hell, I don't print from it anyway. The POINT is that bosses don't give a shit about that. If they have a printer, they want it to work. They don't want to have to plan ahead, and with Windows they don't have to. The fact that it's Lexmark's fault never enters their mind.
1GB per person. Servers made of Lego. No April Fools.
Neil Peart was found to have stowed away on board.
It seems to have installed fine, but doesn't print. Rather it sits in the queue saying "processing", for at least 10 mins (after that I gave up).
At McMaster in Hamilton, Ont., it costs $15 for a full day of parking. If you park off campus, a ticket is apparently $12. And sometimes that'll get you closer to class.
Hey, I'm not complaining about Lexmark, Linux, or anyone else really. The printer does what I need it to do very well (print Word documents, and it works perfectly from XP if you're wondering). I never have needed to print from Linux since I bought the Lexmark. I'm just saying that for those that care about ease of printer installation, Linux is not the way to go, at least not for any of the printer/distro combinations I've tried.
1. While I realize the reasons for the lack of a driver, they don't mean much to someone who is exclusively concerned with convenience, say, a boss. Also, while you and I obviously would prefer Lexmark to make one, it might not be fair to say it's Lexmark's fault, since Linux obviously doesn't have Windows' marketshare.
2. While I don't vouch for Lexmark, and from what I've read would probably have some problems with their philosophy on ink cartridges, I could not be much happier than I am with the quality of my particular printer.
Speaking from a purely non-business perspective, I'd say he's right. My printer (Lexmark x85) doesn't even have a Linux driver that I'm aware of.
:)
IMHO, Linux office software still sucks too.
I'd blab on about Linux's good points to get karma, but let's face it, they aren't relevant to your post.
Yeep. Seems a little pricey to me.
The article mentions that the most popular members are invariably attractive females whose pictures show them scantily clad and in sexy poses.
Seeing as this "buying nothing" idea is a capitalist's dream, I think it's only a matter of time before these attractive females rise up above their alleged vapidity to realize that they can control the world. As much as I hate to admit it, think about it: who would you vote for between George W. and Britney Spears?
Accelerometers sense motion to zoom, eh?
They had BETTER have an option to turn that off, or else it sure would make using it on a bus interesting.
I understood you perfectly. It's just an odd time to be saying that you feel safe behind a firewall, after a worm comes out that's infected a lot of machines behind firewalls.
So the worm infects people who are behind firewalls, and you're happy because that's what you're doing?
In Timothy's defense, he did copy and paste the round brackets from the article... Proof you haven't read it, mwa ha ha. :)
I still think that's a terrible idea. Aside from the cost to legitimate users, there's also the fact that snail mail spam survives, and at a much higher cost per attempt. This means the e-mail spam people can probably afford their much worse success to attempt ratio.
It's more fundamental than that the open source developers haven't found revenue. It's a disagreement about what the very rules of the game are.
I am not proposing that OSS developers get special treatment, I am proposing that nobody has to pay for such tech. Make the standards open, and everyone can code their own interface. If CSS can do it better, let them do so at that point, which will not inconvenience the consumer who wants free software and interoperability.
The real reason that companies fight to keep control of this tech is because they want revenue from it, they want a monopoly on it. My suggestion removes their capacity to have a monopoly based on widespread distribution of their OS. Yours doesn't.
Further, I'm not suggesting requiring CSS developers to maintain documentation. I'm suggesting requiring them to open the code that relates to interoperability. And I'm not asking the court to do things for the benefit of OSS coders (not directly, anyway), I'm asking the court to do things for the benefit of the consumer - me.
Well, I guess that explains their success... But I still feel that mplayer blows away the other three. And my original point is that Antitrust law should protect exactly that kind of use, rather than possibly requiring payment. So you haven't really burst my bubble.
Without wanting to wade into the tomato dispute itself, I'd like to state that evolutionary classification schemes are vastly more important than "common sense" to many.
What is common sense anyway? Something that most people believe? What the hell good is THAT?
At the very least, tradition is NOT a good reason to believe something when presented with conflicting evidence.
Funny, I didn't care about the tomato thing at all until you brought it up.