but it can be quickly scuttled by the rank-and-file if they're resistant to change.
My dad works for school districts. He said back in the early 1990's teachers were furious that they were told they had to use this new fangled e-mail instead of network mail. All of the teachers were complaining about how complicated this new e-mail would be. They wanted their network mail. Finally, after some heavy pushing from the district, they submitted to this horribly complex e-mail. Now they obviously could never go back. Change can happen even when people don't want it to.
Well, given the choice between being extinct and having to watch movies made by Al Gore, I would choose extinction, I guess the dinosaurs choose the same thing too.
The difference between fairplay and playsforsure is that fairplay *only* supports ipod, playsforsure is compatible with all sorts of hardware. I get the impression that Norway doesn't have a problem with the DRM itself, it's because it forces you to use specific hardware.
I think this is sorta right, however I think it more or less falls along the lines of apple dominates the MP3 player market and is using that to force out competition in the online music market.
That's what I see this being used for. Gov't doesn't like
a). What they're protesting about (IE the protesters are right, the gov't knows it, and doesn't want the word to spread)
b). How many people are involved (same fear as above, word could spread)
Yes, but the government is also well aware of the fact that protesters hold no real political influence as nobody listens to them.
Why ever would I goto the cinema or to a shop to buy something I can get for less effort and money?
You might not but teens like me will. The theator is a social experience. You and your date going to catch a flick. You and your friends going to watch Jackass the Movie. There isn't anything like the theater for films.
Just like the League of Nations worked? Or the international court worked? The UN has lasted longer and has been a bit more active than the last two were, but it still is developing the "not my problem" mentality that allowed for Germany to arm the hell out of themselves before WWII and for all nations to do so before WWI. The UN is similar to it's predecessors in that it waste money on committees and threats of light economic punishment and appeasment that it will allow for a third world war (possibly with Iran though, so I guess that is different.). How can we trust them with ICANN. The Web is fine as is.
I have no issues with MS including IE, Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, and the like, just as long as I can uninstall them compleatly that is where I have a problem.
Would PS3's be useful as a "low power" platform to run distributed computing apps like SETI@home (or insert your favorite)? Is there ever likely to be a BOINC client available to run under Yellow Dog on the PS3?
I think I read somewhere that both the GPU and CPU do Folding@Home work while idle.
The Mac approach - simplicity and usability with the option for power use - wins out every time.
sorta reminds me of KDE vs. Gnome. Gnome is easier to use, but KDE has more features. I personally use KDE, as do many Linux users, but many also use Gnome, and several also use other side stuff like XFce, Fluxbox, and the like. You can't really say one is better than the other.
I would also say price has to be considered, OSX probably can do more than Vista, and it's easier to use, but most people dont want to pay that kind of price.
However, given the low specs of the machine, it may well be that the machine isn't capable of presenting a full, modern UI (yes, yes, WindowMaker, fvwm, fluxbox, etc - I know. They're not what I mean by "full, modern UI".)
Well XFce WindowMaker, Fluxbox, Blackbox, IceWM FVWM, and many others already exist, so why reinvent the wheel? Fluxbox with the icon extention is more than simple enough to not intemadate a child. Just put an icon for each program and your good. I would say a good medium is to offer it as an option, or to offer alternative distos which could be installed via a flash drive.
But if credit card companies are ordered to block payments to such sites, and regularly updated about each new naughty 'infringing' site, that just might start to seriously disrupt the business models of such sites.
Well then, there could be a Russian site that works like PayPal to serve as a middle man.
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About half the size of San Francisco
Now if only San Francisco would break off of the US we would be good.
When you boil it right down, anyone using one of the older versions of Windows (and I count 2000 in this, as MS doesn't support it anymore) is going to have to face up to the fact that technology advances, software changes, and no matter how much they love their old machine/OS, they're going to get left behind. Backwards compatibility leads to backwards thinking.
First off MS does support 2000 sorta. As I understand it, 2000 is an enterprise product. 95/98/ME are not. 2000 is in long term support meaning MS will release no more service packs or new features, but will provide security and maintenance for it until something like 2010, but updates will only be downloadable for people who have Windows 2000 SP4 Rollup 1 (a free update). I really think with IE7, that should be a security update, so I am a little upset especially since Win2K uses the same NT kernel as XP so it wouldn't take much effort.
I am upset that support for 9X has been dropped by Mozilla, as Windows 9x is no longer supported by MS, so that means that only 3rd party updates are available to users. This means that users of 9x will have only old browsers that are insecure and I think if I remember right, more people use 9x than Mac and Linux combined.
Sigh, obsoletance hurts. I am glad I use Linux. Sure various Linux distros stop being supported, but with comunity distros you can easily update, with commercial ones you usually get a discount on upgrades or you can simply switch distros.
Do you find not compensating artists for their work to be morally neutral as well?
And Warner Music and the rest of the cartel does? They absorb almost all of the "compensation". Personally, I find it more ethical to send the artist $5 through the mail after you download all of their songs than to buy it off of iSuck or some other music site.
Maybe now that Macromedia Flash is Adobe Flash and they have updated the Linux port, they might finally port shockwave. Shockwave runs fine on Wine on FF 2.0, though very fancy 3D stuff doesn't work too well.
Perhaps there were only a few problems for linux all along. Now that Firefox, Open Office, Gimp, Gaim, Thunderbird, and various media players work fine I don't know of any major issues. Wine picks up almost any slack left over. The only thing I have booted Windows for is to sync my Palm Pilot (which Linux could do if I originally set it up on Linux), to sync my TI-84, and to flash a new BIOS (which I have done once since buying this PC). I wish my school would use Linux since it would no doubt run faster on their old PCs.
It makes you wonder whether or not people will take offense to their tools being used by such agencies and whether or not they'll develop licenses to ban them from using them
The NSA made security enhanced Linux, other government agencies have worked with FOSS projects. Rather than banning it, they should encourage it. Besides, our enemies don't care about licenses. Which do you prefer, the NSA using Linux and FBI using Wiki software, or seeing our enemies be the only ones to take advantage of it?
Actually, I would just test your app to ensure it runs on DarWine or use Wine's libraries to port it. It won't look like a native app, but you can use skins for your app to do that. Plus this will allow for you to easily port to linux using identical methods with Wine.
Terrorist recruitment make this country what it is? That is all that this dude wants to restrict.
A 4 and a 7 year old get it, why can't the idiot neocons?
Because these idiot neocons are out there trying to think of ways to fight terrorism. I don't see any reason whatsoever to defend a terrorist rights. There is no reason a person in the US would have for recruiting terrorist period.
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Well, given the choice between being extinct and having to watch movies made by Al Gore, I would choose extinction, I guess the dinosaurs choose the same thing too.
I have no issues with MS including IE, Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, and the like, just as long as I can uninstall them compleatly that is where I have a problem.
I thought WineX/CedegaCVS was under the Aladin License, thus not FOSS?
I would also say price has to be considered, OSX probably can do more than Vista, and it's easier to use, but most people dont want to pay that kind of price.
Of course collage students got more than $10, they got to keep the chocolate too.
I am upset that support for 9X has been dropped by Mozilla, as Windows 9x is no longer supported by MS, so that means that only 3rd party updates are available to users. This means that users of 9x will have only old browsers that are insecure and I think if I remember right, more people use 9x than Mac and Linux combined.
Sigh, obsoletance hurts. I am glad I use Linux. Sure various Linux distros stop being supported, but with comunity distros you can easily update, with commercial ones you usually get a discount on upgrades or you can simply switch distros.
Perhaps there were only a few problems for linux all along. Now that Firefox, Open Office, Gimp, Gaim, Thunderbird, and various media players work fine I don't know of any major issues. Wine picks up almost any slack left over. The only thing I have booted Windows for is to sync my Palm Pilot (which Linux could do if I originally set it up on Linux), to sync my TI-84, and to flash a new BIOS (which I have done once since buying this PC). I wish my school would use Linux since it would no doubt run faster on their old PCs.