Yup. It was right around the time of Windows 98 that people started complaining that their taskbar moved and they don't know what happened, or that another one showed up and they're not sure why, and now it looks all funny.
I'd say this was an advancement in functionality, but in the end it has caused a lot more problems than it has fixed.
The majority of people can't grasp the concept of floating UI elements, let alone understand that the reason the taskbar "Magically" changed position is because their OEM vendor installed too much bloatware, too little ram, their subscription-model AV software is eating their resources alive, the viruses they've manually installed have taken the rest, and while the system contemplated suicide, the impatient user kept clicking and dragging on the taskbar to the point where it moved. To the right side of the screen.
Riiight. Everyone knows that if you want to get something done in windows, you have to click "Allow," because the first 30 times when you clicked that X (which you're not really sure what it does, but it means "not the bad choice") you couldn't play your free monkey spanking game.
Meanwhile, if you want to use a program on Linux, you have to open a terminal and---oh shit, you just lost me.
Worse still, if you want to use a Mac, just download the program and... Why did it open another folder? What the hell is with the big smiley "A" folder and the arrow pointing at it? Why won't it just install?
Look at the term. Passwords are a form of DRM. CHMOD is a form of DRM.
Passwords don't qualify. Think of a basic list of NTFS file permissions: Read, Write, Delete, Modify, Change Permissions, etc. Now think of the other attribute, File Owner.
DRM is designed to reimplement the "File Owner" attribute on the actual content of the file, and only give you the "Read" permission on that content in scenarios it sees fit, despite the fact that you have administrator access to the file, and the "File Owner" attribute reads as your name.
Meteorologists the world over have noticed incredibly unusual drops in temperature in every country today, beginning at midnight in each country's respective time zone.
While there is no explanation for this phenomenon, experts predict average global temperatures to return to normal by tomorrow morning.
Still though, this kind of stuff is one of those things that, as a business, where the ability to compete directly affects your bottom line, I have to imagine that many people/companies in this situation would be differently inclined in the event that use of such information would never be leaked. Something that could stay with the one person who has the capability to use it to his advantage, or amongst the inner circles of a board room.
(AMD) would never touch the stolen info with a 10-foot pole.
Even if they couldn't directly plagiarize the information to enhance their current architecture (I understand there are a lot of very fundamental differences between them), it would be valuable to AMD if they could determine, for example, how fast Intel's next gen chip is going to be in order to make a product that would be able to compete better, even if it meant sacrificing margins.
True... I'm just thinking along the lines of something that I know could work based off of already existing technology in every copy of current OS's (like USB mass storage and Autoplay functionality in Windows). The idea I was getting at was to drive something that would truly be plug and play on existing computers without requiring a software update first and leverages existing standards.
Of course though, a *new* technology could be produced that would undoubtedly cost less to implement.
So with this DECE thing, even if users play by the rules, will it actually work?
IMHO, the *AA could create a DRM scheme so advanced that it it powered by AI and knows, with 100% success, whether or not you're using content in a method that constitutes fair use...and it would still be bullshit, because no one should be able to tell you what you can do with what you own.
There's a difference between breaking the law, and not having the choice to.
The problem with VISTA is that it was launched it BETA
Are you trying to voice your frustration about a product you don't use by making us think you're yelling the words, or are you actually so uninformed that you think "Vista" and "beta" are acronyms?
The problem with people like you is that you grab on to something and can't let it go. Vista had problems, at launch, almost two years ago.
I suggest you reevaluate the product. The drivers (and yes, it really was the drivers) are stable now. The file I/O issue was fixed. SP1 is mature.
Like it or not, Windows Vista isn't the steaming pile of shit Linux fanboys insist it is, nor has it not been improved--on all sides, both MS and hardware vendors--since that perpetual label got stuck on it upon release. The time for bashing Vista because its unfamiliar and slower than its predecessor, which is a paradigm I feel obligated to remind you can be seen down the entire Windows product line, is nearing its end.
Sooner or later, hating on Vista will make you look almost as ignorant as the man who faults XP for its "Fischer Price" interface.
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Yup. It was right around the time of Windows 98 that people started complaining that their taskbar moved and they don't know what happened, or that another one showed up and they're not sure why, and now it looks all funny.
I'd say this was an advancement in functionality, but in the end it has caused a lot more problems than it has fixed.
The majority of people can't grasp the concept of floating UI elements, let alone understand that the reason the taskbar "Magically" changed position is because their OEM vendor installed too much bloatware, too little ram, their subscription-model AV software is eating their resources alive, the viruses they've manually installed have taken the rest, and while the system contemplated suicide, the impatient user kept clicking and dragging on the taskbar to the point where it moved. To the right side of the screen.
Windoze is-a usability nightmare anyways
Riiight. Everyone knows that if you want to get something done in windows, you have to click "Allow," because the first 30 times when you clicked that X (which you're not really sure what it does, but it means "not the bad choice") you couldn't play your free monkey spanking game.
Meanwhile, if you want to use a program on Linux, you have to open a terminal and---oh shit, you just lost me.
Worse still, if you want to use a Mac, just download the program and... Why did it open another folder? What the hell is with the big smiley "A" folder and the arrow pointing at it? Why won't it just install?
Look at the term. Passwords are a form of DRM. CHMOD is a form of DRM.
Passwords don't qualify. Think of a basic list of NTFS file permissions: Read, Write, Delete, Modify, Change Permissions, etc. Now think of the other attribute, File Owner.
DRM is designed to reimplement the "File Owner" attribute on the actual content of the file, and only give you the "Read" permission on that content in scenarios it sees fit, despite the fact that you have administrator access to the file, and the "File Owner" attribute reads as your name.
Meteorologists the world over have noticed incredibly unusual drops in temperature in every country today, beginning at midnight in each country's respective time zone.
While there is no explanation for this phenomenon, experts predict average global temperatures to return to normal by tomorrow morning.
Actual knowledge of how they do what they do can be kept between a surprisingly well paid small group of people.
Fixed that for you.
Indeed. Post-RTFA, of course.
Still though, this kind of stuff is one of those things that, as a business, where the ability to compete directly affects your bottom line, I have to imagine that many people/companies in this situation would be differently inclined in the event that use of such information would never be leaked. Something that could stay with the one person who has the capability to use it to his advantage, or amongst the inner circles of a board room.
(AMD) would never touch the stolen info with a 10-foot pole.
Even if they couldn't directly plagiarize the information to enhance their current architecture (I understand there are a lot of very fundamental differences between them), it would be valuable to AMD if they could determine, for example, how fast Intel's next gen chip is going to be in order to make a product that would be able to compete better, even if it meant sacrificing margins.
Industries still compete the "old fashioned" way.
News at 11.
That's all in good fun until one of your customers decides you have to be unshielded.
True... I'm just thinking along the lines of something that I know could work based off of already existing technology in every copy of current OS's (like USB mass storage and Autoplay functionality in Windows). The idea I was getting at was to drive something that would truly be plug and play on existing computers without requiring a software update first and leverages existing standards.
Of course though, a *new* technology could be produced that would undoubtedly cost less to implement.
Expose 3 partitions to the host OS via USB mass storage. One NTFS, one ext2, one hfs.
Throw an autoplay compatible script in there that takes care of the rest.
No extra formats. No DRM wars. Just hardware "working."
C:\Unusuable Music>route ADD big.evil.drm.network MASK 255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1 METRIC 1 IF 1 ..
C:\Unusuable Music>cd
C:\>rename "Unusuable Music" "DRM Free Music"
So with this DECE thing, even if users play by the rules, will it actually work?
IMHO, the *AA could create a DRM scheme so advanced that it it powered by AI and knows, with 100% success, whether or not you're using content in a method that constitutes fair use...and it would still be bullshit, because no one should be able to tell you what you can do with what you own.
There's a difference between breaking the law, and not having the choice to.
I've always heard the term "cloud" used to represent a privately owned network to which multiple people/companies connect that is not the internet.
You start banning a certain type of video...it turns into banning any video that someone finds offensive
FWIW, YouTube has had a very strict policy against pr0n for as long as I can remember.
How many Christians advocate that garbage
Do you realize that your question indirectly proposes that most people of Islamic faith advocate the garbage in TFV(videos)?
I haven't seen anything that shows how to blow up abortion clinics - of course, I haven't looked for it, either.
I would imagine that the majority of Islamic peoples can make the same statement regarding these "training videos."
Heh, at least you understood I meant OS X ;)
:P
I probably should have mentioned that I don't own an iPod. I'm looking for everything iTunes has sans iPod management functionality
It seemed more poignant to capture that screenshot rather than this one as I got hit by the noob stick when I got home.
Hrrmm.... It appears to be missing some of the shiny I've come to associate with OS X, but I'll take nerd endorsement :D
[...]and the user...
...installed iTunes.
I'll second the notion that iTunes for Windows is a steaming heap of crap.
iTunes for OS X is okay, but the only reason I use it is mostly because I haven't bothered to install something else.
windows would complain that I didn't have antivirus -- and no you couldn't turn it off.
Have to call you on this one.
Bullshit.
Though there are multiple methods to remove that message, this is by far the most effective.
It means you were badly coded in Java.
Yes, but it also means that your genitals work on all platforms.
racist and politically correct at the same time
There's something strangely... attractive about this kind of power.
...Obama '08
The problem with VISTA is that it was launched it BETA
Are you trying to voice your frustration about a product you don't use by making us think you're yelling the words, or are you actually so uninformed that you think "Vista" and "beta" are acronyms?
The problem with people like you is that you grab on to something and can't let it go. Vista had problems, at launch, almost two years ago.
I suggest you reevaluate the product. The drivers (and yes, it really was the drivers) are stable now. The file I/O issue was fixed. SP1 is mature.
Like it or not, Windows Vista isn't the steaming pile of shit Linux fanboys insist it is, nor has it not been improved--on all sides, both MS and hardware vendors--since that perpetual label got stuck on it upon release. The time for bashing Vista because its unfamiliar and slower than its predecessor, which is a paradigm I feel obligated to remind you can be seen down the entire Windows product line, is nearing its end.
Sooner or later, hating on Vista will make you look almost as ignorant as the man who faults XP for its "Fischer Price" interface.