troll didn't say they were terrorists when arrested, lets face it even if you didn't hate the US before being shipped to gitmo, you sure as hell would after!
Its ok when they have limited market share, but if they had >~70% in any given market using that leverage to crush competition in another market (e,g if everybody had iphones and they leveraged that to force people to use itunes over the alternatives) then its anti-competitive. Apple do alot of anti-competitive locking but as they don't have near monopolies in any market its fine.
As for not having access to iTunes, if you're referring to the music library there's no restriction other than needing to look up whatever folder's you keep your music in.
Apple introduced DAAP, which was then implemented by various other programs (limewire, etc) then after a few versions they decided to pointlessly encrypt the access so no other mediaplayers could read information about the libraries that iTunes users had (over the network). My point was that you were wrong about
their not restricting other companies from making software to work with their products.
They clearly do restrict companies from making software to work with their products, again this is perfectly legal (if they don't have much market share).
their not restricting other companies from making software to work with their products.
Yes they are, they use encrypted firmware to prevent competing software working with ipods. They also use daap to share music between itunes on local networks but encrypt it so that no other software can access the music on itunes.
In regards to software, since when has iTunes (I assume that's what you're referring to) been locked to Macs
Nope, itunes (and safari) are the only programs they have ported, all their multimedia software is mac only.
On contrast, the US intended to free Cubans from Communist choke-hold. No deaths were intended â" although it was accepted, that there will be casualties â" A la Guerre comme à la Guerre â" the intent was to minimize them.
Che Guevara's terrorism was intended to free Cubans from the constant capitalist attacks, it was accepted that this would require killing some people, the intent was to minimize the loss of Cuban live!
Castro's regime has, by now, killed many more, than would've died in the properly-executed attempt to depose him...
The American mentality that they have a right to medal in the internal maters of other countries has, by now, killed many more, than would've died in the properly-executed attempt to depose of it...
If you can accept 100k as a reasonable price to pay for protecting your country against potential WMDs, what is so different about accepting a few casualties to protect your country against definite WMDs?
IMO QT is much better but who cares, its not like if they used the "wrong one" nobody would have been able to use it, qt comes with a gtk theme and qt-gtk-engine (or some such app), im typing this from firefox (gtk) on kde4 (qt). webkit already works well with both, so its just the "chrome" of chrome that needs to be tied to a specific one anyway.
Ok, so it wasn't particularly funny joke! But i was definitely going for a joke about how the files are fine but the metadata (in this case post title) is what gets messed up. yeah obviously that kind of joke bombs when I do stand-up tho!
I don't remember any viruses for any PC platform other than windows, or a secuirty advisor that asks me if im sure i want to do that every 10 seconds either!
hmm i think most of them are but im still having problems with mv, seriosuly can we stop this bullshit, ext4 was clearly not working! If you cant rename a fucking file without risking total corruption of the file, at no point in renaming "settings-new" to "settings" should the file "settings" become unusable, What the fuck CAN kde4 do?
how should the apps behave? write,rename is the best way to do what they want, if you cant trust the filesystem to rename a file (and not just not rename it but leave its metadata wrong so neither the new or original are in the correct place) then what sort of program are you going to be able to run?
reiserfs, ive been using it for years for fast fsck and it can handle a file rename gracefully too:O Its not undocumented, the problem is kde was using write then rename to make sure there was an atomic operation an gaurantee the integrity of the file, nobody expects a rename to fail (and then ext4 came along and zeros metadata at bad times to improve the performance)!
Why do their adverts compare macs to windows then?
Apple want to have it both ways, if it wasn't for their pitiful market share the DOJ would be literally ripping them apart locking high-end MP3 players to their software locking their software to their operating system locking their operating system to their hardware locking their high-end MP3 players to their hardware (firewire only) locking their phone to their software which is tied to certain operating systems
Fortunately there is no way their EULA will be found legally binding and so while they can make it hard for mac-cloners (no hw support, trademarks, no license to sell os X, etc), they cant stop them.
It is an acknowledged fact that Cemal Gürsel wanted to corrupt the Soviet way of life by letting John Fitzgerald Kenedy install nuclear rockets in Turkey Luckily Khrushchev defused that threat successfully
Unfortunately the blame doesn't lie with ms/aol/google (a sad day for/.) this time the problem is purely political ( a happy day for/.), the government needs to define "exports" better so that methods of communicating are allowed (even if you forbid encryption).
But unless you set up a rediculous(sp) scenario, a high end video card is almost always going to beat a low end or old one.
Unless you pick a rediculous scenario (e.g who can get the highest FPS on crysis with full detail on everything, 32x antialiases, etc) a medium and high end card will always give you the same key features (being able to play most modern games in high detail), while the high end card will draw more power and make more noise. The end result is a true geek will never guy this monstrosity but a poser will, Hummer analogy win!
The evangelicals already took their ball away and now nobody plays with them, however if there was a cult of Christians as dedicated to spreading misinformation, they too should be banned (as should a cult of atheists with a similar goal)
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dunny why this is "troll" its hilarious!
troll didn't say they were terrorists when arrested, lets face it even if you didn't hate the US before being shipped to gitmo, you sure as hell would after!
come on the roms are OOOOLD, the fact its not legal to put compilations of old games out when shows that IPR/copyright is broken
Its ok when they have limited market share, but if they had >~70% in any given market using that leverage to crush competition in another market (e,g if everybody had iphones and they leveraged that to force people to use itunes over the alternatives) then its anti-competitive. Apple do alot of anti-competitive locking but as they don't have near monopolies in any market its fine.
As for not having access to iTunes, if you're referring to the music library there's no restriction other than needing to look up whatever folder's you keep your music in.
Apple introduced DAAP, which was then implemented by various other programs (limewire, etc) then after a few versions they decided to pointlessly encrypt the access so no other mediaplayers could read information about the libraries that iTunes users had (over the network). My point was that you were wrong about
their not restricting other companies from making software to work with their products.
They clearly do restrict companies from making software to work with their products, again this is perfectly legal (if they don't have much market share).
emacs has a mode for that!
their not restricting other companies from making software to work with their products.
Yes they are, they use encrypted firmware to prevent competing software working with ipods. They also use daap to share music between itunes on local networks but encrypt it so that no other software can access the music on itunes.
In regards to software, since when has iTunes (I assume that's what you're referring to) been locked to Macs
Nope, itunes (and safari) are the only programs they have ported, all their multimedia software is mac only.
On contrast, the US intended to free Cubans from Communist choke-hold. No deaths were intended â" although it was accepted, that there will be casualties â" A la Guerre comme à la Guerre â" the intent was to minimize them.
Che Guevara's terrorism was intended to free Cubans from the constant capitalist attacks, it was accepted that this would require killing some people, the intent was to minimize the loss of Cuban live!
Castro's regime has, by now, killed many more, than would've died in the properly-executed attempt to depose him...
The American mentality that they have a right to medal in the internal maters of other countries has, by now, killed many more, than would've died in the properly-executed attempt to depose of it...
If you can accept 100k as a reasonable price to pay for protecting your country against potential WMDs, what is so different about accepting a few casualties to protect your country against definite WMDs?
IMO QT is much better but who cares, its not like if they used the "wrong one" nobody would have been able to use it, qt comes with a gtk theme and qt-gtk-engine (or some such app), im typing this from firefox (gtk) on kde4 (qt). webkit already works well with both, so its just the "chrome" of chrome that needs to be tied to a specific one anyway.
Warning: ext4 may break your joke detector.
Ok, so it wasn't particularly funny joke!
But i was definitely going for a joke about how the files are fine but the metadata (in this case post title) is what gets messed up.
yeah obviously that kind of joke bombs when I do stand-up tho!
I don't remember any viruses for any PC platform other than windows, or a secuirty advisor that asks me if im sure i want to do that every 10 seconds either!
right because macs are PCs too which makes mac vs PC an even more retarded comparison!
Im running ext4 too but as you can the content of my posts is fine!
hmm i think most of them are but im still having problems with mv, seriosuly can we stop this bullshit, ext4 was clearly not working!
If you cant rename a fucking file without risking total corruption of the file, at no point in renaming "settings-new" to "settings" should the file "settings" become unusable, What the fuck CAN kde4 do?
how should the apps behave? write,rename is the best way to do what they want, if you cant trust the filesystem to rename a file (and not just not rename it but leave its metadata wrong so neither the new or original are in the correct place) then what sort of program are you going to be able to run?
why is this troll? ext4 hasn't been out nearly long enough!
why were you on ext3 if you needed constant fcsking there have always been better options resierfs, JFS, etc
reiserfs, ive been using it for years for fast fsck and it can handle a file rename gracefully too :O
Its not undocumented, the problem is kde was using write then rename to make sure there was an atomic operation an gaurantee the integrity of the file, nobody expects a rename to fail (and then ext4 came along and zeros metadata at bad times to improve the performance)!
Why do their adverts compare macs to windows then?
Apple want to have it both ways, if it wasn't for their pitiful market share the DOJ would be literally ripping them apart
locking high-end MP3 players to their software
locking their software to their operating system
locking their operating system to their hardware
locking their high-end MP3 players to their hardware (firewire only)
locking their phone to their software which is tied to certain operating systems
Fortunately there is no way their EULA will be found legally binding and so while they can make it hard for mac-cloners (no hw support, trademarks, no license to sell os X, etc), they cant stop them.
right...and the never US funded & armed people who attacked cuba killing ~5k people!
ron paul and...?
It is an acknowledged fact that Cemal Gürsel wanted to corrupt the Soviet way of life by letting John Fitzgerald Kenedy install nuclear rockets in Turkey
Luckily Khrushchev defused that threat successfully
You realise that is the same logic Osama uses.
The US people keep electing politicians that screw with the middle east
.'. All us citizens are responsible for the atrocities committed in palatine, the covert operations in iran and the bloodshed in iraq!
.'. It is OK to kill them.
Unfortunately the blame doesn't lie with ms/aol/google (a sad day for /.) this time the problem is purely political ( a happy day for /.), the government needs to define "exports" better so that methods of communicating are allowed (even if you forbid encryption).
But unless you set up a rediculous(sp) scenario, a high end video card is almost always going to beat a low end or old one.
Unless you pick a rediculous scenario (e.g who can get the highest FPS on crysis with full detail on everything, 32x antialiases, etc) a medium and high end card will always give you the same key features (being able to play most modern games in high detail), while the high end card will draw more power and make more noise. The end result is a true geek will never guy this monstrosity but a poser will, Hummer analogy win!
The evangelicals already took their ball away and now nobody plays with them, however if there was a cult of Christians as dedicated to spreading misinformation, they too should be banned (as should a cult of atheists with a similar goal)