The simple solution to that particular problem would be to ship some version of Linux on those HDDs. Ubuntu is getting quite usable for Average Joe. The software would still cost Dell nothing.
Before implementing nofollow they were a target for spammers. Now they're much less of a target for spammers. If Wikipedia was facing a spam problem, then adding nofollow might be one of the less offensive methods of dealing with it. Certainly better than limiting who can edit Wikipedia.
You left out Jokosher. It's still less than a year old, but it's probably already one of the best, and it's only going to get better. Jono Bacon (the guy who started the project) is an employee of Canonical, and I'm pretty sure Jokosher is one of the applications open in that screenshot on the Ubuntu Studio website, so you can expect it to be one of the "killer apps" in Ubuntu Studio.
I haven't, but I have avoided buying CDs because they used "copy protection". I didn't even bother downloading the music, either. I was in the shop, ready to make an impulse buy on a CD I felt like listening to at the time, but didn't because I wouldn't have anything to play it on.
There's no point in offering video in just another proprietary format. The idea is that *everyone* should have access to this. Not just Linux, Windows, and Mac.
How can that be done? Pick a format that doesn't require royalties.
Exactly. $1.5m + $175 for each customer who is aware of this, technically adept enough to realise what happened and describe how it affected their computer, yet didn't fix the problem themselves and paid someone else to fix it (I think almost no one fits this description) is less than a slap on the wrist for Sony. They probably still made more because of the CDs that people can't put onto their MP3 player, meaning that they must rebuy their music in a different format.
they have learnt a lesson from micr$oft about selling users a product they already have by telling them "it's cool, it's hip, it's happening".
Don't knock it until you've tried it. It's working great for Apple at the moment. Every time they bring out a new color of iPod people automatically want them. Never underestimate the power of really good marketing.
I'd rather copyright didn't exist than have copyright that lasts about 100 years. I'd rather copyright that lasts 5 years than copyright not existing, though.
Short copyright periods are a good idea. Long copyright periods are a very bad idea.
You're absolutely right, although I don't mind too much if they win this. If they did win, it would have some pretty massive repercussions for television shows that are broadcast, anything you can find on the internet without putting in your credit card number, and anything else that someone can manage to obtain for free sometimes.
This is yet another example of why we need GPLv3. The patent clause in GPLv3 would prevent Novell from distributing patented software with patent protection without extending the patent protection to everyone in the community.
1. Floating the price higher to reduce demand is an effective way to prevent "scalping". If it's not working, the price just hasn't been raised enough. Didn't we learn anything in high school? If supply can't meet demand, raise the price until it does!
Let's take a look at entities involved: A - Sony and the stores who want to sell the PS3 at RRP. B - Homeless people who need money and buy the PS3 at RRP only to sell it again for more. C - Fat kid who can't wait a couple more weeks for the PS3 and as such is willing to pay more for it.
"Scalping" is just another word for "wahhh... I didn't get a cheap one on launch day!"
my personal feelings are that the Australian parliament has fallen into the trap of allowing the end to justify the means
No, they allowed their decision to be based on science rather than what the church says. You'd be crying foul if it was Islamists trying to influence the law, so stop pushing for Christian law.
There's a lot of people who could be saved by this research, and if a few frog biological cells (that don't even have brains) have to die in the process, then so be it.
Hint: When you ignore all the evidence, you're the one with the conspiracy theories.
Any idiot can see that out of the 365 days of the year, it was extremely unlikely for this to be just a coincidence. Two days beforehand is the perfect amount of time for this to influence the election.
Friends of mine have also moved to Ireland, Japan, Australia and various other countries--they all like wherever it is they moved.
Australia is worse off than the US, perhaps not in terms of enforcement, but laws. The US has a bill of rights, whereas Australia has sedition laws, for example.
If there isn't anyone that owns the rights anymore, they can't complain if someone else is distributing it.
But for anything created in the past few decades (in other words, every computer game in existence) there is always an owner. Who the owner is might be something the owner themselves is unaware of or doesn't care about. Distribution of copyrighted works without permission (ignoring "fair use") is always infringement, so what that website is doing is actually illegal, but probably just something that not many people care about.
We don't need Open Source or Free Software drivers, just datasheets. The drivers follow on from that. There is no logical reason for Nvidia/ATI to not supply datasheets, either.
I think the only servers that can give a truly accurate indication are Google's servers. Even those won't be very useful once IE7 becomes more widely adopted, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Fairplay: Monopoly.
PlaysForSure: Oligopoly.
The simple solution to that particular problem would be to ship some version of Linux on those HDDs. Ubuntu is getting quite usable for Average Joe. The software would still cost Dell nothing.
Before implementing nofollow they were a target for spammers. Now they're much less of a target for spammers. If Wikipedia was facing a spam problem, then adding nofollow might be one of the less offensive methods of dealing with it. Certainly better than limiting who can edit Wikipedia.
You left out Jokosher. It's still less than a year old, but it's probably already one of the best, and it's only going to get better. Jono Bacon (the guy who started the project) is an employee of Canonical, and I'm pretty sure Jokosher is one of the applications open in that screenshot on the Ubuntu Studio website, so you can expect it to be one of the "killer apps" in Ubuntu Studio.
I haven't, but I have avoided buying CDs because they used "copy protection". I didn't even bother downloading the music, either. I was in the shop, ready to make an impulse buy on a CD I felt like listening to at the time, but didn't because I wouldn't have anything to play it on.
There's no point in offering video in just another proprietary format. The idea is that *everyone* should have access to this. Not just Linux, Windows, and Mac.
How can that be done? Pick a format that doesn't require royalties.
Exactly. $1.5m + $175 for each customer who is aware of this, technically adept enough to realise what happened and describe how it affected their computer, yet didn't fix the problem themselves and paid someone else to fix it (I think almost no one fits this description) is less than a slap on the wrist for Sony. They probably still made more because of the CDs that people can't put onto their MP3 player, meaning that they must rebuy their music in a different format.
they have learnt a lesson from micr$oft about selling users a product they already have by telling them "it's cool, it's hip, it's happening".
Don't knock it until you've tried it. It's working great for Apple at the moment. Every time they bring out a new color of iPod people automatically want them. Never underestimate the power of really good marketing.
I'd rather copyright didn't exist than have copyright that lasts about 100 years.
I'd rather copyright that lasts 5 years than copyright not existing, though.
Short copyright periods are a good idea. Long copyright periods are a very bad idea.
You're absolutely right, although I don't mind too much if they win this. If they did win, it would have some pretty massive repercussions for television shows that are broadcast, anything you can find on the internet without putting in your credit card number, and anything else that someone can manage to obtain for free sometimes.
This is yet another example of why we need GPLv3. The patent clause in GPLv3 would prevent Novell from distributing patented software with patent protection without extending the patent protection to everyone in the community.
Let's face it... supply and demand will always rule. When there's high demand and low supply, product will always go to the highest bidder.
Exactly, and why do some people feel that is something that needs to be opposed?
Two things:
1. Floating the price higher to reduce demand is an effective way to prevent "scalping". If it's not working, the price just hasn't been raised enough. Didn't we learn anything in high school? If supply can't meet demand, raise the price until it does!
2. What's so bad about "scalping", anyway?
I agree. What is the problem with this?
Let's take a look at entities involved:
A - Sony and the stores who want to sell the PS3 at RRP.
B - Homeless people who need money and buy the PS3 at RRP only to sell it again for more.
C - Fat kid who can't wait a couple more weeks for the PS3 and as such is willing to pay more for it.
"Scalping" is just another word for "wahhh... I didn't get a cheap one on launch day!"
It's surprising, but excellent, that it passed. A huge set-back for Christian fascists!
my personal feelings are that the Australian parliament has fallen into the trap of allowing the end to justify the means
No, they allowed their decision to be based on science rather than what the church says. You'd be crying foul if it was Islamists trying to influence the law, so stop pushing for Christian law.
There's a lot of people who could be saved by this research, and if a few frog biological cells (that don't even have brains) have to die in the process, then so be it.
This is a public, and final statement that nobody gets to kill.
Good on ya! By the way, how is that statement going to be presented, again?
Hint: When you ignore all the evidence, you're the one with the conspiracy theories.
Any idiot can see that out of the 365 days of the year, it was extremely unlikely for this to be just a coincidence. Two days beforehand is the perfect amount of time for this to influence the election.
I imagine most Slashdot readers want to know about this.
Friends of mine have also moved to Ireland, Japan, Australia and various other countries--they all like wherever it is they moved.
Australia is worse off than the US, perhaps not in terms of enforcement, but laws. The US has a bill of rights, whereas Australia has sedition laws, for example.
Since when is considering 100% compliance with standards a good thing equivalent to being "anti-Microsoft"?
If there isn't anyone that owns the rights anymore, they can't complain if someone else is distributing it. But for anything created in the past few decades (in other words, every computer game in existence) there is always an owner. Who the owner is might be something the owner themselves is unaware of or doesn't care about. Distribution of copyrighted works without permission (ignoring "fair use") is always infringement, so what that website is doing is actually illegal, but probably just something that not many people care about.
Flash 9 for Linux is newsworthy, too, but this is a new version of the best Firefox download tool available on Windows!
We don't need Open Source or Free Software drivers, just datasheets. The drivers follow on from that. There is no logical reason for Nvidia/ATI to not supply datasheets, either.
I think the only servers that can give a truly accurate indication are Google's servers. Even those won't be very useful once IE7 becomes more widely adopted, though.