I have no idea how in freaking fuck IE7 will be gaining marketshare on a platform it doesn't even run on, due to a distribution issue with a completely different browser on a different operating system.
Copyright, in and of itself, is not evil or wrong. If I, say, write a book, then it should be my prerogative to decide if I sell that book, if I give it away, who can distribute it...copyright, remember, does not preclude people releasing things into the public domain. There's nothing wrong with the basic, fundamental concept of someone controlling the distribution of their work. If they wish to sign away those rights, that's their prerogative too (even if, as some will no doubt be thinking, that is a silly decision to make). If someone violates the authors' wishes, then the author has legal recourse to receive compensation. This, in my view, is perfectly fair and indeed necessary, considering how profitable it can be to sell other peoples' work.
I will happily agree with those who say that the extensions to copyright lobbied for by the media companies are wrong; if the copyright on a work lasts beyond the original creators' lifetime then that is incredibly excessive, and I can see absolutely no reason for it to last that long, after all, works in the public domain are just as important, if not more so, as copyrighted works. But these extensions, for all their immorality, are not arguments against the basic tenet of copyright; that an author should receive legal protection when they create something. I personally think the way forward is for lobbying to reduce the copyright period to a set level, but sadly without massive popular backing this isn't likely to happen, much less succeed. It doesn't particularly help that an immature section of the public views copyright law as nothing more than an obstruction to getting free music and movies (ThePirateBay, I'm looking at you), rather than as the valuable protection that it is.
Copyright is the reason that a popular band cannot claim your work as their own. Copyright is the reason that if you write software you have the choice to license it under any license you choose. Without the copyright protections enshrined in law, people would have little to no legal recourse against other people using their works for profit. If it was entirely gone, you would almost certainly miss it. You might hurt the RIAA and the MPAA, true...but at what cost to the "culture" many so vocally champion?
Try explore2fs. It's a little clunky, but it works quite well and doesn't require installing drivers (I never did have much luck with EXT2IFS, it tended to screw up folder names and such quite a lot).
Dunno how you managed to make out that XP is 6 years old from that;)
Thing is though, XP may be old but it has had enough updates to make it at least somewhat secure. Windows Firewall helps tremendously. Windows 2000 is old but still round about secure when firewalled.
Really, if you use Firefox and a decent firewall, you're quite unlikely to get rooted in any capacity. The real problems are the IE users and the people without a firewall (basically anyone SP2 on XP).
Evidence, please, of Microsoft employees astroturfing Slashdot? Not any other forum, Slashdot. Twitter doesn't count, it has been well established that the people modding him down and calling him out on his constant bullshit and FUD aren't even near to being Microsoft employees.
Quite frankly, I'm not concerned whether twitter or anyone else bashes Microsoft or promotes Linux, or vice versa. It's making things up and spouting FUD to do so which I dislike.
Isn't it lovely to know that in the time we've spent poncing around in Iraq looking for nukes that don't exist, and bringing a lack of running wanter to those who didn't have it before, North Korea has built a nuke and tested it, and will apparently build many more, while everyone else pussyfooted around the issue.
Shame on you North Korea for building these disgusting weapons, completely immoral on every level. Shame on you USA for ignoring them doing it.
Nowhere in the article summary is this mentioned as humourous. It's therefore not entirely unreasonable to assume that it's a serious investigation.
Also, why the "Microsoft apologists" bit? It's a bullshit article with a silly premise, pointing it out as such isn't "apologising" for Microsoft at all.
If you're actively trying to install lots and lots of toolbars on your own computer, which you have admin access too, there's a very large chance you're going to succeed.
There are things called "listening posts" which you can use to listen to a CD, in its entirety if you like, and I'm sure if you go to a nice independent record shop they'll let you hear a bit of a CD before you buy it. You don't have to get a nasty surprise.
One time, I went accidentally overdrawn by about 50p (about $1 in crazy American money), paid it back the next day and then found myself being charged £35 (about $70) because of an unauthorised overdraft. After much ranting and raving at the bank concerned (NatWest) they refunded the money they'd taken out (which, incidentally, had put me overdrawn again).
Funny enough, this was an account that had a debit card which does not allow overdrafts, but for some reason did on this occasion.
Patchou's Messenger Plus, for those who don't know, is a simple program that hooks into MSN Messenger and puts in some features missing in the original, like away messages, sounds and such.
Now: the program does not, repeat, NOT, push adware. You install it, the setup wizard gives you a clear choice between installing the sponsor program (adware) or not. You choose not to, it never gives you any grief again. And if you do install the sponsor program, it apparently removes very cleanly just by doing the usual Add/Remove Programs thing.
So please, lay off. Calling patchou an adware pusher is more than a little harsh, it's downright silly. And he definitely deserves some sort of award or such from Microsoft; Messenger Plus improves MSN in so many ways.
Twitter, just because your anti-Windows shit gets modded down doesn't mean that pro-Windows shit is all that's wanted here. A troll moderation should be a loud and clear wake up call that yes, you can say that Windows is shit and Linux is awesome, so long as you do it in a factual and rational manner, which means backing up your assertions and not indulging in stupid name calling. As soon as you come to realise this, you'll stop getting modded down.
Is that cheaper closed source stuff is bug free or "supported"? I don't think so.
And F/LOSS is bug-free and supported? Surely you jest.
Supported in this context means picking up the phone and being able to speak to someone knowledgable about the software, or possibly to get someone sent out if the situation merits it. Not IRC and mailing lists.
If you want to distribute non free software, you are back in the non free world and I'm not sure that's a viable place to be in any case....what?
Once again, why don't you just write free software and what do think your users will think of WinCE?
Embedded Linux sucked for them...so your solution is to write free software? A non-sequitur if ever I saw one.
But Debian costs nothing and I never run into bugs.
Do Debian or Fedora have support personnel on the end of the phone who are paid to help you out as efficiently as possible? No, they fucking don't. This is the problem.
What is good for a few desktop systems such as yours is by no means guaranteed to be good for business systems, where any downtime could lead to serious financial losses.
The cheapest place to be is free. You are going to have "bugs" wherever you go but there are fewer in the free world and you might be able to fix them.
You miss the point so much it hurts. The point of paid support is that you don't have to fix bugs or troubleshoot serious problems yourself. This is what Red Hat support is for as well. You call them up, they help with your problem.
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I have no idea how in freaking fuck IE7 will be gaining marketshare on a platform it doesn't even run on, due to a distribution issue with a completely different browser on a different operating system.
Copyright, in and of itself, is not evil or wrong. If I, say, write a book, then it should be my prerogative to decide if I sell that book, if I give it away, who can distribute it...copyright, remember, does not preclude people releasing things into the public domain. There's nothing wrong with the basic, fundamental concept of someone controlling the distribution of their work. If they wish to sign away those rights, that's their prerogative too (even if, as some will no doubt be thinking, that is a silly decision to make). If someone violates the authors' wishes, then the author has legal recourse to receive compensation. This, in my view, is perfectly fair and indeed necessary, considering how profitable it can be to sell other peoples' work.
I will happily agree with those who say that the extensions to copyright lobbied for by the media companies are wrong; if the copyright on a work lasts beyond the original creators' lifetime then that is incredibly excessive, and I can see absolutely no reason for it to last that long, after all, works in the public domain are just as important, if not more so, as copyrighted works. But these extensions, for all their immorality, are not arguments against the basic tenet of copyright; that an author should receive legal protection when they create something. I personally think the way forward is for lobbying to reduce the copyright period to a set level, but sadly without massive popular backing this isn't likely to happen, much less succeed. It doesn't particularly help that an immature section of the public views copyright law as nothing more than an obstruction to getting free music and movies (ThePirateBay, I'm looking at you), rather than as the valuable protection that it is.
Copyright is the reason that a popular band cannot claim your work as their own. Copyright is the reason that if you write software you have the choice to license it under any license you choose. Without the copyright protections enshrined in law, people would have little to no legal recourse against other people using their works for profit. If it was entirely gone, you would almost certainly miss it. You might hurt the RIAA and the MPAA, true...but at what cost to the "culture" many so vocally champion?
Try explore2fs. It's a little clunky, but it works quite well and doesn't require installing drivers (I never did have much luck with EXT2IFS, it tended to screw up folder names and such quite a lot).
Not since Windows 95, I'm afraid.
What, they flew Slurpee machines into the Pentagon?
I will bet money you're twitter. Might be wrong of course, but really...
2006-2001 = 5
;)
Dunno how you managed to make out that XP is 6 years old from that
Thing is though, XP may be old but it has had enough updates to make it at least somewhat secure. Windows Firewall helps tremendously. Windows 2000 is old but still round about secure when firewalled.
Really, if you use Firefox and a decent firewall, you're quite unlikely to get rooted in any capacity. The real problems are the IE users and the people without a firewall (basically anyone SP2 on XP).
Evidence, please, of Microsoft employees astroturfing Slashdot? Not any other forum, Slashdot. Twitter doesn't count, it has been well established that the people modding him down and calling him out on his constant bullshit and FUD aren't even near to being Microsoft employees.
Quite frankly, I'm not concerned whether twitter or anyone else bashes Microsoft or promotes Linux, or vice versa. It's making things up and spouting FUD to do so which I dislike.
Isn't it lovely to know that in the time we've spent poncing around in Iraq looking for nukes that don't exist, and bringing a lack of running wanter to those who didn't have it before, North Korea has built a nuke and tested it, and will apparently build many more, while everyone else pussyfooted around the issue.
Shame on you North Korea for building these disgusting weapons, completely immoral on every level. Shame on you USA for ignoring them doing it.
How proprietary, exactly? Potential GPL violation, anyone?
Dear Aptly Named Overly Critical Guy,
Nowhere in the article summary is this mentioned as humourous. It's therefore not entirely unreasonable to assume that it's a serious investigation.
Also, why the "Microsoft apologists" bit? It's a bullshit article with a silly premise, pointing it out as such isn't "apologising" for Microsoft at all.
Ultimate Edition is hardly aimed at the sort of people who would click through dialogue boxes blindly.
DUH!
Whoops... s/admin access too/admin access to/. Silly mistake :)
If you're actively trying to install lots and lots of toolbars on your own computer, which you have admin access too, there's a very large chance you're going to succeed.
This is news?
...when did I say THAT!?
If you're right on the spot digitally, you're probably well on your way to some harmony.
Ahem.
The solution to that is to NOT BUY SHIT CDs.
There are things called "listening posts" which you can use to listen to a CD, in its entirety if you like, and I'm sure if you go to a nice independent record shop they'll let you hear a bit of a CD before you buy it. You don't have to get a nasty surprise.
One time, I went accidentally overdrawn by about 50p (about $1 in crazy American money), paid it back the next day and then found myself being charged £35 (about $70) because of an unauthorised overdraft. After much ranting and raving at the bank concerned (NatWest) they refunded the money they'd taken out (which, incidentally, had put me overdrawn again).
Funny enough, this was an account that had a debit card which does not allow overdrafts, but for some reason did on this occasion.
An excuse is just a reason given for doing something wrong.
Patchou's Messenger Plus, for those who don't know, is a simple program that hooks into MSN Messenger and puts in some features missing in the original, like away messages, sounds and such.
Now: the program does not, repeat, NOT, push adware. You install it, the setup wizard gives you a clear choice between installing the sponsor program (adware) or not. You choose not to, it never gives you any grief again. And if you do install the sponsor program, it apparently removes very cleanly just by doing the usual Add/Remove Programs thing.
So please, lay off. Calling patchou an adware pusher is more than a little harsh, it's downright silly. And he definitely deserves some sort of award or such from Microsoft; Messenger Plus improves MSN in so many ways.
Twitter, just because your anti-Windows shit gets modded down doesn't mean that pro-Windows shit is all that's wanted here. A troll moderation should be a loud and clear wake up call that yes, you can say that Windows is shit and Linux is awesome, so long as you do it in a factual and rational manner, which means backing up your assertions and not indulging in stupid name calling. As soon as you come to realise this, you'll stop getting modded down.
What was that bit about the penis trap? Well, you will have to use Vista yourself to see.
God, you must be really scared of Vista if your arguments against it have descended to "It'll injure your genitals".
Is that cheaper closed source stuff is bug free or "supported"? I don't think so.
...what?
And F/LOSS is bug-free and supported? Surely you jest.
Supported in this context means picking up the phone and being able to speak to someone knowledgable about the software, or possibly to get someone sent out if the situation merits it. Not IRC and mailing lists.
If you want to distribute non free software, you are back in the non free world and I'm not sure that's a viable place to be in any case.
Once again, why don't you just write free software and what do think your users will think of WinCE?
Embedded Linux sucked for them...so your solution is to write free software? A non-sequitur if ever I saw one.
But Debian costs nothing and I never run into bugs.
Do Debian or Fedora have support personnel on the end of the phone who are paid to help you out as efficiently as possible? No, they fucking don't. This is the problem.
What is good for a few desktop systems such as yours is by no means guaranteed to be good for business systems, where any downtime could lead to serious financial losses.
The cheapest place to be is free. You are going to have "bugs" wherever you go but there are fewer in the free world and you might be able to fix them.
You miss the point so much it hurts. The point of paid support is that you don't have to fix bugs or troubleshoot serious problems yourself. This is what Red Hat support is for as well. You call them up, they help with your problem.
That joke went flying over your head faster than a chair in Steve Ballmer's office.