... three guys, two cases of beer, one bag of pretzels, and an NFL playoff game, neither of whom gives a crap about the latest virii because their operating system doesn't support them.
There's a reason Apple Computers has yet to enter the DRM market on a serious level, and it's because their CEO knows a bit about programming and realizes that, aside from NP complete-type problems, there's nothing a computer can't solve in a short amount of time with enough hardware thrown at it.
Apple knows that DRM is futile, so they don't waste billions of dollars making some half-assed version of content management. Yet they still continue to profit.
I advise M$ and Real to both "get real" and stop trying to convince the content makers that there actually is DRM code that works.
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Seems to use neither science nor fiction.
I find that most stories I peruse contain such far-out "scientific principles" that the events that occur could never happen anywhere on this planet.
Then again, some parts (even in Doctorow's 0wnz0red series) are simply stolen facts from things that have already happened and been talked about in the news.
I find it ironic that the best new science fiction works are not science and barely contain any fiction.
The irony of you, a dedicated reader and comment contributor to the Slashdot.org technology blog, taking a few minutes of your spare time to make fun of people who post their opinions, experiences, and journals online for others to read is mind boggling.
I don't mean to offend you per se, but just to urge you to step out of your own shoes for a second and realize that you're only criticizing yourself when you put down those who have personal Web sites.
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... three guys, two cases of beer, one bag of pretzels, and an NFL playoff game, neither of whom gives a crap about the latest virii because their operating system doesn't support them.
... over from the Dark Side of Microsoft products!
Read one of his Usenet posts about printing difficulties with Windows 98 machines.
Who knows, maybe it was that very problem that brought him over to start writing software for us Free/OpenSource folks!
... to hear from a programmer who still has a job!
Fake DRM.
There's a reason Apple Computers has yet to enter the DRM market on a serious level, and it's because their CEO knows a bit about programming and realizes that, aside from NP complete-type problems, there's nothing a computer can't solve in a short amount of time with enough hardware thrown at it.
Apple knows that DRM is futile, so they don't waste billions of dollars making some half-assed version of content management. Yet they still continue to profit.
I advise M$ and Real to both "get real" and stop trying to convince the content makers that there actually is DRM code that works.
Seems to use neither science nor fiction.
I find that most stories I peruse contain such far-out "scientific principles" that the events that occur could never happen anywhere on this planet.
Then again, some parts (even in Doctorow's 0wnz0red series) are simply stolen facts from things that have already happened and been talked about in the news.
I find it ironic that the best new science fiction works are not science and barely contain any fiction.
The irony of you, a dedicated reader and comment contributor to the Slashdot.org technology blog, taking a few minutes of your spare time to make fun of people who post their opinions, experiences, and journals online for others to read is mind boggling.
I don't mean to offend you per se, but just to urge you to step out of your own shoes for a second and realize that you're only criticizing yourself when you put down those who have personal Web sites.
Anyone else feel that there's probably a direct relation between the growing popularity of blogging and the growing number of unemployed IT workers?