Anyone know what wireless standard iTV is due to run on? They appear to call it "802.11" which sounds to me like they might be hedging their bets. Would the sort of video they demonstrated require 802.11n? Is this why they're waiting? I couldn't make out in the video of the event whether the iTV box he showed was wired into the LAN. I would have thought if it was working over a wireless network he would have made more of it.
Also - why did they stream the event live to London, and then say that films can only be bought in the US?:-S
At the time of the Morris worm there was a Unix monoculture, but this was not because it was open source; it wasn't. Please don't confuse the two.
Within the Linux community there is diversity, this is a great defence mechanism. Pick a particular type of application and look at how many separate implementations there are. Sure, Firefox is by far the most popular open source browser, but there's also KHTML and several others. Look at the office products and there's way more to choose from.
I think Netscape tried to bulk up their browser packages with other things to beat IE, didn't they? That code base made a comeback when they stripped out all the communicator stuff and just did web browsing better.
If this anti-spyware package does a better job it will be worth buying. If it just bulks up into bloatware, I doubt it will
"If you fill a 3,000 seat concert hall at $3 a ticket, your gross is $9,000. "If you fill a 3,000 seat concert hall at $7.50 a ticket, your gross is $22,500. And just for fun I figured out if you fill a 3,000 seat concert hall at $800 a ticket, your gross is $2,400,000. This is what I'm shooting for..."
Steve Martin, Wild and Crazy Financial Adviser
Why would you want to have the *all* the latest features? What if some of them aren't of any interest to people?
Isn't it better to release products with a few features and try to work out based on feedback, what would be of most use?
The only way I found to get a desktop to access any type of wireless device, is by using a wireless bridge. These are a wireless client on one side, RJ45 wired network on the other and cost about the same as a wireless adapter. You then just plug a patch lead into it and the linux box will never know it is going wireless. Mind you, it's a bulky solution for a laptop...
I used Digg for a few months after Slashdot put restrictions on how frequently RSS feeds could be accessed. I stopped using it a few weeks ago. It seemed that a large chunk of the community voted for *anything* that referred to Google or Apple, regardless of content. Also, far too many duplicates made it to the front page.
And the lack of filtering greatly increased the level of trolling.
I suspect they serve two slightly different, but overlapping, communities. I find the Slashdot crowd more interesting to read, and I think that although Slashdot posts fewer stories, they are more likely to interest me.
And, of course, there is only so much 1337 I can read in a day...
...This is one Brit who is more than happy that the US is still in charge. They built it, they run it well and the EU would only mire it in bureaucracy.
"their customers *do* display a propensity to steal their music."
IANAL but are we actually talking about theft here? I thought theft was the act of permanently depriving the owner of use. Illegal downloading and reproduction of music is a breach of copyright. Still wrong, still illegal, but not theft.
If I steal a book from a store, that's theft.; if I print my own copy, that's breach of copyright.
I think it is important to distinguish between the two, because theft places it on the same level as breaking into someone's house and taking their TV. It may be that the legal implications of the two acts are similar, but the moral one's aren't. Not all sins are equally bad.
A 14 year old downloading a song that they might not have bought if they couldn't download it, is hardly on the same level as a 14 year old stealing a CD from a store. If they steal a CD, the owner of the store still has to pay for the physical item. That is not the case with the downloaded file.
That said, breaching copyright is illegal, and it should not happen. I heard Lawrence Lessig say recently that we should vehemently oppose copyright infringement, because not to do so is to undermine the law.
I personally don't download music illegally because I think it is wrong. I have no qualms about ripping CDs or DVDs to my hard disk. I think if I have paid the full price for a service (and a CD or DVD is just a service delivery mechanism) then I have the right to enjoy that service how I choose.
The film and music industry are entering turbulent times. Like most of us, they dislike change. Instead of finding new ways to make money with the technology, they are trying to cling on to old certainties. But unlike most of us, they have financial muscle to hire the lawyers to stretch it out into a slow painful death.
But I don't think they'll win. DRM is too much of a restriction of freedom, and freedom always wins out in the end.
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I have just undergone a Vietnam-style flashback to 1992 and the HB14 suite. Damn that vile language....
Anyone know what wireless standard iTV is due to run on? They appear to call it "802.11" which sounds to me like they might be hedging their bets. Would the sort of video they demonstrated require 802.11n? Is this why they're waiting? I couldn't make out in the video of the event whether the iTV box he showed was wired into the LAN. I would have thought if it was working over a wireless network he would have made more of it. Also - why did they stream the event live to London, and then say that films can only be bought in the US? :-S
Where?!!! Where....??!?????
At the time of the Morris worm there was a Unix monoculture, but this was not because it was open source; it wasn't. Please don't confuse the two. Within the Linux community there is diversity, this is a great defence mechanism. Pick a particular type of application and look at how many separate implementations there are. Sure, Firefox is by far the most popular open source browser, but there's also KHTML and several others. Look at the office products and there's way more to choose from.
I think Netscape tried to bulk up their browser packages with other things to beat IE, didn't they? That code base made a comeback when they stripped out all the communicator stuff and just did web browsing better. If this anti-spyware package does a better job it will be worth buying. If it just bulks up into bloatware, I doubt it will
"If you fill a 3,000 seat concert hall at $3 a ticket, your gross is $9,000. "If you fill a 3,000 seat concert hall at $7.50 a ticket, your gross is $22,500. And just for fun I figured out if you fill a 3,000 seat concert hall at $800 a ticket, your gross is $2,400,000. This is what I'm shooting for..." Steve Martin, Wild and Crazy Financial Adviser
Why would you want to have the *all* the latest features? What if some of them aren't of any interest to people? Isn't it better to release products with a few features and try to work out based on feedback, what would be of most use?
...they felt he was not well prepared enough to argue against ID. Perhaps the money will go where ID can be more effectively challenged?
Unless you are only referring to *nix variants?
Oh crap....
Wouldn't he have been 17 or 18?
Will it now be better to say say just "GNU", if the kernel can be replaced by either Solaris or BSD?
The only way I found to get a desktop to access any type of wireless device, is by using a wireless bridge. These are a wireless client on one side, RJ45 wired network on the other and cost about the same as a wireless adapter. You then just plug a patch lead into it and the linux box will never know it is going wireless. Mind you, it's a bulky solution for a laptop...
...it will only accept French and Esperanto, and will never return information about the private lives of Presidents.
The link is to an Inquirer article linking to a blog that cites an Inquirer article that cites a rumor.
Have Dell said anything yet?
I don't want to talk about it.
If you make rules about what people should be wear, it shows you probably have very few good business ideas.
And the lack of filtering greatly increased the level of trolling.
I suspect they serve two slightly different, but overlapping, communities. I find the Slashdot crowd more interesting to read, and I think that although Slashdot posts fewer stories, they are more likely to interest me.
And, of course, there is only so much 1337 I can read in a day...
...This is one Brit who is more than happy that the US is still in charge. They built it, they run it well and the EU would only mire it in bureaucracy.
Have you heard those Google guys use loads of open source? Dirty, high-earning, free market commie b*st**ds...
IANAL but are we actually talking about theft here? I thought theft was the act of permanently depriving the owner of use. Illegal downloading and reproduction of music is a breach of copyright. Still wrong, still illegal, but not theft.
If I steal a book from a store, that's theft.; if I print my own copy, that's breach of copyright.
I think it is important to distinguish between the two, because theft places it on the same level as breaking into someone's house and taking their TV. It may be that the legal implications of the two acts are similar, but the moral one's aren't. Not all sins are equally bad.
A 14 year old downloading a song that they might not have bought if they couldn't download it, is hardly on the same level as a 14 year old stealing a CD from a store. If they steal a CD, the owner of the store still has to pay for the physical item. That is not the case with the downloaded file.
That said, breaching copyright is illegal, and it should not happen. I heard Lawrence Lessig say recently that we should vehemently oppose copyright infringement, because not to do so is to undermine the law.
I personally don't download music illegally because I think it is wrong. I have no qualms about ripping CDs or DVDs to my hard disk. I think if I have paid the full price for a service (and a CD or DVD is just a service delivery mechanism) then I have the right to enjoy that service how I choose.
The film and music industry are entering turbulent times. Like most of us, they dislike change. Instead of finding new ways to make money with the technology, they are trying to cling on to old certainties. But unlike most of us, they have financial muscle to hire the lawyers to stretch it out into a slow painful death.
But I don't think they'll win. DRM is too much of a restriction of freedom, and freedom always wins out in the end.