Hm, it's the market leader and it blows off the standards and actually occasionally undermines them actively.
I have some options as to how to deal with that. 1) Throw up my hands and say "dang, I just gotta play ball". This, by the way, requires a good deal of extra expense as I develop the code forks etc. that allow my site to play ball. 2) Save myself that extra headache and use the (considerable) leverage my traffic affords me to see if others will start to notice this problem.
Don't go into marketing, Taco. Stay in the tech field.
It sucks, because in fact I've been there too. I've done the epic 6-hour ndiswrapper install, and numerous other problematic things, and remember them vividly
Too vividly. In the heat of battle I forget that I've probably installed and least 50 pieces of software on each of the 10 or so flavors of Linux I've tried. Making about 500 packages, of which maybe 20 (4%) have required more than the 1 minute to run the system package manager's install command, or the configure/make/make install from source.
I just think it averages out to a fairly-even proposition versus alternatives you have to pay for.
Meh. I never was too impressed with the "installing applications is too hard" gripe.
Okay, so it takes you 20-30 minutes to install an app (a generous estimate, yum and yast and friends bring the average closer to 10 -- that's an average that includes the troublesome packages). How much is your time worth? How much would a commercial version of that package (or those 25 packages) cost?
As an added bonus, pretend you're installing that package for 2 other family members. Or 15 coworkers. You've just saved 2 or 15 times as much $ as in the previous case.
I heard on NPR that the current (soon to be former) laws restricting this stuff allow warrantless wiretapping. Feds just have to go back later and get a retro-active warrant. Sigh...
I remember senator Cornyn (R-TX) posturing about this: "It strikes me as odd to say that Congress authorized the commander in chief to capture, to detain, to kill, if necessary, al Qaeda, but we can't listen to their phone calls," http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/06/nsa.gonzale s/index.html
Well, senator, if it strikes you as odd let me explain to you:
You can listen to Al Qaeda's phone calls
You can listen to phone calls of persons linked to Al Qaeda
You can listen to phone calls of persons suspected of being linked to Al Qaeda
You can listen to phone calls of Americans citizens talking with someone suspected of being linked to Al Qaeda
You can do this without a warrant
Hey, but if you don't mind could you go to the bench at some point and tell 'em why you're listening and get a warrant so you can keep listening?
If this strikes you as an indefensible restriction of executive power, then you're very likely the sort of power-hungry guy we're afraid of. Which is particularly odd, since you're not in the executive branch.
Unless you're Catholic (like me), in which case your interpretation isn't considered absolute. Doing stuff the way some of these fundamentalists do it is one definition of 'heresy'.
'Course if The Church's interpretation is always absolute, we come full circle to Romanofascism?
On a side note, that "turn the other cheek thing" doesn't mean what people think it means. "by turning the other cheek the persecuted was in effect demanding equality {or perhaps being defiant to the alledged authority much like a defiant child might involk further wrath}" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_other_cheek
Parent is dead on in so many ways. Programming is all process (teh P in CPU). Our societal demand for convenience and instant gratification has many victims, but one of the saddest is the general level of intuitiveness among kids & teenagers. Accomplishing something requires steps (an algorithm, if you will). If you generally have accomplished everything by pushing a single button, your ability to analyze a problem -- viz., break it down into steps -- languishes.
Later in life (in the unlikely event you actually get a job coding) you become one of those guys that just throws hardware and buzzwords at everything
The most intellectually & culturally productive time in human history was called the Renaissance, and it predated patent & copyright by a couple of centuries.
If I understand sustainability targets correctly, the total environmental payback period for chips is supposed to include compensating for the power/etc. used in manufacture, not just in operation. This is a great step, though; let's hope more industries take it and start looking at the next one.
Later in the thread they refer to a "fast dumping" feature which does not use real-time capture. Not sure how that works; in any case the fast dumping doesn't work w/iTunes 7 yet,
When third-party vendors start adding essential features like this, and on a timely basis, I start thinking about subscribing/installing/whatever you have to do to iTunes
I'm not seeing this as a saw-the-light moment w/r/t "intellectual property". I see it as a fairly simple maneuver to make sure that no one hesitates to implement XML the way Office 13 does.
I don't think the problem is that a bunch of corp.s have "Do a bunch of evil" as their motto. It almost always boils down to decisions between 1) a short-term profitable "play" that can add profit to the book; or 2) a long-term business growth strategy that isn't flashy and doesn't pump up the share price, but generates solid values for the customers. Enron and friends choose 1, over and over again. There are still plenty of corps that choose 2).
TFA describes a few sets of assumptions, and some of them result in windows being driven from the marketplace. I'm not an economist, but some notes...
"in the absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its leadership position." Obviously the first-mover advantage obtains, but -- the "absence of cost asymmetries" caught my attention.
"natural question is then whether the central result that Windows survives in the long-run equilibrium regardless of the speed of Linux's demand-side learning persists if there are cost asymmetries. We find that because OSS implies lower profits for Microsoft, the larger the cost differences are between Linux and Windows, the less able Microsoft is to guarantee the survival of Windows" (My emphasis)
Please read TFA. It's not FUD.
"the presence of strategic buyers" (mentioned by parent) "together with Linux's sufficiently strong demand-side learning results in Windows being driven out of the market." "Strategic buyers" here means simply buyers for whom access to the source code is a critical good -- buyers who do not view software only as a means-to-an-end (performing business functions) but also as intrinsically valuable because of its characteristics Govts., in particular, need source code in order to do meaningful security auditing. Even if the software doesn't "perform" as well, overriding concerns drive them to it.
"the authors believe, neither side is likely to be forced from the battlefield--Microsoft has too much market share and OSS offers too many benefits for users"
I find this hilarious. In the blue corner: Linux, which offers a bunch of advantages to users. In the red corner: Microsoft, which offers "we tricked you hahah you're stuck with us ((__HEADSHOT__)) lol!"
"Because Tivo uses and respects GPL software, it offers the software to you in source form along with all the modifications it makes in the true spirit of the GPL. You are free to do with the software as you wish"
This may surprise you, but what most of us wish is to study/tinker with/improve/customize the source code. Not -- for example -- to set it to music and record a hit single
So the comment about the spirit of the GPL really addresses the fact that TiVO makes it impossible to do what everyone who wants the source code wants to do. The tradeoff is supposed to be:
-TiVO gets a boatload of free software and utilities to make their hardware work, saving prolly millions in development costs
-In exchange, TiVO is supposed to pass on their changes for others to expand upon.
-If they pass on their changes and make it so that others have to manufacture their own specialized hardware in order to study/customize/etc the source code, they violate the spirit of the GPL quite clearly.
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Hasn't been mentioned yet. You tell it about big-label artists you like, and it points you to non-RIAA artists that are similar.
http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/
It's not rocket science but it's extra work. Why do extra work to accommodate something (non-standard rendering) that hurts the web?
CSS is "trendy UI-centric crap"? Whatever. CSS is the solution to 80% of the presentation-layer headaches I've ever experienced
Hm, it's the market leader and it blows off the standards and actually occasionally undermines them actively.
I have some options as to how to deal with that. 1) Throw up my hands and say "dang, I just gotta play ball". This, by the way, requires a good deal of extra expense as I develop the code forks etc. that allow my site to play ball. 2) Save myself that extra headache and use the (considerable) leverage my traffic affords me to see if others will start to notice this problem.
Don't go into marketing, Taco. Stay in the tech field.
It's not "hypocritical" to shoot for standards-compliant markup, and neglect quirky pieces of software that ignore the standards.
Stupid beta software...
It sucks, because in fact I've been there too. I've done the epic 6-hour ndiswrapper install, and numerous other problematic things, and remember them vividly
Too vividly. In the heat of battle I forget that I've probably installed and least 50 pieces of software on each of the 10 or so flavors of Linux I've tried. Making about 500 packages, of which maybe 20 (4%) have required more than the 1 minute to run the system package manager's install command, or the configure/make/make install from source.
I just think it averages out to a fairly-even proposition versus alternatives you have to pay for.
Meh. I never was too impressed with the "installing applications is too hard" gripe.
Okay, so it takes you 20-30 minutes to install an app (a generous estimate, yum and yast and friends bring the average closer to 10 -- that's an average that includes the troublesome packages). How much is your time worth? How much would a commercial version of that package (or those 25 packages) cost?
As an added bonus, pretend you're installing that package for 2 other family members. Or 15 coworkers. You've just saved 2 or 15 times as much $ as in the previous case.
I heard on NPR that the current (soon to be former) laws restricting this stuff allow warrantless wiretapping. Feds just have to go back later and get a retro-active warrant. Sigh...
I remember senator Cornyn (R-TX) posturing about this: "It strikes me as odd to say that Congress authorized the commander in chief to capture, to detain, to kill, if necessary, al Qaeda, but we can't listen to their phone calls," http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/06/nsa.gonzale s/index.html
Well, senator, if it strikes you as odd let me explain to you:
If this strikes you as an indefensible restriction of executive power, then you're very likely the sort of power-hungry guy we're afraid of. Which is particularly odd, since you're not in the executive branch.
Unless you're Catholic (like me), in which case your interpretation isn't considered absolute. Doing stuff the way some of these fundamentalists do it is one definition of 'heresy'.
'Course if The Church's interpretation is always absolute, we come full circle to Romanofascism?
On a side note, that "turn the other cheek thing" doesn't mean what people think it means. "by turning the other cheek the persecuted was in effect demanding equality {or perhaps being defiant to the alledged authority much like a defiant child might involk further wrath}" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_other_cheek
Parent is dead on in so many ways. Programming is all process (teh P in CPU). Our societal demand for convenience and instant gratification has many victims, but one of the saddest is the general level of intuitiveness among kids & teenagers. Accomplishing something requires steps (an algorithm, if you will). If you generally have accomplished everything by pushing a single button, your ability to analyze a problem -- viz., break it down into steps -- languishes.
Later in life (in the unlikely event you actually get a job coding) you become one of those guys that just throws hardware and buzzwords at everything
a person suspected ... of having ties to terrorists
FYP
"Are all your planets called Eris?"
There's nothing so odd about that; Kemil Attaturk had an entire Solar System called Abdan.
The most intellectually & culturally productive time in human history was called the Renaissance, and it predated patent & copyright by a couple of centuries.
If I understand sustainability targets correctly, the total environmental payback period for chips is supposed to include compensating for the power/etc. used in manufacture, not just in operation. This is a great step, though; let's hope more industries take it and start looking at the next one.
Later in the thread they refer to a "fast dumping" feature which does not use real-time capture. Not sure how that works; in any case the fast dumping doesn't work w/iTunes 7 yet,
impediment in the way of our pursuit of doing-whatever-the-hell-we-want-with-the-music-we- purchase
FYP
When third-party vendors start adding essential features like this, and on a timely basis, I start thinking about subscribing/installing/whatever you have to do to iTunes
I'm not seeing this as a saw-the-light moment w/r/t "intellectual property". I see it as a fairly simple maneuver to make sure that no one hesitates to implement XML the way Office 13 does.
I don't think the problem is that a bunch of corp.s have "Do a bunch of evil" as their motto. It almost always boils down to decisions between 1) a short-term profitable "play" that can add profit to the book; or 2) a long-term business growth strategy that isn't flashy and doesn't pump up the share price, but generates solid values for the customers. Enron and friends choose 1, over and over again. There are still plenty of corps that choose 2).
TFA describes a few sets of assumptions, and some of them result in windows being driven from the marketplace. I'm not an economist, but some notes...
"in the absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its leadership position." Obviously the first-mover advantage obtains, but -- the "absence of cost asymmetries" caught my attention.
"natural question is then whether the central result that Windows survives in the long-run equilibrium regardless of the speed of Linux's demand-side learning persists if there are cost asymmetries. We find that because OSS implies lower profits for Microsoft, the larger the cost differences are between Linux and Windows, the less able Microsoft is to guarantee the survival of Windows" (My emphasis)
Please read TFA. It's not FUD.
"the presence of strategic buyers" (mentioned by parent) "together with Linux's sufficiently strong demand-side learning results in Windows being driven out of the market." "Strategic buyers" here means simply buyers for whom access to the source code is a critical good -- buyers who do not view software only as a means-to-an-end (performing business functions) but also as intrinsically valuable because of its characteristics Govts., in particular, need source code in order to do meaningful security auditing. Even if the software doesn't "perform" as well, overriding concerns drive them to it.
"the authors believe, neither side is likely to be forced from the battlefield--Microsoft has too much market share and OSS offers too many benefits for users"
I find this hilarious. In the blue corner: Linux, which offers a bunch of advantages to users. In the red corner: Microsoft, which offers "we tricked you hahah you're stuck with us ((__HEADSHOT__)) lol!"
"Because Tivo uses and respects GPL software, it offers the software to you in source form along with all the modifications it makes in the true spirit of the GPL. You are free to do with the software as you wish"
This may surprise you, but what most of us wish is to study/tinker with/improve/customize the source code. Not -- for example -- to set it to music and record a hit single
So the comment about the spirit of the GPL really addresses the fact that TiVO makes it impossible to do what everyone who wants the source code wants to do. The tradeoff is supposed to be:
-TiVO gets a boatload of free software and utilities to make their hardware work, saving prolly millions in development costs
-In exchange, TiVO is supposed to pass on their changes for others to expand upon.
-If they pass on their changes and make it so that others have to manufacture their own specialized hardware in order to study/customize/etc the source code, they violate the spirit of the GPL quite clearly.
.yetag old
How the hell did you do this without using the word "solutions"? Me, I'm waiting for biz types to start saying "solutionize".