Maybe they do know and are just ignoring this fact so they can say "we made a secure OS this time--it's the user's fault if things go wrong because they turned off the security features!"
I don't see how this is a problem, to be honest. If a user goes out of their way to turn off MS's security systems and they get r00ted, it's their problem (and let's face it, if a user went out of their way to log in as root anyway despite being told not to by a Linux installer, I know who I'd blame.)
Well, for a start it's far more intuitive. Where would you expect a CD-ROM; with its own identifying letter and icon, or in/media/cdrom (which conveniently is empty if you forgot to mount the CD)?
Anyway, Windows has had the ability to mount drives inside a folder since Win2K.
Let me take Mandriva Linux Powerpack (that is what I install for all my users I switched to Linux). Installation of NVidia driver ? They don't even know what that means, as it was installed automagically with the OS who recognised the card automatically. So you're done before even having started. So it's far easier than in Windows. It's the same for ATI driver BTW. Far easier than on Windows. Your example would be for a system like mine which is custom, but even I have an automatic installer that streamlines the installation.
Mandrake PowerPack isn't free. It has to be paid for (IIRC anyway). As for your custom installer, not EVERYONE has a custom installer.
For one, menus are not instant on Windows, and for two, there are other office apps available on Linux. People like you (I should say anti-Linux trolls) like to rant about Windows menus being instant. Sure that's true with a fresh installed Windows with nothing installed on it. As soon as you start using it and installing things, it becomes less and less true though. Actually, WinXP SP2 still have, sometimes, 10s of seconds of wait before a menu will open (this is on a 3GHz+ P4 desktop with 1 Go RAM). The difference is that on Linux desktops, the menus perhaps were slower (that's not true in KDE, and won't be true in Gnome 2.14 either) but the speed stayed the same from just after install, to today. Actually, speed of Linux desktops improves with the years.
I was actually talking about OpenOffice's menus, but those aren't entirely instant on Windows either. As for OS app launch menus, WindowMaker was pretty fucking quick, Windows 2000 is instant and KDE takes a few seconds. Last I tried, GNOME on Ubuntu was slow as a dog. I'll be honest and say that I'd like to try GNOME 2.14 when it comes out, to see if it's really as fast as they say it will be.
Also, I'm not an anti-Linux troll. I tried Linux, I used it for a while, its shortcomings became glaringly obvious, I went back to Windows. That's it. Not everyone who criticises Linux is a troll, you know, there are reasoned arguments for and against.
BS, Linux has tons of these already !!!
What, integrated rippers, burners, players, taggers, stream players etc? With all of the functionality of Windows Media Player or iTunes (hell, even Foobar2000's functionality and speed would be nice!)? LSongs comes closest, and that's a pile of wank from what I've used of it.
What you say is stupid and already done anyway. My wife (which is on KDE) just clicks on the CDs, and she has virtually access to all the mp3/ogg/wav/flac/whatever for the entire CD of for each track, and it's available in any KDE app. Syncing to IPod is available in any program supporting libgpod, which is most Linux music players including rhythmbox and amarok.
Opening a CD as a folder to rip it, while making sense superficially, is hardly obvious. AmaroK, as I said in my post, is great, but again doesn't support ripping, only supports burning through k3b and last I tried its streaming support wasn't anything to shout out about. (Also, taglib's maintainer's stupid refusal to accept freely available patches to read WMA tags so that AmaroK can import WMA files to its library doesn't help matters).
It has no feature to choose from and so is a pain in the ass to use ? Can you think logically ? All you have to say is trolls.
OK, I'll bite. I tried looking for bitrate settings. Hmm, not there. I tried looking for a setting to change what file name ripped audio is given. I guess that's not there as well.
Your thing of launching an app the user does not even know about is too complicated. But as it is the Windows way which is the only way you know, you think it's the best. Using Linux with the Windows mind is the worst thing to do.
No, I think it is the best because I think it is the best, not because I've not used the other way. The other way is a pain in the hole for most people, including myself.
Quite a bit I think. When I got a story posted to the/. homepage, they linked directly to my email address; unscrambled, of course (and my homepage link was readily available). Spam galore!
I don't have a problem with it (well, didn't, CDex works for me right now) but an average end user probably would. The configuration in particular would scare them shitless.
I'm sorry to say this, but frankly as far as home desktops are concerned, the battle has been won by Windows. I'm not talking about power users, but just the people who want to do their office work and deal with the minimum of hassle, maybe upgrade their drivers etc but are generally not fussed. The reason for this is that Linux is, from the perspective of end users, needlessly complex, whereas Windows is for the most part easy to use and simple to understand.
As an example, contrast installing NVIDIA's drivers under Windows and Linux. Under Windows, you download a driver file from NVIDIA's site, run it and then reboot your PC after clicking next a few times. Done. On Linux, however, that process is more like go to NVIDIA's site, download file, kill X (not a very simple task for newbies on distros which have things like GDM and KDM), find the file you downloaded using a terminal, run it and follow the instructions. If you're LUCKY, you won't need to build the kernel module and a prebuilt one is available. For everyone in the world ever, however, you need to futz around with GCC versions and kernel sources and what have you...
You see, most people would have given up as soon as GDM popped back up. Installing using apt-get or shell scripts or even configure; make; make install doesn't seem very logical to most people, they prefer just going onto a website, downloading a file and double clicking the icon.
Then there's the software which has numerous features missing. OpenOffice.org shines as an example of what software should NOT be. I tried running it on a fairly new PC, running WindowMaker on Debian. It was dog slow; menus took seconds to open, rather than being instant as they are on Windows. Just unusable. And it might sound like a small thing to some people, but there's a complete lack of decent MSN Messenger clients for Linux. The closest is Kopete, with Gaim frankly unusable, as Kopete has support for webcams and personal messages while Gaim does not. But still, on both a simple task like changing your nickname, changing your personal message or setting a display picture is a darn sight harder than it really needs to be. Hell, custom emoticon support would be nice. You might scoff at this, but for most teens and even some adults this is an important thing.
AmaroK is a nice application for Linux, one I do miss while on Windows (I run Win2K as my primary OS). But still, what Linux is missing is a Windows Media Player/iTunes-alike. Something that rips CDs, syncs to iPods, burns CDs and plays music files all in one program. Yes, you may cry, there's Sound Juicer/KAudioCreator and yes, there's Rhythmbox but both of those have very serious flaws. KAudioCreator is, and not to mince words here, a pile of shit. It is a pain in the ass to use, a pain in the ass to configure and a pain in the ass in general. Sound Juicer follows the GNOME philosophy of hiding features from the end user, and so is a pain in the ass to use. Grip, for all its power, has no usability whatsoever. What most people want to do is just open Linux Media Player, insert a CD, click the start rip button, wait 5 minutes and come back to find a load of MP3s. That's it. This is a serious failing on the part of Linux desktops, people like this sort of integrated functioning.
I'm not going to bother with the arguments about not having MS Office or games, because they're bleeding obvious and have been rehashed many times before. But Linux has a long way to go before it is even remotely as usable as Windows or Mac OS X. It's simply far too complex for the average end user to understand, and the software which most people want and need to use day in day out is woefully inadequate.
Basically, DRM is a fact of life. Given that people can download and upload any file free of charge, etc, it needs to be done, otherwise files get swapped around etc.
What needs to be done is a format used which has good quality at a decent file size (something like Musepack would be ideal), a DRM scheme added to it and lots of plugins released for lots of players on lots of different OSes. Maybe something like Steam could be worked out, so that the plugin talks to the client, makes sure the music is authorised and then lets it play. If there was enough platform support, this could go a long way.
Of course, the media being what it is, I doubt something like this would happen.
A lot of people also seem to think they're entitled to free whatever, but also want that free whatever to be DRM-free, in the format they like etc etc etc...essentially they want to have their cake and eat it. Gets on my nerves after a while.
You have no inherent moral right to charge people for listening to music you make
Yes, you do. It's called copyright. Note that it is a right; that is, you don't HAVE to charge people, but you can do if you wish, and using copyright law enforce it.
If people are downloading it without paying, just stop making it and find another job.
Or use your legal rights under copyright law to sue them and stop them. This is the option the RIAA and the MPAA are taking and, although I wish they'd concentrate more on the people uploading the stuff, it is a legitimate course of action.
Lawsuits won't stop them -- it's like if the makers of traction engines tried to make gasoline powered tractors illegal.
No, it's not; it's like if the owners of the patent for traction engines (if such a thing existed) sued someone who cloned their design without paying the requisite license fees.
Record companies do more than what you listed, they also hire staff, have contacts with studios (and sometimes own them), promote CDs on TV and radio, get them in record stores etc.
As for you paying for concerts and merchandise, well, the artist would only really sign for a record label and issue CDs if they were looking to make money from those CDs, as well as from concerts etc. Go to concerts, buy merchandise, yeah, but unless you have the express permission of the band to download their album it's not really cricket to think you're entitled to it in some way.
1) Offered a bittorrent site with high quality audio with a reasonable subscription price (say 10$-20$ per month) 2) Included advertisements on the proposed bittorrent site.
They sound like good ideas, and 3-6 are almost there already. To be clear, it's not BitTorrent or Internet distribution I'm against, and I'm nowhere near an RIAA lover (copy protected CDs in particular piss me off) but I just think artists deserve to be rewarded for their work, and the people that claim their downloading is motivated by some kind of political cause rather than getting shit for free are being more than a little bit disingenuous.
I know the article's not about the music industry, but the same stupid arguments get used on every story about the legitimacy of P2P or another lawsuit or something.
"Saying fuck you to the RIAA" (to help artists): Leeching music from BitTorrent, under the pretense that giving the artists would much prefer the $0.00 it gives them rather than the sum their record company pays them. "The RIAA cartel": "I do not know what the word 'cartel' means". "Suing music fans": Suing people who redistribute copyrighted works illegally. "Sharing music" (or sometimes "sharing music with friends"): "Encoding music into a format ideal for cross-Internet distribution, zipping it up with covers and putting it on BitTorrent for hundreds of people I've never met and don't intend to" "Set the culture free": "I don't like the idea of having to pay for music, because. Just because." "The price of music is exorbitant, so I prefer to use BitTorrent": Music in shops isn't free. I think it should be. "Sony put a rootkit on a CD, so I'm using BitTorrent instead": "I am a complete fucking dumbass who doesn't realise that pirating a CD instead of simply not buying it proves the labels' point and will make them more willing to use copy protection in the future. Also, I do not know about the shift key or its associated functions." "Why should I buy 128kbps DRMed music from iTunes? I get higher quality from BT" "I don't know about Hymn, have never heard an AAC file in my life and more to the point BitTorrent is free." "I download music because today's music is shit": "Buying an old CD from a record store isn't free, and I don't understand the economics of the music industry whatsoever." "The record companies are greedy and take too much for themselves": "I don't know what functions a record industry serves or how much money they cost, so I'm going to assume they take lots of money to snort cocaine off of a hooker's tits."
Fantastic argument! It's shit and it's not real, so let's not pay for it, even though it cost real money to make and was made by real people who expect real money in return for viewing it!
TorrentSpy etc and the people who use them don't give two shits about "free culture" or "info anarchism" or other terms which sound much nicer than "leeching albums from the Internet". TorrentSpy links to torrents, which 99.9% of the time are for copyrighted works. That's it. Nothing to do with lofty ideals or going against The Man (unless going against The Man gets you free shit).
Same goes for those "millions" who you talk of the will of. They probably couldn't give a flying fuck, so long as they can get the latest Hollywood shitfest for free.
Oh, btw, it's cute that you linked to the FSF homepage right after a link to a page on "anti-copyright". Especially when the GPL would fall over without copyright laws in place.
The difference is that Nobel Laureates don't happily sit on NeoPets for hours, find the most malware-tastic websites around and install some random MSN block checker trojan because whether they've been blocked on MSN Messenger is the most important thing in the world, whereas college students do.
Why doesn't Vorbis get more popularity? Well, only a few portables support it, the only major audio player that supports it out of the box is Winamp (which also doesn't support encoding it), MP3 is good enough for most people...
I tried Cedega once. TransGaming claim to support Half-Life 2 through it, so I gave it a go.
Steam installed fine, so did HL2. After everything was ready to go, I ran the game.
Hard lock up.
Rebooted the PC, started again. This time everything worked fine, except I got maybe 1fps. This on a not spectacularly fast PC/graphics card, but one more than capable of properly running HL2 under Windows. Even turning down details, resolution etc until everything was at the level of a NES game didn't help. Frankly pathetic.
This is why I use Windows...simple tasks, like running a game, just work properly and with a minimum fuss. I can hear everybody going "Well get Valve to release a Linux version then." Well, when they do, and I doubt they will, maybe we won't need stupid hacks like Cedega, which barely work.
I really do wonder what the deal is with people saying they got speed increases from Cedega. My experience is...well, no way.
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Maybe they do know and are just ignoring this fact so they can say "we made a secure OS this time--it's the user's fault if things go wrong because they turned off the security features!"
I don't see how this is a problem, to be honest. If a user goes out of their way to turn off MS's security systems and they get r00ted, it's their problem (and let's face it, if a user went out of their way to log in as root anyway despite being told not to by a Linux installer, I know who I'd blame.)
Well, for a start it's far more intuitive. Where would you expect a CD-ROM; with its own identifying letter and icon, or in /media/cdrom (which conveniently is empty if you forgot to mount the CD)?
Anyway, Windows has had the ability to mount drives inside a folder since Win2K.
Let me take Mandriva Linux Powerpack (that is what I install for all my users I switched to Linux). Installation of NVidia driver ? They don't even know what that means, as it was installed automagically with the OS who recognised the card automatically. So you're done before even having started. So it's far easier than in Windows. It's the same for ATI driver BTW. Far easier than on Windows.
Your example would be for a system like mine which is custom, but even I have an automatic installer that streamlines the installation.
Mandrake PowerPack isn't free. It has to be paid for (IIRC anyway). As for your custom installer, not EVERYONE has a custom installer.
For one, menus are not instant on Windows, and for two, there are other office apps available on Linux.
People like you (I should say anti-Linux trolls) like to rant about Windows menus being instant. Sure that's true with a fresh installed Windows with nothing installed on it. As soon as you start using it and installing things, it becomes less and less true though. Actually, WinXP SP2 still have, sometimes, 10s of seconds of wait before a menu will open (this is on a 3GHz+ P4 desktop with 1 Go RAM). The difference is that on Linux desktops, the menus perhaps were slower (that's not true in KDE, and won't be true in Gnome 2.14 either) but the speed stayed the same from just after install, to today. Actually, speed of Linux desktops improves with the years.
I was actually talking about OpenOffice's menus, but those aren't entirely instant on Windows either. As for OS app launch menus, WindowMaker was pretty fucking quick, Windows 2000 is instant and KDE takes a few seconds. Last I tried, GNOME on Ubuntu was slow as a dog. I'll be honest and say that I'd like to try GNOME 2.14 when it comes out, to see if it's really as fast as they say it will be.
Also, I'm not an anti-Linux troll. I tried Linux, I used it for a while, its shortcomings became glaringly obvious, I went back to Windows. That's it. Not everyone who criticises Linux is a troll, you know, there are reasoned arguments for and against.
BS, Linux has tons of these already !!!
What, integrated rippers, burners, players, taggers, stream players etc? With all of the functionality of Windows Media Player or iTunes (hell, even Foobar2000's functionality and speed would be nice!)? LSongs comes closest, and that's a pile of wank from what I've used of it.
What you say is stupid and already done anyway. My wife (which is on KDE) just clicks on the CDs, and she has virtually access to all the mp3/ogg/wav/flac/whatever for the entire CD of for each track, and it's available in any KDE app. Syncing to IPod is available in any program supporting libgpod, which is most Linux music players including rhythmbox and amarok.
Opening a CD as a folder to rip it, while making sense superficially, is hardly obvious. AmaroK, as I said in my post, is great, but again doesn't support ripping, only supports burning through k3b and last I tried its streaming support wasn't anything to shout out about. (Also, taglib's maintainer's stupid refusal to accept freely available patches to read WMA tags so that AmaroK can import WMA files to its library doesn't help matters).
It has no feature to choose from and so is a pain in the ass to use ?
Can you think logically ? All you have to say is trolls.
OK, I'll bite. I tried looking for bitrate settings. Hmm, not there. I tried looking for a setting to change what file name ripped audio is given. I guess that's not there as well.
Your thing of launching an app the user does not even know about is too complicated. But as it is the Windows way which is the only way you know, you think it's the best. Using Linux with the Windows mind is the worst thing to do.
No, I think it is the best because I think it is the best, not because I've not used the other way. The other way is a pain in the hole for most people, including myself.
If you don't want people to use
Quite a bit I think. When I got a story posted to the /. homepage, they linked directly to my email address; unscrambled, of course (and my homepage link was readily available). Spam galore!
I don't have a problem with it (well, didn't, CDex works for me right now) but an average end user probably would. The configuration in particular would scare them shitless.
I'm sorry to say this, but frankly as far as home desktops are concerned, the battle has been won by Windows. I'm not talking about power users, but just the people who want to do their office work and deal with the minimum of hassle, maybe upgrade their drivers etc but are generally not fussed. The reason for this is that Linux is, from the perspective of end users, needlessly complex, whereas Windows is for the most part easy to use and simple to understand.
As an example, contrast installing NVIDIA's drivers under Windows and Linux. Under Windows, you download a driver file from NVIDIA's site, run it and then reboot your PC after clicking next a few times. Done. On Linux, however, that process is more like go to NVIDIA's site, download file, kill X (not a very simple task for newbies on distros which have things like GDM and KDM), find the file you downloaded using a terminal, run it and follow the instructions. If you're LUCKY, you won't need to build the kernel module and a prebuilt one is available. For everyone in the world ever, however, you need to futz around with GCC versions and kernel sources and what have you...
You see, most people would have given up as soon as GDM popped back up. Installing using apt-get or shell scripts or even configure; make; make install doesn't seem very logical to most people, they prefer just going onto a website, downloading a file and double clicking the icon.
Then there's the software which has numerous features missing. OpenOffice.org shines as an example of what software should NOT be. I tried running it on a fairly new PC, running WindowMaker on Debian. It was dog slow; menus took seconds to open, rather than being instant as they are on Windows. Just unusable. And it might sound like a small thing to some people, but there's a complete lack of decent MSN Messenger clients for Linux. The closest is Kopete, with Gaim frankly unusable, as Kopete has support for webcams and personal messages while Gaim does not. But still, on both a simple task like changing your nickname, changing your personal message or setting a display picture is a darn sight harder than it really needs to be. Hell, custom emoticon support would be nice. You might scoff at this, but for most teens and even some adults this is an important thing.
AmaroK is a nice application for Linux, one I do miss while on Windows (I run Win2K as my primary OS). But still, what Linux is missing is a Windows Media Player/iTunes-alike. Something that rips CDs, syncs to iPods, burns CDs and plays music files all in one program. Yes, you may cry, there's Sound Juicer/KAudioCreator and yes, there's Rhythmbox but both of those have very serious flaws. KAudioCreator is, and not to mince words here, a pile of shit. It is a pain in the ass to use, a pain in the ass to configure and a pain in the ass in general. Sound Juicer follows the GNOME philosophy of hiding features from the end user, and so is a pain in the ass to use. Grip, for all its power, has no usability whatsoever. What most people want to do is just open Linux Media Player, insert a CD, click the start rip button, wait 5 minutes and come back to find a load of MP3s. That's it. This is a serious failing on the part of Linux desktops, people like this sort of integrated functioning.
I'm not going to bother with the arguments about not having MS Office or games, because they're bleeding obvious and have been rehashed many times before. But Linux has a long way to go before it is even remotely as usable as Windows or Mac OS X. It's simply far too complex for the average end user to understand, and the software which most people want and need to use day in day out is woefully inadequate.
I call bullshit. I never run IE, so my days since IE crash is practically infinite ;)
The Sun is owned by News Corp, who own Fox.
:)
That explains it
The difference is that they charge you money for burning music you HAVEN'T purchased from their store to CD. That's very off.
:)
Especially considering that YME doesn't work with my OS of choice (Windows 2000), I'll DEFINITELY stick with fb2k now
Basically, DRM is a fact of life. Given that people can download and upload any file free of charge, etc, it needs to be done, otherwise files get swapped around etc.
What needs to be done is a format used which has good quality at a decent file size (something like Musepack would be ideal), a DRM scheme added to it and lots of plugins released for lots of players on lots of different OSes. Maybe something like Steam could be worked out, so that the plugin talks to the client, makes sure the music is authorised and then lets it play. If there was enough platform support, this could go a long way.
Of course, the media being what it is, I doubt something like this would happen.
Because you get a ridiculous amount of music that way.
You just joined my friends list :)
A lot of people also seem to think they're entitled to free whatever, but also want that free whatever to be DRM-free, in the format they like etc etc etc...essentially they want to have their cake and eat it. Gets on my nerves after a while.
You have no inherent moral right to charge people for listening to music you make
Yes, you do. It's called copyright. Note that it is a right; that is, you don't HAVE to charge people, but you can do if you wish, and using copyright law enforce it.
If people are downloading it without paying, just stop making it and find another job.
Or use your legal rights under copyright law to sue them and stop them. This is the option the RIAA and the MPAA are taking and, although I wish they'd concentrate more on the people uploading the stuff, it is a legitimate course of action.
Lawsuits won't stop them -- it's like if the makers of traction engines tried to make gasoline powered tractors illegal.
No, it's not; it's like if the owners of the patent for traction engines (if such a thing existed) sued someone who cloned their design without paying the requisite license fees.
If you look at Yahoo Music Engine's site, it says they charge you to burn CDs. Yes, it really does say that.
:)
I'm not going to use a program which charges me for a basic operation like burning a CD. I'll stick with foobar2000, thanks
Record companies do more than what you listed, they also hire staff, have contacts with studios (and sometimes own them), promote CDs on TV and radio, get them in record stores etc.
As for you paying for concerts and merchandise, well, the artist would only really sign for a record label and issue CDs if they were looking to make money from those CDs, as well as from concerts etc. Go to concerts, buy merchandise, yeah, but unless you have the express permission of the band to download their album it's not really cricket to think you're entitled to it in some way.
1) Offered a bittorrent site with high quality audio with a reasonable subscription price (say 10$-20$ per month)
2) Included advertisements on the proposed bittorrent site.
They sound like good ideas, and 3-6 are almost there already. To be clear, it's not BitTorrent or Internet distribution I'm against, and I'm nowhere near an RIAA lover (copy protected CDs in particular piss me off) but I just think artists deserve to be rewarded for their work, and the people that claim their downloading is motivated by some kind of political cause rather than getting shit for free are being more than a little bit disingenuous.
Uh no. I did put it on my website as well though.
I know the article's not about the music industry, but the same stupid arguments get used on every story about the legitimacy of P2P or another lawsuit or something.
"Saying fuck you to the RIAA" (to help artists): Leeching music from BitTorrent, under the pretense that giving the artists would much prefer the $0.00 it gives them rather than the sum their record company pays them. : "Encoding music into a format ideal for cross-Internet distribution, zipping it up with covers and putting it on BitTorrent for hundreds of people I've never met and don't intend to"
"The RIAA cartel": "I do not know what the word 'cartel' means".
"Suing music fans": Suing people who redistribute copyrighted works illegally.
"Sharing music" (or sometimes "sharing music with friends")
"Set the culture free": "I don't like the idea of having to pay for music, because. Just because."
"The price of music is exorbitant, so I prefer to use BitTorrent": Music in shops isn't free. I think it should be.
"Sony put a rootkit on a CD, so I'm using BitTorrent instead": "I am a complete fucking dumbass who doesn't realise that pirating a CD instead of simply not buying it proves the labels' point and will make them more willing to use copy protection in the future. Also, I do not know about the shift key or its associated functions."
"Why should I buy 128kbps DRMed music from iTunes? I get higher quality from BT" "I don't know about Hymn, have never heard an AAC file in my life and more to the point BitTorrent is free."
"I download music because today's music is shit": "Buying an old CD from a record store isn't free, and I don't understand the economics of the music industry whatsoever."
"The record companies are greedy and take too much for themselves": "I don't know what functions a record industry serves or how much money they cost, so I'm going to assume they take lots of money to snort cocaine off of a hooker's tits."
Fantastic argument! It's shit and it's not real, so let's not pay for it, even though it cost real money to make and was made by real people who expect real money in return for viewing it!
TorrentSpy etc and the people who use them don't give two shits about "free culture" or "info anarchism" or other terms which sound much nicer than "leeching albums from the Internet". TorrentSpy links to torrents, which 99.9% of the time are for copyrighted works. That's it. Nothing to do with lofty ideals or going against The Man (unless going against The Man gets you free shit).
Same goes for those "millions" who you talk of the will of. They probably couldn't give a flying fuck, so long as they can get the latest Hollywood shitfest for free.
Oh, btw, it's cute that you linked to the FSF homepage right after a link to a page on "anti-copyright". Especially when the GPL would fall over without copyright laws in place.
The difference is that Nobel Laureates don't happily sit on NeoPets for hours, find the most malware-tastic websites around and install some random MSN block checker trojan because whether they've been blocked on MSN Messenger is the most important thing in the world, whereas college students do.
The "shelf space" battle will always tilt toward the console-playing, Best-Buy-shopping, mouth-breathing masses.
Yeah, because you'd have to be a "mouth-breathing" idiot to want to have a console or buy games from a store.
Does being a judgemental fuckhole come naturally do you, or are you just putting it on to get modded up?
Why doesn't Vorbis get more popularity? Well, only a few portables support it, the only major audio player that supports it out of the box is Winamp (which also doesn't support encoding it), MP3 is good enough for most people...
Need I say more?
I wouldn't mind, to be honest, if there was a system like Steam for albums. At least then backup copies would be fairly easy to obtain (and for free).
I was running the NVIDIA binary drivers on Debian under a recent kernel. Under WindowMaker, so the DE couldn't have been the problem.
Nope, it's probably cedega.
I tried Cedega once. TransGaming claim to support Half-Life 2 through it, so I gave it a go.
Steam installed fine, so did HL2. After everything was ready to go, I ran the game.
Hard lock up.
Rebooted the PC, started again. This time everything worked fine, except I got maybe 1fps. This on a not spectacularly fast PC/graphics card, but one more than capable of properly running HL2 under Windows. Even turning down details, resolution etc until everything was at the level of a NES game didn't help. Frankly pathetic.
This is why I use Windows...simple tasks, like running a game, just work properly and with a minimum fuss. I can hear everybody going "Well get Valve to release a Linux version then." Well, when they do, and I doubt they will, maybe we won't need stupid hacks like Cedega, which barely work.
I really do wonder what the deal is with people saying they got speed increases from Cedega. My experience is...well, no way.