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  1. Re:9th Circuit on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    Oh please, you do of course realize that the full SCOTUS is very corporation friendly, don't you?

    Roberts or Alito won't have any trouble signing off on this.

  2. Re:It's a nice framework on Rails 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Except the fact that Django, TurboGears, Zope, etc are not ORM frameworks. They're entire web frameworks, that happen to have an ORM inside them.

    The work on multiple frameworks helps to innovate and drive the others - one monolithic technology stack as the only option is double-plus-ungood. Sure, it's good for those who can't do research and choose the right tool for the job.

    I was personally turned off by the attitudes I saw on the mailing lists for Rails. Granted, this was a few years ago, and I hope things have changed, but I'm sure they haven't. It's almost like expecting the JBoss team to grow up. Nice in theory, probably won't happen.

  3. This is just inaccurate. on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 1

    FreeDOS and Linux systems

    In that result, you see a Vostro v13 Ubuntu, a Latitude 2110, etc.

    Yes, if you want a laptop with Ubuntu preloaded, you need to buy from the small business section. It's basically always been that way. You're more likely to find the hardware you want in the small business section anyhow. How many of us actually want glossy screens, for example?

  4. Re:The JVM is a dying platform. on Programming Clojure · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can you provide some evidence to back this theory?

    Sure, no one knows what Oracle is going to do here except Larry Ellison, but that isn't stopping Java development.

    Android?

    IBM?

    There's already Apache Harmony, and IBM has their JDK. If the Sun/Oracle JVM goes away, it's not the end of the world. As a matter of fact, that would probably be a *good* thing. Java has languished behind C# and .NET in terms of language features (you can argue all you want if they're useful or not), and JDK7 is still a pipe dream. The community would be able to solve these deadlocks and such without Sun's BS control of the language.

  5. Re:Two with one stone? on Bad PR Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Mark Fiore's App · · Score: 1

    Why should you care what the underlying implementation is?

    Why can't the developer be free to write their application in the best language / tool for the job? You may not agree that Flash is the best for this purpose, but you're not the developer.

  6. Re:From TFA on Canadian Judge Orders Disclosure of Anonymous Posters · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you had read the summary, you'd have noticed we're talking about a Canadian judge. Canadian law about hate speech is very different from the US.

    Your references to Cheney and such do not apply, you self-righteous pig.

  7. Re:Firewire may possibly be a solution on Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firewire must be available, but it does not mean that the content is accessible.

    Many providers choose to use the 5C DRM scheme to block your ability to record via Firewire.

    http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Firewire_Cablebox_Compatability

    Take a look at Myth's compatibility list for examples.

  8. Re:People need to stop bitching on Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if Microsoft were bundling lots of applications (third party or otherwise), people would be bitching that Microsoft doing so limits choice.

    There is no winning for Microsoft here, clearly.

    XP is almost 10 years old - they have to move on at some point.

    I have a 2008 Nissan, but the 2010 has a better navigation system. Should I be insisting that Nissan upgrade my navigation software to match that of the newer model of my car? After all, it is software.

  9. Re:Hey Dumbass... on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Hey dumbass, the Republican party of today is very different than the Republican party of Lincoln's age.

  10. Re:First post on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 1

    If you can't see that the Obama picture was racially charged, and the Bush one was not, well, there is no hope for you. Of course you posted anonymously. Coward.

  11. Re:Summary is dead wrong on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 1

    Actually, they *did* tell them in the store that it was unlimited. Go ask someone who is computer illiterate what 5GB means and then get back to me. We may understand the verbiage, but we are in the minority on details like that.

  12. Re:Summary is dead wrong on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The summary is not wrong. You may be lucky to not be caught, but my brother and his wife were - they had an absolutely outrageous bill.

    They were suckered in by Verizon's "unlimited" wording. They lived in rural Texas where no other form of broadband (except satellite) was feasible. They got the USB modem and used it, until the first month's bill showed up for nearly $1000. (The wife loves her MySpace and Facebook and YouTube)

    You can claim it's their fault all you want, but expecting non-computer savvy people to understand what 5GB is, and the fact that it's not "unlimited" like they state is deceiving and unethical.

  13. Re:Verizon = US, right? on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here in the US, the Droid is a CDMA/EVDO variant, which means it is only capable of operating on two carriers - Verizon Wireless and Sprint. Verizon can basically charge whatever fees they want, as they do have the largest 3G network in the US. Verizon works in remote areas better than any other carrier. Verizon also has the Droid device locked to their network.

    It is possible to buy an unlocked Motorola Milestone and use it in the US, but that would only gain you 3G access on AT&T Wireless and not T-Mobile. T-Mobile uses a different 3G band than the rest of the known GSM world.

    Remember, we don't have to protect consumers or competition in the US, only our large corporations bank accounts. I do wish we had Europe's model though. I noticed how great it was when I was in London for a few weeks.

  14. No suitable codec? on Google Acquiring VP3 Developer On2 Technologies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You may recall from some time back that HTML5 no longer specifies which video codec(s) a browser should support due to there being, unfortunately, no suitable codec at this time.

    That's a bit misleading. There are several suitable codecs. The problem is the major players involved with their "Not Invented Here" mentalities.

  15. Re:So should... on Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Except OpenDNS does the same thing.

    I use OpenDNS at home, and they redirect to a search page when you mistype a URL.

  16. ERROR 9 on Atari 1200XL Stacked Up Against a Dell Inspiron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This reminds me of one of the most impressive things about my Atari 800XL. I ran into this error when I first started to learn anything about computers. I was thoroughly stumped. (I was also 8 years old.)

    I wrote a letter to Atari (using Atari Writer!) and I got a reply back in the mail just a few weeks later. They told me what I did wrong, included a bunch of software, an Atari BASIC book and a years subscription to Antic.

    No computer company has impressed me like that since then.

  17. Re:Creative? Huh? on The Next Ad You Click May Be a Virus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your answer, courtesy of Wikipedia:

    Creative (noun, in advertising), referring to materials, imagery, or collateral prescriptively produced through creativity and the creative process

    This is not specific to banner ads. This term is used in all forms of advertising.

  18. Re:Ray Ozzie on Ray Ozzie Calls Google Wave "Anti-Web" · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're missing some other details about who Ray Ozzie is - he was the creator of Lotus Notes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie He definitely has some bias towards Microsoft though.

  19. Re:Some Left Over Stupidity from the Last Millenni on Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    How you got modded up as insightful is amazing.

    Have you ever taken a look at your User Agent string? It sends your browser and your operating system to the server, and in many cases, it can send extensions that exist in your browser. Examples:

    Mozilla/5.001 (windows; U; NT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0) Gecko/25250101

    Or my current user agent:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/528.17

    Unless you're setting your User-Agent to something like, "ImABrowser (Some computer; Some proc; Some OS; Some language)" stop sounding the alarm.

  20. Re:captain obvious: it'll never be full featured on Free Skype Client Lands On the iPhone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know about the "any other wireless provider" thing.

    Look up UMA on T-Mobile. My BlackBerry Curve 8320 supports it, so I use my WiFi for voice calls when I'm at home.

    AT&T may not want you to do that, but T-Mobile seems to be okay with it.

  21. Quickstarter.... on Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It helps preload the JVM so that any Java applets load faster.

    It's not some evil conspiracy.

    You told it to update your computer. It didn't tell you exactly what it was doing. Does Microsoft Update tell you everything it's going to touch?

    If you don't like it, run Linux, install SELinux and block everything by default.

    Not trying to sound like a dick, but this really is a non-issue.

  22. Re:One of the worst proprietary vendors... on Obama Looking To Symantec CEO For Commerce · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Having been an engineer at Symantec for 5 1/2 years, I can tell you that what they suffer from is the inability to build new products themselves, or a management team that refuses to try (you choose).

    It's a company of "buy everything you can see, who cares if you can integrate it". Very little in the way of shared components, every product looks and works different, very little interoperability, etc.

    It seemed like we always bought the worst codebases we could find, then tried to fix it. It's not due to a lack of good engineering talent - there is plenty at the company.

    While I think JWT is a nice guy, one only needs to look at the purchase of Veritas to find a completely failed business model, and a CEO who doesn't seem to "get it". Even after that, they continued (and still continue) to snatch up other companies with little regard to how it will really affect shareholders. Nice guys don't make CEOs.

    When John Schwarz left to take the CEO spot at Business Objects and we kept Gary Bloom (CEO, Veritas) - I knew we were in trouble.

  23. Re:Why 32-bit? on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    Because people like myself still have a perfectly good Pentium 4 3.0ghz with 4gb of RAM and a GeForce 9800GT at their feet, which runs Vista just fine with Aero on and will run Windows 7, that's why.

    I also have a perfectly good 1st gen MacBook Pro that dual boots Mac OS X 10.5 and Vista Home Premium right now. It's 32bit only.

    Alienating a large group of users who could upgrade would be stupid from a money making perspective.

  24. Re:No optimized OS = false on Which OS Performs Best With SSDs? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With all due respect, I call shenanigans on your logic here. OpenSolaris is just as much of a desktop OS as Linux is. Have you looked at the hardware it supports and what runs on it recently?

    The word "desktop" isn't even mentioned in the article anywhere.

    After reading TFA, it all feels a bit vague anyhow. I see no real performance results, just a few percentages thrown around.

  25. How can they call it Lotus Symphony? on IBM Launches Microsoft-Free Linux Virtual Desktop · · Score: 1

    The old school purist in me is disturbed by calling something Lotus Symphony that has nothing to do with Lotus 1-2-3 or the original Symphony for DOS...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_symphony

    Oh well. I still miss WordPerfect....