But MP3s are more convenient (to listen to) than physical media.
Maybe if your most comfortable chair is in front of the computer, or you still live with your parents and your 'room' only has room for a computer.
For a lot of us, it's more convenient to put a CD in the stereo than it is to sit close to our computer and listen through tinny PC speakers. After poking around on a hard drive to find the tunes, of course.
If and when a 'media crackdown' occurs, people who have actual licensed media copies will be happy that they can still enjoy their tunes. When you buy a CD you get rights to a lifetime of enjoyment of the contents. (not relevant if the music you listen to is adolescent 'rebellion' crap that you'll outgrow as you mature). Personally, I am continuing to collect vinyl LPs as well as CDs.
So what it comes down to, is one particular team now is Lucas Arts 'pet team' and will be able to mow down the competition and win the prize. Nobody else will be able to compete on the same level, as Lucas Arts will be on them in a second if they do.
Hmmm, it does sound like there must have been 'very friendly negotigations.' I hope everybody played safe so there's no chance of an STD.
The day when you can find people whose idea of fun is dying in an automobile crash is the day when 'political interference' is responsible for safety rather than a clueful public and a responsive marketplace.
The whole idea of 'government coercion' for safty promotes the idea of the nanny state, and encourages people to be less responsible and pay less attention to safety. Because the gummint will do that for them.
The more baroque variations in software being run out there, the more complex and unreliable the interactions, and the more expensive support costs become. The market becomes fragmented, stores have to stock multiple versions of the same software, and prices in general go up.
Of course, a lot of the people who participate on this forum make their money being paid for doing 'support work.' And if software was distributed mainly as source code, there'd be all sorts of money to be made, and ways to control people. That guy across the street would look up to you if he couldn't write email unless you came over and patched and recompiled his mail client, eh?
So let's just be honest and admit it's a 'geek power' issue as much as anything else.
Hmm, that means Red Hat would go out of business. Nobody would dare integrate Linux into any system they had hopes of selling commercially. It would instantly become impossible to get liability insurance if your business used Free Software.
Using a highly-political 'outsider pundit' like Nader as your example weakens your arguement.
Anybody can get a law degree and then start lobbing pot-shots at an industry. If they capture on a popular public meme they can even use the opportunity to catapult themselves into a career.
Why wouldn't a free, non-DRM email client be something you could write and then just install and use? Sure, it won't be able to 'touch' the DRM email files that Microsoft's app uses, but why is that important?
I like the idea of quarentine from Microsoft apps/address book and the like. I use Eudora for my email client, and have even unclicked the 'Use Microsoft HTML viewer' option in it's config. If Microsoft wants to wall off access to it's internal data structures, all the better.
Yes, but Knuth's software projects have convergent version numbers. As in: no creeping featureitis.
I've spoken on this topic before, advocating that Linux and Linux desktops should converge, instead of just bloating out like KDE and GNOME have, but generally get scolded for it.
You're kidding, right? MacOS only runs on expensive hardware from one company. There's no way in hell the Asian market, particularly places like China and Korea, could afford an Apple computer.
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No, Apple just has a hell of a lot of really smart people in marketing, so they know how to keep a 'fad' current and in front of the camera.
The precedent for labelling people whose opinion differs from yours 'psychotic' was established in the USSR, where 'psychotic' people were shuffled off to re-education camps for 'therapy.'
Thank goodness people like you likes aren't in charge in this country (yet).
It's a reasonable request. However, not all 3rd party IM clients charge (GAIM and Kopete come to mind, gee, both for GNU/Linux...), so not all 3rd party clients' developers have money to buy a license, even if they wanted to. That puts free (beer) IM programs at an automatic disadvantage.
Oh well.
If I stand on the sidewalk outside your house and offer free crowbars to anybody interested in breaking in your house, you are not required to allow them to break and enter.
Microsoft once tried (and failed) to get AIM opened to the public. They wanted to establish an "open" IM protocol.
Umm, when Microsoft failed to get AIM opened and established as an 'open' IM protocol, it seems like what the industry at a whole determined was that IM servers were proprietary and their funding interests could decide who and what could connect to them.
So they're just acting now within the spirit of what everybody (and I might add, all the Microsoft haters cheered on AIM during the fracas) decided was the way things would go.
Or is this really just another issue where whatever Microsoft does, we label as ba-aa-aa-ad??
I remember back when it was a marketing bullet point for Apple people to say 'we don't waste an extra chip on the SIMMs for that useless parity bit.'
Of course, that was a long time ago in the days of 30 pin SIMMs. But MacOS back then was crash-prone enough that it probably would have been a waste to worry about hardware issues like parity in the memory bank.
They released Wolfenstein 3D. Long after we'd all played it out on our '286s and '386's, of course. The Mac version of Wolfenstein 3D has a better music track.
It's also pretty close to the little trick with email backups that the Clinton White House pulled. We don't have to reach back 30 years, though it's fashionable now to forget Clinton's little email thing.
I live in a high-tax country (Belgium) and I am aware of the extent of the black economy. However, this is not a criminal economy except in the eyes of the tax authorities. When the government makes unenforceable laws, people ignore them and life carries on, pretty much as normal.
When whole sectors of an economy are driven over to 'a dark side' in order to even exist, there's something fundamentally wrong with 'the system' that forces them over to that 'dark side.'
Most software is developed on top of other software, or other software ideas. For example, Mozilla is based upon HTML which is based upon HTTP which is based upon TCP/IP, and so on.
HTML, HTTP, and TCP/IP are not 'software.' They are software-independent protocols. That's a very basic distinction, and until it's something you understand we're not even speaking the same language to hold a discussion.
The software is in the hands of a gang of hackers - uh, I mean experienced software developers - who are motivated mostly by a desire for quality software, and also to show off their own expertise in public.
The software is also in the hands of gangs of hackers who are motivated mostly by their angst and a strong sense that they are 'outside of society' and care little for the welfare of others.
And anything that they find first while sifting through the code, they'll have their fun with.
Meanwhile, exploits in Windows/closed-source software are much more difficult to find. It's a black-box process of poking and exploring raw binaries.
Neither is really better or worse. It's an apple vs. orange comparision. Saying one is better and one is worse is short sighted and a symptom of ignorance.
But I know this is the preaching grounds of one of the two flavors, so the propaganda flows mostly one way here.
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But MP3s are more convenient (to listen to) than physical media.
Maybe if your most comfortable chair is in front of the computer, or you still live with your parents and your 'room' only has room for a computer.
For a lot of us, it's more convenient to put a CD in the stereo than it is to sit close to our computer and listen through tinny PC speakers. After poking around on a hard drive to find the tunes, of course.
If and when a 'media crackdown' occurs, people who have actual licensed media copies will be happy that they can still enjoy their tunes. When you buy a CD you get rights to a lifetime of enjoyment of the contents. (not relevant if the music you listen to is adolescent 'rebellion' crap that you'll outgrow as you mature). Personally, I am continuing to collect vinyl LPs as well as CDs.
You only had to purchase one copy. Your mistake was purchasing the first one second hand.
So what it comes down to, is one particular team now is Lucas Arts 'pet team' and will be able to mow down the competition and win the prize. Nobody else will be able to compete on the same level, as Lucas Arts will be on them in a second if they do.
Hmmm, it does sound like there must have been 'very friendly negotigations.' I hope everybody played safe so there's no chance of an STD.
The day when you can find people whose idea of fun is dying in an automobile crash is the day when 'political interference' is responsible for safety rather than a clueful public and a responsive marketplace.
The whole idea of 'government coercion' for safty promotes the idea of the nanny state, and encourages people to be less responsible and pay less attention to safety. Because the gummint will do that for them.
The more baroque variations in software being run out there, the more complex and unreliable the interactions, and the more expensive support costs become. The market becomes fragmented, stores have to stock multiple versions of the same software, and prices in general go up.
Of course, a lot of the people who participate on this forum make their money being paid for doing 'support work.' And if software was distributed mainly as source code, there'd be all sorts of money to be made, and ways to control people. That guy across the street would look up to you if he couldn't write email unless you came over and patched and recompiled his mail client, eh?
So let's just be honest and admit it's a 'geek power' issue as much as anything else.
Hmm, that means Red Hat would go out of business. Nobody would dare integrate Linux into any system they had hopes of selling commercially. It would instantly become impossible to get liability insurance if your business used Free Software.
Kewl, eh?
Using a highly-political 'outsider pundit' like Nader as your example weakens your arguement.
Anybody can get a law degree and then start lobbing pot-shots at an industry. If they capture on a popular public meme they can even use the opportunity to catapult themselves into a career.
Why wouldn't a free, non-DRM email client be something you could write and then just install and use? Sure, it won't be able to 'touch' the DRM email files that Microsoft's app uses, but why is that important?
I like the idea of quarentine from Microsoft apps/address book and the like. I use Eudora for my email client, and have even unclicked the 'Use Microsoft HTML viewer' option in it's config. If Microsoft wants to wall off access to it's internal data structures, all the better.
Yes, but Knuth's software projects have convergent version numbers. As in: no creeping featureitis.
I've spoken on this topic before, advocating that Linux and Linux desktops should converge, instead of just bloating out like KDE and GNOME have, but generally get scolded for it.
You're kidding, right? MacOS only runs on expensive hardware from one company. There's no way in hell the Asian market, particularly places like China and Korea, could afford an Apple computer.
No, Apple just has a hell of a lot of really smart people in marketing, so they know how to keep a 'fad' current and in front of the camera.
Like most psychotic right wing morons,
The precedent for labelling people whose opinion differs from yours 'psychotic' was established in the USSR, where 'psychotic' people were shuffled off to re-education camps for 'therapy.'
Thank goodness people like you likes aren't in charge in this country (yet).
It's a reasonable request. However, not all 3rd party IM clients charge (GAIM and Kopete come to mind, gee, both for GNU/Linux...), so not all 3rd party clients' developers have money to buy a license, even if they wanted to. That puts free (beer) IM programs at an automatic disadvantage.
Oh well.
If I stand on the sidewalk outside your house and offer free crowbars to anybody interested in breaking in your house, you are not required to allow them to break and enter.
Microsoft once tried (and failed) to get AIM opened to the public. They wanted to establish an "open" IM protocol.
Umm, when Microsoft failed to get AIM opened and established as an 'open' IM protocol, it seems like what the industry at a whole determined was that IM servers were proprietary and their funding interests could decide who and what could connect to them.
So they're just acting now within the spirit of what everybody (and I might add, all the Microsoft haters cheered on AIM during the fracas) decided was the way things would go.
Or is this really just another issue where whatever Microsoft does, we label as ba-aa-aa-ad??
I remember back when it was a marketing bullet point for Apple people to say 'we don't waste an extra chip on the SIMMs for that useless parity bit.'
Of course, that was a long time ago in the days of 30 pin SIMMs. But MacOS back then was crash-prone enough that it probably would have been a waste to worry about hardware issues like parity in the memory bank.
Why would they run MORE than Darwin raw for the kind of tasks a cluster would be used for?
They released Wolfenstein 3D. Long after we'd all played it out on our '286s and '386's, of course. The Mac version of Wolfenstein 3D has a better music track.
It's also pretty close to the little trick with email backups that the Clinton White House pulled. We don't have to reach back 30 years, though it's fashionable now to forget Clinton's little email thing.
Maybe 30 years from now they'll be recalling it.
Yeah, but they're probably better at keeping backups of email than the *snicker* Clinton White House. heh.
How do you get the dialback server to call your number?
Where did you get your SecureID dongle? And how did you get one synced to his?
Any second source on the story would be better than people continually linking back to that same old, tired, link.
I live in a high-tax country (Belgium) and I am aware of the extent of the black economy. However, this is not a criminal economy except in the eyes of the tax authorities. When the government makes unenforceable laws, people ignore them and life carries on, pretty much as normal.
When whole sectors of an economy are driven over to 'a dark side' in order to even exist, there's something fundamentally wrong with 'the system' that forces them over to that 'dark side.'
Most software is developed on top of other software, or other software ideas. For example, Mozilla is based upon HTML which is based upon HTTP which is based upon TCP/IP, and so on.
HTML, HTTP, and TCP/IP are not 'software.' They are software-independent protocols. That's a very basic distinction, and until it's something you understand we're not even speaking the same language to hold a discussion.
The software is in the hands of a gang of hackers - uh, I mean experienced software developers - who are motivated mostly by a desire for quality software, and also to show off their own expertise in public.
The software is also in the hands of gangs of hackers who are motivated mostly by their angst and a strong sense that they are 'outside of society' and care little for the welfare of others.
And anything that they find first while sifting through the code, they'll have their fun with.
Meanwhile, exploits in Windows/closed-source software are much more difficult to find. It's a black-box process of poking and exploring raw binaries.
Neither is really better or worse. It's an apple vs. orange comparision. Saying one is better and one is worse is short sighted and a symptom of ignorance.
But I know this is the preaching grounds of one of the two flavors, so the propaganda flows mostly one way here.
Besides that, Linux 2.6 has a gleaming new plug-in security harness. This allows the user to tailor their own security system.
If it were nail polish and not buzzwords you were dealing in, I'd say that kind of handwaving was appropriate.