wouldn't the united states trying to enforce it's own laws in sovreign lands be a declaration of war? Sending your men to a land and enforcing your laws would be, this doesn't seem much different.
PC's do not have correct color output, and never will. No matter high end the PC, the colors never look "right" or balenced on the screen.
That's why if you ever go to a magazine's or newspaper's office, you will never see any layout or photowork being done on PC's, because the colors just aren't balenced. The only two systems I have seen get this right are Macs and Sgi's, and that is why they are still so widely used!
Even if people use PC's for processing work, professionals always go over their images on a mac, just to see if it looks "right".
Linux distributions is more akin to "infighting". 100 different versions of the same thing, each with their own problems and issues.
That's the problem with open software, everyone wants to do things their own way. Companies like Apple and Microsoft encourage teamwork to make one seamless product.
many experienced users would revolt if their beloved tools were gone in, say, Debian 4.0 or Red Hat 9.
Yes and those "experienced users" are what is holding linux back. Most distributions for linux seem to only care about keeping the oldskool geeks happy, and ignore the rest of the world. This is a fundemental problem in linux. If people only care about keeping 1% of the population happy, they lose out on the other 99% who aren't unix hackers and need tools to actually get work done and not for the sake of having tools. For instance, I would use linux if it have me the desktop publishing tools I need to get my work done, and not 10 text editors that cannot do 1/4 of what I need.
I think apple really got it right though with OS X: an easy to use standard unix desktop system.
It's too bad nobody listens, then maybe linux would actually start getting some marketshare.
Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.
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The best way to make linux "easy to use for the masses" is NOT going to be by adding yet another distribution of it. Personally it would help if all the "desktop linux" companies pooled their resources and made one, standard linux desktop running on one, standard gui interface. Adding another linux distro just makes things more confusing for the masses.
More choice isn't always good. I would rather see ONE good desktop linux package than ten substandard ones.
It's not very impressive watching a video of a demo. Half the glory of a demo is seeing how well it runs on your slow hardware. I was in awe the first time I saw a demo run off one floppy disk on an amiga500 and how AMAZING the graphics looked. But seeing a pre-recorded video would not have been impressive at all.
The only person who can own any kind of "name" is the company or person who trademarked the name.
For instance General Motors owns the name "General Motors" and we cannot use it for any purpose, including as a domain name (at least under US copyright law, which is generally enforced in any industrialized country).
I'm sure you miss out on a lot of good deals then. Mom and pop places use IIS because it's easy to set up, and they can't afford to pay some guy tons of money to set up a linux server (or freebsd server if they need really high security). Maybe if linux was actually easy to use it would be even more popular with mom and pop places.
So enjoy paying more by descriminating against IIS sites.
Isn't reverse engineering a company's hardware/cracking encryption a violation of the DMCA? I am not saying I support the DMCA but it would be a shame if unsuspecting people jumped on this project and had the FBI raid their house and throw them in jail.
Slashdot is guilty here too. Guilty of Bad journalism! Advocating illegal activity is pretty unprofessional.
What person is actually going to get near enough radiation to test if the watch even works? Sounds like a ripoff... then again maybe this story is just an ad, why else would they post the price?
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The subject site tries to install the GATOR spyware program. I would recommend nobody go there.
Slashdot should check their links to make sure they don't contain malicious programs.
We do not know the consequences of our actions. That is why there has been a ban on human cloning. However a weather disaster could cause distruction on a much larger scale. Imagine a tornado flying through the streets of New York due to a weather modification mishap.
The problem is we are already modifying the weather unintentially. Suv's with their horrible gas consumption and emissions, methane emissions from the cows of huge farms built where rain forests used to stand to supply Mcdonalds with beef. American culture has already thrown the environment out of wack!
Also, modifying the weather would be like playing God, and for that we might be punished in ways I do not want to imagine. I'd hate for another world flood...
The police can do a lot of things normal citizens cannot. The police can arrest people, beat people, shoot people if neccesary.. doesn't mean that we can. If we expect the police to be able to keep order in society they should be allowed to do certain things that normal people cannot. This looks like a case of bad journalism, and I cry foul over that.
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wouldn't the united states trying to enforce it's own laws in sovreign lands be a declaration of war? Sending your men to a land and enforcing your laws would be, this doesn't seem much different.
PC's do not have correct color output, and never will. No matter high end the PC, the colors never look "right" or balenced on the screen.
That's why if you ever go to a magazine's or newspaper's office, you will never see any layout or photowork being done on PC's, because the colors just aren't balenced. The only two systems I have seen get this right are Macs and Sgi's, and that is why they are still so widely used!
Even if people use PC's for processing work, professionals always go over their images on a mac, just to see if it looks "right".
This is competition: Linux, Windows, Apple.
Linux distributions is more akin to "infighting". 100 different versions of the same thing, each with their own problems and issues.
That's the problem with open software, everyone wants to do things their own way. Companies like Apple and Microsoft encourage teamwork to make one seamless product.
many experienced users would revolt if their beloved tools were gone in, say, Debian 4.0 or Red Hat 9.
Yes and those "experienced users" are what is holding linux back. Most distributions for linux seem to only care about keeping the oldskool geeks happy, and ignore the rest of the world. This is a fundemental problem in linux. If people only care about keeping 1% of the population happy, they lose out on the other 99% who aren't unix hackers and need tools to actually get work done and not for the sake of having tools. For instance, I would use linux if it have me the desktop publishing tools I need to get my work done, and not 10 text editors that cannot do 1/4 of what I need.
I think apple really got it right though with OS X: an easy to use standard unix desktop system.
It's too bad nobody listens, then maybe linux would actually start getting some marketshare.
Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.
The best way to make linux "easy to use for the masses" is NOT going to be by adding yet another distribution of it. Personally it would help if all the "desktop linux" companies pooled their resources and made one, standard linux desktop running on one, standard gui interface. Adding another linux distro just makes things more confusing for the masses.
More choice isn't always good. I would rather see ONE good desktop linux package than ten substandard ones.
I'm sure thompson media was a winner as they collect royalties on ANY product/commercial software that uses the mp3 format.
That's why patents are good, you actually make money from your ideas/discoveries.
the movie is available in two PROPREITARY FORMATS.
maybe slashdot should post links that their target audience (linux users) can ACTUALLY WATCH.
I loved the music disk one, the fact that they packed that much into 64k boggles my mind.
No OGG support
No divx support
The only thing it was going for it is it runs windowsXP
the thing is watching a blob morph around at 10fps isn't as exciting on a dvd as it was on an amiga
It's not very impressive watching a video of a demo. Half the glory of a demo is seeing how well it runs on your slow hardware. I was in awe the first time I saw a demo run off one floppy disk on an amiga500 and how AMAZING the graphics looked. But seeing a pre-recorded video would not have been impressive at all.
If michael had written it he would search the net and try to remove every negative review of it.
The only person who can own any kind of "name" is the company or person who trademarked the name.
For instance General Motors owns the name "General Motors" and we cannot use it for any purpose, including as a domain name (at least under US copyright law, which is generally enforced in any industrialized country).
Yeah right, that's like saying there are other interweb browsers than IE.
I'm sure you miss out on a lot of good deals then. Mom and pop places use IIS because it's easy to set up, and they can't afford to pay some guy tons of money to set up a linux server (or freebsd server if they need really high security). Maybe if linux was actually easy to use it would be even more popular with mom and pop places.
So enjoy paying more by descriminating against IIS sites.
How about the USA changing its destructive foreign policy so we don't have terrorists trying to kill us and destroy monuments.
Like that would ever happen though...
And no. I didn't vote for Bush.
Isn't reverse engineering a company's hardware/cracking encryption a violation of the DMCA? I am not saying I support the DMCA but it would be a shame if unsuspecting people jumped on this project and had the FBI raid their house and throw them in jail.
Slashdot is guilty here too. Guilty of Bad journalism! Advocating illegal activity is pretty unprofessional.
Speaking of banner ads, I am curious as to how much slashdot gets from having MICROSOFT BANNER ADS.
I mean, it's like greenpeace being sponsored by exxon.
more than 50% of users on slashdot use IE.
What person is actually going to get near enough radiation to test if the watch even works? Sounds like a ripoff... then again maybe this story is just an ad, why else would they post the price?
The subject site tries to install the GATOR spyware program. I would recommend nobody go there.
Slashdot should check their links to make sure they don't contain malicious programs.
Bad journalism yet again...
Most people don't need a Porsche either, but I sure as hell enjoy mine.
Consider this a "luxery PC" and the market for these items is generally small, but profitable.
We do not know the consequences of our actions. That is why there has been a ban on human cloning. However a weather disaster could cause distruction on a much larger scale. Imagine a tornado flying through the streets of New York due to a weather modification mishap.
The problem is we are already modifying the weather unintentially. Suv's with their horrible gas consumption and emissions, methane emissions from the cows of huge farms built where rain forests used to stand to supply Mcdonalds with beef. American culture has already thrown the environment out of wack!
Also, modifying the weather would be like playing God, and for that we might be punished in ways I do not want to imagine. I'd hate for another world flood...
The police can do a lot of things normal citizens cannot. The police can arrest people, beat people, shoot people if neccesary.. doesn't mean that we can. If we expect the police to be able to keep order in society they should be allowed to do certain things that normal people cannot. This looks like a case of bad journalism, and I cry foul over that.