My phone has an "airplane" mode that allows you to play games, etc. I used this once on a plane, but was still asked to turn it off. The stewardess only understood: It's a phone; needs to be off.
My father had a Commodore 64 when I was a year old. I hear that I used to point a calculator at the computer and press buttons, pretending that I was playing.
The best part: My dad convinced my mom that they needed a computer because I would eventually need one for school.
hmm... my dad reads slashdot...
That's the point; The record companies don't want to sell you a copy. More and more, they want to RENT you a LICENSE, where you can use it so long as you follow their terms. They want to go along with the softwareindustry, a la Microsoft, potentially even getting per-listen/view fees for "their" works.
IMHO, as long as the large media conglomerates continue to survive, this isn't going to just go away.
This attitude is exactly why I switched from Proprietary software to open source, and it's exactly why I will not pay for anything from the RIAA, Sony, et. al.
This could be a very positive thing. As long as you keep a cache of their blogs (even if they are written by stafff), and can crawl them for particular subjects. you would be able to see where they stand on certain issues, and also see how often they change their mind.
Personally, I would find it much easier to vote for a representative if I knew how they stood, and didn't flip--flop around the issue.
I suppose you are against using X as well? Since that isn't treated like a file.
I wonder if there is a way to extend the X protocol to include sound. This way, users can still get sound when connecting remotely (which IIRC is not possible now, or at least not easy).
Disclaimer: I'm a Linux Newb. Apply NaCl as necessary
Just like we have to pay for tanks produced by government contractors?
One example of a privatized government office (at least in Missouri) is the local License Bureau. They are required to charge a standard fee per license, among other things, but only pay back out to the government on a semi-annually basis. They send 100% of each charge out to the government.
the "private" company runs on interest from the money during the time between when they are paid, and they have to pay up.
There are other ways for the Private government contractors to make money other than the obvious. Private companies do road construction, among other jobs, all the time, and we don't pay out of the pocket for them.
These three things are some of the most widespread problems facing the Windows OS. Microsoft has put a lot of time and code into making software that could potentially be safe
windows permissions are very flexible,.net seems to more-or-less eliminate buffer overflow problems (when done correctly), and the.net web services could potentially replace ActiveX in a way that would result in better security.
There are two reasons this hasn't happened yet:
This requires a rewrite of old code
The operating system needs to be secure by default
By far, I am not a Microsoft shill, but I enjoy programming in C#, and like the CLI.
Mono's main goal is an implementation of this: the ECMA CLI standard
The windows.forms portion is there for compatibility with programs written for windows. (no different legally than WINE providing compatibility with win32 APIs)
It is suggested to develop using the GTK# toolkit, which is available for Mono or Windows.
IMHO, this is a step toward systems and applications that are OS-independent, making the "fight" between windows and Linux moot.
That's a great idea!!!
Especially since you have to ask your current DNS provider who "uncensoreddns.org" is.
We may have some thinking yet to do on this one:)
I believe that as censorship-like rules approach the internet, you will see more darknets, i.e. freenet, etc.
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My phone has an "airplane" mode that allows you to play games, etc. I used this once on a plane, but was still asked to turn it off. The stewardess only understood: It's a phone; needs to be off.
My father had a Commodore 64 when I was a year old. I hear that I used to point a calculator at the computer and press buttons, pretending that I was playing.
The best part: My dad convinced my mom that they needed a computer because I would eventually need one for school.
hmm... my dad reads slashdot...
That's the point; The record companies don't want to sell you a copy. More and more, they want to RENT you a LICENSE, where you can use it so long as you follow their terms. They want to go along with the softwareindustry, a la Microsoft, potentially even getting per-listen/view fees for "their" works.
IMHO, as long as the large media conglomerates continue to survive, this isn't going to just go away.
This attitude is exactly why I switched from Proprietary software to open source, and it's exactly why I will not pay for anything from the RIAA, Sony, et. al.
The point of DRM is to keep honest people honest. We all know that it will be _plausible_ for someone to eventually crack the code of any DRM.
I for one am in favor of this.Clearly not, it only had 1 security hole.
This could be a very positive thing. As long as you keep a cache of their blogs (even if they are written by stafff), and can crawl them for particular subjects. you would be able to see where they stand on certain issues, and also see how often they change their mind.
Personally, I would find it much easier to vote for a representative if I knew how they stood, and didn't flip--flop around the issue.
I suppose you are against using X as well? Since that isn't treated like a file. I wonder if there is a way to extend the X protocol to include sound. This way, users can still get sound when connecting remotely (which IIRC is not possible now, or at least not easy). Disclaimer: I'm a Linux Newb. Apply NaCl as necessary
rational and interesting discussions about Microsoft and the RIAA You must be new here :)
Just like we have to pay for tanks produced by government contractors?
One example of a privatized government office (at least in Missouri) is the local License Bureau. They are required to charge a standard fee per license, among other things, but only pay back out to the government on a semi-annually basis. They send 100% of each charge out to the government.
the "private" company runs on interest from the money during the time between when they are paid, and they have to pay up.
There are other ways for the Private government contractors to make money other than the obvious. Private companies do road construction, among other jobs, all the time, and we don't pay out of the pocket for them.
windows permissions are very flexible,
There are two reasons this hasn't happened yet:
By far, I am not a Microsoft shill, but I enjoy programming in C#, and like the CLI.
Mono's main goal is an implementation of this: the ECMA CLI standard The windows.forms portion is there for compatibility with programs written for windows. (no different legally than WINE providing compatibility with win32 APIs)
It is suggested to develop using the GTK# toolkit, which is available for Mono or Windows.
IMHO, this is a step toward systems and applications that are OS-independent, making the "fight" between windows and Linux moot.
That's a great idea!!! Especially since you have to ask your current DNS provider who "uncensoreddns.org" is. We may have some thinking yet to do on this one :)
I believe that as censorship-like rules approach the internet, you will see more darknets, i.e. freenet, etc.