Yeah! And what of these charities that teach them literacy and give them medicine? What the hell. They need food, not books and healthcare. They dont need condoms, or clean clothing either. Clean water? For what? Like you said they need food only! Schools are for overfed westerners only.
Obviously, the goal of the olpc and 99% of charitable donations in third world countries is not related directly to food. Lets not pretend that it is. Everytime I hear 'they need food' not -insert something they also need- jsut shows the ignorance of the person saying this. Maybe we westerners can do with some charitable donation to help with our ignorance problem. Like some kind of wiki thats also an encyclopedia. So we can look things up before we post about them online. Yeah, that would rule...
No its not ridiculous. Cuban is right. Please prove me wrong:
1. Start a youtube clone iwth your person money.
2. let users upload tv and movie clips
3. See how long you stay in business.
Youtube's life is really based on the idea it can make money, thus the big takedown has been delayed. That doesnt mean the DMCA safe harbor is helping it or anyone (regardless of what the nut at the EFF says). There is a real double standard here because of all the money and people involved. A ma-and-pa youtube would be shutdown in a heartbeat. The way napster was shut down, or the rulings against kazaa. The RIAA is much less willing to play ball than the tv companies, which have more or less embraced the web.
The DMCA gives us no protections, what we are seeing here is a gentleman's agreement to keep it afloat because someone in some media company or at google will find a clever way to make millions off it. The EFF's pathetic and cowardly defense of the DMCA just to get Cuban's goat will hopefully translate into a loss of donations. We need a real copyright reform organization, not Kapor's little band of out-of-touch geeks with axes to grind against Cuban, regardless of the damage they are doing by legitimizing the DMCA to the public.
Maybe next week Barlow can tell me how well the PATRIOT act is going because of some trivial subclause that got some PD somewhere in Utah a nice anti-terror RV.
>If a file does not have DRM on it, dont PUT DRM ON IT.
Great, then MS gets sued by all the record companies because the DMCA prohibits the distribution of tools that facilitate illegal copying. You want a decent MP3 player with all the bells? Your fight isnt with apple or ms, its with the american congress and the DMCA.
Heaven forbid they just ask people to get off their butts and manually type in 'paypal.com' Granted, this exposes them to some typo domains, but it sure beats blindly clicking around and handing your authentication info to strangers. I always tell non-techies to always type in their banks name and dont bother trying to decipher whether an email is safe or not.
Yeah, this is a little over the top. I wouldnt be surprised if there was a follow up article on how the person who wrote this was an ex-boyfriend or just a random nut. Using this as a springboard to get on a soapbox and talk about misogyny in technology is more than a bit disingenious. The agenda pushers and chronic complainers are out in force today I see.
>And since the 2006 midterms, when American voters fed up with war, paranoia, and moralism in government voted in Democrats, they haven't gotten that changed.
With a Republican in control of the executive branch aint much is going to happen. You make it sound like there was a huge sweep in all branches, which is untrue.
>Well, one could naturally believe that it's slow because it checks the content of the file for possible markers that it is a file containing protected content, or something like this.
Yes, if one was naturally an idiot.
Its just the anti-DRM agenda. When my car broke down last week I also knew it was DRM.
Whoa, you mean this isnt part of a international conspiracy by the illuminati led by Karl Rove to control the world?
I remember when slashdot was the place to go to get away from the BS. Now its conspiracy theories, biased blurbs, and hand-handed politicizing on the front page.
>Unlike "real goods" which cost "real money" to make, a Vista product (ie. DVD + packaging) costs virtually nothing.
You could say that off all commercial software, books, magazines, etc.
As far as building vista, the motivation is that software is a moving target so there must always be a next version on the horizon for add functionality, make money, etc ESPECIALLY when OSX and some OSS offerings have come so far in the past few years.
I think the idea of "lets keep selling XP forever" is incredibly naive and lacks a basic understanding of the software industry. Of course this is slashdot so if MS did sit on XP for 5 more years there would be nothing but ridicule, so its a damned if you do, damned if you dont metnality here. Sitting on software is almost universally decried as bad business and bad for users. See IE6.
Not only can you move it or change the default paths for desktop, my docs, etc you *should* be doing backups of your stuff. Blaming MS for not out of the box letting you put a profile folder on a different partition is being really really lazy in the FUD department. Not to mention I hope you arent going to put everything on a different partition on the same disk. What happens if that disk dies and you still dont have backups?
The cost of multiple backups is very real. The real issue here is that this is a frivolous complaint. First off, wet tape being readable is an artifact of the medium. The rosetta stone in the british museum is pretty readable but we arent exactly throwing out our modern media to go back to stone. Also, lets consider a reel to reel tape is about 90 minutes (7inch). 650 megabytes on a standard disc at encoding similiar to the quality you get out of a reel to reel tape is something like 1,500 minutes. And its smaller. So lets not go a little too crazy with idealizing the past.
Also I'm certain for every analog horror story there is a digital lucky story (and vice versa). Not to mention digital encodings usually have some kind of redundancy. A small scrach does nothing but the same scratch on an lp forever destroys some part of the track. I wont even go into the magic of data restoration (which the author ignores). There's really no 'tough medium for the ages' out there that can do it all. Just complaints and blind-luck stories.
>That's the fee they raised to obscene levels and what is threatening to kill internet radio.
Why would they want internet radio to thrive? The stream can easily be captured and turned into mp3s, traditional radio pays out, and the record companies are at war with anything internet based that isnt the ITMS. If internet radio finds a way to get by they'll just raise the rates again. This is how the record companies work. The last thing they want is decent internet radio.
>invent something militarily useful and it will dissappear from public knowledge.
Man, wouldnt it be cool to have something like the internet (a military project) in the US (to spread to the rest of the world) where we could complain about the oppressive military-industrial complex and falsibly equate the soviet and US systems. damn you secretive regimes! Oh wait...
I think it rescans the area for networks every 30 or 60 seconds which causes a delay. I also know theres an issue with this and USB wifi adapters. Whatever it does at 30 or 60 seconds really messes up some USB wifi cards. THey usually drop link and then re-attach. It has to be exactly 30 or 60 seconds. If its not, then you have other problems.
Why should it not be true? What part of OSS guarantees a lower cost for enterprise? The code is free and open, thats the long and short of it. If it costs more to implement using current business practices, methods, testing, support, yadda yadda compared to a commercial product, I still fail to see the problem.
The benefits of OSS is that its free and open, not that its cheap for some bank to use compared to windows. MS may be completely right. I'm certain depending on the environment and what "ownership" consists of, services, level of support, etc it may just be a wash and that money spent on the initial purchase of the OS is the lowest long term cost.
Wireless gaming is quite the little nightmare isnt it?
Here are some things you can do. The goal is getting the ping to the wireless router to be 1ms (or less) consistantly. 2-4ms consistantly is okay but past that lots of problems creep in.
1. Some wireless managers do something stupid every 30 or 60 seconds that causes lost packets and delays. The MS XP SP2 manager is one of these. I use the linksys manager that came with my card now.
2. Find a free channel in you area. Or the one with the least amount of interference on one of the three non overlapping channels.
3. Set your router to be either G or B only (pick one). Doing both adds some time slicing silliness that hurts latency. You might want to try both and see which one works out best for you.
4. Get as close as possible to the router.
5. Get a better antenna/chipset. You need a stellar connection with no interference.
I finally got my desktop to ping the router at 1ms consistantly with no lost packets. Well, once in a great while. Its so much more effort than running an unslightly wire and the wireless still 'feels' slow on BF2. Other games that arent as network demanding may fare better. Now I just run a wire when I want to play just to be extra safe and leave wireless for when im not gaming.
Lastly, an n-connection may not be at all faster in terms of latency. You may still have time slicing problems, weird interference issues, extra CPU usage, etc. Its not really like ethernet at all. Depending on the manufacturer and what the air interface is like near you it could be worse (latency wise) than running an old B router with a decent antenna.
That makes no sense. WPA (using TKIP) changes keys every x packets, not x seconds. Usually under 10,000. WPA using AES/CCMP is even more difficult (if not impossible) to crack. WPA and WPA2 are just fine for wireless networks at 108mpbs. Hell, I'd be happy just to see people migrate away from WEP with this new release of products.
The real vulnerability is still weak passwords. Wireless devices could do more to enforce better passwords and limit the amount of tries per minute per mac.
Any company that considers upgrading before SP1 and without a considerable amount of testing is being more than slightly irresponsible. This isnt a slight against MS, its just being normally cautious. Corporate IT isnt like being a home user who just wants the latest releases, damn the consequences.
What part of "she was half-crazed out of her mind and crazily planning a murder plot over 'the other woman'" to the point of being irrational. When you're collecting all the rubber tubing so you can properly tie up and sink a corpse, well, at that point you might as well start wearing a diaper. In that context it makes perfect sense.
These are just irrational acts. Even if she did it, she would have been caught. No alibi and most likely witness.
We have a couple of macs at work. One imac g5 died. This is how apple operates.
Call AppleCare. Long Wait. Do all the diagnostics I've already done. Support says its a bad mobo or ps. I ask to send it in, he stammers and tells me to call the local apple store for mail-in service.
I call the Apple Store. They tell me they can't accept anything mailed in or messengered over. They tell me to call applecare again and that applecare will take in mail-ins.
I call apple care again. Seriously long wait. I explain everything again. The guy puts me on hold for literally 15 minutes while he goes and finds out about "mailing in a computer." He then tells me that Apple no longer accepts desktops mailed in.
I call the Apple Store again. I finally get a manager. He tells me I have to get off my ass, leave work for god knows how long, lug this beast down michigan ave in chicago, and drop it off with one of his geniuses.
This is crap, by now Dell or whoever would already be repairing the machine I sent them with the standard warranty.
Apple is doing its best to piss off corprate customers and keep macs out of business. There's no microsoft conspiracy here, Apple is pretty competent at shooting itself in the foot.
>The money would have just vanished down some vote buying program that forever indebts us.
Who says? This is what good bookeeping from the government looked like. If we would have kept that path by say, voting someone else in but Bush, the deficit would still have been under control if not paid for. The 300 billion is very serious money and writing it off as 'money that was good as gone' is being willfully ignorant.
>Refuse to give the currently running Star Trek series a free machine as a prop forcing paramount to acquire a Mac instead.
Right! Billion-dollar tv studios shouldnt have to pay for anything. Companies should be giving them free stuff and raising the price on their products so consumers like me can pay for it! Genius!
I have found the exact opposite to be true. I hate reinstalling and almost never do. I have installs that are years old that are pretty damn fast. The most obvious culprits are users who install any app they can find, have dozens of system tray icons, dozens of startup objects, dozens of unecessary services, spyware, etc. They complain about 'slowness' then do a reinstall which only removes all this unecessary software and blame MS. I'm more than a little skeptical fo these claims.
Granted, the OS could be doing moer to assist these users, but for the part its just poor user maintenance. Of course, all OS's will develop crust over time, but that doesnt mean a noticable performance drop. My aging system at home, which gets some serious abuse, produces the same FPS in bf2 as someone with a fresh install with the same hardware. It encodes video just as quickly. It feels as reponsive. It runs graphical benchmarks just as well. If windows performance degrades over time than I have some mystical power to be immune from this. Or more likely, the crap most users do to their computer just piles up, they dont bother to examine their systems, do a reinstall, and just bitch about MS.
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>starving people in these countries,
Yeah! And what of these charities that teach them literacy and give them medicine? What the hell. They need food, not books and healthcare. They dont need condoms, or clean clothing either. Clean water? For what? Like you said they need food only! Schools are for overfed westerners only.
Obviously, the goal of the olpc and 99% of charitable donations in third world countries is not related directly to food. Lets not pretend that it is. Everytime I hear 'they need food' not -insert something they also need- jsut shows the ignorance of the person saying this. Maybe we westerners can do with some charitable donation to help with our ignorance problem. Like some kind of wiki thats also an encyclopedia. So we can look things up before we post about them online. Yeah, that would rule...
No its not ridiculous. Cuban is right. Please prove me wrong:
1. Start a youtube clone iwth your person money.
2. let users upload tv and movie clips
3. See how long you stay in business.
Youtube's life is really based on the idea it can make money, thus the big takedown has been delayed. That doesnt mean the DMCA safe harbor is helping it or anyone (regardless of what the nut at the EFF says). There is a real double standard here because of all the money and people involved. A ma-and-pa youtube would be shutdown in a heartbeat. The way napster was shut down, or the rulings against kazaa. The RIAA is much less willing to play ball than the tv companies, which have more or less embraced the web.
The DMCA gives us no protections, what we are seeing here is a gentleman's agreement to keep it afloat because someone in some media company or at google will find a clever way to make millions off it. The EFF's pathetic and cowardly defense of the DMCA just to get Cuban's goat will hopefully translate into a loss of donations. We need a real copyright reform organization, not Kapor's little band of out-of-touch geeks with axes to grind against Cuban, regardless of the damage they are doing by legitimizing the DMCA to the public.
Maybe next week Barlow can tell me how well the PATRIOT act is going because of some trivial subclause that got some PD somewhere in Utah a nice anti-terror RV.
>If a file does not have DRM on it, dont PUT DRM ON IT.
Great, then MS gets sued by all the record companies because the DMCA prohibits the distribution of tools that facilitate illegal copying. You want a decent MP3 player with all the bells? Your fight isnt with apple or ms, its with the american congress and the DMCA.
Heaven forbid they just ask people to get off their butts and manually type in 'paypal.com' Granted, this exposes them to some typo domains, but it sure beats blindly clicking around and handing your authentication info to strangers. I always tell non-techies to always type in their banks name and dont bother trying to decipher whether an email is safe or not.
Yeah, this is a little over the top. I wouldnt be surprised if there was a follow up article on how the person who wrote this was an ex-boyfriend or just a random nut. Using this as a springboard to get on a soapbox and talk about misogyny in technology is more than a bit disingenious. The agenda pushers and chronic complainers are out in force today I see.
>And since the 2006 midterms, when American voters fed up with war, paranoia, and moralism in government voted in Democrats, they haven't gotten that changed.
With a Republican in control of the executive branch aint much is going to happen. You make it sound like there was a huge sweep in all branches, which is untrue.
>Well, one could naturally believe that it's slow because it checks the content of the file for possible markers that it is a file containing protected content, or something like this.
Yes, if one was naturally an idiot.
Its just the anti-DRM agenda. When my car broke down last week I also knew it was DRM.
Whoa, you mean this isnt part of a international conspiracy by the illuminati led by Karl Rove to control the world?
I remember when slashdot was the place to go to get away from the BS. Now its conspiracy theories, biased blurbs, and hand-handed politicizing on the front page.
>Unlike "real goods" which cost "real money" to make, a Vista product (ie. DVD + packaging) costs virtually nothing.
You could say that off all commercial software, books, magazines, etc.
As far as building vista, the motivation is that software is a moving target so there must always be a next version on the horizon for add functionality, make money, etc ESPECIALLY when OSX and some OSS offerings have come so far in the past few years.
I think the idea of "lets keep selling XP forever" is incredibly naive and lacks a basic understanding of the software industry. Of course this is slashdot so if MS did sit on XP for 5 more years there would be nothing but ridicule, so its a damned if you do, damned if you dont metnality here. Sitting on software is almost universally decried as bad business and bad for users. See IE6.
Not only can you move it or change the default paths for desktop, my docs, etc you *should* be doing backups of your stuff. Blaming MS for not out of the box letting you put a profile folder on a different partition is being really really lazy in the FUD department. Not to mention I hope you arent going to put everything on a different partition on the same disk. What happens if that disk dies and you still dont have backups?
The cost of multiple backups is very real. The real issue here is that this is a frivolous complaint. First off, wet tape being readable is an artifact of the medium. The rosetta stone in the british museum is pretty readable but we arent exactly throwing out our modern media to go back to stone. Also, lets consider a reel to reel tape is about 90 minutes (7inch). 650 megabytes on a standard disc at encoding similiar to the quality you get out of a reel to reel tape is something like 1,500 minutes. And its smaller. So lets not go a little too crazy with idealizing the past.
Also I'm certain for every analog horror story there is a digital lucky story (and vice versa). Not to mention digital encodings usually have some kind of redundancy. A small scrach does nothing but the same scratch on an lp forever destroys some part of the track. I wont even go into the magic of data restoration (which the author ignores). There's really no 'tough medium for the ages' out there that can do it all. Just complaints and blind-luck stories.
>That's the fee they raised to obscene levels and what is threatening to kill internet radio.
Why would they want internet radio to thrive? The stream can easily be captured and turned into mp3s, traditional radio pays out, and the record companies are at war with anything internet based that isnt the ITMS. If internet radio finds a way to get by they'll just raise the rates again. This is how the record companies work. The last thing they want is decent internet radio.
>invent something militarily useful and it will dissappear from public knowledge.
Man, wouldnt it be cool to have something like the internet (a military project) in the US (to spread to the rest of the world) where we could complain about the oppressive military-industrial complex and falsibly equate the soviet and US systems. damn you secretive regimes! Oh wait...
I think it rescans the area for networks every 30 or 60 seconds which causes a delay. I also know theres an issue with this and USB wifi adapters. Whatever it does at 30 or 60 seconds really messes up some USB wifi cards. THey usually drop link and then re-attach. It has to be exactly 30 or 60 seconds. If its not, then you have other problems.
Why should it not be true? What part of OSS guarantees a lower cost for enterprise? The code is free and open, thats the long and short of it. If it costs more to implement using current business practices, methods, testing, support, yadda yadda compared to a commercial product, I still fail to see the problem.
The benefits of OSS is that its free and open, not that its cheap for some bank to use compared to windows. MS may be completely right. I'm certain depending on the environment and what "ownership" consists of, services, level of support, etc it may just be a wash and that money spent on the initial purchase of the OS is the lowest long term cost.
Wireless gaming is quite the little nightmare isnt it?
Here are some things you can do. The goal is getting the ping to the wireless router to be 1ms (or less) consistantly. 2-4ms consistantly is okay but past that lots of problems creep in.
1. Some wireless managers do something stupid every 30 or 60 seconds that causes lost packets and delays. The MS XP SP2 manager is one of these. I use the linksys manager that came with my card now.
2. Find a free channel in you area. Or the one with the least amount of interference on one of the three non overlapping channels.
3. Set your router to be either G or B only (pick one). Doing both adds some time slicing silliness that hurts latency. You might want to try both and see which one works out best for you.
4. Get as close as possible to the router.
5. Get a better antenna/chipset. You need a stellar connection with no interference.
I finally got my desktop to ping the router at 1ms consistantly with no lost packets. Well, once in a great while. Its so much more effort than running an unslightly wire and the wireless still 'feels' slow on BF2. Other games that arent as network demanding may fare better. Now I just run a wire when I want to play just to be extra safe and leave wireless for when im not gaming.
Lastly, an n-connection may not be at all faster in terms of latency. You may still have time slicing problems, weird interference issues, extra CPU usage, etc. Its not really like ethernet at all. Depending on the manufacturer and what the air interface is like near you it could be worse (latency wise) than running an old B router with a decent antenna.
>MORE packets per second on these networks,
That makes no sense. WPA (using TKIP) changes keys every x packets, not x seconds. Usually under 10,000. WPA using AES/CCMP is even more difficult (if not impossible) to crack. WPA and WPA2 are just fine for wireless networks at 108mpbs. Hell, I'd be happy just to see people migrate away from WEP with this new release of products.
The real vulnerability is still weak passwords. Wireless devices could do more to enforce better passwords and limit the amount of tries per minute per mac.
It didnt work for pullman, I doubt it'll work for google.
Any company that considers upgrading before SP1 and without a considerable amount of testing is being more than slightly irresponsible. This isnt a slight against MS, its just being normally cautious. Corporate IT isnt like being a home user who just wants the latest releases, damn the consequences.
What part of "she was half-crazed out of her mind and crazily planning a murder plot over 'the other woman'" to the point of being irrational. When you're collecting all the rubber tubing so you can properly tie up and sink a corpse, well, at that point you might as well start wearing a diaper. In that context it makes perfect sense.
These are just irrational acts. Even if she did it, she would have been caught. No alibi and most likely witness.
I think Charlie Booker said it best in this hilarious piece from the guardian.
We have a couple of macs at work. One imac g5 died. This is how apple operates.
Call AppleCare. Long Wait. Do all the diagnostics I've already done. Support says its a bad mobo or ps. I ask to send it in, he stammers and tells me to call the local apple store for mail-in service.
I call the Apple Store. They tell me they can't accept anything mailed in or messengered over. They tell me to call applecare again and that applecare will take in mail-ins.
I call apple care again. Seriously long wait. I explain everything again. The guy puts me on hold for literally 15 minutes while he goes and finds out about "mailing in a computer." He then tells me that Apple no longer accepts desktops mailed in.
I call the Apple Store again. I finally get a manager. He tells me I have to get off my ass, leave work for god knows how long, lug this beast down michigan ave in chicago, and drop it off with one of his geniuses.
This is crap, by now Dell or whoever would already be repairing the machine I sent them with the standard warranty.
Apple is doing its best to piss off corprate customers and keep macs out of business. There's no microsoft conspiracy here, Apple is pretty competent at shooting itself in the foot.
>The money would have just vanished down some vote buying program that forever indebts us.
Who says? This is what good bookeeping from the government looked like. If we would have kept that path by say, voting someone else in but Bush, the deficit would still have been under control if not paid for. The 300 billion is very serious money and writing it off as 'money that was good as gone' is being willfully ignorant.
>Refuse to give the currently running Star Trek series a free machine as a prop forcing paramount to acquire a Mac instead.
Right! Billion-dollar tv studios shouldnt have to pay for anything. Companies should be giving them free stuff and raising the price on their products so consumers like me can pay for it! Genius!
I have found the exact opposite to be true. I hate reinstalling and almost never do. I have installs that are years old that are pretty damn fast. The most obvious culprits are users who install any app they can find, have dozens of system tray icons, dozens of startup objects, dozens of unecessary services, spyware, etc. They complain about 'slowness' then do a reinstall which only removes all this unecessary software and blame MS. I'm more than a little skeptical fo these claims.
Granted, the OS could be doing moer to assist these users, but for the part its just poor user maintenance. Of course, all OS's will develop crust over time, but that doesnt mean a noticable performance drop. My aging system at home, which gets some serious abuse, produces the same FPS in bf2 as someone with a fresh install with the same hardware. It encodes video just as quickly. It feels as reponsive. It runs graphical benchmarks just as well. If windows performance degrades over time than I have some mystical power to be immune from this. Or more likely, the crap most users do to their computer just piles up, they dont bother to examine their systems, do a reinstall, and just bitch about MS.