I mute out all commercials and take the opportunity to chat with my wife, kids or whoever else is hanging with me. I still await the day when my right to do this is somehow deleted from the, um, home theater experience.
...than cost-cutting is, in my opinion, cost retaining. Even if it costs were the same overall, F/OSS would be attractive to municipalities because they could find a local company(ies) to customize an operating system based on their chosen distro of Linux.
Having your Software budget go off to America is kinda like if your entire police force were foreigners, and took their salaries home to spend them.
And I agree with GP that home users would think Macintosh system 6 was the best operating system in the world if it were pre-installed on their machines.
I seriously am not a software developer; at least not of big things like browsers. I was, in fact, talking out of my ass a bit. But it seems that if the fox, konqueror, and i think opera can all pass the acid2 test or come damn near it with the comparative paucity of resources they have, Microsoft could do an at-least passable job if it were so inclined.
Lessig told a story in one of his books -- I think it was the Future of Ideas -- about one of the early videocassette models. It had a lock so you had to pay again each time you wanted to watch the tape.
Studio guys apparently said this was unacceptable, because there was no way to know how many people were watching the tape each time. They wanted a mechanism that could charge each individual present for each viewing.
They still want this. And with all this exciting technology, they might yet get it.
"if MS waited to ship IE7 until it was 100% compliant, we'd probably be waiting until the next decade."
This is wrong and its wrongness is one of the reasons so many web developers (e.g. me) are pissed. If MS made standards compliance a priority (the way they make DRM a priority) it would be complete and implemented in a couple months. Sorry, but it would be.
People who tell you MS is doing all they can do to support the standards are lying. Always. This includes the guy interviewed, who says they had to prioritize stuff. Their priority was getting something out around the time that Fox 2 was released, in order to stop the erosion of their market share. This overarching priority prevented them from completing the task of making their browser (at all) compliant with standards.
"The temptation to get "just one more feature in" is so strong... one more CSS fix..."
Let's congratulate MS on resisting this overpowering desire so successfully for so long.
"He's written a good thing in that manuscript," Verhovensky went on. "He suggests a system of spying. Every member of the society spies on the others, and it's his duty to inform against them. Every one belongs to all and all to every one. All are slaves and equal in their slavery. In extreme cases he advocates slander and murder, but the great thing about it is equality. To begin with, the level of education, science, and talents is lowered. A high level of education and science is only possible for great intellects, and they are not wanted. The great intellects have always seized the power and been despots. Great intellects cannot help being despots and they've always done more harm than good. They will be banished or put to death. Cicero will have his tongue cut out, Copernicus will have his eyes put out, Shakespeare will be stoned--that's Shigalovism. Slaves are bound to be equal. There has never been either freedom or equality without despotism, but in the herd there is bound to be equality, and that's Shigalovism! Ha ha ha! Do you think it strange?
Dang, sorry. I promise it was an accident; having never met your or laid eyes on you or engaged in any transaction whatsoever with you outside of this/. thread, I don't see how I removed any of your freedoms.
hey cliff, how ya doin' I see you still think treating ideas as property is the *only way for people to get paid for their work. you might also note I wasn't modded at all. oh well
i.e. suggest that he's radical (outside the mainstream) because he sticks with his principles. And implying that he's a hypocrity because he encourages freedom but nevertheless has ideas about what people ought to do.
"He seems to think that his way is the only way"
He thinks his way is the right way. You think your way is the right way.
"If a PHB perceives that your job can be done by sombody else so you are either replaced by this somebody or you let yourself being blackmailed into working longer for less etc."
A guy with some insight can write a bit of code that saves five digits' worth of hardware investment, but it means dick if there's a manager around who measures success by how much of the company's money heshe spends.
It's also polite to torrent it so that people trying Ubuntu for the first time will get good speeds. Why not share some unused bandwidth & disk space. I personally run FC5 but will leave this torrent going for a couple days.
xmms-mp3 and things like that make sense to me. But in my experience (on FC5) totem and xine fight like three-year-olds. What does the totem-xine package do?
I thought i'd add -- in case everyone didn't already know, that this phenomenon is pretty much responsible for the "ZOMG decline in sales!!11 Piracy!!!1"
See the decline in sales was due to people finishing their cassette-to-CD upgrade and no longer buying the huge amount of CDs they bought in the mid 90s.
I guess it'd be nice if people finish their CD-to-mp3 "up"grade and the RIAA could stop doing their chicken little act.
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I deserve a funny mod for this. (If you need a memory jog, think "enjoy your death trap, ladies!")
I mute out all commercials and take the opportunity to chat with my wife, kids or whoever else is hanging with me. I still await the day when my right to do this is somehow deleted from the, um, home theater experience.
This is the easiest way to find out of it's cold outside?
...than cost-cutting is, in my opinion, cost retaining. Even if it costs were the same overall, F/OSS would be attractive to municipalities because they could find a local company(ies) to customize an operating system based on their chosen distro of Linux. Having your Software budget go off to America is kinda like if your entire police force were foreigners, and took their salaries home to spend them. And I agree with GP that home users would think Macintosh system 6 was the best operating system in the world if it were pre-installed on their machines.
damn, and markey was the guy who tried to get real net neutrality in the whatchamacalit for us...
I seriously am not a software developer; at least not of big things like browsers. I was, in fact, talking out of my ass a bit. But it seems that if the fox, konqueror, and i think opera can all pass the acid2 test or come damn near it with the comparative paucity of resources they have, Microsoft could do an at-least passable job if it were so inclined.
And the reason is that 90% of the current "pirates" would *not purchase what they're using but switch to a free (as in good) alternative.
Lessig told a story in one of his books -- I think it was the Future of Ideas -- about one of the early videocassette models. It had a lock so you had to pay again each time you wanted to watch the tape. Studio guys apparently said this was unacceptable, because there was no way to know how many people were watching the tape each time. They wanted a mechanism that could charge each individual present for each viewing. They still want this. And with all this exciting technology, they might yet get it.
"if MS waited to ship IE7 until it was 100% compliant, we'd probably be waiting until the next decade."
This is wrong and its wrongness is one of the reasons so many web developers (e.g. me) are pissed. If MS made standards compliance a priority (the way they make DRM a priority) it would be complete and implemented in a couple months. Sorry, but it would be.
People who tell you MS is doing all they can do to support the standards are lying. Always. This includes the guy interviewed, who says they had to prioritize stuff. Their priority was getting something out around the time that Fox 2 was released, in order to stop the erosion of their market share. This overarching priority prevented them from completing the task of making their browser (at all) compliant with standards.
"The temptation to get "just one more feature in" is so strong... one more CSS fix..." Let's congratulate MS on resisting this overpowering desire so successfully for so long.
Let's make this the most literature-heavy thread in the history of /.
"He's written a good thing in that manuscript," Verhovensky went on. "He suggests a system of spying. Every member of the society spies on the others, and it's his duty to inform against them. Every one belongs to all and all to every one. All are slaves and equal in their slavery. In extreme cases he advocates slander and murder, but the great thing about it is equality. To begin with, the level of education, science, and talents is lowered. A high level of education and science is only possible for great intellects, and they are not wanted. The great intellects have always seized the power and been despots. Great intellects cannot help being despots and they've always done more harm than good. They will be banished or put to death. Cicero will have his tongue cut out, Copernicus will have his eyes put out, Shakespeare will be stoned--that's Shigalovism. Slaves are bound to be equal. There has never been either freedom or equality without despotism, but in the herd there is bound to be equality, and that's Shigalovism! Ha ha ha! Do you think it strange?
y /d72p/chapter13.html
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsk
Dang, sorry. I promise it was an accident; having never met your or laid eyes on you or engaged in any transaction whatsoever with you outside of this /. thread, I don't see how I removed any of your freedoms.
There's no telling what he'll try to do up there
hey cliff, how ya doin'
I see you still think treating ideas as property is the *only way for people to get paid for their work.
you might also note I wasn't modded at all. oh well
i.e. suggest that he's radical (outside the mainstream) because he sticks with his principles. And implying that he's a hypocrity because he encourages freedom but nevertheless has ideas about what people ought to do.
"He seems to think that his way is the only way"
He thinks his way is the right way. You think your way is the right way.
Did you get permission from the person who first said that before you parrotted it?
"If a PHB perceives that your job can be done by sombody else so you are either replaced by this somebody or you let yourself being blackmailed into working longer for less etc."
FYP. Neat story:
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/post/96909.aspx
A guy with some insight can write a bit of code that saves five digits' worth of hardware investment, but it means dick if there's a manager around who measures success by how much of the company's money heshe spends.
It's also polite to torrent it so that people trying Ubuntu for the first time will get good speeds. Why not share some unused bandwidth & disk space. I personally run FC5 but will leave this torrent going for a couple days.
although it's not an example of the long tail but of "Moglen's Metaphorical Corollary to Faraday's Law"e x.html#m1
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/ind
Gotta plug David Wong here. I'm pretty-much not at all a gamer unless you count supertux, but I think Wong is brilliant and a serious journalist.
From the online poker sites' experiment with passively-watching our legislators do their thing.
xmms-mp3 and things like that make sense to me. But in my experience (on FC5) totem and xine fight like three-year-olds. What does the totem-xine package do?
I thought i'd add -- in case everyone didn't already know, that this phenomenon is pretty much responsible for the "ZOMG decline in sales!!11 Piracy!!!1"
See the decline in sales was due to people finishing their cassette-to-CD upgrade and no longer buying the huge amount of CDs they bought in the mid 90s.
I guess it'd be nice if people finish their CD-to-mp3 "up"grade and the RIAA could stop doing their chicken little act.
I'm sick of those rich community theater fatcats running the whole town...
'The old mantra "Everybody gets a part" really means "We want to make as much money as possible."'
I've worked in community theater. The mantra is more like 'we want to have a snowball's chance in hell of not going bankrupt on this production