My LARGE HARDON COLLIDER pushes large, energised hardons through a ring repeatedly, faster and faster, as smoothly and tightly as possible, until they clash and spray matter in all directions.
Wine 1.1.3, it sorta worked in a crashy sorta way. Wine 1.1.4, it installed and mostly worked except SSL. I expect a fully working Chrome in Wine 1.1.5 or 1.1.6. Here's to fortnightly releases!
Really, I'm amazed just how good Wine is these days - and when it isn't yet, how easy it is to add support for a new whizbang app when you really need to.
Now I, a poor Linux user, can give Google my confidential business data, bank account details, medical information, personal preferences in pornography and DNA code! And it'll all be entirely confidential between me and their marketing department!
But they're still not evil. If they were evil, I'd have to search using Windows Live.
Depends. Alan Cox is a top-class programmer who got an MBA because there was this whole other world that intersected with what he did that he didn't understand.
"We're not evil," said Google. "We just want to know your confidential business data, bank account details, medical information, personal preferences in pornography and DNA code. Microsoft... they want to make you use Windows Live Search."
The problem is they allowed "community versions" of Firefox called "Firefox", then the evil did Windows downloads with spyware that technically fell within the rules. So they tightened way up. Now they're, ah, losing it.
No airtight DRM is possible (and Spore's already been cracked). But content producers are so obsessed with absolute control that they'll beg people to take money to sell them snake oil. Of course, this always works. Yeah.
Others speculate the real target of game DRM is to kill the second-hand market. But, of course, that does no good when the competition is the cracked copies. Piracy: The Better Choice.
Airtight DRM is physically, mathematically impossible. But the content industry's lust for *complete control* is so overwhelming they go out begging for people to sell them snake oil. More thoughts here: http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/09/13/step-right-up/
Maybe they could get Windows zombies instead. "Memoryyy... memoryyy..."
Seriously, these guys will be the human equivalent of Zunes as far as an answer to Apple goes. "I dunno, reboot and reinstall." How are they going to do more than the local PC shop does?
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The only thing wrong with your analogy is that it doesn't sufficiently involve cars.
The contemporary militant Tooth Fairy jihadist movement continues to be disrespected by these scientific infidels.
Everything causes cancer, and cures it.
A lot of this "new study" stuff is horrendously lazy journalism caused by having too much space to fill.
My LARGE HARDON COLLIDER pushes large, energised hardons through a ring repeatedly, faster and faster, as smoothly and tightly as possible, until they clash and spray matter in all directions.
... what?
(Who invented that horribly typo-prone word anyway?)
I was joking when I floated the idea of the Large Hardon Collider running Vista.
(I'd think that would lead to an immediate loss of Large Hardon myself.)
So it should be this weekend's version? Cool :-)
Wine 1.1.3, it sorta worked in a crashy sorta way. Wine 1.1.4, it installed and mostly worked except SSL. I expect a fully working Chrome in Wine 1.1.5 or 1.1.6. Here's to fortnightly releases!
Really, I'm amazed just how good Wine is these days - and when it isn't yet, how easy it is to add support for a new whizbang app when you really need to.
Now I, a poor Linux user, can give Google my confidential business data, bank account details, medical information, personal preferences in pornography and DNA code! And it'll all be entirely confidential between me and their marketing department!
But they're still not evil. If they were evil, I'd have to search using Windows Live.
They forgot Nokia, Samsung, LG. No movies on mobile phones? EPIC FAIL.
DRM is mathematically impossible, customers loathe and despise it more than any industry person could comprehend, and it never actually works.
But they're so addicted to control they'll keep begging people to take their money to sell them yet more snake oil.
Never another download or unpaid viewing! Not ever! This time! For sure!
Depends. Alan Cox is a top-class programmer who got an MBA because there was this whole other world that intersected with what he did that he didn't understand.
"We're not evil," said Google. "We just want to know your confidential business data, bank account details, medical information, personal preferences in pornography and DNA code. Microsoft ... they want to make you use Windows Live Search."
The problem is they allowed "community versions" of Firefox called "Firefox", then the evil did Windows downloads with spyware that technically fell within the rules. So they tightened way up. Now they're, ah, losing it.
I'm sure Jaundiced Jackass will default to Chrome.
But ya rly. IceWeasel all the way.
Record companies loathe and despise the second-hand market too. The first-sale doctrine never did go down well with them.
No airtight DRM is possible (and Spore's already been cracked). But content producers are so obsessed with absolute control that they'll beg people to take money to sell them snake oil. Of course, this always works. Yeah.
Others speculate the real target of game DRM is to kill the second-hand market. But, of course, that does no good when the competition is the cracked copies. Piracy: The Better Choice.
Airtight DRM is physically, mathematically impossible. But the content industry's lust for *complete control* is so overwhelming they go out begging for people to sell them snake oil. More thoughts here: http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/09/13/step-right-up/
Written up.
Written up.
Linux did it.
Google doesn't owe you a living. Deal.
We get these whiny search engine optimisation spammers on Wikipedia all the time. They don't go away.
Dr Evil is at work with the Russian Dark Security Market to hold the world to ransom for One Hundred Beelion Dollars!
(Or it's just a large hardon again.)
ok ok ;-) That one was Wordpress misbehaving. Most of 'em are too long.
Maybe they could get Windows zombies instead. "Memoryyy ... memoryyy ..."
Seriously, these guys will be the human equivalent of Zunes as far as an answer to Apple goes. "I dunno, reboot and reinstall." How are they going to do more than the local PC shop does?
*splutter* You win.