Crack open a book sometime. Islam has been trying to take over the rest of the world pretty much since the day it was founded. Liberal fantasies about Western colonialism are flatly contradicted by the entire rest of history. From Charlemange to Dracula the rest of the world was actively under siege.
This is just the next chapter in a very long history that's not pretty if you actually bother to pay attention to it.
Being able to ignore their oil really wouldn't change the situation all that much.
The only way you can think that "DRM has disappeared" is if you are still living in 1998 and think that music is the only kind of media file under consideration.
Also, "services" contain DRM. They're specifically engineered to disallow copying. They are kind of nothing but DRM and they seem to be the current wave of the future in music.
If you can't tell game from livestock then you have no tastebuds.
"Organic" when it applies to animals can be a bit trickier since it also relates to how the animals live and are treated and this can impact things other than just taste.
You could certainly trim bits out of a theoretical CS program in order to favor more useful humanities courses. It would not harm the discipline to treat it more like a proper branch of engineering and include communications and management requirements would help in that regard.
Perhaps there's something to the pervasive media narrative about Silicon Valley after all. Not only do they have no ability to relate to the non-asian and non-white crowd but they also have no ability to relate to whites that aren't rich enough for east coast boarding schools either.
I have plenty of anecdotal data points that would contradict their race based criteria. That likely comes from not living the life of privelege that they imagine I have.
Or perhaps this is just what you get when you let liberal bleeding heart SJWs run amok.
Broken is still broken. Shipping a broken product is perhaps tolerable for a GAME but it simply shouldn't be tolerated for hardware. If the end user has to "patch" a piece of hardware then it's still an engineering fail and Seagate deserves every bit of grief anyone gives them.
Their 3TB drives in particular seem to implode at about 18 months.
Plenty of other people are willing to put them up on a pedestal. That's kind of the whole point of the "Greatest Generation" moniker. It's so pervasive that it's just taken for granted. No one has to bring it up.
> Not so sure. Try to find another mp3 player with massive storage, an excellent user interface, and good to excellent build quality.
Any Android device.
My 500G Archos still refuses to die. It fits a particular niche that Apple will refuse to address and Android hasn't quite caught up yet with (but will eventually).
The liberal Hollywood elite sold out to megacorp bean counters a long time ago. Now the studios are nothing more than subsidaries of large global conglomerates.
This isn't something that's an inherent part of getting to work. This is an extra burden specifically put in place by the employer. It is a REQUIREMENT demanded of employees. It doesn't matter if it is "relevant" to the job or not.
If your employer says you have to stand on one leg for 25 minutes before and after a shift, that's time that they owe you in compensation. They are stealing your time and the gatekeepers are allowing it.
I don't think the skeptics ever thought that the PI would make a good XBMC machine. I certainly had my own doubts before I tried it out for myself and confirmed my own suspicions.
We naysayers are more of a counter to those in the community that gush over the PI as a media center.
Although the WHOLE POINT of general purpose machines is that they get used for things that the manufacturer never would have imagined.
XBMC is really only a killer app for the PI if you are willing to make serious compromises just to get a bargain. There are any number of cheap (but not dirt cheap) low profile PCs that run circles around a PI both as a media center and a general purpose machine.
The PI really not powerful enough for XBMC.
An Asus chromebox is a much better choice. Makes a decent general purpose box too.
Temporarily disabling a feature is not the same as permanently doing so. It's like saying that you always need to run as root. You don't. You only need to enable root level access when it's actually needed. The same goes for outward facing network services.
Similarly MacOS doesn't enable the ssh server by default.
Your comments are a total non-sequitor. The myth that bushmen have a lot of free time is balanced against the fact that bushment live in what we would call poverty. They also live in their own filth and despoil their village untilt he point that it's uninhabitable and then they move on.
Being a bushman comes with some really severe tradeoffs.
> you'd literally have to starve yourself to death and/or use up 99% of your normal sleeping time.
If you think you've ever had to live like this, you are probably just kidding yourself. A spoiled spooner that's upset that you actually had to WORK at some point.
Even the IT sector benefits from the remnants of the labor movement.
You don't get to "control" your creations. That's not what COPYright law is about. It's about COPYing. "Control" is something entirely else beyond the scope and intent of intellectual property laws (at least in the US).
While I have personally suffered from the problems of de-supported Mac hardware, I don't think that's the real problem. The real problem is severe lack of choice in hardware. There is no Mac that a professional can take seriously. It's all novelty form factors and consumerist crap. They even did that to their "pro" line.
Running MacOS requires putting up with Mac hardware.
The simpler and quicker this is, the easier it is for you to do things that haven't already been pre-packaged yet.
People like to drone on about UIs and "design" but this is really just a fancy way of talking about turning the user into a slave to feed input into a device that really should be automating everything.
> How does pointing that out improve Linux in any way?
It establishes a baseline for comparion.
On the other hand, you can simply avoid the offending kernel versions if you want. There's nothing forcing you to use either of these versions of the kernel.
Free software is developed out in the open with total transparency and no secrets. That means it includes the ugly bits that the rest of the industry usually gets to hide.
You are at fault for the condition of your car regardless. This is true whether you maintain your own brakes, you let someone else do it, or you just ignore it. This is why you don't need "extra special anti-hacking laws". The laws from 3000 years ago already adequately address the "new" problems people are worried about.
Nonsense. The Odyssey 2 if anything demonstrates how other people should be free to improve upon the "inventions" of others. It was a poorly executed system with horrible games. I had one and didn't even want it. I would have much preferred a 2600 or pretty much anything else. The Intellivision in particular was rather sophisticated for it's time.
Baer's designs have the signs of being a little too ambitious and sometimes incomplete.
If Bushnell and others shamelessly copied him, then sure he should be held up as everyone's inspiration. His own work is kind of meh.
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Crack open a book sometime. Islam has been trying to take over the rest of the world pretty much since the day it was founded. Liberal fantasies about Western colonialism are flatly contradicted by the entire rest of history. From Charlemange to Dracula the rest of the world was actively under siege.
This is just the next chapter in a very long history that's not pretty if you actually bother to pay attention to it.
Being able to ignore their oil really wouldn't change the situation all that much.
Everything else has DRM.
The only way you can think that "DRM has disappeared" is if you are still living in 1998 and think that music is the only kind of media file under consideration.
Also, "services" contain DRM. They're specifically engineered to disallow copying. They are kind of nothing but DRM and they seem to be the current wave of the future in music.
Hell, I was done with vinyl when it was still the in thing originally. It's a terribly inconvenient format. I was happy to have an alternative (tape).
Having avoided it in the past I am fascinated to see people fawn all over it now as if it's the hot new thing.
Although the format was better for cover art...
If you can't tell game from livestock then you have no tastebuds.
"Organic" when it applies to animals can be a bit trickier since it also relates to how the animals live and are treated and this can impact things other than just taste.
You could certainly trim bits out of a theoretical CS program in order to favor more useful humanities courses. It would not harm the discipline to treat it more like a proper branch of engineering and include communications and management requirements would help in that regard.
Programs in some places already do that.
Perhaps there's something to the pervasive media narrative about Silicon Valley after all. Not only do they have no ability to relate to the non-asian and non-white crowd but they also have no ability to relate to whites that aren't rich enough for east coast boarding schools either.
I have plenty of anecdotal data points that would contradict their race based criteria. That likely comes from not living the life of privelege that they imagine I have.
Or perhaps this is just what you get when you let liberal bleeding heart SJWs run amok.
...all of the multimedia I have collected since acquiring my first PC clone.
This includes any CD, DVD, or BD that I buy.
All of the convenience of streaming media but none of the downsizes like network outages or license revokation or just plain lack of availability.
You're missing some zeroes in there somewhere.
It does take a long time to "rebuild" after a failure of a large drive. There's no denying that. It's silly to even try.
What I would despute is the idea that one of the other drives will magically fail during the rebuild if it wasn't already showing signs of dying.
Due to Seagate's current quality levels, I have some personal firsthand experience with rebuilding large RAID arrays.
It's not quite as scary as the fearmongers would have you believe.
Broken is still broken. Shipping a broken product is perhaps tolerable for a GAME but it simply shouldn't be tolerated for hardware. If the end user has to "patch" a piece of hardware then it's still an engineering fail and Seagate deserves every bit of grief anyone gives them.
Their 3TB drives in particular seem to implode at about 18 months.
Livable huh? Did you live in one of them? Unless you were willing to live in one of these places, then you can't really call them liveable really.
The fact that people for whatever reason end up in a slum doesn't make that place "liveable".
By such a weak standard, you could claim that any slum on the planet is "liveable" including that notorious one in Hong Kong.
Plenty of other people are willing to put them up on a pedestal. That's kind of the whole point of the "Greatest Generation" moniker. It's so pervasive that it's just taken for granted. No one has to bring it up.
> Not so sure. Try to find another mp3 player with massive storage, an excellent user interface, and good to excellent build quality.
Any Android device.
My 500G Archos still refuses to die. It fits a particular niche that Apple will refuse to address and Android hasn't quite caught up yet with (but will eventually).
No. The proper term is speculator.
The liberal Hollywood elite sold out to megacorp bean counters a long time ago. Now the studios are nothing more than subsidaries of large global conglomerates.
Oh. I will blame SCOTUS.
This isn't something that's an inherent part of getting to work. This is an extra burden specifically put in place by the employer. It is a REQUIREMENT demanded of employees. It doesn't matter if it is "relevant" to the job or not.
If your employer says you have to stand on one leg for 25 minutes before and after a shift, that's time that they owe you in compensation. They are stealing your time and the gatekeepers are allowing it.
I don't think the skeptics ever thought that the PI would make a good XBMC machine. I certainly had my own doubts before I tried it out for myself and confirmed my own suspicions.
We naysayers are more of a counter to those in the community that gush over the PI as a media center.
Although the WHOLE POINT of general purpose machines is that they get used for things that the manufacturer never would have imagined.
XBMC is really only a killer app for the PI if you are willing to make serious compromises just to get a bargain. There are any number of cheap (but not dirt cheap) low profile PCs that run circles around a PI both as a media center and a general purpose machine.
The PI really not powerful enough for XBMC.
An Asus chromebox is a much better choice. Makes a decent general purpose box too.
Temporarily disabling a feature is not the same as permanently doing so. It's like saying that you always need to run as root. You don't. You only need to enable root level access when it's actually needed. The same goes for outward facing network services.
Similarly MacOS doesn't enable the ssh server by default.
Your comments are a total non-sequitor. The myth that bushmen have a lot of free time is balanced against the fact that bushment live in what we would call poverty. They also live in their own filth and despoil their village untilt he point that it's uninhabitable and then they move on.
Being a bushman comes with some really severe tradeoffs.
> you'd literally have to starve yourself to death and/or use up 99% of your normal sleeping time.
If you think you've ever had to live like this, you are probably just kidding yourself. A spoiled spooner that's upset that you actually had to WORK at some point.
Even the IT sector benefits from the remnants of the labor movement.
You don't get to "control" your creations. That's not what COPYright law is about. It's about COPYing. "Control" is something entirely else beyond the scope and intent of intellectual property laws (at least in the US).
While I have personally suffered from the problems of de-supported Mac hardware, I don't think that's the real problem. The real problem is severe lack of choice in hardware. There is no Mac that a professional can take seriously. It's all novelty form factors and consumerist crap. They even did that to their "pro" line.
Running MacOS requires putting up with Mac hardware.
There's also d) create programs.
The simpler and quicker this is, the easier it is for you to do things that haven't already been pre-packaged yet.
People like to drone on about UIs and "design" but this is really just a fancy way of talking about turning the user into a slave to feed input into a device that really should be automating everything.
> How does pointing that out improve Linux in any way?
It establishes a baseline for comparion.
On the other hand, you can simply avoid the offending kernel versions if you want. There's nothing forcing you to use either of these versions of the kernel.
Free software is developed out in the open with total transparency and no secrets. That means it includes the ugly bits that the rest of the industry usually gets to hide.
You are at fault for the condition of your car regardless. This is true whether you maintain your own brakes, you let someone else do it, or you just ignore it. This is why you don't need "extra special anti-hacking laws". The laws from 3000 years ago already adequately address the "new" problems people are worried about.
Nonsense. The Odyssey 2 if anything demonstrates how other people should be free to improve upon the "inventions" of others. It was a poorly executed system with horrible games. I had one and didn't even want it. I would have much preferred a 2600 or pretty much anything else. The Intellivision in particular was rather sophisticated for it's time.
Baer's designs have the signs of being a little too ambitious and sometimes incomplete.
If Bushnell and others shamelessly copied him, then sure he should be held up as everyone's inspiration. His own work is kind of meh.