Steve also lured the entire RIAA into iTunes, cut the cost and made it DRM-free for the entire world to buy at less than one dollar per song. In the meantime when they did DRM-only the added a mechanism in iTunes to burn it to (re)writable media DRM-free and lossless and a mechanism to auto-RIP audiodiscs back to your computer.
If that wasn't enough for the world already, then what is?;)
That's not realy the problem. The real problem is that there is real news mixed up with april fools in the news sources today.
I hate that too. If I wanted to have April Fools, I would go watch Union News Network, which is by extend a thousand times more awesome than every april fools news post on the entire intarwebs combined...
Isn't that one of those new-ish byte-code hacks that take over your computer? I don't care because I am using a rare and new browser on SELinux with latest security fixes.
But if so and you are a Windows user, then kiss your security goodbye;)
A president has so much work to do. If the US government was to obtain such powers than OK, I would agree. But do you think that the US president would use these 'powers' to block some selective websites? He can't handle all the work to sencor.
Think about it; Day 1 Obama/succesor block WikiLeaks. Day 2 Wikileaks launches the website called: MikiLeaks and this is posted on/. and the entire world knows it. Day 3 Obama blocks it again. Day 4 WikiLeaks now registered InUrFaceLeaks.com and the story on/. continues.
You need an institution/entire department to sencor. A president alone can't be bothered to do this himself...
Because you are retarted... It's a mechanism for the US president, just like any other emergency plan they can initiate, to shut down all communications. It might be awesome that if China was to attack the USA (just an extremely unlikely situation ofcourse), the US president could shut down all communication? And be selective in this (might not want to insta-kill wallstreet, eh?). It might also be awesome that he can order it any time he wants without having to go through time consuming practices...
It's not like Obama is going to personally block a single website personally each time a person asks him this. Wouldn; t you think he doesn't have anything better to do with his limited time?
OMG. Some people are rightfully concerned. Some are just plain idiots without a clue. Seeing the glass as always half empty, even when it's full for 99.9% it's stil 0.1% TOTALLY EMPTY!!!
"Hey, cave-man! Hold on to that emacs/vi editor and your command-line dev tools using primitive languages like C++; the rest of the world will move on with modern tools." Newer is not always better!
I've grown up with DOS and started using Linux when win2k came around.
Since then it has gotten so much better every year. I don't know if/when it will be the year of the Linux desktop and I don't actualy care. As long as it is useful for me I'm happy:)
That said (I was getting a little offtopic) I've more or less grown up with a GUI (win9x was when I had my own PC) and I preffer the commandline to the GUI because once I learned it, it was so much better.
Linux is advancing soooo fast; you should check it out annualy to keep up with the current state of critisism;)
Dude... (chicks don't react like that).NET is supposed to be cross hard- and software.
It was introduced to abstract the OS so that if Microsoft were to also release Windows for PowerPC's or whatever architecture,.NET apps would still run,
Later on Microsoft announced the interoperability (this is my time to "Pffffffwahahahahaha") and they killed it with patent infringements.
So now, yes, Microsoft has shot the.NET ecosystem in the foot, which is differently from shooting it in the head.
What I am saying is yes;.NET is still very strong and succesful, but limited to Windows pretty much. Good for Microsoft and Windows, bad for the ecosystem itself that had spread to other OS platforms with Mono (which is chasing taillights and thus sucks).
YouTube is an awesome video hosting service, except for the time limit, but then again just chop your video up in pieces of 10 mins and host it as a playlist; problem solved.
Lol 32 doesn't mean that you can't utilize more than 4GB of RAM...
Windows 64bit is just 32bit but only with long long's and the ability to acces 64bit.
Howevah... by Googling the citation for it (and I couldn't find it at WineHQ, although it's there somewhere) I came to find out that starting with Win7 64bit is fully supported.
I have came to know this by reading through some of the Wine documentation. So no; I'm not wrong.
And you know why? Take a look at WoW64. Any idea as to why you can run 64bit apps on 32bit Windows? Because the 64bit Microsoft version (E, E & E, thank you very much) is just 32bit with long long's.
Indeed. Publicly available 64bit Adobe Flash Beta isn't available by default in the Ubuntu repositories since god knows when... Oh wait... it is publicly available...
Yeah let's unload everything to the graphics card and have that slow down to a crawl instead of having a decent and light implementation.
Next thing you'll know there are virus scanners (those Windows proprietary commercial crap apps) 'designed for' 4 teraflop/s systems. Give me a fscking break...
Gnash + Codecs work, yeah, but the performance is extremely terrible. Can't even run 480i YouTube vids without stuttering and having my AMD Phenom 9950 + 8GB RAM slow down to a crawl. Not to mention FireFox is unresponsive as hell. Oh and that's on Linux BTW.
It is multiple angles of location, but not multiple angles of a single person. Street View is never taken at the same time as a satalite image, proving that this is not about privacy infringement of data mining of individuals, but just from locations and buildings...
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Steve also lured the entire RIAA into iTunes, cut the cost and made it DRM-free for the entire world to buy at less than one dollar per song. In the meantime when they did DRM-only the added a mechanism in iTunes to burn it to (re)writable media DRM-free and lossless and a mechanism to auto-RIP audiodiscs back to your computer.
If that wasn't enough for the world already, then what is? ;)
That's not realy the problem. The real problem is that there is real news mixed up with april fools in the news sources today.
I hate that too. If I wanted to have April Fools, I would go watch Union News Network, which is by extend a thousand times more awesome than every april fools news post on the entire intarwebs combined...
Isn't that one of those new-ish byte-code hacks that take over your computer? I don't care because I am using a rare and new browser on SELinux with latest security fixes.
But if so and you are a Windows user, then kiss your security goodbye ;)
And no, it's not a 4/1
No internet means problems with the entire economy, transport, etc. Look at what happened with that overseas cable cut lately.
Nobody shuts down the internet without a very, very, very good reason and that reason being hostile threats and not leaked documents from WikiLeaks.
The NSA can just DDOS WikiLeaks to death if it wants to already. Who's gonna stop them? The Government? Lol.
One thousand Chinese Twitters disguised as Americans:
OMG the Chinese are comming from the east we have to run!
And then the Chinese come from the west.
back and forth manipulation. Massive riots. Too easy with internet turned on.
Knowledge is power. Wrong knowledge can mean total desaster.
What about Chine figuring out where the US is mobilizing to by reading out Twitter?
You get the point...
A president has so much work to do. If the US government was to obtain such powers than OK, I would agree. But do you think that the US president would use these 'powers' to block some selective websites? He can't handle all the work to sencor.
Think about it; /. and the entire world knows it. /. continues.
Day 1 Obama/succesor block WikiLeaks.
Day 2 Wikileaks launches the website called: MikiLeaks and this is posted on
Day 3 Obama blocks it again.
Day 4 WikiLeaks now registered InUrFaceLeaks.com and the story on
You need an institution/entire department to sencor. A president alone can't be bothered to do this himself...
What, you filed a buck report?
Because you are retarted... It's a mechanism for the US president, just like any other emergency plan they can initiate, to shut down all communications. It might be awesome that if China was to attack the USA (just an extremely unlikely situation ofcourse), the US president could shut down all communication? And be selective in this (might not want to insta-kill wallstreet, eh?). It might also be awesome that he can order it any time he wants without having to go through time consuming practices...
It's not like Obama is going to personally block a single website personally each time a person asks him this. Wouldn; t you think he doesn't have anything better to do with his limited time?
OMG. Some people are rightfully concerned. Some are just plain idiots without a clue. Seeing the glass as always half empty, even when it's full for 99.9% it's stil 0.1% TOTALLY EMPTY!!!
"Hey, cave-man! Hold on to that emacs/vi editor and your command-line dev tools using primitive languages like C++; the rest of the world will move on with modern tools."
Newer is not always better!
I've grown up with DOS and started using Linux when win2k came around.
Since then it has gotten so much better every year. I don't know if/when it will be the year of the Linux desktop and I don't actualy care. As long as it is useful for me I'm happy :)
That said (I was getting a little offtopic) I've more or less grown up with a GUI (win9x was when I had my own PC) and I preffer the commandline to the GUI because once I learned it, it was so much better.
Linux is advancing soooo fast; you should check it out annualy to keep up with the current state of critisism ;)
Dude... (chicks don't react like that) .NET is supposed to be cross hard- and software.
It was introduced to abstract the OS so that if Microsoft were to also release Windows for PowerPC's or whatever architecture, .NET apps would still run,
Later on Microsoft announced the interoperability (this is my time to "Pffffffwahahahahaha") and they killed it with patent infringements.
So now, yes, Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot, which is differently from shooting it in the head.
What I am saying is yes; .NET is still very strong and succesful, but limited to Windows pretty much. Good for Microsoft and Windows, bad for the ecosystem itself that had spread to other OS platforms with Mono (which is chasing taillights and thus sucks).
YouTube is an awesome video hosting service, except for the time limit, but then again just chop your video up in pieces of 10 mins and host it as a playlist; problem solved.
If you think that there aren't any epic quality videos out there, think again:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory
http://www.youtube.com/edu
http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJSMUSZHMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ayez1cBisU
Just to name a few...
But does the Microsoft one runs Linux?
Lol 32 doesn't mean that you can't utilize more than 4GB of RAM...
Windows 64bit is just 32bit but only with long long's and the ability to acces 64bit.
Howevah... by Googling the citation for it (and I couldn't find it at WineHQ, although it's there somewhere) I came to find out that starting with Win7 64bit is fully supported.
I have came to know this by reading through some of the Wine documentation. So no; I'm not wrong.
And you know why? Take a look at WoW64. Any idea as to why you can run 64bit apps on 32bit Windows? Because the 64bit Microsoft version (E, E & E, thank you very much) is just 32bit with long long's.
Sooooo....
No, I don't... However you can come over to my house and fsck my sis- errr... see my Gray Compositing Window of Death ;)
Microsoft's definition of 64bit != true 64bit. In fact it is more like 32bit.
Want to know more? Google the citation for yourself...
Indeed. Publicly available 64bit Adobe Flash Beta isn't available by default in the Ubuntu repositories since god knows when... Oh wait... it is publicly available...
Yeah let's unload everything to the graphics card and have that slow down to a crawl instead of having a decent and light implementation.
Next thing you'll know there are virus scanners (those Windows proprietary commercial crap apps) 'designed for' 4 teraflop/s systems. Give me a fscking break...
Gnash + Codecs work, yeah, but the performance is extremely terrible. Can't even run 480i YouTube vids without stuttering and having my AMD Phenom 9950 + 8GB RAM slow down to a crawl. Not to mention FireFox is unresponsive as hell. Oh and that's on Linux BTW.
Didn't the "we are all going to die and..." part gave away that I was far from serious? ;)
How about the *NIX date bug? In 2038 the intarwebs will come to a screaching halt and we are all going to die and...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
The party headed over to Nintendo for his Xbox360 got a red ring of death...
Okey, next...
The Xnu kernel:
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx//arch_xnu.html
You got a point there... fair enough ;)
It is multiple angles of location, but not multiple angles of a single person. Street View is never taken at the same time as a satalite image, proving that this is not about privacy infringement of data mining of individuals, but just from locations and buildings...