No, you're missing the point. Nothing ever just costs corporations money. If it costs them money, it will cost the end user money too. You don't really think that costs have nothing to do with market price, do you?
You need to take some elementary economics, friend.
Please refrain from using the hipster corporate plural, it is like using virii.
Actually, as I understand it, that's quite acceptable use in the UK. In the US, of course, it sounds funny, even though we might say something like: "AOL is reducing the cost of their services."
I would be willing to bet that most of your users write their passwords down and put them in their desk drawer. This is the problem of the average user and the complicated password.
Confounding debugging by tech support? First of all, we're talking about a consumer product here. Tech support is not going to be logging in to see why RADIUS authentication is not working or to troubleshoot some advanced routing issues. In fact, when users call in having forgot their password, I suspect tech support will just tell them to use the reset feature; it's far easier than trying to find out a consumer's IP address.
No, you cannot justify this. Even if there was some kind of two-hour password, it would be a huge security problem. For example, if I'm using one of these to protect my network, and you have a couple thousand bucks lying around, I'm sure you could convince someone at Netgear to give you a two-hour password without a problem. A single password is even more heinous.
Soon Slashdot will be filled with the waring camps of "X is perfection" and "X is old, so it is bad."
In this case, I find that it's merely a matter of getting used to the way the X clipboard functions. For example, delete the old text AFTER you paste the new text. It's a different way of managing your clipboard, but it's not necessary any better; for most jobs, I find it to be MORE convenient, and I start to forget to Ctrl-C when I'm in Windows.
He's not voting. Instead, he's being an elitist snob. Yeah, I'm pretty damn sure he's not doing anything to inform the "television addicts" or to change the minds and deeds of politicians. Excuse me for being presumptuous.
Do you think that the New York Times or any of the liberal news networks would ever report on something pro-Israel and pro-Bush? Of course not! They're biased too. You see, there is no unbiased news source that reports on everything. But you don't really care. You just like being able to deny everything Fox News says. I can read you like a book.
Yeah, man, who DOESN'T take pot shots at the President?
What the fuck are you talking about? It's not like he was just "testing the waters." He tried to assassinate our leader! Stop being a Saddam apologist. We all know you're really saying you just hate Bush. You're not fooling anybody.
I highly suspect #5 is bullshit. Show me the statistic, and then explain why it's relevant. You see, gun owners may be more likely to die from gunshot wounds, but perhaps that's because gun owners are more likely to be in dangerous areas? After all, you don't buy a gun if you live in Pleasantville.
To put it another way, if you're living in a bad part of town, you're more likely to be shot. You're also more likely to buy a gun in order to protect yourself. Thus, more gun owners will live in a bad part of town, and more gun owners will be shot. Bad statistic.
Let's talk about what you've said here today. You assert that the removal of the filename textbox from the File Open dialog is a "feature." Yeah, I guess it's really confusing. Therefore, when ever anyone needs to use it, they can just type the ultra-intuitive Ctrl-L! Good choice, guys!
But if you don't want to do that, you can always use the CLI, so look, you still have choices!
This is absolutely absurd. GNOME should provide a seamless GUI to run on top of X and a UNIX-like kernel. This means not having to using a command prompt for ANYTHING. After all, GNOME is mainstream; if your goal is to just have a pretty environment, you don't need GNOME, you just need a bunch of xterms open in some lightweight window manager.
But that's not your average user's goal; your average user wants to be able to get his job done without using terminals or memorizing keyboard shortcuts that have no mouse alternatives. Thus, it's a major step backward when useful functionality, like a filename box, is removed from a standard dialog. Because that's just one more stupid usability issue that makes GNOME a pain to use. Workarounds are not the answer.
No, that's incorrect. This virus INFECTS executables. It actually inserts code into exectuables in order to propagate. It doesn't just destory files. Additionally, it's smart enough to avoid infecting important files, even if the user is Administrator. Also, it avoids crashing using vector exception handling, something that, admitedly, I know nothing about. But it's far from a simple C program that just overwrites files.
Yeah. We'd have to... run axfrdns-conf. And then add one line to/etc/axfrdns/tcp. Then run make in/etc/axfrdns. And then do a ln -s/etc/axfrdns/service. And that's it. Wow. What a pain. I should switch back to BIND.
Such an EULA is not legally binding. Contract law is based around the idea of two parties mutually agreeing on specific terms. Neither party can change those terms without the other's agreement. Clauses such as the one you mentioned are simply invalid, since they violate the idea on which contract law is based.
You should take that with a grain of salt though, as IANAL.
Funny. I don't have a CD player. I don't even have a stereo. I buy music with Rhapsody and transfer to a small device that is capable of storing hundreds of tracks at a time and doesn't skip.
Try doing that with your old fashioned "cd player."
The grandparent's argument is quite sound; WMA, despite being proprietary and Microsoft, is still the more open choice for most consumers, ironically.
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Thanks for twisting what I said around until you had a point to make.
No, you're missing the point. Nothing ever just costs corporations money. If it costs them money, it will cost the end user money too. You don't really think that costs have nothing to do with market price, do you?
You need to take some elementary economics, friend.
Yeah, that's a great idea. More licensing problems. Additionally, it would then become impossible to put such software in the public domain!
No thank you.
You mistyped SHIFT. Perhaps you should have been using the CAPSLOCK key?
What's so difficult to understand is that DOS is now emulated by Windows. So it should obey the same keymappings. Dude.
Please refrain from using the hipster corporate plural, it is like using virii.
Actually, as I understand it, that's quite acceptable use in the UK. In the US, of course, it sounds funny, even though we might say something like: "AOL is reducing the cost of their services."
It's a funny thing, grammar.
RTFA. In this system, once pictures are used, they are never used again. So much for *trivial* sniffing.
I would be willing to bet that most of your users write their passwords down and put them in their desk drawer. This is the problem of the average user and the complicated password.
Confounding debugging by tech support? First of all, we're talking about a consumer product here. Tech support is not going to be logging in to see why RADIUS authentication is not working or to troubleshoot some advanced routing issues. In fact, when users call in having forgot their password, I suspect tech support will just tell them to use the reset feature; it's far easier than trying to find out a consumer's IP address.
No, you cannot justify this. Even if there was some kind of two-hour password, it would be a huge security problem. For example, if I'm using one of these to protect my network, and you have a couple thousand bucks lying around, I'm sure you could convince someone at Netgear to give you a two-hour password without a problem. A single password is even more heinous.
Yes, I will no longer be buying Netgear products.
Soon Slashdot will be filled with the waring camps of "X is perfection" and "X is old, so it is bad."
In this case, I find that it's merely a matter of getting used to the way the X clipboard functions. For example, delete the old text AFTER you paste the new text. It's a different way of managing your clipboard, but it's not necessary any better; for most jobs, I find it to be MORE convenient, and I start to forget to Ctrl-C when I'm in Windows.
For more information on how X handles the clipboard/selection, see Jamie Zawinski's informative web page.
He's not voting. Instead, he's being an elitist snob. Yeah, I'm pretty damn sure he's not doing anything to inform the "television addicts" or to change the minds and deeds of politicians. Excuse me for being presumptuous.
Mmhmm. I see. And what are you doing to change this? Whining on Slashdot? Preaching to the (often misinformed) choir.
Do you think that the New York Times or any of the liberal news networks would ever report on something pro-Israel and pro-Bush? Of course not! They're biased too. You see, there is no unbiased news source that reports on everything. But you don't really care. You just like being able to deny everything Fox News says. I can read you like a book.
Yeah, man, who DOESN'T take pot shots at the President?
What the fuck are you talking about? It's not like he was just "testing the waters." He tried to assassinate our leader! Stop being a Saddam apologist. We all know you're really saying you just hate Bush. You're not fooling anybody.
I highly suspect #5 is bullshit. Show me the statistic, and then explain why it's relevant. You see, gun owners may be more likely to die from gunshot wounds, but perhaps that's because gun owners are more likely to be in dangerous areas? After all, you don't buy a gun if you live in Pleasantville.
To put it another way, if you're living in a bad part of town, you're more likely to be shot. You're also more likely to buy a gun in order to protect yourself. Thus, more gun owners will live in a bad part of town, and more gun owners will be shot. Bad statistic.
Let's talk about what you've said here today. You assert that the removal of the filename textbox from the File Open dialog is a "feature." Yeah, I guess it's really confusing. Therefore, when ever anyone needs to use it, they can just type the ultra-intuitive Ctrl-L! Good choice, guys!
But if you don't want to do that, you can always use the CLI, so look, you still have choices!
This is absolutely absurd. GNOME should provide a seamless GUI to run on top of X and a UNIX-like kernel. This means not having to using a command prompt for ANYTHING. After all, GNOME is mainstream; if your goal is to just have a pretty environment, you don't need GNOME, you just need a bunch of xterms open in some lightweight window manager.
But that's not your average user's goal; your average user wants to be able to get his job done without using terminals or memorizing keyboard shortcuts that have no mouse alternatives. Thus, it's a major step backward when useful functionality, like a filename box, is removed from a standard dialog. Because that's just one more stupid usability issue that makes GNOME a pain to use. Workarounds are not the answer.
Yeah, but those magnets aren't strong enough to unintentionally destroy my data.
No, that's incorrect. This virus INFECTS executables. It actually inserts code into exectuables in order to propagate. It doesn't just destory files. Additionally, it's smart enough to avoid infecting important files, even if the user is Administrator. Also, it avoids crashing using vector exception handling, something that, admitedly, I know nothing about. But it's far from a simple C program that just overwrites files.
Keep your neodymium magnets away from my hard drives, please.
The article makes some great points, and I'm disappointed that the parent is currently only a 2.
Yeah. We'd have to... run axfrdns-conf. And then add one line to /etc/axfrdns/tcp. Then run make in /etc/axfrdns. And then do a ln -s /etc/axfrdns /service. And that's it. Wow. What a pain. I should switch back to BIND.
Such an EULA is not legally binding. Contract law is based around the idea of two parties mutually agreeing on specific terms. Neither party can change those terms without the other's agreement. Clauses such as the one you mentioned are simply invalid, since they violate the idea on which contract law is based.
You should take that with a grain of salt though, as IANAL.
Er, that's like saying IPv6 is the present because a few people are using it.
I mean, I know this is Slashdot, and I know bashing Microsoft is mandatory, but you can do better than that.
Funny. I don't have a CD player. I don't even have a stereo. I buy music with Rhapsody and transfer to a small device that is capable of storing hundreds of tracks at a time and doesn't skip.
Try doing that with your old fashioned "cd player."
The grandparent's argument is quite sound; WMA, despite being proprietary and Microsoft, is still the more open choice for most consumers, ironically.