Some media players (namely Kaffeine as one I can think of) include a convenience of pausing the video you're watching if you unfocus the window (or when you minimise). Maybe they've already thought of that? Besides, the only viable way of doing what they're saying is to stream it without allowing skipping of content except for specific bookmarks. If you control the streaming server, it's trivial to prevent initial skipping of commercials (the user would have to record the stream and then strip it of commercials if they even cared enough to do so in the first place).
For Java, how about you just compile Mustang J2SE 1.6 from source? I don't see any problems in doing that (other than the fact that compiling Mustang is non-trivial in some cases for some reason).
For one, the Debian Project Leader is elected every year, so somebody (namely a bunch of Debian developers) thought he was knowledgeable enough to be a credible person in FOSS.
If you would consider Microsoft's long history of avoiding the need to license patents from MPEG, you'd see why WMA/WMV exists and why they didn't bother licensing for the Xbox 360. MS will do whatever they can to avoid paying anyone for patent licensing, trust me (and its history).
You can only do that with LGPL software. If you use GPL software in your software program, you must GPL that software as well (or perhaps an equally permissive and restrictive copyleft license in the future). There are only a small handful of GPL'd programs that can even be used via linking like you mentioned, and that's GCC (glibc).
You try being a polite American tourist in Germany or Austria and see how that holds up. Unless you speak fluent German, there are many people who are real jackasses. And that's up to date as of last week while I was there...
Well, tags literally are public, for instance anyone can see your's. Same goes for that new Ajax-free del.icio.us thing called bookmarks they're trying out.
Then what the fuck are you paying for when you "buy" media? Don't tell me "a license" because licensing deals with far more lawyers and paperwork than a click-through EULA or anything related to copyright. Licensing would be applicable if you were going to be a distributor of the media (for profit mind you), and buying media for your own private, non-commercial use definitely does not have anything to do with that.
That's of course because raw digital video and audio of that resolution and length would use a metric shitload of space. Of course, that wouldn't be very easy to transfer over the internet, so I don't see why movies won't be like that in the future anyways.
SVG: IE still uses (and will continue to use) an SVG plug-in such as Adobe SVG Viewer (not as standards compliant as it should be, but it has existed longer than the W3C standard).
CSS2, DOM, XHTML: obviously much better in Gecko, KHTML, Opera, etc.
No ActiveX: great security enhancement for non-Trident browsers, eh?
JVM: Sun's J2SE JVM doesn't work with IE? I didn't know that; I thought your OS used the same JVM throughout. Then again, Windows doesn't have the update-alternatives scripts and whatnot either, so that doesn't surprise me.
But I am a programmer, so I will inevitably start using jargon in any conversation regarding it. I don't think it's a side effect of using KDE; maybe Debian or Gentoo, but not KDE.;)
If Bill Gates is like any other programmer, he probably said that removing it would be non-trivial. That, of course, normally means if not impossible then very hard/tedious/costy to do.
The two are separated into different kparts. It's a lot of programming jargon, but the fact that you can use something like KHTML in another program (e.g. Safari) without including the file manager and all other integrateable components shows that. Konqueror sort of provides an interface that can be used to combine more functionality than just KHTML. If XULRunner (Firefox's future) can be used as an integrateable component of Konqueror, you'll see what I mean in much better detail.
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Some media players (namely Kaffeine as one I can think of) include a convenience of pausing the video you're watching if you unfocus the window (or when you minimise). Maybe they've already thought of that? Besides, the only viable way of doing what they're saying is to stream it without allowing skipping of content except for specific bookmarks. If you control the streaming server, it's trivial to prevent initial skipping of commercials (the user would have to record the stream and then strip it of commercials if they even cared enough to do so in the first place).
Hey, now there's a product I would buy! You should go into marketing.
*points to "Bugs" link on the left side of the page*
I know exactly what you're complaining about here; I think I submitted a bug regarding this already, so go support it.
For Java, how about you just compile Mustang J2SE 1.6 from source? I don't see any problems in doing that (other than the fact that compiling Mustang is non-trivial in some cases for some reason).
Are you insinuating that we should be lobbying to make lobbying illegal?
For one, the Debian Project Leader is elected every year, so somebody (namely a bunch of Debian developers) thought he was knowledgeable enough to be a credible person in FOSS.
That's probably more of a Freudian Slip than it is a typo. Unintentional revelations as to what the writer's real thoughts about the topic are.
If you would consider Microsoft's long history of avoiding the need to license patents from MPEG, you'd see why WMA/WMV exists and why they didn't bother licensing for the Xbox 360. MS will do whatever they can to avoid paying anyone for patent licensing, trust me (and its history).
You can only do that with LGPL software. If you use GPL software in your software program, you must GPL that software as well (or perhaps an equally permissive and restrictive copyleft license in the future). There are only a small handful of GPL'd programs that can even be used via linking like you mentioned, and that's GCC (glibc).
We don't hate you. At least us Germans don't.
You try being a polite American tourist in Germany or Austria and see how that holds up. Unless you speak fluent German, there are many people who are real jackasses. And that's up to date as of last week while I was there...
I call it "skwul" (unstressed 'u') since "mai-skwul" was so easy to say a couple years ago.
Well, tags literally are public, for instance anyone can see your's. Same goes for that new Ajax-free del.icio.us thing called bookmarks they're trying out.
Some Java programmers might be offended when you mention ant, but I guess they just didn't have a good experience with it after all. :P
Then what the fuck are you paying for when you "buy" media? Don't tell me "a license" because licensing deals with far more lawyers and paperwork than a click-through EULA or anything related to copyright. Licensing would be applicable if you were going to be a distributor of the media (for profit mind you), and buying media for your own private, non-commercial use definitely does not have anything to do with that.
That's of course because raw digital video and audio of that resolution and length would use a metric shitload of space. Of course, that wouldn't be very easy to transfer over the internet, so I don't see why movies won't be like that in the future anyways.
Tell me, do you develop for cdrecord? That's not the best advice to give people who primarily use IDE DVD/CD drives.
SVG: IE still uses (and will continue to use) an SVG plug-in such as Adobe SVG Viewer (not as standards compliant as it should be, but it has existed longer than the W3C standard).
CSS2, DOM, XHTML: obviously much better in Gecko, KHTML, Opera, etc.
No ActiveX: great security enhancement for non-Trident browsers, eh?
JVM: Sun's J2SE JVM doesn't work with IE? I didn't know that; I thought your OS used the same JVM throughout. Then again, Windows doesn't have the update-alternatives scripts and whatnot either, so that doesn't surprise me.
But I am a programmer, so I will inevitably start using jargon in any conversation regarding it. I don't think it's a side effect of using KDE; maybe Debian or Gentoo, but not KDE. ;)
The GPL is a legal form of copyleft that bases itself on copyright laws. Without copyright laws, the GPL would not need to exist.
Userspace has no distinguishable meaning if it also has full root privileges.
If Bill Gates is like any other programmer, he probably said that removing it would be non-trivial. That, of course, normally means if not impossible then very hard/tedious/costy to do.
The two are separated into different kparts. It's a lot of programming jargon, but the fact that you can use something like KHTML in another program (e.g. Safari) without including the file manager and all other integrateable components shows that. Konqueror sort of provides an interface that can be used to combine more functionality than just KHTML. If XULRunner (Firefox's future) can be used as an integrateable component of Konqueror, you'll see what I mean in much better detail.
Maybe they'll have a new version of the explorer file manager to go with IE7?
That's still like half a million dollars...