Guess I must be the only one to immediately think that to deep-six means to screw someone thoroughy up the arse.
I put it past any of the other decent Slashdot readers to have such thoughts.
There seems to be some consensus here that Youtube will self-destruct if it imposes forced ads on its viewers. I guess however, given the nature of many Youtube videos, that a significant part of their audience is from the MTV "2 scenes a second w/ads every third frame" generation, and I doubt they'll stop watching (or whatever you call their gazing at the tube).
Whether the DMCA was 'intended' for the big perpetrators or not, the EFF proves it is being used to harass people on a large scale, or at least to make them look guilty before so proven.
Secondly, boycotting a DRMed product when the industry aims at forbidding the sales of any non-compliant products doesn't sound very practical.
Furthermore, silently trespassing a law because
you're convinced they're not after you doesn't seem a wise thing to do- the day may come they are after you, e.g. when media sales are slightly lower then RIAA had expected or desired, or when your neighbour denounces you because he doesn't like the colour of your nose.
Linus is an engineer, and is wants to make a system that works really well. Tanenbaum is an academic, and wants to make a system which is informative.
No, rather: the engineer wants to make a system that has 80% efficiency in 80% of the cases with an error margin of 7%. The academic wants to make a system that can be mathematically proven to be 100% correct in 3 predetermined, closed systems. Other than that, it doesn't have to work.
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You probably meant: "a misguided attempt of someone trying to keep backwards".
Guess I must be the only one to immediately think that to deep-six means to screw someone thoroughy up the arse. I put it past any of the other decent Slashdot readers to have such thoughts.
...what would happen if we sent Arnold Schwarzenegger with the next space shuttle, and he came back a few months later!
Oh wait, "germs", not "germans".
There seems to be some consensus here that Youtube will self-destruct if it imposes forced ads on its viewers. I guess however, given the nature of many Youtube videos, that a significant part of their audience is from the MTV "2 scenes a second w/ads every third frame" generation, and I doubt they'll stop watching (or whatever you call their gazing at the tube).
Indeed, why didn't Microsoft foresee this and introduce it as "Windows Vista SP1" right away?
And with C20H25N3O it would flip much faster.
Do you know something we don't? Would you care to share it with us?
That's why I usually turn my keyboard upside down before I lay a line on it, sniff, and turn it back again.
Well, I guess you'd better be glad the count isn't kept by a Brit: fifteen million, thirty million, fourty million, deuce!
Whether the DMCA was 'intended' for the big perpetrators or not, the EFF proves it is being used to harass people on a large scale, or at least to make them look guilty before so proven.
Secondly, boycotting a DRMed product when the industry aims at forbidding the sales of any non-compliant products doesn't sound very practical.
Furthermore, silently trespassing a law because you're convinced they're not after you doesn't seem a wise thing to do- the day may come they are after you, e.g. when media sales are slightly lower then RIAA had expected or desired, or when your neighbour denounces you because he doesn't like the colour of your nose.
Linus is an engineer, and is wants to make a system that works really well. Tanenbaum is an academic, and wants to make a system which is informative.
No, rather: the engineer wants to make a system that has 80% efficiency in 80% of the cases with an error margin of 7%. The academic wants to make a system that can be mathematically proven to be 100% correct in 3 predetermined, closed systems. Other than that, it doesn't have to work.