Can't I just buy one for myself and let the volume productions reduce the price for everyone? I bet if they tried the freemarket approach they could get the retail price down to, oh I don't know, maybe 100USD. They could name it "the $100 laptop"
No? Oh ok, I'll just have to buy two Eee PCs for the same amount.
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The page simpledog.com is one of those totally automated junk advertising pages, obviously with a picture of a dog. Now you know this, you won't be at all curious about going there.
A shitty database-made spammy advert webpage won't give you any weight in a trademark dispute.
I'd say enforcement of Windows piracy is the least lax that it has ever been. WGA raises the barrier of casual copying to lusers who's skill wouldn't have been enough to stop them getting pwned by some virus, and being incorporated into a botnet.
...to hyphen hell! The rules - of style that apply to dashes - and hyphens - have evolved to support ease of reading in complex constructions; editors - often accept deviations - from them that will support, rather than --- hinder, ease of reading.
Have you actually been to China? I've lived there for a few years and I have to say that this is nonsense. The concept of a "great firewall" is pretty misleading to start with, but I digress.
It doesn't need to be illegal to bypass the firewall, and students in the field of computing, I've talked to routinely use proxies, tor and encryption without getting thrown in prison. It doesn't need to be illegal because censorship works so long as most people can't reach most of the information most of the time. It is certainly sufficient to keep a generation from knowing what happened in Tiananmen square in 1989, and a connection reset message a few times is enough to convince people that there is no such site as "wikipedia" and that the link I sent them must be a dud. Arresting a few bloggers who didn't have the sense to use tor is enough to chill any anti-government stuff.
To this, and the surrounding posts going on about "China will crush it's own economic growth because of censorship"... ain't going to happen. They can safely hide a few embarrassing truths without grinding to a halt.
Although I wouldn't want to be a citizen of China, and live there much longer than I did, the fact is, it isn't censored to the extent that people seem to assume it is.
Maybe because Socialism is the idea of giving power to the people rather than an elite oligarchy, to gain popular support among people for an elite oligarchy, so that power can be gained by that elite oligarchy. Censorship is then used to dumb down the population to maintain power.
No, there are not Inuit words for snow. This is a piece of general ignorance that is widely spread. There is even a freaking wikipedia article about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
Also, Eskimos do not rub noses, the rickshaw was invented by an American and Joan of Arc was not French.
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself - anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
Maybe in soviet Russia you needed a slip authorizing you to buy 1 computer...but not in China.
In at least 3 medium-large cities I visited these amazing 6+ floor computer stores that puts PC world and anything else in the UK to shame. The choice was amazing, from whole computers to obscure parts, which I would expect to have to mail order in the UK. Bags of dirt cheap OEM hard drives, and quality branded RAM.
Bottom line, if you have the cash then anyone, Chinese or otherwise can go and buy a pc, the parts to build a pc, or indeed an entire Beowulf cluster of pcs, and there's no VAT/sales tax. China is more capitalist than 'merica.
It exists, and it is more than GPL violating too. When I saw it running a few years back (Chinese version) it was an extreamly shoddy red hat fork with KDE as the desktop and blatantly ripped-off windows 2000 icons. It was trying hard to pass off as windows 2000, but also there was no root password, user ran as root by default, and it seemed that some services...actually most of them, were running by default.
The whole thing was just so communist. As opposed to Linux.
I'm just off to patent my idea for an mp3 player that encodes the music in the DNA of mold spores. Ripe spores will be blown out through a vent, and possibly infect another compatible players. What will the mafiaa do then.
Step 1. Outsource programming of a rootkit Step 2. Release rootkit to the public Step 3. Get sued by the public Step 4. Sue company that you originally contracted to write you a rootkit Step 5. ? Step 6. Come up smelling of roses
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Can't I just buy one for myself and let the volume productions reduce the price for everyone?
I bet if they tried the freemarket approach they could get the retail price down to, oh I don't know, maybe 100USD. They could name it "the $100 laptop"
No? Oh ok, I'll just have to buy two Eee PCs for the same amount.
How To Draw a Simple Dog
Easy Tricks To Teach Your Simple Dog
Free Doghouse Plans Online for Simpletons
The page simpledog.com is one of those totally automated junk advertising pages, obviously with a picture of a dog.
Now you know this, you won't be at all curious about going there.
A shitty database-made spammy advert webpage won't give you any weight in a trademark dispute.
Are you saying you value privacy. What are YOU hiding?
I'd say enforcement of Windows piracy is the least lax that it has ever been.
WGA raises the barrier of casual copying to lusers who's skill wouldn't have been enough to stop them getting pwned by some virus, and being incorporated into a botnet.
...to hyphen hell! The rules - of style that apply to dashes - and hyphens - have evolved to support ease of reading in complex constructions; editors - often accept deviations - from them that will support, rather than --- hinder, ease of reading.
Have you actually been to China?
... ain't going to happen. They can safely hide a few embarrassing truths without grinding to a halt.
I've lived there for a few years and I have to say that this is nonsense. The concept of a "great firewall" is pretty misleading to start with, but I digress.
It doesn't need to be illegal to bypass the firewall, and students in the field of computing, I've talked to routinely use proxies, tor and encryption without getting thrown in prison. It doesn't need to be illegal because censorship works so long as most people can't reach most of the information most of the time. It is certainly sufficient to keep a generation from knowing what happened in Tiananmen square in 1989, and a connection reset message a few times is enough to convince people that there is no such site as "wikipedia" and that the link I sent them must be a dud.
Arresting a few bloggers who didn't have the sense to use tor is enough to chill any anti-government stuff.
To this, and the surrounding posts going on about "China will crush it's own economic growth because of censorship"
Although I wouldn't want to be a citizen of China, and live there much longer than I did, the fact is, it isn't censored to the extent that people seem to assume it is.
Maybe because Socialism is the idea of giving power to the people rather than an elite oligarchy, to gain popular support among people for an elite oligarchy, so that power can be gained by that elite oligarchy. Censorship is then used to dumb down the population to maintain power.
No, there are not Inuit words for snow. This is a piece of general ignorance that is widely spread.
There is even a freaking wikipedia article about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
Also, Eskimos do not rub noses, the rickshaw was invented by an American and Joan of Arc was not French.
You should lay of the substance D
What happens to the activation servers long after the products (ie 2000 and XP) are out of extended support?
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself - anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
You are free to fork it and call your project whatever you like, from the following list:
1. Firegimp
2. Gusty gimp.
I skimmed TFA but couldn't find the inventive step that makes this news worthy.
Do you have a religious objection to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control ?
Maybe in soviet Russia you needed a slip authorizing you to buy 1 computer...but not in China.
In at least 3 medium-large cities I visited these amazing 6+ floor computer stores that puts PC world and anything else in the UK to shame. The choice was amazing, from whole computers to obscure parts, which I would expect to have to mail order in the UK. Bags of dirt cheap OEM hard drives, and quality branded RAM.
Bottom line, if you have the cash then anyone, Chinese or otherwise can go and buy a pc, the parts to build a pc, or indeed an entire Beowulf cluster of pcs, and there's no VAT/sales tax. China is more capitalist than 'merica.
Adblock?
It's legal to possess one here in airstrip one, but I'm going to need some plausibility deniablity with my self destructing key thanks to the RIP act.
It exists, and it is more than GPL violating too.
When I saw it running a few years back (Chinese version) it was an extreamly shoddy red hat fork with KDE as the desktop and blatantly ripped-off windows 2000 icons. It was trying hard to pass off as windows 2000, but also there was no root password, user ran as root by default, and it seemed that some services...actually most of them, were running by default.
The whole thing was just so communist. As opposed to Linux.
http://www.ericisgreat.com/tinfoilhats/
I'm just off to patent my idea for an mp3 player that encodes the music in the DNA of mold spores.
Ripe spores will be blown out through a vent, and possibly infect another compatible players.
What will the mafiaa do then.
Step 1. Outsource programming of a rootkit
Step 2. Release rootkit to the public
Step 3. Get sued by the public
Step 4. Sue company that you originally contracted to write you a rootkit
Step 5. ?
Step 6. Come up smelling of roses
This long http://bayimg.com/tag/tiananmen
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
Then how do you explain the photos of the massacre that god posted on his flickr account?
Imagine a botnet of these!