...only old people use email.
Looks like the US has caught up with Korea.
I thought the "in Korea..." thing made a good internet meme. It didn't really catch on that well though.
Part of Microsoft's success is the fact that Windows is everywhere, it provides a foundation for everything else to run on the majority of desktops, and if you want to use popular desktop programs, more often than not it's going to be Windows-only, and thus whether you like Windows or not you have to use it. Windows was in your face, all the time, and it can't be discarded (dual-booting is an option but it's actually rather inconvenient, especially if you want to run two things that require two different OSs at the same time).
Cheap, efficient virtualisation totally throws most of the downsides of multiple OS booting out the window (no pun intended). Suddenly you could run Linux or OS X as your desktop and totally ignore Windows until you need to run a Windows program. Windows thus goes from the Master Control Program of your computer to just some shared library that a program loads in order to run. This represents a loss of control over the user, and the one thing Microsoft fears the most is the loss of power, regardless of how small the loss is.
Microsoft loves your money, but it loves your obedience even more. Being able to discard Windows from your sight when you don't require it means you're not being a good little Windows user. Therefore, you deserve to be punished, hence the licensing restrictions.
What of us who use Linux and don't have our OS implement any DRM against the will of the user whatsoever? What's preventing us from doing whatever we like even with "protected" media files (once the system is cracked)?
...if he and his mother had been protected by a cyborg deer from the future. Picture the robot deer riding down on a motorbike, grabbing Bambi before he's killed by a poacher, and he takes out one big, badass gun and blows the poacher's head off.
She was so bored by Star Wars that it was comical to watch her reactions. To her, the movie was about a guy in a bad ape suit and blue-screened model airplanes.
Are you sure it wasn't King Kong you watched by mistake?
In Malaysia, the ipod isn't terribly popular. Sure some folks have them, but it's rare. A lot of people do own an mp3 player, but it's usually of varied brands. The reason is that ipods are just too expensive for the average youth to own, and there is no iTunes service to download music from over in this part of the world.
...so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from character to character, putting right what once went wrong, and hoping that his next leap, will be the leap to his home guild.
Oh but think about it, if Etch gets released before Vista, Debian (the distro infamous for glacially slow release cycles) will have released three times between the last 2 versions of desktop Windows.
So to all the "Linux sucks on the desktop, Windows pwns all" naysayers, even the slowest-releasing distro is improving at a rate faster than Windows. Say what you like about desktop Linux now, but it's one hell of a fast moving target, and it's only getting better.
Especially when Ubuntu was released, everyone thought Debian was "dead" or "irrelevant", despite Ubuntu being based off Debian.
However, Debian's release cycle is picking up the pace, as Etch is set to be released soon (a quicker release cycle than Sarge's). Things are looking good as far as a mere user like me is concerned. There are a lot of hardworking people working on Debian, and the politicking is nothing new.
By a developer making his libraries "free" only under the GPL (and not a more free license like the MIT/BSD or even LGPL), then he's forcing anyone that wants to use this shiny tool to also make their software free under the same restrictions. That is why the GPL is "viral" -- not because it "infects" any software that it is stored next to -- but rather because GPL code is useless unless you're working on other GPL'd code.
I hate to tell you this unhappy truth, but the way the world works is that you can't distribute the copyrighted works of others without their consent. If that consent comes by the terms of the GPL, you just have to honour it. The GPL does not preclude you from obtaining their consent for redistribution under another license by explicitly contacting them, nor does it force you to somehow lose your copyright and licensing rights on your own code. Even when you violate the GPL by distributing a derivitive work under a proprietary license, you *STILL OWN THE COPYRIGHT* on the portions of code you wrote. What you *can't* do distribute the portion of code which *DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU* under the terms of another license. Sure, you are "forced" to follow copyright law in this respect, but is it really as unreasonable as you're tring to make it sound? After all, nobody is forcing you to use the GPLed code in the first place.
Perhaps then the demographics will represent the hip, happening and geeky crowd as well as whatever boring old fogies Nielson represents. I hate it when my favourite shows are cancelled because "ratings were down".
Then again I'm not 'Merican, so I have no idea why good shows get cancelled *cough*Firefly*cough*. I just know that they do, and the dumb ones remain (latest reality show, WHO WANTS TO MARRY A MIDGET MILLIONAIRE APPRENTICE?)
...the HPC community of scientists and engineers continue to not care.
The same folks who operate nuclear accelerators probably don't have that much of a problem operating computers that they need Clippy and pretty colours to help them out "in case they get confused".
Way back in the day... of Windows 95/98/Me, when you had to reboot your box at least once a day/week, when it would lockup for no reason...remember back then when Windows was an unreliable and undependable POS (note to MS apologists : yes, I know Windows doesn't crash that much nowadays etc., but do remember those ancient times when it did).
You know why that was? That's right. It's because Windows was open source back then. It had to be. Because there's NO WAY it could be otherwise if they used a "commercial software model".
I thought Linux wasn't going to go for GPL3, so how exactly would that sharing work?
I suspect that's the reason for the sudden change of heart. They know Linux won't be able to get any Solaris tech due to Linux being stuck at GPL2, and get to score brownie points with GPL-lovers.
That's neat! Now if we could hook up two of these babies together, and perhaps add solar panels for additional power, we'd get space craft with twin ion engines. Hrm. Twin ion engines... where have I seen that before?
So the parade of new apps for Firefox continues. And how long before there are so many "killer" apps available, that Firefox begins to suffer IE bloat? I'm not a P2P fan, so this doesn't appeal to me at all, but it will to a great many people. And so will the next big thing, and the next, ad infinitum, until the complaints begin that Firefox is crawling and unmanageable. If this is such an important functionality, build it right in and make sure its optimized.
Uhm, you do realise you don't need to install it, right? This is optional, non-mandatory stuff. You choose to use it if it appeals to you.
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...only old people use email. Looks like the US has caught up with Korea. I thought the "in Korea..." thing made a good internet meme. It didn't really catch on that well though.
Part of Microsoft's success is the fact that Windows is everywhere, it provides a foundation for everything else to run on the majority of desktops, and if you want to use popular desktop programs, more often than not it's going to be Windows-only, and thus whether you like Windows or not you have to use it. Windows was in your face, all the time, and it can't be discarded (dual-booting is an option but it's actually rather inconvenient, especially if you want to run two things that require two different OSs at the same time).
Cheap, efficient virtualisation totally throws most of the downsides of multiple OS booting out the window (no pun intended). Suddenly you could run Linux or OS X as your desktop and totally ignore Windows until you need to run a Windows program. Windows thus goes from the Master Control Program of your computer to just some shared library that a program loads in order to run. This represents a loss of control over the user, and the one thing Microsoft fears the most is the loss of power, regardless of how small the loss is.
Microsoft loves your money, but it loves your obedience even more. Being able to discard Windows from your sight when you don't require it means you're not being a good little Windows user. Therefore, you deserve to be punished, hence the licensing restrictions.
I'd buy it. I use OS X, and Photoshop would make a nice addition.
For OS X is good, for Linux even better. But either way, just reduce the price and I'm sure they'd get more users.
What of us who use Linux and don't have our OS implement any DRM against the will of the user whatsoever? What's preventing us from doing whatever we like even with "protected" media files (once the system is cracked)?
...if he and his mother had been protected by a cyborg deer from the future. Picture the robot deer riding down on a motorbike, grabbing Bambi before he's killed by a poacher, and he takes out one big, badass gun and blows the poacher's head off.
"Hasta la vista, POACHER!"
_That_ would have been a movie.
Don't you mean a map of the interblag? Oh and first post :)
...just with no quality loss. Perhaps the question is "Does portable music have to be lossy?"
Is it Smallville, Kansas? Because, uh, if it is, that's no ordinary meteorite...
In Malaysia, the ipod isn't terribly popular. Sure some folks have them, but it's rare. A lot of people do own an mp3 player, but it's usually of varied brands. The reason is that ipods are just too expensive for the average youth to own, and there is no iTunes service to download music from over in this part of the world.
...so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from character to character, putting right what once went wrong, and hoping that his next leap, will be the leap to his home guild.
A better understanding the universe is of use to humanity.
Oh but think about it, if Etch gets released before Vista, Debian (the distro infamous for glacially slow release cycles) will have released three times between the last 2 versions of desktop Windows.
So to all the "Linux sucks on the desktop, Windows pwns all" naysayers, even the slowest-releasing distro is improving at a rate faster than Windows. Say what you like about desktop Linux now, but it's one hell of a fast moving target, and it's only getting better.
Especially when Ubuntu was released, everyone thought Debian was "dead" or "irrelevant", despite Ubuntu being based off Debian.
However, Debian's release cycle is picking up the pace, as Etch is set to be released soon (a quicker release cycle than Sarge's). Things are looking good as far as a mere user like me is concerned. There are a lot of hardworking people working on Debian, and the politicking is nothing new.
Perhaps then the demographics will represent the hip, happening and geeky crowd as well as whatever boring old fogies Nielson represents. I hate it when my favourite shows are cancelled because "ratings were down".
Then again I'm not 'Merican, so I have no idea why good shows get cancelled *cough*Firefly*cough*. I just know that they do, and the dumb ones remain (latest reality show, WHO WANTS TO MARRY A MIDGET MILLIONAIRE APPRENTICE?)
...the HPC community of scientists and engineers continue to not care.
The same folks who operate nuclear accelerators probably don't have that much of a problem operating computers that they need Clippy and pretty colours to help them out "in case they get confused".
Way back in the day... of Windows 95/98/Me, when you had to reboot your box at least once a day/week, when it would lockup for no reason...remember back then when Windows was an unreliable and undependable POS (note to MS apologists : yes, I know Windows doesn't crash that much nowadays etc., but do remember those ancient times when it did).
You know why that was? That's right. It's because Windows was open source back then. It had to be. Because there's NO WAY it could be otherwise if they used a "commercial software model".
After all I don't see the little Google doodle commemorating it, therefore it never happened.
- A Message From The President Of Google Groupies
That's neat! Now if we could hook up two of these babies together, and perhaps add solar panels for additional power, we'd get space craft with twin ion engines. Hrm. Twin ion engines... where have I seen that before?
So the parade of new apps for Firefox continues. And how long before there are so many "killer" apps available, that Firefox begins to suffer IE bloat? I'm not a P2P fan, so this doesn't appeal to me at all, but it will to a great many people. And so will the next big thing, and the next, ad infinitum, until the complaints begin that Firefox is crawling and unmanageable. If this is such an important functionality, build it right in and make sure its optimized.
Uhm, you do realise you don't need to install it, right? This is optional, non-mandatory stuff. You choose to use it if it appeals to you.
So you can cook both of your balls at once.