Regardless of your experiences, the vast majority of the people on windows are using closed source software. There are obviously (and simply) WAY more open source apps for linux than there are for windows. While there may be enough to do the job for some people, there are not nearly enough to do the job for others. Most (not all) of the windows OSS apps are inferior by leaps and bounds to the closed source alternatives. Firefox and Thunderbird are two obvious exceptions to that. Things like open source non-linear video editing solutions or graphics programs such as the gimp are really pretty lousy compared to some of the costly (or on rare occasion free) closed source alternatives.
I've been wishing and hoping for a long time that the OSS on windows movement would expand. I've also noticed a trend recently toward that very end. I'm holding my breath here.
No. Until you pay for that CD, you don't own it. They can put you through whatever cash register they want to, wrap the CD any way they want to, etc etc. Once you buy it...the "hassle" (not that buying a CD has ever been a hassle) is over. You can walk out of the store and do whatever you want with it....
The difference is...when you buy a DRM'd music file...you own it...but they still restrict you.
Bullcrap. I would readily hack DRM'd files i own if it were possible so I can play them in MP3 only players. I still own the dang things. What about people who like a particular service that uses WMA files and they want to play their songs on an iPod? Yeah without DRM you can't guarantee that people won't pirate those songs...but the people who will pirate the hacked DRM songs wouldn't have actually bought them in the first place. All one needs to do to pirate a CD is to buy it from the store and rip it. They might pay an extra 3 or 4 bucks...but hey...no DRM. DRM only punishes the law abiding.
I don't know anyone who's NOT Anti-DRM. All DRM does is make buying music miserable for the people who are doing it legally. People who don't care about the legality of it will just torrent the CD or get it off some other file sharing network. They avoid the headache of DRM as well as the "cost" of being legal...
The only way DRM will ever be plausable will be if they produce a DRM'd codec that plays on anything. People are sick of buying CD's on itunes and not being able to play them on their other players...as well as other music services trying to play on itunes.
Seeing as everything in this industry gets cheaper, faster, smaller and all around better with time, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this ends up being a widely used alternative to flash memory. It may take years, but what doesn't... There has been news of this MRAM floating around for about 5 years now (maybe more?)...it's just finally been produced in force.
Trust me, those things you just listed don't even come CLOSE to being in the category of "most." Those represent probably less than 1% of the terrorist attacks over the past 20 years.
You're forgetting that Christians outright and publically denounced the IRA's methods and actions. The IRA also gave several hours warning before attacks which allowed time to remove people from the vicinity of any explosions. It was purely for political reasons that the IRA did what they did. They wanted and want to be in control of Ireland independantly and without british intervention and presence. They resorted to seemingly terroristic tactics simply because they lacked the resources to wage a full scale war. They have also now denounced their violent past, laid down their arms and are seeking a peaceful solution. Their war was not of a religious nature. They just happened to be "devout" catholics so that obviously played a role in the politics of it all. The violent actions of Christians/Catholics have ALWAYS been denounced and condemned by Christianity as a whole.
Muslims have never denounced the actions of Muslim Extremism. The only cases of it actually being denounced turned out to be real terroristic clerics just putting on a show...and they later backed down from their statements. Muslim Terrorists couldn't care less about "military opportunities." They simply want to kill any human that doesn't agree with them. They want to make the biggest bang they can and make everyone afraid of them. That is it. It's a purely religious war. Let "Allah" kill as many "infidels" as he can by using the poor muslim martyrs...
Discussion site? Try carrying on a friendly discussion on/. Every time you turn around you're getting modded down for not staying exactly on the exact subject at hand. There's barely any friendly banter here because no one can get anything across without getting modded down by some lamer.
I think you've got it backwards. I feel that people got tired of waiting, sometimes hours, for a new story to be posted. At digg you can go to the site and skip the articles you dislike and savor the articles you like at any pace that you like. If you are bored at on the web or something, there's almost a guarantee that every 15 minutes there will be a new article up on the main page. Or you can look at the listing of recent articles posted that have no made it there yet.
An added benefit of digg is that just because an editor doesnt like an article, doesnt mean it won't be shown. If the people like the article, tons more people will see it. If they don't, it will be lost. With the current/. method, any one editor can veto the posting of an article simply if he's the one that reviews it. I know plenty of stories that have been submitted to/. that were LOVED on digg...yet were rejected by a/. admin.
People go to digg BECAUSE of the fast pace at which is flows...not in spite of it. That's what people want. I'm not dogging on/. here./. DID pioneer the tech news industry that exists today, but it is possible that it's time for something new to be tried. Just try to "keep an open mind" about things like digg. Just because it's competition to/. doesn't mean it's evil.
To me...it just sounds like an article full of buzz-words. None of that makes a bit of difference as to the outcome. Who, frankly, gives a crap that the simulator uses utilizes "well above 90% of each processor core, and roughly 30% of the network capacity." I do this with my home computer on a daily basis. I'm interested in the core story but trying to win over/. users by using a bunch of words that are "supposed" to mean something just seems lame to me.
Microsoft didn't mislead anyone with this... They launched a campaign about it and didn't give any real details about the thing...so people assumed it would be the greatest thing ever...and were disappointed. It's the idiot's own fault that they didn't do their own research about it so they knew what to expect when they bought it...
Are you that dense? Have you ever heard of the Gates foundation? Bill has given literally billions of dollars to charities. He himself has almost single-handedly funded the entire slew of vaccination projects in africa. Gates, while maybe lacking in some "business ethics" areas been been "SHARING HIS FORTUNE" for a long time. How many other billionaires have given many billions of their own money for such purposes? Wait, i'll answer that: None.
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Regardless of your experiences, the vast majority of the people on windows are using closed source software. There are obviously (and simply) WAY more open source apps for linux than there are for windows. While there may be enough to do the job for some people, there are not nearly enough to do the job for others. Most (not all) of the windows OSS apps are inferior by leaps and bounds to the closed source alternatives. Firefox and Thunderbird are two obvious exceptions to that. Things like open source non-linear video editing solutions or graphics programs such as the gimp are really pretty lousy compared to some of the costly (or on rare occasion free) closed source alternatives.
I've been wishing and hoping for a long time that the OSS on windows movement would expand. I've also noticed a trend recently toward that very end. I'm holding my breath here.
No. Until you pay for that CD, you don't own it. They can put you through whatever cash register they want to, wrap the CD any way they want to, etc etc. Once you buy it...the "hassle" (not that buying a CD has ever been a hassle) is over. You can walk out of the store and do whatever you want with it....
The difference is...when you buy a DRM'd music file...you own it...but they still restrict you.
Let me rephrase that then... I don't know anyone with more than an ounce of braincells who is NOT Anti-DRM....
There's a guy who knows his stuff :-) They both pushing the law abiding while making the criminals more brash than ever. :)
Bullcrap. I would readily hack DRM'd files i own if it were possible so I can play them in MP3 only players. I still own the dang things. What about people who like a particular service that uses WMA files and they want to play their songs on an iPod? Yeah without DRM you can't guarantee that people won't pirate those songs...but the people who will pirate the hacked DRM songs wouldn't have actually bought them in the first place. All one needs to do to pirate a CD is to buy it from the store and rip it. They might pay an extra 3 or 4 bucks...but hey...no DRM. DRM only punishes the law abiding.
I don't know anyone who's NOT Anti-DRM. All DRM does is make buying music miserable for the people who are doing it legally. People who don't care about the legality of it will just torrent the CD or get it off some other file sharing network. They avoid the headache of DRM as well as the "cost" of being legal...
The only way DRM will ever be plausable will be if they produce a DRM'd codec that plays on anything. People are sick of buying CD's on itunes and not being able to play them on their other players...as well as other music services trying to play on itunes.
I hear John Romero and all I can think is "Daikatana." *shiver*
That game was enough to make a person want to gag themself with a daikatana...sharp end first.
Let's all hope in unison that whatever game he DOES make bears NO resemblance to that festival of tragety.
Seeing as everything in this industry gets cheaper, faster, smaller and all around better with time, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this ends up being a widely used alternative to flash memory. It may take years, but what doesn't... There has been news of this MRAM floating around for about 5 years now (maybe more?)...it's just finally been produced in force.
Seriously...why in the heck does anyone use this?
Trust me, those things you just listed don't even come CLOSE to being in the category of "most." Those represent probably less than 1% of the terrorist attacks over the past 20 years.
You're forgetting that Christians outright and publically denounced the IRA's methods and actions. The IRA also gave several hours warning before attacks which allowed time to remove people from the vicinity of any explosions. It was purely for political reasons that the IRA did what they did. They wanted and want to be in control of Ireland independantly and without british intervention and presence. They resorted to seemingly terroristic tactics simply because they lacked the resources to wage a full scale war. They have also now denounced their violent past, laid down their arms and are seeking a peaceful solution. Their war was not of a religious nature. They just happened to be "devout" catholics so that obviously played a role in the politics of it all. The violent actions of Christians/Catholics have ALWAYS been denounced and condemned by Christianity as a whole.
Muslims have never denounced the actions of Muslim Extremism. The only cases of it actually being denounced turned out to be real terroristic clerics just putting on a show...and they later backed down from their statements. Muslim Terrorists couldn't care less about "military opportunities." They simply want to kill any human that doesn't agree with them. They want to make the biggest bang they can and make everyone afraid of them. That is it. It's a purely religious war. Let "Allah" kill as many "infidels" as he can by using the poor muslim martyrs...
Discussion site? Try carrying on a friendly discussion on /. Every time you turn around you're getting modded down for not staying exactly on the exact subject at hand. There's barely any friendly banter here because no one can get anything across without getting modded down by some lamer.
Ah...now it all makes sense!!! :-P
I think you've got it backwards. I feel that people got tired of waiting, sometimes hours, for a new story to be posted. At digg you can go to the site and skip the articles you dislike and savor the articles you like at any pace that you like. If you are bored at on the web or something, there's almost a guarantee that every 15 minutes there will be a new article up on the main page. Or you can look at the listing of recent articles posted that have no made it there yet.
/. method, any one editor can veto the posting of an article simply if he's the one that reviews it. I know plenty of stories that have been submitted to /. that were LOVED on digg...yet were rejected by a /. admin.
/. here. /. DID pioneer the tech news industry that exists today, but it is possible that it's time for something new to be tried. Just try to "keep an open mind" about things like digg. Just because it's competition to /. doesn't mean it's evil.
An added benefit of digg is that just because an editor doesnt like an article, doesnt mean it won't be shown. If the people like the article, tons more people will see it. If they don't, it will be lost. With the current
People go to digg BECAUSE of the fast pace at which is flows...not in spite of it. That's what people want. I'm not dogging on
To me...it just sounds like an article full of buzz-words. None of that makes a bit of difference as to the outcome. Who, frankly, gives a crap that the simulator uses utilizes "well above 90% of each processor core, and roughly 30% of the network capacity." I do this with my home computer on a daily basis. I'm interested in the core story but trying to win over /. users by using a bunch of words that are "supposed" to mean something just seems lame to me.
Well, I think we can rest assured that it doesn't run windows. ;-)
Personally I've never "learnt" anything. No one has. I wonder what he's trying to accomplish here.
Yeah looks perfectly fine for me as well...
Thanks for the info. I think i misunderstood the process a bit :-P
You should look into blade-free intralasik. No cutting needed. I personally wouldnt want someone taking a knife to my eyes either.
Microsoft didn't mislead anyone with this... They launched a campaign about it and didn't give any real details about the thing...so people assumed it would be the greatest thing ever...and were disappointed. It's the idiot's own fault that they didn't do their own research about it so they knew what to expect when they bought it...
Sounds like a great way to stop the paparazzi... They should make portable systems and sell them to celebrities to mount on their cars...
Are you that dense? Have you ever heard of the Gates foundation? Bill has given literally billions of dollars to charities. He himself has almost single-handedly funded the entire slew of vaccination projects in africa. Gates, while maybe lacking in some "business ethics" areas been been "SHARING HIS FORTUNE" for a long time. How many other billionaires have given many billions of their own money for such purposes? Wait, i'll answer that: None.
Nah... They could give them away and still make a massive profit from all the sold adverts...
Sounds to me like you don't trust or read any news....ever...
Welcome to the internet young pup.
Even newspapers are 50% advertising... You don't think it only costs then a quarter to put that thing together do you?