My first computer was a Gateway 2000.:-) I'm not sure what the exact model was, but it ran Windows 95. In 2002 I got my old Emachines T2245. Last December I got my iMac G5.:-)
I plan to start collecting old computers as a "hobby". I'd like to be able to program an old VIC-20 or something. I think it would be a great learning experience, because the VIC-20s and Commodore 64s of yesteryear were so much simpler than the computers they sell now. Had I gotten a chance to mess with one, I would probably have a better understanding of how computers function, because I would have a much simpler knowledge to build upon.
I totally didn't just make a copy of the new Oliver Twist DVD for use in my English class!
Yeah.. I'm totally raking in the money now. Anyways, I'm all for fair use, and I don't think it's the best thing from a moral standpoint to put a bunch of copyrighted materials in a public place where people are obviously going to steal it. As for the "I just have it there so I can access it from a friends house", I see no problem with that.
What I do find troubling is that instead of cracking down on the people who are making say.. hundreds of copies of DVDs and selling them in dark allies and what not, is that they start making up junk like this. I think it seems more like a power struggle than a realistic legal issue. Like the dress code at my high school. The RIAA has been in control of the distribution of a lot of the United States' media for a long time now, and they have a right to keep obvious/stupid piracy to a minimum, but my grama isn't going to lose anyone hundreds of dollars because she puts her music on her personal FTP server [ yeah.. my grama is really cool ], so I think they should really find bigger fish to fry.
I'm all about privacy, and I think that if something likes this miniiTms bothers you thats fine, but realistically you can turn it off. Really though, what is going to happen if apple finds out you listen to the Macarina...?
And this stuff about them enabling automatically to be evil.. good lord! Please consider this scenario: You have just added a possibly useful new feature to an application you have written, you want people to know about it. You enable it by default
While it may not be relevent to the main argument being made, I think it should be noted that many methods of launching applications in many popular UIs now involve icons.
It isn't always clear what a program does by looking at its icon ( look at Adium [ mac IM client ] ), but in many cases they are a big clue. ( iPhotos icon )
Many open source applications, especially the ones that are bundled with a desktop environment, such as gnome or kde, do, in some manor reflect what the application does.
Gedit's icon for example, ( last time i checked ) is a peice of paper and a pencil. I might be odd, but nothing screams text editor like a peice of paper and a pencil. [ I made a really nasty typo spelling pecil ( ack. I did it again. ) REALLY glad I used the preview button... ]
-- kyle
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I like to check out the security of my network using the nessus vulnerability scanner. It's free, it works, and it makes me think happy thoughts.:)
( and it keeps me from doing a lot of work )
"Though hackers often have poor person-to-person communication skills, they are as a rule quite sensitive to nuances of language and very precise in their use of it."
-- The Jargon File (version 4.4.7)
[please note the difference between 'hacker' and 'cracker']
Great. They gave up on using their propoganda on adults. So now they want to start a micrsoft-youth. Sounds like a problem only fixed by 13 year old linux advocates.
13 year old linux users UNITE!
"Suzy, this Windows thing is so cool! Microsoft is the best." "I agree, because you think its cool I think its cool too because of your, and peer pressures, influence on me!"
Luckily 13 year old linux advocates were there! "No. Windows is crapy. Take a FREE Knoppix CD!"
Microsoft : No More Reboots! Users : Really?! Tell us more!! Microsoft : Yeah! Its this great new feature. Instead of the old "have to reboot" thing, we have patented an incredible new, "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" system to manage new drivers!:D
This will end up being degrating for the parents ( who will come to the realization that it doesn't work ) and the children ( who are insulted that the parents even thought it would work ). Whats it gonna do? Keep games from autoplaying? If kids are smart they will easily find a way around this. Especially the smart ones.
Heh.... I've been using a computer since I was two and I don't think anything bad happened to me. Maybee I'm just super smart, and if thats so, I suppose that I would be one of those child prodigy people that everyone is so proud of if I didn't use email and instant messaging applications. hehehe....
I don't know why people even use linspire. First of all, it offers NO choices for users. (eg. KDE and nothing else) Their dumb little Click `N Run or whatever "technology" isn't even fricking technology, its the results of some 14 year olds who think they know how to "m4x0r t3h l33t c0d3". And they make you pay like a dollar to download an OPEN SOURCE program. And the money they make off that? It doesn't go to the developers for the open source application. IT GOES RIGHT BACK TO LINSPIRE. There is NO credit where credit is due. ( @ 14 year olds : learn C; Its more fun )
Another thing, their using a version of KDE thats a fricking year old! ( last time I checked ) And they somehow manage to f*ck the Keramic theme up in a terrible terrible way that simple wasn't deserved.
And now this moron is griping about other people griping about his idea to let users just be root?! For f*cks sake! Thats just assinine! Thats like sitting down and saying.. Hmm.. Wouldn't it be fun if I hit the wrong button and deleted all my most important files while playing with this pretty box with letters and numbers inside it that says BASH.
I dunno... They may have improved since last time I used Linspire ( back when it was called lindows ( oh shit I'm gonna get sued )) but, it would need to improve A LOT. The one time when I used Linspire, I removed it and installed SuSE over it. ( I use Fedora Core now )..
I tried to register http://www.fluff.net because I'm sick of http://fluffnet.serveftp.com because it takes to fricken long to type and users wouldn't remember it if they had to.:| But it turns out someone already took it.:| They are charging like $4000 dollars for it too so im not gonna be able to get it unless the company gets shut down or I win the lottery.:|
Thats actually a REALLY good idea. You should email someone at google so they can get the interlectual property rights before microsoft tries to exploit them.:)
I wrote my congressman about this. If they get enough complains something might be done.:)
And besides if it doesn't you still get an envolope that was sent with the Franking Privledge.
I can understand microsoft dying because they have issues. But Apple? They are doing some pretty cool stuff right now. Because instead of having to fix so many security issues they can innovate. And its innovation that makes the company. Besides.. how can you deny an operating system as Sexy as Mac OS X. ( even if its kernel sucks ) ( my opinion ) And what about Linux companies? I don't see them taking the majority market share real soon but Linux is an outstanding product if it gets distributed enough and it works great in a production enviorment.
I don't really have anything against gates personally, I'm not too fond of some of how he runs his company. But it is very generous of him to donate and he probably deserves some hand shakage for it. I just wish he would be more open with his Micrsoft Windows operating system. A lot of its problems could be fixed. a LOT of problems...
This is a bunch of bull.
Leave it to the Movie and Music industry to screw over its costumers by adding some bull**** incription to it.
Their resistance is futile. We will watch out movies because we effing payed for them. Besides, some 17 year old guy from a europe'ish country *will* probably break it and we will in fact have some soft of HDDVDCSS gnu packages.:|
( much is quoted from an below article )
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My first computer was a Gateway 2000. :-) :-)
I'm not sure what the exact model was, but it ran Windows 95.
In 2002 I got my old Emachines T2245.
Last December I got my iMac G5.
I plan to start collecting old computers as a "hobby".
I'd like to be able to program an old VIC-20 or something.
I think it would be a great learning experience, because the VIC-20s and Commodore 64s of yesteryear were so much simpler than the computers they sell now. Had I gotten a chance to mess with one, I would probably have a better understanding of how computers function, because I would have a much simpler knowledge to build upon.
I totally didn't just make a copy of the new Oliver Twist DVD for use in my English class!
Yeah.. I'm totally raking in the money now. Anyways, I'm all for fair use, and I don't think it's the best thing from a moral standpoint to put a bunch of copyrighted materials in a public place where people are obviously going to steal it. As for the "I just have it there so I can access it from a friends house", I see no problem with that.
What I do find troubling is that instead of cracking down on the people who are making say.. hundreds of copies of DVDs and selling them in dark allies and what not, is that they start making up junk like this.
I think it seems more like a power struggle than a realistic legal issue. Like the dress code at my high school.
The RIAA has been in control of the distribution of a lot of the United States' media for a long time now, and they have a right to keep obvious/stupid piracy to a minimum, but my grama isn't going to lose anyone hundreds of dollars because she puts her music on her personal FTP server [ yeah.. my grama is really cool ], so I think they should really find bigger fish to fry.
I'm all about privacy, and I think that if something likes this miniiTms bothers you thats fine, but realistically you can turn it off.
Really though, what is going to happen if apple finds out you listen to the Macarina...?
And this stuff about them enabling automatically to be evil.. good lord!
Please consider this scenario: You have just added a possibly useful new feature to an application you have written, you want people to know about it. You enable it by default
Is that really so evil?
When it comes out, just don't use windows. Use Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS. :-D
Then just don't deal with their crap.
-- kyle
While it may not be relevent to the main argument being made, I think it should be noted that many methods of launching applications in many popular UIs now involve icons. It isn't always clear what a program does by looking at its icon ( look at Adium [ mac IM client ] ), but in many cases they are a big clue. ( iPhotos icon ) Many open source applications, especially the ones that are bundled with a desktop environment, such as gnome or kde, do, in some manor reflect what the application does. Gedit's icon for example, ( last time i checked ) is a peice of paper and a pencil. I might be odd, but nothing screams text editor like a peice of paper and a pencil. [ I made a really nasty typo spelling pecil ( ack. I did it again. ) REALLY glad I used the preview button... ] -- kyle
I like to check out the security of my network using the nessus vulnerability scanner. It's free, it works, and it makes me think happy thoughts. :)
( and it keeps me from doing a lot of work )
"Though hackers often have poor person-to-person communication skills, they are as a rule quite sensitive to nuances of language and very precise in their use of it."
-- The Jargon File (version 4.4.7)
[please note the difference between 'hacker' and 'cracker']
Great. They gave up on using their propoganda on adults. So now they want to start a micrsoft-youth.
Sounds like a problem only fixed by 13 year old linux advocates.
13 year old linux users UNITE!
"Suzy, this Windows thing is so cool! Microsoft is the best." "I agree, because you think its cool I think its cool too because of your, and peer pressures, influence on me!"
Luckily 13 year old linux advocates were there!
"No. Windows is crapy. Take a FREE Knoppix CD!"
Microsoft : No More Reboots! :D
Users : Really?! Tell us more!!
Microsoft : Yeah! Its this great new feature. Instead of the old "have to reboot" thing, we have patented an incredible new, "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" system to manage new drivers!
This will end up being degrating for the parents ( who will come to the realization that it doesn't work ) and the children ( who are insulted that the parents even thought it would work ).
Whats it gonna do? Keep games from autoplaying?
If kids are smart they will easily find a way around this. Especially the smart ones.
Heh.... I've been using a computer since I was two and I don't think anything bad happened to me.
Maybee I'm just super smart, and if thats so, I suppose that I would be one of those child prodigy people that everyone is so proud of if I didn't use email and instant messaging applications. hehehe....
I don't know why people even use linspire.
First of all, it offers NO choices for users.
(eg. KDE and nothing else)
Their dumb little Click `N Run or whatever "technology" isn't even fricking technology, its the results of some 14 year olds who think they know how to "m4x0r t3h l33t c0d3". And they make you pay like a dollar to download an OPEN SOURCE program. And the money they make off that? It doesn't go to the developers for the open source application. IT GOES RIGHT BACK TO LINSPIRE. There is NO credit where credit is due.
( @ 14 year olds : learn C; Its more fun )
Another thing, their using a version of KDE thats a fricking year old! ( last time I checked )
And they somehow manage to f*ck the Keramic theme up in a terrible terrible way that simple wasn't deserved.
And now this moron is griping about other people griping about his idea to let users just be root?!
For f*cks sake! Thats just assinine! Thats like sitting down and saying.. Hmm.. Wouldn't it be fun if I hit the wrong button and deleted all my most important files while playing with this pretty box with letters and numbers inside it that says BASH.
I dunno... They may have improved since last time I used Linspire ( back when it was called lindows ( oh shit I'm gonna get sued )) but, it would need to improve A LOT.
The one time when I used Linspire, I removed it and installed SuSE over it. ( I use Fedora Core now )..
I tried to register http://www.fluff.net because I'm sick of http://fluffnet.serveftp.com because it takes to fricken long to type and users wouldn't remember it if they had to. :| But it turns out someone already took it. :| They are charging like $4000 dollars for it too so im not gonna be able to get it unless the company gets shut down or I win the lottery. :|
Thats actually a REALLY good idea. You should email someone at google so they can get the interlectual property rights before microsoft tries to exploit them. :)
I wrote my congressman about this. If they get enough complains something might be done. :)
And besides if it doesn't you still get an envolope that was sent with the Franking Privledge.
I can understand microsoft dying because they have issues. But Apple? They are doing some pretty cool stuff right now. Because instead of having to fix so many security issues they can innovate. And its innovation that makes the company. Besides.. how can you deny an operating system as Sexy as Mac OS X. ( even if its kernel sucks )
( my opinion )
And what about Linux companies? I don't see them taking the majority market share real soon but Linux is an outstanding product if it gets distributed enough and it works great in a production enviorment.
I don't really have anything against gates personally, I'm not too fond of some of how he runs his company. But it is very generous of him to donate and he probably deserves some hand shakage for it. I just wish he would be more open with his Micrsoft Windows operating system. A lot of its problems could be fixed. a LOT of problems...
This is a bunch of bull. Leave it to the Movie and Music industry to screw over its costumers by adding some bull**** incription to it. Their resistance is futile. We will watch out movies because we effing payed for them. Besides, some 17 year old guy from a europe'ish country *will* probably break it and we will in fact have some soft of HDDVDCSS gnu packages. :|
( much is quoted from an below article )