What it does do is let you run software on some arbitrary system and get that software into a provably secure state, regardless of whether the host OS is infected with malware, rootkits, and so on. Completely different.
What happens when the software being run in that secure state is not yours?
Well, I always thought it was because the states in the US are of much higher importance.
It's not like Ontario or Manitoba or Alberta. They are more like subdivisions of a country; they can't have standing armies, for one. Only Quebec plays the exception. (slashdot needs to heart unicode =/)
On the other hand, pretty much any US state can have an army, probably does have an army, should/can/will make its own laws based on its needs and balance everything as it sees fit. Not to mention there are some minor differences, I guess with lifestyle and politics.
To me saying you're American means you're from the US and A, but I always thought to be more precise you'd say "I'm a Texan" or "I'm a New Yorker"... Maybe because I always felt the US was a bunch of loosely-united states that felt like teaming up to pick on the english or something, not like smaller countries that have a "united vision"...
You're lucky. You can pick between an intelligent man who's a crook, or a redneck woman who's a crook (John McCain is not even a consideration. he would have been so much better than bush but politics don't work that way).
I can pick between the biggest dick and I-listen-the-US-only-and-his-group-of-bandits crook, or wimpy Dion (the guy needs to take charge, I'm sorry but he's just getting raped out there), or a bunch of minor parties that do not have a chance in hell of winning. Of course I only vote for my MP, who's a great guy, so I'm not likely to sway my voting to somebody else. No thanks. Our current MP has listened to me, and has fought for my cause (freedom and regulation on the net. oxymoron? no, just different regulation for corps...).
The golden age of politics are long gone for us. Chretien was a pretty cool guy if he was in office just a bit longer, if only to see if he really wasn't lying and was putting everything in order... But everybody lies.
And it's just that politicians are in our scope.
The only politicians that don't lie are those with absolute power.
Because a politician reflects who voted them in. And sadly the people are crooks. Yay me. =/
I've noticed with alpha centauri, at Transcend (highest), all it does is make it so that your enemies run at like crazy speeds; third turn and they had secret projects already finished...
The other settings are designed more to have the AI use more cunning. I think at one point they start to get the Believers and Spartans (the war factions) to try and do amphibious assaults, at least against the other AIs (they did it to me once on my homeland, but two/three times against me in conquered territories, and a fair bit against the other AIs...). I've seen Lal try doing a maritime assault on "citizen" (lowest), but all he did is show up with an impact gunship (lightly armoured IIRC) and started bombing my coast line.
Not an issue because he was bombing near a lone base, out in the middle of a desertic wasteland (huge map of planet's east continent ftw). I think at higher levels they get smarter in terms of targets, and are able to assault strategically better in a war (they don't get a lot more aggressive unless you tell them to in the preferences...).
It's the same reason that kids who start drinking at a younger age, with their parents' supervision, end up with healthier attitudes toward alcohol. The ones who have no experience with alcohol before turning 21 (or moving out of the house) are the ones who turn into binge drinkers as soon as they have the chance.
Some of us don't drink and have no intentions to do so even if we "grow up" you insensitive clod. =/
However, point taken. Exposure now means understanding for later, for pretty much everything.
It's very useful, because if you ever do something "wrong" it'll get pointed out and you'll be all the smarter. You follow back, and check see if people find what you said interesting or stupid, you eventually pick up a whole bunch of terms, too...
Ask me three years ago what linux was I'd give you a o_O, now I understand a lot of the way it works... I know what a SoC is, I know about architectures, I know about frameworks, what's "the dream machine" for various situations, and know what my government and my neighbour's government is up to.
YouTube is more like "lol I overclocked my usb ports" or "lol look at me I'm sexy" or "here i am lighting my farts with an industrial-strenght flamethrower".
Most cases will fit most motherboards, exception often being the "silent" boards and intel boards... I don't think it's ever a problem except for those two, because they are the only two that might have parts rising over the backplate.
As for whole systems, logicsupply has some, and the ARTIGO kit is very good for picoITX.
For power supplies, well, picoPSU is the only good one to be honest. =/
To be honest, if it wasn't for being multi-platform, and being very open (artwork is still considered non-free by debian), there would be no advantage to using Firefox... Maybe plugins. But that's it.
Opera is a lot faster. Qt is a lot nicer than XUL, not being written in JS (AFAIK). Opera has a lot of features built in that Firefox needs extensions for. But they're not all the same. Opera innovates a lot, so does Firefox, but they come so close nobody knows who's picking on who.
But Opera is non-free.
Webkit is great, sure. But other than Epiphany, who uses Webkit with GTK? Midori? Kazehakase? That's about it. And if we're discussing "usability", Firefox is the only browser I'd ever ship with an OS, ever. Safari is not an option. Google Chrome is windows-only and a lot of its features are just gimmicky things (boiling down to Tamarin vs V8, and threads vs processes, neither of which is meaningful).
Webkit is great, sure. But just not there.
Just ship the EULA Ubuntu. Put it at install time?
I was going to buy the Spore "Collector's Edition" if it wasn't for SecuROM. I'm sure I'm not alone. Even if most people would have waited for it to be 30$ or 20$, a lot of my friends were considering buying it. I told them not to, that we'll just get a cracked version.
I don't think anybody who wanted to buy the game and knew about the DRM actually bought it. Or if they did they're running a cracked version and bought the game due to troll's remorse or received it as a gift.
Then do things the right way, and flood their phones telling them they can't install their AIDS on your computer because they've hit their 0 install limit and need to beg YOU to get the game installed on your computer, or you're stealing it the proper way, cracking it, distributing it to all of your friends, and periodically calling them to let them know you're playing the game.
Actually, do that more. Everytime you load up Spore/C&C/MassEffect, call EA and tell them, "hi, I'm playing your game". Bonus points if you let them know you're running a cracked version.
Although they seem to be aiming for android too, they seriously would not like to give mozilla trouble on linux, or safari trouble on mac.
Safari on windows could be considered aggressive to Mozilla. Chrome not so much. Whereas Safari and Mozilla want to pull users to Mac and Linux, Chrome is there to pull users to Google's services instead of Microsoft's, and really make the internet a safer place (I wonder how often Google gets DDoS'ed, even if they all fail? I wonder if they get email congestion?)
Google is probably very happy working closely with Mozilla. Mozilla's cooperation means that Google can kill IE, Mozilla can help get users working with "alternative" FOSS programs, and so lead them off windows. Google will probably ride on this too, either making sure Mozilla products work great with their stuff too, or porting Chrome to linux later on, and make sure that users have Google's tools as their "platform of choice", whether they know they are running linux or not.
gOS was a good try at trying to start that. I'm dissapointed the Asus eee PC 1000H and the Asus eeebox aren't coming with Linux installs. It would have only helped everyone out. Once the desktop can be abstracted further, then the web will rule, and Google gets its time in the sun as a monopoly.
Real stealing is walking into walmart and taking the copy.
If I'm downloading the game:
- I wasn't going to buy it, ever - I'm going to buy it after trying it out and if it was a good game
If I bought the game:
- I just spent 50$+ on your shitty game that I can't return - I'm some average shmuck who likely never heard of torrents.
So, who should be penalised?
Why should the people WHO BOUGHT THIS FUCKING GAME be penalised? Why not, oh I don't know, pursue the "pirates"? Is it because it'll never work? Fuck off, EA. I wanted to send money to the spore team for a working product. Not you for some bellyaching about your shit products not selling.
All this "you wouldn't steal a car/TV/purse/cat/etc" bullshit I see at the beggining of movies, and the DRM in games, is pushing me to just steal my games the old fashioned way, from Walmart.
Assuming the full game is installed, couldn't you use the equivelent of a nocd crack?
Or wouldn't running Steam in offline-mode (I don't use steam so I don't know if this even exists...) help fix the problem, not needing to go to Valve's servers?
I don't like the thought of there being a single point of failure in the way of Valve, a small company. However, I can understand if and only if a sort of "clear all DRM kthnxbai" message is given out to all the steam clients if valve goes down; that way all the customers get their games back, and valve backs out. (if they failed, I'm sure it's because of the product not being popular, and not about something else...)
But for us geeks, HP Linux means less bugs, more cool features, and likely more acceptance from our fellow geeks.
If 90% of computers were running Linux tomorrow but only 3% of those computers had users who were aware that it's linux, it's still an improvement. Linux breeds change.
Yes, and I think they released a whole bunch of drivers for debian, or work closely with it, or something.
Maybe even preinstalled distro of choice on their servers?
HP and Debian have always been close. If Ubuntu hasn't drifted too far, I wouldn't doubt seeing Ubuntu preinstalls on HP stuff. It would be a serious spit-in-the-face move to MS.
If this particle is so crucile, why not give it a name that makes it sound as important as it is? Doesn't it, on the flip side, give insight into the begginings of time, making it closer to the term "god" that you only seem to know.
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What it does do is let you run software on some arbitrary system and get that software into a provably secure state, regardless of whether the host OS is infected with malware, rootkits, and so on. Completely different.
What happens when the software being run in that secure state is not yours?
4 words "But guard that basket!"
Well, I always thought it was because the states in the US are of much higher importance.
It's not like Ontario or Manitoba or Alberta. They are more like subdivisions of a country; they can't have standing armies, for one. Only Quebec plays the exception. (slashdot needs to heart unicode =/)
On the other hand, pretty much any US state can have an army, probably does have an army, should/can/will make its own laws based on its needs and balance everything as it sees fit. Not to mention there are some minor differences, I guess with lifestyle and politics.
To me saying you're American means you're from the US and A, but I always thought to be more precise you'd say "I'm a Texan" or "I'm a New Yorker"... Maybe because I always felt the US was a bunch of loosely-united states that felt like teaming up to pick on the english or something, not like smaller countries that have a "united vision"...
/sighs
They're all crooks.
You're lucky. You can pick between an intelligent man who's a crook, or a redneck woman who's a crook (John McCain is not even a consideration. he would have been so much better than bush but politics don't work that way).
I can pick between the biggest dick and I-listen-the-US-only-and-his-group-of-bandits crook, or wimpy Dion (the guy needs to take charge, I'm sorry but he's just getting raped out there), or a bunch of minor parties that do not have a chance in hell of winning. Of course I only vote for my MP, who's a great guy, so I'm not likely to sway my voting to somebody else. No thanks. Our current MP has listened to me, and has fought for my cause (freedom and regulation on the net. oxymoron? no, just different regulation for corps...).
The golden age of politics are long gone for us. Chretien was a pretty cool guy if he was in office just a bit longer, if only to see if he really wasn't lying and was putting everything in order... But everybody lies.
And it's just that politicians are in our scope.
The only politicians that don't lie are those with absolute power.
Because a politician reflects who voted them in. And sadly the people are crooks. Yay me. =/
I've noticed with alpha centauri, at Transcend (highest), all it does is make it so that your enemies run at like crazy speeds; third turn and they had secret projects already finished...
The other settings are designed more to have the AI use more cunning. I think at one point they start to get the Believers and Spartans (the war factions) to try and do amphibious assaults, at least against the other AIs (they did it to me once on my homeland, but two/three times against me in conquered territories, and a fair bit against the other AIs...). I've seen Lal try doing a maritime assault on "citizen" (lowest), but all he did is show up with an impact gunship (lightly armoured IIRC) and started bombing my coast line.
Not an issue because he was bombing near a lone base, out in the middle of a desertic wasteland (huge map of planet's east continent ftw). I think at higher levels they get smarter in terms of targets, and are able to assault strategically better in a war (they don't get a lot more aggressive unless you tell them to in the preferences...).
It's the same reason that kids who start drinking at a younger age, with their parents' supervision, end up with healthier attitudes toward alcohol. The ones who have no experience with alcohol before turning 21 (or moving out of the house) are the ones who turn into binge drinkers as soon as they have the chance.
Some of us don't drink and have no intentions to do so even if we "grow up" you insensitive clod. =/
However, point taken. Exposure now means understanding for later, for pretty much everything.
I'm in the same boat.
It's very useful, because if you ever do something "wrong" it'll get pointed out and you'll be all the smarter. You follow back, and check see if people find what you said interesting or stupid, you eventually pick up a whole bunch of terms, too...
Ask me three years ago what linux was I'd give you a o_O, now I understand a lot of the way it works... I know what a SoC is, I know about architectures, I know about frameworks, what's "the dream machine" for various situations, and know what my government and my neighbour's government is up to.
YouTube is more like "lol I overclocked my usb ports" or "lol look at me I'm sexy" or "here i am lighting my farts with an industrial-strenght flamethrower".
Most cases will fit most motherboards, exception often being the "silent" boards and intel boards... I don't think it's ever a problem except for those two, because they are the only two that might have parts rising over the backplate.
As for whole systems, logicsupply has some, and the ARTIGO kit is very good for picoITX.
For power supplies, well, picoPSU is the only good one to be honest. =/
P53.989484848488889999999 according to Intel.
Or 15$ a month and you get all the music you can torrent?
To be honest, if it wasn't for being multi-platform, and being very open (artwork is still considered non-free by debian), there would be no advantage to using Firefox... Maybe plugins. But that's it.
Opera is a lot faster. Qt is a lot nicer than XUL, not being written in JS (AFAIK). Opera has a lot of features built in that Firefox needs extensions for. But they're not all the same. Opera innovates a lot, so does Firefox, but they come so close nobody knows who's picking on who.
But Opera is non-free.
Webkit is great, sure. But other than Epiphany, who uses Webkit with GTK? Midori? Kazehakase? That's about it. And if we're discussing "usability", Firefox is the only browser I'd ever ship with an OS, ever. Safari is not an option. Google Chrome is windows-only and a lot of its features are just gimmicky things (boiling down to Tamarin vs V8, and threads vs processes, neither of which is meaningful).
Webkit is great, sure. But just not there.
Just ship the EULA Ubuntu. Put it at install time?
Yeah, I was going to try sending money to Wright himself, but I don't think it's fair to the rest of the team.
Maybe some cake and beer.
... is slashdot always filled with shills like these?
I'm suprised how somebody will spend time doing posts like this. Is this all you do all day?
I'll buy the game when it's released as a product that can be standalone and installed as many times as I like. Else, piss off.
(On the other hand, there might be a 25$ cheque in the mail for Maxis. Really that's all they deserve for the game... and EA does not deserve a cent)
Not to mention lowering the life of your optical drives...
But it does have one advantage; you can have a massive game split across the hard drive and CD.
I was going to buy the Spore "Collector's Edition" if it wasn't for SecuROM. I'm sure I'm not alone. Even if most people would have waited for it to be 30$ or 20$, a lot of my friends were considering buying it. I told them not to, that we'll just get a cracked version.
I don't think anybody who wanted to buy the game and knew about the DRM actually bought it. Or if they did they're running a cracked version and bought the game due to troll's remorse or received it as a gift.
Then do things the right way, and flood their phones telling them they can't install their AIDS on your computer because they've hit their 0 install limit and need to beg YOU to get the game installed on your computer, or you're stealing it the proper way, cracking it, distributing it to all of your friends, and periodically calling them to let them know you're playing the game.
Actually, do that more. Everytime you load up Spore/C&C/MassEffect, call EA and tell them, "hi, I'm playing your game". Bonus points if you let them know you're running a cracked version.
Every time you play.
S'about time you give them twice as much crap.
Although they seem to be aiming for android too, they seriously would not like to give mozilla trouble on linux, or safari trouble on mac.
Safari on windows could be considered aggressive to Mozilla. Chrome not so much. Whereas Safari and Mozilla want to pull users to Mac and Linux, Chrome is there to pull users to Google's services instead of Microsoft's, and really make the internet a safer place (I wonder how often Google gets DDoS'ed, even if they all fail? I wonder if they get email congestion?)
Google is probably very happy working closely with Mozilla. Mozilla's cooperation means that Google can kill IE, Mozilla can help get users working with "alternative" FOSS programs, and so lead them off windows. Google will probably ride on this too, either making sure Mozilla products work great with their stuff too, or porting Chrome to linux later on, and make sure that users have Google's tools as their "platform of choice", whether they know they are running linux or not.
gOS was a good try at trying to start that. I'm dissapointed the Asus eee PC 1000H and the Asus eeebox aren't coming with Linux installs. It would have only helped everyone out. Once the desktop can be abstracted further, then the web will rule, and Google gets its time in the sun as a monopoly.
Look at it this way...
Real stealing is walking into walmart and taking the copy.
If I'm downloading the game:
- I wasn't going to buy it, ever
- I'm going to buy it after trying it out and if it was a good game
If I bought the game:
- I just spent 50$+ on your shitty game that I can't return
- I'm some average shmuck who likely never heard of torrents.
So, who should be penalised?
Why should the people WHO BOUGHT THIS FUCKING GAME be penalised? Why not, oh I don't know, pursue the "pirates"? Is it because it'll never work? Fuck off, EA. I wanted to send money to the spore team for a working product. Not you for some bellyaching about your shit products not selling.
All this "you wouldn't steal a car/TV/purse/cat/etc" bullshit I see at the beggining of movies, and the DRM in games, is pushing me to just steal my games the old fashioned way, from Walmart.
Assuming the full game is installed, couldn't you use the equivelent of a nocd crack?
Or wouldn't running Steam in offline-mode (I don't use steam so I don't know if this even exists...) help fix the problem, not needing to go to Valve's servers?
I don't like the thought of there being a single point of failure in the way of Valve, a small company. However, I can understand if and only if a sort of "clear all DRM kthnxbai" message is given out to all the steam clients if valve goes down; that way all the customers get their games back, and valve backs out. (if they failed, I'm sure it's because of the product not being popular, and not about something else...)
DRM is DRM, period.
Well, I think it's fine that way.
But for us geeks, HP Linux means less bugs, more cool features, and likely more acceptance from our fellow geeks.
If 90% of computers were running Linux tomorrow but only 3% of those computers had users who were aware that it's linux, it's still an improvement. Linux breeds change.
Yes, and I think they released a whole bunch of drivers for debian, or work closely with it, or something.
Maybe even preinstalled distro of choice on their servers?
HP and Debian have always been close. If Ubuntu hasn't drifted too far, I wouldn't doubt seeing Ubuntu preinstalls on HP stuff. It would be a serious spit-in-the-face move to MS.
I'd be more afaid if he didn't go out and drink once in a while, or at least party a bit.
Is there any chance you get this with Swing?
I really hate Java, especially the toolkit...
And why not?
If this particle is so crucile, why not give it a name that makes it sound as important as it is? Doesn't it, on the flip side, give insight into the begginings of time, making it closer to the term "god" that you only seem to know.