Well, the author here seems to emphasise that that won't help because on a single-user account, your priority is your data. If you lose your system but your data isn't compromised, you lose very little that can't be replaced. If you lose your data but your operating system is functional, you have lost nearly everything of value.
The user has to first save the attachment and then double click on it.
This will not work on Ubuntu 8.04 at least. I have just tried sending myself a shell script that was marked executable, and after saving it, double-clicking it would display it. Even without the extension, double-clicking would only display it. But even assuming that somehow this script was automatically marked to execute, what happens? You get asked a question:
"file" is an executable text file. Do you want to run "file" or display its contents? Run in Terminal, Display, Cancel, Run.
What is the authors method of spreading this? An email with the following in it:
Whoa, check out these nude shots of...!
(if the attachment doesn't want to open just save it to your desktop and open it...)
Now, would you want to 'Display' nude shots or 'Run' nude shots? I'm sure you could manage this if you sent something like, "Check out this cool script!" or "Check out this cool screensaver." but the former is already a lost battle (we know you can never protect against a user) and the latter isn't a problem (Linux users do not install from emails, they install from repositories).
I actually find the work done at The Unichrome Project and at the OpenChrome project incredibly helpful and can't recommend the work done there enough. 'Unichrome' is the name of a series of IGPs released by Via that they put on their motherboards. At one time (I don't know if it's still there) Via had driver source code on their website that would have the effects I mentioned earlier. Funny, no? Better drivers from reverse-engineers than from the company. Tells you that the company is crap.
I hate Via with a vengeance, their goddamn Unichrome cards are just a goddamn pain. They used to provide drivers which would either not compile on your kernel, or induce a kernel panic on an older version. Fuck them.
A similar, though less interesting, thing involving Counterstrike happened to me. On the old computers I had, it turned out that at the beginning of the round, every player would be displayed (normally, walking, crouching, shooting) but directly above their actual position. Sometimes this would go on throughout the whole game. It was pretty funny, I always knew where they were going.
But when it comes to music, does that even make sense any more? How much simpler than The Pirate Bay can you make your distribution system? The DRM-free FLAC you provide isn't going to be any better than the DRM-free FLAC The Pirate Bay provides.
So unless you're providing a CD + instant download + incredibly simple purchasing process, paying for it will simply not be the easiest way to get the content. If any of those things is missing, the pirated copy is automatically easier.
Tor's free e-book thing was also like that. Seriously, the second the sequels to some of those books are available here in India I will buy them. A brilliant plan to introduce readers to new authors.
Something must be very wrong. I have an inexpensive Sansui CRT television and it _does_ remember which channel I've set, and the video adjustments. It does not, however, remember Mute and I can think of no conceivable reason they would do this. Is that what you meant by sound, video and channel selections?
Well, maybe they wouldn't turn a profit then. I'm not saying this is the situation, but it is possible. Consider the following situation:
The game costs 5,000,000 USD to make. You estimate that there will be 50,000 buyers in the West, and 200,000 buyers in the rest of the World.
You charge 20 USD to everyone: you're going to make 1,000,000 + 4,000,000 USD.
You charge 60 USD to the West and 20 USD to everyone else: you're going to make 3,000,000 + 4,000,000 USD.
So, in such a situation, selling at a lower price elsewhere is only possible because you sold at a higher price in the West. This is because the marginal cost of a new copy is very little, so after you make back your money (by selling in the West), you can afford to sell at much lower prices elsewhere to gain customers who wouldn't buy at the prices that the West pays.
Of course that's a simplistic view of things, the number of buyers varies as the price changes, but maybe you understand what I'm saying. Differential pricing can sometimes yield greater profits for companies because it you're charging each market group based on what it can afford to pay.
PS: Let me tell you, from my experience, the average computer-game-playing Indian will not pay 20 USD (nearly Rs. 1000) for a game, he will pay maybe Rs. 500 (slightly more than 10 USD). So things aren't just that simple.
A good point of course. Are you implying that people in the USA buy big cars with bad mileage because of inclement weather? If so, I suggest looking at craigslist listings for cars offered for sale in a big city with a nice Mediterranean climate, preferably with little to no snowfall. Los Angeles seemed like a suitable candidate.
Now, of course there are certain assumptions:
The people that use craigslist are representative of the general population of Los Angeles.
The distribution of cars for sale on craigslist for Los Angeles is similar or identical to the distribution of cars for sale in the city itself.
Now, none of those cars need to worry about snow, or road salt either. Yet, all of the first 20 cars here have mileage less than 28 mpg (and most have less than 25) according to FuelEconomy.gov (if you feel the source is biased, I won't mind using numbers from car forums*). So it looks like the people in Los Angeles use vehicles that are incredibly inefficient despite not needing to use such vehicles due to reasons such as yours. Is Los Angeles a very different city from the rest of the US? It's definitely worth looking at other cities too, then.
*In a few cases, I did: I found Edmund's CarSpace easy to search so I looked at that instead of fueleconomy.gov quite often.
Oh come now. I've driven a Maruti-800 48,000 km in 3 years (around 10,000 miles a year). When I really try I can pull 20+ km/l (around 47 miles/gallon*) on it. If I don't, I get anywhere between 15 km/l (35 miles/gallon) and 16.5 km/l. It's also hot and dusty here in India, and outside of cities, roads are rather long.
* US gallon, with average occupancy near 2. The mileage drops off rapidly with more people.
What does 7 install in this beta by default? My Ubuntu install which I've been using for half a year now comes to 4.5 GB including 700 MB of swap, excluding/home and/media (the DVD drive and Vista drive are mounted here). That includes installed programs and stuff (Open Office, GIMP, Warzone, glest, mplayer, you know all installed programs).
The Users/username folder is something I really liked in Vista. It just seemed so nice (almost like/home). Why I excluded/home is that's where documents and stuff are stored.
Are you sure your problem isn't just because the ndiswrapper isn't properly loaded each time. I had that with an older machine and I had to just add it to/etc/modules.
Sure, really simple solution, but sometimes I miss out on the simple things.
Well, I was wondering if what you were saying was true, and so, lacking any other way of determining which games are most played, I decided to have a look at Steam Stats and guess what? Most players on that list are playing games that would work on a GMA 950. Heck even WoW works on it! Compare Fallout 3 to Counterstrike Source, and we'll see who's segregated themselves from the norm.
I really don't understand your obstinate opposition to an Intel integrated graphics card. Everything that I've said is easily corroborated by other sources.
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Well, the author here seems to emphasise that that won't help because on a single-user account, your priority is your data. If you lose your system but your data isn't compromised, you lose very little that can't be replaced. If you lose your data but your operating system is functional, you have lost nearly everything of value.
I am a bloody fool. I managed to read the article without reading the article. It works.
This will not work on Ubuntu 8.04 at least. I have just tried sending myself a shell script that was marked executable, and after saving it, double-clicking it would display it. Even without the extension, double-clicking would only display it. But even assuming that somehow this script was automatically marked to execute, what happens? You get asked a question:
What is the authors method of spreading this? An email with the following in it:
Now, would you want to 'Display' nude shots or 'Run' nude shots? I'm sure you could manage this if you sent something like, "Check out this cool script!" or "Check out this cool screensaver." but the former is already a lost battle (we know you can never protect against a user) and the latter isn't a problem (Linux users do not install from emails, they install from repositories).
I actually find the work done at The Unichrome Project and at the OpenChrome project incredibly helpful and can't recommend the work done there enough. 'Unichrome' is the name of a series of IGPs released by Via that they put on their motherboards. At one time (I don't know if it's still there) Via had driver source code on their website that would have the effects I mentioned earlier. Funny, no? Better drivers from reverse-engineers than from the company. Tells you that the company is crap.
I hate Via with a vengeance, their goddamn Unichrome cards are just a goddamn pain. They used to provide drivers which would either not compile on your kernel, or induce a kernel panic on an older version. Fuck them.
A similar, though less interesting, thing involving Counterstrike happened to me. On the old computers I had, it turned out that at the beginning of the round, every player would be displayed (normally, walking, crouching, shooting) but directly above their actual position. Sometimes this would go on throughout the whole game. It was pretty funny, I always knew where they were going.
This is awesome, Valve is awesome, you are awesome.
What grandparent meant is that getting used to getting movie quality games for free makes you less willing to pay for good quality games.
Like this: "Man, Battlefield 2 was way better than this and I got it off The Pirate Bay. This game is nowhere near that _and_ I have to pay."
Not claiming OP infringes, simply clarifying what seems to me an obvious point.
Ask Multivac.
More likely, if it were specifying the Year of the 32-bit Linux Desktop it couldn't go past 2038.
The Godson series was very interesting, and definitely is worth watching. The Chinese are doing just fine.
And, as an Indian, I'll believe this $10 machine when I see it. A cell-phone costs $15 at least.
I've played XEvil since god knows when. The game is just awesome. Even more awesome to split-screen on the same computer.
But when it comes to music, does that even make sense any more? How much simpler than The Pirate Bay can you make your distribution system? The DRM-free FLAC you provide isn't going to be any better than the DRM-free FLAC The Pirate Bay provides.
So unless you're providing a CD + instant download + incredibly simple purchasing process, paying for it will simply not be the easiest way to get the content. If any of those things is missing, the pirated copy is automatically easier.
Tor's free e-book thing was also like that. Seriously, the second the sequels to some of those books are available here in India I will buy them. A brilliant plan to introduce readers to new authors.
Because it's not like sarcasm incorporates irony.
Holy Rube Goldberg! All you needed to perfect it was to make the switch piezoelectric :)
Something must be very wrong. I have an inexpensive Sansui CRT television and it _does_ remember which channel I've set, and the video adjustments. It does not, however, remember Mute and I can think of no conceivable reason they would do this. Is that what you meant by sound, video and channel selections?
The game costs 5,000,000 USD to make. You estimate that there will be 50,000 buyers in the West, and 200,000 buyers in the rest of the World.
So, in such a situation, selling at a lower price elsewhere is only possible because you sold at a higher price in the West. This is because the marginal cost of a new copy is very little, so after you make back your money (by selling in the West), you can afford to sell at much lower prices elsewhere to gain customers who wouldn't buy at the prices that the West pays.
Of course that's a simplistic view of things, the number of buyers varies as the price changes, but maybe you understand what I'm saying. Differential pricing can sometimes yield greater profits for companies because it you're charging each market group based on what it can afford to pay.
PS: Let me tell you, from my experience, the average computer-game-playing Indian will not pay 20 USD (nearly Rs. 1000) for a game, he will pay maybe Rs. 500 (slightly more than 10 USD). So things aren't just that simple.
Now, of course there are certain assumptions:
Now, none of those cars need to worry about snow, or road salt either. Yet, all of the first 20 cars here have mileage less than 28 mpg (and most have less than 25) according to FuelEconomy.gov (if you feel the source is biased, I won't mind using numbers from car forums*). So it looks like the people in Los Angeles use vehicles that are incredibly inefficient despite not needing to use such vehicles due to reasons such as yours. Is Los Angeles a very different city from the rest of the US? It's definitely worth looking at other cities too, then.
*In a few cases, I did: I found Edmund's CarSpace easy to search so I looked at that instead of fueleconomy.gov quite often.
Oh come now. I've driven a Maruti-800 48,000 km in 3 years (around 10,000 miles a year). When I really try I can pull 20+ km/l (around 47 miles/gallon*) on it. If I don't, I get anywhere between 15 km/l (35 miles/gallon) and 16.5 km/l. It's also hot and dusty here in India, and outside of cities, roads are rather long.
* US gallon, with average occupancy near 2. The mileage drops off rapidly with more people.
What does 7 install in this beta by default? My Ubuntu install which I've been using for half a year now comes to 4.5 GB including 700 MB of swap, excluding /home and /media (the DVD drive and Vista drive are mounted here). That includes installed programs and stuff (Open Office, GIMP, Warzone, glest, mplayer, you know all installed programs).
/home). Why I excluded /home is that's where documents and stuff are stored.
The Users/username folder is something I really liked in Vista. It just seemed so nice (almost like
I have found Avira useful. Be warned that it is nagware, though. Every time you update definitions it will post a full screen splash screen.
With newer filter-sets, people no longer block anything that annoys them - they just block the whole lot.
Are you sure your problem isn't just because the ndiswrapper isn't properly loaded each time. I had that with an older machine and I had to just add it to /etc/modules.
Sure, really simple solution, but sometimes I miss out on the simple things.
Well, I was wondering if what you were saying was true, and so, lacking any other way of determining which games are most played, I decided to have a look at Steam Stats and guess what? Most players on that list are playing games that would work on a GMA 950. Heck even WoW works on it! Compare Fallout 3 to Counterstrike Source, and we'll see who's segregated themselves from the norm.
I really don't understand your obstinate opposition to an Intel integrated graphics card. Everything that I've said is easily corroborated by other sources.
PS: Just so you know, some sources say that 75% of all laptops have integrated graphics.