While I like your analogy, because I like analogies, there is one thing you're forgetting.
With each iteration of P2P apps/networks/protocols, less and less involvement is on the party hosting it. With Napster, IIRC, their servers stored the specific information of where to get the songs. Then kazaa tried to distribute that amongst other servers/nodes. Others services did similar operations, but I don't know too much about them so I can't comment. Now we have bittorrent.
Bittorrent is similar to asking a guy on the street where you can find something. In some cases, you're asking the guy where the latest linux distro's ISO can be found. In other cases, you're asking the guy on the street where the dvd-rip of iRobot can be found. In the end though, you're simply asking something to point you in the right direction. These sites aren't doing anything illegal (as far as I know, which isn't a whole lot so please correct me if I'm wrong), but just telling people where they can find what in some cases are copyright infringements.
And if the MPAA is sucessful in shutting these sites down, then something new will come along. Eventually, it will be so abstract it won't be illegal. Hell, bittorrent may come out on top as lokitorrent fights it.
I used to use Suprnova. Then it went down. Now I use Lokitorrent and I get much better transfer rates. It just goes to show the RIAA/MPAA that when you stop one website, another will take it's place and probably do better. This is the same as Napster to Kazaa.
I understand that Loki was around while Suprnova was still up, but I never used it. Now I use it.
Dell did this for a while. 128 with a raging fast P4 was the norm for their advertised specs for years. I guess their marketing department was banking on the fact that a fast CPU helps when the operating system alone uses all the ram and you're into virtual memory the moment you run an application. People on Slashdot understand the need for just enough ram, but most consumers only know what Intel marketing tells them.
After I saw "Linare", I asked myself the same thing.
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Yeah, but instead of putting all my money into social security, I could invest some of it into a strong, yet low paying, mutual fund. So now when I retire, I'll have more money and the money I invested would have slightly stimulated the economy.
I just write mine down as ones and zeros on paper. It takes me a few months to do a full system backup, but it would take the government years to accomplish the same task. I figure I'll be saved by the statute of limitations by the time they figure out what I've been doing.
No longer should homes be built using nails. All new homes should be built with really strong glue. Even though nails are faster and easier to work with, a carpenter might accidentally smash his thumb with a hammer. Plus, nails contain metal which may warp your home in the event a huge magnet is placed near the house.
--The Elmer's Glue Foundation for Strength and Security
On one hand, you have an infrastructure that lots of people will use. It would save the people money if it wasn't in the hands of a for-profit company but rather the local government.
However, many governments, small and large, are lazy, corrupt, and wasteful and would end up costing people more money than if private companies had to compete for the job.
So this depends on the people you have in government and the influence companies that would take this over have on those people.
The other side is for areas that companies won't connect up because they can't justify the small profit. Poor urban areas which can't afford to pay the cable or telephone companies might benefit from a government run operation. However, usually when governments say they're going to help lower class minorities, they just instead pad their own pockets.
So there is no clear "this is good" or "this is bad". You have to look at each case. I happen to live in an area where comcast offers very fast internet access, so I have no need for this type of service and I don't feel I should have to pay for it.
The whole point is so people don't have to reboot though. People might as well reboot into windows (which most people who have switched in the past year or so have) and run the game from a platform they know will work. Who wants to waste the time of restarting their computer when they could instead just click on an icon.
I don't think new games are going to be made available on linux for a while. Most gamers should just hope for a "cedega" compatible version for the next few years. And I'm not a pessimist, maybe just a realist.
Since just about every song anybody would want that is available on most pay services is also on P2P networks, what's the harm of removing DRM? People pay these sites for convenience. All these songs are available elsewhere, but it's more difficult to find and download all the songs on an album on edonkey or kazaa. So all they are doing is annoying their customers, since even if these songs did make it on a P2P network, it wouldn't make much of a difference.
So services like this that sell songs without DRM shouldn't be a threat to the industry.
I'm running the 2.6.10 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop myself. To be fair, I haven't had a kernel panic, but I've had X lock up on me when trying some experimental settings for the NVIDIA drivers. That's about it actually. I do agree with you though. It's not good when people assume linux is 100% stable.
Well, you have to attack both sides. One side is technical merits, the other side is financial merits. There is also "the golf course chit-chat" side, and that's why the link you included is so easy to remember.
This is bullshit. 51% of Americans aren't gun carrying hicks from the south. Lots of rational people all over the country voted for Bush because Kerry sounded like an elitist bullshitter who would say anything to make people happy. People voted on their gut instinct for the person they trusted more.
Calm down;)...I've seen this similar troll post for the past few days now. He changes operating systems, but the rest is still the same. I don't know why people would bother wasting their time and other peoples' time with this crap.
Look at what you're buying in the supermarket. Everything there is more expensive because of advertising. That money is used to pay for these television shows. People would still be buying toilet paper, cookies, and soda even if Britney Spears wasn't singing about it. However, she makes millions off it. So the whole system is horribly unbalanced when actors and "singers" are making millions by pursuading us regular folk to buy the products their pitching.
I saw something like this on the Discovery Science channel about a week ago. A man who suffered from a stroke and lost control of his body was able to move a cursor by thinking about it. It took months for him to be able to do this, but it is pretty amazing to see that level of human/computer interaction. It's good to see advances in that area of science that can help those people who are unable to communicate with the outside world.
I think DRM is going to slip itself in to many aspects of downloading/playing songs and movies without people complaining about it. This is because your average customer of this software and equipment doesn't realize exactly what it can do. I think there is going to be a backlash when people figure out that all DRM means to them is the inability to play a media file. I'm still waiting to hear about an actual feature or benefit this gives to the end user.
Ugh. These embedded devices are so specific to their task it's not simply a matter of adding some more software on and assuming the rest of the system can just play it. Plus, it adds cost to develop with very little benefit even if the hardware could take it without little modification.
I don't see why every tiny music player should be expected to play a format nobody uses.
I remember reading about how Microsoft was considering/going (I can't remember) to port WMP to linux specifically for embedded devices. I wouldn't be too surprised however if this was a goof by Samsung's marketing department. They may have meant that these MPEG videos will play on WMP when transfered to your computer, but internally they play using their own software. That's just a guess though.
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While I like your analogy, because I like analogies, there is one thing you're forgetting.
With each iteration of P2P apps/networks/protocols, less and less involvement is on the party hosting it. With Napster, IIRC, their servers stored the specific information of where to get the songs. Then kazaa tried to distribute that amongst other servers/nodes. Others services did similar operations, but I don't know too much about them so I can't comment. Now we have bittorrent.
Bittorrent is similar to asking a guy on the street where you can find something. In some cases, you're asking the guy where the latest linux distro's ISO can be found. In other cases, you're asking the guy on the street where the dvd-rip of iRobot can be found. In the end though, you're simply asking something to point you in the right direction. These sites aren't doing anything illegal (as far as I know, which isn't a whole lot so please correct me if I'm wrong), but just telling people where they can find what in some cases are copyright infringements.
And if the MPAA is sucessful in shutting these sites down, then something new will come along. Eventually, it will be so abstract it won't be illegal. Hell, bittorrent may come out on top as lokitorrent fights it.
I used to use Suprnova. Then it went down. Now I use Lokitorrent and I get much better transfer rates. It just goes to show the RIAA/MPAA that when you stop one website, another will take it's place and probably do better. This is the same as Napster to Kazaa.
I understand that Loki was around while Suprnova was still up, but I never used it. Now I use it.
Dell did this for a while. 128 with a raging fast P4 was the norm for their advertised specs for years. I guess their marketing department was banking on the fact that a fast CPU helps when the operating system alone uses all the ram and you're into virtual memory the moment you run an application. People on Slashdot understand the need for just enough ram, but most consumers only know what Intel marketing tells them.
After I saw "Linare", I asked myself the same thing.
(seriously)
Yeah, but instead of putting all my money into social security, I could invest some of it into a strong, yet low paying, mutual fund. So now when I retire, I'll have more money and the money I invested would have slightly stimulated the economy.
I just write mine down as ones and zeros on paper. It takes me a few months to do a full system backup, but it would take the government years to accomplish the same task. I figure I'll be saved by the statute of limitations by the time they figure out what I've been doing.
No longer should homes be built using nails. All new homes should be built with really strong glue. Even though nails are faster and easier to work with, a carpenter might accidentally smash his thumb with a hammer. Plus, nails contain metal which may warp your home in the event a huge magnet is placed near the house.
--The Elmer's Glue Foundation for Strength and Security
On one hand, you have an infrastructure that lots of people will use. It would save the people money if it wasn't in the hands of a for-profit company but rather the local government.
However, many governments, small and large, are lazy, corrupt, and wasteful and would end up costing people more money than if private companies had to compete for the job.
So this depends on the people you have in government and the influence companies that would take this over have on those people.
The other side is for areas that companies won't connect up because they can't justify the small profit. Poor urban areas which can't afford to pay the cable or telephone companies might benefit from a government run operation. However, usually when governments say they're going to help lower class minorities, they just instead pad their own pockets.
So there is no clear "this is good" or "this is bad". You have to look at each case. I happen to live in an area where comcast offers very fast internet access, so I have no need for this type of service and I don't feel I should have to pay for it.
The whole point is so people don't have to reboot though. People might as well reboot into windows (which most people who have switched in the past year or so have) and run the game from a platform they know will work. Who wants to waste the time of restarting their computer when they could instead just click on an icon.
I don't think new games are going to be made available on linux for a while. Most gamers should just hope for a "cedega" compatible version for the next few years. And I'm not a pessimist, maybe just a realist.
Since just about every song anybody would want that is available on most pay services is also on P2P networks, what's the harm of removing DRM? People pay these sites for convenience. All these songs are available elsewhere, but it's more difficult to find and download all the songs on an album on edonkey or kazaa. So all they are doing is annoying their customers, since even if these songs did make it on a P2P network, it wouldn't make much of a difference.
So services like this that sell songs without DRM shouldn't be a threat to the industry.
What the hell is this? It turns everything into Chinese. No thank you!
I'm running the 2.6.10 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop myself. To be fair, I haven't had a kernel panic, but I've had X lock up on me when trying some experimental settings for the NVIDIA drivers. That's about it actually. I do agree with you though. It's not good when people assume linux is 100% stable.
Well, you have to attack both sides. One side is technical merits, the other side is financial merits. There is also "the golf course chit-chat" side, and that's why the link you included is so easy to remember.
What's a kernel panic? I've heard about them, but never experienced one in 9 months.
I like portage. ;)
apt-get sucks and so does your mom.
This is bullshit. 51% of Americans aren't gun carrying hicks from the south. Lots of rational people all over the country voted for Bush because Kerry sounded like an elitist bullshitter who would say anything to make people happy. People voted on their gut instinct for the person they trusted more.
emerge nvidia-kernel
you don't have to navigate their website, you don't have to download their executable, you don't even have to follow on-screen instructions.
Huh? What are you going to plug the iPod into? I think a farmer would rather communicate with other farmers to save him some money than to play music.
Calm down ;) ...I've seen this similar troll post for the past few days now. He changes operating systems, but the rest is still the same. I don't know why people would bother wasting their time and other peoples' time with this crap.
Look at what you're buying in the supermarket. Everything there is more expensive because of advertising. That money is used to pay for these television shows. People would still be buying toilet paper, cookies, and soda even if Britney Spears wasn't singing about it. However, she makes millions off it. So the whole system is horribly unbalanced when actors and "singers" are making millions by pursuading us regular folk to buy the products their pitching.
If you want to compare GWB to Microsoft, fine. But this implies John Kerry is then on the same side as Linux.
I saw something like this on the Discovery Science channel about a week ago. A man who suffered from a stroke and lost control of his body was able to move a cursor by thinking about it. It took months for him to be able to do this, but it is pretty amazing to see that level of human/computer interaction. It's good to see advances in that area of science that can help those people who are unable to communicate with the outside world.
Informative? I think the parent was joking.
I think DRM is going to slip itself in to many aspects of downloading/playing songs and movies without people complaining about it. This is because your average customer of this software and equipment doesn't realize exactly what it can do. I think there is going to be a backlash when people figure out that all DRM means to them is the inability to play a media file. I'm still waiting to hear about an actual feature or benefit this gives to the end user.
Ugh. These embedded devices are so specific to their task it's not simply a matter of adding some more software on and assuming the rest of the system can just play it. Plus, it adds cost to develop with very little benefit even if the hardware could take it without little modification.
I don't see why every tiny music player should be expected to play a format nobody uses.
I remember reading about how Microsoft was considering/going (I can't remember) to port WMP to linux specifically for embedded devices. I wouldn't be too surprised however if this was a goof by Samsung's marketing department. They may have meant that these MPEG videos will play on WMP when transfered to your computer, but internally they play using their own software. That's just a guess though.