Vanieter - Slashdot User

Comment I like GNOME 3 (Score 1) 396

by Vanieter on Saturday November 26, 2011 @10:20PM (#38178552) Attached to: Linux Mint 12 Released Today

I never liked having to track every individual window in the taskbar, awkwardly managing launchers and windows and virtual desktops. I find that GNOME 3 is a very usable and simple desktop environment that gets the work done. Much more so than Unity. I am the devil incarnate ?

RIAA Now Filing Suits Against Consumers Who Rip CDs 403

Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 30, 2007 @01:31AM from the because-we-needed-another-reason-to-be-cranky-at-them dept.

mrneutron2003 writes "With this past week's announcement by Warner to release its entire catalog to Amazon in MP3 format with no Digital Rights Management, you would think that the organization that represents them, The RIAA, would begin changing its tune. Instead, they are pressing on in their campaign against consumers by suing individuals who merely rip CDs they've purchased legally. 'The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.'"

Submission + - AMD To Develop "Open-Source Friendly" GPUs (phoronix.com)

Submitted by skaroo on Saturday December 29, 2007 @09:44PM

skaroo writes: Phoronix is reporting that future AMD GPUs will be more open-source friendly. After AMD started releasing their GPG specifications to the open-source community, questions arose whether there would be information covering their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) found on the Radeon HD 2000 graphics cards. The UVD information is needed in order for hardware-accelerated video playback, but it likely cannot be opened as it's ingrained with DRM. However, an AMD representative said that moving to a modular UVD design is a requirement for future GPUs and that they will be more open-source friendly. They will also be opening the video acceleration information for their earlier graphics cards. A win for the open-source community or too little too late?

Submission + - FCC May Move to Cap Cable Companies Size (reuters.com)

Submitted by

explosivejared

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @04:27PM

explosivejared writes: "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is moving toward resurrecting a proposal that would limit the size cable operators could reach on a nationwide basis, sources said on Friday. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has enough support on the five-member commission to pass a measure that would bar cable companies from owning systems that have more than a 30-percent share of U.S. multichannel video subscribers, according to one FCC source. Analysts at Stifel Nicolaus said in a research note that Martin is aiming for a vote on the cable ownership cap no later than the commission's next meeting on Dec. 18."

Submission + - English Wikipedia passes two million article mark (wikinews.org)

Submitted by

reybrujo

on Sunday September 09, 2007 @01:34PM

reybrujo writes: "Today saw the English language Wikipedia pass the two million article mark. The article in question is El Hormiguero and covers a Spanish TV comedy show. Wikipedia user Zzxc created it at 8:21 UTC, with another 104 articles being created within a minute of it. (Text taken from Wikinews)"

Submission + - Miguel de Icaza supports OOXML

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02, 2007 @04:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: Interesting bit, though you might want to know: On the Mexican vote for OOXML, Miguel De Icaza attended via phone, and expressed many points in favor of adopting the format. The is no transcript of the meeting, but there are a couple of ogg recordings: http://www.openintelligence.com.mx/downloads/Migue l_Alex_Pop_SC34.ogg (in spanish).

Submission + - MS exec: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft

Submitted by on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: ArsTechnica is running a story regarding Microsoft's view that should software piracy occur, Microsoft's desire is that the pirated software be theirs, to potentially, in the future, convert users from the "dark side" into legit users who obtain licenses...

"At the Morgan Stanley Technology conference last week in San Francisco, Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes commented on the benefits of software counterfeiting. 'If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else,' he said. 'We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products. What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software.'"

Obviously Microsoft prefers the market to use their software even if it's pirated rather than the alternative to occur: the use of free software which threatens their dominance in the software market.

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