Apparently MS are out to get you...
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Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts...
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
Dario Solera wrote:
Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts
You had better not. I like ScrewTurn wiki a lot and if you take it away, I'm affraid I shall have to track you down and I will have such revenges on you, that all the world shall--I will do such things,-- what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth., as the Bard put it :-D
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Dario Solera wrote:
Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts
You had better not. I like ScrewTurn wiki a lot and if you take it away, I'm affraid I shall have to track you down and I will have such revenges on you, that all the world shall--I will do such things,-- what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth., as the Bard put it :-D
:-D You'd better track down FSF: they say "thou shalt not use Windows".
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
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Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]
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Things like that make me want to drop my open-source efforts...
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
I agree. I've been seriously considering putting something on my project's website that clearly distances myself from idiots like this. What a bunch of idiots.
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They have a nerve complaining about the quality of microsoft code and then produce such a buggy site
Go away and research the subject, analyze the options for and against, understand the problem and them come back when you agree with me.
Aint it just, the sliding doohiky that moves as you select the links on the main menu displays appaulingly. I can make out the bottom half of their logo and a load of text that's clearly missing. This is in FF3.5.2, hilariously, that part of the site works in IE8!
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Like, man, it's like important to, like, fight "the man" Yeah? Now I'm going to buy a Mac, because it's the alternative choice for free-thinkers :laugh:
keefb wrote:
free-thinkers
You got the last five letters right :-D
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yep, i too try and try and try quitting out of that monopoly, but i am always forced by company to stick to it.........
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I don't want out. After trying Linux I'm very much pro-windows! The character Lady Whiteadder sprang to mind while I was reading the article.
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keefb wrote:
free-thinkers
You got the last five letters right :-D
:laugh:
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Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]
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A little over the top obviously, but he has some points.. Such as DRM being evil (it is, it's not just "we want to make money", it's "we want to make money AND severely restrict you in ways that would be illegal if they weren't digital")
DRM in Windows only has effect if you have *purchased* DRM-protected media. I've never purchased DRM-protected media for this reason.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
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DRM in Windows only has effect if you have *purchased* DRM-protected media. I've never purchased DRM-protected media for this reason.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
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Nor do I, but should it be there in the first place? IMO it shouldn't - it's more like something to put in DVD player software (which will then of course be hacked, which I won't say is bad)
Well the problem is with Blu-Ray discs manufacturers (Microsoft, for once, is not included): they require HDCP for playing HD movies which in turns requires the video and display drivers (and the monitor of course) to explicitly support HDCP, thus the need for some hooks in the operating system. That's the reason why you cannot play Blu-Ray movies on GNU/Linux.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
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I don't want out. After trying Linux I'm very much pro-windows! The character Lady Whiteadder sprang to mind while I was reading the article.
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Well the problem is with Blu-Ray discs manufacturers (Microsoft, for once, is not included): they require HDCP for playing HD movies which in turns requires the video and display drivers (and the monitor of course) to explicitly support HDCP, thus the need for some hooks in the operating system. That's the reason why you cannot play Blu-Ray movies on GNU/Linux.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
Dario Solera wrote:
That's the reason why you cannot play Blu-Ray movies on GNU/Linux.
It won't be long before you can. Someone will come along and hack it (and then the keys will be invalidated, found again, repeat ad nauseam, just like the CSS debacle)
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Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]
blah, give me a break. in every one of the cases sited, there are free alternatives for Windows machines. And the blather that Microsoft is scanning our private data without our consent is pure bullshize.
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Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]
He's just pissed that he didn't have the idea of Windows first so that he could have $40bln in his pocket, like Billy-Boy does. And he's so daunted by the prowess of the Mighty Microsoft that his brain has been fried. He can't think of anything to make money for himself. Complete Moron!
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Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]
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A little over the top obviously, but he has some points.. Such as DRM being evil (it is, it's not just "we want to make money", it's "we want to make money AND severely restrict you in ways that would be illegal if they weren't digital")
you don't have to use WMP. there are plenty of free or inexpensive players on the market.
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Dario Solera wrote:
That's the reason why you cannot play Blu-Ray movies on GNU/Linux.
It won't be long before you can. Someone will come along and hack it (and then the keys will be invalidated, found again, repeat ad nauseam, just like the CSS debacle)
harold aptroot wrote:
come along and hack it (and then the keys will be invalidated
already been done
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Is the author paranoid or is just me? http://windows7sins.org/[^]
I really will never understand why there is so much people in the world that are completely pro-Linux or completely pro-windows... I like both of them, having Red Hat 5 in my server has saved me a lot of money and it works like charm (when it doesn't want to kick me in the a##), and having all the workstations in windows gives me easiness and compatibility with all the apps that everyone out there uses (but users are always crappy even if things are easy)... But this is only my opinion and the way I work, aaaaaaand I don't want to make any other to think like me, I've chosen and if other people wants to take a side its their problem... What I feel ridiculous is this amount of stupid things that Microsoft guys say about open source and the amount of stupid things the open source guys say of Microsoft... (of course it is more frequent to listen to that last case). Now I'll go back to my job...