...but Demonoid did. I think this indicates a subtle but meaningful change. Though it's possible that the idea behind pirating has evolved from a "free stuff is sweet" idea when it first started to a "free stuff is sweet + stick it to the RIAA/MPAA/similar entities" idea, I think that would probably be looking over a number of much less ideological and much more IRL/priorities/personal reasons not to restart it consequential to whoever was administrating the site.
That being said, on a completely OT side point, though I (mostly) dislike the new skin of/. (I have the beta skin or whatever it's called enabled), this is my first time posting since the change, and the inline posting is pretty sweet. So if anyone large and in charge reads this, go back to the old look but keep the inline posting feature.
Presumably one common interest between open source and Apple would be to out-do Microsoft in whichever way is applicable (ie for Apple OS share or sales, Firefox browser share).
Seriously though, what a troll. In a recent article someone noted that Apple actually exceeds its contractual obligations to the FOSS by giving back some of its BSD licensed code. Granted only some, and granted only occasionally, but they don't have to give back at all if they don't want to.
Whether the Auto-install issue is fair or not, I suppose it depends on your perspective. Apple also installs Quicktime with iTunes (and vice-versa), but that never caused any hoopla. Judging by the articles and the reactions I've seen, people are taking it as a direct attack to OSS (particularly Firefox), when really it impacts IE and Opera just as much. I suppose you could argue that Apple is using dominance in one market (media player) to gain traction in another (browser), but if you are actually paying attention and not just zombie clicking accept to everything that pops up on your screen, you have the option to not install it.
I don't know who modded this down, but it is true. The details might not be exactly right, but effectively that is what happens. Kid's told they are smart do better, and kids told they are dumb do worse.
It would be like if your first post on/. was modded +5 insightful or -1 troll. If you get modded highly chances are your going to continue to comment and read the website, but if your first post gets modded to oblivion and everyone flames you for it you might say "this is stupid, fuck those nerds" or something like that. Only in the case of TFA, the implications are a bit more serious.
I do however question the release of the iPhone without g3 support.
I don't. The reason is so blindingly obvious, it takes a superb amount of fanboyism to ignore: Apple released a non-3G iPhone, to ensure that everyone who buys the first iPhone for $500, will buy the iPhone3G for $500, a year later.
You are right in that the reason is blindingly obvious, but you have your own superb amount of fanboyism, only on the other side of the spectrum.
Besides issues with battery life, 3G coverage in the US is pretty bad. ATT is supposed to expand their network further to another 80 US markets by the end of 2008, bringing the total up to 350 (so around 270 now). I imagine there was way fewer 3G areas 14 months ago when the iPhone was announced, and probably not many more when the iPhone actually came out 4 months later. For the european and eastern markets 3G would be a no brainer, but Apple apparently wanted one model in two different flash drive sizes (the same way they have the shuffle, nano, and classic), and the US was their greatest and foremost marketplace, so EDGE it was.
As to the Macbook Air, I agree with Woz that it's an overblown piece of tech. And his criticism about the Apple TV is less about the hardware (which he calls an indicator of the future or something like that) and more about the rental program, which (as the rumors say) Apple resisted against as a business model for some time.
*And yet MS still controls an approximate 75% of the web browser market, Windows still controls an approximate 90% of the OS market, and there has been more than 2x as many 360's as there are PS3s sold.
As much as I might like Linux and OSS ideologies to replace Windows and MS, I honestly believe you would have to be living in dream land to think that MS is all of the sudden going to implode, let alone do it within the next 2-3 years. Just like Firefox has slowly and steadily taken market share from IE6+7, Linux will slowly and steadily take market share from Windows.
Why won't it happen fast? Firefox is a (if not the) poster child OSS program, and receives a significant amount of word of mouth advertising. It is free (in many ways, but cost is the only one that the vast majority cares about), and is almost 100% of the time rated as better than IE in reviews. And yet despite all these reasons its (albeit growing) market share is around 15%, compared to the vastly worse IE 6's 42ish% and IE 7's 32ish%.
Obviously, technical superiority and free-ness are not good enough reasons to get everyone to switch over in one big surge. Over time as Linux and OSS software in general continues to improve, the momentum to change will increase, but this change will not happen overnight. Here's to hoping for a majority market share in the next 3-4 years, but I wouldn't bet money on anything less than 6 years, and I wouldn't be surprised if it took 10 or more.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic or defeatist, but rather realistic. If it weren't for the fact that I am a tech nerd and encouraged people to switch I think nearly all my friends and family would still be using IE, let alone know what Linux is.
*Disclaimer: Yes I realize no market share analyzer is 100%, or even 90% accurate, and yes I realize these often have a tendency to under-represent Linux, but these statistics do give at least a general idea of where the majority is at.
4. You have designs of ever having a romantic relationship. ("Honey, I know preparations for the wedding have been a bit busy, but we'll have to schedule your surgery sometime this week...")
Designs? I would guess most of us are in the hope/dreams stage of ever having one, but I don't think we have sunk so low to planning on stealing a wife.
Makes you wonder how many innovations can either be directly attributed to or partially attributed to the distribution of porn (not (necessarily) that this is).
It's a religion; therefore, I guarantee it isn't accurate.
Until you can answer the question of what was there before the big bang, and what was there before that, and what was there before that, ad infinitum, that is a debatable statement.
Regardless, Anon is not against the religion of scientiology, but rather the church of scientology (see here). To quote that website:
The CoS is harmful to society, and to its own members. Its institutional purpose is, as stated by its founder, its own prevalence and expansion, mainly in an economic way. It considers the religion, the belief, the faith to be not an end, as it should, but a means, a mere tool. Indeed, it is degrading towards its own religious base and all those who believe in it.
This humiliating manipulation alone is enough to consider it insulting at best, malign at worst. But its crimes do not stop there.It has attacked freedom of expression routinely; it has attacked freedom of religion by going against those who follow the faith but not the institution; it has attacked freedom of movement, of association, of thought.
Furthermore, it has attacked the right to life, the right to the pursuit of happiness, and all other fundamental human rights.
As an outsider looking in (as of now, I may attend the Ides of March protest), I think its an extremely interesting phenomenon. Watching news reports about anon or reading online news articles about the protests from the press gives me the sense that no one who is reporting on this (outside of practially Anon itself (ie wikinews)) has any idea of what is really going on. The fact that a bunch of (essentially) computer nerds from global internet websites such as 4chan, digg, ebaums, something awful, and probably many other sources have essentially banded together for a common cause through a decentralized network of group leadership and manages to make the news through their protest amazes me. The fact that they are able to do so while wearing V for Vendetta masks, Hello Kitty shirts, Gas masks, and looking generally nerdy all while still pulling fairly ridiculous numbers makes me swell up inside with nerd pride (hey that rhymed).
Your parent's are among the lucky. Their 5k village is getting FIOS before the population of nearly 3M in Chicago is getting it. Not to mention half the US who live in the western states. I mention Chicago specifically not only because thats where I live, but also because they have FIOS in Indiana and no information (as of when I last checked, admittedly around 3 months ago) on when FIOS is coming to Chicago.
I only complain because people always say "ohh just switch to X service", but because of the government granted monopolies my current choices are between the 768k DSL from AT&T, or 6Mb cable from Comcast. Here we are stuck between slow and evil. If FIOS came here I would switch ASAP, but the option simply isn't here yet.
Thats one reason why I'm hoping Sprint's Xohm WiMax takes off, which got a good review from Ars Technica in a prerelease tech preview.
I've always wondered, what exactly does/would Google get out of doing that? I use Gmail. If Google data mined my mail, they would get nothing. I don't use email with my friends (i'm in the age bracket that doesn't use email according to that one semi-recent/. article) so all my mail is either from colleges or "click this link" forum activation mail.
In theory, the real data worth mining would be either of my parent's as both of them run their own businesses. However, what can they do with the data? Mine it so they can show targeted ad's to them for Quickbooks or Lexus-Nexus or whatever? Oh wait, they already do.
Seriously, unless your dating Larry/Sergey/Eric's Ex, why would they ever care to look through your mail?
If you are not sure about whether or not there are games equal to books yet, then you're an idiot and should stay out of the argument. Leave it to people who have played the games, and know what they're talking about.
I would find it hard to make the argument that games will ever "equal" books, for the same reason that movie versions of books often don't live up to the original books.
Books require a lot more imagination than games or movies because you have to infer what the people/places/things in the book look/act like based off of the descriptions.
That being said, I think it is hard to compare the three. A book like Hitchhikers Guide would make a poor game (IMO). A game like Metal Gear would make a poor movie (IMO). A game like Bioshock would make a poor book (IMO). But each of those excel at what medium they actually are expressed in.
I admit that an Ubuntu LTS is a bad example, but I was getting at more of the difference from LTS to LTS, rather than the difference between a release Gutsy and Hardy.
Ok, where is your source on that one? Any citation? Windows XP SP2 meant a lot to consumers AFAIK.
What the fuck is this, Wikipedia? JK, but heres a source. It's a pretty piss poor source, seeing as its coming from a microsoft exec, but its true. If you arn't telling whoever's computer your fixing this weekend (friend, family, family of friend, family's friends, etc.) to NOT TURN OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATES then your not worth your weight in salt.
To the person who responded to this parent, "Ignorant" is the wrong word.
Most of the features that are added in service packs are features that should either have been in Windows in the first place (ie a firewall in XP SP2), or something that is only useful to admins and computer repairer's (ie the backports from vista in XP SP3). I'm not ignorant of the features added, but rather I think the SP updates only provide a level of functionality that should be there at release. Maybe I'm leaving out features from Win 95 or 2000 because I'm just a young whippersnapper, but this is all AFAIK. The only thing I'm looking forward to from SP3 is being able to slipstream it into an installation disk.
Somehow we manage to go over this in half the Apple articles, but people still don't seem to get it.
Service packs != Point OS X releases.
Point OS X releases include new features and updates old ones, while MS Service packs do neither of those. Service packs are just bundles of all the security updates since the last service pack.
Point OS X releases are more akin to Ubuntu LTS releases or something along those lines.
Service packs don't even mean anything anymore to the consumer because of the improvements to the automatic rollout of updates in windows.
An OS X point point release is Apple's actual stability and security update releases, and (usually) if there is a proof of concept riling up the media and the bloggers they will fix it in a separate security update.
I'm confused as to what you are asking, but it says in the article:
Paller said that Donahue presented him with a written statement that read, "We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands. We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge. We have information that cyberattacks have been used to disrupt power equipment in several regions outside the United States. In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet."
If your referring to the part of the movie where they went to the natural gas plant, and your joking that DH4.0 was a documentary I suppose what you just posted makes (some) sense. Otherwise color me puzzled, or purple, or something like that.
Is there really any excuse of convenience that justifies connecting the nations major utilities to the internet?
At least if there is a firesale Justin Long and Bruce Willis will be there to save us. Coincidence that Mac Guy would be the one to save us? I think not.
I agree. I'm not much of a serious gamer, but I would love to have a computer with a good GPU, a decent CPU and lots of storage to tinker around with. I would Tri-boot and use OS X for normal web browsing, WoW, and making simple movies (like this one i made) in OS X, playing custom songs in GH3 in XP, and for experimenting with various FOSS OS's, as essentially the only experience I have is with Ubuntu. Part of that tinkering includes me wanting to make it myself, but that is not a neccesity. So essentially now the only thing that could fill that void is a Mac Pro, which would be more powerful than I want, or a Hackintosh, which I am putting some serious thought into getting now that the new Mac Pro's have 8800 GT's, and thus (hopefully, I haven't actually done any research on this) there will be drivers for that card in the OS x86 builds.
Just like the parent I have a monitor, portability is not an issue, and the Mac Pro is overpowered for what I want to use it for. A computer with a 8800 GT, a Core 2 Duo, 500+ gigs of HD, and commodity everything else would be perfect for what I want to use it for, but there simply isn't one that Apple makes. If they did, I would be one of the first to line up for it.
Isn't that what Linux advocates have been asking Windows users to do for years.
I best duck now, but the analogy is the same.
Not at all.
Linux isn't a firmware. So the "analogy" you have dies before it even stands up. If you fixed your statement to "replace the OS of your device with this hacked OS", that would still be wrong (assuming the popular usage of the word hacked). Linux isn't "hacked" windows. It's something completely different. The two might be of the same software phylum (os), but they have are of completely separate classes and divisions.
Switchgrass gets you more ethanol than corn sure, but that's all you get. Growing corn gets you fuel and food. Growing hemp gets you fuel, food, and fiber.
Who cares, ethanol in general is not a good long term solutions to the energy crisis (emphasis on good, it could be a solution, but it has to many flaws).
Renewable energy sources like water, sun, and wind power could be good long term solutions but the still need a lot of work and increases of effectiveness to reach that point. Nuclear could do the job but some people are afraid of it, and others fear monger about nuclear energy to keep up the myths. And lastly Hydrogen could work also but as of now it is far far far to expensive to be viable for anyone as of now (in addition to the distribution issue, which is another major problem).
Ethanol could alleviate some of the oil/coal dependencies, but it does not have the potential of the other three options to become the solution (imo). That being said, I would be glad of someone proved me wrong and made it work.
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You could use wine to VM a windows environment and then install wubi + linux to run wine on, ad infinitum until your head asplodes.
An application crashing is not a bug, its a feature!
Where have I heard that before...
...but Demonoid did. I think this indicates a subtle but meaningful change. Though it's possible that the idea behind pirating has evolved from a "free stuff is sweet" idea when it first started to a "free stuff is sweet + stick it to the RIAA/MPAA/similar entities" idea, I think that would probably be looking over a number of much less ideological and much more IRL/priorities/personal reasons not to restart it consequential to whoever was administrating the site.That being said, on a completely OT side point, though I (mostly) dislike the new skin of
ps. And the same page preview for that matter.
Presumably one common interest between open source and Apple would be to out-do Microsoft in whichever way is applicable (ie for Apple OS share or sales, Firefox browser share).
Seriously though, what a troll. In a recent article someone noted that Apple actually exceeds its contractual obligations to the FOSS by giving back some of its BSD licensed code. Granted only some, and granted only occasionally, but they don't have to give back at all if they don't want to.
Whether the Auto-install issue is fair or not, I suppose it depends on your perspective. Apple also installs Quicktime with iTunes (and vice-versa), but that never caused any hoopla. Judging by the articles and the reactions I've seen, people are taking it as a direct attack to OSS (particularly Firefox), when really it impacts IE and Opera just as much. I suppose you could argue that Apple is using dominance in one market (media player) to gain traction in another (browser), but if you are actually paying attention and not just zombie clicking accept to everything that pops up on your screen, you have the option to not install it.
I don't know who modded this down, but it is true. The details might not be exactly right, but effectively that is what happens. Kid's told they are smart do better, and kids told they are dumb do worse. It would be like if your first post on /. was modded +5 insightful or -1 troll. If you get modded highly chances are your going to continue to comment and read the website, but if your first post gets modded to oblivion and everyone flames you for it you might say "this is stupid, fuck those nerds" or something like that. Only in the case of TFA, the implications are a bit more serious.
Besides issues with battery life, 3G coverage in the US is pretty bad. ATT is supposed to expand their network further to another 80 US markets by the end of 2008, bringing the total up to 350 (so around 270 now). I imagine there was way fewer 3G areas 14 months ago when the iPhone was announced, and probably not many more when the iPhone actually came out 4 months later. For the european and eastern markets 3G would be a no brainer, but Apple apparently wanted one model in two different flash drive sizes (the same way they have the shuffle, nano, and classic), and the US was their greatest and foremost marketplace, so EDGE it was.
As to the Macbook Air, I agree with Woz that it's an overblown piece of tech. And his criticism about the Apple TV is less about the hardware (which he calls an indicator of the future or something like that) and more about the rental program, which (as the rumors say) Apple resisted against as a business model for some time.
Highly NSFW...
Thank god I don't have a job.
*And yet MS still controls an approximate 75% of the web browser market, Windows still controls an approximate 90% of the OS market, and there has been more than 2x as many 360's as there are PS3s sold.
As much as I might like Linux and OSS ideologies to replace Windows and MS, I honestly believe you would have to be living in dream land to think that MS is all of the sudden going to implode, let alone do it within the next 2-3 years. Just like Firefox has slowly and steadily taken market share from IE6+7, Linux will slowly and steadily take market share from Windows.
Why won't it happen fast? Firefox is a (if not the) poster child OSS program, and receives a significant amount of word of mouth advertising. It is free (in many ways, but cost is the only one that the vast majority cares about), and is almost 100% of the time rated as better than IE in reviews. And yet despite all these reasons its (albeit growing) market share is around 15%, compared to the vastly worse IE 6's 42ish% and IE 7's 32ish%.
Obviously, technical superiority and free-ness are not good enough reasons to get everyone to switch over in one big surge. Over time as Linux and OSS software in general continues to improve, the momentum to change will increase, but this change will not happen overnight. Here's to hoping for a majority market share in the next 3-4 years, but I wouldn't bet money on anything less than 6 years, and I wouldn't be surprised if it took 10 or more.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic or defeatist, but rather realistic. If it weren't for the fact that I am a tech nerd and encouraged people to switch I think nearly all my friends and family would still be using IE, let alone know what Linux is.
*Disclaimer: Yes I realize no market share analyzer is 100%, or even 90% accurate, and yes I realize these often have a tendency to under-represent Linux, but these statistics do give at least a general idea of where the majority is at.
Makes you wonder how many innovations can either be directly attributed to or partially attributed to the distribution of porn (not (necessarily) that this is).
VHS v Betamax comes to mind.
Until you can answer the question of what was there before the big bang, and what was there before that, and what was there before that, ad infinitum, that is a debatable statement.
Regardless, Anon is not against the religion of scientiology, but rather the church of scientology (see here). To quote that website:
As an outsider looking in (as of now, I may attend the Ides of March protest), I think its an extremely interesting phenomenon. Watching news reports about anon or reading online news articles about the protests from the press gives me the sense that no one who is reporting on this (outside of practially Anon itself (ie wikinews)) has any idea of what is really going on. The fact that a bunch of (essentially) computer nerds from global internet websites such as 4chan, digg, ebaums, something awful, and probably many other sources have essentially banded together for a common cause through a decentralized network of group leadership and manages to make the news through their protest amazes me. The fact that they are able to do so while wearing V for Vendetta masks, Hello Kitty shirts, Gas masks, and looking generally nerdy all while still pulling fairly ridiculous numbers makes me swell up inside with nerd pride (hey that rhymed).
I was expecting 500 Anonymous Coward posts saying something along the lines of "yea thats right you UID bitches, go fuck yourselves."
It must be past his bedtime or something.
Your parent's are among the lucky. Their 5k village is getting FIOS before the population of nearly 3M in Chicago is getting it. Not to mention half the US who live in the western states. I mention Chicago specifically not only because thats where I live, but also because they have FIOS in Indiana and no information (as of when I last checked, admittedly around 3 months ago) on when FIOS is coming to Chicago.
I only complain because people always say "ohh just switch to X service", but because of the government granted monopolies my current choices are between the 768k DSL from AT&T, or 6Mb cable from Comcast. Here we are stuck between slow and evil. If FIOS came here I would switch ASAP, but the option simply isn't here yet.
Thats one reason why I'm hoping Sprint's Xohm WiMax takes off, which got a good review from Ars Technica in a prerelease tech preview.
I've always wondered, what exactly does/would Google get out of doing that? I use Gmail. If Google data mined my mail, they would get nothing. I don't use email with my friends (i'm in the age bracket that doesn't use email according to that one semi-recent /. article) so all my mail is either from colleges or "click this link" forum activation mail.
In theory, the real data worth mining would be either of my parent's as both of them run their own businesses. However, what can they do with the data? Mine it so they can show targeted ad's to them for Quickbooks or Lexus-Nexus or whatever? Oh wait, they already do.
Seriously, unless your dating Larry/Sergey/Eric's Ex, why would they ever care to look through your mail?
I would find it hard to make the argument that games will ever "equal" books, for the same reason that movie versions of books often don't live up to the original books.
Books require a lot more imagination than games or movies because you have to infer what the people/places/things in the book look/act like based off of the descriptions.
That being said, I think it is hard to compare the three. A book like Hitchhikers Guide would make a poor game (IMO). A game like Metal Gear would make a poor movie (IMO). A game like Bioshock would make a poor book (IMO). But each of those excel at what medium they actually are expressed in.
What the fuck is this, Wikipedia? JK, but heres a source. It's a pretty piss poor source, seeing as its coming from a microsoft exec, but its true. If you arn't telling whoever's computer your fixing this weekend (friend, family, family of friend, family's friends, etc.) to NOT TURN OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATES then your not worth your weight in salt.
To the person who responded to this parent, "Ignorant" is the wrong word.
Most of the features that are added in service packs are features that should either have been in Windows in the first place (ie a firewall in XP SP2), or something that is only useful to admins and computer repairer's (ie the backports from vista in XP SP3). I'm not ignorant of the features added, but rather I think the SP updates only provide a level of functionality that should be there at release. Maybe I'm leaving out features from Win 95 or 2000 because I'm just a young whippersnapper, but this is all AFAIK. The only thing I'm looking forward to from SP3 is being able to slipstream it into an installation disk.
Somehow we manage to go over this in half the Apple articles, but people still don't seem to get it.
Service packs != Point OS X releases.
Point OS X releases include new features and updates old ones, while MS Service packs do neither of those. Service packs are just bundles of all the security updates since the last service pack.
Point OS X releases are more akin to Ubuntu LTS releases or something along those lines.
Service packs don't even mean anything anymore to the consumer because of the improvements to the automatic rollout of updates in windows.
An OS X point point release is Apple's actual stability and security update releases, and (usually) if there is a proof of concept riling up the media and the bloggers they will fix it in a separate security update.
Is there really any excuse of convenience that justifies connecting the nations major utilities to the internet?
At least if there is a firesale Justin Long and Bruce Willis will be there to save us. Coincidence that Mac Guy would be the one to save us? I think not.
I agree. I'm not much of a serious gamer, but I would love to have a computer with a good GPU, a decent CPU and lots of storage to tinker around with. I would Tri-boot and use OS X for normal web browsing, WoW, and making simple movies (like this one i made) in OS X, playing custom songs in GH3 in XP, and for experimenting with various FOSS OS's, as essentially the only experience I have is with Ubuntu. Part of that tinkering includes me wanting to make it myself, but that is not a neccesity. So essentially now the only thing that could fill that void is a Mac Pro, which would be more powerful than I want, or a Hackintosh, which I am putting some serious thought into getting now that the new Mac Pro's have 8800 GT's, and thus (hopefully, I haven't actually done any research on this) there will be drivers for that card in the OS x86 builds.
Just like the parent I have a monitor, portability is not an issue, and the Mac Pro is overpowered for what I want to use it for. A computer with a 8800 GT, a Core 2 Duo, 500+ gigs of HD, and commodity everything else would be perfect for what I want to use it for, but there simply isn't one that Apple makes. If they did, I would be one of the first to line up for it.
I don't think I've ever seen a Username more appropriate for a story/comment than this one.
+5 Awesome
Not at all.
Linux isn't a firmware. So the "analogy" you have dies before it even stands up. If you fixed your statement to "replace the OS of your device with this hacked OS", that would still be wrong (assuming the popular usage of the word hacked). Linux isn't "hacked" windows. It's something completely different. The two might be of the same software phylum (os), but they have are of completely separate classes and divisions.
How stable is it, and how soon till I can get it on my Mac by default?
Apparently PC manufacturers have figured out the keyboard, given that the newest keyboard on this list is the #1 ranked IBM PCjr debuting in 1984.