Modded troll, then having your calm, reasonably put (albeit flawed) explination modded flamebait? Oh Snap!
As has been repeated time and time again, the whole point of OSS is to take something and expand on it in a new and creative way. Therefore, branching out and doing your own thing is what keeps it vibrant, interesting, and innovative. Plus, 99% of the time it only takes compiling the source on your specific distro (if the binaries aren't already provided) to get an application installed on it. Something that compiles on Suse will compile on Fedora will compile on Debian will compile on Slackware will compile on Gentoo. For the most part, there is only one operating system.
Using Google, I found this CNet article from 1999 about Microsoft joining Oasis XML group. Albeit I didn't follow news that much back then, so I'm not sure what has happened since.
As an Ontario student in High School right now, I gotta respond to this. The curriculum consits solely of a list of things that we should know by the end of the school year. For example, here is the complete grade 11 and 12 math curriculum in Ontario. Let's look at the Trig unit in my last math class, Functions and Relations, Grade 11, University Preparation (MCR3U):
Trigonometric Functions Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
* solve problems involving the sine law and the cosine law in oblique triangles;
* demonstrate an understanding of the meaning and application of radian measure;
* determine, through investigation, the relationships between the graphs and the equations of sinusoidal functions;
* solve problems involving models of sinusoidal functions drawn from a variety of applications.
It then goes on with some examples going into each of the above in detail. That's it. The teacher still has to plan a schedule, write the tests and units and teach classes on how to do everything. The curriculum just says what the teacher has to teach.
-Clinton
REN: "Yeahhhh. I'll just relax, and think pleasant thoughts... Chicken pot pie!... Chocolate-covered raisins!... Ehh... Glazed ham!... Heh... heh... heh... they think I'm CRAZY. But I know better. It is not *I* who am crazy. It is I who am MAD! Didn'tcha hear 'em? Didn'tcha see the CROWDS? Oh, my beloved ice cream bar... how I love to lick your creamy center! HOOOWWWWWW... (bites soap)... and your oh-so-nutty chocolate covering! You're not like the others... you like the same things I do! Waxed paper... boiled football leather... dogbreath... We're not hitchhiking anymore! We're RIDING!"
STIMPY: Stop it! You're talking crazy!
REN: "Oh, no. I know what YOU want. You coveteth my ICE CREAM BAR!"
STIMPY: "C'mon now..."
REN: "No, you don't! You can't take it from me now. I've had this ice cream bar since I was a CHILD! People... always trying to take it from me! Why won't they LEAVE ME ALOOOOONNNNE?"
STIMPY: "Easy, now."
REN: "Back off, man! (grabs toothbrush) Don't make me use this! One step closer, I'm WARNING ya! Don't make me use it! (Stimpy steps closer) NOW you've done it. YOU FORCED ME TO USE IT!"
(horrible sound as Ren brushes his teeth. They struggle. Ren loses.)
Well... what's stopping you from throwing a tape into your radio and recording some of your favourite music? You could always edit out the commercials afterwards, and it would be a professionaly DJ'd mix tape. Even easier would be to rip a stream offline with something like StreamRipper.
Honestly... file sharing is probably the least of their problems and DRM isn't scoring them any points.
I don't have much choice when it comes to getting music on my computer. I'll tell you, the crap I listen to (Styx, ELO, Rush, Supertramp) is stuff that I (or my dad) already own on vinyl. I only download music so that I can listen to it on my computer, or portably.
Would that matter at all? Or would it be because I also have sharing turned on, and am uploading to other users as well? I think that we (teenagers) need the other side of the story, not that we'll slow down in our music downloading any time soon (or that our parents will give us their credit card numbers for iTunes).
Couldn't they combine the two? A 1-800 number you can dial from your cell-phone (or anywhere) to connect to your iSkoot account? Then all the vo-ip could be handled at their end, which should help quality.
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As has been repeated time and time again, the whole point of OSS is to take something and expand on it in a new and creative way. Therefore, branching out and doing your own thing is what keeps it vibrant, interesting, and innovative. Plus, 99% of the time it only takes compiling the source on your specific distro (if the binaries aren't already provided) to get an application installed on it. Something that compiles on Suse will compile on Fedora will compile on Debian will compile on Slackware will compile on Gentoo. For the most part, there is only one operating system.
Using Google, I found this CNet article from 1999 about Microsoft joining Oasis XML group. Albeit I didn't follow news that much back then, so I'm not sure what has happened since.
"Oh! Look at all the pretty green... AIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
-Clinton
It's about getting back at all the bullies and evil teachers at a corrupt boarding school.
STIMPY: Stop it! You're talking crazy!
REN: "Oh, no. I know what YOU want. You coveteth my ICE CREAM BAR!"
STIMPY: "C'mon now..."
REN: "No, you don't! You can't take it from me now. I've had this ice cream bar since I was a CHILD! People... always trying to take it from me! Why won't they LEAVE ME ALOOOOONNNNE?"
STIMPY: "Easy, now."
REN: "Back off, man! (grabs toothbrush) Don't make me use this! One step closer, I'm WARNING ya! Don't make me use it! (Stimpy steps closer) NOW you've done it. YOU FORCED ME TO USE IT!"
(horrible sound as Ren brushes his teeth. They struggle. Ren loses.)
REN: "Eeee... eh... I'm hurting." (collapses)
STIMPY: "You poor crazy kid!"
Perhaps it should say "DOS ain't done 'till Lotus.... wait... WTF is Lotus?"
Well... what's stopping you from throwing a tape into your radio and recording some of your favourite music? You could always edit out the commercials afterwards, and it would be a professionaly DJ'd mix tape. Even easier would be to rip a stream offline with something like StreamRipper. Honestly... file sharing is probably the least of their problems and DRM isn't scoring them any points.
Would that matter at all? Or would it be because I also have sharing turned on, and am uploading to other users as well? I think that we (teenagers) need the other side of the story, not that we'll slow down in our music downloading any time soon (or that our parents will give us their credit card numbers for iTunes).
Couldn't they combine the two? A 1-800 number you can dial from your cell-phone (or anywhere) to connect to your iSkoot account? Then all the vo-ip could be handled at their end, which should help quality.