Yeah but it feels stupid to pay for something you had for free for so long and not have any bonuses for that while people who live in richer countries don't have to pay anything. In my country a lot of people don't even have credit cards so they most likely won't pay even if they can afford it. And there are a lot more poorer countries then mine.
I'd like an invite please:). My email is my user name at gmail.com. Thanks. Maybe we should send invites to all our last.fm friends? This subscription just seems wrong, instead of offering more features, like listening to whole albums, they discriminate people by their IP address. I know nothing is free but since we contributed by scrobbling I think we deserve more. Not to mention developers who contributed to their client. I happily subscribe to flickr because I get MORE for a pro account. I actually stopped pirating because of last.fm and now I have to go back to soulseek and torrent. I feel like a fool because I recommended last.fm to so many people. Come march 30th, i'm deleting the account.
I think the article talks about the difference in the way of delivery (centralized vs. multiple sources) rather then the act of watching. You seem not to see the wood from the trees, you can watch youtube on the 24" screen if it's connected to the pc. It's also a question of time when all TV will have a browser of some sort. And you can watch it on your mobile, laptop or whatever. It means you won't tune in to watch the the show at the exact time on the exact tv channel but you'll probably take a link from a facebook friend and watch it at the time of your convenience. You could have, for example, 'my recommendations' menu on your tv remote just as you have a dvd menu. What is important is that you don't get served in the same way which will change the kind of shows you are watching
I don't own a smartphone yet, because I don't want to have to carry anything that costs more than 100 euros in my pocket, but the way I see it the OS and it's apps on the mobile phone are different from your desktop PC. You don't need complex programs like photoshop or word on such a small device. Most of the stuff is pretty simple and will come off the web pretty soon. That means that it will be cheap or free (as in beer) or OSS. So in a while there will be nothing to differentiate significantly the handsets software wise and the only thing will be hardware (especially the looks of it, since we tend to take these things publicly) and easy of use. And price, of course.
Ok, sorry about that one but I was too drunk last night to give a more intelligent reply. Yes I know that part of OS X are open source but the parent poster's point was that the flaw will be fixed the way open source bugs get fixed - someone (in the community?) will fix it once it has been identified. I don't know if it's the open or closed source part that has the flaw but TFA said that it has been forwarded to Apple. That means that we'll have to wait for Apple to fix it just as it would have been the case with Microsoft if Vista had been cracked. I realise that bugs in FOSS software don't get magically fixed by them selves either but mentioning OS X's "open sourceness" as advantage compared to Vista, in this case is just not correct.
If we, like good open source cronies, admit that there was a problem with *gasp* part of the Apple software/laptop combo (whether it was Safari or the OS or whatever)
So many bad analogies in one post. The thing is, people see iPhone for what it really is, a computer, and they know what what a computer can do. In other words they know it can fly. Right now Apple don't give any right to 'hack' it but that it is only because they want to sell you a new one with more 'features' next year. People have come to realize this and Apple is balancing its act in order to satisfy its commercial interest, one of which is keeping their 'good' company hype. They do, however, consider un-lockers as users otherwise they wouldn't announce the release of the SDK.
I think he was arguing that W3C (not Nokia) shouldn't accept Ogg as a standard. If MPEG-4 requires everyone who implement it to pay for patents how can we be sure that everyone can actually pay (like most Linux distributions)? It isn't that free and open, like Ogg, to everyone. At least legally.
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Well it came with my Ubuntu install, and so do IE with Windows and Safari with OS X.
Heh, it's not available in my country as well. I'm doomed to p2p, I guess. ;-)
Yeah but it feels stupid to pay for something you had for free for so long and not have any bonuses for that while people who live in richer countries don't have to pay anything. In my country a lot of people don't even have credit cards so they most likely won't pay even if they can afford it. And there are a lot more poorer countries then mine.
I'd like an invite please :). My email is my user name at gmail.com. Thanks. Maybe we should send invites to all our last.fm friends? This subscription just seems wrong, instead of offering more features, like listening to whole albums, they discriminate people by their IP address. I know nothing is free but since we contributed by scrobbling I think we deserve more. Not to mention developers who contributed to their client. I happily subscribe to flickr because I get MORE for a pro account. I actually stopped pirating because of last.fm and now I have to go back to soulseek and torrent. I feel like a fool because I recommended last.fm to so many people. Come march 30th, i'm deleting the account.
I think the article talks about the difference in the way of delivery (centralized vs. multiple sources) rather then the act of watching. You seem not to see the wood from the trees, you can watch youtube on the 24" screen if it's connected to the pc. It's also a question of time when all TV will have a browser of some sort. And you can watch it on your mobile, laptop or whatever. It means you won't tune in to watch the the show at the exact time on the exact tv channel but you'll probably take a link from a facebook friend and watch it at the time of your convenience. You could have, for example, 'my recommendations' menu on your tv remote just as you have a dvd menu. What is important is that you don't get served in the same way which will change the kind of shows you are watching
Software compatibility? Maybe they are going to "persuade" commercial sw companies not to make Linux compatible apps.
I get this with xfce sometimes, my guess is it has to do with nvidia drivers.
But why would he link to Long Zheng's blog, hmmm? This mystery baffles me...
Bring out the Gimp!
You forgot people who do graphic stuff, like 3D rendering and compositing.
I don't own a smartphone yet, because I don't want to have to carry anything that costs more than 100 euros in my pocket, but the way I see it the OS and it's apps on the mobile phone are different from your desktop PC. You don't need complex programs like photoshop or word on such a small device. Most of the stuff is pretty simple and will come off the web pretty soon. That means that it will be cheap or free (as in beer) or OSS. So in a while there will be nothing to differentiate significantly the handsets software wise and the only thing will be hardware (especially the looks of it, since we tend to take these things publicly) and easy of use. And price, of course.
It's pronounced SHATTAN.
But not for 64 bit Linux unfortunately. :(
Ok, sorry about that one but I was too drunk last night to give a more intelligent reply. Yes I know that part of OS X are open source but the parent poster's point was that the flaw will be fixed the way open source bugs get fixed - someone (in the community?) will fix it once it has been identified. I don't know if it's the open or closed source part that has the flaw but TFA said that it has been forwarded to Apple. That means that we'll have to wait for Apple to fix it just as it would have been the case with Microsoft if Vista had been cracked. I realise that bugs in FOSS software don't get magically fixed by them selves either but mentioning OS X's "open sourceness" as advantage compared to Vista, in this case is just not correct.
Ok so go fix the Safari bug then.
I agree, but since when is OS X open source?
Sulfur doesn't smell like rotten eggs, hydrogen-sulfide does
Good, so it'll be more difficult to install windows.
So many bad analogies in one post. The thing is, people see iPhone for what it really is, a computer, and they know what what a computer can do. In other words they know it can fly. Right now Apple don't give any right to 'hack' it but that it is only because they want to sell you a new one with more 'features' next year. People have come to realize this and Apple is balancing its act in order to satisfy its commercial interest, one of which is keeping their 'good' company hype. They do, however, consider un-lockers as users otherwise they wouldn't announce the release of the SDK.
....GTFO!
Better make it Gates and Stallman and make it a sitcom.
2009. goatse
I think he was arguing that W3C (not Nokia) shouldn't accept Ogg as a standard. If MPEG-4 requires everyone who implement it to pay for patents how can we be sure that everyone can actually pay (like most Linux distributions)? It isn't that free and open, like Ogg, to everyone. At least legally.
Yes, but isn't MPEG-4 encumbered by patents and therefore not free?
Why didn't you sell goatse.cx?