What exactly is going to pay my bills if I don't have a job?
While you seem to despise capitalism. What I picture when I read your post is everyone on the government payroll getting assistance. What I also picture is absolutley no personal freedom whatsoever, everyone would be serfs to the government king. Thanks, but no I think I pass on capitalism dying right now.
Society is not advanced enough to get past capitalism without reverting to a fuedal lord type of system. Now, when you have near limitless energy generation, coupled with replication devices for everyone, you can have the Star Trek utopia you are probably hoping for.
That would be the dumbest thing they would do. Unless this is mandated by law Apple should not touch this stuff with a 10 foot pole. They would gain leverage in the marketplace by offering computers free from this crap.
If they did this rip -> mix -> burn would have to be changed to rip -> ask for permission to play -> ask for permission to play -> burn? (are you of your mind, you can't do that)
If Intel pushes this palladium crap they deserve to be driven out of business, I don't care how damn many GHz these chips would run at, I'd consider any DRM enabled chip to be defective.
Funny thing is that the RIAA killed broadband's "killer app", Napster. It would be interesting if one of these reports would graph broadband adoption vs. Napsters lifespan. I'm sure it would show a spike during Napsters heyday. They give it an offhand reference in the article. But IMHO it was the basis for most users' switch to broadband at the time.
Note to Telecommunications industry: Your companies stocks are in the dumpster because the RIAA was more greedy about their profits and didn't give a shit whether telecommunications companies lived or died.
The most discriminating customers, who had spent the most money on their home entertainment equipment were the only ones affected.
This is where this is going to be a big problem. How the hell are they going to convince anyone to buy "the new digital" stuff when people see stories like this and start hearing anecdotal evidence from people that this did affect.
The abuse of the consumer is reaching unhearlded heights in this country, I think in this battle the consumer will speak with a closed pocketbook.
Just this week my cable company called to try to get me to switch to digital cable, the upside was a few more channels, the downside $30 more a month! I'm sorry but I want more value for my dollar than that. The same goes for digital TV's, sure they're cool, but not $2000 cool. That's where the industry is going wrong. We're not buying enough of this new stuff, so they will be trying to mandate. That is where the true battle will be.
It boils down to is DRM for other pepole to use to control my PC, or is it to protect MY data on my PC from others.
So far this seems to be more on the let others muck with my PC. Encrypting a file system, or even individual files, is not DRM. Note: even if Microsoft tries to say so, there is plenty of prior art. How old is the crypt command anyway?
It doesn't matter. With napster I downloaded music I liked and listened to it. I did not buy CD's.
Without Napster I don't download new music (I know there's replacements, they're just too much hassle, and I haven't kept up). I also still don't buy CD's.
Did the RIAA lose money from me? No
How do they make money. Well, they could lower their prices. I'm not exactly being truthful about not buying CD's, in the past two years I did buy one Sting CD with some live songs on it... for $2. At that price I couldn't pass it up.
Lower the prices, I'll buy CD's. Artificially inflate them, I won't. Given the choice between a $16 CD and $16 DVD, I'll buy the DVD every time.
I also have noticed that at least the MPAA (while still evil) will sell their product DVD's on sale, whereas the RIAA basically never lowers the price from the initial price (in fact some times it goes up for older CD's).
That way if you did get elected, you wouldn't have other people in your party interested in giving over huge control over technology to Movie companies.
Besides, I would love to see some Libertarians in congress to screw up the operation of the major parties. The Democrats and Republicans are vitually at war with each other with the only goal being the destruction of the other side, the representation of the citizenry went out the window long ago.
All indications are that the culture at HP that made it what it is dead. This is very bad for them. Linux has the potential to replace HP-UX on their systems, but without the "HP way" I do not know if it will happen.
Carly is just making sure she gets paid. Its all about money and ego. When the time is right (read when she won't take the blame), she will bail and go somewhere else.
Because allowing a monopoly to kill the technology and then not support it is exactly what they want.
The best "punishment" is to make them support it. Think of it as a kind of community service to the IT industry.
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Yeah, we all know how much that TCP/IP standard sucked, and the FTP one, and....
You're just to damn used to being spoon fed embraced and extended standards by Microsoft (and even Netscape in their early years).
Good standards create a level, compatible playing field for everyone. The power of open standards is reflected in the internet and the world wide web. Specific "this browser only" sites have nothing to do whatsoever with the expansion of the internet or the web, it would have been impossible without the open standards that it is build upon.
If the EULA you agree to entitles MS to automatically download updates and you turn off autoupdate, are you still in agreement with the EULA, can you still use the software?
Perhaps the answer is yes today, but will this always be the case? Remember, because of Microsoft you have a "license" to use the software, you do not own it. I believe there will come day when you will need to pay to continue to use the operating system or it will disable itself. For corporations, it might not be so harsh, but may involve sending billing information to Microsoft to provide a count so they can bill the corporation, a large lump sum.
This kind of activation system will also, I'm sure update the system with at least the keys to run for another year and more than likely many more updates, and it WON'T be optional.
The government can audit you and find you out of complience basically at their whim.
It doesn't matter if Windows systems are a monopoly, and everyone has them. They will find everyone they audit to be out of complience. Auditors are looking for a score, they don't give a shit about your ability to do business.
BTW: This EULA aslo is not FDA part 11 compliant either. Locked down systems would need to be revalidated after any and all autoupdates.
Yeah, that's unless the database gets corrupted at 10:30 PM. Do you suppose they're going to call you to revote?
We don't need electronic voting. The troubles from this will far outnumber the hanging chad problems from last elections.
If you aren't smart enough to punch the card all the way through and check it before you turn it in, or check that you have the circle all filled in with a number 2 pencil in the case of voting where I live, you don't need to vote.
Actually if it ran on x86. I'd stand in line to spend $200 to be one of the first to buy it.
I have $200 to spend, on OSX no problem. Its the $1700 for hardware that I don't have. Yes, I know Macs can be bought for less, but the one I would buy is $1700.
Heck, I use Gnome apps (most notably Nautilus) under KDE. Its a real bear to get the themes looking the same, but the ones I'm using are pretty close.
It really comes down to what apps you want to run and how you want to present them. With a very locked down end user environment I might lean more towards using Gnome, as it is my perception that locking down the configuration would be easier. However, that's only my perception I haven't tried it yet.
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Just wait until they get James Earl Jones to do the voice of Clippy when he returns after falling to the dark side.
What exactly is going to pay my bills if I don't have a job?
While you seem to despise capitalism. What I picture when I read your post is everyone on the government payroll getting assistance. What I also picture is absolutley no personal freedom whatsoever, everyone would be serfs to the government king. Thanks, but no I think I pass on capitalism dying right now.
Society is not advanced enough to get past capitalism without reverting to a fuedal lord type of system. Now, when you have near limitless energy generation, coupled with replication devices for everyone, you can have the Star Trek utopia you are probably hoping for.
That would be the dumbest thing they would do.
Unless this is mandated by law Apple should not touch this stuff with a 10 foot pole. They would gain leverage in the marketplace by offering computers free from this crap.
If they did this rip -> mix -> burn would have to be changed to rip -> ask for permission to play -> ask for permission to play -> burn? (are you of your mind, you can't do that)
If Intel pushes this palladium crap they deserve to be driven out of business, I don't care how damn many GHz these chips would run at, I'd consider any DRM enabled chip to be defective.
You work at a non-profit and have a help desk staff. Consider yourself lucky.
When I worked at a non-profit, my only staff was an intern. I guess I could have made him do help desk stuff... though.
Funny thing is that the RIAA killed broadband's "killer app", Napster. It would be interesting if one of these reports would graph broadband adoption vs. Napsters lifespan. I'm sure it would show a spike during Napsters heyday. They give it an offhand reference in the article. But IMHO it was the basis for most users' switch to broadband at the time.
Note to Telecommunications industry: Your companies stocks are in the dumpster because the RIAA was more greedy about their profits and didn't give a shit whether telecommunications companies lived or died.
I thought that was the interesting part.
The most discriminating customers, who had spent the most money on their home entertainment equipment were the only ones affected.
This is where this is going to be a big problem. How the hell are they going to convince anyone to buy "the new digital" stuff when people see stories like this and start hearing anecdotal evidence from people that this did affect.
The abuse of the consumer is reaching unhearlded heights in this country, I think in this battle the consumer will speak with a closed pocketbook.
Just this week my cable company called to try to get me to switch to digital cable, the upside was a few more channels, the downside $30 more a month! I'm sorry but I want more value for my dollar than that. The same goes for digital TV's, sure they're cool, but not $2000 cool. That's where the industry is going wrong. We're not buying enough of this new stuff, so they will be trying to mandate. That is where the true battle will be.
Me too, seriously.
Does DRM=cryptography?
It boils down to is DRM for other pepole to use to control my PC, or is it to protect MY data on my PC from others.
So far this seems to be more on the let others muck with my PC. Encrypting a file system, or even individual files, is not DRM. Note: even if Microsoft tries to say so, there is plenty of prior art. How old is the crypt command anyway?
It doesn't matter. With napster I downloaded music I liked and listened to it. I did not buy CD's.
... for $2. At that price I couldn't pass it up.
Without Napster I don't download new music (I know there's replacements, they're just too much hassle, and I haven't kept up). I also still don't buy CD's.
Did the RIAA lose money from me? No
How do they make money. Well, they could lower their prices. I'm not exactly being truthful about not buying CD's, in the past two years I did buy one Sting CD with some live songs on it
Lower the prices, I'll buy CD's. Artificially inflate them, I won't. Given the choice between a $16 CD and $16 DVD, I'll buy the DVD every time.
I also have noticed that at least the MPAA (while still evil) will sell their product DVD's on sale, whereas the RIAA basically never lowers the price from the initial price (in fact some times it goes up for older CD's).
You could always try running as a Libertarian.
That way if you did get elected, you wouldn't have other people in your party interested in giving over huge control over technology to Movie companies.
Besides, I would love to see some Libertarians in congress to screw up the operation of the major parties. The Democrats and Republicans are vitually at war with each other with the only goal being the destruction of the other side, the representation of the citizenry went out the window long ago.
Except that I think this was a serious misstep.
All indications are that the culture at HP that made it what it is dead. This is very bad for them. Linux has the potential to replace HP-UX on their systems, but without the "HP way" I do not know if it will happen.
Carly is just making sure she gets paid. Its all about money and ego. When the time is right (read when she won't take the blame), she will bail and go somewhere else.
Because allowing a monopoly to kill the technology and then not support it is exactly what they want.
The best "punishment" is to make them support it. Think of it as a kind of community service to the IT industry.
Yeah, we all know how much that TCP/IP standard sucked, and the FTP one, and ....
You're just to damn used to being spoon fed embraced and extended standards by Microsoft (and even Netscape in their early years).
Good standards create a level, compatible playing field for everyone. The power of open standards is reflected in the internet and the world wide web. Specific "this browser only" sites have nothing to do whatsoever with the expansion of the internet or the web, it would have been impossible without the open standards that it is build upon.
If the EULA you agree to entitles MS to automatically download updates and you turn off autoupdate, are you still in agreement with the EULA, can you still use the software?
Perhaps the answer is yes today, but will this always be the case? Remember, because of Microsoft you have a "license" to use the software, you do not own it. I believe there will come day when you will need to pay to continue to use the operating system or it will disable itself. For corporations, it might not be so harsh, but may involve sending billing information to Microsoft to provide a count so they can bill the corporation, a large lump sum.
This kind of activation system will also, I'm sure update the system with at least the keys to run for another year and more than likely many more updates, and it WON'T be optional.
A mayor in the France actually banned dying in his city.
Only one person has broken the ban.
I think he actually has a sense of humor and is using this to get across his point regarding a need for more cemetaries, but he did "ban" dying.
The government can audit you and find you out of complience basically at their whim.
It doesn't matter if Windows systems are a monopoly, and everyone has them. They will find everyone they audit to be out of complience. Auditors are looking for a score, they don't give a shit about your ability to do business.
BTW: This EULA aslo is not FDA part 11 compliant either. Locked down systems would need to be revalidated after any and all autoupdates.
Yeah, better make sure you turn that off while you can.
It should work fine for you until that EULA you agreed to initiates an automatic OS upgrade will turn it back on and invalidate all of your files.
Because the users are all running X-terminals connected to the linux box.
How is Wine at running Notes concurrently on the same machine for 20-30 users.
This thought gives me nightmares. A native client is really what is needed.
Yeah, that's unless the database gets corrupted at 10:30 PM. Do you suppose they're going to call you to revote?
We don't need electronic voting. The troubles from this will far outnumber the hanging chad problems from last elections.
If you aren't smart enough to punch the card all the way through and check it before you turn it in, or check that you have the circle all filled in with a number 2 pencil in the case of voting where I live, you don't need to vote.
You mean they can hire MCSE's to rebuild their server after every e-mail virus attack.
You know Notes/Domino runs on many different not Windows OSes, including Linux.
Note to IBM: make a native Linux client for Notes, so we can stop having to use the Domino webmail interface.
Actually if it ran on x86. I'd stand in line to spend $200 to be one of the first to buy it.
I have $200 to spend, on OSX no problem. Its the $1700 for hardware that I don't have. Yes, I know Macs can be bought for less, but the one I would buy is $1700.
Heck, I use Gnome apps (most notably Nautilus) under KDE. Its a real bear to get the themes looking the same, but the ones I'm using are pretty close.
It really comes down to what apps you want to run and how you want to present them. With a very locked down end user environment I might lean more towards using Gnome, as it is my perception that locking down the configuration would be easier. However, that's only my perception I haven't tried it yet.
If any of evil legislation being proposed passes, wouldn't the status of open hardware be....
illegal
Really that is what the fight will be all about. Hardware will be made to defeat DRM, the only way it will not be is if it is all illegal.
Even if anti-DRM hardware is deemed illegal expect a black market in it that will put the alcohol black market during prohibition to shame.
I don't know, but when I read the part about the copressed air cannon, the first thing that came to my mind is ...
They're training these kids to be on Junkyard Wars!!