The trick is that we have to not be divided and work together sensibly. Mod parent up +5, Insightful!
I myself write mostly copyleft software, but if the OpenBSD or any other important project asked for it to be relicensed under BSD, I would certainly dual-license the software.
All of this senseless bickering is pointless. We as open source and free software developers have most of our goals in common. Let's pool our resources here and work together towards those common goals rather than having all of this stupid infighting.
You all need to realize that this is exactly what Microsoft and other companies that would like to see us shut up want. Keep us divided, keep us fighting because, and this is going to sound cliche -- but it's truee -- united we stand, divided we fall.
hippocraticy? If big words give you problems, use a dictionary to learn how to spell hypocrisy. I mean, you're barely in the ball-park, the first and last letters match, and there's a "p" in the middle somewhere. No, no. I think he really meant hippocraticy -- a government for, of and by the hippos.
Right. So basically since they didn't log anything before, they have nothing to hand over. They must now keep server logs for the duration of the case.
Except... they no longer accept logins from the US, so everything they hand over to the MPAA will be IP addresses originating outside the United States of America.
It's also important to note that doesn't mean that the MPAA can't go after Europeans or Canadians or Africans or, etc., etc.,
Why does everyone seem to forget that Microsoft also itself distributes software whose copyright is owned by the Free Software Foundation? It's not just the coupons, folks! They are distributing GCC and the entire GNU toolchain!
They make no GPL software. They don't? Yes, the latest version includes GNU utilities and gcc. Since these had to be modified to work for Interix, then, since Microsoft has owned Interix since 1999...Microsoft makes GPL software.
Amazingly, despite it being an rtl8139 (the winmodem of NICs,) it's not that bad as a server.) The rtl8139 has got to be the all time most underrated NIC EVAR. Yes, the RTL8139 chipset-based NICs are all made by cheap Taiwanese manufacturers, and you can buy these things for like $5 a pop. OTOH, in terms of reliability, I've had fewer problems with failed NICs based on the RTL8139 than with any other NIC, bar none. And that includes the very high-performing, robust and venerable 3COM 3C905[A|B|C].
Performance is pretty mediocre, but really the even the 3COM 905x doeesn't perform that much better than the RTL8139. Oh, and the Linux driver is pretty good, too, being mostly the work Donald Becker.
As others have stated elsewhere, the average home user is using a 100 Mbps connection. This is probably even true for the average business user, because most workstation connections at places I've worked in past few years have been 100 Mbps. (I know you hard-core geeks are all shocked, but it's true.) The average home user doesn't use his network for anything other than serving a printer and an 1.5-10Mbps Internet connection. He doesn't have a file server, media server, none of that. So the average end-user is unlikely to notice.
In other words, Microsoft tried to "fix" something that wasn't broken Well, on some machines and in some environments, heavy network traffic can cause an XP machine to slow down, particularly on older/slower hardware. Geeks tend to run stuff that, even if it's not the latest, is amongst the top performers for its generation.
My wife had an e-Machines 1.2 GHz Celeron machine (purchased before we were engaged) with an el cheapo Intel 810 chipset. When she was still running Windows XP, she'd complain all the time about audio dropouts -- I found that these occured during high periods of disk activity or network traffic. Adding memory improved things from the disk side, but network I/O still sucked on XP. When we switched her to Fedora Core 4, and later to Ubuntu Breezy, things improved a lot. I'm guessing if Vista didn't have such high system requirements, this feature would actually have helped her.
On her new machine, an Athlon 64 x2 3800 with 2 GB of RAM and a nice VIA chipset with on-board 6-channel audio, on-board GigE, etc., I'm sure she'd be complaining about the network performance instead of dropped audio if she were running Vista instead of Ubuntu Feisty.:)
Interestingly, Richard Stallman warned us about "Treacherous computing" years ago. It's sad that these things are becoming reality. Call him a zealot, call him an idealist, call him a communist if you want, but if there's one thing you positively can't call Richard M. Stallman, it's stupid.
But if you think Stallman was smart in 2002, when Trusted Computing was a brand new buzzword, remember that he actually predicted DRM before there was such a word as DRM -- he used the term 'copyright monitor code'. The Right to Read was written in 1996, more than 10 years ago. I remember reading it in a copy of Communications of the ACM early in 1997 and thinking 'OMG, he's right!'
On the other hand (and I'm not disagreeing with you) maybe when they were testing the media functions of the operating system they didn't look at the network traffic performance cause they've got nothing to do with each other. They have nothing to do with each other -- until you're listening an Internet radio station or a webcast of the keynote from [insert your favorite conference here].
Almost, but not quite. Really, it's Microsoft's drive to appeal to the least common denominator. Dumb end-users aren't likely to notice a speed decrease in their network throughput -- not even a significant one. So maybe they did test it, but ignored any performance feedback about the network because it was ignored as smart power users being 'overly picky', since their target customer requires that the CD cases be printed on drool-proof cardboard.
No, I don't think the article is FUD, nor do I think your post is FUD.
There are serious legal concerns regarding patent claims and copyright infringement regarding components needed for desktop systems. Desktop customers don't want to see even a dialog box saying "The MP3 codec is not installed, download and install it?" they just want the box to play MP3s.
Of course, whether or not you or your customers will get sued as the OEM is an open question. No one ever really got sued by Unisys over the LZW77 compression in GIFs, for instance.
Not always. Some of us remember them from their days of 'Computers from Iowa???" ads in Computer Shopper. Ted Waite used to build custom-build PC boxes using standard motherboards and standard cases out of his grandmother's barn in Iowa and sell them in the direct channel.
One day they transformed into a Dell-style manufacturing operation and have never been the same since, of course.
Personally, I was surprised to see that both Packard Bell and Gateway still existed, Packard Bell just doesn't sell in the United States anymore. They have some notebooks and some GPS devices and some USB-pen-drive-sized USB player. They got the reputation has being the crappiest computer company EVAR and were never able to quite live that down in the U.S. market.
No, it doesn't. I remember the VHS vs. Beta wars. Sony pulled out all the marketing stops, whlie VHS had virtually nothing. If there's one thing Sony has always been very good at, it's marketing.
All it proves is that since you could get porn on VHS and you couldn't on Beta, people like porn, so they stuck with VHS.
The parties just might be in cahoots, my friend: Ah! At least someone on this site has the right idea.
Imagine for a moment, if you will, that the Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton potential is not just some cosmic coincidence. Ya think?;)
Ask also, why didn't Gore toss his hat into the ring again this year? He's got more buzz and support right now than all the Republican candidates together. Did you catch the Oscars? I would have guessed he'd run. Because Hillary is the anointed successor to her husband. It's been setup that way since before she ever ran for Senator. The Dems never really actually thought Gore would win in 2000. Notice how virtually all the Dems were telling Gore to back off on the recount in Florida.
Another question that needs to be answered: why are both Dems and Reps almost universally not in favor of the National Popular Vote?
Seems like he'd get that pardon if Hillary wins it. Maybe. Would they want to be that obvious about it?
Maybe formatting USB memories before usage would be a good move. And using OS that won't run anything from the newly attached memry as a default would also help. You mean like, say, Linux?;)
Everytime I see stuff like this, I just chuckle and smile and say "Well, that's why I run Linux."
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I myself write mostly copyleft software, but if the OpenBSD or any other important project asked for it to be relicensed under BSD, I would certainly dual-license the software.
All of this senseless bickering is pointless. We as open source and free software developers have most of our goals in common. Let's pool our resources here and work together towards those common goals rather than having all of this stupid infighting.
You all need to realize that this is exactly what Microsoft and other companies that would like to see us shut up want. Keep us divided, keep us fighting because, and this is going to sound cliche -- but it's truee -- united we stand, divided we fall.
Well, the fact that they still offer it for download would seem to contradict that statement.
C'mon. The only source you could come up with is an article by Jon Katz?
Right. So basically since they didn't log anything before, they have nothing to hand over. They must now keep server logs for the duration of the case.
... they no longer accept logins from the US, so everything they hand over to the MPAA will be IP addresses originating outside the United States of America.
Except
It's also important to note that doesn't mean that the MPAA can't go after Europeans or Canadians or Africans or, etc., etc.,
Why does everyone seem to forget that Microsoft also itself distributes software whose copyright is owned by the Free Software Foundation? It's not just the coupons, folks! They are distributing GCC and the entire GNU toolchain!
Performance is pretty mediocre, but really the even the 3COM 905x doeesn't perform that much better than the RTL8139. Oh, and the Linux driver is pretty good, too, being mostly the work Donald Becker.
As others have stated elsewhere, the average home user is using a 100 Mbps connection. This is probably even true for the average business user, because most workstation connections at places I've worked in past few years have been 100 Mbps. (I know you hard-core geeks are all shocked, but it's true.) The average home user doesn't use his network for anything other than serving a printer and an 1.5-10Mbps Internet connection. He doesn't have a file server, media server, none of that. So the average end-user is unlikely to notice.
My wife had an e-Machines 1.2 GHz Celeron machine (purchased before we were engaged) with an el cheapo Intel 810 chipset. When she was still running Windows XP, she'd complain all the time about audio dropouts -- I found that these occured during high periods of disk activity or network traffic. Adding memory improved things from the disk side, but network I/O still sucked on XP. When we switched her to Fedora Core 4, and later to Ubuntu Breezy, things improved a lot. I'm guessing if Vista didn't have such high system requirements, this feature would actually have helped her.
On her new machine, an Athlon 64 x2 3800 with 2 GB of RAM and a nice VIA chipset with on-board 6-channel audio, on-board GigE, etc., I'm sure she'd be complaining about the network performance instead of dropped audio if she were running Vista instead of Ubuntu Feisty.
Err...or was that something else?
But if you think Stallman was smart in 2002, when Trusted Computing was a brand new buzzword, remember that he actually predicted DRM before there was such a word as DRM -- he used the term 'copyright monitor code'. The Right to Read was written in 1996, more than 10 years ago. I remember reading it in a copy of Communications of the ACM early in 1997 and thinking 'OMG, he's right!'
MMCSS is the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service, which a new feature in Vista -- it is not in 98/95/2000/ME/XP. That's why.
Almost, but not quite. Really, it's Microsoft's drive to appeal to the least common denominator. Dumb end-users aren't likely to notice a speed decrease in their network throughput -- not even a significant one. So maybe they did test it, but ignored any performance feedback about the network because it was ignored as smart power users being 'overly picky', since their target customer requires that the CD cases be printed on drool-proof cardboard.
No, I don't think the article is FUD, nor do I think your post is FUD.
There are serious legal concerns regarding patent claims and copyright infringement regarding components needed for desktop systems. Desktop customers don't want to see even a dialog box saying "The MP3 codec is not installed, download and install it?" they just want the box to play MP3s.
Of course, whether or not you or your customers will get sued as the OEM is an open question. No one ever really got sued by Unisys over the LZW77 compression in GIFs, for instance.
Not always. Some of us remember them from their days of 'Computers from Iowa???" ads in Computer Shopper. Ted Waite used to build custom-build PC boxes using standard motherboards and standard cases out of his grandmother's barn in Iowa and sell them in the direct channel.
One day they transformed into a Dell-style manufacturing operation and have never been the same since, of course.
You're probably right, but do you think anyone will notice?
No, it doesn't. I remember the VHS vs. Beta wars. Sony pulled out all the marketing stops, whlie VHS had virtually nothing. If there's one thing Sony has always been very good at, it's marketing.
All it proves is that since you could get porn on VHS and you couldn't on Beta, people like porn, so they stuck with VHS.
Well, true. But I made my choice apparent. ;)
Another question that needs to be answered: why are both Dems and Reps almost universally not in favor of the National Popular Vote? Seems like he'd get that pardon if Hillary wins it. Maybe. Would they want to be that obvious about it?
And using OS that won't run anything from the newly attached memry as a default would also help. You mean like, say, Linux?
Everytime I see stuff like this, I just chuckle and smile and say "Well, that's why I run Linux."