Somebody needs to come out in support of these guys.
These are the good guys. They are pissing off the evil copy-protection guys. They have a very reasonable argument.
I would like to see RMS write an article about this specific issue. It may help people to see how stupid these lawsuits are. I would like the Electronic Frontier Foundation to help out as well.
If I had a DVD-R drive, I would definitely buy their products.
"ogs" - which refers to all types of online journalism, including:
blogs
plogs
moblogs
Note: I decided not to call them "logs", because that word has already gained use online and offline, so we need a way to distinguish which ones are online.
And for the record, gconf is an adulteration. It has all the stupidity of the Windows registry and then some.
I gave up on Gnome when fonts became corrupted, due to something in gconf. I have heard of people having the Windows registry corrupted but this has never happened to me. Never before have I had to make such a painful and abrupt switch between desktop environments.
GTK+ and Gnome suck. Someone needs to come up with another toolkit, or a LAF for Swing that goes well with QT. I don't want any Gnome crap on my desktop.
I guess I should have added another qualifier to "current customers". I meant loyal customers, not the ones that are already running a heterogenous environment.
If things continue as they are, this would only be a small obstacle for Linux and other alternatives.
I think, however, that Microsoft is just using as much marketing as they can to hold of Linux until Longhorn can come out. With.NET's browser apps, if they can just keep most of their current customers for the time being and transition them over to this, lock-in is assured.
Linux really needs a better graphics toolkit and GUI framework. Otherwise, people will be going with XAML a lot of the time. Hopefully something can be done about it. Hardware support is part of the problem, but the glitches in toolkits such as GTK+ and Mozilla XUL are also a big part of the problem. QT is crystal clear and lightning fast, but because of its licensing Sun isn't promoting a PLAF for QT. Too bad.
I think Trolltech should give serious consideration to the idea of putting QT under the LGPL. It would allow their platform to grow a lot, and they could start selling development tools and maybe extra controls instead.
In any case, Microsoft won't switch me, nor a lot of Linux devs over to Longhorn. I could see them making my job tough though.
Also, please allow him to check out an encyclopedia so that he may learn that libertarians almost universally believe that police are a necessary part of government (and should not be run by business).
When I search on Google, half the time I am looking for one of the best sites in a category, like perhaps "OpenGL programming". Other times, however, I am looking for something very specific that may only be referenced about twenty times, if at all.
When I do search in the first category, especially for things such as wallpaper, or simpsons audio clips, the sites that usually turn up are the least coherent ones with dozens of ads. I usually have to dig four or five pages to find a relevant one.
The people with these sites are playing hardball. Google wants them on their side, though, because they often display Google text ads.
Right now, my domain of choice is owned by a squatter that says "here are the results for your search" with a bunch of Google text ads. I was going to/may still put a site there that is very interesting, and the name was a key part of it.
I firmly believe that advertisements are the plague of the Internet. I would like to see sites selling their own products to fund themselves. Google doesn't really help in this regard. The text ads are less annoying than banner ads, but only slightly less annoying.
Don't get me wrong, I like Google. It's an invaluable tool when I'm doing research. I would just like to see them come out in full force against squatters.
There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand this. A buffer overflow usually happens when a person hacks into A LEGITIMATE RUNNING NETWORK PROGRAM THAT HAS A BUG. For example, a bug like this was just found in the CVS server. There are likely dozens of exploits like these that the general public doesn't even know about, that people are using to spy on other computer users. It is a serious security issue that can even plague the computer savvy.
On the other hand, if a person doesn't know the risks of running attachments and such, they may *choose* to execute a program, giving it full or user permissions. That program can do a lot of damage. If a person downloads and runs a full-blown executable from an untrusted source, they are out of luck.
In my opinion, this is the way things should be, and people should be smarter about downloading and running executables. Two more things: I would like to see Windows users running the majority of programs under user permissions (as is done under UNIX), and it would be wise for people to do regular backups.
If I hear "has the best technology" again, I'm going to have to shoot somebody. From the Amazon link:
Sidekick is good, but it's not working good.., May 29, 2004
Reviewer: A 12-year old wireless customer
I like T-Mobile..But Tmobile have the cool gadget, but bad customer service..Sidekick is good for deaf people to use it..But it's not working good..Some people accidently break their tmobile celluar phone or sidekick..They call tmobile..Most of time, tmobile not conercrate what people say..they just aware about it..I felt it's not fair..My parent bought me a sprite celluar phone..Now my cell phone not break down since last March.. My opinpon that Sprite or Verizon or ATT have the best techinogly..If Tmobile improvement their better service customer then i will love to buy sidekick.I wish it happened! Well..i had Coclhear Implant..It's help me to hear lot..
Apparently this little guy wrote it from a cell phone (with all those spelling mistakes), but he got his cell phone from "Sprite"?
/reads last sentence
Oh wait, I am out of line. This guy really is handicapped.
I guess I am just really bitter about GTK+ because I use Eclipse, for various other reasons. Why does SWT have to use GTK+? In fact, why does SWT exist in the first place?
Apparently, they are talking about open source here:
The uncoordinated, noncommercial programming that led to the quick evolution of the Internet hasn't taken hold in the world of mobile phones.
I wonder why they can't just state it. This is a terrible sentence. It makes it cryptic for the computer experts to understand, and gives the non-experts something that makes very little sense for them to skim over without hurting their brain too hard.
Overall, I thought the article was pretty lame. I also thought that the mock-up was terrible. It looks really tacky, and doesn't look like anything I want to use. Are they predicting that we'll be switching from metallic finishes back to plain old playskool-type plastic soon?
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You've got to be fucking kidding me.
GTK+ makes it very difficult to create a usable GUI, even if it's just a simple GUI. GTK+ is full of stupid glitches. Ever tried using the menus the way they are in old macs, by clicking on the menu bar and holding the mouse down until the option you want is selected? GTK+ will think, in the middle of it, that you are trying to drag a menu item.
I cannot think of a stupider project than Gnome or a more sucky toolkit than GTK+.
Thank you for your post. It was already enabled, as expected, on my Gentoo system (it works fast), but it is nice to know when working on other systems.
Viola
A viola is a stringed instrument. Voila is the correct expression. I can't believe how many people make this mistake.
I agree with you. To have that option available (but not the default) would be excellent.
Many longtime UNIX users I've met always thought Mac OS was the pinnacle of the graphical user interface. They didn't even claim to have a good GUI, just a working GUI.
I think to say that we should all switch over to UNIX GUI is preposterous. This is a very small minority. Most people admit UNIX GUI's suck. Things often associated with UNIX GUI's suckiness besides the terrible clipboard mechanism are ugly fonts, two-color GUI's (yes I still use one once in a while - Xfig), and poor keyboard navigation support.
They are not going to teach old-style UNIX stuff in any reasonable GUI class. Why? Because this stuff is a hack. The companies and individuals that really put effort into GUI's (conducted usability studies, read books, wrote books, etc.) are the ones we should model our GUI's after.
That said, for the most part I am happy with the GUI's on my Linux box. I just wish I could turn that damn middle-click off and use it for autoscroll, and have copying of text, images and other data work ubiquitously using C-x, C-v, C-z.
In similar news, cops were told that, as soon as crime goes away, they're all out of a job. I don't think most people think crimes are caused by cops for job security.
Actually, increasing crime would have the effect of more officers being hired. It is rare that lower crime will have the effect of police officers losing their jobs. From what I have heard, there is always a shortage of good police officers.
OTOH, if you're in a business where you get a huge direct payoff (such as a anti-virus organization) the result could be quite different. It will be important to make sure there is future revenue. In particular, if McAfee is planning on making a lot of money on spam filtering, the combination of SPF/Caller ID and Spamhaus's RBL efforts (said to catch 90% of spam by stopping 200 big spammers) may be something McAfee would like to prevent.
And for an example, a USFS hotshot firefighter that would only have a job if there was a large-scale fire to fight was convicted of starting the Rodeo fire near Show Low, AZ. This was one of two fires which burned over 500,000 acres.
Copying your old papers is plagiarism. Downloading music off the Internet, to try before you buy, is stealing. WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Please, don't adulterate our language. The consequences are severe.
All of the posts I see so far are ones complaining about Microsoft having control over it. This is an IETF standard they're proposing. Microsoft has not sued over Mono. As far as I can see, they're not going to.
Did it ever occur to you that Microsoft may be pushing for this because because they have some outstanding computer scientists working for them that want a name for themselves? Merging with SPF sounds like a great idea. The proposals will be inter-twined, and neither company will have absolute control over it. It will make Microsoft look good. That's all.
And even if Microsoft doesn't merge with SPF, would this be a bad thing? Some of you with tin-foil hats might think so. But I think to say Microsoft will make the servers reject e-mail from non-Microsoft servers is a little extreme. What will happen is there will either be a standard that everyone can use, or there will be more than one thing and servers will have to implement all of them, in it's e-mail verification process.
It seems like a lot of people who post here are from Red Hat.
By the way, I don't support mass adoption of C#, I would like to see the OSS community make their own bytecode environment that is comparable to Java. I do think Mono is a fine platform for developing OSS/Free software, though.
I'm sorry, but he's right. If you flash a BIOS you really should know what you're doing. Clearly you don't know what you're doing, first from the fact that you didn't install it correctly, and broke your computer, and second, from the fact that you carried such a lengthy conversation from someone who's a robot.
Everyone on/. thinks they're smart, but clearly there is an abundance of people on here who aren't the sharpest pens in the box.
I looked at OptInBig's website, and it's very professional. It has an unsubscribe link on every page, that allows you to unsubscribe from *every* OptInBig message. Their leaders don't brag about how rich they are. As far as I can tell, they are better than most telemarketing customers.
They also don't make and distribute spyware, as far as I know. Clicking a simple unsubscribe link is much better than deleting spyware.
Plus, I always make sure to uncheck the special offers checkboxes. I'd say it's the websites that are the problem, this guy is just providing a business service. I am sick of the silly website subscription games.
And this earns a flamebait moderation? Whoever gave the moderation is implying that many/.er's like to use the word "shizzle" and that complaining about it will start a flame war. What a scary thought.
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These are the good guys. They are pissing off the evil copy-protection guys. They have a very reasonable argument.
I would like to see RMS write an article about this specific issue. It may help people to see how stupid these lawsuits are. I would like the Electronic Frontier Foundation to help out as well.
If I had a DVD-R drive, I would definitely buy their products.
Note: I decided not to call them "logs", because that word has already gained use online and offline, so we need a way to distinguish which ones are online.
That would be the gconf editor.
And for the record, gconf is an adulteration. It has all the stupidity of the Windows registry and then some.
I gave up on Gnome when fonts became corrupted, due to something in gconf. I have heard of people having the Windows registry corrupted but this has never happened to me. Never before have I had to make such a painful and abrupt switch between desktop environments.
GTK+ and Gnome suck. Someone needs to come up with another toolkit, or a LAF for Swing that goes well with QT. I don't want any Gnome crap on my desktop.
I guess I should have added another qualifier to "current customers". I meant loyal customers, not the ones that are already running a heterogenous environment.
If things continue as they are, this would only be a small obstacle for Linux and other alternatives.
I think, however, that Microsoft is just using as much marketing as they can to hold of Linux until Longhorn can come out. With .NET's browser apps, if they can just keep most of their current customers for the time being and transition them over to this, lock-in is assured.
Linux really needs a better graphics toolkit and GUI framework. Otherwise, people will be going with XAML a lot of the time. Hopefully something can be done about it. Hardware support is part of the problem, but the glitches in toolkits such as GTK+ and Mozilla XUL are also a big part of the problem. QT is crystal clear and lightning fast, but because of its licensing Sun isn't promoting a PLAF for QT. Too bad.
I think Trolltech should give serious consideration to the idea of putting QT under the LGPL. It would allow their platform to grow a lot, and they could start selling development tools and maybe extra controls instead.
In any case, Microsoft won't switch me, nor a lot of Linux devs over to Longhorn. I could see them making my job tough though.
Also, please allow him to check out an encyclopedia so that he may learn that libertarians almost universally believe that police are a necessary part of government (and should not be run by business).
When I do search in the first category, especially for things such as wallpaper, or simpsons audio clips, the sites that usually turn up are the least coherent ones with dozens of ads. I usually have to dig four or five pages to find a relevant one.
The people with these sites are playing hardball. Google wants them on their side, though, because they often display Google text ads.
Right now, my domain of choice is owned by a squatter that says "here are the results for your search" with a bunch of Google text ads. I was going to/may still put a site there that is very interesting, and the name was a key part of it.
I firmly believe that advertisements are the plague of the Internet. I would like to see sites selling their own products to fund themselves. Google doesn't really help in this regard. The text ads are less annoying than banner ads, but only slightly less annoying.
Don't get me wrong, I like Google. It's an invaluable tool when I'm doing research. I would just like to see them come out in full force against squatters.
On the other hand, if a person doesn't know the risks of running attachments and such, they may *choose* to execute a program, giving it full or user permissions. That program can do a lot of damage. If a person downloads and runs a full-blown executable from an untrusted source, they are out of luck.
In my opinion, this is the way things should be, and people should be smarter about downloading and running executables. Two more things: I would like to see Windows users running the majority of programs under user permissions (as is done under UNIX), and it would be wise for people to do regular backups.
Sidekick is good, but it's not working good.., May 29, 2004 Reviewer: A 12-year old wireless customer I like T-Mobile..But Tmobile have the cool gadget, but bad customer service..Sidekick is good for deaf people to use it..But it's not working good..Some people accidently break their tmobile celluar phone or sidekick..They call tmobile..Most of time, tmobile not conercrate what people say..they just aware about it..I felt it's not fair..My parent bought me a sprite celluar phone..Now my cell phone not break down since last March.. My opinpon that Sprite or Verizon or ATT have the best techinogly..If Tmobile improvement their better service customer then i will love to buy sidekick.I wish it happened! Well..i had Coclhear Implant..It's help me to hear lot..
Apparently this little guy wrote it from a cell phone (with all those spelling mistakes), but he got his cell phone from "Sprite"?
Oh wait, I am out of line. This guy really is handicapped.
I guess I am just really bitter about GTK+ because I use Eclipse, for various other reasons. Why does SWT have to use GTK+? In fact, why does SWT exist in the first place?
Maybe I should just switch to NetBeans.
The uncoordinated, noncommercial programming that led to the quick evolution of the Internet hasn't taken hold in the world of mobile phones.
I wonder why they can't just state it. This is a terrible sentence. It makes it cryptic for the computer experts to understand, and gives the non-experts something that makes very little sense for them to skim over without hurting their brain too hard.
Overall, I thought the article was pretty lame. I also thought that the mock-up was terrible. It looks really tacky, and doesn't look like anything I want to use. Are they predicting that we'll be switching from metallic finishes back to plain old playskool-type plastic soon?
GTK+ makes it very difficult to create a usable GUI, even if it's just a simple GUI. GTK+ is full of stupid glitches. Ever tried using the menus the way they are in old macs, by clicking on the menu bar and holding the mouse down until the option you want is selected? GTK+ will think, in the middle of it, that you are trying to drag a menu item.
I cannot think of a stupider project than Gnome or a more sucky toolkit than GTK+.
Eleventy Billion Dollars.
There is no way in hell it will be released under the BSD license.
A viola is a stringed instrument. Voila is the correct expression. I can't believe how many people make this mistake.
Many longtime UNIX users I've met always thought Mac OS was the pinnacle of the graphical user interface. They didn't even claim to have a good GUI, just a working GUI.
I think to say that we should all switch over to UNIX GUI is preposterous. This is a very small minority. Most people admit UNIX GUI's suck. Things often associated with UNIX GUI's suckiness besides the terrible clipboard mechanism are ugly fonts, two-color GUI's (yes I still use one once in a while - Xfig), and poor keyboard navigation support.
They are not going to teach old-style UNIX stuff in any reasonable GUI class. Why? Because this stuff is a hack. The companies and individuals that really put effort into GUI's (conducted usability studies, read books, wrote books, etc.) are the ones we should model our GUI's after.
That said, for the most part I am happy with the GUI's on my Linux box. I just wish I could turn that damn middle-click off and use it for autoscroll, and have copying of text, images and other data work ubiquitously using C-x, C-v, C-z.
Actually, increasing crime would have the effect of more officers being hired. It is rare that lower crime will have the effect of police officers losing their jobs. From what I have heard, there is always a shortage of good police officers.
OTOH, if you're in a business where you get a huge direct payoff (such as a anti-virus organization) the result could be quite different. It will be important to make sure there is future revenue. In particular, if McAfee is planning on making a lot of money on spam filtering, the combination of SPF/Caller ID and Spamhaus's RBL efforts (said to catch 90% of spam by stopping 200 big spammers) may be something McAfee would like to prevent.
And for an example, a USFS hotshot firefighter that would only have a job if there was a large-scale fire to fight was convicted of starting the Rodeo fire near Show Low, AZ. This was one of two fires which burned over 500,000 acres.
Please, don't adulterate our language. The consequences are severe.
I don't know where you're from, but when you buy pencils here they come unsharpened.
Did it ever occur to you that Microsoft may be pushing for this because because they have some outstanding computer scientists working for them that want a name for themselves? Merging with SPF sounds like a great idea. The proposals will be inter-twined, and neither company will have absolute control over it. It will make Microsoft look good. That's all.
And even if Microsoft doesn't merge with SPF, would this be a bad thing? Some of you with tin-foil hats might think so. But I think to say Microsoft will make the servers reject e-mail from non-Microsoft servers is a little extreme. What will happen is there will either be a standard that everyone can use, or there will be more than one thing and servers will have to implement all of them, in it's e-mail verification process.
It seems like a lot of people who post here are from Red Hat.
By the way, I don't support mass adoption of C#, I would like to see the OSS community make their own bytecode environment that is comparable to Java. I do think Mono is a fine platform for developing OSS/Free software, though.
Everyone on /. thinks they're smart, but clearly there is an abundance of people on here who aren't the sharpest pens in the box.
They also don't make and distribute spyware, as far as I know. Clicking a simple unsubscribe link is much better than deleting spyware.
Plus, I always make sure to uncheck the special offers checkboxes. I'd say it's the websites that are the problem, this guy is just providing a business service. I am sick of the silly website subscription games.
It means "shiznit".
And this earns a flamebait moderation? Whoever gave the moderation is implying that many /.er's like to use the word "shizzle" and that complaining about it will start a flame war. What a scary thought.
Sounds like a buyer to me.
I think a JIT compiler written in ocaml would be cool. I hear ocaml is an excellent language for writing compilers.