If vista is an upgrade to XP then it has to beat XP as it is now for acceptance not beat where XP was 7 years ago. You seem to have been consuming the MS koolaid my friend.
It should be trivial to have unmodifiable unique serial numbers in ROM, stamped on hardware, etc for each OLPC and have a central record of who OWNS each and every one. If one turns up on ebay or anywhere else for sale it should be very easy to determine where it really belongs and send it right back to it's rightful owner.
Between the truism about DRM being security by obscurity and the rather cool obfuscation of your email address in your sig I find this something of a zenlike post.
arduous process of assembling multiple files from different sources, just to get a cracked copy of a computer game or a movie file
I can see you haven't downloaded anything in the last 5 years if you think this is still the case. We have things like bittorrent and broadband now you know?
An example to clarify: My other half wanted to watch a particular movie the other night. We didn't have it already so I did a quick search in my favourite torrent site (isohunt - yes, it's back) and had a torrent with lots of seeds within 30 seconds. 20 minutes later it had downloaded and we watched it.
That's a similar amount of time to head off to the local video rental shop, find it (assuming they had it), bring it home then take it back again except I did other things for those 20 minutes. And it was "free" and I now have it permanently on my hard disk (900MB DivX). If I could have paid a nominal fee for this service I would, only I don't have that opportunity. So I saved time, saved money, got a more convenient service and now have the movie for later. Wow, that really sucks huh?
I am happy to "steal" content like this until the distributors learn that the horse has bolted and they would be better off to get a couple of bucks from me to do this than the absolutely nothing they get now. I still go to the cinema, still buy DVDs that I think are worth it but most movies nowadays are not.
And to head off the FUD groups, divx movies look and sound just great on my 36" TV with 5.1 sound, just avoid screeners because they suck. If you really can't wait for the latest movie to be ripped from a DVD go to the damn cinema!
What the hell is an 11 year old doing taking "sexual photographs" of herself? This is not something a normal child should be doing. It sounds like the sort of thing a pervert might ask a child to do, not something they would do spontaneously
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Thus violating your warranty...
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If vista is an upgrade to XP then it has to beat XP as it is now for acceptance not beat where XP was 7 years ago. You seem to have been consuming the MS koolaid my friend.
It should be trivial to have unmodifiable unique serial numbers in ROM, stamped on hardware, etc for each OLPC and have a central record of who OWNS each and every one. If one turns up on ebay or anywhere else for sale it should be very easy to determine where it really belongs and send it right back to it's rightful owner.
Between the truism about DRM being security by obscurity and the rather cool obfuscation of your email address in your sig I find this something of a zenlike post.
nah, they've hardly even scratched the surface. http://jimvb.home.mindspring.com/unitsystem.htm I might wait for the xeto or unto XTs though. Still to big for me.
An example to clarify: My other half wanted to watch a particular movie the other night. We didn't have it already so I did a quick search in my favourite torrent site (isohunt - yes, it's back) and had a torrent with lots of seeds within 30 seconds. 20 minutes later it had downloaded and we watched it.
That's a similar amount of time to head off to the local video rental shop, find it (assuming they had it), bring it home then take it back again except I did other things for those 20 minutes. And it was "free" and I now have it permanently on my hard disk (900MB DivX). If I could have paid a nominal fee for this service I would, only I don't have that opportunity. So I saved time, saved money, got a more convenient service and now have the movie for later. Wow, that really sucks huh?
I am happy to "steal" content like this until the distributors learn that the horse has bolted and they would be better off to get a couple of bucks from me to do this than the absolutely nothing they get now. I still go to the cinema, still buy DVDs that I think are worth it but most movies nowadays are not.
And to head off the FUD groups, divx movies look and sound just great on my 36" TV with 5.1 sound, just avoid screeners because they suck. If you really can't wait for the latest movie to be ripped from a DVD go to the damn cinema!
What the hell is an 11 year old doing taking "sexual photographs" of herself? This is not something a normal child should be doing. It sounds like the sort of thing a pervert might ask a child to do, not something they would do spontaneously