Expensive relative to what? An arbitrary machine with the same specs? I doubt that.
Expensive relative to what a home user (even one who wants to run VMs) actually needs? Absolutely, you can get away with a machine for a few hundred dollars and get plenty of cpu power and ram.
That's why you do separate encrypted offsite backups. Encrypted transport over some cable or network to another encrypted container like a LUKS volume or something.
You should never rely entirely on one copy of data anyway, this seems to be just a way to protect drive data from theft.
None of those systems have been doing well in the mainstream desktop space, which is what all the excitement over Android is about.
UNIX admins have little to do with the need for a good clean display system on portable devices and desktops. In fact the needs of geeks seem to guide the FOSS world far too much, thats why it was a big headline one or 2 Xorg releases ago that input and display devices would be hotpluggable years after everyone else solved that problem, it wasn't a dire need of the geeks in charge of the project nor anyone using it.
X11 was left behind by a number of different commercial Unix users for a reason. Apple being the most prominent i can think of, one of their engineers even left a rather long post on slashdot explaining why they went with their own system (hint: adding all the things they needed that X11 lacked and probably still does, would have required so much work it was easier to do something else).
And now Android has done something similar albeit for different reasons.
Personally X11 is the last thing i want to see on Linux devices going forward. I hate the thing and want to see it suffer if only for irrational reasons.
Indeed. It is time to stop making more laws, and remove the ones we already have. The law is being abused to support the goals of various interest groups.
Stop pretending criminal law can protect DRM, remove the penalties for hacking it, and you won't need to make DRM illegal. The community of users will neuter any DRM so badly it will be worthless to try to implement it anymore.
Similar in that both are posix systems, and Leopard is SUS 03' compliant. The APIs though for high level programs are completely different, though QT4 and GTK both are able to run on OS X just fine albeit in quirky "doesn't fit in" fashion.
Who said software should be free? You are lumping unrelated issues together for some reason.
Rather, this piracy issue is not the customers problem, so the customer should not ever have to deal with it or be inconvenienced by it. It is the problem of the content owners. Piracy is the cost of doing business, so accept it and quit screwing with paying customers or pick another industry. In no situation is it acceptable for the content owners to screw with something I paid for after the fact.
If DRM measures ever inconvenience paying customers at all, it is an absolute fail. It doesn't matter if the number of problem cases is small, they have a responsibility to ensure that the people who PAID them aren't affected by their irrational and ridiculous restrictions, and if i AM affected in any way, you owe me a refund.
And to make it even more insulting, the DRM doesn't actually stop piracy of any kind, so it is all for nothing. The end result is that these companies are saying their interests are more important than the customers.
I don't know what the fuck they're talking about, i've been running Jerry Seinfeld on all my machines for months and never had a problem.....of course they don't seem to do anything important anymore.
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Expensive relative to what? An arbitrary machine with the same specs? I doubt that.
Expensive relative to what a home user (even one who wants to run VMs) actually needs? Absolutely, you can get away with a machine for a few hundred dollars and get plenty of cpu power and ram.
In other words, the GPL is incompatible with many open source licenses, BUT "we're trying to change the world, so it's ok"
The people that will be moving to IE8 will be those people that have been subjected to the previous IE Browser incarnations.
FTFY
That's why you do separate encrypted offsite backups. Encrypted transport over some cable or network to another encrypted container like a LUKS volume or something.
You should never rely entirely on one copy of data anyway, this seems to be just a way to protect drive data from theft.
Self encrypting would be in the drive no?
So to an operating system, once the drive has been unlocked by a firmware command it should appear as a cleartext ATA device.
You would have forgotten, and they are small enough to sneak up on you. You should be thankful for all the warnings.
Does UDF work well on storage like flash?
Wondering about what? Tasty house pets?
Microsoft is going to lose more in public opinion than they will ever gain from patent licensing, fat32 or otherwise.
responsible for inflammatory speeches and numerous attacks upon non-Maharashtrians."
Which quadrant of the galaxy are Maharashtrians from?
I doubt that. If you are trying to claim all of this is smoke and mirrors you're wrong.
No, but it'll be ready for the year of the commandline (comes right after year of the hippo).
None of those systems have been doing well in the mainstream desktop space, which is what all the excitement over Android is about.
UNIX admins have little to do with the need for a good clean display system on portable devices and desktops. In fact the needs of geeks seem to guide the FOSS world far too much, thats why it was a big headline one or 2 Xorg releases ago that input and display devices would be hotpluggable years after everyone else solved that problem, it wasn't a dire need of the geeks in charge of the project nor anyone using it.
X11 was left behind by a number of different commercial Unix users for a reason. Apple being the most prominent i can think of, one of their engineers even left a rather long post on slashdot explaining why they went with their own system (hint: adding all the things they needed that X11 lacked and probably still does, would have required so much work it was easier to do something else).
And now Android has done something similar albeit for different reasons.
Personally X11 is the last thing i want to see on Linux devices going forward. I hate the thing and want to see it suffer if only for irrational reasons.
Indeed. It is time to stop making more laws, and remove the ones we already have. The law is being abused to support the goals of various interest groups.
Stop pretending criminal law can protect DRM, remove the penalties for hacking it, and you won't need to make DRM illegal. The community of users will neuter any DRM so badly it will be worthless to try to implement it anymore.
Making the web dependent on binary plugin formats....users are probably the only ones who DON'T win.
pervert
He said decent desktop environments. Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 98se, me, xp.....oh fuck it none of them are decent.
Similar in that both are posix systems, and Leopard is SUS 03' compliant. The APIs though for high level programs are completely different, though QT4 and GTK both are able to run on OS X just fine albeit in quirky "doesn't fit in" fashion.
Copyright doesn't say software should be free, it's SUPPOSED to say you can profit from your work for a while after completion.
This is completely different than saying software should be free of cost entirely from day one.
I've got the rest of the pigeons family, if he wants to feed them worms again he will deliver the message :D
Your message wouldn't have been cut off if you had sent it with a carrier pigeon, slow yes, but not cut off.
Who said software should be free? You are lumping unrelated issues together for some reason.
Rather, this piracy issue is not the customers problem, so the customer should not ever have to deal with it or be inconvenienced by it. It is the problem of the content owners. Piracy is the cost of doing business, so accept it and quit screwing with paying customers or pick another industry. In no situation is it acceptable for the content owners to screw with something I paid for after the fact.
If DRM measures ever inconvenience paying customers at all, it is an absolute fail. It doesn't matter if the number of problem cases is small, they have a responsibility to ensure that the people who PAID them aren't affected by their irrational and ridiculous restrictions, and if i AM affected in any way, you owe me a refund.
And to make it even more insulting, the DRM doesn't actually stop piracy of any kind, so it is all for nothing. The end result is that these companies are saying their interests are more important than the customers.
Don't put yourself down like that, your very acute.
I don't know what the fuck they're talking about, i've been running Jerry Seinfeld on all my machines for months and never had a problem.....of course they don't seem to do anything important anymore.