If you're skilled enough to be playing a lot of classical music from the 18th century, I'm sure you can read the same sheet music used back then (provided we're still talking about the same G-clef/F-clef system of notation).
Then they can use the taxes they acquire from people who don't endore file sharing on other things, and then use the taxes from people who do endorse it to pay for the internet connections involved (which they don't do in the first place).
If we don't protect our culture now, we won't have any culture to speak of when we're done dealing with "more important" issues. We can't let the MAFIAA get away with this while our backs are turned.
Well, CSS 3 selectors is done, so it should be supported by all web browsers (or at least the GUI ones) by now. At least two of the main renderring engines do now...
share via P2P applications like Kazaa, Napster or IMesh. It's 2007 now, so the applications you were looking for are Limewire (Gnutella), Emule (ed2k), and BitTorrent. IRC/XDCC still exists of course.
Well, it appears that GPLv3 still addresses DRM by noting (legally of course) that the software licensed by it is not an "effective control mechanism" or anything like that, so if it does include DRM, it is explicitly allowed to remove said DRM system regardless of what the law (DMCA, EUCD, etc.) say.
Patents still seem to be almost fine; it even has compatibility with the Apache License v2, so that's pretty important. I heard that they were allowing the MS/Novell deal because as soon as Novell distributes GPLv3 software and someone uses a Microsoft coupon to get a copy of said distribution, Microsoft has officially distributed GPLv3 software and has thus given up their patents from the deal that cover said software. Basically, it'd be better to screw Microsoft over than to screw Novell over in the long run.
With Tivoisation, I still agree with RMS; either both the owner and seller of the device can modify the code, or neither can. Tivo (and companies like that) can't have their cake (free software) and eat it too (not allow anyone to modify it). I don't know if this issue is something worth worrying about in the business world (e.g., medical machines, other dedicated devices), but if it is, then RMS is making a huge mistake by not addressing that.
I think the GPLv3 is going much farther than the GPLv2 (or any other free software or open source license out there) with regards to the topics you mentioned, so if this draft is what becomes the official version, I will use it; GNU will use it; KDE will use it; Sun will use it; and many other high-profile FLOSS projects and individual developers will use it.
It's lame tags like these which make it so the useful tags that aren't covered already by the topics (e.g., I don't think there is a PS3 topic yet, so articles about PS3 get tagged PS2 by default which doesn't make sense) don't show up anymore.:(
With PC games, since you don't need Microsoft's, Apple's, NVidia's, ATI/AMD's, or Intel's blessing (dev kits and graphics hardware) to release games, ratings can actually be relevant (or irrelevant) since there are far more methods of distribution for the games (e.g., Steam, selling it online in general whether it be a downloadable or from a site like Amazon). With PC games, you don't need to self-censor yourself in order to publish the game (e.g., JFK Reloaded, all H-Anime games). Hell, you don't even need to get it rated by the ESRB! Just look at all the mods for games (e.g., Half-Life/2, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Unreal Tournament, The Sims) and games themselves (mainly indie games) that people play or buy that aren't rated.
As an argument against the ESRB's practises, however, look at other art and entertainment. Books aren't rated, yet they can be as grotesque (if not more) than Manhunt. Movies more grotesque and violent than Manhunt get away with an R rating (MPAA != ESRB, though). Not only that, but movies can be released as "unrated and uncut" (i.e., all extras haven't been MPAA-rated), yet the stores will still sell them. Hell, the news can be more grotesque on a regular basis than Manhunt, yet that doesn't get rated as TV-MA or anything like that!
If anyone has examples of other arts that have been effectively self-censored due to its rating system (e.g., a movie that was originally rated as NC-17 that had to tone it down to get R for a theatre release), please provide them. This is quite a hypocritical situation going on in the videogame world, but perhaps it used to be like this in another art and I'm just too young to have experienced that.
Microsoft probably didn't want to pay the MP3 patent royalties. I believe that's why they created their own audio format in the first place. When you look at their actions as those that can save them money, some of the stupid things they do make a little sense.
I don't suppose you expect to get your TiVo service for free, do you? You're still paying a monthly fee to use the hardware, and just like with mobile phone companies in the US, the hardware price is subsidised so that you'll sign up to a multi-year contract that nets them more profit in the long term. With MythTV, once you buy a box or set one up, you don't pay anything ever again with regards to the hardware or any sort of subscription. I'd like to see TiVo do that (they used to, but not anymore; can't get a lifetime subscription thing from them anymore). TCO, my friend.
it means that AT&T spends less effort to support the 5% of users who actually use what they're paying for. There, fixed it for you. If we aren't paying for the connection they're advertising, they should stop advertising it as such...
Considering Intel actually works with Linux (actively even), and AMD still says "fuck you" and gives shitty blobs (just look at their video cards), I think I'll support the company that supports what I like.
OpenAL still accesses the card directly, doesn't it? Just choose OpenAL (and OpenGL/SDL if you wish) in the options for a program and you're set! Even SDL still directly accesses the hardware (the whole point of SDL), so use that if OpenAL isn't available.
Well, as long as you say it's beta software (or pre-service pack in the case of Microsoft whom seem to have shifted the development cycle over a little), your users are your testers! cf. Web 2.0.
I've heard that DX10 integrates with Vista's new hardware APIs and stuff like that. Of course, Microsoft is too cheap to write a translation layer for XP/2000 and would rather have their old customers buy the new version instead (complete with DRM! bah).
Especially when you consider what "to consume" means. It generally has an eating connotation (e.g., consumers (animals) vs. producers (plants)) or a passive feel to it. Customer, user, client, etc., all have an active feel to them, and as long as people only passively buy or use items/ideas, they will be known as "consumers".
I, too, feel insulted when I am referred to as a consumer; I actually do research products, support the free market (vote with your wallet), and pay the company for the item, so I am a customer. I don't eat your computers, Dell! I don't consume videogames, Nintendo!
Actually, it looks like Canonical has thought out their business support quite well in advance. Hell, it looks like it's geared towards businesses and not home users! What home user is going to spend that kind of money to get support they probably don't need when you can get it from IRC, forums, friends, etc.? Canonical seems to be making its money by supporting businesses (and because Mark Shuttleworth was rich in the first place hehe).
In a business environment, the computers are usually imaged from some master image that is maintained by a system administrator. I don't think viruses et al. are as big of a problem in businesses (at least ones with decent sysadmins) as they are in home (i.e., ignorant) users.
Although, the conspiracy to keep people buying new computers due to crapware infections might have some merit... Although, I do believe it is more Microsoft's fault that these computers are all equipped with Windows instead of whatever the OEM wants, and not the other way around.
If EA still had competition from developers like Sega in the football games subgenre, this wouldn't be necessarily true. However, since they got an exclusive deal with the NFL over the names of teams, players, stadiums, stats, etc., they don't have to do anything but update the roster really. Although, Madden '07 for Wii, I hear, was actually innovative and fun.
It was Soul Calibur II, and they were all chooseable characters along with the normal cast of characters. Also, you didn't have to buy them on some sort of marketplace that was only available for one system.
More importantly, they can't sue over a recording that is in the public domain. Someone can still record a new performance of the same song and it would be copyrighted again with no expiration date just like everything else published today.
The PS2 (don't remember if it was the slim or not) had an issue where the lens would eventually fall out of alignment due to watching DVDs. Weird problem, and being sceptical with the PS3 is only logical.
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If you're skilled enough to be playing a lot of classical music from the 18th century, I'm sure you can read the same sheet music used back then (provided we're still talking about the same G-clef/F-clef system of notation).
Then they can use the taxes they acquire from people who don't endore file sharing on other things, and then use the taxes from people who do endorse it to pay for the internet connections involved (which they don't do in the first place).
If we don't protect our culture now, we won't have any culture to speak of when we're done dealing with "more important" issues. We can't let the MAFIAA get away with this while our backs are turned.
Because Linux can use microcode updates as well.
Well, CSS 3 selectors is done, so it should be supported by all web browsers (or at least the GUI ones) by now. At least two of the main renderring engines do now...
Well, it appears that GPLv3 still addresses DRM by noting (legally of course) that the software licensed by it is not an "effective control mechanism" or anything like that, so if it does include DRM, it is explicitly allowed to remove said DRM system regardless of what the law (DMCA, EUCD, etc.) say.
Patents still seem to be almost fine; it even has compatibility with the Apache License v2, so that's pretty important. I heard that they were allowing the MS/Novell deal because as soon as Novell distributes GPLv3 software and someone uses a Microsoft coupon to get a copy of said distribution, Microsoft has officially distributed GPLv3 software and has thus given up their patents from the deal that cover said software. Basically, it'd be better to screw Microsoft over than to screw Novell over in the long run.
With Tivoisation, I still agree with RMS; either both the owner and seller of the device can modify the code, or neither can. Tivo (and companies like that) can't have their cake (free software) and eat it too (not allow anyone to modify it). I don't know if this issue is something worth worrying about in the business world (e.g., medical machines, other dedicated devices), but if it is, then RMS is making a huge mistake by not addressing that.
I think the GPLv3 is going much farther than the GPLv2 (or any other free software or open source license out there) with regards to the topics you mentioned, so if this draft is what becomes the official version, I will use it; GNU will use it; KDE will use it; Sun will use it; and many other high-profile FLOSS projects and individual developers will use it.
It's lame tags like these which make it so the useful tags that aren't covered already by the topics (e.g., I don't think there is a PS3 topic yet, so articles about PS3 get tagged PS2 by default which doesn't make sense) don't show up anymore. :(
With PC games, since you don't need Microsoft's, Apple's, NVidia's, ATI/AMD's, or Intel's blessing (dev kits and graphics hardware) to release games, ratings can actually be relevant (or irrelevant) since there are far more methods of distribution for the games (e.g., Steam, selling it online in general whether it be a downloadable or from a site like Amazon). With PC games, you don't need to self-censor yourself in order to publish the game (e.g., JFK Reloaded, all H-Anime games). Hell, you don't even need to get it rated by the ESRB! Just look at all the mods for games (e.g., Half-Life/2, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Unreal Tournament, The Sims) and games themselves (mainly indie games) that people play or buy that aren't rated.
As an argument against the ESRB's practises, however, look at other art and entertainment. Books aren't rated, yet they can be as grotesque (if not more) than Manhunt. Movies more grotesque and violent than Manhunt get away with an R rating (MPAA != ESRB, though). Not only that, but movies can be released as "unrated and uncut" (i.e., all extras haven't been MPAA-rated), yet the stores will still sell them. Hell, the news can be more grotesque on a regular basis than Manhunt, yet that doesn't get rated as TV-MA or anything like that!
If anyone has examples of other arts that have been effectively self-censored due to its rating system (e.g., a movie that was originally rated as NC-17 that had to tone it down to get R for a theatre release), please provide them. This is quite a hypocritical situation going on in the videogame world, but perhaps it used to be like this in another art and I'm just too young to have experienced that.
Microsoft probably didn't want to pay the MP3 patent royalties. I believe that's why they created their own audio format in the first place. When you look at their actions as those that can save them money, some of the stupid things they do make a little sense.
I don't suppose you expect to get your TiVo service for free, do you? You're still paying a monthly fee to use the hardware, and just like with mobile phone companies in the US, the hardware price is subsidised so that you'll sign up to a multi-year contract that nets them more profit in the long term. With MythTV, once you buy a box or set one up, you don't pay anything ever again with regards to the hardware or any sort of subscription. I'd like to see TiVo do that (they used to, but not anymore; can't get a lifetime subscription thing from them anymore). TCO, my friend.
Considering Intel actually works with Linux (actively even), and AMD still says "fuck you" and gives shitty blobs (just look at their video cards), I think I'll support the company that supports what I like.
OpenAL still accesses the card directly, doesn't it? Just choose OpenAL (and OpenGL/SDL if you wish) in the options for a program and you're set! Even SDL still directly accesses the hardware (the whole point of SDL), so use that if OpenAL isn't available.
Well, as long as you say it's beta software (or pre-service pack in the case of Microsoft whom seem to have shifted the development cycle over a little), your users are your testers! cf. Web 2.0.
I've heard that DX10 integrates with Vista's new hardware APIs and stuff like that. Of course, Microsoft is too cheap to write a translation layer for XP/2000 and would rather have their old customers buy the new version instead (complete with DRM! bah).
Especially when you consider what "to consume" means. It generally has an eating connotation (e.g., consumers (animals) vs. producers (plants)) or a passive feel to it. Customer, user, client, etc., all have an active feel to them, and as long as people only passively buy or use items/ideas, they will be known as "consumers".
I, too, feel insulted when I am referred to as a consumer; I actually do research products, support the free market (vote with your wallet), and pay the company for the item, so I am a customer. I don't eat your computers, Dell! I don't consume videogames, Nintendo!
Actually, it looks like Canonical has thought out their business support quite well in advance. Hell, it looks like it's geared towards businesses and not home users! What home user is going to spend that kind of money to get support they probably don't need when you can get it from IRC, forums, friends, etc.? Canonical seems to be making its money by supporting businesses (and because Mark Shuttleworth was rich in the first place hehe).
In a business environment, the computers are usually imaged from some master image that is maintained by a system administrator. I don't think viruses et al. are as big of a problem in businesses (at least ones with decent sysadmins) as they are in home (i.e., ignorant) users.
Although, the conspiracy to keep people buying new computers due to crapware infections might have some merit... Although, I do believe it is more Microsoft's fault that these computers are all equipped with Windows instead of whatever the OEM wants, and not the other way around.
Or more accurately, EA World War II.
If EA still had competition from developers like Sega in the football games subgenre, this wouldn't be necessarily true. However, since they got an exclusive deal with the NFL over the names of teams, players, stadiums, stats, etc., they don't have to do anything but update the roster really. Although, Madden '07 for Wii, I hear, was actually innovative and fun.
It was Soul Calibur II, and they were all chooseable characters along with the normal cast of characters. Also, you didn't have to buy them on some sort of marketplace that was only available for one system.
Actually, it would be more like:
Internet: O RLY?
More importantly, they can't sue over a recording that is in the public domain. Someone can still record a new performance of the same song and it would be copyrighted again with no expiration date just like everything else published today.
The PS2 (don't remember if it was the slim or not) had an issue where the lens would eventually fall out of alignment due to watching DVDs. Weird problem, and being sceptical with the PS3 is only logical.