Do apt and yum repositories yet support authentication and authorization, such that only people who have bought a license on the publisher's web site can download and install the software?
Linspire's CNR appears to have solved that problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNR_(software)
Or if you can't help them, they'll whine to the credit card company and ask for a chargeback.
Sybase were able to sell their software with a "use a supported distro or you're own your own" policy without much issue.
How many people ask for a chargeback when software the purchased to run with Wine doesn't work?
While I see your point, I don't think you can really draw comparisons.
I think you can - the 1990's was full of "Apple/Mac is dead" articles in magazines and on web sites. Until development comes to a halt you shouldn't count on something dying.
The funniest thing about those mac is dead articles was that they usually included some "helpful" advice to Apple about how to turn their fortunes around - advice which was usually the exact opposite of what Steve Jobs did to turn the company around.
Package systems tend not to contain non-free software
There's nothing stopping non free developers releasing debs/rpms of their software - even better is when they have repositories that can be added to to the package manager (why people insist on believing that "going out to the intarwebs and downloading an installer" is a feature and not a bug is beyond me). As for what distro to support they can go the easy route and support the number 1 and maybe number 2 desktop distro (which means Ubuntu and maybe Fedora/RedHat). People who aren't using those distros can probably figure out for themselves how to get it running on their system.
I've noticed that every Weatherspoons seems to have a TV now. They're the only pubs that I'm aware of that ever made No Music/No TV a thing. Fortunately most of them still don't play music, but I have an odd feeling that has more to do with them not wanting to pay PRS fees than wanting to make a place where people can talk.
If there is a pub in London left that still doesn't have a TV I'd love to find it.
"Having someone walk around asking for orders takes more time away from making orders, cleaning the equipment, grinding the coffee, etc."
But coffee shops already have people walking around a coffee shop anyway, so they might as well have them try to extract more money from customers (and more importantly, poke the deadbeats).
I doubt it's all that different from Nandos - a chicken restaurant chain that's virtually non-existent in the US but very popular in the UK, where you order you meal at the counter but staff come around asking if you want dessert/coffee when you've finished. Seeing as Nandos generally have free wifi and always have bottomless drinks and frozen yoghurt, people could conceivably hang out in a Nandos like they do in a Starbucks - but people generally don't and I bet having staff poke people is one reason.
Also, I doubt staff would be bothering people every 15 minutes - it would be the same frequency that they already bother people while collecting empty cups. While it's not without some cost to the shop it still has the potential to make them more money, especially if they mostly focus on people who are on their own.
I think the real problem is that the standard coffee shop model is that it works best for small groups of Friends who come in to chat over hot drinks. Unfortunately, on a week day they're more likely to get business from "loners with laptops" and "business meetings". While the model works ok for the business meetings, it fails dismally for the loner with a laptop. Getting rid of WiFi is one way of solving the loner with a laptop problem, but it's difficult to see how it's the most profitable way of solving the problem and it doesn't solve the loner with a book problem or the pensioner with nowhere else to go problem.
" you WILL be buying food and/or a steady supply of coffee."
They need to make it easier to keep buying coffee and food. At the moment, people have generally 3 choices when it comes to buying more:
1) Leave your stuff (including laptop) at seat while you get more coffee (and risk theft) 2) "Decamp" then buy more stuff (and risk losing your seat) 3) make a cup last as long as possible to avoid options 1 & 2
Basically, if coffee shops want to make more money from the WiFi hogs then they should look into something like table service, at least for people who have already been to the counter once. It gives people an easy way to spend money and the "nagging" effect of somebody asking if the hog wants to order more will make most of them either pay up or move on. It shouldn't be that much of an extra burden on staff as you need to have people going around and cleaning up tables anyway.
The Harwell is still in one piece, the Colossus no longer exists (the Colossus at Bletchly is a replica). Also, the Harwell is a stored program computer (like all modern computers), Colossus isn't.
If you're downloading a cache of songs then your still downloading songs. They might not stick around long, but then a lot of tracks that end up on my phone don't stay there for that long.
Thinking about it, streaming is a form of downloading, so really, downloading wins as everything except CD Ripping is downloading.
Of course, I still prefer ripping CDs to FLAC format (I rarely download, and when I do it's usually from somewhere I can get FLAC format files), but each to their own.
But "nutritionally better for you" is one of the ways organics have been sold. Less so in recent years as more and more studies have shown it actually wasn't though.
For me, Xv doesn't work so video playback doesn't work (there are some hacks involving not using Xv - but performance is terrible).
Apparently, others are running into general performance problems so, for example, compiz becomes unusable. For I all I know I could have the same problem, but as I don't like wibbly windows I keep Visual Effects turned off so I don't notice.
The problem is apparently due to Intel being in the process of rewriting the xserver. So they are allegedly doing something about it, but it might be awhile before everything is stable again.
I noticed with 9.04 that sound is now finally working properly again on one machine that had audio problems since Hardy. But my laptop can no longer play video with Xv - sometimes it seems that Ubuntu gives with one hand and takes with the other.
"I would think that it was released they should have it mostly working well."
No, I would expect 9.04 to be mostly working well (which for me it almost does - the regression in the intel video card support is ticking me off though). 9.10 is at early alpha - I would expect it to not work very well at all. So the submitter's complaints about issues with 9.10 are unwarranted.
But if the government starts to do it then (theoretically) there's somebody to hold publicly accountable for what ends up on the blacklist. At the moment, the IWF can block whatever they like and answer to no one.
Even better, once the government starts doing it, they might end up being forced to start paying ISPs to do the filtering (like they're doing with the email spying). Then it becomes a target for eventual cuts in public spending and one day may quietly disappear.
Does yum still do the apt equivalent of an update before it does an install? I remember years ago yum taking forever to install software over a slow link. I eventually installed debian (I was using yellowdog) and I never looked back at the RPM world.
I had almost given up on Technocrat around the time of the election (I used the name "maethorechannen" on there). I think Bruce did the right thing to shut it down.
Slashdot Mirror
at least twice
It will always be on the fringe
But being on the fringe is far, far away from being dead.
Do apt and yum repositories yet support authentication and authorization, such that only people who have bought a license on the publisher's web site can download and install the software?
Linspire's CNR appears to have solved that problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNR_(software)
Or if you can't help them, they'll whine to the credit card company and ask for a chargeback.
Sybase were able to sell their software with a "use a supported distro or you're own your own" policy without much issue.
How many people ask for a chargeback when software the purchased to run with Wine doesn't work?
While I see your point, I don't think you can really draw comparisons.
I think you can - the 1990's was full of "Apple/Mac is dead" articles in magazines and on web sites. Until development comes to a halt you shouldn't count on something dying.
The funniest thing about those mac is dead articles was that they usually included some "helpful" advice to Apple about how to turn their fortunes around - advice which was usually the exact opposite of what Steve Jobs did to turn the company around.
Package systems tend not to contain non-free software
There's nothing stopping non free developers releasing debs/rpms of their software - even better is when they have repositories that can be added to to the package manager (why people insist on believing that "going out to the intarwebs and downloading an installer" is a feature and not a bug is beyond me). As for what distro to support they can go the easy route and support the number 1 and maybe number 2 desktop distro (which means Ubuntu and maybe Fedora/RedHat). People who aren't using those distros can probably figure out for themselves how to get it running on their system.
Most McDonalds in the UK have free WiFi provided by The Cloud. They used to have terminals, but I haven't seen one in years.
"Ditto for tv (especially sports tv)."
I've noticed that every Weatherspoons seems to have a TV now. They're the only pubs that I'm aware of that ever made No Music/No TV a thing. Fortunately most of them still don't play music, but I have an odd feeling that has more to do with them not wanting to pay PRS fees than wanting to make a place where people can talk.
If there is a pub in London left that still doesn't have a TV I'd love to find it.
"Having someone walk around asking for orders takes more time away from making orders, cleaning the equipment, grinding the coffee, etc."
But coffee shops already have people walking around a coffee shop anyway, so they might as well have them try to extract more money from customers (and more importantly, poke the deadbeats).
I doubt it's all that different from Nandos - a chicken restaurant chain that's virtually non-existent in the US but very popular in the UK, where you order you meal at the counter but staff come around asking if you want dessert/coffee when you've finished. Seeing as Nandos generally have free wifi and always have bottomless drinks and frozen yoghurt, people could conceivably hang out in a Nandos like they do in a Starbucks - but people generally don't and I bet having staff poke people is one reason.
Also, I doubt staff would be bothering people every 15 minutes - it would be the same frequency that they already bother people while collecting empty cups. While it's not without some cost to the shop it still has the potential to make them more money, especially if they mostly focus on people who are on their own.
I think the real problem is that the standard coffee shop model is that it works best for small groups of Friends who come in to chat over hot drinks. Unfortunately, on a week day they're more likely to get business from "loners with laptops" and "business meetings". While the model works ok for the business meetings, it fails dismally for the loner with a laptop. Getting rid of WiFi is one way of solving the loner with a laptop problem, but it's difficult to see how it's the most profitable way of solving the problem and it doesn't solve the loner with a book problem or the pensioner with nowhere else to go problem.
" you WILL be buying food and/or a steady supply of coffee."
They need to make it easier to keep buying coffee and food. At the moment, people have generally 3 choices when it comes to buying more:
1) Leave your stuff (including laptop) at seat while you get more coffee (and risk theft)
2) "Decamp" then buy more stuff (and risk losing your seat)
3) make a cup last as long as possible to avoid options 1 & 2
Basically, if coffee shops want to make more money from the WiFi hogs then they should look into something like table service, at least for people who have already been to the counter once. It gives people an easy way to spend money and the "nagging" effect of somebody asking if the hog wants to order more will make most of them either pay up or move on. It shouldn't be that much of an extra burden on staff as you need to have people going around and cleaning up tables anyway.
The 64 bit version of Chrome never shipped with flash.
Not most - you only see that in the more touristy bits of town.
The Harwell is still in one piece, the Colossus no longer exists (the Colossus at Bletchly is a replica). Also, the Harwell is a stored program computer (like all modern computers), Colossus isn't.
If you're downloading a cache of songs then your still downloading songs. They might not stick around long, but then a lot of tracks that end up on my phone don't stay there for that long.
Thinking about it, streaming is a form of downloading, so really, downloading wins as everything except CD Ripping is downloading.
Of course, I still prefer ripping CDs to FLAC format (I rarely download, and when I do it's usually from somewhere I can get FLAC format files), but each to their own.
"I like being able to eat the carrot skins without worrying about pesticides though."
Organic doesn't mean pesticide free.
But "nutritionally better for you" is one of the ways organics have been sold. Less so in recent years as more and more studies have shown it actually wasn't though.
Nope, intel. Looking at the output of lspci, it looks like every chip in the laptop is made by intel.
For me, Xv doesn't work so video playback doesn't work (there are some hacks involving not using Xv - but performance is terrible).
Apparently, others are running into general performance problems so, for example, compiz becomes unusable. For I all I know I could have the same problem, but as I don't like wibbly windows I keep Visual Effects turned off so I don't notice.
The problem is apparently due to Intel being in the process of rewriting the xserver. So they are allegedly doing something about it, but it might be awhile before everything is stable again.
I noticed with 9.04 that sound is now finally working properly again on one machine that had audio problems since Hardy. But my laptop can no longer play video with Xv - sometimes it seems that Ubuntu gives with one hand and takes with the other.
"I would think that it was released they should have it mostly working well."
No, I would expect 9.04 to be mostly working well (which for me it almost does - the regression in the intel video card support is ticking me off though). 9.10 is at early alpha - I would expect it to not work very well at all. So the submitter's complaints about issues with 9.10 are unwarranted.
But if the government starts to do it then (theoretically) there's somebody to hold publicly accountable for what ends up on the blacklist. At the moment, the IWF can block whatever they like and answer to no one.
Even better, once the government starts doing it, they might end up being forced to start paying ISPs to do the filtering (like they're doing with the email spying). Then it becomes a target for eventual cuts in public spending and one day may quietly disappear.
under the 'voluntary code' even facebook is blocked under the content control bar that is placed on EVERY vodafone sim
Which is kind of funny, seeing as Facebook features quite prominently in Vodafone's mobile internet ads.
And yum is every bit as usable as apt
Does yum still do the apt equivalent of an update before it does an install? I remember years ago yum taking forever to install software over a slow link. I eventually installed debian (I was using yellowdog) and I never looked back at the RPM world.
I thought he was referring to Guy Fawkes and Tom Lord
I had almost given up on Technocrat around the time of the election (I used the name "maethorechannen" on there). I think Bruce did the right thing to shut it down.
I just wonder where Guy Fawkes will turn up now.
Wouldn't Venus make for a better hot site?