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Linux has plenty of critics and down-right enemies. You can't do much better then Microsoft for both, and there's scores more critics in average joe user land.
Linux simply needs some one who is willing to invest in marketing for it. You can get an army of geeks to code a great collection of operating systems and tools becuase that's fun for geeks, but we can't throw a collection of products at marketeers, they require funding. If something could be cobbled together though,, you'd see Linux make enormous inroads in the user space. People like to be sold, they simply aren't willing to explore.
I know, I was reading this thinking "New Jersey?? Wyoming...??? Huh???
Anyway, looks like a crack of sanity is shining in on this badly written law. Hopefully it'll schlep through the system finally ending up in a new, better-worded version. This nonsense of waving a banner of "Save the children!" and pushing crappy legislation through congress needs to be stopped. Ha ha ha, who am I kidding?!
Ok, bad reply. Should have read "Well good for Britain, but Britain isn't the entire EU." That's only one example I can think of when it comes to the EU and caving-type activity.
@causality: "Perhaps the USA and the UK aren't so different after all."
Nope. We get our common law system from them, and since WWII (really, since the Cold War, but who's counting?) GB has been "Airstrip 1" to the US in all but name. The only real cultural difference between GB and the US is GB doesn't have as strong a sense of privacy and individualism as we do, so they seem to think nothing of handing over their freedom so that Big Brother can "...save us from the wrath of the Viking Hordes!" (Read your medieval history.)
As all naysayers regarding civil liberty chant; "What good is your freedom if you're dead?" seems to be the prevailing wisdom in Europe. Can't fault them too much, poor bastards, they have a legacy of subservience, caving, and generally attempting to wheel and deal their way out of disaster.
I'm frequently amazed, however, at how little regard the average EU citizen has for recent history. Every time something like Al Quaeda comes along they try to send a diplomat to "work it out" and they come home like Chamberlain waving a piece paper and yell "Peace in our time!"
@ObsessiveMathsFreak: "I mean, where would we be if people could do as they liked with the things they buy?"
Indeed. I know this will sound like the same old advice, but in this case its really applicable. Don't buy a kindle. Both the Kindle and the iPod cost what they do because of the brand on their cases. I have better functionality than you get on an iPod with my cheaper mp3 player, and I read ebooks on my palm centro using a little utility that came with my palm software that converts almost any text format to a sort of mini-pdf format. I love it. Stop giving people who would tie you down to their particular brand of poison.
Just another scam. Why go through the hassle? I just bought a netbook for my wife from Amazon. Has as low a price as I could find for that particular product, no hassle, no muss, no fuss. The only hassle I can see is that I can't walk out of their establishment with my purchase that day. But I didn't have a sales clown in my face telling what I need, getting in my way, forcing me to smell his BO, etc... For this kind of service I can wait.
As unlikely as all this is, its still odd that symantec deletes all references to this program on any forum it has control. In one instance I read a poster looking for help on Norton forums had his question regarding this program deleted 60 seconds after he posted it.
As the agents of adobe state in i love's blog "that content in your blog...allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others."
Of course, its what's missing that is most interesting in the take-down notice; acknowledgment of the vulnerability, as though forcing i love... to remove the post makes the problem go away. When will they learn?
You are correct but the comment I replied to specifically mentioned sales, not philosophy. Infact, Microsoft makes most of its money from Office and Office-related offal. The number one complaint I read and hear from Microsoft adherents is what? "Not compatible with Office." This is of course quickly being dismissed by those fantastic OSS engineers, but still, Office is the perceived standard of utilty and useability in the larger non-geek user space.
Seems like a strange policy given the current cultural climate. It could indeed of course be related to the "this is not a dating service" comment earlier. The point of X-Live is 13-y-o's after all...
"If I were Microsoft and I was focused on the next generation of geeks, I'd be scared shitless of Linux."
No. Neither Microsoft nor Linux make their money from geek sales. Unless you're bringing up the innovation angle. If any of the big players don't find a law suit angle (highly unlikely with the current IP environment) then possibly a new geek innovator has a shot. Otherwise, no, I don't think so.
I'm no lawyer, but if you do find you need to defend yourself in court becuase of a broken eula situation and you used your cat, seems like it would be a simple matter for the other side to argue that the cat acted as your agent, making you fully responsible for breaking the thing.
So when your cat acts on your behalf heed the James Bond music in the background of your head, laugh, and prepare for the suite, I guess.
@jellomizer: "Every effect has a reason for it, and is used to help people grasp rather abstract concepts better."
You must be talking about having to smack the clock after reviving the Mac from sleep to get the right time, and cycling through an application's windows will not retrieve minimized windows; yes, I agree, the reasons for those little nigglets must be so important they blew right past me...
I can't recall the last company I worked at that didn't use Greek gods. To buck the trend last time I set up a domain, although I didn't have the "sexpistols.x" domain I named all the servers after band members and Nancy Spungen, which I rather enjoyed. My name/mail server was nancy, my web server was johnny, I had an openbsd server I used as a firewall named stevie, and my workstation was sid. And I had secondary domain server named "liz" (from God Save the Queen.)
So after this doesn't work will the RIAA simply resort to some how introducing legislation that will allow them to go house to house, break in the door, and demand money at gunpoint based solely on the basis that the residents have a pc with an internet connection? "Sure, laugh..." I said.
Listen; I have the answer to the entire security mess. It involves another number, but its the LAST number you'll ever need. What we'll do it tattoo it on your forehead and your left palm...
Listen; yeah, those "golden oldies" were great. But you listen to "Highway Star" again for the 15,000th time, over 25 years, you start to get a little ansy, and maybe look around for something new. Or at least I do.
My wife, who is a bit younger than I, enjoys the classic rock, and as we take long trips in the car always asks me if there is a classic song I don't know the words to. I roll my eyes and reply "probably not..."
I probably would have considered the same thing. However I thought it was a marvelous article, lots of fun. I just loved the sample artwork on the touchpad's box. Simply awful. If that was the main selling point, that you could create junk like that, it should have died the death it did. However I thought the article itself was a lot of fun.
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Linux has plenty of critics and down-right enemies. You can't do much better then Microsoft for both, and there's scores more critics in average joe user land.
Linux simply needs some one who is willing to invest in marketing for it. You can get an army of geeks to code a great collection of operating systems and tools becuase that's fun for geeks, but we can't throw a collection of products at marketeers, they require funding. If something could be cobbled together though,, you'd see Linux make enormous inroads in the user space. People like to be sold, they simply aren't willing to explore.
Well, it is April 1st.
Damn your a stupid ass fucker. I'd be surprised if you knew what college is. You also added a foe to your foe list, "fucker".
I know, I was reading this thinking "New Jersey?? Wyoming...??? Huh???
Anyway, looks like a crack of sanity is shining in on this badly written law. Hopefully it'll schlep through the system finally ending up in a new, better-worded version. This nonsense of waving a banner of "Save the children!" and pushing crappy legislation through congress needs to be stopped. Ha ha ha, who am I kidding?!
Tempered a bit, at least.
Also, my words were "regard for" not "knowlege of".
Ok, bad reply. Should have read "Well good for Britain, but Britain isn't the entire EU."
That's only one example I can think of when it comes to the EU and caving-type activity.
Fair 'nuff. But if I recall correctly he was quickly replaced by Churchill for his effort.
@causality: "Perhaps the USA and the UK aren't so different after all."
Nope. We get our common law system from them, and since WWII (really, since the Cold War, but who's counting?) GB has been "Airstrip 1" to the US in all but name. The only real cultural difference between GB and the US is GB doesn't have as strong a sense of privacy and individualism as we do, so they seem to think nothing of handing over their freedom so that Big Brother can "...save us from the wrath of the Viking Hordes!" (Read your medieval history.)
As all naysayers regarding civil liberty chant; "What good is your freedom if you're dead?" seems to be the prevailing wisdom in Europe. Can't fault them too much, poor bastards, they have a legacy of subservience, caving, and generally attempting to wheel and deal their way out of disaster.
I'm frequently amazed, however, at how little regard the average EU citizen has for recent history. Every time something like Al Quaeda comes along they try to send a diplomat to "work it out" and they come home like Chamberlain waving a piece paper and yell "Peace in our time!"
Then Al Qaueda bombs one of their train stations.
What's that about???
@ObsessiveMathsFreak: "I mean, where would we be if people could do as they liked with the things they buy?"
Indeed. I know this will sound like the same old advice, but in this case its really applicable. Don't buy a kindle. Both the Kindle and the iPod cost what they do because of the brand on their cases. I have better functionality than you get on an iPod with my cheaper mp3 player, and I read ebooks on my palm centro using a little utility that came with my palm software that converts almost any text format to a sort of mini-pdf format. I love it. Stop giving people who would tie you down to their particular brand of poison.
Just another scam. Why go through the hassle? I just bought a netbook for my wife from Amazon. Has as low a price as I could find for that particular product, no hassle, no muss, no fuss. The only hassle I can see is that I can't walk out of their establishment with my purchase that day. But I didn't have a sales clown in my face telling what I need, getting in my way, forcing me to smell his BO, etc... For this kind of service I can wait.
As unlikely as all this is, its still odd that symantec deletes all references to this program on any forum it has control. In one instance I read a poster looking for help on Norton forums had his question regarding this program deleted 60 seconds after he posted it.
As the agents of adobe state in i love's blog "that content in your blog...allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others." Of course, its what's missing that is most interesting in the take-down notice; acknowledgment of the vulnerability, as though forcing i love... to remove the post makes the problem go away. When will they learn?
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You are correct but the comment I replied to specifically mentioned sales, not philosophy. Infact, Microsoft makes most of its money from Office and Office-related offal. The number one complaint I read and hear from Microsoft adherents is what? "Not compatible with Office." This is of course quickly being dismissed by those fantastic OSS engineers, but still, Office is the perceived standard of utilty and useability in the larger non-geek user space.
Seems like a strange policy given the current cultural climate. It could indeed of course be related to the "this is not a dating service" comment earlier. The point of X-Live is 13-y-o's after all...
"If I were Microsoft and I was focused on the next generation of geeks, I'd be scared shitless of Linux."
No. Neither Microsoft nor Linux make their money from geek sales. Unless you're bringing up the innovation angle. If any of the big players don't find a law suit angle (highly unlikely with the current IP environment) then possibly a new geek innovator has a shot. Otherwise, no, I don't think so.
I'm no lawyer, but if you do find you need to defend yourself in court becuase of a broken eula situation and you used your cat, seems like it would be a simple matter for the other side to argue that the cat acted as your agent, making you fully responsible for breaking the thing. So when your cat acts on your behalf heed the James Bond music in the background of your head, laugh, and prepare for the suite, I guess.
@jellomizer: "Every effect has a reason for it, and is used to help people grasp rather abstract concepts better."
You must be talking about having to smack the clock after reviving the Mac from sleep to get the right time, and cycling through an application's windows will not retrieve minimized windows; yes, I agree, the reasons for those little nigglets must be so important they blew right past me...
I can't recall the last company I worked at that didn't use Greek gods. To buck the trend last time I set up a domain, although I didn't have the "sexpistols.x" domain I named all the servers after band members and Nancy Spungen, which I rather enjoyed. My name/mail server was nancy, my web server was johnny, I had an openbsd server I used as a firewall named stevie, and my workstation was sid. And I had secondary domain server named "liz" (from God Save the Queen.)
So after this doesn't work will the RIAA simply resort to some how introducing legislation that will allow them to go house to house, break in the door, and demand money at gunpoint based solely on the basis that the residents have a pc with an internet connection?
"Sure, laugh..." I said.
Listen; I have the answer to the entire security mess. It involves another number, but its the LAST number you'll ever need. What we'll do it tattoo it on your forehead and your left palm...
The question, like Mt. Everest, is not "Would you?", but "Can we?"
Listen; yeah, those "golden oldies" were great. But you listen to "Highway Star" again for the 15,000th time, over 25 years, you start to get a little ansy, and maybe look around for something new. Or at least I do.
My wife, who is a bit younger than I, enjoys the classic rock, and as we take long trips in the car always asks me if there is a classic song I don't know the words to. I roll my eyes and reply "probably not..."
"Mum? There's a dead record label on the landing!"
"Oh yeah? Whats his diocese?"
"I dunno, looked rather Warner Music Group to me..."
I probably would have considered the same thing. However I thought it was a marvelous article, lots of fun. I just loved the sample artwork on the touchpad's box. Simply awful. If that was the main selling point, that you could create junk like that, it should have died the death it did. However I thought the article itself was a lot of fun.