"it's important to realize here that the government isn't mandating OpenOffice usage, just ODF file formats"
It's hard to realize that when the coverage outright lies about that being the case.
TFA: "It could also mean that many state workers may see familiar Microsoft products such as Word and Excel replaced with lesser-known competitors on their work computers."
The term might not be used as often, but the concept is alive and well
"the new chips will 'block unauthorized access to the frame buffer.'...
There is a short list of parties who will be unauthorized to access your frame buffer: You. There is a long list of parties who are authorized to access your frame buffer, and that list includes Microsoft, Apple, AMD, Intel, ATI, NVidia, Sony Pictures, Paramount, HBO, CBS, Macrovision, and all other content owners and enablers that want your machine to themselves whenever youâ(TM)re watching, listening to, reading, or shooting monsters with their products. "
MS said "any list of websites to be used for benchmarking must contain a variety of websites, including international websites, to help ensure a complete picture of performance as users would experience on the Internet."
I wonder: did their test machine also include all the DRM, WGA, etc. that is bundled with Win/IE platform?
Windows does to the idea of computing approximately what the abolition of indepently-owned cars would do to the idea of transportation.
You could very likely get to the top 60-70% of places that people tend to go very easily. You could go to the closest 98-screen multiplex and see a movie. You could be walking through the door of walmart inside of 10 minutes.
But farmer's markets? Going directly to your friend's house? Not a chance.
I'm sure these DRM measures will put an end to "piracy" this time. 20 years later, I guess all we needed was degraded soundcard input to shut those a55holes down!
.. your creation of a maxi-cowbell version of a hit single constitutes the creation of a "derivative work" and the right to create such a work is granted exclusively to the copyright holder.
Circumventing a protection measure in order to exercise rights granted exclusively to the copyright holder is a violation of the DMCA.
In most courts, esp. in East Texas, it would take around 4 minutes to find you guilty.
I'm in IT and get along swimmingly with the 1.6GHz and 1GB RAM in my 3-year-old Inpsiron. Of course, it has Fedora... so I'm actually using its power for work...
Also last week I put Ubuntu on a friend's 2yo laptop and he couldn't stop talking about how much more responsive it was than the XP that used to be on it.
Talk about making lemonade. W7 provides the following warm fuzzy feeling to MS users:
"Gosh, I'm smart for skipping Vista!"
If W7 isn't basically the same as Vista, I'll be shocked. Remember folks, it took about 6 years for them to build Aero. How much new functionality do you think they completed in the 2 years since?
"what value does a browser add to your application"
3) (should be #1 though) Interoperability.
Yes, browsers treat fancy stuff differently, but if you're doing forms and tables (the heart of 80% of the webapps I've built/seen), you will spend exactly *zero time repackaging your stuff for various platforms.
Java promised to take this off our hands, but 15 years later not much progress.
I kinda like this, but there are important respects in which your analogy is flawed:
Courteous buffet behavior is implied in the "sale" of the meal to you and everyone else. Congestion at cafeterias is such an edge case that it usually goes without saying that you aren't buying "all you can eat" on these odd terms.
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".. and let the PRS rot in hell in total irrelevance. "
Alternatively, she could
Let the PRS build on this victory to extend their overreaching even more.
"I'm sorry, you can't play your radio here at your campsite. As you can see, there are hundreds of ants and spiders listening."
When I put this complaint forward about outsourcing/sweatshopping/etc., I generally get "Well, it's better than starving to death."
Maybe starving is worst, and sweatshops are bad. Microfinance is good, though. So don't make it a sweatshop-vs-starving argument.
See mpowr.org, and kiva.org if you want people around the world to do better than "not-starve"
While they're in there, maybe they should check for ibuprofen and save our school administrators some trouble?
The RIAA, as per that other article, isn't disclosing which ISPs it has in its pocket.
Oh, and furthermore it'll be all of 'em any day now anyway, won't it? Little ISPs that don't play ball will be broken like champagne flutes.
Thank god there are thousands of artists making music every single day and sharing it under acceptable terms. Cf. jamendo, magnatune, etc.
"it's important to realize here that the government isn't mandating OpenOffice usage, just ODF file formats"
It's hard to realize that when the coverage outright lies about that being the case.
TFA: "It could also mean that many state workers may see familiar Microsoft products such as Word and Excel replaced with lesser-known competitors on their work computers."
The term might not be used as often, but the concept is alive and well
"the new chips will 'block unauthorized access to the frame buffer.' ...
There is a short list of parties who will be unauthorized to access your frame buffer: You. There is a long list of parties who are authorized to access your frame buffer, and that list includes Microsoft, Apple, AMD, Intel, ATI, NVidia, Sony Pictures, Paramount, HBO, CBS, Macrovision, and all other content owners and enablers that want your machine to themselves whenever youâ(TM)re watching, listening to, reading, or shooting monsters with their products. "
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurve_1.html
MS said "any list of websites to be used for benchmarking must contain a variety of websites, including international websites, to help ensure a complete picture of performance as users would experience on the Internet."
I wonder: did their test machine also include all the DRM, WGA, etc. that is bundled with Win/IE platform?
"FFS, what does it take to make someone happy these days?"
Maybe if it were easier to find?
Mini 9 Series Page:
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
No mention of MS-free systems.
We don't use the expression "wonders aloud". We say "wonders AFK". Except that in this case Koman was wondering at-K.
Windows does to the idea of computing approximately what the abolition of indepently-owned cars would do to the idea of transportation.
You could very likely get to the top 60-70% of places that people tend to go very easily. You could go to the closest 98-screen multiplex and see a movie. You could be walking through the door of walmart inside of 10 minutes.
But farmer's markets? Going directly to your friend's house? Not a chance.
I'm sure these DRM measures will put an end to "piracy" this time. 20 years later, I guess all we needed was degraded soundcard input to shut those a55holes down!
"there was no concept of copyright until it became easy to copy works on a large scale"
Sounds good until you check dates: (info from wikipedia)
(Copyright)
"The concept of copyright originates with the Statute of Anne (1710) in Britain"
(Printing Press)
"The mechanical systems involved were probably first assembled in Germany by the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg around 1439
hm...
.. your creation of a maxi-cowbell version of a hit single constitutes the creation of a "derivative work" and the right to create such a work is granted exclusively to the copyright holder.
Circumventing a protection measure in order to exercise rights granted exclusively to the copyright holder is a violation of the DMCA.
In most courts, esp. in East Texas, it would take around 4 minutes to find you guilty.
I'm in IT and get along swimmingly with the 1.6GHz and 1GB RAM in my 3-year-old Inpsiron. Of course, it has Fedora ... so I'm actually using its power for work ...
Also last week I put Ubuntu on a friend's 2yo laptop and he couldn't stop talking about how much more responsive it was than the XP that used to be on it.
> 1. Meme Very Tired. No Longer Wired.
Same century as East Germany. no Wireless. Lame.
So many better (but still dumb) jokes were available...
"Now there's some confirmation, and details of how the plan might be put into practice"
Plans put *you into practice!
"One concrete idea they talked about.. ."
Concrete ideas talk about *you!
and so on
"Remember WMA DRM = Doesn't work on iPods."
lol, everyone uses Zunes, who cares about iPod. Also everyone uses Internet Explorer. And Windows.
I wish this story would get some mainstream ink; it would hopefully give the free-as-in-X discussion a little more mindshare.
No, seriously, that's the actual word I heard in reportage summarizing what "critics" of this action think.
If you can make only $500,000/yr and have 3 kids, the two youngest are going to have to share a portion of Beluga caviar.
It's like living in a convent!
Talk about making lemonade. W7 provides the following warm fuzzy feeling to MS users:
"Gosh, I'm smart for skipping Vista!"
If W7 isn't basically the same as Vista, I'll be shocked. Remember folks, it took about 6 years for them to build Aero. How much new functionality do you think they completed in the 2 years since?
"what value does a browser add to your application"
3) (should be #1 though) Interoperability.
Yes, browsers treat fancy stuff differently, but if you're doing forms and tables (the heart of 80% of the webapps I've built/seen), you will spend exactly *zero time repackaging your stuff for various platforms.
Java promised to take this off our hands, but 15 years later not much progress.
I kinda like this, but there are important respects in which your analogy is flawed:
Courteous buffet behavior is implied in the "sale" of the meal to you and everyone else. Congestion at cafeterias is such an edge case that it usually goes without saying that you aren't buying "all you can eat" on these odd terms.
"Slumdog Billionaire"
Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Bill Gates
"This isn't art, this is business"
Many of us think that is a bad thing. Which is the point, here.