But the ruling was made on the assumption that you had invited the Adware also - you're paying for the software you use by accepting ads. Now, this likely isn't true for most people, but should you not be able to be paid(you get free software) in excahnge for use of your property (the ads shown on the computer)?
Furthermore, do you think that a website should be able to control how your computer displays that site - to the extent of dictating what other software on your machine can do?
I'm sure you also like the punkbuster software telling you you can't have process guard installed(check out america's army, Far Cry) or the software that made you uninstall Nero to use it. An alternate ruling would lead to precedent for those IMHO.
You know, this is an issue that comes up with some crazy webmasters and Opera - see environmentalchemistry.com with Opera to see what I mean.
I don't believe there is any distribution going on here - I'll bet the adware sends a URL to the servers. The URL the user visited. I can't see why the user cannot legally tell anyone where he went, in any capacity if he want's to (the assumption here).
Well, how does the experiance compare to watching some episodes in the middle of say, Babylon 5 or Star Trek DS9 Season 6 or 7? Alias or 24? Those were more or less popular American series that had long story arcs, and seemed to do rather well compared to their market segment.
Well, I've watched something like 164 episodes, and I'm actually wondering if it will ever end. I'm starting to prefer the 13-26 episode series that have an ending.
Strangly, though I loved, and still really enjoy, Ranma 1/2, the newer inuYasha just doesn't draw me in as much. And, it goes on forever.
I really don't know why, but InuYasha actually bores me, and I think I'll give it one more go, and then give up (please tell me there are only 166 total episodes. ..) because it's keeping me from all sorts of other Anime. I want to finish Kenshin, watch Naruto, Neia under 7 and Full Metal Alchemist.
You know what bothers me, there seems to be (if it's possible) *less* character development in InuYasha than there was in Ranma.
IDK, I think Anime is doing great in America - at least upstate NY, compared to even 5 years ago. Every bookstore (Barnes & Noble, Borders, Waldens) has a whole Manga/Anime section - I mean at least 2 full shelves. Every video store has a section, and it's in EB too.
Then there are the old specialty stores like Comics for Collectors in Ithaca, Millennium in Rochester and Fat Cat in Johnson City for instance. Then you have Netflix with a huge collection of Anime for a mainstream service, and all the other websites. I'd say it's not hurting, there's a constant growth.
It just seems weak because many people are becoming aware of it who didn't know what it was like 5 or 10 or more years ago.
But is Apple really competing with MS on the desktop? They still are holding to their "our hardware only" mantra, and as such, are holding themselves out of the mass market.
Until they are selling via Dell, HP, eMachines and to enthusiasts building their own, I don't see them doing much to MS aside from providing ideas that MS can copy.
What I don't understand is why people wouldn't want to visit a site to get the new content. Like, I have Opera, so presumeably can do RSS right now, though I don't have it enabled. I just don't get the point.
What does it give me that simply going to the site doesn't? Does it take an especially long time to go to a site now?
Any particular reason they only support 2 browsers? One would think the entire reason for coding to standards would be to allow all browsers that implement those standards to use the application. So you'd probably be able to add two more rendering engines right away to that, KHTML(Safari, Konquerer) and Presto(Opera).
Except, why do consumers want web apps? I see WebMail - barely - because it's convienient to take around with you to other PC's and when you are travelling.
But does any user *want* Office as a web app? I personally hate the online help of 2k3, hello, I have a laptop, and wireless is far from ubiquitous.
Plus the security issues seem really really big to me. Even better than a web app, do you really want to try and run it via SSL on most networks? Talk about slow - let's just save money and get out our C64's again to wait for the menu to load from the floppy disk!
The web is a great thing, and it enables lots of stuff, but I still don't think it will replace a local OS + Native Apps. Maybe in 10 more years when wireless and broadband are near 100% penetration (I hope anyway).
Although, I still think, UI wise, there should be a clear demarkation between things that are Tab specific (address bar, zoom setting, etc) and things that are global/browser chrome.
I think the UI should subtly help people grasp the concepts regardless of technical reasons.
This is why I personally still like the Opera method of MDI/Tabs vs FF, and the Windows method of programs/menus vs MacOS.
That's also why I personally prefer contained programs with a background window, vs the applications that have 5 windows up with no clear indication they all are part of the same program.
Ehh, it takes forever for Windows XP SP2 to start up on my PC, but I run all sorts of stuff, like my own mail server, FTP server + I have to start up Sygate, and wait for NOD32 to finish the boot scan. Plus my startup programs like KeyWallet, Trillian, Proxomitron, Asus Probe, Getright, and TeaTimer.
About 5 minutes here too, hence why I try not to reboot if I can avoid it.
I also have 1GB PC3200 RAM, A64 3400+ (754 though), ATA133 Boot drive so not so fast.
I think so, I believe that drive had been doing the same 2 years before, and I disabled it in the motherboard. This happened when I changed mobo's and didn't disable it in the new one. However, it did let me convince my Uncle to buy me a new 250GB to replace the 60GB that "died".
Wow, I must have good luck. I've only ever had 1 Maxtor HD fail, and that was after 4 years of constant use - not bad for a consumer model really. Also, it didn't "fail" as throw S.M.A.R.T. warnings, so I imaged it, replaced it with a new drive, and put the image there. For all I know, there was nothing really wrong with the drive.
OTOH, I've overall had good luck with HDs, the other one I had fail (2 total over 10 years of use) was after being out of a PC for 6 months, used as a doorstop being hit by a door multiple times a day. I took it out because it was only 20GB and I had bigger drives at the time, not because of any problems.
That's funny, IME *more* functions work right in the pirated versions than the bought ones. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a pirated game where the game was buggy and crashed a lot. Maybe they just don't pirate sucky games.
Of course, the MMORPGs aren't piratable in the real sense. But they are actually offering more too - the server, world and more entertainment. They're getting paid for the service much more than for the software.
Ok, seriously. This is stupid. How can I take away something someone never had? I can see an argument that copying something takes it away from someone. But I can't take something away from someone if they don't have it.
Potential profit. HAH! Like your stupid post takes away my potential Porshe? Should you be arrested for stealing that? No, I'm just crazy now.
Let's at least limit our discussion to things that people actually have. Otherwise, along with your potential profit you lost, can my defense be that I shouldn't be guilty because of my potential payment for the product I pirated?
Mmmm, kye-u has a filter for proxomitron to diffuse while - loop browser bombs (which is what I think you're talking about). At least, I don't see such things using Grypen's set that includes that filter.
Well, the other thing I like about salon.com is that I can watch one 30 second video ad to pay for a whole day of (to me) ad free content.
I think I'd be willing to watch up to a minute of video each day to use a site, especially if that got rid of the ads on the rest of the site. No idea if that's more valuable, but if set up like salon, they can mostly garuntee that you actually looked at the ad rather than blocking it.
I do think new paradigms are going to come up - salon's and googles are some examples.
I'm not against IP entirely. I am for reform, specifically scaling back patents - I'd like to see some sort of front ended thing, like the person applying for a patent needs to prove it's not obvious. I'm like to see something like peer review, cause obviously, the PTO can't seem to do any technical research in any field. So, make it like publishing a paper. You have a patent application, but it needs to pass a board of people in that field as non obvious to actually get the patent. The rest could remain similar.
I also think shorter terms and opt in are very necessary, for both patents and copyrights. We need to get things in the public domain during an average lifetime. Preferably within a generation, so a new generation can build on things.
In the end, patents for window layout, or "using a computer to play music" seem bad to me, wheras a patent for, say, jpeg compression is ok.
That's great, in theory. The problem is that the granting of obvious patents (what is happening now) is far worse then the benefit we might get from new, non-trivial algorithms.
Actually, with the system like it is, there is less of an incentive to work on something, when you can patent and milk some well known method.
Hey, please, enlighten me - what's wrong with GetRight? Or, list some "better" programs? I had switched to GoZilla some years ago because it seemed as good, but then I found out it was basically spyware.
I have yet to have anyone suggest a reason that is useful anyway. But that's just me, I personally think webmail should be abolished, and anyone who thinks of a Web Application should be shot.
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But the ruling was made on the assumption that you had invited the Adware also - you're paying for the software you use by accepting ads. Now, this likely isn't true for most people, but should you not be able to be paid(you get free software) in excahnge for use of your property (the ads shown on the computer)?
Furthermore, do you think that a website should be able to control how your computer displays that site - to the extent of dictating what other software on your machine can do?
I'm sure you also like the punkbuster software telling you you can't have process guard installed(check out america's army, Far Cry) or the software that made you uninstall Nero to use it. An alternate ruling would lead to precedent for those IMHO.
You know, this is an issue that comes up with some crazy webmasters and Opera - see environmentalchemistry.com with Opera to see what I mean.
I don't believe there is any distribution going on here - I'll bet the adware sends a URL to the servers. The URL the user visited. I can't see why the user cannot legally tell anyone where he went, in any capacity if he want's to (the assumption here).
Wait, Oh My Goddess has a series? I thought it only had the 5 OAVs. . . And of course the Manga which I used to buy religiously (when I had money).
Where can I find out more???
Well, how does the experiance compare to watching some episodes in the middle of say, Babylon 5 or Star Trek DS9 Season 6 or 7? Alias or 24? Those were more or less popular American series that had long story arcs, and seemed to do rather well compared to their market segment.
Well, I've watched something like 164 episodes, and I'm actually wondering if it will ever end. I'm starting to prefer the 13-26 episode series that have an ending.
.) because it's keeping me from all sorts of other Anime. I want to finish Kenshin, watch Naruto, Neia under 7 and Full Metal Alchemist.
Strangly, though I loved, and still really enjoy, Ranma 1/2, the newer inuYasha just doesn't draw me in as much. And, it goes on forever.
I really don't know why, but InuYasha actually bores me, and I think I'll give it one more go, and then give up (please tell me there are only 166 total episodes. .
You know what bothers me, there seems to be (if it's possible) *less* character development in InuYasha than there was in Ranma.
IDK, I think Anime is doing great in America - at least upstate NY, compared to even 5 years ago. Every bookstore (Barnes & Noble, Borders, Waldens) has a whole Manga/Anime section - I mean at least 2 full shelves. Every video store has a section, and it's in EB too.
Then there are the old specialty stores like Comics for Collectors in Ithaca, Millennium in Rochester and Fat Cat in Johnson City for instance. Then you have Netflix with a huge collection of Anime for a mainstream service, and all the other websites. I'd say it's not hurting, there's a constant growth.
It just seems weak because many people are becoming aware of it who didn't know what it was like 5 or 10 or more years ago.
But is Apple really competing with MS on the desktop? They still are holding to their "our hardware only" mantra, and as such, are holding themselves out of the mass market.
Until they are selling via Dell, HP, eMachines and to enthusiasts building their own, I don't see them doing much to MS aside from providing ideas that MS can copy.
What I don't understand is why people wouldn't want to visit a site to get the new content. Like, I have Opera, so presumeably can do RSS right now, though I don't have it enabled. I just don't get the point.
What does it give me that simply going to the site doesn't? Does it take an especially long time to go to a site now?
Any particular reason they only support 2 browsers? One would think the entire reason for coding to standards would be to allow all browsers that implement those standards to use the application. So you'd probably be able to add two more rendering engines right away to that, KHTML(Safari, Konquerer) and Presto(Opera).
Except, why do consumers want web apps? I see WebMail - barely - because it's convienient to take around with you to other PC's and when you are travelling.
But does any user *want* Office as a web app? I personally hate the online help of 2k3, hello, I have a laptop, and wireless is far from ubiquitous.
Plus the security issues seem really really big to me. Even better than a web app, do you really want to try and run it via SSL on most networks? Talk about slow - let's just save money and get out our C64's again to wait for the menu to load from the floppy disk!
The web is a great thing, and it enables lots of stuff, but I still don't think it will replace a local OS + Native Apps. Maybe in 10 more years when wireless and broadband are near 100% penetration (I hope anyway).
Although, I still think, UI wise, there should be a clear demarkation between things that are Tab specific (address bar, zoom setting, etc) and things that are global/browser chrome.
I think the UI should subtly help people grasp the concepts regardless of technical reasons.
This is why I personally still like the Opera method of MDI/Tabs vs FF, and the Windows method of programs/menus vs MacOS.
That's also why I personally prefer contained programs with a background window, vs the applications that have 5 windows up with no clear indication they all are part of the same program.
This is just my opinion though.
Ehh, it takes forever for Windows XP SP2 to start up on my PC, but I run all sorts of stuff, like my own mail server, FTP server + I have to start up Sygate, and wait for NOD32 to finish the boot scan. Plus my startup programs like KeyWallet, Trillian, Proxomitron, Asus Probe, Getright, and TeaTimer.
About 5 minutes here too, hence why I try not to reboot if I can avoid it.
I also have 1GB PC3200 RAM, A64 3400+ (754 though), ATA133 Boot drive so not so fast.
I think so, I believe that drive had been doing the same 2 years before, and I disabled it in the motherboard. This happened when I changed mobo's and didn't disable it in the new one. However, it did let me convince my Uncle to buy me a new 250GB to replace the 60GB that "died".
Wow, I must have good luck. I've only ever had 1 Maxtor HD fail, and that was after 4 years of constant use - not bad for a consumer model really. Also, it didn't "fail" as throw S.M.A.R.T. warnings, so I imaged it, replaced it with a new drive, and put the image there. For all I know, there was nothing really wrong with the drive.
OTOH, I've overall had good luck with HDs, the other one I had fail (2 total over 10 years of use) was after being out of a PC for 6 months, used as a doorstop being hit by a door multiple times a day. I took it out because it was only 20GB and I had bigger drives at the time, not because of any problems.
That's funny, IME *more* functions work right in the pirated versions than the bought ones. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a pirated game where the game was buggy and crashed a lot. Maybe they just don't pirate sucky games.
Of course, the MMORPGs aren't piratable in the real sense. But they are actually offering more too - the server, world and more entertainment. They're getting paid for the service much more than for the software.
I love english. The first time (oh the irony) I read that, I was thinking - awfully selfish aren't they - well they are.
..." as if previously to affecting them, they didn't really care about theft.
..." as in stealing the time.
I read it as "(This time) theft is
Of course, I'm rather sure the author meant "This (time theft) is
Wow, this post was a waste of time.
Ok, seriously. This is stupid. How can I take away something someone never had? I can see an argument that copying something takes it away from someone. But I can't take something away from someone if they don't have it.
Potential profit. HAH! Like your stupid post takes away my potential Porshe? Should you be arrested for stealing that? No, I'm just crazy now.
Let's at least limit our discussion to things that people actually have. Otherwise, along with your potential profit you lost, can my defense be that I shouldn't be guilty because of my potential payment for the product I pirated?
Mmmm, kye-u has a filter for proxomitron to diffuse while - loop browser bombs (which is what I think you're talking about). At least, I don't see such things using Grypen's set that includes that filter.
So how do you do this for your e-mail server that used dyndns.org for resolution and relays through your ISP?
Well, the other thing I like about salon.com is that I can watch one 30 second video ad to pay for a whole day of (to me) ad free content.
I think I'd be willing to watch up to a minute of video each day to use a site, especially if that got rid of the ads on the rest of the site. No idea if that's more valuable, but if set up like salon, they can mostly garuntee that you actually looked at the ad rather than blocking it.
I do think new paradigms are going to come up - salon's and googles are some examples.
I'm not against IP entirely. I am for reform, specifically scaling back patents - I'd like to see some sort of front ended thing, like the person applying for a patent needs to prove it's not obvious. I'm like to see something like peer review, cause obviously, the PTO can't seem to do any technical research in any field. So, make it like publishing a paper. You have a patent application, but it needs to pass a board of people in that field as non obvious to actually get the patent. The rest could remain similar.
I also think shorter terms and opt in are very necessary, for both patents and copyrights. We need to get things in the public domain during an average lifetime. Preferably within a generation, so a new generation can build on things.
In the end, patents for window layout, or "using a computer to play music" seem bad to me, wheras a patent for, say, jpeg compression is ok.
That's great, in theory. The problem is that the granting of obvious patents (what is happening now) is far worse then the benefit we might get from new, non-trivial algorithms.
Actually, with the system like it is, there is less of an incentive to work on something, when you can patent and milk some well known method.
Hey, please, enlighten me - what's wrong with GetRight? Or, list some "better" programs? I had switched to GoZilla some years ago because it seemed as good, but then I found out it was basically spyware.
I have yet to have anyone suggest a reason that is useful anyway. But that's just me, I personally think webmail should be abolished, and anyone who thinks of a Web Application should be shot.
I am obviously in the minority though.
Or people who are willing to pay for a better experiance online. Same as why I pay for getright, Windows, etc... You get what you pay for.
If there was a free program out there as good as Opera for how I browse the web, I'd likely use it. There isn't.