Mod up! Looks like the ghost of the idiots who implemented rootkit-like 'copy-protection' on Sony CDs lives on... I too voted with my wallet a long time ago, but for practical reasons also, (damn memory-sticks and equally non-compatible Vaio hardware...)
Maybe someone better informed than I could say whether or not if using Gmail corporate services would also expose you to randomly-applied 'great ideas' such as the screwup that is Buzz? I would hope not...
Luke: "Are you all right? What's wrong?" Obi-Wan: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror..."
For more bad memories, (for older readers like me), there's a photo of a boxed set Win95 'upgrade'.
Whilst I personally do not agree with their standpoint, at least they are mounting a vigorous, forward-looking defense of their beliefs. No worse than state-sponsored Madrassas in Pakistan and elsewhere. It's up to the rest of society to fight their corner equally well, in the interests of balance; unfortunately only the fanatics seem to have the energy to do this...
Since most Western Govs are broke, they're going after any cash they can, whatever it takes.
So don't worry about the intelligence guys being deprived; they'll just call their buddies in IRS, (who still have access to US accounts in the EU, I believe). Chinese walls, I hear you say? Know how to recognise one? It's got a grapevine growing over the top...
Failing that, they'll steal the info, (directly or indirectly).
there is NO country on this planet where child porn is legal. Not a single one. Instead of blocking such a server, go there and raid it. It's illegal where it's hosted. Shut it down. Simple solution.
Would that it was simple. Many things are 'illegal' in many places, yet still carry on. If the US & EU can't/won't stop Iran & N. Korea from getting/having the bomb, (and increasingly, the means to deliver it via ICBM), then what's the chance they'll go to the mat with Russia, China et al over attack sites / spammer / kiddie porn / whatever?
Well, it will be interesting to see how this plays out... Even though the English and French lost their footholds in Canada a long time ago, they still lovedto play games, viz. De Gaulle's "Vive le Quebec Libre" speech. The spiritual successors to the former European empire-builders are the EU civil servants, determined to prove that they, and 'Europe' exist as an entity and are important. Pretty-much blackmailing small states, such as the Baltics, into accepting terms of admission - that the larger states ignore - has worked well until now. It would seem less certain to work with Canada, which does the vast majority of its trade with...the USA under NAFTA. I reckon isohunt.com is safe for a while...
You have a point, but I'm not sure if the original (laudable, perhaps naive or misplaced) aims of the original OLPC project were just about the hardware. Since it's/., let's use a car analogy; Electric cars, (100% ones, not hybrids), will require significant changes to infrastructure. For that matter, so will fuel-cell ones. That part of the OLPC project somehow got lost in the 'wow - we're gonna make a better mini-PC and OS' debate...
You are so right. I'm still trying to see the benefits of the latest Office 'ribbon' interface... Trivia fans: Shift and F5 in Word will still take you back to the last point where you edited the document, (not where your cursor position was...unless you changed something there...)
Exactly. If they'd just given all the money they've wasted to a bunch of Chinese backstreet hackers, this thing would be all over the place now.. Probably would also run "XP" just fine too...
Unless they are all suddenly going to start shipping DVDs with no region codes and encryption removed, and tell M$ and others to remove the DRM crap that cripples most PC OSs and head-end audio/video gear... Dream on little Johnny, wherever you are, (or will shortly be)...
Perhaps (I hope) the parent meant reconciling rather than 'combining'. Combining or mixing science with religion has often produced - for centuries - very scary results. But many eminent scientists have managed to reconcile their faith with their job. Einstein, for example. I sure you'd agree that he was capable of 'thought'...
Before anyone at DARPA thinks that they can design a better language for concurrent parallel programming then I think they should be forced to spend 1 year learning Ada, and a second year working in Ada. If they survive they will most likely be cured of the thought that the Defense department can design good programming languages
Well, it's based on Pascal, so whatya expect? Still, does work. (The 777 flight control system is written in it...if it was written in, for example, C or VB, would you get on the 'plane?)
Google, for example, employs a vast team of human search "Quality Raters"... Spread out around the world, these evaluators, mostly college students, review search returns....
Well, THAT explains a lot of what happens when you set 'safe search' to 'off'...
You're so right. But you've already found the ideal solution - have two boxen. I've a bunch off Asus Eee PCs for travel utility and backup, reading/. in the toilet etc.plus one each for the kids. You can load 'em with XP or any of a variety of great *nix distros that fans have rolled. All work pretty much 'out of the box' (including XP).
But....but...for 'serious' work I still use a full-sized PC. Where's the problem? I'm typing this on a cheap (500Euro) Packard Bell which has a decent, bright wide screen, a dual-core proc and runs Vista and Ubuntu just fine...
Have your cake and eat it...
For seriously small mobile stuff, use your iPhone or whatever (I use a Pearl...)
Well, if it's a Linux varient there's plenty of native apps. Get Wine on there ASAP and you're away for a good number of Win apps too...however for the intended target market I suspect that a well-rolled *x distro with some decent bundled apps would be enough for most users. 'Power' ones could figure out the Wine stuff for themselves.
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Mod up! Looks like the ghost of the idiots who implemented rootkit-like 'copy-protection' on Sony CDs lives on...
I too voted with my wallet a long time ago, but for practical reasons also, (damn memory-sticks and equally non-compatible Vaio hardware...)
Drop-bears? Aha - wikipedia to the rescue again...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear
At least in Australia. Well worth reading the last link, (http://www.itnews.com.au/News/167984,analysis-five-ways-afact-lost-the-iinet-case.aspx.).
Thanks for the info, (since my OP was actually a request for info, not a flame)
Maybe someone better informed than I could say whether or not if using Gmail corporate services would also expose you to randomly-applied 'great ideas' such as the screwup that is Buzz?
I would hope not...
but Apple has the advantage of their OS and well known applications.
Eh? The Lenovo runs Windows 7 and their Skylight UI is based on Linux.
So urm, right, definite advantage for Apple on choice of apps, then...
Luke: "Are you all right? What's wrong?"
Obi-Wan: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror..."
For more bad memories, (for older readers like me), there's a photo of a boxed set Win95 'upgrade'.
Whilst I personally do not agree with their standpoint, at least they are mounting a vigorous, forward-looking defense of their beliefs.
No worse than state-sponsored Madrassas in Pakistan and elsewhere.
It's up to the rest of society to fight their corner equally well, in the interests of balance; unfortunately only the fanatics seem to have the energy to do this...
The German Chancellor has said that it's OK for her tax-collectors to buy & use bank data that was stolen...
http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w6/data-german-laws.html
Since most Western Govs are broke, they're going after any cash they can, whatever it takes.
So don't worry about the intelligence guys being deprived; they'll just call their buddies in IRS, (who still have access to US accounts in the EU, I believe). Chinese walls, I hear you say? Know how to recognise one? It's got a grapevine growing over the top...
Failing that, they'll steal the info, (directly or indirectly).
there is NO country on this planet where child porn is legal. Not a single one. Instead of blocking such a server, go there and raid it. It's illegal where it's hosted. Shut it down. Simple solution.
Would that it was simple. Many things are 'illegal' in many places, yet still carry on. If the US & EU can't/won't stop Iran & N. Korea from getting/having the bomb, (and increasingly, the means to deliver it via ICBM), then what's the chance they'll go to the mat with Russia, China et al over attack sites / spammer / kiddie porn / whatever?
Damn, wish their was a mod '+6 I just shat myself laughing'
Shame posts cannot be modified both 'funny' and 'insightful', because parent is both...
Well, it will be interesting to see how this plays out...
Even though the English and French lost their footholds in Canada a long time ago, they still lovedto play games, viz. De Gaulle's "Vive le Quebec Libre" speech.
The spiritual successors to the former European empire-builders are the EU civil servants, determined to prove that they, and 'Europe' exist as an entity and are important.
Pretty-much blackmailing small states, such as the Baltics, into accepting terms of admission - that the larger states ignore - has worked well until now.
It would seem less certain to work with Canada, which does the vast majority of its trade with...the USA under NAFTA.
I reckon isohunt.com is safe for a while...
You have a point, but I'm not sure if the original (laudable, perhaps naive or misplaced) aims of the original OLPC project were just about the hardware. /., let's use a car analogy; Electric cars, (100% ones, not hybrids), will require significant changes to infrastructure. For that matter, so will fuel-cell ones.
Since it's
That part of the OLPC project somehow got lost in the 'wow - we're gonna make a better mini-PC and OS' debate...
You are so right. I'm still trying to see the benefits of the latest Office 'ribbon' interface...
Trivia fans: Shift and F5 in Word will still take you back to the last point where you edited the document, (not where your cursor position was...unless you changed something there...)
Exactly. If they'd just given all the money they've wasted to a bunch of Chinese backstreet hackers, this thing would be all over the place now.. Probably would also run "XP" just fine too...
When his paymasters hear about that remark.
Unless they are all suddenly going to start shipping DVDs with no region codes and encryption removed, and tell M$ and others to remove the DRM crap that cripples most PC OSs and head-end audio/video gear...
Dream on little Johnny, wherever you are, (or will shortly be)...
Mod +5 irony.
Because it's a slow news day?
"News for nerds" my ass...
Already exists - called the Karma bonus
Perhaps (I hope) the parent meant reconciling rather than 'combining'. Combining or mixing science with religion has often produced - for centuries - very scary results. But many eminent scientists have managed to reconcile their faith with their job. Einstein, for example. I sure you'd agree that he was capable of 'thought'...
Before anyone at DARPA thinks that they can design a better language for concurrent parallel programming then I think they should be forced to spend 1 year learning Ada, and a second year working in Ada. If they survive they will most likely be cured of the thought that the Defense department can design good programming languages
Well, it's based on Pascal, so whatya expect? Still, does work. (The 777 flight control system is written in it...if it was written in, for example, C or VB, would you get on the 'plane?)
Google, for example, employs a vast team of human search "Quality Raters" ... Spread out around the world, these evaluators, mostly college students, review search returns ....
Well, THAT explains a lot of what happens when you set 'safe search' to 'off'...
You are right, of course. It's a completely different architecture. Not thinking today...
You're so right. But you've already found the ideal solution - have two boxen. /. in the toilet etc.plus one each for the kids. You can load 'em with XP or any of a variety of great *nix distros that fans have rolled. All work pretty much 'out of the box' (including XP).
I've a bunch off Asus Eee PCs for travel utility and backup, reading
But....but...for 'serious' work I still use a full-sized PC. Where's the problem?
I'm typing this on a cheap (500Euro) Packard Bell which has a decent, bright wide screen, a dual-core proc and runs Vista and Ubuntu just fine...
Have your cake and eat it...
For seriously small mobile stuff, use your iPhone or whatever (I use a Pearl...)
Well, if it's a Linux varient there's plenty of native apps. Get Wine on there ASAP and you're away for a good number of Win apps too...however for the intended target market I suspect that a well-rolled *x distro with some decent bundled apps would be enough for most users. 'Power' ones could figure out the Wine stuff for themselves.