This battle was fought two decades ago when fair use was upheld and we all got to keep our VCRs and double-cassette decks. I contend that the concern of the *AA is not only to protect themselves from the new threat to their business model that digital media represents, but to regain ground they lost twenty years ago.
I've constantly referred to Mandrake as Linux for Windows. It's been bloatware for years. Unless you want to pick apart indivdual packages, you're looking at a gig and a half plus for a standard install.
Maybe this guy should consider running his website on his own computers. They would never go down and probably run Windows Server 2006 with backups running Linux 3.2. Think of the storage with Exabyte Raid in one tower!
So that's it huh? Years of development, we've come up with better screenshots. Not-so-annoying handling of renaming files. Media players with some nicer features and wait for it....wait for it....zooming!
Just like sysadmins build huge db servers, their normal job is just day to day administration. So while the big GTA king out there steals cars a lot, they occasionall steal a truck full of electronics too.
Hmm...I wonder if he tinkers with his car? Me, I know the basics of how a car engine works, and sure, I understand electronics and wiring and so forth. But I have no clue what goes on in today's modern multi-processor-controlled engine -- it might as well be a black box to me. Actually, it is -- my car is a tool, a device to get me from point A to point B in reasonable comfort.
Normal operating in a car means when you are reversing and going 10kph, you don't shift it directly into drive. (This assumes automatic transmission) On older cars, the transmission could drop out of the car or something.
Now opening it up is something different. When my car starts making weird sounds (as Fords all too often do) I take it in. If it's dirty on the inside, I clean it with a paper towel and some armor all. There are a number of things we can expect normal users to do. Some of the things a lot of them do but isn't necessary is scandisk and defrag. They defrag once a week sometimes. They think they are doing the right thing.
Basically we should all expect a certain level of comptence. Re-installing windows? Not for your average user. Knowing how to get to the control panel? Now that's something I would love to stop saying...Go to start...yes you have to click on it...then click setting...then click on control panel... It's enough to drive you winsane.
My take on it is this...you have the power users and the home users. Power users, who want a text-based everything and completet control of every aspect of installation and configuration want a good text-based installer that installs the bare minimum and everything else is only what they need to develop, monitor, serve, or whatever.
Home users on the other hand don't know what they want, sometimes don't even know how to use the stuff they do want, and installation is always a pain for them anyway.
I'm not speaking for the Debian developers or anyone else but me, but IMHO Debian, Slackware, and the like (the "not really user friendly distros") are for sysadmins, power users, control freaks, and masochists (who don't even know windows.) Let the home users use Red Hat or Mandrake.
To the topic at hand, the installer with h/w detection will be awesome, and the text-based interface is perfect for those tht use debian, IMO.
Stay with me for a moment here, I download software, sometimes expensive sometimes not. I couldn't even own a computer if I had to buy all the software for it. I'm unfortunately running MS stuff for gaming. The first point is that people use this software, like checkpoint firewall and Oracle, 3dsmax and maya at home and then they tell their employer who will in turn buy the software because he doesn't have to train an employee from the ground up. The point is, I wouldn't be this useful to my boss if I had never downloaded anything because of supposedly ethical considerations where no one was actually hurt.
Let's face it, the loss of money to a corporation that can afford it is NOT a hurtful attack (ethically speaking) Speaking as a Canadian watching shooting deaths in the states everyday, I think most of the US government has a screwed up idea of what counts as a hurtful attack.
Yeah, I tried it once, walked out on training on the second day, short of breath. I'd never had as powerful an attack of a conscience as I did that day. I didn't even know I had one before that.
So basically, if the RIAA's holy war does work and turns off filesharing in the US, you'll have a hundred other countries where files are still being shared. This means that that the average intelligence of a p2p person will go up by about 30%. So maybe no more movies with the wrong title? No more german techno songs that turn out to be britney spears newest wretched creation. I could maybe deal with this...
I love being Canadian.
People nowadays are always bitching about sci-fi being not what it used to be. Scientists are saying that actual science is much cooler. I love the matrix because Stephen Hawking thinks it's possible, and because....well...the first movie was just all-around good....
that didn't quite end with the bang I'd hoped for.
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This battle was fought two decades ago when fair use was upheld and we all got to keep our VCRs and double-cassette decks. I contend that the concern of the *AA is not only to protect themselves from the new threat to their business model that digital media represents, but to regain ground they lost twenty years ago.
What does the FAA have to with this?
Did I hit the Slashdot archeological nostalgia site? This was news 6 months ago.
In the next edition of Knight Rider... Angered that he's been put into a european compact, KITT goes mad!
I've constantly referred to Mandrake as Linux for Windows. It's been bloatware for years. Unless you want to pick apart indivdual packages, you're looking at a gig and a half plus for a standard install.
Maybe this guy should consider running his website on his own computers. They would never go down and probably run Windows Server 2006 with backups running Linux 3.2. Think of the storage with Exabyte Raid in one tower!
Microsoft is currently appealing the latest decision orcing them to break apart...details in the next law show set 25 years ahead of this one.
Open Source human being!
If you want to add something, just clone said person and away you go, just make sure you have a copy of Gray's Anatomy attached to the subject.
Just make sure my name is in the comments somewhere...
So that's it huh? Years of development, we've come up with better screenshots. Not-so-annoying handling of renaming files. Media players with some nicer features and wait for it....wait for it....zooming!
Look out Microsoft, your days are numbered!
Just like sysadmins build huge db servers, their normal job is just day to day administration. So while the big GTA king out there steals cars a lot, they occasionall steal a truck full of electronics too.
Oh great, 1000 workers for a $2B facility? I hope this doesn't mean they've figured out how to let Indian workers remotely do that stuff too...
You need 2.6 on a P1 about as much as you'd need a 500-hp enginge in a Yugo
Hmm...I wonder if he tinkers with his car? Me, I know the basics of how a car engine works, and sure, I understand electronics and wiring and so forth. But I have no clue what goes on in today's modern multi-processor-controlled engine -- it might as well be a black box to me. Actually, it is -- my car is a tool, a device to get me from point A to point B in reasonable comfort. Normal operating in a car means when you are reversing and going 10kph, you don't shift it directly into drive. (This assumes automatic transmission) On older cars, the transmission could drop out of the car or something. Now opening it up is something different. When my car starts making weird sounds (as Fords all too often do) I take it in. If it's dirty on the inside, I clean it with a paper towel and some armor all. There are a number of things we can expect normal users to do. Some of the things a lot of them do but isn't necessary is scandisk and defrag. They defrag once a week sometimes. They think they are doing the right thing. Basically we should all expect a certain level of comptence. Re-installing windows? Not for your average user. Knowing how to get to the control panel? Now that's something I would love to stop saying...Go to start...yes you have to click on it...then click setting...then click on control panel... It's enough to drive you winsane.
Why are ridiculous patents so amazing in a country where a woman can sue a restaurant (marginally) for making coffee too hot?
My take on it is this...you have the power users and the home users. Power users, who want a text-based everything and completet control of every aspect of installation and configuration want a good text-based installer that installs the bare minimum and everything else is only what they need to develop, monitor, serve, or whatever. Home users on the other hand don't know what they want, sometimes don't even know how to use the stuff they do want, and installation is always a pain for them anyway. I'm not speaking for the Debian developers or anyone else but me, but IMHO Debian, Slackware, and the like (the "not really user friendly distros") are for sysadmins, power users, control freaks, and masochists (who don't even know windows.) Let the home users use Red Hat or Mandrake. To the topic at hand, the installer with h/w detection will be awesome, and the text-based interface is perfect for those tht use debian, IMO.
I'm waiting for the complete "copyrighted" code to be printed on a tshirt juust like DeCSS was. Back when anyone gave a damn anyway.
Stay with me for a moment here, I download software, sometimes expensive sometimes not. I couldn't even own a computer if I had to buy all the software for it. I'm unfortunately running MS stuff for gaming. The first point is that people use this software, like checkpoint firewall and Oracle, 3dsmax and maya at home and then they tell their employer who will in turn buy the software because he doesn't have to train an employee from the ground up. The point is, I wouldn't be this useful to my boss if I had never downloaded anything because of supposedly ethical considerations where no one was actually hurt. Let's face it, the loss of money to a corporation that can afford it is NOT a hurtful attack (ethically speaking) Speaking as a Canadian watching shooting deaths in the states everyday, I think most of the US government has a screwed up idea of what counts as a hurtful attack.
Yeah, I tried it once, walked out on training on the second day, short of breath. I'd never had as powerful an attack of a conscience as I did that day. I didn't even know I had one before that.
So basically, if the RIAA's holy war does work and turns off filesharing in the US, you'll have a hundred other countries where files are still being shared. This means that that the average intelligence of a p2p person will go up by about 30%. So maybe no more movies with the wrong title? No more german techno songs that turn out to be britney spears newest wretched creation. I could maybe deal with this... I love being Canadian.
People nowadays are always bitching about sci-fi being not what it used to be. Scientists are saying that actual science is much cooler. I love the matrix because Stephen Hawking thinks it's possible, and because....well...the first movie was just all-around good.... that didn't quite end with the bang I'd hoped for.