For the average consumer (or even small/medium business), Apple is a *choice*. There are many alternatives to the iPod or the iPad or iMac or iWhatever.
No one will deny that you can choose to go Apple or not, but the issue here is Apple possibly eliminating the alternatives. Sound familiar?
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Apple is far more controlling than Microsoft these days.
But we all let Apple get away with murder.
Apple is like the hot girl that gets pulled over for speeding. The cops let her go because she's pretty.
I used to hate Microsoft, but then there was the iPhone.
in 3, 2, 1.. Seriously, I'm not a PETA-type person at all, and even I think this is kind of a cruel thing to do to animals, even if it's cows we're talking about. Granted, they're not in the least bit bright, but we already use them for milk and eventually kill them for their meat and hide, it seems rather heartless to make them generate power as well.
Yeah, it's a tad... horrible. I'm excited to see the PETA fallout, though.
What kind of arm-chair reporting is that??? Just a few milligrams is enough to kill a human. It's a poison - one that works well as an organic OMRI approved pesticide too. What ya'll claim next? That strictnine is "safe?" Perhaps we should all start eating rat poison then? Rubbish.
It doesn't take much pure caffeine to kill someone either.
Yeah, this is just wonderful. My mother will never quit smoking, she's tried many times and she's literally been on every anti-depressant. Ever since she was 16 she's been smoking.
Now she's interested in "electric cigarettes", and I'm happy about this because she'll be getting the substance that's making her want to smoke without the smoke. It's better for her, it's better for my 6 year old half-sister (I'm not so sure about second hand smoke but she's young and impressionable), it's better for wherever she lives.
And now these fucking clowns say "ban this shit!"?! The worst part is they'll be successful in getting e-cigarettes banned long, long before actual cilia-destroying, house wreaking, eye watering, taste annihilating, social degrading devices.
Fermi's paradox assumes that the alien civilizations out there sent radio signals in the directions of Earth when they were on the same technological level as we now. Or do you thing Earth's radio waves will be detected 1000 ly from us in 1000 years by some alien race which will be on the same level as us now? I pretty sure our radio waves will be undetectable from the cosmic background noise.
Also, any advanced alien civilization must have some kind of 'ansible' device and does not use radio waves. Let's face it, radio waves are _slow_ in space. You cannot build a space civilization with radio waves. So, if FTL is really not possible forget any star trek like fantasy.
Yeah, it's a sad risk we face with physics. If there's FTL travel and communication, it's all good. If there's FTL communication but no (space) travel it's irrelevant except for a little fun. If there's neither then there's really just no point.
Even if harnessing quantum entanglement for communication is somehow possible we still have to transport the entangled particle to the "other end".
This is the perfect example of how censorship tries to control more than it "protects". You can make anyone think what you want them to think if you have the power to choose what they're exposed to.
But wouldn't it be sweet if Microsoft were paying Ubuntu for every copy of Linux distributed? And then we all just changed the search back to Google anyway? I know I'd like it.
But they wouldn't be paying Conanical, users would be paying Microsoft through ad revenue.
Of course, Microsoft trying the search thing doesn't bother me. I'm actually starting to hate Microsoft less than Apple now because Microsoft is acting like any corporation would while Apple's acting like a deity.
No, there is one word to explain that: blu-ray. It's the same reason there as very little DVD movie piracy in the mid-late 90's (very few people had burners and security cracks yet).
I partly counter your example with UMDs; absolutely no one has UMD burners yet the PSP has been an extremely convenient medium for playing games unlicensed, along with other homebrew software.
What is especially different between movies and games is movies can be reformatted into smaller sizes. Those 5 gigs of video can be turned into a few hundred megs which is easier to disseminate online. Games, though, can only have content taken out and some aspects of it compressed or reformatted.
Since dual-layer Blu-Rays are 50 gigs it's a little more daunting of a task, even with the 250 gig drives the PS3 slim has available. Even if someone were to plug in a 500 gig drive that's still only ~8 large games they can fit on the system at a time.
Surely, though, after custom firmware is finally developed, people will find ways to reliably use external hard drives with several terabytes of space.
So you're right, the difficulty in working with large amounts of data set back unlicensed DVD copying a decade, but once technology caught up it was no trouble at all. Even now it's quite manageable to copy Blu-Rays, in a few years the data will be even easier to handle.
3) The tragedy appears to me to be a wanton disrespect for human life.
Were it my choice our armed forces would only employ individuals who showed a respect for human life and didn't assume the people they just destroyed were "bastards".
They enjoyed it, they were looking for a chance to slaughter. The people on the ground were just waddling around without any sign of hostility.
There was nothing that looked like a weapon. I know it's a shitty black and white image, but even the cameras barely showed up as anything that could be distinguishable from a piece of cloth or anything.
Regardless, just having weapons didn't make these people acceptable targets.
The mistake here was putting these idiots in charge of these machines.
This whole thing would have been less surreal and controversial if instead of saying "3.21 means no more OtherOS Just Because." they had "Here's this feature the community has been absolutely begging for, and this one, and this one, and this one... oh, by the way, it'll probably disable OtherOS so plan around that."
What they have done is effectively make pre-3.21 fat PS3s high-value items for the people interested in homebrew, backups and "backups". Eventually they'll be cracked, and they'll have cracked firmwares installed on them that will provide all the official features plus the useful things that Sony apparently skipped on doing all this time to release this potentially crippling update.
Oh, and this all assumes that the OtherOS option will even be necessary to mod the system.
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On an infinite timeline the chances of hating Apple is 100%, some of us just get there sooner than others.
I've heard of hardware as a service but this is ridiculous!
'Muhammed' is the new 'Voldemort'.
Shhh! We dare not speak his name!
Terrorists win.
For the average consumer (or even small/medium business), Apple is a *choice*. There are many alternatives to the iPod or the iPad or iMac or iWhatever.
No one will deny that you can choose to go Apple or not, but the issue here is Apple possibly eliminating the alternatives. Sound familiar?
Apple is far more controlling than Microsoft these days.
But we all let Apple get away with murder.
Apple is like the hot girl that gets pulled over for speeding. The cops let her go because she's pretty.
I used to hate Microsoft, but then there was the iPhone.
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Seriously, I'm not a PETA-type person at all, and even I think this is kind of a cruel thing to do to animals, even if it's cows we're talking about. Granted, they're not in the least bit bright, but we already use them for milk and eventually kill them for their meat and hide, it seems rather heartless to make them generate power as well.
Yeah, it's a tad... horrible. I'm excited to see the PETA fallout, though.
Should make an Idle variant for Apple non-news for the few who are still surprised.
What kind of arm-chair reporting is that??? Just a few milligrams is enough to kill a human. It's a poison - one that works well as an organic OMRI approved pesticide too. What ya'll claim next? That strictnine is "safe?" Perhaps we should all start eating rat poison then? Rubbish.
It doesn't take much pure caffeine to kill someone either.
Yeah, just imagine if they discovered an actual panacea. "Oh, this might cure every ailment but there's just something wrong about it!"
Yeah, this is just wonderful. My mother will never quit smoking, she's tried many times and she's literally been on every anti-depressant. Ever since she was 16 she's been smoking.
Now she's interested in "electric cigarettes", and I'm happy about this because she'll be getting the substance that's making her want to smoke without the smoke. It's better for her, it's better for my 6 year old half-sister (I'm not so sure about second hand smoke but she's young and impressionable), it's better for wherever she lives.
And now these fucking clowns say "ban this shit!"?! The worst part is they'll be successful in getting e-cigarettes banned long, long before actual cilia-destroying, house wreaking, eye watering, taste annihilating, social degrading devices.
No wonder mice are the only useful thing with a Microsoft branding!
Fermi's paradox assumes that the alien civilizations out there sent radio signals in the directions of Earth when they were on the same technological level as we now. Or do you thing Earth's radio waves will be detected 1000 ly from us in 1000 years by some alien race which will be on the same level as us now? I pretty sure our radio waves will be undetectable from the cosmic background noise.
Also, any advanced alien civilization must have some kind of 'ansible' device and does not use radio waves. Let's face it, radio waves are _slow_ in space. You cannot build a space civilization with radio waves. So, if FTL is really not possible forget any star trek like fantasy.
Yeah, it's a sad risk we face with physics. If there's FTL travel and communication, it's all good. If there's FTL communication but no (space) travel it's irrelevant except for a little fun. If there's neither then there's really just no point.
Even if harnessing quantum entanglement for communication is somehow possible we still have to transport the entangled particle to the "other end".
Is the Solar system our final frontier?
I think I believe this, too. I mean, it really makes sense. Damnit /., now I'm going to be depressed all day!
This is the perfect example of how censorship tries to control more than it "protects". You can make anyone think what you want them to think if you have the power to choose what they're exposed to.
But wouldn't it be sweet if Microsoft were paying Ubuntu for every copy of Linux distributed? And then we all just changed the search back to Google anyway? I know I'd like it.
But they wouldn't be paying Conanical, users would be paying Microsoft through ad revenue.
Of course, Microsoft trying the search thing doesn't bother me. I'm actually starting to hate Microsoft less than Apple now because Microsoft is acting like any corporation would while Apple's acting like a deity.
No, there is one word to explain that: blu-ray. It's the same reason there as very little DVD movie piracy in the mid-late 90's (very few people had burners and security cracks yet).
I partly counter your example with UMDs; absolutely no one has UMD burners yet the PSP has been an extremely convenient medium for playing games unlicensed, along with other homebrew software.
What is especially different between movies and games is movies can be reformatted into smaller sizes. Those 5 gigs of video can be turned into a few hundred megs which is easier to disseminate online. Games, though, can only have content taken out and some aspects of it compressed or reformatted.
Since dual-layer Blu-Rays are 50 gigs it's a little more daunting of a task, even with the 250 gig drives the PS3 slim has available. Even if someone were to plug in a 500 gig drive that's still only ~8 large games they can fit on the system at a time.
Surely, though, after custom firmware is finally developed, people will find ways to reliably use external hard drives with several terabytes of space.
So you're right, the difficulty in working with large amounts of data set back unlicensed DVD copying a decade, but once technology caught up it was no trouble at all. Even now it's quite manageable to copy Blu-Rays, in a few years the data will be even easier to handle.
I don't think it hurts the image of the Apache crew, just of whoever ordered them to fire.
Watch the video and you may change your mind.
I actually did bother to watch the video.
It was not a "crowd". It was a small group of people. Calling it a "crowd" is just media sensationalism.
We also don't have any context for this stuff.
In isolation, it makes the Apache crew look pretty retarded but we also don't know what else was going on at the time or anything about this location.
Two's a couple, three's a crowd, right? It was 8 people before the assault began and there's not really much evidence they were even all together.
Good thing you let us know you were being sarcastic. Some folks around here might have gotten offended.
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3) The tragedy appears to me to be a wanton disrespect for human life.
Were it my choice our armed forces would only employ individuals who showed a respect for human life and didn't assume the people they just destroyed were "bastards".
Fortunately, it's not my choice. Yay democracy.
Just watched it...
They enjoyed it, they were looking for a chance to slaughter. The people on the ground were just waddling around without any sign of hostility.
There was nothing that looked like a weapon. I know it's a shitty black and white image, but even the cameras barely showed up as anything that could be distinguishable from a piece of cloth or anything.
Regardless, just having weapons didn't make these people acceptable targets.
The mistake here was putting these idiots in charge of these machines.
Doesn't burning gas more efficiently mean more pollutants are released as exhaust?
Does that mean we're trying to have our cake and eat it, too?
Bah, just ignore this guy, it worked for all the other people talking about this "Superbug" nonsense.
This whole thing would have been less surreal and controversial if instead of saying "3.21 means no more OtherOS Just Because." they had "Here's this feature the community has been absolutely begging for, and this one, and this one, and this one... oh, by the way, it'll probably disable OtherOS so plan around that."
What they have done is effectively make pre-3.21 fat PS3s high-value items for the people interested in homebrew, backups and "backups". Eventually they'll be cracked, and they'll have cracked firmwares installed on them that will provide all the official features plus the useful things that Sony apparently skipped on doing all this time to release this potentially crippling update.
Oh, and this all assumes that the OtherOS option will even be necessary to mod the system.