Please let's stop arguing if this is good or bad for Adobe. It is not adobe whom MS is targeting, is the Linux desktop.
One of the wonderful things that ppl find when they use linux is that it has every kind of program you could ask for right out of the box. Now MS is trying to offer a similar experience.
My guess is that the recent desktop oriented distros (Ubuntu, MEPIS, Xandross) are really scaring them, and their new solution is to be as linux-like as possible, by loading as much software as possible into Windows. Of course this will make windows much more expensive but since PCs come preloaded with windows ppl is oblivious to the price of windows, it is absorbed into the price of the PC itself.
NOW THE REAL CONCERN is that as soon as this new app is in windows it is going to be adopted as the de facto standard, and guess what this is going to lead us? Yep PROPIETARY CLOSED FORMATS, INCOMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS, PATENT MINE FILEDS etc...
at any rate we must start writing a gimp module to read and write into the new format asap.
Cross plataform highly configurable light-weight regex-powered editor that uses sensible (by modern standars) defaults for keyboard shurtcuts (for those times you aren't carry your configurations with you).
Has autocompleting, syntax highlighting for pretty much everythig, and a very sophisticated one at that
Optional folding, sdi or tabbed interface, your call. API Calltips and inbuilt output panel for previewing your scripts. It loads small files as fast as notepad but it can load huge files that notepad can't even dram of.
I can't recommend it enough.
Price mostly and warranty issues, that are related to price anyway. When you have a "just-works" warranty protected, locked down -unit- manufactured with arcane secret methods, you hardly can afford tinkering with it.
You forgot that a 100 dollar DVD shared 10,000 times doesn't imply you have "stolen" the movie producers 1 million dollars since most of those who use file sharing for movies wouldn't have bought them in the first place.
But even if you say that human lives have a price in dollars I doubt you would say that it is ok to kill anyone and simply fill a check.
Let's say that human lives can be converted to dollars as long as the conversion is ethical.
And it still doen't make sense to say that sharing 19 movies equals to hurting 10 families since most of the money goes to the filthy rich. If any, undermining the confidence of movie producers will result in cheaper movies that doesn't take 300 million dollars to put a guy in a trenchcoat in bullet time(tm)
You know that if you want some real help in any linux irc channel you have to be offensive like in: "Windows is better than linux, in windows i can do X..."?
Well it seems that if you want to find assertive and intelligent women you just have to make this kinds of claims.
Afterall.../. women seem to be very elusive and they are posting all over...
Ok, go to a museum and look at the paintings, no plot, not even a shallow one. Is it art? Hell yeah. Why? Because the definition of art is different for each media form, and even then, it is dependent on genre.
On the other hand, your web pages , usenet posts, and email are protected by freedom of speach aren't they? You can say anithing and the fact that you're not using your vocal cords doesn't seem enought to claim that you are not "saying" just writing. You can write stuff and still until you pass the message you haven't said anything.
But a real pedant will answer that you aren't writting anything over the interent at all. Your are TYPING!
I live in mexico and the situation is just worse, most of our politicians ARE CORPORATE CEOS, or relatives of, or employed by... it just plain sucks!
Its a well known fact that politicians bribe the lowest class -the most numerous group- so they vote for them. I case you wonder, they bribe them with food:(
Personally, I would be *estatic* with 14 years. Or 14 years with a renewal for another 14 years. 28 years of exclusive control. If you write something at age 20, you have until you're 48 to produce something new. That's not so bad, is it?
You illustrate the fact that copyright undermines productivity. You plan on not working for 28 years?
What about this, you make something and you'll get to control it for 5 years, if you can't make anything better in 5 years you should let others build upon it. If you can then you can make a living for another 5 years.
Then you'll complain "but 5 years isn't enough!!". Yes, it isn't enought for corporations with their multinational projects, but it is fair enough for small individuals. I preffer a cloud of small individuals than one or two mega monopolies.
At least konqueror makes sense, (k and c have the same sound) and some other kde projects share this property.
I'm I the only one that realizes that the g* thing is also Gnome's branding algorythm? soon Google will send C&D letter to OSS devs and we will start to see a nome desktop, imp, aim, tk+, conf...
Well, filesharing means, in spirit, that you share your stuff. Excluding personal or private data of course.
But the spirit is that you share your resources.
On the other hand, P2P means, between "peers" or equals. No one superior to others, and it usualy implies, unregulated
Regulated media need a regulator, so, it isn't about peers anymore. Also, it means you can't share all the resources you have bought (wich technicaly you owned, but aren't allowed to give away). Irregularly allocated resources kill the peer in P2P
Another thing that needs to be said again is that all copyrighted material in these P2P networks were paid for at some time, and then uploaded, at the expense of the sharer (talking about freeriders), to their peers.
If we killed off all the lawyers, how would you expect somebody to sue me?? On their own? At least then we are on even playing ground and not paying out tons of legal fees.
No you won't be on equal grounds because laws are being currenty tailored for the rich through lobbying. Even without lawyers, as long as there are laws, there are are going to be lawsuits and lets face it, the big corps have the law on their side.
Also, the assumption that ppl break the law because they don't understand it is stupid. Ppl usually know when they're breaking the laws, but they don't care. They don't care because they think the law is unfair, or because they are mad angry and can't think allright, or because they are psycopaths, or because they think they won't be catched.
Ppl have plenty of reasons to break the law, sometimes because the law is actually wrong, sometimes it is the individual who's wrong.
Power-grubbing politicians are nothing without lawyers to stand behind.
Wrong again, lawyer don't sue, their clients do, not only that but you seem to think that lawyers are a separete breed of humans, they are not. If all current lawyers were killed. Companies and politicians will send their most law savvy employees to do the suing.
You're fighting against the wrong thing, what you need to change is law, wich allows an obvious idea to be patented and monopolised.
And I see you saying the law is made by lawyers. It is not, it is made by politicians; wich are choosen by the ppl and sponsored by corps... now, if you can't fight them in sponsoring, you can rise in arms if the situation urges it. Chances are you'll be mocked up by both, politicians and the ppl you defend. So, what you need is to make ppl follow you ideas.
One last word, you can't expect laws that don't cater to the rich & welthy and support and economy system that does.
the problem is that pantents aren't held by individual scientist, they are held by the labs, that also hold patents on the means for R&D. This leads to patent hoard. Hoarding patents is hoarding of power, it is the root of all evil.
I have little time to play now but I love RPG, i'm playing Chrono Trigger and I want to see every ending AND every DIALOG in the game. This would be ridiculus in a SNES but in a PC save states allow me to get chrono with marle, frog, magus -hit a key- and get him with Lucca, Robo, Ayla.
If you can't afford going trough a whole level again, use a select level cheat.
If you can afford all the games you want you surely can afford a gameshark, or sorta.
As a gamer, i understand that some games are great _because_ they take a long time, somebody said "Silent Hill", that's a good example. If the game was past paced, with infinite lives/continues/hp/ammo and allowed you to save and restore at any time. It wouldn't be "Silent Hill".
Not only that but, even middle age wage slaves have weekends, wouldn't you like a game for a good long gamin'session?
What I think that makes more sense is to focus our resources on planet earth.
An hostile alien race will find easier to conquer a series of mildly defended space colonies than an extremely defended core planet.
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Of course, games don't HAVE to address everything. They can, and should, address anything the developers want to, it's their game, and it IS an art form. Unfortunely game developing is almost as expensive as movie making, which mean that the most comercial effort often outshines the artistic, concept driven games.
But some games address religion, however, none of them is suppoused to TEACH religion. We should ask us: "Is this guy saying games should use more religion topics" or is he simply saying "games should preach"?
Hopefully, in the future this sort of thing will be blocked, so that extentions only install when clicked-on.
Yes... it should display a warning dialog asking if you really want to xpi something, along the origin address, also, there should be a checkbox for "refuse to install anything from this address"...
As a community memmber I think this is great! I really want Wikipedia to beat MSEncarta into oblivion!
...This gives me an idea, there should be a wikipedia offline version with autoupdate and all, wikimedia could sell it for a buck or so and people will love it...
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Please let's stop arguing if this is good or bad for Adobe. It is not adobe whom MS is targeting, is the Linux desktop.
One of the wonderful things that ppl find when they use linux is that it has every kind of program you could ask for right out of the box. Now MS is trying to offer a similar experience.
My guess is that the recent desktop oriented distros (Ubuntu, MEPIS, Xandross) are really scaring them, and their new solution is to be as linux-like as possible, by loading as much software as possible into Windows. Of course this will make windows much more expensive but since PCs come preloaded with windows ppl is oblivious to the price of windows, it is absorbed into the price of the PC itself.
NOW THE REAL CONCERN is that as soon as this new app is in windows it is going to be adopted as the de facto standard, and guess what this is going to lead us? Yep PROPIETARY CLOSED FORMATS, INCOMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS, PATENT MINE FILEDS etc...
at any rate we must start writing a gimp module to read and write into the new format asap.
Cross plataform highly configurable light-weight regex-powered editor that uses sensible (by modern standars) defaults for keyboard shurtcuts (for those times you aren't carry your configurations with you). Has autocompleting, syntax highlighting for pretty much everythig, and a very sophisticated one at that Optional folding, sdi or tabbed interface, your call. API Calltips and inbuilt output panel for previewing your scripts. It loads small files as fast as notepad but it can load huge files that notepad can't even dram of. I can't recommend it enough.
Price mostly and warranty issues, that are related to price anyway. When you have a "just-works" warranty protected, locked down -unit- manufactured with arcane secret methods, you hardly can afford tinkering with it.
You forgot that a 100 dollar DVD shared 10,000 times doesn't imply you have "stolen" the movie producers 1 million dollars since most of those who use file sharing for movies wouldn't have bought them in the first place.
But even if you say that human lives have a price in dollars I doubt you would say that it is ok to kill anyone and simply fill a check.
Let's say that human lives can be converted to dollars as long as the conversion is ethical.
And it still doen't make sense to say that sharing 19 movies equals to hurting 10 families since most of the money goes to the filthy rich. If any, undermining the confidence of movie producers will result in cheaper movies that doesn't take 300 million dollars to put a guy in a trenchcoat in bullet time(tm)
Easy, hate them all. Show love to the EFF, the FSF and the like. They aren't after your pockets after all...
The day corporations were considered persons common sense was fataly wounded...
You know that if you want some real help in any linux irc channel you have to be offensive like in: "Windows is better than linux, in windows i can do X ..."?
/. women seem to be very elusive and they are posting all over...
Well it seems that if you want to find assertive and intelligent women you just have to make this kinds of claims.
Afterall...
Ok, go to a museum and look at the paintings, no plot, not even a shallow one. Is it art? Hell yeah. Why? Because the definition of art is different for each media form, and even then, it is dependent on genre.
In other words, you fail.
You should install Brainfox, it has integrated thought-blocking and some cool extensions in it's site
On the other hand, your web pages , usenet posts, and email are protected by freedom of speach aren't they? You can say anithing and the fact that you're not using your vocal cords doesn't seem enought to claim that you are not "saying" just writing. You can write stuff and still until you pass the message you haven't said anything. But a real pedant will answer that you aren't writting anything over the interent at all. Your are TYPING!
I live in mexico and the situation is just worse, most of our politicians ARE CORPORATE CEOS, or relatives of, or employed by... it just plain sucks!
:(
Its a well known fact that politicians bribe the lowest class -the most numerous group- so they vote for them. I case you wonder, they bribe them with food
Correct me if I'm wrong but in the world of 1984 terrorism wasn't an issue was it? I guess it was a Perfect World(r)
You illustrate the fact that copyright undermines productivity. You plan on not working for 28 years?
What about this, you make something and you'll get to control it for 5 years, if you can't make anything better in 5 years you should let others build upon it. If you can then you can make a living for another 5 years. Then you'll complain "but 5 years isn't enough!!". Yes, it isn't enought for corporations with their multinational projects, but it is fair enough for small individuals. I preffer a cloud of small individuals than one or two mega monopolies.At least konqueror makes sense, (k and c have the same sound) and some other kde projects share this property.
I'm I the only one that realizes that the g* thing is also Gnome's branding algorythm? soon Google will send C&D letter to OSS devs and we will start to see a nome desktop, imp, aim, tk+, conf...
Well, filesharing means, in spirit, that you share your stuff. Excluding personal or private data of course.
But the spirit is that you share your resources.
On the other hand, P2P means, between "peers" or equals. No one superior to others, and it usualy implies, unregulated
Regulated media need a regulator, so, it isn't about peers anymore. Also, it means you can't share all the resources you have bought (wich technicaly you owned, but aren't allowed to give away). Irregularly allocated resources kill the peer in P2P
Another thing that needs to be said again is that all copyrighted material in these P2P networks were paid for at some time, and then uploaded, at the expense of the sharer (talking about freeriders), to their peers.
No you won't be on equal grounds because laws are being currenty tailored for the rich through lobbying. Even without lawyers, as long as there are laws, there are are going to be lawsuits and lets face it, the big corps have the law on their side.
Also, the assumption that ppl break the law because they don't understand it is stupid. Ppl usually know when they're breaking the laws, but they don't care. They don't care because they think the law is unfair, or because they are mad angry and can't think allright, or because they are psycopaths, or because they think they won't be catched.
Ppl have plenty of reasons to break the law, sometimes because the law is actually wrong, sometimes it is the individual who's wrong.
Wrong again, lawyer don't sue, their clients do, not only that but you seem to think that lawyers are a separete breed of humans, they are not. If all current lawyers were killed. Companies and politicians will send their most law savvy employees to do the suing.
You're fighting against the wrong thing, what you need to change is law, wich allows an obvious idea to be patented and monopolised.
And I see you saying the law is made by lawyers. It is not, it is made by politicians; wich are choosen by the ppl and sponsored by corps... now, if you can't fight them in sponsoring, you can rise in arms if the situation urges it. Chances are you'll be mocked up by both, politicians and the ppl you defend. So, what you need is to make ppl follow you ideas.
One last word, you can't expect laws that don't cater to the rich & welthy and support and economy system that does.
Since when firing a nuclear powered laser is concidered good dimplomacy?
the problem is that pantents aren't held by individual scientist, they are held by the labs, that also hold patents on the means for R&D. This leads to patent hoard. Hoarding patents is hoarding of power, it is the root of all evil.
I liked Navi. I had problems with Tatle tho, I wonder, why didn't Nintendo give you the OPTION to play with her brother instead?
I have little time to play now but I love RPG, i'm playing Chrono Trigger and I want to see every ending AND every DIALOG in the game. This would be ridiculus in a SNES but in a PC save states allow me to get chrono with marle, frog, magus -hit a key- and get him with Lucca, Robo, Ayla.
If you can't afford going trough a whole level again, use a select level cheat.
If you can afford all the games you want you surely can afford a gameshark, or sorta.
As a gamer, i understand that some games are great _because_ they take a long time, somebody said "Silent Hill", that's a good example. If the game was past paced, with infinite lives/continues/hp/ammo and allowed you to save and restore at any time. It wouldn't be "Silent Hill".
Not only that but, even middle age wage slaves have weekends, wouldn't you like a game for a good long gamin'session?
This is amusing. Remember that (Legal != Good) so (Ilegal != Bad). Your mind is shallow.
What I think that makes more sense is to focus our resources on planet earth. An hostile alien race will find easier to conquer a series of mildly defended space colonies than an extremely defended core planet.
Of course, games don't HAVE to address everything. They can, and should, address anything the developers want to, it's their game, and it IS an art form. Unfortunely game developing is almost as expensive as movie making, which mean that the most comercial effort often outshines the artistic, concept driven games.
But some games address religion, however, none of them is suppoused to TEACH religion. We should ask us: "Is this guy saying games should use more religion topics" or is he simply saying "games should preach"?Yes... it should display a warning dialog asking if you really want to xpi something, along the origin address, also, there should be a checkbox for "refuse to install anything from this address"...
As a community memmber I think this is great! I really want Wikipedia to beat MSEncarta into oblivion!
...This gives me an idea, there should be a wikipedia offline version with autoupdate and all, wikimedia could sell it for a buck or so and people will love it...