Sorry, I was not able to read your post due to the high amounts of absurd BS you put on it. You begin by taking just 2 examples and generalize into the whole free software environment. Then you come with it scaring users again, sorry, but the awesome bar has so far scared just a couple of judgemental geeks that were turned off by the awesome bar after they tried it ONCE, they never bothered testing it for a week to see how it gets fed with your habits and becomes being INCREDIBLY useful...
The location bar is awesome, in fact, the only place EVER where I've seen people being actually opposed to it is... slashdot. So maybe it does have something to do with porn...
I no longer need any bookmarks, I actually never bookmarked things, but if I feel like revisiting something I've seen 2 weeks ago and only remember just some bit of the title, it is VERY helpful. it has saved me a lot of time. You don't mess with my awesome bar...
o many recent AAA games in every genre are listed as 'bronze' or 'garbage'
news at seven? This is almost always the case with new games. They get fixed after about a year or so. This has nothing to do with technical superiority but with the absurd monopoly and lack of better tools that could make the development for cross platform games easier. The fact the industry embraced a vendor-specific API as a defacto standard does not help.
You really do overcloking in software? I think though that some kernel tweaks avoid so, not too experienced, I am not 15 years old
I am a casual gamer, to me it is fine to play 2 years old games, as you get to know which are truly good and which are...fads. I don't care that much about not being able to play a game released last week. And graphics are not that important in comparison to gameplay. I was a gamer before switching to Linux and still am, I don't really suffer that much, I can actually play GTA just fine...
To their defense, besides the marketshare one these don't sound as reasons. Linux gamers will use the nvidia driver, and they already do use them. It is still better than using windows as it saves you from paying the windows licenses and dealing with windows... nvidia is also not the only graphics provider, and other graphics enterprises don't rely on these blobs.
Other OSs deal just fine with older drivers when they want to. Open Source is not an excuse for unstable APIs.
Are you sure? they have to get rid of that legacy code supporting old drivers eventually, and we know already of cases in which they did, i.e it caused MS tons of problems with the vista migration.
Now, please explain, what would be so dramatically catastrophic for nvidia to... just release specifications for a driver and let people code drivers for it if they wish? They wouldn't be giving any code away... and in fact, as consumers of their product, we would be benefited as it would be possible to port to many new platforms. nvidia marketshare and overall quality will increase, also the product life... but nope, no dice..
The reason R2D2 and other artifacts do not speak is obviously to justify the purchase of C3PO and other protocol droids, considering that most planets actually speak English, so robots are really the only way to justify that purchase most of the times. This safe marketshare is the reason they didn't bother fixing C3PO's design flaws.
To the people in extreme poverty, I doubt there is much difference between a guy that walks with a gold stick and other that is able to pay and use for a computer, all the material inside (including some gold sticks) , and also the internet connection + infrastructure... Well, it is a blessing we just live reasonably this allows to both ignore the poor AND criticize the rich for not helping the poor, how lucky we are.
Holy ad hominem batman! Why did you jump on the defensive so fast? You know that you can agree with what the pope said in that paragraph and not necessarily be against condoms in Africa, right? I think that in this case he was completely right.
Perhaps that's really the thing with it? I guess that when you read a twit/whatever you know it won't take you more than what it takes to read 150 characters, with email, that's different, you could spend ages reading some message...
It was fixed much faster than MS after it was announced. I guess it is 100000 times faster than your usual MS flaw. So, yeah Linux is more secure.
Also, did you bother reading what this exploit does? It is very bad because it allows user programs to gain administrator privileges. This is insecure because it puts Linux in a category that's as insecure as all pre-vista windows computers and also the UAC-enabled-because-else-it-is-useless vista and 7 computers. That's the problem here, it moves Linux to a windows state...
Finally, it is easier to find flaws in Linux, this increases the chances blackhats found bugs, but it also increases the chances someone else will find it in paralel, preventing your hypothetical situation...
Ironically, it is because of some artificial obscurity that this bug was present and took so long to find. Most vulnerabilities aren't caused by obscure optimization issues, and are findable in source code, those were a non-issue thanks to the lack of obscurity. So this actually proves obscurity != security.
The analogy fails for media because people still want media, and still want media to be created by media creators (writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists, producers, etc.). In other words, the media creators still add value to society and/or their employer. The media's value is in its creation, not in its distribution.
Except of course, the corporations being analyzed by the analogy are not media creators. But merely corporations that look for media creators, distribute the creators' stuff and then pay them a small percentage of their earnings. Unless you are not an incredibly great creator (according to THEIR standards), in which they will just ignore you and let you move to a cubicle job.
In the freeloaders' internet of today, media creators are everywhere. I as an user do not need a corporation to filter prospective artists, instead they can just post something in say... deviantart. If I like it I might as well buy a print or a cup with the design they created. So the "finding artists" role of these corporations is effectively obsolete. The internet itself allows them to distribute their stuff for free. What's best is that for most media creators, the incredibly mild amount of revenue they make through the internet is still much higher than what they would made through the old methods (which is nothing as the corporations wouldn't bother with them). Amazing, is it?
You know, with some good scavenging you can find GNU Public Documentation Licensed/Creative commons books. Completely legal to be free as in beer and as in redistribution... Why would people write books for free? I have no idea! Maybe they wrote the book to teach their students , and they just want their ways to be learned by most of the world. They are not interested in profit but in accessing as many minds as possible...
movies are not free
But there is motion entertainment for free out there.
There are also free comics. There's even shitloads of free software out there. What's up? Why do these guys make things for free? I dunno, but maybe, maybe they have a different agenda than profit? Or maybe they managed to have a way to profit without selling a product? Sounds like crazy stuff...
All these mediums have people behind them. People like you that like to eat. To buy clothes. To ensure their kids have a great Christmas.
Well, sure, but is it my problem? If some random guy on the internet can make a version of your product, for free or less expensive. Then why should I bother with you? These old industries seem to have some huge sense of entitlement. But really, nobody is entitled to profit, nobody... I don't care if these guys' Christmas gets ruined. If there is a free replacement for their services out there, and it is the same or better in quality - according to me, the consumer - then I should not hesitate to pick the free alternative... Call me a freeloader if you want. The only way to stop this is not by making me feel sorry about your kids' christmas, but to a) Adapt. or b) Manage to exterminate all the free alternatives.
It's about time that things were not free. I disagree with free webmail. The amount of spam would go way down if people had to pay.
hahahahahahaha! You don't understand how does spam work in the slightest.
I think gp's post was referring to games in general and not blizzard specifically when he said "Dare we hope for the first truly polished, and moderately bug-free game release in a decade?"
Dare we hope for the first truly polished, and moderately bug-free game release in a decade?
Hehe, not a good day to have that hope... You know that Warcraft III's got an exploit by abusing some stuff in their script language's parser. Blizzard decided to fix this exploit... So they released a patch yesterday. The result? Tons of custom maps do not work anymore and need 'fixing' (which involves doing brute force on what sort of elseif+return combinations cause the map to stop working), plus the security vulnerability was not really fixed...
The big picture flew right over your head ages ago, I wonder if there's a way at all for you to see it. Maybe a cam streaming from a city in the arctic?
You might like to come live in the current world. Like everything else in entertainment (movies, games, comics whatever), music is entertainment and professionally made. It requires time, effort and money. Just as stupid RIAA's lawsuits against studenst are, pirates reasoning to get content for free are too. Music *IS* industry.
Heh, honestly. If some random guy in the internet can provide your costumers with a copy of your product that has exactly the same (or thanks to DRM even more) quality than your product for FREE! then you are probably doing something wrong. The record industry may pull as many tantrums as they'd like, but it is their business that allows piracy to kill them. They could go and complain about how evil pirates do things illegally. And let's say they actually manage to magically exterminate piracy. There's still going to be the little problem... you guys miss the point that people can distribute movies, games, comics and their music for free?
Why would they do that? Well, the internet has removed the issues with distribution itself being expensive, now it can actually be done for free. Publishing is also not that difficult anymore, you can have some other people's blogs and social networks doing it for you for free. Maybe that's the problem? Maybe the internet is too open... or maybe nobody is really forever entitled to profit... not even the record companies.
How is that a solution, dude? You can't just arbitrarily change the license of something. (Ask the *BSD guys that started a whole flame war when some Linux hacker re-licensed some *BSD stuff as GPLv2... (rightly so) )
The free software definition clearly states that the license must not have any clauses that stop people from getting money from the distribution of the app, and rather clearly, the GPLv2 does not...
This response will, of course, be down modded into oblivion by Stallman's cultists
With time you shall learn that "Argument from I'll be modded down" does not impress anyone besides 12 years old kiddies.
because they're generally desperate to ensure that any possible alternatives to their "freedom," never see the light of day,
Them accepting the BSD in their list of free software licenses, kind of hits they would not go towards lame methods to stop usage of that license:/ . Besides, it is hard to expect them to be 'desperate' as you imply, considering that the GPL is still, by far, the most widely used free software license...
The GPL puts weight on user freedom and attempts protects him from possible lock-in and abuse, the *BSD and other permissive licenses, put more weight in developer convenience, it is up to devs to choose whatever they think is a better license for their specific project (as a developer is also potentially an user, it does not surprise anyone that the GPL is chosen so much), not to self-righteous trolls in slashdot, sorry.
(BTW, the only free software I have released so far has used the zlib/libpng license which is just like the *BSD one)
In fact, the twitter 'hack' was also just a case of human error. The kernel case is something I haven't heard of, so I'll assume the only "true" vulnerability here was windows' one used for conficker worm, which coincidentally was just minimized as 'overhyped'.
It would still be news, a student is suing a big company for doing something of controversial ethical nature. That the book was 1984 just adds a certain touch of irony to it.
Price is no problem if you can subsidize windows 7's price until are the users are hooked. If there's no money for subventions just force OEMs and retailers not to sell netbooks with other OSes if they don't want to lose their access to MS products. It is rather easy.
. An OS that is able to run almost as well as a 7 year old OS on CURRENT hardware is doing pretty well.
Such a revolutionary idea... Except that other netbook OSes have been doing that for ages? Even XP is too slow for my netbook, and not as fast as 9.04 on THIS old computer. So I guess windows 7 is a no-no for me.
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...Maybe, just maybe they are disclosing this study now because firefox 3.5 comes with a way to choose what to show on the location bar?
Sorry, I was not able to read your post due to the high amounts of absurd BS you put on it. You begin by taking just 2 examples and generalize into the whole free software environment. Then you come with it scaring users again, sorry, but the awesome bar has so far scared just a couple of judgemental geeks that were turned off by the awesome bar after they tried it ONCE, they never bothered testing it for a week to see how it gets fed with your habits and becomes being INCREDIBLY useful...
I no longer need any bookmarks, I actually never bookmarked things, but if I feel like revisiting something I've seen 2 weeks ago and only remember just some bit of the title, it is VERY helpful. it has saved me a lot of time. You don't mess with my awesome bar...
news at seven? This is almost always the case with new games. They get fixed after about a year or so. This has nothing to do with technical superiority but with the absurd monopoly and lack of better tools that could make the development for cross platform games easier. The fact the industry embraced a vendor-specific API as a defacto standard does not help.
You really do overcloking in software? I think though that some kernel tweaks avoid so, not too experienced, I am not 15 years old
I am a casual gamer, to me it is fine to play 2 years old games, as you get to know which are truly good and which are...fads. I don't care that much about not being able to play a game released last week. And graphics are not that important in comparison to gameplay. I was a gamer before switching to Linux and still am, I don't really suffer that much, I can actually play GTA just fine...
To their defense, besides the marketshare one these don't sound as reasons. Linux gamers will use the nvidia driver, and they already do use them. It is still better than using windows as it saves you from paying the windows licenses and dealing with windows... nvidia is also not the only graphics provider, and other graphics enterprises don't rely on these blobs.
Are you sure? they have to get rid of that legacy code supporting old drivers eventually, and we know already of cases in which they did, i.e it caused MS tons of problems with the vista migration.
Now, please explain, what would be so dramatically catastrophic for nvidia to ... just release specifications for a driver and let people code drivers for it if they wish? They wouldn't be giving any code away... and in fact, as consumers of their product, we would be benefited as it would be possible to port to many new platforms. nvidia marketshare and overall quality will increase, also the product life... but nope, no dice..
The reason R2D2 and other artifacts do not speak is obviously to justify the purchase of C3PO and other protocol droids, considering that most planets actually speak English, so robots are really the only way to justify that purchase most of the times. This safe marketshare is the reason they didn't bother fixing C3PO's design flaws.
To the people in extreme poverty, I doubt there is much difference between a guy that walks with a gold stick and other that is able to pay and use for a computer, all the material inside (including some gold sticks) , and also the internet connection + infrastructure... Well, it is a blessing we just live reasonably this allows to both ignore the poor AND criticize the rich for not helping the poor, how lucky we are.
Holy ad hominem batman! Why did you jump on the defensive so fast? You know that you can agree with what the pope said in that paragraph and not necessarily be against condoms in Africa, right? I think that in this case he was completely right.
Perhaps that's really the thing with it? I guess that when you read a twit/whatever you know it won't take you more than what it takes to read 150 characters, with email, that's different, you could spend ages reading some message...
How interesting.
Also, did you bother reading what this exploit does? It is very bad because it allows user programs to gain administrator privileges. This is insecure because it puts Linux in a category that's as insecure as all pre-vista windows computers and also the UAC-enabled-because-else-it-is-useless vista and 7 computers. That's the problem here, it moves Linux to a windows state...
Finally, it is easier to find flaws in Linux, this increases the chances blackhats found bugs, but it also increases the chances someone else will find it in paralel, preventing your hypothetical situation...
Ironically, it is because of some artificial obscurity that this bug was present and took so long to find. Most vulnerabilities aren't caused by obscure optimization issues, and are findable in source code, those were a non-issue thanks to the lack of obscurity. So this actually proves obscurity != security.
-1 lack of humor.
Except of course, the corporations being analyzed by the analogy are not media creators. But merely corporations that look for media creators, distribute the creators' stuff and then pay them a small percentage of their earnings. Unless you are not an incredibly great creator (according to THEIR standards), in which they will just ignore you and let you move to a cubicle job.
In the freeloaders' internet of today, media creators are everywhere. I as an user do not need a corporation to filter prospective artists, instead they can just post something in say... deviantart. If I like it I might as well buy a print or a cup with the design they created. So the "finding artists" role of these corporations is effectively obsolete. The internet itself allows them to distribute their stuff for free. What's best is that for most media creators, the incredibly mild amount of revenue they make through the internet is still much higher than what they would made through the old methods (which is nothing as the corporations wouldn't bother with them). Amazing, is it?
But news are.
You know, with some good scavenging you can find GNU Public Documentation Licensed/Creative commons books. Completely legal to be free as in beer and as in redistribution... Why would people write books for free? I have no idea! Maybe they wrote the book to teach their students , and they just want their ways to be learned by most of the world. They are not interested in profit but in accessing as many minds as possible...
But there is motion entertainment for free out there.
There are also free comics. There's even shitloads of free software out there. What's up? Why do these guys make things for free? I dunno, but maybe, maybe they have a different agenda than profit? Or maybe they managed to have a way to profit without selling a product? Sounds like crazy stuff...
Well, sure, but is it my problem? If some random guy on the internet can make a version of your product, for free or less expensive. Then why should I bother with you? These old industries seem to have some huge sense of entitlement. But really, nobody is entitled to profit, nobody... I don't care if these guys' Christmas gets ruined. If there is a free replacement for their services out there, and it is the same or better in quality - according to me, the consumer - then I should not hesitate to pick the free alternative... Call me a freeloader if you want. The only way to stop this is not by making me feel sorry about your kids' christmas, but to a) Adapt. or b) Manage to exterminate all the free alternatives.
hahahahahahaha! You don't understand how does spam work in the slightest.
I think gp's post was referring to games in general and not blizzard specifically when he said "Dare we hope for the first truly polished, and moderately bug-free game release in a decade?"
Hehe, not a good day to have that hope... You know that Warcraft III's got an exploit by abusing some stuff in their script language's parser. Blizzard decided to fix this exploit... So they released a patch yesterday. The result? Tons of custom maps do not work anymore and need 'fixing' (which involves doing brute force on what sort of elseif+return combinations cause the map to stop working), plus the security vulnerability was not really fixed...
The big picture flew right over your head ages ago, I wonder if there's a way at all for you to see it. Maybe a cam streaming from a city in the arctic?
Heh, honestly. If some random guy in the internet can provide your costumers with a copy of your product that has exactly the same (or thanks to DRM even more) quality than your product for FREE! then you are probably doing something wrong. The record industry may pull as many tantrums as they'd like, but it is their business that allows piracy to kill them. They could go and complain about how evil pirates do things illegally. And let's say they actually manage to magically exterminate piracy. There's still going to be the little problem... you guys miss the point that people can distribute movies, games, comics and their music for free?
Why would they do that? Well, the internet has removed the issues with distribution itself being expensive, now it can actually be done for free. Publishing is also not that difficult anymore, you can have some other people's blogs and social networks doing it for you for free. Maybe that's the problem? Maybe the internet is too open... or maybe nobody is really forever entitled to profit... not even the record companies.
How is that a solution, dude? You can't just arbitrarily change the license of something. (Ask the *BSD guys that started a whole flame war when some Linux hacker re-licensed some *BSD stuff as GPLv2... (rightly so) )
The free software definition clearly states that the license must not have any clauses that stop people from getting money from the distribution of the app, and rather clearly, the GPLv2 does not...
With time you shall learn that "Argument from I'll be modded down" does not impress anyone besides 12 years old kiddies.
Them accepting the BSD in their list of free software licenses, kind of hits they would not go towards lame methods to stop usage of that license :/ . Besides, it is hard to expect them to be 'desperate' as you imply, considering that the GPL is still, by far, the most widely used free software license...
The GPL puts weight on user freedom and attempts protects him from possible lock-in and abuse, the *BSD and other permissive licenses, put more weight in developer convenience, it is up to devs to choose whatever they think is a better license for their specific project (as a developer is also potentially an user, it does not surprise anyone that the GPL is chosen so much), not to self-righteous trolls in slashdot, sorry.
(BTW, the only free software I have released so far has used the zlib/libpng license which is just like the *BSD one)
In fact, the twitter 'hack' was also just a case of human error. The kernel case is something I haven't heard of, so I'll assume the only "true" vulnerability here was windows' one used for conficker worm, which coincidentally was just minimized as 'overhyped'.
It would still be news, a student is suing a big company for doing something of controversial ethical nature. That the book was 1984 just adds a certain touch of irony to it.
Bah, you would hope that if they were able to move at a tenth of the speed of light they would at least have solved P=NP :/
Price is no problem if you can subsidize windows 7's price until are the users are hooked. If there's no money for subventions just force OEMs and retailers not to sell netbooks with other OSes if they don't want to lose their access to MS products. It is rather easy.
Such a revolutionary idea... Except that other netbook OSes have been doing that for ages? Even XP is too slow for my netbook, and not as fast as 9.04 on THIS old computer. So I guess windows 7 is a no-no for me.