This is mafiosi tactics. Nothing like forcing you to pay more in terms of royalty fees to use a device which you ostensibly own if you want to use your own video commercially. In any other industry, this would be criminal. Can you imagine having to pay royalty fees if you want to use your car commercially? Basically the same damn thing!
If the Linux and Open Source community took that attitude, they never would have become a force to be reckoned with on the server market. OSX proves that Unix-like operating systems are ripe for the desktop. I really do blame the hardware manufacturers for not taking Linux/BSD more seriously. Sometimes both of the proprietary and open source drivers for Linux/BSD are junk. I would be less likely to blame the hardware manufacturers if they released, in entirety, their hardware specifications to the community. Just to make a point that it can be done, OpenBSD supports full 3D Hardware and OpenGL acceleration when using Intel chipsets and it works extremely well.
To IT employees and allow them to bring their own equipment in, because ostensibly, they understand security and know how to secure their machines. I am allowed to do this at my job. The alternative is an outdated, outmoded, Celeron D with 1GB of RAM.
Trouble is, Apple is masterful at marketing psychology. They have literally convinced the mass flocks of sheep that they simply must have an iPhone or iPad to look cool, chic, or cutting edge. The bottom line, and Apple doesn't want you to realise this, is that you don't really need these devices. Furthermore, Apple, Microsoft, and others love the "Keep up with the Jones'" syndrome. They want you to feel inferior if you don't purchase the same product your neighbor has.
Thanks to recent legislation, do we really own anything anymore? Not really, instead we supposedly purchase the permission to use the device in a prescribed fashion. In effect, with many devices out there, we continue to pay for its use after we supposedly paid the retail purchase price. This is why I won't buy an iPad, iPhone, Kindle, or their ilk. You never stop paying to use the damn device! This makes these products an ingenious profit model. Instead, I will stick with my laptop or desktop and throw Linux or OpenBSD on it and stop the perpetual cycle of "leasing" a device.
Seriously tired of all the rambling about freedom here. Have any of those who incessantly babble on about how some capitalist is "taking away their freedom" ever actually thought through the lack of logic in their statement? As if you have some god-given right to set policy within a sphere or activity that grew out of someone else's creative efforts. If you don't like Apple's walled garden, then stick your shovel in some different dirt! Nobody is forcing you to buy anything from Apple. Enough of this silly "I want something exactly like what that guy invented, but I want complete control over it!" Grow up. Apple's only relevance is that they put together a system of 'stuff' that a good many people like. You can buy in, or you can stay out. You can't come in and tell Steve how to run it. Invent your own. In the unlikely event that a few people like it and decide to buy into yours...I probably will abstain. Ain't freedom grand?
Well, thanks to frivilous patents, it may be impossible to invent your own, as you suggest. Otherwise, I agree.
The alternative is WebM, which is owned by Google. Google also owns YouTube, Google Video Search, and Chrome, and is leveraging the fact that YouTube, Video Search, and Chrome are popular to try to force everyone to adopt their owned product WebM, without providing any kind of financial assurances to people who do that there are, in fact, no encumbering patents. See a problem here?
Actually, a quick read of the "Additional IP Rights" in the License section of the WebM Project website you are granted protection so long as you do not modify the VP8 codec. If you chose to modify the VP8 codec, you do so at your own risk.
I guess we could all argue semantics but the definition of Free/Open Source really needs to be expanded to specifically exclude patent-encumbered technologies that do not grant unlimited, royalty-free use in both commercial and non-commercial uses alike. Also, I think if x264 should become so established, the MPEG-LA will start milking ridiculous fees.
Unsurprisingly the fanbois have modden your down but I agree. I gave up on FreeBSD when I got fed up with reporting the bug that would crash the whole OS if someone accidently unplugged a mounted filesystem which was being used - eg floppy disk, USB stick. If they can't get basic stuff like that right what chance is there for the more complicated subsystems? I'll stick with Linux.
What version of FreeBSD are you running? I am a Free/OpenBSD Fanboy. I am running OpenBSD 4.8 FreeBSD 8.1. On my FreeBSD box, I cannot make my system crash in the way you suggest.
Not only is it time to fork the internet, but it is also time to make it a true grass roots operation. The internet has become too monetized and corporate corrupted. There is no privacy anymore. What is to stop a few people from just going out and doing this in a very low cost fashion? A forked internet should be completely egalitarian. No amount of money or influence should have any effect. No tiered access, everyone gets the same packet priorities. Only pay more for higher speeds. Only one governing body for addresses and domains and no cost for their allocation. Once you own the domain, you own it.
It wouldn't surprise me if Putin's committee would go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. My guess is that they would use SRPMS and build their own Red Hat-like distro or even utilize CentOS as a base.
Not quite, MS threatened to sue people for using pirated copies of Windows. The end result, under Russian piracy laws, was a lengthy time in prison. Later, under criticism that MS was aiding in gross civil rights violations, the campaign to pursue those using illegal copies was dropped.
Putin's modus operandi does not strike me as being similar to the Chinese Communist Party. If anything, Putin might be a little anti-America and wants to break its dependence on Redmond, et al for support. I think it is as much politically motivated as it is a significant cost savings.
And Putin has a lot to gain through a homogenous network. Having one standard operating system that can almost be the swiss army knife of computing saves lots of money. Maintaining heterogenous networks with say, Windows, Mac, and Linux is a much larger headache. By standardizing everything on free, open source, and interoperable technologies, the savings are not small.
China already has a flagship distro called Red Flag although I don't have any statistics available with regards to its number of users. I suspect some Chinese may be leery of using Red Flag for fear that it becomes a giant tattle-telling box.
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This is mafiosi tactics. Nothing like forcing you to pay more in terms of royalty fees to use a device which you ostensibly own if you want to use your own video commercially. In any other industry, this would be criminal. Can you imagine having to pay royalty fees if you want to use your car commercially? Basically the same damn thing!
You think? That is the entire point and speculation has it that WebM may be the only supported format before the end of this year.
Plus, Google saves money by using WebM. They won't get caught up in potentially having to pay royalties to the MPEG-LA.
Microsoft is now getting into genetic and nano engineering? Oh shit, does that mean our eyes will now project the BSOD?
If the Linux and Open Source community took that attitude, they never would have become a force to be reckoned with on the server market. OSX proves that Unix-like operating systems are ripe for the desktop. I really do blame the hardware manufacturers for not taking Linux/BSD more seriously. Sometimes both of the proprietary and open source drivers for Linux/BSD are junk. I would be less likely to blame the hardware manufacturers if they released, in entirety, their hardware specifications to the community. Just to make a point that it can be done, OpenBSD supports full 3D Hardware and OpenGL acceleration when using Intel chipsets and it works extremely well.
To IT employees and allow them to bring their own equipment in, because ostensibly, they understand security and know how to secure their machines. I am allowed to do this at my job. The alternative is an outdated, outmoded, Celeron D with 1GB of RAM.
Damn! That was a stupid post. :P
Then I have no real incentive to buy the PSP3.
Trouble is, Apple is masterful at marketing psychology. They have literally convinced the mass flocks of sheep that they simply must have an iPhone or iPad to look cool, chic, or cutting edge. The bottom line, and Apple doesn't want you to realise this, is that you don't really need these devices. Furthermore, Apple, Microsoft, and others love the "Keep up with the Jones'" syndrome. They want you to feel inferior if you don't purchase the same product your neighbor has.
Thanks to recent legislation, do we really own anything anymore? Not really, instead we supposedly purchase the permission to use the device in a prescribed fashion. In effect, with many devices out there, we continue to pay for its use after we supposedly paid the retail purchase price. This is why I won't buy an iPad, iPhone, Kindle, or their ilk. You never stop paying to use the damn device! This makes these products an ingenious profit model. Instead, I will stick with my laptop or desktop and throw Linux or OpenBSD on it and stop the perpetual cycle of "leasing" a device.
Seriously tired of all the rambling about freedom here. Have any of those who incessantly babble on about how some capitalist is "taking away their freedom" ever actually thought through the lack of logic in their statement? As if you have some god-given right to set policy within a sphere or activity that grew out of someone else's creative efforts. If you don't like Apple's walled garden, then stick your shovel in some different dirt! Nobody is forcing you to buy anything from Apple. Enough of this silly "I want something exactly like what that guy invented, but I want complete control over it!" Grow up. Apple's only relevance is that they put together a system of 'stuff' that a good many people like. You can buy in, or you can stay out. You can't come in and tell Steve how to run it. Invent your own. In the unlikely event that a few people like it and decide to buy into yours...I probably will abstain. Ain't freedom grand?
Well, thanks to frivilous patents, it may be impossible to invent your own, as you suggest. Otherwise, I agree.
one can choose to use or not use apple products.
one usually has little choice over their cell service or internet provider.
net neutrality is a far more important issue and imminent threat than apple's control over their little corner of media sales.
Agreed! I voted with my wallet. By choice, I refuse to purchase an iPod, iPhone, or iPad.
Mod the parent up! This is exactly the argument I have been trying to make!
The alternative is WebM, which is owned by Google. Google also owns YouTube, Google Video Search, and Chrome, and is leveraging the fact that YouTube, Video Search, and Chrome are popular to try to force everyone to adopt their owned product WebM, without providing any kind of financial assurances to people who do that there are, in fact, no encumbering patents. See a problem here?
Actually, a quick read of the "Additional IP Rights" in the License section of the WebM Project website you are granted protection so long as you do not modify the VP8 codec. If you chose to modify the VP8 codec, you do so at your own risk.
I guess we could all argue semantics but the definition of Free/Open Source really needs to be expanded to specifically exclude patent-encumbered technologies that do not grant unlimited, royalty-free use in both commercial and non-commercial uses alike. Also, I think if x264 should become so established, the MPEG-LA will start milking ridiculous fees.
Unsurprisingly the fanbois have modden your down but I agree. I gave up on FreeBSD when I got fed up with reporting the bug that would crash the whole OS if someone accidently unplugged a mounted filesystem which was being used - eg floppy disk, USB stick. If they can't get basic stuff like that right what chance is there for the more complicated subsystems? I'll stick with Linux.
What version of FreeBSD are you running? I am a Free/OpenBSD Fanboy. I am running OpenBSD 4.8 FreeBSD 8.1. On my FreeBSD box, I cannot make my system crash in the way you suggest.
Not only is it time to fork the internet, but it is also time to make it a true grass roots operation. The internet has become too monetized and corporate corrupted. There is no privacy anymore. What is to stop a few people from just going out and doing this in a very low cost fashion? A forked internet should be completely egalitarian. No amount of money or influence should have any effect. No tiered access, everyone gets the same packet priorities. Only pay more for higher speeds. Only one governing body for addresses and domains and no cost for their allocation. Once you own the domain, you own it.
+1 - I am a facebook hater
It wouldn't surprise me if Putin's committee would go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. My guess is that they would use SRPMS and build their own Red Hat-like distro or even utilize CentOS as a base.
Not quite, MS threatened to sue people for using pirated copies of Windows. The end result, under Russian piracy laws, was a lengthy time in prison. Later, under criticism that MS was aiding in gross civil rights violations, the campaign to pursue those using illegal copies was dropped.
Putin's modus operandi does not strike me as being similar to the Chinese Communist Party. If anything, Putin might be a little anti-America and wants to break its dependence on Redmond, et al for support. I think it is as much politically motivated as it is a significant cost savings.
And Putin has a lot to gain through a homogenous network. Having one standard operating system that can almost be the swiss army knife of computing saves lots of money. Maintaining heterogenous networks with say, Windows, Mac, and Linux is a much larger headache. By standardizing everything on free, open source, and interoperable technologies, the savings are not small.
China already has a flagship distro called Red Flag although I don't have any statistics available with regards to its number of users. I suspect some Chinese may be leery of using Red Flag for fear that it becomes a giant tattle-telling box.
Unless the Russian Government wants to sell its own distro, then contributions must be made back. But, who will enforce that?
I had a gym teacher that was the real life foil to Billy Bob Thornton's character, Mr. Woodcock. An evil, condescending, smallish man.