Violent crime these days is roughly at the same levels it was at in the mid 1970s. There was a spike in the '90s, but mostly in specific areas (crack epidemic in inner cities.)
It's higher than it was in the '50s and '60s, but much lower than in the '20s and '30s.
It's just that EVERYTHING bad that happens to ANYONE gets reported on the news. There are whole shows that spend -months- going over a bad thing that happened to -one person-.
Unless you grew up in the '50s, it's not that there's more bad stuff happening now - it's just that you're hearing about it now.
Well, when I was a kid riding my bike and I got a flat tire, I got off the bike and pushed the damned thing home. Flat bicycle tires still roll enough to push the thing.
What good would a cell phone have done me? My father sure as hell wasn't going to leave work early to come rescue me from a flat tire.
That's what we all did. It's not like bicycles didn't get flat tires before the advent of the cell phone.
In my experience as a Certified Amiga Nut, most users of MorphOS are Amiga nuts who are pissed off with Amiga, Inc's mishandling of the IP, or are pissed at Hyperion Entertainment, so they won't use AmigaOS 4.1, or else they really want a PPC Amiga laptop (as opposed to just running WinUAE on a PC laptop, and getting excellent 68040-based Amiga compatibility.)
I haven't run into an HDTV that doesn't have component yet, but I can see that not having the same connector as everything else makes using a switchbox or receiver a pain.
These guys http://www.neoya.com/shop/wii2hdmi sell a Wii to HDMI adapter gizmo for thirty bucks. Might be worth it just to simplify cabling.
Er, the machine isn't even out yet. And it probably won't come with a bowling game.
Did you, perhaps, mean the Wii? If so, you're sadly mistaken. There aren't _as many_ Wii titles I consider Fantastic Games as some other platforms, but there are still quite a few really damned good games.
But it was only ever used on one model, at most a 75 MHz 486 that maxes out at 40 megs of RAM. They didn't bother with the folding keyboard after that because people wanted bigger screens which made the fold-ability moot.
I wish they'd revived it for a Thinkpad-branded netbook, though.
Given that Jaguar and Land Rover are no more British than Ford is American - they're all global brands, these days, and even figuring out who owns what is a pain.
However, you can still get a British car in the States; there are a couple of importers selling Morgans here.
(I have no idea if you'd WANT a Morgan, but I admit they're neat lookin'.)
With the exception of games specifically written for the Kinect controler and the very few MMORPGs for it, any Xbox 360 will play any Xbox 360 game, whether or not it has a hard drive. (Playing original Xbox games does require a hard drive or USB stick, though.)
Some games have extras that can be installed to the hard drive - like the Battlefield 3 high-res texture pack - but the game can still be played without one.
Also, everything that was in the original Xbox 360 is still in the current one; the 360 is the only current console that hasn't lost capability between versions. (The PS3 lost the ability to play SACDs and run PS2 games and Linux; the current Wii consoles can't play GameCube games or play MP3s.)
The Wii sometimes needs firmware updates for disc games, but at least they ship the firmware on the disc if that's the case.
As far as I know all the PS3 consoles are the same as far as playing PS3 games go - the only difference is the amount of hard drive space, and whether or not you have the PS Move controller, but weird controllers have always been around in some form or other. (Anyone else remember the Joyboard for the Atari 2600? Or that funky keypad thing for the space game I forgot the name of?)
We're not talking about an 'upgrade' as in 'you have to have an old version installed first'.
We're talking about 'upgrade licenses'. Legally, to use a version of OS X sold on disc or download, you have to already own a copy that came with your Macintosh.
No, most of them don't check to see that you do, but that's still the wording of the license.
From the 10.7 Software License Agreement:
you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license: (i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (âoeMac Computerâ) that you own or control;
Note the 'Apple-branded' there? There's more boilerplate, but even the bit about running it in a virtual machine requires that the virtual machine be running on Apple hardware.
Those were still upgrade licenses. You had to already have a license for a previous Mac OS to install those discs.
No, it didn't check for a previous installed version, but the license basically said 'This is for installation on a Mac', and if you had a Mac, you had the OS license that came with it.
Leopard was a $129 upgrade to Tiger. It wasn't $30 if you already had Tiger and $129 otherwise.
Apple doesn't sell a $30 OS. Apple sells $30 OS *upgrades*. To use them legally, you have to already have a full license for a previous version of MacOS, which you can only get by buying a computer.
No one really knows what a full MacOS X license costs, because Apple has never sold one.
Most OSes are non-RTOSes. Windows, MacOS X, Linux*, Android, iOS.
Basically, a process tells the kernel 'Look, I *need* a slice of CPU time at this interval.' A realtime OS goes 'Okay, here you go.' A non-realtime OS goes 'Pfft, whatever. I'll see what I can do, but don't get your hopes up.'
(* Standard Linux-related qualifier: There is, of course, a real-time variant of Linux, but most machines don't use that kernel.)
It was a pain in the ass to get one. I wound up getting the tablet from Office Depot and the keyboard from Best Buy. And it took a month to get the tablet, and another week for the keyboard.
I might believe poor sales figures if the damned thing wasn't still selling out all over the place. Obviously, Asus is selling them as fast as they make them.
There are actually some non-Kindle readers that do MobiPocket / PRC, but you'll need to strip the DRM out if you got them from Amazon.
Annoyingly, while my reader can read ePub and MobiPocket, it can't read both; you have to flash either ePub firmware or MobiPocket firmware, due to DRM licensing issues with Adobe.
(I use MobiPocket. In my experience while ePub has a better feature set in theory, MobiPocket actually works better.)
It's not quite one click. Last I tried, which admittedly was about three months ago, stripping DRM from MobiPocket formats still required screwing around with Python scripts that only worked on Windows machines.
It may be easier with ePub; I don't have any DRM'd ePub, so I've never tried.
If you do know a one-click Mobi DRM stripper, lemme know!
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Violent crime these days is roughly at the same levels it was at in the mid 1970s. There was a spike in the '90s, but mostly in specific areas (crack epidemic in inner cities.)
It's higher than it was in the '50s and '60s, but much lower than in the '20s and '30s.
It's just that EVERYTHING bad that happens to ANYONE gets reported on the news. There are whole shows that spend -months- going over a bad thing that happened to -one person-.
Unless you grew up in the '50s, it's not that there's more bad stuff happening now - it's just that you're hearing about it now.
Well, when I was a kid riding my bike and I got a flat tire, I got off the bike and pushed the damned thing home. Flat bicycle tires still roll enough to push the thing.
What good would a cell phone have done me? My father sure as hell wasn't going to leave work early to come rescue me from a flat tire.
That's what we all did. It's not like bicycles didn't get flat tires before the advent of the cell phone.
In my experience as a Certified Amiga Nut, most users of MorphOS are Amiga nuts who are pissed off with Amiga, Inc's mishandling of the IP, or are pissed at Hyperion Entertainment, so they won't use AmigaOS 4.1, or else they really want a PPC Amiga laptop (as opposed to just running WinUAE on a PC laptop, and getting excellent 68040-based Amiga compatibility.)
It's a niche of a niche.
How the hell do you type on a laptop standing on its side?
I haven't run into an HDTV that doesn't have component yet, but I can see that not having the same connector as everything else makes using a switchbox or receiver a pain.
These guys http://www.neoya.com/shop/wii2hdmi sell a Wii to HDMI adapter gizmo for thirty bucks. Might be worth it just to simplify cabling.
Er, the machine isn't even out yet. And it probably won't come with a bowling game.
Did you, perhaps, mean the Wii? If so, you're sadly mistaken. There aren't _as many_ Wii titles I consider Fantastic Games as some other platforms, but there are still quite a few really damned good games.
No one offers an 'unlimited data only' stick.
They're all Unlimited* and it's the * that gets you.
I don't think any non-Steam versions have it, but the Steam version was patched to make Meat Circus easier. It also has Xbox 360 gamepad support.
I have one. The keyboard is absolutely awesome.
But it was only ever used on one model, at most a 75 MHz 486 that maxes out at 40 megs of RAM. They didn't bother with the folding keyboard after that because people wanted bigger screens which made the fold-ability moot.
I wish they'd revived it for a Thinkpad-branded netbook, though.
Given that Jaguar and Land Rover are no more British than Ford is American - they're all global brands, these days, and even figuring out who owns what is a pain.
However, you can still get a British car in the States; there are a couple of importers selling Morgans here.
(I have no idea if you'd WANT a Morgan, but I admit they're neat lookin'.)
With the exception of games specifically written for the Kinect controler and the very few MMORPGs for it, any Xbox 360 will play any Xbox 360 game, whether or not it has a hard drive. (Playing original Xbox games does require a hard drive or USB stick, though.)
Some games have extras that can be installed to the hard drive - like the Battlefield 3 high-res texture pack - but the game can still be played without one.
Also, everything that was in the original Xbox 360 is still in the current one; the 360 is the only current console that hasn't lost capability between versions. (The PS3 lost the ability to play SACDs and run PS2 games and Linux; the current Wii consoles can't play GameCube games or play MP3s.)
The Wii sometimes needs firmware updates for disc games, but at least they ship the firmware on the disc if that's the case.
As far as I know all the PS3 consoles are the same as far as playing PS3 games go - the only difference is the amount of hard drive space, and whether or not you have the PS Move controller, but weird controllers have always been around in some form or other. (Anyone else remember the Joyboard for the Atari 2600? Or that funky keypad thing for the space game I forgot the name of?)
Thank you. This is what I wanted to know.
I realize that most people don't care about whether their DVD playing software is properly licensed and legal, but it does matter to some folks.
Which isn't a legal, licensed decryptor.
So what you're saying is no, there's still no legal way to watch a DVD in Linux?
Because using libdvdcss to decrypt a DVD is illegal under the DMCA.
I mean, you're not likely to get called on it, but there's a reason distros don't come with it preinstalled.
We're not talking about an 'upgrade' as in 'you have to have an old version installed first'.
We're talking about 'upgrade licenses'. Legally, to use a version of OS X sold on disc or download, you have to already own a copy that came with your Macintosh.
No, most of them don't check to see that you do, but that's still the wording of the license.
From the 10.7 Software License Agreement:
you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:
(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (âoeMac Computerâ) that you own or control;
Note the 'Apple-branded' there? There's more boilerplate, but even the bit about running it in a virtual machine requires that the virtual machine be running on Apple hardware.
A "legal" way would invove a properly licensed CSS decryptor.
Those were still upgrade licenses. You had to already have a license for a previous Mac OS to install those discs.
No, it didn't check for a previous installed version, but the license basically said 'This is for installation on a Mac', and if you had a Mac, you had the OS license that came with it.
Leopard was a $129 upgrade to Tiger. It wasn't $30 if you already had Tiger and $129 otherwise.
$100 isn't too bad. NeXTStep 3.3 and up were $800 for the OS, and $5000 for the compiler.
And without the $5000 compiler you couldn't use GCC, because the header files came with the compiler package.
Pain in the butt.
Serious question, here:
Is there a legal way to watch DVDs on Linux yet?
I know there are lots of ways that 'just work'. But I don't know of any ways that don't invove illegally circumventing CSS copy protection.
There used to be a distro that included commercial LinDVD; is that still around? I know LinDVD was never sold on its own.
Apple doesn't sell a $30 OS. Apple sells $30 OS *upgrades*. To use them legally, you have to already have a full license for a previous version of MacOS, which you can only get by buying a computer.
No one really knows what a full MacOS X license costs, because Apple has never sold one.
Unless he cooked it over an nVidia GPU, I don't see how that's relevant!
Most OSes are non-RTOSes. Windows, MacOS X, Linux*, Android, iOS.
Basically, a process tells the kernel 'Look, I *need* a slice of CPU time at this interval.' A realtime OS goes 'Okay, here you go.' A non-realtime OS goes 'Pfft, whatever. I'll see what I can do, but don't get your hopes up.'
(* Standard Linux-related qualifier: There is, of course, a real-time variant of Linux, but most machines don't use that kernel.)
I decided I wanted an Asus Transformer Prime.
It was a pain in the ass to get one. I wound up getting the tablet from Office Depot and the keyboard from Best Buy. And it took a month to get the tablet, and another week for the keyboard.
I might believe poor sales figures if the damned thing wasn't still selling out all over the place. Obviously, Asus is selling them as fast as they make them.
You think that's bad?
He was born in Hawaii. Odds are, at some point, he has actually eaten Spam.
*shudder*
There are actually some non-Kindle readers that do MobiPocket / PRC, but you'll need to strip the DRM out if you got them from Amazon.
Annoyingly, while my reader can read ePub and MobiPocket, it can't read both; you have to flash either ePub firmware or MobiPocket firmware, due to DRM licensing issues with Adobe.
(I use MobiPocket. In my experience while ePub has a better feature set in theory, MobiPocket actually works better.)
It's not quite one click. Last I tried, which admittedly was about three months ago, stripping DRM from MobiPocket formats still required screwing around with Python scripts that only worked on Windows machines.
It may be easier with ePub; I don't have any DRM'd ePub, so I've never tried.
If you do know a one-click Mobi DRM stripper, lemme know!