This sort of rant, if done constructively could certainly help the developers make better choices, but to put it directly to mass media as a review just sucks.
But on the other hand, this sort of rant if done constructively is easily dismissed as just one guy's opinion compared to that of all the developers who work on Gnome. When put to mass media as a review it inspires rebuttals and action.
From what other posters have said, this guy has always been a KDE fan and Gnome detractor. But if he is causing debate and people are having their assumptions challenged that can be healthy. (Especially if, as you say, he has some good points)
the article makes it seem that it was the idea of an RIAA lawyer.
I think you are referring to:
Spitzer also thanked music industry attorney Bob Donnelly, who originally brought the matter to the attention of his office and then helped identify ways to resolve it.
That doesn't mean that he is an RIAA lawyer. After all both Greenpeace and Exxon have "environment lawyers". He could be someone who represents artists interests. I would think that if he were actually an RIAA lawyer that would have been mentioned.
The problem of @gmail.com is people can easily mistake people for saying @email.com on bad phone lines, over a crowd or even if the person has bad cursive writing.
That's only if you pronounce the g as jee. You could always say "foo at guh-mail". After all, how many people go looking for Free software at new.org instead of gnu.org? And for those who pronounce it guh-new, it isn't a very big leap to saying guh-mail.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but/. login isn't through SSL
I always see stuff like this and wonder, why are people more worried about a highly unlikely Man in the Middle attack than the are about there ID and password sitting in the database on the site? Sure slashcode tells me they run it through MD5, but there is no way for me to know that for sure. And there may even be some kind of logging turned on in the web server completely outside of slashcode that catches and logs all requests including POST info somewhere that isn't encrypted.
I think the more appropriate thing to say is "Correct me if I'm wrong, but people you don't trust run/. So I wouldn't use the same password for/. as for Citibank, etc."
Then you can be charged with destruction of property.
OK, then say his work was destroyed by a tornado. How the work is destroyed is not the point. The point is that he is redefining where the value lies. By saying the value of music lies in the work to create it rather than the enjoyment of it by the listener is preposterous. If I have a choice of purchasing a copy of music I enjoy versus attending a concert of some poor sap who works real har but can't carry a tune in a bucket, I am going with the copy. That is because my enjoyment of the music is where the value lies.
How exactly does that theory work for writers? If I write a novel am I supposed to read it aloud to every person I expect to get paid money from?
And personally there are groups whose music I would pay for, but whose concerts I would not attend. That could be for any number of reasons. I don't want to get a contact high, or I prefer the quality of something done over and over in a studio until thy felt it was perfect, or I don't like crowds etc.
And as for your not getting paid over and over for your manual labor, think of it this way: What if you built something, then I burn it down, your work amounted to nothing, so should you not get paid? If you an arbitrarily change the value of deliverables (performance == $, result == 0) why can't I?
Yes, visual representation does tend to "drive the point home" so to speak:)
Back in the mid 90s I used to get the MAKE MONEY FAST e-mails all the time with all the addresses to which I was supposed to send a dollar. I would reply to the e-mail with an attached mapquest map to the last address and a note saying that even if only 1 in a million internet users was a complete psycho, they had just given their home address to dozens of complete psychos. Never did get any replies thanking me for pointing out the error of their ways though.
The article isn't about consoles being the new MMORPG platform. The article is about the MMORPG market (PC dominated) being saturated, while the online FPS market (which has a large console demographic) and some other genres are growing.
MMORPGs cost between $10 and $15 per month and require updates on a regular basis to remain interesting. They also require significant time investment. Given the size of the potential customer base, any new MMORPG at this point is going to be cannibalizing the customer base of some other MMORPG. Most people don't have the time or money to play more than one.
XBox Live on the other hand is a flat rate, and has games in genres where you can just pop in and play a little bit without having to worry about being level 126 with 4 billion experience points in order to have fun. That is a market that has a lot more potential growth regardless of console or PC.
You do know that there are long periods of time during the jury selection process before the trial even begins where you do nothing but sit around and wait for them to call your name right? They may never even call your name. And if you happen to be chosen and then sequestered I don't think they expect you to be deliberating 24/7. Reading a book and doing your civic duty are not mutually exclusive.
A lot of people are talking about plumbers in relation to IT based on users/clients. Do the same comparison for plumber vs electrician.
A plumber is often responding to a user-created problem. The kid dropped a toy, someone accidentally flushed their pager/glasses etc. So you get someone who is apologetic and embarassed as well as critically in need of the service. The critical need makes the plumber someone who is saving you.
An electrician on the other hand deals with things that are less likely to be user error. Lots of people feel they have more right to be a PITA if the problem wasn't their fault. And electricity is very important, but I can live without electricity for a few days much more comfortably than I can without going to the bathroom or showering. So it is more of a huge inconvenience than emergency. And as with any inconvenience, the person who comes to fix it gets the brunt of the user frustration.
Then of course there is the fact that if an electrician screws up and touches the wrong thing he can die. The plumber has that to a minor extent, but can solve that just by washing his hands.
How is the.Net runtime a safe sandbox? If, as you say, EVERYTHING is running on it including the OS, then any code that runs in it will have access to everything. Not only that, but it will have a nice shiny new API with which to mess up your machine.
Someone at Toho is bound to realize that with the big G in retirement, they are going to need a new revenue stream. And someone else is bound to offer the idea of the Darl McBride method of revenue generation.
And I don't think Mozilla would pass for "generic" as related to trademark law. If "Kleenex" isn't generic enough to lose its trademark status, I highly doubt Mozilla is. And even then, its generic use isn't among people but among computer programs.
I'm sorry, but a firefight between laser pistols and lever action rifles? And the rifles win?! Give me a break!
Everyone seems to think Firefly was so damn original. A space ship captain/thief with a heart of gold in trouble with the big bad crime boss? Can you say "Han Solo"? I knew you could. How about "child with frightening mental abilities as a result of experiments". Firestarter? Ender's Shadow? This Alien Shore? And the psycho kid's older brother is basically a male version of Dr. Quinn Medicine woman, frontier doctor/moral compass.
I recognize that it is very hard to come up with original characters. The body of existing works covers so many, and if you believe people like Jospeh Campbell and Syd Field, there are certains things you have to do to make a story work. But when you take the characters above, mix in "Holy man who has lost his way", "Shy young girl with huge crush on hero", "Tough as nails female fighter" it all just turns into a big mess. Way too many viewpoints to cycle through in an hour.
So your Aunt says "No you can't have that feature because its not nice", and then once the govt gets the complete version 1.0, they take the code and add those features back in for version 2.0.
As long as the government has the money, someone will do the coding.
Didn't the Hubble get into space from the shuttle? When Hubble ended up being completely useless after launch because of a flawed mirror, wasn't it a shuttle mission that fixed it? Granted the shuttle program has problems, but without it, stuff like Hubble would never have happened.
Didn't you see Deep Impact? The government keeps these things a secret so there aren't massive hoards of people trying to cram into the special underground facilities they are building to hold the elite few.
Also, people tend to be easier to govern if they aren't all living like tomorrow is their last day on earth.
Here's a strength of the cli: quick show only files which end in.bat and contain the number 2003: ls *2003*.bat in a cli, impossible in a gui.
Nope. GUI can do that. Windows Explorer has been able to do that for years. Just hit F3 to bring up the search and put *2003*.bat in the "Search for files or folders named" box.
However, I find it quite difficult to believe that the judges and juries are stupid enough to award someone millions for no reason.
But there is a reason. Its the lottery mentality. Each of those people on the jury would love to be set for life. After all, it isn't their money they are awarding to the plaintiff. Regardless of whether the plaintiff is justified or not, each juror is most likely sitting there thinking about the award they would like to get if they were in the same situation.
If a robot were going to be driving you somewhere I would say it is more likely to plug into your electrical system and talk to the power steering, brakes etc. directly rather than bother with physical manipulation. It would also be more convenient because that way you could still sit in the drivers seat and resume manual control without having to stop and switch seats.
I have updated the windows kernel several times. All it took was popping in the CD and clicking next a bunch of times. I have a machine now that was win95, upgraded to win98, upgraded to winMe and then winXP Pro. You may say that equates to installing a new distro, but I kept all my settings and my apps, which you wouldn't with a fresh new distro.
And then there are service packs. Has there been a single service pack that didn't update kernel32.dll?
But you are right in one respect. I have never manually upgraded the kernel. It has always been an automatic process that is totally within the skill range of a normal user.
Because the Americans with Disabilities Act forces even drive-thru ATMs to have braille. Never mind the fact that the on screen displays aren't standardized and the prompts point to different buttons at different banks. Any system you come up with that requires a sighted person to operate will not work.
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But on the other hand, this sort of rant if done constructively is easily dismissed as just one guy's opinion compared to that of all the developers who work on Gnome. When put to mass media as a review it inspires rebuttals and action.
From what other posters have said, this guy has always been a KDE fan and Gnome detractor. But if he is causing debate and people are having their assumptions challenged that can be healthy. (Especially if, as you say, he has some good points)
I think you are referring to:
That doesn't mean that he is an RIAA lawyer. After all both Greenpeace and Exxon have "environment lawyers". He could be someone who represents artists interests. I would think that if he were actually an RIAA lawyer that would have been mentioned.
And it takes cold, cold person to commit such a crime.
That's only if you pronounce the g as jee. You could always say "foo at guh-mail". After all, how many people go looking for Free software at new.org instead of gnu.org? And for those who pronounce it guh-new, it isn't a very big leap to saying guh-mail.
I always see stuff like this and wonder, why are people more worried about a highly unlikely Man in the Middle attack than the are about there ID and password sitting in the database on the site? Sure slashcode tells me they run it through MD5, but there is no way for me to know that for sure. And there may even be some kind of logging turned on in the web server completely outside of slashcode that catches and logs all requests including POST info somewhere that isn't encrypted.
I think the more appropriate thing to say is "Correct me if I'm wrong, but people you don't trust run
OK, then say his work was destroyed by a tornado. How the work is destroyed is not the point. The point is that he is redefining where the value lies. By saying the value of music lies in the work to create it rather than the enjoyment of it by the listener is preposterous. If I have a choice of purchasing a copy of music I enjoy versus attending a concert of some poor sap who works real har but can't carry a tune in a bucket, I am going with the copy. That is because my enjoyment of the music is where the value lies.
How exactly does that theory work for writers? If I write a novel am I supposed to read it aloud to every person I expect to get paid money from?
And personally there are groups whose music I would pay for, but whose concerts I would not attend. That could be for any number of reasons. I don't want to get a contact high, or I prefer the quality of something done over and over in a studio until thy felt it was perfect, or I don't like crowds etc.
And as for your not getting paid over and over for your manual labor, think of it this way: What if you built something, then I burn it down, your work amounted to nothing, so should you not get paid? If you an arbitrarily change the value of deliverables (performance == $, result == 0) why can't I?
Yes, visual representation does tend to "drive the point home" so to speak :)
Back in the mid 90s I used to get the MAKE MONEY FAST e-mails all the time with all the addresses to which I was supposed to send a dollar. I would reply to the e-mail with an attached mapquest map to the last address and a note saying that even if only 1 in a million internet users was a complete psycho, they had just given their home address to dozens of complete psychos. Never did get any replies thanking me for pointing out the error of their ways though.
The article isn't about consoles being the new MMORPG platform. The article is about the MMORPG market (PC dominated) being saturated, while the online FPS market (which has a large console demographic) and some other genres are growing.
MMORPGs cost between $10 and $15 per month and require updates on a regular basis to remain interesting. They also require significant time investment. Given the size of the potential customer base, any new MMORPG at this point is going to be cannibalizing the customer base of some other MMORPG. Most people don't have the time or money to play more than one.
XBox Live on the other hand is a flat rate, and has games in genres where you can just pop in and play a little bit without having to worry about being level 126 with 4 billion experience points in order to have fun. That is a market that has a lot more potential growth regardless of console or PC.
Yes a bad, long sci-fi movie. But it isn't coming this spring. It came out in 1995.
You do know that there are long periods of time during the jury selection process before the trial even begins where you do nothing but sit around and wait for them to call your name right? They may never even call your name. And if you happen to be chosen and then sequestered I don't think they expect you to be deliberating 24/7. Reading a book and doing your civic duty are not mutually exclusive.
A lot of people are talking about plumbers in relation to IT based on users/clients. Do the same comparison for plumber vs electrician.
A plumber is often responding to a user-created problem. The kid dropped a toy, someone accidentally flushed their pager/glasses etc. So you get someone who is apologetic and embarassed as well as critically in need of the service. The critical need makes the plumber someone who is saving you.
An electrician on the other hand deals with things that are less likely to be user error. Lots of people feel they have more right to be a PITA if the problem wasn't their fault. And electricity is very important, but I can live without electricity for a few days much more comfortably than I can without going to the bathroom or showering. So it is more of a huge inconvenience than emergency. And as with any inconvenience, the person who comes to fix it gets the brunt of the user frustration.
Then of course there is the fact that if an electrician screws up and touches the wrong thing he can die. The plumber has that to a minor extent, but can solve that just by washing his hands.
How is the .Net runtime a safe sandbox? If, as you say, EVERYTHING is running on it including the OS, then any code that runs in it will have access to everything. Not only that, but it will have a nice shiny new API with which to mess up your machine.
Consider that Toho (the owners of "Godzilla") went after Davezilla a while back. Then consider that they just announced that Godzilla is retiring.
Someone at Toho is bound to realize that with the big G in retirement, they are going to need a new revenue stream. And someone else is bound to offer the idea of the Darl McBride method of revenue generation.
And I don't think Mozilla would pass for "generic" as related to trademark law. If "Kleenex" isn't generic enough to lose its trademark status, I highly doubt Mozilla is. And even then, its generic use isn't among people but among computer programs.
I'm sorry, but a firefight between laser pistols and lever action rifles? And the rifles win?! Give me a break!
Everyone seems to think Firefly was so damn original. A space ship captain/thief with a heart of gold in trouble with the big bad crime boss? Can you say "Han Solo"? I knew you could. How about "child with frightening mental abilities as a result of experiments". Firestarter? Ender's Shadow? This Alien Shore? And the psycho kid's older brother is basically a male version of Dr. Quinn Medicine woman, frontier doctor/moral compass.
I recognize that it is very hard to come up with original characters. The body of existing works covers so many, and if you believe people like Jospeh Campbell and Syd Field, there are certains things you have to do to make a story work. But when you take the characters above, mix in "Holy man who has lost his way", "Shy young girl with huge crush on hero", "Tough as nails female fighter" it all just turns into a big mess. Way too many viewpoints to cycle through in an hour.
So your Aunt says "No you can't have that feature because its not nice", and then once the govt gets the complete version 1.0, they take the code and add those features back in for version 2.0.
As long as the government has the money, someone will do the coding.
Didn't the Hubble get into space from the shuttle? When Hubble ended up being completely useless after launch because of a flawed mirror, wasn't it a shuttle mission that fixed it? Granted the shuttle program has problems, but without it, stuff like Hubble would never have happened.
Didn't you see Deep Impact? The government keeps these things a secret so there aren't massive hoards of people trying to cram into the special underground facilities they are building to hold the elite few.
Also, people tend to be easier to govern if they aren't all living like tomorrow is their last day on earth.
Nope. GUI can do that. Windows Explorer has been able to do that for years. Just hit F3 to bring up the search and put *2003*.bat in the "Search for files or folders named" box.
But there is a reason. Its the lottery mentality. Each of those people on the jury would love to be set for life. After all, it isn't their money they are awarding to the plaintiff. Regardless of whether the plaintiff is justified or not, each juror is most likely sitting there thinking about the award they would like to get if they were in the same situation.
If a robot were going to be driving you somewhere I would say it is more likely to plug into your electrical system and talk to the power steering, brakes etc. directly rather than bother with physical manipulation. It would also be more convenient because that way you could still sit in the drivers seat and resume manual control without having to stop and switch seats.
If I could get my employer to pay me 99 cents an hour per pound I would be a very happy camper
Is being the country 9th in the list of penis size really something to be proud of?
I have updated the windows kernel several times. All it took was popping in the CD and clicking next a bunch of times. I have a machine now that was win95, upgraded to win98, upgraded to winMe and then winXP Pro. You may say that equates to installing a new distro, but I kept all my settings and my apps, which you wouldn't with a fresh new distro.
And then there are service packs. Has there been a single service pack that didn't update kernel32.dll?
But you are right in one respect. I have never manually upgraded the kernel. It has always been an automatic process that is totally within the skill range of a normal user.
Because the Americans with Disabilities Act forces even drive-thru ATMs to have braille. Never mind the fact that the on screen displays aren't standardized and the prompts point to different buttons at different banks. Any system you come up with that requires a sighted person to operate will not work.