WMA does not by definition exclude linux, just some company has to license WMA to make a player for linux. It will be costly I would guess, but if Microsoft wants to have support for their DRM, they could make this less costly, and have the support of the linux crowd for their DRM behind them (embrace and maybe not assimilate this time?)
Research has shown that the plate in front of the average/. poster is harder and tougher than any other material known to man. It is just impossible to penetrate.
The second fair use of DRM I have seen sofar. Really using the idea how it should, not to protect something somebody bought a license for, but just to use it in a way the person agreed on beforehand (you borrow the book for 3 weeks is a pre agreed way).
I am in a paperless office, I use static LCD nowadays. It is a bit more costly than paper, a lot heavier, but it still outperforms static CRT in weight and space requirements. And you can recycle them just like paper, really great.
With this live subject testing possibility it becomes possible to determine the real impact of BSE/vCJD on the cow and human population. There have been estimates in the past of several 100000 british who will eventually die from this disease. Now they can verify that number (and create relief/cause wide spread panic while they are at it anyway)
And paper jam feature (V3 laser printers). And when they said paper jammed, they really meant it. I also loved the paper folding feature where the paper was folded in a width 0.5inch harmonica.
They really miss these good old features on this Xerox. Too bad, else it would have been worth to spend some time on it.
TCO does in my opinion count very much for desktop use (50 to 100 desktops for every server). I did think of the desktop in my comment, but I think they will only compare the wrong things anyway (Eyecandy, vague group interaction features which nobody knows how to utilize etc).
Anyway: Desktop != linux. Linux is the kernel, OSDL linux comparisson should then focus on the kernel if they even want to mention linux in a desktop comparisson again. Else they will just have to compare KDE/GNOME/other with OpenOffice/KOffice/other to MS Windows with MS office suite. The fact that it runs on a linux kernel, BSD kernel or any other kernel (GNU HURD(T)???), should not matter for a productivity comparisson, however one kernel might be more stable than another.
Money money money! And there is not 1 salesorganisation which is at the table with all the large companies. Anyway, do I care as developper if it is sold to a fortune 500? Only for my ego, I do not earn a penny with it anyway. So do I care about marketing and sales: Yes, but only if somebody hires me along with it.
I think it is pretty easy to pass by this study. OSDL has to pay the other half of a study they are not really interested in. So this study can turn out bad or good for any party involved, but it also eats into the budget.
And I still tremble more with every cup of coffee I drink. I now upped it to 1 per 15 minutes during my waking time, which also increased to 24 hours a day. I do not understand these researchers with their unfounded claims (-:
And the Euro 2.5 charge did not go through, did it? It is already weird enough that the goverment is involved in collecting fees for a branche organisation.
I myself am not a freeloader, but I feel since there is this kind of undirected law, that I should become one. I am paying for the freeloaders. I would be much more in agreement with stichting Brein (name of RIAA in the netherlands) if this charge would not be there, and if they would just go after the freeloaders.
I use the CD/DVD burner to make backups of my own data and of some programs (Mainly opensource, but all with correct licences). The latter is pretty useless anyway since you can always download it again.
Overhere there is an extra charge in a law which charges a price per MB or per hour of recording. Just in case you make a copy of something (I think that legalizes my copying, I already paid for it, didn't I??). Anyway the charge for 1TB could become interesting. The charge for a GB device would have become Euro 2.50 (Luckily it bounced, now we only pay for CDs (~Euro 0.20) and DVDs (Euro ~0.50 depending on the type of DVD). But 2.5 per GB, hum, Euro 1700 for the device, Euro 2500 for the dutch RIAA....
I view with threshold one, but I also have the right to moderate sometimes. I want to be able to really influence such a post out of existance. A spam-filter is also a possible solution, but then there is a chance that messages are refused based on some wording which might be harmful, but just harmful to just one person (some personal flaming, nice to get some extra foes on your list), which I think should be allowed. Sometimes discussions just get a bit overheated, that should still be ok.
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WMA does not by definition exclude linux, just some company has to license WMA to make a player for linux. It will be costly I would guess, but if Microsoft wants to have support for their DRM, they could make this less costly, and have the support of the linux crowd for their DRM behind them (embrace and maybe not assimilate this time?)
Mplayer does play WMA as far as I know, so putting the dll in the right place could do the trick. It is not very userfriendly though.
Research has shown that the plate in front of the average /. poster is harder and tougher than any other material known to man. It is just impossible to penetrate.
So the article is totally wrong anyway (-:
The second fair use of DRM I have seen sofar. Really using the idea how it should, not to protect something somebody bought a license for, but just to use it in a way the person agreed on beforehand (you borrow the book for 3 weeks is a pre agreed way).
One question though: Does it run on linux?
I am in a paperless office, I use static LCD nowadays. It is a bit more costly than paper, a lot heavier, but it still outperforms static CRT in weight and space requirements. And you can recycle them just like paper, really great.
Yep.
With this live subject testing possibility it becomes possible to determine the real impact of BSE/vCJD on the cow and human population. There have been estimates in the past of several 100000 british who will eventually die from this disease. Now they can verify that number (and create relief/cause wide spread panic while they are at it anyway)
Accordeon is the feature I was looking for, you are correct!
And paper jam feature (V3 laser printers). And when they said paper jammed, they really meant it. I also loved the paper folding feature where the paper was folded in a width 0.5inch harmonica.
They really miss these good old features on this Xerox. Too bad, else it would have been worth to spend some time on it.
TCO does in my opinion count very much for desktop use (50 to 100 desktops for every server). I did think of the desktop in my comment, but I think they will only compare the wrong things anyway (Eyecandy, vague group interaction features which nobody knows how to utilize etc).
Anyway: Desktop != linux. Linux is the kernel, OSDL linux comparisson should then focus on the kernel if they even want to mention linux in a desktop comparisson again. Else they will just have to compare KDE/GNOME/other with OpenOffice/KOffice/other to MS Windows with MS office suite. The fact that it runs on a linux kernel, BSD kernel or any other kernel (GNU HURD(T)???), should not matter for a productivity comparisson, however one kernel might be more stable than another.
And then include that Coca Cola almost made a lethal mistake with their "New Coke", and you have a winning formula.
Anyway, I think linux clearly plays with the big boys already, so that is not needed anymore.
My OS is clearly better than your OS! You insesitive clod.
Money money money! And there is not 1 salesorganisation which is at the table with all the large companies. Anyway, do I care as developper if it is sold to a fortune 500? Only for my ego, I do not earn a penny with it anyway. So do I care about marketing and sales: Yes, but only if somebody hires me along with it.
I think it is pretty easy to pass by this study. OSDL has to pay the other half of a study they are not really interested in. So this study can turn out bad or good for any party involved, but it also eats into the budget.
Maybe the 20% with passport are overly present in de the donorgroup?
And I still tremble more with every cup of coffee I drink. I now upped it to 1 per 15 minutes during my waking time, which also increased to 24 hours a day. I do not understand these researchers with their unfounded claims (-:
And succeeding with it with 5 minutes.
a-rat? Old fashioned. e-rat is the modern way to go, or if you are a mac fan: i-rat coming out soon.
And google has a lot of usefull mobile numbers as a result. So they can do targeted advertising on those.
Difference in notation systems: Dutch: The dot is a thousands seperator, the comma is the decimal seperator.
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And the Euro 2.5 charge did not go through, did it?
It is already weird enough that the goverment is involved in collecting fees for a branche organisation.
They have a bot posting it. Very annoying.
I myself am not a freeloader, but I feel since there is this kind of undirected law, that I should become one. I am paying for the freeloaders. I would be much more in agreement with stichting Brein (name of RIAA in the netherlands) if this charge would not be there, and if they would just go after the freeloaders.
I use the CD/DVD burner to make backups of my own data and of some programs (Mainly opensource, but all with correct licences). The latter is pretty useless anyway since you can always download it again.
Overhere there is an extra charge in a law which charges a price per MB or per hour of recording. Just in case you make a copy of something (I think that legalizes my copying, I already paid for it, didn't I??). Anyway the charge for 1TB could become interesting. The charge for a GB device would have become Euro 2.50 (Luckily it bounced, now we only pay for CDs (~Euro 0.20) and DVDs (Euro ~0.50 depending on the type of DVD). But 2.5 per GB, hum, Euro 1700 for the device, Euro 2500 for the dutch RIAA....
I view with threshold one, but I also have the right to moderate sometimes. I want to be able to really influence such a post out of existance.
A spam-filter is also a possible solution, but then there is a chance that messages are refused based on some wording which might be harmful, but just harmful to just one person (some personal flaming, nice to get some extra foes on your list), which I think should be allowed.
Sometimes discussions just get a bit overheated, that should still be ok.