Look at Linux distros, they come with various apps. The better solution is to have various apps, and allow the user to choose which to use as default.
I don't know that I would consider that a better solution. What's the point of having 5 different web browsers installed by default? Most people don't care as long as the browser works for them. Aren't the mainstream distros moving away from this philosophy anyway? Ubuntu (at least the previous version) comes with Firefox and Evolution installed as the only browser/email-client. I can't remember about the media player though.
I agree with what you are saying about bundling affecting standards (I don't like WMA any more than you do) but I don't think Microsoft should be forced to push competing technologies over their own.
I am just saying that no legal action should tell Microsoft what or what not to bundle with their OS unless there are valid security reasons. It is their product. It's not like you have to use the bundled applications. If people are happy with the bundled apps, they will use them. If not, they will look elsewhere.
Now that WMP and Messenger are to be removed, suddenly downloading a media player is such a terrible handicap!
When I buy an OS, I expect to have basic functionalty such as a web browser and media player. I would rather they bundle them but give me the opportunity to remove them.
Just because Microsoft owns the operating system, this doesn't mean that it should be allowed to bundle whatever it likes.
The law makes a clear distinction between First Ammendment rights and libel. He is suggesting that this is a libelous and damaging article.
I have to admit that I was expecting more than a couple of sentences of offending text in wikipedia though. Either one of those sentences could be passed off as misinformation though. Even if he found the author, I think it would be hard to prove that it is libel.
The FCC is necessary but they aren't doing what they should. The best example I can give is the FCC's deregulation of radio in the late ninties. In the markets near me, Clear Channel bought every station and left radio in a sad state.
Can anyone tell me if this uses a laptop hard drive? By the size, I would expect that it does. I don't see anything on apples site that says one way or another. There's quite a difference between 5400RPM and 7200RPM. On top of that, laptop drives don't get any larger thjan 80GB, right?
There is nothing wrong with this. He isn't the one violating any laws. He never signed an NDA. Matt Drudge does this exact same thing, if you look at the news submission box in the lower right of drudgereport.com.
Are they suing him for posting it or suing him for information on the tipster? With the former, I don't think they have much of a case. Perhaps they do with the latter.
That didn't immediately occur to me. With my cable provider, G4 was one of the standard 60-something channels. TechTV was only available if you had digital cable.
I had to ask myself why they even bought the channel? They got rid of most of TechTV's shows or changed them beyond recognition. The shows are different enough that they could have just made their own and left TechTV out if it. It's obvious that they had no intention of merging the channels.
My theory is that it stems from TechTV havin XPlay. It was more of a Microsoftish move to remove the one show of competition that TechTV provided to their entire set of programming.
Just curious, what do you guys think would happen if someone took the sims engine, or quake engine and made a forest gump, or saving private ryan with the Battlefield 1942 engine.. or a story very similar to that ? Is that art or pure theft ?
Queue the onslaught of "not theft" comments....
Seriously though, I don't think that they would be able to create these for profit. I'm sure there is something in the terms of use for these games that would prevent selling the resulting "movie." I doubt that there is anything that they can (or would have reason to) do for home use though.
The throuble with Gentoo is that it provides no way to get binary packages in the same sane way as Debian or FreeBSD do
A lot of people keep saying this. I don't know if it is trolling or misinformation. I have not found it to be the case. If you want to harness the full power of gentoo (USE flags) than maybe. Otherwise, "emerge -k" (which IIRC is the equivilant of "emerge --usepkg") will download binaries if they are available and source otherwise and "emerge --usepkg-only" will not look for soruce if binaries aren't available. I will admitadly do more installs from source but every binary that I have tried to install has worked fine.
*I'm certainly looking forward to Gentoo/MacOS (although maybe I ought to try DarwinPorts in the meantime).
You seem quite knowledgable so I'm sure you've heard of fink. It gives you "fink" to install from source and "apt-get" to install a binary. There has only been one applcation that I have needed that wasn't there (and this was about a year ago.) It was either a lesser know smalltalk interpreter or a lesser known lisp interpreter. I used darwinports here. Generally I use and like fink more.
As long as you don't have an ATI card. If you do, you spend some time getting it to work with xorg. That may not be gentoo specific though. Aside from that, it's the only distro that I have for personal use.
Till the worm installs a security patch that causes a bug that it takes someone hours upon hours of debugging to locate. People should be allowed to patch when they want. Patches aren't always 100% correct, and some can cause some major havoc. Let each person decide if/when the patch is needed...
For home users this should be a non-issue. Just install the patch. Businesses need to be a little more careful.
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I think any reasonable reader has learned to take any article on slashdot about Microsoft with a grain of salt.
Didn't microsoft already do this? link
Maybe the differences are SMS vs IM
This article on Yahoo News seems to dispute that. It concerns how animals confined to islands are significantly larger than their inland counterparts.
Look at Linux distros, they come with various apps. The better solution is to have various apps, and allow the user to choose which to use as default.
I don't know that I would consider that a better solution. What's the point of having 5 different web browsers installed by default? Most people don't care as long as the browser works for them. Aren't the mainstream distros moving away from this philosophy anyway? Ubuntu (at least the previous version) comes with Firefox and Evolution installed as the only browser/email-client. I can't remember about the media player though.
I agree with what you are saying about bundling affecting standards (I don't like WMA any more than you do) but I don't think Microsoft should be forced to push competing technologies over their own.
I am just saying that no legal action should tell Microsoft what or what not to bundle with their OS unless there are valid security reasons. It is their product. It's not like you have to use the bundled applications. If people are happy with the bundled apps, they will use them. If not, they will look elsewhere.
Now that WMP and Messenger are to be removed, suddenly downloading a media player is such a terrible handicap!
When I buy an OS, I expect to have basic functionalty such as a web browser and media player. I would rather they bundle them but give me the opportunity to remove them.
Just because Microsoft owns the operating system, this doesn't mean that it should be allowed to bundle whatever it likes.
Uh, what? Why not?
The law makes a clear distinction between First Ammendment rights and libel. He is suggesting that this is a libelous and damaging article.
I have to admit that I was expecting more than a couple of sentences of offending text in wikipedia though. Either one of those sentences could be passed off as misinformation though. Even if he found the author, I think it would be hard to prove that it is libel.
The FCC is necessary but they aren't doing what they should. The best example I can give is the FCC's deregulation of radio in the late ninties. In the markets near me, Clear Channel bought every station and left radio in a sad state.
I'm wondering how he is going to make a living on this. Is he getting sponsorship or something?
It has no reason to.
Same here. I didn't play on the two days that they "reimbursed" everyone for though.
What about the hundreds or thousands of dollars of software that the user has for the windows machine?
Can anyone tell me if this uses a laptop hard drive? By the size, I would expect that it does. I don't see anything on apples site that says one way or another. There's quite a difference between 5400RPM and 7200RPM. On top of that, laptop drives don't get any larger thjan 80GB, right?
There is nothing wrong with this. He isn't the one violating any laws. He never signed an NDA. Matt Drudge does this exact same thing, if you look at the news submission box in the lower right of drudgereport.com.
Are they suing him for posting it or suing him for information on the tipster? With the former, I don't think they have much of a case. Perhaps they do with the latter.
That didn't immediately occur to me. With my cable provider, G4 was one of the standard 60-something channels. TechTV was only available if you had digital cable.
I had to ask myself why they even bought the channel? They got rid of most of TechTV's shows or changed them beyond recognition. The shows are different enough that they could have just made their own and left TechTV out if it. It's obvious that they had no intention of merging the channels.
My theory is that it stems from TechTV havin XPlay. It was more of a Microsoftish move to remove the one show of competition that TechTV provided to their entire set of programming.
Just curious, what do you guys think would happen if someone took the sims engine, or quake engine and made a forest gump, or saving private ryan with the Battlefield 1942 engine.. or a story very similar to that ? Is that art or pure theft ?
Queue the onslaught of "not theft" comments....
Seriously though, I don't think that they would be able to create these for profit. I'm sure there is something in the terms of use for these games that would prevent selling the resulting "movie." I doubt that there is anything that they can (or would have reason to) do for home use though.
Well true Apple lovers would have no need to emulate the PPC. Only the closet apple lovers would.
From what I understand, it usually is not enforced unless it is interfering with the "real" radio stations.
uhm. That would be the wrong video. I would hope Gates is not demonstrating Win98 at Comdex.
If you look at the post above it, you'll see that it's not the wrong link. It is the one that was requested. The old one was asked for/
Now if they'd only make some cases for mini-itx boards that will hold two hard drives, not be fugly and not cost $300 US.
The throuble with Gentoo is that it provides no way to get binary packages in the same sane way as Debian or FreeBSD do
A lot of people keep saying this. I don't know if it is trolling or misinformation. I have not found it to be the case. If you want to harness the full power of gentoo (USE flags) than maybe. Otherwise, "emerge -k" (which IIRC is the equivilant of "emerge --usepkg") will download binaries if they are available and source otherwise and "emerge --usepkg-only" will not look for soruce if binaries aren't available. I will admitadly do more installs from source but every binary that I have tried to install has worked fine.
*I'm certainly looking forward to Gentoo/MacOS (although maybe I ought to try DarwinPorts in the meantime).
You seem quite knowledgable so I'm sure you've heard of fink. It gives you "fink" to install from source and "apt-get" to install a binary. There has only been one applcation that I have needed that wasn't there (and this was about a year ago.) It was either a lesser know smalltalk interpreter or a lesser known lisp interpreter. I used darwinports here. Generally I use and like fink more.
As long as you don't have an ATI card. If you do, you spend some time getting it to work with xorg. That may not be gentoo specific though. Aside from that, it's the only distro that I have for personal use.
Misinformation in the US is up 58%.
Till the worm installs a security patch that causes a bug that it takes someone hours upon hours of debugging to locate. People should be allowed to patch when they want. Patches aren't always 100% correct, and some can cause some major havoc. Let each person decide if/when the patch is needed...
For home users this should be a non-issue. Just install the patch. Businesses need to be a little more careful.