Probably not. Most desktop users would probably want to use PDFs and spreadsheets or write a letter. AFAIK those are not things that come with Windows (yes, you can installl them, but why are you expecting people to go to random websites to install software - that's not particularly easy for most users).
I haven't had trouble using MTP to talk to a Samsung MP3 player from Linux. And, that's a particularly troublesome example as MTP is part of the "Windows Media" framework, so you wouldn't expect anything other than Windows to even try to support it.
I ended up re-flashing the MP3 player to use USB storage mode instead as getting Windows to support MTP was a major pain in the backside. If I plugged it into a Windows machine, I'd then have to hunt around for the driver from Samsung's website (I suppose I could have just carried around the driver CD everywhere) and install software just to be able to talk to it.
Both brasero and k3b support burning directly to disk and I haven't seen any kind of support for ISO burning in WinXP, although I heard they included it subsequent OSes. I don't believe that Windows 7 ships with a dvd copying/burning tool - what tool are you referring to?
I don't know how you can say that Microsoft ship their OS with apps that cover most of their users' needs. Where's the PDF reader? What spreadsheet program? Video codecs?
My experience is that Windows is missing lots of features. No SSH support; no support for filesystems other than NTFS and FAT; no low level disk tools (dd); poor NFS support; doesn't come with a decent text editor.... I could carry on, but you get the idea.
I don't see why Microsoft have to use the same licensing terms for different customers.
I'm prett sure that they charge OEMs a completely different price than retail customers. That doesn't mean that retail customers can demand that OEMs are shut down.
The only obligation Microsoft has to properly licensed customers is to allow them to use their products as defined by the license. What they do with/for other customers is entirely their business as long as they aren't breaking the law (e.g. abusing a monopoly).
I'm no fan of airlines; they're always trying to sneak in extra charges wherever they can. However, in all the airports I've been to, the maximum cabin luggage size is clearly displayed and they usually have test frames where you can see if your bags fit in or not. As far as I know, they have a "standard" cabin size and there's loads of luggage sold to fit those dimensions.
I've been caught out myself with the maximum weight that they allow in cabin bags. That seems to vary between airports/continents and only seems to be enforced at the check-in desk. I've had to re-distribute stuff from my hand luggage into other people's luggage (in my party) to reduce the single bag weight. I can see why they do that - no-one wants a 12kg bag dropping onto them from an overhead compartment (I always put my bag under the seat in front of me).
To be fair, RDP does use encryption, so it isn't wildly wrong to expose RDP to an external site. I wouldn't want to do it myself, but then I use much prefer Linux and use VNC behind SSH tunnels (use -localhost for the VNC server so that it only allows connections from itself).
Hiding RDP behind a VPN should protect from external attacks on this, so security through layers is the answer. I often wonder why FWKNOP http://cipherdyne.org/fwknop/isn't more widely used to hide and protect services.
Thanks for calling me a moron! I wasn't saying that I hate you or calling you greedy, I was hating that type of greedy behaviour.
I appreciate that you don't fly often enough to know the various rules, but most people will make an effort to find out the relevant rules and how it could impact them when they go on a flight.
Most of the time, having to step over a little bag isn't a big deal, but if everyone did as you do, then the plane would be like an obstacle course and accidents would happen (e.g. someone tripping up and knocking a hot coffee onto someone's lap). You might get away with that on a military flight, but civilians expect a plane journey to be civilised and don't like being aggressively bullied.
Some do use metal, some don't. I think a lot of them include metal as a security feature, but I'm pretty sure that the cheaper kitchen knives have simple plastic handles. (I've got a ceramic bladed vegetable peeler that doesn't have any metal, but I don't think I'd be able to cause severe damage with that)
I hate it when people try to sneak on an oversize bag rather than just book it into the baggage hold. A plane has limited space, so just stop being so greedy and get a properly sized bag. It's not difficult.
Although I agree about databases being the answer, the advantage of having tag information in a filesystem is the sheer number of tools/programs that interface with a filesystem.
You could arrange a database to track all your movies and music by multiple systems (e.g. year produced, actors, genre) but you'd have to ensure that whatever program you're using to browse/play those files would have to be able to interface with the database. If the information is in the filesystem, then all of the usual programs would suddenly be able to take advantage of the extra tags with no extra work.
There's an interesting crossover with database filesystems. Oracle's DBFS http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14072_01/appdev.112/e10645/adlob_fs.htm will allow you to store and retrieve database objects with standard tools. There's a lot of common features between a filesystem and a database and usually the best performing filesystems have the most database-like features.
I imagine they'd fall foul of the law initially until they'd provided a few years of safety tests to demonstrate that they reduced accident rates rather than increasing them.
If you think that there is a "real" dousing effect, then why don't you spend some time and effort to test and document it? Why expect someone else to investigate an effect that is based just on anecdotal evidence?
I had a look at the first link - an article from back in 2001 and states "If it's confirmed it will be groundbreaking.". Well, it's not confirmed yet, do you guys need some more time?
The other article was a little light on details, but indicated that homeopathic water initially worsened the patients conditions and then produced improved results compared with the placebo. As the placebo was chemically the same as the homeopathic water (as far as can be measured), I'd hazard a guess that the experiment needs a bigger sample size.
It'd be cool if homeopathy was real as then then any ocean would act as universal cure (or maybe a universal poison, who can tell).
Patents don't "promote the sciences and useful arts" because Copyright does.
That said, I agree with your sentiment. Patents are supposed to provide a benefit by allowing companies to use inventions which would otherwise be secret. Nowadays, patents are granted for "obvious" things and provide a minefield whereby anyone trying to invent something inevitably infringes someone's patent and becomes liable even though they may not have seen the original patent.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably not. Most desktop users would probably want to use PDFs and spreadsheets or write a letter. AFAIK those are not things that come with Windows (yes, you can installl them, but why are you expecting people to go to random websites to install software - that's not particularly easy for most users).
I haven't had trouble using MTP to talk to a Samsung MP3 player from Linux. And, that's a particularly troublesome example as MTP is part of the "Windows Media" framework, so you wouldn't expect anything other than Windows to even try to support it.
I ended up re-flashing the MP3 player to use USB storage mode instead as getting Windows to support MTP was a major pain in the backside. If I plugged it into a Windows machine, I'd then have to hunt around for the driver from Samsung's website (I suppose I could have just carried around the driver CD everywhere) and install software just to be able to talk to it.
Hmmm - I'm not sure if you're trolling or not.
Both brasero and k3b support burning directly to disk and I haven't seen any kind of support for ISO burning in WinXP, although I heard they included it subsequent OSes. I don't believe that Windows 7 ships with a dvd copying/burning tool - what tool are you referring to?
I don't know how you can say that Microsoft ship their OS with apps that cover most of their users' needs. Where's the PDF reader? What spreadsheet program? Video codecs?
My experience is that Windows is missing lots of features. No SSH support; no support for filesystems other than NTFS and FAT; no low level disk tools (dd); poor NFS support; doesn't come with a decent text editor.... I could carry on, but you get the idea.
I don't see why Microsoft have to use the same licensing terms for different customers.
I'm prett sure that they charge OEMs a completely different price than retail customers. That doesn't mean that retail customers can demand that OEMs are shut down.
The only obligation Microsoft has to properly licensed customers is to allow them to use their products as defined by the license. What they do with/for other customers is entirely their business as long as they aren't breaking the law (e.g. abusing a monopoly).
Which of their services infringe copyright?
I'm no fan of airlines; they're always trying to sneak in extra charges wherever they can. However, in all the airports I've been to, the maximum cabin luggage size is clearly displayed and they usually have test frames where you can see if your bags fit in or not. As far as I know, they have a "standard" cabin size and there's loads of luggage sold to fit those dimensions.
I've been caught out myself with the maximum weight that they allow in cabin bags. That seems to vary between airports/continents and only seems to be enforced at the check-in desk. I've had to re-distribute stuff from my hand luggage into other people's luggage (in my party) to reduce the single bag weight. I can see why they do that - no-one wants a 12kg bag dropping onto them from an overhead compartment (I always put my bag under the seat in front of me).
To be fair, RDP does use encryption, so it isn't wildly wrong to expose RDP to an external site. I wouldn't want to do it myself, but then I use much prefer Linux and use VNC behind SSH tunnels (use -localhost for the VNC server so that it only allows connections from itself).
Hiding RDP behind a VPN should protect from external attacks on this, so security through layers is the answer. I often wonder why FWKNOP http://cipherdyne.org/fwknop/isn't more widely used to hide and protect services.
Thanks for calling me a moron! I wasn't saying that I hate you or calling you greedy, I was hating that type of greedy behaviour.
I appreciate that you don't fly often enough to know the various rules, but most people will make an effort to find out the relevant rules and how it could impact them when they go on a flight.
Most of the time, having to step over a little bag isn't a big deal, but if everyone did as you do, then the plane would be like an obstacle course and accidents would happen (e.g. someone tripping up and knocking a hot coffee onto someone's lap). You might get away with that on a military flight, but civilians expect a plane journey to be civilised and don't like being aggressively bullied.
Some do use metal, some don't. I think a lot of them include metal as a security feature, but I'm pretty sure that the cheaper kitchen knives have simple plastic handles. (I've got a ceramic bladed vegetable peeler that doesn't have any metal, but I don't think I'd be able to cause severe damage with that)
I hate it when people try to sneak on an oversize bag rather than just book it into the baggage hold. A plane has limited space, so just stop being so greedy and get a properly sized bag. It's not difficult.
You know that it's easy to buy ceramic knives now, don't you?
Jacu Bird coffee is similar, but the birds are a lot more discerning than the civets and they live around some of the best Brazilian farms.
I'm sorry, have I just gone back in time? FAT partitions, 140GB disks?
Although I agree about databases being the answer, the advantage of having tag information in a filesystem is the sheer number of tools/programs that interface with a filesystem.
You could arrange a database to track all your movies and music by multiple systems (e.g. year produced, actors, genre) but you'd have to ensure that whatever program you're using to browse/play those files would have to be able to interface with the database. If the information is in the filesystem, then all of the usual programs would suddenly be able to take advantage of the extra tags with no extra work.
There's an interesting crossover with database filesystems. Oracle's DBFS http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14072_01/appdev.112/e10645/adlob_fs.htm will allow you to store and retrieve database objects with standard tools. There's a lot of common features between a filesystem and a database and usually the best performing filesystems have the most database-like features.
I imagine they'd fall foul of the law initially until they'd provided a few years of safety tests to demonstrate that they reduced accident rates rather than increasing them.
If you think that there is a "real" dousing effect, then why don't you spend some time and effort to test and document it? Why expect someone else to investigate an effect that is based just on anecdotal evidence?
I had a look at the first link - an article from back in 2001 and states "If it's confirmed it will be groundbreaking.". Well, it's not confirmed yet, do you guys need some more time?
The other article was a little light on details, but indicated that homeopathic water initially worsened the patients conditions and then produced improved results compared with the placebo. As the placebo was chemically the same as the homeopathic water (as far as can be measured), I'd hazard a guess that the experiment needs a bigger sample size.
It'd be cool if homeopathy was real as then then any ocean would act as universal cure (or maybe a universal poison, who can tell).
It used to be easy enough to detect a CRT from a distance, but LCDs make it a lot harder
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Everyone knows that torches are containers for dead batteries that live at the bottom of kit bags.
Oops - my bad. I'd only heard that in relation to copyright.
Patents don't "promote the sciences and useful arts" because Copyright does.
That said, I agree with your sentiment. Patents are supposed to provide a benefit by allowing companies to use inventions which would otherwise be secret. Nowadays, patents are granted for "obvious" things and provide a minefield whereby anyone trying to invent something inevitably infringes someone's patent and becomes liable even though they may not have seen the original patent.
How about "Cox"?
I don't get how encryption speed makes any difference to piracy. Care to explain how assembly somehow enables piracy?