Post Scriptum: It turned out that Jens Nylander's tip to the BSA (who acted on behalf of Microsoft and Autodesk) wasn't worth much. When the company was raided by the authorities, Nylander's (and thus the BSA's) claims were shown to be heavily exaggerated. BSA originally wanted to sue KontorsCenter (the raided company) for 1.2 MSEK in damages (of which 10% would be Nylander's reward) for missing 91 licences, but BSA had to back down and be happy with 0 SEK in damages and a 50 kSEK out-of-court settlement, while paying for KontorsCenter's lawyers' costs as well as certify that all of KC's software was legit.
Well, at least giving that impression has been one of "Jens of Korea's" marketing angles lately. It worked on you!;)
Jens is probably worried that people will go elsewhere to buy the exact same players he's selling. When sold without the JoS stickers, the players are already much cheaper, "anti-piracy" taxation or not.
Remember that Jens Nylander has a rather adaptive view on copyright and piracy issues. [An article in Swedish daily business magazine Realtid.se on how Jens once ratted out his former employer to the BSA. Jens was angry with the small company (20 employees) because he had been cut off from meeting customers due to his behaviour and some "incidents", he had to return a computer that he had "borrowed" without the company's permission and knowledge, and he knew that the BSA offered rather great rewards for good tips.]
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Yes, you and albalbo are quite right. But the changes are still applied and saved with no way to easily revert them if I make a mistake or if I'm not happy with them. I could for example write down the original typefaces, DPI values, hinting et c. before I go experimenting with fonts, but that sort of defeats one purpose of having a computer... Give me a "Cancel"/"Revert" button, damnit!
Maybe this is done to scare away users from trying to configure things to their own tastes, then the last few remaining configuration possibilities in GNOME can be removed altogether without anyone noticing... Maybe all those options are removed so we won't have to remember so much if we want to undo something, since there's no Cancel button...:P
If there only was a single "Advanced Settings=1" GConf key that we could set somewhere if we don't like the User Hostility of the GNOME2 HIG.
No Gnome dialog box should ever have "yes," "no," and cancel as buttons.
Speaking of buttons... Something I loathe in GNOME are configuration dialogs/apps with only a stupid, menacing "Close" button.
What the hell? That button doesn't just close the window, it saves the settings first, regardless of whether I want to keep any changes I've made, intentionally or not!
When I see "Close", I think "Cancel". I want a "Save" (=save and close), an "Apply" (=test changes, don't save or close) and a "Cancel" (="get me outta here", discard any changes and close) button.
However, all you PPC fans should look to Amiga in the long run. Yes, they're back with a line of G3 and G4 based systems.
No, they aren't.
The dysfunctional hardware that's been sporadically hawked for several years now to a closed off "Amiga market" as so called "AmigaOnes" for $800-900 a piece are relabelled $500 Teron series motherboards from Mai Logic. Only some 700 suckers bit the bait. Also, they are only sold in G3 configs, not G4. It is unclear if Mai Logic are still alive, but what is clear is that they after >3 years of delays still haven't managed to make a successor to their flawed "Compaq PC of ca. 1998"-type ArticiaS northbridge chip.
The Amiga-as-a-computer has been dead for a decade is not planned to be revived, though AmigaOS lived on, but now the latest incarnation of the dotcom company misleadingly known as "Amiga, Inc" are apparently doing their best to kill off AmigaOS 4. This is done by pretending that "Amigas" still exist or are needed, so a pseudo-market for other companies' hardware was invented and cut off from the rest of the world and the OS will only be sold bundled with such 3rd party hardware from dealers who have bought a licence from AInc.
Of course, the only vendor who has managed to acquire such a licence is Eyetech (the company that's currently scamming fanatics with the fatally flawed and severely overpriced "AmigaOnes"), who also provided "consulting" to help the semi-dormant and disinterested AInc invent this scheme.
AmigaOS, as well as "all you PPC fans", would be better off looking 2nd hand Macs which even after 2006 will still be a bazillion orders of magnitude larger, better, healthier and cheaper product and market than what's offered under the label "AmigaOne". The Pegasos2 G4 is nice too, but a bit expensive compared to eg. the Mac Mini. Really, anything is better than an "AmigaOne" or the con artists who are trying to distribute them.
See my sig and my UID homepage.
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You mean 10 keys, surely?;)
("There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.")
You can trust mainstream media such as Forbes (and Slashduh) to be brain-damaged as well.
"But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm, and Israeli researchers think it's because a specific brain region has gone dark. [...] "People with prefrontal brain damage suffer from difficulties in understanding other people's mental states, and they lack empathy," said study co-author Simone Shamay-Tsoory, a researcher at the University of Haifa. "
DUH!
We've known this at least since Phineas Gage's unfortunate accident with a tamping iron in 1848.
Given that we're talking about work by Shamay-Tsoory, a quick PubMed search says that the identified area is probably somewhere in the right ventromedial prefrontal lobe. That it can be identified by testing e.g. comprehension of sarcasm naturally gets twisted by Forbes/Slashduh, so now it looks like we've got a special Sarcasm Organ.
"Breaking news: Them science guys find out that our breathing is handled by large saccular organs in the thoracic cavity. They're calling 'em "lungs" in medical mumbo-jumbo."
It's not "us" who gave them that name. It's "them" who made up their own name, and then "we" and the media adopted their vernacular, took the name and ran with it.
Everything is "engineering" today. If we don't call diaries and columns on the WWW "blogs", or if we don't call downloading people's audio files "podcasting", then we're not hip.
We used to call them con men, for their exploitation of people's confidence. As someone with English as a second language, I think that's an excellent word, it hardly gets more apt than that.
But OK, in this case most victims are criminally stupid. How about calling them "gull-men", for their exploitation of some people's gullibility? It's not like what they're doing is anything advanced, creative or difficult. They're just gambling with probabilities - if we send 10 million e-mails, then so-and-so many recipients will be totally clueless.
According to TFA, 20 TB is the amount of data that will be analysed to create the 17 GB (or whatever) mosaic image. Most places have been photographed more than once.
Not a bizarre term. Downloading is legal in the Netherlands. Uploading on the other hand, is not.
That's the way it is in Sweden (but only for another month), and that's why I called "illegal downloading" bizarre.
Imagine if the basic concept of "illegal downloading" was consistently applied to intellectual property. Then you'd be committing a crime if you were LOOKING AT a pirated postcard of a copyrighted piece of art!
As a fellow Swede I just say: He's right, unfortunately. That cash is put to work; it has bought the Social Democratic Party total and absolute hegemony on every level of our society for nearly a century.
Don't worry, our beloved EUreaucrats (the politicians that even our mostly socialist governments think are too incompetent, so they're shipped off to Brussels/Strasbourg) will probably turn this into EU-wide legislation.:P
ISTR that stories about petitions would not be accepted, according to the/. story submission guidelines. Has that policy been changed, or do I remember wrong?
Anyway, there's another OS that desperately needs saving from its owners.:) See my sig and the link below my/. username.
I have no idea on the total energy and monetery requirement to operate a mobile vs a land-based service, but I do have a gut feeling that the mobile service will be cheaper to construct in both aspects.
That's my gut feeling as well. Which is why I wonder why GSM calls are (still) an order of magnitude more expensive than POTS calls?
Just like CDs never became cheaper than LPs when the technology matured. And where's my damn flying car?;)
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In fact, are there *any* portable music players out there that support OGG? God knows there should be!
Seems like you should have taken a look at this page before you wasted your money on an iPod.
Post Scriptum:
It turned out that Jens Nylander's tip to the BSA (who acted on behalf of Microsoft and Autodesk) wasn't worth much.
When the company was raided by the authorities, Nylander's (and thus the BSA's) claims were shown to be heavily exaggerated. BSA originally wanted to sue KontorsCenter (the raided company) for 1.2 MSEK in damages (of which 10% would be Nylander's reward) for missing 91 licences, but BSA had to back down and be happy with 0 SEK in damages and a 50 kSEK out-of-court settlement, while paying for KontorsCenter's lawyers' costs as well as certify that all of KC's software was legit.
Well, at least giving that impression has been one of "Jens of Korea's" marketing angles lately. It worked on you! ;)
Jens is probably worried that people will go elsewhere to buy the exact same players he's selling. When sold without the JoS stickers, the players are already much cheaper, "anti-piracy" taxation or not.
Remember that Jens Nylander has a rather adaptive view on copyright and piracy issues. [An article in Swedish daily business magazine Realtid.se on how Jens once ratted out his former employer to the BSA. Jens was angry with the small company (20 employees) because he had been cut off from meeting customers due to his behaviour and some "incidents", he had to return a computer that he had "borrowed" without the company's permission and knowledge, and he knew that the BSA offered rather great rewards for good tips.]
... sorry.
Does it play Ogg Vorbis?
Scrub will do the job as well.
"Ebay Inc. shares fell 4.3 percent."
You mean they're down to only "AAAAA++++++!!!111" now?
Yes, you and albalbo are quite right. But the changes are still applied and saved with no way to easily revert them if I make a mistake or if I'm not happy with them. I could for example write down the original typefaces, DPI values, hinting et c. before I go experimenting with fonts, but that sort of defeats one purpose of having a computer... Give me a "Cancel"/"Revert" button, damnit!
:P
Maybe this is done to scare away users from trying to configure things to their own tastes, then the last few remaining configuration possibilities in GNOME can be removed altogether without anyone noticing... Maybe all those options are removed so we won't have to remember so much if we want to undo something, since there's no Cancel button...
If there only was a single "Advanced Settings=1" GConf key that we could set somewhere if we don't like the User Hostility of the GNOME2 HIG.
Eh?
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Crowded-what?
That's Kraftwerk's Radioaktivität!
I concur, let me congratulate the author on his taste!
No Gnome dialog box should ever have "yes," "no," and cancel as buttons.
Speaking of buttons... Something I loathe in GNOME are configuration dialogs/apps with only a stupid, menacing "Close" button.
What the hell? That button doesn't just close the window, it saves the settings first, regardless of whether I want to keep any changes I've made, intentionally or not!
When I see "Close", I think "Cancel". I want a "Save" (=save and close), an "Apply" (=test changes, don't save or close) and a "Cancel" (="get me outta here", discard any changes and close) button.
However, all you PPC fans should look to Amiga in the long run. Yes, they're back with a line of G3 and G4 based systems.
No, they aren't.
The dysfunctional hardware that's been sporadically hawked for several years now to a closed off "Amiga market" as so called "AmigaOnes" for $800-900 a piece are relabelled $500 Teron series motherboards from Mai Logic. Only some 700 suckers bit the bait. Also, they are only sold in G3 configs, not G4. It is unclear if Mai Logic are still alive, but what is clear is that they after >3 years of delays still haven't managed to make a successor to their flawed "Compaq PC of ca. 1998"-type ArticiaS northbridge chip.
The Amiga-as-a-computer has been dead for a decade is not planned to be revived, though AmigaOS lived on, but now the latest incarnation of the dotcom company misleadingly known as "Amiga, Inc" are apparently doing their best to kill off AmigaOS 4. This is done by pretending that "Amigas" still exist or are needed, so a pseudo-market for other companies' hardware was invented and cut off from the rest of the world and the OS will only be sold bundled with such 3rd party hardware from dealers who have bought a licence from AInc.
Of course, the only vendor who has managed to acquire such a licence is Eyetech (the company that's currently scamming fanatics with the fatally flawed and severely overpriced "AmigaOnes"), who also provided "consulting" to help the semi-dormant and disinterested AInc invent this scheme.
AmigaOS, as well as "all you PPC fans", would be better off looking 2nd hand Macs which even after 2006 will still be a bazillion orders of magnitude larger, better, healthier and cheaper product and market than what's offered under the label "AmigaOne". The Pegasos2 G4 is nice too, but a bit expensive compared to eg. the Mac Mini.
Really, anything is better than an "AmigaOne" or the con artists who are trying to distribute them.
See my sig and my UID homepage.
You mean 10 keys, surely? ;)
("There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.")
You can trust mainstream media such as Forbes (and Slashduh) to be brain-damaged as well.
"But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm, and Israeli researchers think it's because a specific brain region has gone dark. [...]
"People with prefrontal brain damage suffer from difficulties in understanding other people's mental states, and they lack empathy," said study co-author Simone Shamay-Tsoory, a researcher at the University of Haifa. "
DUH!
We've known this at least since Phineas Gage's unfortunate accident with a tamping iron in 1848.
Given that we're talking about work by Shamay-Tsoory, a quick PubMed search says that the identified area is probably somewhere in the right ventromedial prefrontal lobe. That it can be identified by testing e.g. comprehension of sarcasm naturally gets twisted by Forbes/Slashduh, so now it looks like we've got a special Sarcasm Organ.
"Breaking news: Them science guys find out that our breathing is handled by large saccular organs in the thoracic cavity. They're calling 'em "lungs" in medical mumbo-jumbo."
It's not "us" who gave them that name. It's "them" who made up their own name, and then "we" and the media adopted their vernacular, took the name and ran with it.
Everything is "engineering" today. If we don't call diaries and columns on the WWW "blogs", or if we don't call downloading people's audio files "podcasting", then we're not hip.
We used to call them con men, for their exploitation of people's confidence. As someone with English as a second language, I think that's an excellent word, it hardly gets more apt than that.
But OK, in this case most victims are criminally stupid. How about calling them "gull-men", for their exploitation of some people's gullibility? It's not like what they're doing is anything advanced, creative or difficult. They're just gambling with probabilities - if we send 10 million e-mails, then so-and-so many recipients will be totally clueless.
I don't know who compiled the list you linked to, but Earth's Latin name is Tellus.
According to TFA, 20 TB is the amount of data that will be analysed to create the 17 GB (or whatever) mosaic image. Most places have been photographed more than once.
Not a bizarre term. Downloading is legal in the Netherlands. Uploading on the other hand, is not.
That's the way it is in Sweden (but only for another month), and that's why I called "illegal downloading" bizarre.
Imagine if the basic concept of "illegal downloading" was consistently applied to intellectual property. Then you'd be committing a crime if you were LOOKING AT a pirated postcard of a copyrighted piece of art!
Interesting that you should mention such a bizarre term as "illegal downloading".
As of June 1st, downloading copyrighted material without permission will also be illegal in Sweden. Progressive indeed...
(Distributing (spreading, uploading, selling et c.) someone else's intellectual property without permission has naturally "always" been illegal here.)
As a fellow Swede I just say: He's right, unfortunately. That cash is put to work; it has bought the Social Democratic Party total and absolute hegemony on every level of our society for nearly a century.
Don't worry, our beloved EUreaucrats (the politicians that even our mostly socialist governments think are too incompetent, so they're shipped off to Brussels/Strasbourg) will probably turn this into EU-wide legislation. :P
ISTR that stories about petitions would not be accepted, according to the /. story submission guidelines. Has that policy been changed, or do I remember wrong?
:) See my sig and the link below my /. username.
Anyway, there's another OS that desperately needs saving from its owners.
POWER is an acronym. "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC", IIRC.
;)
Now go shout at the eejits who shout "MAC" when referring to cute plastic from Apple, Inc.
Mentioning PPC gives an Apple topic automatically?
:)
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Yes. So does anything having anything to do with portable digital audio players.
I have no idea on the total energy and monetery requirement to operate a mobile vs a land-based service, but I do have a gut feeling that the mobile service will be cheaper to construct in both aspects.
;)
That's my gut feeling as well. Which is why I wonder why GSM calls are (still) an order of magnitude more expensive than POTS calls?
Just like CDs never became cheaper than LPs when the technology matured. And where's my damn flying car?
That naturally depends on where in Europe you live.
I know that in the UK, you "text" eachother. But for example in Swedish, we call SMS SMS.
"I SMSed you. Did you read my SMS?"