You appear to be misinformed however. Freespire will be released in two distinct versions:
One containing entirely free software, and one containing proprietary codecs (paid for and licensed by Linspire). The user gets to choose which he uses.
Hence the "Free" -- freedom of choice to opt into one of two free (as in beer) choices: a completely free (as in speech and beer) version, and a free (just as in beer) version. Seems pretty free to me.
Do you actually enjoy being in the middle of watching a "dramatic" show like Battlestar Galactica or House and then suddenly being bombarded with a loud obnoxious song and dancing models in another Old Navy commercial?
Of course not. I think the answer to that problem is to make the content of commercials relevant to the viewer, similar to google's context sensitive ads. Perhaps a user could choose which type of advertisements they wish to see (e.g. "Science/Tech"). Of course, this assumes that advertisers would be willing to opt-in to such a service, but I doubt they'd complain too much if the system is were implemented properly.
The thing I take issue with is the way people will use any excuse possible to try to justify copyright infringement, when in reality, their objections aren't ideological but rather selfish and arbitrary.
Simple copyright-infringing-slashdotter logic: If (not_exactly_how_I_want_it)
stealing/copyright_infringement = ok!
Maybe if advertisers stopped making commercials that are crap, they wouldn't need to lock us out of fast forward during commercials.
You whiny bastard. Seriously. These companies can't do anything right, can they? All I see here is people complaining and getting modded up for it. As far as I'm concerned this is a great step in a great direction.
I think what it boils down to is that most people here just want shit for free, and will say anything to pretend that they have some valid objection with the system and that it warrants theft (or "copyright infringement" for the pedants).
Free/opensource software falls victim to the same tripe -- people pretend that they stand by the ideologies but really just want stuff for free -- and use the ideology as a guise to pirate non-free software like photoshop or Windows.
that when he an ~8 year old, about 100 years ago, he was "doing ok with Latin, but having trouble with Greek".
I would guess that he was quite above the average student at the time. His propensity for language study at that age was probably not indicative of the general populace's (particularly an average 8 year olds) abilities in the area. There are always profound and early developing minds that will accomplish things far ahead of most people. And in the same vein, there will always be the proletariat who meander unintelligently throughout their lives, whose only real delights, far from being intellectual, are based in the primitive pleasure factories granted to them by evolution.;)
M$ was really trying to get that overpriced box out by Christmas and ca$h in.
Yeah, since they're making $ -126 on every console, if they sell enough they could cash in to the tune of almost negative a hundred million by christmas! Those bastards!
I just noticed this today and it pissed me off. It didn't used to rename the files (they might have been truncated a bit, but you could still see what they were). Now they all have meaningless (to me) filenames when on the ipod. I went to take an mp3 off my ipod today to put on my Linux box, but was upset to find that I wasn't able to find the song I wanted because I couldn't differentiate one from another. Good ol' Limewire came to the rescue though.
I'm not going to put much effort into this reply as I'm not sure if you are kidding. I have a difficult time discerning sincere religious devotion with sarcasm, as they come off very similar to me.
Anyway, my post was not an attack on god or organized religion... it was one expressing a dislike for people who assume that all victims of misfortune must have committed some misdeed to warrant that misfortune, instead of accepting the possibility that things happen arbitrarily and without greater purpose.
It's not as obviously blatant as you might think. I'm sure there are more than a few people of various religions uttering a sentiment similar to yours, with complete sincerity.
I'm normally pretty tuned into jokes and sarcasm, but I guess I missed it in this case. If you had given more hyperbole or obvious hints that you were kidding you'd probably be sitting with a Score:5 funny.:) better luck next time.
Associating natural disasters with the will of some deity is the same non-thinking tripe that got us a world of fear and oppressive myths in the first place. "Oh no, what did we do to make god mad. God must not be mad at me because I wasn't affected by the disaster, and you must have done some horrendous sin to suffer so greatly."
(speaking mostly to grandparent) If your mind can't handle the fact that these things just happen, without any true overarching reason, then maybe you should board yourself in your church and just stay there, where you can live out a life associating arbitrary catastophre with the will of a deity. The rest of us will be living in the real world, where we don't assume the victims of natural disasters are heretics suffering gods wrath.
If you'll notice, it's the PC version of Madden 2006 that has a collective 79% rating. The Xbox and PS2 versions (presumably more popular than the PC game) are at 87.4 and 88.2 respectively, only 1 or 2 points behind the score of Madden 05.
It was there originally, and if I recall correctly, most of the votes were of disagreement (which I found rather interesting, since he normally has a significant majority agree with him). Then it mysteriously disappeared a couple days later. Maybe he felt he was victim of ballot stuffing on the part of Apple fans. Curious to say the least.
I'm sure Michael is bluffing. He knows that if Apple allowed OS X to run on commodity hardware Linspire's potential market would be marginalized even further... it could be devastating to the Linux desktop push. Why would he want such competition from Apple?
It's rather curious that a week after that, Michael stepped down from CEO of Linspire (check the Michael's Minute entitled "What's Our Purpose in Life") Cause-and-effect? Maybe. Correlation? Definitely.
Michael's not dumb. He feigned disappointment at the Apple on Intel announcement, but my guess is that it was a carefully orchestrated bluff to allow him to distance himself from Linspire in the weeks after. Any company investing in LOTD with the hopes of profitability had better hope to god that Apple does not allow OS X to run on commodity hardware. It's just common sense.
It's the beginning of the end of the desktop monopoly. Kids will no longer be programmed with a view to maintaining the power structures of the status quo.
Right, because then everyone would be saying "everyone knows KDE... we expect new employees to know KDE". I think the general problem is that the populace just doesn't know enough about general functions of the computer, and instead have just familiarized themselves with whatever interface they use (be it the Windows interface, the OS X interface, KDE interface, whatever). Instead of just memorizing an interface, people should learn computing basics on a more general/abstract level (these types of teachings could probably be done in gradeschool). If people would be familiar with what files are, how they can be operated on, how general gui techniques work (drag-and-drop), and what features they can expect on all current Operating Systems (e.g. to set preferences, to have the ability to change screen res, etc) they could become much more platform agnostic than they currently are.
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The first plothole bugged me too. It made me cringe a bit.
I'm thinking that they might have had a wrap-up scene to film that they weren't able to do due to Ledger's death.
One eensy weensy little detail distinguishes Freespire from EasyUbuntu:
legality.
Freespire uses fully licensed codecs (paid for by Linspire), whereas EasyUbuntu takes the gray area route of not using fully legal stuff.
Since Linspire is footing the bill for the codecs, I think we can all see which choice is both more practical for the user and more ethical.
Nice quip, served you well.
You appear to be misinformed however. Freespire will be released in two distinct versions:
One containing entirely free software, and one containing proprietary codecs (paid for and licensed by Linspire).
The user gets to choose which he uses.
Hence the "Free" -- freedom of choice to opt into one of two free (as in beer) choices: a completely free (as in speech and beer) version, and a free (just as in beer) version.
Seems pretty free to me.
Any questions?
> You shouldn't capitalize the 'p' in pH.
:-P
You shouldn't put single quotes around the "p". You're not writing code.
Bitch.
Please tell me where I misused either of those words (and didn't make my knowledge of the "misuse" explicit...).
Do you actually enjoy being in the middle of watching a "dramatic" show like Battlestar Galactica or House and then suddenly being bombarded with a loud obnoxious song and dancing models in another Old Navy commercial?
Of course not. I think the answer to that problem is to make the content of commercials relevant to the viewer, similar to google's context sensitive ads. Perhaps a user could choose which type of advertisements they wish to see (e.g. "Science/Tech"). Of course, this assumes that advertisers would be willing to opt-in to such a service, but I doubt they'd complain too much if the system is were implemented properly.
The thing I take issue with is the way people will use any excuse possible to try to justify copyright infringement, when in reality, their objections aren't ideological but rather selfish and arbitrary.
Simple copyright-infringing-slashdotter logic:
If (not_exactly_how_I_want_it)
stealing/copyright_infringement = ok!
Maybe if advertisers stopped making commercials that are crap, they wouldn't need to lock us out of fast forward during commercials.
You whiny bastard. Seriously. These companies can't do anything right, can they?
All I see here is people complaining and getting modded up for it. As far as I'm concerned this is a great step in a great direction.
I think what it boils down to is that most people here just want shit for free, and will say anything to pretend that they have some valid objection with the system and that it warrants theft (or "copyright infringement" for the pedants).
Free/opensource software falls victim to the same tripe -- people pretend that they stand by the ideologies but really just want stuff for free -- and use the ideology as a guise to pirate non-free software like photoshop or Windows.
bleh.
that when he an ~8 year old, about 100 years ago, he was "doing ok with Latin, but having trouble with Greek".
;)
I would guess that he was quite above the average student at the time. His propensity for language study at that age was probably not indicative of the general populace's (particularly an average 8 year olds) abilities in the area.
There are always profound and early developing minds that will accomplish things far ahead of most people. And in the same vein, there will always be the proletariat who meander unintelligently throughout their lives, whose only real delights, far from being intellectual, are based in the primitive pleasure factories granted to them by evolution.
M$ was really trying to get that overpriced box out by Christmas and ca$h in.
Yeah, since they're making $ -126 on every console, if they sell enough they could cash in to the tune of almost negative a hundred million by christmas! Those bastards!
I didn't realize Office 12 was coming out for OS X. Good on Microsoft for keeping consistent with Apple's brushed-metal/aqua UI. ;)
that I'm considering getting engaged
heh.. Does she know that?
Yo gran-momma so old she knew Burger King while he was still a prince.
Was he as creepy back then as he is now?
It does rename its music files, though
I just noticed this today and it pissed me off. It didn't used to rename the files (they might have been truncated a bit, but you could still see what they were). Now they all have meaningless (to me) filenames when on the ipod. I went to take an mp3 off my ipod today to put on my Linux box, but was upset to find that I wasn't able to find the song I wanted because I couldn't differentiate one from another. Good ol' Limewire came to the rescue though.
Frustrating.
Look for it in iTunes 7, expected to be released sometime in November. ;)
The name is Jonathan Ive, without an "s". Sheesh. It's even spelled correctly in the article. ::sigh::
I'm not going to put much effort into this reply as I'm not sure if you are kidding. I have a difficult time discerning sincere religious devotion with sarcasm, as they come off very similar to me.
Anyway, my post was not an attack on god or organized religion... it was one expressing a dislike for people who assume that all victims of misfortune must have committed some misdeed to warrant that misfortune, instead of accepting the possibility that things happen arbitrarily and without greater purpose.
It's not as obviously blatant as you might think. I'm sure there are more than a few people of various religions uttering a sentiment similar to yours, with complete sincerity.
:) better luck next time.
I'm normally pretty tuned into jokes and sarcasm, but I guess I missed it in this case. If you had given more hyperbole or obvious hints that you were kidding you'd probably be sitting with a Score:5 funny.
Associating natural disasters with the will of some deity is the same non-thinking tripe that got us a world of fear and oppressive myths in the first place. "Oh no, what did we do to make god mad. God must not be mad at me because I wasn't affected by the disaster, and you must have done some horrendous sin to suffer so greatly."
(speaking mostly to grandparent)
If your mind can't handle the fact that these things just happen, without any true overarching reason, then maybe you should board yourself in your church and just stay there, where you can live out a life associating arbitrary catastophre with the will of a deity. The rest of us will be living in the real world, where we don't assume the victims of natural disasters are heretics suffering gods wrath.
I just got that. A poop joke?
That's real creative, mopslik.
FAMILY GUY
If you'll notice, it's the PC version of Madden 2006 that has a collective 79% rating. The Xbox and PS2 versions (presumably more popular than the PC game) are at 87.4 and 88.2 respectively, only 1 or 2 points behind the score of Madden 05.
37% of U.K. workers don't feel they belong to any statistical demographic.
he speaks as a representative of captain obvious to the overrated grandparent.
It was there originally, and if I recall correctly, most of the votes were of disagreement (which I found rather interesting, since he normally has a significant majority agree with him). Then it mysteriously disappeared a couple days later. Maybe he felt he was victim of ballot stuffing on the part of Apple fans.
Curious to say the least.
This is actually old news, as documented in Michael's Minute.
I'm sure Michael is bluffing. He knows that if Apple allowed OS X to run on commodity hardware Linspire's potential market would be marginalized even further... it could be devastating to the Linux desktop push. Why would he want such competition from Apple?
It's rather curious that a week after that, Michael stepped down from CEO of Linspire (check the Michael's Minute entitled "What's Our Purpose in Life") Cause-and-effect? Maybe. Correlation? Definitely.
Michael's not dumb. He feigned disappointment at the Apple on Intel announcement, but my guess is that it was a carefully orchestrated bluff to allow him to distance himself from Linspire in the weeks after.
Any company investing in LOTD with the hopes of profitability had better hope to god that Apple does not allow OS X to run on commodity hardware. It's just common sense.
It's the beginning of the end of the desktop monopoly. Kids will no longer be programmed with a view to maintaining the power structures of the status quo.
Right, because then everyone would be saying "everyone knows KDE... we expect new employees to know KDE".
I think the general problem is that the populace just doesn't know enough about general functions of the computer, and instead have just familiarized themselves with whatever interface they use (be it the Windows interface, the OS X interface, KDE interface, whatever).
Instead of just memorizing an interface, people should learn computing basics on a more general/abstract level (these types of teachings could probably be done in gradeschool). If people would be familiar with what files are, how they can be operated on, how general gui techniques work (drag-and-drop), and what features they can expect on all current Operating Systems (e.g. to set preferences, to have the ability to change screen res, etc) they could become much more platform agnostic than they currently are.