Because we're the nerds that know that this crap is going on. Regular Susan and Average Joe don't know about this nor do they care. If anyone is going to stand up to them and make a difference, it's the artist. Without the artist, they have no content.
I think I may be serious that one day, you won't be able to hum or sing a tune without paying a fee. I mean look at 'Happy Birthday to You'. Royalties have to be paid if it is broadcasted or distributed in any fashion.
I think it's a good idea that they do this but why did it take so long?
When spyware was a significant threat, they bought an anti-spyware company and offered it for free within months. These viruses have been around for a while.
Actually I think that Linux users are legit because of the nature of the OS. It's free and legal. We do DVD-css because there isn't a legitimate DVD software app on the market. We use P2P and torrents for ISO files and nightly builds of source material. We do mplayer because for some reason, there isn't Media Player or Quicktime for Linux.
Linux users would be the first to make public if there is a pirated version of software on some P2P channel.
As 'bad' as those cheap movies are, they're being made, giving people jobs, and will make an impression on some people. Think Roger Corman and we have Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin just to name a few from his school of low budget production.
Although these weren't the best, my memorable list of films from him are: Rock and Roll High School Pirahna Humaniods from the Deep
Who cares if the acting is bad, the special effects are bad, the lighting is bad, and the camera blocking is a 1-take shot. The fact is that they're being made and will be shown ad-infinitum and people will watch them because they are so damn many of them that eventually there will be nothing on tv and someone will want to have the tv on with some junk on it ust to have background noise.
There's only 5 font types (Serif, Sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace) for any browser, period. One could use locally installed fonts using CSS by using the font-family property but then you're calling on local fonts which aren't going to be 100% consistent. 80% consistent maybe but that's good enough for most people.
Fonts aren't cheap which is why Linux has an extremely limited library of them. Bitsream was kind enough to donate their Vera family to Linux and I am extremely grateful for that. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on fonts for the Mac in years past and type face authors are greedy like the RIAA when it comes to fonts.
Actually a default installation of a Fedora flavor looks as good as an out of the box Mac. If your work requires custom fonts, then Linux won't be good enough
The problem with your scenario is that the DVD he was given (lent is more like it) was a screener and is not meant for the general population. Specifically as of last year, members were aware that lending of screeners is prohibited.
It is no different than going to a R&D meeting at some technology company and publishing notes and photos taken during the meeting.
He did make it affordable in the boom of the 90's with the so-called 'free' computers. You know, the ones that were bare bones, and 'free' as long as you paid for 4 years of dial up internet service with Compuserve, AOL, MSN, etc... That's when Dial up ISP service was $19.99 although you could get cheaper if you dug around.
You know, they already have these outrageous licenses for public places to play copyrighted material called ASCAP and BMI and I'm sure others. Now it as if they want to charge people to hear the content too.
I wonder if they might implement some crazy idea for music players for the manufacturer to pay a license fee to the RIAA to be allowed to play their content.
1. Charge artist for recording session 2. Charge broadcasting units for playing songs. 3. Charge listener for listening to song. 4. Profit
They'll probably come up with a device that you plug into your head so your brain can hear(interpret) 5.1 surround then charge you based upon content passed through the device.
Or better yet, they market a device that 'enhances' listening to audio that way they can filter digital signatures and charge you based upon content passed.
God forbid someone sings a song protected by them.
I may be wrong here as to how it is with the current market but MS including a license for Outlook is almost a false positive that started during Exchange 2000 deployment.
What I mean by this is if you're on some SA plan or Open license (I deployed quite a few MOLP), and you wanted Office AND Exchange, you still had to buy the Standard Office Suite AND Exchange CALS so you ended up buying licenses for Outlook twice.
Now you can look at that a couple of ways. You buy an Exchange CAL and you get access to it (which is technically what a CAL is) using whatever client or you buy an Exchange CAL and Outlook comes with it but you'll have to buy Outlook with your Office purchase.
I may be wrong but I think that only 3 of the 7 editions will make use of the 'Vista' or Avalon or Aero or whatever they decide to call it this week features.
The Home Premium, Enterprise Edition, and Ultimate Edition (4 if you count the pirated edition)
I saw a special on sugar on the History Channel (I think). Brazil runs 40% of their cars manufactured by Chevrolet and other US manufacturers, 100% off Ethanol from cane sugar. They pay 2.5 a gallon for gas vs 1.1 a gallon for Ethanol
Ethanol from cane is a waste neutral energy source. Basically the exhaust from your car is the same as the gasses a decomposing sugar cane plant gives off The only caveat is that 100% Ethanol requires a hotter engine to combust so they have a 1 gallon gasoline tank to start the car for the winter months. They call it Flex Fuel.
You don't get fined for porn. Alcohol and cigarette fines are set by the community, not federal.
This is taking away control from parents. In come communities, it is illegal to pubicly punish your kid (read: whip, just a little smack, not beat)
In some communities, if the (public) school recommends your kid is to be put on Ritalin, you have to abide for the best interest of the child. Who the f*k made the school the doctor? The same people pushing this law.
Out of the box comparisons: To play Quake 3 with a typical Nvidia Video Card
To play Quake 3 on Linux-->
- Install distribution. - 30 minutes later, Reboot - Download and install Nvidia Driver - **Edit 3 lines in xorg.conf - restart X or reboot - Install Quake 3 - Frag away - Updates can happen automatically and don't requre reboots
To play Quake 3 on Windows--> - Install Version - 1 hour later, reboot - install video card drivers - reboot - get updates - reboot - Install direct X - reboot - Install Quake 3 - Frag away
If you're so much an idiot that you can't edit 3 lines in a simple text file then you're either an AOL user or only use webmail for email.
NO Unix admin for 10+ years would ever say that Windows is easier. If you say Linux is a pain, you aren't using ANY distribution but putting it together from source yourself but you're lying anyway.
It amazes me how people will quickly jump on a bandwagon when it 'feels good'. Quick, let's ban all SUV's because that's what's causing it and we all know that it's good to hate big things that use petroleum.
It's a fricking hurricane during hurricane season. That's it. It ain't because the US didn't sign onto the Kyoto Protocol. This crap happens EVERY YEAR, June through October. EVERY DAMN YEAR.
If this happened in December - February, then maybe it's the humans fault but I don't think so. If anything, blame the tsumani in the Indian Ocean. Cripes, that shifted land masses, changed our rotation speed, and we still don't have an idea what global impact that did.
Slashdot Mirror
Because we're the nerds that know that this crap is going on. Regular Susan and Average Joe don't know about this nor do they care.
If anyone is going to stand up to them and make a difference, it's the artist. Without the artist, they have no content.
I think I may be serious that one day, you won't be able to hum or sing a tune without paying a fee.
I mean look at 'Happy Birthday to You'. Royalties have to be paid if it is broadcasted or distributed in any fashion.
I think it's a good idea that they do this but why did it take so long?
When spyware was a significant threat, they bought an anti-spyware company and offered it for free within months.
These viruses have been around for a while.
Actually I think that Linux users are legit because of the nature of the OS. It's free and legal.
We do DVD-css because there isn't a legitimate DVD software app on the market.
We use P2P and torrents for ISO files and nightly builds of source material.
We do mplayer because for some reason, there isn't Media Player or Quicktime for Linux.
Linux users would be the first to make public if there is a pirated version of software on some P2P channel.
As 'bad' as those cheap movies are, they're being made, giving people jobs, and will make an impression on some people.
Think Roger Corman and we have Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin just to name a few from his school of low budget production.
Although these weren't the best, my memorable list of films from him are:
Rock and Roll High School
Pirahna
Humaniods from the Deep
Who cares if the acting is bad, the special effects are bad, the lighting is bad, and the camera blocking is a 1-take shot.
The fact is that they're being made and will be shown ad-infinitum and people will watch them because they are so damn many of them that eventually there will be nothing on tv and someone will want to have the tv on with some junk on it ust to have background noise.
Could someone explain the context? Pretty damn funny with the monkey hoots too.
There's only 5 font types (Serif, Sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace) for any browser, period. One could use locally installed fonts using CSS by using the font-family property but then you're calling on local fonts which aren't going to be 100% consistent. 80% consistent maybe but that's good enough for most people.
Fonts aren't cheap which is why Linux has an extremely limited library of them. Bitsream was kind enough to donate their Vera family to Linux and I am extremely grateful for that. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on fonts for the Mac in years past and type face authors are greedy like the RIAA when it comes to fonts.
Actually a default installation of a Fedora flavor looks as good as an out of the box Mac. If your work requires custom fonts, then Linux won't be good enough
That is one of the best comments about what the problem actually is that I have ever read.
I would say that the ActiveX and CSS are my two main headaches with IE. The other would be the lack of tabbed browsing but I don't use IE.
The problem with your scenario is that the DVD he was given (lent is more like it) was a screener and is not meant for the general population. Specifically as of last year, members were aware that lending of screeners is prohibited.
It is no different than going to a R&D meeting at some technology company and publishing notes and photos taken during the meeting.
"..easy to use"
is an opinion.
He did make it affordable in the boom of the 90's with the so-called 'free' computers.
You know, the ones that were bare bones, and 'free' as long as you paid for 4 years of dial up internet service with Compuserve, AOL, MSN, etc...
That's when Dial up ISP service was $19.99 although you could get cheaper if you dug around.
You know, they already have these outrageous licenses for public places to play copyrighted material called ASCAP and BMI and I'm sure others.
Now it as if they want to charge people to hear the content too.
I wonder if they might implement some crazy idea for music players for the manufacturer to pay a license fee to the RIAA to be allowed to play their content.
1. Charge artist for recording session
2. Charge broadcasting units for playing songs.
3. Charge listener for listening to song.
4. Profit
They'll probably come up with a device that you plug into your head so your brain can hear(interpret) 5.1 surround then charge you based upon content passed through the device.
Or better yet, they market a device that 'enhances' listening to audio that way they can filter digital signatures and charge you based upon content passed.
God forbid someone sings a song protected by them.
Man, that's 10 years ago.
Anybody remember Liquid Motion?
I may be wrong here as to how it is with the current market but MS including a license for Outlook is almost a false positive that started during Exchange 2000 deployment.
What I mean by this is if you're on some SA plan or Open license (I deployed quite a few MOLP), and you wanted Office AND Exchange, you still had to buy the Standard Office Suite AND Exchange CALS so you ended up buying licenses for Outlook twice.
Now you can look at that a couple of ways. You buy an Exchange CAL and you get access to it (which is technically what a CAL is) using whatever client or you buy an Exchange CAL and Outlook comes with it but you'll have to buy Outlook with your Office purchase.
When you hit 38 and realize that 18 year olds consider you old, you might retract that comment.
What's even worse are the 14 year olds that consider you really old.
But yeah, thirty is not middle aged.
I may be wrong but I think that only 3 of the 7 editions will make use of the 'Vista' or Avalon or Aero or whatever they decide to call it this week features.
The Home Premium, Enterprise Edition, and Ultimate Edition (4 if you count the pirated edition)
I remember that.
I just keep thinking that every time I see a microwave oven or a fax machine that it's the software that is driving the price.
I saw a special on sugar on the History Channel (I think).
Brazil runs 40% of their cars manufactured by Chevrolet and other US manufacturers, 100% off Ethanol from cane sugar.
They pay 2.5 a gallon for gas vs 1.1 a gallon for Ethanol
Ethanol from cane is a waste neutral energy source. Basically the exhaust from your car is the same as the gasses a decomposing sugar cane plant gives off
The only caveat is that 100% Ethanol requires a hotter engine to combust so they have a 1 gallon gasoline tank to start the car for the winter months. They call it Flex Fuel.
Why the hell don't we have this here?
All those computer monitors and SUV driving Vikings probably caused global warming then.
You don't get fined for porn. Alcohol and cigarette fines are set by the community, not federal.
This is taking away control from parents. In come communities, it is illegal to pubicly punish your kid (read: whip, just a little smack, not beat)
In some communities, if the (public) school recommends your kid is to be put on Ritalin, you have to abide for the best interest of the child. Who the f*k made the school the doctor? The same people pushing this law.
And MapPoint
I call bullshit.
Out of the box comparisons:
To play Quake 3 with a typical Nvidia Video Card
To play Quake 3 on Linux-->
- Install distribution.
- 30 minutes later, Reboot
- Download and install Nvidia Driver
- **Edit 3 lines in xorg.conf
- restart X or reboot
- Install Quake 3
- Frag away
- Updates can happen automatically and don't requre reboots
To play Quake 3 on Windows-->
- Install Version
- 1 hour later, reboot
- install video card drivers
- reboot
- get updates
- reboot
- Install direct X
- reboot
- Install Quake 3
- Frag away
If you're so much an idiot that you can't edit 3 lines in a simple text file then you're either an AOL user or only use webmail for email.
NO Unix admin for 10+ years would ever say that Windows is easier.
If you say Linux is a pain, you aren't using ANY distribution but putting it together from source yourself but you're lying anyway.
IE on the Mac stopped at 5.23 in the year 2003.
That product is no longer supported by it's manufacturer and wil not receive any future updates.
It's also the same time when Netscape stopped making their browser for Mac Classic which stopped at 7.02
I think most of us wanted 'Hulk Smash' and not 'Dad, why did you do experiments on me'
It amazes me how people will quickly jump on a bandwagon when it 'feels good'. Quick, let's ban all SUV's because that's what's causing it and we all know that it's good to hate big things that use petroleum.
It's a fricking hurricane during hurricane season. That's it. It ain't because the US didn't sign onto the Kyoto Protocol. This crap happens EVERY YEAR, June through October. EVERY DAMN YEAR.
Also, huricanes were worse prior to 1960, not recently. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
If this happened in December - February, then maybe it's the humans fault but I don't think so. If anything, blame the tsumani in the Indian Ocean.
Cripes, that shifted land masses, changed our rotation speed, and we still don't have an idea what global impact that did.