DRM has always been a less valuable product inherently, but Yahoo has backed up the customer and made sure they will be able to play the music they paid for.
Indeed. Hopefully other companies will learn from this as well.
I'm hoping some joker with the next viable vista virus uses it to trigger trusted computing into locking machines. Lets see vista's adoption rate when word gets out it bricks your entire system if you get a virus.
This is the kind of thing that makes me wish I learned assembly...
Broken, by definition, means not working like it's supposed to. If the site's authors don't intend to support $browser, then it is not broken if the site doesn't support $browser.
My guess is, a college website is intended for all college students, not just the ones with $default_browser.
Websites are for people, not browsers.
I can understand when e.g. a Firefox addon installation website doesn't support IE, but that's clearly not the case.
So the Sistine Chapel, for instance, was certainly commissioned as "pimping product" as you so delicately put it, that being the Catholic Church's product offering of salvation amongst the extremely competitive free market in religions, but most people see some intrinsic worth in it despite being a commercial message.
Nah, it was more like "Look, we got a better one than that bishop over there!" thing. Religion wasn't exactly a free market back then, you know.
The interesting thing is the Ingo Molnar has said outright that none of the current Linux filesystems is GOOD ENOUGH for SSD's - he has his hopes on BTRFS to save us in the longer run -
Precisely. Linux WILL have a fix soon, and it will be incorporated into all the major distros at the next release.
When are we going to see a MS filesystem that doesn't suck? (Alright, I thought about it. Make one with a BSD licence...)
It's nice, but why are these necessary to use it as a "workstation"?
2. New User, Auto Logon and Strong Passwords Enforcement: How to create a new user, how to configure a user to logon automatically and how to disable enforcement of a minimum complexity for passwords.
8. Internet Explorer Enhanced Security: Disable Enhanced Security in Internet Explorer.
Nah, the next expansion will come with its own BIOS. (Still not good enough...) How about something that runs in its own, welded-shut box?
Point is, I control what happens in my computer. You can't do anything about that, except to convince a judge that a copy in RAM is copyright infringement. (No, really, if you don't see how stupid that is, think about it more.)
Blizzard, in the name of Free Software, stop being stupid!
Your post confirms what I said earlier: The original purpose of GNOME is not yet obsolete.
The precise reason GNOME even exists is now obsolete. You can talk all you want about it, but that doesn't change the fact that GNOME was created because Qt was commercial, and now they're trying to justify GNOME, now that Qt is GPL.
Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal.
Making me click the wrong button after 10 years of Windows and KDE just because I paid more attention to what I want to do than how I do it is not "ease of use".
Ah, what's the use. It's my fault I clicked OK when it was in the (for me) wrong place. Just like Vista UAC.
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we could tell them it's an widely accepted initiation into the open source world.
Well, isn't it? It worked with Sun.
DRM has always been a less valuable product inherently, but Yahoo has backed up the customer and made sure they will be able to play the music they paid for.
Indeed. Hopefully other companies will learn from this as well.
I'm hoping some joker with the next viable vista virus uses it to trigger trusted computing into locking machines.
Lets see vista's adoption rate when word gets out it bricks your entire system if you get a virus.
This is the kind of thing that makes me wish I learned assembly...
Broken, by definition, means not working like it's supposed to. If the site's authors don't intend to support $browser, then it is not broken if the site doesn't support $browser.
My guess is, a college website is intended for all college students, not just the ones with $default_browser.
Websites are for people, not browsers.
I can understand when e.g. a Firefox addon installation website doesn't support IE, but that's clearly not the case.
Mom and Pop having Linux installed on their PC won't get KDE 4 until these kind of glitches have been resolved.
Nor shouldn't they. It's an "early adopter" release.
OTOH, how will these glitches be resolved if noone uses it?
Nobody is shocked, but everybody is rightfully suspicious.
Actually, I am shocked. Then I realized someone broke their Reality Distortion Field.
Considering all the religions around the world, anything you can possibly do is sacrilege to someone.
Yes, but now we all know about that.
or better off using Gentoo.
I would, but I don't have a quad-core box yet.
TV's do, Cable boxes Do. It's just a tool for parents.
You mean the feature I used as a prank to lock my dad out of the porn channel?
Stop fixing the mail protocols we have today. It's time to replace with some form of sender authentication.
That still doesn't fix the zombie issue.
So the Sistine Chapel, for instance, was certainly commissioned as "pimping product" as you so delicately put it, that being the Catholic Church's product offering of salvation amongst the extremely competitive free market in religions, but most people see some intrinsic worth in it despite being a commercial message.
Nah, it was more like "Look, we got a better one than that bishop over there!" thing. Religion wasn't exactly a free market back then, you know.
The interesting thing is the Ingo Molnar has said outright that none of the current Linux filesystems is GOOD ENOUGH for SSD's - he has his hopes on BTRFS to save us in the longer run -
Precisely. Linux WILL have a fix soon, and it will be incorporated into all the major distros at the next release.
When are we going to see a MS filesystem that doesn't suck? (Alright, I thought about it. Make one with a BSD licence...)
Simple solution: Get rid of Vista preloaded. Then show the masses what a properly set up Linux on an SSD can do.
(Oblig.: This could really be the year of Linux on the desktop!)
Porn.
Yup, Slashdot alright.
Remember that poor little C64?
Oh great. Now I've done it again.
[hand on crotch]
Sing about "the Land of The Free" ehile ripping those out.
Sorry, you're already doing that.
Any video file above 60% plays well in mplayer.
However none of those are meant for streaming, and above all else, not via torrent. Torrents are not for sequential viewing, period.
(At least, not while downloading)
Really, how is this Informative? It's like it's not the default action for anyone around here?
P.S. I use Opera.
It's nice, but why are these necessary to use it as a "workstation"?
2. New User, Auto Logon and Strong Passwords Enforcement: How to create a new user, how to configure a user to logon automatically and how to disable enforcement of a minimum complexity for passwords.
8. Internet Explorer Enhanced Security: Disable Enhanced Security in Internet Explorer.
There's a big robot fight at the end.
BTW I don't even know what Hellboy is.
Nah, the next expansion will come with its own BIOS. (Still not good enough...) How about something that runs in its own, welded-shut box?
Point is, I control what happens in my computer. You can't do anything about that, except to convince a judge that a copy in RAM is copyright infringement. (No, really, if you don't see how stupid that is, think about it more.)
Blizzard, in the name of Free Software, stop being stupid!
Your post confirms what I said earlier: The original purpose of GNOME is not yet obsolete.
The precise reason GNOME even exists is now obsolete. You can talk all you want about it, but that doesn't change the fact that GNOME was created because Qt was commercial, and now they're trying to justify GNOME, now that Qt is GPL.
I think Trolltech is doing a great job. Qt4 is awesome, and now GPL under Windows too.
Of course, if you want to liberate it, FORK IT AND SHUT UP. (You know, GPL and all that.)
Of course, you are free to define `usability' as `whatever is closest to Windows' if yu want.
From the wiki:
Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal.
Making me click the wrong button after 10 years of Windows and KDE just because I paid more attention to what I want to do than how I do it is not "ease of use".
Ah, what's the use. It's my fault I clicked OK when it was in the (for me) wrong place. Just like Vista UAC.