The FSF's statement on Windows 10
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I just don't get what he's trying to accomplish. Ok, you don't like the feature, we get it. So what? Just don't use it.
No, I do mostly like the feature. (except for the hardware oriented stuff)
I think he's venting his frustration.
That.
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That's just promoting market efficiency.
It's not an inefficiency if it's on purpose :) Otherwise, we could call violating copyright "correcting an inefficiency". I'm tempted to use that as an euphemism instead of "piracy" now.
Arbitrage happens? Considering the results of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley, it's not like they have much of a leg to stand on from a copyright standpoint, anyway...(the "software is licensed, not sold" argument is pretty flimsy with regards to mass-market software, too).
That case has very narrow applicability. "Kirtsaeng then appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing the first-sale doctrine, a clause in the United States copyright which enables residents of the United States to resell legally obtained objects without asking for the copyright owner's permission, was more important than the copyright owner's rights to control importation of the owner's works under US Law."Also, look at the reaction from the publisher: "Wiley increased the prices for the international editions as well as the international student editions, citing Kirtsaeng." So, as I said, you either give different markets different prices to reflect their different realities, or you give everyone the same price and screw the people in the poorer areas. I doubt the overseas students that now have to pay more for their books are happy about how that went down, while the students in the US didn't have their situation improved in any way. And the publisher is probably making less money too, or they'd have been charging more for the books in the first place. So it's a situation where everyone looses. Good job.
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If the open source guys really thought seeing the source code mattered, they would inspect it
Logical fallacy.
They could write their own instead.
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or you give everyone the same price and screw the people in the poorer areas
And then you find that everyone in those areas goes to one of your competitors who doesn't care so much about trying to maintain prices in the US.
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There's not really "competition" in things like textbooks, games, music or movies, though. Which are the things that generally try to enforce regional pricing. IP is one of the few things with such a weight/value ratio that you can move it around and do arbitrage at a profit.
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There's not really "competition" in things like textbooks, games, music or movies, though.
Oh, but there's mostly lots of competition in those. Can't afford to see that movie? See this other one instead. Yes, it's a different plot and different actors, but it's still entertainment. The only reason textbooks are even slightly different from that is because of various taught courses demanding particular ones, and the teachers most certainly can and do change what they ask for.
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Why was the window (border) style removed ? I keep closing the wrong windows. Give me a contrasty edge ffs...
I can't seem to change that anywhere - except setting it to another coluor , and the ugly ones with high contrast.http://www.howtogeek.com/222831/how-to-get-colored-window-title-bars-on-windows-10-instead-of-white/
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Meh, more interesting is the one that makes apps use the dark theme. Wish that was an actual option...
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So since I prefer English-language software over the local Dutch I'll never be allowed to use cortana? Good to know.
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well, it would help if cortana was available in dutch too.
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I'll add that Google now works fine in english with Danish locale and region. Only need to set language to en(U.S.) as far as I remember...
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Seriously. What is the point of your bitching? Either use it or turn it fucking off. Just stop bitching.
Dude, his bitching is nothing. He's an amateur. There's this one guy, calls himself Blakeyrat, he's got this bitching thing down. It's just about all he does. In fact he's become somewhat of a cliche at this point, a one-dimensional character.
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So since I prefer English-language software over the local Dutch I'll never be allowed to use cortana? Good to know.
That'll teach you to not be an American.
Hey, here's an idea: why don't you Dutch people throw away the wooden shoes or whatever and build your OWN OS? Then you can do all sorts of neat and nifty things. For example, participate in the information economy at something more than a useless hanger-on.
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That's good news for me because
- I'm Hungarian,
- but kinda hate Hungarian translations of software, so I use everything in English,
- and I'm freaked out by the whole Google Now/Cortana "relax, we know everything about you" mindset. And I have no needs that Cortana would fulfill.
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I'm freaked out by the whole Google Now/Cortana "relax, we know everything about you" mindset.
Don't worry. Google already knows that you feel freaked out that way.
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The nice thing for me is the ability to do things like " Hey Cortana, remind me to pay my taxes at 5 on the 10th" - It does.
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The nice thing for me is the ability to do things like " Hey Cortana, remind me to pay my taxes at 5 on the 10th" - It does.
Oh, man, I can totally relate.
"Hey @mrsboomzilla, remember to pay the taxes on the 10th."
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But Cortona (or Siri) will never retaliate with "@Luhmann lazy bugger I told you to take the garbage out! Stop reading that stupid forum!"
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then too, I told my pc and my phone is the one that reminded me.
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But Cortona (or Siri) will never retaliate with "@Luhmann lazy bugger I told you to take the garbage out! Stop reading that stupid forum!"
Yeah, but it's still going to nag you later about paying the taxes instead of just taking care of it.
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then too, I told my pc and my phone is the one that reminded me.
Also, @luhmann, my sister in law does not nag me about the garbage.
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The nice thing for me is the ability to do things like " Hey Cortana, remind me to pay my taxes at 5 on the 10th" - It does.
I use a calendar for that. Like this one:
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I do too, but that adds it to mine. And mine is inside The Cloud.
Mine is also more useful than a calendar that looks like:
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Mine is also more useful than a calendar that looks like:
Yeah, a blank page kinda makes you do all the work.
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Level four:
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Hey, here's an amazing idea that I bet nobody has ever thought of before - if your software isn't available in [insert language], how about letting your customers use the [insert supported language] version? You know, instead of not letting them use the software they bought?
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Hey, here's an amazing idea that I bet nobody has ever thought of before - if your software isn't available in [insert language], how about letting your customers use the [insert supported language] version? You know, instead of not letting them use the software they bought?
You are just butthurt that there is no mainstream software in Lojban.
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You are just butthurt that there is no mainstream software in Lojban.
Don't give him any ideas.
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Don't give him any ideas.
Even if he has it, I still said "mainstream". Software in Lojban will have to find the cross section of people who both speak Lojban and need to use that software.
Sooooo......one person. One person is not much of a market.
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I'm sure open source package maintainers won't stop him from making lojban translations, though he may have trouble getting his patches to be accepted.
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Yes, it may be less useful by not sending you email notifications. I use Google Calendar occasionally, when I need email notifications. Otherwise, the functionality is the same.
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Let me put it this way - if I had my OS set to use lojban, I would like to be able to use English software if there was no lojban version available.
Now replace
lojban
andEnglish
with any other two languages and the point still stands.
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I would like to be able to use English software if there was no lojban version available.
How much more money would you be willing to pay for Microsoft to hire the translators, coders, testers, etc., needed to support that?
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Considering that GNU gettext supports that functionality for free, I don't see why it would take extra work for Microsoft to not translate their software.
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It takes 0 lines of code when using GNU gettext to make your program work when there is no translation for the user's language. Can Microsoft do better than that, or is open source software superior?
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GNU gettext is licensed GPLV2, as far as I can tell, and thus will never be used by any commercial Microsoft software, as you should know.
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Yes, but clearly it's possible to let users run software they purchased.
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Sure. I think you're assuming too much flexibility on Microsoft's part, though.
Personally I would expect that they will eventually support whichever language we were talking about, but that they rolled out something that they considered the most common n languages to start with.
But also, it's not as if "using a language with 'incompatible' country settings" thing is something that's new to W10; I recall people having complained about this for years. I guess if you want to use W10 and your language doesn't work with your country's localizations, for now you have to suck it up and stick with English and lie about your locale.
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No, the problem I'm having is that you're not allowed to run the software if it doesn't support your system's locale. Not "it will run, but it will be in English", it's "you bought this software and now you can't use it without changing your entire OS's localization and therefore all your other programs".
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Is that actually a change? I honestly don't know--I just know (IIRC) that "running with a mix of non-English locale and English language doesn't work well" has mostly always been a thing.
Theoretically they've gotten better at it over time. Perhaps someone fucked up this time.
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This image has been posted about 73 times but it can't hurt to post it again.
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Ok, nice to get fed the original context, since I'd forgotten.
If I were unfortunate enough not to be American I would see how much effort it was to switch all that stuff, and probably lie and say everything was US/English unless I needed to buy something from the store.
Or just not use Cortana, I guess? The new features seem nice-ish but as long as "search from start menu" still works so I don't have to navigate to find my icons, I don't really care about Cortana. In fact, I'd rather not have it shill for MSN, so, so far, the value of it for me is questionable.
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Other than the Japanese, who have those H-game thingies you're too young to be allowed to know about and for some insane reason do not want any non-Japanese person to run them, pretty much everything out there these days (be it GNU gettext-based or Windows MUI-based or .NET ResX-based) supports falling back to
$FALLBACKLANGUAGE
automatically (usuallyen-US
), no extra code required.Cortana is different, but only because it's so heavily tied to language processing. If you're searching the Dutch Microsoft Store for content, you've got to use Dutch names, but how's an English recognizer going to know anything about Dutch-language tokens?
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But there's an English Microsoft store. So you could just fall back to that as well. I don't see any other websites having problems if the Accept-Language header isn't what it expected.
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But there's an English Microsoft store. So you could just fall back to that as well
Yeah, but how many Dutch know English? (That's not a rhetorical question; I hav eno idea the percentage)
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Microsoft is in the process of making core .NET open source. They've already contributed a bunch of code to Mono.
I'm looking forward to this meaning that Mono can do TLS1.2...
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Considering that GNU gettext supports that functionality for free, I don't see why it would take extra work for Microsoft to not translate their software.
It's not nearly as simple as that. Ignoring the whole license red herring, the real problem is that different languages are associated with different cultures and different expectations of what it is reasonable to do with a program. The impact can be obvious, or it can be subtle, but it's definitely not just a matter of switching one translation pack for another.
Also, the state of natural language processing varies hugely between languages.
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search from start menu" still works
It seems to be broken. It's slower (to me - Only had it for a week or so) and can now only search in up to 500 items.
Ctrl-f 500 will find it