Somone should try to make an almost mainstream media friendly parody of the anti nautrality lobbers, something in the spirit of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and collect money for a NYT ad like they did with firefox!
Will the record companies give you the choice? For their perspective, we quote Tommi Kyyrä, of IFPI Finland:
"Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos," said Kyyrä. "If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."
My favourite office suite is still WordPerfect Office. At least for the typing, which is about all I do WordPerfect is still unmatched by the simple fact that it isn't unable to handle the pages' layout and that it has that wonderful reveal codes markup functionality. I can't count how many hours of formatting WordPerfect saves. My dad who is a jurist/law researcher uses WP for, among other things, the way it handles footnotes and references, and I'd happily use WP for all my typing needs, but I have been more or less forced to use MS Word for school stuff, and testing OOo on my Linux systems wasn't a nice experience at all.
And by the way, I think someone should put together a Free WordPerfect 5.1/6 clone for *nix. It'd be awesome to have a really good quality console word processing (*not* text editing) environment on my shell server. Or is there already such a project, or is there a console-WP that works on modern unixlike systems??
Dunno about normal persons, but I was never able to get close friends until I got broadband and started to IRC with people I had daily contact with at school. Screen + irssi has for me become a great and natural way of keeping in touch with people, but usually it's really hard to explain to social and or non-technical folks that internet isn't only a toy, but a new and efficiant way of dealing with real life matters. Of course, some people probably rely on teh intarwebs as a faked social network rather than a way of communicating with people they've met IRL. I'm sure that more or less random smalltalk is nice and all, but it doesn't even serve the same purpose, living a life with the people around you isn't relevant online. Besides, to really know people with whom you communicate only online is extremely difficult, and the sad thing is that even some young people find hard to believe that "this chat thing" is not only for flirting or getting help with homework. MSN/AOLers need to be converted to IRC users and there should be at least one channel for every high school. Or something. Really.
The music industry won't care about some users protesting about DRM, since their only goal is to turn the whole market into a standardless pay per view system, and they will succeed sooner or later when people get used to the idea of using only specific software and hardware for managing music. With comments like these (original story in finnish mirrored here), it's pretty clear that not only the 'merican music industry seriously wants to assure those responsible for various judicial systems that increasing incompability is the only way to go in the digital age.
A burner that does anything? I've *always* wanted a burner (or software) with support for adding shit like Cactus Data Shield, it would be cool in the same sick sense as Beavis and Butthead when they glue hair to their faces or fry dead rats at Burger World.
I can't wait to see Vista's Aero engine and XGL collide on the next revision of the map. It was amazing to see how smoothly the Kororaa XGL Live cd worked on a pentium 3 with a gforce 4 card, while nobody ever would expect Aero to be anywhere near usable on my best computer, an athlon xp 2100+ with a radeon 9700 pro and 512 mb of ram.
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Somone should try to make an almost mainstream media friendly parody of the anti nautrality lobbers, something in the spirit of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and collect money for a NYT ad like they did with firefox!
The question is, should we scream in anger or feel relieved if the thing doesn't work with non-ie browsers?
Call the Church Police!
And now, I'd like to conclude this arrest with a hymn.
And here up north we thought Lex Karpela was the ultimate evil...
How CPU intensive is https for servers and clients compared to http?
Eric S Raymond is going to hate this...
My favourite office suite is still WordPerfect Office. At least for the typing, which is about all I do WordPerfect is still unmatched by the simple fact that it isn't unable to handle the pages' layout and that it has that wonderful reveal codes markup functionality. I can't count how many hours of formatting WordPerfect saves. My dad who is a jurist/law researcher uses WP for, among other things, the way it handles footnotes and references, and I'd happily use WP for all my typing needs, but I have been more or less forced to use MS Word for school stuff, and testing OOo on my Linux systems wasn't a nice experience at all.
And by the way, I think someone should put together a Free WordPerfect 5.1/6 clone for *nix. It'd be awesome to have a really good quality console word processing (*not* text editing) environment on my shell server. Or is there already such a project, or is there a console-WP that works on modern unixlike systems??
Dunno about normal persons, but I was never able to get close friends until I got broadband and started to IRC with people I had daily contact with at school. Screen + irssi has for me become a great and natural way of keeping in touch with people, but usually it's really hard to explain to social and or non-technical folks that internet isn't only a toy, but a new and efficiant way of dealing with real life matters. Of course, some people probably rely on teh intarwebs as a faked social network rather than a way of communicating with people they've met IRL. I'm sure that more or less random smalltalk is nice and all, but it doesn't even serve the same purpose, living a life with the people around you isn't relevant online. Besides, to really know people with whom you communicate only online is extremely difficult, and the sad thing is that even some young people find hard to believe that "this chat thing" is not only for flirting or getting help with homework. MSN/AOLers need to be converted to IRC users and there should be at least one channel for every high school. Or something. Really.
The music industry won't care about some users protesting about DRM, since their only goal is to turn the whole market into a standardless pay per view system, and they will succeed sooner or later when people get used to the idea of using only specific software and hardware for managing music. With comments like these (original story in finnish mirrored here), it's pretty clear that not only the 'merican music industry seriously wants to assure those responsible for various judicial systems that increasing incompability is the only way to go in the digital age.
A burner that does anything? I've *always* wanted a burner (or software) with support for adding shit like Cactus Data Shield, it would be cool in the same sick sense as Beavis and Butthead when they glue hair to their faces or fry dead rats at Burger World.
I can't wait to see Vista's Aero engine and XGL collide on the next revision of the map. It was amazing to see how smoothly the Kororaa XGL Live cd worked on a pentium 3 with a gforce 4 card, while nobody ever would expect Aero to be anywhere near usable on my best computer, an athlon xp 2100+ with a radeon 9700 pro and 512 mb of ram.