Totally, you never know what Microsoft might release in a Patch Tuesday that might blow the competition out of the water. I'm just worried that the awesome features were in the 4 patches they decided to postpone.:(
I think your optimism has a turtle and the hare theme going oin. "Give it a few years" assumes that Apple is going to sit around and do nothing while Microsoft catches up, but we all know that's not the case. In a few years it's very possible that Microsoft will be just as far behind as they are now.
For instance, let's look at the biggest feature of Vista, it's GUI. Windows finally has a 3D GUI that handles RGBA graphics in windows and icons. From the time Apple had this functionality with OS 10.0, the GNU/Linux community has leapfrogged both Mac and Windows with XGL, Beryl, Compiz, and that whole scene. That means that at this time, Microsoft is in last place against adversaries who have either been doing this for years, or have implemented those features above and beyond in a fraction of the timeframe.
Give it a few years and the fun and games won't really be starting, they'll still be lagging behind.
In response to your first paragraph, for the past 4 years I've been running IPCop on a $0 Pentium 1 266mhz that my friend was going to throw away and I've had zero problems.
In response to your last question, they make images for the Soekris boards which are supposed to be used on CF cards.
My Sony Ericsson T610 did all of that 4 years ago except the music as anything but midi, and I did it from my Mac no less. I also had the ability to control apps like VLC on my Mac (or a windows PC for that matter) via bluetooth, syncing of contacts and calendar items, and the ability to send SMS right from within the address book via the phone's bluetooth. The Motorolla RAZR can't do half of that. Hyped up POS...
I suspect if they had released a Windows iTunes+iPod at the very beginning, it might not have done as well as it did, released a year or so later, with a lot of traction. I expect they probably would have gotten a lot of flak for not having it work with WMP or whatever the dominant Windows music player software was
Maybe if Microsoft had taken a hint they wouldn't be catching so much flak over the Zune?
According to those definitions, a baby is definitely sentient before it is even born. Animals would be considered sentient. Perhaps you mean "sapient"?
As an employee of a very successful commercial opensource company I can say that bags of money and making nice with geeks who aren't on our payroll can go hand in hand if you do it right. Novell is just going about it wrong this time.
I think it's more akin to the gestapo shooting one of their own to make it look like they are really on your side. I'd say mission accomplished. Despite the fact that value was lost, more could potentially be lost if nobody wants to buy a manufactured diamond as opposed to one that looks natural.
Incidentally, I've talked to many girls about the manufactured vs natural and they've almost all said the same thing; they'd rather have a natural diamond, even if it cost twice as much as the manufactured one. If introducing imperfections makes manufactured and natural diamonds indistinguishable maybe we can do away with that madness and the manufacturers can make as much money as the slave drivers.
You sound like you could use an Apple. Most people I know who have been frustrated with complexity do find that OS X is a nice peaceful place with much less feature overhead. I'm not just talking about artists either, I'm talking about oracle-on-linux admin's, ajax engineers, qa engineers, and my mom. I'm not saying Apple is for everybody, but it does sound like it might be for you. I'm also not saying switch, because there's no sense in giving up a perfectly good Microsoft or Linux OS just because you try out yet another alternative.
Moby had a remix contest for "Everytime You Touch Me" where he included the samples on a track of a single.
I think the difference in what NIN and Peter Gabriel are doing is that they're allowing free distribution through downloads as opposed to having to pay for the CD to participate. A minor difference.
The thing that really gets me about these ridiculous attempts to lock down media is that the people who are pushing this technology never realize that even if it is a perfect scheme it will fail without sole distribution in that protected format. The problem is that it can't be perfect because we can experience it, which means we can see and hear it, which means we can record it.
Assume a piece of protected media is a house, and each way to view it is an entry way. So a DVD is the front door, a VHS tape is the back patio door, TV is the garage door. These people are busy putting a 3-foot fault door with a 10,000 number combination on the doggie door and expect that people won't be able to get in without the proper unlocking mechanism. Even if we do get in we'll just video tape the place and distribute that or break out through a window and let everybody else in. It's beyond ludicrous to the point where it's not even amusing anymore. It's fucking stupid. There are actually suits out there meeting with each other, having conference calls, staying up late making powerpoint presentations, flying across the country, taking each other out for sushi and coffee, patting each other on the back, and investing large sums of money into these hopelessly flawed technologies.
If people are willing to download and watch a copy of a film that was recorded in a public theater by pointing a camcorder at a silver screen then they will be equally happy downloading and watching a copy of a film that was recorded in a private home under optimal conditions by pointing a camcorder at an LCD monitor.
I think another post in this thread by ajs318 had a very succinct summary in it: If it can be rendered perceptible, it can be copied. It really is that simple.
The movie itself would be displayed encrypted, and only viewable by someone trained to decrypt it
I get it, people who aren't under the influence of some third party agent or don't naturally possess the necessary mental mutations won't be able to see anything worth watching! But isn't this what Britney Spears has been doing with her music from the beginning?
I think including "closed-source" shows a useful distinction. I don't know anybody who wants to smear Nvidia, however we have to uphold the principles that Open-Source Software stands for. (I won't go off on the diatribe, we've all heard it.) It was definitely worth noting that the vulnerability was not caused by Open-Source software. After all, we don't want anybody smearing our community name either.
My first thought was "Man, that was exactly the step just before the problem I'm having as an adault where I totally *would* buy a new McLaren but my credit card limit doesn't go up that high!"
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Totally, you never know what Microsoft might release in a Patch Tuesday that might blow the competition out of the water. I'm just worried that the awesome features were in the 4 patches they decided to postpone. :(
I think your optimism has a turtle and the hare theme going oin. "Give it a few years" assumes that Apple is going to sit around and do nothing while Microsoft catches up, but we all know that's not the case. In a few years it's very possible that Microsoft will be just as far behind as they are now.
For instance, let's look at the biggest feature of Vista, it's GUI. Windows finally has a 3D GUI that handles RGBA graphics in windows and icons. From the time Apple had this functionality with OS 10.0, the GNU/Linux community has leapfrogged both Mac and Windows with XGL, Beryl, Compiz, and that whole scene. That means that at this time, Microsoft is in last place against adversaries who have either been doing this for years, or have implemented those features above and beyond in a fraction of the timeframe.
Give it a few years and the fun and games won't really be starting, they'll still be lagging behind.
I think you mean "Vista isn't just the fancy GUI", because historically speaking there is no fancy GUI to Windows. Beryl though, now THAT is fancy.
I feel the same way. Geek out, then move up and balance.
Linksys runs Linux, do you mean to say that everybody should return them?
In response to your first paragraph, for the past 4 years I've been running IPCop on a $0 Pentium 1 266mhz that my friend was going to throw away and I've had zero problems.
In response to your last question, they make images for the Soekris boards which are supposed to be used on CF cards.
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Catching up? You must not be considering usability.
My iPod is much more usable as a music player than any mobile phone is as a phone.
My Sony Ericsson T610 did all of that 4 years ago except the music as anything but midi, and I did it from my Mac no less. I also had the ability to control apps like VLC on my Mac (or a windows PC for that matter) via bluetooth, syncing of contacts and calendar items, and the ability to send SMS right from within the address book via the phone's bluetooth. The Motorolla RAZR can't do half of that. Hyped up POS...
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:sentient
According to those definitions, a baby is definitely sentient before it is even born. Animals would be considered sentient. Perhaps you mean "sapient"?
As an employee of a very successful commercial opensource company I can say that bags of money and making nice with geeks who aren't on our payroll can go hand in hand if you do it right. Novell is just going about it wrong this time.
Hah, dude, I didn't miss the point at all. I never said I agreed with what the women told me!
Ah-ha, I get it now. Women who like diamonds are whores!
I think it's more akin to the gestapo shooting one of their own to make it look like they are really on your side. I'd say mission accomplished. Despite the fact that value was lost, more could potentially be lost if nobody wants to buy a manufactured diamond as opposed to one that looks natural.
Incidentally, I've talked to many girls about the manufactured vs natural and they've almost all said the same thing; they'd rather have a natural diamond, even if it cost twice as much as the manufactured one. If introducing imperfections makes manufactured and natural diamonds indistinguishable maybe we can do away with that madness and the manufacturers can make as much money as the slave drivers.
As of RC2, Vista is a good example of something that has eye candy yet still rough and unpolished.
If you're using bash, try set bell-style visible in your ~/.inputrc. ;-)
You sound like you could use an Apple. Most people I know who have been frustrated with complexity do find that OS X is a nice peaceful place with much less feature overhead. I'm not just talking about artists either, I'm talking about oracle-on-linux admin's, ajax engineers, qa engineers, and my mom. I'm not saying Apple is for everybody, but it does sound like it might be for you. I'm also not saying switch, because there's no sense in giving up a perfectly good Microsoft or Linux OS just because you try out yet another alternative.
Moby had a remix contest for "Everytime You Touch Me" where he included the samples on a track of a single.
I think the difference in what NIN and Peter Gabriel are doing is that they're allowing free distribution through downloads as opposed to having to pay for the CD to participate. A minor difference.
The thing that really gets me about these ridiculous attempts to lock down media is that the people who are pushing this technology never realize that even if it is a perfect scheme it will fail without sole distribution in that protected format. The problem is that it can't be perfect because we can experience it, which means we can see and hear it, which means we can record it.
Assume a piece of protected media is a house, and each way to view it is an entry way. So a DVD is the front door, a VHS tape is the back patio door, TV is the garage door. These people are busy putting a 3-foot fault door with a 10,000 number combination on the doggie door and expect that people won't be able to get in without the proper unlocking mechanism. Even if we do get in we'll just video tape the place and distribute that or break out through a window and let everybody else in. It's beyond ludicrous to the point where it's not even amusing anymore. It's fucking stupid. There are actually suits out there meeting with each other, having conference calls, staying up late making powerpoint presentations, flying across the country, taking each other out for sushi and coffee, patting each other on the back, and investing large sums of money into these hopelessly flawed technologies.
If people are willing to download and watch a copy of a film that was recorded in a public theater by pointing a camcorder at a silver screen then they will be equally happy downloading and watching a copy of a film that was recorded in a private home under optimal conditions by pointing a camcorder at an LCD monitor.
I think another post in this thread by ajs318 had a very succinct summary in it: If it can be rendered perceptible, it can be copied. It really is that simple.
I think including "closed-source" shows a useful distinction. I don't know anybody who wants to smear Nvidia, however we have to uphold the principles that Open-Source Software stands for. (I won't go off on the diatribe, we've all heard it.) It was definitely worth noting that the vulnerability was not caused by Open-Source software. After all, we don't want anybody smearing our community name either.
print "Such as at the end of the line rather than in the middle.\n" ;
My first thought was "Man, that was exactly the step just before the problem I'm having as an adault where I totally *would* buy a new McLaren but my credit card limit doesn't go up that high!"
Back when I was in school we didn't have fancy shmancy percentage points, we had mere percents, and boy were we grateful!