Licenses are the olden day version of DRM. They're restrictive (if followed) and take away our right to do stuff with software we supposedly own (which we really don't. We just rent it).
How the hell did such licenses become so popular? Because there was no competition. Everyone was doing it so you had a choice. Use software with a restrictive license or don't use software. But we have alternatives now, so why does everyone still use software with restrictive licenses? Because the software became the standard (i.e. Microsoft).
People are shit-scared this will happen with DRM. But this article shows alternatives slowly starting to alter restrictive licenses. This is a Good Thing (TM) because if they can do it after such licenses have become the norm, they should be able to affect DRM and hurt it a lot.
it'd be pretty easy. Plus with msn you can SMS messages to someone who isn't logged in. The receiver pays for it. It'd be _very_ easy to send the same thing copy and pasted to yourself.
Not the "same password for everything" part, but the type without thinking part. I currently will type a password depending on the login screen I'm shown. For example on the mud I play, I'll type type in the correct sequence without even thinking about it. I also do the same for my university account. I remember both with the username and password both being very different due to the fact the login screens look different.
You don't need to type in the same password for everything, you just need different login screens (although if you have 15 boxes of the same thing, not easy).
They hate OSS users more, because at least, the pirates could theorically be brought to justice and/or made to cough-up cash to Billy-Boy, whereas they just can't LEGALLY lay their hands on OSS users and squeeze cash out of them...
No, they hate OSS users more because they don't contribute to making Microsoft the standard. If every pirate switched to Linux, you wouldn't be able to use a word document and figure most of the people you talk to will be able to read it. Instead you'll have to use another, non-Microsoft file format. But if you do that, then there is less reason for you to be using Windows, so more people will be inclined to move over to other operating systems.
Pirates make Microsoft the standard among home users.
NASA hopes both rovers will remain functional until at least September.
As people we often take everything for granted. Unfortunately it's just too difficult to constantly be amazed by everything around us (take a moment to think about how a computer works, it's fucking amazing). But this article really does show this isn't the present but the future. We have rovers on another fucking planet.
I remember thinking that the rovers wouldn't land successfully. But now they have and they're roaming around another planet. I'm sorry, but that's just amazing to me. And the above quote just reminded me.
Spam, annually, costs you way more. Or, more accurately, they cost your provider more, which in turn, gets passed on to you. So what they are doing is a cost saving measure
Won't stop them from bumping up the price. And if you want broadband in Australia you're quite likely to be forced into one company (I know I am). I imagine in some parts of America this is also true (hell, some parts of America don't even have broadband so it'd have to be true).
"Mr Howard and his government are just yes-men to the United States. There they are, a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of Australian politics.
The backbench sucks up to the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister sucks up to George W." - Mark Latham, running for Prime Minister for the other side.
The information will hopefully (fingers crossed) be abundant, but I wouldn't expect a landing to be successful. We never know, there may be one, but I think it unlikely;)
He has to realise that with book-to-film adaptations, whether it be Harry Potter or Battle Royale, you can never satisfy the lunatic fringe.
If I read the book first I can never enjoy the movie. Does this make me the lunatic fringe?
You may not agree with people's opinions that movies often ruin the story, but many people do believe it, so I would hardly call them "lunatics." I'd go on and ask what exactly a lunatic is, but I won't;)
While your not wrong in saying those things are universal human experiences, there are only humans in this solar system. It's like saying "there is more then 1 computer on this planet" which is of course absolutely true, but don't you think you could narrow it down a bit? You just as easily say that incompetent monopolies, stupid governments, and incomprehensible sports are pretty much solar-system wide human experiences. At least it would be more exact.:P
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Licenses are the olden day version of DRM. They're restrictive (if followed) and take away our right to do stuff with software we supposedly own (which we really don't. We just rent it).
How the hell did such licenses become so popular? Because there was no competition. Everyone was doing it so you had a choice. Use software with a restrictive license or don't use software. But we have alternatives now, so why does everyone still use software with restrictive licenses? Because the software became the standard (i.e. Microsoft).
People are shit-scared this will happen with DRM. But this article shows alternatives slowly starting to alter restrictive licenses. This is a Good Thing (TM) because if they can do it after such licenses have become the norm, they should be able to affect DRM and hurt it a lot.
it'd be pretty easy. Plus with msn you can SMS messages to someone who isn't logged in. The receiver pays for it. It'd be _very_ easy to send the same thing copy and pasted to yourself.
Not the "same password for everything" part, but the type without thinking part. I currently will type a password depending on the login screen I'm shown. For example on the mud I play, I'll type type in the correct sequence without even thinking about it. I also do the same for my university account. I remember both with the username and password both being very different due to the fact the login screens look different.
You don't need to type in the same password for everything, you just need different login screens (although if you have 15 boxes of the same thing, not easy).
Did the tool judge your password before or after you blurted it out on /. ;)
They hate OSS users more, because at least, the pirates could theorically be brought to justice and/or made to cough-up cash to Billy-Boy, whereas they just can't LEGALLY lay their hands on OSS users and squeeze cash out of them...
No, they hate OSS users more because they don't contribute to making Microsoft the standard. If every pirate switched to Linux, you wouldn't be able to use a word document and figure most of the people you talk to will be able to read it. Instead you'll have to use another, non-Microsoft file format. But if you do that, then there is less reason for you to be using Windows, so more people will be inclined to move over to other operating systems.
Pirates make Microsoft the standard among home users.
Hey look at us. We made a souped up tv that is completely useless. Aren't we great?
I have to ask, what's the point to this? Looks like technology for the sake of technology
(And no. I haven't RTFA. When someone posts a non-registration link I will, until then I won't).
NASA hopes both rovers will remain functional until at least September.
As people we often take everything for granted. Unfortunately it's just too difficult to constantly be amazed by everything around us (take a moment to think about how a computer works, it's fucking amazing). But this article really does show this isn't the present but the future. We have rovers on another fucking planet.
I remember thinking that the rovers wouldn't land successfully. But now they have and they're roaming around another planet. I'm sorry, but that's just amazing to me. And the above quote just reminded me.
The article made the joke before I did.
Two interplanetary Energizer bunnies
Guess next time I should RTFA
Because the Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers are in such great condition and 'keep going and going'
Must be those energizer batteries they put into the rovers.
bus company almost goes broke and finally compiles,
:-P
I just love the replacement of perfectly good words with "techie" words
call it a B.S.
Spam, annually, costs you way more. Or, more accurately, they cost your provider more, which in turn, gets passed on to you. So what they are doing is a cost saving measure
Won't stop them from bumping up the price. And if you want broadband in Australia you're quite likely to be forced into one company (I know I am). I imagine in some parts of America this is also true (hell, some parts of America don't even have broadband so it'd have to be true).
Gees. Some people really just aren't educated ;)
no text dood
so stop saying it
"Mr Howard and his government are just yes-men to the United States. There they are, a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of Australian politics.
The backbench sucks up to the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister sucks up to George W." - Mark Latham, running for Prime Minister for the other side.
Don't they need warrants for tapping telephones though?
what the hell is the average human useful for?
As an energy source of course.
I was under the impression the existence of blackholes was only theoretical or am I thinking of white holes?
The information will hopefully (fingers crossed) be abundant, but I wouldn't expect a landing to be successful. We never know, there may be one, but I think it unlikely ;)
Thanks a lot for posting a link to that image :) It truly is amazing to see Jupiter in such high detail.
All those images look pretty bad to me. Which begs the question, are the pictures of Saturn all fake? How do we know it has rings?
I don't see how any details could be seen from pictures of that quality? Or does the fact the satellites are so much smaller have _that_ much effect?
Sometimes I really wonder about the price of new technology.
Does it really need to be so expensive to make a profit or are they relying on the fact people are accustomed to things costing so much?
I don't expect an answer, but I really wonder sometimes.
He has to realise that with book-to-film adaptations, whether it be Harry Potter or Battle Royale, you can never satisfy the lunatic fringe.
;)
If I read the book first I can never enjoy the movie. Does this make me the lunatic fringe?
You may not agree with people's opinions that movies often ruin the story, but many people do believe it, so I would hardly call them "lunatics." I'd go on and ask what exactly a lunatic is, but I won't
While your not wrong in saying those things are universal human experiences, there are only humans in this solar system. It's like saying "there is more then 1 computer on this planet" which is of course absolutely true, but don't you think you could narrow it down a bit? You just as easily say that incompetent monopolies, stupid governments, and incomprehensible sports are pretty much solar-system wide human experiences. At least it would be more exact. :P