Take cable television. I'd prefer not to waste my money on the 50 garbage channels and just pay for the several I actually watch. However, I have to pay for packages instead of an al la carte scheme.
As for telephone service. I don't have a land line. I have a cell phone and internet from my cable provider. If my internet came from Verizon through DSL, I could be forced to buy a service just to have internet.
I don't know how much the government should regulate businesses like this, but if you only have one broadband provider in your area and they want to hit you up for more services than you want, there's not much you can do about it.
Take a look around. You either get a good method for a few outdated packages, or you get a great system that takes forever to compile packages. Obviously, I haven't dealt much with debian based distros and their magical apt-get, but the major distros like Suse, mandrake, and fedora are still RPM based. I think RPMs have really slowed down linux adoption due to dependency hell. I hope systems like autopackage can help things out.
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I think it's funnier how everyone is freaking out because of the April Fools jokes. It's one damn day out of the year. Enjoy it! Tomorrow we can go back to bashing Microsoft and software patents.
And that's why programmers aren't "Software Engineers". Engineers test their designs and then implement them. Programmers test their implementation because, to them, the code must be the design.
Well, an efficient battery shouldn't give off much heat. Maybe they solved that problem too. I remember as a kid playing with an RC car that the nicads would be very hot after about 15 minutes of crusing around.
The fine print you speak of was when they originally signed the membership contract. Those terms changed with this promotion. The reason Blockbuster got into trouble because they told the people on the sales floor not to tell the customers about the "you just bought the movie" part of the new terms.
I was thinking on similar lines. I think OO.o is a good product and I can use it without having to spend any money. If Sun wants to use F/OSS Openoffice to help distribute the free but close source java then I can understand it. I think that's why they're doing this in the first place. Java doesn't have any license fees and it's not difficult to install on windows or linux so I don't see the big deal. I think that by them doing this and spreading Java is better than Microsoft doing similar tactics to spread.NET.
There's no free lunch when it comes to a corporation trying to make money. So if all I have to put up with is using java for this pretty damn good office suite, I'll accept it.
Are you kidding me? I said on windows the cleartype fonts don't look as sharp as on linux. Therefore...get this...they seem more blurry! And what the hell is an "idoit"?
I agree. Whenever I need to use a windows app and reboot into windows, the fonts never look as nice. I'm displaying this on and LCD and even with clear type enabled, the fonts don't look as sharp.
I'm sure they did that purely out of license issues. I'm not saying ogg is bad, I'm saying that these little mp3 players are not tiny computers running mplayer. I say that because people act as if adding ogg support is trivial. These embedded devices use custom built chips to play the mp3's and wma's and adding another format on would be expensive compared to the increased sales from ogg users.
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand why you brought up the fact that a game that uses all the resources of a computer is using an audio format that they could simply drop in.
The average slashdotter doesn't even care about ogg. However, every single time an mp3/wma/aac player is discussed, someone always chimes in about ogg. Ogg support is such a rarely desired that few manufacturers want to spend the money on something that probably won't pay itself back with increased sales.
Yeah, sure right now it's not perfect, but it's a good idea. Computers should be a tool to help people, not require them to learn a new language just to communicate with them. I think this is a step in the direction of computers being a part of our lives that actually helps us instead just becoming another appliance.
Nobody wants to lose their job because they "gambled on an open source alternative and lost". It's going to take more court wins to substantiate the GPL and dismantle the threat of patents that have no basis. This is a smart move on the part of those who do not wish an "open source revolution".
I'm all for open source, but I can understand how companies are afraid to risk backing it if it means it could end up costing them more later. And sadly, I feel this can slow down adoption of open source software. But for companies with good lawyers who can see past the FUD and who take the risk and use OSS, I hope they are successful because they are paving the way for others.
If you used bittorrent to download ANY material that you shouldn't have such as music, movies, etc., then don't fight it and accept responsibility.
However, if you are sure you didn't do anything wrong, then fight it. Using bittorrent to download linux ISOs is not illegal or immoral and many people will back you up.
Let me just reiterate my first point, if you used bittorrent to download anything you shouldn't have, don't bring other people into it because you'll make them and yourself look like idiots. This will also set a bad precedent for somebody trying to fight a bogus "p2p charge".
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Take cable television. I'd prefer not to waste my money on the 50 garbage channels and just pay for the several I actually watch. However, I have to pay for packages instead of an al la carte scheme.
As for telephone service. I don't have a land line. I have a cell phone and internet from my cable provider. If my internet came from Verizon through DSL, I could be forced to buy a service just to have internet.
I don't know how much the government should regulate businesses like this, but if you only have one broadband provider in your area and they want to hit you up for more services than you want, there's not much you can do about it.
Take a look around. You either get a good method for a few outdated packages, or you get a great system that takes forever to compile packages. Obviously, I haven't dealt much with debian based distros and their magical apt-get, but the major distros like Suse, mandrake, and fedora are still RPM based. I think RPMs have really slowed down linux adoption due to dependency hell. I hope systems like autopackage can help things out.
Don't worry, they'll all be dupes in a week.
Rereporting? What do you think slashdot is? This is essentially just one huge blog where people fight tooth and nail to get "karma".
I think it's funnier how everyone is freaking out because of the April Fools jokes. It's one damn day out of the year. Enjoy it! Tomorrow we can go back to bashing Microsoft and software patents.
And that's why programmers aren't "Software Engineers". Engineers test their designs and then implement them. Programmers test their implementation because, to them, the code must be the design.
Well, an efficient battery shouldn't give off much heat. Maybe they solved that problem too. I remember as a kid playing with an RC car that the nicads would be very hot after about 15 minutes of crusing around.
The fine print you speak of was when they originally signed the membership contract. Those terms changed with this promotion. The reason Blockbuster got into trouble because they told the people on the sales floor not to tell the customers about the "you just bought the movie" part of the new terms.
I was thinking on similar lines. I think OO.o is a good product and I can use it without having to spend any money. If Sun wants to use F/OSS Openoffice to help distribute the free but close source java then I can understand it. I think that's why they're doing this in the first place. Java doesn't have any license fees and it's not difficult to install on windows or linux so I don't see the big deal. I think that by them doing this and spreading Java is better than Microsoft doing similar tactics to spread .NET.
There's no free lunch when it comes to a corporation trying to make money. So if all I have to put up with is using java for this pretty damn good office suite, I'll accept it.
this means Legos are also the building blocks of life?
photoshop 7 works fine with crossover office. I prefer to use that combination over the GIMP
Are you kidding me? I said on windows the cleartype fonts don't look as sharp as on linux. Therefore...get this...they seem more blurry! And what the hell is an "idoit"?
I agree. Whenever I need to use a windows app and reboot into windows, the fonts never look as nice. I'm displaying this on and LCD and even with clear type enabled, the fonts don't look as sharp.
count/counter...same thing ;)
That said, I figured I'd have to share this. I made this a few months ago to show that Visio can make even the simplest task look difficult.
When I showed this to my roommate, he exclaimed "It's that hard?!?"
http://www.tcnj.edu/~pompeli2/pbj.gif
I'm sure it will be Google's Macwinix and we'll all be bitching about it.
In the typical geeky slashdot user's need to be right all the time, "Cross the streams" was from the original Ghostbusters.
And after 3 months, it ends up being a virus that requires WINE.
"They say they had "complete editorial control over all research and analysis" involved in the project."
It was later learned that Microsoft "had complete financial control over all employees involved in the project."
Anyway, is Microsoft trying to develop a pattern here? Every time windows beats linux it's from a source microsoft paid.
I'm sure they did that purely out of license issues. I'm not saying ogg is bad, I'm saying that these little mp3 players are not tiny computers running mplayer. I say that because people act as if adding ogg support is trivial. These embedded devices use custom built chips to play the mp3's and wma's and adding another format on would be expensive compared to the increased sales from ogg users.
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand why you brought up the fact that a game that uses all the resources of a computer is using an audio format that they could simply drop in.
The average slashdotter doesn't even care about ogg. However, every single time an mp3/wma/aac player is discussed, someone always chimes in about ogg. Ogg support is such a rarely desired that few manufacturers want to spend the money on something that probably won't pay itself back with increased sales.
Yeah, sure right now it's not perfect, but it's a good idea. Computers should be a tool to help people, not require them to learn a new language just to communicate with them. I think this is a step in the direction of computers being a part of our lives that actually helps us instead just becoming another appliance.
I agree with you, but aren't settlements usually done behind closed doors? I'm saying that public knowledge of how secure the GPL is will help FOSS.
Nobody wants to lose their job because they "gambled on an open source alternative and lost". It's going to take more court wins to substantiate the GPL and dismantle the threat of patents that have no basis. This is a smart move on the part of those who do not wish an "open source revolution".
I'm all for open source, but I can understand how companies are afraid to risk backing it if it means it could end up costing them more later. And sadly, I feel this can slow down adoption of open source software. But for companies with good lawyers who can see past the FUD and who take the risk and use OSS, I hope they are successful because they are paving the way for others.
If you used bittorrent to download ANY material that you shouldn't have such as music, movies, etc., then don't fight it and accept responsibility.
However, if you are sure you didn't do anything wrong, then fight it. Using bittorrent to download linux ISOs is not illegal or immoral and many people will back you up.
Let me just reiterate my first point, if you used bittorrent to download anything you shouldn't have, don't bring other people into it because you'll make them and yourself look like idiots. This will also set a bad precedent for somebody trying to fight a bogus "p2p charge".