Hurdle 2: I find my music player. Why won't it play my mp3's? Licence? What licence? I don't have to get a licence on my xyzfoobar player in Windows.
Do some research on this -- you might be surprised. Either the distributor of xyzfoobar has bought a license and gives it to you (it's one of those free lunches) or someone is using the codec without a license...
This is just one of *many* situations that need to be resolved before users start sticking to Linux.
This is a situation resolved best by either not using mp3 or buying an mp3 codec (stand alone or bundled with Windows or a commercial Linux distribution). This is not a technical problem as you suggest, but a legal/economical one.
Just like when you buy a book, you can do what you please with the tangible item itself, but you can't do what you like with the content because there are things like copyrights and
licenses preventing you from doing that.
Licenses? At least around here there are no EULAs in books, which means one really can buy "the tangible item". On the other hand one mostly cannot buy software -- only a license to use it in a specified way...
The difference here is very large, especially from a consumer point of view: copyright is always the same, but every EULA is different (and often extremely difficult to understand).
Yes, as a matter of fact I am better than 85% of all drivers on the road.
Fine, some people must be. The point I as trying to make with my joke was that _a lot_ of people are not able to accurately assess their driving skills, which means that they (and as a side effect, everone else) have to be told what the safe speed limit is...
I'm not going to argue about what the actual speed limits should be, but I'd like to say this: At least here in Finland, accidents and going over the speed limit correlate very strongly. Also, the larger the speed limit violation, the deadlier the accident...
So to all you road warriors: If you think we all should drive faster, please call your congressman/representative and try to change the law, _don't_ just start driving over the limit.
Just keep telling yourself that, and maybe it'll come true.
...and to answer your question: A lot of cell phone users in developing countries use prepaid since they can't get a cheap contract (no stable income).
I think you've got it backwards... At least around here the only people I see buying normal price games are kids who are definitely not paying with their own money...
Then again, our prices are even more ridiculous: popular new games seem to cost around 60 euros,that's about $70!
If you have evidence backing your statement that people working on OS X user interface are a "a tiny band of engineers" compared to Gnome, please lay it out. Otherwise I have a hard time believing it.
After the second warld war and our wictory from Soviet Union...
I think you need to read your history books again... I know some finns like to call it a defensive victory, but even that is stretching the truth -- In reality Finland lost in almost every sense of the word.
Sure. The problem is that the profits from the concert go to the artist, and the price of music downloads is decided by the record labels -- there's no common interest...
Well, of course it would. Likewise, when local grass-roots action is needed an organization like FFII is not the most efficient (pardon the pun).
To say that smaller-than-EU-wide orgs are not needed is just plain wrong -- organizations like this are needed on all levels where the powers-that-be work in (from municipal to global).
Perhaps people might have some understanding of why Microsoft don't release patches 2 days after someone tells them about a vulnerability.
You do have a point there, but let's be honest -- MS doesn't hold the patches just because they test so much... I don't think people would be complaining if they patched flaws in, say, two weeks, or even months. But they don't.
Just an example in case you don't know what I'm talking about: the IE share name buffer overflow has been public for almost 30 months. An exploit allows arbitrary code execution...
So...looking at what you get if you are PAYING..which you will be if you want support, OS X is SO much farther ahead than ANY linux distro on the desktop it makes NO sense to choose LINUX over OS X.
This cost-benefit -analysis is way too advanced for slashdot, could you please explain it in plain english?
I seriously hope open source has something better up their sleeves for those of us who dont feel web browsing requires 1 Ghz+ and 512 MB ram.
You could have had a point before saying that (even with the "66 mhz ram" Pentium), but you really blew it by overdoing it... From experience I can tell you that 128MB and 200Mhz is quite enough for Firefox -- if it's not, there is something wrong with your machine.
Aiming at 10 pc is great but imagine one in ten people using FF. Doesn't sound much, eh?
The point is not a fancy number, but the fact that there is a limit (measured in non-IE users) where web developers are forced to code to standards because the PHB will be really pissed off when he finds out that (e.g.) 15% of their customers can't access their site...
I don't know what the limit is, but I'm guessing we're quite close.
Ah, that explains it. I don't have a windows machine nearby, and I don't use one regularly, so I didn't know the Bin has a size on Windows. Thats an odd idea if you ask me, but it does explain your question.
Reality check: The benefit of bt for the client is not that it's faster than http on good conditions, it's two-fold:
1. the file is available at all. If I'm serving a file that's very popular and consequently my ISP sends me an extra bill, I'll stop serving the file...
2. The file is available when it's very popular. If my web server is at maximum connections you're not getting much content, are you?
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You feel as though it's your right to have everything on the internet for free, yet I bet you've never joined any subscriber-only site. I don't doubt that you use pirated software, either.
Well, fuck you too. I've got two computers with no illegally copied software on them. The other computer functions as a jukebox, and guess what -- all ~4000 songs on it are legal also. Insinuating otherwise is downright rude.
To get back on topic: A fundamental aspect of the WWW is that the server is free to give me whatever content it wants, and I am free to view that content (or listen to it) however I want. That is a basic property (and one of the reasons for the success) of the web -- if it doesn't fit a specific business model, then so be it. I'd rather fix the business model than the web, as the web seems to be functioning rather nicely (as it did already before web ads were used).
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I always hop to another TV channel when ads are on. By your logic that means I'm responsible for the horrible programming on the commercial channels... --I feel so dirty.
By the way, why are pop-up blockers ok but ad-blockers are not? Pop-up ads are more effective than normal ones (or so I've heard), doesn't that mean blocking them ruins the internet even more?
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The difference here is very large, especially from a consumer point of view: copyright is always the same, but every EULA is different (and often extremely difficult to understand).
I'm not going to argue about what the actual speed limits should be, but I'd like to say this: At least here in Finland, accidents and going over the speed limit correlate very strongly. Also, the larger the speed limit violation, the deadlier the accident...
So to all you road warriors: If you think we all should drive faster, please call your congressman/representative and try to change the law, _don't_ just start driving over the limit.
Then again, our prices are even more ridiculous: popular new games seem to cost around 60 euros,that's about $70!
The spineless hoster was Teamware GmbH (teamware-gmbh.de), just in case anyone wanted to avoid them because of this...
If you have evidence backing your statement that people working on OS X user interface are a "a tiny band of engineers" compared to Gnome, please lay it out. Otherwise I have a hard time believing it.
Turpaan tuli, ei mussuteta jälkikäteen.
Sure. The problem is that the profits from the concert go to the artist, and the price of music downloads is decided by the record labels -- there's no common interest...
To say that smaller-than-EU-wide orgs are not needed is just plain wrong -- organizations like this are needed on all levels where the powers-that-be work in (from municipal to global).
India: 423 jobs.
China: 113 jobs.
I'm not saying HP isn't moving to China, but you can't justify saying that with those numbers: Combined they are 3,6% of the amount of layoffs.
Just an example in case you don't know what I'm talking about: the IE share name buffer overflow has been public for almost 30 months. An exploit allows arbitrary code execution...
I'd like some of what you're having, thanks.
I don't know what the limit is, but I'm guessing we're quite close.
Ah, that explains it. I don't have a windows machine nearby, and I don't use one regularly, so I didn't know the Bin has a size on Windows. Thats an odd idea if you ask me, but it does explain your question.
So how much is that 50% exactly? A megabyte? 100 gigabytes?
Filled? Maybe you need to think that through, antdude...
1. the file is available at all. If I'm serving a file that's very popular and consequently my ISP sends me an extra bill, I'll stop serving the file...
2. The file is available when it's very popular. If my web server is at maximum connections you're not getting much content, are you?
To get back on topic: A fundamental aspect of the WWW is that the server is free to give me whatever content it wants, and I am free to view that content (or listen to it) however I want. That is a basic property (and one of the reasons for the success) of the web -- if it doesn't fit a specific business model, then so be it. I'd rather fix the business model than the web, as the web seems to be functioning rather nicely (as it did already before web ads were used).
--I feel so dirty.
By the way, why are pop-up blockers ok but ad-blockers are not? Pop-up ads are more effective than normal ones (or so I've heard), doesn't that mean blocking them ruins the internet even more?
And all this is related to the subject (the book) how?
..give or take a couple of minutes