That just not an argument. The problem is that the content must be decryptable, if I have the source code for the player I just chance the code so that the movie/music whatever is dump to a file rather than being displayed on the screen, not really a problem.
Even with DRM the content is at some point available en decrypted form, it has to be. DRM really on the player to only to output the content in the way the distributor has specified. With the source code in hand I can ignore the different restrictions.
Commmunism is a fundamentally good idea, but completly unsuited for humans. We are simply to selfish to function under true communism. Im not talking about the communist wannabees like USSR or Cuba, but the idea that Karl Marx had.
Communism is really a nice though, everyone is equal and have and equal amount of everything. Pretty nice, but humans don't work like that. If we can get just as much for doing nothing as we can from working, we don't work.
Yes, competition is good, but Microsoft is not about competition. Microsoft kill of competitors using their status as the world largest supplier of operating systems. They use their monopoly status to make sure that other companies can't compete. Since they pretty much killed of Netscape they haven't improved Internet Explorer or even fixed serious bug like defect CSS support.
Just a few hours ago I got 127.0.0.1 when trying to lookup sco.com. Im not sure it wasn't just my dns server acting all funny, but I actually thought that is was their solution.
And how do they get mr. Sixpack to stop clicking on link an type in the URL, if they can't even get him to stop clicking on suspicious email attachment?
Because we all know that the sixpack family is concerned with security and keep their anti-virus up-to-date, read the latest virus announcement and of cause they keep track on Microsofts security advisories..... Or perhaps NOT.
Telling the avarage user to type in URLs doesn't fix anything. Microsoft trained their users to not care, why do they think they can change that over night?
It would make more sense to ask: Would you prefer a 100% free desktop or something where only part of the system is free.
I would take the free desktop system anyday and be willing to live without certain things. If you can't do that MacOSX is a nice choice, but I wouldn't use it.
I personally don't think that the research companies make up results, just to please Microsoft. I do however believe that results that doesn't favor Microsofts products remain upublished.
The result for the research companies work is only valuable because people trust them, they can't really afford to lie. On the other hand Microsoft wouldn't allow them to publish which doesn't favor their products. The research is stil useless, because the company who is paying can choose not to make the findings available.
Now this is just stupid, why would I run Linux on Windows. What we need it coWindows. In my world that makes a lot more sense... Well actually no, I have no real use for Windows.
I guess you could use this for testing something or trying out Linux, but I don't really see the application for coLinux. I would never recommend people who wish to try out Linux to run it like this, nor do I recommend using vmware. If you want to try Linux, do it right, remove the Windows safty blanket, it is the only thing that will teach you to use Linux.
Oh great, the minute anti-virus software begins to detect a virus my mailbox gets flooded by auto-genereated replies tell me that I've been sending out viruses. This is a stupid feature which should be disabled, when was the last time a virus didn't fake its origin?
The filters on my mail serveres are configured to drop virus emails and NOT bounce, auto-reply or alert me. The waring emails from antivirus software generates almost as many emails as the virus it self. Don't do that.
What I find amusing is that it is mostly due to religion people get circumcised. What are these people thinking? This God person, he really did a good job, but my penis seems to have a design flaw. Is that anyway for a religious person to think?
I believe that the US department of healt, or whatever it's call, recommend circumcision for healt reasons. Which leads me to the conclusion that American men is incapable of cleaning themself.
The flesh is there for a reason. I don't know what that reason is, but Im sure it is suppose to due something, otherwise it wouldn't be there. Basic evolutionary theory.
I think we need to realise that there at two elements embeded in userfriendly (usability). One it ease of learning, the other is ease of use. There are very few open source system / programs out there that are actually hard to use. I agree the open source community delivers a lot of software which isn't learnt in 5 minuts, but does it really have to?
Windows is amazingly easy to learn, but I don't see it as being easier to use in the long run. I think the difference lie in the which elements of userfriendly you focus on. This leaves us with the people how take a quick look at KDE, GNOME, whatever and as a first reaction says "This is different, I not like it". We need to hit this people until they understand that it is not about first impression, it is about having a system that is easy to use and will allow you to work as fast and efficient as possible.
I could not care less about Joe Homeuser, or whatever his name is. If he doesn't understand it, well that is his problem. Let us build the best possible operating system and allow the people choose.
Why the ""%#&! would you place a . on numeric keyboard when you need a,
Denmark uses comma the same way people in Spain or Holland do, therefor our keyboard have a comma on the nummeric keyboard, not at dot, because than would be stupid.
Can't blame OpenOffice for than, blame the keyboard manufacures for selling keyboard with a stupid layout.
Adding DRM to an ogg is not hard, but it won't work. With an open source player DRM becomes useless. It would be much to easy to do what DVD-Jon did with Apple AAC filformat. Providing any real security in line with DRM is impossible if the source code for the players are made avaible. Steve Jobs even said that DRM doesn't provide any real protection.
We don't need an open DRM enabled filformat, we need the music industri to drop their demand for DRM. DRM is not only taking away our freedom, it flawed by design as well.
So what all this means is that if Phoenix screwed up, someone could compromise my Bios due to all the stuff they put in. I really think I'll be needing TCP/IP in my bios, cool for remote administration servers though.
A Bios should be minimal and only contain enough features to boot the operating system, not more, nothing less.
Not many belive that Kazaa has a legitimate use. I understand that you could use p2p to distribute Linux or something, but that it hardly what Kazaa was designed for. Most of the stuff you legitimately distribute with Kazaa would be better of using websites, ftp or bittorrent.
P2P has legitimate uses, Kazaas current business model does not. Don't protect Kazaa to defend P2P networks, Kazaa only use is the distribution of illegally copied material. Could someone give me a something that Kazaa could be used for which wouldn't work better via http, ftp or Bittorrent?
I don't think you can compare Bittorrent and Kazaa, because Bittorrent originally was designed to solve the problem of distributing legal material in a way that wouldn't overload a server. I understand that Bittorrent can, and is, misused to distribute copyrighted material. My argument is simply that Kazaa was not really design to solve a similar problem, they always been in the business of distributing copyrighted material.
In the field of Software Engineering one article you should read the Fredrick P. Brooks "No Silver Bullet". It is an old article, but has not been forgotten. What Brooks wrote in 1987 is equally true today, perhaps even more so. The truly greate articles are never forgotten, but some greate ideas is not understood until later and does articles can be hard to find, because nobody ever heard of them.
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That just not an argument. The problem is that the content must be decryptable, if I have the source code for the player I just chance the code so that the movie/music whatever is dump to a file rather than being displayed on the screen, not really a problem.
Even with DRM the content is at some point available en decrypted form, it has to be. DRM really on the player to only to output the content in the way the distributor has specified. With the source code in hand I can ignore the different restrictions.
Commmunism is a fundamentally good idea, but completly unsuited for humans. We are simply to selfish to function under true communism. Im not talking about the communist wannabees like USSR or Cuba, but the idea that Karl Marx had.
Communism is really a nice though, everyone is equal and have and equal amount of everything. Pretty nice, but humans don't work like that. If we can get just as much for doing nothing as we can from working, we don't work.
Yes, competition is good, but Microsoft is not about competition. Microsoft kill of competitors using their status as the world largest supplier of operating systems. They use their monopoly status to make sure that other companies can't compete. Since they pretty much killed of Netscape they haven't improved Internet Explorer or even fixed serious bug like defect CSS support.
Freebian GNU/Linux :-)
Just a few hours ago I got 127.0.0.1 when trying to lookup sco.com. Im not sure it wasn't just my dns server acting all funny, but I actually thought that is was their solution.
If you want it for filtering, couldn't you use Spamhaus XBL list?
http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/index.lasso
And how do they get mr. Sixpack to stop clicking on link an type in the URL, if they can't even get him to stop clicking on suspicious email attachment?
Because we all know that the sixpack family is concerned with security and keep their anti-virus up-to-date, read the latest virus announcement and of cause they keep track on Microsofts security advisories..... Or perhaps NOT.
Telling the avarage user to type in URLs doesn't fix anything. Microsoft trained their users to not care, why do they think they can change that over night?
It would make more sense to ask:
Would you prefer a 100% free desktop or something where only part of the system is free.
I would take the free desktop system anyday and be willing to live without certain things. If you can't do that MacOSX is a nice choice, but I wouldn't use it.
I personally don't think that the research companies make up results, just to please Microsoft. I do however believe that results that doesn't favor Microsofts products remain upublished.
The result for the research companies work is only valuable because people trust them, they can't really afford to lie. On the other hand Microsoft wouldn't allow them to publish which doesn't favor their products. The research is stil useless, because the company who is paying can choose not to make the findings available.
Well maybe they didn't write it, but Im sure there is some SCO code in it.
Now this is just stupid, why would I run Linux on Windows. What we need it coWindows. In my world that makes a lot more sense... Well actually no, I have no real use for Windows.
I guess you could use this for testing something or trying out Linux, but I don't really see the application for coLinux. I would never recommend people who wish to try out Linux to run it like this, nor do I recommend using vmware. If you want to try Linux, do it right, remove the Windows safty blanket, it is the only thing that will teach you to use Linux.
Oh great, the minute anti-virus software begins to detect a virus my mailbox gets flooded by auto-genereated replies tell me that I've been sending out viruses. This is a stupid feature which should be disabled, when was the last time a virus didn't fake its origin?
The filters on my mail serveres are configured to drop virus emails and NOT bounce, auto-reply or alert me. The waring emails from antivirus software generates almost as many emails as the virus it self. Don't do that.
Much worse than I expected. Really it just looks like a car which badly needs a new paint. Guess it depends who you are, but I wouldn't drive it.
What I find amusing is that it is mostly due to religion people get
circumcised. What are these people thinking? This God person, he
really did a good job, but my penis seems to have a design flaw. Is
that anyway for a religious person to think?
I believe that the US department of healt, or whatever it's call,
recommend circumcision for healt reasons. Which leads me to the
conclusion that American men is incapable of cleaning themself.
The flesh is there for a reason. I don't know what that reason is, but
Im sure it is suppose to due something, otherwise it wouldn't be
there. Basic evolutionary theory.
Is that site for real? I mean it is really funny, but I don't think that was the intention.
I think we need to realise that there at two elements embeded in userfriendly (usability). One it ease of learning, the other is ease of use. There are very few open source system / programs out there that are actually hard to use. I agree the open source community delivers a lot of software which isn't learnt in 5 minuts, but does it really have to?
Windows is amazingly easy to learn, but I don't see it as being easier to use in the long run. I think the difference lie in the which elements of userfriendly you focus on. This leaves us with the people how take a quick look at KDE, GNOME, whatever and as a first reaction says "This is different, I not like it". We need to hit this people until they understand that it is not about first impression, it is about having a system that is easy to use and will allow you to work as fast and efficient as possible.
I could not care less about Joe Homeuser, or whatever his name is. If he doesn't understand it, well that is his problem. Let us build the best possible operating system and allow the people choose.
Why the ""%#&! would you place a . on numeric keyboard when you need a ,
Denmark uses comma the same way people in Spain or Holland do, therefor our keyboard have a comma on the nummeric keyboard, not at dot, because than would be stupid.
Can't blame OpenOffice for than, blame the keyboard manufacures for selling keyboard with a stupid layout.
Adding DRM to an ogg is not hard, but it won't work. With an open source player DRM becomes useless. It would be much to easy to do what DVD-Jon did with Apple AAC filformat. Providing any real security in line with DRM is impossible if the source code for the players are made avaible. Steve Jobs even said that DRM doesn't provide any real protection.
We don't need an open DRM enabled filformat, we need the music industri to drop their demand for DRM. DRM is not only taking away our freedom, it flawed by design as well.
They actually have started selling Glaze3D, although I think they call it Axe or something. It is powerful enough to go into mobilephone :-)
So?
Windows doesn't even have read support for reiserfs, XFS og JFS. What is your point?
So what all this means is that if Phoenix screwed up, someone could compromise my Bios due to all the stuff they put in. I really think I'll be needing TCP/IP in my bios, cool for remote administration servers though.
A Bios should be minimal and only contain enough features to boot the operating system, not more, nothing less.
Ha, that compiler your looking for is GNU software. You're not geeting very far on FreeBSD with the GCC.
gcc.gnu.org
Not many belive that Kazaa has a legitimate use. I understand that you could use p2p to distribute Linux or something, but that it hardly what Kazaa was designed for. Most of the stuff you legitimately distribute with Kazaa would be better of using websites, ftp or bittorrent.
P2P has legitimate uses, Kazaas current business model does not. Don't protect Kazaa to defend P2P networks, Kazaa only use is the distribution of illegally copied material. Could someone give me a something that Kazaa could be used for which wouldn't work better via http, ftp or Bittorrent?
I don't think you can compare Bittorrent and Kazaa, because Bittorrent originally was designed to solve the problem of distributing legal material in a way that wouldn't overload a server. I understand that Bittorrent can, and is, misused to distribute copyrighted material. My argument is simply that Kazaa was not really design to solve a similar problem, they always been in the business of distributing copyrighted material.
Why do you think copyrights doesn't apply to porn?
In the field of Software Engineering one article you should read the Fredrick P. Brooks "No Silver Bullet". It is an old article, but has not been forgotten. What Brooks wrote in 1987 is equally true today, perhaps even more so. The truly greate articles are never forgotten, but some greate ideas is not understood until later and does articles can be hard to find, because nobody ever heard of them.