BitTorrent Inc.'s problem is that if they don't look as if they are pursuing a business plan which is traditional in terms of what RIIA and MPAA think, they are liable to get their ass's sued to pieces. we all know that the RIAA and MPAA will sue even if they are just sueing to put BitTorrent Inc. out of business.
My girlfriend is like that. she's been using it for around three months yet she "hates" it "everything" is in the worng place etc.
to be honest I think that users just find migration really difficult - especially if they have to encounter two systems - my girlfriend has to encouter office 2003 & open office.
What i wish was that somebody would release a mod or summat for openoffice to "officify it" - no not for me but for those who scream they want it.
yes I suppose that would include writing a talking paperclip.
Given GPL3 cannot be applied to the Linux kernel, I can't see GPL3 killing Linux in any way except possibly in being so much better that an alternative to Linux that is licensed under GPL3 gains massive popularity, in part due to licensing.
Which is not impossible, BTW.
Personally, I don't care about the long term survival of "Linux". Linux is a kernel, and not even a particularly interesting one. What I care about is the long term survival of useful Free software. If Linux takes a bullet because, for example, Solaris has a better Free software license, then so long Linux. Nice knowing you.
and your saying *nix has what? 2 varients?
*nix home & *nix professional?
lets be realistic, varients is not the problem; its features and compatability which is.
Musical preferences, like many other preferences, are formed as much by associations and practice as anything else. Often we might not like something at first or be neutral to it but then when your friends keep putting it on you associate it with good times (or just by repetition) and start to like it. This can also be applied more broadly; for instance, when I was young and stupid, I had never come across any alternative to MS Windows. I had never heard of open source and thought free software was always synomonous to freeware.
To add further to insult I genuinly believed other people were being 'nasty' and deserved to lose for sueing MS for bundling IE with Windows.
When you grow older (slightly) and get a much wider viewpoint, its much easier to see through the bad 'pop/indie/rock' where every new band seems to claim will make their mark on modern culture, just to be wiped out by the next wave of similar, yet not the same groups of twenty-somethings.
One thing that irritates me is the the constant airplay, major radio stations(I live in the UK, so I'm using Radio One as an example) will have a playlist of 20 songs (if you are lucky),
Semi- Independant, smaller radiostations(like X FM) have a playlist of 30 songs.
trucrypt is an open source encrypted vault software
just because they are open source doesnt mean somebody can come along and look at my credit card numbers...
or does it?
to be fair comparing it to PDF 'dont print' attribute is a bit silly becaue mp3's dont have a 'dont copy' attribute(well is suppose you can say whether it is copyrighted)
but if 'DRM' is a 'don't copy' attribute, why do people find it hard to break?
one of the major problems with DRM is that it is not open:
debatable DRM would be much more popular if it was a published, open technology, which everybody could implement (yes even *nix, DOS, Amiga and $your_favorite_distro
the major problem is that RIAA & the USA GOV, wont put its trust in the free software community when it comes producing something secure.
now before anyone mistakes me as a DRM lover. im not.
I'm just pointing out what would have to be done to even START to achieve a system which is desired in this bill.
though at the end of the day DRM is not the solution to life, and these stupid senators should work that out!
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BitTorrent Inc.'s problem is that if they don't look as if they are pursuing a business plan which is traditional in terms of what RIIA and MPAA think, they are liable to get their ass's sued to pieces.
we all know that the RIAA and MPAA will sue even if they are just sueing to put BitTorrent Inc. out of business.
See Sony and the Rootkit (episode 1)
you're brave. vista using /.ers are brave!
people in your office must be thicker than those in mine.
My girlfriend is like that.
she's been using it for around three months yet she "hates" it
"everything" is in the worng place etc.
to be honest I think that users just find migration really difficult - especially if they have to encounter two systems - my girlfriend has to encouter office 2003 & open office.
What i wish was that somebody would release a mod or summat for openoffice to "officify it" - no not for me but for those who scream they want it.
yes I suppose that would include writing a talking paperclip.
theres already gmailfs, it will not be long until theres a yahoo fs.
in fact i thought i read about a file sharing network using google a few months back...
* "Smells like teen Linux"
Given GPL3 cannot be applied to the Linux kernel, I can't see GPL3 killing Linux in any way except possibly in being so much better that an alternative to Linux that is licensed under GPL3 gains massive popularity, in part due to licensing.
Which is not impossible, BTW.
Personally, I don't care about the long term survival of "Linux". Linux is a kernel, and not even a particularly interesting one. What I care about is the long term survival of useful Free software. If Linux takes a bullet because, for example, Solaris has a better Free software license, then so long Linux. Nice knowing you.
amenFrom what I've . heard, those south koreans need an thical code relating to inflatable sex dolls.
If more XML doesn't solve the problem, give up and pretned you never wrote it
I did't know that, but as a result you have convinced me to move - thanks
and your saying *nix has what? 2 varients?
*nix home & *nix professional?
lets be realistic, varients is not the problem; its features and compatability which is.
You must be new here...
what would be an equally interesting question is when apt will be ported to solaris?
when that happens, i'm migrating.
http://pandora.com anyone know this?
-It must be that damn paperclip!
To add further to insult I genuinly believed other people were being 'nasty' and deserved to lose for sueing MS for bundling IE with Windows. When you grow older (slightly) and get a much wider viewpoint, its much easier to see through the bad 'pop/indie/rock' where every new band seems to claim will make their mark on modern culture, just to be wiped out by the next wave of similar, yet not the same groups of twenty-somethings. One thing that irritates me is the the constant airplay, major radio stations(I live in the UK, so I'm using Radio One as an example) will have a playlist of 20 songs (if you are lucky),
Semi- Independant, smaller radiostations(like X FM) have a playlist of 30 songs.
15 of the songs in both playlists are the same.
...and the winner of the 2007 general election is....
Republican!??!
except I dont think it has to work like that:
AES is an open encryption algorithm
trucrypt is an open source encrypted vault software
just because they are open source doesnt mean somebody can come along and look at my credit card numbers...
or does it?
to be fair comparing it to PDF 'dont print' attribute is a bit silly becaue mp3's dont have a 'dont copy' attribute(well is suppose you can say whether it is copyrighted)
but if 'DRM' is a 'don't copy' attribute, why do people find it hard to break?
but I hate most social networking. the worsed is piczo, followed by bebo, Hi5, by contrast myspace pages are good.
- at least ive seen practical , good uses of myspace, where as the others - i have never seens omewhere i would want to visit
debatable DRM would be much more popular if it was a published, open technology, which everybody could implement (yes even *nix, DOS, Amiga and $your_favorite_distro
the major problem is that RIAA & the USA GOV, wont put its trust in the free software community when it comes producing something secure.
now before anyone mistakes me as a DRM lover. im not.
I'm just pointing out what would have to be done to even START to achieve a system which is desired in this bill.
though at the end of the day DRM is not the solution to life, and these stupid senators should work that out!
But.. how?! You only have 1013 posts!
obcviously he is counting him explaining as ecvery time someone reads his comment!
...And the great thing is that a lot of it is much better than the next Pop Idol/American Idol song.To be fair, you dont have to try very hard to be better than that!
one of the only things google is better at that M$ is not screwing around with what the customer wants...