you'd think some companies might enjoy the sort of publicity and awareness they'd get out of having a lot of people use their software... and without fear on top of it!
Civilization IV and World of Goo are two, and the latter can be played (with more features and configuration options) on Linux as well as Windows/Mac/Wii. I highly recommend these for being not only DRM free, but a heck of a lot of fun!
Whenever I hear one person telling another person "how to use a computer" and a popup of any sort (including firewall, antivirus, and software update popups) comes up, they are always told to "ignore it and just close the stupid things". I've had so many problems in my own family along the lines of:
Mom: "Ryan something is wrong on the laptop!" Me: "Alright, what is it?" Mom: "[program x] isn't working, I keep clicking it and clicking it but nothing happens!" Me: "Let me take a look at it." *double-clicks program icon and a popup appears about allowing it through our firewall* Me: "Mom, what did you do when this pops up?" Mom: "Oh, I just close it... is that a problem?" Me: *sigh* "You have to read these things, mom! What they say is very important sometimes." *clicks allow button* Me: "There, it'll work now." Mom: "Thanks! Computers are so annoying..."
I've been trying to get her to use Ubuntu for years, which would help mostly, but she's stuck on Vista. I hope they get (another) virus so they'll want to switch;).
Pidgin/Trillian? Kopete isn't exactly "up to date" in some respects, and apparently it doesn't even support XMPP 1.0 yet. I can confirm that Pidgin works wonderfully though:)
1) Create Blu-ray Players 2) Try to push people to buy lots of expensive new hardware and media 3) Keep changing the encryption methods so people are left in the dust if they bought a cheap player 4) Keep changing formats so people have to buy new players 5) Profit!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch some non-DRMed media on my free as in freedom media player over my home network on my Linux desktop... for free.
First we're told that we actually can be bored to death, and now we're being told that hearts can actually break. What's next, that a watched pot actually never boils? That you really do attract more flies with honey than vinegar? That you really can be up on cloud 9? That video games really do make you fat? That a spoonful of sugar actually helps the medicine go down?
After a year, we'll find out that pigs can actually fly, and that Hell can actually freeze over!;)
...using Creative Commons like they already are? Creative commons already states that on most of their licenses that you can't use whatever is licensed in a way that makes it seem like the copyright holder (in this case, the US government) endorse you or your derivative work (without permission, of course, like if Obama officially said that he approved of something). I mean, really, there's WAY more than only two choices, and Creative Commons just makes sense to use.
Wherever you copied and pasted this from would be nice... that is, if it was copied and pasted from somewhere else.
Anyways, that was very sad, and I really wish schools paid more attention to bullying instead of curbing around the issue and saying "Oh well, we gave it a shot" when it doesn't work out.
StatusNet is a neat platform that runs Identica, a twitter alternative. It's free as in freedom (GNU AGPL), and it has pretty much every feature twitter has and more. You can view conversations people have instead of searching for hours for who-responded-to-what-and-how-many-people-were-involved. You can customize the theme and upload files, too! There's lots of other optional features you can use as well, and it has a similar API to twitter, so lots of applications already support it. Try it out and see if it works for you; you can even chose where it's hosted!
So you're saying that we all shouldn't care about anything because we'll all get hurt anyways in some way, shape, or form? Nothing matters at all in the long run? Okay then... I hope that you're kidding.
IIRC, lots of popular Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, have 64-bit versions of Firefox in their repositories (and with Ubuntu 64bit, it ships with it). If you're running the 64-bit version of Firefox, you might want to google the 64-bit flash plugin and how to install it if you use Flash at all (it works fantastic!).
Last time I checked, "hardcore" didn't mean "plays games a lot"; it means that you don't spend all of your money on "pet games" and "style-games" and "generic sports games" and instead spend it on games that are, as the hardcores call them, "good". "Good" games include things like Smash Bros., Bio Shock, Metroid, Metal Gear Solid, The Legend of Zelda (especially Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess), and other games that require a lot of skill and time. Just because girls play a certain online game more than males means they're more "hardcore"? Did they take the "genre" of the game into account? No? Then how the crap does this pass as being scientific?
Because the kids would only be there for Jarjar and lightsaber fights; everything else just goes in one ear and out the other (believe me, I'm a victim of this too).
I have Asperger's Syndrome, which as someone said earlier is very similar to high functioning Autism. Personally, I think this is a wonderful use of my talents! I'm always so interested in little details and usability so much that I often get annoyed when people just don't seem to care about them. If I wasn't such a Linux geek, I'd take this job up (if it payed well) in a heartbeat!
Before trolls start yelling about how "OMGZ LINUX ISN'T SECURE HAHAHA" and things like that, let me tell you something: because GNU/Linux is so open and configurable, malware like this can be very easily removed. All you have to do is run a few commands in a terminal to remove this. On Windows and the like, things are so complicated that Anti-virus software is almost required to remove some of their malware. I am glad to use an OS that doesn't restrict me like that.:)
a message archive for emails you don’t want to delete but still want to keep
To be more specific, the message archive is for emails that you want to get rid of, but don't exactly want to delete. Like if you're in a mailing list and want to clean out your inbox, but you don't want to delete all of (or at least some of) your messages in that mailing list. It's basically just another way of organizing things. Sorry if I didn't make any sense before:\.
On Windows & OS X, it was fairly easy to find the API calls that turn on your system's cameras and microphones, but on Linux, those devices are all over the place so it took Google longer to figure out how to turn them on when you're running their browser.
In my opinion, it's irrelevant whether or not he downloaded the images on purpose. The connection between downloading an image off of limewire and the sexual abuse of a child is so tenuous it's absurd. The only way people can justify it is to make up crazy hypotheticals and market demand theories which are used in no other context.
I feel the same; how does downloading the porn, much more "stealing" the porn, no matter what kind it is support it at all? You're not paying anyone for it. Well, maybe these guys are the same kind of people that use Free Software or support Free Culture like myself and want to distribute the porn for free in the first place, and downloading would fuel this, but who knows?
What I want to know is whether or not he was seeding the file at all, and whether or not it mattered. Was he using an encrypted connection? Was he using a peer blacklist or something similar? A proxy? Darknet? Something that might conceal the fact that he even had it at all even the tiniest bit?
The entire reason that Nintendo is so selective in which games it licenses is because of the flood of games that came out for all consoles in the 80s, and the video game crash shortly after. Companies like Quaker Oats were actually trying to publish games. The market became so over-saturated with games that the public became disgusted with them.
When nintendo finally released the Famicom in the US they had to market it as a home computer rather than a video game system due to the negative connotations that 'video game' still had. You'll notice that every legitimate game that came out for nintendo and super nintendo ( I stopped looking after that) came with the nintendo seal of approval. That's because they started making certain that only reputable publishers were releasing games for their system, to keep their reputation intact. There's a lot more about it if you search for the video game crash of 1983 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983
Opening up the console to anyone who wants is definitely not guaranteed to increase the quality of games. In fact, history tells us that the exact opposite will happen. But hey, who knows! History doesn't repeat itself all that often, right?
Not quite. Haven't you seen M&M's Kart Racing? Or what about the release of Toy Story Mania for Wii? Not to mention virtually every game involving the word "We" (not Wii, We) or cute animals or exercise. Deal or No Deal for the DS isn't even random with its case selections, earning a 1 out of 10 for being a cheap cash-in. And lets not forget Elf Bowling, Homie Rollerz (what the crap is that), Ninjabread Man, and God forbid that I mention alloftheterriblecash-inmusicgames (if you can even call some of them games). I'm not even showing you the worst of them all. And yes, some games that are cash-ins aren't too bad, but when they're covering up everything that's actually worth paying 30-60 bucks for, I can easily see why the crash might happen again.
Almost forgot the Seal of Quality mentioned earlier. Earlier I can see how Nintendo cared about it, but now it just shows something is licensed. "Hey Nintendo, we want your seal on our product." "That'll be [so-and-so] dollars/yen please." As long as Nintendo's making money from it, they couldn't care less about the quality of their games (at least the 3rd-party ones. 1st-party games are still great).
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you'd think some companies might enjoy the sort of publicity and awareness they'd get out of having a lot of people use their software... and without fear on top of it!
Civilization IV and World of Goo are two, and the latter can be played (with more features and configuration options) on Linux as well as Windows/Mac/Wii. I highly recommend these for being not only DRM free, but a heck of a lot of fun!
Whenever I hear one person telling another person "how to use a computer" and a popup of any sort (including firewall, antivirus, and software update popups) comes up, they are always told to "ignore it and just close the stupid things". I've had so many problems in my own family along the lines of:
Mom: "Ryan something is wrong on the laptop!"
Me: "Alright, what is it?"
Mom: "[program x] isn't working, I keep clicking it and clicking it but nothing happens!"
Me: "Let me take a look at it." *double-clicks program icon and a popup appears about allowing it through our firewall*
Me: "Mom, what did you do when this pops up?"
Mom: "Oh, I just close it... is that a problem?"
Me: *sigh* "You have to read these things, mom! What they say is very important sometimes." *clicks allow button*
Me: "There, it'll work now."
Mom: "Thanks! Computers are so annoying..."
I've been trying to get her to use Ubuntu for years, which would help mostly, but she's stuck on Vista. I hope they get (another) virus so they'll want to switch ;).
Try QutIM. It looks nice to me.
Pidgin/Trillian? Kopete isn't exactly "up to date" in some respects, and apparently it doesn't even support XMPP 1.0 yet. I can confirm that Pidgin works wonderfully though :)
1) Create Blu-ray Players
2) Try to push people to buy lots of expensive new hardware and media
3) Keep changing the encryption methods so people are left in the dust if they bought a cheap player
4) Keep changing formats so people have to buy new players
5) Profit!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch some non-DRMed media on my free as in freedom media player over my home network on my Linux desktop... for free.
'That you really do attract more flies with honey than vinegar?'
No, you don't (e.g.)
I knew that, actually. I was waiting to see how many replies it'd take before someone posted that exact link.
First we're told that we actually can be bored to death, and now we're being told that hearts can actually break. What's next, that a watched pot actually never boils? That you really do attract more flies with honey than vinegar? That you really can be up on cloud 9? That video games really do make you fat? That a spoonful of sugar actually helps the medicine go down?
After a year, we'll find out that pigs can actually fly, and that Hell can actually freeze over! ;)
Found it! http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7948&IBLOCK_ID=35. You have to scroll down about half of the page to see it, though.
...using Creative Commons like they already are? Creative commons already states that on most of their licenses that you can't use whatever is licensed in a way that makes it seem like the copyright holder (in this case, the US government) endorse you or your derivative work (without permission, of course, like if Obama officially said that he approved of something). I mean, really, there's WAY more than only two choices, and Creative Commons just makes sense to use.
Wherever you copied and pasted this from would be nice... that is, if it was copied and pasted from somewhere else.
Anyways, that was very sad, and I really wish schools paid more attention to bullying instead of curbing around the issue and saying "Oh well, we gave it a shot" when it doesn't work out.
StatusNet is a neat platform that runs Identica, a twitter alternative. It's free as in freedom (GNU AGPL), and it has pretty much every feature twitter has and more. You can view conversations people have instead of searching for hours for who-responded-to-what-and-how-many-people-were-involved. You can customize the theme and upload files, too! There's lots of other optional features you can use as well, and it has a similar API to twitter, so lots of applications already support it. Try it out and see if it works for you; you can even chose where it's hosted!
Exactly... thanks for the non-existent disclaimer in your original comment?
...uh huh.
So you're saying that we all shouldn't care about anything because we'll all get hurt anyways in some way, shape, or form? Nothing matters at all in the long run? Okay then... I hope that you're kidding.
Flash issue, for sure. However, to be sure you might want to test out flash in IE, Chrome, Safari or some other browser and see how Flash performs.
IIRC, lots of popular Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, have 64-bit versions of Firefox in their repositories (and with Ubuntu 64bit, it ships with it). If you're running the 64-bit version of Firefox, you might want to google the 64-bit flash plugin and how to install it if you use Flash at all (it works fantastic!).
Last time I checked, "hardcore" didn't mean "plays games a lot"; it means that you don't spend all of your money on "pet games" and "style-games" and "generic sports games" and instead spend it on games that are, as the hardcores call them, "good". "Good" games include things like Smash Bros., Bio Shock, Metroid, Metal Gear Solid, The Legend of Zelda (especially Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess), and other games that require a lot of skill and time. Just because girls play a certain online game more than males means they're more "hardcore"? Did they take the "genre" of the game into account? No? Then how the crap does this pass as being scientific?
Ever hear of Kdenlive? I use it all the time. Uses FFMPEG, has lots of nice effects, and the most recent release has been very stable for me so far ;)
Because the kids would only be there for Jarjar and lightsaber fights; everything else just goes in one ear and out the other (believe me, I'm a victim of this too).
I have Asperger's Syndrome, which as someone said earlier is very similar to high functioning Autism. Personally, I think this is a wonderful use of my talents! I'm always so interested in little details and usability so much that I often get annoyed when people just don't seem to care about them. If I wasn't such a Linux geek, I'd take this job up (if it payed well) in a heartbeat!
Before trolls start yelling about how "OMGZ LINUX ISN'T SECURE HAHAHA" and things like that, let me tell you something: because GNU/Linux is so open and configurable, malware like this can be very easily removed. All you have to do is run a few commands in a terminal to remove this. On Windows and the like, things are so complicated that Anti-virus software is almost required to remove some of their malware. I am glad to use an OS that doesn't restrict me like that. :)
Not sure, but More Functions For Address Book fixed that for me on TB 2.
a message archive for emails you don’t want to delete but still want to keep
To be more specific, the message archive is for emails that you want to get rid of, but don't exactly want to delete. Like if you're in a mailing list and want to clean out your inbox, but you don't want to delete all of (or at least some of) your messages in that mailing list. It's basically just another way of organizing things. Sorry if I didn't make any sense before :\.
On Windows & OS X, it was fairly easy to find the API calls that turn on your system's cameras and microphones, but on Linux, those devices are all over the place so it took Google longer to figure out how to turn them on when you're running their browser.
You mean Adobe Flash?
In my opinion, it's irrelevant whether or not he downloaded the images on purpose. The connection between downloading an image off of limewire and the sexual abuse of a child is so tenuous it's absurd. The only way people can justify it is to make up crazy hypotheticals and market demand theories which are used in no other context.
I feel the same; how does downloading the porn, much more "stealing" the porn, no matter what kind it is support it at all? You're not paying anyone for it. Well, maybe these guys are the same kind of people that use Free Software or support Free Culture like myself and want to distribute the porn for free in the first place, and downloading would fuel this, but who knows?
What I want to know is whether or not he was seeding the file at all, and whether or not it mattered. Was he using an encrypted connection? Was he using a peer blacklist or something similar? A proxy? Darknet? Something that might conceal the fact that he even had it at all even the tiniest bit?
Not true by a long shot.
The entire reason that Nintendo is so selective in which games it licenses is because of the flood of games that came out for all consoles in the 80s, and the video game crash shortly after. Companies like Quaker Oats were actually trying to publish games. The market became so over-saturated with games that the public became disgusted with them.
When nintendo finally released the Famicom in the US they had to market it as a home computer rather than a video game system due to the negative connotations that 'video game' still had. You'll notice that every legitimate game that came out for nintendo and super nintendo ( I stopped looking after that) came with the nintendo seal of approval. That's because they started making certain that only reputable publishers were releasing games for their system, to keep their reputation intact. There's a lot more about it if you search for the video game crash of 1983 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983
Opening up the console to anyone who wants is definitely not guaranteed to increase the quality of games. In fact, history tells us that the exact opposite will happen. But hey, who knows! History doesn't repeat itself all that often, right?
Not quite. Haven't you seen M&M's Kart Racing? Or what about the release of Toy Story Mania for Wii? Not to mention virtually every game involving the word "We" (not Wii, We) or cute animals or exercise. Deal or No Deal for the DS isn't even random with its case selections, earning a 1 out of 10 for being a cheap cash-in. And lets not forget Elf Bowling, Homie Rollerz (what the crap is that), Ninjabread Man, and God forbid that I mention all of the terrible cash-in music games (if you can even call some of them games). I'm not even showing you the worst of them all. And yes, some games that are cash-ins aren't too bad, but when they're covering up everything that's actually worth paying 30-60 bucks for, I can easily see why the crash might happen again.
Almost forgot the Seal of Quality mentioned earlier. Earlier I can see how Nintendo cared about it, but now it just shows something is licensed. "Hey Nintendo, we want your seal on our product." "That'll be [so-and-so] dollars/yen please." As long as Nintendo's making money from it, they couldn't care less about the quality of their games (at least the 3rd-party ones. 1st-party games are still great).