Heh, same here. I thought I was the only one. I thought it was just some new library that was suddenly needed for a whole bunch of applications, hence its popularity.
I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head... not that I *like* this trend personally, nor do I buy into it. I love buying full albums because the artists I tend to buy them from seem to treat them more as "beginning-to-end statements" rather than just a collection of single tracks with a few good songs thrown in.
But I was utterly SHOCKED the other day when my friend told me his favourite band was Rise Against (ugh), and when I asked him if he owned all of their albums, he said he didn't own a single one. Things like that make me feel old:P I guess it's the 90s mindset vs. the 2000s mindset.
I don't think it was a question of "waiting for the 3.0 release." FC6 is not getting major new versions to any programs now, they're just doing stability and security fixes. Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.x are both built in RawHide, and the latest versions will likely ship with FC7.
I wouldn't let my child watch news for quite a while, since there is really nothing you can learn from it when you don't even have a basic understanding of how the world works. As a child, I never had any interest whatsoever in watching the news; to me it was "boring." But if my parents had forbidden me to watch it, I probably would have been much more interested. It's basically part of the broad range of "don't look at the sun" metaphors -- if you forbid children to do something, not only will it make them more interested, but a lot of the time they'll find a way to do it behind the parent's back and be deceitful about it. So you've failed now in two ways: your forbidding has not been effective, and you've encouraged your child to be less honest.
I've simply never understood why they don't just release the source for their Linux drivers under a GPL compatible licence. I think ATI and NVidia both need to come to terms with the fact that they are HARDWARE manufacturers and should eliminate as many barriers to usage as possible. If they were to release the drivers as GPL, then the Xorg/DRI people could commit the drivers to the respective trees and would save a great deal of maintenance efforts on the part of these companies. It just boggles my mind that hardware companies don't "get over themselves" when it comes to the amount of restriction they place on their drivers. I realize I'm just restating the obvious here, but while ATI's fglrx drivers may not be the best offering from the company, it'd be a *great* starting point and would eliminated a great deal of work that is now being duplicated to create free DRI drivers for their later card models.
Reminds me of the time that the CEO of Atari said "The Playstation is a little bit more powerful than the Jaguar.... a little, little bit." First rule of business: never show weakness!
Yeah, I agree with your sentiment mostly. For me, though, the thing that turns me off is the slowdown that seems to occur from most implementations of it that I've come across (*cough* Mozilla *cough*). With pages loaded with fancy CSS, I find myself manually turning styles off in my browser so that I can actually navigate the page.
But, yeah, this has nothing to do with the standard and everything to do with the implementation (for the most part, anyway).
I don't need no stinkin' "real" teeth. My false teeth are just fine, thank you very much! Hell, I can even eat corn on the cob, if someone cuts it off the cob and then mashes it up into a fine paste!
Right, but we're talking about Linux users here. While it would be nice if the salespeople at these places knew anything at all about Linux, most of us understand that that simply is not the case, and would probably prefer this kind of honest answer to a stupid one that obviously just shows he's trying to sell the product at any cost.
Well for starters, Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird will be able to run on top of XULRunner soon. That'll be especially nice for us Linux folks who prefer shared libraries over having multiple copies of the same duplicated libraries installed on our systems.
And why does Myspace have any more responsibility than ANY other community-based website or bulletin board?
The same reason Wikipedia isn't considered a valid source by many teachers and professors, while most of whom have no problem with the billions of other websites out there being used as sources.
This is absolutely ridiculous. It is *not* the responsibility of the FOSS community to support DRM. I doubt that there are many OSS advocates who would even *want* to support it by running applications that support these proprietary technologies, but I disgress...
Honestly, if proprietary software companies want their DRM to work on FOSS, they should get up off their asses and do it themselves. Don't tell the FOSS community that it's their responsibility -- it isn't.
DRM must die, and consumers supporting it is just like throwing more wood onto the flame.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh, same here. I thought I was the only one. I thought it was just some new library that was suddenly needed for a whole bunch of applications, hence its popularity.
Mein Fuehrer! I can walk! ::boom::
Oh man, nostalgia. I loved Gnome 1.4. Particularly gmc (the old file manager.
Not to be a "Nitpicky Sue", but wasn't 1.4 the first release to include Nautilus?
Yes, my understanding is that it's a FreeDesktop.org standard (at least a proposed one?)
See this YouTube video for more details: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YjnCXKQ3MUc
Subject.
One million dollars!! ::puts pinky finger next to lip::
I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head... not that I *like* this trend personally, nor do I buy into it. I love buying full albums because the artists I tend to buy them from seem to treat them more as "beginning-to-end statements" rather than just a collection of single tracks with a few good songs thrown in.
:P I guess it's the 90s mindset vs. the 2000s mindset.
But I was utterly SHOCKED the other day when my friend told me his favourite band was Rise Against (ugh), and when I asked him if he owned all of their albums, he said he didn't own a single one. Things like that make me feel old
IANAFD - I am not a Fedora developer, but...
I don't think it was a question of "waiting for the 3.0 release." FC6 is not getting major new versions to any programs now, they're just doing stability and security fixes. Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.x are both built in RawHide, and the latest versions will likely ship with FC7.
But is it worth all the shocks?
I've thought of a new tag to use for situations like these: "chaching"
I've simply never understood why they don't just release the source for their Linux drivers under a GPL compatible licence. I think ATI and NVidia both need to come to terms with the fact that they are HARDWARE manufacturers and should eliminate as many barriers to usage as possible. If they were to release the drivers as GPL, then the Xorg/DRI people could commit the drivers to the respective trees and would save a great deal of maintenance efforts on the part of these companies. It just boggles my mind that hardware companies don't "get over themselves" when it comes to the amount of restriction they place on their drivers. I realize I'm just restating the obvious here, but while ATI's fglrx drivers may not be the best offering from the company, it'd be a *great* starting point and would eliminated a great deal of work that is now being duplicated to create free DRI drivers for their later card models.
Reminds me of the time that the CEO of Atari said "The Playstation is a little bit more powerful than the Jaguar. ... a little, little bit." First rule of business: never show weakness!
That comment had me in stitches... thanks!
People from the south of the USA must be reading the title of this article aloud and saying, "I don't get it."
It's a sad reflection on my life that I care about this... but I do.
You're welcome. And yes, I am cooperation.
Yeah, I agree with your sentiment mostly. For me, though, the thing that turns me off is the slowdown that seems to occur from most implementations of it that I've come across (*cough* Mozilla *cough*). With pages loaded with fancy CSS, I find myself manually turning styles off in my browser so that I can actually navigate the page.
But, yeah, this has nothing to do with the standard and everything to do with the implementation (for the most part, anyway).
But the Internet is a prerequisite for email, which in turn is only for old people. I'm confused.
I don't need no stinkin' "real" teeth. My false teeth are just fine, thank you very much! Hell, I can even eat corn on the cob, if someone cuts it off the cob and then mashes it up into a fine paste!
Right, but we're talking about Linux users here. While it would be nice if the salespeople at these places knew anything at all about Linux, most of us understand that that simply is not the case, and would probably prefer this kind of honest answer to a stupid one that obviously just shows he's trying to sell the product at any cost.
Well for starters, Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird will be able to run on top of XULRunner soon. That'll be especially nice for us Linux folks who prefer shared libraries over having multiple copies of the same duplicated libraries installed on our systems.
And why does Myspace have any more responsibility than ANY other community-based website or bulletin board?
The same reason Wikipedia isn't considered a valid source by many teachers and professors, while most of whom have no problem with the billions of other websites out there being used as sources.
Why?
This is absolutely ridiculous. It is *not* the responsibility of the FOSS community to support DRM. I doubt that there are many OSS advocates who would even *want* to support it by running applications that support these proprietary technologies, but I disgress...
Honestly, if proprietary software companies want their DRM to work on FOSS, they should get up off their asses and do it themselves. Don't tell the FOSS community that it's their responsibility -- it isn't.
DRM must die, and consumers supporting it is just like throwing more wood onto the flame.