Artists don't have a natural right to control how their work is used after they distribute it.
Excuse me? I think I have more "natural rights" to control how my work is used than you have "natural rights" to make money piggybackriding my work.
The fact that "a zero day flaw has been reported" somewhat gives me the impression that neither the submitter nor the editor know what "zero day" refers to. Or perhaps it's just another example of the media hyping a word to a level where it has no meaning anymore.
Last time I checked, "zero day" referred to how many time had passed since the was discovered, released,...
As in " y0 du0dz eye gotz th1s m4d 0d4y expl0it from 7350, th1s isnt ev3n on hack.co.za y3t!"
[Disclaimer: references in quote might only be obvious to dinosaurs.]
I'm guessing the reason it's off by default is performance reasons at the time Windows XP first came out. I have yet to find the first person that do NOT like ClearType once it's been turned on for a day, except for perhaps a few people with really crappy CRTs.
The configuration thing you're talking about isn't "configuration", it's minor tweaking. It works great with default settings in most of the cases. As for the convenience of tweaking it, googling for "cleartype" yields the ActiveX ClearType tuner on first hit. If they hadn't offered it as a seperate download, your argument would have been that it's ActiveX-only.
If your GTK apps can't handle it, perhaps you should blame GTK.
God, and you wonder why people don't take "you guys" seriously? People like this, that's why!
IIRC it's the monitoring room for the Office Crash Assistant, the place where you send your data to after you crash. They analyse this data attempting to find patterns that lead to crashes. (I'm not sure how good this helps Office, but for Windows itself it's an excellent tool to find broken driver releases.)
I strongly suggest you read up on the USA PATRIOT Act and watch the news every now and then (supposing you get the same stuff we do). Or don't you consider eavesdropping without permission to be a violation of your rights?
But considering that people have been prosecuted for "child pornography" possession for fictional depictions, or for innocent cute pants-around-ankles shots of toddlers of the type parents have been known to take, yes, sometime it is a bad thing when "collectors" of "child porn" are found.
I don't see how this is relevant to this situation.
Certainly it's a bad thing when we shred civil liberties to find people who are in mere possession of certain strings of bits.
These are not just strings of bits, these are bits that make up a picture. Any illegal substance could be called a collection of atoms, but that won't hold up in court.
Let me spell it out for you. A post suggesting any large company with bo history of encouraging piracy sponsored a project to indirectly make money from piracy is a troll.
Congratulations on your spelling skills, but you're still not making sense. Are you telling me a large company is void of any suggestions just because it would be a first time offence?
Next time, try to actually reply to the point made instead of picking on poor choice of words. It sounds pretty logical to me that when talking about Google's competitors, I'm not talking about line of business applications and the likes.
Actually, don't bother to reply. It was just an idea that came to me and I thought it might make for an interesting discussion on the possibility of such practices. Your trolling isn't helping too much.
I might be eligable for a tinfoil hat at this point, but I wonder how big Google's interest in piracy is. Yes, I know, BT is has legal uses, but they're sure not taking any steps to make the illegal sharing of information harder.
Piracy is a tough enemy for companies who make money off there software, and seeing how Google does not fall into this category, raising the ease of piracy-related actions might be a way to fight their opponents on a level they themselves can't be fought at...
What kind of nerd sorts dates using an alphabetical/numerical sorting algorithm? With MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY you just need to read the first 4 characters, since the year basically stays the same all.. year.
Personally, my only problem with WGA is that it's a weird user experience. I need to click through about twenty times - even on IE - to have my system transmit "Yes, he's using a real version of Windows." It shouldn't be that complicated.
Sure you must be talking about some first-time installation? When I go to MS to download something, or I do a MS Update, there's exactly ONE (1) screen telling me there's a check. This screen has ONE (1) button that I need to push to 'continue', after which I am sent to ONE (1) more page telling me it's ok.
No idea how they did it, but XP _will_ complain if the complete path+filename exceeds 255 characters. It's the reason I stopped using My Documents alltogether.
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Mind the quotes, my dear. Mind the quotes.
Artists don't have a natural right to control how their work is used after they distribute it.
Excuse me? I think I have more "natural rights" to control how my work is used than you have "natural rights" to make money piggybackriding my work.
If so, then I'd say it's fine to drop SOAP. XMLRPC is a bit cleaner anyways.
It's NEVER fine to 'drop the soap'.
The fact that "a zero day flaw has been reported" somewhat gives me the impression that neither the submitter nor the editor know what "zero day" refers to. Or perhaps it's just another example of the media hyping a word to a level where it has no meaning anymore.
Last time I checked, "zero day" referred to how many time had passed since the was discovered, released, ...
As in " y0 du0dz eye gotz th1s m4d 0d4y expl0it from 7350, th1s isnt ev3n on hack.co.za y3t!"
[Disclaimer: references in quote might only be obvious to dinosaurs.]
I'm guessing the reason it's off by default is performance reasons at the time Windows XP first came out. I have yet to find the first person that do NOT like ClearType once it's been turned on for a day, except for perhaps a few people with really crappy CRTs.
The configuration thing you're talking about isn't "configuration", it's minor tweaking. It works great with default settings in most of the cases. As for the convenience of tweaking it, googling for "cleartype" yields the ActiveX ClearType tuner on first hit. If they hadn't offered it as a seperate download, your argument would have been that it's ActiveX-only.
If your GTK apps can't handle it, perhaps you should blame GTK.
God, and you wonder why people don't take "you guys" seriously? People like this, that's why!
We have never been at war with Eurasia^H^H^H^H^H^H^HIraq.
Is it just me or is this just a little sugar on top of their site: search keyword?
IIRC it's the monitoring room for the Office Crash Assistant, the place where you send your data to after you crash. They analyse this data attempting to find patterns that lead to crashes. (I'm not sure how good this helps Office, but for Windows itself it's an excellent tool to find broken driver releases.)
I strongly suggest you read up on the USA PATRIOT Act and watch the news every now and then (supposing you get the same stuff we do). Or don't you consider eavesdropping without permission to be a violation of your rights?
What's the use of having your citizens rights plainly defined if they're being plain ignored? I'm sure I don't need to sum up examples.
But considering that people have been prosecuted for "child pornography" possession for fictional depictions, or for innocent cute pants-around-ankles shots of toddlers of the type parents have been known to take, yes, sometime it is a bad thing when "collectors" of "child porn" are found.
I don't see how this is relevant to this situation.
Certainly it's a bad thing when we shred civil liberties to find people who are in mere possession of certain strings of bits.
These are not just strings of bits, these are bits that make up a picture. Any illegal substance could be called a collection of atoms, but that won't hold up in court.
Yes, finding those poor child porn collectors sure would be a bad thing.
Let me spell it out for you. A post suggesting any large company with bo history of encouraging piracy sponsored a project to indirectly make money from piracy is a troll.
Congratulations on your spelling skills, but you're still not making sense. Are you telling me a large company is void of any suggestions just because it would be a first time offence?
Down boy.
Do you have any, ANY proof of or even hint at the validity of that claim?
So any suggestion that goes against Google is a troll now? Sounds like you're more than just a Mac fanboy, fanboy!
Next time, try to actually reply to the point made instead of picking on poor choice of words. It sounds pretty logical to me that when talking about Google's competitors, I'm not talking about line of business applications and the likes.
Actually, don't bother to reply. It was just an idea that came to me and I thought it might make for an interesting discussion on the possibility of such practices. Your trolling isn't helping too much.
I might be eligable for a tinfoil hat at this point, but I wonder how big Google's interest in piracy is. Yes, I know, BT is has legal uses, but they're sure not taking any steps to make the illegal sharing of information harder.
Piracy is a tough enemy for companies who make money off there software, and seeing how Google does not fall into this category, raising the ease of piracy-related actions might be a way to fight their opponents on a level they themselves can't be fought at...
Nobody. As usual.
Ka-dzing!
Didn't the Web just turn 2.0?
What kind of nerd sorts dates using an alphabetical/numerical sorting algorithm? With MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY you just need to read the first 4 characters, since the year basically stays the same all.. year.
Personally, my only problem with WGA is that it's a weird user experience. I need to click through about twenty times - even on IE - to have my system transmit "Yes, he's using a real version of Windows." It shouldn't be that complicated.
Sure you must be talking about some first-time installation? When I go to MS to download something, or I do a MS Update, there's exactly ONE (1) screen telling me there's a check. This screen has ONE (1) button that I need to push to 'continue', after which I am sent to ONE (1) more page telling me it's ok.
That's 2 pages. 1 click. Stop making excuses.
Intrusive? Time consuming? All I have to do is press a frikkin button. And not even once every 108 minutes!
I smell an excuse.
You need to double-check your definition of Spyware. $10 says you're still not running a legitimate version.
So is Bonzi Buddy. Doesn't make it any less sleazy...
No idea how they did it, but XP _will_ complain if the complete path+filename exceeds 255 characters. It's the reason I stopped using My Documents alltogether.