I recall a while back about 2600 losing their case on which they were linking to DeCSS, wonder if they can get it overturned by a judge. Probably won't though, knowing the government (after all, they are evil hackers!).
all this means is that crappier, broken products can be shipped out on the market, resulting in a general loss of quality on the market. What will consumers do? Buy the products that *DONT* require you to flash the firmware in order to use the features on the box! Normally, flashes work as they are supposed to, but I've met a few firmware upgrades that didn't work, and ended up ordering an RMA for the device, only to be told that they don't support firmware upgrades, and damage caused because of them. What's a comsumer to do?
If Java became OSS, this could really be somewhat of a groundbreaker here. Here we would have this OSS, cross-platform, supported in darn near every browser programming language. Maybe some improvements could be made over its speed as well, as Java is really slow compared to other languages. Sun isn't going to really be making any money soon over their SDK (its free as in beer anyhow). I personally don't see why this wasn't done a long time ago. Hopefully there won't be any modification of the standard though, with every person having their own little flavor of Java. That would suck.
actually, I was referring to "pee-brained" as a user that has the common sense and intelligence of a pea. About 10% of my users are "pee-brained morons". I by no means infer the majority of users, or IGNORANT users, as we are all IGNORANT to some extent. In other words, the really sickening sad stupid ones. Maybe you don't work in IT, if you do then you should know what I mean.
If your father has recently lost most of his eyesight through "natural" causes, it will probably only get worse, unfortunately. I have a blind friend who did this very thing, but fortunately was smart enough to learn braille. Now he is totally blind, and uses a VB II (Versa Braille 2, very old serial braille machine) to surf the net. I set him up with a Linux box (he already knew *NIX), and just redirected STOUT, and STDERR to the VB (sh &2>/dev/ttyS0). He now loves it, but before used a voice system where the program (EEyes if I remember correctly) would tell him where the mouse position was, and what text it hovered over. EEyes was for win32 only.
Although CUPS is easier than hell to setup to me, this is a major problem with OSS, ease of use. We geeks write software, and most of the time don't think about the pee-brained morons on the other end. And even sometimes we don't think of just simply the normal person at the other end. We create interfaces, and leave them at that, assuming we do create GUIs. Installation is usually a bitch, and the layout of a GUI generally takes some time. Please note that this is not a majority problem, the majority of OSS software is actually good in the interface design. But, this is true with a lot of commercial products also, so take this with a grain of salt.
They're doing their job from permitting monopolies in the domain name business from abusing their granted privledges. Verisign should have their privledges revoked, GoDaddy and a handfull of others are way better as far as price and morals go than Verisign. When I purchase my domains, I *NEVER* to through Verisign, I instead use GoDaddy. Cheap, powerful, and less crap. Verisign is just mad because they want everyone to see their stupid search site, which if this continues will probably have lots o' spyware on it, bombarding the user with gator and its friends.
In the Linux/UNIX world, we call "macros" scripts. They do automated tasks, just like macros do, and most of the time more efficient than their Windows counterparts. Expect is an excellent utility for creating "macros", in addition to the capabilities of Perl, etc, Expect allows you to redirect output and input better, in a more "friendly" way.
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I recall a while back about 2600 losing their case on which they were linking to DeCSS, wonder if they can get it overturned by a judge. Probably won't though, knowing the government (after all, they are evil hackers!).
all this means is that crappier, broken products can be shipped out on the market, resulting in a general loss of quality on the market. What will consumers do? Buy the products that *DONT* require you to flash the firmware in order to use the features on the box! Normally, flashes work as they are supposed to, but I've met a few firmware upgrades that didn't work, and ended up ordering an RMA for the device, only to be told that they don't support firmware upgrades, and damage caused because of them. What's a comsumer to do?
If Java became OSS, this could really be somewhat of a groundbreaker here. Here we would have this OSS, cross-platform, supported in darn near every browser programming language. Maybe some improvements could be made over its speed as well, as Java is really slow compared to other languages. Sun isn't going to really be making any money soon over their SDK (its free as in beer anyhow). I personally don't see why this wasn't done a long time ago. Hopefully there won't be any modification of the standard though, with every person having their own little flavor of Java. That would suck.
actually, I was referring to "pee-brained" as a user that has the common sense and intelligence of a pea. About 10% of my users are "pee-brained morons". I by no means infer the majority of users, or IGNORANT users, as we are all IGNORANT to some extent. In other words, the really sickening sad stupid ones. Maybe you don't work in IT, if you do then you should know what I mean.
If your father has recently lost most of his eyesight through "natural" causes, it will probably only get worse, unfortunately. I have a blind friend who did this very thing, but fortunately was smart enough to learn braille. Now he is totally blind, and uses a VB II (Versa Braille 2, very old serial braille machine) to surf the net. I set him up with a Linux box (he already knew *NIX), and just redirected STOUT, and STDERR to the VB (sh &2>/dev/ttyS0). He now loves it, but before used a voice system where the program (EEyes if I remember correctly) would tell him where the mouse position was, and what text it hovered over. EEyes was for win32 only.
Although CUPS is easier than hell to setup to me, this is a major problem with OSS, ease of use. We geeks write software, and most of the time don't think about the pee-brained morons on the other end. And even sometimes we don't think of just simply the normal person at the other end. We create interfaces, and leave them at that, assuming we do create GUIs. Installation is usually a bitch, and the layout of a GUI generally takes some time. Please note that this is not a majority problem, the majority of OSS software is actually good in the interface design. But, this is true with a lot of commercial products also, so take this with a grain of salt.
They're doing their job from permitting monopolies in the domain name business from abusing their granted privledges. Verisign should have their privledges revoked, GoDaddy and a handfull of others are way better as far as price and morals go than Verisign. When I purchase my domains, I *NEVER* to through Verisign, I instead use GoDaddy. Cheap, powerful, and less crap. Verisign is just mad because they want everyone to see their stupid search site, which if this continues will probably have lots o' spyware on it, bombarding the user with gator and its friends.
In the Linux/UNIX world, we call "macros" scripts. They do automated tasks, just like macros do, and most of the time more efficient than their Windows counterparts. Expect is an excellent utility for creating "macros", in addition to the capabilities of Perl, etc, Expect allows you to redirect output and input better, in a more "friendly" way.