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thudfactor on
April 29, 2005
The “ArtMachine responds”:http://www.art-machine.org/blog/about/699/this-could-get-ugly to my “earlier post”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1118/whats-wrong-with-apple on Apple. If you haven’t read these, this discussion is not likely to make sense.
AM may be right about the changing Apple culture, but it will take more than two or three years to reverse the impression of the last twenty and Apple is certainly not helping.
Among other things, he [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Linux, media formats, Microsoft, Napster, Napster and Real, Operating System, operating systems, portable digital media players, portable media players, Steve Jobs, to-go services
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thudfactor on
December 6, 2004
Why oh why is there so much spyware? Could it be because people just don’t care anymore? “Sure looks like it.”:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65906,00.html
Frankly, I think it’s amazing what people will trade for “free.” I thought sharing some of your attention and brain-power on advertising was bad enough, but now some people feel it’s worth trading _every click in [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged free software, HTML, Linux, PHP, spyware-free _free_ software
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By
thudfactor on
February 12, 2004
Here at Thudfactor Central, home to many fine weblogs, we are looking forward to Six Apart’s release of Moveable Type 3.0, featuring user registration. One good reason is trolls.
I don’t get many here, but we’ve had a spate of them on my wife’s weblog. Not that she’s said anything controversial — unlike me, she really hasn’t tackled traditionally [...]
Posted in Blogosphere
| Tagged Chapel Hill, Georgetown, Linux
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By
thudfactor on
November 25, 2003
Here’s a fad of which I was not aware: companies suing others for copyright infringement, despite the fact that the plantiff doesn’t own the property in question. Heidi draws our attention to the SCO copyright complaint against Linux (good summary here), where the SCO group insists Linux improperly copied material the SCO stole.
Meanwhile, Glen reminds [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged Denmark, Linux
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By
thudfactor on
October 8, 2003
Now here’s an odd story. The music industry has presumably dropped a large load of cash on a copy-protection method for CDs that can be circumvented on Windows machines by “holding down the *shift* key when you put the CD in the drive”:http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60734,00.html/wn_ascii.
Mac and linux users don’t have to do anything; the anti-piracy software is Windows only.
Despite [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged anti-piracy software, ascii, BMG, handy music storage devices, HTML, Linux, mp3, Nathaniel Brown
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