It's quite simple:
You start attaching the word "transparent" to all of your proprietary, trade-secretive, obscure-as-hell protocols.
Look for Microsoft Transparent Office XML coming to a standards body near you!
Increasingly, this notion that what we geeks are hot and bothered about is "just software, after all" is going to be questioned.
Many thousands of annual deaths are attributable to harmful drug interactions, and a lot of these result from the unavailability of standard Electronic Medical Records(EMR) across care providers.
That's right, vendor lock-in and nonstandard documents are killing people.
The (open) standardization of general-purpose office documents should have been completed a decade ago. EMRs should have been standardized 5 years ago. Many people have died unnecessarily.
I just remembered: I'm not going to be able to make it to that one party you invited me to the other day. I've got a previous um engagement that I just remembered
Unless I'm mistaken, it was recently determined pretty conclusively that docx files (presumably those generated by Office 12?) do not implement the OOXML spec.
"If people paid a subscription fee to use the operating system that was continually updated and improved the whole model would work a lot better."
Yes but wouldn't some of the more clever among them begin to realize that there are ways to get a continually-improving/updated operating system without the whole "paying money" part?
With nonfree software, the old versions have to be made unusable/obsolete/nonsupported. The nonfree model relies on perfectly-good-software needing to be bought -- *not on new and better software being developed.
My overarching point is really about the defense that the RIAA usually puts up in an effort to remain relevant/necessary:
"We sort through the dreck and find the good talent and promote it all to hell, and that's expensive. We can reasonably expect compensation"
That may have been true once, and still isn't totally false. But IMO the quality of top 40 music is not drastically better than, say, jamendo.com's offerings. So this "filtering" function of the current middlemen is the end, and their A&R departments are the means that have been obsolecized by the net.
Yes; I went over to Best Buy the other day to get a meatspace look at an eee. I had no intention of leaving with one, of course. But I made sure to let the (unusually knowledgeable this time) personnel know that the XP edition was useless to me.
This doesn't mean they'll run off and hold a shareholder's meeting about it, but next time one of them is in a meeting and hears "No one wants the Lx version" they'll know better.
"don't think that you can equate music/games/movies with buggy whips. People WANT music/games/movies whereas buggy whips and steam engineers are simply not NEEDED anymore"
Wrong. Nobody ever wanted a buggy whip. It was a means to an end (viz., transport). When other means achieved the same end in a *drastically more efficient manner, they were adopted.
Since it's very easy to make mediocre pop music and distribute it for free, the old ways of producing that will be competed out of existence.
I'm pretty sure these over-the-top moves by MS are calculated to fail. No one in her right mind thinks people will actually *stand for youtube being filtered.
The game is: filter it, then when you bring it back you can stump about how willing you are to interoperate and play ball. What was formerly understood as basic Net behavior now seems like a nice gift that MS gave you.
Slashdot Mirror
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protect-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation
Sorry, the font on that page is so small I can barely read it.
"I bought a 15 GBP stake. It was a terrible stake; dry and no flavor."
Pointed pieces of wood tend to be that way.
"a massive wad of cash for the privilege of owning a 3G iPhone" If you're not allowed to do what you want with the device, you do not own it.
I believe the majority of /.'s audience is international, though obviously not Swedish. Someone from VA would have to confirm this.
It's quite simple: You start attaching the word "transparent" to all of your proprietary, trade-secretive, obscure-as-hell protocols. Look for Microsoft Transparent Office XML coming to a standards body near you!
Could we please get ISO to fast-track one of these High Def standards so we will all know what to buy? Please?? (Hint:joke)
Black: An individual DoSing a big company
White: A big company DoSing a small company
Grey: A big company DoSing another big company
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Increasingly, this notion that what we geeks are hot and bothered about is "just software, after all" is going to be questioned.
Many thousands of annual deaths are attributable to harmful drug interactions, and a lot of these result from the unavailability of standard Electronic Medical Records(EMR) across care providers.
That's right, vendor lock-in and nonstandard documents are killing people.
The (open) standardization of general-purpose office documents should have been completed a decade ago. EMRs should have been standardized 5 years ago. Many people have died unnecessarily.
"Makes for an excellent party trick ;)"
I just remembered: I'm not going to be able to make it to that one party you invited me to the other day. I've got a previous um engagement that I just remembered
Unless I'm mistaken, it was recently determined pretty conclusively that docx files (presumably those generated by Office 12?) do not implement the OOXML spec.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/21/1821251&from=rss
"If people paid a subscription fee to use the operating system that was continually updated and improved the whole model would work a lot better."
Yes but wouldn't some of the more clever among them begin to realize that there are ways to get a continually-improving/updated operating system without the whole "paying money" part?
With nonfree software, the old versions have to be made unusable/obsolete/nonsupported. The nonfree model relies on perfectly-good-software needing to be bought -- *not on new and better software being developed.
My overarching point is really about the defense that the RIAA usually puts up in an effort to remain relevant/necessary:
"We sort through the dreck and find the good talent and promote it all to hell, and that's expensive. We can reasonably expect compensation"
That may have been true once, and still isn't totally false. But IMO the quality of top 40 music is not drastically better than, say, jamendo.com's offerings. So this "filtering" function of the current middlemen is the end, and their A&R departments are the means that have been obsolecized by the net.
Yes; I went over to Best Buy the other day to get a meatspace look at an eee. I had no intention of leaving with one, of course. But I made sure to let the (unusually knowledgeable this time) personnel know that the XP edition was useless to me.
This doesn't mean they'll run off and hold a shareholder's meeting about it, but next time one of them is in a meeting and hears "No one wants the Lx version" they'll know better.
Baby steps.
"don't think that you can equate music/games/movies with buggy whips. People WANT music/games/movies whereas buggy whips and steam engineers are simply not NEEDED anymore"
Wrong. Nobody ever wanted a buggy whip. It was a means to an end (viz., transport). When other means achieved the same end in a *drastically more efficient manner, they were adopted.
Since it's very easy to make mediocre pop music and distribute it for free, the old ways of producing that will be competed out of existence.
no, no no no NO! Copyright infringement is theft! mommy said so !! na ana ana ana an aI can't hear you NANA ANA ANA !!!
I don't get it
..
âoeItâ(TM)s important for parents and kids to focus on nothing more than having the best possible time.â
What? Seriously, am I paranoid or does this sound so outrageously stupid that it's concealing a darker purpose?
I can't figure out -- even in this insane world -- what that purpose might be, but
sigh. logic nazis ruining a perfectly good joke...
Obviously, I had the usual wires (cat5) connecting my eyeballs to the pages. I just meant that I wasn't connected to the WAN
"Did you carry an entire encyclopaedia with you to the coffee shop?"
I did not need to. I was only going to be there for 11 and a half hours, so i just needed 2 books.
I don't even have an iRex whatchamacalit, and just today i was reading a book at a coffee shop without being connected to the internet at all!
Wine is a gaming environment and for legacy software, I would not recommend it for anything else.
FYP
omg Red Blood is still open??!!
heh.
you haven't been to deep ellum recently, have you?
I'm pretty sure these over-the-top moves by MS are calculated to fail. No one in her right mind thinks people will actually *stand for youtube being filtered.
The game is: filter it, then when you bring it back you can stump about how willing you are to interoperate and play ball. What was formerly understood as basic Net behavior now seems like a nice gift that MS gave you.