I think it would be easy for an ISP to get an automated message back to the user(especially an XP user with a wide open C:\windows\system32 directory), " Your computer is running a bot/virus/trojan etc... that is participating in malicious attacks. It will have restricted internet access until you get it fixed. And put this into the enduser policy. the enduser only gets internet access to the ISP's patch/fix center website.
Actually scratch that... IT would be hard. ISP's consist of about 2 or 3 real technicians and 9999999 outsourced customer service people.... doh.
So if I build a warp drive, and sell it to areospace companies, star trek cannot do the injunction thing because it has no working warp drive that its selling to space companies?
Every other day there is some lawsuit to keep pornography in schools and libraries. how the heck can you allow porn sites (no speach) and ban social sites (all speach) and say its free speach?
Both free press (blogs, posts, forums etc) and free speach, (email, PM's, threads, discussions, etc) would be "abridged",
It would also block "peaceful assembly as many social sites are grouped by intrests.
Its kind of funny, I have been noticing "GPL" licenses, during installation of software now, especially windows software. So in a way Yes, you are correct. Also, certain complex projects that are based on libs that are GPL'ed have issues.
So in reality OSS is like George bush, enforcing freedom on the world:D
Not all software is open source. Its a fact of life. I love open source software. I love free software. but I do not think there is anything wrong with putting non-free software in your linux package. This kind of attitude is holding back linux. So what is 1 distro out of hundreds becomes "tainted" with copyrighted software.
Guess what? I play Neverwinter Nights and myth2, on my linux/bsd boxes! So shoot me because the source is not open. Its open source fundamentalism, at its worst. If you want to put out a good product, you have to come to the realization that not all drivers or software is free, and unless you want to write your own driver for every single bit of 19.99$ hardware out there, or 29.99$ game or productivity tool, its a lot easier to package binaries.
When I was a teen, I taught myself turbo pascal. I had graduated from High school early and had plenty of time on my hands. Now, I am working a 40 hour work week, and I am too tired to get into python, or to do the openGL tutorials on Nehe. Europeans dont work nearly as much as as Americans, and have a lot more time to tinker around.
That may be true, but this is something that they should have done a long time ago. The industries are slow at innovation, they want to just keep doing things the same way and get a constant, easy stream of money.
I think I would pay for it provided...
- I actually get a fast kps, with lots of peers.
- the file is encoded in a *GOOD* format that is playable ins something other than windows media player.
- DRM alert!!!! See above, if I cant play it on a player of choice, or back it up on a personal DVD, then you might as well buy a DVD.
"at least", "thought", "probably" "radical new theory", "study suggests", "cosmologists believe", - such verbage is used on the art bell show to proove the existance of aliens.
I dont see any fossil records, star charts, photos etc, to proove this. Is this just a bunch of nerds sitting around contemplating the cosmos?
The Article is biased by the use of the word "migrating". Given all of the illegal immigration news in the US, the term was used to slant the article towards Microsoft by the use of the derogatory term "migrate" in reference to Linux. But, more correct term should be "upgrading". To be fair.
I have yet to watch a "game movie" that stuck to the original story line.
Example: Doom. Doom is about killing zombies and hellspawn. And then along comes the movie and what do you know? The demons aren't really demons, they are scientists mutated by some gene. There aren't millions of them, there are only 6! In fact everyone is just genetically altered... Doom went from being a fight hell with a shotgun, to Resident evil *without* Milla. In fact every zombie movie out nowadays is either a virus or a "human enhancement project"
I shutter to think that there should ever be a live action Starcraft or Warcraft movie. That would just be sad.
It could still technically be Illegal to force implants, but if you are "forced" to economically such as not being able to buy or sell (Bible's prediction) then you are still compelled to be implanted... "causeth" (jkv) is not forced.
Silly politicians, You cannot legislate the end away, you must watch for it and be ready.
Sad but true. Vista will be installed on millions of computers, spawn millions of worms adware, spyware, etc, send in receive tons of spam, etc, etc, etc....
and I? In my dispair, maybe I should be thanking Vista for keeping the "tech field" alive. Why do you need someone around to fix it if nothing's broken? ( aka, why is there usually only ONE unix admin in the building )
I am a FreeBSD user but I started with Linux. I have also in my newbie days asked a few lame questions that were plainly stated in man, some book, some website, or some buried thread. Today, I try my best to put myself in the noobs position and answer the question in a civil way. Another point to make is that Linux manuals aren't always the clearest manuals. They will list the command and all the options but not how to put them together. An example is encoding to xvid. mencoder will have options like -ovc but not show you how to -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1000, etc.
the way I see it, is that every Linux/bsd newbie is one more reason for commercial hardware companies to provide hardware support, games companies to provide game binaries, websites to support other browsers, applications to support open source formats, and ipods to support OGG:p. Obviously Linux isn't for everyone, but if the Linux community puts forth an image as being helpful caring and supportive as a community, it will draw new enthusiasts who can contribute, and in more ways than one. Some sort of obscure x hardware used by someone in the world could suddenly be supported because you answered some basic question on how linux handles usb!
Driving people away by elitism will keep Linux in the "geeks toy" category, that it currently assumed to be. I will not ague what Linux is or isn't, what I am referring to by saying "geeks toy", is the perception of the system.
As much as I hate microsoft, I will have to admit that manufacurers of PC's running Windows are partly to blame. If there is anything worse than windows XP, its an OEM windows xp stuffed with marketing, and hand holding apps.
As far as security goes, home pc's practically come with a "kickme" sign on them, and the manufacturers response to this is often "sorry, you were kicked, there is nothing i can do in 15 minutes, let me transfer you to paid support or I suggest you call microsoft."
People are slowly starting to realize that mac's are actually pretty good Computers. If you can pry your user away from his OEM programs which locked him or her into a cylce such as "all my email is on aol" , or "all my documents are on works" etc.... {there is no then in C}
I dont know if this is true or not, and no i didnt read the article. But one thing I do know. When I worked at (insert dying compter company) Customer "support", i swore I would never buy one. We were basicly the US "outsourced" support after they laid off all their real techs... the new company cared nothing for their customers. Getting chewed out by a manger because i spent longer than 15 minutes with a customer?!?!? Because I didnt want to leave a customer hanging with their computer completly trashed by malware? OMG, xmorg you are killing our stats!!!
And they wonder why the PC computer's industry is slumping. First sell an OS that breaks very quickly under amature use, and then provide lame support.
I have heard about all these tests that they put up a windows server vs a Linux/BSD server and you get Windows being more "secure" in certain areas, etc.
But this is what we are talking about when we says LESS secure. Anyone running a server in a professional environment is expected to know what he or she is doing. What windows lacks in security has to do with workstations/personal computers at a persons home browsing the web on IE, who is not a security expert and shouldnt need to be! Windows continues to leave the \windows \windows\system, windows\system32, and the system registry wide open to any executable/script hacker who wants in.
My friends logon to the net and start clicking around, etc, and whala! you are full of virii and malware so thick it baffles most techs nowdays.
I believe its more of a result of poor programming rather than an issue of web developers "switching to IE only".
So called web developers are pushed through cookie cutter classes at community coleges, using "(insert GUI we development tool here) design in 21 days" as a textbook, and getting hired by companies who dont know any better, and are designing sites with the only tool they know which happens to support only IE.
it may do little but complaining is the only thing we can do. I know that when I quit my DLS prvider and go back cable, I sill cite "IE needed to complete setup" as one of the reasons for leaving.
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I think it would be easy for an ISP to get an automated message back to the user(especially an XP user with a wide open C:\windows\system32 directory), " Your computer is running a bot/virus/trojan etc... that is participating in malicious attacks. It will have restricted internet access until you get it fixed. And put this into the enduser policy. the enduser only gets internet access to the ISP's patch/fix center website.
Actually scratch that... IT would be hard. ISP's consist of about 2 or 3 real technicians and 9999999 outsourced customer service people.... doh.
I actually clicked on the Joke link.... lol.
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So if I build a warp drive, and sell it to areospace companies, star trek cannot do the injunction thing because it has no working warp drive that its selling to space companies?
I think the new Diamond rio does ogg too. I have an I river and its pretty sweet. Strangly however I cant find them in stores anymore :(
Every other day there is some lawsuit to keep pornography in schools and libraries. how the heck can you allow porn sites (no speach) and ban social sites (all speach) and say its free speach?
Both free press (blogs, posts, forums etc)
and free speach, (email, PM's, threads, discussions, etc)
would be "abridged",
It would also block "peaceful assembly as many social sites are grouped by intrests.
Its kind of funny, I have been noticing "GPL" licenses, during installation of software now, especially windows software. So in a way Yes, you are correct. Also, certain complex projects that are based on libs that are GPL'ed have issues.
:D
So in reality OSS is like George bush, enforcing freedom on the world
Mostly geeks are the ones getting beat up in school. Who would be the thugs?
Not all software is open source. Its a fact of life. I love open source software. I love free software. but I do not think there is anything wrong with putting non-free software in your linux package. This kind of attitude is holding back linux. So what is 1 distro out of hundreds becomes "tainted" with copyrighted software.
Guess what? I play Neverwinter Nights and myth2, on my linux/bsd boxes! So shoot me because the source is not open. Its open source fundamentalism, at its worst. If you want to put out a good product, you have to come to the realization that not all drivers or software is free, and unless you want to write your own driver for every single bit of 19.99$ hardware out there, or 29.99$ game or productivity tool, its a lot easier to package binaries.
When I was a teen, I taught myself turbo pascal. I had graduated from High school early and had plenty of time on my hands. Now, I am working a 40 hour work week, and I am too tired to get into python, or to do the openGL tutorials on Nehe. Europeans dont work nearly as much as as Americans, and have a lot more time to tinker around.
That may be true, but this is something that they should have done a long time ago. The industries are slow at innovation, they want to just keep doing things the same way and get a constant, easy stream of money.
I think I would pay for it provided...
- I actually get a fast kps, with lots of peers.
- the file is encoded in a *GOOD* format that is playable ins something other than windows media player.
- DRM alert!!!! See above, if I cant play it on a player of choice, or back it up on a personal DVD, then you might as well buy a DVD.
"at least", "thought", "probably" "radical new theory", "study suggests", "cosmologists believe", - such verbage is used on the art bell show to proove the existance of aliens.
I dont see any fossil records, star charts, photos etc, to proove this. Is this just a bunch of nerds sitting around contemplating the cosmos?
Nope is the work of the satanic Democrat controlled party :p Look at the election results!!!!
Google for Red/blue states. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
Nintendo Iphantom...
The Article is biased by the use of the word "migrating". Given all of the illegal immigration news in the US, the term was used to slant the article towards Microsoft by the use of the derogatory term "migrate" in reference to Linux. But, more correct term should be "upgrading". To be fair.
I have yet to watch a "game movie" that stuck to the original story line.
Example: Doom. Doom is about killing zombies and hellspawn. And then along comes the movie and what do you know? The demons aren't really demons, they are scientists mutated by some gene. There aren't millions of them, there are only 6! In fact everyone is just genetically altered... Doom went from being a fight hell with a shotgun, to Resident evil *without* Milla. In fact every zombie movie out nowadays is either a virus or a "human enhancement project"
I shutter to think that there should ever be a live action Starcraft or Warcraft movie. That would just be sad.
It could still technically be Illegal to force implants, but if you are "forced" to economically such as not being able to buy or sell (Bible's prediction) then you are still compelled to be implanted... "causeth" (jkv) is not forced.
Silly politicians, You cannot legislate the end away, you must watch for it and be ready.
Sad but true.
Vista will be installed on millions of computers, spawn millions of worms adware, spyware, etc, send in receive tons of spam, etc, etc, etc....
and I? In my dispair, maybe I should be thanking Vista for keeping the "tech field" alive. Why do you need someone around to fix it if nothing's broken? ( aka, why is there usually only ONE unix admin in the building )
I am a FreeBSD user but I started with Linux. I have also in my newbie days asked a few lame questions that were plainly stated in man, some book, some website, or some buried thread. Today, I try my best to put myself in the noobs position and answer the question in a civil way. Another point to make is that Linux manuals aren't always the clearest manuals. They will list the command and all the options but not how to put them together. An example is encoding to xvid. mencoder will have options like -ovc but not show you how to -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1000, etc.
:p. Obviously Linux isn't for everyone, but if the Linux community puts forth an image as being helpful caring and supportive as a community, it will draw new enthusiasts who can contribute, and in more ways than one. Some sort of obscure x hardware used by someone in the world could suddenly be supported because you answered some basic question on how linux handles usb!
the way I see it, is that every Linux/bsd newbie is one more reason for commercial hardware companies to provide hardware support, games companies to provide game binaries, websites to support other browsers, applications to support open source formats, and ipods to support OGG
Driving people away by elitism will keep Linux in the "geeks toy" category, that it currently assumed to be. I will not ague what Linux is or isn't, what I am referring to by saying "geeks toy", is the perception of the system.
As much as I hate microsoft, I will have to admit that manufacurers of PC's running Windows are partly to blame. If there is anything worse than windows XP, its an OEM windows xp stuffed with marketing, and hand holding apps.
As far as security goes, home pc's practically come with a "kickme" sign on them, and the manufacturers response to this is often "sorry, you were kicked, there is nothing i can do in 15 minutes, let me transfer you to paid support or I suggest you call microsoft."
People are slowly starting to realize that mac's are actually pretty good Computers. If you can pry your user away from his OEM programs which locked him or her into a cylce such as "all my email is on aol" , or "all my documents are on works" etc.... {there is no then in C}
I dont know if this is true or not, and no i didnt read the article. But one thing I do know. When I worked at (insert dying compter company) Customer "support", i swore I would never buy one. We were basicly the US "outsourced" support after they laid off all their real techs... the new company cared nothing for their customers. Getting chewed out by a manger because i spent longer than 15 minutes with a customer?!?!? Because I didnt want to leave a customer hanging with their computer completly trashed by malware? OMG, xmorg you are killing our stats!!!
And they wonder why the PC computer's industry is slumping. First sell an OS that breaks very quickly under amature use, and then provide lame support.
I have heard about all these tests that they put up a windows server vs a Linux/BSD server and you get Windows being more "secure" in certain areas, etc.
But this is what we are talking about when we says LESS secure. Anyone running a server in a professional environment is expected to know what he or she is doing. What windows lacks in security has to do with workstations/personal computers at a persons home browsing the web on IE, who is not a security expert and shouldnt need to be! Windows continues to leave the \windows \windows\system, windows\system32, and the system registry wide open to any executable/script hacker who wants in.
My friends logon to the net and start clicking around, etc, and whala! you are full of virii and malware so thick it baffles most techs nowdays.
hmmm, I dont know what makes him a guru? Did he design enlightenment? MWM? hmmmm.
I believe its more of a result of poor programming rather than an issue of web developers "switching to IE only".
So called web developers are pushed through cookie cutter classes at community coleges, using "(insert GUI we development tool here) design in 21 days" as a textbook, and getting hired by companies who dont know any better, and are designing sites with the only tool they know which happens to support only IE.
it may do little but complaining is the only thing we can do. I know that when I quit my DLS prvider and go back cable, I sill cite "IE needed to complete setup" as one of the reasons for leaving.
Yes Im a hypocrite !
Hurray for the US Patent office!